Chapter Two
You got the touch
You got the power
Nikolas Mikhail Stavrosovich Cassadine arrived outside of his mother Laura Webber-Baldwin-Spencer's house. His brother had called him and told him to go there and wait for him to come there. Lucky had told Nikolas he had something important to tell both Laura and Nikolas.
Nikolas knocked once on the door before Laura opened it to her eldest son. "Hi, Nikolas. Lucky told me you would be coming."
"Mom, did Lucky tell you what he has to tell us? Any clues?" Nikolas asked his mother as he walked into the house.
"He didn't give me any clues to what he has to tell us. He was very secretive about it," Laura told him as she shut the door and turned to him.
"That's not like Lucky at all," Nikolas said as he sat down on one of the couches.
Laura was about to make a remark when a knock is heard on the door. She turns and opens it to reveal Elizabeth Imogene Webber, Gia Elise Campbell, and Zander Smith.
"Don't tell me. Lucky called you guys and told you to come here," Laura said knowingly.
"Yes. He said he had something important to tell us. And he told us to bring Zander with us for some reason," Gia said, rolling her eyes slightly.
"Well, come on in. You might as well sit down and wait with Nikolas and I. We don't know exactly what he would want to tell us that was so important," Laura said, waving the three of them into the house.
"And this is not like Lucky at all. I just hope the programming hasn't come back," Elizabeth said, shuddering at the thought.
"Same here, Liz, same here. But it might be for all we know," Nikolas said fearfully as Gia sat down beside him and Elizabeth and Zander sat down across from them, but on separate ends of the couch. Just the thought of the programming being back was a horrible thought, but still, it could be true.
Laura sat down in a chair situated on one end of the couches and the five of them engaged in small talk for a while. Fifteen minutes later, the door opened to reveal Lucky, with Luke holding Helena behind him. Alana, Stavros, and their children were waiting on the porch.
"Mom, could you get one of the chairs from the kitchen quickly? We have someone with us that we need to tie up," Lucky said.
Laura nodded and headed into the kitchen. She returned a minute later with a wooden chair and set it down. Lucky went over and moved it to where everyone could see it. Luke then dragged a bound Helena into the house and sat her down on the chair and he and Lucky tied her tightly to the chair. Luke then turned to Laura. "Darlin', do you have anything we can use as a gag? We don't need her talking right now."
Laura immediately grabbed a piece of material from a nearby table and gagged Helena with it. Once she was gagged, Luke whistled loudly and the rest of the group quickly came into the house.
Laura gasped at the sight of Stavros, but Luke reassured her right away. "He is not here to harm you, Laura. He is here to help us." Laura nodded and calmly sat down by Nikolas.
Alana crossed the room and sat in the chair that Laura had occupied earlier. Stavros sat on the arm of the chair. Lucky sat down by Elizabeth on the one couch. Dimitria, Mathias, Alexander, and Natalia took the rest of the space on the couches. Luke sat in a chair across from his cousin.
Alana began one of the many explanations her favorite cousin's family was owed. "First, my name is Alana Lyndsey Meade-Cassadine. I am the only true wife of Stavros and the mother of the Cassadine. My son Mathias Nathaniel Stavrosovich Cassadine has been the head of the family for several weeks now. And I am the person who is bringing Helena to justice for her crimes. And many of them have been committed against you."
After all is said and done
You've never walked, you've never run,
You're a winner
You got the moves, you know the streets
Break the rules, take the heat
You're nobody's fool
You're at your best when the goin' gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
"Now, of course, the many crimes against your family include Lucky's kidnapping, faked death and imprisonment, Laura's kidnapping and imprisonment on the Cassadine Island, and Leslie's faked death, but there is still so many more crimes she has committed against your family."
"Now, to start. We'll talk about Laura's time on the island. And the truth about a certain young man in this very room."
You got the touch
You got the power
When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm
You got the heart
You got the motion
You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch
"Now, Laura, in truth, Stavros took you because Helena told him to as revenge for Mikkos's death, but we all know that Mikkos deserved it. He became a different man after Helena killed Kristin, Alexis's mother. And at the time, my Stavros was still mourning my supposed death and the supposed death of our children Dimitria and Mathias, as well as the children I was pregnant with, Natalia and Alexander, which Helena had told him was Luke's fault, when in reality, she had tried to kill us. He would do anything to get revenge for losing me and our children. That is another reason why he took you."
"Unbeknownst to them, Laura, you were already a month pregnant when you were taken, and trust me, I suspected that you were when you were taken and I kept a very close eye on you. When you gave birth to Nikolas and Helena had the paternity tests done, I made sure I was the first one to see the tests. They proved what I suspected. They proved that Stavros wasn't the father and neither was Stefan. They proved that Luke is Nikolas's father. But in order to protect Nikolas from Helena's wrath, I changed the tests to say that Stavros was the father. I have always been loyal to my family and this was one of the times that my loyalty had to be used to protect a member of my family. I knew that if Helena found out that Nikolas was a Spencer, she would kill him. I did what I had to do in order to protect a member of my family."
You never bend, you never break
You seem to know just what it takes
You're a fighter
It's in the blood, it's in the will
It's in the mighty hands of steel
When you're standin' your ground
And you never get hit when your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end and you're takin' it all
Alana breathes a sigh of relief now that she has told one of the secrets. One of the many secrets she knows about Helena. Over on the couch, Nikolas sits with his head in his hands. He couldn't believe that his entire life was a lie. All his life, he had been raised as the pampered Cassadine prince, when he wasn't the prince at all. He wasn't even a Cassadine. Luke was his father. He was a Spencer. He could understand why Alana did was she had done. He knew what Helena was capable of. She would've killed him if she had known that he was a Spencer.
Laura looked at her older son in shock. She couldn't believe what Alana had just revealed. Nikolas was her son with Luke! Stavros was not his father! And she understood why she had done what she did to protect Nikolas. Laura had recognized her name. She knew that Alana was Luke's favorite cousin and that she had always been loyal to him.
Gia was shocked by Alana's revelation. The man she loved wasn't who he thought he was. But she was glad that he wasn't a Cassadine. It meant that he was no longer Helena's grandson. He never had been a Cassadine. He was a Spencer!
Alana wasn't done with the revelations, however. There were more surprises to come.
You got the touch
You got the power
When all hell's breakin' loose
You'll be riding the eye of the storm
You got the heart
You got the motion
You know that when things get too tough
You got the touch
You're fightin' fire with fire
You know you got the touch
You're at your best when the road gets rough
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough
You got the touch
You got the power
You got the touch
You got the power