Hey people, I wrote this as a story for Journey-Online last year. Due to the storylines for Jase and Court right now, the site's owners aren't updating as much. No updating means no new visitors to the site, and no new reviewers for me. Thus, I am putting the story on this site. I hope ya'll like it. This is an episode re-write.
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Summary: Courtney found out three weeks ago that she was sick. She leaves Port Charles to keep her family from having to bear the burden of her illness. Jason and Sonny are worried about her and look for her but no trail leads them to her. Will Heaven wait so Jason can spend his life with the woman he was meant to be with, or will Heaven be unforgiving and take her away before Jason can say goodbye?
Prologue
His mind drifted back to that night again as he drifted off to sleep. June 1, 2004. That had been a terrible night. It was stressful and confusing, just like the past three weeks had been.
He had been standing on the docks looking at the water that night. His thoughts floated back to happier times. He slipped his wedding ring out of his pocket. In the eye of his memory, he could see her smile as she slowly, carefully, put it on his finger.
His ringing cell phone broke his trance.
"Ja…Jason?" a voice stuttered at the other end of the line.
It was Courtney. Jason could tell that something was wrong with her. "Courtney, is that you?… Is everything OK? What's wrong?"
"Jason, can you… can you meet me at the loft in twenty minutes?… Please?" She was on the verge of tears as she tried to ignore the concerned tone of his voice.
"Yeah… yeah. Twenty minutes, ok. Are you alright?" Jason repeated her request out loud. He was worried. It sounded like she had been crying before she called.
"I'm… It's… Bye," she ended the call abruptly.
It had been a long, upsetting, and shocking day for Courtney Morgan. Her dad was beaten up, she found out that Sam was carrying Jason's baby, and that he was marrying Sam. None of that compared to what had just happened.
She had been having the worst headaches. Everything would start to spin, and sometimes she would black out. Courtney decided to get checked out at the hospital just in case something really was wrong.
She decided to go to Mercy Hospital early in the morning, early enough so that no one would call her and miss her. She didn't feel like having a search party of Sonny and Jason's men looking for her. She knew a lot of people at GH so she thought better of going there. If something were wrong it would get around quick.
Her appointment was at seven AM. Various doctors did multiple tests, and she was out by nine. They told her they would call her when the results came in.
At 9:50 PM, her cell phone rang. She had just left General Hospital after visiting with her father.
"Hello," Courtney answered her phone as she exited her car and walked to the front door of her building.
"Courtney Morgan?" asked the caller.
"Yes," Courtney responded. She recognized the voice of one of the doctors that she had seen that morning at Mercy Hospital.
"I'm calling about the tests you had today at the hospital," the doctor said in a stern voice.
Five minutes later she threw her clothes in a bag as tears streaked down her cheeks. After packing some things including pictures of Sonny, Carly, Michael, Morgan, Mike, Rosie, and Jason, she washed her face and called Jason. He'd be there in twenty minutes.
She sat down on the couch with a pen and paper and Rosie lying obediently at her feet.
Dear Jason…
It was 1:37 AM when Jason woke up breathing hard in New York.
It was 12:37 AM when Courtney woke up crying in Wisconsin.