Chapter 36: The dreams
Author's Note:
Last chapter was pretty exciting here's the part 2 of it. This chapter is a little weird, we're going to be looking into the characters mind and past life and how they're life should have been. Lucky, Ric and Alcazar will discover things about there life that they never really thought about before which is going to change them, for the good? For the bad? Can't say either way, please review me on this chapter I want to know what you all think of this kind of writing.
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As Lucky Spencer lied in the burning helicopter so did the dead pilot and the camera man. Ric Lansing and Lorenzo Alcazar had crashed there car onto the side of the road where the helicopter crashed into them. They were all still alive and would make it to the hospital, but as they're family waited for them to be brought in and as the police and fire fighters made there way to the accident the men dreamed of how they're life should have been and where they had gone wrong that led them to this very exact moment.
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Ric opened his eyes to find himself behind the wheel of a car crashed on the side of the road and next to a man that he had developed an alliance with. He checked his head and saw blood on his hand, but that was the least of his worries. Noticing the smoke and the fire coming from the engine he opened his door and slowly tried to walk around the vehicle to where Alcazar was and get him out of the car. Unfortunately Ric was in a state of shock and didn't take more than five steps before collapsing to the ground.
Ric's mind had gone into shock. It was trying to understand what was going on around him, but for some reason was not able to focus on that. Instead his mind was playing a fairytale. A tale of how Ric wanted his life to be and how close he came to having it all.
Ric envisioned himself 4 years ago when he came to town only this was his dream not the reality.
"You're my brother?" Sonny asked sitting in his chair at his office.
"Yes if you don't believe me I have papers I have everything." Ric tried to convince.
"No I believe you, I knew I had a brother I just didn't picture him to be you. So what now? Just because we're biologically related doesn't mean anything." Sonny honestly said to him giving him the cold shoulder.
"I want us to work together. I want to be a part of the business. I'll make you an offer you can't refuse." Ric said.
Lying on the ground in the road he tossed and turned fast forwarding his dream.
"Congratulations brother! You've finally proved to me that you're capable of working in the business!" Sonny said to him as Ric sat in a hospital bed realizing that taking a bullet for his brother would show him just how much he cared to be in business.
Looking over his shoulder there was a brunette looking at his medical charts. His eyes scrolled over to her name tag and it read Elizabeth Webber.
He smiled at her and she at first thought nothing of him for she knew who Sonny was and never wanted to get involved with the mob, but after their eyes locked on each other Elizabeth couldn't get the man out her life especially when he refused to take no for an answer every time she rejected his offer to date him.
Before he knew it Ric was at his wedding and then smiling at the beautiful nurse when she gave birth to there first child, a son in which he would run the business in the future. He honestly couldn't have pictured himself a more perfect life. He had a thriving business which made him a lot of money and gave him a relationship with his brother. He had married one of the most beautiful women in Port Charles and had a son to inherit the business.
Dreams are wonderful when you can write out the mistakes and Ric Lansing almost had his perfect dream until he had been accused of a rapist, a kidnapper and a murderer.
Ric Lansing's troubles started with his brother or so he says. The real heartbreak of his story is that his mother gave him up, chose Sonny over him and for as long as Ric lived he's never been able to get over that. Perhaps if had not raped his brother's wife, kidnapped her and then drugged his wife who happened to be the nurse in his dream and then let her get pregnant instead of kidnapping his brother's son to pass on as his own than maybe all his wishes could have become a reality, but no. No, in the case of Ric Lansing his revenge, his hate and his jealousy for his brother poisoned his life killing every good thing in its path.
While dreaming Ric had made the assumption which he made many times before that Sonny was the root of all his problems, all his mistakes, and all the reasons why he never had the perfect relationship with his brother, the wife and the children. Instead all he had was a brother who hated him, two ex wives who can't stand the site of him and then one child who would probably grow up to hate him when she would discover how he took her away from her mother while she had cancer.
