A new face after the race
Chapter 28
Lucky started looking for a name right away. Surely, Emily would have it written down. He just hoped it wouldn't be that difficult, for Emily's sake.
Looking towards the end of the diary, Lucky found one more mention of her real father, but that was all.
I was out with Lucky again today, not that that is common, seeing he is my boyfriend. Surprises me he still is actually, I should have dumped him long ago, but I never will, I know in my heart cause he is my heart. To take him away would break it, never to be healed again.
Lucky felt a sharp pain from reading that entry. He had made so much pain and misery for Emily. He felt extremely guilty for that and made a promise for the future hurts. "I promise Emily, when you get better and in the future I will never put such hurt on you again, as long as I live."
Lucky would live on that, and if he broke it he would hurt himself as much as her. Not wanting to get distracted, Lucky continued reading.
Silently, when I looked in Lucky's eyes, curiosity about the thing I didn't want to tell him, it was there. He wanted the truth, but kept silent about his wants, it's too bad that he can't ever know. Its enough for him to know of my abuse, but to get that personal, for him to know I'm not who I really am, I can't take the chance of him leaving me. I can't, I just can't so I will have to stay quiet.
Lucky sighed softly. Had he put that much doubt in Emily, that she wouldn't tell him that? He didn't care who Emily was, he knew and loved her because of it. But he's obviously put little faith in himself when it came to Emily.
Lucky decided to leave that behind him for the moment. He'd think and make better when Emily was breathing and doing well. Now he desperately needed a name.
Lucky decided to look back from the beginning, when Emily started remembering all two yrs ago, the real father must have come up, he determined.
Lucky turned to the first page, knowing Emily's biological father wouldn't be mentioned yet, because she was just starting at that time, but was curious about how the first session went. Maybe he was mentioned.
Today was my first session and my psychologist urged me to keep a diary or journal of some sort. It'd help me get through it, she reasoned. I almost scoffed at her, but strong memories came at me as soon as I left. Lucky was my ride home and was waiting outside when it all happened. He kindly asked if I was alright and if I needed to see anyone, a doctor perhaps. I quickly said no, almost too fast. I was a bit dizzy, and Lucky was worried and insisted I get help. I quickly dismissed the idea again and just said I needed to come home. Lucky didn't push and did as I said and stuck around a bit until he knew I was okay, for the moment anyway.
Lucky smiled at the memory. Emily had come out pretty unbalanced and he admits it scared him. Emily had only recently got out of the hospital after that episode. They were far in becoming a true couple at that point though. At that moment he was just a friend with benefits one might say.
Lucky continued looking through the pages, not paying too much attention. He was invading Emily's privacy as it was. No need to make Emily any angrier if he read her past stories. That's something she would never forgive him for; despite he was doing it to save her life.
He passed a few more pages, lightly skimming them for a mention. He found one.
I should be sleeping, but no, I just had to relieve probably one of the worst things of my past.
Emily sounded a bit angry and impatient, Lucky found, but didn't let that stop him for long. He went back to reading almost immediately.
I was sleeping peacefully until a dream came upon my deep sleep. Usually you don't remember them, but this was a memory, there's a difference. I see no need to get into the differences so I will move on.
Anyway, as I was saying it was a memory. I was huddled as if I was trying not to be seen. I must have been young, a toddler I say for I couldn't see so high, meaning I was short, shorter than I was now. My mom was there and a man I couldn't identify until I truly concentrated, and then I did I remembered seeing him before. They were arguing I didn't know until I heard my name mentioned. I started hearing their conversation from there.
"I want to see my daughter." The man argued, and I took it that 'my daughter' meant me so this was about me I found out.
"You didn't want to see our daughter when your wife and son were alive." Paige (my mom) argued right back.
"That was then, this is now." The man replied as if he was the common egotistical male, which I have no doubt he was.
"I'm talking then. You had no care for our child once you found out your wife was pregnant, then all of a sudden, she's dead as is your son and now you want to get to know that precious baby girl you sired?" Paige responded right back, pointing out his rejection of his basted, his illegitimate child, me.
He didn't deny it. "This is different." He reasoned.
"No it isn't. You're trying to replace my child with the one you lost. Well, guess what? She's not going to be your son." My mom said.
"I never said she would or could. I miss my little boy, I won't deny that. But it opened my eyes. I can't choose one child or the other." He stuck up for himself.
"Give me one reason to believe you." Paige compromised.
"I don't have a wife anymore. I miss her, but I don't love her anymore. I was about to ask for a divorce when she announced her pregnancy." He explained.
"And were you then going to explain about her stepdaughter? The one you said needed not to know of our one night, which created that beautiful baby down the hall." Paige continued her reasoning as why she wasn't let him near me.
"Well, no. I didn't want her to use it against me if she fought me for custody, not that that will happen anymore." The man admitted sheepishly.
