Chapter Ten
Bobbie sat down at her kitchen counter with the two local newspapers, the one that the Quartermaines owned and the local tabloid. She was dreading reading the obits she had written for her brother and nephew but she knew it had to be done.
Looking at the front page, she frowned, not even a blurb about Luke being a former mayor who had passed away on the Herald. Opening it up, she quickly perused the front section, then decided that it had to be in the local area. Opening the second section her frown deepened when there was nothing about Luke, yet an article on a clever cat.
Deciding that Tracy must have been mad at Luke, she decided to just make sure that the obit was what she had written. Finding the last page of the last section, she quickly went to the letter S, but all it read was their names and their date of births and deaths.
Turning to the tabloid, knowing that it would have much, much more, she was steeling herself to read a lurid account of her brother's life and death and at least an article noting Lucky's, she hissed when she saw there was nothing, not even a death notice.
Just as she was ready to close it, she saw the name Spencer in the comments line, where readers could call in and have their opinions put in the paper no matter the subject. Bobbie pulled back in shock at the horrible, horrible things in it.
Spencer and his son is dead, good. That was one vote I made that was a huge mistake.
The Spencer boy was such an idiot, I saw him where I work, always with a blond woman, funny, I saw his wife once and she was a brunette.
Kid got away with attacking that girl in Kelly's, always wondered who and how Spencer bribed that judge. Good riddance.
Wow, I thought Spencer was already dead, oh well, who knows maybe we will get lucky and Corinthos will croak soon.
Bobbie counted, there were forty two comments that day, over half were about her brother and there wasn't a single positive one. Debating calling the editor, she didn't bother in spite of wanting to shout at the man about the respect her brother deserved. She knew it would be a waste of time, he had always had it in for Lucky.
Dropping the papers in the trash, she picked up her phone to call Tracy only to be told by the maid that Ms Quartermaine had already left for the day. "I guess I will see her at the services."
Hanging up, she went to shower and dress. Turning on the radio, knowing at least they weren't owned by the Quartermaines, she expected to hear at least one comment about her brother and nephew.
She wasn't wrong, but the comments had Bobbie crying in her shower as they tore Luke to shreds and made it out like poor Lucky wasn't an innocent in what Helena did, but that he should have been in prison years before.
Just when she couldn't take anymore, she heard a call in comment about Lucky's wife and was shocked to hear that Sam was in jail, awaiting extradition from Port Charles to Florida in regards to a murder case with special circumstances.
Having lived in Florida, Bobbie realized that meant it was a possible death penalty case, so as she got dressed, she quickly called Sonny, only to reach his voice mail yet again.
As she went downstairs to where her family would be waiting, all she could do was put one foot in front of the other, her mind reeling from the hits it had taken that morning.
Lucas looked at his mother as she came down the stairs dressed completely in black and knew that she had no idea what was on the Internet regarding Lucky. While he wished he could say it wasn't true, they had everything, including that his cousin had stabbed him and hadn't gone to jail for it.
"Sweetie, I really wish you would reconsider staying in town for a few more weeks." she said with a sigh as she looked at her son.
"Mom, I have to get back to school." he said firmly then when she asked where his dad was, he admitted "Since Carly is attending, he is not coming."
"What?!"she asked not needing any more bad news. "Does he realize that I need him, that more than likely Carly won't even bother to show up?"
"Mom, look, I uh, this is difficult because I love you both, but dad made it clear that he has no intentions of mourning Lucky. Not after he never paid when he attacked me." her son told her.
"IT WASN'T LUCKY'S FAULT." she snapped as her eyes began to water. "He was sick, Helena did a number on his brain, why does everyone seem to forget her part in this?"
"Mom, to be honest, I am only attending for your sake. I have always thought it was stupid that he wasn't at least admitted into Roselawn." he said with a shrug. "I am sorry if that hurts your feelings, but I couldn't stand Lucky and as for Uncle Luke, well he just took and took from you, from the diner and never did any work. He was a user."
"LUCAS, how dare you? That man was a hero. My brother saved the world."
"Mom, that was an accident and years ago. Since he came home, what has he done? Been a drunk, conned people, stole, and married a woman for her money, yeah, some hero." he muttered only for his mother to slap him.
Holding his hand to his face, Lucas looked at her then said "You're the only person who believes differently Mom. And so that you know, I think I have changed my mind. If you want to believe your delusions, I won't stand here and lie and say that Luke Spencer was anything other than what he really was. A sad pathetic drunk who raped his wife, turned his children into carbon copies of his wife and himself and used anyone in his path."
"Get out, if you can't be there and honor your uncle, I don't want you around me." she said her voice breaking at how her son turned on his family. "My brother saved me..."
"Your brother turned you into a hooker, Mom, instead of getting an honest job." he said then when she looked at him, he added "And you still just make excuses for him. Lucky attacked that girlfriend of his, and it was her fault according to our family. Lulu tried to trap an innocent man into marriage and another into a rape charge, then Luke killed someone and tried to blackmail the same man, causing Georgie you do know who Georgie is, Mom. My cousin, the innocent young woman that lost her child, who was paralyzed because the great Spencer hope, Lulu was faking a miscarriage."
When his mother just began her usual spiel about how it was all a mistake, Lucas looked around his mother's brownstone for what he realized was probably the last time and said "Oh, Mom one more thing."
"What going to remind me about your sister sleeping with your father."she said bitterly.
"Nah, you deal with that everyday by ignoring it. I just wanted to let you know that Uncle Luke and Lucky are trending on Yahoo and it isn't complementary ." with that, Lucas left, not giving a damn that his mother had no one to take her to the services. He was sure that her self delusions regarding her brother and nephew would get her there just fine.
Johnny arrived at the station early. Seeing Mac in his office, with shaking hands he put down the file in front of the man and said "We need to talk."
Mac looked at the young man he had once respected and said "Why would I talk to you?"
"Because you need to know the truth." he said then pulled out the thumb drive. "I covered this up for Georgie's sake and it still cost me her love."
