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Chapter 51

After being moved to her room, the visitors started. First up was Emily who proceeded to cry all over her best friend. Zander ended up simply holding her while she clutched Elizabeth's hand. Johnny came in later, he didn't cry but it was a near thing. Francis cried which surprised no one. The big surprise came when Max was wheeled in. He got a smile from his sister but had to cut his visit short when her heart rate jumped, she was still upset that he got shot because of her. Max told her it wasn't her fault before the nurse wheeled him back to his room.

Jason, Milo, and Cody were sitting at a small table near the bed just relaxing. Maximus was with Max so Milo came to check on his sister. Cody had delivered lunch needing just to do something. He was dealing with guilt for not being on duty that day.

Elizabeth was sleeping so the guys were quietly talking. Mostly business and some sports. When Elizabeth moaned Jason popped up. She sounded like she was in pain. Suddenly she shuddered hard and an alarm sounded. Pounding feet could be heard as the staff responded.

"What's wrong?" Milo shouted scared by all the activity.

"Her body temp dropped below ninety five." Alan was checking her vitals. "ELIZABETH." He shouted relieved when she opened her eyes. That was a good sign.

Monica ran in. "What happened?" She had a standing order to be paged for any change in Liz's condition.

"Her body temp dropped." Alan was debating what course to take when Monica took over.

"Jason. Strip down to your underwear." Monica told him. When he just looked at her she yelled. "NOW JASON!" Alan knew where she was going and so did Epiphany. Years of working together had them moving in unison without a word being uttered.

Jason handed Cody his gun and started peeling off clothes. When he was down to his boxer briefs and socks Monica ordered him into the bed. Epiphany had already removed Elizabeth's hospital gown so that they would be skin to skin. Reaching under the covers Monica pulled off Jason's socks. Alan was already unfolding extra blankets. Once they had the couple cocooned everyone stepped back and waited. "Jason wrap your arms around Elizabeth but don't squeeze. Make sure you watch her IV line and incision. Try to make sure you two are touching as much as possible."

Jason did as instructed and instantly his body responded to the fact her bottom was nestled against his groin. He wanted to groan as his body stirred, now was not the time to get a hard on. Still he had to admit that this felt like heaven. His arms had been so empty without her. With his girl held so close he closed his eyes and just enjoyed having her spooned up against him.

"How …" Was as far as Milo got before he was shushed.

"Look." Epiphany said smiling. Already Elizabeth's temperature stopped dropping, it was a positive sign. "BP." The nurse pointed out.

"Look at that." Monica said also starting to smile.

"Sometimes it isn't about what we as doctors can do." Alan said clearly happy.

"What's happening?" Milo asked.

"Elizabeth's body temperature stopped dropping and is starting to rise." It was only one degree but they would take what they could get. "It will take a few hours still to get to where we are comfortable. Her heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure are down." Monica explained pointing to the screen.

"Is that good?" Milo asked not understanding what was going on.

"It's excellent. It's just what she needs right now. When your body suffers a trauma it works extra hard to heal, which in turn tires you out which makes your body work harder. It's frustrating but perfectly normal. Elizabeth is relaxing and that will help her in the long run." Alan said still grinning.

"But you didn't give her anything." Cody pointed out.

"Actually we did." Epiphany said chuckling and indicating the bed. "We gave her Jason."

"Jason is causing her to relax?" Milo asked smiling as well.

"Yup, I hope you are comfortable son you're going to be there for a while." They'd want him to stay for as long as he was able.

"Actually Alan." Epiphany said laughing harder. "They're both asleep." Sure enough both Jason and Elizabeth were out cold. And both of them were smiling in their sleep.


Jason spent the rest of the day wrapped around Elizabeth. He wasn't asleep like everyone thought. He'd waited too long to feel this again. He did not intend to miss a moment of having Bella in his arms. At dinner time Epiphany rousted him saying they needed to see what Elizabeth's body temperature was without him holding her.

He had just finished dressing when Johnny stuck his head in the room. "Got a minute?" He asked.

