"Elizabeth, what is that? Are you okay? Please don't tell me its blood, because I'm not good with blood. That's why I became a lawyer, not a doctor." Where was a paper bag when you needed one? Okay, deep breathes…in…out. You can do this.
"Diane, calm down please, because I am going to need you to help me. I think I have busted some of my stitches open. Kelly's going to kill me. She said she didn't want to do any repair work. She kept telling me to rest, stay off my feet. And what do I do and do? I go have World War 3 negotiations with both mine and Jason's exes. I don't even want to think about what Jason's going to do." She looked down to her hand and shirt again. "Okay when we got off the elevator, I need you to go ask for a towel or something. Then, I need you to take me to the hospital."
Diane started to feel a little relieved. Elizabeth couldn't possible be feeling too bad if she can still rant like that. But she had a point. Jason was not going to be pleased. "Okay, I can do that? We do need to call Jason, however. Do you want to do that?"
"Personally, I think we should wait until I am already at the hospital. That way you can tell him I am already being looked at. Then maybe he won't be so upset."
Diane just stared at her. This woman was going to make her call Jason. "Are you really going to make me deliver the upsetting news?"
Elizabeth just shrugged and smiled. "Well, you are my lawyer, right. Aren't you suppose to be the middle man for me and any legal situation I might encounter? I believe this might count as I do believe Jason is going to want to kill me after he finds out that I argued with both Lucky and Sam instead of just leaving. Either that, or I am going to get a whole lot of 'I told you so' from him."
Diane just threw up her hands. "I don't know why I get involved with some of these situations. But at least it you are able to make a joke about this, you must not being too bad." They stepped off the elevator. "I'll go get that towel. Just stand over by the door."
She thinks I'm joking, Elizabeth thought to herself. I'm for real. Jason is probably going to flip out about Lucky and Sam. I just want a minute to rest before all the explaining I am going to have to do. Then, once he finally calms down, I think he might just drag me home and tie me down like he threatened. Not that I would object to being tied down by…wait, I am not going there. She took the towel from Diane. She didn't want to alarm Diane, but she thought the bleeding was getting slightly worse. She was starting to feel a little faint. "Um, Diane, can we go now? I really need to get to the hospital."
As they turned to slowly walk out the door, Sam and Lucky stepped off the elevator. "Oh great, I thought they would have been gone by now. Lucky, let's just wait a second for them to get out to the parking lot. I do not want to speak with her again."
"Wait. Sam, look…Elizabeth is walking funny. Do you think something's wrong?" Lucky began to get concerned. He had seen he grab her side. What if something was wrong?
Sam couldn't believe this. Elizabeth was still playing him. She bet this had been planned from the time she scheduled this meeting. She had seen Elizabeth grab her side, and she knew it was just for Lucky's benefit…to make him feel sorry for her. This was pathetic. "Lucky, nothing is wrong with her. This is what she wants. For you to feel sorry for her and the boys, so that you'll let up on her. Don't fall for it!"
They both looked out just in time to see Elizabeth almost fall to the ground. "Sam, I am going to check on her." Lucky rushed out the door, with Sam following. She couldn't believe the lengths that girl would go through to make men fall at her feet. "Elizabeth, Diane, do you need help?"
Thank God someone was here. "I need to get her in my car. I've got to get her to the hospital. She's….oh Mr. Spencer. Never mind, I don't believe we will be needing your services."
Just great, thought Elizabeth, Lucky had seen. Now what was she going to do. "Lucky, please go away. I really don't need this right now."
"Elizabeth, stop being stupid and just let me help you to the car. What happened? Why are you going to the hospital?" He put his arm around her waist to steady her.
He did sound worried. "I think I busted some of my stitches open. I've got to get them fixed." They were at the car, and Diane had opened the door. "Thank you for your help. Now please just leave me alone. I do not need you or her," she said staring behind him to Sam who seemed to be smirking, "bothering me any longer. Have Alexis contact Diane if you want to speak with me again."
Lucky just stared as Diane drove off. Elizabeth was bleeding. And it was probably because of that meeting. No matter how much she had hurt him, he didn't want to physically hurt her. He looked back at Sam. "We need to go check on her to make sure she's okay. I wanted her to hurt as bad as she hurt me, but not physically. Are you coming?"