It's amazing how life can change so quickly, how one mistake, one bad decision can decide where your life is going. These were the things Ric told himself while unconscious. Unfortunately for Ric he wouldn't use this once a upon a time dream of his to change his life and make things right. He instead would continue to get his revenge only he would approach it in an entirely different way to an entirely different person. Good thing for him he had already put this plan into motion; he was just waiting for the clock to whine down.
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Lorenzo Alcazar woke up to notice the Ric was not in the driver's seat. He looked around and found his gun in front of his feet. He slowly reached down for it and then looked around to see where Ric might have gone to. It didn't look like he had gone through the windshield, but the car door was open. He opened his door and swore to himself that if he didn't see Ric anywhere that if it had looked like Ric had betrayed him that he would break the alliance. Walking around the car he saw Ric lying unconscious on the ground, but his biggest priority wasn't to help him it was to put a bullet through the head of the cop that had given him this trouble in the first place.
He looked yonder and saw the helicopter in multiple pieces. He saw smoke and fire coming from the pieces. As he walked by he saw the pilot and the cameraman dead on the ground and then he heard coughing.
He turned around listening for a body to come up from the debris, but saw nothing.
As he got closer to the engine of the helicopter he didn't hear the gasoline leaking from the front part of the aircraft. Drop, drop, drop was the sound Alcazar heard at the last minute just before the fire raced to the gasoline. Before he even had a chance to react the debris exploded sending Alcazar back 10 feet. He hit his head hard against the road and his mind begun to go through the same thing Ric's had.
To be honest Alcazar had already been living his dream. The only thing he told himself while unconscious that he would have changed was that he would have never let his son get involved in his business.
"Dad why can't I be in the business!" Diego lashed out at him.
"Because it's too dangerous! I won't lose my son like I lost my brother!" Lorenzo ordered.
"It's not fair to you. Don't you want a life with Skye and the baby you two created? Let me take over the business or at least just have a chance. Then if I find out I have a knack for it I can take it from you and you'll be free to have your legitimate life with them." He tried to explain to his father who was looking out a window.
"Son? You know that girl you like? Georgie is that her name? If you get involved in the business you'll never be able to see her because you know that it will put her in danger." He said honestly to her.
Diego walked up to his father putting his hand on his father's shoulder, "I know but I would be able to protect her because I would show Sonny and Jason and whoever else that I'm boss. They would know not to mess with me. I'd teach them a lesson they'd never forget." He tried to say all tough and brave.
Lorenzo turned around to him, "maybe when you older, but not right now."
He saw the hurt look on Diego's face and saw him march up the stairs to his room.
The funny thing is that while Alcazar was writing his dream as he watched it he realized that Diego would have done anything he could to get into the business. That because he was so arrogant and ignorant that it made his son not understand the business that it was his failure to listen that killed him. As his dream played like an old black and white movie he saw where his son died the same way, that when he told him no, that his son still didn't listen. This was a very important realization for Alcazar for the first time he realized that there was no need to get revenge on Jason as it was not his fault that his son died, it was really Angela's. As for Sonny well he still needed to be dealt with for he had been taking advantage of his sickness and steeling his business right from under him. As for everything else his life was pretty good. He loved Lila Rae and loved Skye and all he really wanted to do was marry the woman and if he could do that, if he could marry her and raise his daughter and never have to worry about their safety than he would be content. The only problem was that he was approaching this the wrong way; for violence never solves anything and Alcazar heavily believed like Ric that if he got rid of Sonny his troubles would go away.
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Lucky didn't know where he was at. Unconscious, he could feel the heat of the fire and as smoke filled his lungs his body was sending messages to his brain to cough. When he started coughing it woke him up. He slowly looked back and forth left and right and saw fire all around him. He covered his face with his arm and tried to get up. He walked out of the airplane like a zombie walks out of his grave for the first time. He had no balance and as smoke was everywhere he saw Cruz shouting his name. In an instant Lucky felt like a ton of bricks had his head as he became light headed and collapsed to the ground.
