Author's Note: Chapter is primarily about Lulu. Last chapter she'll be in for a while. Yay! Right? Though I like the way she's written in my story. Lol. Enjoy! It's a lot of drama. Kind of an annoying chapter cause I wanted to be working on the next one, but oh well. It is what it is.
Chapter 21
"The name is Spencer, Lulu Spencer and today I washed away what I've done."
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"Lulu," Milo nervously whined as he saw Lulu poking her head around the corner, "I don't know about this.
"Do you want me to help you with Leyla or not?" She glanced back at him where her eyes scanned further behind Milo, "Max…Do you want Diane to have that new Prada bag that Maxie said we're getting into the office next week?"
"Of course," Max hesitantly nodded, "Of course I want her to have nice things."
"Like a good man," Carly snuck up behind them where Lulu exclaimed, "Carly!" She turned to her with a hug.
"Mrs. C," Max smiled brightly.
"What's a scam without me?" Carly smirked and ran towards her in a hug.
"Thank you!" Lulu excitedly jumped up and down.
"I'm a Spencer too," she giggled with Lulu, "Put me to work."
"Okay!" Lulu dragged her to the corner, "Alright. I've got the guards figured out."
"But you need to get rid of Johnny and Claudia," Carly poked her head out.
Lulu looked with her where they saw Claudia leave the room to answer a phone call and then disappear into the main room of the floor.
"The boss is going to get really angry," Max nervously bit his lip, "Can't…"
Carly rolled her eyes looking back at Max, "I'll handle Sonny." She glanced back at Lulu, "I'm going to follow Claudia and create a diversion."
"Good idea!" Lulu smiled where she looked around the corner, "Now I just have to…" She paused seeing the master of all schemes standing outside Spinelli's room.
"Looks like we just figured out our next move," Carly sneakily smiled, she loved this stuff.
Lulu nodded as she watched Johnny exit Spinelli's room to shake her father's hand.
"Coast clear," Carly looked away from Luke and Johnny who started to walk down the opposite of the hall.
"Great!" Lulu cheered turning to Milo, "Okay follow my dad and call me when they're on their way back."
"I'll do the same with Claudia," Carly began to turn the corner, "Good luck." She wished and then looked at Milo, "Come on boy! Chop chop, Lulu needs you!"
"Right," Milo glanced at his brother realizing they couldn't back out now.
Lulu watched as Carly and Milo went about their ways and then turned to Max, "Okay put the ski mask on."
"Lulu," he pouted taking the mask from her.
"Shush," she said looking back at the hall, "Now I'm going to walk down the hall, stop in front of the guards and then your going to grab my purse." She waited for an okay, but heard his grumblings instead, "Max."
"Don't you want to prove to Diane how much you love her?" Lulu removed a black wig from her black purse.
"Yesssss."
"Then put the mask on," she looked down at him as she threw the wig on and then removed her small compact to check herself out, "How do I look?"
"Like Cher," he grinned.
Lulu giggled as she pushed away the last blonde strands, "Well let's hope I can turn back time."
"I love that song!" Max shouted.
Lulu looked up at him, "You listen to Cher?"
"Uh no," his jaw left hanging, "What I meant is that…Diane loves that song."
Lulu oddly stared at him and then quickly shook her head, "Okay I'm going to forget what you just said. Come on."
The two security guards stood outside Spinelli's room like they had for almost a week now. Since Spinelli had woken up three days ago their job had become quite stressful, but they remained strong with Claudia limiting visits from the press and doctors to just a few hours. She had no patience for her friend to be treated like a lab rat she explained to them a dozen times and they understood perfectly. Every person that entered the area became an instant person of interest.
"Bob," the young thirty-year-old man jabbed his shoulder gently into the other guard.
"It's just a girl Ben," odd looking for they didn't know what she was doing in a long black coat with a leather gloves on and a black Lenin cap. It was summer out. "I don't think we have anything to worry about," the older man gently patted his back. He looked up optimistic, but never the less dismissed her as she continued walking towards them.
Lulu reached for the map of the hospital and stopped right in front of them. Show time. Bring on the Russian accent. "Oh no." She pouted looking up and down from the map, "I don't understand."
