A/N – Thanks for the comments! I really appreciate them! Glad you liked Liz and Piph! I asked a few people if I should continue this after I get back or wrap up quickly and they wanted me to continue a little so they can see some of the future. So, I'll keep going. The wedding won't happen until I get back.

Chapter 69 - Fallout

Several hours later, Jason woke up and looked over at Elizabeth who had her eyes closed, sitting in a chair. "Baby,"

Her eyes snapped open. "Jason, what's wrong?"

"Nothing. You should go home and be with the boys. I'm fine." He would mostly sleep for the next few days anyway. His body had been through a lot.

"I don't think Cam would ever forgive me if I left you."

"Talk to me."

She let out a breath. "I'm fine Jason."

"No you're not."

"I can't fall apart right now. I just don't want to think about what happened because too many people need me right now."

He opened his hand and she put her hand in his. "You can't keep your feelings bottled up inside of you. Will you at least talk to Kevin?"

She nodded. "Okay. I'll see if he has any openings tomorrow."

"Thank you."

"I just had it out with Lulu and Maxie and they set me off," she said, smoothing her pants with her other hand. "Jason, I kind of did something and I'm really hoping that you're going to be okay with it."

His thumb rubbed against her hand. "What's going on?"

He saw her face relax and he knew that it couldn't be too bad.

She stood up and gave him a gentle kiss. "Marry me."

He looked confused. "I already asked you that."

She smiled. "I know, but I decided I don't want to wait. I almost lost you and I want us to be married sooner Jason. There's never a perfect time, but I can't wait another month. Diane is taking care of all the arrangements. You just need to pick two groomsmen and show up. I don't care if you're in a damn hospital gown, although shirtless would be nice." She shuddered and he grinned when she continued to ramble. "We are getting married this Saturday in the teaching auditorium. So are you going to show up or not?" She crossed her arms and waited for his response.

She was trying to be all hardass about it and Jason was trying not to laugh. God he loved her.

"Don't laugh at me. This is serious Jason."

He grinned. "Yes, I will marry you on Saturday. I would marry you right now. I love you with all of my heart Elizabeth."

She grinned. "We're getting married!" She leaned over and kissed him again.

Epiphany walked in and headed to the computer. "Marriage or not, I'm still his faux girlfriend," she muttered.

Liz pulled back and laughed.

"And once you're better, we're having a party to celebrate and there will be another Jason sandwich."

Jason smiled at her. "Okay."

Epiphany smiled. "He's even more agreeable when he's on drugs."

Liz chuckled. "Baby, did you say yes because you're all hopped up on morphine?"

"You two are crazy."

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Nikki dished out the mac and cheese that Cook had prepared for the kids. Monica had dropped it off and stayed to eat with them. The adults were eating steak and mashed potatoes with salad.

Patrick and Johnny had them all laughing and Cam actually felt a little normal.

Liz walked in and Jake yelled and she smiled. "Hey Jakey."

She gave him a kiss and stole a bite of mac and cheese. "Good." Leaning over she kissed Cam on the forehead. "How are you baby?"

"I'm okay."

"Hi Princess Emma."

Emma smiled.

"What are you doing here?" Cam asked.

"I'm going to get some clothes and some books to read to your dad."

Cam nodded. "Who is with him?"

Nikki smiled, knowing that Cam just wanted to make sure his dad wasn't alone.

"Carly."

Johnny almost spit out his drink and everyone laughed.

"She's on her best behavior."

"I thought you loved him," Johnny said, with a grin.

Liz chuckled. "I do. Epiphany will kick her out if she gets out of hand. I'll be right back." Carly was like a pit bull and she knew that there was no way someone would give Jason a hard time with her around.

She ran upstairs and Francis appeared in the doorway.

"When are you taking a break?" Johnny asked.

"Once I drop her back off, I'm going to go over to Diane's and eat with her. Cody is with Jason and believe it or not, Milo volunteered to guard him for the late night shift."

Patrick smiled. He liked Milo.

Dylan put his glass down. "If you need me to take a shift, I could."

Francis smiled. "You can switch off with Johnny around here if you want. There are some new guards at the gate. I trained them so they are ready to go."

Liz came back down. "Alright, I'm going to head back."

She hugged Jake and Cam. "Be good for Nikki and Georgie."

"We will," Jake said. He missed his mom and from what he could gather, his daddy was sick. "Tell daddy to feel better."

