"Ok, Tess, let's hear it," Lucky Spencer said as they walked into Nikolas Cassadine's library on Spoon Island. "Hear what?" Tess asked.
"I think what my brother is trying to ask is, what made you leave New York and this guy you mentioned?" Nikolas said.
"I just had to get away. I was going to ruin his life. I mean, you both know me, I'm messed up, damaged and he deserves someone better than me," Tess said as she walked over to Nikolas bar and started to pour her a drink. "Tess, isn't there something you're forgetting?" Nikolas asked.
"Great, now how am I suppossed to deal with all this if I can't have one little drink?" Tess asked.
"Why can't you have a drink? Tess?" Lucky asked.
"Cause I'm knocked up, that's why Lucky," Tess said as she started to pace back and forth. "Oh I've heard it all now," Lucky said.
"Relax brother," Nikolas said.
"I mean, me pregnant. I'm the last person any baby needs as their mother. I'm selfish, stubborn to the core and I--" Tess started to say. "And you care about your friends, whether you like to admit it or not. You would go to and have gone to any limits to protect someone you care about," Lucky said.
"Me, care about someone other than myself, that's a laugh," Tess said.
"Oh really, then tell me this Ms. No care, who was it that helped their friend who was being controlled by Helena to hurt his friends and family? Who was it who talked me into breaking into one of Helena's hidouts to figure out what she was planning to do next? Who was it who cried when they went to my funeral when you thought I was dead? I'll tell you who that was. That was you. You maybe be messed up, hell which one of us here isn't?" Lucky asked.
"Like I could challenge that statement?" Nikolas asked thinking about his own messed up family. "And don't even get me started on me and my dad's so called relationship," Lucky said.
"You have a point," Tess said.
"And correct me if I'm wrong but I think you care an awfully lot about this Nash Brennan, you know the one you think you will mess his life up. I'm willing to place a wager he's already looking for you," Nikolas said.
"You didn't hear him Nikolas. He said I was a distraction, that was all I was to him. He was talking to some girl named Elizabeth, he told her he loved her. Does that sound like someone who is going to go looking for me?" Tess said.
"Oh my dear, no one in their right mind would come looking for you," a voice said from behind the trio. "You have got to be kdding me," Lucky said as he shook his head in disbelief. "I thought she was dead," Tess said.
"Oh we should be so fortunate, what are you up to now Helena?" Nikolas asked.
"Oh my darling Nikolas, I've just returned from the old country, mother Russia and just missed you so much. I decided to come and see if you had come to your senses, but I can see from the company you still keep that hasn't changed," Helena Cassadine said.
"I'm only going to say this once, so listen carefully Grandmother, you come near Lucky or Tess and I'll kill you," Nikolas said.
"Oh don't waste your time, these 2 mean nothing to me," Helena said.
"You get that warm fuzzy feeling inside when she says that?" Lucky asked Tess.
"Yeah, makes me want to run to the nearest bathroom," Tess said.
"Well, that's probably the bastard you're carrying that's making you sick," Helena said.
"You bitch!" Tess said as she slapped Helena. "You foolish girl, you have no idea what you've just done," Helena said enraged. "Slapped an old crow is what," Tess said.
"Be careful girl, these 2 will not always be here to protect you, and one day--" Helena started to say. "That day I will be there," a voice said from behind Helena.
"And who are you?" Helena asked.
"I'm Nash Brennan, the father of her child, and the last person you will ever see should you come near my Tess ever again," Nash said as he got right up in Helena's face.