Stefan enters Katherine's hospital room, as he had so many nights before...
Katherine: You look very troubled.
Stefan: There's something I have to tell you.
K: I'm listening.
S: I'm not who you think I am.
K: Who is?
S: I'm Stefan Cassadine.
K: I don't understand, you're Stefan Cassadine?
S: Yes.
K: I wondered why the mysterious Mr. Cassadine never came to see me, but I never would have guessed this.
S: That was the point it seems.
K: Well, if it was so important to keep it a secret, why are you telling me now?
S: Because it's time, because there are things you need to know.
K: Well you certainly got my attention.
S: Katherine.... it was me.
Katherine just stares at Stefan confused S: I'm the one that shot you.
K: It can't be true.
S: It is.
K: But you don't even know me, why would you shoot me?
S: It was me.
Katherine looks into his eyes
S: You do remember
K: No, no I don't. Your eyes... your eyes were kind, not the eyes of somebody who would do this to me.
S: It was an accident. The night it happened, Luke Spencer came after me with a gun. He might have actually shot me if his son Lucky hadn't interveaned. He pleaded with his father and finally took the gun with him and threw it down into the ravene, they left and I retreived the gun.
K: Why?
S: Timoria -- atonement -- there are deaths I hold Luke responsible for. Those of my father, my uncle, my brother. I saw an opportunity to frame him for attempted murder and I took it.
K: I'm trying to follow you here, the attempted murder of whom?
S: Me, his mortal enemy. I stood in the spot where Luke had been and I aimed the gun where I had been standing and the moment I pulled the trigger, you appeared. It all happened so fast. I couldn't stop it. All I could do is try to get help as fast as I could.
K: And when I woke up, I didn't remember.
S: I should have told you who I was then, but I didn't.
K: You still haven't answered my question, why are you telling me this now?
S: It seems I no longer have a choice.
K: We all have choices, I should know since I'm always making the wrong ones.
S: You don't know how I feel about you, do you?
K: No. And I don't think I want to know. What does that mean anyway, what you feel?
S: I don't know. I'm not sure. I know I couldn't stay away from you, I tried. My whole life has tilted out of control. I'm afraid I'm not very good with words of emotion and I don't know where this can go, maybe nowhere. Maybe all it can be is what it is, what it's been. I do know that we were without the truth, and now we have it. I suppose you decide what happens next. Look at me, not only out of control, but giving it away. What have you done to me Katherine Bell?
K: Don't insult me.
S: I assure you.
K: I assure you, it's just your guilty conscience speaking, coming to my room after the horrible thing you did and getting me to trust you and reveal things to you that I have never told a living soul. It's inhuman. That's it, isn't it? You don't have feelings like regular people.
S: Well, that's not true.
K: And not only are you a married man, you're a newlywed. How on earth did you mange to sneak out every night to come here. No wonder you didn't want me knowing your name.
S: It was you who decided we should remain nameless.
K: Well it certainly worked out well for you didn't it? You know I would lie here and think about the things you said to me all day. They made me stronger because I thought that they meant something . I really thought that. But I don't know what to think anymore. Do you really think that I wan to look at the face of the man who did this to me?
S: I suppose I hoped.... Katherine
Katherine throws the necklace Stefan gave her at him.
K: GET OUT... JUST GET OUT OF HERE. Just go, I don't want to see your face anymore.
Stefan is picks up the necklace
K: Please don't drag this out.
S: (lays the necklace on Katherine's lap) It didn't break. I don't seem to be able to leave you, but I will walk out of this room, walk out of your life completely, if that's what you really want me to do.
Luke enters...