A new face after the race
Chapter 54
The flames eventually extinguished and all that was left was a once big, wondrous warehouse was ashes and a bunch of unsearched area, where all was hoping that was where their loved ones were.
Jason held Melissa as she cried, trying his best to keep his eyes from sprouting tears. Lulu was huddled in her father crying for her supposedly lost big brother and Laura cried at his other side. Luke himself felt like doing it himself, his only son…but he didn't.
Sonny's reaction was all different though. He had never been good with grief. He usually resorted to anger and blame during times of grief so it was no surprise that was what he did this time.
He marched up to the ignorant officers who didn't believe a word Melissa, an innocent little girl, said. "You! You could have stopped this!" He roared in anger at them.
The men said nothing, deeply embarrassed; guilty they played part in people's deaths. "I will have your badges for that!" Sonny threatened and would no doubt make up to it.
They looked shocked but said nothing. Jason came with a now sleeping Melissa on his shoulder. He put his free hand, the other holding Melissa in place, and put it on one of Sonny's shoulders.
"Sonny, this is neither the time nor the place." He told Sonny. Though he never would say he and Emily had been father-daughter, that didn't mean he didn't care for her. He also has to figure out his wife. He was now a widower more than likely. He'd lost a daughter and a wife all in the same day.
Sonny looked at Jason warily, rather wanting to punch the guy in the face, but didn't. Jason was right. He'd follow out his threat later, when he was more level headed and evenly emotional.
"Why don't we go back to my penthouse?" Jason asked. "The searchers have our phone numbers; they'll call us when and if they find something." He suggested.
Sonny nodded. Little Melissa probably needed to be home as well. "Shouldn't we bring the Spencers there too? It might be wise that Lulu and Melissa have each other while this is going on." Sonny suggested right back.
"I already asked them. They're coming too." Jason informed him. Sonny nodded again, not sure what to say to that.
Soon they were at the penthouse. Melissa was sleeping in Jason's bed and soon Lulu would be joining her, when her and her mom and dad got here.
The first thing Sonny noticed was a photo of Lucky and Emily above the fireplace. They were smiling, and so in love. He sighed, holding back tears. "Lucky did tell me that he'd die for Emily. I just never thought he was being that serious, that he'd ever have to." He told Jason.
Jason took a seat on the sofa across from the fireplace. "I know me either. Early in Emily and Lucky's friendship I had no doubt they were falling in love and he'd do anything, even die, for her. I never doubted it, never, but no matter what the trouble Emily unintentionally got herself into, I thought it would never go that far myself." He sighed, still holding tears back.
Sonny turned around. "Emily was a trouble maker?" Sonny highly doubted that, but he didn't raise Emily so why would he know?
Jason shook his head. "No, she was an absolute angel; she rarely got into trouble, was any. But for some odd reason she always attracted it." Jason told Sonny.
Sonny took a seat in the separate chair. "Attracted trouble? With her looks and brains I don't doubt it." He shook his head in longing.
"Emily was always modest when it came to her looks. Guys, especially Lucky, always ended up literally drooling over them. She was a looker but never actually accepted it." Jason replied, missing her even more.
"She's modest, was modest." Sonny corrected himself. There as no solid proof that Emily was dead, but how could anyone survive that?
Silence fell and a knock sounded. Jason got up from the couch and went over to the doorway and opened it. Lulu, in Luke's arms, and Laura was by his side walked in.
Luke handed Laura the sleeping Lulu and took it upon herself to get her daughter to Jason's bedroom, where Melissa was. If there was a time in which they needed each other, it was now.
It was solemn and silent when Laura's footsteps stopped. This left the three fathers there, not sure of what to say. Silence followed but Luke made conversation. "Does anyone know why our children were in that area of Port Charles?" Luke asked, curiously.
Jason answered this one. "It was all a set up from the looks of it." Jason told him.
"A set up? As in a trap?" Luke asked. "Why?"
"I don't know, but I'll tell you what I know. I didn't tell anyone this but a few weeks ago Brenda was taken from Ferncliff." Jason told them firstly.
Luke was visibly shocked and Sonny didn't know how to react to that. Jason continued anyway. "From what Melissa told me this man, which was how he got her to go there." Jason explained Brenda's significance
"He used Brenda as a pawn? That's sick." Luke commented and no one disagreed.
"Yeah, I know but that is where this gets interesting. Next he used Melissa another pawn, to get Emily there for some reason, and of course Lucky had to follow." Jason finished. "And that's how they got in that area. I'm not sure what happened from there except Emily allowed Melissa to escape, which is how we know all that happened before." Jason came back to the present story.
A voice spoke up from the stairway "Brenda was in the warehouse too? When it went down?" She asked as she came down and sat along side her husband for comfort.
Jason nodded, not able to say anything better than allow a sob to sound. He couldn't though. He needed to be strong, he can fall apart later.
