Episode 10

Scene One

"Step brothers?" Tea repeated.

"Yes, their mother Irene married my biological father and Victor and I lived together for several years when I was very young. Of course Victor doesn't remember that he was my step brother…he doesn't remember anything about our childhoods thanks to his mother and Todd, well…he never knew that he was my step brother since he spent his childhood being raised by Peter Manning."

"What was Victor like as a child?" Tea asked.

Marty cleared her throat as a warning when she saw Brody and John escorting Todd and Victor down to the holding cells.

"What's going on here?" Tea asked as she turned around and saw them.

"Todd and Victor are under arrest for assaulting an officer of the law," Brody explained as he placed them in a cell across from Marty's.

"Damnit Victor, why couldn't you have just waited in the car?" Tea asked.

"I'm not going to let Marty spend the night down here alone."

"Well, I'm certain that I can get you and Todd out of here before the night is over," Tea stated.

"Don't worry about us…just get Marty out of here," Todd stated.

"So tell me Todd, does Blair know that you're here causing trouble as usual?" Tea asked.

"She knows I'm here…she doesn't know that I've been arrested, but she knows that I came to the station to see Marty."

"I think that I'll call her after I call to schedule your arraignments," Tea stated as she turned around and left the holding cells.

"John, what are you doing here?" Marty asked.

"Patrick and I have some questions for you Marty," John stated as Brody unlocked her cell.

"Don't tell them anything without Tea being present," Todd warned.

"Don't worry Todd, I know my rights," Marty stated as she followed John and Brody out of the cell area.

Scene Two

"Blair, dear, what's wrong?" Dorian asked as she entered the room and saw Blair drinking as she stared out the window. It was obvious to Dorian that her niece had been crying.

"Todd and I had a huge fight about Marty Saybrooke," Blair stated as Dorian wrapped her arms around her.

"I should have known that he was the cause of this anguish," Dorian stated. "I will never understand what you see in that miscreant."

"I love him, but that's never enough. He's always going to choose her over me."

"Then he's a fool that doesn't deserve you."

"I just…I'm just so tired of his guilt over what he did to her. He's never gotten over it Dorian and there are times that I worry that the only reason that he's with me is because she's not available to him. It's like there's a piece of his heart that belongs only to her and he won't share it with me no matter how much I plead with him to let me in."

"I hate seeing you so upset…I really wish that you would just walk away from him."

"I can't Dorian just like you can't walk away from David."

"I'm through with David. We're getting a divorce."

"You may be divorcing him but I think that we both know that you'll never be done with him no matter how many different ways he has hurt you over the years. He's the other half of your soul just like Todd is the other half of mine and you can't cut him out of your life without losing a big part of yourself," Blair stated.

"I know," Dorian whispered.

"Hello," Blair stated as she answered her cell phone.

"Blair, it's me, Tea. I just thought that I would let you know that Todd and Victor were arrested tonight."

"For what?"

"They assaulted a police officer. I'm working on trying to get them arraigned but it most likely won't happen until morning. I'm sorry Blair."

"Yeah me too," Blair stated as she hung up the phone.

"What did he do now?" Dorian asked.

"He got himself arrested…probably just so that his precious Marty won't have to spend the night alone in jail."

"I'm sorry Blair."

"Me too. I'm going to go for a drive."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No, I just want to be alone for a little bit, but thank you," Blair stated as she hugged her aunt and walked out the door.

Scene Three

Kevin was just about to go to bed when there was a knock on his bedroom door.

"Rachel…what are you doing here?" Kevin asked as he opened his bedroom door and saw her standing there looking just as lovely as she had the last time that they had been together twenty two years earlier.

"I needed to talk to you."

"I thought that you were living in Chicago," Kevin stated.

"I was, but something happened and…there's something that I need to tell you."

"What is it Rachel? What's wrong?"

"This is harder than I thought…I just don't want you to hate me," Rachel whispered as a tear slid down her cheek.

"I could never hate you…you can tell me anything," he said as he grabbed her hand in encouragement.

"Do you remember the last night that we spent together?"

"Of course I remember…I think about that night all the time," Kevin admitted.

"Me too. That night, we didn't just make love…we created a miracle. A few months after you left for the internship in London I found out that I was pregnant," Rachel explained.

Scene Four

"Margaret, I'm so glad that you are safe," Patrick stated as John brought her into the interrogation room.

"I know how to take care of myself Patrick," Marty snapped as John shut the door.

"You don't have to worry…you're not being recorded. You can speak freely," John stated.

