Shot in an Alley: Doctoring

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Sonny dropped the gun and rushed to his fallen friends. Marco helped him gently pull Elizabeth off Jason.

Sonny put two fingers to her neck. Strong pulse and from the way she was breathing it was clear that her lungs weren't compromised at all. All she would probably need was an aspirin and a lot of bandages for her head. Marco busied himself with that as Sonny focused his attention on Jason.

He could see Jason breathing, though his didn't seem as strong as Elizabeth's and his pulse was weaker. Sonny lifted his shirt a little to see the bandage for the wound. While his gunshot wound hadn't opened up his chest was covered in bruises. He could already tell that some of his ribs were broken.

The lights in the penthouse flickered then turned on full force and the second they did one of his men walked back in along with Francis and Johnny. The two didn't look too much worse than his other guards. Sonny looked up from Jason and nodded to the two.

"Find Carly and Michael."

They nodded and went upstairs first.

Elizabeth made a moaning noise and opened her eyes, squinting against the new lights. Sonny again tore his gaze from Jason and leaned over to her. "Elizabeth?"

She turned and looked at him. "Jason?"

"He's alive Elizabeth." Sonny informed her. Wishing he could say instead, "He's going to be fine."

Elizabeth's gaze traveled from Sonny and over to Jason. She quickly moved to his side.

"Jason? Jason can you hear me?" she said. Elizabeth was trying hard not to look anywhere but his face but her gaze kept moving to the marks on his chest.

She got no response from him. Liz put her hand to his face. There was no fever so at least he wasn't going to have to deal with that again. She could vaguely hear Carly and Michael come down the stairs. Thankfully, Ric's body was long gone so no one needed to worry about the little boy seeing it. All they needed now was for Jason to be okay.

"Jason? Jason, open your eyes. It's okay. Ric's gone, Jason. Everyone's okay now. We just need you to come back to us. Come on Jase. Look at me."

Sonny held Carly in his arms as they watched Elizabeth try to get Jason to wake up. Michael seemed to understand what was going on to some degree. He wasn't asking all sorts of questions.

"Look at me Jason, please. You're scaring everyone. I love you and I need you to wake up!" Elizabeth said. She was losing her calm every second that he stayed sleeping.

Elizabeth felt a tear run down her face as she continued to stare at his still face. She closed her eyes to get her control back. Jason or Michael didn't need to get scared over her crying.

Elizabeth felt a finger move across her face, wiping away the tears. She slowly opened her eyes, praying that it wasn't Sonny or Francis.

No, it was Jason. His crystal blue eyes were looking at her in concern. "Elizabeth? What's going on?" he asked, whispering.

She shook her head. "Nothing. It's all okay now."

He seemed to relax for a second before worry flashed through him again. "Ric?"

Sonny came to kneel next to Jason again. "I took care of it." He said quietly.

Jason's eyes bore into his. Sonny knew that they would be talking about this sometime soon, but for now his concern was his family's health. He gripped Jason's arm and helped him to a sitting position. Elizabeth leaned him against her. Jason was clearly exhausted more than anything else.

Carly and Michael came to stand next to them and for the first time in months Sonny was able to breath a sigh of relief.

His family was finally safe. They were all going to be okay. No one was kidnapped. No one shot. Okay, maybe they weren't all a hundred percent better but that didn't matter to him. He would make damn sure that they would be soon.

No matter how much complaining they all did.