Note: So is anyway as tired of reading this story with Alexis as I am of writing it without her in it? Well don't worry in the next set of chapters she's
back. It's been awhile but she's back and then my funny bone kicks in and all the drama is kinda maybe sorta gone. Anyway enjoy
and leave me comments and suggestions.

Chapter 34

Inside Alexis' Hospital Room

Kristina had stated she wanted to see her mother alone but when she had gotten to the door, her steps had faltered. She turned to her brother Morgan and asked him to accompany her. The door opened and they walked into the room hand in hand. "I'm scared Morgan. I don't even recognize her, she's so lifeless."

Morgan nodded and walked towards the bed and looked at his mother lying there and stepped back. "I can't look at her like this I just can't Kristina."

He put his hand on the doorknob to leave the room when Kristina spoke up from behind him softly, "Not even for me?"

Morgan spun around and looked at his sister staring at his mother through sad eyes. "I can't do this alone. Not anymore than you or Dad or Michael can. I need you Morgan, please don't leave me."

Morgan nodded and wrapped his arms around his sister's shoulders and said "Let's talk to Mom then, together."

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

Michael stood outside of his mother's room pacing. "What is taking them so long?"

Alicia looked at Michael and said "They are your mother's children too Michael. You know you can't be the only one to hog all of her time right?"

Michael nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I just feel so useless. Helena is around Port Charles gleefully because she thinks she has won. I'm just tired of everyone else winning except for this family."

Outside of the Chapel

Jason sat outside the chapel with Kristina, the both of them refusing to go in, but each for their own different reasons.

Jason looked at Kristina "Why aren't you going on? I thought you would be all over this spiritual stuff."

Kristina rolled her eyes at him and said "Jason, let's not fight right now okay. We both have to be there for our families and us fighting like cats and dogs is not going to help the situation."

Jason nodded and said, "You're right. I'm sorry it's just I'm antsy. There's nothing I can do to help Sonny or the kids and I just feel worthless."

Kristina nodded and said, "I feel the same way. No crystals can help my sister now; it's all up to modern medicine."

Jason snorted and said, "Why do you say that new age crap anyway? Do you really believe in it?"

Kristina stood up in anger and said, "That new age crap as you call it happens to be a personal belief of mine and I will not stand here while you degrade all of my values."

Jason laughed and held up his hands making the sign of quotes and said "Values. What about crystals make it a value?"

Kristina laughed while tapping her foot, "That's rich coming from the little thug who runs around the penthouse making a living as a criminal. You know that you are really laughable. Putting other people down just to make yourself feel better, why don't you go be useful and go find Helena or something?"

Jason swore and started to walk away when Kristina called out to him. Turning around he looked at her "What?"

Kristina smiled softly at him and said, "Thanks, I needed that."

Jason smiled nodding and said "Anytime."

Hospital Lobby

Zander looked up as Sonny came and sat down in front of him. "I have a job if you're interested."

Zander shook his head and said "I'm out of that business, you know that Sonny."

Sonny nodded and said, "I need to find Helena Zander and I need your help."

Kristina came up behind them and said, "Why so you can kill her? And how exactly does that help Alexis."

Sonny stood up in shock and said "Kristina, I didn't know you were here."

Kristina shook her head "Well I am here and I heard every word you just said to my fiancée. How quick do you go back on everything you had worked so hard for?"

Sonny swore and said "Look don't start with your sermons. My wife is in a hospital bed fighting for her life and the lives of our twins. The only one who is guilty? Helena Cassadine. She is walking around Port Charles free and clear."

Kristina clapped her hands and said "Very good Sonny. Justify what you considering. Justify that when Alexis wakes up and I do believe with every fiber of my being that she will wake up she has to find out her husband is in jail."

Sonny closed his eyes accepting what Kristina had said, "Well at least I'll have eliminated a threat to our lives."

Kristina smiled glad to see that she had gotten through to Sonny. She put her hand on his shoulder "You've eliminated a threat as well as yourself from Alexis's life. You, who have always been adamant about the code you live up to, know that Alexis has a code as well. So tell me is it worth it to break that code and her heart and live forever without her?"

Hours Later, Lobby Waiting Room

Dr. Goldblum came into the waiting area and looked at the family who hadn't moved since occupying those seats hours ago and said, "It's getting late, so why don't you go home?"

Eight sets of eyes looked at him like he lost his mind. Sure, he was just the one with the medical degree. "Look, you can't do anything for her, unless you guys want to keep going around in a continuous circle visiting her one at a time. Go home, get some sleep, come back tomorrow refreshed."

Kristina nodded and looked at Alexis's family "The doctor is correct, there isn't much we can do for her at the hospital."

Sonny nodded and said "Kristina do me a favor. Can you take the children home with you? I'll stay at the hospital."

Three sets of head shook at him in negation, those of his children. "Dad, we are a family. Where you are we are."

Dr. Goldblum laughed to himself and said, "Okay, you guys win. I give up."

As he walked off Jason cleared his throat. "Listen, I didn't want to say anything until we were all together as a family but seeing as how no one is leaving the hospital tonight, I guess I'll tell you here. It has to do with Carly."

Michael rolled his eyes and said, "What does she want now?"

