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Here Comes the Sun

1.

It must be really bad if he's come back here. Aviana thinks to herself as she peers through the glass of the hospital room door at the two men having a very deep discussion. She's never seen Ethan like this, so weak, so vulnerable. He's sitting in the seat next to the old man's bed, holding his weak hand in his strong one, whatever he's saying she can tell he really means it. When he's really serious about something he talks with his hands and his head starts going in all different crazy directions and his eyes get really wide . The old man is talking too calming him down. Even thought it looks like he is the one who seems to be dying, he is the one comforting Ethan.

She glances at the name on the hospital's door again, L. Spencer. Spencer, Spencer, Spencer…definitely a name she knows she isn't allowed to mention. Every time she brings it up they tense up. It's the same way with Cassadine, or Davis for that matter.

"Excuse me, can I help you with something sweetie?" A friendly voice asks from behind making Aviana jump nervously. Crap, he'd told me to wait in the car.

"No thank you." She replies giving the older woman a not so convincing smile. She notices for the first time two older boys standing behind the woman. All three looking at her as if she had a second head growing out of her neck.

"Then why are you gazing at my Gramps?" The youngest looking one asks her rudely. His attitude throws her off immediately. It was a mistake coming inside.

"Um w-w-well I—" Before she can make up an excuse the door to L. Spencer's room opens and Ethan peers out taking one look at Aviana and the people she's been holding a conversation with. She can see the panic in his eyes.

"Ethan?" The older woman exclaims holding her hand to her chest.

"Elizabeth." Ethan says his voice clearly shaken by seeing this woman.

"Wha-what are you doing here?" Elizabeth asks taking a long hard look at Aviana.

"Leaving. Good to see you." He tells her grabbing Aviana's arm and leading her down the hall towards the elevators. She knows it's probably best not to say anything until they are out of the hospital and back the car. Aviana knows he's pissed because he keeps clenching his jaw and has a death grip on the steering wheel.

"Ok, I know you're mad but—"

"I told you to stay in the car." He says cutting her off. When he's angry his voice gets very low and his accent very thick. He doesn't even bother looking her way.

"I know, but I mean, I was curious, and you've never let me anywhere close to Port Charles—"

"For good reason Aviana!" Ethan yells finally losing his cool.

"How many times do I have to tell you that I'm protecting you?"

"Oh right how could I ever forget? You're protecting me from the big bad city of Port Charles! Whatever!" Aviana yells back at him only propelling Ethan to drive faster. The two hour trip back to their home is a silent one.

When Ethan pulls into the driveway Aviana immediately hops out of the car, barely even letting him come to a complete stop. He sighs, what a freaking day. Realizing it was about to get worse when Aviana went storming through the house he quickly gets out of his vehicle and jogs to her before she can reach the front door. Grabbing her shoulder he spins her around.

"Aviana can we please not make a scene when we go in?" He pleads, not even caring if he comes off as desperate.

"Why because you know mom's going to kill you when she finds out we took a little detour coming home?" She asks defiantly. She's loud, and her voice carries. Seconds later the front door to their house swings open.

"Hey, I was starting to get worried. I figured you two got caught in traffic. What are you doing standing out here?" Kristina asks motioning for them to come inside. Ethan gives Aviana one last pleading look as she walks into the house shaking her head.

"Uh oh, someone looks angry." Kristina remarks noticing the scowl on Aviana's face. Ethan brushes it off giving Kristina a peck on the lips.

"Didn't get her the shoes she was begging for. Maybe on our next trip," Ethan tells her giving his wife a squeeze. Aviana scoffs at him.

"I don't think that's it. Avi what's wrong?" Kristina asks removing Ethan's hand as she steps closer to her daughter.

"Why don't you ask dad? Or better yet ask Elizabeth or L. Spencer!" She yells at her mother as she runs up the stairs. Kristina waits until she hears her daughter's bedroom door slam before she even looks at Ethan.

"Elizabeth or L. Spencer? What did you do?" She cries out. She can feel her chest tightening, her breathing getting heavier. He didn't…he wouldn't…she tries to convince herself but taking one look at the guilt written all over her husband's eyes says it all. Ethan helps his wife to the love seat where she begins to break down and cry. He'd made a terrible mistake.


Quietly Aviana Lovett listens at the top of the steps. She expected her mom to be furious, yelling, screaming, but instead she has to almost lean over the banister to even slightly hear the hushed tones her parents are using. They'd been talking like this for over an hour. Either something bad was going to happen from her being seen in Port Charles or they were sending her to boarding school. Either way, she was pretty much screwed.

"What's going on?" Alex whispers making her jump for the second time that day. She looks over at her little brother and puts a finger to her lips indicating she's still trying to listen to her parent's conversation. It's impossible; this conversation couldn't be picked up if she were standing right behind them. Getting out of her hiding position she motions for Alex to come follow her into her bedroom. When he closes the door Aviana lets out a frustrated growl.

"Avi what happened? I heard you yelling. I went downstairs to find mom was having a panic attack and dad made me go to my room."

"I don't know. Dad and I were having a cool day in Manhattan. We shopped, ate, did some sightseeing. We're driving home when all of sudden he swerves off the highway and takes the exit to Port Charles."

"He took you there?"

"Yes! So he pulls up to the hospital and tells me to wait in the car he'll only be a few minutes."

"So you followed him." Aviana smiled at her little brother, he knew her so well.

"Of course!"

"And…"

"I found Spencers! Dad was sitting there with this L. Spencer and he's like on the verge of tears talking to him and L. Spencer is like rubbing his hand comforting him. It was weird and then as I'm peering at Dad through the doors this woman and her sons come up behind me and ask why I'm looking at their Grandfather."