The two guards looked at each other becoming disheartened by her outbursts of frustration.
"Ma'am?" Bob sweetly poked his head in her bubble, "Are you okay?"
"I don't know," she flared her arms up in the air before bringing on the water works.
"Oh there's no need for that," Bob gently patted her back where he glanced up at his partner to help out.
"Right, where ya headed miss?" Ben walked over to her taking the map.
"Uh, da ICU?" She looked up at them, "I've never been to Am-er-ica."
"Who's in the ICU?" Ben asked having no idea Lulu would shout upsettingly.
"It's okay," Bob softly where he looked away from her and playfully hit the young man to be more sensitive.
Lulu could see in the corner of her eye the two guards were distracted. Her hand moved to her shoulder where her fingers flicked to send a signal to Max.
"Babushka!" Lulu exclaimed, "My babushka!"
The younger man looked up from the map, "You said ICU?"
"Yeeeessss!" Lulu exclaimed with loud cries, "My babushka!"
Bob could see the younger man struggling not to laugh, "Miss we're going to find your ba…"
"Babushka!" Lulu quickly turned to them revealing her 'fake' tears.
"Yes," Bob nervously nodded until he saw a nurse, Elizabeth Webber.
"Nurse!"
Lulu looked up at her in terror.
"Nurse, can you show this lady here where the ICU is?" The old man asked but Lulu swiftly turned to him, "No! I'za don't trust anyone else but d'ou."
The old man looked up at the nurse who was trying to cover her smirk, "Um…"
"Your such a nice man," Lulu tugged on his uniform while looking in the corner of her at Max who poked his head around the corner.
The old man began to look when Lulu screamed, "Please someone help meh!"
"Okay, okay, calm down," the old man motioned to comfort her when suddenly he lost his balance to a man, Max, that bumped into Lulu and took her purse.
"Oh no!!!!" Lulu shouted, "my pass port!!!!" She turned to the old man as Max turned the corner, "Do somethin'!"
The guards were speechless, they didn't know what to do, but Elizabeth angrily looked at them, "Your security guards! Secure the area!" Within seconds they were gone.
Lulu smiled and glanced at Elizabeth, "I owe you."
Elizabeth grinned widely before walking off in the direction of the nurse's station.
Lulu quickly looked around and then rushed into the room locking the door, pulling the blinds down and pushing a chair up against the door for extra precaution.
"Spinelli!" She turned to him taking her hat and wig off and putting her gloves in her pocket.
She expected him sitting in the bed, perhaps confused, but never the less not doing or looking at her the way he was.
"Lulu?" He questioned with his eyes glancing up from the New York Times.
"Of course it's Lulu silly," she threw the wig on the chair, "Who else would it be?"
He glanced back down that paper, "I know who you are." He glanced to the right of the paper, "I just don't understand what you are doing in my room."
"Spinelli?" She confusingly looked at him. She never understood why he was hell bent on keeping her out of here. The only people whom he was aware of the fact that had betrayed him where Maxie and Jason.
"That's my name…actually," he looked up from the newspaper, his eyes rolled up at the ceiling, "My name is Damian." He thought for a second, amused by the fact that everyone kept calling him Spinelli.
Lulu inched forward when Spinelli looked at her, "Don't come any closer my not so fair Lulu because I know you're here to do Maxie's bidding."
"Spin."
"Don't interrupt a man while he's speaking Lulu," he sneered, "I know I was out of control. I am fully aware of my behavior and for that I am genuinely sorry, you can tell her that."
She watched him glance down at the paper, which immediately compelled her to walk up to him and rip the paper from his hands.
"Thank you," he grinned, "I was only going to use that to find a new job."
"First you don't need to find a new job because you work for Jason and secondly you can tell Maxie yourself that you're sorry."
He croaked laughing, "Maybe nobody has brought you up to speed with what happened considering you went missing the day I lost everything in my life, but I don't have a job because our bad blonde on Ms. Maxie Jones asked Mr. Stone Cold to fire me."
"No she didn't," Lulu raised her voice.
"Don't cover for her," he agitatedly crossed his arms.
"I can't cover for her if she didn't do anything wrong."
"She had me fired!" He laughed hysterically.
