Title: Breathe Into Me
Author: Steffie
Genre: General Hospital
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He introduced her to a world of delectable sin, and there fulfilled her fantasies beyond her wildest dreams.
Characters: Emily, Liz, Ric, Nikolas, Jax, Skye, Sonny, Jason among many others.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned in this fic.
NOTE: I am acting as if Nikolas and Emily, as well as Liz and Lucky were NEVER romantically together. They are still the 4 musketeers, but they never went beyond friendship. Liz is married to Ric, no Cameron exists (as much as I love the little kid whenever he yells mama and runs to Liz).
Emily squinted, her eyes adjusting to the light around the room. She sat up for a moment, and when the realization hit her that she wasn't in her own room, confusion washed over her.
"Sonny?" she called out. No answer.
Looking around her, she tried to recognize the place. It couldn't be a hotel, it was way to somber and barely decorated to be a hotel room. Quickly, she jumped out of bed and looked out the window. She could tell that she was still in Port Charles, and that set her mind at ease. A click of the door made her turn around, a smile on her face.
"Sonny baby, where are we?" Her smile soon vanished at the sight of the person before her.
"You're up." Liz's voice was shaky, a little cautious. Emily's face turned a bit angry.
"What do you want?" Emily's voice was harsh and bitter, and if it wasn't for the current situation at hand, Liz would have thrown that attitude back into her face. Instead though, Liz made a step forward, a heated washcloth in her hand.
"I wanted to check to make sure that you didn't catch a fever." The brunette spoke softly, though if Emily cared to take notice, Liz's patience was wearing thin.
"Why the hell would I have a fever?" Emily spat out, her arms folding over her chest. In the corner of her eye, she glimpsed at herself in the reflection of the glass screen door and realized that she did look a little deshelved, but she was not going to confront herself at the moment as to ask herself why.
"Because you cried yourself to sleep," Liz replied. She was getting annoyed at Emily's outbursts and she knew she would flip soon if Emily didn't keep herself in check.
"And why would I cry myself to sleep?!" Emily yelled.
"Because Sonny left you!" Liz bellowed.
Emily's eyes widened with shock, Liz' words hitting her like sharp shards of glass. She couldn't believe it, wouldn't believe it. Turning around, she hugged her hips, avoiding eye contact with Liz. But the brunette was insistent on letting Emily know the truth, making her former best friend face facts.
"No, he didn't," Emily whispered. Liz sighed, and the denial within Emily's heart was breaking her own.
"Emily," Liz sighed, her own voice breaking at the sound of the other's.
"NO!" Emily bellowed, turning violently to face the "liar" before her. She had enough of people filling her head with "lies" about Sonny and she wasn't going let anybody fill her head with such nonsense.
"Sonny didn't leave me!" Emily screamed, tears pouring out of her eyes.
Liz sighed and placed the washcloth on the bed.
"Alright Emily, Sonny didn't leave you. I mean, you had a very lovely night with him. So lovely in fact that you cried all that make up down your face, messed up those curls and completely ruined that dress. It was so perfect that Jason had to physically bring you here and caught a fever from crying. Yup, I call that a perfect night." The brunette turned on her heal and headed for the door, not wanting to be in the same room with Emily anymore.
It was too hard and too painful for Liz. The fallout she had with Emily so long ago was so severe, that her ego never recovered. Never had anyone imagined that Emily of all people could say such hurtful things to the people that loved her most. Not to Lucky, not to Nikolas, but least of all to Liz. And how hurtful they were. Liz never spoke of the argument with anybody, not even with herself. But she knew that if she stayed in that room at the moment, she would surely get a follow up of said argument.
"You are just jealous that I have a man that loves me and worships me. We all know you are jealous of my life now Elizabeth." Never in her life had Emily uttered such bullshit. And never had Liz had the urge to kill a woman as much as she did now.
Liz turned, her own eyes on fire. But she merely chuckled, and the act confused Emily greatly.
"Jealous Em? Has it ever occurred to you that I am married to a wonderful man that isn't on everybody's hit list or most wanted list? I still have the career of my choice at General Hospital, and my family to support me. But most of all, I still have all my friends that I love with all of my heart. Pray tell, what in God's name could you practically have now that I could possibly want?" Liz spat. Though her own words seemed cruel and harsh, tears still started to sprig in her eyes, and she knew that if she uttered another word, that they would come crashing down her face.
Emily had no answer to that. She merely stood there, and kept her arrogant Sonny-orientated head high. She wasn't going to let anybody talk to her like that, but honestly she didn't even know how to react to such statements.
"Sonny is the only person that loves me." Firm, and actually in full belief, she spoke those words proudly.
Liz scoffed at that, though those words hit her harder then she expected.
"Yes, and that's exactly the reason why he is hear for you right now." With that Liz turned on her heal and left the room, tears falling down her face. Emily too had tears falling down, but she refused to acknowledge that it was due to Liz' hateful words. Yes, that's what she would tell herself, that they were all just hateful words, words of jealousy. They were all plotting to take Sonny away from her and make her miserable. Yes, that is what she was going to tell himself.
But she knew that it wasn't the truth.
When she heard the door creak, she had silently hoped to see those horrible pink scrubs again. But this time, it was a black T shirt fitted on the body of her brother.
Emily looked up at Jason, a sad look on her face.
"Sonny left me, didn't he?" The tears that fell after his acknowledgement were enough to kill her heart.