Chapter 6
Elizabeth shrugged and smiled at Sonny "Now give me back my baby." she said holding out her arms; Sonny smiled as he slid Lila back into her mother's arms and looked at Jason, "So we're going to leave now and we'll see you soon. " He replied as he and Carly left. Dr Meadows came back inside right after they disappeared. "Mr. Morgan, it's time to call it a night. You can come back tomorrow morning." she smiled.
Jason nodded to the doctor. He didn't want to go against hospital policy so kissed Elizabeth and Lila and then he left the room. He left to go find Monica or Alan because he wanted to stay with Elizabeth and Lila.
Monica stood at the nurse's station writing a chart up, donned in her white doctor coat, she looked up seeing Jason and smiled as she put down the chart and walked up to him "Jason, I'm surprised to see you here. What are you doing here?" Monica asked her son.
Jason smiled at his mother, "Hi Mom. I'm here with Elizabeth and our daughter. You're a grandmother." He said proudly. She smiled and hugged him, "Congrats Jason." He hugged her back, "Thank you. I'm wondering if you can arrange it so I can stay with Elizabeth and the baby." He said nervously hoping his own mother would be generous. After all she was married to the chief of staff.
She sighed "Jason, you know it's hospital policy…" she said to him, slipping her pen back into the pocket of her white coat, she sighed and looked at him "You can stay another hour."
Jason nodded. He couldn't complain about the one hour. "Thank you. Would you like to see your grand daughter?" He asked his mother. She smiled "I'll see her later" she said to him than picked up her charts and went back to work.
Jason nodded and walked back into Elizabeth's room. He was a bit hurt by his mother. When he arrived back at Elizabeth's room, he walked in and closed the door and sat in a chair next to Elizabeth and just zoned out for a minute lost in thought.
Elizabeth was feeding Lila when she noticed Jason come in, entirely in another world, she reached out when he sat down beside her and patted his hand, "Jason honey, are you okay? Why are you still here?" she asked; she didn't understand why he looked so strangely into space.
Jason looked up and felt Liz touch his hand. "I'm fine... Monica has allowed me to stay for another hour." He told her. "I told her about the baby and she brushed it off like it was nothing." He sighed.
She sighed, "Honey, its fine, maybe she's not ready. I mean...you hardly even speak to your parents, you can't just set off a bomb like this and think that everything's great." she said to him rubbing her thumb against the back of his hand slowly.
'Crap, she is right.' Jason thought. "I know, but I knew if I didn't tell her then she would resent me even more than she already does. Then there's the rest of them and for as long as I could remember, all I was hearing was 'I really hope Jason let's us into his life' or 'I hope I become a grandparent one day'." He replied as he looked at Elizabeth's ring.
She smiled at him and removed the bottle from Lila's lips, setting it down on the table and handed Lila to him. Lila was now asleep, cuddled in her pink fluffy hospital blanket and pink cap; milk dribbling out of one side of her mouth as she cooed in her sleep. "Can you put her in the bassinet?" she asked him laying back. "I sure can." Jason replied as he gently took Lila from Elizabeth and placed the baby in her bassinet and just watched her sleep. "You know, she looks exactly like you, honey." Jason said to Elizabeth as he took her hand, held it and smiled at his fiancée.
Elizabeth laid back, "Can you call the nurse for the pain medication?" she grimaced in pain; she gripped his hand and with another hand lifted her pajama top up a bit, examining the incision. The entire incision wound was dark red; covering the entire bandage in blood.
Jason nodded and pushed the call button for the nurse. The nurse arrived minutes later, "Someone's in pain I see." The nurse said as she walked over and administered the medication through Elizabeth's IV. "This should keep the pain to a minimum and you press this button to administer more if you need it." She replied as she set the cord aside near the IV.
Elizabeth nodded and took hold of the medication button and lied back snuggling in and closed her eyes lightly as the nurse walked out of the room, Liz whimpered slightly opening her eyes and grabbing his hand "Stay." She whispered.
"Okay, I'll stay until I have to leave." Jason whispered to her as he sat in the chair, grabbed her free hand, held it and closed his eyes for a minute. She smiled and closed her eyes and fell asleep lightly. Jason started to fall asleep as well. It wasn't long until Monica showed up, woke him up and told him to go home.
Elizabeth felt Jason get up and clutched his hand as Monica waited at the door "Jason please, don't go. I don't want to be alone." she whimpered, as she began to cry. Jason Morgan was officially stuck. He didn't want to break hospital policy nor did he want to upset Elizabeth. He looked to his mother for help hoping she wouldn't see a mobster someone who she resents... just her son.
