General Hospital; the Wrath of Jason Morgan

Remember Me

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Robin ran outside her small house and looked around for nearly fifteen minutes, and after not finding Emma, Robin called her mom; Anna Devane.

Several blocks away, the very determined nine-year old Emma walked with conviction in her steps and her destination was simple; the empty field where General Hospital used to be. She was going there for one purpose; to find her father Patrick.

…and she would!

Continued

General Hospital, before it was destroyed by an explosion, was a massive complex comprised of several floors and wings. It had only been one year since it had been leveled by the blast, and the cleanup had been swift after the two month crime investigation was completed.

The only remnant of the hospital was a dedication plaque which had been constructed with cement taken from the debris field.

A giant grass park with soccer fields and baseball diamonds had replaced the area of land on which the hospital had once stood. A new hospital, which the Federal government had quickly funded along with private donations, by the Quartermaines- Sonny Corinthos and Jasper Jax among others, was still being built, was located three blocks away.

Emma drake stood before the plaque and looked at the list of names, two of which stood out to her the most; Patrick Drake and Robert Scorpio. She reached out and touched the engraved name of her grandfather, and a tear came down from her eye.

Her grandfather had always been something more like Superman in her eyes, which was another reason that Emma believed he was still alive as well.

"Nothing can kill Superman," Emma whispered softly.

Then she moved her finger to the engraved letters of her father; Patrick Drake.

If her grandfather was Superman, then her father was more like Spiderman; a hero who was also still hammy and even kind of dorky, which is why she loved him so much…he made her and her mother, Robin, laugh all the time.

There were other names that stood out; Elizabeth, Jason, Monica among them. And while Emma felt sad for them, all of them, she knew that one day they would all be seen again.

Across town, at Police headquarters, Police Commissioner Anna Devane exited an elevator and headed for a black Ford Explorer; her official vehicle. As she got inside of it, her cellphone rang. Her daughter's face could be seen on the screen.

"Where are you now?" Anna asked, and then Robin replied.

"I'm almost at the park now," Robin replied. "I called a few of her friends and she isn't with any of them…she has to be at the park (where GH used to be)."

Anna started up the SUV and soon zoomed out of the parking structure; on her way to the park as well which wasn't that far at all.

Emma had left the plaque and was now walking along the crumble bark chip path that ringed the entire grass park. As she did, she closed her eyes and imagined that she was in the hospital. She had been there many times, and remembered so many people, and the main nurses' station. With her eyes closed, she imagined seeing Elizabeth and Jason smiling back at her; and then she saw her father and opened her eyes…

At that instant, Robin was driving her white Toyota Camry and had entered the park via the access road that also ringed the park. Robin was smiling and crying at the same time because she saw Emma and felt totally relieved.

And then, quite unexpectedly, Emma vanished! She had been standing on the crumbled bark pathway, and now, she was gone.

Robin slammed on the brakes to her car, put it in park, and hurriedly ran out of the car to the spot where Emma had just been standing.

"Emma!" Robin cried out.

Robin spun around where she stood, but saw nothing but the park and the many fields that were there. It was a weekday, so hardly anyone else was there except a few people walking for exercise at various points along the walking paths.

At that moment, Anna drove up alongside Robin's car and saw her daughter standing at one of the walking paths. Anna got out of the SUV and rushed over to her daughter.

"What's happening?" Anna asked as she ran up to Robin.

"Mom," Robin said, with tears coming down from her eyes, "I thought I saw her; Emma. She was standing right here and then she suddenly vanished."

Anna reached out and dried Robin's eyes.

"Maybe it was someone else who looked like her," Anna offered.

Robin shook her head.

"No mom," Robin immediately replied with, "there was no one else here where we are standing."

Anna looked about the park and then she looked back at Robin.

"C'mon," Anna said, "I've got an APB (all-points-bulletin) out on Emma. We can't panic; we have to keep looking," Anna said to her daughter.

Instantly Anna's memory flashed back to the time when Robin had gone missing, and was eventually found in the Asia Quarter.

"We will find her," Anna finally said. "I'm sure that Emma…" but she stopped talking when she saw that Robin was staring at the ground.

Anna watched as Robin squatted down and picked something up off of it. Robin was acting as if she had found a pot of gold, as she stood back up.

"What is it?" Anna asked, her words flowing with curiosity. "What did you find?"

Robin looked at her mother and smiled, as she wiped the tears from her eyes. She reached out her hand to give her mom what she had found. Anna reached out her right hand and opened it and then watched as the object fell from Robin's hand into her hand; it was a yellow sunflower.

Anna shook her head in confusion as she looked at the common flower and then back at Robin.

"I don't understand," Anna finally said. "What does it mean?"

Robin smiled again and simply said…

"Patrick is alive…"

Continued…

This issue featured

Kimberly McCullough as Robin

Brooklyn Rae Sizler as Emma

and Finola Hughes as Anna Devane