"Sly," Elizabeth groaned as she tried to push the heavy weight off of her stomach, "Sly, are you okay?"

"I'm alright Lizzie," Sly standing over her with his gun still in his hand, "Hang on while I get this off of you. The pilots dead and no one else came running to see what happened so I don't think that's a good sign."

Elizabeth saw him move away from her and then she felt the weight lift off of her, a loud crashing noise echoed in her ear as Sly threw a large piece of metal behind him. She tried to sit up but her body didn't want to obey her brains command.

"Lizzie, Lizzie wait," he said grabbing her elbow.

Elizabeth held her head as he helped her into a sitting position and she looked at him, saw that he was bleeding from a cut on his cheek and one on his chin, "What hit you?"

"Some pieces of plastic," Sly shrugged, "We need to get you to the hospital, see if that caused any damage."

"I'm fine, no," Elizabeth said as he helped her to her feet, "This wasn't random was it? He knows I'm here. Did you lead him to me Sly? You told me that we had time!"

"I was told by Luis that he was giving me a few days," Sly said, "He was still working on things when I left, Lizzie, I don't know if he found out anything more about where you were or the men you were associating with."

Elizabeth visibly paled in front of him and Sly had to catch her in his arms to keep her from falling, "You're going to a hospital."

"What the hell happened?" Francis yelled as he came running into the hanger, his eyes growing wide as he took in the scene around him, "Is she alive?"

"You going to ask questions or is your boss kind enough to let me take her to the hospital before he kicks her out of town?" Sly asked as he hoisted Elizabeth up into his arms.

"The cars out front, I was about a mile down the road when I heard the explosion," Francis said, "Are there any survivors?"

"I'm afraid to check the offices," Sly said, "And I'm afraid to stand around here talking. I don't think this was a one man job and I don't think it stopped here. You need to drop us off at GH and go check on Mr. Corinthos."

Francis nodded eagerly as he led his way to the car. He wasn't going to wait until the hospital to check in with Johnny and Marco. Something wasn't right and he had the feeling that Elizabeth wasn't going to be the only person heading into the emergency room with war injuries.

"I said I'm okay," Jason yelled as Johnny helped him stand up. The enforcer shoved the bodyguard away, his hands reaching for his head, frowning in disgust when they came away with blood, "God damn't."

"You need to get that looked at," Johnny said, "Now," he added before Jason could interrupt, "I'm taking you to the doctors and…" Johnny reached into his pocket and grabbed his ringing cell phone, "O'Brien," he barked into the other end, "What? Have you heard from Marco? No, we're on our way there now."

Jason watched Johnny slid his phone back into his suit pocket before he faced him with a grim expression, "Just say it, Johnny."

"That was Francis," Johnny said quietly, "He's on his way back to town with Elizabeth. Her and her friend were about to board the plane when it exploded. He's not sure what the extent of Elizabeth's injuries are but he, along with her friend, are under the impression that this wasn't a random thing," he looked around the park, at the bullet shells that surrounded them and winced when he heard the approaching sirens, "We need to go."

"There's something you're not telling me," Jason said as he tired to hurry after Johnny, tried to get to the car before the police got to them.

Johnny sighed as he climbed into the driver's seat, looking at Jason when he heard the passenger door closed, "Francis can't reach Marco."

"Sonny was hit too," Jason said as his eyes narrowed, "Elizabeth Webber is dead."

"I'm fine, would you just leave me alone?" Elizabeth said pushing Sly away, "I don't understand the point of this. We shouldn't be here, this is too dangerous."

"I am not taking you anywhere until you get yourself checked out," Sly said, "I don't care how light you said that heavy piece of metal was, you could be bleeding internally and not know a damn thing about it. Sit down, shut up and wait here."

She flopped down in the chair, her arms across her chest and watched him head to the nurses station, explaining her situation and asking for forms to fill out. Her eyes then moved on to Francis who was standing very close to her and looking worried, his eyes darting back and forth between the elevators and the doors that lead to the outside.

"Francis, you spoke with Johnny," Elizabeth said quietly, "Can you tell me if anyone else is hurt?"

Francis looked down at her, anger in his eyes before he looked away again. He hated that this was happening to her and hated that he and the rest of the guards were caught in the middle. He knew that he couldn't disclose anything because Jason would kill him, that is if he didn't kill Elizabeth first.