"No I did!"
He paused for a moment, sternly glaring at her, "Now you lie for her?" He chuckled, "Wow hell must have really froze over while I was out."
"I'm telling the truth," she seriously looked at him, "I was pissed because I lost my job that day."
"Right," Spinelli smiled as his hand touched his chin, "And let me guess it was Maxie's fault."
"It was actually," she grinned unbelievably, "Kate misunderstood me in my attempt to help her so she was just about to fire me and I resigned."
"So I'm supposed to believe that you were so angry that you decided to even the odds and take away something from her?"
Lulu smiled sinisterly, "You bet and what better than to take away you."
"Lulu," he looked at her critically with his hands sternly rubbing his mouth, "Do you know what your saying? I mean do you fully know what you're admitting to here?" Not that he really believed a single word she was saying.
"Yes," she blankly stared at him, "Spencers take responsibility for their actions err at least try and I won't leave here until you know the whole truth."
Spinelli comically laughed, "Lulu we both know you didn't do this."
It had to be believable. "Yes I did." She walked towards him where she planted her hands on his bed. "I turned you against the woman you love and this is how I did it."
She swiftly turned away from him realizing that being honest with him wasn't going to work. He would be just like Dillon and refuse to believe she had a manipulative deceitful hurtful bone in her body. Time to bring on the ruthless Screw You Lulu lady Spencer. She turned to him no longer as his Fair Friend, but as a menace.
"I knew I couldn't threaten him using his son's paternity so I reminded him of the dangerous life he lives. A life without his son, a life without love, a life that would be yours if he didn't fire you."
He had lived long enough with Jason to know that was his weakness, the inability to have a family. "Noo, you-you didn't do that," he looked at her doubtfully, "You didn't guilt him into this…"
"Of course I did. All I had to do was drop a few names: Jake, Michael, Elizabeth, Carly, Emily… Geor-gie."
Spinelli looked away from her, "I don't believe you."
"Tell that to my face," she walked into his rear vision where he swallowed hard and then glanced up at her, "I don't believe you."
"You know Dillon said the same thing when I told him that I lied about Georgie and Diego, I thought someone as bright as you could smell a scheme in the making."
"I smell one now," he looked at her not believing he could be conned.
"No that's your heart trying to convince you that I'm not right," she smirked, "Because if I was to be right then you blamed Maxie for something she didn't do, which means you did a lot more to her than rough her up a bit."
He stared at her in denial before slamming his fist on the bed chuckling, "Lulu you did not do this!"
She stood poised, her arms crossed her foot tapping, she had to look like his emotions were going to affect her quite yet. To appear as a cold heartless bitch you must act like one.
He pointed at her, "I know you didn't do this because we decided a long time ago that we weren't going to parade each other's lives and tell each other how to live, who to love and who to be friends with."
"I broke the rules we made."
He gritted his teeth, "No you didn't."
"Yes-I-did."
"Stop saying that!" He exploded in a fit of rage.
"I did!" She stormed at him roughly grabbing his cheeks forcing him to look at her, "I went to Jason knowing my words would plot the idea, but not push him because what would I know about your happiness right? Not your best friend right?" She looked at him almost hurt still at how much he had grown dependent on Maxie versus her.
"But the woman you love," she agitatedly smiled, "Now that would be all the power in the world over him because his violence stole away every glimmer of happiness in her life." His eyes. His eyes told her now. She had him.
"She wanted to talk to you, to be honest about everything, but after what happened with Lucky and Elizabeth I advised her to go to Jason because you already had enough on your plate," she almost smiled at herself delivering genuine explanations.
He pushed her hands away from his cheeks in objection, "I could have handled whatever she had to tell me!"
"Could you?!" She screamed at his bedside, "You already felt guilty about hurting her the first time and after a wonderful date you didn't want her to know that your shoulder was in more pain than it ever was before. Because it was wasn't it?" She saw his displeasure where after she continuously pegged him with the same question he shouted, "So what!"
She leaned away from him in his outburst where he explained himself, "Alright I was in pain." He looked away from Lulu, "Sunday morning it was hurting really bad like someone had flipped a switch." He genuinely looked up at her, "I didn't tell her about it because she's been keeping something from me and I thought if I just ignored it that she might tell me what's been bothering her."
