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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------

Lucas looked out into the darkened night, he had watched as Sami had disappeared out of Salem that night almost seven months ago, without a word or a reason, except that she loved him and that she would one day return when she no longer had to face the prejudices of the city. Will had asked each day where his mother had gone, if she was going to come back and if so when she was going to return to see him. Photos of his mother plastered his bedroom walls, some of them when she was only fifteen and others slowly as she grew up.

He knew that it had been painful for his son, no matter what he said or how brave that he had tried to act for the sake of his father, he knew that Will was in pain, without his mother. He had been involved in more frequent fights with other kids at school when they spoke about the fact that his mother had packed up all of her belongings one day and walked on him, leaving him with only his father. Sometimes, kids started to talk about the fact that his mother had been in jail when he was younger and nearly executed. Will had come home blood dripping out of his nose and suspended from school, more than once.

Lucas could see woman on the patio, she stood alone clutching her soft tan purse as she awaited for someone to answer the door, as she rang the door persitantly. He slowly made his way toward the door, to see his half-sister Jennifer standing impatiently at the door.

"How is Will doing?" was the first thing that seemed to come out of her mouth. As she pushed past Lucas into the sitting room that was once cluttered in junk was now fairly clean. Lucas frowned, as Jennifer sat down on the couch even though he knew it was no longer possible to get rid of his sister who was making daily visits to his apartment that he shared now with eight year old son.

"He is fine, he talked to Sami last week and she promised to phone him in a few days." Lucas said, a bit unhappy that Sami had not requested to talk to him, but only their son that son that was produced on a night that they were both vulnerable and needed someone. Jennifer sighed, she knew that her brother had strong feelings toward the mother of his child and was heartbroken when she had decided to get up and leave Salem.

"How can she be so selfish. I mean she didn't give a damn that she had a son, and she just happened to decided one day out of the blue to leave. And weekly phone calls, that is pathetic." Jennifer stated not noticing the look of anger that flushed across her younger brother's face. But still Lucas knew that Jennifer had a point, she was just speaking out of the mind of another mother, and of the rest of their family when they had heard of Sami's abandonment of William. "I can't tell you what hse was thinking or why she did it, but I do know that she had to have a good reason to get up and leave Salem." Lucas stated as he looked at the drink, part of him wishing it had some or all of it with alcoholic content.

"Dad has come back from Africa and would love to see you and Will sometime." Jennifer said as she pulled out the white envelope with the thick bold print, stating Lucas's name and address across it. Jennifer stayed alittle while longer, before she quickly excused herself claiming that her young daughter was still awaiting her to pick her up from Lydel's home, after she and the girl had, had a disagreement about what they wanted to do and no longer wanted to stay at her friend's house.

His mother and her new husband had stopped by, they had came to check up on him, almost as frequently as Jennifer, but to more of a prying sense. They had never wanted him and Sami to be together, even if they did have a son together. Kate had made up many excuses claiming that she had once been with Lucas's father for what not that long, and they had not been married upon the time he was conceived or even later when he was growing up. Kate had never been particularly fond of Samantha Gene Brady. She had stated several times in most cases she believed that a child deserved a mother, whoever if your mother was Sami Brady it was better if you did not have her as a mother. Roman had never once stated that his daughter was a saint or that he did not approved of the methods that she had used to sometimes ensnare men. Carrie had invitably lost her first husband to Sami, from her trickery but nobody had really cared when they had found out that she had been sleeping with Michael Horton.

Marlena, John, Belle, Rex, and Cassie often stopped by if not to check up on him and Will to stay and chat to see how he was doing and what was new in his life. Cassie was not very amused with the workings of the Salem and had several times had mentioned that she was going to leave, if she was ever given a job opportunity. A firm had hired her, just to do some secretarial work and she had gladily accepted, even though she missed Rex more than she was willing to admit. Rex and Cassie even though they had a psychic link they were still saddened by not having the other around. Lucas sometimes suspected that this was how Sami must have felt without Eric around her.

Belle was not really shy about her feelings for her half-sister Sami, even though she loved her sister very much she was unwilling to admit that she was pleased with her and half of her schemes especially her getting up and leaving her young son, without a mother. Belle had been the first one to come and visit her nephew and Lucas to see what she could do for them, but that had been about it, she had sent gifts before she had left for college outside of Salem, but whenever she was back in Salem she stopped by. Showing Will all of the things that she was involved in university. Will seemed happy by this development and the visits of his grandparents and aunts and uncles, but it had never been the same without his mother being with them.

Lucas sighed, he had to deal with the fact that sometimes he was unable to help his young son, he had heard him have nightmares, and when he called for his mother at night, she would not come, instead it was his father that would come through to his room adn help him thoroughout the horrible nightmares that he suffered. Lucas walked over to the small coffee table and looked at the velvet box that he held within his grasp, the one thing that he wanted desperately to give to Sami but now that she had left he was unable to give it to her. Perhaps, he sometimes thought she had left because of him their relationship had yet to cool of yet their had been some outside objections to it, thus they kept the fact that they were together a secret. He slowly opened the velvet box and looked at the diamond studded ring and gently caressed it before closing the box.

He could hear the door bell gently sound its tune, as he made his way to the door. The beautiful blond hair woman stood outside the door and quickly embraced him. "Sami" was all he could whisper as he hugged her in shock, before Eric pushed past him into the large apartment.

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