I wanted to dedicate this story to Priscilla (LiasonFan), I hope you get out of the hospital soon. I'm praying for your recovery. I also wanted to thank Amber (thewretchedchild) for your replies. It makes me really happy to read your reviews.

Now on to the story. Some pretty big changes here. This is a turning point and I really want to know what you think of this chapter. Hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 21: Nobody stays dead for long

-Boston-

"What is this? How? Is it really you?"

"Yes, Luke. It's me. I'm alive."

"Summer?"

-Jason's Garage-

Doc Wilson stayed with Jason and Elizabeth for over an hour before finally coming down. Carly was sitting on a bench, Francis was standing by the office door and Calvin was pacing the length of the garage. All three of them jumped at the sight of the doctor walking down the stairs.

"What happened?"

"How is she?"

"Is she going to make it?"

The doctor looked at all the concerned faces and nodded. "She had an exit wound to her left shoulder. Luckily, Jason found her on time and applied pressure to the wound. She lost a lot of blood, so she's going to be feeling fatigue and sleepiness for a few days. I stitched her up and here..." He gave Francis a prescription. "Those are some antibiotics and painkillers. She's going to make a good recovery if she follows orders."

"Thank God." Carly let out a worried sigh at the news.

"So she's going to live then." Calvin exclaimed with a scared look still on his brown eyes.

"No thanks to you."

The four of them looked up to find Jason making his way down the last few steps.

"Jason, you know this wasn't the kid's fault." Francis spoke sternly to his friend.

"Oh, is not? If I remember correctly I asked him to stay with her. I told him to not let her out of his sight. "

"I tried. I told her not to go, but you know how she is. She said she was going to look for you and that she was a big girl."

"That's right I know how she is, that's why I left you in charge and you failed me.

She's up there with a bullet wound because of you."

"Come on Jason. You know that's not fair. We know how pigheaded little Ms. Muffin can be. If she wanted to go out, she was going to find a way to do it."

"But he was supposed to look out for her and he didn't."

The doors to the garage opened and Nikolas walked inside with Max and Emily in tow. "That's where you're wrong Morgan. You were the one who was supposed to look out for her."

-Motel Room-

Luke was sitting on a chair across from the blond woman he thought to be dead for more than a year. After finding her in the hospital parking lot, she asked him to go someplace more private and had taken him to a small motel near the hospital. She started to explain the reasons for her being there, but he was just to shaken up to process the information.

"I can't believe this."

"Well you better believe it." She said drinking from her bottle of water.

"But I saw you, I mean your body was on the ground and you were dead. No pulse, no breathing, nada."

"Come on Luke. You better than anyone knows that no one stays dead in Port Charles."

"Well, then start again. I want to know exactly what happened and what do you have to do with this mess."

"OK. I died that day at Wyndemere, Luke. But it was a mistake, I wasn't supposed to die. Emily Quartermaine was."

"So what? God gave you a second chance at life?"

"Not exactly, more like the devil. Helena picked up my body from the morgue and she took me to some sort of laboratory. She hooked me up to a lot of machines and injected me with some kind of drug. I really don't know exactly what she did, I mean me being dead and all. But, I do know that I woke up three months later. Everything I'm telling you was told to me by the doctor that was monitoring my recovery."

"What would Helena want with you?"

"Here is where I have to tell you the whole truth. I lied to you, to all of you."

"We already covered that before you died darling."

"No we didn't Luke. What I told you then was all a lie too. My name is Summer. Summer Donovan."

"Donovan, as in Susan Donovan?"

"Susan Donovan is my mother."

"Holly shit!"

-Jason's Garage-

"What are you two doing here?" Jason's face was red with rage.

Before anyone could say anything, Doc Wilson spoke to Francis then. "I believe that was my cue to leave. Please buy the medicine and if something comes up call me."

"Will do Doc. And thanks for everything." The doctor found his way out of the garage before all hell broke loose.

Calvin started to apologize to everyone that listened. Emily was sobbing and Nikolas was uttering insults to Jason, who was cursing like a sailor. Max was shaking his head and Carly was trying to calm Jason down. The bickering became louder and louder until Francis found his way into the middle of the crowd.

"That's enough!" He said yelling at the top of his lungs. "Enough!"

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Came the angry response of Jason Morgan.

"A concerned friend, that's who I am, and right now someone I consider a friend is laying upstairs with a gunshot gun to her shoulder."

"You are not the only one concerned about Elizabeth's well being." Nikolas Cassadine added.

"Well from where I was standing it seemed like it. You came in here uttering insults left and right, Jason is channeling his fear through anger and neither one is going to help Elizabeth recover."

Both men scowled at Francis, but kept quiet. Carly walked behind Francis and offered him her support. "He's right you guys. We are all under a lot of stress it's better to just take a breath and calm down."

A deep silence overcame them all and then was broken by another sob from Emily. It was then that Nikolas found her by a corner crying. He walked to her and wrapped his arms around her. "Everything is going to be OK. She's a fighter. She's going to be OK."

"It's a-all m-my fault." She said through her tears.

"It's not your fault honey."

Jason's heart broke at the sight of his pregnant sister crying uncontrollably. Her coat hid her small and round belly, but his heart warmed by the mere knowledge of his nephew or niece growing up inside of her. He dropped his head and pinched his nose.

"What happened to Elizabeth is nobody's fault, but mine. I should've never left her here alone."

"No boss, it's my fault. I was supposed to look out for her and I didn't."

"Would you all just shut up?" Carly's angry voice filled the place. "This is not anybody's fault. Bad things happen; right now it happened to her. Thank God, Jason was there. We all should just be glad she's alive and she's going to be OK soon."

"Mrs. C is right. We all should concentrate our energy on praying for her." Max pointed out from his place near the door.

