The whole way to the Metro Court the only two things Claudia was thinking about was: Johnny and Nickolas. John she could handle, yeah he sounded pretty upset with her on the phone,
but the Nickolas thing was eating away at her for some reason. She couldn't understand why she felt: happy, sad, angry, and a little bit relived that he kind of shrugged off them sleeping
together, but then she also felt guilty for some strange reason. She's never slept with someone and then started having feelings that she was willing to discuses. What the hell is wrong
with me? Then she spotted the paper that threw off her thinking, and to add to just finding out that Jason Morgan torched her belongings; One of her two problems from earlier was
coming towards her.
Johnny: "where the hell have you been Claudia? I thought something happened after I didn't hear from you!" Claudia eases down in the chair, trying not to wince so John didn't notice her
wound, but no such luck.
Johnny: "What happened? Did Morgan do this? I'll kill him!" Claudia grabs his arm and brings him down to the couch, "Calm down John! I'm fine, really." Johnny knows not to push it, "fine,
but at least tell me why I couldn't get more than one brief phone call?" Claudia can't help but smile a little at her little brother, I love him, but John's way to over protective sometimes.
Claudia tosses the paper at Johnny"So John, tell me why Morgan felt the need to burn all my clothes? All he had to do was say he's not a fan of all the black with red heels." Johnny smirks
at his smart alec of a sister, "Jason took over the Corinthos organization, dad pissed him off, and so Morgan decided to send dad a message by burning down the house. Now your turn,
where have you been? Or better yet, why don't you tell me what happened to you that you can barely move?" Claudia flashed back to last night with Nickolas: She was the dominate one
during sex, well with Sonny they fought for it, but she won in the end. Last night was different though, she didn't fight to be the dominate one and she actually enjoyed it. The way Nick
was soft, and gentle planting kisses from her mouth to…
Johnny: "Claudia, Claudia!" She came out of her flashback, and her cheeks are a little flushed. "Are you okay? You're a little…are you flushed?" Claudia immediately snaps back, "What?
No, I'm fine, my um…nothing I'm fine. You know what I'm going to go find us a place to stay because I refuse to stay her with dad and in the hotel of Sonny's ex." She didn't think Johnny
was going to fall for her lie, but luck must have been on her side because just as she finished her sentence Carley Jax walked through the lobby to the front desk. Johnny nods and helps
his sister up, "fine, but don't go over board." Claudia smirks at him, "Who me? Never." Johnny leaves the Metro Court and after Claudia makes a few calls she heads out to meet her
realtor but gets stopped by Lulu.
Lulu: " You may have used your sluty ways to try and seduce my brother but he isn't one of your "sex buddies" so stay away from him! He's nice and probably sees you as harmless now,
but he'll figure out your just a psycho path slut!" Claudia immediately has a comeback, "You see little Lulu your brother and I are adults, we don't play games like you do with my brother.
If I want to bang your brother right here and now on this lobby floor, you don't get a say!" Now Carly comes between them, "What is going on here, and what are you doing to my
cousin?" Claudia shakes her head, good think it doesn't entirely run in the family. "What am I doing? Your little cousin LooLoo here wants to make grown up threats, but she has seem to
forgotten who she's speaking to." Lulu walks closer to Claudia as Carly still stands between them, "I know who I'm talking to, and I'm not making any threats I can't keep, Stay away from
my brother!" Claudia turns to face Carly completely, "You should pull the restraints in on your cousin before she makes me regret upsetting John. We both have been in this business long
enough to know that "accidents" happen." Claudia waits for Michael's accident to hit Carly before walking away.
Claudia is now sitting on the docks waiting on the real estate representative, I hate using Michael, but they just push me towards it. Claudia was deep in thought about what just
happened that she jumped a little when he sat down next to her on the bench. Then she looked and saw who it was, "Fuck Nickolas, you scared the shit out of me! What are you even
doing here?" When she calmed down a bit, waiting for his answer she winced a little as she relaxed back into the bench. Nickolas was about to answer, but caught her, "are you okay? I
could have Elizabeth look at that." Claudia wanted him to look at it, just so he'd be even closer, what the hell? What am I thinking, this can't happen. O, but it defiantly is, there goes that
warm feeling I seem to get when he's around but still what the hell? Claudia shakes her to try and clear it a little bit, "So what Nurse Nadine's not doing it for you any more?" Claudia shakes
her eye brows up and down and winks, causing Nickolas to laugh, but before he can answer the real estate reprehensive shows up. "Mr. and Mrs. Zacarrah?" Claudia and Nickolas are
both thinking the same thing, wow she must be new to PC to not know who we are. Claudia thinks to herself, I've already had a pretty crappie day so why not have a little fun. She gets up
and grabs Nickolas' hand in hers, "come on honey, we do have to hurry so we can get back to the nanny." Claudia adds a wink to Nickolas when the realtor turns to lead them an d
Nickolas knows she's doing something but he hasn't exactly caught on yet.
Neither Nickolas nor Claudia is fully paying attention to the tour. Claudia's paid enough attention to get three important things out of it though: 1. John will be happy because it's close to
that bitch (play nice Claudia, he likes her for some reason), 2. There is great shoe space, and 3. There is a beautiful view from the big living room window. The realtor is still talking and
they've made their way back to the foyer now, and that's when Claudia drops Nickolas' hand, pulls out her phone, and tells the realtor, "I'll take it." Claudia's now dialing, Nick has
migrated to the windows, and the realtor is staring baffled at her.
