Eric listened to Sami, Lucas, and Austin's varying advice on how he should stop the wedding. Earlier Carrie's idea about talking to Greta seemed logical, but now Sami and Lucas' plan seemed more likely to work. This wedding was not going to happen, and if he ended up in jail for kidnapping but prevented her from making a mistake, the risk was worth taking. Lucas handed him the keys to a getaway house as his sister and her new husband bickered about something. When Lucas turned and said, "We'll order a car. And Sami and I will create a scene," Eric silently agreed with Sami and Lucas.

Eric turned and spoke to Austin, "Sami and Lucas can keep the crowd in the hall occupied. Can you keep the hallway clear for a few minutes?"

Austin asked concerned, "You're really going to kidnap Greta?"

Sami supplied, "Kidnapping the bride on her wedding day is a Brady family tradition!"

Eric answered Austin's concern, "Only if I have to. I'll signal you if I see no other alternative."

Austin asked, "What's the signal?"

Eric, Sami, Lucas and Austin thought for a minute before Lucas said, "We have cell phones. Keep them on vibrate."

Eric was concerned for a minute on how he was going to make a phone call while arguing with Greta, but there was no other alternative. He'd find a way to make this work.

But before Eric could leave the house Sami asked him, "What's Carrie's plan to sneak you over? She's never schemed anything in her life."

Austin jumped into the conversation, "Carrie never had to scheme and lie to cover up for herself."

Lucas argued with Austin, "Carrie was too busy pretending to be perfection personified. Sami at least owns up to her mistakes."

Austin asked, "Since when do Sami or you care about more than yourselves?"

Lucas was about to yell back at him but Sami caught his arm and said, "Don't. Fighting right now isn't going to help, and besides I thought you both had a good time the other night."

Eric added, "If you could both get high together, you can help me right now."

Austin denied the accusation, "We didn't get high. It's not our fault that our systems didn't respond well to foreign medication."

Sami asked again, "Carrie's plan?"

Eric saw that the Roberts brothers were cooling off when he explained, "Simple really. I'm dressing up as a caterer and walking in the backdoor in disguise."

Sami was going to comment but Lucas took her in hand and said, "Let him handle his part. Let's head over there." ~*~

Carrie helped Greta into her wedding gown just as Greta requested. Greta figured that if she saw herself in her wedding gown, then maybe she'd feel more confident in this wedding. Once the back was zipped, Greta walked towards the mirror to see herself. But when she looked, she saw a vision of Eric standing in the mirror asking her to marry him. In the mirror she saw herself blissfully telling him yes as they kissed. The fantasy kiss blinked away and Greta saw herself standing in her gown.

Carrie told her, "You were smiling."

Greta turned away from the mirror trying to stop fresh tears before she told Carrie, "I'm such a fool. If I denied myself and waited, then I wouldn't be a wreck now."

Carrie asked her, "Denied yourself what Greta? I'm sure that if you want to marry Nathan, nothing will stop you now."

Greta held her tongue. What happened between her and Eric was going to remain her secret fantasy. Greta instead said, "Nathan's a great guy. I'm sure he'll make me happy."

Carrie empathized with some of what Greta was saying and she told her, "Mike Horton was a great guy who I thought could make me happy when Austin turned away from me one too many times."

Austin walked into the bridal suite to tell Carrie that Eric was on his way, so he heard what Carrie just said. She knocked the life out of him when he heard her mention Mike, even though he has known for years what happened. Then he yelled louder than he expected, "I wasn't the one that betrayed my vows. You left me Carrie Brady."

Carrie hadn't finished what she was going to tell Greta about never getting over Austin. Carrie held tightly onto her necklace with his old promise ring for an extra layer of strength before she told Austin, "I thought that I fell in love with Mike after you kept choosing Sami's problems over me. Sami and Lucas would have worked out better without your interference and we would still be together if you hadn't constantly chosen to be Will's father when you never were. Mike was there for me when you weren't."

Austin was about to storm away from this. But he promised Eric to tell Carrie. So he said, "Justify what you did anyway you like. I don't care. Either way the delivery is on its way."

Austin stormed off. Carrie looked stunned silent. Greta asked her, "Do you want a tissue?"

Carrie shook her head no and said, "I gave up on Austin a long time ago."

Austin stormed down the hall intending to leave before he remembered his promise to remain in the hallway. He stopped himself from leaving and spotted Nicole Walker talking for Brady Black. Austin decided that Nicole would want his company so he went over to say hello to his old boss.

Since she knew that her brother was on his way, Carrie told Greta that she'd talk to her later and left before Greta could argue. Greta wanted to call out to Carrie, but she held her tongue. She never fit in with the Brady clan, and she was never going to. Once the door closed, she curled up into a ball on the floor. She couldn't understand how she was this screwed up. She kept telling herself that she should be happy. She even started repeating her mantra, "I will survive. I will survive. I will survive."

She had no idea how many times she told herself that before she heard Eric's voice tell her, "You don't have to survive princess."

For a blink of an eye she thought that she was having another one of her haunting fantasies, but Eric was here. She stood up in her white off the shoulder bridal gown and told him firmly, "You shouldn't be here Eric."

Eric always thought that she was strong. Her determined chin in facing him was typical for her, but her cheeks betrayed her. She was crying earlier. He stood less than a foot away from her to ask, "Why wouldn't I have come here to stop the wedding?"

