Authors note: I don't own anything or anyone.

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            The wind was blowing fiercely in Port Charles while Zander stood on the docks. Zander stood there in silence, staring at the water with all sorts of thoughts flooding his head.

"I have some work for you to do." A voice called out. Zander jumped in shock, not aware that Faith had been standing behind him.

"Don't you always?" He retorted.

Faith smirked, she didn't need smart remarks; she needed someone to do her dirty work.

"No need to get smart…you asked for a job, I gave you one. There's no turning back now." Faith hissed. Zander knew she was right. There was no turning back, he had made a deal with the devil and there was no way he could take it back.

"Are you listening?" Faith asked in annoyed voice. Zander simply nodded, he was in the mood for arguing right about now.

"I have some stuff I need you to clean up for me…" Faith began.

"What do you mean clean up?"

"Let me finish! Anyway, I set another bomb at Wyndemere…that should go off in about…30 minutes. And I want to make sure you won't go play hero and try to save your little girlfriend like the last time." Zander wasn't really paying attention to what she was saying.

"So I need you to…" Zander's eyes widened in realization of what Faith had said.

"You what?" Zander practically shouted.

"I set another bomb at Wyndemere…do you have a problem with that?" Faith asked oblivious to the fact that Zander was practically fuming.

Before Faith knew it Zander was gone.

"Damn!" Faith shouted, knowing exactly what he was gonna do.

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"Emily are you listening to me?" Nikolas asked in an annoyed tone.

"Uh…yeah." Emily lied, not looking up from her book.

"Study, study, study. That's all you do lately. When are you gonna have time for me…for us?" Nikolas asked, trying to take the book out of her grasp.

"If I don't study, I won't pass this test and…" Emily stopped in the middle of her sentence when she started to hear shouting.

"Do you hear that?" She asked putting her book down. Nikolas stayed silent, trying to hear whatever Emily was talking about.

"No." He glanced at her weirdly.

"Emily! Emily!" The shouting became louder.

"Who is that?" Emily asked as she stood up. Soon an out of breath Zander, busted into the room.

"You…have…to get…. out…of…here." He struggled out, panting for here.

"Zander, what are you talking about?" Emily walked over to him.

"What are you doing here?" Nikolas asked enraged. He didn't want anything to do with Zander after his boat was destroyed.

Emily reached out to touch Zander he was shaking.

"Zander calm down…can you tell me what you're talking about?" Emily asked desperately. Zander couldn't hold up anymore, he collapsed on the floor, still breathing heavily.

"Nikolas, go get him some water!" Emily shouted her voice quivering. She started to get this nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach.

"I don't need water! You…two have to get…out of h-here." Zander struggled out as he tried to lift himself off the ground.

"Do you think he's on drugs again?" Zander's eyes widened. They thought he was on drugs? Was that what everyone thought of him, that he was some worthless good for nothing who can't do anything right?

"I'm NOT on DRUGS, damnit! You two need to get out of here NOW!" Zander shouted in fury.

"Zander, why should we leave? W-what's going on?" Emily asked frantically.

"Just GO!" He shouted, his voice shaking in anger. Emily looked at Nikolas her eyes signaling for them to leave Wyndemere.

"Emily." Zander called out. Emily turned around to face him.

"I just…I just want you to remember that I love you, okay." Emily looked at him strangely, why was Zander acting so weird? Emily took one last look at Zander as she left; she couldn't help but think something horrible was going to happen.

Zander looked down at his watch, he only had 5 minutes to find whatever Faith planted there.

"C'mon…c'mon. Think." He whispered to himself as he began to search for the detonator.

"If I was a bomb where would I be?" He asked himself. He started to look frantically around the living room.

"Where the hell is this thing!" Zander shouted. He started to strain as he lifted the couch over. Zander's head started to throb in pain. He closed his eyes, silently praying that Emily would be okay.  Zander walked over to the other side of the spacious room, he started to hear a faint beeping sound. The further he went, the louder the beeping got.

Fear had started to consume his body as he moved closer to where the beeping was coming from. He crouched down and started to move the chair that sat in the far corner of the room.

There it was! He picked up the device; he only had less than a minute to go! He silently cursed himself.

"Damn." Zander whispered as he looked for some type of wires. He knew soon, it would be all over.

"Please forgive me Emily." He whispered.

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"It's freezing." Emily complained as she wrapped her arms around herself. They had just caught the last boat out off Spoon Island.

"I know." Nikolas rubbed his hands together, trying to make heat for himself.