Cruz ran to him, "Get me a paramedic!" he shouted looking at the police and ambulances and then back at Lucky.
Cruz then checked for a pulse which was very steady but he tried to get Lucky conscious.
"Lucky! Wake up man! Help is on the way! You're not gonna die!"
"You HEAR ME!" grabbing hold to Lucky's collar.
"Not on my watch! You have too much to lose!" Cruz said to him.
Lucky turned his head over signaling to Cruz that he had fell unconscious and Cruz feared that Lucky might be really hurt, "GET ME A GOD DAMN PARAMEDIC!"
Lucky was conscious enough to here Cruz say that he had too much to lose, but did he really? Lucky felt like he had already lost everything in his life what else could he lose if he didn't have anything in the first place?
Lying there dreaming his own life and how things could have been different he realized that he would have gone back up to seven years ago. He would have made sure he survived the fire or at least would have made sure to have never been kidnapped by Helena. Although his life with Elizabeth up until last year had been wonderful for they had just gotten married he'd realized that if he had never been thought to have been dead seven years ago than Elizabeth would have never become friends with Jason Morgan. Jason had been the root of all his problems or at least most of them. If it wasn't for Jason Elizabeth wouldn't have broken up with Lucky in the first place when he had lied to Elizabeth about how Jason had attacked him when really he had attacked Jason. It took Lucky nearly 5 years to gain her trust back and when they had finally married it was once again Jason who would put into motion events that would lead to Lucky and Elizabeth to break up again. He led him to get injured on the job by an enemy of Jason's that had kidnapped Elizabeth. This in turn led Lucky to his addiction of pills, to his adultery and to Lucky losing everything he had worked so hard for.
Frankly Lucky didn't care right now if he lived or died. He preferred to die for it made life on him easier. He wouldn't have to face Elizabeth and Jason and wouldn't have to deal with the constant pain of failure in his life. Even though his career was better and was expecting another promotion from the mayor he still wouldn't be able to forget that his career was the only thing going for him. He had no wife, no children that were his own and friends who didn't think he was strong enough to resist pills. Some great life he had. He prayed to god that if he was going to live through this that there had to be a reason for it. That something good was going to have to come out of it and that's exactly what would happen. All Lucky needed to do was be patient and everything else would fall into place.
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Detective Rodriguez rode out with the cops hoping that his partner was still alive. When they arrived to the accident he stepped out of the car before it had even stopped and started shouting Lucky's name. He never realized how bad the situation really was until he saw it for himself. There was debris everywhere and black smoke consumed the place making it hard to see and breathe. The heat from the fire was causing mini explosions left and right making Cruz dodge them like bullets. As he walked closer to the scene he saw firefighters and policemen and news reporters all over the place. He felt like he was in slow motion for fear in his body had taken over him. His legs weren't communicating with his brain when he tried to run faster as he looked for his partner.
"Lucky!" He screamed looking around for a body.
As he looked he saw Alcazar and Ric by the car he ran to there bodies and saw that they were still alive, "I need a paramedic! And get me the swat team!"
Almost immediately the paramedics came out to them and took Ric and Alcazar on stretcher with at least one swat member in each ambulance.
Once Cruz knew that they were taken care of he looked around for Lucky.
"Lucky!" he shouted again as he ran past small debris from the helicopter.
Lucky had been the man's partner for a year and they were already best friends. He had helped the poor man through every rough situation he had landed himself in. He tried to help him get over the pills and he helped him stay off his addiction when he got back from rehab. Not to mention he had helped him with Elizabeth and getting the rights to see Cameron again. The two guys were close and Cruz didn't want to know what it felt like to lose a partner which was what made him determined to continue looking.
While looking around he found the other two dead bodies of the pilot and cameraman but still no sign of Lucky. Cruz was beginning to feel sick as time begun to run out. By now they had policemen searching the whole place and there was just one place they had yet to look in for the entire half of the helicopter had been in flames.
As he was approaching the area news reporters ambushed him, "Can you tell us what you know right now? Have you found cop and how many are dead?"