"Yeah." Jason stepped out into the hall but made sure to stay where he could see his girl. She was still sleeping, Epiphany said Bella would sleep a lot as she healed, but if she opened her eyes he didn't want her to think he had left.

"How is she?" Johnny wanted an update first.

"Okay. Her body temperature dropped earlier." Jason had been afraid when the alarm sounded. "Alan said it may happen again. I need to check in on Max." Jason had pretty much forgotten the other man.

"I have some news for you." Johnny wanted to let Jason know what was happening with the investigations.

"Go ahead." Jason leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.

"Carly hired Atkins." Johnny watched his boss's eyes popped back open. He hoped Jason was ready because the rest of the news was just as shocking.

"What?" Jason hadn't expected that.

"Spinelli has some program that can trace callers who block their numbers. It takes a while and Cal had quite a few. The kid found a phone number and it turned out to be Carly's cell phone. I'm guessing it was the first call she made to Cal." Johnny explained. "After that she must have wised up and started using burn phones."

"I want her dead." Jason didn't even hesitate to give the order.

"Already done. Unfortunately not by us, she was killed by our unknown dark haired man. Or at least it's suspected she was, since ballistics matched the bullets that killed her to the gun that killed Cal Atkins." Johnny had not expected that. This whole situation was fucked up.

"Shit." Jason said softly this just got more and more twisted. "What else?" He knew Johnny had more information.

"Carly is the one who shot Max and pushed Liz into the harbor." Johnny relayed. "The gun was found in her purse and she had Liz's skin under her nails. The skin under Liz's nails was Carly's. It lines up with scratches on Carly's wrist. The coroner thinks Liz tried to grab Carly to keep from going in the water."

Jason didn't know what to say. "Stay here and call me if Elizabeth wakes up. I need to see Maximus." The blonde took the stairs down to Max's room. When he got there he passed on the information that Johnny brought him.

"I knew that she was trouble, but I never would have suspected this." The older man said shaking his head. "Elizabetta's stalker must have been watching Carly. I'm guessing he saw her as a threat."

"We need to re-think Bobbie. He's killing people who hurt Elizabeth." Jason said softly.

"Or may hurt her." Maximus looked at Jason. "This is not your fault."

"I brought Carly into my life." Jason couldn't over look that.

"Sonny chose to keep her in his. When you walked away she chose to not let go. If you want to assign blame to yourself then you have to also blame Max and me." He said placing a hand on Jason's shoulder. "We both said that Elizabetta would be fine with just Max. You didn't agree." The older man reminded him. "This is no more your fault than ours."

Jason just nodded, not fully believing it yet. "We need to figure out what our next step will be."

"Max is getting discharged tomorrow. I will take him to the house. Elizabetta is not ready to leave yet." Maximus was thinking out loud.

"When she is it's time to take her home." Jason said looking at her father. "Hopefully she will be cleared to travel so we will come to Italy. It's not safe for her here. While we are gone Johnny and Francis can handle things. They can also keep looking for the stalker. Is your plane here?"

"Yes. I just need a few hours to have it ready to go." Maximus assured him. He was pleased to be able to take his daughter home. He just wished it had happened a different way.

"I'm going back up." Jason didn't feel comfortable being away from Bella.

"I will be up when Milo returns." The youngest Giambetti son was having dinner.

"I will let Elizabeth know." Jason said as he strode from the room.


"Why are you in the hall?" Jason asked Johnny as he noted the closed door.

"Mac and Taggert are here. They threw me out." You could hear in Johnny's voice that he didn't like that.

"Go home." Jason told his friend. As the green eyed man walked away Jason called out to him. "Johnny."

"Yeah?" His friend asked.

"Thank you." Jason appreciated that Johnny was taking care of things.

"No problem. You don't normally have the best taste in women, so we all have to help as much as we can when you get a good one." Johnny said grinning. He laughed out loud when Jason flipped him off.

The blonde mob boss opened the door and walked in. They weren't going to keep him out. His eyes locked onto Bella's and he relaxed. She looked tired and she was still too pale, but she was awake.

