Chapter Three

The next morning

Sami woke up and stretched. She gazed around the bedroom that Audrey had shown her to the night before. The room was simple, but definitely reminded her of a certain Webber girl. This was definitely Sarah's old room.

A cry from down the hall caused her to jump from the bed, grabbing her robe. She walked down the hall and saw just inside Liz's old room the crying toddler standing in his crib.

"Hey, Cam, what's wrong?" Sami asked softly as she approached. She picked him up and wrinkled her nose slightly. "Oh, I see what you need."

Sami quickly changed his diaper and when she was done, a smile lit up Cameron's face. "Oh, happy Cam! That's what you wanted! A fresh diaper and you're ready for the day!" she exclaimed as she sat down in the plush chair across the room and grabbed a book. She began to read as Cameron cuddled up to her.

Audrey appeared in the doorway a few minutes late with a smile on her face. "You can definitely tell that you've had experience with that," she said.

Sami looked up and smiled. "Yes. I love my son, but right now, he hates me and so does his father."

"No child can truly hate their parents, Sami. Liz is estranged from her parents because of the past, but she never has truly hated them," Audrey said.

"Will says he will never forgive me, Audrey. He says I destroyed his dream of having his family together and trust me, I don't blame him."

Liz continued her vigil at Lucky's bedside. She had gotten some rest in the nurses locker room when Emily had kicked her out for a while, but had come back. She didn't want to leave his side.

Sami had called and told her that she would bring Cameron to the hospital after a while. Sami was really starting to bond with Cameron as an aunt. In fact, Liz had introduced Cameron to her the day before and had called her aunt Sami.

Liz could see the sadness in her good friend's eyes and knew that Cameron could make some of that disappear.

Liz stroked Lucky's hand and occasionally lifted her hand to move a strand of hair out of Lucky's face. She was hoping that her touch would bring him the rest of the way back to them.

A knock sounded on the door and Liz turned to see two young women and a young man standing there. The one young woman definitely resembled Nikolas and Natalia, while the other young woman and young man resembled Lucky. Liz got up from her chair and let the three of them in.

"Hi. You must be Nadia, Leah, and Lance," Liz said.

"Yes. And we know who you are. It's nice to finally meet the young woman our brother always wrote about," Lance Lorenzo Spencer, Lucky's twin brother, said with a smile.

Liz smiled and shook his hand. "It's nice to meet you as well. Lucky has told me all about you, as has Nikolas."

"I hope they said good things about us," Leah Michelle Spencer said.

"Only the best," came Lucky's voice at that moment.

They all turned and saw that Lucky was awake. "Hey Lucky, welcome back!" Leah exclaimed before she ran to his side. She quickly embraced him. "I'm so glad you have proven dad and uncle Tony wrong."

Lucky smiled at his twin sister. "Well, I'm just glad that this brought all of you home," he said.

"And it's nice to be home. If only dad was on our side," Lance said before he and Lucky also embraced.

Lucky smiled as they parted and grasped Lance and Leah's hands. "Do you feel that?"

"Oh, yeah. Our connection is stronger than ever before. Of course, this is the first time we've been together in a long time and we are adults now. The last time we were together was when we were younger," Leah said.

"Yeah, we were only eight years old the last time we were together, when mom and dad felt it was safe for all of us to be together," Lance said with a smile.

"And this is the first time all seven of us are in the same town," Nadia said from behind them.

"I haven't seen Natalia yet," Lucky said.

"She's here. She's just barricading your room from the desk outside, that's all," Liz said with a smile.

Sami drove up to GH with Cameron. Liz had told her to bring him to see Lucky, which they both hoped would bring Lucky back.

She quickly parked and grabbed Cameron and headed up to the ICU with him. Cameron liked elevator rides, Sami soon learned. "Happy Cam likes riding in the elevator? Goody!" she exclaimed in a voice that made Cameron giggle.

They arrived on the ICU floor and headed down the hall to see Lucky's door was wide open and that Lucky was awake. "Hey Lucky! Glad to see you awake!"

"It's good to be awake. Now who are you?" Lucky asked.

"Guys, this is my good friend Sami Brady. I met her when I lived in Boulder and she and I, as well as her twin brother Eric, became good friends," Liz said in introduction.

"I came yesterday, knowing that Liz needed me," Sami said.

Cameron giggled from Sami's arms at that moment and Lucky's eyes brightened. "Hey buddy!" he exclaimed.

Cameron smiled as Sami brought him forward. She handed him to Liz, who took him to Lucky. Cameron kissed Lucky's cheek before smiling and saying something Liz had never heard her son say before. "Dada!"

Lucky's eyes widened, then tears filled his eyes. "Oh, Cam, I love you," he said as he took the little boy in his arms.

Cameron leaned forward in Lucky's arms and patted Lucky's cheek, repeating, "Dada! Dada! Dada!"

Liz smiled. Her little boy knew who he wanted for his father. And that person was Lucky.

Will Roberts arrived home after he spent a night at a friend's to find his dad staring out the window of the apartment. "What's up dad?"

Lucas sighed. He turned and faced his 12 year old son. "Your mom left Salem yesterday. And it doesn't look like she will be coming back."

"How do you know that?" Will asked.

Lucas handed his son the note his mother had left and Will read it, his heart sinking at her words. Had he really made his mom feel that way? Is that why she left? The note made it seem like she had given up. Had they made her feel that way?

Will sank down on the couch, devastated. He couldn't believe it. His mom had left town. She felt unwelcome in Salem. And he and his dad had made her feel like no one wanted her there.

Mom, I'm sorry. Please come home.

That night, Sami had decided that, since Lucky was now awake, that she would start to look for a job in PC. She had decided first to talk to Dr. Alan Quartermaine to find out about any openings at GH. She was waiting for him just outside his office when she heard voices down the hall. Voices that seemed to be plotting against Steven. She moved down the hall to where she could hear them better.

She figured out who the two were. Rachel Adair and Courtney Matthews. And they were discussing their plan, or rather Rachel's plan, to kill Steven. Over my dead body, bitch, she thought as she listened to them. She knew the exact time Rachel said that she supposedly had taken the fall for Steven. He had written her about it. After Courtney left, Sami moved forward and called out, "Rachel?"

"Yes?" Rachel asked as she turned around.

"Revenge is only something that should be seeked out in order to receive justice. The question in your case is, do you deserve it or are you seeking it for no reason?"

She walked away quickly and smiled. "Let's see you consider that, bitch. You are not killing Steven for no reason. The fault was yours to take, not Steven's. You are the one who made the mistake, not him."