"Okay. This is it. Max, take Nikolas and Emily back to the safe house and double security. Calvin, you should go home too. And Francis you can take Carly back to the Brownstone."

"Like hell, we're leaving. Not until we see her." Nikolas spoke then.

"Nikolas, she's going to be knocked out for a long time. It could be hours before she wakes up."

"I'm not leaving you either, Jason." Carly stepped closer to Jason.

"Carly, there's nothing you can do here."

"I'm not leaving either." Said Calving slowly.

"That settles it then. We are all staying. I'll better go make a fresh pot of coffee." Carly said before disappearing to the back room.

Jason looked around the room full of people and let out a desperate sigh. "Okay, you all can stay. But you have to be quiet. Elizabeth needs her rest. I'm going back upstairs. Emily, are you alright?"

Not being able to speak she just nodded.

"There's a sofa bed on the back room, if you get tired you can sleep there. Calvin, bring the folding chairs out of the closet. If they need anything else you know where everything is."

"Yes, sir." The kid ran to the back room without looking back.

"Max, will you please take care of Elizabeth's prescription?"

"No problem."

"Francis, you're in charge. I don't want to be bothered. I'll come down every few hours to notify you if there's any change."

And with that he walked upstairs, leaving a very concerned group of friends staring at his back.

-Motel Room-

"When I came to Port Charles I had been brainwashed."

"Wait. Hold it, honey. How do you know you were brainwashed? Who did it? Was it Helena?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Helena found my mother by accident. Her men saw my Mom walking down a street in Austin, Texas. After showing Helena the striking resemblance between Laura and my Mom, they decided she was going to work for them. They told her she resembled an old friend at that they needed her help. They offered her a lot of money. I had just started college then and we were struggling, so she accepted their offer. They asked her to go meet the mother of their friend at a hotel outside of town. She went with them and she never came back."

"How did you go from been Summer Donovan, college student to Laura Holloway, call girl?"

"My mom disappeared on me. She never called back or wrote, so I started to get suspicious. I remembered some names from a phone conversation my mother had with one of the Helena's men. I enlisted a friend and we went to try to find her. The only thing we found was dead. We got too close too quickly and Helena's men killed my friend and took me hostage."

"That's when it happened, didn't it?"

The blond woman just nodded her head. She closed her eyes and a shiver ran down her spine. "They locked me up, beat me down and almost starved me to dead. I was about to let go when a man walked into my cell and started talking. The things he said didn't make any sense to me at first, but then when he was finished he gave me a bottle of water. The next day he came in and sat down and started again telling me about Laura Holloway's life I listened intently and before he left he gave me a small piece of bread. The same patterned went on for months until I couldn't remember anything about my life, all I could remember was Laura 'Summer' Holloway's. Helena Cassadine erased my memory and built me a new one. Of course I didn't know she was behind it until I woke up from death and remembered everything."

"Your mother wasn't impersonating Laura all along."

"No. My bet is that they did something similar to what they did to me."

"Laura was real. She was the one in the clinic until after you died. I found Susan Donovan in the clinic a year ago, she was programmed too. A psychologist saw her and de-programmed her, but she was still out of it. How did you get away from Helena?"

"Once I was strong enough I used some of Summer Holloway's tricks on the doctor." She smirked at the memory. "He ended up hooked to the monitors himself."

"Smart girl."

"I ran and went looking for you. But then I heard someone saying you were going to London to see Laura with Nikolas. So I sneak into Wyndemere, via one of the tunnels and took money from one of the vaults. I got enough money to get to London. Once there I realized it was my mother at the clinic and not Laura. You had taken her already so I figured she was going to be alright."

"She wasn't. I sent her back to the States and it was the biggest mistake I could make. Helena found her."

"I know. But I also know that you did everything in your power to help her."

"Maybe I haven't. I've been too blindsided by my own need to find Laura that I forgot everyone else that's been putting their butts on the line for me. Nikolas and Elizabeth got shot at and look at Lucky. He's laying on a hospital bed hooked up to all those machines because of me."

"That's not true, Luke."

"What would you know?"

"A lot, because I've been there. I've seeing everything happen. I was the one that left the message for you at the hotel in Italy. I was the one that got to the vault in the Monastery and took you out of there before the whole thing came down on us. And I've been following you and Lucky ever since you guys came to Boston."

"In the alley, that was you."

"Yes."

"This is even more twisted than I thought. I need a drink. Do you have some vodka or scotch?"

Summer smiled at him. "No I don't. But I do have this." She took a long gold chain from her neck and gave Luke an old key that was hanging from it.

"You have it."

"We have the key to Laura's heart. Now all we need to do is to find a cure for whatever it was that the psychotic old hag did to Lucky. Then we can go look for Laura and my Mom."

"We? I don't think so. You have to go somewhere far away. Helena must be looking for you. She won't stop until you are dead for real this time."

"I'm not going anywhere Luke. Not until Helena Cassadine pays for everything she's done."

"Oh boy, not you too."

-Jason's bedroom-

Jason was sitting on a chair at her bedside. He had her hand in between his and his eyes where locked on her small frame. She was sweating down the fever, but her face was still pale. He ran his fingers over her forehead and placed a lock of her hair behind her ear. His knuckles lingered over her cheek a moment and then he dropped it. A loud sigh escaped his lips.

"Come on honey. You have to wake up, only for a minute. Let me see those beautiful blue eyes of yours, just to know you'll be alright and then I'll let you sleep all you want."

Elizabeth's lashes fluttered but didn't open. Jason's breath was caught on his throat. And then her fingers moved under his hands.

"Elizabeth, can you hear me? Open your eyes sweetheart. Let me know you're okay."

Elizabeth eyes opened then and Jason smiled down at her. "Hey."