Second Chances: Labor of Love
"MAX, JOHNNY, FRANCIS...ANYONE!" Elizabeth's urgent voice echoed throughout the hallway. Leaving the door hanging wide open she hurried back to Carly who was still on the floor beside the sofa not only was she still holding her swollen belly but also she had now taken to panting. "Carly, you have to relax," Elizabeth instructed trying to assess if the panting was a true sign of labor or if Carly was on the verge of hyperventilating.
"I need Sonny," Carly spit out between labored breaths.
"We need to get you to the hospital," Elizabeth stated.
"I want Sonny," Carly's voice shook as the tears pooled in her eyes.
Elizabeth suddenly felt compassion for a woman who she never thought deserved any but she had been through so much already that Elizabeth couldn't help feeling it none the less. "I know." She smiled weakly. "We'll get him. Don't worry."
"Elizabeth?" Max's breathless voice came from behind her. He was immediately followed by Johnny and Francis all fearing the worst after hearing the enforcer's girlfriend's panicked cries.
"I think Carly's going into labor."
All three men stood dumbfounded. If there hadn't been such an urgency Elizabeth might have laughed at how the three men who were willing to take a bullet for them were suddenly paralyzed with fear at the thought of Carly being in labor.
"Hello!" Elizabeth waved her hand before their fixated eyes. "I could use some help here. Carly you think you can stand?" she asked turning her attention back to woman lying on the floor.
"Uh-huh," Carly nodded as Elizabeth placed her arms under Carly's. Finally Max's senses kicked in and rushed over to the pair.
"You okay?" Elizabeth asked when Carly was standing upright. "You think you can make it to the elevator?"
"Yeah," Carly said as she blew a hard breath from her mouth.
"I'll meet you downstairs," Elizabeth turned to Max. "I'm going to call GH to let them know that we are coming....." Carly reached for the tiny brunette's arm as she headed for the phone. "I'll make the call from the car," Elizabeth said sensing that for whatever reason Carly didn't want her to leave. How ironic was that she thought to herself?
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Jason and Sonny stood back while Justus finished up the necessary forms for Jason's release. He wanted to be sure that he went on record stating the continual harassment of his clients. There was an awkward silence between the two men neither knowing what to say to the other. Before either was able to speak Sonny's cell phone rang from inside his suit coat. "Yeah? Elizabeth....slow down...." At the mention of Elizabeth's name Jason's attention was riveted on Sonny. "What? She's what? Where are you? I'll be right there."
"Sonny?"
"Carly's in labor."
"Go!" Jason said without hesitation. The tension between them was dissolved abruptly the only thought between them was of Carly and the baby.
Jason watched as Sonny practically sprinted from the police station. How much more could any of them take he thought to himself as he waited for Justus to return.
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"Where's Sonny? I need Sonny....ouch!" Carly clutched her stomach as another contraction ripped through her.
"He's on his way Carly." Elizabeth tried to calm the blonde as they waited for both Dr. Meadows and Sonny to arrive.
Carly reached for Elizabeth's hand when another wave of pain constricted the muscles in her abdomen. "Elizabeth, I'm scared. It's too early for this baby to be born."
"I know – I know." Elizabeth stroked her arm in an attempt to sooth her. "You just need to stay calm."
"That's good advice. You should take it," Dr. Meadows said as she pulled the curtain aside and began reading the monitors that Carly and her baby were now attached to. "Elizabeth would you mind stepping out I need to examine Carly?"
"Sure. I'll be right outside."
"Can't she stay?" Carly questioned. Elizabeth was stunned that Carly even wanted her there.
"It's highly unusual."
"Since when have I have been usual?"
"If you want her to stay she certainly can." Dr. Meadows relented.
"Elizabeth, please stay."
She nodded and took her spot beside Carly as the doctor when about the business of examining her patient. Occasionally Carly's grip on Elizabeth's hand would tighten when another contraction would take hold. Elizabeth smiled and did her best to keep Carly's thoughts on anything but what was going on around her. For once Elizabeth was glad she had the knack for rambling.
"Well I have good news," Dr. Meadows finally said. "You're less than a centimeter dilated. That's very good. I am going to administer over the next several hours through an IV some medication that will halt your contractions. I'd liked to keep you over night and then you will be on oral medication to control the contractions once you are at home. You need to be sure that you get plenty of rest...."
