Chapter 3

Let Them Burn

A/N: Just a few tidbits of info to know. First and foremost is that I will try and post a new chapter every night. I can't make any promises and I have no idea where this story is going to. The Second is that Helena is NOT DEAD. Sorry writers, I don't believe for a moment that the Wicked Witch/Ice Queen is dead... not for a minute. NICE TRY THOUGH! LOL :) So in this story she won't be. Another thing to note, is that while I am not a "JaSam" I choose not to be a jerk about it like other people. You may or may not like my version of the characters but this is my opinion of them and what I see. So please respect that. Now that being said, enjoy reading!

"Patrick, when can I see Elizabeth? Jason asked as he paced back and forth in the hallway.He was getting antsy just being told to wait. It didn't help that Sam and Carly were sitting on either side of him talking about absolutely nothing. They were just talking to hear themselves talk he gathered.

"Elizabeth has been discharged and will be coming out very shortly" Patrick didn't offer any more as he continued to converse with Nurse Santiago as they too waited for Elizabeth.

"Hey Jason," the blonde's head swiveled in the opposite direction to see his former friend and mentor. Or in this case his current friend and mentor wheeling himself towards Jason. After Jason had learned the truth from Elizabeth, he turned to Sonny probably from instinct. Unlike the women sitting next to him, the Cuban had been unbiased on the topic. He just listened because he knew that's what Jason needed. Turns out the venting session was good for both of them.

"Hey"

"How's she doing? Are the kids with her?"

Pulling him off to the side, Jason shook his head "I don't know, she hasn't come out yet. The kids are in daycare at the moment"

"Are you worried?" Sonny asked bluntly. He didn't even have to ask, he could see that Jason was torn by his worry and anger but he needed to hear the man admit it. In the last few weeks, Sonny had gotten him to open up slightly on how he was feeling but not much. Jason had a knack for turning the conversations around on to how it affected everyone but him.

"Honestly, yeah. Carly said Patrick had bad news for her but she couldn't hear much since she was outside the door eavesdropping."

"Well then I guess it's a good think the kids aren't with her, do you need them to be picked up?"

"I can go get the boys while you wait for Elizabeth Jason" Sam spoke up from her conversation long enough to hear the two men conversing. Truthfully Carly was starting to bore her with all her talk about Metro Court renovations.

"Over My Dead Body"

Everyone turned and was surprised to see that the icy voice had come from Elizabeth who was standing there with her purse and jacket draped over her crossed arms. Patrick shivered at the look in her usually bright blue eyes, as they were now dark and lifeless.

"Elizabeth, Sam was just..."

"Really Elizabeth? Not this story again. Sam rolled her eyes. "It's old and tired, everyone knows that I am a great with kids."

Elizabeth snorted, "Right...maybe now that you have your own son. Or maybe you were just great with other people's kids? You sure as hell weren't great with mine when you paid two men to threaten Cameron, Jake and I in the park right after Jake was born now were you?"

Everyone looked over at Sam in disbelief. There were many who didn't know that. "Look that was a long time ago and..."

"Or how about when you watched as that young woman from your crappy TV show came up and took Jake from his stroller while my back was turned? What about when you decided to seduce Lucky to get even with me and Jason for sleeping together the night of the black out? Were you thinking of my kids then?

"Elizabeth, I thought we had moved past all this?" Sam asked annoyed as she ran her fingers through her hair. "You forgave me remember?"

"Wrong again Sam, I never forgave you for putting my kids in danger or for terrorizing me and them on multiple occasions because you were pissed off. Jason was the asshole who decided that it was okay to forgive you and pushed me into it. If it was up to me Sam, I would have wrung your scrawny neck back then, but Jason decided to protect you and told me that he had you "handled". What a load of bull shit!"

"Okay Elizabeth look, we get that you're pissed off because Jason learned the truth, but don't you think you are going too far?" Carly tried to intervene on Sam's behalf.