"And you can't see that she was trying to protect you as well?"
"Protect me from what!" He exclaimed, "What does she not want me to know LULU!"
"I don't know!" She lied, "All I know is that because you made us no forced us to be friends she entrusted me with every insecurity she had…"
"And you turned that against her?" He assumed that he was supposed to believe that.
"Like taking candy away from a baby." She turned away from his bedside where she closed her eyes knowing this would be final strike. "I was really quite surprised at how serious she was about this whole friendship thing." She turned to him standing at the foot of his bed, "She confided in me about everything Spinelli even the arguments she had with you that morning and the day before."
The light bulb was turned on, he was beginning to see how the events came together. "I KNEW Jason had been a touchy subject which is how I knew the second he fired you, you'd turn to Maxie and I could walk away with my hands clean…"
He nodded in disbelief, it was absurd to him. "See Spinelli," she slowly walked towards him, "I was on the tape too. You even saw me I bet?" She took his refusal to look her in the eyes as a yes, "And yet you were so determined to investigate her."
His mind was processing things, analyzing every piece of thought to be substantial evidence when in reality it was circumstantial.
"Why Spinelli?" She slowly stopped in front of him, "Why couldn't you believe that I cared enough about you to ask you be let go that you have a safe and danger free life, a real chance with Maxie?"
She planted her hands on the bed and slowly leaned forward looked at his displeasured face of her close proximity, "Because you know in your heart that I would never take an interest in your life unless it benefit me." She had to prove her character was that demeaning to him.
"No," there friendship was not like that he convinced himself, it was not one sided.
"So you believe that I could tell Jason you genuinely deserved those things, but you can't believe Maxie's sincerity?" She leaned away disapprovingly nodding at his foolishness.
He huffed and he puffed and he blew that house down when he turned to her in an almost non-related rebuttal to her words at least that was how she interpreted it, "She hurt my pride Lulu!" He touched his heart, "And I didn't think I cared about my pride until she took away the one thing that defines me!"
"Spinelli?" Lulu rolled her eyes, "Why do you think that working for Jason defines who you are?"
"Because! Being good with computers is all I know! I've never had anything else to depend on!" He slowly calmed down. His right hand still touching his heart while his left was in a fist and tears were becoming visible, "At the end of the day when I would come back from a failed attempt to gain your love or when Jolene was shot or when Georgie died or when Maxie said she regretted us being together that night, Jason always had something for me to do. If I didn't want to do it he understood, but he knew that I would do it because working on a project for him was better than feeling."
She watched as he crumbled in front of her, her Spinelli was very much alive. She sat beside him putting her hand in his as he let everything out, "It was better than having to deal with the fact that I once again put blind faith in that people could be trusted with my heart."
"When I came to Port Charles I trusted no one until I met you." His hand on his heart wiped the tears from his eyes, "There was something about you Lulu when I met you that I could relate to. It was that small connection of never feeling wanted by our parents that reopened my heart."
"You reopened mine," she softly spoke, squeezing his hand.
He smiled at her, but shortly glanced away. "But I forgot," he began to grunt, "That with opening your heart to the joys of love also came the sorrows and deep agonies of it." His bitterness softened, "Working for Jason controlled what I could feel because there's always something to do. A new threat, a new adventure, a new conquest. It was always there when no one else was."
Lulu watched as he slowly simmered down and then softly said to him, "You always tell me love is a journey: the conquest of finding the one, the adventure we go on to obtaining that person and securing that bond we've developed with them."
"I'm a hypocrite," he looked up at her smiling.
"No," she slowly nodded, "You're right." She smiled before grinning widely up at the ceiling as she thought of something to add onto his logic, "I asked Elizabeth what happened between her and Lucky," she glanced down at their hands. "I asked why they fell apart," she looked directly into his eyes, "And she honestly told me that it wasn't the lies or the affairs or the trust that had been broken." She looked at him almost confused, but knew that she was about say something profound, "She said that she and Lucky had a bond that would have kept them together with Cameron and Jake for years, but they wouldn't have been happy."
"It would have been easy."
