GH 2018 presents Elizabeth Webber; #012
"The Past and Present"
After the incident at the park (last issue), Liz headed over to GHBC to shower and changed out of her jogging outfit and into a nice spring dress, which showed off her nice looking long legs.
Her shift was still a couple hours or so from starting and so on a whim, she decided to pay Grayson Wayne a surprise visit. He had been to her parent's place, where she lived with her kids, a couple times already; now it was only fair for her turn get a peek into his home life.
So, before leaving the hospital, she made a quick stop at the gift shop, in hopes of finding Grayson a gift for his new apartment; a house warming gift.
Over the years, Liz had been amazed how hospital gift stores had expanded. GH Port Charles' gift store had expanded, and was almost the size of a good sized gift store at the mall. The gift store at GH Boulder Colorado was just as large, if not larger.
Since GHBC had patients of all ages, it was only logical that the gift store catered to all ages as well. And since those visiting were also from various age ranges; well, it all resulted in larger gift stores these days.
Liz was aware of the fact that her budding relationship with Grayson had a "Batman" theme running through it as well, due in part to his name, and the fact that Aiden's favorite superhero was also "Batman". In fact, Carolyn, her mom, told Liz that she believed Aiden thought Grayson really was "The Dark Knight". Liz thought it was cute.
After a couple minutes in the store, quickly enough, Liz came upon a cool looking lamp with a crazy animated Joker about to do battle with the "caped crusader", which was yet another one of Batman's nicknames; as Liz recalled from watching the campy Michael Keaton Batman movie nearly a hundred times with her sons.
After plunking down $60 bucks for the lamp, and remembering that hospital gift stores seemed to be accompanied by higher price tags as well, Liz scampered out of the store and eventually made it to her Pathfinder in the parking structure for staff only, and drove off to Grayson's place.
Rosa, one of Liz's aspiring medical nurse assistants, noticed Liz's interest in the new doctor, and had snuck into the personal files and wrote down Grayson's new address; and secretly gave it to Liz with only a wink.
Liz keyed the address into her cellphone's Google maps, and followed the directions. Even though she had lived in Boulder Colorado for several months, she hadn't yet memorized her away around downtown yet, and that was where Grayson's apartment was located. It wasn't that far from the hospital.
Inside Grayson's apartment, both he and his thirteen year old runaway daughter KariAnn had spent the past two hours unloading more of his unpacked boxes; including the ones with dishes, two dozen medical books of many varieties, cleaning supplies and various other items from boxes simply labeled stuff. A half hour before finishing, Grayson had ordered a couple pizzas from Dominoes that were soon to arrive.
They had even unloaded and assembled the two-seat matching couch that went with the three-person couch he had unloaded during the previous week. It had taken Grayson nearly three days to reassemble the one he had unloaded, but KariAnn made quick work of the other one and had it done in nearly an hour; he had bought both couches at an IKEA in Chicago, which was where he had moved from.
KariAnn looked at the interior of the apartment, which was starting to look pretty cool. Her dad was the consummate bachelor, and no matter where he lived, it always looked pretty awesome; he was definitely still living as a grown up teenager.
"You're too cool," KariAnn said, as Grayson, who had gone into the kitchen, came back with a can of Diet A/W root beer for her, and a Corona beer for him.
Grayson sat down and twisted the top off his beer, and saw KariAnn looking at the unopened can of soda with a grin on her face.
"Hey," Grayson said, as he reclined backward and let the couch's soft cushions absorb his back, "I thought A/W diet root beer was your favorite; that's why I always get some just on the chance you might show up at my door."
KariAnn nodded her head, it was her favorite.
"Brad will often offer me a can of beer," KariAnn said, which made Grayson suddenly sit up.
Grayson did not like the sound of that at all.
"Has he tried anything?" Grayson asked, with a fierce look of anger in his eyes.
Getting a minor drunk first was what many perverts did. The very thought that Brad was offering KariAnn beer is what drove Grayson's paternal instincts into action.
KariAnn shook her head, and motioned her dad to calm down.
"No dad, calm down," KariAnn replied, knowing that her father's protective nature had gotten him into trouble, thanks sometimes to some stupid things she had done in the past. "Brad is a moron, but he knows you'd kill him if he ever did anything to me or mom."
Grayson took a deep breath, and calmed down. But he made a mental note to bring the matter up the next time he spoke with KariAnn's mother, and he would also bring it up with Brad too.
KariAnn opened her soda, took a sip, and then looked about the apartment once more, and then noticed something was missing. Usually her dad had kept a framed picture of her mother, Shyera, somewhere in the living room. Sometimes it was on a bookshelf, a stereo speaker, the dining room table, or on the desk where he kept his computer. But for some reason, it was nowhere to be seen.
It was KariAnn's eternal wish that somehow, someway, his mom and dad would get back together. The fact that her father had only had a few short-term relationships with other women since divorcing her mother, was a sign that he still liked her. KariAnn stood up to go get her cellphone, which she had left in the kitchen, when suddenly the doorbell rang.
"It's probably the pizza," KariAnn said, as she headed for the door.
Grayson stood up and headed for one of his stereo speakers, which was where he had placed his keys and wallet.
"Tell the delivery guy to hold on while I get my wallet," Grayson told her as he picked up his wallet, and turned and headed toward the door as well.
Grayson watched in stunned shock as KariAnn, clad in her ripped up blue-jeans and her old Twilight team Edward T-shirt opened the door to reveal an equally stunned and shocked Elizabeth Webber, who wearing a very alluring spring dress, standing in the doorway.
"Oh shit," Grayson whispered to himself…
Continued…
This issue featured;
Rebecca Herbst as Elizabeth Webber
Joshua Jackson as Grayson Wayne
And….
Millie Bobby Brown as KariAnn
