In the middle of a small room there is a playpen. In that playpen sits a baby. She plays happily with the toys laying around her. The door to the room opens. The baby looks up. Someone is looking down upon her. The baby smiles. This someone smiles back, kneels and leans over the rail of the playpen. Picking up a toy and handing it to the baby, she takes it and immediately brings it to her mouth as babies do. This someone speaks. "Dear sweet little Avery, what are we going to do? This plan I had isn't going the way I'd wished. Everyone is going crazy looking for you and the one sure thing I'd hoped for isn't so sure after all." This someone rises and walks around the playpen, sliding their hand along the rails. The baby plays happily. "Of course this could all be over quickly if I just called your guardian and brother Michael Quartermaine. He would no doubt pay handsomely to have you back. But I don't want his money. I want someone elses. But guess what my darling little guest, that someone else doesn't have what I want right now. Oh well, I guess you and I will just have to wait, but in the meantime, we'll just keep each other company." The door to the small room opens once again and this someone leaves .Avery sits alone playing, innocently oblivious to her situation.

"Start wherever you want Nina," says Silas as he takes drink of his beer. Nina takes a quick sip of her drink as well. Swallowing, she takes a deep breath. "First let me start by saying that I'm sorry." Silas shakes his head, "you don't have to..." But before he can finish his sentence Nina stops him. "Silas please. Please let me say what I need to say. If I don't now, I don't know if I will ever be able to. "Silas just nods yes in silence. She clears her throat. "I'm so sorry for all I did to you when I came here." I had no right. I could sit here and blame my mental condition on everything, but in all honesty, part of me knew what I was doing. I wanted you back yet I wanted to hurt you. I lied and manipulated and it makes me sick to my stomach thinking back on what I did. When I woke up from my coma, my first thought was of you. The first word out of my mouth was your name. I woke up thinking only a day had passed, not twenty years. Everything I had to re learn. All the new things I had to learn. And amidst everything I had to learn, to find out you were with Samantha Morgan. Not Ava, but someone else. I hate Ava and I hated Samantha. I had to have you back. You were still my husband after all. And even though you told me time and again that we had no more marriage, that we could never be anything to each other again and that you cared for Samantha, I wasn't going to give up. I loved you and I hated you too." Nina shuts her eyes, "but nothing that happened to me justified what I did." She takes another sip of her drink. "And then there was Kiki," Nina continues. "The child you had with that bitch... that Ava. A child that should have been ours. I don't think I hated or hate Kiki as much as I resent her. I was evil to her. It's no wonder when she see's me, she wants scratch my eyes out. And then what I did to her mother? Anyway, I know it isn't Kiki's fault for how she came into this world, we don't chose our parents." Nina laughs, "hell, just look at the mother I got. But my father was wonderful." Nina's eyes look away as she thinks of her father. She looks back at Silas and shakes her head. "I don't know if I will ever feel differently toward Kiki, but I hope in time and with my therapy, that it will change. But Silas, I am going to be honest here, my feelings for Ava will always be the same, I hate her." Nina is silent for a moment. "So there, I'm so sorry for everything and I hope we can be friends. I do want that for us. We're divorced now and I took back my maiden name, but you will always have a place here in my heart." There is a tear in Nina's eye as she looks at Silas. He reaches over and takes her hand. He gives her a slight smile. "Can I say something now?" Nina returns his smile and nods yes.

"I want to say that I'm sorry too. For everything that happened before your coma and after. No excuses for what I did to you. We loved each other once Nina and we were happy for a time. I'll always be grateful for how you helped me when wanting to attend medical school. I should have payed more attention to you and..." Nina speaks, "but you were studying..." This time Silas interrupts, "Please Nina, now I have to say this." Nina is silent. "Yes I was studying but I had time off too. I could have been more attentive. I knew you were lonely but I was a total jerk. And the affair with Ava," before finishing his sentence, Silas sees Nina's expression change at the mention of Ava's name. "It was a horrible thing to do to you. You needed me and I wasn't there, I'm so sorry. And the way I treated you, when you came to Port Charles. It was like I was back in medical school. I'm as much to blame for what you felt you had to do. It's taken me time but I see a different you now. I'm glad you've found someone even if it is Franco." Nina slumps back into the cushion of the booth. Silas notices a sadness come over her. "Nina, is something wrong?," he asks. "Franco and I broke up," she answers. Hearing this, Silas rises and goes to sit next to her. He puts his arm around her. Nina rests her head on his shoulder and cries softly. "I'm sorry to hear that," says Silas. "It's going to be alright Nina, but maybe it's better this way. I think a beautiful woman like you could do way better than that freak." "He isn't a freak," says Nina defending Franco. "But it is over and I really don't want to talk about that right now." "Well just know Nina, that we can still be friends and I'm here for you," says Silas with his arm still around her and her head still resting on his shoulder.

As they sit, in walks Franco. He looks around the bar hoping to spot his date Candi. "She isn't here yet," he says to himself softly. "So Nina where are you and Dr. Do Good?" He looks around and then he see's them. Silas's arm around her. Franco feels something within him. A burning in the pit of his stomach. He feels heat rising from his collar. He doesn't notice that he is clenching his fists. His breathing is becoming fast and hard. "Control Franco, control," he mutters through his teeth. Just then, he hears a voice. "Hi Franco, I'm here." He relaxes his hands and turns to face the girl. She is prettier than he had noticed before. She is smiling from ear to ear and he then smiles at her in return. "Hello there Candi, my you do look lovely." "Thank you," she replies excitedly. Franco puts his arm around her, "Let's you and I get comfortable. How about we sit in a booth? It's much more private." "Oh yes," she beams. "Oh look, there's one open over there," says Franco. The booth is behind the one occupied by Nina and Silas. "Come my sweet Candi," says Franco, "let's relax and get to know one another."