Sam began to run to catch up with him. "Of course I'm going. Lucky, you can't let her do this to you. It wasn't you're fault. You heard her. She thought it was her stitches. You didn't rip them open for her."
"I know that, Sam. But I also know she was just recently released from the hospital. I should have said we couldn't have the meeting yet. And I'm starting to think I shouldn't have asked you to be there with me. I have just wanted her to feel like I felt every time I think of her with Jason. But that's not a fair way to fight. Now come on." They both climbed in his car and drove to the hospital.
Jason picked up his phone while pretending to be a horse for Cam. "Morgan."
"Jason, Diane here."
Jason stopped and slid Cam off his back so that he could stand up. "Again, Jason, again."
"Hold on just a second, Cam. Diane, was there a problem?"
"Well, possibly. I am at the hospital with Elizabeth. She was bleeding and needed to be checked."
"Bleeding…what? Was it Lucky? I'll fix him…I'll…"
Emily stood up quickly. "Jase…Cam."
Jason stopped to think for a second. Diane must have taken this as a time to continue.
"She was just taken back to a room. They are paging Kelly. She wanted me to call and let you know."
"Why didn't you call me before going to the hospital? I could have met you there." He couldn't understand why they had waited. He should have just gone with them. He knew it was too soon for her to be doing all of this.
"She had a rough meeting. Due to attorney-client privilege, you know I can't talk to you about it. But I'm sure Elizabeth will tell you all about it. I will wait with her until you can get here."
"I'll be right there." He hung up the phone and turned to Emily. "I'll be back, Em. Call me if you need me. I'm going to let the guard at the door know to not let anyone in until I get home, okay. Something happened, and I'm not sure…just keep the boys here."
"Jase, just go. I understand. She's going to be okay, you know. Now, call me when you find out when you'll be home. Cam and I can take care of Jake…right Cam." He nodded. She gave Jason a hug. "Give Elizabeth a hug for me."
Cam hugged his leg. "Bye Jason. Will you be a horsey for me later?"
"Sure thing, buddy. As soon as I get back." He grabbed his leather jacket, put it on, grabbed his keys, and left.
Jason walked straight into the Emergency Room and to the main desk. "I'm looking for Elizabeth Spencer. I was told she was here."
Ephiany looked up and said, "Mr. Morgan, you're going to have to wait just like everyone else. The doctor is in with her now."
Diane came walking down the hall. "Jason, thank god you're here. I have to tell you. I think I am going to have to charge you extra. I really hate blood. Plus I had to sit here in this hospital."
"Fine Diane, where's Elizabeth? Is she okay? What happened?"
He wasn't even giving her time to answer anything. He must be annoyed. She just hoped he didn't turn around and see who was in the waiting room. She better wait until that confrontation was over. No reason for her to leave now, to just have to be called down to the station shortly for a murder he might commit. "Jason, Elizabeth is with her doctor, Kelly is it? Kelly told me to come and wait out here while she checked on her. She said she would be out to speak with us when she was finished. Elizabeth seemed much better once Kelly got in the room. And finally, the meeting we had didn't go very well, and that is all I can legally say about it."
"Why didn't you call me? I would have come over. What about the guard I had wanted you to take?"
"Elizabeth didn't want the guard. She just wanted to get this over with, and I was happy to oblige. It I had known about the confrontation, however, I would not have allowed my client to attend this meeting. I would have gone on my own." Diane looked at Jason and waited for a response. She knew he was upset, and it was only going to get worse because Lucky and Sam were coming over.
"Excuse me, Diane, what did Kelly say?" Lucky didn't even get another word out of his mouth before Jason had grabbed him with both hands and yelled, "What do you think you are doing here? You have no right to be near her at the moment. Just looking at yourself, you don't think I know you're on those pills right now. Get away from here now."
"Elizabeth, you were suppose to be resting, now having meetings with your lawyer. I know you're super mom and all, but you are getting over delivering a baby, almost bleeding out, and being in a coma for a couple of days. Now you've gone and busted open my stitches. I told you I don't like to do repair work." She looked up to see her friend crying.