He said the wrong thing. She stepped away from him and said, "You were the one that taught me sex didn't have to include feelings. You can betray someone you love with sex and deal with the consequences later right? Well Nathan knows and he still wants to marry me. And I'm just going to have to deal with what I did with you in the same fashion you had to deal with what you did to me."

Eric crossed his arms in anger. How dare Greta compare what happened between them to anything as cheap as Nicole! He yelled back, "Greta, what happened between us was completely different and you know it. You're marrying Nathan just to spite me now."

She was never this mad at anyone in her entire life. She pulled back her hand and hit him before she was even aware of her actions. She then yelled back, "My decisions certainly don't revolve around you. Get out before Nathan throws you out!"

Instead Eric picked up his phone to make a call. Greta started to walk away as she said, "Apparently, I am not even important enough to let the argument finish without interruptions."

He caught her by the arm before she could storm away. She looked up at him as he told Austin, "Cover."

Greta asked in a huff, "Cover? What are you talking about?"

Eric hung up his phone, put it in his pocket and told Greta, "I'm not letting you marry him."

Greta started to argue with him, "It's not your concern!" But he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. She hit his back a few times and struggled before saying, "Don't make me hurt you Eric. I struggled with alligators and lived, so I can certainly hurt you!"

He continued to walk down the hall but he told her, "I'm sure you can certainly hurt me, but you aren't getting away until we finish this." ~*~

Austin received the call and he forwarded the message to Lucas and Sami. He was about to congratulate himself on his part of the plan before he remembered that he was supposed to clear the hallway. He had no idea how to accomplish his job until he saw Carrie. Carrie was always smarter than he was, so he went over to beg for her help.

Carrie saw Austin talking to Nicole and Brady. She was going to ignore him completely and head back into the main room when she realized that Austin started walking towards her. Her initial reaction was to walk faster and avoid a confrontation, but then Austin called out, "Carrie wait."

She stopped dead in her tracks and warily watched him approach. She had no idea what to expect from him. She steeled herself for the usual adultery remarks. He then said to her, "Eric asked me to clear the hallway so no one would catch him or Greta. Carrie I'm clueless."

The remark 'no kidding' was at the tip of her tongue. She almost let it slip but she held back. Austin looked desperate and he was helping her brother. How could she ignore his plea. She nodded her head and saw that there was only a few people standing in the hallway, anyhow. She yelled out, "Can you give us a few minutes to argue in private please? Ex- husband."

Austin looked baffled at her announcement for a minute, but then he noticed that the few people standing around started to walk into the main hall. When the door behind the last person closed Carrie told him as she patted him on the shoulder, "All clear. See you around."

Austin watched her walk away from him. She was wearing his promise ring around her neck, and he recalled when he gave that to her. They were at the Cheating Heart. He was going to wait for a more romantic moment, but he let his big secret slip out as they stood at the bar. She looked so happy as he promised her that they were engaged to be engaged someday. She threw her arms around him and kissed him. Now she was almost out of sight before he decided to go talk to her once more. He needed to hear her voice just one more time. ~*~

Lucas put his phone down and asked Sami, "How are we creating a scene?"

Sami smiled at him as she told him, "Honey our family fear for their own lives when we fight."

He started to say something to her, but she stood up and yelled at him, "You are never coming near me again you moron!"

He stood up and yelled right back, "Moron, I'm not the idiot that started. You can't stand to lose."

She blinked and had an epiphany. She then yelled back, "Why the hell do you think I proposed stupid? We were friends then we went too far again. I don't want the same thing to happen this round!"

Lucas yelled right back, "What the hell are you talking about?"

She walked to the center of the hallway, where the bride would walk down, before she yelled back, "Are you now denying us? Denying our family?"

Lucas really wasn't liking how she was making a scene. He never liked when she made him sound like a bad father. He argued, "Will is the greatest thing that ever happened to me! You know that I love you and Will."

She shook her head in frustration and asked, "Will you love our new baby just as much?"

He was shocked that she just lied about being pregnant. They haven't had the opportunity yet, just as he knew that she wasn't pregnant. He asked shocked, "Are you telling me that your bad mood is because you're pregnant?"

Shawn Sr told Alice, "She takes after her grandmother in finding the wrong moment to tell her husband."

Alice smiled a little.

Shawn Douglas leaned forward to ask his grandfather, "Who else put down pregnant in the till Gramps?"

Sami looked around and saw everyone was focusing on her before she triumphantly told Lucas, "It seems that it only takes once for you to get me pregnant."

His mind was reeling trying to figure out what Sami was pulling with her announcement. Clearly she hadn't thought her little playacting out. What was she going to tell people in nine months? Or was she asking him in her little playacting for another baby? Sami confused the hell out of him sometimes, and he needed to figure this one out. ~*~

Eric marched Greta all the way down the cleared corridors and out the front door to the waiting car. He stuffed the bride in the backseat as he went to the front. She struggled with the doors but they had no lock or handle in the backseat. He sat in the front as she started to climb to the front to get out. However he started the car and sped up so it wasn't safe for her to jump.

When she realized that she was trapped, she punched him until he said, "My arm and back are pretty bruised up thanks to you. Can you ease up a little?"

She hit him again and said, "I'm getting married back there. Turn the car around Eric and let me out."

Eric asked her point blank since he knew her answer, "Were you crying about getting married because you don't love Nathan?"

She stopped hitting him, but she refused to answer.