Mac watched as his eldest daughter was shown on screen stealing hospital drugs, then handing them off to Lucky Spencer. What really made it bad was the audio clearly showed she knew what was going to happen and who the victim was. "Why didn't you come to me before this?"
"For Georgie's sake, and yours in a way." he said with a sigh as he showed him the rest of the file. Mac read it, then went to pull the corresponding police files. When the pictures matched up like he expected them to he asked the other man why the hell he had lied
"Lulu had told me she was raped by Logan. I had beat him up earlier that day after seeing him hanging around Georgie. She wasn't listening to me, and I was terrified he might hurt her the way I thought he had Lulu. You should know, Maxie was also part of that lie."
Mac sat there, behind his big desk, looked at the man on the other side and said "Why did you wait so long to tell the truth, with all of this, you could have explained and I would have listened."
"I had to get this file back from Spencer." he said. "Luke was working with Trevor Lansing, he had all of the proof."
"And all this time... for the last few years..."
"I had no choice but to stay away from Georgie. He threatened to release the altered tape of my beating Logan and we both know that Scott Baldwin hates me." he said looking at Mac. "There is something else, Lucky and Maxie, they uh, if I revealed the truth, uh,...
Closing his eyes, Mac said "What else did my daughter do?"
"Look, I am hoping I heard wrong, but... well, Maxie is how Lucky knew Elizabeth Webber was a patient at Mercy all those years ago. She tried to 'save' him when she was a kid. She has also known of a few crimes he committed, she made the evidence disappear at the station Mac. Uh, damn, this is not going to be pretty but the bullet that hurt Georgie. We never found my dad's gun and the bullet didn't match the one that hit Lulu in the arm did it?"
Mac put it together as he recalled that Jerry Jacks, Sonny, and Lucky had all had guns at one point during that night. "Did she know? Did Maxie help cover up for Lucky?"
"She knew that Lucky was high that night, that he fired at my dad, did she know that the bullet she removed from the evidence locker was the one that hit her sister, I truly don't know sir. I just... I just know that it would kill Georgie if she ever found out the truth. Its why I have stayed quiet for so long." he said.
Mac looked into the younger man's tormented eyes then said "So you let Georgie think that the reason you stayed away was that you didn't care, but in truth... you were covering for Maxie."
"She thinks I was protecting Lulu, but... Mac, it would destroy Georgie, she already lost her bio parents, our child, I couldn't take Maxie away." he said.
Mac lifted his phone, called his house and grimaced at what he was told. "Robin if you see Maxie, keep her with you and call me."
Carly woke up alone, wondering where her husband was. Entering the main part of the large suite, she was annoyed to find that his assistant was in the room eating breakfast with Lorenzo.
"Lorenzo a word." she spat out and when he had joined her at the doorway she snapped out "Why is Lisa here. Can't she get something to eat while out running around for you."
"Carly it is called common courtesy." he pointed out. "We are going over the list of things I need done, I was going to eat anyhow and invited her to join me. What was I supposed to do, sit there and eat in front of her?"
"Why not, she is only your assistant." she stated. "Its her job."
"Her job." Lorenzo repeated as he came to realize that what he had suspected had been happening. Carly had been ordering Lisa around like she was her personal serf. "Carly it is almost time for us to head over to the Haunted Star, maybe you should shower and change."
Annoyed by the change of subject, she looked at the clock, grimaced at the time and went to do what he said. She didn't want to attend this service, but she knew it would look bad if she didn't.
Lorenzo turned around, apologized to Lisa and found himself once again regretting his choice in wife. When Carly returned a half hour later, Lisa had left to go finish his list. "We are flying out immediately after the services, Carly. I have a meeting in Madrid."
Jason was grateful that Elizabeth had listened to his suggestion and stayed at the Hardy home. Both had agreed with Lucky dead it was safe for Cameron and her to be there with just a few guards.
Entering the police station, he was escorted to Mac's office and found Johnny already inside. Seeing the DA entering, he listened to what the man had to say and then said he would have to speak to Elizabeth about it, but that they weren't too eager for that many people to know about the little girl they had lost.
"I can understand, Mr. Morgan. I am a father too. As to this other woman, this Laura Spencer, I was told she is in a mental institution?" he asked looking at Mac who verified and explained the circumstances.
"Mrs. Alcazar has a lot to answer for." he said with a sigh. "I do have to let you know that Mrs. Spencer is asking for you."
Seeing Jason's confusion, he said "Sam McCall Spencer."
"I would like to speak to her too." he stated then followed the officer who had entered to the private room. When Sam entered in orange prison garb and hand cuffs, he waited until she was seated then said "Sam, there is nothing more I can do for you."
"I get that, you think I don't know a con when I see one. This was all about Sonny getting my daughter, well he will pay and so will you."she spat out. "You just wait and see."
Jason leaned in and said "Damien Spinelli gave you up, I know that you had him looking for Elizabeth Webber and her son. And I know why."
Grimacing, she said "So?"
"What you didn't know, Lucky isn't the father of her son. I am." he said and saw her blanch as she got that she had fucked up. "Yeah, Cameron is no more related to the Spencers than I am. Sam, do your time quietly then go see your daughter. Sonny is selfish but I guarantee that he won't keep you from your kid once you get out of jail."
Sam looked at him and said "You bastard, you know what they have on me, I won't get out of jail."
"Sam, if you don't want to do the time, don't commit the crime." he retorted.
"If you don't get me out, I will see Sonny and you out. Get you sent to prison too." she taunted.
"Sam, anything you have it will be on Sonny. And Sonny would rather die than go to jail, so go ahead, tattle on him." he replied as he walked out the door. "You were my last favor for Sonny, I owe him nothing and will take great pleasure in watching him fall."
Gulping as her biggest threat didn't even make him blink, Sam went back to her cell then asked for her public defender. "I want you to go to the FBI. Offer up all I have on Sonny Corinthos."
"Doing this will get you killed." he warned.
"I have nothing left to lose." she responded.
Georgie watched from the doorway as her sister left to attend Lucky Spencer's funeral. "Georgie, why didn't you stop her?"
