Authors Note: You all make my jaw drop, really. I've gotten near 30 reviews
in a single day... this is going to take awhile for me to respond to
EVERYTHING. But, thanks for showing your continued support. Still... so many
reviews, wow. Some of them are doubles, though. Don't know why FF.net did
that, probably because of the fact that they are oft times moronic in such
ways.
Kayla- I was so going to put a note on the other story that I had moved to a second part... but I completely forgot! Luckily, you managed to find out what had happened for yourself, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Although it's not really a sequel, per se.
Jason and Michael have a very interesting dynamic that really isn't shared with anyone to the degree that it is with the two of them. Even Jason and Emily's relationship doesn't always invoke the same kind of humanity that comes with Jason and Michael, which is why I enjoy writing the two of them together. You're right, Jason should go to the hospital, but he can't always act fearless and dutiful.
Dillon has been dealing with being Tracy's child for many years, I think he's developed a sort of immunity to the situation. I don't know, I think having Tracy as a mother would be interesting, to say the least.
Glad you like the development with Dillon and the Morgan's.
You know, it's funny that you feel so horrible for them, but you can't wait to see what happens. I guess I'm making this whole thing seem like a really bad car wreck and you just can't turn away, even though you want to. It's good, though.
A cute Journey moment is just what the doctor ordered. I hadn't given the two of them a real moment in some time, which was sad since they're my favorite couple (real couple, I've vested interest in the Daxamillian relationship, but that's to be expected). 'Sides, Dillon adds to the dynamic.
Hooray for positive spins of niche coupling! Do we really see any of Mike/Sonny on the show, yes, but not much. How about Bobbie/Monica? Do we even see Bobbie... ever? Nope.
If any child, regardless of gender, got Jason's eyes... they'd be something else once the whole dating thing came into play. Jason would be a very foreboding father, though. I know I wouldn't want to take the boyfriend or girlfriend home to meet daddy. Plus, they'd have 'Unca Sonny.' Maybe it's a good thing that Jason and Courtney can't have kids... okay, no, it isn't, but that family would be pretty complicated.
I understand why someone would feel bad for Georgie, but did you get her mixed up with Maxie or are you just trying to feel for the 'other' Jones girl. Of course, I know that Georgie is so much more than just Maxie's sister, but Maxie is much more central to the story than Georgie.
Michael will need severe help in the end, when everything is said and done, but he'll have his family around him. Unless they all get shot up...
Yes, Jason is showing that on some level he can care for his family, not just Emily. If anyone else in the Quatermaine clan, save the beloved Lila, could get something from Jason it would have to be Dillon, hence the situation at hand.
I'm sure once you got to the next chapter you got the news. Don't you love it when I don't have long cliffhangers?
If I ever get to posting chapters... since all these reviews and my responses are taking some time (which is not bad), you'll get more of the 'finding out' that you want. I think.
Michael is something else, ain't he? I do adore him ever so much.
If you've learned one thing from my story, I'd hope it would be that happiness is ever so fleeting. Especially in my world.
See? Told you that kid was adorable...
Joy-
I had lots of reviews from lots of people to read. My head still spins from trying to get them all responded to in a timely manner. Since I wasn't watching during the Frisco part, I don't really know what he was about, although from what I have read he's a lot like Luke in the respect that a picket fence with kids just wasn't in his overall plan. Of course, Luke (sometimes) handles his responsibilities whereas Frisco doesn't. However, aren't you glad that Mac is there instead? Dillon and Georgie wouldn't be nearly as amusing if Mac wasn't there to get in their way constantly.
I spent... what, 100 chapters painting Carly to be the evil vindictive uber- bitch that she can be, but now I'm trying to give her a chance of character and I'm glad that it is coming across. I'm getting less of the 'I hate Carly so much in this story, she's so mean!' reviews, which is good since I've always liked Carly and known where I wanted to take her. Michael is very much like his father, but better to be like his adoptive father than his birth father. A mini-AJ? Yes, all we need is for Michael to become a drunk and drive a car with Morgan in it, get into an accident, and Morgan suffers brain damage. Not a fun idea.