"Room one, we've got heavy trauma, page Doctor Monica Quartermaine, tell her we need her stat, multiple gun shot wounds to the victim," an emergency medical technician yelled as Sonny was wheeled into the emergency room.

Elizabeth jumped to her feet as she watched in horror as the man who came to her rescue was rushed past, the white sheets that covered him were now quickly turning red with his own blood. The desperate cries reached her ears and she turned to see Lily stumbling in behind the ambulance team.

"Lily," Elizabeth said running towards her, "Lily, what happened?"

"Sonny got this call and he turned to tell me that we had to go and then the door burst open," Lily said as she ran tried to wipe at the continuous tears that were flowing down her face, "Sonny threw me to the floor and they just poured bullets into him, Elizabeth. Oh God, Elizabeth," she cried.

Elizabeth stumbled slightly as Lily threw her arms around her, hugging her tightly as she cried against the younger woman's shoulder. Elizabeth held her back, smoothing her hair before pulling back and looking at Lily's face.

"You have some blood…are you injured?" Elizabeth stepped further back and examined Lily's clothes. There was blood everywhere, on her shirt, her pants and even her beautiful leather shoes that she just bought on an outing with Elizabeth a few weeks ago.

"I'm fine," Lily said as her eyes went towards the door where Sonny was just taken, "This is all…"

Elizabeth pulled her back into her arms, afraid that she was going to hear Lily say that. It wasn't a good sign at all that her husband had lost so much blood. Elizabeth was afraid that he wasn't going to make it into surgery.

"Let's sit down," Elizabeth said as she helped Lily to a chair with one arm, the other one wrapped around her own stomach which was starting to ache, "Do you want anything to drink? Maybe Francis could go get you some water."

"I'm fine, I'm okay, Francis, check on the kids, oh god the kids, I couldn't even think," Lily cried, "They're with Mike," she turned to look at Elizabeth desperately, "If Sonny hadn't taken off, if Mike didn't offer too…"

"No, don't even think that," Elizabeth said firmly, "Sonny is going to be okay and the kids are fine. Francis will confirm that and I know that Jason is on his way. He'll take care of you, Lily."

Sly cleared his throat behind Elizabeth, "I filled out most of the forms for you, Lizzie. You just have to sign and go with the nurse; she's going to run some tests."

"Who is this?" Lily asked when she looked up at Sly and saw that he was cut, the blood quickly drying, "Are you okay? What happened?" the nurse in her caused her to stand up and examining Sly's right cheek, "This is shallow but you need to get this looked at and Elizabeth, did…what did they do to you? You aren't even supposed to be here Elizabeth, you were supposed to be on the…oh God."

"I'm okay," Elizabeth said as she pulled Lily back down beside her, "And I'm going to stay with you until Jason gets here, I'm not going to leave. The nurse can wait."

"Lizzie, I don't think…"

"Sly," Elizabeth said glaring at him, "I am okay, Lily is not."

Sly knelt down in front of Lily and held out his hand, "I'm Sly Eckert, Mrs. Corinthos, we've never met before but I've heard some wonderful things about you from my cousin, Lucky Spencer. I heard you were a nurse too."

"I am," Lily said, "Part time, here," she took his hand and gave him a forced smile, "It's nice to meet you, Sly. How do you know Elizabeth? Is it through…"

"I don't know any of his relatives," Elizabeth said, "Well, except Bobbie, but that's because I was always at Kelly's picking up food," she fiddled with a strand of hair and looked away from Lily. "Sly and I met…we met a few years ago."

"Oh," Lily said quietly and then slid a glare towards Sly, "He didn't…"

"He helped more than he harmed me," Elizabeth said, "Can I get you some water, Lily?"

"Sonny's jet blew up," Sly said before Lily could answer, "Elizabeth and I were far enough away to not be seriously injured but a piece of metal fell on her and I'm a little worried and I think that she needs to get it checked out."

"Sly!" Elizabeth said, "Would you stop being so insensitive?"

"He's right," Lily said, "He's worried about you. I think that you should go have it looked at. In fact, I'd like to come with you, it might help me take my mind off of…" she bit her lip as the tears started to fall again.

"Alright," Elizabeth said, "But if this check up has anything to do with drawing blood I think you need to be the one to do that. I don't like needles."

Lily laughed softly as she hugged Elizabeth, "You did just fine last time. Come on, I see the nurse waiting for you."

