The hallways of Windemere were eerily dark and quiet especially at this time of the night. Robert and Luke had waited for Nicholas to leave the house and board the launch before they made their way inside. After having spent several hours searching room after room Robert had become more frustrated knowing that Nicholas could be back at any time and he had not come up with one clue as to where Helena was or if Holly was connected to the Cassadines in any way. Lukes voice startled Robert who thought he was in the room alone.
"Hey buddy better come check this out, I think it may be important"
Robert instantly stopped searching the desk and followed Luke out of the room and down the hall to what looked like a bedroom suite.
Laying on top of a desk in the room was a stack of files that Luke had been rifling through. Robert instantly recognized the subject of a picture lying on top as Holly.
"It looks like these are surveilance photos, the imprinted dates are all around August and September 2005". Luke said while handing Robert different photos.
Robert recognized several different sites in the photos as areas around the neighborhood in Sydney that he and Holly had lived in.It appeared that Helena had been watching Holly very closely as there were even pictures of Holly sitting on the deck having tea.
"Why do you think Helena had been so interested in Holly?" Luke asked.
"I'm not sure, maybe she was checking her out before going into business with her" Robert said while opening and closing desk drawers looking for any other clues.
"Did you check this room for any hidden safes?" Robert asked while again studying the pictures of Holly in Australia..Luke immediately started checking behind portraits hanging on the wall looking for any safes. There was a large portrait of Helena in her younger days hanging above the bed and Luke thought to himself "this would be so like the old bat". Luke very carefully removed the portrait and sure enough there was a safe.
"Hey pal you know anything about breaking into these electronic safes?"
Robert walked over to Luke while pulling out a strange looking device that looked to Luke like a fancy cell phone.
"Yeah I know exactly how to get into this" Robert said as he commenced to hooking wires from the device into the control panel on the safe. After about thirty seconds the control panel on the safe lit up and then beeped before the door popped open.
"Voila, pretty nice huh" Said Robert, "beats the old days of safe cracking"
Robert pulled a document pouch from the safe and sat on the bed to go through it. It contained some bearer bonds as well as several deeds to various properties. A yellow sticky note attached to an envelope caught Roberts attention, the note had the word CRYLLIUM written in bold black ink. Looking into the envelope Robert discovered a deed to a house , the address listed was in an area a little bit north of Port Charles and the listed owner was Cryllium Industries.
"Luke, I think we have hit pay dirt" Robert said while showing the deed to Luke.
"Well what do you say we go check this place out pal." Luke said as he started righting the mess they had created while searching the room. Robert put the envelope with the deed inside into his jacket pocket and grabbed the pictures of Holly before following Luke out of the room and on to their next destination.
Meanwhile in her room at Helenas secluded estate Holly paced the room trying to clear her mind and make some sort of plan of escaping the place she had come to despise. She had managed to slip her medicine out of her mouth each time the doctor had come to medicate her today and thus whenever someone came to check on her she had to pretend to be sleeping. Everything for the past several months had been a blur to Holly, she had fragmented memories of events that she herself wasn't sure were real or fantasy. Roberts face kepting popping into her mind, she had seen him and spoken to him but it was all so very surreal. She had only been able to tell Robert the one thing she knew was real and that was that she loved him. Helenas medications and hypnotherapists couldn't erase that part of her psyche as those feelings were too strong to destroy. During her recent stay in Port Charles Holly had watched herself as if she were looking on from a distance, everything she did or said, with the exception of declaring her love for Robert, had been programmed into her mind and she was helpless to stop herself from doing Helenas bidding.
"I must get out of here and find Robert" Holly thought aloud. She wasn't sure if he would understand why she did the things she had done but she knew she had to see him again while she was in her right mind. "Please God help me to get out of here and find my way back to Robert, I lost him twice and I can't lose him again"
Meanwhile on a road headed out of Port Charles Robert and Luke travel in silence headed for the address listed on the Cryllium deed both wondering what they will find once they get there..