Having just read the chapter, I didn't find much about Dillon that was amusing, I think I know how to make him funny, don't get me wrong, but that particular chapter was much more a Tracy/Jason round 2 fight to the death. Still, I'm glad you thought it was humorous. Good thing I'm referencing parts of the show that I wasn't around for correctly. Yay for me.
In the two and a half years (give or take) that I have been writing, I've found that I'm very good at doing pathos, obviously if I can make a simple conversation between Michael and Mike seem that special, I'm doing my job right. I'm glad.
Happy part of the story? Well, maybe for a little bit... About Monica, she didn't do anything wrong. She never acted on her instincts, she just had them. She has a lot of hatred in her heart for Sonny, the man who 'stole' both her son and her grandson from her. However one sided her feelings may be, they're not entirely without legitimacy. Plus, she knows how much of a danger Sonny's life is, and Damian would always find himself in that dangerous life as long as he stayed around his father. Besides, it really is impossible not to have personal feelings in any job, doctors should be no different.
I've said it before and I will say it again, I do not like children at all. They bug me to no end, but Michael and Dylan Cash do not adhere to the rule. I adore that child so much, in the same way that I adore the little monkey... I mean Morgan. Michael's this strange amalgam of a child. Someone who is mature, but naïve, who understands things but doesn't. He's an interesting character, one that I can't help but love. Or, maybe I just have a soft spot for redheads. If I knew a child like Michael, I'd do everything I could to keep him safe... I don't know, he's just like this 'perfect' child, even when he acts out and falls down wells...
There are plenty of times that people recover without complications in the real world, but if you're talking about more than just 'physical' complications, then you are correct. It wouldn't be a soap story without something that caused such conflicts, would it?
Journeylove-
Glad to see that my slow process of converting the people who loathed Carly so much in the beginning are starting to like her some.
Did I say that there was going to be a surprise about Damian's past? I hope I didn't, I know I said that he would have his innocence greatly compromised by the end, though. If you're looking for something in Damian's past, I'm sorry but you won't get it by the end of the story. The aforementioned innocence lost moment is in the story, though.
At last, completed with the reviews!
Story-
Carly sat down on the edge of the wall, putting her hands in her hair and running them through gently. "You know, Sonny... I never realized how much I owed your son until today."
"What are you talking about?" Sonny asked.
"I kept on trying to cloud myself and my judgment on him. I would always tell myself that he was a bad influence on Michael and that he would eventually be a bad influence on Morgan when he got old enough, but I was wrong."
"Carly... if you're trying to tell me that you appreciate him saving Michael's life..."
"It's more than that!" Carly said. "I was so mean to him... I did everything that I could to make him leave, to get him away from you and Michael, but I shouldn't have fought as hard as I did to keep you separated."
"You know, he wasn't exactly the nicest person in the world to you when he first got here," Sonny got a chuckle out of remembering that first night, before they knew everything, before Sonny's whole life changed. "You were just scared, and when you're scared you're prone to doing some pretty stupid things."
"Sonny... I don't like it when you say that I do stupid things."
"What do you want me to say that you do, Carly?" Sonny wondered. "How can I properly sugar coat the response?"
"You could say that I made mistakes..."
"No, I like calling them stupid more," Sonny grinned.
"Sonny, come on, you're insulting my intelligence!"
"I would never do that," Sonny picked Carly up by the hand and held her. "You're one of the smartest people that I've ever met, Carly, but you let your passions cloud your judgment and that can get you into a lot of trouble."
"I'm not the only one who is guilty of such a crime, you know," Carly retorted. "You're just as bad as I am with that particular situation, Mr. Corinthos."
"Have I mentioned how cute you look when you're defending yourself?"
"Maybe a few times," Carly gave a sly smirk, "but that doesn't mean that I don't want to hear it a few more times."
Sonny kissed Carly on the lips, it was passionate, but it wasn't the type of passion that they usually shared. No, it was tender, it was special. He didn't want to do anything with Carly, he was in the hospital and he was preoccupied, but that didn't mean that he didn't love his wife any less.
Michael opened the door and saw his parents kissing. He would have smiled, but he was still at that age where kissing was viewed as something that could only be disgusting. "Daddy..."
