I don't own ABC, General Hospital, Kick Ass, Charlie's Angels, Anything Avengers (Black Widow in particular), Anything Ironman, Anything from Twilight, the Resident Evil Franchise, or the Movie Lucy and the characters, narratives and overarching themes therein. Many of my concepts come from these movies and TV shows are inspired in some way. This is a Liason Fic, and in many ways will be extraordinary. Thanks for putting up with me. This is a very angst filled fic. There's a lot of hurt and misunderstanding. If you're looking for an immediate happy ending it's not going to happen. If you're a fan of Sam this is not a fic for you.

Chapter 3.) In the Throws of Death Life Springs Anew

August 26th, 2009 WSB Medical Facility- Outside of Port Charles

Anna was sitting at her desk. For the past few hours she'd been pouring over paperwork pertaining to the known information that they had regarding the players in the toxic ball fiasco that had affected her daughter Elizabeth so horrifically over the past few months. Elizabeth's stay in the pod was supposed to be anywhere from two days to two weeks, but Elizabeth and the baby had other plans and continued their stay for an additional four and a half months. Elizabeth had only emerged at the end of July, practically skeletonized, and emaciated, her abdomen taut with the growth of her child. She'd heard of this happening before in a town called Forks, Washington, to a human that had carried a hybrid vampire to term, and during the birth the mother's human body succumbed to the blood loss that occurred. Thankfully, the mother was bitten and injected with the Vampire venom in time to spare her a true death. She was revived in two day and came back completely healthy, well healthy for a vampire. The child's growth rate was impressive, by age 7 she would be an adult.

February 2009, Two days after initial toxic ball outbreak in the OR- General Hospital ICU

"Who are you?" Elizabeth wheezed out from beyond her breathing mask, as an unknown woman walked into her room and approached her at her bedside.

"I'm Anna Devane, Robin's mother."

"Oh, that's right. You just look a little different from your picture that Robin keeps of you. I'm sorry I didn't recognize you right away," Elizabeth said as she tried to sit up higher in her bed, "Was there something that I could do for you?"

"Actually, I've been called in to help you, Elizabeth."

"Help me, I don't understand. Why would someone from the world of espionage be here to help someone as insignificant as me?"

"I see you got here early, Mom," Robin said.

"Robin, what's going on? Are you consulting with your mom on my case, because if you are that could be a HIPAA violation. I haven't signed any waivers for release of my information," Elizabeth said with concern bordering on anger.

"Hold on Elizabeth. It's nothing of the sort. I reached out to Robin regarding the exposure of the toxins in OR, and what to look for in the DNA that is all. Robin called me back to confirm my suspicions."

"Your suspicions about what exactly?" Elizabeth asked.

"As you know this attack was deliberate but not for the reasons that you think. We know that this attack was coordinated in an effort to change someone with the proper DNA structure. As you are aware the toxin is like an aerosol, and when breathed in the initial reaction is for the lungs to be choked of oxygen. However, in your case, when the right person breathes it that person could eventually assimilate it into their bloodstream. Robin, do you mind closing the doors," Anna asked her daughter.

"Sure," Robin said making her way over to the door and shutting it.

"Are you saying that unlike the others who've survived breathing this toxin in that it will remain in my blood stream? And…and do what exactly?" Elizabeth said obviously perplexed.

"Elizabeth, I asked Robin to look into all the patients that were affected both dead and alive, and yours came back with a specific anomaly that showed that you were assimilating the toxins, synthesizing them and replicating them. In a matter of hours to days, you're going to feel very different."

"Robin, what's in the toxin?" Elizabeth asked looking at her friend more scared that she'd ever been.

"Two pathogens that are extremely virulent in nature. I've not seen anything like it, nor could I easily explain it, not even to another researcher like myself."

"Anna, you said it would make me different. Different how?" Elizabeth asked.

"Have you ever heard of folklore, you know tales from the Brothers Grimm?"

"Like fairytales and things of that nature. I suppose so, again why?" Elizabeth asked wondering if they were playing some elaborate prank on her.

"Have you ever heard of Vampires? Anna asked.

At hearing this Elizabeth giggled, "Who hasn't? I think every kid has uttered the phrase 'I vant to suck your blood' at least once when they're imitating Dracula," Elizabeth turned her head toward Robin smirking, "Is this some sort of joke you're playing to lift my spirits or… or something?"

