Disclaimer: I do not have an affliation with the daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives.

Author's Note: Cassie and Lucas do not get involved in what appears to be or is an incestuous relationship. Sami and Lucas secretly begin to date. Sami, goes and stays with her twin brother Eric, for a few months and comes back eight months pregnant with Lucas's second and third child (and Eric comes back with her).

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Eric slowly crept through the large home, the floor beneath his feet gently creeked as he made his way towards the room, where his twin sister lay asleep and pregnant with her second child.

It had been a mess when he had first purchased the home from a small family for a reasonable price. The yellow paint that once lined the halls was peeled and chipped, and the wooden banster, as well as many of the floor bored had to be replaced. Still, he had been able to do most of the work himself, when he had gotten home from work or after spending time with his ex-girlfriend Shale Waters. It had taken about three months to complete the work but it was done.

Sami had phoned, it was not like any of their other weekly chats that they would have, just to catch up with one another. It was different, the way she was speaking, the panic in her voice. After, one month of that telephone conversation she had arrived, a small suitcase packed with most of the items that she would need for her stay. She had stated that she had to leave Salem, she could no longer accept the hateful glances that she often met when she went out to work or somewhere she would generally travel.

It had been hard, he knew that there were so many factors that she had to go up against including their latest step-mother Katherine Elizabeth Roberts. She had been sort of sweet to them both when they decided to visit their father, but Eric knew of the distaste she had for Sami. He knew that it was a mistake that his sister out of love, commited some of the most vial acts conceivable to man, but the reasoning was still pure. Sami, was mainly fearful for the welfare of her unborn child, the stress that existed and seemed to lurk around every corner of Salem seemed to hold that threat and she could no longer deal, she had nearly lost her precious son William Robert Reed-Roberts when she was eighteen.

"Sami, its time to wake up." Eric whispered softly as he walked over to the blinds that covered the large window and opened them up to allow the sunlight to gently flood into the room. Sami gently stirred from her sleep as she looked around the bright room and moaned. "Can't I sleep for a little longer?" she pleaded with her twin brother. Eric smiled as she gently covered her head with one of the soft, velvet blue pillows that covered her bed, as he pulled off the covers that seemed wrapped around her. Sami quickly tossed the pillow hitting Eric in the dead center of his head, knocking him backwards.

"Sami, you have a doctor's appointment at 3:30." Eric said as he stood up clutching the pillow that had been thrown at him. Sami moaned as flipped over in the bed as she attempted to go back to sleep, trying to resist the wake up call her brother was trying to call her on. "Sami, it is 2:30 in the afternoon, you only have an hour and a half to get ready so wake up and I'll cook you something." Eric said as he slipped out of her room. Sami merely looked at him before getting out of her soft comfortable bed and having to walk on her swollen feet.

Sami slowly made her way into the kitchen after throwing on a long, red sleevless dress that showed of her large, pregnant belly and sat at the large wooden table that sat against the cool blue walls. Eric gently laid down two plates of bacon, eggs, and a few peas and carrots. Sami picked at the food, as she watched her younger brother as he seemed to dig straight into the meal, not caring if any of the food got onto his clothes. Sami had to admit that her brother's cooking had significantly improved since he moved, at first whenever he cooked she would not dare to try the food out of fear of food poisoning or worse. Sami slowly dug her fork into the food and took a bite, surprising it was better than anything he had so far attempted to cook. Her plate was soon empty, as she quickly helped her brother clean up the mess that they had made, before he drove her to the doctor office.

It had been a perfect situation, Sami did not have to worry about the welfare of her unborn child, and she got to spend time with her favourite brother. She had attempted to become friends or even relatively close with Rex but it had not been the same as it would have been with her own twin brother Eric. Rex was a good kid, but he seemed more concerned about Cassie than he would ever about any other Brady or Horton that dared to grace his path. She and Rex did talk occassionally, and he did take care of little Will whenever he could in order to get to know the family that he had lost when he was young.

"I want to go home." Sami whispered as the ever long car ride home from the doctor's ran. Eric sighed, he did not want his sister to leave him yet. She had broughten a little hope into his life. He simply took her hand and sighed. "If you return to Salem, so will I." he stated, hoping that it would be different this time, that his feelings for the beautiful Nicole Walker- Roberts-Kirakis had finally gotten. He had heard many rumors linking her to her young step-grandson Brady Black. "If you want we can leave today." he said unsure of his own words as Sami smiled and hugged him, before running into her own room to pack all the things that she had accumulated since she had moved in with her brother and all the baby items that she and Eric had boughten for the child.

The car ride home had almost been silent except for the soft hum of the car as it made its way to its destination and the music that seemed to flood that speakers that Eric had newly installed into his new car. They had both escaped from Salem, each knowing that the reasons was either to protect themselves from the harm and negativity that seemed to form around the residents of Salem, or/and to protect the ones that they loved the most. The decision to leave was not as hard or difficult as the one to return to their place of origin, where their family lived and had raised them. Throughout the controversaries that seemed to follow them wherever they had decided to go. The small blue sign, shone bright against the car lights, indicating that they were back in Salem.

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