Chapter Two
The New Spencers
Lucky gapes at Cameron after hearing him read the letter from his ex-wife. He couldn't believe it. Zander was his brother! And so was his twin sister Alexa! They were his half-siblings!
Luke also gaped at Cameron. He could hardly believe it. He had two other children, a twin daughter and son, that he just found out about that he had believed that he and Holly had lost long ago. Anger instantly filled him at that thought. Helena had stolen his children. His true eldest son, Zander, had been stolen by Helena, as well as his eldest daughter, Alexa.
"Does Zander know about this?" Lucky asked Cameron.
"I haven't told him or Alexa yet. I wanted to tell you first so that you could be warned just in case. Alexander and Alexa can both be very violent in this kind of situation," Cameron said.
"Well, I think we should tell the two of them as soon as possible as well as the rest of their family. Why don't you call them and get them here," Lucky said wisely.
"Are you sure? Don't you think that would shock them too much?" Cameron asked.
"I think Lucky is right. It is the best way to do it. Shocking them may be the only way to make them understand what we need to tell them," Luke said with a small smile.
Lucky smiled and nodded in agreement and Cameron understands instantly why he had believed that the father and son were alike and Alexander and Alexa were like them as well. Cameron could see the truth of what his wife had said. Then he realized the biggest clue of them all. Alexander's middle name was Lucas, after his true father, Luke himself. He knew his ex-wife was prone to giving clues, but such an obvious one was not the norm for her.
"I'll go get Lulu," Lucky said quickly before he got up from the table and headed out of the club.
"I'm going to call Barbara Jean. How about you call Zander and Alexa?" Luke suggested.
"Of course I will. This will be one of the hardest phone calls I will ever have to make," Cameron said with a sad sounding sigh as he took out his cell phone.
Alexa was sitting at the desk in her brother's hotel suite, going through the PC Herald, looking for a backup job just in case Zander couldn't get her a position at ELQ. Zander was sitting in an armchair, reading over some of the things that Ned had told him to work on.
The phone on the side table rang a few seconds later, knocking them both away from what they were doing. Alexa got up from her chair and picked up the phone. "Hello?"
"Alexa, is that you?" Cameron's voice came over the line.
"What do you want, daddy?" Alexa asked her father with contempt. She didn't love him like she did when she was younger.
"I need you and Alexander to come to Luke's club. There's something important I need to tell the both of you," Cameron told her.
"Why don't you just tell me what it is," Alexa said exasperated with her father. She was not really in the mood to go anywhere at the moment.
"Alexa, I'm serious. Get your brother and yourself over here. This is not something I can tell you over the phone," Cameron commanded her.
She sighed. She hated it when her father got like this. "Alright, give us ten minutes. We'll be there," Alexa said before she hung up the phone. She turned to her twin. "Dad wants us to come to Luke's club. He has something important to tell us."
"I wonder what is so important that he wants us to go to Luke's," Zander wondered, scratching his head in wonder.
"I don't know. I told him that we would be there in ten minutes," Alexa said.
"Well, let's get going and get this over with," Zander said, getting up from the chair, grabbing his jacket, and escorting his twin sister out the door of his room.
Ten minutes later, Alexa and Zander walk into Luke's club, both wondering what their father wanted to tell them. As they walked to the main room, Zander sees Luke, Lucky, Bobbie, and Lulu all sitting quietly around the room. Cameron is standing by the bar, tears in his eyes.
"Right on time. Together, you two have always been punctual," Cameron said sadly.
Neither of the twins caught his tone, instead they both glared at their father. "So dad, what do you have to tell us?" Alexa asks without preamble.
"Yeah, dad. And why are the Spencers here?" Zander asks.
"This concerns them too. Now sit down and listen. This is very serious," Cameron tells them.
Alexa and Zander sit down at one of the tables and waited for Cameron to explain.
"Yesterday, I received a letter in the mail from my ex-wife Carolina. The letter revealed the truth about Alexa and Alexander. Something that I didn't know until I read the letter," Cameron began to explain to the assembled group.
"What did the letter say?" Alexa asked. What truth about her and her brother could it be? What secret had their mother kept about them for years?
"I'll read the letter to you and you'll understand," Cameron said, unfolding the letter and he began to read it to everyone.
"Dear Cameron,
This is a hard letter for me to write, but I knew the truth had to come out about Alexander and Alexa. The truth about them that I have hidden from you for so long.
This started about two months before Alexander and Alexa were born. One day, while you were at another medical convention, I had miscarried our children. I couldn't bear to tell you that I had lost our children, our son and daughter, but I knew I would have to. But then a woman approached me. Her name was Helena and she told me she could give me what I wanted, children of my own. I asked her how and she told me that she was seeking revenge on the man who had killed her husband and that she planned on taking away his children that he was having with a lover while she held his real wife hostage and had made her marry her son. She told me to carry on like I was really pregnant and she would bring the children to me. She took the doctors in the hospital into the confidence and they agreed it was best. Her plan was just to kill the children until she came upon me.
