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Chapter 51

"You guys should go home and get some sleep." Francis told Jason when his boss stepped out of his sister's room. The resident assigned to Emily needed to do an exam.

"My parents need to rest, and I don't want Em to be alone." Jason said quietly. "When Alan and Monica come back down, we'll go home for a bit."

"I'm going to go to the bathroom." Elizabeth pointed down the hall. She just needed a moment to herself.

Jason just nodded. He watched until she entered the restroom. "Is there anything I should know?"

"We have everything under control." Francis assured his friend. It would take something truly major for them to bother Jason. "If you need anything let us know." There wasn't much anyone of them could do but offer support.

"Anyone else get sick?" Jason wanted to know.

"Not yet." Francis reported. "I am tapping sources to see if this is somehow tied to us." Checking to find out if maybe someone from another family might be at the root of this.

"Have you heard from Nikolas?" Jason and Elizabeth hadn't been in Emily's room that long, but something might have changed on that front.

"No. Robin is in the building. She is in her lab." Francis told Jason.

"Unless she gave my sister a slow acting poison then this couldn't have been her. They haven't been near each other in days. Emily was fine just before we left the Towers for dinner." Jason said trying to get his brain to function. "In a matter of hours she went from healthy to comatose." He said shaking his head. "It doesn't make sense."

"No one is going to stop investigating. Do you want me to have Stan hack into the diagnostic lab's systems?" Francis knew their tech guy could do it.

"Even if he did, I'm not sure he would learn anything faster than the staff here." Jason said hitting the wall giving into his frustration. Their tech guy would have to spend time looking up all the medical terms. "Everyone is doing all they can. Monica explained that the system needs to identify everything first, and that the odds of them getting an answer tonight were slim. It would have to be something really extraordinary. I feel so fucking helpless!" Jason said shaking his head.

Cody jogged the short distance to where both men were standing. "Elizabeth needs you." He told Jason.

Jason was at the door to the ladies room in a flash and before he even opened the door he could hear his girl sobbing. Not even caring that it was the ladies room he stepped inside and his heart broke at the sight of his girl sitting on the floor with her head on her knees. Scooping her up he sat on the floor positioning her on his lap. "She will fight as hard as she can." Jason promised Elizabeth.

"I'm so s-scared." Elizabeth said clutching Jason tight. What she was feeling was probably half of what Jason and his parents were experiencing. She had resolved to be strong for them. To give Jason what he needed, but her heart was being shredded.

"Me too." Jason said as his eyes burned and the first tear fell. "Me too." He said just holding his girl close. "You should go home and get some sleep."

"I'll wait for you." Elizabeth said putting her head on his shoulder. "You need rest too. That way we can sit with Emily again with your parents take a break."

"I'm sure the rest of the family will be here as soon as visiting hours start, so we can leave then." Jason knew she wouldn't go if he didn't.

Elizabeth wiped her face, and took a deep breath to calm down. "The doctor should be done soon, so we should go back. I don't want Em to be alone." She said in a husky voice as she fought off more tears.

"Okay." Jason stood up and helped his girl to her feet. "Wash your face, and we'll go back down the hall." When they stepped out of the hallway, they were surprised to see Claudia waiting with Johnny, Francis, and Cody.

"Hi." Claudia honestly had no clue what to say. She hadn't liked Em, but she never would have wished this on the other woman.

"Hey." Elizabeth answered for her and Jason. "How come you are down here?"

"You aren't sick are you?" Jason asked the first thing that came to mind.

"No." Johnny assured his friend. "I booked you a hotel suite across the street. I asked Claudia to pack some clean clothes for you guys and bring them down. I have a guard stationed at the room."

"Thanks." Jason said looking at the door to his sister's room.

"The doc is still in there." Francis answered his unspoken question.

"I figured you wouldn't want to be far away." Johnny finished up. "Call when you are headed over and I'll send breakfast." Neither one of them would probably be hungry, but skipping meals wouldn't help them.

