Fall of Elizabeth Webber

It was suppose to be the best day of her life. She was marrying Jake. He would have been hers. He was suppose to be hers. But now everything was over. He knew. They knew. She heard banging on the door.

"Elizabeth!" said Jason, "How could you have done this to me?"

She was huddled in the corner of the room, wrapped in her wedding dress, her veil was still in her hair.

"I… I.." said Elizabeth.

"You knew," said Jason, "You knew who I was this whole time. And this whole time you lied to me. I trusted you. I trusted you, and you did this. And you pushed, so hard to make this a double wedding with Sam and Patrick. You knew my wife would be marrying someone else the same day I was going to marry you. You're sick,"

"I love you Jason," said Elizabeth, "It was our chance. Our chance to be together,"

"Our chance?" said Jason, "You don't love me,"

"Yes, I do," said Elizabeth, "I love you, I've always loved you."

"No, you don't. You don't so this to someone you love," said Jason, "You don't manipulate a situation like this, you knew who I was and you kept that from me. And my family was so close, and you kept them from me. You let me suffer. You are selfish.. and now you won't even face me."

Elizabeth moved her way to the door and held her hand close to the locked door of the bridal suite.

"I did it for us. We never had our chance before, not with the mob or with Sam or Carly," said Elizabeth, "We finally had our chance to be a family with Jake. Don't you see it was our second chance,"

"You don't see it," said Jason, "You kept me away from Danny, my son, and you lied to our son. You lied to Jake,"

Elizabeth sobbed against the door leaning into it. He could forgive her, he had to forgive her.

"I did it for Jake," said Elizabeth.

"No, you did it for you," said Jake, "I'm done with it and I'm done with you,"

She sobbed and fell into a heap on the floor and shook. Liz couldn't believe he was leaving. It was all Jake, Spinelli, and Robins fault.

"You can't blame them Liz," said a voice above her.

Elizabeth looked up and shuddered. Emily.

"But you're dead," said Elizabeth.

"That's true," said Emily, "But I think you still need someone,"

"I'm going insane," said Elizabeth.

"That's certainly possible. You've done some pretty questionable things lately," said Emily.

She felt her sit next her on the floor. She heard a knock on the door. She looked back to Emily. She was gone.

"Elizabeth, it's Laura," said Laura, "I'm taking Cam and Aiden home. I'll stay with them,"

"Okay," said Elizabeth, "Wait, what about Jake-"

"Well, Jason and Sam-" said Laura.

"What!" said Elizabeth, "They can't take my son. He's my son. I'm his mother, not Sam"

Elizabeth was shaking so heard. She was sobbing, and she couldn't stop. She needed to stop. She should get up and fight for her children. She should be taking them all home.

"Well, little Jake decided he wanted to go the penthouse with his father…and Sam and Danny," said Laura.

"They don't even live there!" said Elizabeth.

"Well while you've been in here," said Laura, "Everyone had to made some quick decisions. Sam and Jason are staying at the penthouse with Danny and Jake. Her parents and sisters are going to stay at the Metrocourt courtesy of Carly. Robin is going to stay with Patrick and Emma. Jake will be fine with his father. It will get better in the morning sweetie,"

She heard Laura walk away. Would Jake be okay? Was he confused? She didn't mean to hurt him.

"My nephew will be fine," said Emily.

"God," said Elizabeth, "You're not real. You're not real,"

Emily just ignored her and sat back down.

"You can't expect little Jake to want to come home with you tonight," said Emily, "Especially after what you did,"

"I-" said Elizabeth.

Everything was going to be perfect. They were taking turns. Sam and Patrick had said their vows. Now it was her turn with Jason. They were so close to the end. Soon they would be pronounced husband and wife.

"I am so happy I found you," said Elizabeth, "You've made me so happy-"

"We object," said Spinelli.

He came out of nowhere. He ran down the isle holding Robin's hand.

"Robin?" said Patrick, "What are you doing here-"

"I'll explain later," said Robin, "But you can't get married. Two of you are still married,"

Elizabeth felt everything sink. She kept a smile on her face.

"I think we would know if any of us were married," said Elizabeth.

She felt Jason's hands slide out of hers.

"I wouldn't," said Jason, "You know who I really am?"

"What do you mean two of us?" said Sam.

"Of course I know who you are," said Robin, "You're Jason, Jason Morgan,"

Gasps echoed though out the Cathedral. Elizabeth watched Sam dropped to the ground in shock. Patrick went to help her up. He looked broken. Everything was wrong.

"I'm Jason, and I'm married ….to Sam," said Jason. "How did you-"

"I knew you were my father," said Jake, "I knew it,"

Jake came up and joined them.

"I always felt connected to you and Danny and-" said Jason, "How did you know?"

"I heard mom say you were really my father-" said Jake.

"Shut up!" said Elizabeth, "Shut up, shut up, shut up,"

She didn't even realize she had slapped him until her hand left his little face. Everything else faded around her. Jake clung onto Jason. She remembered the shock on his face.

"You knew," said Jason.

"I didn't mean to hit him," said Elizabeth, "I've never hit my boys before. Never,"

"I know," said Emily, "You haven't been yourself lately,"

"Jason will forgive me," said Elizabeth, "He's done it before. I've lied and he's forgiven me, and so will Jake,"

The banging on the door startled her. Emily was gone. Elizabeth was alone again.