"No, Elizabeth. I have to say that I wish it were. These pathogens are real, and this is really happening to you," Robin replied.

"Anna, are you implying that I'm going to go rabid and start biting people in the jugular."

"Based on the reports that I have about the venom that exists in the toxin, in hybrid form that would be incredibly unlikely, but you would be half vampire," Anna stated.

Elizabeth shook her head in acknowledgment before asking, "What's the other portion of the toxin?"

"It's the L-Virus, formerly known as the T-Virus. It was formulated by the now defunct Umbrella Corporation, for the sole purpose of creating human bio weapons. In other words, efficient killing machines. Helena Cassadine bought out the Umbrella Corporation, and the rights to the virus. If the virus attacks the wrong person, it will turn them into the undead," Anna said hoping for some sign that Elizabeth was getting it.

Elizabeth just stared blankly in front of her not really having a firm grasp of what she was being told. The hardest part was taking this all seriously, because it sounded preposterous.

"Helena changed the name of the T-Virus when she purchased the company to the L-Virus. The virus is supposed to bring about the apocalypse," Anna said.

"The L-Virus," Elizabeth thought for a moment, "Oh I get it, L- is for Luke, isn't it" Anna nodded yes before Elizabeth continued, "You got to hand it to the old girl, that's pretty creative. So when the world dies out then everyone will blame Luke. God she's an awful person. So once more, Helena strikes again."

"Not just Helena. She also colluded with Jerry Jacks, Anthony Zacchara and someone in Jason Morgan's crew. It ended up in one of his shipments. Word from the FBI was that he was pissed," Anna said.

Robin just nodded in agreement.

"I bet he was," Elizabeth added, "Okay, so now for my bigger question. I was informed yesterday through blood work that I'm pregnant. Robin," Elizabeth said turning, "How will this affect my unborn child?"

"There's no way to know for sure. The baby could bond with the toxins. It's entirely possible that by the end of this that he or she will be as weaponized as you are," Robin said before her pager went off and she had to leave the room, "I'll be back as soon as I can be."

"Anna, will you hand me my phone? I need to make a phone call."

"This information is sensitive Elizabeth. Who are you calling if you don't mind me asking?"

"Jason. He's the father of this baby and my youngest son, Jacob. Most people don't know that. He needs to know this."

Elizabeth dialed Jason but it went to voicemail so she left a message asking him to call her back conveying the importance.

"I want to take you to a medical facility off the grid, Elizabeth. You and your children. You'd be safer that way. We don't know if this is an initial attack by Helena and her cohorts."

"Normally, I would dig my heals, but I have to say that I'm at a loss here so I will go along with this, provided that if Jason chooses to be a part of this pregnancy that he can be so long as he adheres to whatever you're clearly going to suggest. So I'm going to be a Vampire/Zombie Hybrid…Strange," Elizabeth said completely bewildered.

End of Flashback

Anna could hear the walker and the shuffling of her daughter's weary footsteps. Skin and bones. That's all Elizabeth was at the moment. She knew it would be temporary of course. She was due to deliver in the next three days. Everything had been discussed with Dr. Lee, who knew that Elizabeth was alive. The plan was to complete a safe C-section. Well as safe as a C-section could actually be anyways.

"Hey Anna," Elizabeth said.

"Hey there Elizabeth, getting your afternoon stroll in?" Anna said shuffling the papers around her desk in an effort to hide some of the photos that had just arrived from Mexico that morning. They were troubling to say the least. Anna had finally figured out who in Jason's crew was working with Jerry Jacks and they had a tie into the Cassadine's as well. Anna moved to stand up as Elizabeth made her way over, but part of the picture remained out.

"I just thought I would come in for a visit."

Seeing the leather clad arm, in a portion of the picture Elizabeth pulled the picture from the envelope, before Anna could stop her. "Elizabeth you shouldn't see that," Anna said.

"That explains why he never bothered to call," Elizabeth said with sadness referring to the luds that Anna had pulled up on Elizabeth's phone, "Are there more pictures?"

Anna shook her head yes, and Elizabeth pulled out the rest. There were pictures of Sam with Jerry Jacks, Jason hurt, and several of Sam and Jason going at it like rabbits."

Tears made it down her face, as she placed the envelope back down on the table, and silently made her way back to her small room in the facility. She drew the curtains, shut the door and laid down on the small hospital bed that had been furnished in her room. Lining herself up, she gently fell back onto the bed, and cried, and cried. She hadn't cried this hard since the courthouse.

