To Evil but Friendly Rival, my lone reviewer, thank you for the excellent review. And to answer your question, Leah Jean is the eldest, followed by Lucky, then Laurel Bethany.

Here's Chapter Three. Enjoy!

Chapter Three

A Lawman returns and other surprises

The next day

Shawn sat at his desk, looking over the reports on Faith's whereabouts and where she could be keeping the kids. A knock sounded on the door at that moment. "Come in!"

The door opened to reveal Officer Murphy. "You wanted to see me, sir?"

"Yes, officer. Sit down," Shawn commanded, pointing to the chair on the other side of his desk.

Murphy sat down and Shawn stood from his chair and walked around the desk to the police officer.

"Murphy, as you well know, everyone's records are being gone over very thoroughly to make sure that the PCPD only employs the best."

"Yes, sir."

"Well, Murphy, your record is pretty spotless, up until the past few months. Of course, on one incident you have been given the benefit of the doubt, since you did not know that Nikolas Cassadine shouldn't have been sent to prison," Shawn said.

"Yes, sir. And I thank you and the board for that."

"No thanks are necessary, since the blame for that falls on Mac Scorpio, who is no longer on this squad. But the second mark is the one we are most concerned about. You should've come to the front of the Cassadine crypt and took advantage to capture Helena Cassadine, but instead, you came around the side and allowed Helena to escape. You cannot do that!" Shawn exclaimed.

"I understand that, sir. But that is what Mac told me to do," Murphy said.

"Yes, we know that, but you still listened. And you are to be punished for it, unless you can rectify the situation by bringing in Helena Cassadine. Do whatever you have to, just bring her in," Shawn told him.

"Yes sir! I will do my best!"

"Good! I want that witch in custody yesterday!" Shawn exclaimed. "Now, get to work!"

"Yes sir!" Murphy exclaimed as he got up from the chair and left the office just as another African-American man entered the office.

Shawn turned and smiled. He was so glad that the man was here. "Detective Taggert, welcome!" Shawn greeted.

Marcus Taggert walked into the office and closed the door. "Thank you, Shawn. I'm glad you offered me the position of chief of police. It is an honor, though a little awkward having someone younger than me as my boss," he said as he took a seat across from Shawn, who had returned to his chair.

"I understand, Marcus. But we shall be able to remedy that. I wanted you here for a reason, you know," Shawn said.

"I know. One of your big cases right now is the kidnapping of Sonny Corinthos's children. And you want me to concentrate on that case," Taggert said.

"Yes. My wife is handling the search for Helena Cassadine, so I want you to handle that case. Put your feelings for Sonny aside and concentrate on finding the children and on capturing Faith Rosco," Shawn said.

"No problem. I'll bring her in," Taggert said with a sly smile.

"See that you do. And please, work with the officers assigned to this case. No going off on your own. We can't allow anyone to endanger those children," Shawn said.

"I see no problems there. And I'll do all I can to keep my team from going off on their own. We have to work as a team to bring that witch down and bring those children home," Taggert said.

"Good. Now, get to work! Time is of the essence in this case!" Shawn exclaimed.

Taggert got of from his chair and headed out into the squad room.

Andrew sat in his home office, looking over his papers for the malpractice suit against Dr. Jones when Skye came into the room.

"Hello, Skye. Thank you for coming," Andrew said as he rose from his chair and held out his hand.

Skye shook it, then sat down across from him. "No problem. I'll do anything I can to help with the suit against Dr. Jones. And I'm already doing all I can to find that wicked bitch and get Nikolas out of jail."

"That is exactly why I've asked you here, Skye. I want you to stick as close to Dr. Jones as you can without him knowing. He may be helping Helena hide and that could possibly be why he gave Lucky that medication in the first place," Andrew said.

Skye nodded. "I know. I heard you, Steven, and Leah discussing that possibility yesterday. If he is helping her hide, he will pay for it!"

"No kidding. He has already been banned from Lucky's room and I am sure he may be trying something else to satisfy the old witch and we need to keep an eye on him so that he can't do anymore harm to our family for her," Andrew said. "That is why I want you to tail him. The minute you know something, report in to either me, Leah, or Laurel at the PCPD."

"You got it!" Skye declared as she rose from her chair. She headed out the door with her mission on her mind.

Nikolas sat in his cell after a visit with Emily. He didn't understand why she was pulling away, why she didn't want him to touch her.

A guard approached his cell at that moment. "You got visitors, Cassadine. Your sister and brother are here."

Nikolas's eyes widened. It couldn't be who he thought it was. The guard escorted him into the visitation room and he smiled at them. They had come home.

"About time the two of you came home. We could've used you," Nikolas said before he embraced his two siblings.

"Well, Lauri called us and told us what had happened and we knew it was time to come home," Natalia Eleni Stavrolavna Cassadine, Nikolas's twin sister, said with a smile as she embraced him.