Sonny stopped kissing Carly and turned around. "Yeah, buddy? I thought you were asleep."
"I woke up," Michael responded. It was a very Jason-like answer, one that showed how much influence Jason still had on the boy.
"Is everything okay, Mr. Man?" Carly asked.
"Damian wants to see you, daddy," Michael told his father.
"He's up, too?" Sonny vividly recalled the moment that he saw with them sleeping next to each other. That hadn't even been five minutes prior. Funny how quickly things changed. Sonny let Carly go and walked over, pushing the door open slightly.
Carly walked past Michael and looked in. She knew that they only wanted one person in the room at a time, but she felt that she had to say something.
"Sorry about falling asleep on you, dad," Damian pushed himself up, trying to pay some attention to his tender ribs, but failing. Just because he was studying to be a doctor didn't mean that he understood everything about how the human body worked.
"It's okay," Sonny was nervous. He could see how much strain Damian was putting on himself when he was moving. Couldn't that put his health in danger again? "Damian, you really shouldn't be moving. You've got some broken ribs and a bruised tailbone."
"I'm not going to sit around and not do anything," Damian retorted. That, too, was a very Jason-like answer. "Besides, I don't have any intentions of leaving this bed anytime soon, I just needed to move so that I could look at you on a more even level."
"Isn't it putting you in danger of risking your health again?" Sonny asked.
"Right now I think everything that I do could put my health in danger," Damian remarked.
"That's not funny..."
"It wasn't meant to be," Damian deadpanned. "I know I'm going to be all right, dad, but I also know that the road to recovery isn't going to be a very fun time."
"Damian..."
Damian heard his name called, he was shocked when he saw that it was Carly who had said it. "Hi... Carly."
"How are you feeling?" Carly realized that it was a stupid question, but she was in one of those situations where the only questions that she could have asked would have been stupid questions. It seemed to be the question that wasn't as stupid as the rest of the questions that were running around in her head.
"I've certainly had better days," Damian tried to sound humorous, but it was rather difficult to put a humorous spin on the situation when his ribs were taped together and he was still connected to a heart monitor. "Carly... I'm sorry."
"For what?'
"For not watching him better," Damian looked down at the IV that was attached to him. "If I had been paying more attention, none of this would have happened. I'm sure that Michael went through a lot of trauma because of what happened to me, and I can't apologize to you enough for that. I know how much you try and shelter him from anything like this... and I failed you both."
"You didn't fail," Carly stated. "You saved my little boy's life, because of that I am going to be eternally grateful."
"You don't have to be," Damian was glad that she wasn't taking his head off, it was one of the things that he was afraid of. He'd been the victim of Carly's temperament more times than he cared to admit, he'd rather not go another round with her. "Besides, I owe Michael, too."
Michael, having heard his name, walked in. "You don't owe me anything."
"You called the people who came and got me, didn't you?"
Sonny and Carly looked at each other. Of course Damian wouldn't know who did make the call that probably saved his life, he was unconscious at the time.
Michael shook his head, "It wasn't me, Damian."
"Who was it then?"
"That doesn't matter," Sonny cut in before Michael could answer.
"Yes... it does," Damian fought his father. "Dad, I have to know who I need to thank."
"It was the bad man," Michael said. "The bad man and Elizabeth were there when you were hit."
"Uncle Ric?" Damian looked to his father for more information, sadly knowing that he wasn't going to be finding any objectivity from anyone in the room about the person in question.
"I don't know what really happened, but from what I heard Elizabeth made the call while Ric stayed with you." Sonny brushed it off, "But you don't owe Ric anything."
"I do, I owe him my life... him and Elizabeth."
"No," Sonny ordered.
"Dad... you have to accept that he was the one that helped me," Damian was grateful. "Or would you have rather that I died on the street instead of being saved by your half brother?"
Sonny didn't like where the conversation was going, and he also didn't like the fact that Damian was right. He needed to get over the grudge, at least in that instance. If it weren't for Ric, Damian would have been dead. "I don't want you dead."
"Neither do I," Carly said.
Damian looked over at her and smiled. It was the first time that she admitted that. He wasn't sure about how much she appreciated him being around, but it was apparently getting to be more and more as time went by.
