"You have all this pity for Zander, but what about Emily?" Lucky Spencer asked Quinn, as she took Elizabeth Webber's blood pressure. "After all he put her through, I mean, she can't even tell her best friends where she's going to school. And if she found out about this shooting, it would ruin her freshman year."
"Zander didn't shoot himself," Elizabeth argued.
"Zander gets himself into trouble," Lucky waved his hand as if to push that consideration aside. "He always manages to be where it finds him."
"This shooting was directed at Emily's brother, though," Quinn said. "Isn't her family going to tell her about that? Of all that she's suffered, having someone try to murder her brother is at the top of the list, in my book. She's devoted to this brother, she fights with her own boyfriend over him. I would think someone should tell her about that, even if it does disturb her freshman year. If my brother were in the hospital, I would have come back even the first week of my freshman year. I would have tried to salvage my first semester, but I would have come back. If my boyfriend at the time had been in a hospital because he'd been shot, even if it was his fault somehow, I would want to know. I'm certain my family and his would have told me about such a thing, though, so I'm not sure what I would do where they'd keep it a secret. Still, I'd know something was wrong. If the injury was so severe I felt I couldn't go back to school after about 2 weeks, I'd have transferred to PCU. Which I would have been happy to do, if the case were that bad. I wouldn't considered my year of school 'wrecked.'"
"You don't seem to have much sympathy for Emily," Lucky said. "Strange for a nurse not to have sympathy. Hope she doesn't end up in the hospital here."
"I would, but there just seems to be plenty of that going around. A lot of people have sympathy for her, so it's no skin off her nose to have mine spared for Zander, so to speak."
"But why would anyone have sympathy for Zander?" Lucky then asked. "He's the reason Emily's been through so much."
"He's been through a lot himself. You don't know about it, but hasn't it occurred to you his life might not have been simple? I don't see any reason to have a contest about who has it worse, but the world has enough people in it for him to have a friend or two, no? Especially among those who know him and do not know her."
"I'm just giving you a friendly warning, is all. You could get taken in, too. I even see you are getting taken in. Alexis has. Emily was. The Quartermaines had a lot of grief. Juan and even my brother Nicholas and I had a lot of problems because of Zander. If you knew the half of it, you'd understand."
"I'm curious what he did to her, but I'm sure you don't have time to tell about it all. I appreciate the warning. He must have done something right, though. Otherwise, why did she love him?"
"That's the mystery," Lucky answered.
"Yes, there must be something he did right," Elizabeth said, smiling to herself, and then looking at Quinn was a conspiratorial grin of understanding, which amused Quinn greatly.