Turning to Robin, she said "Why, Maxie has always done exactly what she pleases, why should this time be any different."
Walking away she asked Robin to meet her in the park later. "I am so not in the mood for Maxie's drama."
"That sounds like fun, I have to go visit Laura at Shadybrook. I can't figure out why her protocol isn't working. Her brain activity is normal, her blood work shows that it is effective, but she is still sitting there unresponsive."
"Are you sure she isn't faking it. After all she has a murder charge hanging over her head in regards to Rick Webber." Georgie joked only half kidding.
Robin who had looked into everything else, thought about it and said "She might be, I have a way to find out. Thanks for the idea, Georgie. See you at the park, around four okay?"
Watching Robin leave, Georgie was just going to the kitchen to get another cup of coffee when her father walked in with Johnny. "What is he doing here?"
"I asked him to come and tell you the whole truth. Georgie, what he is about to tell you, he isn't lying. I have the evidence." with that, Mac left, knowing exactly where to find his other daughter.
Johnny looked at Georgie then at the sofa. Before sitting down, he locked the door then said "It all starts with when we met..."
Lorenzo's driver rolled down the partition and said "Sir, are you sure this is where this funeral is. There are very few cars in the area. It looks deserted."
Carly just nodded and then pulled out her phone and listened to her mother's message. "Well she said it was to be at ten thirty for family. Maybe the rest of the mourners are running late."
Getting out of the limo, Lorenzo escorted his wife down the gangplank while looking around puzzled. Inside, Carly greeted her mother who was tense and then Lulu who was looking around clearly confused.
Seeing the flowers, Carly went to see if Jason had sent anything and wasn't really surprised not to see some. But what did surprise her was that there were none from the Quartermaines, none from the city. None from any of the long time Port Charles community.
There was a bouquet from Maxie, a few large arrangements from out of town Spencers and another from Nik but nothing else. Hearing footsteps, she turned, then frowned when she saw the petite blond who had been having an affair with Lucky, Lesley Webber and several red heads.
One that reminded her oddly enough of Lorenzo's assistant but she ultimately dismissed it when she got closer to the woman.
Hearing mutters of where was everyone, Carly moved to where her mom was and asked "Where are Monica and Alan and why isn't Tony and Lucas here?"
"I told Lucas if he couldn't respect his uncle not to come." she stated with a glare at the pictures of her two deceased family members. She had requested larger pictures but the studio had told her they were out of the large paper to print them on.
"Still Monica and Alan aren't here?" she asked. "Tracy is married to Luke, what was her excuse?"
Scott Baldwin who had come, walked over and ignored Bobbie's annoyed glare said "Tracy was arrested yesterday for IRS and SEC violations."
"Oh."said Carly walking away thinking it couldn't happen to a nicer woman only to realize that Scott was following her. "What do you want?"
"I heard you are divorced from Corinthos. The IRS is looking for him, in regards to the same charges as Tracy. Your uncle didn't declare the earnings on the casino, never paid employee taxes and faked a will with Corinthos help to allow Tracy to claim ELQ and the two men to get stock. Spencer is lucky he is dead, otherwise he would be facing time in a federal penitentiary."
Looking around, seeing the sparse crowd, Carly asked "I gather this is public knowledge?"
"Yeah, something for you to think about. They have proof that Spencer Jr. did a hell of a lot more than hit Elizabeth Webber. They are looking at where the real file went and who took it. Description I heard, Carly was a tall blond. Sound familiar, a tall blond female with a loud mouth."
"That wasn't me, that was A.. uh, I have no idea what you are talking about." she said sweating. Scott Baldwin this happy was never a good think and when he went to speak to Lulu, Carly knew it was time to get out of dodge.
She had just approached Lorenzo about leaving when Father Coames began the service. Trying to leave, she was pissed to realize that she was trapped for at least another hour.
Sonny stunned with Olivia with the news of what he had done, "So you told Danielle her mother wasn't coming back. That was too fast and too cruel, Sonny. We should have handled it slower, let her get used to living with us first."
"I was not losing another daughter, it was bad enough that Alexis managed to keep Kristina and then Ric and her turned my daughter against me. Then the Quartermaines stole Michael, after what AJ did, he owed me a child." he railed.
"Sonny, it will be okay." soothed Olivia as she got him calmed down and went to check his meds. When she saw that the lithium looked at least like how it should, she went to help that poor sweet girl Danielle get used to living with them.
Sonny meanwhile had gone inside and checked with former contacts. With a wide smile as he hung up after the first call, he was relieved by the news that Sam had been flown to her first stop in St. Louis Missouri, then that there was no doubt she would either take the plea offer or be convicted.
Getting a call from his former attorney in Port Charles regarding the IRS and getting the news that they were looking into whether or not he had helped Luke Spencer bribe a judge regarding his son's beating of Elizabeth Webber, he frowned and said "I would have never helped if he had beat her, what he did do was bad enough in scaring her and actually punching her."
As the man spoke, telling Sonny about the stolen hospital records, how they were looking for a mystery loud mouth blond, that Elizabeth was badly beaten with broken bones and serious internal injuries, Sonny felt something he hadn't in a long time, that feeling of someone walking over your grave as the man gossiped with his former client and mentioned the latest rumor.
"So they think she was pregnant at the time, turns out she wasn't actually dating Spencer like his family claimed... that there was another man who was out of town. I over heard one of Scorpio's detectives were investigating things. She fled down, too scared to wait for her love. Rumor is that she was told he was dead."
Getting the news and with an absentminded thank you, Sonny sank down into his chair, then went to look at the stack of newspapers he had flown to him once a week from Port Charles. Looking at the article of the missing boy, the description of him as well as the picture then the mention of his mother, Elizabeth Hardy and he knew... looking up, he said "Jason... Jason is the father of her son."
With closed eyes, Sonny knew that Jason was not going to lift a finger to help him and that any help since he had given him the news had been inadvertent, that he had used up his last favor thanks to that bitch he had been married to. But Sonny knew, he knew that Jason would never turn on Carly and that more than likely she was the one who had blamed him for what had gone down.