Jason smiled and said "Sonny, you are once again a single man. Carly signed the divorce papers this evening. I called and verified with Ric, they are authentic he has already filed them with the court."

Chapter 35

Continued in Hospital Lobby

Kristina was the first to react. She stood up and started dancing. Michael looked at her in shock and she turned on him "Come on. You know you want to. Once Mom wakes up, we will all go somewhere like Puerto Rico. You know that's my favorite place right? Anyway we can all go as a family and get remarried. This time there will be no revolving ex-wives from the grave to worry about. Speaking of exes are you sure Mom isn't still legally married to Uncle Jax or something?"

Four sets of "Breathe," came at Kristina before she had a chance to realize she was hyperventilating.

Sonny ran to the nurses' station and asked for a paper bag. He shoved the bag under his daughter's face as he kissed her on the forehead and leaned her back into his arms training her to breathe as he had to do a thousand times with his wife.

Everyone started laughing after the crisis had passed, and Kristina stood up in anger after she had recovered and glared at everyone laughing, "What's so funny?"

Michael was the first to get over his hysterics and pulled his sister in his arms "You are Mom's child, you know that right?"

Next Morning

Sonny woke up with a crick in his neck and his children missing. Standing up he started to scan the room when Jason shoved a cup of coffee under his face. "They all went in to wish Alexis a good morning. They should be out anytime soon. Kristina your sister-in-law spent most of the night with Alexis and Zander took her home early this morning to get some rest. She'll be back later after she is refreshed and ready to go."

Sonny nodded and accepted the cup of coffee gratefully. He took one sip and spat back into the cup "Are you sure that Alexis is still in a coma? This coffee tastes like something she would make."

Jason smiled at him and said, "It's good to hear you making jokes in the light of everything going on."

Sonny shrugged and said, "I've no other options. You heard my children; I'm under attack if I do anything that would show how much I'm worried right now."

Dr. Goldblum sat down at the foot of Alexis' Davis-Corinthos bed. He looked at her sleeping so peacefully, oblivious to the fact that her silence was causing her family unspeakable pain.

"I know you can hear me. I've read the medical journals; I just don't know why you won't wake up. You have so much to live for; I've met your family. That man out there is very protective of you, not to mention the children that you have. I heard about the stress you've been having lately. It's customary for me to get to know all of my patients. When I heard that you were seven months pregnant and had put yourself in front of a bullet, to save a child that wasn't even yours, I knew I had to meet you. Looking at you, I wish the circumstances were different."

Someone cleared their throat and Dr. Goldblum spun around in shock to the face of a very angry, Sonny Corinthos.

Sonny and Alexis House

Michael opened the door as his brother and sister shuffled in silently.

He looked at them and said, "Dad wants us to go to school today. He told me that we can't do anything for Mom at the hospital."

Kristina rolled her eyes and plopped down on the couch "I'm not going to school, I just clear it with my principal or I'll make Aunt Kristina do it. I can't go to school while my mom is laying in a coma and I don't know how she is. If something happens to her, while I'm supposed to be at school, I'll never forgive myself."

Morgan nodded and said, "I agree with Kristy. Look, I love Dad and all but Mom always helped make those decisions and if she was awake she would convince my Dad to let us be at the hospital."

Michael smiled and said, "So then we are in agreement, and we all ignore Dad's ruling and go back to the hospital. Deal?"

All three children nodded and put their hands in the middle to confirm it.

Outside Alexis's Hospital Room

"What the hell were you doing in there with my wife Dr. Goldblum?"

Sonny spat out at the doctor furiously after ushering him out of his wife's room. He was jealous and he would admit it. He had worked long and hard to make her legally his in the eyes of the law and he wasn't about to allow some two-bit doctor come and take her away. The doctor had been talking to his wife like he knew her.

"Look, Mr. Corinthos, Ms. Davis needs constant stimulation and I was just providing that just like I provide it to all my patients."

Sonny nodded disbelievingly, "So I'm to understand that you go into the rooms of all of your other patients for this type of therapy? And for the last damn time, her name is Mrs. Corinthos as in my wife."

Marcus laughed at the jealousy he had provoked in this man and said, "From what I understand from talking with her sister, she just got through an especially stressful time in her life. A time where she found out that her marriage to you was annulled. So according to the laws of Port Charles, she's a single woman."

Hours Later, Hospital Lobby

Sonny was still spitting nails hours later after he pondered on his conversation with the doctor. The elevators opened and his children walked out. His joy at seeing them quickly turned into a frown when he noticed his watch.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought I told you to go to school today. There's nothing you can do here."

Michael walked up to his father and said, "Dad, we had a family meeting at the house."

Sonny laughed crossing his arms in disbelief and said, "A family meeting? Without me or your mother being present?"

Michael nodded preparing himself for the fight "There wasn't any other choice, you were being unreasonable and we needed to discuss our next course of action."

Sonny sat down as he looked in the eyes of his children and snorted, "Your mother would be so proud of you Michael. You, who sound like a lawyer preparing for his first case, Okay, I'm game. What is so important that you guys had to miss another day of school to tell me?"

Michael smiled pleased that he was once again being compared to his mother and spoke softly, "We have decided to forego classes until Mom is better."

Thanks, EP