Liz got an idea and pulled out her cell phone. "Okay, when I nod, you tell him to feel better and I'll play it for him okay?"

Jake grinned. "Okay."

She pressed a button and Jake talked for a minute and then everyone at the table yelled, "Get Better," and Liz stopped the recording. "Perfect. I'll stop by tomorrow to check up on you." She left and headed back to Jason.

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When Carly walked in, Jason was shocked to say the least.

"Hey. Liz called me and asked me to watch you for a bit."

Jason's eyebrows show up. "She did?"

Carly nodded. "She's worried about you. We all are."

"I'll be fine."

"When she told me everything that happened, I was shocked. I'm so sorry Jason. I can't imagine what Cam must be going through."

"It was pretty bad."

"Michael is with AJ. He was messed up last night but he's hanging in there."

"Did something happen?"

Carly's mouth shut. She had no idea that Jason didn't know.

"Carly, just tell me. I'm fine."

"Sabrina had a seizure and she died during the surgery to take out the microchip Helena implanted. Apparently, she was the one who drugged everyone."

Jason closed his eyes for a moment. Michael had been through so much. Thank God Helena was dead.

"Liz called me and let me know so I could be there for him and I'm very grateful to her. After my behavior in the past, she really didn't owe me anything."

"Carly are you growing up?"

She grinned. "Not all the way, but I'm trying my best to change and not be so selfish."

"Does it hurt?"

She gave him a playful glare. "Very funny. You sound like your brother."

Jason frowned. "You and AJ are getting along too?"

"I know. That even creeps me out a little."

He smiled.

Alexis and Molly walked into the room. "Hi, sorry to just stop by unannounced but we were worried about you."

Jason slightly smiled. "It's okay."

Molly walked over to the bed and handed him a piece of paper. "Danny colored that for you."

Jason smiled. "Tell him I said thanks."

Alexis fiddled with her phone and showed him a video of him coloring it. He was talking about how he loved his daddy and that he was sick. Jason smiled as he watched it.

"Thank you Alexis. Give him a hug for me."

"I will."

"Is Sam back?"

Alexis nodded. "She is. Once you're in a regular room, we'll bring Danny by. If you prefer that I do it instead of Sam, then that can be arranged."

"We're all adults. They'll probably move me to a regular room in a few days." While Jason was optimistic, he also knew that the longer he was in the hospital, the more susceptible he was to infection. "Molly, how did you get that bruise?"

She had a bruise on her cheek from when she fell. Looking down she mumbled, "Um, there was a problem yesterday and I fell."

Jason frowned. "What happened?"

Alexis sighed. "I'm not so sure that you should be told about this right now."

"I'm fine."

Alexis gave him a look and Jason smirked.

"Please."

Alexis gave him a very brief rundown. Jason was shocked.

"I'm glad that Julian checked up on you. You'll have to thank him for me."

"I will give him the message," Alexis said.

Jason opened his hand and Molly took it. "I know you must have been scared. Thank you for taking care of Danny. You're a good Aunt."

Molly blushed. "When you look at me, do you see my dad?" Her other hand clamped over her mouth and Alexis's mouth dropped open too. She hadn't meant to just blurt that out but it had really been on her mind.

"Alexis, can you give us a minute?"

Carly and Alexis walked into the hallway.

"When I look at you I see a beautiful and talented girl. I may not understand half of the words that come out of your mouth, but that is just because we don't read the same books."

Molly laughed at the thought of Jason reading romance novels, making Jason smile.

"You're not your father Molly. He's responsible for his own actions. I might need a doctor after saying this, but he can't be all bad if he had you."

Molly's eyes filled up with tears as did Alexis's and Carly's.

"Thank you for saying that. I really hope that you get better."

Jason squeezed her hand. "Thank you. Keep an eye on Danny for me okay?"

She nodded. "I will."

They left and Carly sat down in the chair. "Well aren't you just the sweetest thing since sliced bread."

Jason rolled his eyes. "She needed to hear that because she's been having a rough time. And for the record, I'm sorry that Sonny didn't do right by you and let me end that asshole. I should have just ignored him. We both know that spineless prick wouldn't have done a damn thing if I had."

Carly smirked. "Thanks for saying that." It had hurt her at the time that Sonny let Rick live.

Bobbie appeared in the doorway. "Hi," she said, surprised to see Carly.

"Hey mama. What's up?"

