~@~@ Complicated Ch.14

I disclaim

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" Hi Lucky, how are you, great I'll see ya later." Alexis stood quickly, and turned a blind eye to her friend's silent pleading, as she gave Lucky a phony smile, before running out of the office.

" Do I want to know what that was about?"

Emily quickly shook her head. " No, just put it down to Cassadine weirdness."

"I HEARD THAT, AND I DON'T THINK A SPENCER AND QUARTERMIANE SHOULD PASS JUDGEMNT."

Lucky bite his lip to keep form laughing as he moved to shut the door. " She's getting strange in her old age." He took the seat Alexis vacated. " So what about me?"

Emily fell back into her chair, and took a deep breath, she was about to say something, when she looked into his eyes, his usual laughing blue eyes, were now somber, and filled with confusion. " Forget it, we'll talk about it later, what's on your mind Luckster."

" When did you learn to read me so well?"

" Probably years of study you, years of law school, and of course years of therapy." " Now what's going on in your head, Lucky."

" Okay I need to tell you some stuff." " Do you remember how I told you the Frisco Jones, came back to town about two years ago?"

" Yeah, showed up at Mac' and Felicia wedding."

" Well, him showing up sent everyone into a uproar, I mean Maxie stopped going to class and Mac and Felicia started trying to have a baby, and Georgie well she just…"

" Lucky just say it, I understand what Georgie was going through the Q's put textbook dysfunctional to shame, I mean come one I turned to drugs to avoid the stupidity of my family."

" That's just it Georgie didn't flinch at the stuff that was going on, she just… she just stepped in and took the role as care taker. "

" Gatekeeper.'

Lucky looked up and raised an eyebrow." Huh?"

" The person that keeps the family from imploding is called the gatekeeper." Emily watched her friend carefully, she knew he had something important on his mind, and though she couldn't exactly figure out why he was talking about Georgie Jones, she was just glad that she didn't have to talk." I'm a reserve gatekeeper, I only get involved when Ned can't clean it up, but go on."

" Well, Georgie was taking care of everyone, she as going to class, and cover for Maxie, and trying to get to know Frisco, so she was spreading herself pretty thin." " I had just been played by Elizabeth, and I was on the docks trying to clear my head.

Flashback

18 months ago

Lucky looked at the Port Charles River, and held his jealousy in place. The water had it so easy; no women that needed space to interrupt its life, just the fish and boats occasionally passing through. He picked up a pebble form a near by rock garden and throw it with all his strength, feeling monetarily better having released the building aggression.

" Watch it Spencer, that rock didn't do anything to you."   Lucky turned away from the dock, and followed the voice, Georgie Jones, stood on the top step shaking her head at him. " Show a little respect to mother nature."

" Hey Georgie." Lucky smiled at the small blonde, only nineteen, and already the exact image of her mother." Sorry just trying to find some peace."

She smiled, came down the steps, falling onto the bench, and motioning him over. " Yeah I heard about Liz, I'm sorry."

" How'd you know?"

" Maxie, she was doing a little dance about it this morning, which was pretty funny considering she's seven months pregnant, but you should stay clear of her anyway." The brief smile falls from her face. " I don't need another scene, I got finals this week."

Lucky took a minute to study the girl beside him, she looked okay, but the looking closer he realized that her smile was phony, and her eyes were clouded. The look was very familiar to him, it was a standard 'family' look, he himself had that look for the first tow years that he knew Nikolas." Things not going well?" He gave a sideway glance that spoke of understanding.

" That's an understatement." " Maxie refuses to tell anyone who the father of her baby is, Mac says he won't help support her is she doesn't go back to school, My dad is in no position to help, but keeps throwing his opinions, which only upsets my mom, who by the way hates the fact that her daughters got pregnant, when she's been trying for months." " Have you ever wondered what a normal family acts like?"

" Normal?" Lucky looked away thoughtfully, rubbing his chin." What does this word normal mean?"

" It means siblings that aren't obsessed crushers or pregnant dropouts, fathers that don't tour the world for twenty years dropping in and out of your life just to cause trouble, a mother that's a role model."

" Ah yes, I think I've heard of those, I never actually seen one in Port Charles, but I've heard tale of them."

" Yeah well." She toward, and moved toward the edge of the dock." I wish I had one, this is getting…."

