A Tale of Two Jasons, Chapter 5: Puzzle Pieces

"So", said AJ, "Can I see Brenda? Need to ask her something".

Sonny just stared at AJ. Of course, he wanted to see her first.

AJ noticed the look, and continued, "I mean, Brenda thinks that I was involved with the accident, maybe she would feel comfortable telling me what happened. Explain to us why there are two Jasons too. Maybe?"

Chris thought about it for a few seconds, "Sure, go ahead".

"Dr. Chris Ramsey, please report to the front desk", said the loud speaker.

"Oh, I need to go, be quick, I'm going to back as soon as I can", said Chris, then he left.

AJ entered Brenda's hospital room and smiled, "Hi Brenda, could I ask you a few questions?" he asked.

"AJ…" Brenda said, "It was so terrible. The road, the broken bridge, the fall. I must have been knocked out for a few minutes. I remember waking up in the cold water. I checked on Jason and he was still out. I called for you but you did not answer. I must have dozed off again because the next thing I remember was seeing you and a woman outside the mansion and Jason…Oh My God!!! Where's Jason!?!?"

"He's here", answered AJ. "He lost a lot of blood, but he's being well cared for". "Brenda, this might sound weird, but what else to you remember? Where were we going and why?"

"Alan kicked you out of the house so you took off. Jason went after you. He saw you in Lois's car, and tried to get you to get out, but you wouldn't get out".

Tears were rolling on AJ's face now, this sad memory was just way too familiar.

"So, Jason jumped in himself, and he stole the keys from your hand and threw them across the property".

AJ's eyes widened at that last comment. "What?!?" he thought, "If only that did happen. If only he didn't drink that night at all!!!"

"Jason thought it was a good idea for you to cool off elsewhere. So, he decided to take you to the cabin. Who would have imaged that the bridge would be so poor?" Brenda explained.

"Is that all you remember, Brenda?" asked AJ. For instance, her explanation of events did not reveal why there was two Jasons.

"Wait!" began Brenda, "There was something else. A voice…it said 'You are needed elsewhere…', that's all the voice said. The next thing I remember was what I said…being outside the mansion, with you".

"Okay, thanks Brenda, It will be okay" smiled AJ, "There is someone else here if you don't mind another visitor".

"Sonny?" Brenda sighed, she was able to see Sonny on the other side of the door, pacing…"Yeah, sure, of course".

AJ leaves the room, and Sonny enters.

"Hi Brenda", he said.

"Hi Sonny". "You know I love you Sonny, right?" "It just Lily, I know you married her for protection, but I just can't live this way, Jax is so kind to me…" Brenda began.

Sonny just had this scared look on his face, "Brenda", he said gently; "Lily is dead".

"What?!?" exclaimed Brenda, "What happened?!?"

Then Sonny remembered, Tony said that there was possible memory lost.

"I'll tell you the story another day, honey", he said. "Just glad that I am seeing your beautiful face again!"

The scene goes back to the ER Waiting room, with AJ, Carly, Monica, Emily, Jason M, and Alan, who just arrived.

"Monica?!?!" called Alan, "What's going on? Heard Jason was in an accident, but here he is!"

"Long story, yes our son is okay, but there's some other guy out there who is not, who sure as hell looks like our son", answered Monica.

"Huh?" exclaimed Alan.

"Yeah, it's messed up, but true", answered AJ.

Carly grabbed AJ's hand. AJ answered by warmly grabbing hers.

Just then, Tony came out.

"Hi Alan", he said.

"Hi, Tony", said Alan. "What do you think about this mess?"

"I don't know", Tony answered, "Makes you think that Susan Moore must have had twins or something, but she didn't". "It's a mystery". "Oh, AJ…" "Jason, or whoever wants to speak with you".

"Okay" he said. He released Carly's hand, but gave her a kiss and hug. "I'll be right back".

"Okay", said Carly, "Good luck".

AJ walked to the ICU, where Jason was present. AJ walked in. Carly secretly followed, but kept her distance.

"Jason?" AJ said, as he walked into the room.

"AJ", began Jason Q. "Is it true, what I heard?" "Did you stop drinking?"

To Be Continued