"I'm so sorry, Kelly. I didn't mean for this to happen. I didn't mean for anything to happen. That man wants my kids. Can you believe it? They are my kids…and he threatened to take them away…well his lawyer did anyway. I'm going to have to take my kids and run. Can you believe it? Supposedly he's on another prescription, which I know he isn't, so his test didn't show the pills. And…and…"
"Elizabeth, snap out of it. This is what I'm talking about. On top of everything else, you are probably still a little hormonal. Now, I am going to fix my work, and I am going to give you something to sleep while I do it. You need to rest. After you wake up, I want you to talk with Lainey again. You might be suffering from a little post-partum depression. Now calm down, lean back, and let me take a look at what you did." Kelly examined the area that was bleeding. "Well, you don't do anything half way, do you? Well, let's get started. Diane said she's wants you fixed as soon as possible so that her client doesn't blow a gasket…her words, not mine." She smiled at Elizabeth. "Really, everything is going to be fine, okay?! Let's get to work."
Elizabeth looked at Kelly, wiping tears from her eyes. "Sorry, this is the second time I've broken down in a few days now. I'm sorry you had to see it. And you are right, I'm going to go home and not move for the next few days, just sit on the couch with my sons."
Kelly sat down next to her, injecting the prescribed medicine. "That sounds like the best medicine for you right now. Rest and I'll get you all fix up."
The last thing Elizabeth saw was Kelly arranging the instruments on the tray.
Diane grabbed Jason's arm. "Put Mr. Spencer down. He helped get Elizabeth into the car so that I could bring her here." She waited until he set Lucky down and let him go. "Now, why don't we sit down and wait. I'm sure everyone will be civil so that the hospital staff will let us wait on news about Elizabeth.
Jason pointed to Lucky and said, "He needs to leave. I have a gut feeling that he helped put Elizabeth into this situation, him and the person he has hanging on his arm at the moment."
Sam was getting really angry. He had nerve to try to be offending her at the moment. "One, I know you having forgotten my name that quickly. It's Sam, you know, the person you use to love and was going to spend your life with. That is, before you hooked up with Little Miss Perfect. And two, Elizabeth brought all of this on herself…lying to everyone she supposedly loved for months. Oh, but that's right, you helped her because Elizabeth is always right in your eyes."
"Sam, shut up. You do not need to say another word about this. You are no longer involved in my life. You decided you did not want to be involved when I walked into to my room and saw you in MY bed with…him!" He said pointing to Lucky. "Now, you both just need to leave, now. Elizabeth doesn't need to be around either of you. And Lucky, last I recalled, Elizabeth had Diane file a restraining order to keep you away from her and the kids, so leave."
"Jason, you didn't hear? My urine test was clean…no pills or drugs. I am staying here until I know Elizabeth is okay." He went and sat in a chair.
"And I'm staying here with him. Unlike you, I care about what happens to other people."
"Yeah, and pigs fly." He wondered what her angle was here. She must have a plan…and it must involve Lucky. Well, whatever. She wasn't his problem any more, and for that, he was thankful.
He walked to the other side of the room and leaned against the wall to wait. He wasn't going to be any closer to those two then necessary. And what did Lucky mean about the urine test…he saw Lucky with the pills himself.
Kelly walked out into the waiting room looking for Diane. She saw Jason first, and then she saw Lucky. Well, this couldn't be good. She walked towards Jason and said, "Elizabeth is fine. I fixed the stitches. I want her to stay just a little longer. I gave her something to help her rest. After she speaks with Lainey, I'll let her go with the promise that she will do nothing but put her feet up for the next two weeks. Do not let her lift anything, even the baby. Bring him to her, okay."
Jason felt himself just relax. He took a deep breathe. She was just fine. He could allow Lucky to live for now…because it something had been wrong with her, no on would have been able to find him.
"I will let you in to see her now. I don't think it would be best for anyone else to go in at the moment. Come with me."
He followed her down the hall hoping that Lucky didn't try to follow. She opened the curtains. Elizabeth was sleeping. "Go on in. She's fine. She just really needed some rest right now. I'm going to tell Lucky she's fine. Hopefully after that, he will leave, because I know she doesn't want to see him." With that, she left.
He walked over and sat down next to her. He gently picked up her hand. He brought it to his lips and gave her a light kiss. She looked beautiful while she was sleeping. He was going to do everything he could to protect her. He just hoped that she would let him. For once, there was no one between them, and they had a son together. For once, maybe they could just be with each other. He would give her time…he had all the time in the world for her. He laid his head next to her, and rested as well.