Monica sighed as Elizabeth begged "Please Jason, don't go." she continued to cry, trying to pull him closer to her. Monica didn't know what to do, she wanted to allow him to stay but she had to respect hospital policy; there were reasons they were in place.
Jason looked at his mother with his a glare in his eyes that were saying, 'Are you happy now?' He really hated this but mostly he couldn't believe how resentful his mother was being towards him. "Elizabeth, I have to go. I'll be back tomorrow, I promise. You and Lila need to rest." He said to her. Maybe telling his mother about Lila was a bad idea.
Elizabeth let go of her fiancé as Monica sighed. "You can stay Jason. Just don't leave the room; use the adjoining bathroom, visiting hours start before breakfast shows up, I'll be the only one allowed access until tomorrow morning." Monica said as she left the room to finish her rounds. Elizabeth looked at him and lied back on the bed as she wiped her eyes. "Thank you." He called out to his mother. He wasn't up for talking to her just yet. He just needed time to cool off.
Elizabeth had been released from the hospital about a week later and she was now at home with Lila and she had put her in her bouncing chair on the living room floor, while salsa music played lightly in the background as she was vacuuming.
Jason was at Eli's. He had gone there per Elizabeth's request to pick up dinner. When he arrived there it took him a while to get the order because the owner had hired new staff and they were screwing up everything.
A half hour later a delivery man came to the door at The Morgan Residence. Elizabeth answered the door and the delivery guy handed her a huge bouquet of white roses, her favorites. She he shivered as she accepted them and put them on the desk, as she closed the door. Elizabeth took the card from them and read it. The card read "We'll be together soon my love." and covered her mouth for a few moments letting it sink in than she put the card through Jason's paper shredder and sighed as she went back to entertaining Lila.
An hour later Jason returned home with dinner; all of his fiancée's favorites from Eli's. He opened the door and walked into the house, setting the food on the desk. As he did so, he noticed the white roses, but thought nothing of it. "Elizabeth, I'm home." He called out loud enough so she would be able to hear him. When he received no answer, he walked over to the bouncer, picked up Lila and held her.
Elizabeth came out of the kitchen with a bottle of milk and smiled "Welcome home. Dinner smells wonderful." she said to him as she walked up kissing him.
Jason was talking to Lila, "Hey baby girl. Have fun with Mommy today?" Lila yawned and squirmed in her Daddy's arms and he took that as a yes. He then turned to see Elizabeth walking towards him and he kissed her back. "I went to Eli's like you wanted me to." He said smiling as he gently handed Lila over to Elizabeth and went to the kitchen, grabbing plates, spoons, forks, knives, & glasses, returned with then and set them on the near by table. "How was your day?" Jason asked her.
She went to fill a glass with water when he asked how her day was, she immediately thought about the flowers and dropped the glass and it shattered onto the floor "Oh gosh." she muttered and dropped to her knees to pick up the pieces. Jason saw how surprised Elizabeth was as he finished setting the table and then went over to comfort Lila who was now screaming her lungs out because of the shattering glass.
"Hey baby girl, its okay. Mommy just dropped a glass. You're okay."
He said to her soothingly as he rocked her gently as he walked around the penthouse with her in his arms while rubbing her back trying to calm Lila down.
"Elizabeth, I didn't mean to startle you." He told her as he looked at her picking up the pieces of glass carefully.
She finished cleaning up the glass putting it in the garbage, she sighed washing her hands "I know, I don't know why I got so spooked." she mumbled as there was another knock on the door as Elizabeth went to shelling out the dinner
Lila quieted down a bit and Jason decided to sit on the couch and give her a bottle. "Honey, it's okay. I'll get it and send who ever it is away." Jason said to Elizabeth as he got up from the couch and walked to the door with Lila in his arms.
A delivery man stood there "Delivery for an Elizabeth Webber." the man said holding up more white roses. "Just one second." Jason said through the door as he walked over to Lila's bouncer and placed her in it and then went back to the door, opened it and took the roses from the delivery guy. Once Jason had the roses, he closed the door and put the roses on the desk. He wasn't sure how to approach the subject of his fiancée receiving flowers. "Elizabeth there's a delivery for you." He called out.
Elizabeth shook, her face went really pale as she rushed out before he could find the card, she rushed to the roses the man held and took them from him and than took the card out of the roses and read it, it said "Thinking of you." She shuttered and thanked the delivery man and than shut the door and sighed as she slipped the card into her pocket.
Jason was getting suspicious now that two sets of white roses had been delivered to the Morgan residence without cards. He wasn't going to press the issue yet, but he wasn't happy about this either.
Liz set the roses on the desk and turned to him, she had to figure out something so she suddenly blurted out "That Carly… she's been sending me roses for weeks." she smiled nervously as she tried to play the situation off; her complexion still white.