'How could he? How could he go back to her when she hurt Jake the way that she did? When she stabbed me, and clearly she was working with Jerry Jacks in those pictures. I've been such a fool. Carly, was right,' Elizabeth thought but then spoke, "Jason never loved me. He never loved me," and finally after days of wondering why he hadn't made contact or bothered to search for her, and after waking up essentially alone with only Anna for company and an occasional visit from her Grams, she let out a wail that was so heartbroken with its echo and cacophony that lingered in the room. Crying to the point of hyperventilation her body finally broke and her labor started to commence. Her uterus had started to detach from the wall, and Elizabeth let out a scream. This was similar to the human that she'd heard about from Anna.

"Anna," Elizabeth screamed.

Anna rushed in having heard her name, "Elizabeth, I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed as she turned on the lights.

"Anna, you have to call Kelly Lee. My labor is starting. I think my water is broken and I can feel that I'm having complications. You…you have to call her."

Anna dialed the number, but she had no luck, "It went right to voicemail."

Elizabeth was clearly in pain and starting to sweat.

"Try Robin, Anna," Elizabeth said with as much resolution as she lift her hand realizing that she was bleeding and all she could do was grimace through the pain.

"Mom?" Robin said answering the phone.

"Elizabeth's in labor. It's not going well, I can see blood… lots of it."

"Okay, I'm on my way. Kelly got called into surgery so it's going to be me and a trusted nurse."

"Fine. Just get here. I have nothing to give her for the pain," Anna said.

After 10 minutes of heavy breathing, Elizabeth was barely hanging on. She knew that she'd lost nearly all her blood volume and that the baby was struggling to survive as well.

"Anna, is the syringe with the full dose of the toxins nearby?" Elizabeth asked.

"Yes, it's in that drawer over there across the hall," Anna said.

"Grab that, a scalpel, and the bassinet," Elizabeth said.

"O-okay," Anna said unsure.

"Hurry Anna," Elizabeth said as she grew listless.

Anna ran across the hall, grabbed the bassinet, put the scalpel in it, grabbed some fresh towel, and the syringe with the full dose toxins and ran right back into the room.

"Anna take the syringe out and put it on the bedside table here," Elizabeth said in exhausted but authoritative voice. Anna did as she was instructed.

"Unfold the towels around the bassinet," Elizabeth said. Once again Anna did as she was instructed.

"Okay, this is my last set of instructions and you need to follow them to the letter. Look at the bottom portion of my abdomen. Trace the scar. That's where Jake's C-section scar is. I need you to cut along the same path."

"I can't," Anna said.

"You have to or my baby will die."

"I can't do this to you." Anna said.

"You have to," Elizabeth replied.

"Not to you, I can't do this."

"Damn it, Mom! Yes, you can and you will," Elizabeth said exhausted.

Anna looked up astonished, "How did you know?"

"Now's not really the time," Elizabeth said grasping at Anna's hand for purchase.

"When you get my baby out, you can administer the dose. Okay? Just cut along the line, then through the viscera, then through the uterus. You'll have to pop the rest of the sack more than likely, and you'll have to yank the baby out. Once the baby's out, and the umbilical cord cut, you'll have to administer the shot to my chest with the syringe. I won't last long once you start cutting me," Elizabeth said giving her final orders.

"There's no pain medication."

"I know, but-but my baby's in distress. I can feel it. Get my baby out, and we'll deal with rest later."

Anna carefully moved the scalpel down to the surgical scar from when Jacob was born. Her hand started shaking, "I-I don't think I can do this to you," Anna said.

"You don't have a choice, now start cutting. G-Get my baby out NOW!" Elizabeth shrieked in pain and fear.

Anna gained her nerve back as she sliced Elizabeth's skin and then through the subcutaneous tissue. Elizabeth gripped the railings on her bed biting her bottom lip in the process. When Anna got to the visceral tissue Elizabeth let out a blood curdling scream in agony, "Hurry Anna."

Anna cut through her uterus and the sac therein, she reached in to grab the baby out. It was harder than she thought. The baby was slippery and the suction from the vacuum the baby's body created made getting the baby out nearly impossible at first. Anna finally got a good grip and pulled the quivering bloody mass from Elizabeth's womb. At first there was no noise, but Anna rubbed her knuckles lightly on the baby's chest and the little girl eventually let out a scream, and Anna cut the cord.

