*~Chapter 24~*
***The Docks***
(The next day. Alexis arrives at the docks to find Andrew already there waiting for her)
Andrew: Thank you for coming.
Alexis: Cut the crap and just tell me why you're here.
Andrew: Well Andrea...
Alexis: (trying not to sound too hopeful) She's not with you is she?
Andrew: No she's not. Anyway she got accepted into the PCU pre-law program and will be coming here around the end of next month. She is going to come to you and ask you for a job and I want you to tell her no.
Alexis: Does she know that...
Andrew: NO! and we're going to keep it that way! Your family is still a threat to her life.
Alexis: And what if I don't tell her no, what if I tell her the truth, what are you going to do about it?
Andrew: That's your decision, but If you do tell her and then that Helena woman goes after her, you'll have to live with yourself knowing that it's because of you her life is in danger.
Alexis: (disgusted) I don't know what I ever saw in you.
Andrew: Consider what I said, It was nice seeing you again Alexis. (he leaves and Alexis sits down on the bench and sighs)
Alexis: What am I going to do?
***Kelly's***
(Later that same day. Ned is sitting at a table reading the paper when Andrew comes in and sits down across from him.)
Andrew: Hello, Ned wasn't it.
Ned: Yeah. Hi. Do you need something?
Andrew: Well I was wondering if you had a minute.
Ned: For what?
Andrew: I wanted to talk about Alexis.
Ned: (confused) Ok. What about her?
Andrew: Are you aware of the fact that members of her family want her and the ones she loves dead.
Ned: Yes, why does this concern you?
Andrew: I wouldn't want anything to happen to that sweet little boy of yours because of her.
Ned: (getting upset) How do you know all this? And how the hell do you know her?
Andrew: Alexis never told you about me? Why am I not surprised.
Ned: Never told me what?
Andrew: I'm her ex-husband.
Ned: Oh no she told me about you and did to her. Why are you seeking her out now, after all these years?
Andrew: What I did to her? That's just like her always playing victim.
Ned: What are getting at? You're the one who left her. Right?
Andrew: Yes that's right, but only because she lied to me for four years.
Ned: Lied to you about what?
Andrew: The fact that she was a Cassadine, I had to find out when that women showed up at out apartment and told me to take our daughter (Ned looks in shock) and leave Alexis alone, if I valued my life and our daughters. So I did I left and left Alexis there alone.
Ned: Wait, wait a minute your daughter? You and Alexis have a daughter?
Andrew: Yes we do and that's why I'm here in Port Charles, because she is going to PCU in the fall and I wanted to tell Alexis to stay away from her.
Andrew: She never told you did she. (sympathetic) That must come as quite a shock to you, so I think I'm going to leave you alone here to gather your thoughts.
Ned: You could say that. (Andrew exits, leaving Ned sitting there totally shocked and a little heartbroken over the fact that she couldn't trust him with the entire truth) How could she not tell me she had a daughter?