Sonny asked a hypothetical question next. "Do you think Emily and Lucky could have escaped before the warehouse came down?" He supposed, not sure what to think. He'd like to say so, but he it was just hope that his daughter and her boyfriend was alive.
Luke, Laura, and Jason shook their head. Laura started crying a little, thinking of the son she lost. Luke comforted her and answered his suggestion. "No, I know my son and as much as he is a Spencer, but no. He'd stay to help Emily, even if it cost him his life, as well as hers. I doubt Emily could handle that much more and escape and if Emily was there, so was Lucky. He'd go down with her, I'm absolutely certain of that." Luke explained.
Laura gave a full blown sob. "My poor baby boy." She hid herself in her husband's embrace.
Sonny talked some of Emily and his deepest regrets. "I only just found Emily. I was just getting to know her. I missed so many years of her life, and now…" Sonny didn't have the heart to finish the sentence.
"Emily's death wasn't unnoticed and unheeded Sonny. She saved Melissa that has to count for something." Jason tried looking the positive way.
"Yeah, I guess so." Sonny answered, with a sigh. Silence ensued once again, but no one was for conversation until his phone rang.
They all looked up with hope. The workers may have called with news, good or bad they didn't know. Sonny looked at it for a second before answering it.
"Hello?" He asked through the phone and was a little disappointed when it wasn't who he thought it was.
On the other end was Bobbie, a worried one. She had heard the news of the explosion and burnt down building. "Sonny! It's so good to see hear from you. The kids worried you were in at the scene and were hurt because of it." She told him and he took the kids as her and Michael, Morgan was probably fast asleep.
"No, I'm fine Bobbie; I was just called in near there." He calmed her worst fears.
Now Bobbie was confused. "You were called in there? Why?" She asked.
Sonny looked at Jason and Luke, and the sad Laura. He didn't see a reason why he shouldn't explain. "Because Emily was in there." He told her solemnly.
"Emily? Emily Bowen?" Bobbie asked she obviously didn't get the memo because she asked "Why were you called in because of Emily? You have no relation to her."
"Bobbie, I hate to tell you this now but Emily is my daughter." Your step granddaughter, he thought but didn't add that in to his answer.
"Daughter? How can she be your daughter? Her father's name is Scott Bowen, it says on her hospital records. I know I've seen it." Bobbie explained, obviously not believing him and at the very wrong moment. He really didn't have the time to explain it. There could be a very important call coming.
"Bobbie, I hate to be rude, but I really have to go, but I'll leave you with a quick explanation: Stepfather. Tell the kids I'm fine and I love them, okay?" Sonny said quickly and hung up.
The three other occupants looked at him warily. "Bobbie and the kids heard and feared that I was there and got hurt." He explained easily.
Everyone nodded solemnly, accepting his explanation even with the extra words in his conversation. Minutes passed and an impatient Laura stood up, not being able to take it anymore.
She marched over to Jason's phone and screamed at it. "Ring you stupid thing! Ring and tell me my son is alive, ring and tell me anything!" She broke down in sobs again; coming to her aid was Luke. He guided her back over to the couch, holding her close, embracing her again.
Sonny and Jason frowned at Laura and at each other. Sonny sighed. "I'm sorry Laura. Lucky wanted to protect my daughter and would die doing it, and I know Emily wouldn't have accepted his choice if she had the opportunity." He told her solemnly.
Laura shook his head. "It's not Emily's fault, he would have done it even if he and Emily didn't know each other. He's independent like that; he'd done it on his own accord no matter what. Like his father, he's a sucker for damsels in distresses." She comforted Sonny from across the room.
"I suppose all men are like that." Jason added to Laura's comment. No one disagreed at that either.
Sonny and Jason heard Laura's question to Luke, even through her sobs. "What is Lulu going to do Luke?" She asked, "Her big brother was one of the brightest things in her life."
"We don't know Lucky is dead Laura. He could be alive, you know us Spencers, and we can't really die." Luke tried seeing the positive point in all this. It hasn't actually been proven that he was dead, or he was hoping so. He couldn't lose his son, as couldn't Lulu or Laura.
The phone rang a few seconds after he said that. Jason looked warily at it before picking it up, reluctant and hesitant. "Hello?" He answered slowly. This could be the information that broke or made their lives.
Silence ensued for the millionth time today. "Okay, yeah, we'll be there." Jason said into the phone and hung up.
Sonny, Luke and Laura looked at him with hope. "What'd they say?" Sonny asked, almost afraid to find out what they did and might hear.
Jason opened his mouth to speak and shut it again before fully gaining the ability to say what he was going to say. "They said…."
Author's note: (Ducks as a vase comes flying) I know, I shouldn't have done it, but I had to! Thanks for reviewing, and as much as I hate to do this, these next few weeks are going to be very busy for me, so I can't promise a quick update. (ducks again as another vase comes flying) you might have to wait a few weeks maximum to find out what the short conversation was about. And I'm going to leave it as that, because were seriously running out of vases here….