Only Her Hero
Disclaimer: I do not own General Hospital. Carly and Jason are the property of ABC and Disney.
"Where's my wife?" Jasper Jacks asked as he walked through the hospital doors. Robin was the first familiar face he saw, so he stopped to ask the doctor if she knew where Carly was.
"Hey, Robin," Jax greeted. "I was in Hawaii when Max called. He said Carly went into labor?"
"Yeah, Jax," Robin confirmed hesitantly. "But there were some complications…"
"Complications? Is Carly alright? Is the baby alright?" Jason questions, his face pale with worry.
"The baby's fine. You have a healthy little baby boy. Carly named him Jason Jasper, of course," Robin said, joking quietly to try to relieve her friend's worry. "But Jax…Carly started hemorrhaging. Dr. Lee just started surgery now…"
"Be honest with me," Jax pleaded, "what are Carly's chances?"
"Dr. Lee is an excellent surgeon," Robin told him. "All we can do now is hope and pray."
Jax accepted Robin's evasion of his question. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know if the situation was hopeless, anyway.
"Can you show me where her room is?" Jax asked instead.
"You can wait just around the corner," Robin told him, "and your son is in the nursery. The nurses cleaned him up, so you can see him whenever you want."
Jax thanked Robin for the information, and decided to wait for news on Carly before he went to see his son. Jax wanted to share his son's first moments with his wife.
When Jax turned the corner, he immediately spotted Jason. The mob hitman was on his knees in the middle of the hallway, hands clasped together in prayer. Tears were streaming down his face unabashedly, and Jax could hear some of his mutterings.
"Please Lord…I know…I know that you don't owe me anything. I know that I don't always follow your rules, and neither does Carly. She may not be perfect, but she's a good person. She's a good mother. Just…give her the time to be a good mother to her newest little angel. Let her live. I would give…anything, sacrifice anything if you just…just let her live," Jason begged to himself quietly.
Jax knew that most people only hit their knees to the floor and prayed to gain attention. But Jason…Jason seemed as if he were praying for his world not to fall to pieces. He was unconcerned with any doctors or nurses that walked by. Jason only cared about the woman just passed those closed doors that was fighting for her life. And Jax knew…he knew that even if Carly made it through this surgery, he was going to lose her.
Because Jax realized that Jason had finally opened his eyes. Jason finally admitted that Carly was the most important thing in his life. Although Carly was Jax's wife, and the woman he loved, and the mother of his child, if Jason really set his mind to winning her love back, winning her back, Jax knew he didn't stand a chance. Because honestly…Jason had never really lost her.
Carly always held a part of herself back. Jax had always brushed it off as the part of her that was Caroline Benson, trailer-park trash from Florida, or maybe the part of her reserved for her children, or sometimes, when he was in a destructive mood, he would tell himself it was a part of her that she reserved for Sonny. But deep down, Jax knew the truth…Carly had given everything of herself to Jason. And through the years, she had gained bits and pieces back to give to other men…Sonny, Zander, Alcazar, and Jax himself. So it wasn't that Carly always held a part of herself back…it was that she was constantly fighting to get just the tiniest piece of her heart out of Jason's control.
And now that it seemed Jason was finally acknowledging what Carly meant to him, Jax thanked god that Carly had already given him a son. Because that child would link him to a wonderful woman for the rest of his life. And it might not be the marriage, might not be the growing old together that he imagined in his dreams…but it was something. And it would have to be enough, because once Jason set his mind to it, he would be more than Carly's hero…he would be her everything.