Sitting there in his office, in the distance he heard everything he had ever dreamed of happening. Kids who called him dad, a wife who loved him and a large house with servants... all of it he knew would be gone if he didn't find a way to take down Carly, to prove that he was innocent. That he had never helped Luke Spencer that way.
In Port Charles it was a sad group that walked into the wake after the services on the Haunted Star. Seeing the sign that said Kelly's, Lulu who had been reeling from the loss of her daddy realized that at some point a will reading was going to have to take affect. After all her dad had had some assets.
Bobbie who was leading the small group into the diner, her mind reeling from how her friends hadn't show up, how people that owed Luke everything hadn't even had the courtesy to show up at his funeral stopped suddenly when she saw Mac Scorpio and Jason Morgan standing in the room.
Carly looked up and saw Jason, smile and began to rush over to approach her best friend. "Jason, why didn't you come to the services? I needed you, it was terrible."
As she tried to throw herself into his arms, she was shocked when he held her away from him and said "Carly stop right there. I am not here to celebrate the lives that were Luke or Lucky. I am here with Mac."
Turning to the police commissioner, she snarled "You can't arrest him, we both know that he didn't do anything."
"Mrs. Alcazar, for once in your life, you are right. Jason has done nothing for which he deserves to be arrested. He isn't why I am here." Mac said then looking at his eldest daughter, he said "Maxie, I thought I asked you not to attend these services."
"Well someone who loved Lucky had to be there, after all we all know that bitch Elizabeth wouldn't be there, not even after all he did for her." she sniped.
Shaking his head, Mac drew her outside saying he wanted to speak to her, then with a nod towards Jason Morgan and telling Scott he needed to speak to him down at the station immediately drew the only other person who could attest to what Jason was about to say off.
"Dad, I am not going to let you lecture me about this, I mean you know how I would do anything, anything for Lucky. I loved him."
"Anything?"he said taking a good look at his child. "I do know that yes, you would do anything for Lucky. Steal drugs, evidence from my storage room, hell you even covered for the man when he shot your own sister. When he cost her her child and she had to relearn to walk again, did you ever look at her and feel the least bit of guilt, Maxie?"
Maxie looked at him, saw his eyes, saw that he knew everything but he was wrong about one thing. "Dad, what are you talking about? Lucky didn't shoot Georgie."
"Maxie, Sonny, Jerry and Anthony Zachara all had 9mm, the bullet they took out of your sister. I spoke to file clerk at GH. Had them look up your sister's file today, that bullet, it was a 36.6. The only person with that style gun was Lucky. You have been sneaking around, declaring your love for all to hear... for the man who hurt your sister. Who beat Elizabeth Webber so badly that her child died, Maxie."
Seeing the slight shadow of something dark at that news; Mac said coolly."Maxie, I know you told Lucky where to find her at Mercy. I know you did it thinking that it would end them for good, but guess what?"
Seeing her stubborn expression, he stated as the two uniformed officers moved into place. "Elizabeth wasn't dating Lucky, she was trying to help him. She had moved on, this fairy tale dream that his family likes to tell, they knew it was a lie. They knew Elizabeth had ended things with Lucky. Elizabeth's daughter died as a result of what you did, Maxie. And these two are taking you in, you should know, I am not pressing attempted murder charges against you, you are facing enough of them including accessory to rape."
"What?"she asked shocked. "How could I be an accessory to rape?"
His eyes on his daughter he said "When Lucky slipped the drugs into Johnny's drink so that Lulu could get him into her bed, I know exactly what you gave him. I know that you were aware of what those drugs do. When you force someone to participate in a sexual encounter, it is rape, Maxie."
"Men can't be rape by a woman, they have to want it." she snapped.
"Maxie, not with the use of Viagra." he said "What I don't get is why, why would you help hurt your sister this way? What could you have possibly had against Johnny."
Maxie looked at her father then said "I refuse to answer without my attorney present."
"As your father, I am disappointed in you, as the police commissioner, I am always glad to get a dangerous criminal off my streets, and Maxie, you are a clearly an unrepentant repeat offender. I only wish I had done this when you were still a teen, who know maybe then it might have made a difference."
Back inside Kelly's, Lulu saw Maxie being led out of the courtyard in hand cuffs as Mac reentered the room. There was a buzz to the air, but the man didn't approach her aunt, he came to stand in front of Lulu.
"You should know, I will be telling Scott Baldwin the truth about his son, that he didn't attempt to rape you, that it was all a plot to try and extort money from the Zachara family. How your father ran him down in a drunken stupor. I would arrest you for all you have done, but the DA isn't positive that he can get a conviction against you. Who knows, maybe my daughter's attorney will convince Maxie that she will face less time if she gives you up."
"I have no idea what you are talking about." she said her mind telling her she had nothing to worry about, after all she would be with Johnny and he would cover for her.
"Yes you do, oh and Lulu. Johnny and my youngest daughter, they are back together, she knows the truth. My guess is that Georgie finally turns on her sister, as for you. I really would think about leaving town. Immediately."
Walking over to where Bobbie after seeing Lulu's smug smirk, he heard her trying to induce Lorenzo to change his mind on Carly and his leaving town and said "Lorenzo, I need to speak to Bobbie alone."
The dark haired man walked to his wife who was trying to entreat Jason to come and visit her, deliberately avoiding asking about Elizabeth. If he didn't know, she didn't want to possibly be the person to tell him about his ex girl friend.
"Morgan, what is going on with that McCall woman?" he asked.
"Sonny sent her back, she is going to prison and Danielle is staying with Olivia and him." he replied. Beginning to leave, he saw Mac was now talking to Bobbie and then looked around. He could see that most were watching the man speaking to the red headed woman who was shaking her head no as he spoke.
"MAC, I WANT YOU TO LEAVE. HOW DARE YOU COME HERE, TELL ME THESE LIES WHEN LUKE AND LUCKY AREN'T HERE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES." she shrieked."GET OUT!"
