Chapter 35 – The Escape and the Chase

"Do we even have a plan?" Lucky asked Nikolas suddenly when they were half way to Greece. They had been flying in silence up into this point.

"I plan on getting my wife back."

"Yes, of course but do you actually think after all the trouble they went through to take here they're just going to give her up?"

"Lucky I don't know okay, I can't think right now because if I do I'll think about the very strong possibility that Emily might not be alive by the time we get there."

(Somewhere in the tunnels of The Cassadine Home in Greece)

"Okay, stop I can't walk anymore," Emily said pulling her arm from Connors grip.

"I guess we can take a break, but we won't be safe until were out of her okay."

"I need to catch my breath okay."

"Sorry okay, I realize this is probably difficult for you with the baby in all. Have you thought of a name yet?"

"Wow that was a rather abrupt change of topic."

"I'm trying to keep your mind off things."

"I haven't really picked a name out. Nikolas and never got around it we were still negotiating the baby's room. We each decorated one."

"Let me guess his was a lot of black's and browns and stuff."

"No! Despite what you may think about him and how he was raised, Nikolas wants different things for this child."

"You really love him don't you?" Connor said with disbelief in this voice.

"Yes of course I do what would make you think otherwise."

"I don't, its just you are sitting here in a dark tunnel almost 8 and half months pregnant, far away from home with a complete stranger. All because your husbands' family is insane, call me crazy but I would be reconsidering my choice of spouses right now."

"I love Nikolas no matter what, he is nothing like his family, he actually has a heart."

"Not all Cassadine's are heartless," Connor mumbled.

"What?"

"It's nothing."

"You and Nikolas are practically identical but you can't be….."

"Why can't we?"

"That would mean Laura gave birth to twins."

"That's what it says on my original birth certificate."

"This is just too weird."

"I was eighteen when I found out my whole life was a lie. That I wasn't good enough to –" Connor broke off suddenly and stood up. "Come on lets get going."

"What, what were you going to say?"

"It doesn't matter right now."

"But it seemed like –"

"Would you just shut up please, I don't want to talk about it!" Connor snapped in a hard and angry voice. He turned and began walking, Emily began to follow, she looked behind her to the darkness from which they began there journey, and then back to Connor's slowly disappearing form, Emily then began to wonder which was the lesser of two evils.

"God that place is gigantic," Lucky said. "We are never going to find Emily in there without help, is Stefan still mad at you? Maybe he'll lend a hand."

"Stefan is in Russia now, I doubt if he know what's going on here or if he cares."

"Who do you think is helping Helena?"

"What did I tell you about the thinking Lucky."

"Oh, alright sorry."

"Come on lets go in."

This place looks deserted, what if they were never keeping Em here at all" Lucky thought out loud.

Nikolas chose to ignore him and said instead "Come on this is the way to my chambers maybe they kept her there."

Nikolas and lucky searched room to room, and came up empty, until finally Lucky got lucky. "Nikolas over here, someone was living in this room recently. And look prenatal vitamins this must be were they kept Em."

"But where is she now?"

"I'd like to know the same thing actually"

Lucky and Nikolas spun around to see a man standing there staring at them.

"Who are you," Nikolas asked.

"My name is Lucian Bishop. I am the one responsible for kidnapping your wife" he said boldly.

"Now why would you confess to a thing like that and except me not to retaliate?"

"Because, if you want to get her back safe you are going to need my cooperation."

"You set a hotel on fire, killed and injured a lot of people just to kidnap Emily and now you are going to help me get her back, unlikely."

"I had my reasons for doing those things my priorities have changed now; I do not know why I ever wanted to be accepted into this family in the first place."

"Where is Emily now?"

"She's not anywhere close, but I think she might still be in the castle."

"Where is my grandmother? Your priorities might have changed but I'm sure hers have not."

"No, she actually planned on the baby being delivered tonight, but her plans hit a road block and she already departed, likely to go re-coop and come up with a better plan for the next kidnap attempt."

"And what was the road block in her plans." Lucky asked

"My son."

"Connor?"

"Yes your brother, if you haven't already guessed. There isn't enough time to explain now about the Cassadine family tree though, we have to find them before something goes wrong."

"What do you think will happen?"

"Connor has been on all sorts of medication since he was a kid for different health problems; he had to stop taking some of them when he was pretending to be you. And that caused some side effects….."

"I'm afraid to ask but what kind of side effects?" Nikolas asked getting an uneasy feeling about Emily's safety again.

"Mood swings, most definitely, I've already been on the wrong side of those. He is over protective by nature especially of people he cares about or…loves…."

"What has that got to do with Emily, he doesn't love her." Lucky said "Does he?"

"I have noticed that he's liked the plan to get rid of her less and less and recently when we were talking he referred to Emily as his wife. It could have been a mistake, maybe he just got to into character."

"Well if he loves her he won't hurt her right?" Lucky said.

"If she refuses to cooperate with him he might, right now he wants to get her away from all things Cassadine especially you Nikolas."

"Why are we still standing around here talking then," Nikolas said suddenly. "We need to find them before they get far off." Nikolas turned so he was staring directly at Lucian. "Because if Connor Bishop hurts Emily or my baby, brother or not I will kill him."

"Where are you taking me?" Emily asked for what seemed like the hundredth time, they had finally made it out of the tunnels and outside where the was a car that was placed a little too perfectly for Emily's taste. 'How long had Connor been planning this escape?" Emily thought to herself.

"We are going to stop at a cottage owned by the Cassadine's. We will get everything we need for traveling there."

"For traveling?"

"Yeah to Port Charles you want to go home to your husband still don't you?"

"Yes," Emily said relieved, maybe she had been worried for nothing.

When they arrived at the cottage however, her relief was again taken away.

"I'll be quick you stay in the car."

"But I have to go to the bathroom."

"Well can't you hold it?"

"I thought we weren't going to be making anymore stops for awhile and if I don't go now I don't know when I'll go next."

"Well wait here and let me make sure its safe okay." Connor waited for Emily's answer, she gave him a strange look but said okay. He rushed into the house and turned on a lamp in the room. He started taking down pictures of himself and Mary, Emily didn't need to know that this was his house. He grabbed the things he had previously for himself Emily and the baby, and was about to get Emily from the car when a voice called out behind him.

"Connor is that you?"