Emily: I don't want to do this anymore.
Nikolas: Then don’t. We decided to go away. Let's -- let's do it.
Zander: Look, I can't stop you, but I'll still be here when you get back and I'm not giving up. Look, Emily, forget everything that's happened, okay? It hurts but we can get past this together. I have faith in us and --
Nikolas: It's too late for you to change her mind.
Emily: All right, why can't you two understand? I am not going to choose. I can’t.
Thunder.
Emily: I love you both. It's not fair, it's hurting all of us, and the only solution is to stop.
Zander: The way for you to end this, Emily, is to make a choice.
Nikolas: Well, I'm not going to step aside. I tried that once and it didn't work.
Zander: You are such an arrogant --
Emily: All right, this is impossible! I cannot have a three-way conversation about something I hardly understand myself. I hate what I have done to us and I'm the only one to blame for it. You both have been way better than I deserve. So as of today, I'm not with either of you.
Emily: Mom, hi. Your chauffeur has arrived.
Monica: Oh, come on. You don't think I dragged you out in this weather just for a ride home, do you?
Emily: The roads are flooded, the bridges are closing. You need an S.U.V. to get you anywhere around town, so aren't you lucky that your daughter happens to drive one?
Monica: Well, I'm lucky. I'm also very blessed, but it has nothing to do with the weather or your S.U.V. Oh, well, here. Take a look. Go on.
Emily: Okay. What am I looking at?
Monica: Just look. I'll explain.
Emily: Okay. Are they blood cells?
Monica: They're yours and they're healthy and Dr. Misra confirmed it, and you are in total remission.
Emily: Oh, my God.
Monica: Congratulations.
Emily: Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I can't believe it.
Monica: I know.
Emily: Thank you, Mom.
Monica: You did it. You did it, sweetheart.
Emily: Oh, my God. I didn't know. I wanted to die with dignity, remember and leave everyone with beautiful memories and just -- just fade away. And I didn't -- I didn't want to fight the cancer and I didn't -- I didn't believe that I could win. But you believed. You believed, Mom. You wouldn't let me give up.
Monica: I was thinking I've lived through breast cancer now three times, with Paige and with mine and now with yours. I still don't understand it. I don't know why some people make it and some people don’t. I guess maybe it's because sometimes you just have the surgery at the right time and the medicine works, and -- and all I know is I hope with all this research that they're going to find a cure real soon.
Emily: I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. You saved my life, Mom.
Zander: Penny, black coffee to go, please.
Nikolas: Just so we're clear, I'm not backing away from Emily.
Zander: Even though that's what she asked?
Nikolas: Look, the only reason she's doing this is because she doesn't want to hurt us. Otherwise, she wouldn't have said anything.
Zander: Oh, so you're going to hurt her instead?
Nikolas: She's so desperate not to break your heart, Zander; she's willing to break her own.
Zander: What if you're wrong, Nikolas? What if it's you she's trying to protect?
Nikolas: I think I know better than that. Emily and I love each other. We tried to fight it and you know what, it didn't work. I think I can give the time that she needs, but in the end we'll be together.
Zander: Thank you. You expect a lot, don't you, Nikolas? Maybe that comes from being rich and spoiled, I don't know. Emily and I didn't expect to fall in love, and we didn't expect to last. But we did, and we will.
Jason: Emily.
Emily: Hi, Jase.
Jason: They told me Monica might be in here.
Emily: Yeah, she'll be back in a second. What happened? Why do you need to see her?
Jason: Courtney was in a car accident.
Emily: Oh, my God.
Jason: The paramedics don't think that she was hurt too badly, but she's still unconscious and I just -- you know, I wanted to know if Monica could take a look at her.
Emily: Yeah, I'm so sorry, Jase. Yeah, she'll be back in a second. I'll tell her as soon as she gets back.
Jason: Okay. What -- what are you doing here? Is everything okay?
Emily: Yeah. My cancer is in remission.
Jason: You're sure?
Emily: Yeah, Mom was showing me the blood samples I'm producing.
Jason: Thank God.
Emily: I'm not scared anymore, Jase. It feels so good not to be scared anymore.
Jason: You know, I thought -- I thought that -- I didn't -- I didn't think that you were going to make it and I couldn't picture my life after that. You know, I knew that nothing would change -- not my job, not my family -- but --
Emily: Yeah.