"Oh look Hurricane Carly to the rescue of her two damsels in distress, Sam and Jason." Elizabeth waved. Carly looked aghast as she opened her mouth and closed it again.

Both Patrick and Epiphany tried to hide their snorts of laughter behind their coughing. Little Lizzie was out in full force and finally standing up to the morons of the town. Epiphany was proud to see her standing her ground and Patrick had to admire her strength in the face of the tragic news he had to give her.

"Listen you little twit" When she finally got her voice back, Carly had started but Elizabeth wasn't backing down. Not this time.

"Carly you still don't get it, do you? I don't care what you think of me anymore. I stopped caring back in 1999 when you called me a little angel who didn't know who she was messing with. Do you remember that? When I found Jason shot in the snow, and took care of him and oh wait, respected him?" She turned to the mobster in the wheelchair that used to be her friend, "How about you? Do you remember how I respected your place in Jason's life? Wait, a minute you never cared about me even then did you? Was it because I was younger than him? Or is it just because I am one of the only women you couldn't order around because you hadn't slept with them?"

After listening to her tirade with Sam in tears, and both Carly and Sonny looking downright enraged, Jason had to speak up. "Elizabeth I think you've said enough. Carly and Sonny are my friends and Sam is legally my wife, you shouldn't be talking about them like this."

Enraged, Elizabeth threw her purse and jacket on the floor and advanced on him, "Jason Morgan or Jake Doe, whoever the fuck you are, does it look like I give a damn about what you want?"

Stunned the rest of the audience just looked on as Elizabeth unloaded on him. "You probably don't remember any of this or you are choosing not to but you and me, have more history than you Carly or Sam combined. It's been 19 years that you have been in my life! For 19 years, I have listened to these idiots you call friends sit here and tell me that I don't matter to you and YOU LET THEM! DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT SAY TO ME ALL THOSE YEARS AGO IN THE STUDIO THAT YOU HAD NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE HOW YOU FELT ABOUT ME? HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU PROPOSE TO ME? HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU TAKE IT BACK? DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT SAY THAT YOU COULD NEVER PUT JAKE ABOVE SAM? HOW MANY TIMES DID I TELL YOU I DIDN'T CARE WHAT YOU DID FOR BUSINESS, I JUST WANTED YOU TO TRUST ME? HOW MANY TIMES DID YOU WALK AWAY? FOR NINETEEN YEARS ALL YOU HAVE DONE IS WALK AWAY AND CHOOSE TO PUT THEM FIRST EVEN THOUGH YOU SAID YOU LOVED ME IN THE SAME BREATH? Elizabeth could feel her body shaking from the rage pouring out from inside her as she turned to face the four that had caused her the most pain, "YOU ALL SIT HERE AND BERATE ME FOR LYING BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE HAPPY, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU DONE THE EXACT SAME THING AND NOBODY GIVES YOU HELL FOR IT? WHY IS IT ALWAYS ME? WELL NOW I AM DONE! I AM DONE WITH ALL OF YOU. TAKE YOUR ACCUSATIONS AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS. NEXT TIME YOU TRY TO AIR MY DIRTY LAUNDRY FROM THE PAST FEW MONTHS, BE PREPARED FOR ME TO AIR YOURS FROM THE LAST NINETEEN FUCKING YEARS.

Taking a deep breath she turned and walked away from a stunned Jason and grabbed her things "if you all want to continue these fights, you know where to find me. I'm not finished. I've just begun." With a flip of her finger, Elizabeth turned and walked away leaving a flabbergasted crowd behind and the love of her life just stood there and watched, while his head started to hurt and the voices and flashbacks started to come back in waves as Jason Morgan/ Jake Doe felt like he was having a heart attack as he hit the floor. Was Elizabeth's unleashed rage and pain going to be the one thing that triggered his lost memories?

A/N: Well what did you think? R&R Please!