"I'll make sure of that," Sonny's panic stricken face appeared from between the curtain.
"SONNY!" Carly's eyes lit up at the sight of him.
Elizabeth stepped aside so that he was able to hold his wife. She stood back and watched the loving pair cradle one another.
"What happened?" Sonny finally asked.
"I don't know. We were talking and then all of the sudden I just got these sharp pains in my stomach and before I knew it I was laying on the floor."
"Dr. Meadows?" Sonny turned his questioning eyes toward the doctor.
"I have run a few tests to rule out any medical reasons for the pre- term labor such as an infection of some sort but if those come back negative then my best guess as a reason for it would be stress. You're wife needs to say calm," she emphasized.
"Done," Sonny assured her even though he was less than sure he could actually pull off such a feet. Carly was anything but calm and given what was going on in their lives at the moment he was certain that that would be difficult.
"I'll be back to check on you later," Dr. Meadows announced before leaving the room.
"I'll leave you two alone too," Elizabeth said as well.
"Wait." Elizabeth turned back and waited for Carly to speak. "Thank you," the blonde said. "Thank you so much."
"You're welcome Carly."
"No charges were filed against Jason," Sonny said answering the question under the circumstances Elizabeth had been unable to ask. "It was just Taggert being Taggert again."
"Thank you Sonny."
"Don't thank me, thank Justus. It was his fancy talking that had Taggert tied in knots."
"What I wouldn't have given to see that," Carly chimed in.
"You won't be seeing anything like that any time soon. Dr. Meadows said calm."
"I'm perfectly calm now that you're here."
Elizabeth watched as the pair snuggled against one another. For once she was able to see the similarities in both of their relationships. Sonny was for Carly what Jason was for her. He was her everything – her world just like Jason was for her. Both couples were the halves of the same whole and without the other something was most definitely missing.
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Ric peaked around the corner surveying his surroundings. Since leaving the PCPD earlier he found himself hiding behind a mired of objects that would provide him any sort of cover. Not only did he have to concern himself with Faith and her not so veiled threats but Jason Morgan as well. Ric had basically just let Taggert feed himself to the wolves. What had he been thinking when he allowed the police detective talk him into not to mention signing a complaint against Morgan? Did he have a freakin' death wish? The constant throbbing in his wrists reminded him that he indeed did.
Ric stood in the shadows waiting for a clear entry into the emergency room of General Hospital. He couldn't wait any longer in getting his wounds attended to. He slipped through the sliding ambulance doors and walked to the information desk. Ric was thankful to see not a single familiar face.
He used the same lame rendition of events that he had tried to get Taggert to buy earlier when he was asked how he sustained his injuries. When the young nurse wanted to call and report the incident Ric assured her that that had already been taken care of on the scene and what he really needed right now was to have the slashes on his wrists stitched. After several shots of novocaine to numb the area the physician's assistant went about closing the wounds.
"Thank you," he said to the nurse who handed him a prescription for painkillers and one for antibiotics.
"You will need to come back in two weeks to have the stitches removed," the young girl said with a smile.
Ric only nodded completely ignoring the girl's vain attempt at flirtation. It was then that he saw her. He saw Elizabeth.
Elizabeth had just checked in on Carly one more time. She couldn't help but smile at the sight she had seen. There laid Carly with her head resting on Sonny's chest. She was sound asleep and Elizabeth could have sworn Sonny was doing the same even though she was damn sure that he would never admit to it.
She laughed thinking how on so many levels Sonny and Jason were alike. They had hearts over flowing with so much love for those closest to them yet for their enemies they had no hearts at all. It saddened her that on this one occasion they didn't see eye to eye on who the true enemy was. Even though Jason had been less than forthcoming with the situation between he and Sonny Elizabeth was able to surmise Sonny wanted to pursue Faith as the only culprit in their recent trouble and Jason was just as unbending in pursuit of Ric.
"Elizabeth?" Ric's voice startled her.
Momentarily she was paralyzed with fear. She looked around suddenly wishing she hadn't given Francis the slip. But at the time she just needed to be alone. She could have kicked herself for that now. "Leave me alone or I swear I will scream!"
"Are you all right?" he asked softly doing everything in his power not to wrap his arms around her. He couldn't contain his relief that she was okay. That Faith hadn't been lying when she had told him as much.