Lulu smiled, "Yes, it would have been easy, but Elizabeth said that real love should be exciting and fresh and different from anything you've ever felt, something worth fighting for. Love shouldn't be safe."
Spinelli looked up at her, "Well I know someone whose been using that advice a lot lately."
Lulu giggled, "My point is though, you and Maxie are great at friendship and maybe after all this you two will realize that maybe loving each other doesn't mean having a life together," she paused seeing that was not what he wanted to hear.
"Or," she looked into his eyes, "Maybe you'll realize that it's going to be really hard and you two are going to have to let go of everything that's ever happened to you in the past and with other people and just live in the moment with each other day to day."
He looked away from her where she talked once more to gain his attention, "But Spinelli." Lulu squeezed his hand, "You are going to have to take a leap of faith. You both will. You deserve it to yourselves to fight this out."
"There's nothing left to fight for Lulu," he ripped his hands out of hers.
"Why?" She snapped humorously, "Because you had a few bad days? Because you two said and did things two each other that can't be forgiven?" She nodded like that was ridiculous, "You're just going through a rough patch right now, but your feelings for each other are the same."
She could see he wasn't so sure anymore and realized she had to remind him of that magical night Maxie spoke so highly of to her, "I saw the way she looked at you on that stage and I saw the way you looked at her." She softly smiled at him where he looked into her eyes, "We all saw it. Some how seeing the deep abiding affection you two had for one another left no doubt in our minds that you two were in love." She attempted to take his hand again where she gently turned his face to hers, "And it sounds stupid to let that go to waste because of me."
"Lulu," he uttered in a whine, but she interrupted, "Spinelli when I suggested she ask Jason to fire you, she told me flat out she could never do that." She smiled thinking back to that moment, "Because you'd miss him too much and I said he'd miss you more."
His eyes slowly closed as he leaned back on the pillow in a calm rage, "So theoretically then if you asked Jason to fire me then what did she ask of him?"
"You get a vacation," she slowly mouthed.
"A vacation?" He looked at her unnerved. A vacation? The thought taunted him, how innocent. His right hand cupping his own cheek in disbelief, "So what you're basically telling me is that," he licked his dry lips while his left hand pressed his pupils.
"She wanted…"The glare she never wanted to receive was drawn upon her and she explained in crystal clear words what she had been trying to tell him. "What I'm telling you is that after hearing both our requests, Jason made the decision to fire you and…" And then the other shoe dropped. The moment she had been waiting for came.
"I blamed her…" He said slowly realizing for the first time since the beginning of their conversation what Lulu had been trying to tell him, what he had refused to hear. "I…I blamed her for something she," he sadly chuckled, "didn't do."
"I'm sorry…" She motioned to touch his cheek, but he leaned away, "That you destroyed the best thing that ever happened to me?" He hurtfully looked at her before slowly sliding his hand from her.
"Spinelli I didn't know…" She motioned to grab his hand, but he flared it up in the air.
"It doesn't matter Lulu!" He briefly shouted before his jaw locked.
"I didn't mean it to happen like it did honestly!" She reached for him, but he pulled away, "Well it did!"
"NO!" Lulu's eyes grew wide where as she attempted to cup his cheeks his fist pounded the bed and exclaimed, "I said things I can't take back!"
"I know!" She cried while managing to cup his cheeks.
He whimpered in front of her, his fingers batting the tears in his eyes that streamed down his face, "It's worse enough that I roughed her around, but now I have to find a way to forgive myself for verbal abusing her as well!"
She nodded 'no' "Listen to me!"
"NO!" He grabbed her wrists, "LISTEN TO ME!"
"She doesn't hold it against you Spin," she tightly held onto his cheeks where as her thumbs stroked his skin his hands fell from her wrists and grabbed his heart, "But I DO!"
"I do," he faintly told her as his hands squeezed an invisible heart, "I don't even deserve her now! Matt does!"
"NO!" Lulu's eyes grew wide, "Listen to me! She loves you and only you!"
"Oh that's just great! She loves me! WELL HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOVE MYSELF! HUH!" He forcefully grabbed her hands off his cheeks where he struggled to gain control of her movements, "IF YOU'RE SO SMART LULU! HOW!"
"I'm sorry!" She screamed losing the battle against him.