"I'm going to Los Angeles later tonight," Sonny said. "I'm going to tell your grandparents about what happened."
"You don't have to... I could just call them..."
"I want to be the one to tell them that you're in the hospital, and I want to do it in person."
"But I'm fine..."
"I know that, but I have to do this for myself. I have to know that I can acknowledge the people who raised you."
"Is it really that important to you?" Damian wondered. "They would appreciate a phone call. I haven't talked to them in some time."
"I'll give them the phone number to the room when I go over," Sonny said. "I wanted to wait until you were going to be okay... or until I knew that you weren't going to be okay in order to tell them something."
"Who gave you this bright idea?"
"Mike..."
"Grandpa?" Damian was astonished that the man who had abandoned his family could be so compassionate towards another family in such a time. It made Damian respect Mike more, which was something that he had to admit there wasn't a lot of. It wasn't that he didn't care about his grandfather, but he knew that Mike had failed both Sonny and Courtney in the ways that mattered so much. Maybe it was because he went so long without a father that he knew what it was like and he hated the fact that there were people in the world who knew that they had children and they just left them.
"I'm going to take Jason with me, too," Sonny continued. "He'll want to get out of Port Charles."
"Is he here?" Damian wondered.
"No," Carly answered. "But you know how much Jason hates hospitals."
"Yeah..."
"I'm sure that he'll come eventually," She said.
"If he doesn't, I understand." Damian shifted focus again, "Could you guys tell Maxie that I'd like to see her?"
"Sure," Carly nodded.
"I'll stick around until she gets here," Sonny said.
"Dad... I'll be fine."
"Don't fight me on this one, kid," Sonny stated. "The only way that I know for sure that you're going to be okay is if I know that you were never left alone."
Damian rolled his eyes and groaned, "Fine, you win. Carly, please tell her."
"Come on, honey..." Carly took Michael's hand. "We'll come see brother again in a little while."
When they turned around the corner, Damian looked at his father, "That went better than I expected."
"I told you that the two of you would eventually stop fighting and become friends."
"You just love being right, don't you?"
"It is a favorite pastime of mine," Sonny grinned and chuckled. It was good to be able to laugh and joke around with his son.
Kayla- I was so going to put a note on the other story that I had moved to a second part... but I completely forgot! Luckily, you managed to find out what had happened for yourself, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Although it's not really a sequel, per se.
Jason and Michael have a very interesting dynamic that really isn't shared with anyone to the degree that it is with the two of them. Even Jason and Emily's relationship doesn't always invoke the same kind of humanity that comes with Jason and Michael, which is why I enjoy writing the two of them together. You're right, Jason should go to the hospital, but he can't always act fearless and dutiful.
Dillon has been dealing with being Tracy's child for many years, I think he's developed a sort of immunity to the situation. I don't know, I think having Tracy as a mother would be interesting, to say the least.
Glad you like the development with Dillon and the Morgan's.
You know, it's funny that you feel so horrible for them, but you can't wait to see what happens. I guess I'm making this whole thing seem like a really bad car wreck and you just can't turn away, even though you want to. It's good, though.
A cute Journey moment is just what the doctor ordered. I hadn't given the two of them a real moment in some time, which was sad since they're my favorite couple (real couple, I've vested interest in the Daxamillian relationship, but that's to be expected). 'Sides, Dillon adds to the dynamic.
Hooray for positive spins of niche coupling! Do we really see any of Mike/Sonny on the show, yes, but not much. How about Bobbie/Monica? Do we even see Bobbie... ever? Nope.
If any child, regardless of gender, got Jason's eyes... they'd be something else once the whole dating thing came into play. Jason would be a very foreboding father, though. I know I wouldn't want to take the boyfriend or girlfriend home to meet daddy. Plus, they'd have 'Unca Sonny.' Maybe it's a good thing that Jason and Courtney can't have kids... okay, no, it isn't, but that family would be pretty complicated.
I understand why someone would feel bad for Georgie, but did you get her mixed up with Maxie or are you just trying to feel for the 'other' Jones girl. Of course, I know that Georgie is so much more than just Maxie's sister, but Maxie is much more central to the story than Georgie.
