He walked into the clinic that morning with a new resolve. His patient had a name, Courtney Matthews. He had stayed up the night before while Liz briefed him on who exactly Courtney was.

Flashback

"So were you two friends"

"Not exactly" she said a sort of pained expression on her face.

"Can you elaborate" he asked.

"For awhile I didn't really know who Courtney was…she just came to town and was the long lost sister of Sonny Corinthos. She had some trouble, her mom was a con artist, and AJ Quartermaine saw a beautiful, vulnerable girl he could use against Sonny and he went after her. Courtney I think fell for that…a rich, older guy who was saying all the right things. They ended up married, but AJ just couldn't hold it together…he was an alcoholic and rammed his car into Coleman's bar one night. Instead of calling the cops Coleman agreed that Courtney could pay off the debt by stripping there" she told him.

"Wait, what? Courtney Matthews was a stripper? Ah, the tale gets more interesting" he said smiling.

"One track mind, I swear I married a sixteen year old" she said rolling her eyes.

"You know you love it" he said pulling her into his lap and kissing her.

She broke the kiss after a few breathless moments, "yes, I do, but I'm not finished, and we have work to do."

He smiled his dimples at her as she continued, "anyway, Sonny found out and had Jason start keeping an eye on her…well then AJ started stalking her…and Jason and her found themselves getting closer. They actually fell for each other…insert reason one Court and I didn't get along"

"Was someone jealous?" he asked teasing.

"Shut up Dr. Hottie" she said too nice to sound convincing.

He smiled, "well anyway Sonny wasn't too keen on their relationship…they tried to break it off, but they loved each other. Anyway finally Sonny accepted that and everything seemed to be going well…but then Court lost their baby…Jason didn't even know she was pregnant…anyway that kind of started their downfall…they loved each other but Jason was loyal to Sonny, and well it just ended badly with the both of them having broken hearts…so Courtney tried to move on with Jax. No one really thought she was over Jason, but they got married too…until they decided they wanted to have a baby…Courtney was unable to conceive" she said cut off.

"Wait, isn't Matthew Courtney's child" he asked confused.

"If you would let me finish Dr. Impatient…so I offered to be the surrogate when Lucky and I needed the money…remember the mess I told you about…well at that time Emily and Nikolas' marriage was falling apart. I guess Court and him became good friends, and very attracted to each other. I saw them kissing on the docks that night, I hated her for that…I felt like she was getting in the middle of our gang while I was pregnant with her child…Anyway, Court ended up pregnant with her miracle baby…you should have seen Nikolas' face…he was so happy…so was she, but they weren't sure it was Nikolas'…so they had a DNA test and it came back that she was pregnant with Jax's child…and all of us thought that Nikolas would leave her, you know? But he loved her so much…he kept choosing her…we were all so blind. Well Jax did what Jax does best and tortured them; trying to weasel his way into their relationship. Courtney left town cause of it…but she new that Nikolas loved her and she came back. Unfortunately that was when the epidemic was breaking out…she had an emergency c-section to save her baby…she was so weak, but you could see how much Nikolas and her wanted to live and raise the baby…I watched her die Patrick, I shocked her….I watched her die" she said the tears falling freely now.

"Shhhh" he said pulling her in tightly, "I am going to make this better, I promise" he told her.

"Run Maxie Run, Daddy is coming!" Matthew yelled running with the blond girl across the lawn.

Maxie ran with him his slow legs toddling. Nikolas ran after them in flourish making the monster like sounds as he did.

He grabbed Maxie first and pulled her down to the ground.

"Help Mattie, help!" she called as Nikolas doing the tickle monster to him.

"Ugh" Nikolas said as Matthew dive bombed him and then ran off when he heard Molly come run out of the house.

Maxie lie under him on the lawn as he looked at her.

She smiled at him, "I love you" she whispered looking into his eyes.

"Well these are electrodes and we will attach them to certain parts of your brain to see if they will trigger any memory gain" Patrick told her holding up one of the plastic tools.

"Okay" she said quickly.

"Wait, no questions, nothing" he asked smiling kindly at her.

She walked over to the window and looks out it, "I am missing something; for the life of me I can't remember, but I know there is something or someone out there waiting for me…I have to find him" she said.