The doctor stepped out, and came over. "You can go back in. You'll need to put on new gowns, gloves, and masks." She instructed.

"Has there been any change?" Jason asked hoping for a yes.

"I'm sorry, no." The resident answered before walking down the hall.

The group just stood there silent. "We are going back in." Jason said as a nurse came back with the items they needed and helped them dress. "Let me know when Shawn has something to report."

"Will do." Francis said as they stepped inside Emily's room.

"This blows." Cody said quietly.

"Yeah." Francis said heading back to the lounge to wait.


Monica walked down the hall to the research wing. She didn't even pay attention to the large man who was standing near the stairwell. Marco was keeping an eye on Robin, so when she left her house he followed her. The fact that the light in the lab Monica wanted to visit was on, didn't slow her either. In fact the sight of the petite dark haired doctor made her walk just a bit faster.

Robin hadn't closed the door all the way, so Monica didn't need to enter her code to access the lab, instead she just walked in. "You bitch!" She yelled.

"Monica." Robin's head popped up in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"You killed my baby." Monica said starting to shake with rage. From where she was standing she could see the large bottle with the chemical compound she was seeking. In a lab no one but Robin and Alan could access. She knew her husband didn't do this, so that only left the woman in front of her.

"I never meant to hurt AJ." Robin said putting down her clipboard. She could see the older woman was on the edge of totally losing control. Robin needed to calm her down, because at the moment Monica was between her and the door, the phone, and her purse which contained her cellphone.

"I'm not talking about AJ. Everyone knows what you did to him." Monica growled walking across the floor. "You thought because you got away with murdering him you could do the same thing to Emily."

"Emily?" Robin asked confused. "I haven't done anything to Emily."

"DON'T LIE TO ME!" Monica yelled. "I'm not stupid. You poisoned my little girl."

"Monica." Robin said understanding that she was in very real danger. "I haven't done anything to Emily. Is she sick?"

"Sick?" Monica said breathing hard. She couldn't believe that Robin was standing in front of her lying about what she had done. That she expected to get away with this for a second time. "She's already dead, but you know that. Because you did this to her." Monica put her hand on the lab countertop.

"Monica, I swear to you I haven't done anything to Emily. Maybe I can help you. I can run some tests, and we can find out what is wrong." Robin took a step forward. "Let's go right now, and take some blood."

"The only place you are going is to hell." Monica said on a venomous hiss as her hand closed around the scalpel that was on the counter and plunged it into Robin's chest.

Robin's eyes widened and her mouth fell open in shock. Looking down she saw Monica's hand close to her chest and the sharp surgical knife in the older woman's hand. Monica pulled the knife out, and a pool of blood began to cover the front of Robin's scrubs. "Uh." The dark haired doctor said before falling to the floor.

Without a word Monica turned and walked from the lab. It was Marco who stopped her. "Dr. Quartermaine?" Her hand was covered in blood and she was holding a bloody scalpel.

"She hurt Emily." Monica said in a flat voice.

"I need you to come back to the lab with me." Marco said gently turning her around as he reached for his phone.


"What the hell happened?" Francis asked as he took in the scene in the lab.

"Dr. Quartermaine killed Robin." Marco had taken the doctor's pulse when they returned to the lab. The body was still warm to the touch, but the small woman was already gone.

"Shit." Francis said looking at the older woman who was sitting quietly in the corner. "Dr. Quartermaine?" No answer. "Monica?" He tried again with the same results. "How long has she been like this?"

"Since we came back to the lab, I asked her to sit there and when I looked back over she staring straight ahead but not responding to anything I said. That was about ten minutes or so." Marco told his boss. "When she walked by me I had no idea she was going to do this." Otherwise he would have stopped her. "She didn't have the scalpel in her hand." Which would have been a big clue to her intentions.

"There is an array of tools over there." Francis pointed to the counter. There was a silver tray with all manner of objects including two more knives. "We need to clean this up." And he needed to call Jason. First however he called Johnny. "Is Claudia still here?"