"I'll be right here, Lizzie," Sly said as he stood up and watched her disappear behind a curtain, her hand holding Lily's tightly. He sighed and turned around, coming face to face with an irate Jason Morgan.

"You want to tell me what the fuck you're still doing in town?"

"Probably the same reason you got that nasty ooze coming out of your head," Sly said, "Someone planted a bomb on the jet and it went off with enough time for me and Lizzie to escape unscathed, for the most part. I guess I should thank you for telling her to fuck off this morning."

"I don't care about your girlfriend," Jason said, "I care about what happened to my men this and I care about the fact that a friend of mine is in that emergency room with a whole lot of bullets in him. You weren't helping Elizabeth, you brought these assholes here."

"That's one thing I can assure you," Sly said, "My every intention was to bring Lizzie back with me but I had no intention of killing her. You're going to have to take that up with Alcazar."

"Who?" Jason asked, "Alcazar from Chicago? Elizabeth's from…"

"If you'd let her get a word in edgewise somewhere you might actually know the full story," Sly said, "But instead you sit up there on your goddamn mafia pedestal and look down on her like she's trash. She didn't mean for this to happen and as soon as she's finished getting checked out we're leaving, on our own terms and we're not going to owe a dime to anyone of you. You can have Corinthos' money back."

"Elizabeth isn't leaving town," Jason said, "Neither are you. The guards will make sure of that."

"You think I'm worried about these assholes?" Sly said, "I didn't get to where I am by being an idiot."

Jason snorted, "Fooled the hell out of me. Your fate will be decided depending on whether or not Sonny pulls through this. If he lives, I just might let her too, but either way you're a dead man for bringing someone else into our territory."

"You think you frighten me?" Sly asked with raised eyebrows, "You wanna take care of this right here, right now? At least they'll get a chance to pull the bullet out of your heart."

A slow, evil smile appeared on Jason's face, "I don't think you realize that you're in over your head."

"I think that your underestimating me," Sly spit out, "Come on, give me your best shot."

"Jason if you even think about raising a hand in this hospital I will call security myself and have you escorted out," Lily said as she came storming over towards him, "We are not here to start fights, you are here to get your head looked at and I want you to try and tell me no…"

"Lily…"

"Come on," Lily said grabbing him by the sleeve of his jacket and pulling him towards another room.

"Don't let him out of your sight," Jason said as he pointed to Johnny and Francis. He turned around in time to see Elizabeth emerge from a room, drinking something from a cup. He noticed her start to pale, start to shake when her eyes settled on him.

Good, he thought.

Pulling away from Lily he walked up to her, "I hope you're happy," he whispered as he leaned towards her, "Because all this rests on your shoulders."

Lily pushed Jason into the curtained room and came to stand in front of Elizabeth, taking her shaking hands from her, "You did not do this to my husband and I don't want you thinking that you did. I'll be out in one minute, I would like for you to wait with me while I wait for word on Sonny. Would you do that?"

"I want to," Elizabeth said quietly, "But I don't…"

"Sly's waiting for you," Lily smiled as she hugged Elizabeth tightly, "Thank you for being here when I first came in. I needed a friend and I'm glad it was you."

Elizabeth was left there standing dumbfounded, unable to believe that a woman as beautiful and as kind as Lily Corinthos truly existed.

"What the hell were you trying to prove?" Lily asked as she stormed into the area with Jason, yanking drawers open and slamming them shut, looking for bandage tape.

"I don't have to prove anything," Jason said, "She proved it all herself today with this shit. Who the fuck is that jackass with her anyway," he sighed as he rubbed the uninjured side of his head, "How is Sonny? How are you holding up?"

"That jackass is Lucky Spencer's cousin Sly Eckert and as we speak," Lily said throwing a roll at him, "My husband's life is pouring out of his body and instead being supportive and helping me through this you are picking a fight with people in the emergency room and yelling at Elizabeth who had nothing…"

"She brought this here, Lily," he said jumping up and then immediately regretting it, "Damn't…"

"That is what you get," Lily said helping him sit back down again. She frowned as she brought a cloth to his face and washed the blood from it, "Whether you or Sonny like it I consider Elizabeth my friend and because she made a mistake…"

"Mistake?" Jason scoffed, "I hate to see what you consider a real betrayal, ow, Lily."

