A Tale of Two Jasons, Chapter 3: Shock

"What?" demanded AJ, "What did you say".

Jason looked at AJ for a while, but fell, silent.

"Jason?!?!" screamed AJ. "What's going on?"

The paramedic did their stuff and checked it out.

"Not that good, he's alive but barely…pulse is low…gotta get to General Hospital and pronto!" said the one of the paramedic's.

"And Miss Barret?" said the other paramedic, "You should ride along as well, you should get checked up on too".

"Uh…okay", said Brenda…she looked at AJ.

"Carly and I will follow", said AJ.

So, AJ and Carly jumped in their car, and followed to General Hospital.

In the car, Carly turned to AJ, "What are you thinking?" she asked.

"I don't know…Tony Jones told us that it would be impossible…could have Jason got his memory back?" AJ said half dazed. "I mean, ask me last year and I would have been etactic, I miss my brother so much, but three years ago my life changed forever, and a year later it changed again, and then again this past year when I found out that Michael was my son". "I'm not the same AJ I was back when I had my brother. I was the elder brother, but still I leaned on him. It was like he was the only son of Mom and Dad; I was like a raindrop in his shadow. I thought alcohol allowed me to escape, so I embraced it. But it didn't, only made things worse, and in the end, it took away the person who appeared to understand me even a bit. The person I took for granted and neglected because I was jealous, because I was envious, because he was the Golden Boy" "I prayed for the Jason I knew to return, but I learned to understand, that I will never see him again.

Carly thought about the words AJ has said, and weighed them with memories of her own. She did not know Jason Quartermaine at all; Jason Quartermaine was just a memory when she met Jason Morgan for the first time. She remembered the first time that she met Jason at that bar and played pool, and the time it they made love that first time. Jason didn't love her then, but the friendship they made afterwards was grand.

She remembered Jason telling her that marrying AJ was a mistake. Carly laughed at that memory, yeah, she knew that her original intentions were far from kind and genuine, but she learned. She knew that Jason was in love with Robin, and that AJ was truly in love with her. She even knew that when they lived across the halls from each other, but she wanted Tony back then so she overlooked it. She did some silly things to keep her hands on Tony like drugging AJ…something that makes her sick when she thinks about it now. "How did I let myself go so low?" she asked herself.

She cuddled up to her hubby, "AJ honey", she said, "It's going to be okay".

AJ smiled a little, he extended his hand to grasp Carly's hand. They continued their way to the hospital…

In the ambulance, Brenda was holding Jason's hand, "Be okay Jason", she said, "Please be okay…".

Brenda remembered going to prom with Jason, she laughed, both of them were recently dumped by their boyfriend/girlfriend. Both of them was longing for another, barely had fun. Jason was so charming, so damn right fine, but he's her brother as is Ned and AJ. This couldn't end.

Finally the cars made it the hospital.

The paramedics rushed in…

"Accident victim!" showed a paramedic, "With internal bleeding!"

"Oh damn shit!" shouted Karen. "He's going into shock…must of loss much blood already…" "Need to get to an OR stet…"

"Who should we get to authorize the surgery?" "Alan, Monica?" "Shouldn't we call Sonny maybe?" wondered someone.

"Nah…Alan and Monica will be fine for First of Kin, but go ahead and call Sonny too", said Karen. "But the Drs. Quartermaine. First!" said Karen.

"Ok", nodded Nurse Kelly. Nurse Kelly picked up the phone, and paged both Alan and Monica. Alan was at home, but Monica was at the hospital somewhere.

"Dr. Monica Quartermaine please come to the East Wing ER…," said the loud speaker.



After all the initial excitement of Jason's arrival, Brenda was escorted in herself. Karen eyed Brenda and was both relieved and surprised.

"Brenda?!?" shouted Karen.

"Karen?" shouted Brenda, "Why aren't you in Chicago with Jagger?" "Is Jagger in Port Charles as well?"

"No", said Karen, slightly concerned about what appears to be some type of memory loss in Brenda. "Let's get you checked out, you may have a concussion".

Dr. Chris Ramsey wheels her into an examination room.

Just then Monica entered the ER, "Yes, someone paged me here, what's the emergency?" said she.

"It's Jason", said Karen.

Monica's face began to become pale, "What's…what's wrong…what happen?" She feared the worse.

"Mom?" said a familiar voice. Monica turned around.

"Do you know what happened?" she asked AJ.

"No, not really, but I found him, his car crashed in the ground…", AJ answered.

"Dr. Quartermaine," Karen interrupted, "Come with me".

Monica nodded and gave AJ a hug. Carly just stood there helpless. Monica ground her teeth a little but went over and gave Carly a hug as well. Carly felt a little uncomfortable but still welcomed the hug. AJ then proceeded to grasp Carly's hand.

Monica followed Karen into one of the empty rooms.

"Monica", Karen said, "Jason is suffering from some type of internal bleeding, we must do an exploratory surgery to find out what has burst". "We need your release, we don't how Jason would feel, but as his legal mother, he changing his name did not change that fact, you have the authority to release the surgery". "Do we have your permission to go forward with it?"

"Yes", said Monica, with out really any consideration, "Has Tony examined him yet?" Déjà vu also was controlling her mind.

"No", said Karen. "But he will, first we must stop this bleeding!"

Monica signed the papers, and Karen gave the green light to Jason's surgery.

Monica went out and waited with AJ and Carly.

"Mom", AJ said, "Soon after the accident, Jason opened his eyes for a few seconds…the paramedics said, 'Mr. Morgan, can you hear me?' well Jason said, 'Huh? My name is Jason Quartermaine', Of course it threw me into a loop, could have Jason got his memory back? Tony said that it was impossible! Then Jason passed out".

Monica just stared in space, "What? Is that true?"

Carly nodded, "I heard him say it too".

Just then Sonny entered the ER; he located Monica, AJ, and Carly, and met up to them.

"Monica?" he asked, "What happened?"

"We don't know exactly, but Jason's in emergency surgery for internal bleeding", said Monica.

"Oh damn" said Sonny, he wouldn't been able to forgive himself if any thing happened to Jason.

Just then, at the Sonny's…

"Johnny", said Jason Morgan, "Where is Sonny?"

Johnny took a double take, "Oh no, Sonny was told that you were at the hospital", said Johnny, "He when the ER at General Hospital!"

"Must be a trap!" shouted Jason as he jetted out the door.

To Be Continued…