Shot in an Alley: The Smallest of Confessions
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--------- Outside the Corinthos Penthouse
The first thing Elizabeth noticed was that Johnny wasn't there anymore, instead she was greeted by Francis. Giving him a smile she opened the door to the penthouse.
Her eyes immediately went to the couch where a sleeping Jason was laying but Sonny was nowhere in sight. She walked to the couch to sit next to him. "Hey Jason, I'm back." She said to him.
Jason's eyes, to her surprise and happiness, fluttered open. "Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth let out a full smile, the first since they had gotten here yesterday. "You're awake!"
Jason also let out a small smile. "Yeah, I just had some soup."
She fought her urge to wrap her arms around him and tell him how happy she was that he was okay, but she managed to restrain herself. "Good, so where's Sonny?"
Jason scrunched up his face in confusion, "Umm, he told me but I think I fell asleep."
Elizabeth let out a laugh. "That's okay, I understand. I just got back from seeing Carly. She says that you had better be okay when she sees you. Something about the biggest hug you've ever had."
Jason looked as though he was going to laugh but instead he got a more serious look on his face seconds later and spoke. "Elizabeth I just wanted to make sure you know how grateful I am."
She was surprised the conversation had gone in that direction. "I know, but really its no big deal, I mean you..."
Jason cut her off though, "It is a big deal and I wouldn't be alive if it weren't for you."
Again she tried to brush it off. If he knew how much he had given her then he would see just how even they were. "Someone else would have come along."
"But someone else would have called an ambulance. If that, someone else might not like me too much," Jason said.
Elizabeth shook her head, "I couldn't just leave you there to die, you mean too much to..." She stopped herself.
Jason's voice got softer and gentler when he spoke again. "I mean too much to who?"
Elizabeth was angry with herself for slipping like that. She could always pass it off as something else. "You mean to much too... Emily. Emily. She needs you now more than ever."
She wanted to slap herself. Then him if he didn't see through it.
Jason didn't even flinch at that. If she had meant Emily she would have said Emily and not stopped herself. "That's it? I mean too much to Emily for you to let me bleed to death? I don't mean a thing to you other than the fact that Emily might stop fighting the cancer if I were to die?"
Elizabeth looked into his eyes and decided not to lie again, not when he clearly didn't believe her. "No, not just Emily. You mean too much to me to let you bleed to death. Me, Jason."
With that Elizabeth got up and went upstairs to the spare room that Sonny said she could have. She left in her wake a bewildered but pleased looking Jason.
--------- Sonny and Carly's bedroom
Sonny had gone upstairs to make a few calls and not disturb Jason in the process. He had heard Elizabeth come back and decided to go downstairs and ask how Carly was doing but two voices stopped him. He had heard the whole thing and rushed into his own room before Elizabeth could see him.
Now he stood with a smile on his face. Suddenly he could see why Carly spent all that time eavesdropping in the stairs.
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