Bold Confessions

Jason and Sonny stand outside Emily's room while Dr. Drake updates them on her condition.

"Overall, she's doing well. She is breathing on her own, and she's got a strong heart beat. We did a CT scan of her brain, and everything is working normally. There's no swelling or internal bleeding anywhere. The only thing I think may have caused her to be in a coma is having some sort of emotional trauma before the accident. She may be in a coma for another couple hours, another couple day, or even a month. There's really no way to give you a timetable for this. Basically, she is going to wake up when she's ready to."

As soon as Dr. Drake mentioned that she might be in a coma because of an emotional trauma, Sonny cringed. Jason saw this, and as soon as Dr. Drake left, he turned to his best friend.

"This isn't your fault Sonny. I know you think it, but it's not. There is no way you could have known that this was going to happen."

"But it is my fault Jason. It's my fault because I lied to her."

"What did you lie to her about?"

"I lied when I told her that I didn't feel the same way about her! There I said it. Now you know that I'm falling in love with your sister. I lied to her because that's what I thought was best for her."

Sonny quickly leaves and Jason stands there looking after him with his mouth wide open. Slowly he recovers and goes into Emily's room. She looks at peace for what seems like the first time in a while. He sits down in the chair next to her bed and takes her hand in his.

"Please come back Emily. I had to see you like this when you were fighting Cancer. I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now. You have such a promising life ahead of you. I only want you to be happy. I'm sorry that I told you to stay away from Sonny. He just told me that he's falling in love with you. I can't really say I'm shocked by that. You've grown into an amazing young woman that any man would fall in love with. I've decided that I can't tell you or Sonny who to be with. Besides, Sonny let me be with Courtney, even though it bothered him. I can't forbid him to be with you anymore Emily. If this is meant to be with the two of you, then I'm not going to stand in the way. Just come back to us. I promise to let you live your own life and love who you want. At least with Sonny, I know he'll try his best to take care of you and make sure that you won't get hurt."

Sonny sits quietly in the hospital chapel for a few minutes, and then starts to pray.

"I know I'm not real high on your priority list God, but I'm begging you to let Emily be okay. I've come to need her in my life. Yeah, she does a great job taking care of Michael and Morgan, but it's more than that. I want her in my life because I'm falling in love with her."

"I knew it!"

It was Carly, somehow she had tracked him down.

"I just knew it! I could tell by the way you looked at her, and by the way that you talked about her. Every single time I brought her up, you would leap into her defense. What is the saying? I think he doth protest too much?"

"You were right Carly. Emily was falling in love with me. She told me last night. I was stunned. I honestly had no idea. I didn't know what to do. So I lied to her. I lied because I knew it's what Jason wanted. I lied because I knew that you'd have some major ego trip over being right about it."

"Well, you're probably right about that Sonny. So what do you plan to do now? Are you going to tell her about your feelings when she wakes up? I really think you should keep your feelings to yourself. You know you'd hate yourself if anything ever happened to her."

"Why do you care Carly? You never wanted me to be with her, and you thought she was trying to replace you as the mother of our sons."

"Look, I know I'm not a big fan of the girl. In quite a few ways, she reminds me of Miss Righteous Robin. She's just so caring, kind and virtuous. I'm none of those things. I just don't know what men see in a woman like that. Mostly I'm just trying to look out for you. If anything ever did happen to you, Jason would never be able to forgive you, and I'm afraid that you'd go into one of your dark places and not come out for a very long time. I can't let you disappear on our boys."

"You're not ever going to have to worry about that Carly. Even if something did happen to Emily, I'd still be there for the boys. I'll never abandon them. You can count on that. But it's my life, and you don't get to decide who I can get involved with romantically. You should know that by now."

"I do know that Sonny. This isn't about me trying to run your life. This is about me making sure that my sons never have to be without their father."

"You know you can't count on that anyway, given the kind of life I lead."

"I know. All I can do is anything I can to help you be here. If it means you want me to back off and leave you and Emily alone, that's what I'll do. I just want you to be careful and make sure she's who you really want before you make some big commitment to her."

Carly walks out of the chapel, leaving Sonny praying to God that Emily will be okay.

"Hello! Is anyone there?"

"I'm here Emily. I'll always be here."

She turns around to see him smiling at her. She looks around and sees two young boys playing with some toys.

"Are these our sons? Is this our family?"

Before he can answer her, everything goes black once again.

"How can I get out of here? I need to get out of whatever place this is and back to reality. I need to get back to the man I love."