Mac did as ordered but several out of town Spencers who were close enough to hear what the man said, quickly made excuses and left themselves until all that were left were Lulu, Lesley, Bobbie and Carly along with Jason and Lorenzo.
Jason said "Bobbie, you should know it looks like Luke and Lucky's death, wasn't an accident."
"What?"she asked in shock. "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is that this time Lucky and Luke crossed someone who isn't going to let them get away with their crimes. So they paid for them."he said his eyes on Carly who felt a sense of doom. "There were others who were involved, they will also be paying for their part in these lies and manipulations. By the way, Elizabeth is home, here her medical records from when Lucky only punched her once. Isn't that what you said, Carly. That she made it out to be worse than it was. That she did it for attention."
As the photos spilled across the counter at Kelly's, Lorenzo and he flinched while Lesley's skin turned white as she looked at the bruises and clearly broken bones then went back to the family fall back excuse. "Helena made him do this, she has to know that Lucky wasn't himself. She was a horrible woman."
"That's just it. Emily ran into Lucky the other day at Jake's, he admitted it outright, that he had meant to do that and much, much worse. That he had intended to rape Elizabeth after he had done all of that."
"No, no that was all on Helena." both Lesley and Bobbie denied.
"No Bobbie, nor was it Helena who covered this up. It was your brother, it was his wife, it was a whole group of people, some of whom did it not for Lucky's sake but because they hated Elizabeth and wanted her gone. Those are the ones I am going to make regret ever being born, because what isn't in those files. What Luke knew, that Sonny knew. Elizabeth wasn't dating Lucky."
"Oh course she was." Lulu protested as she looked at her grandmother having grown up on this story. "They were deeply in love and she was helping to get him out from under Helena's influence when she made him attack Elizabeth."
"No, Elizabeth had ended things, you remember that, don't you Bobbie. You were there at the Intervention when Kevin Collins took Lucky away."he pressed the older woman on the facts. When her eyes couldn't meet his, he said "Yes, you knew. What you didn't know was that Elizabeth and I, we were planning on leaving town when Lucky got well. She felt she should at least help him."
"She owed him, he saved her." stated Carly ignoring the later statement.
"Carly a word of advise, there are times when it is a good think to shut your mouth." Jason said as his ice cold eyes turned on her. "You never know when I might begin to ask you questions that we both know you can't answer."
Grateful that Jason did seem to know her part in this and that he seemed to be protecting her, Carly did as he ordered.
Jason looked at Bobbie then said "Elizabeth was pregnant and Lucky knew when he beat her that night."
"Lucky wouldn't harm Elizabeth, not if he knew she was carrying his child."Lulu protested while Lesley felt her heart stop. She was well aware that there was no way that Elizabeth was carrying Lucky's child.
"Lulu, Lucky and Elizabeth were never intimate." Jason said. "Ask your aunt if you don't believe me. It was my child, but he didn't know that. However Nik wanted Lucky to attack me, not Elizabeth. He got him all riled up, sent him after me, but Lucky found Elizabeth instead because for some reason, Sonny who was supposed to go a meeting, Carly pushed him until he sent me. Odd timing, terrible timing for Elizabeth because your brother almost killed her and our children."
"C-children?"Carly whispered.
"Yes, Elizabeth was pregnant with twins. Our son is ten years old, our daughter didn't make it. Lucky killed her. What is that old testament comment that Sonny liked Carly. An eye for an eye. Or in this case a child for a child. Ask Luke, wait, you can't." he said as he walked towards the door.
Turning to look at them, seeing Lorenzo look at the envelope he had found in front of him, then back toward Jason, he said "And every single person who helped Luke cover for Lucky will get what they did to help turned on them tenfold."
When he had left, Lesley sat there, her eyes unable to pull themselves away from the photos as she thought about her ex husband's niece and what they had allowed to be done to her in the name of protecting Lucky. Lulu heard her phone ringing and went to the kitchen to answer it. "Nik?"
"Lulu my jet is arriving in twenty minutes, if you don't want to go to jail, be on it when it takes off at seven tonight." he ordered then hung up as he went to find his new wife. Jolene had proven to be one of the best decisions he had made in a good long while.
After a fruitless argument with Dr. Denison, Robin was walking down the hallway when she saw Emily Quartermaine. "Em?"
"Robin, hi." she said then looking at the news on the TV asked if she had a few minutes. In the privacy of her room, she filled her friend in on what had happened in the past, what had been going on to solve the problem and why she was now currently a patient at Shadybrook. "Dr. Collins say that now that Lucky is dead it is safe for me to leave."
"My god, Emily." she said her eyes wide as she looked at her friend."Wait, this woman Elizabeth and Jason, they were in love?"
"Yes."she said with a sigh. "I hated it back then because I thought that without Elizabeth being together with Lucky I would lose Nik. I was such an idiot because you had to see them together, Jason adores Elizabeth. It is sort of funny to watch."
Her heart twinging a little at that comment, Robin did ask what she meant. "Well Jason would try to avoid touching Elizabeth, and he would shove his hands into his jeans pocket but they would twitch when she came closer. It was like some part of him was almost compelled to touch her."
"What makes you so certain that things will work out for them now?" she asked. "After all it has been over ten years, Emily."
"Robin, you don't want to try and get in the middle of this." she warned."Seriously, ten days ten weeks or ten years, it won't make a difference between Jason and Elizabeth. Plus they have a son, Robin."
"Oh good point, we all know how far Jason will go for a child that isn't his, imagine how far he would for one that is." she said with a sad sigh as she let go of her very small dream of a future with Jason.
Emily just shook her head, knowing that until Robin saw the two together she wouldn't understand. "Anyhow, why are you here? Has there been a change with Laura, because I have to tell you, she has been acting oddly."
"What do you mean?" Robin asked.
Telling her about what the nurse had told her, plus what she had said the other day, suddenly Emily began to realize that there might have been another version than hers when Robin made a comment about how she had always thought the younger woman would end up with Lucky and that maybe Laura had too.
Emily said maybe as she walked Robin towards Laura's room. The doctor knocked on the door hoping for a response but not getting one just signed at the protocol still not kicking in as she pushed open the door.