"Elizabeth, you have a girl!" Anna exclaimed.

"A girl, Jason and I have a girl" Elizabeth said looking at Anna with delighted eyes, the pain forgotten at the moment. Anna brought the baby girl closer for her mother to see, "Hello little one. So beautiful," Elizabeth said as she let out a few harsh breaths, "Isabella Rosalie, that'll…. be her name, after the Vampires that helped me," she said as she panted out.

Anna walked over to the bassinet to place the baby in it, when she looked over at Elizabeth, it was clear that Elizabeth stopped breathing. Anna cried and started doing CPR on her daughter, but then remembered the syringe next to the bed. Anna grabbed it and plunged it into Elizabeth's thoracic cavity. Now all she could do is wait.

Robin and Epiphany walked in, "You mean she's been alive this whole time?" Epiphany asked.

"She was in a coma for most of it," Robin answered, "Good lord, Mom. You couldn't wait for us?"

"She was in agony, and the baby was in distress. She demanded I get her out. I just administered the full dose of the toxin. She's not breathing. She bled out," Anna said in tears.

"Well let's hope we can rely on the regenerative properties of the L-Virus," Robin said, "Epiphany, will you clean up the baby girl, and I will sew up Elizabeth's Uterus and incisions."

Epiphany grabbed the baby and took her over to the sink. She grabbed the baby soap that was waiting nearby in what she guessed was preparation for this moment. As Epiphany cleaned the baby of her grime, the little girl's eyes opened and she let out a coo. Epiphany noted that the baby girl had a vibrant of dark sapphire eyes like her mother. Nothing at all like her father's. Once clean Anna walked over with a brand new genderless onesie.


Jason awoke with arms wrapped snugly around a warm body, 'God, what have I done?' he thought to himself. 'Well, at least I'm not alone.'

He'd been startled awake, by the dream that he'd had. Admittedly, he didn't often dream but this one was a nightmare. A nightmare where Elizabeth was screaming in agony calling out to him, and he couldn't get to her. 'Must be the guilt I feel at having not been able to help her and moving on with Sam.'


Anna took the baby from Epiphany. Epiphany and Robin cleaned Elizabeth up on put her in the sweats that Patrick brought months prior.

"Now what?" Epiphany asked, "This poor child is dead."

"The toxins will take about two days to work. She's dead now, but in two days her blood work indicates that with that much exposure to the toxin Elizabeth should reanimate on her own, completely healed. We need to leave her instructions on how to get blood from that machine and we need to get out of here."

"Why?" Epiphany asked, "Why would you leave this poor dead child like this?"

"Because Piph, when she wakes up, she's going to be starving and we will be a food source for her."

"What are you saying?" Epiphany asked.

"I'm saying that our dear Elizabeth here is about to be a very different person. She wasn't able to experience the fullness of what she was to become because of her pregnancy. Now she's been administered a full dose, and she should be invulnerable to human injuries and illnesses. Just give her two days, and she'll be revived I promise."

"I say you bring the baby formula and some containers of that blood mom. We don't know what she'll want."

"Okay," Anna said following Robin's orders, "Epiphany is it?"

Epiphany shook her head 'yes,' before Anna continued, "Will you hold her?"

"Of course," Epiphany said taking the baby and rocking her against her full chest. The baby remained very calm, because she was provided with such warmth.

"This baby looks so much like Elizabeth, with dark hair and the blue eyes," Epiphany said as she took in her observations of the little girl.

"She's a fortunate little girl then, because Elizabeth is beautiful," Robin said in thought, "Mom, did Elizabeth get to see her daughter before she passed away?"

Anna shook her head 'yes' with tears streaming down her face as she sniffled and then said, "She did. She said that she was beautiful and she named her…"

"What did she name her?" Robin asked.

"Isabella Rosalie," Anna replied.

"After the vampires out west that skyped her on all things she needed to know about being a vampire?" Robin questioned.

"The very same ones. I guess they made quite the impression on her."

"I guess so," Robin agreed.

"Alright, let's go to the other end of the compound we can observe Elizabeth on camera from there and the boys can meet their new little sister. I've left her a note about the blood bags available to her. Let's hope she reads them before she decides to go on a hunt or something," Anna said as she, Robin, Epiphany, and baby Isabella (carried by Epiphany) made their way toward the door.