"Leave me alone Ric!" Elizabeth headed for the elevator. Stress was the last thing that Carly needed but she felt she had little choice but to head back to her room knowing full well that Johnny would be there.
"Wait!" He reached for her arm which she promptly smacked away with her other hand. He yelped in pain when her touch came in contact with his injuries.
There was a point in time that she might have offered her assistance or even felt a pang of guilt for his pain but not any more. She could have cared less. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!?!" Her raised voice was drawing attention, which was exactly what she wanted.
"Please, please we need to talk."
"You are kidding me right? What would we have to talk about?" Elizabeth let out a humorless laugh.
"I just want to help you. Faith she's...."
Elizabeth didn't even let him finish. "HELP? You want to help me? Help me how? You think that accusing Jason of assaulting you would endear you to me?"
Ric felt the vein in his neck begin to throb. When was she ever going to open her eyes to the real Jason Morgan? "Are you blind? Look at me Elizabeth. I nearly died..."
"It's a shame you didn't," she said loud enough for him to hear.
Those words tore through his heart but they didn't stop him. "Jason tortured me Elizabeth. He sat in front of me with his gun pointed at my temple. He was going to kill me!" Ric's hysteria over the event consumed his tone. "Does this prove to you yet that Jason's nothing more than a killer? How can you live with a man that derives pleasure from another person's pain?"
"I don't live with that man anymore!"
Ric's breath hitched in his throat at that statement. Had he heard her right? Did she just say that she no longer lived with Jason? All of his agony, nearly bleeding to death was all worth it.
"I haven't lived with a man like that in months Ric. I haven't lived with a man like that since I walked out of the house you bought for the sole purpose of torturing Carly. You're the only man I know that derives pleasure from someone else's pain."
"You can't mean that, Elizabeth. I love you. Everything I have done it's all been for you."
"DON'T – don't you dare hang that noose around my neck. Everything you did had nothing to do with me and everything to do with enacting some sick revenge against a brother you never even knew! I was just a convenient excuse for you to continue with your plan."
"How are you any different for Jason then?" Ric spat his rage escalating to a feverish pitch. "You're nothing more than the same for Morgan. You're his excuse to take revenge against me!"
Elizabeth widened her eyes and shook her head at how twisted Ric truly was. He had the ability to take any situation and warp it enough to fit into his self-serving agenda. "Jason doesn't need an excuse to do anything. He loves me completely and if I had told him that I wanted him to let you be he would have, but frankly Ric I hoped that he would wipe you from my life."
Ric stumbled backwards at those words. Jason had told him that Elizabeth would thank him for killing him and in essence she had just confirmed that. "No, no you can't mean that. The Elizabeth I know wouldn't ever allow that." His astonishment came through in his intonation.
"I am no more the Elizabeth you knew than are you the Ric I thought I knew!"
"Elizabeth?" Jason's questioning voice came from behind them.
"Jason!" Without giving the confrontation she was having with Ric another thought she leapt into the arms of the man she loved.
"What are you doing out here alone?" Jason asked never removing his hard stare from Ric Lansing. "Where's Max?"
"Are you okay? Taggert is such...."
"Answer my question," he pressed not allowing her to change the subject.
"Miss Webber," Francis now joined the group. "You said you were going to the ladies room. I waited and waited."
Jason was getting the picture now. "I'm sorry Fran. I just needed some time alone to think." She blushed avoiding Jason's gaze.
"Francis," Jason said turning to the guard who fully expected a severe reprimand. "Get him out of my sight!" He motioned toward Ric. As much as he wanted to pummel the man standing in front of him, Jason wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. He wouldn't be giving Ric the upper hand again. "How's Carly doing?" he asked Elizabeth turning his back on Francis and his charge.
"Better now that Sonny's with her."
"The baby?" Jason was almost afraid to ask.
"Dr. Meadows stopped the contractions and stressed that Carly needs to stay calm."
"Yeah right, like that's going to happen." Jason laughed.
Ric watched forlorn as they acted though he wasn't even there. Jason and Elizabeth continued their conversation about Carly without even a backward glance at him.
"Let's go!" Francis pushed him toward the exit. Ric looked over his shoulder just in time for him to see Elizabeth and Jason sharing a passionate kiss. That sight only strengthened his resolve that eliminating Jason was his only viable option.
