Across the Universe-
This story is being written for the 'Across the Universe' flash-fic challenge at ghffchallenge...the challenge is to write flash fics with prompts based on the lyrics of the musical 'Across the Universe'...I don't own GH I just love the fandom...hope you like
PROMPT #1:
Is there anybody gone to listen to my story
All about the girl who came to stay?
Once Upon a time there were two girls. They were best friends, almost sisters, that was until one of them was forced to move away against her will. They were in Junior High at the time and were saddened to have to split up however they vowed to write and call whenever they got a chance. Although in the years that had followed Georgie Jones would meet up with Serena Baldwin in Florida where she now lived or in other places Serena would of never returned back to Port Charles New York where they grew up all those years ago...at least not until now.
It had been six years since she'd been in this town and things were definitely different. Places and people had come and gone but as she walked out of the bus station and onto the cool streets she knew some things must be the same.
She closed her long white fleece trench coat tighter against her body, she had forgotten how cold New York winters could be even with Global Warming taking it's toll. She spotted a yellow cab pulling up.
"Are you Serena Baldwin," the driver asked.
"Yes," the Blonde replied as the driver got out to help her with her bags.
"Where to," he asked once she sat down inside.
Where to possibly go first. She could go immediately to her father Scott...he'd be thrilled to see his girl home for New Years even under these circumstances, she could go to see Mac, Maxie, and Robin to pay her respects, she could track down that brother of hers she'd been meaning to meet for the few months she knew of his existence...no...She would go to none of those places...
"Kelly's," she said.
The driver nodded and she was off.
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Damian Spinelli sat slumped over his laptop at a corner table of the diner. He kept looking over to the door, hoping this was a bad dream, that the Beautiful and Wise Georgie wasn't really gone. Just days before he found her strangled in the part his friend and mentor Stone Cold told him he thought that the young brunette wanted to be more then friends. He laughed and shrugged it off, saying it was nonsense that a girl like her would fall for a guy like him. Then after she was gone, the day after Christmas to be exact, he got an interesting and yet disturbing gift. Detectives David Harper and Lucky Spencer showed up at his place with a folder of letters. Apparently they found a mass amount of unsent e-mails that Georgie wrote...she did love him and that broke his hear even more. Then the cops had the audacity to say that HE the Jackal killed her.
Now alone he was at the diner. Mike just handed him one of Georgie's travel brochures. She was planning to spend her Junior Year abroad in Rome, he was helping her plan it. He closed his eyes thinking back to those times they'd sit together talking about it. The sudden sound of the bells from the door took him out of his thoughts.
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Serena looked around the small diner. It looked the same as it did when she left, well the wait staff was different but that was about it. She listened to the faint sounds of Christmas music coming through the radio and she pursed her lips. It was December 28th the holiday had come and gone and it was far from a happy one at that. She placed her bags against the wall as she continued to look around and observe the place when a somewhat familiar looking man from behind the counter approached her.
"Serena," he said hugging her, "how have you been it's been."
Serena smiled up at the older man, Mike Corbin who despite the fact that he was the father of Sonny Corinthos was a kind man and proprietor of the small diner for as long as she could remember.
"Let's see...six years I believe," she said.
"I guess you heard about Georgie huh," Mike said. He had known how close the two girls were.
Serena nodded.
"I think even if Georgie wasn't killed," Serena said, "it was about time for me to come home."
"I guess you also heard then that your father has a son," Mike asked as Serena sat down.
She nodded.
"I want to meet him," she said, "it's just I don't know what to say...how to say it...when the timing should be right."
The older man nodded as he eyed the bags in the corner.
"So," he said, "how long are you planning on staying in town."
"Why," she asked, "are you offering me a job here."
"Well we do have an opening," Mike sad sadly, "but seriously I just wanted to let you know we have a vacancy upstairs."
The door swung open as Scott Baldwin entered the diner and walked up to the young woman and put his gloved hand on her shoulder.
"That won't be necessary," he said with a cold tone in his voice, "my daughter will be staying with me."
Spinelli couldn't hear the exchange that was going on between Sir Sr, the Elder Unworthy and the new Blonde One but he couldn't help but roll his eyes. There was something about this new Blonde that intrigued him, made him think that possibly even though the Beautiful and Wise Georgie met an untimely demise before she got a chance to say her piece to the Jackal that he could still find love.
After watching the blonde leave with the Special Prosecutor he headed over to the counter.
"Need a re-fill on your Orange Soda," Mike asked.
Spinelli nodded as the man re-filled the glass.
"Who was that," Spinelli asked, "the Angel to wander into my world of Darkness."
Mike knew who he was talking about and smiled.
"That was Serena Baldwin," Mike said.
That was all he needed to say.
"I'll take that re-fill to go please," he said as the older man nodded and transferred the orange liquid from the glass into a Styrofoam cup. After taking the drink and placing his money on the counter he gathered up his things and headed out into the cold December afternoon a new hope in his heart...even if she was the sister to the Unworthy One could this Serena see the Jackal in the way that Georgie did.
TBC
I hope you like so far...for the most part the story will focus on Serena, Spinelli, Logan, Maxie, Lulu, and Milo...other characters may be included...PS Johnny might still be in this but the whole mob-war Storyline isn't going on this will mainly focus on the TMK storyline and even that will be somewhat indirectly
Comments and ideas loved