Chapter 25

Emily screamed when Connor grabbed her hair and pulled her back away from the door.

"You should have tried to escape with him."

She tried to squirm away from him. "Do with me what you want but I wasn't going to let you hurt Michael."

"Always thinking of someone else." He just pulled her tighter against him. "Well then you better hope he minds well." It was then that she felt something sharp poking in her back. "Let's go quietly shall we. There's someone else I wanted to invite to our little reunion." Connor opened the door and led her down the stairwell through an emergency exit and to the car parked in the alley. He made her turn around as he tied her hands and put the duck tape over her mouth. Making sure to tie her feet together as well. If this was to work there could be no more mistakes.

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Michael didn't know whom to trust anymore. As soon as Emily had closed the door he'd heard the elevator open and did not even wait for the elderly couple to exit before getting in. He hit the button and waiting anxiously for them to close again. When they opened on the first floor he ran as quick as he could to the exit looking around for a phone booth and racing towards it. His dad had always made him carry enough money to in case of an emergency. Nervously Michael dug in his pocket spilling some of the coins before finding what he needed. He put them in the slot and called home all the while watching the people around him and yelling as he heard his father's familiar voice.

"DAD!"

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The Corinthos house was in an uproar. Leticia had gone to be with Morgan. Sonny was furious and was berating Max for not being with Michael. Jason called home to see if Sam or Emily had heard anything but couldn't get an answer. He heard the house phone ring as he tried Sam's cell. She answered just as he heard Sonny call out Michaels name.

"Hold on Sam." Jason said as he listened to Sonny trying to calm his son down.

"Calm down son and tell me where you are." He looked up at Jason. "Your at Uncle Jason's." Sonny nodded as Jason motioned that he had Sam on the phone. "Listen Michael can you tell me exactly what phone booth your in. Sam's on the phone with uncle Jase right now." He repeated the information to Jason who repeated it to Sam. "Michael Aunt Sam's on her way and we are too. You stay with her till we get there you understand?" Sonny strained to make sense of what his child was saying. "It's ok Michael, Emily is at Jason's place. Wait, wait calm down son. Who was with you? Why was Uncle Nik there? He told you he wasn't Nikolas?" Sonny was getting confused but hearing the fear in his son's voice he tried to be patient. "Michael where's Emily at now." Fear gripped him when he heard Michael start to cry. "Son you have to tell me where she is."

Michael was crying uncontrollably now.

"She made me go. Aunt Em told me to run when she hit him over the head and she said I had to find you and Uncle Jase. Dad I heard her scream when I left. He was hurting her dad. We got to find her."

Sonny looked up to meet Jason's eyes noticing that he wasn't on his cell anymore and relieved to hear Sam taking the phone from his son.

"I got him Sonny."

"Listen Sam. I don't know what's happening but don't go back to the penthouse. We're on our way."

"Sure Sonny but Em?"

He closed his eyes. "She was protecting Michael. From what or who I don't know quite yet but Sam you got to stay with him and don't go back till we get there. Ok?"

"Ok."

Sonny hung up the phone and unlocked his desk drawer to get the keys to the locked cabinet in the corner of the room. Lucky watched the two men work in sync as they armed themselves. Sonny was filling Jason in on everything Michael had said. He walked quickly over to them.

"Whoa," Lucky held up his hands, "whoa you two can't take matters into your own hands."

Jason calmly loaded a clip into the pistol he was holding. "It's not your problem anymore."

"Hey I came to you with what I had. I'm the one who told you Em could be in trouble and I take it she is but this isn't the way to handle it."

Sonny grabbed Lucky by his shirt collar. "Something or someone just scared the hell out of my kid and I don't know what's happened to the woman I care about. Now you can do what you want but we're gonna handle this OUR way."

Max came in.

"Cars ready boss."

It only took Lucky a second to decide as he followed the other men out both ignoring him as he entered the car with them.

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Elizabeth was laughing with her co-worker as she exited the elevator into the parking garage.

"Bye Kaylie. I'll see you tomorrow." She said walking towards the old truck. Elizabeth felt her heart skip a beat before she recognized the man who had walked up beside her.

"Oh Nikolas it's you." Elizabeth put her hand to her throat and suddenly swatted him on the shoulder. "You nearly scared me to death."

He grinned. "Sorry about that. Um Lucky wanted me to meet you here. He said the car wasn't running right earlier and wanted me to give you a lift."

Elizabeth laughed. "Well the "truck" drove fine when I came to work."

He laughed. "Come on Elizabeth. You know I have so many vehicles that I even get my own confused. Lucky sounded pretty worried. Why don't you cut a guy some slack and let him do his brother a favor?"

She made a face and relented turning to follow him to his own car. "Ok but I think he's wrong. I need to pick up Cameron from my grandmothers though."

"Sure." Just get in and we'll be on our way waiting for her reaction when she saw Emily in the back seat.

Emily forced muffled scream was for naught as she watched Connor over take her and truss her best friend up in the same way she had been.

He got into the driver seat and turned around to look at the young nurse relishing in the fear emanating from her eyes. "By the way Elizabeth it's been a long time no see. Remember me now? I'm Connor and I'm very much alive."