Author's Note: One confrontation with Kristina delivered as an early present! Yay! No more updates until after the New Year. A couple teasers or spoilers in the meantime. Most of my stories are about 60-65 chapters. I try to keep to that. In order to wrap up everything I want to wrap up in this one and do the things I want to do, this one will likely be longer. This includes resolving the Lorenzo/Alexis Romance, some scenes around Oscar's death on the show, Danny coming around more, Kellie coming to terms with having another kid and solving the connections between Shiloh and staff at the foundations, and Shiloh's and Garrett's fates. Not to mention Kellie and Jason have to their baby. :) All things to look forward to in the coming year. Happy New Year & Happy Holidays!
Jason and Danny arrived at Charlie's and passed Molly as she was storming off, upset that Sam seemed to be being sucked into the cult with Kristina as well.
Sam chased after Molly, "I don't want to talk to you right now."
"Molly, just listen to me," Sam said, noticing Danny and Jason were there, "What are you two doing here?"
"Having lunch," Danny said and then quickly went inside before anything more could be said or done.
Sam looked after Molly, leaving, and back towards Charlie's.
"I've got Danny right now," Jason said.
"Why are you two really here?" Sam said, "Kellie's in there and I doubt Danny's inclined to suggest meeting her for lunch. Actually I'm surprised that he seems like he's having fun with you."
"Kellie left for here before she let me know she was leaving," Jason said, "Danny wanted to watch which I know I shouldn't encourage. But Kellie had a rough morning…"
"And you think you need to ride to the rescue if she needs it it," Sam said, "I should take Danny and go home. He doesn't need to see this."
"It's probably too late," Jason said, "And if you go back inside Kristina will expect you to back her up."
"And Kellie has every right to lay into Kristina," Sam said, "Just promise me you'll have my mom bring Danny home if things get out of hand. She's still inside."
"I'll do that," Jason said.
Once inside Jason quietly sat at a table with Danny (who had avoided Alexis). They both watched Kellie and Kristina square off against each other.
"I really don't have time right now," Kristina said.
"You don't have a choice," Kellie said, "We are having this conversation and we are having it right now unless you'd like to have this conversation some place more private."
"I tried to get Alyssa help," Kristina said, "Help that you were denying her."
"No, you put my daughter in danger," Kellie said, "What gives you the right to kidnap my daughter and take her to see someone I already said no to seeing?"
"Shiloh's methods may not be conventional but they do work for people," Kristina said, "You shouldn't be so closed minded. Don't you want to give Alyssa every opportunity to heal?"
"I am with trained psychologists and specialists," Kellie said, "Even if you disagree with that decision, you had no right to take Alyssa to anyone without my consent. It's not your call. What's worse is you lied to her to get her to come with you."
"It was technically an adventure," Kristina said.
"I guess you can tell yourself that if that's what helps you sleep at night," Kellie said, "She certainly didn't see it that way when she wanted to leave and you tried to convince her not too. Even more so when she realized her guard was no where around. Thank god, Danny showed up when he did. Seriously, Kristina, how could you put any child in position where they might be scared? Especially after what Alyssa's been through already."
"If you would just give Shiloh a chance," Kristina said, "You'll see that…"
"Tell me how exactly Shiloh would be able to help my daughter," Kellie said, "As far I can tell none of his little self-help classes even come to close to Alyssa's situation."
"He has a different way of seeing things, a way of getting people to really get to the root of what's holding them back from true healing," Kristina said.
"So far this sounds like a lot of Psycho babble," Kellie said, "Has he ever actually worked with children?"
"Well, mostly adults, but I"m sure," Kristina said.
"Do you even understand how illogical everything you're saying sounds," Kellie said, "You're making a lot of assumptions."
"But Shiloh says he's giving people the power to truly see what's going on when they come to him for help," Kristina said, "in a way traditional medicine and therapy can't."
"By telling them what to think or leading them to think from his perspective?" Kellie asked, "Do you even realize how often you've said Shiloh says in the last few months or what you say you think mirrors what something Shiloh said. Whose idea was it for you to bring Alyssa to Shiloh?"
"It as mine," Kristina said, "Shiloh did mention that you might be more receptive if so you could see for yourself his method would work for Alyssa. But he didn't say anything about actually doing anything about it."
"Of course he didn't," Kellie said, "Don't you see Kristina that his hint was intended to get you to do exactly what you did? Nothing ever Shiloh's fault if you ask, but damn he's good at setting things in motion, making people think it's their idea."
