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Chapter 36

Kelly saved the Morgans for last stop of her day. She stuck her head in and saw that Cameron's visit was over. "How is the munchkin?"

"Good." Liz said wiping away tears, it had been hard to let him leave.

"He can come more often." Kelly said looking at the information Sabrina left. The residents were not permitted to touch Liz, just observe. Kelly only wanted experienced doctor doing the work ups. "With him not in daycare he doesn't carry as many germs." She let them know. "Your blood pressure has not gone down." Kelly walked over and sat on the side of the bed.

"What does that mean?" Jason asked taking a deep breath.

"It means steroid shots, and in roughly forty-eight hours a C-Section." Kelly was hoping the bethmethasone would have the added benefit of lowering Liz's blood pressure some. It would go up due to nerves as they wheeled her into surgery. They didn't have any room for that.

"No other choice?" Liz figured no, otherwise Kelly would have mentioned it.

"You don't get to die on my watch trying to make it to thirty-four weeks, and that is a real possibility now." Kelly said being blunt. She knew her friend was stubborn enough to try to postpone the surgery.

"If it comes down to it protect the babies." Liz hadn't talked about this with Jason, and the look on his face said he didn't agree.

Kelly already knew Jason's stance and to prevent a fight, which would raise Liz's blood pressure the doctor answered before Jason could. "I'll make the call that is best when we are in surgery, if we find ourselves in that position. The easiest thing would be for you to not put me in that position." Kelly said with a sunny smile. "Okay?"

"Okay." Liz said gripping Jason's hand tight.

"Don't fight about it." Kelly told Jason. "Save that for after the trio are out."

"Alright." Jason did want to talk about that.

Kelly called the hub and the nurse brought in the syringe. "Time to show some leg." The doctor joked. The medication was administered in two doses and would be injected in the fleshy part of the hip.

"This is going to sting." The nurse warned. "You might feel flushed after and you will definitely feel a little sleepy. So it's good you are getting this at night. You will get the second dose in the morning, so you'll have a nice nap then too." She injected the medicine and then put her thumb on the spot applying a bit of pressure to help with the stinging. "Dad rub this area for a few minutes, keep the blood circulating and get the drug moving."

Jason did as instructed.

"Hurt?" Kelly asked once the nurse had left.

"Feeling it." Liz said blinking back tears, because yeah it stung. "When are you off?"

"Not for another few days. The nurses have orders to call me at home if I'm need. Not to go through my service. Nadine is on overnight and I used the fact that you are the Chief of Staff's sister to get Piph for the next week." Kelly had no problem playing dirty.

"Matt must hate you." Liz said knowing the neurosurgeon would have protested loudly at that move.

"Nope. He didn't even argue. I think that crush he had on you is paying off." Kelly said laughing.

"Matt had a crush on you?" Jason hadn't known that.

"For about a week." Liz said shooting her friend a dirty look.

"Please, he was still carrying that torch when the news broke about your wedding." Kelly said causing trouble.

"Don't you have anyone else to torture?" Liz wanted to know.

"Not really." Kelly said getting to her feet. "I'm still going to leave because I want you to get some sleep. I'll be back in the morning to pick up where I left off."

"Lie down." Jason helped her stretch out and she rolled to her side facing him.

"Are you angry?" Liz asked him.

"Kelly said not to talk about that now." Jason reminded his stubborn wife.

"That's a yes." Liz muttered to herself. "Jason." She started.

He leaned forward and put his lips on hers. They were not going to talk about this now. "Go to sleep Elizabeth." Her eyelids were heavy and she looked just like a sleepy Cameron.

"Love you." Liz said as her eyes shut.

"I love you too. All of you." Jason said as his hand slowly rubbed her tummy. He would join her in bed shortly, but now he needed to say a prayer. "Keep them safe. I know I'm the last person who has any right to ask for favors, but please keep them safe."

The next morning Liz had breakfast and got her second shot. Not even an hour later she was out cold. When she got up Kelly came up to do an exam. The doctor had just left when there was a knock on the door. "Want some company?" Chloe asked her cousin.

"Absolutely." Liz said and then clapped when Johnny followed with the stroller. "Give me that baby."

"Manners." Johnny said being cheeky.

"Behave." Chloe told her hubby.

"Do you have any hand sanitizer I can't go to the bathroom?" Liz rubbed the gel into her skin. "Okay hand her over."

"Here you go. We thought you might like to see her, and Johnny was pouting because we hadn't used the pram yet." Chloe poked her hubby some.

