Good morning all! Have an absolutely great day!!!
2009 EJ is leaning over the crib as he prays, and sees the monitor showing Grace’s blood pressure and heart rate drop. His eyes widened - tears threaten to spill over. He runs to the door and calls for Samantha, nurses, whoever is within shouting distance…
He goes back to the crib..
2009 EJ: Please, no. Grace. You can’t do this to your mommy.
Samantha: EJ, what is it? Grace?
EJ: Her blood pressure…I think she’s…
Samantha: No…She’s not going to die! She can’t! Please, EJ…we’ve got to do SOMETHING! No…no..no..
EJ: Sssh. We have to be strong, for her. Hold yourself together. We don’t know what’s going on yet…
(Carly comes in, as Lexi is not on duty for a change. Dr. Manning calls to a nurse to find Dr Jonas. Meanwhile, she checks the monitors, not liking what she sees)
Carly: EJ, Sami, you two need to step back while I examine Grace.
EJ: Carly, is my daughter going to…(he can’t bear to say die) Are we going to lose her?
Carly: I don’t know yet. Her blood pressure was dropping, but its steady now. Still too low... I can’t tell you what is going on for sure till I check her over thoroughly.
Sami: (trying to hold back tears, turns to EJ) This is so unfair. She is just a baby! Why must she go through this?
EJ: I don't know, Samantha. But I'd trade places with her in a heartbeat if I could.
Sami: As would I…
2015 EJ is watching the scene play out before him, and he is obviously touched. (Touched in the head maybe. Mean old stupid varmint critter... Oh, yeah. Supposed to have some sympathy for EJ in this dramedy*. I’ll TRY.) He looks at Spirit Grace and Zack, shaking his head.
EJ: I don’t understand. All this heartache. Sadness. Why? Even in an alternate 2009 Samantha and I couldn’t be completely happy.
Grace: I hope that is not all you see, Elvis. Please open your heart. Don’t be so jaded that all you see and want is Samantha!
Zack: Don’t cross the line, Grace. We can’t tell him what to do. He has to learn for himself.
Grace: I know! It is up to him. Uuugh! He’s a sick, sick, sick man!! They ought to put him in an isolation room and quarantine him till a cure is found for such dreadfulness! That man is worse than the Black Plague!
Zack: Grace! You don’t usually talk this way. This is your uncle…maybe you are too closely involved?
Grace: (she looks down in shame for a moment, looks up at EJ and sighs) Uncle Elvis, I apologize for my bad behavior. I wanted so desperately to help you. I thought I saw in you a person who actually has a good heart in there somewhere. Maybe I was wrong.
EJ: Giving up on me? (looks sad, guilty) You can’t…
Grace: No. I’m not giving up on you. But I don’t have as much hope for you as I did from the start.
Zack: Wow, Elvis. You are one tough nut to crack. I’ve never seen Grace lose an ounce of hope for ANYONE. What are we going to do with you?
To be continued...
*Dramedy: CTG's way of describing this story. Drama + Comedy = Dramedy.