Ignoring the reporters he ferociously looked around nervously looking for Lucky.
"I don't know…" Cruz said trying to figure out what to do.
"Get the fire fighters over here!" He said to them motioning for them to get near the helicopter.
"Can you tell us what caused the helicopter to explode?" Asked one reporter.
Cruz looked at them, "no."
"What about Lorenzo Alcazar have you found him?" Another reporter asked.
The questions flew at him like bullets fly at him on a regular basis, but Cruz was to much in shock to deal with them and the anger powered over him.
"I DON"T KNOW ANYTHING MORE THAN YOU KNOW! NOW IF YOU WILL BACK OFF I'M TRYING TO FIND MY PARTNER." He shouted at them.
As he looked at the five reporters in front of him he saw movement from the helicopter that had been in flames. He pushed them away and saw Lucky getting up from the rubble.
As he ran to him his heart broke at just how bad his friend looked.
Lucky murmured some words, "Cruz…we have to…" then lucky collapsed to the ground and Cruz went hysterical.
"Lucky! Get me a paramedic! We found him!" Cruz shouted.
Like typical news reporters they didn't give them privacy instead they reported what they saw.
One reporter said, "As you can see famous cop Lucky Spencer has been found…"
Another said, "You saw it first the reunion of Port Charles finest cops. Lucky Spencer has been found and is receiving medical treatment as we speak."
Cruz tried to talk to the cop, to tell him words of inspiration to live, "Lucky! Wake up man! Help is on the way! You're not gonna die! Not on my watch you have too much to lose!"
The paramedic came over to him they put him on a stretcher and put him into an ambulance. Lucky had cuts all over his face from the metal and if it wasn't for the helmet Lucky would have had a severe head concussion. The good thing was that he had no broken bones. His legs had some second degree burns on and his arms had been covering up his face which prevented his face from getting burned badly.
"Umm…What happened?" Lucky asked as he regained consciousness.
"The helicopter exploded." Cruz said.
"I can get up, I'm not in that much pain." Lucky said as he tried to move.
"No I think you should just sit here and wait for a paramedic." Cruz advised.
A paramedic came rushing over, "Hang on a sec before you start moving around."
"Open your eyes." He said as he took the flashlight and flashed it in his eyes. The paramedic then checked his pulse and neck to see if he had hurt his back.
"How does this feel?" He asked.
"DO you feel any pain?" He continued.
"No nothing…" Lucky said.
"Ok I think is safe for you to stand up, are you sure you don't want to sit on the stretcher?" he asked.
"No its ok." Lucky said.
Cruz and the paramedic slowly raised him up and Cruz helped him over to the ambulance.
"It's gonna be ok man. They're going to take care of you." Cruz said as he jumped into the ambulance with him.
Staring at the television in the hospital Lucky's family watched… in horror as Lucky collapsed to the ground looking like a burnt piece of toast. What scared them the most was how burned he was and his face. His face was black from the smoke and had red drops of blood on him from the cuts of the metal and fire.
Lulu had her brothers arm around her and Emily had hers husbands arm around her. All three of them Lulu, Nicholas and Emily stood there waiting for more news on his condition.
"Ok the police have arrived on the seen. I'm being told that there are two identified dead bodies which are the pilot and the cameraman and three have been sent to the hospital. I know I reported minutes ago that Lucky Spencer had not been found but as you just saw on here his partner Detective Rodriguez found him and they are on they're way to the hospital as I speak. We'll be right back after these messages…." The news reporter said as the station went to a commercial.
Lulu paced around the floor, "that's a good sign right? I mean at least we know he's not dead. Maybe its not as bad as it looked on TV."
Nicholas looked at Lulu who was making everyone nervous, "Lulu just please sit down."
"I can't and how can you be so calm right now!" Lulu said freaking out.
Jason slipped away from Elizabeth and walked over to lulu, "Lulu you just need to calm down right now. All this yelling is not doing anyone any good."
"Why the hell are you here? You're not really a friend of Lucky's?" Lulu angrily asked.
