Chapter One
A Spencer Savior
A young woman stepped out of a candy apple red sports car dressed in a short white skirt, a blue shirt and a long white doctor's jacket. She made sure before she closed her car door that her new nametag was clipped on the jacket.
Dr. Leah WhitmanA name she loved that could get her power. Her husband was rich and powerful, it was true, but she, as a top neurologist, used her power to save lives, to prove other doctors, especially older doctors, in her field wrong. They would diagnose one thing and would do something wrong and she would always recheck their diagnoses and save the lives of the very people who they were about to, in many situations, kill.
The power got her the respect of many of her peers at several of the hospitals where she had been working and now, a new assignment; a new hospital beckoned her talents.
She stood, staring at the structure of General Hospital before she stepped inside and headed to her new assignment, ICU.
Nurse Bobbie Spencer manned the nurse's station on the 10th floor of General Hospital that afternoon. She had asked to be assigned here today and was glad that she could keep an eye out for trouble in the form of her beloved brother Luke, who seemed determined to walk down the hall of the ICU and disconnect his son Lucky from life support, no matter how she, Elizabeth, Emily, Skye, and even Ric Lansing, had done their best to keep the young man alive. They believed that Lucky would recover, but for some reason, Luke had given up on his son. She had never seen her brother act like this.
She scanned the folder she had been asked to look over. A new neurologist was joining their team. In fact, one of the top neurologists in the country. Maybe she would be able to give them some hope about Lucky. Both Tony and Steven seemed to give up on the young man, which she and Elizabeth would never accept. They knew how stubborn Lucky was. They knew that he was fighting to return to them.
Elizabeth had barricaded herself inside Lucky's room, guarding the man she loved from anyone trying to take his chance to live away. The only people she allowed inside with her were Emily, Skye, and Bobbie herself. Tony and Steven had been banned from the room until the new neurologist could check out Lucky's condition for herself and see if she agreed with them. If she didn't, both men would be banned fully from Lucky's room and only the new neurologist would be on Lucky's case.
Bobbie looked up and watched as the young woman stepped off the elevator and approached the nurse's desk. "May I help you, miss?" Bobbie asked.
"I was told to come up to this floor as my first assignment. I'm Dr. Leah Whitman, neurologist," she said in introduction.
"Welcome, Dr. Whitman. I'm head nurse Bobbie Spencer. Welcome to General Hospital," Bobbie said, shaking the young doctor's hand. The young woman looked somewhat familiar to her.
The young woman's eyes widened in recognition at Bobbie's introduction. Bobbie noticed immediately the young woman's blue eyes. The same shade that Luke and Lucky both claimed as theirs. "Leah Jean, is that you?"
"Yes, aunt Bobbie, it's me. I'm home," Leah said with a smile.
"Then I definitely know everything we have done in the past couple of days isn't in vain. You'll do everything you can to help," Bobbie said before she came around to embrace her niece.
Leah embraced her aunt tightly. She didn't quite know what her aunt meant until she grabbed a file from the patient files at the station and handed it to her. The name on the top struck her instantly. Lucas Spencer Jr.
"Aunt Bobbie, what happened? Why is Lucky here?"
"Helena Cassadine shot him. He's critical. At least that's what Tony and Steven say," Bobbie said. "Liz and I were hoping that you could do something to change that."
Leah nodded as she looked over the patient file of her twin brother and saw her former uncle's diagnoses, then shook her head. "How many neurosurgeons make this same mistake? I can't believe he would be so stupid as to say that this was a stroke. This was caused by one of the IV medications they have him on."
"So, you're saying that Tony is wrong?" Bobbie asked hopefully.
"Yes. I want you to change the medication immediately. This medication that they have him on does damage, rather than helping, victims of a gunshot. I've saved a great many patients already from colleagues who have made this same mistake. Apparently, Dr. Jones hasn't paid attention to some of the new research," Leah said before writing down the name of the medication she wanted removed and putting a new medication in it's place. "And as for Dr. Webber, he needs to learn a bit more about neurology."
"So Lucky will recover?" Bobbie asked.
"Yes, he will. Once he is off this medication, he will recover. He will come back to us," Leah said before grabbing a pen and heading down the hall. "I need to check Lucky's vitals. Will you come with me?"
"I kind of have to, Leah. Liz won't let you in the room otherwise," Bobbie said as she followed her niece.
Elizabeth Webber sat in a chair beside Lucky's bed, determined to will him back to her if necessary. He was not going to die, not if she had anything to say about it.
A knock sounded on the door and she turned to see Bobbie and another young woman outside the door. Elizabeth got up from her chair and unlocked the door to let the two of them in. "Is this the new neurologist you told me about?"
"No ordinary neurologist. One of the best in the country, Liz. This is Dr. Leah Whitman, or if I want to get a little more technical, Dr. Leah Jean Spencer-Whitman," Bobbie said.
Elizabeth smiled. She had been told by Lucky years before about his twin sisters. Leah was one of them and she remembered hearing about her dreams of being a doctor. His other twin Laurel Bethany Spencer-McMillan had pursued her dream as well and was a police detective with the Sioux Falls South Dakota Police Department.
"Welcome home, Leah. I'm glad you're here," Elizabeth said, shaking the young woman's hand.
"Thank you Liz. Thank you for doing all this for my brother. My father obviously needs a brain transplant and so does Dr. Tony Jones," Leah said as Bobbie headed over to Lucky's IV and disconnected the medication and took it off of the stand.
"Bobbie, what are you doing?" Elizabeth asked.
"She's taking off the medication I told her to. That is why Lucky is in this condition. That medication caused what looked like a stroke, but was not. Obviously, uncle Tony needs to check out some of the newer research. If Lucky would've died or they would have succeeded in taking him off life support, I would've had my husband file a major malpractice suit against Tony and had him arrested for murder," Leah explained.
