"Not at all, Ned. What did you want." Alexis watched as Johnny went back to the bathroom to give them privacy.
"I wanted to speak with you but I see you have company," he said going to leave.
"No, until the trial Sonny wanted to take precautions so he gave me a body guard, that's all," said Alexis walking over to him.
"Oh I see how it goes now. In exchange for you defending his every crime, which there seems to be a long line of, Sonny lets you take his goons home to play with every now and then, is that it?" he asked and Alexis flinched.
"Get out, Ned and don't you ever come back here. If you have something to discuss with me then I suggest you write me a letter, mail it, and I will be sure to get back with you when I find time. Get out!" she said angrily slamming the door behind him and leaning against it.
"Is every thing alright?" asked Johnny coming out of the bathroom.
"Yes, everything is fine."
"My shift ends soon so I'll see you tomorrow, Alexis. Thanks for dinner."
"I should be thanking you, you stopped my kitchen from burning down."
He smiled and then he too left. Alexis went up to her bed and closed the door. It wasn't very late but she felt exhausted. She layed down and drifted off to sleep. She vaguely remembered hearing the door open and shut as Zander came home and then she fell into a deep sleep.
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"Helena, please, I'm begging you, don't take it away from me, please."
"Natasha, don't you realize that Cassadine's don't beg, it's so... unbecoming," said Helena her voice soft like silk.
Alexis stood holding her bulging stomach protectively. "Why do you keep calling me Natasha? My name is Alexis."
"Oh, it won't matter what I call you because after that... thing is born I will make sure you don't remember anything."
"I will kill you before I let you take my baby from me." She said her voice a mixture of fear and determination.
"My Darling, that...child you carry is a bastard, how can I let you taint your father's blood even more than you have? You will stay here until you give birth and then your child will be killed."
"I won't let you, if you kill my baby you have to kill me too," said Alexis defiantly.
"Well, we will just have to wait and see if it comes to that."
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Alexis woke up again her breathing heavy and sweat on forehead. Her dream...no nightmare had seemed so real, so real it frightened her. She sat in her bed oblivious to the passing of time. Her arms were wrapped around her stomach as she rocked back and forth. "It's impossible, maybe my sub-conscious is just trying to tell me that Helena won't be very happy about my baby but I couldn't have been, I wasn't pregnant before. I would know, I would feel it," she said trying to convince herself. Finally she drifted off to a fitful sleep.
Alexis woke up, got dressed, went downstairs and got a glass of orange juice and decided to make breakfast. She pulled out a pan, sat it on the stove, got in the refrigerator and pulled out a carton of eggs. She cracked a couple and blended them in a bowl before she put them in the hot pan. As the eggs hit the pan they sizzled and Alexis watched as they started to cook. Taking a spatula she moved the eggs around in the pan and soon they were fluffy and yellow. She scooped them up onto two different plates added a pinch of salt and pepper and put them on the plate warmer. She then started on the bacon, a while later she scooped the slightly crispy bacon on to the two plates and toast soon followed. She was pleasantly surprised that there were only a few brown pieces of egg that had been slightly over done and the bacon didn't look all that bad. She smiled as she thought of the night before when Johnny had given her some quick tips while they cooked dinner.
Alexis sat the food on the table and then went upstairs to wake Zander. She knocked on the door and when he didn't answer she opened the door. He was laying on the bed sleeping and Alexis smiled at the thin line of drool coming out of the corner of his mouth. "Zander, wake up before breakfast gets cold."
"Yes, Mom," he said still asleep.
Alexis froze, she didn't know why but the words hit her like a ton of bricks. She swallowed a lump in her throat and shook his shoulder again. "Zander, it's time to wake up, breakfast is getting cold." This time he responded and sat up.
"Breakfast is down stairs," she said walking down stairs and back to the dining room. A few minutes later he followed.
Alexis watched as he sat down across from her. "This looks great," He said grabbing the fork and stuffing some eggs in his mouth.
"Thanks, I made it myself." She said smiling. She watched as he instantly chewed slower, and carefully swallowed. "I don't know whether to be happy you finally cooked something or scared." He said as he mockingly sifted through his eggs looking for shell fragments.
"I'll have you know my cooking is rather good for a first timer if I do say so myself." She said smiling. When they were done eating Emily came over to start working.
She watched as Zander and Emily kissed and said hello to each other, she noticed they both lit up just being around each other. "Okay Emily, I have a really hard case and I want you to look through these books and see if you can find any cases dealing with psychologist/patient confidentiality." Alexis realized that soon she would probably drop the rest of her clients, excluding Sonny of course so that she could take time to prepare for her up coming motherhood.
"Okay, I'll get right on it." Said Emily as she sat down and began looking through Alexis' law books.
She heard a knock on the door and answered. Johnny was standing there with a box under his arm. "This was delivered for you, I had to search it and it's safe" he said as he sat it down on the floor and prepared to walk out.
Carly Corinthos had come into work early, her and Sonny's relationship was becoming strained. She loved him with all of her heart but he never opened up to her, it was like he didn't trust her. Laura and Elton hadn't come in for the day yet and for that she was relieved. She walked into her office and prepared to make plans for the campaign she was secretly launching with Gia as the model. She yawned and looked around her office. She noticed a box sitting in the corner that hadn't been there the night before. She curiously walked over to it and opened it up. She froze as she saw an assortment of wires and in bright red the number thirty that kept going down and down and she knew when it got to zero it would explode. Not knowing what else to do she ran from the office as fast as she could. She pounded on the elevator button and then the door begging, pleading with it to open. Tears ran down her face as she had one last vision of her handsome dark-eyed husband and her red-headed little boy and then everything went black.