A new face after the race
Chapter 30
Lucky stepped inside the house and immediately felt the warmth. It was a cozy looking living room. Two sofas a wood table separating them. IT had a nice brick fireplace with pictures on top of it. Another wood table was on the opposite side, and again filled with pictures of a blonde and two boys. His children and wife, Lucky guessed.
There was a dark hallway behind the living room, where more rooms were held. But that didn't matter. He was here for Emily. He had to concentrate on that.
Sonny invited him to sit and Lucky did. Sonny sat across him on the other sofa. "What's your name?" He started, not sure what to call this stranger.
"Call me Lucky, and before you ask it's a nickname." Lucky couldn't stand another question on his real name.
"I see, so Lucky. You say my daughter lives in New York." Sonny said, not acting like he totally believes him, but that he expected.
"Yes, Port Charles to be exact. It's a small town, near Manhattan and New York City." Lucky answered, describing the small town's location.
"I take it your from there as well?" Sonny guessed correctly.
"Yes, I do. It's not widely-known, I know." Lucky explained because Sonny probably thought this was all a joke and he was a good actor. Why he would be joking, he wouldn't know, but it wasn't his home and mind.
"You probably think I'm acting cold, but it's not like that. When Paige and Emily disappeared, I hired a private investigator and paid him big money to find them. He came back with no news. Then I hear crazy stories occasionally, and it tears me apart, from him. But out of them all, you seem to be more believable. No one knows all the details." Sonny explained and Lucky nodded in response. "And I don't want another broken heart. To hear one more of incorrect story…" Sonny stopped, knowing he made the point.
"I understand that Mr. Corinthos, but I'm really not joking. What if I describe what she looks like? Would you trust me that I'm really not making this up?" Lucky offered.
"Call me Sonny." The man offered. "It has been years since I've seen her, so I really have no idea how much she's changed, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt."
"She has dark brown hair. It falls down to above her middle of her back. She has a small nose, and inadequate ears, a pale reflection, but not deathly. She has brown eyes that seem like you can see through her, and she's skinny, needing to put on a few pounds, but can't." Lucky stopped, not sure what to comment on what's left which would be curves and legs, which would be disrespectable.
Sonny had taken out a rumpled photo that looked well-aged and wrinkled, possibly discolored. He said nothing for a moment. "I believe you. No one could lie about Emily's eyes." Sonny appreciated he had enough common sense not to go in detail of other areas.
Lucky didn't know what to say. So he said nothing. He watched as Sonny walked to the fireplace and picked up a photo. He brought it over and handed it to Lucky. It was of a woman, with a clear complexion, smiling, and happy. She had dark hair and was a beautiful woman.
"This is my first wife, Lily. I was married to her when I had that one night stand with Paige. It created Emily. I thought I wouldn't hear of it again, after the next day when we woke up to each other. But, it didn't. I didn't tell my wife, too scared I guess. Then she came two months later, saying she's pregnant. I was still young, though married. I thought it would be the end of the world if I lost Lily.
"So I denied that it was mine, it worked for a while, but the truth finally hit. I was married and created a child out of marriage. I destroyed my marriage vows and couldn't hurt Lily with that knowledge, so I told Paige I wanted nothing to do with the child. Paige didn't expect me to anyway, so we made a deal, she kept quiet and I paid for the doctor bills and gave some child support secretly. My wife never had a clue.
"It continued that way, long after Emily was born. I gave money, she didn't tell my wife I had done wrong. Then I delivered the check myself after, close to two years. I wanted to see how Emily was doing, I owed her that much. She was my daughter. I knocked on the door, and a little girl answered the door, my little girl. The one I rejected.
"She was the cutest and prettiest little thing in the world. It tore at my heart not to say I'm your dad, but I managed to ask for Paige. Emily called for 'mommy'. She had a great and loud voice, for being so shy and quiet. Paige came, alarmed to see me. She sent Emily away, to get ready for bed.
"She went away and we talked. I handed her the money and told Paige that Lily was pregnant, with a boy. A son. I was so happy and wanted her to tell Emily that she was going to be a big sister, half-way anyway. Paige was happy for me, but told me Emily would never know me; wouldn't know that she was going to have a half-sibling.
"Then I heard the news of my wife's car accident. She and my son were dead. My whole world was lost. I went through all the funeral and arrangements for my wife and unborn, never to be born, son. It was hard, but I realized what a mistake I made, rejecting Emily. She was still a secret to my in-laws and my family.
"I always wanted to be a father. Have children, that was why I and Lily married so early in our lives. And then my little boy was lost, leaving the child I rejected because of fear. I decided to be a father to her, Paige wouldn't have it, and who could blame her? I thought money would cover fatherhood. I was young and deluded. So I kind of tried stealing movements, stupid me. Paige was a good mother and told Emily not to talk to strangers, though she knew I was her no good father.
"Then she disappeared and my search ended eventually, when I met Carly. I moved on reluctantly." Sonny finished the story of what happened between Paige and him.
"Your second wife." Lucky answered himself out loud.
"Yeah, we have two boys. Michael is technically my stepson, but I think of him as my own. Carly had had an affair with someone and he was the result. My youngest son just turned one, his name is Morgan." Sonny explained his family.
"They don't know they have a big sister." Lucky observed how Sonny skipped her name when it came to them.