"Whoa, so that's like…4 Spencers?"

"I guess? Then dad swings open the door and this Elizabeth woman is like shocked to see him. He grabs me and I swear he was practically flying to the elevator, I thought he was freakin superman." Alex immediately goes to Aviana's laptop.

"What are you doing?"

"This may be the key to digging for clues," He says already drawn in by the glow of the computer. He begins looking through the search engine, for the past 6 months they had been attempting to find any information on these people their parents tried so hard to never talk about. Without first names it was difficult, they'd tried SPENCERS, SPENCERS PORT CHARLES, SPENCERS PORT CHARLES NEW YORK, DAVIS, the only name that ever register with the search engine was the name Cassadine. Some sort of Russian Royalty that terrorized the town in the 1980's. Very weird, they understood why their parents didn't like mentioning them. Corinthos had popped up too, but it was mostly information on arrests and crimes committed by the infamous mob boss Sonny Corinthos. But what about the Spencers? Who were these people?

"Bingo." Alex said smiling as he and his sister finally got some real information. L SPENCER PORT CHARLES NEW YORK had 487 hits under the name Luke Spencer.

"That's him! That's the guy dad was visiting!" Aviana said moving closer to the computer. She clicked on a news article dated 3 days ago.

"Luke Spencer, longtime owner of the Haunted Star casino who has been going through a long battle with pancreatic cancer, was been hospitalized for the 3rd time this month. Current owner and daughter of Luke Spencer, Leslie Lu Spencer-Falconeri had no comment when asked if her father's diagnosis had gotten worse. Leslie Lu, who also goes by Lulu, has been in an ongoing public battle with her brother Lucas "Lucky" Spencer Jr. over the Haunted Star estate which was split amongst them, and Ethan Lovett 8 years ago. Lovett was not available for questioning."

The siblings stared at the screen for a moment taking in the information that had just received. Their father was part owner of a casino? Why did Luke give him a casino? Who was this man to their father? A knock on Aviana's door made them quickly close out the link just as Ethan and Kristina walked in.

"You two look like you're up to no good," Kristina jokes taking a seat on her daughter's bed. Ethan stands in the doorframe.

"Before you guys start yelling at me. I'm really really really sorry." Aviana told them preparing for her super punishment.

"Avi, you don't have to apologize. I understand you and Alex have a lot of questions about Port Charles and the Spencers, there just aren't any easy answers to your questions." Kristina explained pulling her daughter into sitting beside her. They were almost identical, same olive skin, and dark brown hair. She'd inherited her father's height and at 13 was already a little taller than her mother.

"There are a lot of bad people in Port Charles, that's why your father and I don't go back there. That's why we've never allowed you two to step foot in that town."

"Until today," Alex added wistfully. Ethan put a hand on his son's mop of curly dark brown hair.

"We love you, and we need to keep you safe." Kristina told her son.

"And Port Charles is not the place to do that, okay?" Ethan added. Kristina gave her daughter a reassuring smile and stood up.

"Okay, I'll let you two get back to…whatever you were doing. Dinner's in an hour." She said as she and her husband walked out. Alex waited until he heard both sets of footsteps going down stairs before he spoke.

"That was it? You didn't even get yelled at!"

"Um that's a good thing. Hurry up get back on the computer! Look up Elizabeth Spencer." She commanded. Alex quickly typed in ELIZABETH SPENCER.

"207 hits. Nurse, research, divorce..blah blah…whoa," Aviana said clicking on the gossip column

SPENCER GETS OFF WITH COMMUNITY SERVICE

Aiden Spencer (15) was sentenced to 350 hours of community service after being found guilty of stealing hydrocodone from General Hospital. Spencer's mother, Elizabeth Webber, is the head nurse at General Hospital, her access card to the unit was stolen by her son giving him access to the addictive pain pill. Spencer, who is the son of Lucky Spencer, and grandson of Luke Spencer, has been in and out of trouble since 2023. His past record includes theft, and one count of burglary. Hospital spokesperson Morgan Jax, says that the hospital is "extremely disappointed" by the light sentencing insisting that if this crime had been committed by someone without a famous last name they would have had more than a slap on the wrist.

"That's him! He was at the hospital today with Elizabeth…er, his mom."

"So?"

"So, I guarantee you I can find him on Slosh. I guarantee you he'll know why our parents left Port Charles." She told her brother typing in the social media site. She searched Aiden Spencer and the blonde haired boy immediately popped up on their screen.

"What makes you think this Aiden guy is going to be able to help us?"

"Because we're looking for trouble, and it looks like that's his middle name." Aviana said as she typed a message to the boy she'd met briefly a couple hours ago.

Met you today at the hospital in Port Charles. You told me I was gazing at your gramps. Your mom seemed freaked out when she saw my dad. I'm not allowed anywhere your town and snuck into the hospital. I need your help. I have a lot of questions and you have answers. Hope to hear from you soon.

-Aviana Lovett

A/n: I'm labeling this an Ethina story because…it is largely centered on Ethan and Kristina and their family... Just a little background, in this story, once Helena lets Ethan go when Holly reveals he isn't Luke's son Ethan doesn't wait for any further explanation distraught by what his mother said and Helena murdering Cassandra/Irina (gag me). This story is set 14 years into the future, and although I'm sure technology will have changed drastically in 14 years I'm just not in the mood to be that imaginative. AKA it's flawed. Enjoy. Please review I need some criticism in my life!