"Yeah, why?" Johnny had no idea where Francis had rushed off too.

"I need you to bring her to the research wing. Lab seven-three." Francis told his friend. "Hurry." After hanging up he called Stan. "I need you to hack into the hospital feed, find out what time Robin logged into the mainframe to access her lab. Then I need you to review the security film and remove any proof that she came in this morning. Check the garage too."

"She parked on the street. Up the block." Marco provided. He had watched her do so from his car where he was awaiting her arrival. With so many of their guys in the hospital the PI didn't have to stay.

"Okay, did you hear that?" Francis asked Stan. They would move the car.

"I did." He answered, indicating he knew not to waste time reviewing that footage. "Anything else?"

"Not at the moment. Stand by in case we need you." Francis instructed hanging up the phone. "Where did you get the gloves?"

"On the wall." Marco was wearing blue gloves so he didn't leave fingerprints.

Francis grabbed a pair and carefully pried the knife from Monica's hand. He cleaned it in the sink, and put it on the tray. In the corner of the lab was an autoclave and he put the tray inside. Taking a moment he read the instructions then started the machine that would clean the equipment and take care of any DNA evidence.

"What happened?" Johnny asked looking down at Robin's body.

"Where is Claudia?" Francis wanted to know.

"In the hall." Johnny told his friend. He left his girl there because he had no idea what he would be walking in on.

"I need her to help Monica clean up, and then I need her to take Jason's mom to the roof." Francis was going to pretend she was up there the whole time. "Marco go with them. If anyone asks you were assigned to watch Jason's mom. She went up to the roof, and just zoned out." They could say that the stress of losing a second child was too much. "Call me right away if she starts coming around." They couldn't afford for Monica to start talking, or freaking out, about what she had done.

"Okay." Marco helped the doctor to her feet, and carefully steered her into the hall.

"A crew is on the way." Johnny knew what needed to happen.

"It looks like Monica stabbed Robin right in the heart, so there isn't much blood. The scrubs absorbed most of it." Francis said thinking clean up wouldn't be that bad. "Put on gloves, and turn off anything that is on. Marco said they were only here a little while, so it shouldn't be too much."

Johnny walked around checking. He was at a bit of a disadvantage as he had no clue how the lab worked, but the computer was off and so were all the burners. He picked up a clipboard, and hung it in the empty spot between two other clipboards taking care to remove the top page which had today's date on it. He put Robin's pen in the jar with the others before walking back over to Francis. "That's the best I can do." The crew might know more.

"It's going to have to be enough." Francis said standing up. "Make it spotless." He told the crew as he and Johnny stepped back into the hall. "I need to tell Jason."

"I'll supervise the crew." Johnny volunteered.

"Call Stan when you are done." Francis said over his shoulder. Johnny would know that the crew couldn't appear on any footage. The Irishman nodded in response, and Francis ran to the elevator.


Since he couldn't go in the room he called Jason and asked him to step out. "I'm sorry to bother you." Cody was watching the hall to make sure no one came close. "Your mother killed Robin Scorpio about thirty minutes ago."

"What?" Jason asked stunned.

Francis explained everything to his boss. "Your mother is either in shock, or the horror of what she's done has caused her to break from reality. We need your father to look at her." Right now Alan was the only doctor they could trust. Taking Monica out of the hospital was too risky at the moment. Her leaving would be hard to explain since her daughter was fighting for her life.

"We also need to know why Monica did this. The only thing I can think of is that she thinks Robin is somehow involved in what happened to Emily." Jason knew his guys would have told him if that was the case. "Did she know something we don't?"

"No clue, nor do I know where to look." Francis said breathing hard in frustration. They couldn't even ask their doctor because he worked over at Mercy, and it would look odd if he was roaming the halls here. Not that they knew what to ask him. "Maybe your father can bring Monica around?"

"We won't know until he looks at her." Jason said pulling off his gown. "Let me go talk with him. Please tell Elizabeth where I went." He headed to the elevator, thinking a long night was about to get even longer.


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