Surprised to see no one there, she stuck her head out and asked the nurse coming down the hall when Laura would be back from testing. "Mrs. Spencer has no tests today. Why would you think she does?"
"Well her chair is still in here and she is gone. Unless they use a different one to take her outside for air." she asked.
The nurse entered the room then went to the closet. Opening the door, she said "Her shoes are gone. I told Dr. Denison that there was something going on with her. She kept muttering stuff for the last few days about making that girl pay for what she did to her son."
"What girl?" asked Robin while Emily began to yank open drawers and search the room. "Emily what are you doing?"
Flipping the mattress off the bed she looked at the nurse and said "Didn't someone make a comment about Nurse Follsby throwing out your newspaper again. That it has been happening a lot. What if it isn't the head nurse, what if it is Laura Spencer stealing your papers."
"Why would that matter?" asked the nurse confused while Robin reminded Emily about her protocol not working.
"I am with Georgie, I think she is faking it." Emily said as she began to yank out the drawers on the dresser and sure enough, behind one there were a stack of recent papers. All with two themes. The death of Luke and Lucky Spencer and the return of Cameron Steven Hardy to his mother.
"Look."
Robin gasped at the words written next to Elizabeth's name, then the bulls eye on Cam. "But surely she wouldn't harm a child."
"Give me your cell phone." When Robin hesitated, clearly in shock, Emily took it from her and dialed Jason muttering softly for him to answer the damn phone.
"MORGAN."
"Thank god, Jason Laura Spencer escaped the hospital, she is looking for Elizabeth and Cam. The last time she escaped they found her on the docks near Spoon Island with a gun. They thought she was going to Nik, but what if she wasn't, what if she was looking for Elizabeth. Her studio, she went to Elizabeth's studio."
Jason felt the other shoe hit the ground, Laura, he had wondered if she was as ill as she had pretended to be before but hadn't really cared, after all she had had no involvement in his life.
Hanging up without even a thank you, Jason realized he was close to the studio as he called his guards who didn't answer at first. When they did, he ordered them to get inside but to avoid scaring Elizabeth or Cam.
Talking to Cody he said "Laura Spencer, she is to be considered a threat and possibly armed. Do not, I repeat do not let her near my family."
With that, he rushed to his SUV and drove to the Hardy home as quickly as possible. Meanwhile at Shadybrook, Robin and Emily had confronted Dr. Denison who still denied it was possible for his patient to be a threat to anyone.
Thrusting the newspaper under his nose, Emily growled. "Do you see this, do you seriously expect us to believe she isn't a threat?"
"Look, Miss, you are here as a patient, you don't get..." The doctor's voice faded as Emily and Robin quickly left the hospital. "Where do we need to check?"
"Wait, I have to call my Uncle Mac." Robin said as they arrived at her car. Getting in the driver's seat, she was about to drive off when Emily reacted with impatience and pushed her further in.
"I am driving, since I know where to look." said the younger woman as she took the keys while Robin lifted herself over the stick shift and into the passenger seat. When Emily started the car and sped out of the parking out, Robin quickly did up her seat belt just as her uncle answered his phone. "Laura Spencer is a threat to Elizabeth Webber, long story but she tried to kill her recently. Dr. Denison thought she was after her son Nik, its why he brought me here. She is missing from the hospital and Emily and I are chasing after her."
With that she hung up while Emily just took the curve ahead without touching the brakes. "Emily, she wouldn't have gotten this far yet, not without a car."
Emily didn't take her eyes off the road as she said "I am not taking any chances, not after what happened with Lucky. Besides, she did it before."
"Okay, but where are we headed." she asked.
"Elizabeth's studio. It was where they found her before." she said as she sped up even more and Robin reached for her phone again. Calling her uncle she warned him where they were and what they were doing. "Please keep us from being stopped."
Letting himself into the house, Jason breathed a sigh of relief as his family were sitting on the sofa giggling. Cam was teasing his mom who who had noticed Jason entering the house.
"Hi daddy." Cam said when he noticed his mother was distracted and turned to see the man in the door. "Guess what, Mommy once grew up in this house."
"I know." he said as he went over to the sofa. Sitting down next to Elizabeth, he pulled Cam onto his lap and tightly hugged his son but worried about scaring him, said "Now why was your mommy laughing when I came in?"
"Because the tickle monster got her." Cam said attempted to tickle his dad only for Jason to get control and then wink at Elizabeth.
As Cam giggled in his dad's arms, Elizabeth said to him. "Now who is going to be saying uncle."
As she tickled her son, Jason just held them both, finding joy in his family's safety. Eventually letting Cam go, he looked at Cody and asked him to take Cam to the swing set in the back yard.
As they left, Elizabeth asked Jason what is going on. "Laura Webber escaped from Shadybrook. Emily called me because she is afraid she is that Laura is looking for you."
Hearing his phone ringing, Jason looked at the caller ID and then answered it. "What is going on?"
The blond kept banging on the door, determined to speak to Jason. After about ten minutes, Carly gave up realizing that Jason wasn't at the penthouse. Returning down the elevator she went to the doorman and demanded to be told where Jason was.
"Mr. Morgan hasn't been living here, Mrs. Corinthos." said the young guard. "I uh, I heard he was staying elsewhere."
"Where?"she snapped.
"I don't know, but if its really important try that bar down near the docks. I heard he goes into there and talks to the bartender all the time." he said sweating and wanting her to get out of there.
Carly sighed with annoyance then went to her rental car. Driving over Jake's, she entered the bar and looked around. Seeing Coleman, she asked him if Jason was there.
"Normally I would tell you none of your business, but I want you gone. Morgan only stops in when he wants to speak to me. My guess is that he is rather busy because the paper says he has a son." Coleman said with a smirk.
Carly just ignored him and walked around, seeing no one she knew, she left. It hit her, she should try that ridiculous studio of Elizabeth, though she hated the idea of his being there.
Entering the run down building, her phone began to ring. Seeing it was her husband; Carly considered not answering it, but knew she should. "You said I had three hours."
