January 30, 2014

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.

Characters

Chapters

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!

Inspiration

I Shall Believe begins in the fall of 2003. I’ve always thought the show copped out that year when writing Rebecca Herbst’s pregnancy into the storyline by making the baby Zander’s. He was a character that was clearly already on his way out, and it just didn’t show much imagination, and the fallout would have been more interesting had it been anyone else. So naturally, I made it Jason.

Timeline

This story begins after Sonny shoots Carly in the head and she wakes up without any memories or emotions. Sage Alcazar has tried to kill Lorenzo and come on to Dillon Quartermaine. This is one of the stories that received a great deal of feedback at the time it was posted in 2003-04, and then when I reposted it in 2006. Mostly because this story also features my attempt at writing Courtney in a sympathetic light, which was always difficult for Liason fans. Courtney has taken the boys to live in Haye’s Landing after the shooting, to keep them away from the press while Sonny is in jail. She and Jason have been married for about ten minutes.

Story Notes

I realize now that the character of Brian is almost unknown — he was only on the show from about November 2003-February 2004. He was a sheriff in Haye’s Landing that owned the house Courtney rented while Carly was recovering. They were very cute together, and it was the first time I’d liked her in ages. So when I started this story in November 2003, I wrote Brian into it. He was a former FBI profiler who’d lost his wife Karen and moved back home. On the show, he moved to Port Charles to join the PCPD (which I thought was insane, but whatevs) and ended up being shot by Courtney in January 2004 (the crime Zander Smith was accused of and on the run for when he was killed by the cops) and then killed during the PC Hotel fire by Capelli. … Naturally I like my Brian better.

Note: Lucas Jones is in this story, and I wrote it originally in 2003/4 more than a year before his character came out as gay. At the time, I had no idea the show would eventually go in this direction, so when I write him in this story as straight and romantically involved with a girl, it’s not because I don’t approve, but simply this is how I wrote it eleven years ago.

Extras

I discussed the plot and conception of this story in my Fanfiction 101 series: The Peaks and Perils of Pantsing: The Witness and I Shall Believe

Characters

Chapters

January 26, 2014

Inspriration

Daughters began without much thought to the rest of the story. I just started writing the original opening scene (which has been slightly edited in this final version) in which Elizabeth and Patrick were siblings. I love the chemistry between Jason Thompson and Rebecca Herbst, and while the show has developed them as good friends, I wish they had more screen time.

It wasn’t until I reached the end of the first chapter that I even decided to bring in theme of fathers and daughters, and was able to title the story.

Timeline

Daughters is alternate universe with some use of the GH canon, which means portions of the GH world is in here. Jason’s accident, Sonny in the mob, Luke and Laura’s history with the Cassadines. However, relationships and other aspects diverge. Patrick and Elizabeth are twins who grew up in Port Charles along with Lucky, Robin, and Jason Quartermaine. Emily is still adopted. The story is relatively straightforward.