I own nothing connected to GH, just a fresh notebook full of lovely notes for this story. I would like to own the rights to the characters; alas my husband says Disney will not sell them.

PRODIGAL SON is my version of Jason's life immediately before the coma and after. I am not going to be following the timeline exactly, since it was messing with my story. Basically, things are not the same. First of all Keisha isn't his girlfriend, they are very good friends, but Jason saw that AJ was interested and backed away like a good little brother.

He is still a medical student; I decided to make him a little more interesting than the white bread character we saw on the show.

Elizabeth is still in Boulder, but things are also different. First of all, she is fourteen in the prologue, her mother sent Sarah to Port Charles as on the show. However Jeff Webber is a different story. Which will be explained as the story goes along.

Since I f-ing love the Jones girls and Mac they will be here as well, on the show they were about 2 and 6. With the way they were aged, using my time line they would have been about 7 for Georgie at the beginning of this, and 10 for Maxie.

Emily is around 13, like she would have been I think during this storyline. The rest of the characters it will be self evident as to the differences. I wasn't sure of the timeline for Lucky and Nik's still being enemies but that is going to be going on. Also Carly will be showing up, since her time line didn't work for me I altered hers as well.

So that you understand what is going on, this is a little bit of a mystery mixed in with a coming of age romance, can true love find itself and overcome, deception, murder, embezzlement, kidnapping, and a little bit of insecurities, let's find out.

BEGINNING OF SUMMER

Elizabeth waited until she saw the Parkers leave for their party, then checking on Susie and Tommy; she quickly entered the kitchen to get something to eat. Looking into the fully stocked refrigerator, she regretfully passed over most of the items, and helped herself to a bowl of the beef stew and some bread.

She figured that with as much stew as there was no one would notice a little missing. Grabbing the empty container in her book bag, she spooned in about a meals worth and returned the rest to the refrigerator. Going to the pantry, she saw the fully stocked shelves and recalled when her house had food like that. She grabbed a can of tomato soup, knowing she could stretch it out for two days. As she slipped it into her bag the guilt once again hit her. Half sobbing, she started to pull it back out, and then returned it to her bag.

After checking on the two kids playing with their toys, she went back to the kitchen and heated up the dinner Mrs. Parker had left for her children and her babysitter. Elizabeth called them in to eat, after serving the two of them; she took a small portion for herself.

Loading the dishwasher later, she wrapped up her share of the leftovers and placed those in her bag also. After joining the two children playing for a few hours, Elizabeth gave the children help with washing their hair, like usual they splashed the brunette, making it much easier for her to cover up what she had to do next.

After tucking them in bed, she hurried into the bathroom, borrowing the guest robe hanging there; she tossed her clothes in the washer and then waited to place them in the dryer before rushing off to shower, thankful for the hot water.

When the Parkers arrived home at one-thirty in the morning, Mrs. Parker drove the young girl over the two blocks to her house. "Thanks again, Elizabeth. I don't know what I would have done if I hadn't seen you at the park today. Here is the money for babysitting, and a little extra for the inconvenience. I know that giving those two a hand with their hair is quite a hassle.

"Your welcome." she said quietly. She was feeling guilty but she had gotten used to it by now, not that it ever really made it easy.

As she pulled out of the cul-de-sac, the mother of two watched to make sure that the nice Webber girl got safely into her house. Lizzie always looked so lonely. Recalling what Carolyn had said about Sarah spending the summer at her grandmothers, she shook her head. Did the woman really expect the neighborhood to buy that she went willingly; Sarah was probably in trouble again. Carolyn was all about appearances, never substance, how she had ended up with such a wonderful kid as Lizzie she really didn't know.

Elizabeth let herself into the cold and empty house. There was no one there, there hadn't been since Spring Break, she had returned from a ski trip with her class to a note from her mother saying that Jeff and she had taken a job with Doctors without Borders, Sarah had been sent to school, and Elizabeth could use the money on the fireplace to do what she wished.

After crying at the coldness of the note, Elizabeth had found the fifty dollars and could not help wondering why her father had done this. Jeff had always been an attentive father, now he just left her. Something was wrong, she thought. Picking up the phone to call her grandmother's house, she waited until she heard hello.

"Sarah? Where is everyone? Where is dad?" she asked sobbing out loud.

"Oh grow up Elizabeth. Obviously they aren't there. Mom and Dad took a job in Bosnia."

"What am I supposed to do?" she asked.

"Can't you take a hint, just go away, that is what you are supposed to do. Didn't you read the note, for god's sake Lizzie, no one wanted you anyhow. You were just rubbish that dad found in a dumpster at the hospital here in Port Charles. They felt sorry for you so they took you in, but let's face it. You have been nothing but trouble since you were brought home.