Realtor: "but, but I haven't even told you how much it cost?" Claudia puts her hand over the speaker of the phone and turns towards her, "and? I said I'll take it, I don't see the problem
here except fore you not moving on my paper work so I can pick up my keys later this afternoon before closing time." The realtor blinks, but Claudia only response with a, "Go. Now. You."
The realtor leaves, Claudia finishes up her calls and then heads over to Nickolas, "Nick I'm sorry. I didn't correct her, and that I didn't stop us last night." Now Nickolas turns from the
window to face her, "Wha… Claudia I was there last night too. I could have stopped it as well, but I didn't." Claudia sits on the couch behind them so she doesn't have to face him, "yeah
but your not over…" Now Nickolas is upset, he's tired of people telling him this. He paces for a few minutes and then joins her on the couch, "I am over Emily. I'm so tired of everyone
thinking I'm not ready to move on. Maybe I want to start over, maybe I'm ready to and you know what maybe I want to with you. When Claudia looks up he doesn't give her a chance to
respond because he's grabbed her face and is pulling her into a passionate kiss. Claudia wanted to pull away, I know I should pull away, but Shit! She doesn't know how she ended up
being the one to pull away from that kiss. She felt it from her lips to her toes, but that seemed to mean that she knew she had to do the right thing, and kissing Nickolas Cassidine was
defiantly not it. Nickolas looks at her as she gets up to move to the other couch, What? Was I wrong, does she not feel the same way I do? Claudia tries to catch her breathe and get it
together before speaking, "I um…Nickolas you're the sweetest, kindest, fair-tale prince any girl can wish for but don't want me. I'm just like an easy rebound, especially after Emily. And I
know you say your over here, but you can't be. I don't…I can't be what you want, that's just not me, and I'm sorry. I'm no Emily." Nickolas is mad now and he gets up pacing, "Your just
like Lulu" he stops in front of her, bends down to be eye level with her, "You both don't understand that that's why I like you, your nothing like Emily. I don't want another Emily, I want
you." Claudia turns her head because that's about all she can do since he's so close but Nick moves her head back she their once again facing each other, "And just so you know: your not
as tough, rough, and mean as you like others to believe you are." Claudia lets a little smile escape, "okay here is my moment of weakness then: I do want to be that person for you, hell
for me! And I love that you believe I can be Batman." she cups his face, "but the truth is…I'm a Zacarrah, the fairy-tale life isn't for me. It's like the universe won't let me have even close to
a happily ever after, (ha) I can't even have a once upon a time." Nickolas kisses her softly, "but you can." Claudia breaks the kiss for the second time today, "even if I wanted to, Nick I
can't. It's just to dangerous to even think of a normal life." Nickolas gives up for now because there is a knock at the door, and shortly after it's opened by Johnny Zacarrah. John doesn't
know what he's seemed to walk in on, but at least it isn't like what Lulu said she walked in on this morning, at least their on two separate couches. But John can't help but think
something is going on as he looks from his sister, who wont look him in the eye, and then to Nickolas who does nothing but looks him straight in the eyes. Johnny thinks, guess we have to
get over the awkward, are you banging my sister conversation soon, "So you called me here to watch the sexual tension?" Claudia was about to spill some made up lie to her brother but
Nickolas beat her to it, "I was just telling your sister about this properties accommodations. I know the realtor" Johnny doesn't believe him, not because it sounds ridiculous, but because
Claudia has yet to once look him in his face. Claudia knew as soon as her brother came into the room that he knew something was up, weather if it was because she had no eye contact
with him or if that little bitch LooLoo told him. Claudia wasn't dwelling to much on that right now because she couldn't stop thinking about her and Nickolas' latest conversation, a prince, a
real live fairy-tale prince, not mafia prince liked her, and not for her body but for her. After Johnny showed Nickolas to the door, after her finished bs-ing his way through a tour, he walked
back over to his sister, "I know you love this place because you wouldn't have called me over here if you hadn't already signed. So lets skip over that, and go right to you telling me what's
with you and the prince?" Claudia really, really doesn't want to talk about this, even if it is John, "I haven't signed yet, I've got to go do that later when I pick up the keys. And me and
who?" Johnny's now sitting on the couch, but he's got his full attention on Claudia still, "your lying. You just don't want to talk about whatever is going on with the two of you…You know
he's still pining over his dead wife right?" Claudia walks over to the couch to get her coat, "John." She glares at him and tries to walk toward the door but he just fallows, "Claudia come
on, your going to end up telling me when you need my help with something anyway." Claudia's still walking but stops to put her coat on, "I should…go sign the paper work for this place
and get our keys. I don't think even our last name will get these people to stay open later than five, they don't know who the Zacarrah's are." She offers him a slight smile. Johnny's
thinking, twice in one day she's tried to push passed something, "fine, but please just come to me when your ready to talk. Claudia offers him a full on fake smile now, dammit! Sometimes
I hate that he knows my poker face, "but that's not right now Johnny." He chuckles and shakes his head at his sister as he fallows her out the door, she's so stubborn.