General Hospital; the Wrath of Jason Quartermaine
"Even Now"
Elizabeth was standing on the dimly lit stage of the Floating Rib as the small five piece band behind her began to play some bumper music, mainly torch-jazz riffs.
The sultry dive was located on the 5th floor of General Hospital. The 5th floor of the hospital had several locations designated for the visitors and employees of the hospital, such as a public gym (another gym reserved for the staff was located on the same floor) as well as a library, gift stores, playgrounds for children, a media center as well as the floating rib.
The rib, as it was referred to, was home to a bar/diner that only served adults of a drinking age. With situations of life and death swirling around any given hospital, a bar seemed to be a natural fit. Even smoking was allowed in the rib; the cloud of white haze that hung about the bar being the proof. Special rotating ceiling fans kept the smoke from collecting around the stage (Liz is pregnant…but the life inside of her is safe).
As Liz prepared to sing her set of five songs, she took a deep breath. Perhaps in another life she might have been someone in a medical profession, such as a nurse but not here; not in this reality.
In this world she was married to Jason Morgan, a reputed hit man, employed by local mobster Sonny Corinthos. Because the local police were either inept, on the payroll of the mob, or both, Jason had always managed to skirt the law and had gotten away with it.
But now…now with what had happened in the past year of reliving the same events over and over and over, and sometimes with the memories of others, no one inside the hospital could really know what their lives were like in the so called real world. Was she, Elizabeth, really a sultry nightclub singer? Was Jason really a hit man?
At that moment, Liz began to sing. The only accompaniment her soft and silky voice was given was a piano. The song she first began to sing was called Even Now (Lyrics by Marty Panzer Music by Barry Manilow)…
…There was a man was sitting among the small intimate audience that was being entertained by Liz, and he was drinking his fourth dry martini and as fate would have it…he wasn't there by chance.
His name was Drew, and had there actually been another attempt to find the real Jason Morgan, it would have been Drew's turn.
Instead, he had walked the halls of the hospital quite confused with fragmented images in is mind as to who he was and why he was there.
But he knew one thing for sure; he was being drawn to this woman on the stage, singing below a vale of soft white smoke, as if they were meant to be together. And as she began to sing her first song, the lyrics cut deep into his soul….
(The piano begins…and then Liz sings…)
Even now…when there's someone else who cares…when there's someone home who's waiting just for me…Even now I still remember as I'm climbing up the stairs…and I wonder what to do so he won't see…
(Liz sings with more emotion)
Even now, when I have come so far…I wonder where you are…I wonder why the night's so long without you….Even Now, when I come shining through... I swear I think of you…and how I wish you knew…even now…
And as Liz sang that last phrase "and how I wish you knew, even now" Drew could have sworn she was looking directly at him.
At that moment, Drew fell in love with Liz with even more passion than before; she was the love of his life…at least, that is what his memories told him.
So with that as his anchor to go on living, he knew that he had to get to know this woman at all cost, even if it meant losing his soul.
Liz was also married to a God
This issue featured;
Rebecca Herbst as Elizabeth Morgan
Billy Miller as Drew