"MAX, JOHNNY, FRANCIS...ANYONE!" Elizabeth's urgent voice echoed throughout the hallway. Leaving the door hanging wide open she hurried back to Carly who was still on the floor beside the sofa not only was she still holding her swollen belly but also she had now taken to panting. "Carly, you have to relax," Elizabeth instructed trying to assess if the panting was a true sign of labor or if Carly was on the verge of hyperventilating.
"I need Sonny," Carly spit out between labored breaths.
"We need to get you to the hospital," Elizabeth stated.
"I want Sonny," Carly's voice shook as the tears pooled in her eyes.
Elizabeth suddenly felt compassion for a woman who she never thought deserved any but she had been through so much already that Elizabeth couldn't help feeling it none the less. "I know." She smiled weakly. "We'll get him. Don't worry."
"Elizabeth?" Max's breathless voice came from behind her. He was immediately followed by Johnny and Francis all fearing the worst after hearing the enforcer's girlfriend's panicked cries.
"I think Carly's going into labor."
All three men stood dumbfounded. If there hadn't been such an urgency Elizabeth might have laughed at how the three men who were willing to take a bullet for them were suddenly paralyzed with fear at the thought of Carly being in labor.
"Hello!" Elizabeth waved her hand before their fixated eyes. "I could use some help here. Carly you think you can stand?" she asked turning her attention back to woman lying on the floor.
"Uh-huh," Carly nodded as Elizabeth placed her arms under Carly's. Finally Max's senses kicked in and rushed over to the pair.
"You okay?" Elizabeth asked when Carly was standing upright. "You think you can make it to the elevator?"
"Yeah," Carly said as she blew a hard breath from her mouth.
"I'll meet you downstairs," Elizabeth turned to Max. "I'm going to call GH to let them know that we are coming....." Carly reached for the tiny brunette's arm as she headed for the phone. "I'll make the call from the car," Elizabeth said sensing that for whatever reason Carly didn't want her to leave. How ironic was that she thought to herself?
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Jason and Sonny stood back while Justus finished up the necessary forms for Jason's release. He wanted to be sure that he went on record stating the continual harassment of his clients. There was an awkward silence between the two men neither knowing what to say to the other. Before either was able to speak Sonny's cell phone rang from inside his suit coat. "Yeah? Elizabeth....slow down...." At the mention of Elizabeth's name Jason's attention was riveted on Sonny. "What? She's what? Where are you? I'll be right there."
"Sonny?"
"Carly's in labor."
"Go!" Jason said without hesitation. The tension between them was dissolved abruptly the only thought between them was of Carly and the baby.
Jason watched as Sonny practically sprinted from the police station. How much more could any of them take he thought to himself as he waited for Justus to return.
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"Where's Sonny? I need Sonny....ouch!" Carly clutched her stomach as another contraction ripped through her.
"He's on his way Carly." Elizabeth tried to calm the blonde as they waited for both Dr. Meadows and Sonny to arrive.
Carly reached for Elizabeth's hand when another wave of pain constricted the muscles in her abdomen. "Elizabeth, I'm scared. It's too early for this baby to be born."
"I know – I know." Elizabeth stroked her arm in an attempt to sooth her. "You just need to stay calm."
"That's good advice. You should take it," Dr. Meadows said as she pulled the curtain aside and began reading the monitors that Carly and her baby were now attached to. "Elizabeth would you mind stepping out I need to examine Carly?"
"Sure. I'll be right outside."
"Can't she stay?" Carly questioned. Elizabeth was stunned that Carly even wanted her there.
"It's highly unusual."
"Since when have I have been usual?"
"If you want her to stay she certainly can." Dr. Meadows relented.
"Elizabeth, please stay."
She nodded and took her spot beside Carly as the doctor when about the business of examining her patient. Occasionally Carly's grip on Elizabeth's hand would tighten when another contraction would take hold. Elizabeth smiled and did her best to keep Carly's thoughts on anything but what was going on around her. For once Elizabeth was glad she had the knack for rambling.
"Well I have good news," Dr. Meadows finally said. "You're less than a centimeter dilated. That's very good. I am going to administer over the next several hours through an IV some medication that will halt your contractions. I'd liked to keep you over night and then you will be on oral medication to control the contractions once you are at home. You need to be sure that you get plenty of rest...."
