When It All Falls Apart

by JennaRiley

Sonny's Daughter, Kellie and her husband, Tyler, receive heartbreaking news as the Real Jason returns to Port Charles. In the meantime, an enemy with ties to Kellie's past threatens the Corinthos-Scott family. (Book 7 of the Kellie Corinthos Stories) - Update: Final Chapter Posted

1. Chapter 1

Author's Note/Introduction to "When It All Falls Apart".

"When It All Falls Apart" marks the seventh story in the Kellie Corinthos Saga. I had no idea that first story would result in seven (eight if we count the alternate universe with Kellie Alcazar). That there is a seventh story surprised me. Crossing Into Dawn was supposed to be a tidy happily ever after ending.

As Michael being shot and the appearance of Dante on the show, spurred me to consider how those storylines might play out in the Kellie Corinthos universe, the return of Steve Burton as the Real Jason did the same. Starting with where would Kellie fit into the story? Since the events take place 7-8 years when we last saw Kellie and Tyler, I had to considered where they would be now which led to asking myself a lot of what ifs. The answers to those what ifs went a direction I never anticipated or planned on writing. So much so that I've procrastinated and struggled to post it. At one point I even tried to reconsider and find or way to push the timeline out on this story.

As I struggled with this, Donnell Turner (Curtis) talked about how General Hospital wasn't just about one thing, but about life. Like the events in "When It All Falls Apart", life consists of happiness and heartbreak and often times life doesn't go as planned. To not post this story, would be to ignore that.

To quote Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, "This is not going to go the way you think!" Consider this your warning. From the first chapter, it's very obvious where parts of this story are headed. If you really want Kellie and Tyler's life to consist of a threat free existence and 50 some years before their end comes, then I will tell you don't read this story. This is your chance opt-out if you should choose.

I hope if you choose to read this story that you'll give it a chance. If you find yourself cursing me for making you cry, know I cried multiple times writing and rereading parts of this.

Things you need to know from the Kellie Corinthos universe that are different from the shows or to read this story going forward.

1) If you haven't read the Kellie Corinthos Stories before, I recommend reading the stories in order before reading this one. The order is "Trouble Always Finds Me", "Dark Around The Edges", "Nothing's What It Seems" (Back from the Dead fits in here at this point), "Chaos Gets You Everywhere" and "Crossing Into Dawn."

2) Emily died when Manny Ruiz came after Sonny who was dating Emily at the time. She died when both she was shot by both of them in the cross fire. Jason worked for Lorenzo Alcazar after this before taking over the business from Sonny like he did in the show.

3) Lorenzo Alcazar never died. Skye took off with Lila Rae to Pine Valley

4) Sam is Lorenzo's daughter, not Julian Jerome's.

5) Mike, Sonny's Dad, died during Dark Around the Edges. As much as I would love to write some scenes with the alzeimers storyline, I'm going to let that one go.

6) In order to make the kids easier to keep track of, I'm going with the kids that are currently on the show aside from Tyler and Kellie, Sage and Milo's kids. This means at some point in the last few years it was determined John is Actually Spencer. Originally in the Kellie Corinthos universe there was no Jake (Jason/Liz). Give the timelines this means Danny is older than Jake in this universe. Lila Rae has been aged to 14-15. Everyone else's ages are the age they are now. In terms of the whole Franco storyline, Sam had a pregnancy scare not knowing whether Jason or Franco was the father.

7) Ric and Alexis ended when he had a mental breakdown and took Molly/Kristina hostage before moving to California.

8) Jason's return also factors into the first few chapters. I tried to factor Kellie into the return with little changes to how it played out on the showed.

Other than the above mentioned, I'm leaving the shows history as it stands. I'll also reference a lot things that have gone on in the show in the last year, letting those scenes play out as they have on the show for awhile. I'll try to address any questions or differences I haven't thought of as I go. Eventually this story will start departing from however GH actually plays out.