"You're sorry!" He heartlessly looked at her wishing he didn't have to do this, but knew he had to, "Well how's this for sorry, get out of my room!" He pushed her away releasing her from his grip, "GET OUT!"
"What the hell are you doing in here!" Claudia shouted in the doorway where Lulu immediately stood up from his bedside exposing Spinelli's face, "What did you do to him?"
Lulu couldn't believe she never heard the phone ring, but wished right about now she had. She slowly turned to him where before she could say anything his lips trembled, "You and I are not friends, not anymore, not ever." He looked away from her where her voice cracked, "No…"
He cleared his throat of tears, "I do."
"No you don't!" She lunged forward where as she tried to touch him he shrieked, "Don't touch me!" But she had some how grabbed hold of his hand, "Spinelli please."
"You turned me against the woman I love!" He paused breathing rapidly while hearing Claudia say a shocking "What?"
He ignored Claudia stepping further into the room and kept his eyes glued on Lulu's, "I will NEVER forgive you for that! NEVER!" He ripped his hand out of hers.
"No this just a fight we're having," she leaned forward where he screamed, "I HATE YOU!"
She stopped breathing seeing the aggression spelled on his face as he said those words.
"Hey!" Patrick shouted running into the room, "What's going on?"
Claudia grimaced her face, "Lulu was just leaving." She walked towards her grabbing Lulu by the arm and dragging her arm, "Grab your shit!"
"Spinelli!" Lulu yelled as she took her hat and purse, but not able to grab her wig fast enough.
He didn't want to see her leave, but he couldn't deal with the ultimate betrayal. He folded his hands into his face as the door slammed shut leaving him and Dr. Love in the room.
Claudia let go of her in a thrust where as soon as she saw Lulu turn to her she slapped her hand clear across her face.
"LULU!" Johnny shouted from down the hall.
Claudia looked away from her concerned brother to Lulu holding her cheek in shock, "I'll have you killed before you ever walk down the isle to marry my brother."
Lulu looked at her completely appalled never believing she was this ruthless, "You'd kill the woman your brother loves?"
"I'll do anything to protect John and the family name," she crossed her arms, "And if you really love my brother you'll leave him before I ever have to take those drastic measures."
Lulu slowly glanced at Johnny walking down the hall, "He'll never forgive you."
"I can handle that, but what I can't handle is seeing a manipulative bitch ruin the lives of two good men," she snarled at her hoping she'd never see her again.
Lulu looked up at her with lost eyes, "You win. You win Claudia." The smile displayed on her face made Lulu's insides turn, but not because the woman was truly sick or because she knew this would send Johnny spiraling out of control, but because secretly this was the excuse she needed to walk away.
She saw the blinds to Spinelli's windows open and saw Patrick glaring at her. She saw Spinelli's hands folded on his face. The only friend she could turn to didn't want anything to do with her. What was she to do now?
Patrick turned away from the window seeing the blonde walk away, "Take a deep breath." He looked at Spinelli who was quietly muffling his tears, "Damian…"
"Maximista…The Jackal is an idiot," Spinelli ran his hands through his hair just above the bandages.
Patrick smirked walking towards him, "Do you remember Spinelli when you helped me at Jakes with Robin's blog?"
Spinelli shrugged his shoulders wondering what that had to do with him.
"If you hadn't helped me set my own blog up and fix that prank we pulled, well I could have lost Robin for that," Patrick set his clipboard on the edge of the bed.
"I screwed up big time," Spinelli looked at him taking that deep breath Patrick wanted him to take.
"So did I Spinelli," he gazed down at the boy much younger than him, "And I've screwed up a hundred times worse with Robin and she took me back."
Spinelli nodded 'no' in comparison to himself as he watched Patrick sit down in the chair next to him, "Maxie won't take me back."
Patrick giggled, "Yes she will."
"Dr. Love this is not a laughing matter," Spinelli stared at him, "I called my Maxie horrendous things, I hurt her physically. I…"
"Spinelli," Patrick raised his voice to get him to focus, "You can't turn back time on everything that's happened. All you can do is move forward promising that you'll never make the same mistakes you did."
