Here it is guys the follow-up! I couldn't wait to post this! I know it's short but there is a LOT going on in the next chapter and I had to break it up so the next couple chapters may be shorter than the recent ones. I hope you like the new direction the story is going in. I have so much more coming up! Please review! As always, you can message me anytime with things you'd like to see I will try to fit them in. It may not be right away but I will try really hard to incorporate your input! Thanks again Enjoy!

Molly was terrified. It had been so stupid to walk along the pier. She knew better everyone was talking about the guy taking women from the pier. She had overheard her mom and Shawn talking about it. She and TJ had been talking about it earlier that day. She had just been so upset. She felt the edge of the knife against her throat and tasted fear. Her eyes met those of the man her mother had yelled at Kelly's a few months ago. She knew he was AJ Quartermaine. She knew he would come in to Kelly's to pick up lunch on occasion. She knew he was with Elizabeth Webber. She and her friends had all talked about them how romantic they were. Now, with her life hanging in the balance she prayed that he could save her.

AJ held his hands out to show that he was unarmed. His heart was pounding. This was the man who raped Elizabeth. Who tortured and murdered who knew how many women since then. He had blackmailed his little sister. This was the monster that haunted Elizabeth's dreams when she woke up screaming in the night. This was the man who wanted to kill the woman he was falling for, and he had a knife pressed against a sixteen-year old girl's throat.

"Come on, man. It's just us here. Let her go. She's just a kid."

"Yes, She beautiful too. Like My Sweet Elizabeth on that night so long ago." Molly began crying harder trying not to move because she could feel the blade of the knife against her skin. "My Sweet Elizabeth, she was pure as the driven snow I found her in" Tom looked to the sky remembering in his own skewed and twisted way. "She was so innocent." AJ noticed his distraction and used it to move a couple steps forward. "So young." "He tightened his hold on Molly. "If you want me to slit her throat here and now keep walking" AJ stopped immediately, still holding up his hands.

"Let her go. She's innocent in all of this."

"My sweet Elizabeth was innocent too. She was divine and you touched her. You made her dirty." He smacked himself in the head with flat of the knife as though arguing with himself. Molly tried to move away but he pulled her back.

"Nooooo." She moaned.

"You're scaring her!" Molly was sobbing tears poured from her eyes.

"No, you're scaring her! I am going to help her get clean to show her how beautiful she can be. Don't you want that Sweet Molly?" Molly gasped in shock.

"How do you know my name?" She cried.

"Oh I know everything. I watch. I watch everyone. Your daddy touched my Sweet Elizabeth too. I wanted to cut off his hands and feed them to the fish but I didn't."

"My Dad?"

"Your father touched My Sweet Elizabeth. She will have to be washed. She will have to be washed! Bleach, yes, bleach and steel wool. Yes, yes, I have to get the filth off of her. I SAID GET BACK!" He screamed. He had the knife to Molly's throat again.

"Let her go." Anger filled him. Rage he had tried to suppress for years. He wanted to take Baker apart with his bare hands but he had to get Molly safe first. He learned his lesson long ago about hurting children. He caught Molly's eyes he was going to make a move but he needed to get Baker to get the knife away from her skin first. He stood back balanced on the balls of his feet ready to spring. Tom began to wax poetical about his Sweet Elizabeth again. The knife inched away as did Baker's gaze. AJ looked intently at Molly who nodded back. She would drop going weightless so AJ could knock out Baker. It was only seconds but it felt like a lifetime. AJ braced at the ready when there was a shout from behind Baker. He looked over his shoulder and saw the cop and the other defiler of his sweet Elizabeth. With a twisted grin and an evil laugh he slid the knife across Molly's neck and threw her into the harbor before running off into the night.

AJ leaped over the side after her. He knew Dante and Lucky were there; knew they would chase down Baker. Molly needed him. The shock of the icy water of Port Charles Harbor in mid-January took his breath away. All his muscles screamed in agony. He shed his heavy coat knowing the weight of it would just drag him down. He popped to the surface calling for Molly. He couldn't find her. He dove again and again. Still he couldn't find her. He heard someone calling out above him from the pier he called back.

"Lucky?"

"AJ? Did you find her?"

" No. Damnit! Wait! Wait!" He saw a bit of Molly's red jacket floating just under the surface under the pier he immediate dove to get her. He pulled her to the surface he could hear Lucky calling 911. His muscles strained from the cold of the water and the exertion.

"She's not breathing." He called out.

"Bring her over here."

"Lucky, I'll need your help."

"I gotcha, man."

AJ swam for all he was worth. All those summers at the beach and the pool at the country club paid off. His strength held out. With Lucky's help, they were able to get Molly out of the water. They laid her on the pier. She was bleeding from a cut on her forehead. And there was a deep cut on her neck. Lucky checked for a pulse at her wrist while AJ held his hand over the wound... "Damnit! I called for an ambulance. Dante went after Baker."

AJ soaking wet moved to Molly's head and began breathing life back into her while Lucky performed chest compressions. Together they worked to get Molly breathing again. They heard footsteps running behind them. Lucky looked over his shoulder. It was Dante.

"He got away" He panted out. "How is she?" Right then Molly coughed up what must have been gallons of harbor water; she did not regain consciousness. The paramedics arrived. AJ and Lucky moved out of the way.