The response to Maxie was stuck in his throat, love…love…love. Nikolas Cassadine had only been in love with two women in his lifetime…Emily Quartermaine was his first true love, a love he swore would last forever….and then time, life and circumstances tore them apart. He thought he would never love again, and then there was his Angel of light who came to him at the darkest point. Their love was controversial, people were mad, but Courtney breathed new life into him…He was a better man because he had loved her. Emily may have been his first love, but Courtney was his forever love…he hadn't whispered those words to another woman in over three years, and he wasn't sure if he was ready to again. Luckily she saved him.

"Can you get that terrified look off your face…you don't have to say anything…I just…I love you, and I wanted you to know that…this changes nothing" she told him smiling.

Nikolas couldn't help but knew that this changed everything.

"Nothing" he asked?

"Bits and pieces…small memories that I have no idea of what they mean, or even how they go together" Courtney told Patrick one week after the procedure.

He stayed quiet trying to read her expression; she was holding back, and then she spoke.

"I can see his face, I have no idea who he is…the eyes…they have a face" she told him sadly.

"Well that's progress, right?" he asked.

"I just…I can't explain it…For some reason I can't help but think he needs me right now, and I can't even find him"

Patrick closed his eyes, his two weeks were approaching the end, and Courtney Matthews still didn't know who she was.

Nikolas walked Maxie to the launch hand in hand quietly. When the launch approached she turned to him.

"Nikolas, I meant what I said, okay?" she said kissing him gently on the lips and walking towards the launch.

"Wait…Maxie…don't leave" he said walking towards her.

"Stay the night with me" he asked pulling her close.

She smiled brightly at him, "Of course" she said as they walked back to Wyndamere.

"She remembered his face, but nothing else…I don't know what to do" Patrick said sitting next to his wife.

"We'll figure it out together" she said putting her hand atop his and gently kissing his temple.

She sat there and squeezed her eyes shut tightly. She saw his face…those dark brown eyes; dark brown hair, a little mole on the left side of his face. She could see him smile, a wide bright smile, he was quite possibly the most beautiful thing she had ever seen…but why couldn't she remember his name, or who he was to her, but she knew she needed to find him.

"Daddy, one more story, PLEASE" Matthew begged again.

Maxie pulled out a book, but Matthew protested, "no book, Princess story daddy" he asked.

"Okay" Nikolas said blushing slightly.

"What's the Princess story" Maxie asked smiling.

Matthew spoke first, "the story about my mommy…aunt Lexi says she is his Princess 'cause he is a Prince and she is the girl that he loved the most" he said.

Maxie didn't say anything, but simply smiled at the little boy. Nikolas saw the emotions cloud her face, and he knew that this would be a problem.

They lay in bed later that night; an unspeakable distance between them. She had kissed him smiled and then rolled over to the other side of the bed.

"Is everything okay" he asked in the quiet of the dark.

"You still love her…I knew it when we started, heck I know it now…but I will never compare to her…I will never be the girl she was for you, and whereas I might be okay with that…I'm not convinced you are" she said quietly biting her lip.

"I care about you Maxie, quite a lot in fact…and Matthew, he loves you…I don't know what will happen in our future, but can that be enough for you right now?" he asked in his little boy voice.

To that she turned back over, "just being here right here, right now, that is enough for me" she said curling in closely to him.

Elizabeth Drake walked into the clinic that afternoon on a mission. Armed with photo and a resolve to do what she needed to do.

She sighed when she walked in and saw the young blond woman staring out the window at the sea.

"Hello" she said greeting her quietly.

"Elizabeth Drake, right" Courtney asked.

"Yeah" she said shaking her hand.

"Can I talk to you" the brunette asked.

"Sure" she said smiling and motioning towards the couch in front of her.

"I am going to tell you something that may confuse you" Elizabeth told her and Courtney looked puzzled.

Elizabeth pulled out the picture and handed it to Courtney.

She saw the tears come into the blue eyes, "what, who, how" she said her lip quivering.

"Your name is Courtney Matthews"

A/N: It was short, and a lot of it was Liz recapping Patrick…I am sorry to any Journey/Liason fans if I messed up on history…I wasn't really watching the show at that time-but I tried the best I could. Hope you liked, and thanks for all your wonderful reviews; I appreciate every single one of them!