In General Hospital, death rarely brings closure. More often, it tears open something darker—something waiting beneath the surface. And this time, the death of Dr. Dalton didn’t end a chapter. It detonated one.

When Dalton collapsed in those final, chilling moments, Port Charles lost a brilliant—if dangerously arrogant—scientist. But for Dr. Sidwell, the man standing beside him when his life flickered out, the moment wasn’t a tragedy. It was a revelation. A door had cracked open into the terrifying legacy of Fasin, and Sidwell stepped through it without hesitation.

What followed was not grief.
It was reinvention.

The Birth of a New Obsession

In the days after Dalton’s death, Sidwell locked himself away in his private lab, surrounded by Fasin’s encrypted research notes and scratchy audio logs full of distorted theories about consciousness preservation. Dalton’s failure didn’t frighten Sidwell—it emboldened him. Where Dalton had hesitated, he accelerated. Where Dalton had honored ethical boundaries, Sidwell stripped them away.

His new conclusion was chilling in its simplicity:
If the project was ever going to reach its full potential, he needed a test subject whose mind was extraordinary.

Not brilliant.
Not curious.
Extraordinary.

Fasin had once written of “synthesis through inheritance”—a merging of consciousnesses into a single, dominant intelligence. Sidwell took that idea and twisted it into something even more dangerous. He wanted hybridization. Integration. Fusion.

And to achieve it, he needed someone strong enough to survive the violent collision of identities.

There was only one candidate.

Anna Devane.

The thought didn’t disturb him. It electrified him.

Anna’s Disappearance Becomes Port Charles’ New Nightmare

What no one in Port Charles knows is that Anna’s sudden disappearance isn’t a mission, an assignment, or a secret operation. It’s Sidwell’s doing—his silence, his manipulation, his calculated removal of the one woman whose mind could withstand the full force of his experimental “synthesis.”

At first, those closest to Anna chalked her absence up to WSB business. She’s vanished before—but never without a signal, never without contingencies. Now, there is nothing. No coded messages. No updates. No trail.

The emptiness around her becomes the perfect camouflage for Sidwell’s work.

Inside his lab, he begins envisioning the final product: Anna, standing still as stone, her mind partially overwritten, her heartbeat slowed, her consciousness blended with Fasin’s cold genius. A soldier fused with a predator.

A weapon wearing a familiar face.

The Experiment Tightens Its Grip

As Sidwell refines his research, the environment around him shifts. Assistants vanish from their usual posts. Biochemical containers move through restricted corridors at midnight. Security doors seal behind whispers. Sidwell’s demeanor chills further—his eyes glowing with a certainty that terrifies even those closest to him.

Dalton’s death, once a warning, becomes Sidwell’s justification.
Anna becomes his blueprint.

His target.

His vessel.

And the more he adjusts the experiment, the more he realizes the truth that sends dread spiraling through the story:
The hybridization can only succeed if the subject fights it.

Anna’s strength—her resilience, her trauma, her iron-clad discipline—becomes the key ingredient. Sidwell wants her resistance. He needs it. Her struggle will generate the neurological patterns required for complete fusion.

This isn’t an experiment anymore.
It’s psychological possession.

Britt Takes Center Stage — Whether She Wants To or Not

While Sidwell pushes forward, another figure emerges from the chaos: Britt Westbourne.

Of all the people in Port Charles, Britt is the one woman who understands the full horror of Fasin’s work. She was born into it. Raised in its shadow. Tormented by its consequences. Every choice in her life has been shaped by the monstrous legacy she carries.

And now, she’s the only hope Anna has left.

Britt possesses a rare combination—medical brilliance, emotional resilience, and intimate knowledge of Fasin’s experimental designs. She knows the neural mapping. She knows the psychological fractures forced integration creates. She knows how minds break under pressure.

She also knows Sidwell.

She understands how to manipulate him—how to give him just enough cooperation to keep suspicion low, just enough obedience to make him underestimate her, and just enough insight to stay inside the walls of his operation.

Her influence is fragile, shifting, and dangerous. But it may be the only weapon strong enough to bring Anna back.

The First Cracks in Anna’s Identity

While Port Charles continues to hope for Anna’s safe return, the first signs of her transformation begin to show.

Her eyes colder.
Her movements too controlled.
Her focus unnervingly sharp.
Her emotional responses stripped away.

To strangers, she seems like a more intense version of herself.
To those who love her, something is wrong.

To Britt, something is missing.

Fragments of Anna still shimmer beneath the surface, but they’re harder to reach—like signals drowned by static. Sidwell’s modifications are accelerating faster than anyone predicted, and the window to save her is rapidly closing.

Jason and the PCPD Sense the Coming Storm

Jason Morgan will be one of the first to notice it.

He has always understood Anna’s instincts, her tells, her silence. When she returns—altered, fragmented—he will see the shift immediately. He won’t voice it, but he will know:

This isn’t fully Anna.

The PCPD will feel it too. subtle changes in her posture, timing, and emotional absence will raise questions no one can articulate. She’ll move like Anna, but think like someone else.

Someone colder.
Someone calculated.
Someone stitched with Fasin’s brilliance.

Port Charles Faces a New Kind of Enemy

If Sidwell succeeds, Port Charles won’t be facing a rogue operative.
It will be facing a weapon.

A mind engineered for control.
A soul overwritten by science.
A threat more dangerous than any mob war or WSB operation.

And only Britt stands between the city and the nightmare Sidwell has unleashed.

She must break through the integration.
She must fight Sidwell from the inside.
She must reach the last pieces of Anna before they slip away forever.

Because if Britt fails, Sidwell won’t just win.
He will create something unstoppable—
and Port Charles will lose one of its greatest leaders to the darkest evolution Fasin ever imagined.

The stakes have never been higher.
The danger has never been closer.
And Anna Devane’s fate now rests in the hands of the woman who once feared she’d never escape her own legacy—

Britt.