"May I speak to Jason for a minute?"

Carly nodded. "Sure, but go easy on him. He's supposed to be resting."

She walked out and Bobbie sat down. "How are you feeling?"

"Sore and tired."

"I can only imagine. I'm glad that you're okay." Bobbie sighed. "The last twenty-four hours have been rough. Luke and Lucky are dead and Spencer found out what Nikolas did."

He didn't know about Luke and Nikolas and Bobbie knew she had screwed up from the look on his face. "Continue."

"Spencer is in the hallway. He insisted on seeing you and knows that he can't stay long. I fell asleep this afternoon and he saw the news report about his dad. He freaked out for a while and said that he needed to see that you were okay. Jason, Nikolas held a gun on Patrick while you were in surgery and demanded that he stop and let you die."

Jason swallowed hard.

"Patrick was a rock star and kept going so he could put a clamp on your artery. He only stopped when he knew it was in place. Francis had to kill Nikolas to get him to back down."

Liz walked in. "What's going on?"

"She's filling me on what happened with Nikolas."

Liz grimaced. "I was going to wait and catch you up tomorrow."

"I'm sorry Elizabeth, I didn't know."

Liz sighed. "It's okay as long as Jason isn't stressed about it."

"I'm fine." He really didn't give a shit about Nikolas being dead. It would just save him the trouble.

"So, can you just see him for a minute? I'll have to smuggle him in."

Jason nodded. "Okay."

Liz wasn't sure what was going on and was shocked when Spencer came into the room. He slowly walked to the bed and tears sprang into his eyes. Liz held out her arms and he ran into them. She hugged him and talked to him softly until he calmed down. Spencer looked at Jason. "I'm sorry my dad hurt you. I don't know why he did that. Cam is my best friend and I don't want him to hate me."

Jason sighed. "Spencer, Cam won't hold what your dad did against you. He's your friend. I don't hold it against you either."

"You don't?"

Liz was rubbing his back. "You're always welcome at our house Spencer."

He hugged her again. "Thank you." He was torn up. It was hard for him to accept that his father tried to kill Jason and now he was gone and Spencer was now alone. They were saying horrible things about his family on the news and he was really scared that he would turn into something bad.

Liz wiped his face with a tissue. "Spencer, would you like to spend the night at our house tonight?"

"Can I?"

"Yes. Cam has had a very rough time too. I think you could help each other."

He looked over at Bobby.

"That's fine. I'll get the address and I can drop him off later." She wasn't sure what was going to happen to Spencer. Her and Carly talked about it and were going to speak with Alexis about what she thought was the best thing. Bobbie hoped Alexis would be willing to take him in.

"I can do it," Carly said.

Liz slightly smiled. "Thank you Carly."

"Alright, Jason needs his rest," Carly said, holding out her hand to Spencer. He took it and said goodbye.

Liz turned to Jason. "Are you okay?"

"Damn, did anything not happen while I was out?"

She grinned. "It was a little busy."

"How did Luke die?" He really hoped it was painful.

"They think Edgar shot him. He bled out at Windemere."

"How fitting."

Liz smirked. "Close your eyes and take a nap chatty Cathy."

He looked at her funny, not knowing who the hell Cathy was and Elizabeth laughed. She kissed him on the forehead.

"Not good enough."

Grinning, she kissed him on the lips. "Better?"

"Better."

"Oh, one more thing." She pulled out her phone and showed him Jake's message and Jason was grinning ear to ear.

"I miss him."

"When they move you to a regular room, I'll bring him to see you."

"Okay."

"Now Sleep," she said, giving him her bitchy look.

"Bossy…."

"Stubborn…."

He grinned and shut his eyes, already missing her face.

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Cam looked up and watched as Spencer walked into his room. "Hey." He could tell his friend looked upset.

"Hey. I saw your dad and mom at the hospital. She said I could spend the night."

"Okay." Cam knew about Nikolas and he wasn't sure what to say because while he felt bad for Spencer, he was glad that Francis had helped save his dad.

"Do you hate me?"

"No. You didn't do anything."

"But my dad tried to hurt your dad."

Cam sighed. "I know. This must be really hard on you. I'm sorry."

Spencer nodded yes. "I don't want to lose you as a friend."

"You won't." Cam held out his hand and Spencer shook it. "Want to play a video game."

"You want to get beat?"

Cam grinned. "Let's go to the basement."

Spencer smiled. "Race ya."