"You lying bitch," said Carly, "You hide- you hide behind that door for now. But I want you to know something, when you finally crawl out there, I will destroy you. I will make sure you never hurt Jason again, and never have anything to do with little Jake. You've destroyed lives today,"

"You don't understand," said Elizabeth.

"The hell I don't," said Carly, "Poor little nurse Webber, pretends to be a good girl, but really is just a manipulative lying bitch. Instead of reuniting Jason with his family when you found out who he was, you chose to keep that to yourself, so you could finally get him to yourself. But you know what, now everyone knows how horrible you are."

"I'm-," said Elizabeth.

"I don't want to hear you're excuses," said Carly, "I just want to make it clear that no one will forgive you. Not Patrick, Sam, Monica- no one. Least of all Jason,"

"Carly," said Sam, "I need to say something to her,"

"She's all yours," said Carly.

"Elizabeth," said Sam, "I'm coming in,"

Elizabeth got up and pushed on the door to keep it closed. She heard the clicks of the knob. Sam had of course picked the lock and pushed her way in. Elizabeth pushed herself to her feet. They faced each other. Bride to bride. Both of their faces were stained with tears. She remembers them meeting each other in the Bridal shop and helping the other decide which dress was the dress. Elizabeth's princess gown was a contrast to Sam's simple lace body hugging dress.

"Why?" said Sam, "Why did you do this to me? Do you hate me that much?"

"Of course I don't hate you," said Elizabeth, "I wanted us to be happy. I wanted us both to be happy,"

"No Elizabeth," said Sam, "You wanted to be happy. And damn the consequences,"

"I found out at the Nurses ball," said Elizabeth.

"I know. Hayden remembered," said Sam, "Spinelli had gone to Cassadine Island and found Robin, and then on his way back they went to see Hayden this morning, it all just unfolded. I know Nikolas found out from Helena and then you found out from him. Given how Nikolas has been I suspected her knew who Jake really was… but you. Elizabeth how could you? Why didn't you tell me when you did find out?"

"You were happy Sam. I saw you with Patrick at the ball and I couldn't. I was happy with Jake, and you were happy with Patrick- how could I destroy all that?" said Elizabeth.

"You also saw me mourn Jason, you saw me and my son try so hard to move on from Jason. You knew he was alive and you were the one to push me and Patrick to get married, just to justify your actions," said Sam.

"I did it for all of us," said Elizabeth.

"Bullshit," said Sam, "You did it for you. At the nurses ball Patrick and I just started to get serious. You and Jake - Jason had barely even started anything. You could have made this easier for everyone when you found out,"

"Easier," said Elizabeth, "None of this was easy. You don't think this was hard. But I was making the right choice for all of us,"

"God, you are deluded. You were making the right choice for you. You were being selfish Elizabeth. You were making the right choice for you. You certainly weren't making a good choice for Jason. You kept him away from his mother, his son, from me. He had the right to know who he really was. You don't get to play god," said Sam.

"I was doing what was right. Jason was no longer in danger all the time, he wasn't working for Sonny. I was giving us second chance to be a family, to have a normal life," said Elizabeth.

"You can't control everything," said Sam, "You are sick Elizabeth. You arranged for me to marry another man, next to my husband-"

"You are in love with Patrick-" said Elizabeth.

"So you were what- protecting us. That absolves you?" said Sam, "You just made it worse. You let us start a building a life together, when you knew that Jake was really Jason."

"We all could have stayed happy," said Elizabeth.

"Fine, but imagine your best case scenario, we all be friends and have kids, and all hang out on weekends. What would have happened if Jake remembered who he was, years from now? Did you really think you could live in that lie forever?"

Elizabeth thought about it. She imagined them all being friends. She imagined her being pregnant with Jason and her second child. She smiled.

"Yes," said Elizabeth.

Sam slapped her hard in the face. Liz brought her hand to her pulsing hot cheek.

"You are selfish Elizabeth. While you were hiding in here, and not facing your mistakes, we've been trying to pick up our lives. All the children, yours included are confused, and hurt," said Sam.

"It's easy Sam, be with Patrick, stay with Patrick and Emma," said Elizabeth.

"That's not your choice anymore," said Sam, "I know you will always be in our lives, you won't stop being Jake's mother, but I want you to know you will never have our trust again,"

"That's right, I am Jake's mother. Jason and I will always share him," said Elizabeth, "You are not his mother. I am and one day Jason will forgive me and come back to us,"

"I can't even even deal with you," said Sam, "I'm going home with Jason, and we are going to try to move past you,"

Sam walked out, and slammed the door behind her.

Elizabeth locked the door again and tried to catch her breathe. She saw herself in the mirror. Her perfect hair, and dress. Her makeup was smudged, but she looked so beautiful. The perfect bride. She saw Emily behind her. She looked so disappointed. Elizabeth could see Jason's face as he realized she had lied to him. She ripped her veil out of her hair and crumbled again on the floor. Emily hushed her and rubbed her back. Elizabeth had lost Jason. She sobbed. She was alone and no one was coming for her.