Disclaimer - I don't own any of the General Hospital Charecters if I did they would lead much happier lives.
Author's note - While I am in the middle of writing Aftermath I felt the urge to write this story. It was going to be a challenge fic but as of now I am unsure whether or not it will end up meating the promt for the challenge. For those who are spoiler free beware there are some spoilers in this story, so you may not want to read this. Also while this story isn't intended to be completely sad, it will have at least 3 sad parts total in order to move the story in the right direction and this chapter is one of the 3 sorry =( . As always I love comments on the story either in replys to the story or in email form at web_chick_18@hotmail.com Thanks =)
Keys to Happiness
To many September 24th was a day like any other, but then those who could say that hadn't been close to Emily Bowmen Quartermaine. For those who had known and cared for her it was the day they lost a light from their lives. Emily had only been twenty two, but death knows no age. Despite her fighting spirit Emily had lost the battle with Breast Cancer. To all who knew her it was a blow, that while not unexpected still knocked them senseless. In their greif Emily's loved ones come together in ways that would have made Emily proud if she could have seen it.
On September 27th the town of Port Charles, New York said its final farewell to a young woman who had given so much to those around her. There was not a dry eye as a flower strewn coffin was lowered into the ground and covered with earth. Laying Emily beside her Mother in eternity.
Among those there to say good bye there was a common thought circulating in the minds of those who had been closest to Emily; "Why did she have to die?", "Why could I have died in her place?" This thought was loudest in the minds of Jason Morgan, Zander Smith, Nikolas Cassodine and Elizabeth Webber. Without Emily their lives would look so dark that their imaginations couldn't create any images and they would gladly at that moment have traded their lives for Emily's. Each felt their sins were heavy where Emily's had been light. To say they were lost would be an under statement, but to say that they were hopeless would be an exaggeration. Inside each was the power to continue. Emily had left them each they key to their happiness, but in their grief they were too blinded to see it.
As her older brother Jason would gladly have laid down his life in exchange for his little sister's. Having taken so many lives he didn't feel he had the right to live while someone so pure as Emily had died.
In the name of love Zander and Nikolas would have happily exchanged their lives for hers. Without her they felt there was no hope, no light in the world.
Given the chance to trade her life for Emily's Elizabeth would have leapt for joy. Her life was so filled with despair and Emily's had been so full of hope. She had to wonder if fate had some how made a horrible mistake.
As the sun set it cast four greiving people into a cold shadow. Though dusk and its chill was upon them they felt nothing, too cocooned in their thoughts and their grief to notice.
Author's note - While I am in the middle of writing Aftermath I felt the urge to write this story. It was going to be a challenge fic but as of now I am unsure whether or not it will end up meating the promt for the challenge. For those who are spoiler free beware there are some spoilers in this story, so you may not want to read this. Also while this story isn't intended to be completely sad, it will have at least 3 sad parts total in order to move the story in the right direction and this chapter is one of the 3 sorry =( . As always I love comments on the story either in replys to the story or in email form at web_chick_18@hotmail.com Thanks =)
Keys to Happiness
To many September 24th was a day like any other, but then those who could say that hadn't been close to Emily Bowmen Quartermaine. For those who had known and cared for her it was the day they lost a light from their lives. Emily had only been twenty two, but death knows no age. Despite her fighting spirit Emily had lost the battle with Breast Cancer. To all who knew her it was a blow, that while not unexpected still knocked them senseless. In their greif Emily's loved ones come together in ways that would have made Emily proud if she could have seen it.
On September 27th the town of Port Charles, New York said its final farewell to a young woman who had given so much to those around her. There was not a dry eye as a flower strewn coffin was lowered into the ground and covered with earth. Laying Emily beside her Mother in eternity.
Among those there to say good bye there was a common thought circulating in the minds of those who had been closest to Emily; "Why did she have to die?", "Why could I have died in her place?" This thought was loudest in the minds of Jason Morgan, Zander Smith, Nikolas Cassodine and Elizabeth Webber. Without Emily their lives would look so dark that their imaginations couldn't create any images and they would gladly at that moment have traded their lives for Emily's. Each felt their sins were heavy where Emily's had been light. To say they were lost would be an under statement, but to say that they were hopeless would be an exaggeration. Inside each was the power to continue. Emily had left them each they key to their happiness, but in their grief they were too blinded to see it.
As her older brother Jason would gladly have laid down his life in exchange for his little sister's. Having taken so many lives he didn't feel he had the right to live while someone so pure as Emily had died.
In the name of love Zander and Nikolas would have happily exchanged their lives for hers. Without her they felt there was no hope, no light in the world.
Given the chance to trade her life for Emily's Elizabeth would have leapt for joy. Her life was so filled with despair and Emily's had been so full of hope. She had to wonder if fate had some how made a horrible mistake.
As the sun set it cast four greiving people into a cold shadow. Though dusk and its chill was upon them they felt nothing, too cocooned in their thoughts and their grief to notice.