Lorenzo thought about his plans and what Morgan had given him. He was slowly but surely coming to realize the mistake he had made marrying Carly but he wanted children. He had already decided that Corinthos had been the smart one, he would get her pregnant and then dump her.
"You do, I just want you to meet at the airport, I have already settled our hotel bill." he said then seeing his assistant entering, smiled as the young woman held out the paperwork for his signature and mimed writing.
Hanging up, Lorenzo signed the papers then as she began to leave, he asked her if she would be interested in becoming his assistant at the office, not his personal assistant. "It would mean less time around my wife."
Carly grimaced as she walked up the stairs towards that dumpy little place that Elizabeth Webber used to live in. Hearing the sound of someone inside, she began to bang on the door only to realize that it wasn't closed all the way.
"Jason, Jason..."
Entering she stopped, shocked to find Laura Spencer standing there. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"Where is she, where is Elizabeth?" asked the blond.
"Who the hell cares, where is Jason?" snapped Carly. "What are you doing here?"
"I am looking for Elizabeth." was Laura's answer and Carly was about to reply who cares again when she saw what was on the easel paint stand. "Laura, why do you have a gun?"
Outside the two young women who had rushed up to find the older woman froze and stepped back. Calling Mac, Robin gave him the news. "She is at the studio apartments down by the docks; Emily said Elizabeth used to live here."
Downstairs the police had arrived and Mac walked up the stairs as silently as he could, not wanting a hostage situation, even with Carly as the victim. "What is going on?"
Robin sshed him and Mac moved closer only to hear Carly suggesting that Laura leave and go track down Elizabeth. "No, I know that she will return here, she always does."
Carly just wanted to get away so after a few minutes she said "Why not try the Hardy house?"
Emily went still as she listened to what Carly was saying. It was clear that she wasn't scared of Laura, so what excuse could there be for her giving this clearly insane person any help.
Robin sneezed, then looked around, clearly horrified as they heard Carly asking who is out there. Emily looked at Mac then hurried inside in spite of knowing this wasn't a good idea. "Oh hey, wait, Carly why are you in Elizabeth's studio? Laura, what are you doing out of Shadybrooke?"
Mac hoped her playing dumb helped but when this was over he was wringing Emily Quartermaine's neck for putting herself in danger.
"What are you doing here, Emily?" asked Laura, her hand moving towards the gun, "Were you looking for Elizabeth? Do you know where she is?"
"Elizabeth, yes, she lives in Italy. Didn't you know, she moved there a few years ago." she said as she edged deeper into the studio. Seeing Carly's glare, she said "So, Carly you didn't tell me, what are you doing here?"
"Looking for your brother, he isn't staying at his penthouse." she said.
"Jason doesn't live here, Carly." she said with a smirk. "He bought a house and hasn't even told anyone in the family. Why don't you try the warehouse?"
"I am not leaving, I think you know more than you are saying." she retorted as she moved towards Laura. Carly wasn't sure why, but something was telling her not to leave. Besides, this way if Laura did what she thought the insane woman wanted to then the Elizabeth problem would cease to exist.
But how to help Laura get out of here, without making it look like she helped the woman to escape?
In the hallway, Mac heard Laura speaking again and frowned a bit at what she was saying.
"Why, why couldn't Lucky fall for you?" she asked Emily. "I would have been so happy, you would have been the perfect girl for him. Its what I told Nik, you, you should have been meant for him. The all American girl for the all American boy."
Confused, Emily asked "What do you mean?"
"Elizabeth, she is ethereal, her looks are those of a Princess, like I said, Nik should have gone after Elizabeth, but you, you just didn't seem to realize that I meant for Lucky and you to be together. Then Helena had to interfere, had to use you in her plans. I told her, I tried to make her realize that the best way to get Nik to want Elizabeth was for Lucky and you to get together, but no, Jason had to interfere."
"Laura, but Nik and I got together, while Lucky and Elizabeth had ended."she stated while watching as suddenly Carly turned towards the blond and began to speak.
"Wait, you wanted... but Nik married Courtney." she pointed out.
"That tart, she wasn't what I wanted for my son to marry. She has no breeding, her looks are the result of chemicals and a doctor, whereas Elizabeth, Elizabeth was from years and years of good breeding. Elizabeth would have made a great princess, but no, she wanted Lucky. Lucky wanted her, so she should have waited, should have chosen my son."
At that point all were confused as she began to rant. "Wait, Laura I don't get it, did you want Elizabeth with Lucky or with Nik?" asked Carly while outside Mac asked his men if any of them had a shot.
"Sorry sir, no sight lines into the studio." he was told.
"I wanted her to marry Nik, produce his future heir, but Lucky, Lucky wanted her and I owed Lucky after all the terrible things that had happened. So what Lucky wanted, Lucky deserved." she said while glaring at Emily. "Why didn't he want you?"
"I-er-I, uh, I don't know." said a confounded Emily as she got that Laura truly was bonkers. "Laura, why don't you let me take you back to the hospital."
"No, no, I must find Elizabeth. She is the only one who can help me save Lucky."
"Laura, Lucky and Luke are both dead." snapped Carly now annoyed to realize that there was no way that Laura was going to actually kill Elizabeth.
"No, no it is Helena she faked his death again." the blond said almost entreating Carly to agree. "You know that I am right, she always, always fakes Lucky's death. Besides, I have a secret weapon, I know how to make Emily help me."
"Okkkayyyy..."Carly by now was just wanting to get the hell out of there.
Laura looked at Emily then said "You know it, you know that Lucky loves Liz, that they have a permanent lock. Just say it with me, c'mon, please Emily, please, just say it with me."
Emily felt sick to her stomach as she looked at the blond. "You knew, you knew that Helena was controlling me."
"No, not until Lucky told me." she said as she looked at the younger girl. "I was so angry when I found out, if she wanted to control you, why didn't she make you fall for Lucky. It would have worked out so much better, but no, she used you to make Lucky do what she wanted."
