This is my first attempt at fanfiction.I am a little scared. Please let me know if it totally sucks or if I should continue. Thanks!

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Tears burned the back of his eyes, threatening to spill at any moment. He knew he had to

get out of there; he wouldn't be able to hold it together much longer. He felt his stoic

front began to crack, and knew that he had only seconds before it would shatter

completely, leaving him naked and exposed. His throat felt tight, choked, swollen. He

wondered briefly if he was dead- if he wasn't he wished he was. God, he would give

anything if he was. But at the same time he knew he didn't deserve the release from the

pain that death would give him. He looked at her broken body through the glass window

of the ICU. He didn't deserve to live, but he wasn't allowed the peace of death. His tears

slipped down his face silently, branding him as the guilty party. Guilt was not an emotion

he had much experience with, and now it was making him sick to his stomach with hatred

for himself. His shoulders began to shake involuntarily and he took that as his cue. He

turned and his eyes searched wildly for the closest escape. The elevator. He made his

way towards it he heard his name being called but ignored it. It wasn't her, it would

never be her. As the doors of the elevator closed sobs began to wrack his body. He felt

trapped, he had never been claustrophobic but now he felt like a caged animal. He

backed up until he felt his back come in contact with the wall. He shrunk down, wanting

to disappear. He put his face in his hands, scrubbing at it, then ran his hands through his

hair. He had to get away, get out. But go where? He couldn't go home, not now, it was

only home because of her, and now thanks to him she was- he choked down a wave of

nausea. Shit, he couldn't get anywhere, his bike was wrecked. With that thought the

elevator doors opened revealing him, Jason Morgan, sunken to the ground in the corner

of the elevator like a frightened child. It was the ding that accompanied the opening door

that snapped him out of it and he shot off the ground and took off through the doors, god

help anyone that was in his path. When he finally reached the exit and pushed the doors

open, the cool night air hit him in the face like a sheet of ice. He lurched forward and

began to throw up, over and over, gagging until he though his body would collapse from

exertion. He straightened up and swung around chaotically. His eyes were glazed over,

iris's brilliantly blue in contrast to the red surrounding them, and tears ceaselessly made

their way down the jagged contours of his face. He turned back to the door of the

hospital and smashed his fist through the thick glass, startling everyone inside with the

sound. Their fear was amplified by the look of him. No one had ever seen Jason Morgan

loose control, not like this. He was almost unrecognizable. He glanced down in a haze

and saw shards of glass sticking out of his arm, from his wrist to his elbow. He shook his

head, trying to clear it, but was unsuccessful. He was lucky he couldn't feel pain because

his arm was nearly destroyed. He stood there, frozen, oblivious to the commotion going

on around him, and when Alan came out to him to bring him back inside, he unwittingly

let himself be directed into one of the emergency surgery rooms. His eyes were less than

cold and dead- that so many people claimed them to always be- they were empty- glazed

over like a corpse. It seemed impossible that those eyes could be connected to a person

that was still alive.well, technically anyway. He hadn't moved from the position Alan

had placed him in when he had lead him into the room and sat him on the gurney, and

didn't flinch or tense as the surgeon came in and began work on the destroyed flesh and

muscle that had been Jason's right arm. The world went on around him but Jason was no

longer part of it. Only a single thought ran through his mind. And that was of her, of

Courtney, and how he had destroyed her. He hadn't known that evening when he asked

he to go for a ride on his motorcycle that their ride would end in the emergency room.

Hadn't known that it would end with her in the ICU. With her in a coma. That it would

end with her facing the same kind of brain damage that he had been afflicted with 7 years

before. He had loved her, and he had destroyed her like everyone had said that he would.

He had just stolen her life away from her like AJ had done to him years before. How

ironic, thought to himself. And with that final thought, he blinked the last tears out of his

eyes, and then Jason Morgan disappeared into his mind, lost in his pain, leaving behind

an empty body and a broken soul.