My Vietnam
Chapter 3

Jason looked back at Sonny once Carly left, "Sonny, just tell me, what happened."

Sonny nodded and said, "Sam was in a car accident, she was hit by a drunk driver."

Jason leaned forward to make sure he heard right, "What?"

"A car, it came," he sighed, "it came from the side and hit her, luckily it was on the passengers side, but it sent the car swerving and she hit a tree."

Jason felt like he couldn't breathe and said, " Is she, is she okay?"

Sonny shrugged, "I got the call and came straight here, when I got it she was critical."

Jason grabbed his coat and keys and jumped onto his motorcycle and sped off to General Hospital.

He ran in and ran over to the nurse's station and asked, "I need to know where Sam McCall is."

Epiphany looked at her chart and said, "She's in surgery right now."

"Surgery?" Epiphany nodded, "For what?"

"I'm sorry but you need to talk to her doctor for that answer."

"When-"

Epiphany put down her clipboard, "Mr. Morgan I don't know when she'll be out of surgery, I'm just the nurse, I don't know what happened, all I do know is that Dr. Drake is in there operating, to find out more talk to him but you'll have to get in line."

Jason's eyebrows furrowed together and he walked over to the waiting area where he saw Alexis and Ric sitting there and it took all his self control not to throttle Ric. Jason walked over and sat down, making Alexis look up from crying and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Jason looked at her, staying calm even though he hated her, "I'm-I'm here because I heard about Sam."

Alexis glared at him, "She's none of your concern anymore."

Ric jumped in, "What Alexis means is you haven't even spoken to Sam since you told her that you couldn't love her anymore, why do you even care?"

Jason didn't mind glaring at him, "Why are you even here, Ric. She's not related to you, you have no ties to her, emotional or otherwise."

"She's my step-daughter." Replied Ric.

Jason shook his head unbelieving, "Oh, come on Ric, you're doing this because you know how close friends Sam and Sonny are and are trying to score points, as always."

Ric stood up, "Listen Jason-"

Jason stood up too but before either could say anything further Patrick Drake walked up and stood between them, "Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, not here, you two want to bash each other's brains out, do it somewhere where I don't already have to deal with brains on the floor."

Alexis stood up, "Where is my daughter?"

Patrick turned to her, "Sam is in her room."

Alexis took in a deep breath, "Is she okay?"

Patrick nodded, "For now."

Jason cut in with, "Why was she in surgery?"

Patrick looked back at him, "When the car was hit the glass shattered, as did the drivers side window when she hit the tree." He took in a breath then continued, "The glass was lodged in her skull but we managed to get it all out, she's unconscious now."

Alexis nodded, "I want to sit with her."

Patrick shook his head, "I strongly discourage that."

Elizabeth walked out into the waiting area and said, "Jason?" Jason turned to her and said, "Sam is asking for you."

Alexis shook her head, "No, I'm her mother, I want to be with her-"

Jason held his hand up to stop her and looked at Patrick, "Is it okay for me to see her?"

Patrick thought then said, "Only for a few minutes, she was dangerously close to death tonight…again." He nodded to Elizabeth then walked away. Elizabeth nodded to Jason and led him to Sam's room.

Jason and Elizabeth walked into Sam's room and Jason winced a bit to see her hooked up to all those wires, again, he took a seat by Sam and took her hand and leaned in to hear her mumbling something, he looked at Elizabeth and she said, "It may not seem clear now but she was clearly saying your name a bit earlier." Jason nodded and looked back down at Sam as Elizabeth left.

Jason looked down at Sam's hand and cleared his throat then said, "I, uh, I'm not good with this whole, unconscious talking to thing, you'd think that I'd have gotten better with all the practice that I've had." He paused then said, "Tonight I said that when I fought for you and when you fought for me, for us, that it, uh, it didn't mean anything, but I wasn't telling the truth, I was also lying when I said that I didn't love you anymore, I will always love you, and nothing can or will ever change that. You left tonight the way you did because of me, if I hadn't of…god, everything that I do you get hurt, almost killed." He squeezed her hand and said, "Carly was right, for once, I should treasure every moment, but I don't know if I can when I know you're in danger of being shot again, something has got to change because this is killing me inside. You need to wake up and get better, you've got to fight. I know you've been fighting your whole life but now you've got a mother, and two little sisters who need you. And you've got me…I need you." He put his head down on her hand, not noticing as Sam stirred lightly, he did notice when he heard a groan and looked up, "Sam?"

Sam looked at him and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Jason blinked and said, "Sonny told me that you were in an accident, I came right over."

"Sonny?" Asked Sam drowsily.

Jason nodded, "Yes."

Sam finally rested her eyes on him and asked, "Whose Sonny? Who are you? Who am I?"
Jason looked at her with eyes wide open and all he said was, "Oh shit."