Michael will need severe help in the end, when everything is said and done, but he'll have his family around him. Unless they all get shot up...
Yes, Jason is showing that on some level he can care for his family, not just Emily. If anyone else in the Quatermaine clan, save the beloved Lila, could get something from Jason it would have to be Dillon, hence the situation at hand.
I'm sure once you got to the next chapter you got the news. Don't you love it when I don't have long cliffhangers?
If I ever get to posting chapters... since all these reviews and my responses are taking some time (which is not bad), you'll get more of the 'finding out' that you want. I think.
Michael is something else, ain't he? I do adore him ever so much.
If you've learned one thing from my story, I'd hope it would be that happiness is ever so fleeting. Especially in my world.
See? Told you that kid was adorable...
Joy-
I had lots of reviews from lots of people to read. My head still spins from trying to get them all responded to in a timely manner. Since I wasn't watching during the Frisco part, I don't really know what he was about, although from what I have read he's a lot like Luke in the respect that a picket fence with kids just wasn't in his overall plan. Of course, Luke (sometimes) handles his responsibilities whereas Frisco doesn't. However, aren't you glad that Mac is there instead? Dillon and Georgie wouldn't be nearly as amusing if Mac wasn't there to get in their way constantly.
I spent... what, 100 chapters painting Carly to be the evil vindictive uber- bitch that she can be, but now I'm trying to give her a chance of character and I'm glad that it is coming across. I'm getting less of the 'I hate Carly so much in this story, she's so mean!' reviews, which is good since I've always liked Carly and known where I wanted to take her. Michael is very much like his father, but better to be like his adoptive father than his birth father. A mini-AJ? Yes, all we need is for Michael to become a drunk and drive a car with Morgan in it, get into an accident, and Morgan suffers brain damage. Not a fun idea.
Having just read the chapter, I didn't find much about Dillon that was amusing, I think I know how to make him funny, don't get me wrong, but that particular chapter was much more a Tracy/Jason round 2 fight to the death. Still, I'm glad you thought it was humorous. Good thing I'm referencing parts of the show that I wasn't around for correctly. Yay for me.
In the two and a half years (give or take) that I have been writing, I've found that I'm very good at doing pathos, obviously if I can make a simple conversation between Michael and Mike seem that special, I'm doing my job right. I'm glad.
Happy part of the story? Well, maybe for a little bit... About Monica, she didn't do anything wrong. She never acted on her instincts, she just had them. She has a lot of hatred in her heart for Sonny, the man who 'stole' both her son and her grandson from her. However one sided her feelings may be, they're not entirely without legitimacy. Plus, she knows how much of a danger Sonny's life is, and Damian would always find himself in that dangerous life as long as he stayed around his father. Besides, it really is impossible not to have personal feelings in any job, doctors should be no different.
I've said it before and I will say it again, I do not like children at all. They bug me to no end, but Michael and Dylan Cash do not adhere to the rule. I adore that child so much, in the same way that I adore the little monkey... I mean Morgan. Michael's this strange amalgam of a child. Someone who is mature, but naïve, who understands things but doesn't. He's an interesting character, one that I can't help but love. Or, maybe I just have a soft spot for redheads. If I knew a child like Michael, I'd do everything I could to keep him safe... I don't know, he's just like this 'perfect' child, even when he acts out and falls down wells...
There are plenty of times that people recover without complications in the real world, but if you're talking about more than just 'physical' complications, then you are correct. It wouldn't be a soap story without something that caused such conflicts, would it?
Journeylove-
Glad to see that my slow process of converting the people who loathed Carly so much in the beginning are starting to like her some.
Did I say that there was going to be a surprise about Damian's past? I hope I didn't, I know I said that he would have his innocence greatly compromised by the end, though. If you're looking for something in Damian's past, I'm sorry but you won't get it by the end of the story. The aforementioned innocence lost moment is in the story, though.
At last, completed with the reviews!
Story-
Carly sat down on the edge of the wall, putting her hands in her hair and running them through gently. "You know, Sonny... I never realized how much I owed your son until today."