"Well, guess what? The only way you are going to get to know that little girl is if you go to the judge for custody. My daughter and I won't be second; I won't let us or her be your second chance. You had your chance, now you lost it." Paige announced.
"Take this to court? You will bury me in court with the knowledge that I totally rejected our child since you told me of your pregnancy." The man reasoned.
"That's your problem, now isn't it?" Paige scoffed.
The man left with a hopeless sigh.
The strong entry left itself there and left Lucky there speechless, and jaw dropped. A strong conversation, that was. A strong memory and he wasn't there to help her through it.
Sometimes he really hated how Emily kept all this stuff inside. Lucky looked at the date. Yep, he thought. Emily was extremely closed off the next day.
Lucky let a sigh come and he continued with his searching. It wasn't until a few minutes more when he found something that could help him.
I thought of him again. The guy had the guts to come to me when I was playing alone at the park, the memory was. He sat next to me on the other swing, a bit too big, but he managed to fit.
"Hey." He greeted me and I stayed quiet. My mom taught me not to talk to strangers. Though he wasn't technically a stranger, but he was an unknown person nonetheless.
He introduced himself as Sonny Corinthos. The name meant nothing to me. It was then I saw my mom coming to pick me up. She didn't see 'Sonny' until she was half way to me. She stopped when she did and when shock passed, she walked faster and came to me, taking my hand quickly, picking me and taking me away in a hurry. She only gave the man a cold glare.
Lucky yelped in triumph. It was a name. He found a name. He wasn't positive that it would work, but he found a name nonetheless.
He launched up Emily's computer and logged onto the internet, searching records for a Sonny Corinthos. He thankfully found no criminal records. He didn't want to search for a criminal, no matter how desperate he was.
He looked elsewhere. He looked at the list of deaths, though he thoroughly wished that he wasn't dead for he was their only hope, but there was always a chance, he reasoned. Lucky a relieved sigh to find that he wasn't
Now he looked at personal records. He typed in the last name Corinthos, reasoning that Sonny might not even be his first name. He was right. There was a short list of people with the last name Corinthos. None with the first name Sonny.
Lucky used the little knowledge that he had the fact that he was married and a man. Lucky went through them, looking at every single detail. Half of the list was single with no former marriage, no divorce, and no known kids so Lucky cut those out of his search, leaving him with three women and three men.
Lucky checked out the females records first. The first name was Mary Annabelle Corinthos. She lived in Greece and had two children, girls. Her husband was a traveling salesman.
Lucky didn't count her out of the possibilities, for she might be Emily's stepmother for all he knew. He checked out the other two women and upon further investigation, he realized that they might have something to do with Emily's father, so he kept them as possibilities as well.
Lucky moved onto the guys. Lucky first checked out the age since that was important as well, a Robert Anthony Corinthos was too old to be Emily's father, so he was marked off as a possibility.
The other two men followed out with all he knew. So here he was stuck with three women and two men.
Lucky decided to look at the women again first. After looking at some dates, he found Mary not to be a match, so the genders were equal once again.
Lucky clicked back to the index page and clicked on a Lily Corinthos. He couldn't find anything that wouldn't work with his information. He went back to the index page again and clicked on her. Her name was Caroline Benson Quartermaine Corinthos. She was previously married and had two kids from the sound of things. She took her husbands' names.
Lucky didn't see a connection between these two particular women and the man he was looking for, so he studied the two remaining men. He looked for nicknames, for he assumed Sonny would be one. There was no such list on either.
Lucky decided to go from a different angle. He was going to look at deaths. He found out of all four candidates that could help him that one was dead.
The name was Lily Corinthos. She was pregnant with a boy when she died. Cause of death, car accident. Wasn't that what happened to Emily's apparent Stepmother? The one she didn't know exist because her father feared if he had another child and his wife left him; that he'd lose hope to ever see that child?
Yep, it appeared to be that way. Lucky looked over to see the husband's name. Michael Corinthos. Or was it Michael "Sonny" Corinthos? He wondered.
So this looked to be like Emily's father, Lucky concluded. He was in his early forties and was married again to, what do you know, Caroline Corinthos. So Emily had half-siblings.
Lucky didn't concentrate on anything else or search anymore. He knew in his gut this was the man he was looking for; the one person who could save Emily's life with a small blood transfusion.
Author's note: Yes, that is who is coming to town. But I'm saying this now; it's not going to be like on General hospital. He will not be a mob leader, and yes he is married to Carly, that hasn't changed. I will inform you of any other changes I will make, because this is my story and in my story there will be little mob, its over-obsessing general hospital as it is.
Anyway, Merry Christmas, this is my gift to you. Expect a chapter of an angel wronged soon. I haven't exactly figured out what to put in my next chapter just yet, so I couldn't make the deadline someone wanted. Sorry. Reviews welcome and appreciated.