Our Time Now
No special notes today. Anyway standard disclaimers apply
A few hours had passed as Kenzie rolled over in her bed thinking that the moments of the day before were so surreal to her. Was it finally true that her aunt Georgie reveled herself to be alive and the burden of the secret was finally gone or was it a sick and cruel dream. Sighting she picked up her pink fuzzy bathrobe and headed toward her bathroom but not before hearing the sounds of giggling coming from downstairs. She shook her head and smiled before heading into a nice warm shower which was quite refreshing on the crisp December morning.
Exiting the bathroom a few minutes later and putting on a pair of jeans and a lilac colored sweater she made her way down the stairs to see her mother and father on the couch with Dillon and Georgie, a stack of photo albums on the coffee table.
"And this was our wedding," Maxie said.
"We had to prolong the engagement until after Kenzie was born because Maxie insisted on loosing the baby weight so she could have her perfect dress."
"Not true, I just didn't think you deserved to have a fat bride."
"You know I love you Maximista no matter what size you are," he said kissing her cheek.
Both Dillon and Georgie still found it so surreal to think these former foes were so in love and affectionate to one another.
"Eh hmm," Kenzie said from the bottom of the stairwell.
"Good morning princess," Spinelli said, "Your aunt and uncle brought bagels why don't you grab one and join us."
Kenzie simply smiled at seeing the four adults acting like nothing happened.
"I'll take a pass; let you have some adult time."
Her father nodded as she headed into the kitchen.
"She is so a daddy's girl," Maxie said.
Spinelli nodded. He couldn't deny the fact that the young blonde meant the world to him.
"So," Georgie asked, "what brought you to name her what you did."
"You mean us giving her your middle name," Maxie asked as Georgie nodded.
"Well Robin was almost ready to give birth when I got the news that we were having a baby so we both began to talk names. Robin was debating on naming her daughter Georgie seeing as she was conceived right after your 'funeral'."
Georgie rolled her eyes at that bit of information.
"Anyways she decided instead to name her daughter Madeline, well Maddie for short after Patrick's mother and gave her the middle name Dale because well it was Patrick's first suggestion."
"Dale," Dillon said.
"Dr. Drake loves his NASCAR," Spinelli said causing them to laugh.
"So anyway I decided on Mackenzie you know thinking Mac for short."
"But then I called her Kenzie and it well stuck."
"And the Georgiana was because we felt that you were a guardian angel of sorts."
"Awe well then I'm flattered"
--
While the adults were talking Kenzie laced up her boots and threw on a jacket as she headed outside to take a seat on the swing outside.
"I kind of thought you'd be out here," Marty said holding a cup holder with two cardboard coffee cups, "Hot Chocolate."
"Don't mind if I do."
Taking the cup she patted the seat next to her on the bench to which he sat.
"So," they both said together, "jinx."
They both laughed as Marty let Kenzie talk.
"Man we really are blood us having the same thoughts huh."
"Yea I know scary right."
"Real scary."
"So anyway I wanted to tell you that you were amazing last night, you truly were born to be a star."
"Why thank you...so anyway how was it when you came home last night."
"Nothing out of the ordinary you..."
"I can tell my parents are real shaken up over all of this but they are defiantly at the same time taking it better then I would have expected."
"That's nice."
"Yea it is."
--
"Well," Spinelli said, "Dillon, let's leave our wives to catch up alone."
Dillon nodded leaving the sisters for the first time truly together.
They looked at each other and engaged in a long embrace before pulling back and really looking at each other. The Georgie Maxie looked as exquisite as she remembered with her hair in waves to her shoulders and dressed in a knee length black skirt and white blouse. Meanwhile to Maxie Georgie looked all grown up. She was a bit more toned then she remembered and had a look in her eyes that wasn't all that innocent and naive anymore. She was dressed simplistically in a pair of jeans and a black long sleeved top that accentuated her curves that her body most defiantly grew into.
"I was too in shock last night but wow Georgie you look amazing."
"And you Maxie...well you look the same."
Maxie chuckled at the fact that everyone thought that she still looked 22 even at 40.
"So I was thinking all night Maxie, when should we tell Mac and Robin about well..."
"The fact that you're not dead."
"Um yea."
"I really couldn't say..."
"Well are they coming here for Christmas, are you going to them..."
"I told Johnny and Lulu that..."
"Wait Lulu and in Spencer..."
"Well Zacchara now..."
"Well still...the two of you...friends."
"It's allot can change in eighteen years Georgie."
She shook her head still grasping on the mere idea of Lulu as Maxie's friend.
"Anyway I told them we'd consider heading up for Christmas because we didn't come for Thanksgiving but now I think the plan is to stay here."
Georgie nodded.
"But you defiantly need to tell Robin so you can be part of the wedding."
"Wedding, so her teenage daughter is getting married."
"God no...It's Robin."
"So her and Patrick..."
"Yep, finally making it official."
"Finally, I thought they..."
"Nope..."
"Well then..."
--
As the sisters continued to talk things were happening back in Port Charles as well as Landon Zacchara was sitting in Maddie's room.
"So you think this plan of yours is going to work Landon."
"It has to, it simply has to. I mean it's already the eighteenth and my parents still haven't heard that her family is coming home for the holidays."
"So you're going to lie and scheme your way to Oakfield."
"I have to, I mean I love her and I just can't tell her on the phone or via e-mail."
"What about video chat."
"While that is face to face it's still not the same."
"So you're going to..."
"I'm going to leave a note to my parents, tell them I'm meeting Spencer at some ski resort for the Holiday and then sneak out to take the red eye to Oakfield tonight."
"Tonight."
"Why not tonight, that way I can surprise Kenz backstage tomorrow at her musical."