Spinelli leaned forward from the pillows he was resting on and planted his elbows on his legs and his chin in his palms, "I don't even know where to start."
"Well that's why I'm going to help you," Patrick softly smiled.
"Really?" Spinelli glanced at him.
Patrick leaned forward nodding, "Women stick together," he held up his fist, "Guys stick together."
Spinelli awkwardly punch his fist against Patrick's, "The Jackal owes you."
Patrick laughed, "We're even."
Spinelli nodded before taking another deep breath, "I do have a question though."
"Yeah?" Patrick wondered about what.
"It's just that," Spinelli looked up at him, "You are a neurosurgeon and I'm the Jackal. If we brilliant men can't figure out women…"
"Spinelli no man can figure out women."
"Then how are you going to help me?" Spinelli looked at him wondering if he should just attempt this himself.
"Hey I'm Dr. Love. The master at planning perfect dates."
"I planned a perfect date without you."
"Uh right," Patrick took a second to think about this while in the mean time Spinelli glanced up at the window to read Johnny's lips in conversation with Claudia 'I love her!'
"I've got it Spinelli," he heard Patrick excited and glanced at him waiting to plan out operation Get Maxie Back, "We're talking about Maxie. The woman who trusts you, who believes in you, who loves…"
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"Taxi!" Lulu waved her hand to the yellow vehicle that was about to drive. She ran over to the car where the window rolled down, "Where to miss?" The dark mysterious Aussie boy asked.
"Anywhere, but here," she uttered where just as her hand touched the back door handle she heard her name.
"Lulu?" Maxie curiously said as she stepped onto the curb of General Hospital.
Lulu softly looked at Maxie and then walked to the opened window in the taxi, "Can you wait a few minutes?"
He nodded, "Yeah." He smiled as the girl walked away to her blonde friend.
"Hey," Maxie warmly smiled at her, "Where are you going? I'll give you a…"
"I'm leaving," Lulu sadly grinned as she stopped in front of her.
"Leaving…" Maxie lingered wondering what exactly she meant, "To change your clothes?" Maxie giggled for she was dressed a little warm.
Lulu giggled back, "No, um." She removed her leather glove, "I need you to do me a favor." She removed the ring off her finger where Maxie became concern, "Lulu what happened."
Lulu gently took Maxie's hand, "What's happening…" She nervously sighed with tears slowly becoming present, "Is that I'm going to get in that taxi and you are going to do me the favor of giving this back to Johnny." She placed the ring in her hand before folding it.
"Lulu," Maxie looked up at her nodding her head no.
Lulu smirked at the expression her frenemy was giving her, "Don't look at me like you're not going to be okay if I'm not there," she giggled while softly putting her hands on Maxie's shoulders, "You are going to be perfectly fine."
"Noo I'm not," Maxie admittedly looked at her as if right now she was being hold together by pins and needles.
"Yes, you will be." Lulu smiled, "You will be because Spinelli knows the truth now."
"He does?" Maxie questioned almost in relief, but she needed to hear it for sure.
"Yes and," she bitterly giggled, "he basically hates my guts," Lulu wiped a tear from her eye where Maxie quickly said, "What did you say to him?"
Lulu looked up at her, "Exactly what he needed to hear." Lulu took her hand off Maxie's shoulder to squint her eyes with her fingers.
Maxie sadly looked at her attempting to touch her hand on her hip when Lulu resisted, "No. This is my fault. I will take responsibility."
"Lulu it was my fault too remember?" She looked into her eyes, "That conversation in the car where you drove like a maniac."
"Lulu?!" Johnny ran out.
Lulu and Maxie looked up at him in shock where Lulu looked away from him ignoring his presence.
"Maxie," she took a deep breath, "I know we said we weren't going to be friends."
"Lulu don't leave," Maxie bit her lip while squeezing her hand.
"….You felt like a friend to me, not best friend, but you were a decent friend."
"I know, that's how I feel," Maxie desperately said with a rushed tone, "Look you can stay at my house, we'll go to work together...Everything will be fine."
Lulu giggled nodding no, "That's a nice offer and I appreciate it, but I'd feel I was imposing."
"Imposing, on who?" She looked at her nuts considering Mac was barely even home nowadays.
