T.J. Ashford and Molly Lansing-Davis

T.J. Ashford and Molly Lansing-Davis are fictional characters and a fictional couple on the ABC daytime soap opera, General Hospital. The role of Molly has been portrayed by actress, Haley Pullos since 2009. The role of T.J. was originated by Krys Meyer, who played the role for a few months in 2012, until actor Tequan Richmond took over the role in August of 2012, and continues to play the role to the present.

Storylines
Molly and TJ met in January of 2012. TJ recently moved to town to live with his guardian, Shawn Butler, whom Molly befriended months prior. Molly befriends TJ after Shawn introduces them at Kelly's. Molly agrees to show him around school after she learns that TJ would attend Port Charles High with her. Molly also becomes TJ's tutor and while she is tutoring him, she discovers that TJ has problems reading. She downloads mp3 audio soundbites of their homework for TJ and starts to teach him how to read. In exchange, TJ sets up a fake MyFace account for Molly, that she names Desdemona. Desdemona is a hit on MyFace, more so than Molly's real account, where she only had her mother as a friend.
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TJ becomes very popular at Port Charles High in contrast with Molly who does not have many friends. He decides to show everyone how cool Molly is by throwing a party at her house. He posts a party invite on MyFace and invites everyone over to Molly's house for a party that involved alcohol. Molly is shocked when tons of people that she doesn't know, pile into her house for a party. The party starts to get out of control, and Molly calls her cousin Michael Corinthos for help. As TJ mingles around the party, he notices a boy trying to take Molly back to her room and stops him just before Molly passes out drunk. He then discovers that Molly's drink had been spiked and he tries to shut the party down. Before he gets the chance however, Michael arrives and shuts the party down. He kicks all of the kids out of the house and has them call their parents for rides.

Michael then finds Molly unconscious and begins yelling at TJ for his cousin's drunk state. Molly awakens to the two of them arguing and Michael goes to call Molly's mom Alexis, but TJ tries to convince him not to because he didn't want to get Molly in trouble. They start to clean the Lakehouse, but before they can finish Alexis and Mac Scorpio arrive. Molly initially takes the fall for TJ and claims that she threw the party to keep him from getting in anymore trouble, but TJ comes clean and admits that he was the one who threw the party because he wanted to help Molly makes more friends, and show the people at school that she really was cool. Nevertheless, Alexis forbids Molly and TJ from hanging out again.

Despite being told that they can no longer be friends, TJ and Molly continue to meet in secret and eventually start dating. Michael finds out about their relationship, but agrees to keep quiet for Molly's sake. Later, Molly's sister, Sam almost walks in on the two of them kissing, but Molly covers by saying they were just studying and TJ quickly leaves. Alexis eventually finds out about their relationship when she catches them together on the Fourth of July. Molly invited TJ over to go swimming at the lake. While he was changing in Molly's room, Alexis barges in and catches him in his underwear. Alexis was livid, and a screaming match broke out between her and Molly. Molly hurts Alexis's feelings when she tells her she won't end up a pregnant teen like her. A few days later, Alexis drags Molly down to Kelly's to have a talk with Shawn about her situation with TJ. Alexis ends up agreeing to let TJ and Molly date but they must sign contracts, which they agree to do. Molly and TJ later share a first official date at the Metro Court Hotel.

Shortly after, Molly and TJ are both faced with death when Jerry Jacks poisons the town's water supply with a deadly toxin. Molly and T.J. contemplate making love so they would be able to share that experience before they died but decided against it. They spent what they believed were their final hours together talking about everything they would like to do and see in life. When an antidote is finally found, they celebrated together. In late November, Molly decides to write a book titled, Love in Maine and she shares the book with TJ letting him read a couple chapters. TJ is impressed with Molly's book and tells her that he is proud of her. However, in early December just as Molly is about to get her book published, she loses it. In actuality, the book was stolen by Connie Falconeri, who rewrote some of the chapters and was planning on publishing the book under her own name.

Molly becomes suspicious that Connie was the one who stole her book, so she and TJ went to search Connie's Crimson office. In order to get daily access to the office, Molly and TJ decide to pose as interns at Crimson. Connie hires them and they spend time at the office trying to uncover what happened to Molly's book. When Molly got proof that Connie stole her book, she and TJ went to Connie's boss, Todd Manning, and demanded that he make Connie return the book. Todd denied any involvement in the situation and was skeptical of Connie's insistence that the book was hers, but he made no move to force her to hand it over. When Todd is unwilling to help them, Sam attempts to break into his safe to find out what really happened to the book, but she is stopped by Todd and Carly Jacks before she gets the chance.


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In early January, Rafe overhears Molly and TJ talking about what really happened during the warehouse shooting. They discussed the trouble TJ could be in with the police and the danger he could be in with the Jerome mob family for witnessing the shooting. TJ then told Molly that he would have to leave town for a little while, because Shawn thought it was the best way to keep him safe. Molly was sad and they were forced to share a quick goodbye. Armed with this information and wanting TJ away from Molly, Rafe went to Commissioner Anna Devane and told her that TJ was a witness to the shooting of Max Giambetti. Right as Shawn was about to get TJ out of town for his protection, they were called down to the PCPD for questioning, but both denied knowing anything about the shooting. Molly began to feel uncomfortable with Rafe's friendship because he continually pushed for more between them, while she only wanted to be his friend. When Molly and TJ learned that Rafe was the one who turned TJ over to Anna, they were furious. Molly blasted Rafe for putting TJ in danger and broke off their friendship.
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In early February, the situation with the warehouse shooting cooled down and Molly and TJ were able to relax and breathe easy. They took Molly's nephew, Danny Morgan to the park where they spent the day together. While at the park, they also ran into Robin Scorpio-Drake. A week later, Molly and TJ spent Valentine's Day together studying for the SATs. They almost made love, but decided to wait, to make sure the experience was special and safe for them when it did happen.