Eric woke up alone. When he couldn't find Greta in the room, for a moment
he thought that he dreamed everything up. All traces of his late night
visitor were gone, except that her blood was on the sheets and her perfumed
lingered in the air. Last night was reality and not fiction, even if he
more questions than answers.
She had led them to the bed before he asked her in between kisses, "Are you sure?"
She continued to touch him as she whispered back, "I am no longer a child. I know what I want."
Until last night Greta was a virgin. But instead of waking up beside her, holding her, he woke up alone.
He quickly dressed and went down stairs intending to find a way to get to her. The doorman stopped him and asked in broken English, "You are the American trying to find the Princess, yes?"
Eric stopped, hoping this man knew where Greta disappeared to last night. He said, "Yes. Is she here? Did she leave a message?"
The doorman looked confused before telling him, "Non.no. I thought you would like to know that the Princess left for Paris this morning with the wedding party for the wedding."
The wedding! She was still getting married? He said, "But the wedding isn't for another 3 weeks."
The doorman shrugged like a Frenchman before he replied, "Oui. But weddings of that size take planning, I'm sure."
Eric repeated, "And the wedding party already left town?"
The doorman stated, "They left early this morning." ~*~
In the next few days, Lucas and Sami lived on delivery, never leaving the apartment. Sami was frustrated that her plan to seduce Lucas wasn't working. She knew that he wanted her, but he stopped himself every time. If she didn't know him so well, she'd wonder if there was another woman. But he kept finding little ways to touch her, hold her, make her smile. He would do something so simple, like go get the morning paper and make her breakfast, and she'd find a flower tucked under something. They also spent their time discussing the semantics of getting Carrie to Paris. Things were going pretty well, but at night, Lucas seemed to go to sleep awfully fast, almost like he was afraid of her when the lights went off. It wasn't acknowledged, but each one was building up lots of tension. The tension relieved itself a little while either scheming together about Carrie and Austin or unknowingly scheming to get together themselves. The plan that they were working on together seemed perfect except getting Carrie to Paris unaware. It wasn't until they left their apartment to go to the Brady pub for lunch that they caught up on family gossip.
The walked into the pub linked together arm in arm, intending to show the world that they were happy newlyweds, even if the marriage bed was pure as snow. Shawn Brady shouted out happily as the door closed behind them, "Welcome! Let me see my granddaughter's happy face now that she's a married lady, ehh!"
Sami turned red as Lucas chuckled. She slowly went to her grandfather for a hug. Lucas stood in the background until Shawn told him, "Get over here and hug your old grandpa. You're family now too."
It was Sami's turn to laugh. Lucas was not expecting that at all, which was clear as day from the shocked expression on his face. As she laughed Carrie tapped Sami on the shoulder to ask, "Sami, have you talked to Eric lately?"
Sami turned around confused to reply, "No. He hasn't called me lately, not even to congratulate me."
Carrie told her, "Grandma Evans said that he skipped town sometime last week after reading something in her newspaper."
Sami was about to ask what could have been in the paper when Lucas joined the conversation, after escaping his new grandfather's hug. He put his arm around her waist as he said, "Greta's royal wedding was in all the papers last week. She was mad at Nathan for releasing the news because now her wedding is going to be some media circus."
Sami asked Carrie, "What if he needs our help?"
Carrie asked, "You don't think he's in Paris, do you?"
Sami stepped on Lucas' toe to stop him from smirking, just in case before she said, "If he is in Paris, we should go get him. The last time Greta threw him out, Eric decided to race a train, almost killing himself because he hurt her."
Carrie asked since no one ever told her these things when she left town, "Why?"
Lucas answered, "Greta caught Eric having sex with Nicole and saying that he loved her."
Out of no where Nicole Walker joined the conversation and said, "Eric loved me."
Sami whipped around wanting to slay Nicole then and there, but Lucas held her waist as he said, "If he loved you so much, why is he chasing Greta?"
Sami's anger turned towards Lucas. How dare he tell Nicole where Eric was?!? Lucas continued to hold onto Sami's waist as he told Nicole, "Seems to me if the guy really loved you, he'd stick around."
Nicole rolled her eyes and said, "Like you did with Sami? Give me a break! But in a way you're right. I'll go find him and remind him of our love."
Nicole walked away and Sami steamed, "Great now we just set Eric up with the Black Widow."
Carrie said, "If you are really worried about Eric, I'll go to Paris and search him out. Dad would want us to pull together."
Sami realized that Lucas just set that in motion. Yeah she was formulating her way to guilt Carrie into searching for Eric a minute ago, but he used Nicole to help transition her layer of guilt. Sami turned around and kissed Lucas on his cheek in front of everyone in the pub. Lucas tried his best to hold his emotions in check. He slowly asked, "What was that for?"
