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From: notdjmaryb@mindspring.com (maryb)
Subject: GH: Just Your Typical Rambling Wednesday Update 12/24
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 19:07:36 -0600
X-Server-Date: 2 Jan 1998 01:05:30 GMT

In the middle of a typical Q quarrel (except it's Christmas, so they're
fighting about holiday related issues), Alan ducks out and finds
Emily on the terrace. It was an all-around interesting scene, with
two very telling and/or ironic quotes from Alan:

"I am _so_ happy I'm not a role model for you." Then, later, "I wouldn't
delve too deeply into what Alan is doing when nobody is looking."

Then Ned arrived, with little Brooke Lynn in tow. He announced that
he invited Dave Koz to come play sax at GH's Christmas party.
Throughout the festivities, AJ quietly seethed, especially when
Monica questioned him about his knowledge of Carly and Jason's
affair.

At Jason's, Carly noted that the place could use a little holiday
cheer, as well as real food. Jason told her where to find some
cash. As he was getting ready to leave, Carly felt a small twinge
and wrote it off to impending motherhood.

The Webber girls waited outside Nik's room, as Sarah had a gift for him.
Stefan strolled up and was politely dismissive, ignoring her challenge
"no to any visitors or just me?"

Jax was also being dismissed; Brenda's doctor explained to The Dimpled
One why releasing her would be a bad idea. He broke the news to
Bren, who didn't take it well. And because Brenda didn't take it well,
Jax didn't take it seriously and went doctor shopping to get her
released.

Bobbie ran into Tony at the nurse's station, where he turned
down her holiday invitation, and then informed her of Carly's
current paternity claims.

From here on, pretty much everything was happening at the hospital.
Christmas party, you know...

Jax approached Alan and asked him to do some leaning to help get
Brenda released. When he refused, Jax threatened to bitch to the
psych review board about Alan's remarkable similarity to a Pez
Dispenser when it comes to prescription drugs, and how that quality
helped lead Brenda to her current state.

Carly and Jason ran into each other outside the hospital and she
invited herself to enter on his arm, in case anyone should ask
about the baby.

Bobbie went to Monica to express her shock, shock that Jason is
going to be a daddy, but Monica noted that only AJ wasn't in a
state of disbelief.

Just then, Dave Koz led all the girls and boys into the party.
Amy glommed all over him (big surprise), but Audrey made a rescue by
announcing that Santa was on his way.

Jason and Carly nearly stopped the party dead when they got off
the elevator, but festivites resumed when Santa got off the matching
elevator (although Santa Tony was taken a little aback himself).

Jax had a present for Brenda - walking papers. She was ecstatic,
but her doc wasn't thrilled.

Carly ran into Bobbie in the hallway.
She invited Bobbie to call her a slut now and have done with it.
Entirely on the defensive, Carly went ahead and made the worst
of herself before Bobbie could really get any words in. What
Nurse Spencer did squeeze in was that she actually had taken
Carly's side in the custody argument (pre-Jason, anyway), but
Carly was really in too defensive a mode for this bit of info
to sink in.

Outside Nik's room, Stef got a call from accounting and took off,
with Katybell trailing after him. Turned out that it was Jason
causing the stir, trying to pay Nik's bill. To say that Stef took it
as an insult might be understatement. The two ended up having
what may be the first of several pissing matches, with Jason
revealing his medical knowledge and backbone ("to me, you're just
loud"), and Stefan attempting to scare him off. In the end, neither
blinked, and Jason shrugged off.

While Nik was left unguarded, Sarah used the moment to sneak in
with his Christmas gift, but was surprised when he rejected
both her and her gift. She grabbed her coat and finally gave up
her roomside vigil.

Back at the penthouse, Jason came home to find that Carly had
completely redecorated the place, courtesy of Windhams.

Something fun:

Carly: I'm a terrible person.
Jason: You spent all the money, didn't you?
Carly: No...I mean....yeah. That's not why though. I saw Bobbie...
Jason: Did you have a fight with her?
carly: No...I mean...yeah.

Anyway, Carly went on to describe that exchange, and
asked Jason how she could have been so shallow, to do all
the horrible things she did for someone (Tony) who turned out
to be so disposable for her.

Jax brought Brenda home, which elves had broken into and decorated
for the holiday.

At the hospital party, Alan took over the role of reading the Story
of Christmas. When that was done, Santa started passing out gifts.

Mr. Koz picked up the sax and played "Have Yourself a Merry Little
Christmas," which brought us into a montage of:

Sarah, in tears.
Nik, sullen, in bed.
Stefan, outside, in black, in the snow being approached and cuddled by
Katherine, in white.
Carly, opening Jason's brown-bag gift, a key chain engraved "Caroline."
Jason, on his balcony, looking sensitively studly.
Brenda and Jax, decorating her tree and cuddling.

maru