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Chapter 52

"Monica?" Alan said his wife's name as he shined his pen light into her eyes. Nothing, she did blink but that was just an automatic response to the stimuli. "Tell me again what happened." He asked his son.

"Marco said she wanted some air, and Claudia went with mom so she wouldn't be alone." Jason had already explained why Johnny's girlfriend was in the building. "Claudia said when she suggested they come back in and check on Em, Monica didn't answer. That was when she called me."

"Your mother's in shock." Alan said shaking his head. They were still on the roof. Jason had said he was afraid to move his mother. "We need to get her downstairs. She took losing AJ hard, I think the worry about maybe losing your sister was just too much. We'll sedate her and see if that helps."

Jason nodded. He hated lying to Alan, but the last thing he needed to be dealing with was the knowledge that his wife had committed a homicide. "Can I leave a guard with her?"

"That would be helpful. I don't want your mother waking up alone. I need to be with Em, and you need some sleep." Jason looked tired, and that was something Alan didn't remember seeing since he woke up from the coma. "Let's get her inside."

"I'll carry her." Jason said quietly. Alan did have a heart condition, so carrying Monica around probably wasn't in his best interests.

"Thanks." Alan said wondering how much worse this night could get.


"Dr. Wexler." The resident on duty shook the sleeping doctor awake.

"What?" Karen said feeling fuzzy.

"You wanted to see the labs when they came in." The resident said handing over the chart. These weren't the ones from the diagnostic lab, but the report on how Emily's body was handling the illness she was fighting off.

"Yeah." Karen sat up and took the papers. She had to blink a few times but everything came into focus. "Shit. Her liver is failing. How much urine output has there been?"

"We've changed her IV twice." Dehydration was not something they wanted. "And gotten less than ten ccs of urine."

"Shit!" Karen said again. That was bad, really bad. She flipped through the rest of the report. "Her platelet count is dropping. She's already in severe sepsis. How the hell is all this happening so fast? There is no sign of an infection, so why is this happening?" Karen looked at the last page. "Her heart rate is irregular." They were losing Emily.

The resident kept quiet understanding her boss was thinking out loud.

"Page Leo, and see if he is available for a consult." Karen was hoping if she could stabilize Emily's heartbeat that might help with the other issues. "Also page both Drs. Quartermaine. I may as well brief them." Although this was not news they would want to hear.

"Alan is with Emily, and Monica's been admitted." The resident explained.

"What for?" Karen wanted to know.

"She's catatonic." The resident shared. "Alan brought her down to the ER. He thought it was shock, but Dr. Drake said this was too severe to just be shock." Patrick was in charge of the ER tonight.

"Now I have to tell him this." Karen said running a hand through her hair. Some nights she hated her job. "Call Leo."

"Yes ma'am." The resident said moving off to follow her orders.


Elizabeth laid on the bed in Jason's arms and tried to sleep. The fact that Jason wasn't sleeping had her worried. He was exhausted, more than she was. Something however was keeping him up. Something had happened, and it was severe enough to pull him from his sister's bedside. "You need to sleep."

"I can't." Jason said pulling his girl closer. He was worried about Monica and Emily. "Something happened that you need to know about."

"Okay." Elizabeth turned in his arms so that they were face to face.

"Monica had to be admitted to the hospital. Dr. Drake said she is catatonic." Jason wouldn't tell Elizabeth why.

"Oh no." Elizabeth said softly. "Poor Alan. What do they do for that?" She didn't know anything about that condition.

"Right now, Dr. Collins has her on medication that hopefully will help." The psychologist had come in after Dr. Drake called him. "He told us that some people don't come out of this state. He guessed that Emily's illness was too much for Monica to handle. He thinks that when she is in a better state to handle what is happening she'll come around."

"Emily getting better will help with that." Elizabeth was still hoping her friend's condition improved.

"Yeah." Jason said shaking his head. "We both need to sleep. Alan sent some sleeping pills. Will you take one?"

"Alright." She didn't want him worried about her. When he came back with the medication she swallowed it. "Are you going to take one?"