"It has flames on the side. That is too awesome not to use." Johnny said totally serious. The carriage was black with orange, yellow, and red flames painted on both sides. Liz had laughed her ass off while applying the embellishment.

"So what's the latest?" Chloe wanted to know.

"C-Section, probably the day after tomorrow." Which would be over forty-eight hours after the first injection. The steroids worked best between two and seven days after administered.

"Shoot over the information when you get it and we will come to the hospital." Johnny figured Jason would be in the OR too, so the family would sit together. "Ready for some fresh air?" The Irishman asked standing. "The ladies can talk badly about us while we are gone."

"That covers Chloe, but what will Elizabeth do?" Jason asked with a grin.

"Ha ha." Johnny said shaking his head. "I liked you better when you were in Borg mode. No bad jokes."

"Borg?" Jason had no idea what that meant.

"We need to watch Star Trek at some point." Johnny was a die-hard fan of the various series and the movies. He would bring his friend up to speed, and laugh as Jason asked a lot of questions. Fiction was not something his friend saw the point of. Johnny was guessing being a dad would change that.

"Be back shortly." Jason said giving Liz a kiss.

"I might even let you hold the baby when you get back." Liz said before cooing at the infant in her arms. "She is so beautiful."

"She gets that from me." Johnny said smiling.

"Go on with you." Chloe just shook her head and shooed both men out.

"What's up?" Jason got that Johnny wanted to talk.

"Have you gotten an update on Carly?" Johnny asked as they headed down to the lounge. It was a nice open airy space that was generally empty.

"Not recently." Jason knew his grandmother was monitoring that situation but wouldn't speak on it unless she had to.

"The divorce is final and she lost custody. Not even any visitation." Johnny started his report there. He had gotten all this information from Cody, who no doubt got it from Lila. "Carly's first move was to call you."

"She was told that would be a mistake." Jason knew she wouldn't listen.

"She called and left you a voice mail requesting that you help her. Saying that you were the only chance she had of getting her sons back. That Sonny wouldn't want Jax raising his boys. From what I hear it was an Oscar worthy performance. Of course she mentioned your promise to always be there for Michael." Johnny said stretching out his legs. Lila had apparently called in another marker and had someone watching Carly. They had no idea who, but that person was doing a bang up job of keeping them informed.

"No attempt to induce guilt would be complete without that." Jason just didn't understand why Carly didn't get the hint that he no longer wanted her in his life. He could have easily ignored his grandmother and called his former best friend but hadn't. That right there was the only clue she should have needed. He was glad that he got a new phone, his grandmother had requested to keep the old one.

"I'm not done." Johnny told his friend. Milo had followed them down and was sitting facing the hall. He would signal if anyone was coming, which left the two men free to talk. "She ended her call with a request for you to handle Jax. Now given who you are that can only be taken one way."

"She requested a hit over voicemail? Does she not understand what could happen if the phone got hacked?" Jason couldn't believe that.

"Spinelli handled it. There is no trace of the message, or that the call even took place." Johnny told his friend. "From her phone or your old one." Because their tech guy was just that good.

"Has my grandmother handled this?" Jason needed to know. If she hadn't then he would need to. Carly's recklessness was not going to cost him a future with Elizabeth and their children.

"With a swiftness that makes you look like a sloth. The woman is scarily efficient and apparently when she calls people snap into action." Johnny found that mindboggling.

"She call Tagliatti?" Jason figured that would be the fastest way to handle things. He did owe her a favor.

"No. Because your grandmother, and my cousin, is not that obvious. Do you know who Brian Beck is?" Johnny asked his friend.

"Never heard of him." Jason said frowning.

"Me either, but apparently Lila, or someone she knows, has. And someone must have something on him because last night he met Carly in a bar and not an hour later rammed his car, with her in the passenger seat, into a tree. His official story is she attacked him while he was driving, and he's got the scratches and bite marks to prove it. That one minute she was fine and the next she went ballistic. He also said that she unbuckled her seat belt and lunged from her seat which is why they hit the tree. She went through the windshield."

"Dead?" Jason asked Johnny.

"As a doornail." Johnny confirmed. He didn't see this as a loss. In fact his only emotion had been relief that Jason didn't have to order the hit. "I had Spinelli do some digging because I wanted to know who Beck was, and I don't have the balls to ask Lila."

"Is he connected?" Jason thought maybe Beck had a connection to another family.

"Not to us. Not to anyone as far as I can tell. Brian Beck is a cop." That had left Johnny and Cody both floored.

"Seriously. Lila got a police officer to take out Carly?" Jason asked wide eyed.