Jason turned around to Elizabeth and looked at Nicholas afterwards wondering what to do, "I'm here for Elizabeth and Emily."
Before Lulu could get the chance to comprehend what he was saying the elevator doors opened and everyone jumped to see if it was Lucky, but it was Milo.
Milo walked through the elevator doors and saw a very scared Lulu looking at him, "Milo!"
He ran to her and hugged her, "I heard on the news I'm so sorry."
Elizabeth leaned her head on Jason's shoulder when he walked back to her. A part of her was scared, she had known the man since she was 15 and knew that she would always love and care for him and the fact that she didn't know if he was alive or not had made her question if she was still in love with Lucky. She knew it was possible for her to be in love with Jason and Lucky, but this was the first time in months where she begun to feel for the man that had hurt her once before.
"He looked so bad." Lulu said as she pulled back from the hug.
"Lucky's strong he's going to make it." Milo said supporting her.
As Milo sat down with Lulu keeping her calm Jason walked up to the nurse's station asking if Ric and alcazar had been brought in.
"No they're on there way." Epiphany said.
"Thank you." He walked back over to Elizabeth and sat with her.
"Jason if you need to go call Sonny, you can." Elizabeth said knowing that he needed to take care of business and she was becoming a distraction.
"Its ok, Sonny and I talked before and things have gone according to plan. The police can handle Alcazar for right now. I want to be here with you." Jason said sweetly to her.
Elizabeth felt bad that he was here for this should have been his day, for it was his father's funeral and he should need her not the other way around.
"But Jason this is your day, where I'm here for you not the other way around." She kindly said as she turned to him.
"And you were, you were here for me this morning and now I'm going to be here for you." Jason said sincerely.
"Why are you so good to me?" She asked wondering what she had done to really deserve his kindness.
"You know why, I don't have to keep telling you." He said as he grabbed her hand and kissed it.
Milo saw at the corner of his Elizabeth and Jason in a close moment and knew that if Lulu saw them that she would become even more suspicious of them. As he heard Elizabeth quietly laughing as Jason was teasing her Lulu slightly tried to turn her head toward them but Milo quickly put his hand on her face bringing her head back to his.
"Everything's going to be ok…" He quietly said to her as she kissed him.
The phone rang at the nurse's station and Epiphany answered it, "Hello? They're coming in now? OK I'll alert the doctors."
She hung up and then made an announcement over the hospital floor, "All doctors' available are needed accident victims are on the way up."
Everyone in the waiting room had there eyes fixated on the elevator doors waiting for them to open.
Just as some doctors walked into the main room including Dr. Webber, Dr. Noah Drake and Dr. Ford the elevator doors opened and Dr. Ford took control of the situation.
Ric rolled out of the elevator on the stretcher with Alcazar and a paramedic.
"What do we have?" Ford asked.
"They've both got concussions but this man has severe burns and cuts on his face." The paramedic said obviously talking about Alcazar.
"Alright Drake take this fellow to trauma one and I'll take him to trauma 2."
Everyone was standing as they took both men and rolled them pass the nurse's station.
"Is that it?" Ford asked before realizing that two men were slowly walking out the elevator.
"No there's him too." The paramedic looked back at Lucky as Cruz tried to bring him in.
"Lucky," Lulu said softly.
Elizabeth walked closer to where Nicholas and Emily were standing.
Lucky tried to walk over to the nurse's station and keep himself standing.
"He's got second degree burns on his arms and legs, but nothing else looks bad." The paramedic reported.
"I'm…ok…" Lucky said as Elizabeth approached him.
"Lucky." Elizabeth said quietly to him.
He smiled at her and then his smile turned into a frown, "I think I…"
"Lucky?" Elizabeth asked as he didn't look so good.
He started to get light headed and as he leaned back he said, "Lye down…"
He fainted on the floor and Lulu and Elizabeth shouted, "Lucky!"
Dr. Ford knew that there had to have been more to his condition "Get this guy on a gurney. Everyone stand back."
