Title: Faith
Author: GwenythH
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language, mild violence, mild sexual situations
Summary: After Lucas calls off the wedding Sami finds herself in a dangerous situation. Can she have enough faith in herself and Lucas to find a safe way out?
Disclaimer: The soap opera Days of Our Lives and its characters are copyrighted. I do not own Days, Lucas, (oooohhh but if I did!) Sami or any other character and have used them without permission.
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If there was one thing in her life Sami Brady couldn't stand, it was being reduced to tears. Well, that and losing. And she supposed she had succumbed to both.
She was seated on the toilet lid in her bathroom crying her eyes out. Three weeks earlier she had been in the exact situation – wearing her wedding gown – when Lucas had called off their wedding. Sure, she supposed it would have looked bad to find one's fiancée in bed with their ex-spouse, but didn't he understand that all she wanted was she, Lucas and Will to be a family. It had all been a set-up.
And all that brought her right back to the same place – reduced to a blubbering mass of heart-broken, angry tears in her bathroom.
Sami stared in disbelief at the object in her hand, tears rolling down her face. The simple plastic stick confirmed it. She was pregnant.
"Damn it!" she yelled, flinging the offending object against the wall.
What was she supposed to do now? Kate had framed her. And Lucas and their son – along with all of Salem – didn't believe her.
"Don't be stupid," she admonished herself. "You'll do what you always do. Get even. I'll prove Kate set me up and win Lucas back!"
Part of her was glad Will was at his father's; he might start thinking his mother was crazy, talking to herself.
Sami got up and splashed some cold water on her face. She grabbed her purse off the couch and went out the door.
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She was halfway down the road before she realized she didn't know where to start.
She figured she might as well start looking for a job, since Kate had fired her. "God," she fumed. With a glance down at her still flat stomach she sighed. Yeah, now she had a baby on the way to support. "How the hell am I supposed to tell Lucas?" Anger washed over at the thought of the man who had claimed to love her, and then thrown her away no questions asked. Okay, she agreed mentally, it didn't look good on her part. She was the one who had left the night before their wedding to see her ex – but only to get him to leave town!
"Deep breath, Sami," she commanded herself. "Focus on one step at a time."
Where to start? She figured she wanted something relatively stress free, which meant not being around Kate, John, Brady, Nicole, Belle, Shawn, Lucas and just about anyone else related to her or Lucas. That caused her to roll her eyes. Maybe she'd drive to the next town over to give it a try. It was probably her only resort.
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When she arrived in the next town thirty minutes later she decided to check out the retail shops in their mall. That way she could look for work and shop. She gave herself a smile – she was always good at multi-tasking.
Sami parked her car and entered the mall. The warmth of the indoor mall was a welcome change to the sometimes-chilly air of Salem Place. The chances of her running into someone she knew here were slim-to-none.
Of course with her luck, the odds were already against her.
"Sami dear, is that you?"
Sami shut her eyes tightly and the wave of pain and uneasiness that washed over her when she heard the familiar voice.
She turned around with a sad smile on her face. "Hi Mrs. Horton."
"How are you sweetie?" Alice asked as she took both of Sami's hands in her own and gave a gentle squeeze.
Sami was surprised at this display of affection, and from one of Lucas' relatives none-the-less. But then again, Mrs. Horton had always been a kind person.
"I'm well enough, considering."
"I imagine so dear. I know this is hurting you as much as my grandson."
Sami silently cursed herself as she felt her eyes well up with tears. Damn hormones, she thought. "I never cheated on him! I didn't sleep with Brandon!" She knew she sounded desperate, but she wanted so badly for someone to believe her.
"I realize you didn't dear," Alice assured her with her soft soothing voice.
"You – you do?"
"Of course. I could see how happy you were and how much you were looking forward to this wedding. And I know you'd never hurt Lucas and Will in such a terrible way."
"See? Why can't anyone else realize that?" she insisted, throwing her hands up in frustration. "Kate set me up!"
"I don't know anything about that dear, but I know you didn't do this. You understand too much the pain a betrayal of that kind can bring."
Sami looked at Lucas' grandmother gratefully. "Thank you. For believing in me at least."
Alice gave Sami a warm hug. "Of course." When she pulled away she studied Sami curiously. "There's something different about you dear."
Sami felt herself growing nervous. God, no one could already tell she's pregnant, could they?
"Um, just red eyes. I've been crying a lot lately." She glanced around the mall nervously. "Uh, what brings you here, away from Salem?"
"Oh just in town on Horton Foundation business with the local hospital. I just stopped off with…"
Alice was cut off when a figure emerged from the formal wear shop speaking to his grandmother. "Gran, I've got the tux for tonight's party. I…"
Lucas trailed off when he saw Sami standing with Alice, looking like a deer caught in the headlights.
Sami swallowed. No, no, no, no, this is not happening to me, she thought before she passed out.
TBC….
