Chapter 12: The Truth Will Set You Free

Master Bedroom:

Lulu tried to push Johnny off her. He remained where he was. "Lulu, answer me. Are you pregnant?" he repeated.

That would have accounted for the different sized clothing in all the closets at the places that Helena took her.

"No, I over ate," Lulu answered finally braking free from his grasp. "Can't you tell?"

"I know what I felt." He leaned over to tune on the lamp on the nightstand on.

The room was illuminated in a soft white light. Johnny saw Lulu standing a few feet away. She was rubbing her stomach. When the lights came on, she dropped her hands to her sides.

Johnny got up, pulling her into an embrace. He forgot how good she smelled. "Lulu, stop. I was going to find out eventually. That is why Sonny set this up. He wanted me to find out. Why don't you just tell me what happened?"

"I can't." She tried to wiggle out of his grasp again, he just held on her tighter.

"Why not? Don't you trust me?"

"Johnny," she began.

"You don't trust me, I get it. I-"

"I don't trust what you are going to do with the information. That is why only the doctors and Sonny knows," Lulu said truthfully. "My brothers are going to freak-"

"Lulu, I saw the places they kept you. I saw the shackle. I saw the room made up to be a hospital room. What did they do to you?"

"You might look at me differently, hell everyone will once the truth comes out. I saw the looks on the doctor's faces. They couldn't get out of the room fast enough."

Johnny didn't understand what could have happened to her to make her feel this way.

"There is nothing that you can tell me that would make me look at you in a different way. Tell me what happened while you were gone all those months."

"You are not going to like it."

"I don't care, tell me."

"Okay, I tried to warn you, remember that."

Johnny just stared as she recounted what happened to her. She was on the docks and some man accosted her. The next thing she remembered was waking up in the first location chained to the wall. She had puncture wounds of some type on her stomach and side that she had no idea where or how she got.

They held her for what Lulu thought was a day before she ate something that was laced with something and she woke up in the operating room restrained to table. They had put the gas mask on her then she woke up in her room surrounded by machines.

The medical staff kept drawing samples of her blood, it seemed to be every few hours or so. Then she finally realized why, her captors never told her but she was pregnant.

"I pretended to be asleep on one of the last places they took me. They came in my room and began to…"

Lulu began to sob as she relived the memory. Johnny held on to her tighter.

"They said their plan was."

"What was it?"

"Helena wanted an heir. She cryogenically frozen the reproductive DNA of Nikolas' father and …"

She didn't get the last sentence out, she was crying too hard. Johnny could jump to his own conclusions. It made the most sense. No wonder she didn't want anyone else to know. They would have hunt Helena down and kill her for what she did to Lulu. Hell, he wanted to kill the bitch himself.

"Shh," he soothed, kissing her forehead. "It's going to be okay."

"Okay? What would make you think that? I'm carrying the spawn of the devil here. It's too late for me to do anything about it! That is why I think I was taken back home. Helena is going to be loyally pissed by now realizing I am gone. She is going to do anything and everything in her power to get me and the babies back."

"She can't have you," Johnny replied, kissing her lightly on the lips. "Wait a second, did you say babies?"

Somewhere in the World:

Helena railed at the defenseless guard. "What do you mean she's gone?"

The guard provided no plausible explanation; she pulled a gun and shot him in the head. Fasison came in the room, stepping over the body. "He didn't even work in the wing that Miss Spencer was kept."

"Doesn't mean he didn't provide my son with the assistance he needed in taking Lulu."

"Ah, you know that he took her home to Port Charles."

"With the company that Lulu keeps, she's under lock and keys in one of Morgan's safe houses somewhere on the East coast."

"Helena, dear, do you really think that this is it? You didn't think that I planned that Stefan grew a spine and defied you? It's just the beginning. We'll have Lulu back soon."

General Hospital:

Johnny took Lulu to her doctor's appointment. Johnny was disappointed that Tyler took them to the hospital but Johnny made sure that he waited outside the door while Johnny went in the room with Lulu.

Johnny couldn't put his finger on it, but something was off with Tyler. Until he figured out what it was, there was no way in hell that he was going to leave Lulu alone with him. He knew that Sonny trusted him enough to guard Lulu, that wasn't enough for Johnny.

Lulu lay on the examining table while Johnny paced the room. "You haven't said two words since we got here," she pointed out.

"Just thinking."

"About ways killing Helena and getting away with it?" Lulu asked.

For the first time since Lulu told him what happened, Johnny cracked a smile. "Something like that. But I was thinking about the guard Sonny hired-"

"Sonny hired him. He must have looked into his background. Don't worry; I'm positive that he's fine."

He wasn't about to start a fight with her in the doctor's office with the guard right outside the door.

"Good morning, Lulu," Dr. Lee said sweetly as she entered the room. She was surprised to see Johnny in the room with her. "Hello, Johnny."

"Dr. Lee. You don't have to worry, I told Johnny as much I could remember."

"Just to let you know, this sonogram machine has more resolution than the one we used in the ER."

"Okay."

Lulu squirmed as Dr. Lee squeezed the cold gel on her stomach. She placed the instrument on her stomach. "Okay that is baby number one." She pointed to the screen. She moved it across her stomach. "And that is baby number two…that is interesting to say the least."

"Huh? What's wrong?" Johnny asked concerned.

Dr. Lee studied the screen. "Interesting…"

"You already said that. What 's the matter?" Lulu demanded.

"It seems that Baby number two is a several days younger that Baby number one…"

"Meaning?" Lulu asked.

"Meaning, I'm the father of Baby number one," Johnny finished.