Title: Follow Through 10/?
Author: Christen (purplehayschotmail.com) if you want to email me during the week email me at (cha005latech.edu)
Disclaimer: this is a fanfic about General Hospital
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: please send me all you comments. Please! Oh and Liz and Zander's son is named Steven Cameron Smith.
Ok for Liz's delivery I'm just going to summarize it. I worked in the labor and delivery unit so I could defiantly go in to complete detail but I thought I'd spare you so well on to the chapter...
(Follow Through by: Gavin DeGraw)
"These reeling emotions they just keep me alive
They keep me in tune
Oh, look what I'm holding here in my fire
This is for you
Am I too obvious to preach it?
You're so hypnotic on my heart"
"Come on. She's in here." Maxie said coming into their room with the doctor.
"Maxie thank God you're back. The contractions are getting closer together." Liz said.
"Liz this is doctor Jason Aswell, he's the doctor for the spa."
"Dr. Aswell, I don't mean to be rude but have you ever delivered a baby before?"
"No but I am trained to."
"Great at least one of us has done this before." Liz said sarcastically.
"This isn't your first delivery?"
"Not I've been pregnant three times and went through labor once."
"Ok Ms. Jones can you get some pillows for Mrs. Lansing, a wet cloth, some towels, a blanket and some ice."
"Sure." Maxie said running off.
"Mrs. Lansing how far apart are the contractions?"
"About a minute. You know I'd feel a lot better if we were in a hospital with lots of medication."
Dr. Aswell laughed. "I bet but the roads are closed due to the storm so you're stuck here but don't worry I passed this part of the course with flying colors."
"You know I'd be a lot more relaxed if you had done this before."
"So would I but I think we can do this. Now let's see how far a long you are..."
"I've got everything." Maxie said coming back in.
"Ok put the pillows behind her, the blanket over her legs, the wet clothe on her head and let her chew the ice."
"No problem." Maxie said as she started doing what he said.
"Maxie could you let me hold your hand and I need something to hold on to. It was going to be Ric but..."
"Sure." Maxie said as she took Liz's hand.
"Ok Mrs. Lansing you think you could try to push for me?"
"If it gets this pain to end sooner then sure." Liz said as she pushed.
(Ok we're going to skip the details here and go straight to the baby being here)
"Ms. Jones could you get me that towel and scissors?"
Maxie got up and came back in with the stuff.
"Want to cut the umbilical cord?" He asked her.
"Sure." Maxie said as she cut the cord.
Then the doctor started cleaning off the baby. "Mrs. Lansing you want to hold your daughter?"
"I'd love to."
He handed the baby to her.
"Little Adella Audrey Lansing. You're so beautiful." Liz said looking at her daughter and starting to cry.
"That she is." Maxie said.
"Ms. Jones are you ok?" The doctor asked as he noticed that she was turning pale.
"I'm..." Maxie started to say but she fainted before she could finish.
"I'm going to kill him!" Carly said as she slammed the door.
"Carly calm down you don't really know what happened." Lorenzo said.
"Want to bet." Carly said as she headed to her son's room. She opened the door and was shocked to see Josh and Brooklyn making out on his bed. "Joshua Luis Alcazar!" Carly screamed.
"Mom, dad what are you doing here?" Josh asked as he got up panicked.
"Mr. And Mrs. Alcazar..." Brooklyn started to say.
"What are we doing here? You two are supposed to be in school." Lorenzo said.
"What's all the screaming about?" Sage asked coming up.
"Did you know they were here?' Carly asked.
"No, I didn't even know you two were back." Sage said.
"Well we're not really back. Look Sage why don't you bring Brooklyn home. Her dad is probably looking for her. And we need talk to your cousin alone." Lorenzo said.
"Will you be here when I get back?" Sage asked.
"I don't know." Lorenzo said.
"Probably not. Brooklyn come on, I'll bring you home and we can fix your hair and makeup on the way." Sage said.
"Fine I just... Mr. and Mrs. Alcazar I just wanted to say I'm..." Brooklyn started to say.