"What are you talking about?" Sonny asked.
"I kept on trying to cloud myself and my judgment on him. I would always tell myself that he was a bad influence on Michael and that he would eventually be a bad influence on Morgan when he got old enough, but I was wrong."
"Carly... if you're trying to tell me that you appreciate him saving Michael's life..."
"It's more than that!" Carly said. "I was so mean to him... I did everything that I could to make him leave, to get him away from you and Michael, but I shouldn't have fought as hard as I did to keep you separated."
"You know, he wasn't exactly the nicest person in the world to you when he first got here," Sonny got a chuckle out of remembering that first night, before they knew everything, before Sonny's whole life changed. "You were just scared, and when you're scared you're prone to doing some pretty stupid things."
"Sonny... I don't like it when you say that I do stupid things."
"What do you want me to say that you do, Carly?" Sonny wondered. "How can I properly sugar coat the response?"
"You could say that I made mistakes..."
"No, I like calling them stupid more," Sonny grinned.
"Sonny, come on, you're insulting my intelligence!"
"I would never do that," Sonny picked Carly up by the hand and held her. "You're one of the smartest people that I've ever met, Carly, but you let your passions cloud your judgment and that can get you into a lot of trouble."
"I'm not the only one who is guilty of such a crime, you know," Carly retorted. "You're just as bad as I am with that particular situation, Mr. Corinthos."
"Have I mentioned how cute you look when you're defending yourself?"
"Maybe a few times," Carly gave a sly smirk, "but that doesn't mean that I don't want to hear it a few more times."
Sonny kissed Carly on the lips, it was passionate, but it wasn't the type of passion that they usually shared. No, it was tender, it was special. He didn't want to do anything with Carly, he was in the hospital and he was preoccupied, but that didn't mean that he didn't love his wife any less.
Michael opened the door and saw his parents kissing. He would have smiled, but he was still at that age where kissing was viewed as something that could only be disgusting. "Daddy..."
Sonny stopped kissing Carly and turned around. "Yeah, buddy? I thought you were asleep."
"I woke up," Michael responded. It was a very Jason-like answer, one that showed how much influence Jason still had on the boy.
"Is everything okay, Mr. Man?" Carly asked.
"Damian wants to see you, daddy," Michael told his father.
"He's up, too?" Sonny vividly recalled the moment that he saw with them sleeping next to each other. That hadn't even been five minutes prior. Funny how quickly things changed. Sonny let Carly go and walked over, pushing the door open slightly.
Carly walked past Michael and looked in. She knew that they only wanted one person in the room at a time, but she felt that she had to say something.
"Sorry about falling asleep on you, dad," Damian pushed himself up, trying to pay some attention to his tender ribs, but failing. Just because he was studying to be a doctor didn't mean that he understood everything about how the human body worked.
"It's okay," Sonny was nervous. He could see how much strain Damian was putting on himself when he was moving. Couldn't that put his health in danger again? "Damian, you really shouldn't be moving. You've got some broken ribs and a bruised tailbone."
"I'm not going to sit around and not do anything," Damian retorted. That, too, was a very Jason-like answer. "Besides, I don't have any intentions of leaving this bed anytime soon, I just needed to move so that I could look at you on a more even level."
"Isn't it putting you in danger of risking your health again?" Sonny asked.
"Right now I think everything that I do could put my health in danger," Damian remarked.
"That's not funny..."
"It wasn't meant to be," Damian deadpanned. "I know I'm going to be all right, dad, but I also know that the road to recovery isn't going to be a very fun time."
"Damian..."
Damian heard his name called, he was shocked when he saw that it was Carly who had said it. "Hi... Carly."
"How are you feeling?" Carly realized that it was a stupid question, but she was in one of those situations where the only questions that she could have asked would have been stupid questions. It seemed to be the question that wasn't as stupid as the rest of the questions that were running around in her head.
"I've certainly had better days," Damian tried to sound humorous, but it was rather difficult to put a humorous spin on the situation when his ribs were taped together and he was still connected to a heart monitor. "Carly... I'm sorry."
"For what?'
