General Hospital; the Wrath of Jason Quartermaine

"The Life of a Flower"

Emma Drake was sound asleep, dreaming of her father…Patrick. It had been over a year since him and all the other people at General Hospital at the time had been killed when the hospital had been blown to pieces by a bomb.

Her grandmother, Anna Devane, had been in charge of the investigation being that she was the police commissioner at the time.

But Emma was just a 10 year old little girl, and while she had heard things here and there about what had happened, she didn't care; all she cared about was that her father, and grandfather (Robert Scorpio), along with many family friends, had been killed in the explosion.

So, on this night, Emma had been dreaming of her father. Inside her dream, they were walking together at the park. They eventually came upon a large field of grass and he began to chase her. She, of course, was no match for his speed, but she was smaller and able to duck and juke him out. But of course, he would always guess one of her moves and catch her and then swing her in his outstretched arms high above his face.

"Daddy," Emma said to Patrick. "Why did you have to die? We miss you so much; mommy never smiles anymore." Her voice was saddened as she looked down into his eyes.

Patrick smiled at her and then brought her down closer to him so that his lips were inches from her ear.

"Emma, listen to me," Patrick said with a near whisper as he placed a sunflower he had been carrying with him in the hair by her ear, "Don't tell you mom this, or grandma, because they might think you're crazy; but I am not dead. In fact…open your eyes…"


And so she did. She was no longer dreaming, and her room was totally dark. As she lay on her bed, she took a big gulp because she swore she could hear someone else breathing in the room.

It was then that her eyes began to adjust to the dark and she could see the light of the moon against the drapes of her window.

But then her eyes were drawn to the silhouette of a man; the breathing was coming from him! Someone was in the room with her!

But, like her grandmother (Anna) and grandfather (Robert), both of them former superspies, Emma was as brave as they came. She reached over to the lamp on the nightstand next to her bed and felt for and eventually found the tiny knob on the lamp and then she slowly turned it.

The light-bulb sprang to life, and then, for just a brief instant she saw him; she saw her father Patrick. And then, with just a wink of an eye, he was gone.

And then her eyes saw something quite interesting on the ground where he had just been standing. She climbed out of the bed and walked over to what she saw and then she smiled; it was a sunflower on the ground.

And that's all she needed to see, to prove, that her father was telling her the truth inside of her dream. He was still alive and so she smiled as she picked the through up and threaded it into the hair above her right ear!

Continued…

This issue featured

Brooklyn Rae Silzer as Emma Drake and

Jason Thompson as Patrick Drake