"No, not even Carly. I didn't have the heart to tell her, the pain was too raw. It's a secret, and I thought the worst, so I didn't see the use of telling my sons. They would probably have loved the knowledge though. Michael always wanted a big sister or brother." Sonny replied.
"Where is your wife and sons, I'm sure you wouldn't be saying this if they were around." Lucky asked, noting that part of 'secret'.
"At Carly's parents' house. Her mom is having some health problems and Carly is helping keeping the fort there, and thought the kids would like to see grandma." Sonny responded.
"I see." Lucky said. "Can I ask your blood type?" He asked out of the blue, but it needed to be asked, that was why he was here.
"My blood type?" Sonny asked, confused. "Why do you need to know? What kind of question is that?"
"It's an odd question, but it's about Emily, I was curious if you shared the same blood type." Lucky said truthfully, praying Emily got her blood from her father.
"What type of blood does she have?" Sonny asked reminding Lucky he left that part out.
"O negative." Lucky told him and Sonny nodded, givinghim hope.
"We do. I always thought that was strange, Emily is so much her mother." Sonny told him.
Lucky smiled, he had never met her, but he believed it. "Can you afford to go on a small trip?" He managed to ask, wanting to be this carefree, but Emily was counting on him and O negative blood. Sonny's blood type, just as he hoped. Maybe there was a god.
"A small trip? When, now? Is that why you came to find me? To find out my blood type." Sonny asked, feeling a bit used.
"Yeah, I would love to go into detail, but time is of the essence." Lucky described the hurry.
"Time is of the essence? Did something happen to Emily? Does that something tie in with your question of blood types?" Sonny asked, now worried a little.
"Like I said time is of the essence, could I explain on the way to the airport?" Lucky offered knowing time was running out fast. He could feel it in his gut. Emily was leaving this world and the person he found could help, but only if they get in there in time.
Sonny took his serious look of dread and agreed reluctantly, grabbing a few quick essentials. He locked up and Lucky drove to the airport, while telling Sonny of Emily's hit and run, her internal bleeding, and that there was little help available.
They got on the plane, and told the pilot to step on it. They lounged in the back, impatient and worried. Sonny tried comforting it with questions of Emily.
"Where did Paige and Emily go?" Sonny asked, curious.
"I don't know, but I'm thinking Arizona. Paige got evicted and made her way there, for a new start I suppose. There she met a Scott Bowen and they eventually married." Lucky told him of what he knew.
"Is that a guess?" Sonny asked.
"Yeah, Emily is quiet about her past, I found about that stuff and you from Emily's diary." He told them reluctantly. Who knows what Sonny was thinking?
"You looked in my daughter's diary for answers? That's invasion of privacy." Sonny told him.
"I know, Emily is probably going to kill me, but I was desperate and I would be happy to be killed, knowing Emily was alive." Lucky told him the truth.
"Desperate, yeah, I'd say so. You tracked down a stranger just to find the same blood type, just so you could have my daughter live and kill you." Sonny asked, having trouble believing this crazy story.
"Its crazy, but I'd do anything for her, even act like the complete fool, something I don't like doing usually." Lucky responded, praying they got to General Hospital in time.
"You must love my daughter a lot then." Sonny figured out he was the boyfriend by now. He spoke of Emily as if she was the greatest treasure in the world. If that didn't clue him in the running to Utah for help, invading her privacy, and running on adrenaline, would have. Besides he was in the same age range his daughter would be in.
"I'd die for her." Lucky told him, dead serious, and Sonny was happy for his daughter. She found love and happiness, total protection.
They soon got to the airport, speeding towards the hospital. They parked quickly, entered and made way to where Jason, Elizabeth, and hopefully the doctor were. Elizabeth was crying softly on Jason's shoulder, while Jason comforted her as much as he could, run his hands through her hair.
He looked at Lucky with hatred for the moment, before turning to stare at the stranger that Lucky was with.
"Lucky, who is this man?" He let go that Lucky left, ditching Emily at her time of need, for the moment.
"Someone who can help." He said vaguely. "Where's the doctor?" He asked, looking around, praying he was around.
"In the room, trying to do all they can, but its, her time's ending." Jason stuttered, keeping his tears as best as he could.
"I hope not. This is Sonny Corinthos, he's Emily's biological father. They share the same blood type." Lucky gave him an 'I'll tell you later' look.
The doctor took this opportunity to come out. "Jason, Emily will be…Lucky, back so soon? With help? Elizabeth told me you might have some." Lucky smiled, Elizabeth took his message well, not that he should have doubted it.
"Yeah, he shares the same blood type as Emily's. I was hoping that could help." Lucky explained and Sonny still stayed quiet.
"That true?" The doctor asked Sonny.
"Yeah, we do. How can I help? I want to help my daughter." He said desperately. He had just found his daughter; he can't lose her at the same time too.
"I need blood, care to give up some?" The doctor asked, hoping for Lucky, Jason, and Elizabeth's sake he is.
"I'll give up as much that is needed." He told the doctor in all seriously.
"Come this way, fast, we need it fast." He told the urgency and Sonny followed.
Jason looked at Lucky. "I hope this works, or else……" Jason didn't need to finish the sentence.
Lucky nodded and looked at the room door. Emily had to pull through. He'd be lost without her; lost, never to be found again.
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