Chapter 33: Just friends

Author's Note:

Gosh I can't believe Spinelli survived, I almost thought about killing him and then I was like "no I can't do that." So you'll like this chapter Jason and Elizabeth are in it and they have a nice, but short chat. It's really just a sweet chapter all an all because it comes right down to how they became friends again, tragedy stroke and they're there for each other. I don't want to spoil it so enjoy and review!

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"I'm going to the hospital guys…" Elizabeth said as she buckled up Cameron into his car seat and Emily and Nicholas hopped into the front seat.

"Are you ok?" Cameron asked for whenever her heard hospital he panicked.

"Is spaghetti ok?" Cameron asked and his voice was getting upset.

"Honey I'm fine. I'm going to go see if Spinelli is ok, but I want you to go with Emily and Nicholas to grandma's…" she meant Audrey's but Cameron immediately shouted.

"Yes! Grandma Monica's!" he smiled at her and all three adults were surprised by his enthusiasm.

"Oh Grandma Monica's? You like going over their?" she asked.

"Oh yeah…." He explained how fascinated he was with them.

"Ok then maybe Aunt Emily can see if you can go there tonight?" Elizabeth sat next to Cameron and looked at both Nicholas and Emily who believed she should stay with them.

"I'm going to the hospital, Jason needs me…" she insisted.

"Ok…" Nicholas said without a fight.

"Elizabeth you're tired don't you think you should see him in the morning?" Emily asked for she knew that Elizabeth had basically ignored Dr. Lee's orders.

"No Jason needed a friend last night and I wasn't there. I'm going…" she told them again.

The emergency doors opened and Jason walked in right by Spinelli's side.

"We need help over here!" the paramedic shouted.

Epiphany walked over with Dr. Julian, "What do we have?"

"He's got multiple stab wounds, been in the harbor for a good 10 minutes, severe head trauma…broken ribs…." The list goes he thought for the patient was just a mess.

"Ok well we've got to raise his temperature first, get his heart beating normal…lets take him the trauma 1…" Dr. Julian and Epiphany rushed off with him leaving Jason very stressed.

His phone rang and it was Diane, "Diane I can't come to the meeting, Spinelli's in the hospital…"

Diane bit her tongue, "What happened?"

"He was attacked, brutally beaten up. Ribs broken, stabbed and then we found him at the bottom of the harbor…" Jason said really upset that someone had done this to him.

"Is he going to be ok?" she asked because this was not how she planned with Ric, it sounds as if he almost died and it was suppose to be something far from it, just a few punches.

"I don't know Diane…" he told her he was sorry about the meeting and then hung up.

Elizabeth got out of the car and said goodbye to Cameron and walked straight into the emergency room looking for Jason.

He was leaning his hands against the wall trying to calm him self down, but it wasn't working, "Jason…" he shot his head back and was feeling mixed emotions. He was glad she came, but at the same time wished she hadn't come at all.

"Elizabeth what are you doing here?" he asked her with his hand pressing tensely against his forehead now twice as much stressed out that she was here.

"Spinelli is important to me too…" she told him for he was her adoptive son and Cameron's big brother who Cameron loved dearly.

"You can see him in the morning, Elizabeth you're tired, you need to get some rest…" he started to pick a fight with her.

"I just want to make sure he's gonna be ok…I want to make sure you're ok…" she grabbed his hand.

He let go almost immediately, "No Elizabeth…"

"Jason what's the worst that can happen? I'm in a hospital…" she teased him.

He sat down as if giving up on the fight that he couldn't obviously win and leaned back in the chair.

He needed to find out what happened, all the details everything, "Sit down…"

She sat down and tried to lean on him like they always did in moments of crisis, but he pulled away.

"Tell me what happened again…" he asked, but didn't look at her he just leaned forward with his elbows on his knees and he rested his chin in the palms of his hands that covered part of his face.

"We were sitting at a table outside and Spinelli walked up to say hi. Emily and I saw how bad his face was and we thought maybe some ice might help him so we left him alone with Cameron…"

"How bad did he look?" Jason asked with his eyes closed thinking back to the harsh words he said to him earlier.

"He had some bad bruises…" she slowly nodded.

"This is my fault…" Jason wiped a tear from his eye and leaned back into the chair looking right at her.

She looked at him confused, "Jason this wasn't your fault…if anything its Emily's and mine…"

"Yes it was, if I wasn't…" he was about to say drunk, but quickly changed his words.

"If I wasn't busy this morning I would have never yelled at him the way I did and he wouldn't have gone to Wyndemere…he wouldn't have gotten arrested and…" he leaned forward again in the same position as he was in earlier.

"Jason, we could have done something. We could have gotten Mike…we could have stopped it, but we didn't. Even after we left I wanted to see him, but Emily wouldn't let me…" she explained.

"You guys were afraid…" he said believing that was a good excuse.

She nodded her head, "That's no excuse for letting someone we care about get beaten up to death…its no excuse at all…" she slowly placed her hand on his shoulder.

"Everything is just so…" he wanted to say messed up or ruined, but he just didn't have the words.

"Jason we'll get through this…we'll get through this together" she put her around his and leaned on him.

"We?" he asked wondering what she meant by it.

Looking at him straight in the face she became as honest as she could be with him, "Jason we might not love each other, we might not end up together, but we will always be friends..."

He looked away for a second and then turned to her, "I could use a friend…"

"Me too…" she softly smiled.

He smiled back at her and ever so slowly put his arm around her with her head resting peacefully on his as their hands met they quietly slept in the hospital waiting room waiting for news on the friend that brought them together for that one night.