We won’t say our goodbyes
You know it’s better that way
We won’t break, we won’t die
It’s just a moment of change
Inspiration
After I rewrote Poisonous Dreams as A Few Words Too Many, I eliminated the marriage of convenience angle. It’s a concept I like reading in general because there’s a vast difference between developing a relationship outside of marriage and then making it work once you’re in one. So I started to think how I could do that concept again. What would make Jason and Elizabeth take that step? Spousal privilege, of course.
And from there, I looked at different time periods until I found my favorite one: Summer 2006. My God, the amount of story I’ve planned that uses this as a jumping off point is legion. I loved 2006 so much.
Timeline
So, this begins in October 2006. All of the events of the summer have happened through the point Lucky leaves for rehab in mid-September after throwing Elizabeth to the floor. Ric has taken over as DA for Alexis due to her cancer. Elizabeth has told Jason about the paternity issue, but rather than running the test at GH, she had it done at Mercy for more secrecy. I haven’t changed much except for the Jason and Sam relationship. There’s been no real movement to getting back together. Also, while Sam and Carly are aware of the NOP, only Sonny knows about the paternity test.
2017 Update: I hadn’t really watched the 2006 scenes as closely as I should have before writing this and I completely forgot that Emily did know about the paternity and blackout night. I also forgot just how supportive of Elizabeth she ended up being. I also kind of flubbed the Sam stuff in this story. I didn’t want to deal with her, so I really didn’t. And I feel bad about it. Not bad enough to rewrite, but just note that I didn’t really stick as close to GH canon as I thought I had.
Media
+ Soundtrack, Volume 1: Mood Music
+ Soundtrack, Volume 2: Songs From the Story
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Inspiration
I’m trying to remember what the inspiration for this story was. I can’t remember if it was a challenge response, though there’s no note of that anywhere. I think it was definitely related to wondering what might have happened if Sonny had died in the car bomb that actually killed Lily.
There’s some decent stuff in this, but again, as a writer back then, I was impatient and not as involved in laying foundations.
Timeline
Remember Lily Rivera who died in that car bomb meant for Sonny in 1996? The car bomb killed Sonny. Lily went on to have a son named Michael Corinthos, Jr. She lives in Sonny’s old penthouse and Jason lives in the one across from her.
Elizabeth is a new character. Her maiden name is Webber–but she’s not Jeff’s daughter or Audrey’s granddaughter. She’s like a brand-new character. She moved to PC in 1997 and began dating Lucky. She became pregnant and they got married. Lucky was killed in a car accident a few months later. A month later, her daughter, Alexandria Mary (Lex) was born. Elizabeth worked in The Outback before she bought it with the money from Lucky’s insurance.
Nikolas and Lucky were close before his death. Nikolas and Liz never got along. Luke and Laura didn’t have their daughter, Lesley Lu. Lucky was their only child.
Alexis is Jason’s attorney. Brenda and Sonny broke up before his marriage to Lily and Brenda left town. Jason and Robin dated for three years before breaking up. Robin got fed up with both Jason and his life. She left for Paris, seemingly for good.
Carly is not Bobbie’s daughter and therefore never slept with Tony. She and AJ fell in love and married.
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Background
This may be one of the oddest stories I’ve ever written. It retells the storyline of Elizabeth falling at Rice Plaza in 2003, when Faith pushed her and caused her miscarriage. The show wanted to have Ric blame Sonny, which I totally understood, but then there was that ridiculous panic room storyline that would have destroyed any other character, but somehow Rick Hearst was so amazing, even I still love him and he almost killed my favorite character a dozen times.
This show is not specifically one couple or another, and surprisingly, it’s more Jason/Courtney and Ric/Elizabeth than I had intended, but I still liked the way it worked out so I can’t complain too much. I had intially intended on a whole other second part of this that might have explained the title, but I ended up dropping it, so don’t try and figure it out too much. It doesn’t fit the story whatsoever 😛 There’s always maybe the possibility of a sequel, but with my list of stuff to write, it’s unlikely.
This story includes Amy Adams as Robyn Nicholas, and Holly Marie Combs as Jessica Mitchell.
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Our lives are made/In these small hours/These little wonders/
These twists and turns of fate/Time falls away/
But these small hours/These small hours still remain
Inspiration
Hours was my attempt to write a Johnny/Nadine story, after being inspired by Huma’s The Right Girl. My Claudia and Nadine will never measure up to the gold standard set by her, but I like to think they’re all right. This was originally going to star Johnny/Nadine with Jason/Elizabeth playing minor roles until closer to the end, but a story change I made after initially outlining it changed that. It’s now an equal Liason/Nohnny fic.
Timeline
These Small Hours picks just after Kate is shot at her failed wedding to Sonny in September 2008, and begins in November 2008. Rather than Sonny accusing the Karpovs immediately and aligning with the Zaccharas, he instead blames Johnny, as he has been for months. Jason still has the organziation, in the wake of  Michael’s shooting. He and Elizabeth intended to go to Italy that day, but they never went. Nikolas and Nadine were seeing one another, but that ends shortly after she gets herself kidnapped on the Russian freighter. Lulu had a relapse after seeing Kate shot, and has been sent to a facility in California.
I’m still working out details so this is subject to change.
Media
These Small Hours: Soundtrack
A note about videos for TSH: These were created in 2008 when I still had my old crimsonglass.com domain. (I tried to get it back before opening the site here, and it’s been bought by an ad space people, so…whatevs). Ignore the website/posting schedule parts of these videos. I cannot edit them out without losing quality.
– Promotional
– Opening Credits
– Opening Credits (Extended)
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Welcome to the sub-site for Mad World, my General Hospital series. Mad World is set in the summer of 2003 and begins the day Jason was supposed to marry Courtney, but Ric kidnapped Carly and locked her away in a panic room.
The Original Series
In Book 1, Break Me Down, we visit the panic room storyline where Jason and Elizabeth work alongside Bobbie and the PCPD to find Carly. In Book 2, All of Me, Carly and Elizabeth begin to recover from the trauma they suffered at the hands of Ric while a serial rapist stalks young women in the park. Book 3, This is Me, followed Carly and Elizabeth dealing with Ric’s escape and the fallout of the serial rapist case, and Book 4, Liberty, returns to Ric’s reign of terror and all the damage he’s created in Elizabeth and Carly’s lives.
New Entries
The first Mad World novella, At Christmas, is set in December 2006, a little over two years after the epilogue of Book 4. Reading the first four books is recommended, but not necessary. Enjoy and let me know what you think!
Begin reading with Chapter 1 or jump to the newest book, At Christmas
Update
14 Jan 2024: Book 4.5, At Christmas, completed!
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