"That doesn't change anything. I have nothing to say to either one of you."

"Margaret, I know that you are angry with me, but you can't just disappear in the middle of the night without telling me. We were worried sick about you."

"Well, at least I didn't let you believe that I was dead."

"Marty, we should have told you that Patrick was still alive, but we needed his death to look real and that would have only worked if you believed that he was dead," John attempted to explain.

"You should have told me. The three of us are partners…we're supposed to be in this together, but you cut me out when you let me believe that Patrick was dead. Well, now I've cut you out…I don't need or want your help."

"Marty, you can't take your brother down by yourself."

"Watch me."

"Marty, it's too dangerous. Think about Liam…we need to keep him safe. Let me in, tell me what's going on. Let me help you."

"Like you helped yourself into my pants when you lied to me about my husband?"

"That's not fair Marty…I hated lying to you about Patrick but it was a necessary evil. We needed you and Cole to believe that he was dead...if you had found out that he was still alive and being held captive you would have risked this entire operation in order to save him. I promised Patrick that I would keep you and Cole safe and as for us being together…I'm not going to apologize for loving you Marty, especially when we got Liam out of the deal."

"You don't know how to love. If you loved me, Cole, and Liam as much as you claimed to you wouldn't have lied to us for years, you wouldn't have played me for a fool while you slept with Natalie, and you wouldn't have abandoned our son and Natalie when you moved to Port Charles to flirt with Sam McCall. The ugly truth is that the only one you care about is yourself and you will tell any lie and betray your best friend if it means that you could get laid. I no longer trust you John and if I can't trust you then I can't let you help me in this investigation."

"Damnit Marty…don't make this mistake. Don't try and take them down on your own. It's going to backfire."

"I don't think it's a mistake. We're no longer partners and as for Liam…he's better off with Natalie. I may have my problems with her, but at least I know that she's not going to abandon him for a chance at getting laid."

"John, may I speak with my wife alone for a minute?" Patrick asked.

"She's all yours…maybe you can talk some sense into her," John stated as he walked out of the interrogation room.

"Margaret, I know that you're angry but don't shut us out when you need us the most," Patrick pleaded with her as he grabbed her hand.

"Of course I'm angry…you made John promise to take care of me and Cole while you were on assignment to kill my brother."

"What?"

"You didn't think that I knew about that…but I did. You weren't ordered to bring him to justice…you were ordered to kill him and not leave any witnesses behind, but it backfired and you were taken hostage instead and of course…my loving brother staged your death and when Tomas helped you, you contacted John and told him to lie to me about you still being alive. He promised you that he would look after me, and love me and Cole the way that you would have if you could. Were you happy when you found out that John and I had become partners in every sense of the word?"

"Of course not, but it was better than the alternative."

"What do you mean?"

"I knew that you would be vulnerable when you thought that I had died and I'm glad that John was there to help you pick up the pieces of your life. I would rather that you turn to John in your pain than Todd," Patrick admitted.

"God Patrick, so this whole thing was about your jealousy of Todd? You wanted John to, what, be a placeholder until you were free to love me again? How many times have I told you that there is nothing going on between me and Todd?"

"That's not true. You chose him over me…you love him Marty. You know it, I know it, and now Todd knows it. I told Todd about your secret feelings for him. The secret's out now Marty…so there's no use lying to me or to yourself anymore."

"What the hell did you do? I am so sick and tired of arguing with you about Todd. I'm not going to cut him out of my life just because you give me an ultimatum, but that certainly doesn't mean that I'm in love with him. I love you Patrick, but I can't trust you either and I don't know if I'll ever get over what you did to me. By the way…I thought that you should know that our son Cole and Hope might still be alive and being held captive by my brother," Marty stated as she knocked on the door.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I've said all I'm going to say without my lawyer, take me back to my cell." Marty stated as the guards appeared at the door of the interrogation room.

Scene Five

"How is the construction coming?" David asked as he entered the basement.

"We're almost finished sir….we've performed all of the necessary tests and the room is completely fire proof."

"Is it fire proof enough that I could set off a bomb in there without there being any casualties?"

"Yes sir…what are you using that room for again?"

"I'm a doctor and sometimes there are lab explosions when I deal with unknown chemicals. I just wanted to be on the safe side. I appreciate all of your help and your discretion," David stated as he gave the man a briefcase of cash.

David waited until all of the construction workers had cleared out of the building and he tested out the room by starting a fire in there. He had been working on this project for ten years and finally it had paid off. He couldn't wait to see the look on Marty's face when he showed her the room that he had built for her.