"For not watching him better," Damian looked down at the IV that was attached to him. "If I had been paying more attention, none of this would have happened. I'm sure that Michael went through a lot of trauma because of what happened to me, and I can't apologize to you enough for that. I know how much you try and shelter him from anything like this... and I failed you both."
"You didn't fail," Carly stated. "You saved my little boy's life, because of that I am going to be eternally grateful."
"You don't have to be," Damian was glad that she wasn't taking his head off, it was one of the things that he was afraid of. He'd been the victim of Carly's temperament more times than he cared to admit, he'd rather not go another round with her. "Besides, I owe Michael, too."
Michael, having heard his name, walked in. "You don't owe me anything."
"You called the people who came and got me, didn't you?"
Sonny and Carly looked at each other. Of course Damian wouldn't know who did make the call that probably saved his life, he was unconscious at the time.
Michael shook his head, "It wasn't me, Damian."
"Who was it then?"
"That doesn't matter," Sonny cut in before Michael could answer.
"Yes... it does," Damian fought his father. "Dad, I have to know who I need to thank."
"It was the bad man," Michael said. "The bad man and Elizabeth were there when you were hit."
"Uncle Ric?" Damian looked to his father for more information, sadly knowing that he wasn't going to be finding any objectivity from anyone in the room about the person in question.
"I don't know what really happened, but from what I heard Elizabeth made the call while Ric stayed with you." Sonny brushed it off, "But you don't owe Ric anything."
"I do, I owe him my life... him and Elizabeth."
"No," Sonny ordered.
"Dad... you have to accept that he was the one that helped me," Damian was grateful. "Or would you have rather that I died on the street instead of being saved by your half brother?"
Sonny didn't like where the conversation was going, and he also didn't like the fact that Damian was right. He needed to get over the grudge, at least in that instance. If it weren't for Ric, Damian would have been dead. "I don't want you dead."
"Neither do I," Carly said.
Damian looked over at her and smiled. It was the first time that she admitted that. He wasn't sure about how much she appreciated him being around, but it was apparently getting to be more and more as time went by.
"I'm going to Los Angeles later tonight," Sonny said. "I'm going to tell your grandparents about what happened."
"You don't have to... I could just call them..."
"I want to be the one to tell them that you're in the hospital, and I want to do it in person."
"But I'm fine..."
"I know that, but I have to do this for myself. I have to know that I can acknowledge the people who raised you."
"Is it really that important to you?" Damian wondered. "They would appreciate a phone call. I haven't talked to them in some time."
"I'll give them the phone number to the room when I go over," Sonny said. "I wanted to wait until you were going to be okay... or until I knew that you weren't going to be okay in order to tell them something."
"Who gave you this bright idea?"
"Mike..."
"Grandpa?" Damian was astonished that the man who had abandoned his family could be so compassionate towards another family in such a time. It made Damian respect Mike more, which was something that he had to admit there wasn't a lot of. It wasn't that he didn't care about his grandfather, but he knew that Mike had failed both Sonny and Courtney in the ways that mattered so much. Maybe it was because he went so long without a father that he knew what it was like and he hated the fact that there were people in the world who knew that they had children and they just left them.
"I'm going to take Jason with me, too," Sonny continued. "He'll want to get out of Port Charles."
"Is he here?" Damian wondered.
"No," Carly answered. "But you know how much Jason hates hospitals."
"Yeah..."
"I'm sure that he'll come eventually," She said.
"If he doesn't, I understand." Damian shifted focus again, "Could you guys tell Maxie that I'd like to see her?"
"Sure," Carly nodded.
"I'll stick around until she gets here," Sonny said.
"Dad... I'll be fine."
"Don't fight me on this one, kid," Sonny stated. "The only way that I know for sure that you're going to be okay is if I know that you were never left alone."
Damian rolled his eyes and groaned, "Fine, you win. Carly, please tell her."
"Come on, honey..." Carly took Michael's hand. "We'll come see brother again in a little while."
When they turned around the corner, Damian looked at his father, "That went better than I expected."
"I told you that the two of you would eventually stop fighting and become friends."
"You just love being right, don't you?"
"It is a favorite pastime of mine," Sonny grinned and chuckled. It was good to be able to laugh and joke around with his son.