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Response to Reviews

Shamira: I'm glad that you didn't do your Alcazar rant, I like him, but you
won't see him in many of my stories though. Elizabeth was one of my
favorite characters when I first started watching the show, so I always like
to have in my stories. I always thought her and Courtney could have been
great friends. Thank you for reviewing both of my stories all the time. You
are my faithful reviewer.. thanks!!

Rebecca – I'm glad that you love this story, it is always nice to hear. I
wish we had more Sonny and Courtney scenes on the show too!!

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going to be okay. Like Shamira, thank you for reviewing every chapter of
this story.

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Aftermath

Chapter 5

"So where did Max find Courtney? Is she okay?" Carly asked. Jason looked up
at her with a sad look on his face.

"You need to sit down,"

Carly looked at Jason. "She's dead, isn't she?" Carly asked.

"I knew that this was going to happen because we didn't help her, why?" Carly screamed as
she started to hit Jason in the chest.

"Stop it, Carly! She's alive," Jason said, pulling Carly off him.

"Well if she is alive, why do you look so worried?"

"She's at the hospital; Max found her unconscious in a back alley."

Sonny turn to face Jason. "How bad is she?"

"Max didn't say,"

"So what are we still doing here?" Carly asked, as she grabbed her jacket,
and her, Sonny and Jason left the penthouse.

**
When they show up at the hospital, Carly saw Bobbie standing near the
admitting desk.

"Where is she?" Carly asked. "Is she going to be okay?"

Bobbie took a hold of Carly's hand. "Why don't you sit down and relax. It's
not good for the baby."

"I don't care about the baby right now; I care about Courtney. What
happened?" Carly shouted.

"Let's go sit over here," Bobbie said, leading Carly, Jason and Sonny to the
waiting area.

Bobbie took a deep breath before she spoke. "Courtney had to have her
stomach pumped we found out that she had a large amount of drugs in her
system..."

"Are you saying my sister had a drug overdose?" Sonny said. Bobbie nodded. Sonny looked shocked. He couldn't believe that he never saw how
much pain his sister was in.

"Can we see her?" Sonny asked. Bobbie looked at Sonny.

"She hasn't woke up  yet, but I guess I don't see why you can't see her. You have to remember she is in withdrawal right now."

"What can we do mom?"

"The only thing you can do is get her to go to rehab," Bobbie replied.

"I'm not sending my sister to a rehab center; I will help her!" Sonny
shouted.

"She is going to need more help than you can give her, Sonny. This isn't a
little problem that you make go away with money or getting rid of someone,
she has a serious problem and is going to need professional help."

"I don't care," Sonny said, as he walked away. Carly and Jason were about to
walk away, when Carly turned around.

"Thank you, mom. I am going to help  Courtney, like I should have at the beginning, even if it means that I have  to send her to a rehab center to get better."

"I know you will," Bobbie said. Suddenly her pager went off. "I'll see you
later," she said, as she walked away.

**
A while later,

Sonny came out of the room. "So how is she?" Carly asked. Sonny shook his
head.

"Not good, I can't stay here," he said, as he walked away

Carly walked into the room, and sat down next to Courntey. "Great, you are
here! You can get me out of this hospital," Courtney said looking really
pale.

Carly looked down on the floor. "I'm sorry, but I can't do that. You have to
stay here for your own good. Why did you take the drugs, Courntey?"

Courtney laughed. "Oh is that what they are telling you? That I'm a drug
addict? You know that I'm not, right, Carly? I just fainted, that was all."

Carly looked at Courtney. "Do you even know where Max found you?" Courtney
shook her head.

"In a back alley, is that where you give your pills?"

Courtney shouted. "Shut up, Carly. I just took pills a few times! I'm not a
drug addict! Get out of here!" Carly took Courtney's hand.

"Just let me help you. I know that how hard it is to lose a baby, but honey, taking drugs isn't going to ease the pain," Courtney let go of Carly's hand.

"You don't know anything about me or my baby! You call yourself a
friend, but you are certainly not one, if you were; you would help me get
out of this place."

"Of course I'm your friend. You just need some help. I'll help you; you aren't
alone," Carly said. Courtney looked at Carly.

"I don't need any help, I  don't need you! Just go!" she shouted. She looked at Courtney.

"But that's the problem, you do need help," she said.

"Carly, just leave Courntey alone," said a voice. Carly turned around, and
saw Jason standing in front of her. She stood up.

"I'm just trying to  help, but I guess she doesn't want it, so I'm leaving," she said, as she walked out of the room.

Courntey looked at Jason. "Thanks for getting her out of the room, but you
can go now, I don't need you. I don't need anybody."

"But I think you do, Courtney. I know the only reason that you broke up with
me was because you were using drugs and you didn't want me to see that. Let
me help you now."

"I broke up with you because you didn't understand how I was feeling. You
know I cry every night for our baby, but I never heard you cry once. Did
you even care about it?"

Jason sat down. "Of course I cared about our baby, but it is you that needs help."

"You still don't understand how I feel; how empty I feel inside. It is like
part of me is missing."

Jason leaned and hugged Courtney. "I understand that you feel lost right
now, but taking drugs isn't the answer, Courntey."

"What is the answer then, Jason? Huh?"

"You don't know what to say do you?" Courtney said.

"Are you admitting to me that you are taking drugs?" Courtney didn't say anything to
Jason. She wasn't going to admit anything to him.

"Just go, Jason. I don't need anybody, not you, not Sonny or Carly." Jason
looked at Courtney, he never saw her like this before, but there was nothing
that he can do right now, but he knows that she was going to be okay as long
as she is in the hospital.

"I'm leaving," he said, as he turned around and saw Courtney lying down on
the bed. I wish I saw it coming before it got this worse, he thought to
himself, as he walked out of the room.

**
A while later,

Courtney sat up. She sighed. I don't need to be here, I have no problem.
She then got out of the bed, and went to the closet to get her clothes, when
she heard Sonny and Jason talking outside of her room. She went to the door,
and started to listen to the conversations, she couldn't believe what she
heard Jason wanted to send her to a rehab center.

There was no way that was going to happen, she thought to herself. Suddenly
she heard a noise, and she climbed back into the bed. The door opened and it
was Sonny. Courtney looked up at Sonny.

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I just wanted to check up on you."

"I don't need anybody check up on me and please tell Jason and Carly that I
don't want to see them, I don't want to see any of you." Courtney said.
Sonny went up to her, and touched her shoulder.

"Let me help you."

She didn't say anything to Sonny. A few seconds later, Courtney faced Sonny.

"I'm tired, can you go?" she said, as she rested her head on the pillow.

Sonny looked at Courtney. He never seen his sister like this before he
didn't know to do. He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned
around and saw Carly standing in front of him.

"It's late, Sonny. She is going to be okay for tonight. We will figure out what we need to do tomorrow," she whispered to him, as they left Courtney's room.

**
The next day,

Sonny and Carly were sitting in the living room. "I'm going to go see
Courtney this morning, so have you and Jason talked about sending her to a
rehab center?"

"We talked, but I don't know if I can do that to my sister," Suddenly the
phone rang. Carly picked up the phone. "What, are you sure?" she asked.

Sonny walked up to her. "What's wrong?" he asked.

She looked at Sonny.

"It's Jason; Courtney is missing from her hospital's room."

To be continued



Author's Note: Like you didn't see that coming, I hope everybody is still
enjoying the story.