"I believe you, Elizabeth." He told her honestly as they sat down to eat dinner and watch Lila sleep. "Let's eat, please." He urged her. She sighed and sat down, pushing the food around with her fork. Jason tried to eat but he couldn't because something was on Elizabeth's mind. "Baby, something's wrong. What has got you so spooked?" Jason asked her as he saw her playing with her food.
She slammed her fork down "Nothing! Why do you keep asking me what's wrong, nothing is wrong okay!" she yelled at him as she stood up taking Lila out of her chair and stormed upstairs to the nursery.
Before he could say anything that was close to an apology, Elizabeth got up from the table, and took Lila with her upstairs. 'What did I do?' he thought. 'Does Elizabeth not want to be married to me?' he thought as he got up, cleared the table & went into the kitchen to wash dishes.
Elizabeth placed Lila into her crib and pulled the pink and brown blanket up to her waist and kissed her forehead and than shut off the light and closed the door and made her way to their bedroom, she got into her black pajama pants and black t-shirt and sighed as she sat on the edge of the bed and leaned over resting her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands. While downstairs, Jason's cell phone rang.
Jason sat downstairs, just thinking what he did wrong until his cell phone rang and he answered it. "Morgan," he replied into his phone. Carly answered it "Hey Jase, just calling to see how everything is." She said. "I hear Elizabeth's got a lot of flowers. Max says he's seeing delivery boys like crazy making deliveries.
"Hey Carly...Elizabeth's been saying that she's been receiving the white roses from you. Everything's not fine. Liz is upset with me." Jason told his friend.
"I've never sent her flowers, especially white roses, they're her favorites though. I'll let sonny know." Carly said to Jason. Carly then went on to say, "I don't know what's happening but Elizabeth's been pretty aggressive towards me as well when I've asked about the flowers too." she said to him. "I have to go." she said and hung up.
"Damn it. I had a feeling Elizabeth was keeping something from me. Yeah they are her favorites, but who could have sent them?" He asked Carly. She hung up before he got her reply. He too hung up his phone and just sat there wondering who sent his fiancée white roses.
Elizabeth yawned and went to stand at the top of the stairs "I'm sleeping Jason, I'm going to bed, are you coming?" Elizabeth asked her fiancé.
"Yeah, I'll be up in a minute." Jason called out as he got up from the couch and walked over to the stairs. Still thinking about who could be Elizabeth's stalker as he went up the stairs.
Elizabeth met him at the top of the stairs and smiled caressing his face with both of her hands "baby, are you okay" she smiled as she pressed her lips against his neck, trying to calm herself down, knowing she couldn't keep the stalker from him forever, she wanted to try though, she didn't want him to stress.
How could Jason not go crazy when some maniac was stalking his fiancée? "I'm fine, sweetheart. It's you and Lila I'm worried about." He said as he wrapped his arms around Elizabeth's waist and just held her. He never wanted this life to touch his family.
She looked up at him "Jason, your not fine, your tense, come to bed, I'll give you a nice massage." she suggested trying to keep away from the stalker subject as she took his hand and pulled him towards their room.
He looked at her "Okay..." He replied as he and Elizabeth went upstairs to bed. Once in the room, Elizabeth gave him a massage like she said she would. It wasn't half bad. In fact it was the best thing to help relieve his tension.
Elizabeth smiled as she straddled the small of her back, massaging the clearly defined knots in his back and kissed his skin lightly, "Jason," she whispered trailing her lips to the nape of his neck sliding her hands to his sides.
Jason closed his eyes for a minute as Elizabeth massaged him. "Yes, Elizabeth." he replied as he was almost asleep. He had to admit that Elizabeth's hands had the magic touch.
She smiled realizing he was almost asleep, she sighed and sat back up and went back to massaging his back "never mind" she whispered, disappointed, she wanted to kiss him, she wanted him to make love to her but she continued to massage him, he had a long day and was tired, she'd continue to massage him until he fell asleep than she'd go check on Lila. She smiled weakly. "Sleep." she muttered lightly.
Jason was now asleep and he was thinking of many things; his family, the Quartermaines, Elizabeth's stalker, as well as how to protect her and their daughter. He also didn't want to make her feel unwanted... he had slept for three hours and then woke up to pounding on the door. He went downstairs to see who it was and this time it was Carly.
Liz had fallen asleep on the couch after she made sure Jason was asleep, she couldn't sleep next to him knowing she was keeping a secret. She whimpered in her sleep lightly, clutching the baby monitor to herself as she slept soundly as Carly walked into the penthouse "Jason," she said "I know who Liz's stalker is." Carly said to him.