"On you and Spinelli, and…baby makes three," Lulu giggled where Maxie softly looked at her, "See that's why I need you to stay because what if…"
"Maxie," Lulu put her hand on Maxie's shoulder leaning closer in to her, "Let him come to you and every thing will be okay." Lulu pulled her into a hug where she whispered, "I hope this finally makes up for everything I've ever done to you."
"Lulu," Maxie abruptly leaned away from her with a few tears in her eyes where before she could say they were passed that, Lulu interrupted with her final goodbye.
"You take care of yourself okay? Good luck at Crimson, I'm sure you'll give the new second assistant hell," she giggled, but Maxie crossed her arms, wiped a tear away and said, "Of course I will, not everyone can bring cold coffee and get away with it as you have."
Lulu smirked, "Bye Maxie." She backed away knowing Maxie wasn't ready for the conversation to end as quickly as it did, "Call me if…" She tried to think of something, "Heck I don't know call me if you and Spinelli tie the knot and you need a bridesmaid or best woman or person, or just a witness." Lulu grinned widely as she stopped at the taxi where she softly smiled at the woman she started off on the wrong foot with, but eventually ended up on the right one.
"Miss?" The taxi driver called her name, "You ready?"
Lulu opened the car door, waved to Maxie and then fell into her seat and slammed the door.
"Easy there," the young man eyed her in his rear view mirror.
She looked away from Maxie and Johnny who slowly stopped in front of her and turned to the driver, "Here's how this is going to work." She motioned to a pocket in her black coat, "You are going to drive me to where ever I want to go."
His eyes saw dollar bills and he nervously glanced up at her, "You in some kind of trouble?"
"I'm going to tell you one thing and then you're not going to ask anymore questions, you hear?"
"Yes Ma'am." He grinned sort of liking the fire this gal had in the back seat.
Lulu looked away from him to catch one last glimpse of the man she loved whom she realized was getting the picture when Maxie handed him the ring.
"Go," Lulu uttered looking away from Johnny to the man that was stalling.
"Are you sure?" The man wandered his eyes to Johnny who looked confused, hurt and was now squeezing his hand into a fist.
"LULU!"
She snapped her head at the driver, "Go!"
"Alright!" He rushed.
"Lulu!" She heard him shout before running to the car, "Lulu don't do this!" He put his hand on the window rolled down in the front passenger seat. The car continued moving picking up in movement where Johnny's voice became irrational, panicky and distraught, "No! Lulu!"
He looked at the driver, "Stop the car! Stop the car!"
"Keep driving!" Lulu crossed her arms where she heard Johnny's voice become more petrified that he might really lose her, "Lulu please! I'm sorry! Let's talk!"
She looked away from him as he uttered at last, "I love you! Lulu! That's all that matters! Please!" And then he yelled her name in such a way that she never heard anyone cry for her as much he did.
"Don't stop," she grumpily told him wiping the tears from her cheeks.
"Sounds like that guy really loves you," he looked back at her after a minute of silence. "That's the problem?" He guessed.
"Something like that," she sniffled.
"Here," he tossed her a box of Kleenexes.
"Thanks," she batted her eyes.
"Your welcome," he smiled, "So…" He came to a stop at the traffic light.
"I don't really feel like talking," she honestly, but nicely told him.
"That's okay, do you know where you're going?"
"Canada," it was the first thing on her mind. She could disappear there until she needed to return.
"Okay," he softly smiled her before sticking his hand out, "Rob Sutton." She shook his hand without realizing he wanted her to introduce herself. "And you are?"
"Oh," she became embarrassed, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," he smiled, "Tell me the name that belongs to your beautiful face and what brings you about this great need to departure Port Charles."
She intriguingly grinned at him, "The name is Spencer, Lulu Spencer and today I washed away what I've done."
Author's Note: Okay so the next couple of chapters will be solely on Maxie and Spinelli. Lulu and Johnny will have been written out temporarily. Rob Sutton will be a reoccurring character that definitely has connections in Port Charles. Think back to Luke and Laura days of allies they made along the way in their adventures. Oh and he knows Spinelli. Next chapter: Spinelli has surprise for Maxie as does she. Thanks for reading! Don't forget to review! :)