Chapter 39: A Secret Among Friends?
Sonny's House:
"Well, where is the evil bitch?" Sonny demanded.
"She is at a small airport right outside of Stockholm," Spinelli stammered.
"What the hell is she doing in Sweden?" Sonny demanded. "I have a safe house in Norway that is close to a hospital. She must be checking that house out first."
"She should be in the air in a few minutes. It will be too late to mobilize the protectors of the night to get her," Spinelli added sadly. "It will be best to wait to see if she falls for the bait for the house in California?"
"I'll make sure that my men will be waiting for her once she arrives."
Sonny's Island:
Later on that day, Johnny took Lulu for a walk on the beach. He had to get out of the house. He held her hand as they walked barefoot along the surf.
"Are you ever going to tell me what is wrong or am I supposed to guess?" Lulu asked.
Johnny gripped her hand harder. "It's under control, Lulu. That is all that you need to know."
Lulu wrestled her hand free. She stopped, facing him as she spoke. "'Under control'?" she repeated. "What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is Helena closing in our location? Is that why you are so jumpy? Is that why you are on that phone? Talking with Sonny to see how to evacuate me and the babies off the island safely?" her voice began to rise. "Where am I going to be taken this time?"
"Lulu you need to calm down. Stress isn't good for the babies." Johnny tried to reach out to her.
She backed away from him. "Tell me," she demanded. "I have noticed that there I are more guards around. I noticed that there are a lot of fishing boats suddenly off the coast of the island. What are you so afraid of? Is Helena going to hire former Frogmen to kidnap me again?"
"You have an overactive imagination," Johnny replied.
"Then why all of a sudden has Sonny increased the security here?" Lulu demanded. "I notice things, I am not stupid!"
"I never said you were," Johnny muttered.
"Then answer my question. Why has Sonny increased the security here? Has Helena done something that I should know about?"
Johnny had to think fast, coming up for a plausible reason why Sonny upped the security. "We just want to have our bases covered. You are getting farther and farther along in your pregnancy. Helena is becoming very desperate, she is going to try everything and the kitchen sink to get you and the babies back. It is just a precaution, which it is all it is; Sonny just wants you to be safe. This is his way to do it."
Lulu crossed her arms over her chest. She didn't believe him at all. "Something else must be going on. Why you won't you just tell me the truth? What the hell is really going on?"
Johnny opened his mouth but nothing came out. Lulu turned her back on him. "That is what I thought," she said bitterly.
She started back to the house.
Johnny had to run to catch up with her. Who knew that she could move so fast?
"Lulu!" He caught her by the elbow, causing her to stop. "Come on, stop be so unreasonable."
"Unreasonable?" she repeated, trying to free her arm. "You are not being straight with me again and you have the audacity to tell me that I am being unreasonable?"
She did have a point. He had to admit it. How was he supposed to tell her that the guy that hurt her while she was captive was the bodyguard that Sonny hired to keep her safe? Lulu would have to wonder about Sonny's screening abilities to hire new guys.
"There are some things that you are better off not knowing."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean? Do you have some knowledge that the world is going to come to the end December 21, 2012 like the Mayans predicted?"
Johnny shook his head. "No."
"Then it can't be that bad!" Lulu cried. "Just tell me the-"
She stopped midsentence. Her hand covered her stomach, her face grimaced in pain. "Owwww."
Her knees buckled, Johnny caught her before she sank into the sand. "What's wrong?"
The pain grew worse. Lulu mumbled something that Johnny could not understand. He picked her up and ran back to the house.
Sonny's House:
"The people on the ground said that no one entered or exited the plane. It was strictly refueling," Max announced as he got off the phone.
"Make sure that house in California looks like Lulu been there for awhile," Sonny ordered.
"On it, Boss" Max stated as he left the room to take care of the things that Sonny told him.
Sonny wanted to be at the house when Helena showed up. He wanted to be the one who put the hurt on the evil Mrs. Cassadine for all her past and current crimes.
Sonny's Island:
Johnny paced in the hallway outside of Lulu's room while Matt examined her. It turned out that it was a good thing for Matt to be here. Johnny wouldn't have the foggiest idea on what to do. It only been ten minutes but it felt like hours to him. He didn't like not being in control of things. He didn't like being out of the loop. Lulu was practically doubled over in pain. As soon as they arrived back into the house he shouted for Matt. For once Johnny was actually relieved that Matt was on the island with them.
Finally, the doors opened, a very tired Matt exited.
"How is she?" Johnny demanded. "Is she going to be okay? Do we have to call Sonny and move her to the mainland?"
"I gave her some medicine; the cramping stopped. The babies are fine. She is resting comfortably," Matt said softly.
"But she was in so much pain," Johnny reasoned, wishing it was him that went through the pain and not Lulu.
"Stress isn't good for a pregnancy." Matt crossed his arms over his chest. "She seemed very upset. She wouldn't tell me why. Care to elaborate?"
"Uh," Johnny dropped his voice it was barely above a whisper. He might as well tell the truth to him. "You know the guard that Sonny had hired to protect Lulu, right after she was released from GH?"
Matt nodded. "Yeah, I remember Tyler, why?"
"It turns out that Tyler was Drew the guy that Helena hired while Lulu was held captive. He wore a mask at all times that is why Lulu never recognized him. He hardly spent any time with her at all alone-"
"Someone was always with her, you, Spinelli, me…." Matt trailed off. "That day that you threw me across the room, he wasn't happy when I arrived at the penthouse. Now I know why. He was planning to do something to her."
"Spinelli would have been easy to subdue," Johnny admitted. "But with you there, too would be hard, three against one."
"You're welcome by the way," Matt muttered. "Damn, what are you going to tell her?"
"She knew that I didn't trust Tyler with her. She thought it was just jealousy talking-"
"Was it jealousy?"
"What do you think?" Johnny demanded.
Matt grinned. "Dude, you would have beaten my face in if I gave Lulu the wrong look."
"All that aside, do you think I should tell her?"
"Speaking as Lulu's friend, yes, she needs to be told the truth."
Johnny took notice on how Matt phrased his statement. "But as her doctor?"
Matt shook his head. "As Lulu's doctor, no she should not be told until the babies are born. She does not need the added stress to an already stressful pregnancy."
Johnny breathed out a sigh of relief. He was glad that Matt's opinion that it was in Lulu's best interest that she did not know the truth about Tyler yet.
Johnny extended his hand. "Thanks man."
Matt shook it. "I'm not doing it for you, let's get that straight. I'm doing it for Lulu. It is for my patient's best interest that she doesn't know…yet."
"I will tell her, I promise. It is not the right time," Johnny said.
Somewhere in the World:
Helena was looking at old surveillance photographs of Lulu that one of her henchmen had taken the weeks leading up to her abduction. In the photographs, Lulu had no idea that she was being followed she went about her daily life as if nothing else was going on.
In front of her was also a copy of Lulu's medical report from the moment she became her prisoner to the day the she had left. Lulu was in peak physical condition for a pregnant woman.
"I must get my heir before it is born!" she said aloud.
"And you will, trust me." Faison took a seat on the sofa across from her. "This latest lead is promising. They can't keep moving her forever; soon it will be too dangerous to have her fly around the world. They would need to find a place and stay put until the baby is born."
Helena nodded in agreement. "That is true. I would like her back in my clutches before then."
"You are going to get Lulu back," Faison repeated. "You will get your heir."
"As soon as we touchdown in California, I want the upmost care taken to get her back, you tell the men that. She must not be harmed at all. I have come too far to let anything happen to Lesley Lu."