Mom and Dad are sick of dealing with you, so why don't you return to the rubbish heap you came from." With that a sobbing Lizzie heard the phone slam down and fell down on her father's chair until she finally fell asleep all cried out.

Since then she had kept up the illusion of living here with her parents, she wished she could leave but fifty dollars hadn't even allowed her to buy a bus ticket to her grams home so that she could find her true family. Finally giving in to buy food when the can goods ran out, she quickly had gone through the money.

Thankfully she had been offered babysitting jobs by the neighbors who hadn't noticed the little bits of food she had stolen. Sighing, she pulled out her notebook and wrote down what she had taken from the Parkers and well as the fact that she used their shower and washer, someday she was going to repay them, someday when she was a famous artist. Right now she needed to figure out how to hide her stuff from the real estate lady.

Tomorrow was another open house and she had to make sure that she was gone by one so that no one would know she was living here, still. She could not believe that Dad would just sell this house; he had designed it with an architect and the contractor, from the overall design down to the handles on the cabinet doors.

Dragging herself up to her old room, she wound the alarm to wake up, then she laid down on the bed, willing herself to fall asleep. As the clock ticked three she finally closed her eyes.

Jason woke up early needing his run desperately, he needed to clear his mind and running later would not allow that. After stretching and checking to see if AJ wanted to join him, his mood was even worse.

As he thought through his problems while heading towards the city, he started with the most recent one. Audrey Hardy's granddaughter, she was working as a Candy Striper at GH and following him around when he was there with his parents. His parents thought it was cute, he felt like he had a stalker. He wished she would join her sister in Europe. Brenda had said he should be glad that it had happened this way, both Webber girls could have been in town. If this was the better behaved one, he shuddered to think what the other girl was like.

Robin Scorpio, he sighed as he rounded the park. He felt sorry for her, Stone had died, and Jason had found her out at the old bridge last week getting ready to jump. Mac had agreed to get her some help but Jason got the feeling that the restaurateur was just humoring him. He could remember the awful crush she had on him a few years earlier, he felt guilty when he thought about her love for Stone Cates and its tragic ending.

Brenda was dating a mobster, the same guy who had been around Karen when she had stripped and done drugs. Sonny Corinthos was always pleasant when they meet but Jason could not forget Karen strung out and that Lucky Spencer; his little sister's friend had been shot because of the man.

As he rounded the Hardy house he sped up, Tuesday Sarah had tried to join him on his run, not seeing the annoying blond he breathed a sigh of relief. As he continued on towards the docks he thought about his biggest two problems, first of all the fact that everyone seemed to think something was wrong with his still being a virgin and the fact that he really did need to do something about that.

However his love life sucked, Big TIME. He'd lost Karen to Jagger, and then Brenda had used him to make Jagger jealous. Even AJ had gotten the attention of a girl Jason was interested in. What was wrong with him? AJ had came back from rehab, a different person tossing away Keisha, who had cried on his shoulder, but he would not get involved with anyone his brother had been seeing. It just wasn't done.

Jagger had turned to Brenda after Karen left town for school, then dumped Brenda for someone else. The annoying talkative brunette had been devastated, now she was seeing that Corinthos guy, As he came to the wharf by Kelly's Diner, he waved at Ruby, then stopped suddenly. Maybe that was it, maybe the problem was the way he dressed and acted. He needed to be more like Jagger and Corinthos.

"Jason? Honey are you okay?" Jason quickly looked up into Bobbie Jones eyes. Blushing at the fact that once again a woman was treating him like he was five, he said stammering.

"I-I'm fine, just got winded." with that he rushed off to start to implement his plan while trying to figure out what the heck had gotten into AJ while at rehab. He had been a complete jerk since he returned home. Finally running across the huge expanse of lawn he cursed as the sprinkles came on just as he hit the middle.

"Something wrong golden boy?" sneered AJ as he drank the alka seltzer breakfast of champions.

Jason just ignored the drunk, shaking his head. So much for rehab and what is with this golden boy crap he had started calling him since he returned home. Why was he so full of resentment, when he had left Jason and he had been on good terms? Now he just wanted to give in to the urge to punch AJ in the mouth.

Counting to ten he reminded himself that he didn't want to hurt his hands. Look what had happened to his father. Hugging a half asleep Emily, he grinned at her and shook his wet hair at his newly adopted little sister.

"Jase, that isn't funny." she squealed as she pushed her way past and into his bathroom. Sticking her tongue out at him, she closed and locked the door listening to his complaining. She really like to use this shower, it had better pressure than hers.

As he grabbed his clothes off his bed, he tripped over his telescope when he glanced at the clock, crap; he had to be at the hospital at eight for the beginning of his shift. He rushed off slamming the door; missing hearing Reginald tell him he had a long distance collect call from Italy.

I hope you like the preview.