She followed her impulse, that's what happened. But since they were in front of people, she smiled before replying, "I want you to agree that we'll leave early too...to search for Eric."
He started to say aloud, "But how." he was going to say get Austin to Paris earlier, but he caught himself. Instead he finished, "I thought we were staying at the apartment with no interruptions."
Shawn Sr. patted Lucas on the back and said, "Now son you have the rest of your lives together. Your wife wants your help making sure her brother is safe."
Lucas was not used to family advice at all. He felt foolish and awkward, but he managed to say, "You just ruined my scheme for her promise to make up for the time later."
Everyone laughed. Sami looked at Lucas trying to figure out if that was the truth. Shawn Sr. replied, "I'm sure my granddaughter is more than eager for another little one, so I wouldn't worry."
Sami almost choked. Her family never laughed with her. But now here she was in the middle of her family, laughing. She stopped her laughter long enough to say, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Grandpa."
Shawn shot right back, "Get ahead of ourselves? Will's ten years old. He's overdue for a brother or sister, I'd say."
John and Marlena entered the pub and saw the laughter and joking going on at the bar with Carrie, Sami, Lucas and Shawn. Marlena also noticed that Sami's face was bright red from embarrassment. John and Marlena walked over to the group, and asked, "What's going on?"
Carrie replied, "Grandpa is having fun teasing Sami and Lucas about grandchildren."
Marlena gasped in shock to ask, "Sami, are you pregnant?"
The laughter left Sami immediately. She was angry and replied, "Why? No guy would marry me if I wasn't pregnant, right? Is that what you're saying?"
Before Marlena could reply, Sami stormed out. Lucas picked up her jacket and quickly followed after her. He caught her outside and put her jacket on her without saying anything. When she calmed down she said, "I'm sorry for freaking out like that when we were just getting Carrie to agree to."
He finished her sentenced to say, "She already agreed. Now I just have to find a way of getting Austin to Paris earlier than expected."
She nodded her head in agreement and followed him into the car before finally saying, "You'll think of something. I have faith in you, which is something my mother clearly will never have in me."
He leaned over in his seat and said, "Your mom was shocked. I'm sure she didn't mean to offend you."
She started to whisper, "I want to believe you but." Instead of finishing letting her finish her sentence he leaned over and kissed her.
She wrapped her arms around him. She needed him right now. She hadn't realized just how much she needed him until he kissed her. God, if she knew that one kiss from him could wipe away old insecurities, someone should have told her years ago. But just when the kiss was turning into something more, someone knocked on her window. She broke away from the kiss and saw her mother standing in the parking lot. Sami gave Lucas a panicked look before getting back out. Lucas stepped out of the car as well.
Sami asked her mom, "What do you want mom?"
Marlena said, "I wanted to apologize to you, and you forgot your takeout."
Sami asked her, "You wanted to apologize to me?"
Marlena fixed Sami's hair a little before answering, "I guess I'm not so good at teasing you like your grandfather is. Why wasn't I invited to your wedding? You know that I always want to be there for you."
Sami honestly hadn't thought about how her scheme to marry Lucas would affect others. She had no quick answer to give her mom. However, Lucas said, "We just wanted some alone time before having a big wedding, Marlena. We didn't want to invite anyone till then."
` Marlena told her daughter, "I know that now. We're the ones that should apologize for crashing your romantic idea. It's just that I wanted to be there for you on your big day, my sweet girl."
Sami hugged her mom and said, "Everything will be fine mom, you'll see."
Marlena hugged her back and said, "I finally think you'll be happy and that's all that matters."
Sami thought about her scheme to reunite Austin and Carrie as well as her new plan to save Eric from disaster before she exclaimed, "We'll all be fine."
Marlena pulled back from hugging her daughter to tell Lucas, "Watch over my little girl."
Lucas flashbacked to seeing Sami almost died because he didn't speak up. He couldn't speak from the disgust that built up in his stomach. He even remembered toasting Sami's demise with his mom. The only response Lucas could give to Marlena was a nod before he stepped back into the car.
Sami saw that he was in pain. She said, "I got to go, mom."
Marlena gave Sami the bag of food saying, "Don't forget your dinner."
Lucas turned the car on like he had to go. Sami jumped into the passenger seat and let him drive home in silence.
When they went back to their apartment, she put the food down and tried to have a conversation with him. She asked, "Need my help planning Austin's early arrival."
