A/N: Wow! That was a lot of reviews. I am touched, honestly by all your comments. I'm so glad to see that you all like this, and while I would like to respond to all of your reviews, I think the best thing to do is just sum up the answers to your questions.
First let me say this, I am not going to sugar coat Elizabeth's bad choices. As I said before, I do not condone what she did. However that being said, this is a Liason story. While it may not happen as soon as some of you want. Hold on to that. Liason will be end game, but I want Liz to be redeemed before that happens. How it will happen? I don't know. That's the beauty of writing this, it seems to have taken on a life of it's own. Now for those of you who want to see more Lizzie...don't worry you will :) The last thing I will say is that I don't actually hate any of the characters that I may or may not put down in this story.
Alright now with that being said, let's see what happens next? :)
Chapter 4
Time Doesn't Always Heal
Elizabeth walked down the corridor of the hospital shaking. Turning into the hospital chapel, she found a seat in the middle of a pew and tried to breathe. Putting her head in her hands, she shuddered. It felt good to unload on all of them but it didn't dull the pain that was in her heart. Before she could even address the second bad news that Patrick had given her, she had to focus on the one that hurt the most.
"Pregnant?" She said out loud in disbelief. She looked down at the hands that rested on her stomach. "How could I have been pregnant and not have known? So immersed in her conversation with herself, she never heard the chapel doors open or the figure that slipped in quietly behind her.
"My boys are the best thing in my life, the only things that matter to me any more... I would have loved another child." She paused and stared up at the cross. "It doesn't even matter that Jason would have been a father. I wouldn't have made the same mistakes again."
"Why? Why did you take away the one thing that I've wanted? I know that I made a mistake. I know that I hurt Jason and Carly and Sam and Danny and everyone who loved Jason, but did you have to make me lose my child? Did you have to make me lose any opportunity I had at having any more children? You know, I could have had a girl this time...A little girl that looked exactly like her ma-ma" Elizabeth's voice cracked, her eyes started to tear up again, and this time she didn't try and hold them back.
The tears ran down her eyes in waves and her whole body shook in convulsions. Every time, she thought that they would finally stop, her chest felt like it had added weight and the tears started all over again. Elizabeth cried for herself, for her boys, for the family that she had lost and never really found. She rocked back and forth as she sobbed for her unborn child. An ache that she knew would never ever really go away. Elizabeth pulled her knees up under her as she stared straight ahead and prayed, prayed for the courage to get up and go back outside those doors and continue on with her life. When that courage would ever come to her? Only time would tell as Elizabeth closed her eyes to rest.
Hearing the brunette's breathing start to slow, the figure in the back pew wiped the tears that were falling slowly from their own eyes. They may have issues with Elizabeth, but they never could have imagined the young mother in this amount of pain. No mother should ever have to go through the loss of a child. The figure stood up and quietly exited the chapel...they had a lot of thinking to do.
While Elizabeth and her shadow were in the hospital chapel; back in the lobby: Sabrina, Felix and Epiphany have excused themselves from this heated exchange and after Carly murmured to Sonny that she would be right back, she too left. Something was nagging the blonde about what Elizabeth had said and she went off in search of answers. Meanwhile, Sam and Sonny are talking amongst themselves when Jason falls to the floor.
"Who the hell does that bitch thinks she is? Does she really expect us to care about her hurt feelings right now? As if she didn't lie to Jason for 7 months about who he really was?"
"Sam, she's just trying to find someone to blame. Don't let it bother you" Sonny put his hand on his former lover and friend.
"Woah, hey, Jason? Jason are you okay? Sonny is the first to notice, as his peripheral vision caught the fall.
"Jason! Oh my god Jason! Can you hear me" Sam leaned over his body. The fear was starting to rise in her body, she couldn't lose Jason, not again. Especially not because of Elizabeth.
"Back up Sam, give him some room to breathe" Patrick bent down to check on Jason. He put his stethoscope to Jason's chest. Hearing a strong heartbeat, he pulled a flashlight out to check his eyes but Jason's eyes shot open.
"I'm okay Drake, just a small headache."
"Take it easy Jason, move slowly" Patrick held his hand out for Jason to take and together they pushed him into a sitting position. "Does anything hurt?" When Jason just pointed to his head, Patrick helped him stand and said "let's move you to a room so I can really examine you." Jason nodded and started to follow him into the room across from where they were.
"Patrick, I want you to make sure he's okay and if Elizabeth's tirade did anything to hurt him, I will personally make sure she regrets it." Sam whined as she started to join the two of them in the hall.
"Sam, back off okay. You crowding him isn't helping." Patrick snapped. He understood her frustrations, but as a doctor his priority was to his patient, and right now his patient was sweating profusely and seemed unsure of his surroundings. Helping Jason on to the exam table, he turned and closed the door in Sam's face much to her chagrin.. "Now, Jason. How are you really doing?"
"Honestly, I'm not sure. My head feels very heavy." Patrick nodded documenting everything on the chart in his hands.
"I know that couldn't have been easy hearing everything Elizabeth had to say just now, especially when you don't remember anything she is talking about"
"You're right. I don't remember but hearing Elizabeth say all those things...
"Jason, what matters now is what are you going to do about it?"
"I'm still angry with her. I don't know if I can ever forgive her but..." Jason trailed off, as he thought about the look on Elizabeth's face. The normally blushing cheerful brunettes face was caked in pain. It was radiating off her in waves as she had advanced on him. He could taste the anger from her breath as she had moved closer to him and Jason was still speechless. In a way he felt like his own heart was breaking.
"Well, I think you need to come to terms with who you are, with what you want and once you have that figured out. You will know what's the right thing to do." Patrick clapped him on his shoulder before he left Jason to his own thoughts.
"Trust your instincts" Jason said out loud. That's what Carly, Sonny and Sam kept telling him to do. Jason reflected back on what Elizabeth had screamed at him. Nineteen years she had said, but it didn't changed the fact that she had lied to him from months. He didn't think he could ever talk to her again. Maybe it would just be best if he stayed away from her for awhile, until he could figure out how he wanted to handle her outburst. It was in that moment that Jason heard something else in his head.
"It's not okay for you to just drop out of my life. I would miss you too much"
Wait a minute, was that Elizabeth? Is this a memory or... Jason didn't know what it was but he heard his instincts screaming at him to go ask her. So if that's what his instincts were telling him to do...that's what he was going to do.
A/N: Sorry this chapter's so short. I wanted it to be longer but I'm not feeling too great. So I'm going to call it a night. Hopefully you like this chapter too. If not, I'll try and re post when I am feeling better. R&R please.
