AN/summary explanation: Just a little something I was throwing around that turned into a big something. Everyone was saying how Holly wasn't acting like Holly, so what if she wasn't? And I so am not buying the Singapore thing. So what if Luke knows he's being connedand is going along to figure out why? And what about Rebecca and Ethan? Are they a team of con artists or something more? This is my take on it.

Dynasties Built on Deceptions

Chapter 1

The woman known to Port Charles as Holly Sutton stared at herself in the mirror of her room at the Metro Court Hotel wishing there was a way out of this, but knowing that there wasn't.
There was too much riding on this con.

Her families's lives were riding on this….

Stepping back and pulling up her hair she tried to take in the changes to her features since the last time she had seen her family. There was a slight scar at the top of her hairline from yet another head injury from when they had tried to unsuccessfully escape… something she would never do again.
Not after she had heard the cries of her niece as she was beaten.

Fighting back tears she continued to take in her face.
There were of course a few more wrinkles. No more laugh lines.
Laughter had stopped.
Been stolen from her life.

Then there was the scar by her lip; earned when her son had tried to intercede on her behalf when Helena had come down harshly on her accent, even now somehow markedly like her mother's, saying it was too high class.

She had ended up with a broken jaw along with that scar and a reason for them to do plastic surgery to erase what few laugh lines had remained.
A part of her wondered if her husband, Jeff, would mind it--- like her new look, but she knew he wouldn't care.
Jeff loved her no matter how she looked. No matter how she acted. She could be the biggest spoiled brat in the world and he still saw through to the woman she was beneath.

Sighing, she automatically set about putting her hair up for the night, trying to forget that it was darker and longer than she had worn it since before her eldest daughter was born.

Shaking her head once the task was done she crossed the room, and tried to figure out, as she often did, what was going on. She had gathered some clues when she shouldn't of have. A picture of her brother, Adam, with Alexis Davis at some point before he had been returned to the family.
But she knew that it wasn't that simple.
If it had been. . .

Dropping to the bed she tried to block out the images of the last time she had seen her brother--- her family. For a woman who had once had hysterical amnesia it seemed odd that she couldn't block this out.

Her niece being pulled from her brother's car at gun point as Adam who had fought so hard to hold onto his only child laid feet away bleeding out, his wife, Kirby, running around the car, unmindful of the gunfire screaming for her daughter even as she fell at her husband's side and held his head in her lap.

Her own daughter, Lauren, screaming as their car was shot up.

Jeff trying to protect them both, only to be shot as she was pulled from his arms.

And LB…

Her little boy… Grown now, fighting to keep his other sister safe, pushing her down so forcefully that she knew he had knocked her unconscious himself as he was dragged away from them with a gun trained on him as their family laid in ruins on the side of the road within walking distance of her father-in-law's house.

Then it all went black, and when she awoke it was to find herself, her niece, Isabella, and LB in the hands of Helena Cassidine.

For some reason they were turned over to a madwoman to play in a madwoman's game and the only clues she had were a picture of her brother and a bitch of an attorney or had arranged her niece's adoption and to be staring into the face of a woman who looked just like her.

What she knew was that on occasion she was to be allowed out of Helena's lair to play havoc as that woman while, presumably, she had taken over her life.
A part of her wondered if her family even knew the difference, and in her heart she knew that they did.
That they knew that Holly Sutton wasn't her the same way that Jeff had taken one look at Randall and knew.

She also knew that somehow, someway, they would all get out of this.
Only this time she had to be much more careful.

Helena's latest scheme involved Isabella and LB and although she would do the old woman's bidding and take her chances she would not allow her to endanger those children. If she had to, she would die to protect them.