"Come on AJ. Let's get you to GH." Lucky said. Putting his arm around AJ to help him up. The frigid water combined with the icy wind of a coming storm had frozen AJ to his core. Without Lucky's and then Dante's help, he doubted he would've been able to get up.

"Take care of Molly. I'll be okay"

"Come on man. You're freezing." Lucky said.

"Take care of her first. I'll be right behind you."

"No way, man. Elizabeth would kill me if something happened to you. You may not have noticed yet but she has a temper." AJ laughed at that and Lucky knew he had won. Lucky helped AJ to the ambulance while Dante called Alexis.

Elizabeth was at work blissfully unaware of what was happening. She, Steve and Felix had been having a good time. She told her brother about their mother and father being back. Elizabeth was shocked to find out that he had known they were coming. They had a chat about forgiving them for leaving them. Elizabeth told Steve that this wasn't the time for recriminations. That she had made her fair share of bad decisions. She also told him that everything wasn't alright with them but for now she was willing to set the anger and hurt aside during this crisis.

"I always wanted them to come home. Now they are and I'm not sure how to feel about it." She said placing a chart in the rack on the counter.

"I know that they hurt you." Steve said.

"They did. And they hurt you too." She reasoned. "Right now, with all that's going on. I just don't have the energy to hate them."

"My sister" Steve said pulling her into his arms. "You are the bravest, kindest, most forgiving person I have ever met."

"You make me sound naïve"

"No," he said pulling away and cupping her cheeks. "Strong"

They heard simultaneous sighs from beside them and looked over to find not only Felix listening in again but also Olivia. "It just breaks your heart doesn't it?" He said.

"I think it's precious." Olivia said. "Come here I want in on this one." She said pulling the two of them into a hug.

"Me too!" Felix cried wrapping his arms around all of them. "One big happy…"

The doors to the ER flew open as the paramedics wheeled in a gurney interrupting what Felix was about to say. "What have we got?" Steve said rushing over with Elizabeth.

"Female victim sixteen years old"

"My god that's Molly!" Elizabeth exclaimed.

"Onset of hypothermia, contusion with laceration to the head, and deep laceration to the neck. Patient was unconscious for several minutes. CPR was administered on site. Patient was breathing on her own with a pulse when we arrived.

"Who administered CPR?" Steve asked. The paramedic looked to the doors that were swinging open.

"Elizabeth!"

"Lucky?" She called back looking to the doors where Lucky stood his arm beneath AJ's shoulders. "AJ!" She ran over to them slipping her arm under AJ's other side. "You are soaking wet. What happened?"

"Help Molly" AJ coughed out.

"What is going on? Lucky tell me right now!" AJ was still trying to push her away but she wouldn't let him. They got him across the room. Near the trauma room Steve and Felix had taken Molly.

"Tom Baker attacked Molly at the pier and threw her in the harbor." Lucky explained. "AJ jumped in after her." They came to a stop near the curtains. "AJ saved her."

"Please, I'll be okay." AJ wheezed out. "Please, check on Molly."

"You are hypothermic. I'm not leaving you here. Sabrina!" She called out as Sabrina came rushing off of the elevator. "Sabrina, go get me a warming blanket and a robe!" Elizabeth ordered and Sabrina ran to do her bidding. "AJ you have to sit down" Elizabeth said as Matt rushed over having gotten off of the elevator with Sabrina.

"Okay, what have you done to yourself now?" he said. "Come on; let's get you into the room and into a warm bed alright?" He swiftly moved replacing Elizabeth under AJ's arm. AJ began to shake violently as severe hypothermia began to set in.

"Whoa! You are shaking really bad, buddy, let's get you warmed up."

"Help….M-M-M-Molly" He stammered.

"Come on now. You don't want to get Elizabeth mad do you? You know she has quite a temper. One time she yelled at me at my own party. You know that?" Matt's plan was working he was distracting AJ enough that he was moving to the curtains.

"What did you do to my daughter!? Where is she?" Alexis Davis had arrived. She rushed across the room and slapped AJ hard across the face. Elizabeth grabbed her by the arm and roughly pulled her away from AJ.

"Alexis, Molly is in trauma one. Steve is taking care of her." Elizabeth tried to reason with Alexis but it wasn't working Alexis was too distraught with fear over her baby.

"You disgust me!" she ranted AJ tears of anger and fear rushing down her cheeks. "What did you do to my baby? She was fine she was coming home and now she's lying in some hospital room. I get a call from the police department that someone tried to kill her. I rush down here and I find YOU! What did you do to her, AJ? I knew you hadn't changed!"

Olivia had stepped back when all the commotion started. She wanted to stay out of the way. When Alexis arrived and began screaming at AJ she crossed the room to intervene. She had heard what Lucky said about AJ saving Molly's life and believed it wasn't fair of Alexis to blame AJ. She had just reached her side when Elizabeth hand cracked across Alexis' cheek stopping her tirade. Olivia was impressed.

"AJ saved you daughter. Tom Baker threw her into the harbor and AJ jumped in after her. He saved her Alexis. He didn't hurt her."

"What?" Alexis was shocked. The slap had calmed her down. "Lucky?"

"It's true." He said. "AJ's the hero tonight." He looked at AJ with new admiration, whose body finally gave out despite Sabrina trying to pile blankets on him. He hit the floor hard. The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was Elizabeth's beautiful face above his telling him she was there.