A New Hope
This story is about AJ finding out that he has a 16-year-old daughter named Natalya Karenin, a daughter he had no idea even existed because her mother Lydia Karenin kept her a secret from AJ but secrets do have a way of coming out and expect Natalya to be quite the handful when she arrives in Port Charles
Chapter 1 (Geneva, Switzerland)
"Mother were you ever going to tell me the truth at all about my father?" Natalya said. Lydia tries to deflect Natalya's question by trying to change the subject but Natalya has had enough. Natalya then says "Well Mother I'm waiting for an answer, were you ever going to tell me about this man A.J. Quartermaine being my father, yes or no?" Lydia then says to Natalya "There's not much to tell Natalya and besides I haven't even thought about your father for years and besides the man is your father but that doesn't change the type of man he is." Natalya then says to Lydia "Yes Mother I know all about the things A.J. Quartermaine has done… I read the newspapers… I read the Internet, so you don't have to insult my intelligence!"
Lydia then says "Then you know all about the man A.J. is or about the laundry list of crimes he has committed!" Natalya then says "Well apparently Mother A.J. was acquitted of all of those crimes…the charges were dropped!" Lydia then says to Natalya "Impossible but even if he weaseled his way out of those charges I'm sure he probably paid off some people to make it all go away for him…the man is a self-entitled, arrogant, deceitful jerk!"
Natalya then says "Apparently he wasn't one when you hooked up with him all those years ago and had me right?" Lydia then says "I would watch your tone young lady!"
Natalya then says "Stop treating me like I am a child…I'm sixteen for crying out loud!" Lydia then says "Everything I have ever done in my life has been for you Natalya and everything I ever did was to protect you from A.J. because the fact of the matter is, is that he is a criminal and a drunk!" Lydia then says to Natalya "I forgot to mention that your father is an alcoholic and if I hadn't kept you away from him Lord knows just how you would have turned out!"
Natalya just looks at her mother in shock at what she just said almost like a look of disbelief as she says "Tell me how you really feel…let's just get it all out there Lydia!"
Lydia almost in shock that Natalya called her by her first name as opposed to calling her "Mother" walks up to her daughter and slaps her right across the face. Natalya is in shock that Lydia slapped her right across her face much less put her hands on her as she runs away from her running to her room as Lydia calls after her. Lydia ends up regretting it right away that she put her hands on Natalya much less slapping her daughter but then Lydia has flashbacks of her time with A.J.
Lydia then starts to remember just how she and A.J. conceived their daughter which was right after her first marriage to Nikolas Cassadine ended but then she remembers the last time she was ever with A.J. he just up and left Lydia without as much as a goodbye.
Lydia then says to herself "I won't let you destroy Natalya like how you destroyed me A.J.!"
Meanwhile Lydia is in her room as she says "I don't care what you say… I am going to go to this Podunk little town of Port Charles!"
Natalya is in her room as she packs her bags with all of her belongings while Lydia is downstairs in her study as she says to herself "When I get to Port Charles A.J., you won't know what hit you and I'll destroy you before you even have a chance to destroy our Natalya!"
Lydia then calls after her servants calling her staff into the study as she says to them "Natalya and I are heading for a vacation to Port Charles… the last place I thought that I would ever return to but we won't be there for very long!"
Lydia says "Just make sure our bags are packed!" The servants reply with a nod as they take their leave!"
Natalya then comes out of her room coming downstairs as she sees Lydia as she says to her "I have my bags packed… I am heading to Port Charles… Mother and don't even try to stop me!" Lydia then says "No you aren't especially not by yourself because I'm going with you and that is not even up for debate!"
Natalya then relents as she says "So there is no need to tell the servants to pack my bags…I already have my bags packed!" Lydia then says "Besides in Port Charles I have a lot of unfinished business!" Natalya then says "Do I even want to know?" Lydia then says "Besides we won't even be staying long just long enough for me to settle what I need to settle and then we'll be right back here where we belong!"