Sonny is still holding Brenda in his arms. Jason and Clive are standing on opposite ends of the waiting room. The rest of the gang hasn't arrived yet.
S: Looked down at Brenda. "Brenda, it's not you fault that she is in the hospital. I'm sure she knows that."
B: "No, you don't understand. She's been mad at me all afternoon. I told her the truth today. That's why she went running off into the office. If I didn't tell her she wouldn't have run off and she wouldn't have fainted, and she wouldn't have fallen and she wouldn't be here."
S: "Brenda stop blaming yourself. What truth, could you have possibly told her that would upset her so badly?"
B: "You. I told her about you. She already knew about you, but she didn't know your business or how you died or whatever it was that happened to you. It scared her."
S: "Brenda, I don't understand why you would tell your daughter about me. Why frighten her about details of your past that don't have anything to do with her?"
B: Steps out of his embrace and looks at him. He didn't know. How could he not know? Jessi was the spitting image of him. Didn't Jason tell him? She looked around for Jason. She saw him in the corner. They made eye contact, and Jason came over. "You didn't tell him?"
J: "No, I thought you should."
S: "Tell me what? What aren't you telling me?"
B: Takes his hand and leads him to a nearby chair. "You might want to sit down for this." He sits down in the chair and looks at Brenda questioningly. "I told Jessi about you because she wanted to know about her father. You're her father, Sonny."
S: Sonny looked like a he had been hit by truck. He felt like it too. Had he heard right? Brenda's daughter was his also. That explained why he felt the need to know this girl. He was a father of a what, …he didn't eve know how old she was, probably nine, ten, he didn't know.
B: Sonny hadn't said anything and she was getting worried. "Sonny, say something, please."
S: "She's mine?"
B: Smiles, "Yeah."
The ER doctor comes out of the ER.
Dr.: "Mrs. Corinthos?"
Brenda turns around to face the doctor. Everyone else looks at him expectantly.
B: "Jessi, my daughter, how is she?"
DR. "She's awake. She has a slight concussion. I want to keep her here for a couple of days to make sure she is going to be fine."
B: "Can I go see her?"
Dr. "For a few minutes. Only one visitor at a time and don't upset her."
B: "Okay." She turned Sonny. "Sonny I'll be right back." She headed to the go see Jessi.

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Sonny looks at Jason.
S: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
J: "Number one I thought you needed to hear it from Brenda. Number two I don't know your plans. If you're only dropping into town for a little while, I didn't think it would be a good idea for you to get attached to Jessi and then have to leave. It's hard to say goodbye to a kid. I know that first hand."
S: "I'm plan on staying for a very long time. This is my home. What do you mean by saying goodbye to a child is hard. You have kids?"
J: "No. I had one in my care for awhile, though. I'll tell you about it later."
S: "You better. Tell me about Jessi. What is she like?"
J: "She's a great kid.."
Clive decides to interrupt here.
C: "Bren told me that she can be very stubborn at times, but has a heart of gold."
Jason and Sonny look at Clive like he is crazy.
J: "Clive, this has been bugging me since we were at Luke's. How do you know Brenda?"
C: "She's my niece."
S: "She's your what? She never talked about you. And why didn't you ever tell me. I take it you knew about my daughter too."
C: "Yeah I knew. Ben and I don't keep in contact much. I send her a card here and there, and she sends me letter every now and then to the FBI where they forward them to wherever I am at the time. As for not telling you that was information you didn't need yet."
S: "I didn't need to know? I have a daughter and you didn't think I needed to know? Why? I want to know now." C: "We needed you away from Brenda to finish the assignment. If you knew you had a kid you would have gone home, putting everyone in danger."
S: "Yeah, I would have gone home. I could have taken my family and put them in to protection also."
C: "And take them form their home? Put them at even more risk than they were at home? I don't think they needed that."
S: "I could have kept them safe. My daughter didn't need to grow up without a father."
C: "Jessi didn't need to grow up running from the Puerto Rican mob that wanted to kill her father."
Sonny and Clive are standing face to face yelling at each other. People are staring at them. Jason intevenes.
J: "You two, we are in a hospital. If you want to finish this conversation go outside, or else you retreat to separate corners."
S: "Fine, this conversation is finished for now, but it's far from over." With that he walks away from Clive and heads closer to the ER to wait for Brenda to find out about Jessi.

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Mike was the first of the family/friends to arrive since his place of business was only a block away from the hospital. He didn't see Sonny. He searched for someone he recognized. He found Jason.
M: "How is she Jason?"
J: "Jessi or Brenda?"
M: "Jessi, well both."
J: "Jessi is awake and Brenda's with her now. Brenda feels guilty about the whole thing. She told Jessi about Sonny today, which made Jessi very upset."
M: "Poor Brenda. This isn't her fault. Jessi's going to be okay, right?"
J: "As far as we can tell right now, yeah."
M: "Where is everyone?"
J: "I assume that Luke, Laura, Ned, Lois, and Julia are on their way. Sonny's over there by the ER."
M: "What? Sonny's where? Mike turned around to see Sonny standing by the ER, jaw clenched and hands running through his hair. "Michael?"