This takes place maybe a week or so later. I hope you like it.

Chapter 2

She shouldn't have said that to him. "It should have been you". He wasn't the one to blame. Ric was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, he was next to Sonny. She was so mad with Sonny. She couldn't wait to give her a piece of her mind, but for now she was content with letting Jason know how she felt.

Courtney was there and she of course was jumping to his defense just like a good dog who felt that its master had been threatened. She laughed inwardly at that thought.

Then her eyes met his. There was a look of hurt in them and she knew it was because of what she had said. He sent her away, but she didn't care she wanted to be near Ric right now anyhow.
He has had some mean things said to him, he has even had some really painful things done to him, but the words she spoke to him "It should have been you." That hurt him more then anything else he had ever had said to him, hell that hurt him worse then being shot that one time.

That was when he had first become real close with her. To him the gunshot wound was more of a blessing then a curse. He fell in love with her that winter.

Courtney was defending him now and he really didn't want to make Elizabeth more upset then she already was. He hated to see her hurt, and he knew that Courtney wouldn't be able to handle Elizabeth when Liz was mad, because that was when Liz always let out her mean side. What was the name she used to go by when she was a bad ass? He asked himself. Lizzie that was it.

He had to get rid of Liz so he could get rid of Courtney and find out who had shot Ric and who had made Elizabeth hurt again. At least it wasn't him this time that caused the pain he thought.

He was also making sure that nobody was after his family. He had to know what had happened tonight who was the one that was after sonny was it that guy Sam. So many questions and so little time to find them out. He may have been fired not more then a couple of hours ago, but he would never let anything happen to Sonny, Carly, or Michelle.

As he rushed Courtney out of the hospital and to some place public he looked towards the waiting room and Elizabeth. She was sitting in one of the chairs and was crying. Elizabeth why do you want to cry for that guy? He asked himself. He knew that she saw something in Ric that he didn't, but that was because she always found the good in people. I'm sorry you got hurt again he said to her in his thoughts.

After being sent away she went into the waiting room while the doctors worked on Ric. All she could do was pray that he would be alright. She really liked this guy. Sure it wasn't anything like what she had with Lucky or Jason but it might happen. All she wanted right now was for him to be ok. Please God, please let him make it threw this.

Her mind wondered back to the event that happened earlier. She saw him on the ground and was really worried for him, but truth be told it wasn't Ric that she saw down on the floor. In her mind's eye she saw Jason and he was surrounded by white snow. The tears came now and she didn't bother to wipe them away sitting in that waiting room.

She couldn't believe that Jason was the first thing that she thought of when she saw the man on the ground. Sure she came around and back to the real world, and even though she saw that it was Ric on the ground she was thrilled that it wasn't Jason.

Those words she spoke to him "It should have been you" she didn't mean them. She hoped that he knew that. She could never mean those words to him. She didn't care how mad she was at him; her life without Jason Morgan around was an empty one. At least she knew that he was alive and that was enough for her. Sure she missed him but they were both starting to move on.

She thought again about the books that were sitting on her book shelf. The safe one isn't suppose to get shot at, he's suppose to sit behind a desk or something, just not get shot at. She couldn't have that adventure again; she didn't want that adventure again. That was something that she and Jason had and she didn't want to replace it.

She was still bawling like a baby when she saw the happy couple walk in. Sonny and Carly just seemed to not even care that someone had been shot at the club. Sonny was probably making sure that she didn't hurt herself and the baby, but he still could have tried to find out what had happened.

Sonny saw Elizabeth sitting in the waiting room, she was crying but even through her tears he could see her giving him an evil glare. He still couldn't figure out why she hated him so much. There was a time when he thought of her as a little sister. She had even been the one that comforted him that night Carly had lost the baby.

Sonny still liked Liz and wished that she would be able to get past whatever it was that made her angry at him.

He walked over to her. And they argued but he had to know why she hated him so much. "Why are you acting like this? Haven't I always been good to you?"

He was right Elizabeth thought. He had always been good to her, but that was along time ago. She and Sonny hadn't talked in along time and she knew that he didn't know her. So she decided to tell him how she felt. "Death follows you were ever you go Sonny. No one will ever be safe when they are around you." And to herself she said "and it should have been you"

She walked away and headed towards Ric's room. She needed to see him so that she could get the picture of both he and Jason being shot out of her mind. I don't want another adventure she told herself as she walked through the door of his room.