Children of General Hospital - Current Characters - Aiden Spencer

Aiden Spencer is the son of Lucky Spencer and Elizabeth Webber. He was born on July 19, 2010, and originally believed to be the son of Nikolas Cassadine due to Helena Cassadine switching paternity test results. He is the first biological child of Lucky Spencer and grandchild of Luke and Laura Spencer. From 2011–12, the role was played by Titus Jackson, real-life son to Jonathan Jackson, who played his on-screen father, Lucky. Jason David took over the role in 2012.

Character History

During an affair between Elizabeth and Nikolas in 2010, Elizabeth becomes pregnant. Since she is engaged to Lucky at the time of the affair, she is not sure who the baby's father is. Helena Cassadine switches the paternity test results to make it appear that Nikolas is the father. A second, private test is done by Nikolas but Helena also switches those test results. Her plan is to take a Spencer and raise him as a Cassadine, to later take down the Spencer family.

On July 20, 2010 Elizabeth and Nikolas prepared to check out of the hospital, and went to the nursery to get Aiden. When they arrived at the nursery they found Aiden's bassinet empty, suggesting that he was missing. On July 21, Lucky Spencer was called into the investigation of Aiden's possible kidnapping. Lucky put General Hospital into a lockdown; he suspected Helena of the crime, but she claimed innocence. On July 22, the search for baby Aiden continued, with Lucky and Mac Scorpio investigating. Baby Aiden's bassinet was found empty in an operating room. After Lucky and Nikolas found Aiden's bassinet a message appeared on television screens around the hospital, showing Franco saying "Hello boys and girls, welcome to Franco's funhouse". It was then suspected that Franco was the one who possibly kidnapped Aiden. On July 23 Lucky, Nikolas, and Elizabeth continued to search for baby Aiden, checking anything involving the number "66". They believed that the reason Franco took Aiden was because Aiden's hospital ID tag ended with 66 (Franco was fascinated with the number 66).

Franco took Aiden to give to his mother Karen, to raise as the son that she always wanted. He moved his mother and Aiden to Astoria, Oregon to start a new life. Franco's mother nicknamed the baby "Pablo". Lucky flew to Portland, and soon arrived in Astoria. With the help of Damian Spinelli Lucky found the house, learning from a neighbor that Karen and "Pablo" were out for a walk and should be back shortly. Lucky hid on the side of the house, and soon saw Karen and Aiden coming home. On August 6, 2010 Lucky disguised himself as a census taker, entering Karen's home. After asking "too many questions", he was ordered to leave. Lucky returned, disguised as a police officer investigating a case of a kidnapped baby. He then said that "Pablo" was really Aiden, and bluffed that he was Aiden's father. On August 9, Lucky retrieved Aiden from Karen, and returned him to Elizabeth and Nikolas.

On August 17, 2010 Aiden, Elizabeth and his brothers moved into Wyndemere with his "father". However, the arrangement did not work out and Elizabeth took Aiden and his brothers to stay in northern California with her sister Sarah. In October 2010 Aiden, Elizabeth and his brothers returned to Port Charles. On March 8, 2011, Elizabeth filed a DNA request to find out who Aiden's real father was. On March 16, she received the test results; as she is reading them, she is distracted by the missing Jake. In late March, Aiden's brother Jake was killed when he was hit by a car. Due to this, Aiden was now living with his father and his other brother Cameron.

On March 31, 2011 Elizabeth learned that Lucky Spencer (not Nikolas) was Aiden's father. On June 21 she admits to Lucky that Aiden is his son. On June 30 Nikolas and Spencer left Port Charles for Zurich, Switzerland; before leaving, Nikolas returned Aiden to Lucky and Elizabeth. In early July, Aiden went camping with Cameron and Lucky.

In November 2011 Olivia and Lulu noticed a bruise on Aiden's arm. While Lucky was in Ireland he received a message from Jake saying, "Go Home Daddy Aiden Sick Hurry". Lucky called home, and Luke answered; Lucky frantically told Luke to take Aiden to the hospital. Aiden is later diagnosed with Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. After receiving a blood transfusion from his aunt Lulu, Aiden fully recovered.

On February 18, 2013, Aiden meets his grandmother Laura Spencer for the first time.