Her Past Revisited
Disclaimer: I do not own General Hospital. Carly and Jason are the property of ABC and Disney.
Jason entered the hospital, and asked a nearby nurse where he could find Bobbie Spencer. She pointed him in the direction of the waiting room. As Jason entered, he immediately spotted Patrick talking to Bobbie and Jax, with Robin hovering in the background. He caught the tail end of their conversation.
"…the unknown drug in her system sent her into seizures. She flat lined several times, but we were able to bring her heart into a regular rhythm. Carly also sustained a concussion when she hit her head. We believe that she may have sustained some brain damage, but we will be unable to evaluate her mental state further until she wakes up," Patrick finished.
"But she'll wake up?" Jax asked, hope finally starting to return.
But all Jason was able to think was 'brain damage'. What if Carly changed like he had changed? What if she didn't remember him?
The thought was too painful to contemplate, so Jason remained in the shadows and listened to the conversation between his best friend's husband, mother, and doctor.
"Chances are that she will wake up, yes," Patrick hedged.
Robin cut in, "But there is something else you should know…"
"Robin," Patrick cut her off with a glare.
"You can't keep it a secret!" Robin told him, "Jax deserves to know."
"To know what?" Jax asked.
"Jax," Robin began gently, but Patrick once again cut her off.
"Look, Robin, you can't be objective in this case. I know that you are friends with Jax, and everybody knows that you hate Carly. Why don't you let me handle this?" Patrick asked her tightly.
Robin huffed, but fell silent once again.
"Jax, Carly received a false negative when she came to see Dr. Lee the other day," Patrick tried to break it to the man gently.
"What?" Jax asked. He had no idea what Patrick was talking about.
Patrick did not know that Carly kept her visits to Dr. Lee secret. He thought Jax was just shocked that his wife had been pregnant.
"Carly was pregnant," Patrick continued. "But the baby could not survive the trauma so early, and Carly had a miscarriage."
Jax was devastated. The baby that he wanted so badly was lost. Again. Carly lied to him and kept her visits to Dr. Lee a secret. Maybe that had been part of what she wanted to tell him tonight? Carly did not know she was pregnant, but maybe she wanted to talk about trying together?
Jax did not wish to think about it anymore, so he turned away and let Bobbie handle the doctors.
Jason was devastated. The baby that Carly wanted so badly was lost. Again. Carly got hurt and he wasn't there to help. He should have listened to his instincts. Carly did not know she was pregnant, but Jason knew she would be devastated over this miscarriage.
Jason did not wish to think about it anymore, so he stepped out of the shadows and headed towards Bobbie.
Meanwhile, Carly's monitors started beeping like crazy in her room. She started breathing heavily and suddenly shot up in her bed. Awake but disoriented, Carly started pulling the tubes from her skin.
"Mrs. Jacks, you can't do that," Nadine told her gently as she walked into the room.
"Mrs. Jacks?" Carly asked, confused. "I'm sorry, but I think you've got me confused with somebody or something. You should check your chart. Anyway, the doctor said that I could leave right after the procedure."
"Mrs. J… um, Carly," Nadine corrected herself, realizing the patient was confused, "there were some complications. Which doctor did you talk to?"
Nadine was confused herself. The charts said that Mrs. Carly Jacks had not woken up before, so when had she talked to a doctor? And she seemed really confused. Nadine knew that she had to get Dr. Drake.
"My name is Caroline," Carly corrected her again. "Caroline Benson. I have to get home. My mother doesn't know that I'm here."
Nadine was very confused by this point. She knew that Benson was Carly's maiden name, but Carly never told anybody to call her Caroline. And of course Bobbie knew that she was in the hospital. But why did that matter, anyway?
"Don't worry," Nadine tried to comfort her. "Bobbie knows that you're here."
"Who's Bobbie?" Carly questioned. "It doesn't matter, anyway. I have to get home."
"One second, please," Nadine asked her, trying to keep her calm. She really needed to get Dr. Drake. Just as the nurse went to leave the room, Jax entered. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his wife awake.
"Mr. Jacks, you might want to…" Nadine trailed off as he ignored her, heading straight towards a confused Carly.
"Hey, you, back up," Carly said, confused at who this man was. He was getting too close for comfort.
"Carly?" Jax asked, confused. He knew that it was going to be difficult for her, losing the baby, but she didn't even know about the miscarriage yet. She didn't even know about the pregnancy yet.
"I don't know who you are," she told him, "but stay about from me. I'm leaving now. I need to go home. My mother is probably worried sick by now; this took a lot longer than I thought, and she doesn't know where I am."
"Carly, Bobbie is right outside," Jax reassured her.
"Who is Bobbie?" Carly questioned him. "The blonde nurse said that name too."
"Carly…" Jax was getting nervous. Was this a result of the brain damage Dr. Drake had mentioned?
"I'm going to get Dr. Drake," Nadine told him. She slipped out of the room to find Patrick.
"Stop calling me Carly! My name is Caroline!" Carly told Jax. "I don't know who you think you are, and I really don't care. I have to leave now!"
Carly stumbled as she headed determinedly towards the door, and Jax caught her. He laid her back down on her bed, worried about her mental state.
"I need to get home," Carly told him, trailing off as she drifted back to sleep. The stress of waking up in an unfamiliar hospital room had gotten to her.
"Bobbie, what happened?" Jason questioned his best friend's mother.
"Jason, why are you here?" Bobbie asked him in return, avoiding his question.
"I had a bad feeling after I dropped Carly off at her house. I went back to check up on her, and the front door was unlocked. Nobody was home, and there was vomit and blood on the floor. What happened?" Jason repeated, getting frustrated.
Bobbie knew she should be shocked that Jason was so in tune to her daughter, but she wasn't because she knew the two had a very deep bond. Jason would always be there to catch Carly when she fell.
"Jax and Carly were talking, and Carly fainted. She hit her head on the floor and went into convulsions. Jax called 9-1-1, and they managed to get there in time. She flat lined a couple times on the way to the hospital, and Patrick thinks that her seizures were the result of an unknown drug in her system. She had a miscarriage, and Patrick thinks that she might have sustained some brain damage," Bobbie told him outright. She knew better than to sugarcoat anything for Jason Morgan. It would just make him angrier in the long run.
Just as Jason was about to respond, a blonde nurse headed towards Bobbie.
"Do you know where Dr. Drake is?" Nadine asked. "Carly just woke up, and she is really confused."
"Just have him paged," Bobbie reminded the young nurse. "I'll just go in and see how she is in the mean time. Is Jax in there?"
"Yes," Nadine replied. "But…"
"But what?" Bobbie asked.
"She told me her name was Caroline Benson, and she didn't recognize Mr. Jacks when he walked in. I think there is something wrong with her memory," Nadine said.
Jason felt like he had been sucker punched. What if Carly didn't remember him? Unable to deal with the uncertainty, he headed straight for his best friend's room.
When he entered, she was fast asleep. Jax was sitting in the chair by her bedside, softly stroking her hair. He looked up as the door opened.
"Do you know something about this?" Jax questioned him.
Jason looked the man straight in the eye.
"I know this wouldn't have happened if she wasn't married to you," Jason told him.
"Well, if it's all my fault, why did you leave her alone with me?" Jax questioned him sarcastically.
It was a question Jason would have to deal with for the rest of his life.