"Don't waste your breath, Brooke. You have nothing to apologize for." Josh said.
"Come on let's let them talk." Sage said as her and Brooklyn left.
"So what brought you two back?" Josh asked his parents.
"Well when your principal called and told us what was going on with you we left Paris immediately to make sure you were ok." Carly said.
"Well I'm fine so you can go back to Paris."
"No so fast. What's in this about you being two absents away from failing this year?" Carly asked.
"I thought I had a lot more to go to reach my goal at least."
"Your goal? And why didn't the school call us before now?"
"Because Sage was here when they called and she convinced them not to call you."
"She has no right!" Carly said mad.
"Well I asked her to. I mean she's the only real family I have any way."
"Hey!" Carly said.
"I'd watch it, you're on pretty thin ice as it is." Lorenzo said.
"Why because of this school thing? Why does it even matter any way? I'm just going to inherit the family business and I don't need an education for that."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Lorenzo said.
"What you'd give it to Sage? I highly doubt that."
"Right now I'd leave it to anyone but you if it would keep you in school."
"Why do you care? It's not common for mobsters to care about school."
"I was going to be a history professor remember? So school means a lot to me and you're going to go rather you like it or not."
"And what exactly do you think you could do to make me go?"
"I'll give the whole territory to Faith Rosco; leaving you without any other options but going to school."
"You wouldn't..."
"If it gets you in school yes I would."
"But I don't like school. I have to see my brothers everyday and that really isn't pleasant."
"You know what I'm sick of the excuses. You're going back to school as soon as possible and if you don't then we'll send you to boarding school like Sage used to go to." Carly said.
"Might as well. I never see you two anyway at least being at boarding school I'd be with other kids who doesn't see their parents either."
"Are you trying to say that this thing with school is just to get our attention?" Carly asked.
Josh laughed. "You two wish. Look I'll go back to school so you two can go back to Paris, Rome, or where ever it is you came from and I won't try anything to get you to come back. Is that a good plan?"
"Sounds like it to me. Lorenzo?"
"Yeah fine. I just want to talk to Joshua for a second."
"Fine I'll go get us a driver." Carly said leaving.
"Are you ok?" Lorenzo asked.
"Do you really care?"
"Joshua..."
"Look just go with her. I've got Sage and that's enough for me."
"You sure?"
Josh smiled. "Yeah go."
"Fine."
"Wait dad how long with you be gone this time?"
"A few weeks maybe a few months."
"Ok cool and I'm sorry if I worried you."
"It's ok just try to do better ok?"
"I will."
Lorenzo left.
"I guess it's just me and Sage for Christmas again." Josh said sadly but Lorenzo didn't hear him.
"Thanks Sage for bringing her home." Ned said as he closed the door.
Brooklyn was heading upstairs.
"Brooklyn come back here."
She turned around. "Only if you promise not to scream at me."
"Can't. Look just sit down on the couch so we can talk." Ned said.
"Fine. It's not like I have a choice any way." She said sitting down on the couch.
Ned sat down next to her. "Would I be right to guess you were with Josh?"
"Yes."
"Why? You couldn't wait till after school to go out? Because I'm fine with you two being together after school, you know?"
"I know but Josh doesn't like school."
"Yeah I get that idea but just because he doesn't, doesn't mean you have to skipping school too, you know?"
"I know but... I figured that if anyone could convince him to go back I could."
"By skipping school with him?"
"No by talking to him about it while we weren't in school and by making him see I was on his side by skipping with him."
"And do you think it worked?"
"Well his parents came back today and I'm afraid they may just of erased everything I told him."
"Don't Carly and Lorenzo want him in school?"
"Yes but that's the problem. He doesn't want to do anything his parents want him to do."
"Well if that is true then maybe you should just let him skip school alone. Besides you can't skip school with him anymore."
"But I can't give up on him. You may give up on the person you care about but I won't."
"I haven't given up on Faith."
"Yes you have you let her break the law and wreck havoc on the whole town with even trying to stop her."