"I'll make sure of that," Sonny's panic stricken face appeared from between the curtain.
"SONNY!" Carly's eyes lit up at the sight of him.
Elizabeth stepped aside so that he was able to hold his wife. She stood back and watched the loving pair cradle one another.
"What happened?" Sonny finally asked.
"I don't know. We were talking and then all of the sudden I just got these sharp pains in my stomach and before I knew it I was laying on the floor."
"Dr. Meadows?" Sonny turned his questioning eyes toward the doctor.
"I have run a few tests to rule out any medical reasons for the pre- term labor such as an infection of some sort but if those come back negative then my best guess as a reason for it would be stress. You're wife needs to say calm," she emphasized.
"Done," Sonny assured her even though he was less than sure he could actually pull off such a feet. Carly was anything but calm and given what was going on in their lives at the moment he was certain that that would be difficult.
"I'll be back to check on you later," Dr. Meadows announced before leaving the room.
"I'll leave you two alone too," Elizabeth said as well.
"Wait." Elizabeth turned back and waited for Carly to speak. "Thank you," the blonde said. "Thank you so much."
"You're welcome Carly."
"No charges were filed against Jason," Sonny said answering the question under the circumstances Elizabeth had been unable to ask. "It was just Taggert being Taggert again."
"Thank you Sonny."
"Don't thank me, thank Justus. It was his fancy talking that had Taggert tied in knots."
"What I wouldn't have given to see that," Carly chimed in.
"You won't be seeing anything like that any time soon. Dr. Meadows said calm."
"I'm perfectly calm now that you're here."
Elizabeth watched as the pair snuggled against one another. For once she was able to see the similarities in both of their relationships. Sonny was for Carly what Jason was for her. He was her everything – her world just like Jason was for her. Both couples were the halves of the same whole and without the other something was most definitely missing.
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Ric peaked around the corner surveying his surroundings. Since leaving the PCPD earlier he found himself hiding behind a mired of objects that would provide him any sort of cover. Not only did he have to concern himself with Faith and her not so veiled threats but Jason Morgan as well. Ric had basically just let Taggert feed himself to the wolves. What had he been thinking when he allowed the police detective talk him into not to mention signing a complaint against Morgan? Did he have a freakin' death wish? The constant throbbing in his wrists reminded him that he indeed did.
Ric stood in the shadows waiting for a clear entry into the emergency room of General Hospital. He couldn't wait any longer in getting his wounds attended to. He slipped through the sliding ambulance doors and walked to the information desk. Ric was thankful to see not a single familiar face.
He used the same lame rendition of events that he had tried to get Taggert to buy earlier when he was asked how he sustained his injuries. When the young nurse wanted to call and report the incident Ric assured her that that had already been taken care of on the scene and what he really needed right now was to have the slashes on his wrists stitched. After several shots of novocaine to numb the area the physician's assistant went about closing the wounds.
"Thank you," he said to the nurse who handed him a prescription for painkillers and one for antibiotics.
"You will need to come back in two weeks to have the stitches removed," the young girl said with a smile.
Ric only nodded completely ignoring the girl's vain attempt at flirtation. It was then that he saw her. He saw Elizabeth.
Elizabeth had just checked in on Carly one more time. She couldn't help but smile at the sight she had seen. There laid Carly with her head resting on Sonny's chest. She was sound asleep and Elizabeth could have sworn Sonny was doing the same even though she was damn sure that he would never admit to it.
She laughed thinking how on so many levels Sonny and Jason were alike. They had hearts over flowing with so much love for those closest to them yet for their enemies they had no hearts at all. It saddened her that on this one occasion they didn't see eye to eye on who the true enemy was. Even though Jason had been less than forthcoming with the situation between he and Sonny Elizabeth was able to surmise Sonny wanted to pursue Faith as the only culprit in their recent trouble and Jason was just as unbending in pursuit of Ric.
"Elizabeth?" Ric's voice startled her.
Momentarily she was paralyzed with fear. She looked around suddenly wishing she hadn't given Francis the slip. But at the time she just needed to be alone. She could have kicked herself for that now. "Leave me alone or I swear I will scream!"
"Are you all right?" he asked softly doing everything in his power not to wrap his arms around her. He couldn't contain his relief that she was okay. That Faith hadn't been lying when she had told him as much.
