A/N: My humblest of apologies, I meant to add this chapter separately. It helps me keep up with the chapters I've written and added... So I've added chapter Ten by itself!

Chapter Ten

After Sonny left, Jason called Elizabeth to check on her. "Elizabeth, it's me."

"Hey, how are you feeling? Do you need something? Can I bring you anything?"

"I'm okay. I wanted to check on you and the baby. Did you go and get checked out? Is everything alright?"

"Yes. I went to see Kelly and she gave us a clean bill of health, I told you it was nothing to worry about."

"Good, that's really good. Do you have time to come back so we can talk?"

"Uh, yeah, sure. Oh, and I can bring you the medications that I got for you, too. I just need to run by and check on Cam, and change clothes. Give me about an hour or so?"

"Sure. I'll just rest until you get here."

"You need to sleep, Jason, if you're gonna heal. So sleep!"

"When did you get so bossy?"

"I've been this way for a long time, remember?" she asked, enjoying their easy banter. She knew this conversation was going to be deep and difficult, so she was glad that he was making an effort to joke with her now. "I'll see you soon, okay?"

"Okay."

Twenty minutes later, Jason wakes from his light sleep, hearing a key in the door, he puts his gun under the blanket. The door opens and he is completely overwhelmed by the sight of his sister coming into the studio. It had never occurred to him just how impacted he would be with Emily still being alive in this timeline. He couldn't even speak, he was so choked up.

"Jase, oh my, I'm so glad to see you! How are you feeling?" his sister asks.

"I'm…..I'm okay. Eliz…Elizabeth found me, brought me here and got the bullet out. She….she saved my life," he choked out. "I…..oh, Em, I'm so glad to see you!"

Emily ran over to her big brother and hugged him fiercely. He didn't know yet that she, too, remembered the other timeline. She was going to break that news to him, in a minute. "So Elizabeth, she saved your life again," she stated.

He couldn't help the tears shining in his eyes, "Yeah, that she did."

"And have you gotten her to tell you that you're the father of Jake, yet?" she dropped her bombshell.

Jason could only stare at her for several minutes, not blinking.

"Did I break you, big brother?" Emily teased.

"How…," he couldn't even finish, he was so astonished.

"Jase, I remember the old timeline, and I remember vividly my untimely demise," she stated dryly.

"Wow," he replied, "it never dawned on me that you would know about that. I thought I was going to be the only one."

"Nope, are you kidding? There's a lot of things we have to do to make sure that you and Elizabeth get to have your happy life together, so Dad and Grandmother decided that instead of Elizabeth remembering, I would," she responded. "They thought it probably wouldn't work if you both remembered everything that happened. No matter how strong Elizabeth is, they worried that she would still be too cautious about getting together with you, with the memories of the things that happened to Jake so fresh. You and I are the only ones that actually remember what happened. Grandmother did promise that Elizabeth would know what's right in her heart, and if she just followed those feelings, everything would work out the way it was supposed to. That's what she will remember, but not consciously."

"Yeah, this time I heard her tell me about Jake, well, the baby, in the chapel. I asked her about it without asking and she told me everything. We started talking about things, then Carly showed up, and Elizabeth left to get a quick check-up with Kelly Lee."

Rolling her eyes, "Ugh, Carly, I'm gonna have to do something about that nosey busybody. You do realize Jase that you are going to have to stand up to her and tell her how it's going to be, if you ever want peace with Elizabeth. You're going to have to give her boundaries, and I know that she's not going to like it."

"You think?" he asked. "Yeah, I know. There's a lot to think about and consider. A lot needs to be done differently. I think we've started on the right path, I already know about the baby…..my Jake."

"You deserve to have them in your life, you know that, right?" she asked gently. Looking into her brother's eyes, "You know that what you and Elizabeth have is special. After all that you guys have been through, you two deserve to be happy, and that means you deserve to be together, as a family."

Smiling at his baby sister, he tells her, "Lizabeth and I are connected, in ways I never thought possible. I know that we can make this work, I just have to convince her to let me be Jake's father."

"I'm going to help you," Emily tells him. "Lucky and Elizabeth's relationship has been toxic since he was rescued from Helena and Faison. Part of my job is to make both of them see that."

"I know I didn't say this often enough before, but I love you, Em," Jason told her, getting choked up again.

"I love you, too," she replied. "Now is Elizabeth coming back tonight?"

"Yeah, she was going to spend some time with Cam, change clothes and then come back, so we could talk."

"Good. Don't screw this up," she tells him. "As scary as it is, you need to put yourself out there with Elizabeth. She needs to know just how much you love her and that you would do anything for her, except give up your baby. Tell her what you know she needs to hear from you."

Chuckling slightly, "You're telling me, the guy that has a hard time communicating, not to say something stupid – great – I hope I can accomplish that."

"Look, I'm gonna run, I don't want to be here when Elizabeth gets back."

"Okay, I'll call you when this is over and we'll talk some more."

"We have a lot of things to cover, the list in my head is so long already, but I'm ready to change both of our lives. We'll talk about it later. I'm going to go see Nicholas. I love you. I'm so glad to be back! I missed everybody, so much."

"Love you, too. See ya soon."

Jason watched his baby sister leave and lock the studio. Settling back on the couch, he couldn't believe that Emily was alive. Not only was she alive, but she remembered everything, too. Now, he just had to not screw things up when Elizabeth got back.