Avery Jerome-Corinthos

'''Avery Jerome "A.J." Quartermaine' is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital''. She is the daughter of mob boss, Sonny Corinthos and mobster, Ava Jerome.

She is also the product of a one night stand between two people who hate each other.

She is currently under the legal guardianship of her older brother, Michael Quartermaine.

Sabrina Santiago is currently her nanny.

Background
Avery was conceived on the day of A.J. Quartermaine's funeral. Ava slept with both Morgan and Sonny on the same day, leading there to be a question of paternity later on. Ava finds out she is pregnant off screen, but her pregnancy is revealed when Sonny tries to kill her on his island. She shows Sonny the positive test to prove to him it's the truth, but to be sure he has her get a blood test at General Hospital, which comes back positive.

When Morgan finds out about the baby, he asks Ava to have an abortion, but she refuses. During the pregnancy Ava missed a lot of appointments, experienced constant stress, and had multiple cases of horrible Braxton Hicks contractions.

Sabrina Santiago, who thought she had lost her own child because to the Jerome mob, seeked revenge on Ava during her pregnancy. Ava almost suffered a miscarriage after Sabrina purposefully gave Ava the wrong medication -- Misoprostol instead of Nifedipine. Ava delayed taking the pills which helped, but experienced more pain after taking them later on. The pills also caused Ava to go into early labor, but Silas Clay came to their aid and he was able to stop the early labor.

Avery was born prematurely, on Halloween of 2014, due to Nina Clay injecting Ava with liquid medication that causes labor.

Storylines
Avery was born onscreen November 4, 2014 to Ava Jerome with the help of Nina Clay. Nina paralyzed Ava and forced her into labor by injecting her with a drug. After she was born, Nina and her mother kidnapped her as revenge against Ava. Nina flees with the baby with Franco's help and they relocate to Canada, where Franco makes Nina realize that the baby is not her child with Silas. Nina then convinces Franco to raise the baby with her. Nina calls them a "dysfunctional family". After many suggestions, they name the baby Jaime, after Nina's brother, James. The dysfunctional family comes to an end when Dante, Kiki, Ava, Silas, and Morgan catch up with them. She is briefly returned to Ava before Dante arrests Ava for Connie Falconeri's murder, leaving the baby with Kiki and Morgan.

Avery is taken the hospital by her sister, Kiki and her possible father, Morgan, where it is revealed by Silas that she is healthy other then a slight ear infection. Morgan asks Silas to preform a paternity test but Silas says he can't without Ava's permission due to her being the baby's legal guardian. Kiki announces that she is the baby's temporary legal guardian because she is her mom's next of kin so Kiki gives permission to run the test. Silas returns and tells them a standard paternity test will not work because both potential fathers are related, so they need to test the baby's DNA with someone who is either clearly related to her or not. Silas decides to use Morgan's mother's, Carly, DNA because she is related to Morgan and not Sonny. On December 19, it is revealed that Avery's DNA doesn't match Carly's, making Sonny her father.

On January 5, 2015, Ava gets to hold her daughter one last time and name her, Avery, before she goes to prison. It is also revealed that Avery would be living with her sister, Kiki and her father, Silas at his apartment. During January, Avery spends time with her Corinthos family while in custody of Kiki and is seen by her mother in prison. After Sonny is released from jail, he takes Avery home with him, questioning Kiki if she should sue for custody of Avery. It is later revealed that Kiki decided not to sue for custody of Avery, but Avery's adoptive brother, Michael Quartermaine is, to get back at Sonny, who murdered Michael's biological father, A.J. Quartermaine, and to protect Avery from the dangerous mob lifestyle that left Michael in a coma for a year. After a custody battle, Sonny decided to let Avery stay with Kiki since she was just fine before Michael sued Sonny for custody.

Health and Vitals

 * Born premature, but healthy [Oct 31, 2014; shown on Nov 4, 2014]
 * Kidnapped by Nina Clay and Madeline Reeves shortly after birth [revealed Nov 6, 2014]
 * Kidnapped by Nina and Franco [Nov-Dec 2014]
 * Had a slight ear infection [revealed Dec 15, 2014]
 * Accidentally knocked over while in her stroller by Michael (she was uninjured) [Apr 8, 2015]
 * Kidnapped by Silas Clay [Apr 10-24, 2015; revealed Jun 4, 2015]
 * Had her bone marrow extracted by Silas Clay in order to save the life of her mother, Ava [Apr 2015; revealed Jun 3, 2015]