"I took it in the bathroom." Jason hadn't really done that. With them making Robin disappear now wasn't the time for him to be unconscious. Francis was still working on a believable reason for the doctor to be gone. Mac being out of town gave them a bit of time, but eventually Robin not showing up for work would be noticed and he would be called. So they had one, maybe two days at the most to make this work. "Lie down." Jason said getting back in bed when Elizabeth snuggled up he closed his eyes. He would get a few hours of rest, and then head back over to the hospital.


If asked Karen's co-workers would say a lot of really positive things about her skills as a doctor. Patience would not be listed as one of her better attributes. That was why at four in the morning she was standing in the lab with a grumpy Ellie Trout. "Well." Karen had called the red headed tech in wanting some answers.

"Let me look." The lab technician said trying not to snap at the doctor. She got that Karen was worried about her patient, but when you rushed mistakes got made. Ellie was flipping through the printouts, when she got almost to the bottom she stopped. "This can't be right."

"What?" Karen all but pounced. She just needed one clue to turn this around.

"Emily has a substance in her bloodstream that shouldn't be there." Ellie ran the sample again, specifically looking for the chemical signature. She also took some blood over to another station. "If I add this." She said reaching for a compound. "Then the blood shouldn't have a reaction, unless the computer is right." In fact this would have been one of the last tests they ran because the probability was that the computer was wrong. Ellie mixed the sample and slid it under the microscope. "Oh boy." She said looking at Karen who was reading the printout.

"There is no way Emily would have come into contact with this. Let alone this much." Karen said as her heart sank. The younger woman would be lucky to make it through the day. Even if she did, Emily wouldn't make it through tomorrow. "This had to be intentional. Someone deliberately poisoned her. We are going to need to notify the police, and tell them what they are looking for. I have no idea where they would find this."

"They can start by looking here at the hospital." Ellie told her colleague. "Robin Scorpio has it in her lab. She needed it to bind two chemicals."

"Are you sure?" Karen knew the history between Robin and the Quartermaines.

"Positive." Ellie said nodding. "I was there when she signed for the delivery. I commented on it. That was when she told me why she needed it. Do you still want to call the police?"

"We don't have any choice." Karen said heading for the phone.


"Corelli." Francis was still at the hospital. He stood behind Jason as Karen reported that Emily had been poisoned, and that the police where expected shortly. When Alan asked with what Karen told him. It was from the Chief of Staff that they learned the compound was in Robin's lab. They now had the answer to why Monica snapped. When his phone rang and he saw who it was Francis walked down the hall a bit.

"Nikolas is dead." Shawn reported. He was standing over the body. Jason had decided he didn't want to wait for a more civilized hour to talk to Emily's date. He wanted answers to their questions now, so Shawn took a Kodiak over to the island.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Francis said wondering what else was going to happen. "Any clue how?"

"Based on the amount of vomit, I'd say he had whatever Emily did." The enforcer reported.

"She was poisoned, it looks like by Robin." Francis never took anything at face value, so he was reserving judgment, which was more than Jason's mother had done.

"The doctor get jealous and kill them both?" Shawn asked his boss. He was throwing out an idea, because like Francis he wouldn't take the situation at face value.

"No clue at the moment. Who else is in the house?" Francis wanted to know.

"Unless they are hiding in the tunnels, no one." He reported. "I looked."

"Good. I'm sending a crew." Francis told his enforcer.

"You're cleaning this up?" Shawn was surprised by that.

"I'll give you the complete report when you return." Francis didn't want to talk about it over the phone. "No trace."

"You got it." Shawn said hanging up and sitting down to wait.


Jason also didn't take things at face value, but he had to admit that it looked bad for Robin. The fact that she and Emily hated one another was well known, as were their public confrontations. Robin had also threatened Emily the last time they were face to face. Still Jason was having a hard time believing that Robin would have done this. Not because she wasn't capable, under the right circumstances everyone was capable of murder, but because she took her job to save lives seriously. He was probably the only member of his family to believe she didn't mean for AJ to die when she set the paternity issue in motion. Still Jason had to take into account that hate was a powerful motivator. At the moment the pieces just weren't fitting.