"Awe how sweet."
Landon grinned his pearly white smile at Maddie as he ran his hands through his mob of jet black hair when the phone rang.
Maddie didn't know if her parents were home or at the hospital so she picked it up seeing that the caller ID said SPINELLI.
"Hello," Maddie said.
"H-hello," a female voice said nervously from the other end, "is this the Drake residence."
"Well Scorpio-Drake residence but who is this was there an accident or something...is everything alright."
Georgie bit her lip cursing caller ID.
"You must be Maddie right."
"Riiiiiiight and you are..."
Not answering she simply said.
"Is your mom home?"
"I'm not sure."
Landon looked at her as she started to roll her eyes.
"Who is it," he whispered.
"I have no clue," she replied taking the cordless phone and heading down stairs. In spotting Robin the young girl motioned her to pick up the phone.
"Hello," Robin said.
"Hello Robin," Georgie replied.
"G-Georgie."
"Surprise."
--
The teens came inside the house shivering despite the fact that they had just had a hot drink and looked over at where Georgie was on the phone.
"She's calling Robin," Maxie explained.
The teens nodded knowing what was going on as they headed towards Kenzie's bedroom to hang out for a bit before they needed to head back to school for the performance later that evening however before they got too far Georgie hung up and wiped a tear from her eye.
"A tear of joy I hope," Maxie said.
Georgie nodded.
"I think Robin was in as much shock as you and Spinelli were, I'm surprised that she didn't pass out like you."
Maxie just slugged her sister and was reminded of countless times she did that in the past.
"She said to not call to tell Mac but to write him a long letter, that maybe it would ease the shock."
"I think either way Mac is so going to have kittens when he finds out your alive; I mean you wouldn't believe how overprotective he was on me after you died."
"Any yet I'm sure you did whatever the hell you wanted to anyways."
"If I did everything Mac wanted Kenzie would have been put up for adoption and Spinelli would probably of gotten killed in some mob altercation rather then get a teaching degree and become his own man."
Georgie just chuckled and looked over at her beautiful niece.
"Maxie do you mind if Kenzie and I have a moment."
Maxie nodded making an excuse for her and Marty to leave the room.
"I'm sorry," Georgie simply said.
"It's alright; I know you had your reasons for staying away."
"It's not just about all that, I'm sorry I was snippy to you back when we first met."
"It's fine, I get that you were freaked, I mean if I met someone who looked like my sister and had the same last name as an old friend I'd be freaked as well."
Georgie smiled and looked at the young woman who physically was a perfect blend of both her mother and father's outer appearance.
"I bet you have the best qualities of both of them in you."
"That I do, my dad once told me that one day a long time before they got together my mother snarked to him about putting his brain in her body. He said that was exactly what god did when he made me."
Georgie couldn't help but chuckle a bit at that comment which was so typically Spinelli.
"Anyways I know I owe you countless Christmas and Birthday presents and everything but..."
"But nothing, just being back in my parents lives is the only present I need, well except this Christmas I totally want to collect."
"And have you been good or bad."
"In a grey area to be honest but that's beside the point."
"Well then what do you want."
"You know, I really haven't thought of that much."
"Well think about it and get back to me."
"Will do," she said as her mother and cousin re-entered the room with a silver tea tray causing Georgie and Kenzie to smile.
--
Landon had long left but not before giving Maddie a hug and wishing her a Merry Christmas as Robin sat in the living room still in shock as Patrick and Maddie entered the room.
"Robin sweetie what's wrong," Patrick said.
"Georgie," was all Robin could mutter.
He put his hand around his fiancé's shoulder to comfort her.
"I know, it's been eighteen years from last night, do you want to go to her grave and put flowers on it."
Robin shook her head.
"What's the point?"
"What do you mean what's the point."
"I mean what's the point on putting flowers on her grave when she is alive."
"Oh my god," Maddie said as Patrick looked at his daughter wondering what he was missing out on, "mom was that who."
"Called earlier, yes Maddie it was."
Although Maddie knew from Kenzie and Marty all about Georgie's existence the idea that she had actually spoken to the allegedly dead woman and the notion that she called at all was mind boggling.
"Wait a minute," Patrick said, "Georgie called the house."
"Well I was upstairs and the phone rang," Maddie explained, "the ID said SPINELLI so I didn't think anything of it. But then the woman didn't sound like Kenzie or Maxie and she was all weird in asking to speak to mom..."
"And it was Georgie," Robin took a deep breath, "apparently she was never really dead and she is a retired spy living in Oakfield."
"Small world," Patrick.
The two women agreed and continued to talk about the matter.
--
Some more time had passed and Kenzie and Marty stood in the living room with their things for the show.
"So," Spinelli said, "do you want me to drive you?"
"Its fine dad," she said heading to where he sat on a recliner and leaned over to kiss his cheek.
"Break a leg and knock them dead."
She nodded and waved goodbye to the rest of her family while the four adults went back to reminiscing about old times and the past eighteen years like they had been doing the entire day already.
--
Back in Port Charles Landon was relieved that his parents trusted him to be home alone. Both his parents were busy at the Hotel which was insane as it was getting close to the Holidays and tons of businesses were booking out the ballroom for parties. His mother was doing her usual job there while her father was filling in as pianist in the lounge. He couldn't have planed it better if he tried as he pulled out a pad of paper and a pen.
Dear Mom and Dad...
He folded the note and stuck it to the refrigerator before pulling out his duffle bag and throwing it over one shoulder while checking his pocket for his tickets.
"Here goes nothing," he said as he locked the door to the house making his way to the cab.
"Where to," the Driver said.
"The Airport," Landon replied.
--
TBC
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