Steven came in with a gurney and Cruz lifted Lucky on the stretcher.
"Take him to trauma 3." Ford demanded as he left and Steven and some interns ran off to those rooms.
Jason walked up to Elizabeth seeing she was in stress about Lucky's sudden collapse.
"Are you ok?" He asked putting his hands on her shoulders.
"Yeah I'm fine. I think I'm going to stay here a little bit longer. Just to see how he is, you don't have to stay."
"I told you I don't mind. Let's sit down." Jason suggested as he took her hand and they walked to the seats in the waiting room.
About 15 minutes later Steven walked in giving an update, "He's going to be fine. He dislocated his shoulder and his sprained arm from his other accident is ok, meaning it hasn't broken. We're going to stitch up his cuts and bandage up his arms and legs where he got burned. He'll be in some pain but the pain medication should help him."
"Can we see him?" Lulu asked.
"I prefer you didn't see he's sedated and the minute he wakes up he's going to be in a lot of pain. So why don't you all come back tomorrow." He said disappointing them.
"Ok. Whatever's best? Thank you." Nicholas said as he turned to Emily and they walked towards the elevator.
"Tomorrow definitely?" Lulu asked to make sure.
"Yes, he should be in better shape tomorrow." He smiled at her as she walked with Milo to the elevator to join Emily and Nicholas.
Rodriguez said thanks and then walked to the other rooms to check up on Ric and Alcazar.
"Are you sure my son is ok?" Luke asked in concern.
"He should be fine." He assured once again.
Luke shook his hand and then hollered, "Wait for me!" to the elevator with his family in.
"Do you want us to wait for you Elizabeth?" Emily asked.
"No its ok. I have to talk to Steven." Elizabeth said.
The elevator closed and Elizabeth turned around, "Now I need to talk to both of you."
Steven and Jason looked at each other wondering what needs to be said.
"Sit down." She ordered them.
They sat down and she spoke to them honestly.
"Now I'm not about to put blame on who started the fight the other day and I know you two don't get along, but I'm asking the both of you to get along for me. I don't need the stress or worry of you two trying to kill each other. Ok?" She said talking to them like they were 5 year olds that just got in trouble.
"Alright." Steven said as he looked to Jason and Jason also agreed, "Ok."
They shook hands and apologized for the fight and Elizabeth watched them struggle with it.
"Steven would it be ok if I just quickly saw Lucky. I won't wake him up I just want to see him." Elizabeth asked hoping he would say ok.
"Alright, but make it quick and don't wake him up." He smiled at her excitement.
She walked out of the main room and down the hall to where his room is.
"So let me guess you told her I attacked you?" Steven asked obviously not going to follow Elizabeth's request.
"I was honest with her and told her that I was the one to throw the first punch. So I guess we're even." Jason said hoping they could end this rivalry battle.
Steven walked closer to him and leaned in, "Not by a long shot. Take care of my sister Morgan or you'll be sorry."
Jason ignored the man's threat and sat down on one of the chairs as Steven walked away.
Elizabeth walked down the hall until she… saw the sign that said LUCKY SPENCER across it. There were nurses and doctors in there wrapping bandages around his arms and legs and she couldn't take it seeing him like this.
She got close to the window and leaned against the window looking at his unconscious body.
"I'm so sorry this happened to you." She said knowing that even though it wasn't her fault or Jason's for the matter that she was sorry in general to see him hurt.
"You didn't deserve this. You didn't deserve what I did to you. I'm sorry…" She said breaking down in tears.
She put her hand on the glass and then walked back to the nurse's station. By the time she had walked to the main room where Jason was she had wiped her tears away and smiled at him.
"You ready to go?" He asked.
"Yeah." She said as they walked to the elevator together hand in hand.
"So what do you want to do tonight?" He asked as the elevator doors closed.
"Well grams offered to take Cameron tonight so; it's whatever you want to do." She said looking up to him smiling.
"Perfect." He said to her for he had planned something fun between them.