Awakening
Chapter: 1
Pairing: Robert and Holly
Rating: PG
Luke Spencer awoke to the sound of constant pounding. And to his surprise it wasn't that of a hangover. He obliviously didn't drink enough. No, he awoke to the sound of someone banging on the door of his cabin. Someone disrupting him from a well deserved sleep. He stumbled out of bed and over to the door, hoping against all things human that it wasn't Tracy on the other side of the door. "What is it?" he bellowed. "Can't a man get any sleep around here?"
"Open the door." Ethan said. "I need to talk to you."
The door slowly creaked open and Luke did his best to focus on the young man in front of him. "Not you again, Lovett." he sighed. "You've already taken me for thousands of dollars. At least let me have a little break."
"I never thought I would hear those words from you, mate." he replied. "Aren't you always suppose to be up for a challenge? The great Lucas Lorenzo Spencer and all that?"
"You have a point, kid." he replied. "However I'm just not in the mood at the moment."
"I need your help."
"I'm a little busy sleeping." he said, closing the door. "Come back later."
Ethan caught the door and forced it back open. "I'm not here to play games." he told him. "I really need help and you're the only one that can help me."
"Yeah?" he asked, suddenly curious. "And why is that?"
"You said that you knew Holly Sutton, right?"
"Yes." Luke nodded. "That's right."
"Then you're the only one that can help me." he told him. "I need to know some things about her and no one else will talk to me."
"What do you mean no one else will talk to you?" he asked. "Who have you tried to talk to about Holly and more importantly, why?"
"This old bloke named Barry." he replied. "He's evasive and vague and pushed me away every chance that he gets."
"Why not ask Holly yourself?"
"It's a little difficult to ask a comatose woman questions." Ethan said. "You can talk to her but the funny thing, she doesn't answer back."
"Comatose?" Luke asked, chills shooting down his spine. "What happened? What happened to Holly? I thought she was living it up in the Carribean?"
"She contracted some sort of virus." he tried to explained. "Some sort of encephalitis and because of her prior head injury she wasn't strong enough to fight it off."
Luke thought back to the virus that swept through Port Charles three years ago. Was it possible that Holly had been sick since then? "When did she get this virus?"
"Late 2007." Ethan replied. "And that's why I need your help. There are things about Holly that I need to know and I want the answers to come from you."
"You never answered my question, Lovett." he repeated. "Why your interest in Holly?"
Ethan reached in his pocket, took out his wallet and lifted out a tattered picture. "After my parents were killed in a car accident I found this in a lock box." he said, handing Luke the picture. "It was in there along with my birth certificate and my adoption papers."
Luke looked over the picture. "You think Holly is your mother?"
"Yes." he answered without hesitation. "I wasn't sure until I met her, but that really cemented things. Why else would her picture be enclosed with the adoption papers? I know that she was in a coma around the time I would have been born and that she didn't wake up until early 1989. It's entirely possible for her to not know about me at all."
"You have very valid points, Ethan." he agreed. "As strange as it is it seems like it all adds up, but I'm not the man you need to be talking to about this. You need to be looking for Robert Scorpio."
"Scorpio?"
"Yeah." Luke replied. "If you're Holly's son then Robert would be your father."
"I'm not interested in finding him." he replied, tucking the picture safely back in his wallet. "I just want to know if Holly is my mother or not. Barry won't answer any of my questions, not honestly anyway, and there are things I have to know."
"I understand your impatience." he said. "I just don't understand your reluctance to talk to Robert. If there's anyone who could tell you the things about Holly that you really want to know it would be him. They were married for about five years. And he would be your father."
"How do you know that?" he asked. "How do you know he's my father? How can you be sure?"
"Holly is a very faithful woman." he told him. "If she's your mother and you were born after her accident then Robert is your father. No ifs ands or buts about it. You are a Scorpio. I knew there was a reason I liked you."
"This Scorpio was the one who abandoned Holly?" he asked. "The one who was away from her when she had her accident in England? The one who was chasing another woman?"
Luke arched his eyebrow. "I don't know about all that." he said, slowly. "And how told you that? I mean where did you get information like that?"
"It was one of the few questions that Barry would answer." Ethan replied. "He said that Scorpio was no good and that the further he was away from Holly then the better."
"You really need to talk to Robert." Luke urged. "I think his side of the story is going to be much, much different."
"The only thing I'm interested in here is Holly." he told him. "I want to know if she's my mother."
"Then talk to Robert." he repeated. "He's the one that can answer your questions. Try and forget everything that Barry Durban said to you and concentrate on what you came here for: answers. Now, Robert is in town visiting his daughter. Let me give him a call and get him to swing over here and we'll try and sort all this out."
"I don't want to meet Scorpio." Ethan refused. "You talk to him, I'll wait here."
"Damn you're stubborn." he said, searching his pockets for his cell phone. "I think that's an inherited trait on both sides of your family."
tbc...