Still holding Emily close to him, Zander turned towards the guard that was with him. "Cord was to be out there, find him something must of happened. He would never leave his post!" Zander ordered.

"He was there one minute and the next he was gone." Elenore replied.

"Did you see who did this?" Zander asked her.

"No sorry it all happened so fast. After the shot, he took off. I didn't get a good look at him, I was more worried about Emily then getting a detailed description of the man, Zander."

"It's okay, mom."

Emily looked up at Zander. "It was Jason wasn't it?"

"Yeah baby, I think it was." Zander held her close to him and wrapped his arms tightly around her as her tears moistened his shirt and jacket.

Hospital staff came running a few minutes later to see what had happened, Monica and Alan followed close behind with Dr. Meadows in tow.

"Emily! Oh my God, are you alright?" Monica went to her daughter and snatched her from the arms of her husband.

"I'm okay .... " she replied yet Monica felt her daughter's body shaking from fear.

"No you're not alright, your shaking." Monica replied as Alan glared at Zander.

"You said you could protect her, Zander! What the hell happened?!" Alan demanded to know. "And are you going somewhere, you're not released yet?!"

"I signed myself out, okay?! I can't very well protect Emily when I'm lying in a hospital bed 3 floors down, now can I?!" Zander snapped back.

While Alan and Zander exchanged hurtful words towards each other, Dr. Meadows took care of Emily, and the hospital staff changed linens and pillows on the bed. Emily was put back into bed and Dr. Meadows cleared the room, she wanting to give Emily a full exam to make sure everything was alright.

Zander and Alan continued their heated discussion out in the hallway, as Elenore and Monica tried to separate the two and calm the two of them down.

"Please this is not the time or place for this, Alan!" Monica said as she tugged at his arm trying to back him off.

"Our daughter was almost killed ... this IS the time and place for this, Monica!" he barked back.

"Look, I know who did this and it's being handled." Zander replied just as his guard, Frank approached with the injured guard, Jerry stumbling along. Zander went to them.

"Here sit him down. What happened?" Zander asked Jerry

"I was blindsided, sir. He came out of no where, knocked me out dragged me down the hallway." Jerry replied as he rubbed the back of his head where there was a goose egg sized bump.

"I found him down the hallway propped up against the wall." Frank replied as Monica came over to take a look at Jerry's injuries.

"I'll be fine, Dr. Quartermaine. I'll have a bad headache for a while." Jerry replied as Monica checked him over.

Alan came up to Zander and grabbed at his arm, turning him around. "You said you know who did this .. tell me, who?!" Alan demanded to know who took a shot at his daughter.

Zander hesitant to tell him it was his own son, Jason. Zander didn't have to as he was interrupted by Ric rushing down the hallway to him.

"Are you alright? How's Emily?" Ric questioned as he approached the mob of people now standing outside Emily's room.

"We're fine. Please tell me you still have Alcazar in custody."

"Yeah, he's not being very cooperative though and he lawyer'd up. He's not giving us much of anything. Why do you think Lorenzo did this?"

"No, I don't. It was Jason, I'm sure of it." Zander replied and Alan's ears overheard his son's name.

"You think Jason did this?!"

Zander turned towards Alan. "Yeah I do. This was a warning to me, that he could get to my family any time he wanted. This wasn't about Emily, this was business."

"Business?! Taking shots at his own sister? That's business?!"

"To Jason, yeah it is. You don't know him very well, do you?" Zander replied, questioning Alan's knowledge of his own son.

"This isn't the first time, Dr. Quartermaine." Ric replied.

Alan and Monica both shocked to hear that Jason was behind the attempts on Emily, they didn't know their son was capable of such violence against his own family.

"Look, Lorenzo Alcazar has been in lock up since late yesterday, there's no way he could of been behind this. It had to be Jason, there's no one else in town. I would know if there was." Zander replied.

Dr. Meadows emerged from Emily's room and Zander went to her concerned about his wife. "How is she?" he asked.

"Emily will be fine, she's just a little shaken up, but she'll be fine." Dr. Meadows replied then hesitated, Zander concerned about her hesitation to tell him something.

"What is it, Dr. Meadows? It's the baby, isn't it? .... Isn't it?!" Zander now fearing for his child's life and he went to the plexi-glass window and watched Emily resting.

Dr. Meadows followed him to the window and a worried look came across her face. "Something has to be done, Zander. There is too much strain on this baby, he's not going to be able to take much more of this." she replied and Zander looked at her.

"He's alright, isn't he? We're not going to lose him are we? We can't lose this baby, Dr. Meadows!"

"I'm doing everything I can to keep him stabilized. I'm not going to lie to you Zander .... the baby, at this point is my main concern." she replied and Zander began to panic and fear the worst.

"Look, I have him on monitors and I'm trying to stabilize him, and once we do that, he should be okay. The next few hours will tell us what we have to do next."

"You won't have to take him will you? I mean it's too early, isn't it?"

"Well, Emily's 7 months along, the baby is growing nicely but there are risks to having him born early, with any pregnancy. In this situation, Emily's unstable, her blood pressure is up most of the time, and that's not good for either of them. There's entirely too much stress and strain on the baby right now to induce labor, we'll have to wait and see."

The family gathered around Zander, his mother comforting him as they listened to Dr. Meadows prognosis. "The best thing right now for Emily is rest, absolutely no stress, and no excitement. I gave her something that will help her sleep, so she should be resting for a while." Dr. Meadows added.

"Can we sit with her?" Monica asked concerned herself about her daughter and unborn grandchild.

"Yeah sure, but let's keep the visitors to a minimum." Dr. Meadows replied.

"Will you sit with her, mom. I'll be right there." Zander asked of his mother as he glanced over to Frank and Jerry, who were still waiting in the lounge area across from Emily's room.

Elenore agreed and went to Emily's bedside as her son asked her to. Ric followed Zander over to his men, while Monica and Alan stood in the doorway of their daughters room, comforting each other, still worried and afraid for her and the baby.

Zander stood in the doorway of Emily's room, his fists clenched in an overload of emotions. He realized that someone tried to take it all away from him today, his wife, his child, his business, his entire world. He stormed out of the room, anger filled his eyes, his insides twisted, and he had only one thing on his mind .... it was time for payback!