"What do you think Zander was talking about?" Emily looked over across the harbor, looking at Wyndemere.

"I don't know, maybe…" Emily tuned out all Nikolas was saying she was scared. Zander's words kept repeating in her head

"I just…I just want you to remember that I love you, okay." He just took her by surprise; she couldn't get him out of her head.

"I think we should go back," Nikolas said, snapping Emily out of her thoughts. Emily was about to answer back, when she saw something that horrified her.

BOOM!

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Zander sharply inhaled as his body impacted into the cold water of the PC harbor. He had dove into the water right when the bomb went off. He couldn't breathe the water was so cold.

He had to hold on…

Zander swam as fast as he could, the falling debris from Wyndemere was falling into the harbor, he was swimming for his life.

Zander took one last breath as he continued to swim. The water was hitting him like a thousand knives entering his body. A falling piece of debris hit Zander as he was swimming. He felt himself drowning he wasn't going to make it.

He couldn't hold on…

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Emily started to shake, not because of the cold but in shock. Wyndemere was on fire! Nikolas hovered over Emily as fiery debris of what used to be Wyndemere flew in the ocean. Everything was going in slow motion to Emily it was all too real.

"Oh my God." Emily whispered she was in a state of shock. Did that really just happen?

"Are you okay?" Nikolas asked as he got off of her.

"W-w-Wyndemere just blew up." Emily whispered.

"W-Wyndemere just blew up." Emily repeated. Nikolas looked at her like she was crazy, the look in her eyes changed. Even though she was standing right next to him, she seemed so far away.

And then it hit her; Zander was still in there.

"Go get help! ZANDER WAS IN THERE! Get the police…do SOMETHING!" Emily shouted frantically as hot, salty tears started to slide down her face. She couldn't believe what was happening. Nikolas didn't say anything he just took off, trying to look for help.

"I have to save Zander…I can't let him die." Emily tried to think how she could save Zander; he had saved her countless times and now it was her turn to return the favor. All the times she had doubted him, he always came threw and now she wasn't sure if she would ever see him again.

"The boat." Emily whispered, she could take a boat back over to Spoon Island and get Zander. Emily ran down the docks until she reached the booth. As soon as she reached the booth, she started to band her fists on the booth doors in an enraged way. She had to get to Zander; she had to save him.

She continued to bang on the doors until the man inside finally answered her.

"Lady you have to get out of here!" A man shouted at her.

"I need to get on a boat…I n-need to go back to Spoon Island!" Emily shouted at the man.

"Look Miss, you can't go back there!" He tried to reason with a hysterical Emily, but she wasn't taking no for an answer.

"Y-you don't understand there's another person out there!" She shouted at him trying to force her way inside the booth.

"What?" The man started to listen to Emily as he learned there was another person out there.

"There's another person out-" Emily got caught off as she heard the voices of Scotty Baldwin and Co.

"Okay…okay, what's going on here?" Scotty asked.

"This man…won't let me get a boat…back to Wyndemere!" Emily struggled out as she still tried to push her way through the booth.

"Why would you want to go back there?" Scotty asked. Emily finally snapped, she wasn't in the mood for his dumb questions; she had to get to Zander.

"I HAVE TO GO BACK! Zander's out there! DO YOU HEAR ME? Another person is OUT THERE!" Emily shouted frantically, her face was soaked with her tears.

"Why are you all looking at me like I'm crazy?!" Emily breathed heavily, the situation was getting the best of her, and she had to unleash all her anger.

"No one else could be out there. The explosion was horrendous no one could've survived." Brian declared.

"Fine, if you won't help me I'll go find Zander myself!" Emily shouted as she attempted to lunge forward into the harbor.

"Emily stop!" Nikolas yelled as he grabbed her before she reached the frigid water.

"Don't tell me, what to do!" Emily shouted breathing heavily she was slowly loosing it.

"Spencer." Baldwin called out. Lucky attentively looked up.

"Yes sir?"

"Take these two to the hospital and when you get there make sure a nurse gives Emily a sedative." Baldwin instructed.

"Okay." Lucky struggled out as he and Nikolas struggled to hold Emily back.

"No Lucky! You can't do this! I can't leave!" Emily shouted as she tried to escape from his and Nikolas' tight grasp.

Nikolas was shocked he'd never seen Emily like this in his life. She was acting like a…like a complete mad women. This was not his Emily (AN: Maybe because his Emily isn't the real Emily, if you know what I mean). Emily's eyes started to water. Zander had to be okay, he just had to.