He wasn't really ready to face Sami at the moment. He was at a loss to understand how she could even talk to him. He shook his head no and answered quietly, "I'll take care of it right now."
Lucas walked into the bedroom and made a phone call.
She had led them to the bed before he asked her in between kisses, "Are you sure?"
She continued to touch him as she whispered back, "I am no longer a child. I know what I want."
Until last night Greta was a virgin. But instead of waking up beside her, holding her, he woke up alone.
He quickly dressed and went down stairs intending to find a way to get to her. The doorman stopped him and asked in broken English, "You are the American trying to find the Princess, yes?"
Eric stopped, hoping this man knew where Greta disappeared to last night. He said, "Yes. Is she here? Did she leave a message?"
The doorman looked confused before telling him, "Non.no. I thought you would like to know that the Princess left for Paris this morning with the wedding party for the wedding."
The wedding! She was still getting married? He said, "But the wedding isn't for another 3 weeks."
The doorman shrugged like a Frenchman before he replied, "Oui. But weddings of that size take planning, I'm sure."
Eric repeated, "And the wedding party already left town?"
The doorman stated, "They left early this morning." ~*~
In the next few days, Lucas and Sami lived on delivery, never leaving the apartment. Sami was frustrated that her plan to seduce Lucas wasn't working. She knew that he wanted her, but he stopped himself every time. If she didn't know him so well, she'd wonder if there was another woman. But he kept finding little ways to touch her, hold her, make her smile. He would do something so simple, like go get the morning paper and make her breakfast, and she'd find a flower tucked under something. They also spent their time discussing the semantics of getting Carrie to Paris. Things were going pretty well, but at night, Lucas seemed to go to sleep awfully fast, almost like he was afraid of her when the lights went off. It wasn't acknowledged, but each one was building up lots of tension. The tension relieved itself a little while either scheming together about Carrie and Austin or unknowingly scheming to get together themselves. The plan that they were working on together seemed perfect except getting Carrie to Paris unaware. It wasn't until they left their apartment to go to the Brady pub for lunch that they caught up on family gossip.
The walked into the pub linked together arm in arm, intending to show the world that they were happy newlyweds, even if the marriage bed was pure as snow. Shawn Brady shouted out happily as the door closed behind them, "Welcome! Let me see my granddaughter's happy face now that she's a married lady, ehh!"
Sami turned red as Lucas chuckled. She slowly went to her grandfather for a hug. Lucas stood in the background until Shawn told him, "Get over here and hug your old grandpa. You're family now too."
It was Sami's turn to laugh. Lucas was not expecting that at all, which was clear as day from the shocked expression on his face. As she laughed Carrie tapped Sami on the shoulder to ask, "Sami, have you talked to Eric lately?"
Sami turned around confused to reply, "No. He hasn't called me lately, not even to congratulate me."
Carrie told her, "Grandma Evans said that he skipped town sometime last week after reading something in her newspaper."
Sami was about to ask what could have been in the paper when Lucas joined the conversation, after escaping his new grandfather's hug. He put his arm around her waist as he said, "Greta's royal wedding was in all the papers last week. She was mad at Nathan for releasing the news because now her wedding is going to be some media circus."
Sami asked Carrie, "What if he needs our help?"
Carrie asked, "You don't think he's in Paris, do you?"
Sami stepped on Lucas' toe to stop him from smirking, just in case before she said, "If he is in Paris, we should go get him. The last time Greta threw him out, Eric decided to race a train, almost killing himself because he hurt her."
Carrie asked since no one ever told her these things when she left town, "Why?"
Lucas answered, "Greta caught Eric having sex with Nicole and saying that he loved her."
Out of no where Nicole Walker joined the conversation and said, "Eric loved me."
Sami whipped around wanting to slay Nicole then and there, but Lucas held her waist as he said, "If he loved you so much, why is he chasing Greta?"
Sami's anger turned towards Lucas. How dare he tell Nicole where Eric was?!? Lucas continued to hold onto Sami's waist as he told Nicole, "Seems to me if the guy really loved you, he'd stick around."
Nicole rolled her eyes and said, "Like you did with Sami? Give me a break! But in a way you're right. I'll go find him and remind him of our love."
Nicole walked away and Sami steamed, "Great now we just set Eric up with the Black Widow."
Carrie said, "If you are really worried about Eric, I'll go to Paris and search him out. Dad would want us to pull together."
Sami realized that Lucas just set that in motion. Yeah she was formulating her way to guilt Carrie into searching for Eric a minute ago, but he used Nicole to help transition her layer of guilt. Sami turned around and kissed Lucas on his cheek in front of everyone in the pub. Lucas tried his best to hold his emotions in check. He slowly asked, "What was that for?"