"If it isn't Anger Boy." Taggert hated Jason. The fact that he couldn't get any charges to stick to the thug burned him something fierce. He hadn't given up hope of sending the younger man to Pentonville for life.

"How are you?" He asked Elizabeth ignoring the two police officers. He wasn't in the mood for his normal back and forth with the surly Detective. He needed to make sure his girl was up to this.

"I'm okay." She said holding Jason's hand. "Mac said we are done."

"We do have some questions for you." Taggert like everyone else had been surprised that Elizabeth was with Jason. "You might want to have your lawyer meet you downtown."

The mob boss didn't say anything but he balled up his fist and tried to remind himself that he needed to be with Elizabeth and not in a jail cell.

Sensing the rising tension Mac spoke up. "You can come with us now or in the morning. I'm sure you don't want to leave Elizabeth alone." He was going to have to talk with Taggert again, and possibly remove him from this case.

With a smirk Jason looked at the Detective. He generally did not talk directly to the police. He paid his lawyer a lot of money so that he didn't have to.

"Just call us before you come." Mac told Jason and pretty much pulled his Detective from the room.


"She needs to stay away from him." Taggert couldn't believe that someone as nice as Elizabeth hung around with criminals.

"She's the victim of a crime and he is who she wants. You don't have to like it." Mac wasn't too keen on it either but he didn't let his personal opinions affect his work. "We both know that Jason didn't have anything to do with this." The evidence had closed this case before they knew it was open. The only loose end was the dark haired man who was on a killing spree. There was no evidence tying him to Jason.

"It just makes me crazy." Taggert said through gritted teeth.

"Get over it." Was all Mac said. "We aren't investigating Elizabeth Giambetti's personal life."

"What's up with that?" Taggert asked as he pushed the call button for the elevator. That had been a shock to both men.

"We both knew she was adopted. Her biological family found her." Mac said stepping onto the elevator. Still he had to admit the odds were staggering that the girlfriend of one mob boss would find she was the long lost daughter of another.

"We should look into them as well." Taggert suggested.

"Call Interpol. I'm sure they have a thick file to send you." Mac said as they headed to the car. He already knew they wouldn't find anything useful in the papers.


"I'm sorry I wasn't here when they arrived." Jason said leaning forward and kissing her on the neck. When she giggled he smiled.

"It's okay. Johnny said you were downstairs. I asked him not to call you. I was hoping that Taggert and Mac would be gone before you got back." Elizabeth wanted him to get back in bed with her. She would be sure to ask Alan when he returned. Since Jason stayed over night there was no reason they couldn't sleep together.

"You were trying to protect me?" He asked smiling at her. He wasn't going to take any time with her for granted.

"No, I'm selfish. I want you here with me tonight." She said smiling. "I don't remember what happened. Do they know yet?"

"Yes, Alan doesn't want me to tell you. He said if you don't remember it's because you aren't ready to deal with it." Jason knew a thing or two about missing memories. He was just grateful Elizabeth's amnesia wasn't from a head injury. "Max can't remember either."

"Alright." She respected Alan as a doctor. "How is Max?"

"Better, he's being discharged tomorrow." Jason told her.

"Good for him. It's sucks here." She shivered.

Jason looked at the monitor and noticed her body temperature was lower than when he first walked in. Without even waiting he toed off his boots and got under the covers. "If you get cold say something." He said holding her close.

"Okay." Elizabeth said getting comfortable. "This is my favorite place to be." She confessed.

"Mine too. There is nothing better than having you in my arms." Jason kissed the top of her head. He was looking forward to getting the all clear to kiss her lips. "Wanna watch a movie?" When she agreed they cuddled up and did just that.


His girl was in the hospital. He had failed her. How would he look at his beloved Lizzie knowing how badly he had failed her? He had allowed her to be hurt. There was only one thing left for him to do. Only one way for him to redeem himself. He had to get her away from Jason Morgan and all the poison people who surround him. Once Morgan was gone he could take her away to heal. His love would heal her and make this right. "Don't worry Lizzie, I'm coming."


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