"And you know Helena would come out of hiding just to lecture at us, you know that Nikoli," Nathaniel Dimitri Stavrosovich Cassadine, Nikolas's twin brother, said from behind them.

"True, Nathaniel. Maybe that will get me out of here and back with Emily. I want to help her through whatever it is she is going through other than Connor attacking her," Nikolas said.

"I think he did more than just attack her. I met her out front and I could see something familiar in her eyes. The same fear and blame I saw in cousin Anastasia's eyes two years ago," Natalia said. "Nik, I think that bastard raped Emily and that is why she pulled away from you."

Nikolas looked at his twin sister in shock. Then he remembered what had happened with Liz and how she reacted. "Oh my god! If that bastard wasn't dead, I'd kill him myself!"

Natalia smiled. "That's a normal feeling. Nate and I wanted to do that to Stace's rapist until we found out that he was killed that night after he had raped another girl."

"But anger will not help Emily. You have to be understanding and you have to get her help if she needs it and I think she needs help by what we have witnessed," Nathaniel said.

Nikolas took a deep breath and calmed down. "You're right. But sometimes you have to convince them that they need help. And knowing Emily, we will need to convince her to get help."

"By what we saw, she will definitely need convincing," Natalia said. Then she smiled. "But we are going to take care of that. That is after we pay our beloved half-brother a visit. Maybe he can convince her, now that he's awake."

Nikolas's lips spread in an elated smile. "Lucky's awake? He's back with us?"

"Yep. He woke up and is recovering. Now, if he can put Helena away, then we can say he is victorious," Natalia said.

"We will all be victorious once grandmother is taken care of," Nikolas said with a smile.

Carly sat outside Shawn's office later that day, waiting for her cousin-in-law to call her in, as he had called her, saying that they knew more about the kidnapping of the kids. Taggert came down the hall at that moment and smiled. He and Shawn had good news for Carly.

"Taggert, what are you doing here?" Carly asked.

"Shawn transferred me back here to help find the children," Taggert explained.

"And did you? Did you find all three of them?" Carly asked.

Taggert held out his hand to Carly a moment later and helped her to stand. "Shawn will tell you everything."

Carly nodded and walked with Taggert into Shawn's office. Carly faced her cousin-in-law, who had a smile on his face.

Carly saw the smile on his face and joy filled her features. "You found them!"

"Not exactly. Someone we did not believe was still alive found them and brought them home," Shawn told her.

"Who?" Carly asked.

Shawn and Taggert smiled as a young man came from a doorway behind Carly. She turned and was shocked by the sight of the man, a man that everyone believed was dead. He was supposedly killed by the police months before. "Zander! How? How are you alive? We thought you were dead!"

Alexander Lewis-Smith laughed at the woman he had once considered a friend. "Well, Carly, it's a long story. For one, that wasn't me that died that day. That was a plant that Helena created. She brainwashed him to believe he was me. The truth was I left tow the night after my attempted overdose. Helena sent in her plant and he took over the life I left behind."

"Why did you leave?" Carly asked.

"I had been doing some investigation into my family history and I had seen something that I couldn't find the answers to. In leaving town, I was able to find out the truth about what I had seen."

"What did you find?" Taggert asked.

"I'm not the child of Cameron and Angelica Lewis. Cameron didn't even know the secret Angelica had hidden from him since the day I came into their lives. Angelica's son, the real Alexander Lewis, was stillborn. I was switched with him so that Cameron would have his son. My true mother thought that she had miscarried me. We had blood tests done at her insistence and proved that I am her son," Zander explained.

"Who is your mother?" Carly asked.

A woman came through the same door he had come through. Her long black hair was very curly. They could tell where Zander got some of his traits.

"Carly, this is my mother Holly Sutton-Scorpio," Zander said in introduction.

"Hello, Holly. It's nice to meet you," Carly said, shaking the older woman's hand.

"It's nice to meet you as well, Carly. Michael has talked about you a lot during our trip here," Holly said.

"I'm sure he has. Are they alright?" Carly asked.

"The three of them are fine. We had them checked out before we flew them home," Zander said. "After all, two of them are family to me."

"What?" Carly asked in shock.

"Carly, Zander's biological father is Luke Spencer," Holly told her.

"You're my cousin?" Carly asked.

"Yep. I couldn't believe it when I found out, but I'm glad it's true," Zander said.

"You should've seen Faith's face. It was priceless," Holly said with a laugh. "She almost had a heart attack."

"And where is Faith now?" Carly asked.

"In jail where she belongs. And this time, there will be no one busting her out. Especially a man who just gained a long lost child," Taggert said.

"Yeah. Dad definitely won't be breaking Faith out of jail this time," Zander said. At that moment, Zander opened the door behind them and Morgan and Michael came into the room with Kristina following behind them. Carly shot forward and embraced her boys and she also embraced Kristina.