Lucky jumped at the sound of her voice, it quiver and sounded broken, he took the small woman into his arms and just held her as she cried. " It's okay Georgie, I'm here for you, and I'll always be here for you." He tightened his hands around her waist, Georgie Jones needed someone, and he was perfectly willing to take the job.

"Lucky." Emily snapped her hands in front of her friends face." Come back to earth Luckster."

" Where was I?"

" You were telling me how you and Georgie became friends."

" We're not…"

" You're not what?"

" We're more then friends."

"Oh." The pieces started to fit, now. " Lucky what exactly are you trying to tell me, that you and Georgie had fling, or…."

" That we're still kind of together." He dropped his head, unable to meet her heartbroken eyes.

" Wow." She fell back against her desk. " Lucky this is great."

" What?" Lucky's head snapped up, and stared at her in confusion, she didn't seem heartbroken, as much as she seemed on the verge of laughing." Did I miss something here?"

" Yeah you did, but that's okay because I did to, but now it's coming together, and I can't believe I missed it." Emily waked back to her chair and sank back into it suddenly giddy with a new sense of freedom. " Lucky have you ever heard of transference?" He nods and she continues." I think we've been doing that, transferring the feelings we have for others onto each other." " We've hurt and been hurt by people that claim to love us, and we've been searching for some great love, and we settled on each other, but I don't love you like that, anymore then you love me like that."

" Em…" Lucky sat up straighter in his seat, he didn't like his best friend thinking he used her, he had genuine feelings for her." That's not what happened."

" Lucky, it is."  Emily moved back in front of her desk, taking one of his hands and kiss his knuckles."  I Love You Lucky Spencer, I have loved you since probably the first time I met you and Sly, but I'm not in love with you, and you're not in love with me, and it's okay."

Her words finally sink in, he nods, giving a crooked smile." So we're okay, we're not breaking up we're just accepting that we're what exactly."

" Great Friends, Best friends, friends that understand each other almost too well."

" Yeah, I'm glad I still have you in my life." Standing he pulled her into a hug, and kissed her forehead. " Dad's going to be angry, though I think he was hoping you'd become a Spencer."

" That could still happen, he did propose." Emily stepped out of his arms and headed back for her chair, when Lucky's hand stopped her." What?"

" You never told me who I was standing in for?"  

Emily sat back down, and closed her eyes. " Jagger Cates." At her friends groan she laughed." Hey at least his on the other side of the law."

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Corinthos Morgan Coffee Warehouse

Jason hung up the phone, and looked over at his partner. " We've got a problem."

" What?"

" The Shipment never made it to Puerto Rico, the ship was hijacked after it left the harbor, three of our man are dead."

Sonny fist hit the desk, forcing the small room to almost shake with his anger. " Did we have any names?"

" No, but I can head down there and check things out."

" No I want you to stay here, send Paul." " Who ever is doing this, thinks we won't fight back, and their wrong."

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" It wasn't that stupid, in the sense that it wouldn't ruin your career." Mac said as he sat back in his chair." Now stupid in the sense that now you'll be dealing with Morgan and the Quartermaines, then yes and very stupid."

Jagger nodded." I shouldn't be involved with her at all should I?"

" As your friend I'm going to say that I can't really see a real reason not, she's attractive, intelligent, sweet, everything a man would want in a woman." " As your boss, she still is, except that you'll find yourself on opposing sided of an arguments frequently, but I bet that's already happened…" The ringing phone had Mac stopping and reaching for the receiver." Commissioner Scorpio, When did that happen…. I'll send my best." He hung up the phone and shook his head." Corinthos and Morgan's ship just returned to harbor, missing its coffee shipment, and with three bodies."

Jagger stood, and moved toward the door." I'm on it." He paused at the opened and looked back at his boss." Thanks Mac."

" Anytime."

Jagger closed the door, and headed toward the squad room, when a body blocked his path. " Excuse me."

" No I think we should talk Det. Cates."

Jagger looked up and held back the groan, as he met his ex-father-in-laws eye. " Scott, I'm on my way to a crime scene."

" No I've informed Det. Taggert that you're needed here." Scott stepped back, and pointed toward the hallway leading to his office." Follow me."

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Felicia turned the extra key into the door to her daughters' apartment. She had tried to call ahead, but the answering machine was picking up, but she knew that they were home, because the day care said that Maxie had already picked Jack up. She pushed open the door, and stood frozen in shock at the sight. " Oh my god, you."

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Preview:

The father of Maxie's' baby is named, but I'm taking suggestion on who it should be.