Now older, Steven returns to Port Charles. He was working for attorney John Durant to get to John's biological daughter Carly Corinthos. It was around the same time when his natural mother Heather came back as well, but other than several unplanned meetings, Steven had nothing to do with her. Steven briefly disappears from the show after murder, before reappearing as Steve Webber in 2009, invited by his former stepmother Monica Quartermaine to be the acting chief of staff at General Hospital, so she could return to being a full-time cardiologist. He reveals during the intervening years, he had been running a trauma unit down in Memphis.