Johnny: "Claudia is that you?" I asked looking at my sister's twin. I mean it had to be her twin. Claudia was dead. Maybe I was going crazy like my old man. I had to make sure my jaw wasn't on the floor. "Yea John it's me. Can we come in?" She shifted the child's weight on her hip.

I wanted to yell, I wanted to scream. She had put me through hell for the last almost three years. Sonny hadn't even been the same without her, almost empty. But instead I just said, "Sure." She set the child down and he ran into my apartment. She walked up and gave me a hug, but I pulled back. If it was her, she left me like she said she never would again.

"Lukie, why don't you go to the back room and watch tv?" She looked at me. "Is that okay?" She asked me, I nodded my head. "Okay mommy." The kid answered. I walked to the bar and poured myself a drink, this was too much. She sat on the couch, I kept my distance.

"I know you're mad." She said breaking the silence. "Mad?! Furious is the word! You faked your death, put me and Sonny through hell. What were you trying to do?!" I yelled dropping the glass. It shattered into a million pieces, just like me. "I was-" I cut her off. "Was what Claudia!?" The kid ran into the room, right at me.

"Stop yelling at mommy! Momma say yellin' is bad." He pounded his tiny fists on my legs. "Lukas Michael stop." Claudia said, he did and ran to her. "He bein' bad, momma." He jumped into her lap and put his thumb in his mouth. "No, that's your Uncle Johnny. He's mad, I'll be okay. Go watch tv baby." He walked silently into the back room.

"Yelling is bad? That came from your mouth?" I laughed under my breath. She was a screaming match waiting to happen. "Look John I've changed. You don't understand why I faked my death." She shifted uncomfortably on the couch. I took a seat next to her. "Explain it to me then."

"Okay it was a month after the big mob party and I found out I was pregnant from when Sonny had saved my life. I was scared John, this was my baby and I had to protect it. Carly was so great after Michael got shot, if that had been my kid I would've been a fire cracker everywhere I went. I knew Sonny wouldn't let me leave if he knew I was pregnant, so I couldn't tell him and I couldn't tell you. I paid off the cop to say how I was brutally murdered and I was in the body bag when both you and Sonny said goodbye."

"We had a funeral for you, did you know that?" I asked her, I wanted to hurt her like she had hurt me. "Yea I was there. I'm sorry I hurt you John but if you had known eventually my cover would've been blown and everyone would know about Lukas. That's his name by the way, Lukas, your nephew." She smiled turning her head toward the room where he was.

I pulled her into a hug, I couldn't resist any longer. Yes she had hurt me, but she was back. "Why'd you come back, you're plan was perfect?" I asked her after we had ended our hug. "Sonny, he was shot and no one cares. He's my sons father and I have to help him." I shook my head, she came back for Sonny. When was she gonna ever learn. "Claudia Sonny is a grown man-" "Who no one cares about. He gave me the best gift in the world, it is sitting in that room watching tv. I want to help him and I want Lukas to meet his father."

We sat in the silence for awhile, Claudia looked around my apartment. I hoped my fiancé, Olivia, hadn't left anything sitting out I would tell Claudia about that soon enough. "So tell me what's been going on here." She said breaking the silence.

"Oh nothing much really. Carly had a kid, Michael woke up from the coma, Olivia and I are engaged, and Sonny was shot." I said rather quickly hoping she missed me telling her the me and Olivia are engaged part. "Back up." She said. Oh crap. "Sonny got shot?" "No before that." "Michael woke up?" "No after that." "Me and Olivia are engaged."

Her jaw about hit the ground. "You…….and…..Olivia are engaged?" She looked at me furious. I knew that look even though she had been gone for so long. "Yes and Claudia before you say anything. I am in love with Olivia, you were the one that married for business reasons." "But it got me power and a son, okay." "Yea, yea I've heard it Claudee, I just don't see why you wasted that time." "Johnny it got me a son. Did you see that little boy, your nephew? Sonny gave that to me."

I was so flustered, I understood, but I didn't. She could've had a son with anyone, but she chose the father of like all of Port Charles. She grabbed her purse. "Would you mind watching Lukas? I'm gonna go try to sneak in to see his daddy." Lukas walked in the room as Claudia said 'daddy'.

"What's a daddy?" Lukas asked both of us. He tugged on the blanket he had found in the room. Claudia went over to him and kneeled down. She looked back at me, and I nodded. I was going to have to tell my nephew what a daddy was. He had never had one, just like I didn't. I mean his father would never try to kill him, but still.

"Baby, I'm going to go visit a friend. Uncle Johnny is gonna watch you and explain a few things. I'll be back in a little bit. I love you baby." He hugged Claudia. "I love momma." She let go and kissed his cheek. She got up and walked to the door. "No mommy!" He yelled running into her arms. "What's the matter baby?" "You no leave." She looked at me, pleading for me to help the situation.

I walked up to his back. "Lukas, your mommy will be right back and when she's not I'll be here." I explained to him. "No!" he yelled through his tears. Claudia swayed back and forth with him. "Shh, baby it's okay. I'll be right back." "No leave momma, no leave." I took him from Claudia. "Go I've got him." I told her. She let go of his hand. "No momma!" He yelled. He was sobbing. I closed the door and carried him inside. He reminded me of when dad had sent Claudia away. This is how I was, sobbing and sobbing.

I rocked with him on the couch for awhile. "Do you want to know what a daddy is now?" I asked him. He looked at me for awhile thinking. He nodded his head. I tried to keep him sitting on my lap. How did I describe this to him? 'When a mommy and a daddy' no that wouldn't work, I guess would have to explain it to him like that. He jumped off my lap and started walking around. "Whoa, come back here." I sat him on the couch.

"Okay so when a man and a woman love each other they decide they want to have a baby. Well the baby grows in a mommy's tummy and then he comes out and meets his mommy and daddy. Then the mommy and daddy take care of the baby until it grows up and becomes big and strong. So a daddy is someone who takes care of the baby." I explained.

He looked at me with his head tilted, I think he's really confused. "Momma can't see my daddy then cause I don'ts have one." He said looking down at the picture he was drawing. My heart broke in two, I understood why Claudia ran, but his little boy was so like me. "Lukas sometimes daddy's don't know that they have baby's so they can't help them grow, but it doesn't mean you don't have one. You do and your mommy went to see him."

"Unca Johnny I is tired." He told me. "Okay lets take you to bed." I went over and picked him up. I laid him in the spare room bed. I put the covers over top of him. "Goodnight Lukie." "Night Unca Johnny!" He smiled, turning to his side and closing his eyes. I left the door open just a crack in case he was afraid of the dark or the monsters in the closet.

I sat on my couch thinking. Thank God Olivia was doing an out of state business thing. She was so against kids knowing their fathers if they were involved in the mob. I mean she had hid Dante for his whole life, yea the secret was out now and Sonny resented every part of her, because she did that.

I hope Sonny doesn't resent Claudia. I don't exactly get why she came back just to take care of him. Maybe she feels obligated since Sonny is Lukas's father, or maybe it's something else, I don't know. I still can't believe my sister is alive and I have a nephew. An extremely cute and adorable nephew may I add.

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A/N: Okay may I add in all of my stories(unless stated otherwise) Claudia was not responsible for Michaels shooting.

So is it obligation or love that Claudia came back for? Give me y'all's prediction please. BTW: thanks for R&Ring