Brenda was pacing in the hall and Jason and sonny were trying to calm Michael and Morgan's fears that there mother might not make it. Patrick comes out and Jason and Brenda rush over to him, Jason asks, "how is she?"

"Alive, but it doesn't look good."

Brenda stared and said, "she could make it still though right?"

"Yeah there is a slight chance but that bullet went through her abdomen area and she lost a lot and I mean a lot of blood, we actually spent a little too much time trying to find an exit wound but the bullet was still in her."

"Oh god this is not happening..."Brenda says

Michael runs up and shouts, 'is my mom okay!"

Brenda leans down and says to him, 'sweetie we don't know if she is going to make it or not but she is strong."

"Yeah, she is,"

Morgan asked Patrick, 'can me see mommy?"

Patrick says, "one at a time and the kids can go together."

Jason says, "thanks Patrick can I talk to you for a minute."

"Sure" they both walk to the couch and sit.

Edward enters the hospital and watches the scene unfold, he sees Brenda and sonny trying to soothe Michael's fears that his mom might not make it, and then he sees Patrick giving Jason the bullet that shot carly. He could tell that Jason was a wreck and then a voice comes from behind him and says, "sad isn't it to see all these people here for someone, when you wouldn't expect for it to happen."

"Tracy what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to see what in gods name is going on, how you knew that Jason would be here?"

"None of your business." with that he walks away and leaves Tracy there. She looks to the children and sees Jason walking over to them and the kids running up to him crying, and him comforting them. She takes in the scene then turns to get on the elevator.

Carly is in the bed and you can here the faint beeping sounds coming from the machines. He sits next to her and talks, "carly I'm sorry this is all my fault but I promise to make it right, I love you. He gets up and kisses her on the fore head. He turns to leave. Sonny walks out and then meets Jason and Brenda in the waiting area.

Jason asks, "how is she?"

Sonny says, "well, I don't know, she wasn't awake when I went in, where are the boys?"

Brenda says, "um they are with Bobbie and they said once you get out that they want to see her."

Sonny says, "I don't think that, that is a very good idea, seeing there mother like that."

Brenda cut in, "sonny you really don't have a say in that, she is their mother and you can't keep them from her."

Jason says, "yeah sonny, they want to see her, you must have known they were going to want to."

Sonny says, "who's side are you on?"

Jason says, 'Michael and Morgan's."

Bobbie and the boys walk over and Bobbie asks, "how is she?'

Sonny says, "we don't know, she wasn't awake yet."

Michael says, "oh, well grandma do you want to see her now or can we?"

Bobbie was about to say something but sonny cut in and said, "you know why don't you boys let your grandma see your mom okay."

Bobbie looks at the boys who are obviously disappointed and then to Brenda and Jason who were disapproving, "are you sure I don't have to see her now, it isn't as if she is going anywhere."

Sonny says, "it is okay, the boys can wait, why don't we go home and get some rest, you must be tired I know I am." Bobbie walks away to go see her daughter.

Jason says, "you know sonny, if you want to go home then the boys can stay and they can stay at my place after they see there mom." sonny looks at Jason giving him that look, 'what do you think you are doing?" but reluctantly starts to go, he gets a little upset at what Michael says,

Michael says, "really? awesome, then I'll see mom next, after Bobbie, unless you guys want to see her.'

Morgan says, "yeah I can wait!"

Brenda says, "no, no it is okay, we can see her after you guys okay?'

A tear stained Bobbie comes out to the waiting area and says, "my baby."

Brenda runs over to her and pulls her into a big hug, Michael and Morgan join and then Brenda makes a jester for Jason to join in. He does and then that is when the cops come.

Mac says, "sorry to intrude on this...moment but we have some questions."

Jason asks, "what kind of questions?"

Mac says, "like what you guys saw, if you know what kind of gun they used, anything we could use to catch whoever did this."

Brenda says, "um mac, I was the one with carly when it happened, Jason and sonny were in the kitchen and the boys were at Sonny's."

mac says, "okay, where is sonny then."

Brenda and Bobbie look around but can't seem to find him. Jason says, "I saw him leave a couple of minutes ago."

Michael asks obviously upset, "why would dad leave, mom is going to be okay, he should be here he shouldn't be with Sam!"

Mac and Brenda look at Michael in shock and Morgan starts to cry because of his brother's outburst. Jason looks at Michael very calmly and says, "Michael, don't yell okay, you know you're mom would punish you for that, and you know what that means."

Michael lets out a small laugh and says, "yeah I wouldn't live to tell the tale. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell."

Brenda says, "it is okay, if you want why don't you go see you're mom, okay, we will be right here."