"Leave me alone Ric!" Elizabeth headed for the elevator. Stress was the last thing that Carly needed but she felt she had little choice but to head back to her room knowing full well that Johnny would be there.
"Wait!" He reached for her arm which she promptly smacked away with her other hand. He yelped in pain when her touch came in contact with his injuries.
There was a point in time that she might have offered her assistance or even felt a pang of guilt for his pain but not any more. She could have cared less. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!?!" Her raised voice was drawing attention, which was exactly what she wanted.
"Please, please we need to talk."
"You are kidding me right? What would we have to talk about?" Elizabeth let out a humorless laugh.
"I just want to help you. Faith she's...."
Elizabeth didn't even let him finish. "HELP? You want to help me? Help me how? You think that accusing Jason of assaulting you would endear you to me?"
Ric felt the vein in his neck begin to throb. When was she ever going to open her eyes to the real Jason Morgan? "Are you blind? Look at me Elizabeth. I nearly died..."
"It's a shame you didn't," she said loud enough for him to hear.
Those words tore through his heart but they didn't stop him. "Jason tortured me Elizabeth. He sat in front of me with his gun pointed at my temple. He was going to kill me!" Ric's hysteria over the event consumed his tone. "Does this prove to you yet that Jason's nothing more than a killer? How can you live with a man that derives pleasure from another person's pain?"
"I don't live with that man anymore!"
Ric's breath hitched in his throat at that statement. Had he heard her right? Did she just say that she no longer lived with Jason? All of his agony, nearly bleeding to death was all worth it.
"I haven't lived with a man like that in months Ric. I haven't lived with a man like that since I walked out of the house you bought for the sole purpose of torturing Carly. You're the only man I know that derives pleasure from someone else's pain."
"You can't mean that, Elizabeth. I love you. Everything I have done it's all been for you."
"DON'T – don't you dare hang that noose around my neck. Everything you did had nothing to do with me and everything to do with enacting some sick revenge against a brother you never even knew! I was just a convenient excuse for you to continue with your plan."
"How are you any different for Jason then?" Ric spat his rage escalating to a feverish pitch. "You're nothing more than the same for Morgan. You're his excuse to take revenge against me!"
Elizabeth widened her eyes and shook her head at how twisted Ric truly was. He had the ability to take any situation and warp it enough to fit into his self-serving agenda. "Jason doesn't need an excuse to do anything. He loves me completely and if I had told him that I wanted him to let you be he would have, but frankly Ric I hoped that he would wipe you from my life."
Ric stumbled backwards at those words. Jason had told him that Elizabeth would thank him for killing him and in essence she had just confirmed that. "No, no you can't mean that. The Elizabeth I know wouldn't ever allow that." His astonishment came through in his intonation.
"I am no more the Elizabeth you knew than are you the Ric I thought I knew!"
"Elizabeth?" Jason's questioning voice came from behind them.
"Jason!" Without giving the confrontation she was having with Ric another thought she leapt into the arms of the man she loved.
"What are you doing out here alone?" Jason asked never removing his hard stare from Ric Lansing. "Where's Max?"
"Are you okay? Taggert is such...."
"Answer my question," he pressed not allowing her to change the subject.
"Miss Webber," Francis now joined the group. "You said you were going to the ladies room. I waited and waited."
Jason was getting the picture now. "I'm sorry Fran. I just needed some time alone to think." She blushed avoiding Jason's gaze.
"Francis," Jason said turning to the guard who fully expected a severe reprimand. "Get him out of my sight!" He motioned toward Ric. As much as he wanted to pummel the man standing in front of him, Jason wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. He wouldn't be giving Ric the upper hand again. "How's Carly doing?" he asked Elizabeth turning his back on Francis and his charge.
"Better now that Sonny's with her."
"The baby?" Jason was almost afraid to ask.
"Dr. Meadows stopped the contractions and stressed that Carly needs to stay calm."
"Yeah right, like that's going to happen." Jason laughed.
Ric watched forlorn as they acted though he wasn't even there. Jason and Elizabeth continued their conversation about Carly without even a backward glance at him.
"Let's go!" Francis pushed him toward the exit. Ric looked over his shoulder just in time for him to see Elizabeth and Jason sharing a passionate kiss. That sight only strengthened his resolve that eliminating Jason was his only viable option.