EPISODE 37

Emily's hospital room --

Still holding Emily close to him, Zander turned towards the guard that was with him. "Cord was to be out there, find him something must of happened. He would never leave his post!" Zander ordered.

"He was there one minute and the next he was gone." Elenore replied.

"Did you see who did this?" Zander asked her.

"No sorry it all happened so fast. After the shot, he took off. I didn't get a good look at him, I was more worried about Emily then getting a detailed description of the man, Zander."

"It's okay, mom."

Emily looked up at Zander. "It was Jason wasn't it?"

"Yeah baby, I think it was." Zander held her close to him and wrapped his arms tightly around her as her tears moistened his shirt and jacket.

Hospital staff came running a few minutes later to see what had happened, Monica and Alan followed close behind with Dr. Meadows in tow.

"Emily! Oh my God, are you alright?" Monica went to her daughter and snatched her from the arms of her husband.

"I'm okay .... " she replied yet Monica felt her daughter's body shaking from fear.

"No you're not alright, your shaking." Monica replied as Alan glared at Zander.

"You said you could protect her, Zander! What the hell happened?!" Alan demanded to know. "And are you going somewhere, you're not released yet?!"

"I signed myself out, okay?! I can't very well protect Emily when I'm lying in a hospital bed 3 floors down, now can I?!" Zander snapped back.

While Alan and Zander exchanged hurtful words towards each other, Dr. Meadows took care of Emily, and the hospital staff changed linens and pillows on the bed. Emily was put back into bed and Dr. Meadows cleared the room, she wanting to give Emily a full exam to make sure everything was alright.

Zander and Alan continued their heated discussion out in the hallway, as Elenore and Monica tried to separate the two and calm the two of them down.

"Please this is not the time or place for this, Alan!" Monica said as she tugged at his arm trying to back him off.

"Our daughter was almost killed ... this IS the time and place for this, Monica!" he barked back.

"Look, I know who did this and it's being handled." Zander replied just as his guard, Frank approached with the injured guard, Jerry stumbling along. Zander went to them.

"Here sit him down. What happened?" Zander asked Jerry

"I was blindsided, sir. He came out of no where, knocked me out dragged me down the hallway." Jerry replied as he rubbed the back of his head where there was a goose egg sized bump.

"I found him down the hallway propped up against the wall." Frank replied as Monica came over to take a look at Jerry's injuries.

"I'll be fine, Dr. Quartermaine. I'll have a bad headache for a while." Jerry replied as Monica checked him over.

Alan came up to Zander and grabbed at his arm, turning him around. "You said you know who did this .. tell me, who?!" Alan demanded to know who took a shot at his daughter.

Zander hesitant to tell him it was his own son, Jason. Zander didn't have to as he was interrupted by Ric rushing down the hallway to him.

"Are you alright? How's Emily?" Ric questioned as he approached the mob of people now standing outside Emily's room.

"We're fine. Please tell me you still have Alcazar in custody."

"Yeah, he's not being very cooperative though and he lawyer'd up. He's not giving us much of anything. Why do you think Lorenzo did this?"

"No, I don't. It was Jason, I'm sure of it." Zander replied and Alan's ears overheard his son's name.

"You think Jason did this?!"

Zander turned towards Alan. "Yeah I do. This was a warning to me, that he could get to my family any time he wanted. This wasn't about Emily, this was business."

"Business?! Taking shots at his own sister? That's business?!"

"To Jason, yeah it is. You don't know him very well, do you?" Zander replied, questioning Alan's knowledge of his own son.

"This isn't the first time, Dr. Quartermaine." Ric replied.

Alan and Monica both shocked to hear that Jason was behind the attempts on Emily, they didn't know their son was capable of such violence against his own family.

"Look, Lorenzo Alcazar has been in lock up since late yesterday, there's no way he could of been behind this. It had to be Jason, there's no one else in town. I would know if there was." Zander replied.

Dr. Meadows emerged from Emily's room and Zander went to her concerned about his wife. "How is she?" he asked.

"Emily will be fine, she's just a little shaken up, but she'll be fine." Dr. Meadows replied then hesitated, Zander concerned about her hesitation to tell him something.

"What is it, Dr. Meadows? It's the baby, isn't it? .... Isn't it?!" Zander now fearing for his child's life and he went to the plexi-glass window and watched Emily resting.

Dr. Meadows followed him to the window and a worried look came across her face. "Something has to be done, Zander. There is too much strain on this baby, he's not going to be able to take much more of this." she replied and Zander looked at her.

"He's alright, isn't he? We're not going to lose him are we? We can't lose this baby, Dr. Meadows!"