"I'm sorry, is the tape too tight?" Lily asked and then sighed, looking down at her blood covered hands, "You haven't seen him Jason, he looks so pale, he looks like he's going to…"

"He's not," Jason said as he pulled Lily into his arms, wrapping her in his embrace, "He's not Lily he's going to make it and we're going to go after the bastard that did this."

"That's right," Lily said returning his hug, "The bastard that did this, not Elizabeth."

'I'd rather not talk about that right now," he said as he finished securing the bandage himself, "Do you have something I can take for the headache?"

"You should be checked in," Lily said quietly as she searched for some pills, "But I know how you are so I'm not going to fight you on it, just please, please," she whispered as she closed her eyes, "I'd like to have Elizabeth with me and I'd like to have you with me too, Jason, please."

Jason sighed as he ran his hand over his forehead and winced, "Fine, I guess I should be sitting down anyway. How are the kids?"

"Francis was checking on them," Lily said, "I'm sure he's heard something by now."

"Let's go see," Jason said.

"I don't like the look on your face, Lizzie," Sly said quietly as he slid his arm around her shoulder.

"It's over," she whispered, "It's time that I go back."

"Lizzie, we're so close…"

"Don't you see what I've done?" Elizabeth looked up at him, her eyes tortured, "I caused this Sly and Lily, bless her heart, she's still defending me while her husband is lying in that hospital room, bleeding to death, with gun shots that were ordered by my husband who is looking for me," she sighed as she ran her hands over her face, "And Jason…"

"I don't want this for you," Sly said, "You deserve more than this, you deserve to live your life, you deserve to be free."

"I'll get that," Lizzie smiled sadly, "I'll be eighteen in a year. I'll be free then."

Sly slid his fingers through her hair as he pulled her closer, pressing his forehead against hers, "I don't know if you'll be alive by then Lizzie."

"Better me than them."

"Lizzie," Sly groaned in agony.

"It's over, for me, it has been for a long time," Elizabeth said as she stood up from her chair, watching Lily and Jason approach her, "How are you holding up Lily?"

"I'll be okay," Lily smiled as she took Elizabeth's hands, "Thank you for…"

"Code blue, we have a code blue in trauma one!"

"Sonny," Lily whispered as she moved away from Elizabeth and ran towards the double doors, "Sonny!"

Elizabeth watched in horror as Jason followed her, grabbing her around the waist and holding her against him as the nurses and doctors tried to work on her husband. They were holding pads of gauze against his wound, they were trying to give him oxygen, they were trying to restart his heart.

Stepping back and stumbling into a chair, Elizabeth blinked away the tears. She had done this, all of it and now it was time that she made things right. It all started out with one simple lie, assuming the role of an adult so she could work in a strip bar for two weeks, just two weeks.

Then she fell in love with an older man, then she met his best friends, then she became a part of their family and then she decided she didn't want to leave.

She waited too damn long and now had gone too far. Jason would never forgive her for the lies, Sonny, if he recovered, would never forgive her for the danger she brought to him, and the children and Lily, wonderful Lily, would love her because no one else did.

She looked at Sly as the tears rolled down her face, "It's time."

"Lizzie…"

"I'm going with or without you," Elizabeth said quietly as she watched Lily collapse in Jason's arms, "For the first time in my life Sly, I'm going to do the right thing."

Sly sighed as he slipped his arm around her waist, "And I'm going to do it with you."

Elizabeth walked past Francis and Johnny, the guards stepping aside to allow them through. She knew that Jason must have given the go ahead, otherwise they wouldn't have budge. She also didn't have to turn around to know that he was gazing at her; she felt his icy blue eyes boring into her back.

"I don't understand," Johnny said quietly to Jason as he watched one of the regular nurses come over to Lily and let her through the doors so she could be closer to Sonny as they tried to get him to start breathing again, "I thought we weren't letting them go."

"We aren't," Jason said dragging his eyes away from his friend's wife.

"But…" Francis started.

"I won't you both on her," Jason said motioning to Lily, "And make sure there are two guards on the kids."

"Should we ask where you're going?" Johnny asked.

"I'll be in contact," Jason said as he pulled on his leather gloves, "I'm going to be at one of the safe houses."

Francis had a feeling where this was going and he wasn't liking it one bit, "Jason, I don't think that Sonny would…"

"Someone is going to have to pay for this," Jason said, "And if it's Elizabeth Webber, so be it."