"That's not really the same."
"I know because Faith's crazy but still I can't give up on him."
"I'm not saying you have to. I'm just saying that you can help in anyway that doesn't involve skipping school."
Brooklyn sighed. "And what do I tell him?"
"That your father said it you skip school one more time, he's going to let your great grandfather raise you."
"You wouldn't?"
Ned laughed. "No but tell him that any way."
"Ok, so we're ok?" Brooklyn said getting up.
"No we're no even close. Sit back down."
"I knew this was too good to be true so how long am I grounded?"
"Three weeks."
"But..."
"Or until you can prove to me I can trust you again."
"Fine as long as you can keep Faith away from me."
"What did she do now?"
"She keeps trying to break me and Josh up and set me up with Morgan. And it's driving me nuts."
"Well I can't promise anything but I'll talk to her."
"So we're agreed no one is going to kill me, right?" Cameron asked.
"Yes no get your coat on and get in the sleeping bag before you freeze to death." Ric said.
"Fine." Cameron said as he put his coat on and got into his sleeping bag. "So what are we going to do?"
"What do you mean?" Zander asked.
"To pass the time till the electricity comes back on. You know tell ghost stories maybe or just talk."
"Well I'd prefer if you didn't have nightmares so no ghost stories." Zander said.
"Then we talk. Who wants to go first? You two can tell me stories about your lives. Like how you meet mom or Aunt Maxie. Or what is was like growing up with your families like Uncle Sonny or Grandpa Cameron. Come on I want to know."
"Well I didn't grow up with Uncle Sonny or your grandmother. Just with my dad and my step-mother." Ric said.
"And I didn't just live with your grandfather Cameron. I had a brother and a mother too but I left when I was a teenager when Uncle Peter died." Zander said.
"Oh." Cameron said sadly. "But there still has to be some good stories you can tell me. Please I'm begging here." Cameron said giving them a pitiful look.
"You want me to go fist or should I?" Zander asked Ric.
"Your the father, so you should go first." Ric said.
(Oh and this story is based on an fishing trip with my own father) "Ok well mines about when your grandfather tired to teach me how to fish. To say the least I didn't hook any fish but I did hook my dad more than once." Zander said smiling. "By the end I thought my father was going to kill but your Uncle Peter saved me from him by getting his new fishing rod caught in a big tree near by."
Cameron and Ric were laughing.
"Dad never let me fish again unless he was at least a mile away."
"I can understand that." Ric said.
"Ok it's your turn Ric." Zander said.
"Ok growing up in my family fishing and other things like that never really happened because my parents thought we were too rich for that stuff."
"So what did you do for fun?" Cameron asked.
"Went to society meetings, fun raisers, dances and got drunk at all of them usually."
"Oh I bet your parents loved that." Zander said.
"Most of the time they were too drunk themselves to notice but I do remember one time when my father almost disowned me on the spot."
"What did you do?" Cameron asked.
"Well it was at a local charity event I was about you age. We were all in tuxes or nice dresses. My father had introduced me to one of his rich friends and their older daughter who my father wanted me to spend the night with entertaining. Well she had some pretty strong alcohol in her purse and she offered me some. It was the first time I had ever had any hard liquor or that much any way. By the time I had finished half of the container I was pretty drunk and not really in control of what I was doing. I don't even remember how or why but I ended up dancing on top of a near by table. Well the girl who I was with went and got her father because she couldn't get me down. And her father got mine who if people didn't know he was father he would of claimed he didn't know me. But he finally got me down with help and dragged me back home. I thought he was going to kill me but not my father. He just told me that if I wanted to get drunk at these things I needed to make sure that I brought my own stuff that I knew I could handle and that I didn't draw attention to myself ever again. He even gave me my own flask to use at the next get together." Ric said.
"I can't believe your father thought you that. My parents would of skinned me alive if I had done what you did." Zander said shocked.
"So is that what you're going to teach me when it comes to drinking?" Cameron asked.
"No." Ric and Zander both said quickly