Jason: I mean, everything would be so different without you. Everything would be less and that's why I love you so much, Emily.
Emily: Jase. Oh. You know, I -- I told mom that she saved my life, and she did. I mean, she -- she made me have the surgery; she got me through the chemo, but when it was the hardest and when I was most afraid, you listened to everything I needed to say. And when I thought that I was too tired to keep going, you helped me find a way. Not by begging me to live or anything like that, but just by being there for me to hold on to. So thank you, Jase. I thank you.
Jason: Oh. I should get back to --
Monica: Jason.
Emily: Okay.
Jason: Hi.
Monica: Hi.
Jason: Um -- Courtney’s been in a car accident --
Monica: Oh, no.
Jason: And Alan’s with her now. He thinks she's going to be okay, but I just -- you know, I just want to know if maybe you could take a look at her for me.
Monica: Yes, of course I will.
Jason: Oh, Emily -- Emily told me that she's in remission.
Monica: Yeah, yeah. It's a miracle.
Jason: It was you. I mean, you made her fight and you made her get the treatments. Thank you.
Monica: Oh, well, you don't need to thank me. That's what mothers do.
Emily: Mom?
Monica: Hmm?
Emily: Are you all right?
Monica: Yeah, yeah. Why do you ask?
Emily: Because you love him so much, and you're not sure how to show it or even if he wants you to. He does, though, Mom, and that's why he came back looking for you. Jason trusts you.
Monica: Well, I have a son who trusts me and a daughter who is healthy and beaten cancer. Like I said before, I'm blessed.
Continues through to Monica and Alan examining Courtney with Sonny and Jason at their sides.
Nikolas: Hey.
Emily: Hi.
Nikolas: I came right over. Are you okay?
Emily: Yeah. No, I'm great. I'm sorry I said so on the phone.
Nikolas: Yeah, I know. You said you called from the E.R. I thought "great" meant that you weren't in critical condition.
Emily: No, no, I was visiting my mom. She told me -- she told me good news.
Nikolas: How good?
Emily: We should probably wait for Zander. I just called him and I'm -- he's a big part of this, too.
Zander: Are you okay?
Emily: Yeah.
Zander: You said it was important.
Emily: No, listen, I know that this is completely, completely awkward considering what just happened. Listen, I'm not making any sense and it's probably because I've just been completely, completely delirious from joy. My cancer is in remission. I -- I still have to complete the last round of chemo, but my body's producing healthy cells and all the tests came back clean.
Zander: You did it. Come here.
Emily: With a lot of help.
Nikolas: Thank God.
Emily: Thank you for caring.
Zander: You're welcome.
Emily: And thank you, too.
Nikolas: Emily, I love you.
Emily: Hey, listen, you guys, I'm sorry. Here, would you please sit down just for a second?
Zander: Yeah.
Emily: All right. I -- I know that I just made a huge deal about not being with either one of you, and then I call you over here in the storm and --
Zander: Emily, please don't apologize, okay? This is your life, right?
Emily: Yeah, in more ways than one. My biological mom died of cancer, and my other mom -- she just said that it's not because Paige -- Paige didn't want to live or -- or wasn't loved enough or didn't fight. It's because the treatment didn't work for her, and it worked for me. You know, part of it was luck and part of it was timing. I mean, the treatments for breast cancer are so much -- so much better now because they know more because there are a lot of doctors that care enough to keep working for a cure. So I'm going to help. I'm going to be a doctor.
Zander: Really? Well, what's -- what's the next step in --
Nikolas: Does that mean you're -- you're going to go away to school or --
Emily: No. I'm enrolling at P.C.U. They run a premed program through the hospital. So I can take classes here in the hospital and live at home. I'm not going anywhere, but the next 10 years of my life are pretty much taken.
Zander: Well, if this is the part where I'm supposed to step aside, I'm not.
Nikolas: Neither am I.
Emily: Listen, I just -- I want to be honest with both of you. You know, be honest about my plans and about my health, about everything. Most of all, what I want to do is I just -- I want to tell you both that I couldn't have gotten through this cancer without you. And no matter how badly I messed things up; there was never one single day where I didn't feel your love or one single day where -- where I didn't love both of you back.