Two months later she called me while you were out with Peter and I headed to the hospital. She told me I had two wonderful children, a son and daughter. She didn't tell me much beyond their true parents' names, Luke and Holly. She had a room set up and by the time you arrived with Peter, everything had been set up. I saw your face light up as you held first Alexander and then Alexa. You were so happy.
I haven't had contact with Helena since that day, but I did discover who she was. She was Helena Cassadine, the evil Cassadine matriarch who at the time was seeking revenge for the death of her husband Mikkos. The man she blamed for killing him I later found out was Luke Spencer of Port Charles New York. The lover was Holly Sutton-Scorpio, who now lives in Australia. Luke's wife is Laura Spencer who, last I heard from you, is in a psychiatric hospital in Europe. Luke is Alexander and Alexa's birth father and Holly is their birth mother, with Laura being their stepmother. Holly and Luke were told that she has miscarried their children, which wasn't true.
I beg of you, Cameron, tell Alexander and Alexa the truth. I know Alexa plans on leaving for Port Charles in the very near future. They deserve to know the truth about who they are. And please, tell Luke the truth as well. He has a son who he should be very proud of as well as a daughter with beauty unmatched and a mind to go with it.
I am so sorry for hurting you like this, Cameron, but you needed to know the truth.
All my love,
Carolina Lewis-Jameson"
Alexa sobbed in earnest as he finished the letter. She could hardly believe it. She and Zander weren't even Cameron's daughter. She had another family in this world. She looked around the room. This was her true family. The Spencers.
Zander was trying to hold back his tears, but not succeeding. He just couldn't believe it. He wasn't Cameron's son at all. He wasn't Peter's brother, at least not by biology. He was a Spencer! Lucky was his half-brother! Luke was his father! He turned his eyes to his true father. He could see the love, the unconditional love of a father, shining from his eyes aimed at both him and Alexa.
Zander and Alexa both rose from their chairs and headed straight for Luke, who enveloped them immediately in a hug. Lucky joined in, as did Bobbie and Lulu. The Spencer family now was closer to being complete than they ever were before. The long lost eldest Spencer children were home.
Home
The child in my eyes
Stares sometimes
When I was so much younger
HomeA place in the sun
Where memories run
I close my eyes and there I am
Home
The love remains
Through all the years
Through all the change
The sweetest dreams
I've ever known
Are those of you
And those of home
Time
The turn on a page
The love someone needs
When we were there together
Steal where ever I go
Deep in my soul
A part of me is always there
Home
The love remains
Through all the years
Through all the change
The sweetest dreams
I've ever knownAre those of you
And those of home
When you smile
And hold me in your arms
Sometimes for the moment
I'm that child again
Home
The love remains
Through all the years
Through all the change
The sweetest dreams
I've ever known
Are those of you
And those of home
Are those of you
And those of home(Home by Tiffany from the Jetsons the Movie Soundtrack)
The now larger Spencer family parted and gave each other watery smiles. Then Zander gasped in realization. "Oh my god! Why didn't I see it?"
"See what, Zander?" Lucky asked.
"My middle name is a big clue to who I am. My middle name is Lucas. I just bet I was given it on purpose," Zander said with conviction.
"Yes, it was. Carolina was always the kind of person to give hints along the way. When I had asked her why she gave you the middle name Lucas, she said it was a family name," Cameron said.
"Oh my god! Family name, alright! The name of our birth father as his middle name!" Alexa exclaimed. "That is one major clue! If only we would have realized it back then!"
"Well, sis. We had no clue that we weren't Lewises. The only one who knew was mom, or I guess I should say our foster mother," Zander said.
"You're right," Alexa said to him before turning back to both of her father's. "Cameron, I never thought that this would happen. But I am happy that it did."
Then she addresses Luke. "Well, dad, what do you say about getting our last name changed to Spencer as soon as possible," she said.
"Sounds good, sunshine," Luke said to her, already adopting a new nickname for her.
Zander could see Lucky rolling his eyes at his…their father he reminded himself. "I knew he would already create new nicknames for the both of you," he said.
"That's part of his charm, Lucky," Zander said with a smile. He then turned to Luke and gave him a look. "My nickname better not be stupid!"
"Don't worry. I'll come up with a good one for you," Luke said with a laugh.
"How about one more thing, bro?" Lucky asked with a smile. "How about we get the two of you out of the PC Hotel and into Kelly's. There are two rooms currently open. And it is a family place. Dad and aunt Bobbie own it. And I think we'd feel safer with you living in a family place."
"Give us a few days, Lucky, before we move anywhere. Give us some time to adjust, then we will move into Kelly's," Zander said with a smile.
"Yeah. Give us some time to adjust to being Spencers for a couple of days before we move into a family place," Alexa said with a smile for her younger brother.