She followed her impulse, that's what happened. But since they were in front of people, she smiled before replying, "I want you to agree that we'll leave early too...to search for Eric."
He started to say aloud, "But how." he was going to say get Austin to Paris earlier, but he caught himself. Instead he finished, "I thought we were staying at the apartment with no interruptions."
Shawn Sr. patted Lucas on the back and said, "Now son you have the rest of your lives together. Your wife wants your help making sure her brother is safe."
Lucas was not used to family advice at all. He felt foolish and awkward, but he managed to say, "You just ruined my scheme for her promise to make up for the time later."
Everyone laughed. Sami looked at Lucas trying to figure out if that was the truth. Shawn Sr. replied, "I'm sure my granddaughter is more than eager for another little one, so I wouldn't worry."
Sami almost choked. Her family never laughed with her. But now here she was in the middle of her family, laughing. She stopped her laughter long enough to say, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Grandpa."
Shawn shot right back, "Get ahead of ourselves? Will's ten years old. He's overdue for a brother or sister, I'd say."
John and Marlena entered the pub and saw the laughter and joking going on at the bar with Carrie, Sami, Lucas and Shawn. Marlena also noticed that Sami's face was bright red from embarrassment. John and Marlena walked over to the group, and asked, "What's going on?"
Carrie replied, "Grandpa is having fun teasing Sami and Lucas about grandchildren."
Marlena gasped in shock to ask, "Sami, are you pregnant?"
The laughter left Sami immediately. She was angry and replied, "Why? No guy would marry me if I wasn't pregnant, right? Is that what you're saying?"
Before Marlena could reply, Sami stormed out. Lucas picked up her jacket and quickly followed after her. He caught her outside and put her jacket on her without saying anything. When she calmed down she said, "I'm sorry for freaking out like that when we were just getting Carrie to agree to."
He finished her sentenced to say, "She already agreed. Now I just have to find a way of getting Austin to Paris earlier than expected."
She nodded her head in agreement and followed him into the car before finally saying, "You'll think of something. I have faith in you, which is something my mother clearly will never have in me."
He leaned over in his seat and said, "Your mom was shocked. I'm sure she didn't mean to offend you."
She started to whisper, "I want to believe you but." Instead of finishing letting her finish her sentence he leaned over and kissed her.
She wrapped her arms around him. She needed him right now. She hadn't realized just how much she needed him until he kissed her. God, if she knew that one kiss from him could wipe away old insecurities, someone should have told her years ago. But just when the kiss was turning into something more, someone knocked on her window. She broke away from the kiss and saw her mother standing in the parking lot. Sami gave Lucas a panicked look before getting back out. Lucas stepped out of the car as well.
Sami asked her mom, "What do you want mom?"
Marlena said, "I wanted to apologize to you, and you forgot your takeout."
Sami asked her, "You wanted to apologize to me?"
Marlena fixed Sami's hair a little before answering, "I guess I'm not so good at teasing you like your grandfather is. Why wasn't I invited to your wedding? You know that I always want to be there for you."
Sami honestly hadn't thought about how her scheme to marry Lucas would affect others. She had no quick answer to give her mom. However, Lucas said, "We just wanted some alone time before having a big wedding, Marlena. We didn't want to invite anyone till then."
` Marlena told her daughter, "I know that now. We're the ones that should apologize for crashing your romantic idea. It's just that I wanted to be there for you on your big day, my sweet girl."
Sami hugged her mom and said, "Everything will be fine mom, you'll see."
Marlena hugged her back and said, "I finally think you'll be happy and that's all that matters."
Sami thought about her scheme to reunite Austin and Carrie as well as her new plan to save Eric from disaster before she exclaimed, "We'll all be fine."
Marlena pulled back from hugging her daughter to tell Lucas, "Watch over my little girl."
Lucas flashbacked to seeing Sami almost died because he didn't speak up. He couldn't speak from the disgust that built up in his stomach. He even remembered toasting Sami's demise with his mom. The only response Lucas could give to Marlena was a nod before he stepped back into the car.
Sami saw that he was in pain. She said, "I got to go, mom."
Marlena gave Sami the bag of food saying, "Don't forget your dinner."
Lucas turned the car on like he had to go. Sami jumped into the passenger seat and let him drive home in silence.
When they went back to their apartment, she put the food down and tried to have a conversation with him. She asked, "Need my help planning Austin's early arrival."
He wasn't really ready to face Sami at the moment. He was at a loss to understand how she could even talk to him. He shook his head no and answered quietly, "I'll take care of it right now."
Lucas walked into the bedroom and made a phone call.