She went back over to her Penthouse and grabbed her coat. She walked the three blocks to Kelly's while trying to clear her head. A Cassadine-Quartermaine child, that was definitely not a good combination. She opened the door, walked in and sat down. Elizabeth Webber walked over to her. "What can I get you?" she asked smiling.
"I'll have coffee, black, no wait, I think I'll have a glass of milk," she said as she remembered seeing somewhere that caffeine was bad for babies. "Here you go." Said Elizabeth as she came back with the milk. "Thanks," Said Alexis. She watched Elizabeth walk back over to the counter where she and Lucky started kissing. "What I wouldn't give to be young and in love like that," she said wistfully to herself.
She drank the whole glass and decided she should go back to the penthouse and rest. So she put some money on the table and left. When she finally got back to the penthouse at 8:00 she already felt tired. So she changed her clothes and slid into bed, and almost immediately she fell asleep.
"My dear Natasha, do you think that I wouldn't find out sooner or later? You must know no one can hide anything from me."
"Leave me alone." Said a young woman with long brown hair.
"You really did think you could keep your little secret from me didn't you?" asked Helena Cassadine amused at the possibility that anyone thought they could hide something from her and get away with it.
"I will not let you hurt either of us."
"Natasha, I can't let you keep it of course."
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Alexis sat up in bed sweating, she knew she had had that dream again, she had been having it for the last few days. It was always the same, her and Helena arguing but she never knew what it was about. She looked at the bright red numbers on her clock. 11:30PM. She got out of bed and grabbed her robe. She walked past Zander's room and peeked in and was glad to find him fast asleep. She went downstairs to the kitchen and got a glass of water. She didn't feel like going back to sleep so she got out some of her legal books and started reading. After an hour she fell asleep.
Alexis was awaken by knocking on the door. She pulled her robe closer to her body and then walked over and opened the door. "Emily, what time is it?" asked Alexis as she looked at the wide awake teenager.
Emily looked at her watch. "It's about 8:00 a.m. I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Sure, come in." said Alexis opening the door wider. "Is this about Zander's case, do you need anything?" she asked following her to the sofa.
"Well, I've been thinking a lot about my future since I moved into Kelly's and I'm hoping for a scholarship to help me out with college since I don't want help from my family. I also think it would help me with law school if I had some experience so I was hoping that maybe I could be your assistant, I'll help you with research or run errands for you, anything, without pay."
Alexis looked at her, her eyes looked full of hope and she didn't have the heart to say no. "I have been looking for an assistant, so your hired, and I will pay you for the work you do."
"Thank you so much!" said Emily giving her a hug.
"You're welcome, I think Zander is still upstairs so if you want to go see him go ahead."
"I promise, I'll work really hard," Said Emily full of excited energy as she ran upstairs to tell Zander the good news.
Alexis went upstairs to her room. She walked past Zander's room and heard him and Emily laughing. She shut her door and then walked over to her phone. She got out the phone book and looked up hospitals. There were too many people that knew her at GH and she wasn't going to take that chance. She found one just outside of town, called and then made an appointment for later in the afternoon. She then got ready for her morning run and went outside jogging towards the park. She let the wind blow over her face letting all of the stress fade from her body. But all of a sudden she ran into someone and stumbled backwards.
"I'm sorry, I guess I didn't see you." She said looking at the big man with a leather jacket and jeans standing in front of her.
"Don't worry Ms. Davis, running into things will be the least of your problems." Said the man. Alexis heard a noise behind her and turned around where she was facing another man.
"What can I help you with gentlemen." Said Alexis trying to keep the nervousness from her voice.
"We have a message from Mr. Joseph Sorel."
"Then tell him to call my secretary." Said Alexis as she began to walk away. One of the men grabbed her arm and swung her around. She could feel his fingers pressing into her flesh and she flinched at the pain. "On second thought I don't have a secretary so what do you want?" she said dryly.
"Mr. Sorel is not to be taken lightly. Drop the Smith kid and if you don't you won't be walking away from our next meeting, of that I can assure you. If I were you I would watch your back, you never when a gun just might go off and unfortunately hit someone." He said squeezing her lower arm even harder so that she had to bite her lip as so not to scream out in pain.
"I have the message, you can let me go now," Said Alexis through clenched teeth. She watched as the two men walked away. As soon as they were out of sight Alexis pulled her arm from the sleeve of her jacket, rolled up her sweat shirt and looked at the horrendous bruise forming. She gingerly touched it and quickly pulled her hand away. Looking around to make sure there were no other men hiding in the bushes she jogged back to the Penthouse and tried to keep her heart from pounding out of her chest.