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"Maybe I'll kill your husband slow, Mrs. Morgan… maybe I'll wait around until the birth of your child and then take him away from the two of you…" Courtney couldn't stand to hear him any longer, and she reached for the gun in Jason's belt, and before anyone could stop her or before she could stop herself, she fired.

Courtney's mouth dropped when she saw Sandoval stagger, curse, then fall to the ground. She felt Jason's arm come around her, take the gun, and turn her around. They almost walked straight into Ric Lansing.

"Don't bother trying to cover up for her, Jason. I saw the whole thing." Ric looked at Courtney, and he felt an unexpected pang of sympathy. She was shaking, violently. Her face, normally so bright and cheerful, was pale and streaked with tears. "I'll need to arrest her."

"Ric, no. You can't take her. She's pregnant." Lorenzo Alcazar stepped over the body of Sandoval and moved over to the three.

"Officer Oliveria? Get the paramedics down here, pronto." Ric watched as the young man nodded and went off to perform the task he was assigned before turning his attention back to Lorenzo Alcazar. "I watched her shoot a man."

"He provoked her." Alcazar yelled.

Jason remained silent, holding his wife close to him. He hoped that she'd stop shaking, that her face would regain some of that color if he just supported her enough. He wasn't talking to Ric because he didn't know what he could say to make it better.

Jason was more afraid than he'd ever been in his life. What if he couldn't get Courtney out of this one?

"I have to take her in." Ric repeated, and he took the handcuffs out of the hands of a nearby officer. "Courtney Morgan, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney…."

Jason watched, tears in his eyes, as they took her away. He looked back at the brother of the man who had caused Courtney so much pain. They were loading him on a stretcher, yelling things that Jason didn't understand. But then, he didn't understand much of anything at the moment.

He tried to make a mental list of things to do. He needed to get to the police station, he needed to call Justus, Sonny… he needed to make sure that Sandoval lived. If he died, Courtney was facing a murder charge.

Jason blinked back the tears, told Max to call Sonny and have him meet him at the PCPD, and he ran to the waiting limo.

"Officer, please put Mrs. Morgan in Interrogation One." Ric demanded of the rookie.

Courtney felt herself being led into a room she'd been in so many times before. She took note of the hard, metal chairs and realized that she'd have to sit in one for long periods of time. Funny how she never noticed the pale color of the walls before…

The officer was talking to her, but she couldn't seem to respond. Did she want to? Jason had always told the cops that talked to him that he wouldn't speak without an attorney present. Soon enough, the cop gave up on her and left her alone in the room.

She felt like she was suffocating.

She just shot a man, and she could have killed him.

Feeling the initial shock beginning to wear off, she looked at her hands. Only minutes before, those very hands had been holding a gun. She wiggled her index finger. Only minutes before, that finger had pulled the trigger…

Courtney felt a tear slip down her cheek. Then the door opened, revealing Jason and Justus.

Jason was by her side immediately, and she fell into his arms. The rest of the tears came then.

Justus saw that the couple clearly needed time alone, and proceeded to wait outside.

"I'm s-so s-sorry, Jason." Courtney choked into her husband's chest, not realizing that she was breaking his heart.

"Shh. It's okay. I'm here, and I'm not going anywhere." Jason rubbed circles into her back and kissed her head.

"I just, I shot him! Like I shot Brian…" She felt her knees go weak and her head start to spin.

Jason caught her, but her eyes were drifting shut, and Jason's worst fears were becoming reality.

"Courtney, hey. Stay with me. Focus on me, okay? Courtney!" But his attempts to keep her awake were useless. She'd blacked out.

An icy ball of fear rolled up in his stomach as he picked her up and carried her out of Interrogation One.

"What the hell happened, Morgan?" Ric yelled, seeing Courtney passed out in her husband's arms.

"I don't know! This is all too much for her to take! I need to get her to the hospital. You know as well as I do that her pregnancy is high-risk!" Jason was so afraid, so scared that he didn't bother to lower his voice. All eyes were now on him, or rather, Courtney's lifeless body.

And then Sonny walked in.

"What the hell? Jason, the baby?"

"Look, Sonny I don't know! We need to get her to the hospital!" And Jason and Sonny exchanged knowing looks.

"We'll take her, Ric."

Ric could only nod. He knew he wasn't following procedure, but Courtney wasn't an ordinary criminal. And he knew how badly she wanted her son. So he watched his brother and the hit man dash out of the PCPD. "Follow them."

"We need help over here!" Sonny yelled as he and Jason entered the ER. A nurse came over immediately.

"What seems to be the problem?" She asked in her most polite voice.

"She's passed out, she's pregnant, it's high-risk! Put the pieces together!" Sonny said impatiently.

The nurse yelled for a gurney and other things that Jason didn't catch. His eyes were on his wife. What was supposed to be a difficult pregnancy had turned out to be rather easier than they expected. He'd been so thankful for that. But now…

He felt her being lifted out of his arms, and instinctively held on.

"Sir, you'll have to let her go. We need to run tests and get an IV in. Are you her husband?" The same polite nurse asked him.

"Yeah, uhm yes. She's my wife." Jason managed to stammer out. He watched as they wheeled Courtney away, like she was just some other patient. But she wasn't just some other patient, not to him, her friends, or her family. She meant the world.

"I'll need you to fill out a few forms while you wait for word. Who's her OBGYN?"

"Dr. Meadows."

"Great, thank you. I'll be back with those forms and a pen." She reassuringly touched his shoulder. "We have a great staff here, I'm sure your wife and your baby will be fine."

Jason sank into the chair against the wall in the hospital waiting room. The police had just entered, along with Carly, who Sonny had called on the way to the hospital.

After telling the police to shut up and stop harassing her family, Carly made her way over to her husband and best friend.

"Everything will be okay."

Jason hoped and prayed with all his heart that she was right, as he stared down the hallway they'd taken his wife down.