Michael takes a crying Morgan's hand and calms him he says, "come on Morgan let's go see mom okay?" he leads him to the away from the crowd of people towards his mom's room.

After they know that the boys are out of earshot, Jason asks, "what the hell do you think you are doing here?"

One of the officers says, "hey don't talk to the commish like that, you got that?"

Brenda says, "we will talk to him, anyway we damn well please, you got that?"

Jason said, "Brenda calm down alright, now what did you guys want?"

Mac says, "we are sorry, I know this is a very bad time, but this is urgent, we would have waited but we got the major and Lansing breathing down our necks about some guy with a gun shootin up houses as they please, they want this guy off the streets, he or she has already hit five other houses, this is the first time they hit someone though, but..."

Jason interrupted, "wait, wait, you mean this was done at random, they weren't really after carly, or anyone in that house, because of the business?"

Mac says, "yeah, well, I know when I first heard about what happened to carly I assumed like you did, that they were after her because of the connection to sonny, but a neighbor saw the car and it matches the description of the car that sped away at the last five homes."

Brenda says, "I don't understand, are you saying that carly was shot because she had the bad luck of being a random house these people just passed by and decided to shoot at? That is bull, so unfair, how is it that all those years with sonny and she barely gets hit, but when she finally tears herself away from him she gets shot?"

Jason said, "Brenda breath okay, calm down, this isn't helping anyone, Mac... I don't know how you expect us to help you with this? If this was just a random shooting, we have absolutely zero information for you"

Mac said, "we know, but did you see anything, were there any clues, um what do you remember?"

Brenda says, "I don't know it happened so fast, all I remember is talking to carly, she went by the window, and then I hear tires and then I hear her scream to me, 'Brenda Get Down' then I feel like something fell on top of me, and it went black, when I opened my eyes I looked around for carly, I remember yelling out her name, I touched my face and I notice blood, I look on my body for something, anything, and I see blood, but it doesn't hurt, then I see her, carly is lying on the floor, unconscious with blood spilling everywhere, that is when Jason and sonny ran out, that was it." she cries in Jason's arms, and Jason tries to calm her, 'Brenda it is alright, you couldn't do anything." Brenda looked up into Jason's eyes for a few seconds and just as quickly looked away, Jason wanted to help her, he knew she blamed herself, but there was nothing he could do, for Brenda or for Carly."

Mac said, "I know that this is hard but, try to calm down, slow down start from the beginning, don't leave anything out, the slightest and littlest detail could help bring this bastard to justice."

Jason says while holding Brenda up, "Mac can't this wait till later, it just happened, carly is still in there fighting for her life, and her kids just went in there to see her, and this maybe their last time with her, as well as anyone else's time, so if you don't mind, leave, and wait till we are ready to discuss it!"

The officer said, "commissioner Scorpio, maybe he is right, this can wait, it isn't as if these people are going to strike again, so soon, I mean the pattern, every month one hit."

Mac looked at the officer and said, "you're right, Jason, Brenda sorry about this, I'll come around later to get both of your official statements." with that the officer and mac walked to the elevator and then Sonny walked off it along with Sam."

Brenda looked at the two with disgust she said to Jason, "what the hell is wrong with sonny, doesn't he know better not to bring is whore to the hospital when is wife is fighting for her life!"

They walk up to Brenda and Jason as Jason says, "Brenda let it go."

Sam says, "let what go?"

Brenda says while wiping her eyes and getting out of Jason's arms, "oh nothing, we were just remembering some of the good times we have had with carly in these past months."

Sonny says, "what was Mac doing here?" they didn't answer so sonny said, "oh no, they don't think we have anything to do with this do they?"

Brenda rolled her eyes and says, "God sonny not everything is about you! And no they were here to ask for our statements."

Sam says worried, "what did you tell them?"

Jason says, "nothing really, we don't know a damn thing about it!" he said while getting angry every time he thought about it.

Michael and Morgan walked up to the four gathered people along with Bobbie and Morgan says, "mommie awake."

Brenda smiles to herself and says, "good, how was she feeling?"

Michael says, "she well was okay, she said, it hurt, but she joked about it."

Jason says, 'well at least she is the same old carly."

Brenda smiles and says, "jase do you mind if I see her first, I want to talk to her about something very important."

Jason looked reluctant but said, "yeah it is okay, there will be plenty of time to talk to her and I ju-"

Brenda interrupted, "hey why don't you come see her with me, two of us will make her so cheery, she will probably get a laugh at how I broke down in your arms."

Bobbie said, "that is for sure, and it is okay if you see her together, she actually wanted to talk to both of you about something very important, she was very serious"

they both nodded and walked to Carly's room, leaving Michael, Morgan, sonny, sam, and Bobbie in an awkward silence."

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