"You okay?" Francis asked his boss.

"Who called?" Jason simply turned his emotions off. He would grieve for his sister, but not right now. Now he was going to get some answers. If Robin did this then she had already paid at Monica's hand. But if she didn't then someone else would die at his.

Francis understood what was happening and made his report. "Nikolas is dead. Shawn said he threw up a lot before dying."

"Same as Emily." God it hurt just to say her name, knowing she wasn't going to make it. "They had to have eaten the same thing, but according to their bill they didn't share any dishes."

"Feeding each other?" Francis suggested, he and Alexis had done that more times than he could count.

"Nikolas weighs more than Emily, so if she ate most of whatever did this and he only had a few bites he shouldn't be dead." Jason said puzzling this out. "I'm thinking he got a dose equal to what my sister got, but how?"

"Did they go anywhere after dinner?" Francis asked his friend.

"No clue, have Stan look at both their credit cards. Maybe they went to a club. Still it doesn't fit. I don't see Robin bribing a kitchen worker to poison them." Jason said shaking his head.

"I sent a crew to Spoon Island." Francis passed along.

"You are going to make it look like they left together." Jason immediately knew what Francis was doing. "Like she poisoned Em, and then asked Nikolas to help her get away."

Francis nodded.

"That buys us time if nothing else. Nikolas's family will look for him." Jason knew that he and his uncle were close.

"They won't find him." Francis said with absolute certainty.

Jason looked up as Taggert and Harper stepped off the elevator. "Make sure Cooper passes along anything they learn."

"Will do." Francis said walking away, he didn't want to be near the detectives if Shawn called.

"Morgan." Taggert greeted the blonde.

"I'll go page the doc." Harper said walking away. Everyone was wondering if this was related to Jason's career choice. If so there was a good chance the mob boss would find that person long before they did.

"I'm sorry about your sister." He started there. The doctor who called said that this was going to be a homicide. Taggert couldn't imagine sitting around and waiting for a loved one to die.

"Thank you." Jason knew what was expected of him.

"Call your lawyer, I need to take a statement." Taggert wasn't going to drag Jason downtown. The sooner the investigation started, the sooner they would have answers. "Page me when Ms. Davis arrives."

With a nod Jason walked off to wake up someone else.


Eight hours after learning that Emily had been poisoned the family gathered around her hospital bed. The only person who loved Emily that wasn't present was Monica. She was still heavily medicated. Karen had said that in addition to Em's liver failing, her kidneys had shut down as well. Her heart rate was slowing, and her brain wasn't responding. There was nothing they could do to reverse any of that. With tears on his cheeks and a shaking hand Alan signed the paperwork to terminate his daughter's life.

When the machine began to sound the alarm signaling that Emily's heart beat was dangerously low Karen simply turned it off. Stepping out into the hall she gave the grieving family time to say their goodbyes.

"I love you Emily." Edward said touching his granddaughter's arm.

"I love you Emily." Lila said reaching a shaking hand out to touch the dying young woman as well.

"Your mother and I love you Emily." Alan had lost patients, yet it didn't prepare him to deal with losing his child.

"I love you Emily." Elizabeth sobbed as she ran a hand over her friend's hair.

"I love you Em." Jason said softly placing his hand on his sister's shoulder. They were all touching her when she took her last breath and left this life.

Elizabeth simply turned into Jason holding him tight in her despair. He held her close and tried to give comfort as he received it.

Out in the hall Karen looked at Epiphany who had just come on duty. "Time of death. One thirty-seven p.m." She wasn't going to rush the family out, nor was she going to go inside and intrude of their grief. "Please alert the police."

"Right away." Epiphany said heading to the hub.


In her apartment Courtney listened to the breaking news bulletin with wide eyes. Emily was dead, and the police were investigating. There was still no report of Elizabeth being sick. Courtney could do one of two things, she could stay and hope her part in this never came out. Or she could run. That was a no brainer. She had called in sick earlier saying she had a bad cold, and would be out for the rest of the week. Now she packed a bag and headed to her car. She figured the police wouldn't know anything for at least another day. By then she could be in Canada.


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