CHAPTER 1
Prologue
Elizabeth Webber has always seemed to get the short end of the stick. Nothing ever seems to go her way, and her life often seems like it's in shambles. She has always loved Lucky Spencer, ever since they were teenagers. After she was brutally raped as a virgin fifteen-year-old, Lucky was there to pick up the pieces, help her cope, and get her life back on track. Because her first sexual experience was so violent and brutal, Elizabeth didn't really know what it should be like. Even though Lucky helped her through the worst time of her life, she found herself messing it up again. At the tender age of twenty, she married lawyer Ric Lansing, nearly nine years her senior. After getting pregnant with Ric's baby, and then suffering a miscarriage, she divorced him. She then became lovers with a man her own age, Zander Smith, and got pregnant with his child. When Zander died before the baby was born, though, Ric agreed to help her raise the baby and the two were remarried. That marriage, too, ended in divorce shortly after, though. Elizabeth was then alone, for a short time, with her son Cameron.
Lucky and Elizabeth found their way back to each other. They were married and Lucky adopted Cameron. They struggled financially, Lucky being a cop and Elizabeth a nurse, and never had enough money. Desperate for money, Elizabeth agreed to donate an egg to billionaire Jasper Jacks and his wife Courtney so that they could have a baby. When they found out that Courtney couldn't carry the baby, Elizabeth agreed to carry the child as well. This tore a rift between Lucky and Elizabeth. It was hard for Lucky to see his wife pregnant with another man's baby, even if it was for money. Elizabeth miscarried, and she and Lucky divorced.
They remarried, but when Lucky injured his back and got addicted to his pain meds, he started a torrid affair with Maxie Jones, who was supplying those meds. The night Elizabeth walked in on them—in her and Lucky's bed—she was stunned and quietly left, going to mob enforcer Jason Morgan's penthouse. She had briefly dated Jason before, but it never did become a sexual relationship; it did that night though. Elizabeth divorced Lucky, and then found out she was pregnant, and after a paternity test, found out that Jason was the father. It took her a long time to tell Lucky she slept with Jason, though. Lucky believed he was the father, and even after Elizabeth found out the truth about her baby's paternity, she didn't tell him otherwise. Jason, being a mob enforcer, had an extremely dangerous life, and Elizabeth wasn't sure if she could put a baby in that kind of danger. When she finally told Jason, then eventually Lucky, the truth, Jason agreed to give up all rights to his son Jake and let Lucky raise him.
Lucky and Elizabeth found their way back to each other one more time, but while they were engaged to get married for the third time, Elizabeth had another affair—this time with Lucky's older half-brother Nikolas Cassadine. She had known Nikolas for as long as she'd known Lucky, and Lucky was always the one she wanted. So, when she found herself attracted to Nikolas, it surprised her, and she tried hard not feel the feelings she felt for him. But, she and Nikolas couldn't resist each other and they had a passionate affair for weeks before Lucky found out about it. As you can imagine, when Lucky walked in on his brother making love to his fiancé, he was devastated, and broke ties with both of them. He never thought that the woman he had loved since he was a teenager would sleep with his brother, or that his brother would betray him like that either. After Elizabeth's affair with Nikolas became the gossip of the hospital where she worked—and the town—she suffered a nervous breakdown and started to lose it. She then was stunned to learn that she was pregnant, and didn't know whether Nikolas or Lucky was the father. She had a brief stay in Shadybrook Sanitarium due to this breakdown, and then decided to find out who the father of her baby was.
Elizabeth got back the results of the paternity test and they revealed that Nikolas was the baby's father. This upset Elizabeth because she truly wanted Lucky to be the father—he was the one she loved and wanted. However, unbeknownst to everyone, Lucky was in fact the baby's biological father. Nikolas' evil grandmother Helena Cassadine had switched the results, wanting Nikolas to raise a Spencer child as a Cassadine. Her plan was to raise the child to be evil and hate the Spencers and, once the child was grown, to have him destroy the Spencer family. She has always hated the Spencers, and thought that she could add insult to injury if she had one of their blood relatives be the one to take them down once and for all.
After Aiden was born, Elizabeth and Nikolas reconnected for a brief time. But, Aiden was kidnapped from the hospital nursery and Elizabeth once again started to have a breakdown. The worst was averted however, when Lucky, working for the Port Charles Police Department, tracked down Aiden and rescued him from Oregon. He brought the baby back to Port Charles and reunited him with his parents. Elizabeth and Aiden and her older two sons, Cameron and Jake, moved into Nikolas' castle, Wyndemere, where they and Nikolas and his older son Spencer could be a family. Elizabeth, however, became unhappy there and again started wanting Lucky back. She took her three sons and went to visit her sister Sarah in California for a while where she could relax and do some contemplating of her life.
When Elizabeth came back to town, she had decided to explore a relationship with Nikolas. When she got to Wyndemere, however, she found that Nikolas had already moved on with Brook Lynn Ashton. Brook Lynn had moved into the castle and was now trying to claim Nikolas for herself. Elizabeth became jealous of Brook Lynn and tried to use Aiden to get close to Nikolas. This didn't work however, and she was once again left out in the cold. She had lost Lucky, and now she had lost Nikolas, and she was by herself again.
She decided that she wanted Lucky for sure. She had always loved Lucky. Their bond was so strong that it couldn't be broken, she thought. He had adopted her older two sons and they would always be connected through them. Lucky, however, had also moved on. He had a new girlfriend named Siobhan McKenna whom he had met while on an undercover assignment in Ireland. She came back to Port Charles with him so that the two could continue their relationship. The problem, though, was that her visa was about to expire. They tried everything to extend it, but to no avail. Lucky decided that the only way for Siobhan to stay in the country was if they got married so that she could get a green card. Elizabeth was extremely jealous of Siobhan and hated that Lucky had moved passed her. She never wanted the boys to spend time with Siobhan, even though she wanted to get to know them. Elizabeth wanted to find a way to get Lucky back.
Then it seemed that things were finally going to go her way when people started telling her how much Aiden looked like Lucky as he got older. Elizabeth decided to have another paternity test, just to make sure. She prayed and hoped for a miracle, that Aiden really was somehow Lucky's, in hopes that that would bring Lucky back to her and away from Siobhan. She seemed to be running out of time to get Lucky back as his wedding day to Siobhan approached. Then, on his wedding day, it seemed too late when Lucky told her that he was going to get married that night. But, when she got home that night, she found the test results in the mail. She stood in the center of her living room while three-year-old Jake played on the floor behind her, near the front door. She held the envelope containing the results in her hands, and then opened them. She read them, and then stared at them, astonished at what she saw. Was it really real? Lucky was Aiden's biological father! She couldn't believe it was true, but she was overjoyed at what she was looking at.
She turned around to check on her son, but didn't see Jake. All she saw was the front door wide open. She ran outside screaming Jake's name and found him lying in the street unconscious, having been hit by a car. She called 911 and when they arrived at General Hospital, she franticly called Lucky, interrupting his wedding. Lucky and Siobhan, still single, rushed to the hospital to see if Jake would pull through.