"Uh, Laura that is kind of the purpose of brainwashing." said Carly rolling her eyes. Then looking at Emily said "You were brainwashed."
"Yes, Helena somehow managed to manipulate me into giving Lucky a letter that Elizabeth wrote to him saying goodbye for when Jason and she left."
"But no, Jason wasn't leaving with Elizabeth, he went away on business for Sonny." Carly said. "I made sure of it."
Robin in the hallway listened as Carly ranted about how she had convinced Sonny that she needed him in town and to have him send Jason. How she had done so because she had seen how that muffin faced bitch was tricking Jason into believing she was in danger from Lucky. "As if..."
"Carly, Lucky attacked Elizabeth verbally all the time. It was going to escalate to physical abuse, it was only a matter of time."
"No, no,that was because Helena wanted him to. He would have never have done so otherwise, Lucky loves Elizabeth... she is his permanent lock." stated Laura as she looked at her gun that was no in her hand. "Lucky needs Elizabeth, they belong together."
"OH. MY. GOD." Emily felt sick as Laura began repeating the exact same mantra she had all those times she was in Helena's control. "Laura, you need to listen to me, you don't know what you are saying."
"Emily, you know that I am right." she said with a beautiful smile on her face and glazed eyes. "Lucky loves Elizabeth, he needs Elizabeth they belong together, she is his permanent lock."
"Okay, I don't care one way or another." said Carly as she moved towards the door. "Either way, I am out of here. Emily if you see your brother tell him I am looking for him."
With that, she went through the door and found herself flat against the wall and a hand tightly covering her mouth.
"Scream Carly and I will shoot you myself." snapped the newly arriving Detective Taggert as Kevin Collins moved in closer to listen to the two women still inside.
Mac nodded and Taggert took the other woman down the stairs while back inside Emily was sick to realize that poor Laura was still under Helena's control somehow.
When the woman keep muttering about how Elizabeth owed Lucky how she should have never tried to break up with him, Emily asked with a sick feeling in her stomach. "Oh my god, it was you, you gave Helena Elizabeth's letter. How did you get it?"
"I saw her, I came to speak to her, to get her to realize that Lucky needed her, that they were the new generation Luke and myself, but she didn't see me. I saw her though, hiding that letter with the rest of that stuff in the floor board."
"I took it, read it and then..." Laura's voice trailed off as she didn't recall what she had done with the letter.
"You gave it to Helena." said Emily who continued "She gave it to me to give to Lucky."
"No, no, you must be wrong. I didn't give her the letter, why would I? I wanted Elizabeth to deny that she wrote it, to tell me that she still loved my little boy, my precious little angel." she said with a loving sigh.
Pointing the gun at Emily she said "Did you do it, did you help ruin things for my son. Did you make Elizabeth fall out of love with Lucky. Did you do that, did you?"
Outside, Mac crept even closer just as he heard the sound of skin hitting skin then Laura snapping. "That is the very least you deserve, you Jezebel. You did this, didn't you, you were the reason that Lucky hurt her, you wanted him to hurt her."
Emily who had cupped her cheek as the pain exploded heard the sound of the safety coming off and looked up to see the barrel of a gun pointed directly at her.
"Laura, put it down." snapped Mac from the entrance of the studio as Kevin entered but didn't go too far inside.
"No, no it is her fault. She is the reason that my poor sweet little boy hurt Elizabeth, she made him do it. She ruined his life, she knew what Helena was doing..."
"NO, ENOUGH!" snapped Kevin Collins hoping she would come out of whatever she was under. "Lucky was out from under the brainwashing when he attacked Elizabeth. You need to face it, Laura. It was Lucky, all Lucky."
"NO! NO! NO!" she cried out. "It wasn't. It was Helena. It had to be."
"Laura, no, it wasn't Helena, not any longer. It was your son, he beat up an innocent young woman, he was going to rape her. Ask Emily, he told her all about it."
"I won't ask her, Emily is a liar, she tells lies. She lied about Nik cheating on her, she lied about not knowing where Elizabeth was, she lied about loving Nik. About Lucky all the time, she is a liar, Lucky would never do that, no, no, he wouldn't. Luke wouldn't do that, not my Luke."
With that Laura began to aim at Emily who felt sorry for the woman who clearly had lost it. Whether as a result of her brainwashing or from being unable to face the truth about her son, and maybe just maybe about her own past, it was clear that Laura Spencer was not in control of her own senses.
"Emily duck." snapped Mac only for the young intern to rush at the confused blond.
There was a struggle for the gun, as Laura refused to relinquish it, she was positive that it was all Emily's fault and Emily was determined to help save Laura like Kevin Collins had saved her.
The gun was pointed at Emily's heart for a second, then at the ground when she tried to pry Laura's hand off the trigger, but it was too late. The gun came up, the bullet left the barrel and red color gushes all over the blond's outfit.
"Laura, Laura, lets get you down." she said as she wretched the gun away from the now stunned woman and let Mac take it from her lifeless hands while the weight of the woman took them both to the ground.
"What, what happened?" she was asking weakly of Emily as Laura reached up and touched her chest. "Why am I wet?"
"Its going to be okay." Emily said even as she knew it wouldn't. Within seconds the sad woman had no pulse and all any of them could do is listening to the sirens of the ambulance as it neared the studio.
Robin stood in the doorway, stunned as Emily reached up and closed Laura Spencers eyes for the last time. Mac asked the young intern if she was hurt only for her to numbly nod no.
"Emily, this wasn't your fault." Kevin said when he saw her eyes beginning to tear up. "There was no preventing this. We had no idea, none how sick she was."
Emily looked up at the doctor then said "But we should have, we should have known that there was something wrong. When the truth about Luke and her came out, someone should have questioned a rape victim marrying her rapist. Instead we all tried to make it out into this grand love story. But there is no love story, not when it starts out with violence."
As the police and coroner staff rushed into the room; Kevin escorted Emily down the stairs and into a waiting ambulance. With a call to her parents, he gave them the sad news then asked them to meet them at the hospital. All that was left was the paperwork, the reunions and the tears...
TBC