Bobbie left the room with the medication and Leah locked the door behind her. She would join Elizabeth in barricading Lucky's room from others until her aunt returned with the new medication.
It took a few minutes, but Bobbie returned with the new IV bag of the new medication and Leah let her back in. She hooked it up and let it flow into Lucky's IV. Within a few minutes, you could already see a change in Lucky's condition.
"See. What did I tell you? Improvement almost instantly with this medication," Leah said with a smile.
"So, you want me to ban Tony from Lucky's room?" Bobbie said.
"I'll do it myself. And I'll get Dr. Webber for listening to the old man," Leah said as she finished taking a new set of vitals on her twin. "Liz, you stay in here and take care of my twin brother."
"No problem. I wouldn't leave even if I wanted to," she said as the two women left the room.
Leah and Bobbie headed down the hall and approached the nurse's station just as Dr. Alan Quartermaine, Leah's new boss, stepped off the elevator.
"Good morning Bobbie," he greeted his good friend. "How is Lucky this morning?"
"Doing much better now, thanks to our new neurologist," Bobbie said with a smile.
Alan turned to the young woman standing beside Bobbie. "Ah, yes. Dr. Whitman, welcome to General Hospital."
Leah shook Alan's hand. "Thank you Dr. Quartermaine. I'm happy to be here. And I already have a request."
"And what may that be?"
"I want Dr. Tony Jones banned from Lucky Spencer's room, effective immediately," Leah said with determination.
"Any reason?"
"Oh, yes. The fact that he practically killed him!" she exclaimed before opening her brother's folder. "See, this medication he gave him is not proper for a gunshot victim to be given. It does more harm than good in their case because it makes any lead poisoning from the bullet worse. That is why Lucky went into cardiac arrest and looked to have had a stroke. This drug caused it."
Alan agreed wholeheartedly. "You're right. I've seen much of the new research on this medication. I can't believe that Tony didn't know that. Request granted, Dr. Whitman. Dr. Jones will be banned from Lucky's room. Though, I think you have another reason as well," he said.
"Of course. When I walked in, the very person you had waiting for me was very recognizable. Bobbie is my aunt and Lucky is my twin brother," Leah said.
Alan smiled. "I guess I had the right person waiting for you. And I can see that you will do anything to help your brother," he said.
"Yes. I would also like to speak with Dr Webber and see if he knew that this medication had been given to Lucky. If he did, he'll also be banned. But if he didn't know, I want him by my side assisting in Lucky's care and the care of my patients here in the ICU. At least so far, this is where you have me assigned for my rounds," Leah said.
"Yes. We decided this at the board meeting when we decided to accept your transfer. You are one of the best neurologists in the country and we wanted you helping the people here to get better," Alan said. "And I shall talk to Steven about this."
"Thank you, Dr. Quartermaine," Leah said.
"And do you want to set up a visitation list for Lucky? I'm sure there are certain people you don't want to go into the room," Alan said.
"Of course. The only ones I want in that ICU room are Elizabeth, Emily, Nikolas if he gets out, aunt Bobbie, Skye, Dr. Webber only if he didn't know, my husband Andrew, my twin sister Laurel and her husband Shawn if they come, grandma Leslie and Lulu, and me," Leah said.
"You don't want Luke in there?" Alan asked as he wrote down the names.
"No. Aunt Bobbie told me what he tried and is still trying to do. I will not have him in that room," Leah said.
Alan nodded as he finished the list. Then he wrote up a list of the ones that would be banned from Lucky's room, which only had two people on it, Luke and Tony. Steven would be on the list only if he knew about the medication that had been given to Lucky.
The lists were posted at the nurse's station for all to see. Leah nodded. This would show Tony how wrong he was and would keep her father away from her brother. She was reclaiming her family and there was nothing her father could do about it.
A car rolled down the highway towards Port Charles driven by a very determined young woman determined to show the cops at the PCPD how it was done. She wasn't going to let them railroad her twin brother or her older half-brother.
"Are you sure about this, Lauri?" a man beside her asks.
"Absolutely sure, Shawn. Ric Lansing and Mac Scorpio are not railroading my brothers. We need to really show them how it's done," Laurel Spencer-McMillan told her husband Shawn.
Shawn sighed, but smiled. This was why his wife had gone into law enforcement. She loved challenges and she loved helping out with true justice. And that was what she was determined to do for her two brothers. Especially her twin brother.
Her cell phone rang and she hit the talk button. "Hello?"
"Hey Lauri, it's Leah. I'm calling from General Hospital," Leah said.
"Hey. How's everyone? How is Lucky doing?" Laurel asked her twin sister.
"He is doing better now. I still can't believe what uncle Tony did to Lucky. I could've had Andrew sue him for malpractice," Leah said.
"What did he do?" Laurel asked.
"He gave him the wrong medication for his condition. It's the worst medication you could give a gunshot victim because it makes the lead poisoning worse. It caused what looked like a stroke. I put Lucky on a different medication, which has him steadily improving," Leah informed her twin.
"That's good. If I were you, I'd ban that bastard from Lucky's room," Laurel said.
"Already done. Tony and dad have been banned from Lucky's room. There will be one more added to the list if he knew about the medication Tony had him on. I haven't had a chance to ask Dr. Webber if he knew yet," Leah said.
"Dr. Webber, as in Liz's brother Steven Webber?" Laurel asked.
"Yes. He is her brother and I hope to work side by side with him if he didn't know about the meds," Leah said.
"That'll be good," she said before Shawn signaled to her. "Sis, I'd better go. We'll be in PC in a few hous."
"See you soon, LauriBeth," Leah said.
"You got it, LeeJean," Laurel said before both women hung up the phones.