Something Wicked This Way Comes

Emily was tired, and Sonny needed to go home and check on Michael and Morgan. So he kissed her gently and said he'd be back tomorrow morning. Emily soon fell asleep.

"She's alone, and she's asleep. I want the flowers delivered now. Take care of it."

Manny was sending Emily a bouquet of flowers. He had told the florist that the flowers were from a Nikolas Cassadine. He used that name just in case anybody questioned who the flowers had come from. He would use that name again later, when he went to visit her. He had his family track down a man that looked almost identical to him, and was going to do a switch and bait so that he could go see Emily. If he could get her to trust him, even for a few minutes, that would be all he would need to get her out of the hospital and away from Sonny. The bonus about taking her away from Sonny was that he was also taking her away from her brother Jason. Manny smiled and hopped back in bed. This was going just perfectly. Nothing should go wrong as long as he played it right.

"You won't know what hit you Emily. Before you can even think about being afraid of me, I'll give you memories you won't ever forget."

The next morning, Emily woke up to find a beautiful arrangement of flowers on the dresser. She smiled, thinking they were from Sonny. She walked over to them and pulled the card out.

"Get well soon Emily. Nikolas Cassadine"

"Hmm, I wonder who this Nikolas is. It was really nice of him to send me such beautiful flowers. I'll have to thank him when I see him."

"Good morning beautiful." She could see his charming grin before she even turned around.

"Good morning. Do you know a Nikolas Cassadine? I'm guessing from the flowers he sent me that maybe he might be competition." Emily wriggled her eyebrows and then giggled at Sonny.

"Nikolas Cassadine is definitely not competition for me. He gave you up for another woman months ago. I'm not sure why he would send you flowers. Not to mention…"

"Not to mention what Sonny?"

"Oh nevermind. I just didn't realize that he even knew you were in here. He's out of town. I'll see if Elizabeth or Lucky might have told him. It's really nothing for you to worry about right now. What you do need to worry about is eating these homemade blueberry pancakes that I brought you for breakfast."

"Did you make them?" Sonny nodded yes. "Then I'm sure I'm going to love them." Emily paused for a second. "You do know how to cook don't you? I mean, you don't really strike me as the cooking type. You seem too macho for that."

Sonny just laughed. "I've been known to cook some amazing food in my days. I haven't poisoned or killed anybody yet with my cooking."

They both laughed. Emily got back into bed, and Sonny got her plate together. Emily took a bite and paused for a second with a strange look on her face. "Oh come on now, I know that I make the best blueberry pancakes around. You can ask Michael and Morgan if you don't believe me."

All of a sudden a noise escaped Emily that sounded like a moan. "Oh my God Sonny, these are absolutely delicious. You're definitely a keeper. I'd keep you around just to cook for me, even if I didn't love you." She started to giggle and Sonny tried to act like he was insulted. That didn't last very long and soon he was laughing with her.

The fun was soon interrupted with a phone call on Sonny's cell phone. "I'm sorry, but I've got to take this. I'm gonna let you finish your breakfast while I take this out in the hall. I'll be right back." Sonny kissed Emily on the forehead and then went out into the hallway.

"What's going on Jason?"

"It seems that the Ruiz family has been busy. It seems they found a man that looks almost exactly like Manny. I haven't been able to tell what they're going to use him for, but I wanted you to be aware of it. I'll keep you updated on what I find out."

"Okay Jason, thanks. I have a feeling he's getting ready to do something major, so we need to figure out what that is as soon as possible."

Sonny hung up the phone and immediately thought about the flowers that had supposedly come from Nikolas Cassadine. Sonny walked out to the nurse's station to talk to Elizabeth. "Did you or Lucky tell Nikolas that Emily was in the hospital?"

"Neither of us did Sonny. He's supposed to be back in two days, so we thought we'd tell him when he got back."

"Okay Elizabeth, thanks." As Sonny walked back toward Emily's room, he called Max. "Max, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to track down some flowers that were delivered last night to Emily's room. They were supposedly from Nikolas, but he doesn't even know that Emily was in an accident. I think Manny is going to try and use Emily's memory loss to get to her. Get back to me as soon as you find out anything."

Sonny looked in to see Emily devouring the pancakes. He found himself loving her more and more everyday.

"Manny's not going to get anywhere near you Emily. I swear it on my own life."