Chapter Two – Jason's Wedding Day

"Emily?" An older man saw the back of a girls head in the hallway, looking lost.

Emily turned around to face the voice, "Oh, hey Mike. How are you?"

"Good. Glad you made it. Yourself?"

"Never better."

"Would you like to meet the bride? No time like the present." Mike opened a door. "Courtney? . . . This is Emily, Jason's sister."

The two girls shook hands. "Jason talks about you all the time. I'm so glad you could make it, you seem closer to him than other parts of the Quartermaines."

"Well, that's Jase."

"He really loves you, you know. He'd do anything for you, and he was so happy that you were excited about his marriage."

Emily ignored Courtney's first statement, and replied, "I'm glad he's happy. He deserves it."

Just then Sonny peeked his head in. "Time to go, el pequeño."

"Well, see you later, nice meeting you Courtney." Emily said, grabbing onto Sonny's outstretched hand on the way out.

Ten minutes later, the couple was being officially introduced as man and wife by the pastor when Emily grabbed for her forehead and collapsed, fainting. Monica ran over as Jason was scooping Emily off the floor. They took Emily to the hospital to get checked out, and she woke up a little later.

Jason was on one side of her bed when she woke up, Lucky on the other, Courtney leaning against the wall next to the doorway. Jason didn't even blink before speaking, "How could you keep this from me? How come you didn't tell me? All those times you wrote me, and you didn't say a thing!"

Lucky glanced at Courtney, and mouthed "Go tell everyone she's awake, but we'll be having a conversation before anyone else can come in here." Courtney glanced at Jason. Lucky saw and replied, "I'm staying." With that, she left.

Emily knew this was bad, that they had found out one of her secrets. "Why. Why should I have?"

"Nikolas was right." Jason and Emily both glanced at Lucky, who didn't even know the comment had come out of his mouth.

Fire burst into Emily's eyes, shooting daggers in Lucky's face, then at Jason. "What do you mean, Spencer! What was your brother right about?"

"He said you didn't know when to stop. To stop protecting us, to stop helping us and help yourself. And its true, isn't it? Why didn't you even tell me about the cancer?"

"What was I supposed to do?" Emily started, "I didn't want to burden everyone. I came home during Spring Break one year ago. One day I was at Mercy for a checkup and Nikolas was there for a meeting. He saw me, found out from a nurse. I got so angry with him. So I just left after that."

"Without telling anyone where you were going? Without even telling Nik?" Jason put in.

"YES! Alright! Why should I have? Everyone had their own life, no one seemed to be paying attention when I left, I decided to leave it that way. I figured…"

Lucky cut in, seeing where this was headed, "…and no one would stop you? That's it… Should I call Nik? Find out what went on?"

"No. No. No." Emily repeated, over and over again, tears brimming. "It will make everything so much worse. He knows….no, no, just don't call him. Please, Lucky, don't."

Jason and Lucky left with promises to come back soon and that everyone would leave her alone for today, stepping out so that she could sleep.

"She still doesn't get it."

Jason stopped Lucky, who was muttering under his breath. "What do you mean?"

"…to stop. She'll never learn. It's in her nature, ever since we went to Arizona its like she made a pact to herself to help all of you, but forget about herself."

"I know she said for you not to call him…" Jason began, but Lucky interrupted.

"I knew she'd tell me that. Here is Nik's private number in Greece," Lucky said, pulling a small piece of yellow paper out of his pocket. "Just don't give him your 'I'm-jason-the-mob-enforcer', please just give him the 'I'm-emily's-sister' rant, alright."