Did you ever think that there are a lot of things that just don't fit in GH? Here's an AU version of everything that never was completely changing GH history.
Chapter 1
Jason felt like everything was way too dark. He could hear a woman speaking to him and a soft hand holding his own.
"My dear, you would be so surprised to see Emily now. She is all of thirteen and yet she has grown so much. I know the two of you weren't close quite yet, but you were slowly getting there."
Lila…no that's impossible. He thought as he began to get agitated.
Lila heard the beeping of the monitors increasing.
"Ms. Lila?" Reginald asked from the doorway. He never disturbed her while she had her visits, but the increased beeping worried him.
"Get a doctor, Reginald. I think something is wrong." The older women said looking at least twice her age.
Reginald rushed to find a doctor. Lila kept holding his hand although she didn't know what to say to her grandson.
Suddenly Jason's blue eyes were piercing her own and she was stunned.
"Oh my God." She cried as tears ran down her face.
"Mother." Alan said as he rushed in. He froze as he saw his son's eyes open for the first time in six months. Tony Jones wasn't far behind him.
"I'll be damned, he is awake. Lila I need you and Alan to leave the room for a few moments so that I can check his pupils and start reducing the stress of his breathing tube before his instinct to gag comes back." Tony instructed gently but firmly.
Alan pushed his mother out of the room. Both of them were silently crying from joy. Monica rushed into the hallway. Seeing Alan and Lila she froze going white.
"No, Monica. He's awake." Lila said with a trembling smile. "Our Jason's awake."
Tony kept checking everything and began to flush the area around the tube to alleviate the pain and raw feeling Jason would be experiencing.
"Your lucky to be alive, Jason."
Jason fell back asleep.
Tony stepped out of the room and into chaos as all of the Quartermaines had arrived in the twenty minutes of him being in the room.
"Is he alright?" "How long until my grandson is out of here?" "Edward." "He's right mother, he is just asking what we're all thinking."
Tony decided the best way would be to cut all of them off. "Jason is awake." He called out firmly as things quieted immediately. "Right now everything medically is up in the air. We didn't expect this. I don't know if it is permanent and we don't know how bad the damage is. You know that we have spoken in the last weeks of shutting off the life support. Take this as a miracle and be glad he is alive Edward. He still has a long recovery from just laying in bed for six months much less all of the brain trauma he received. This is a one day at a time thing, not everything at once warp speed. He is sleeping right now. His body is exhausted still as it trys to cope with the brain injury. I'll be doing tests in twenty minutes probably for the next several hours we'll be doing them and they'll be repeated regularly to see how his brain and responses are doing. This is a long road I know. But it looks like he is going to live. The more important question is going to be the quality of Jason's life. The frontal lobe does a lot of the brains activity and he basically has no frontal lobe on one side. We're talking about a lot of things going wrong."
"How serious could it be?" Ned asked quietly as Lois held his hand tightly.
"We're looking at different possibilities. There is a chance there will be mental retardation from lack of air and collapse of the blood vessels on the right frontal lobe. Memory gaps or loss, as well as the possibility of speech impediments, deafness, blindness, and sensory problems." Dr. Jones said softly.
The Quartermaines were troubled by these findings for the next few days after test after test was conducted on Jason. Finally on the fourth day they were told that the breathing tube had been removed and that Jason wouldn't be able to talk most likely, but that research showed that visitors talking helped stimulate the brain into relearning response mechanics.
Monica and Alan entered the room first. Jason was awake and he watched them. He had tried to speak, but nothing had came out from being so hoarse.
"Jason." Alan choked out softly as Monica gripped him hard against her.
Monica began to tell him about random things. Anything and everything she could think of. She told him about Keisha and how AJ was doing in rehab. Jason was so confused he didn't understand.
"AJ?" He asked without realizing it. It was scratchy and only half formed.
"He's fine. You need to not speak. You're too hoarse right now." Alan said as he smoothed a hand over Jason's forehead.
They saw the confusion on his face. His parents looked at each other, and they both wondered if perhaps he was confused as to how he was here and why.
"Jason, there was an accident. You and AJ were in Lois's convertible. AJ ran off of the road and you went through the windshield. The seatbelt snapped." Alan said pausing. "There has been some trauma to your brain. You've been in a coma for six months."
I am dreaming. It has to be a dream. Where is Carly? This isn't right. I've already done this. Michael, Morgan, Milo, Spinelli, Sam, everything where is everything?
Jason's heart monitor was speeding up and his blood pressure was rising.
"Jason you need to calm down. I know your scared, but you have to stay calm." Monica said shakily. "Please Jason just try to stay calm."
It was too late. Jason was freaking out and his blood pressure was rising far too fast.
The nurses station was alerted and Bobbie rushed into the room. "What happened?"
"We told him about the accident. He looked confused. We thought it would alleviate fear not add to it." Alan cried in despair.
Bobbie prepared a shot. "This is going to slow your heart rate and you'll feel tired. You need to not fight it Jason. Let the shot put you out for a little while. Everything will be clearer when you wake up."
She injected it into his IV. But Jason's adrenaline was overriding it's calming affects.
Bobbie knew from the way his body was reacting that he wasn't listening to her instructions and was fighting it. "Get Tony. This is too much pressure on his brain."
Alan ran from the room. Tony came a few moments later.
"How bad?" He asked simply.
"BP 150/70. His blood pressure is rising and then it's going to crash."
"Get me Lidisyl and a portable MRI. Monica I need you to leave."
"But…"
"You can't help me right now. Your only in the way. I don't know what got him like this. But in about five minutes he's going to have a seizure from arrhythmia and I don't want you in this room. OUT now."