"He told his fellow officers she was attempting to get into her car. She was clearly plastered so he offered to drive her home. Apparently there have been a rash of women walking out of bars, getting into a taxi, and then turning up dumped by the side of the road. So he didn't want to her to go that route. Folks are freaked down there and so far no one can find this cab or its driver. Each time he shows up the car has a different number. The number of the vehicle the company says it's sending." Johnny filled in some of the blanks.

"It's the perfect cover. As an officer of the law he couldn't let her drive drunk, and knowing about the serial killer he opted to drive her home." Jason said shaking his head.

"He said she was screaming about all men being evil, and she wasn't going to let him get away with this." Johnny thought Lila had played this pitch perfect. "The responding officers reported that Beck was shook up. He was trying to do a good deed and it just went wrong. The folks at the bar said Carly was acting belligerent, shouting at men that they would all pay. Then she stormed out of the bar leaving her tab unpaid. It was apparently quiet the show. He claims to not know who she was when he offered her a ride. Said he doesn't follow the gossip rags."

"Any clue why Lila picked him?" Jason was just curious.

"No, he squeaks he is so clean. Spinelli couldn't find a thing and he looked deep. I know this was Lila the timing says so, but there are no strings leading back to Port Charles. This is the most sterile hit I've ever seen." Johnny was impressed something that didn't happen often. "It's insane how good she is at this."

"I'm kind of jealous at her level of skill." Jason said flabbergasted. "That loose end is tied up, we don't need to spend any more time thinking about Carly." And he didn't feel any remorse or anger at how it played out. "I need to get back to my girl." He got to his feet and did just that.

"Good morning." Kelly walked into her friend's hospital room. "How are you doing today?"

"Nervous. Excited." Liz said looking at her husband who was smiling at her. "We get to meet our children today." She said rubbing her tummy. Since waking up she had been doing her best to stay relaxed. "So when are we doing this?"

"Eleven o'clock." Kelly told her friends. "On the dot. I have all the consent forms, because we don't want you to sue your brother." Even though Liz was a retired nurse Kelly was doing this the same as she did for any other patient. "The anesthesiologist will be in shortly to talk about what he will doing. You'll be getting a spinal block. After that one of my residents will be in to discuss post op pain med options. Pick one of the drugs he offers, I'm going to be taking three babies out you there is no need for you prove how big your boobs are. We already know. Any questions so far?" Kelly figured that Liz would have explained almost all of this to Jason already.

"No." Jason told the doctor. Last night he and Elizabeth had gone through what would happen today. He was worried but had faith in their doctor.

"While my staff is getting Liz set up in the OR, you Jason will get to put on a lovely pair of scrubs. We give you a choice of blue or green. Then you'll be shown into the OR and you'll take a seat up by Liz's head and you will stay there." Kelly had dads who tried to wander, she didn't tolerate that. "We should be in the OR about thirty to forty-five minutes to get the kids out. We won't leave right away because I have to get the placentas out as well, with three that takes longer. I'm gonna stitch Liz up after I'm done she gets wheeled out and taken to recovery. Then back to her room. Now while I'm tending to mom the babies are going to go with Dr. Maggie Smith. You guys met her yesterday." Kelly got two nods. Liz of course already knew Maggie. "Jason you have the option of going with them or staying with your wife. Your guys have already been cleared to follow the babies. One has been cleared to sit in the neo natal room, and one has been cleared to stand in the hall. Liz we will get you up to see your little ones as soon as possible. Probably not until tomorrow morning." The wait would be hard, but they wanted to monitor Liz to make sure she was okay.

"That long?" Liz was surprised, she was hoping to go up right away.

"Yeah." Kelly got this a lot. "I'm not trying to torture you, but a C-Section is major abdominal surgery so I want you still in the beginning. Tomorrow you'll be encouraged to get up and walk around if you look good. You two will be allowed twenty-four hour access to your babies as long as they are here, Maggie will go into more detail about their care but I wanted to let you know that." Kelly smiled at her friends. "I can't wait to meet your little ones." She said letting the doctor façade slip a bit. "And I get to see them first!"

"That's the important thing." Liz said laughing.

"Yeah, it really is." Kelly said with a bright smile. "Okay I'm around, page me if you need me. I'll leave you two to get ready. Just kick back and relax."

The doctor walked out and Liz looked at Jason. That he had been so quiet during Kelly's visit wasn't surprising. He was simply taking in the instructions. "Ready?" She asked him.

"So ready." Jason said putting his hand on her stomach.

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