"I can think for myself just fine, thank you very much," Kristina said, "Obviously you would rather buy into your safe traditional methods rather than expand your mind. I don't know why I"m even bothering with you. You obviously can't be reasoned with.
"Says the girl who has obviously drank a little too much kool-aid," Kellie said.
I'm going to have no choice but to cut your toxic energy out of my life," Kristina continued ignoring Kellie, "If you can't support me, than I can't be around you."
"Could you explain how my choice to pursue other method and viewpoints other than the ones you and Shiloh are pushing is not supporting you?" Kellie asked.
Kristina opened to her mouth to speak, but nothing came out.
"That's what I thought," Kellie said, "I really hope that what you're doing is worth everything you're losing, your sister. Your niece's trust. Alyssa doesn't want to be around you after the stunt you pulled."
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave," Kristina said, "You're disrupting the customers."
"I'll leave," Kellie said, "But don't lie to yourself. You were disrupting the customers long before I came in. By the way, Molly's right. You are in a cult. When you finally wake up and smell what Shiloh's really selling, you know where to find me for help. Until then, don't come near any of my kids."
Kellie stormed out of Charlie's. Jason quickly followed after her, bringing Danny with him.
Jason quickly caught up to her outside.
"That was awesome," Danny said, getting her attention, "Wow. I'd heard stories about you putting people in their places. That was really cool."
"What are you doing here?" Kellie asked.
"Having fun like you told Dad to do," Danny said.
"Are you okay?" Jason asked.
"I'm fine," Kellie said, "No sign of nausea. Everything's good. I couldn't sit around doing nothing. I had to go see Kristina."
"I know," Jason said.
"Before you say anything else, I didn't want you feel like you needed to interrupt your time with Danny to come with me," Kellie said, "Which happened anyway…ohhh."
Kellie's hand went to her belly.
Jason went to steady Kellie unnecessarily.
"Is something wrong?" Jason asked, putting his arm around Kellie's midsection. He laid his hand next to hers.
"No," Kellie said, "I think I feel our baby moving. I don't know if you can feel it yet. It's just some light flutter type...but umm…oh damn…this is real… you and me, having a kid together. I know that make absolutely no sense."
Jason tried not to crack a smile before brushing Kellie's hair out of her face and saying, "You might want to breathe. Remember no rules to this and what ever happens."
They were interrupted by Alexis coming out of Charlie's.
"Danny," Alexis said, "Actually no, Jason what were you doing bringing Danny to see….whatever that was."
"It's not Dad's fault," Danny said, "It's mine. Aunt Kristina's the only person in more trouble than I am right now and I figured…."
"You can stop right there, Danny," Alexis said.
"And Kellie did leave without telling anyone initially," Danny said, "Including Dad. I thought we…I mean Dad should make sure she was okay after she almost like fainted this morning."
Kellie was distracting by her phone going off and stepped aside to take the call.
"That was very thoughtful of you," Alexis replied to Danny.
Alexis looked over at Kellie, "Was she about to faint just now?"
"She felt the baby move," Jason said, "For the first time."
"Can you take me home, Grandma?" Danny said, "I"m ready to go."
"If that's what you want," Alexis asked.
Danny nodded.
"Your backpack's still at the house," Jason said.
"Just drop it off with Mom one day," Danny said.
"Or next time I see you I hope," Jason said, "Unless there's something you absolutely need right away. I was hoping we could grab lunch before you went home though."
"No," Danny said, shaking his head, "I'll meet you at your car, Grandma."
Danny took off before anyone could stop him.
Jason turned to go after him before Alexis stopped him, "He hit his limit even if he does seem to have thawed some towards you and has some concern for Kellie and his sibling. Take the win. Try another day."
"I'd like to at least say goodbye to him," Jason said, catching Kellie's eye to let her know he was following Alexis.
Jason and Alexis approached Danny standing by her vehicle.
"I just wanted to tell you I had a really good time today," Jason said, "I hope we can do this again sometime."
"Maybe," Danny said, "If you have time."
"I'll have time," Jason said, "LIke say Tuesday after school. That's already on the schedule."
"I have practice," Danny said.
"I'll come watch practice and maybe we could grab dinner afterwards," Jason said.
Danny just shrugged and turned away from Jason.
"Let it go for now," Alexis said.
After Alexis and Danny left, Jason found Kellie at her vehicle.
"I'm sorry that I screwed up your time with Danny," Kellie said.
"You didn't screw up anything," Jason said, "He wanted to come when we got your message. It is a two way street and hopefully he'll figure out he could do his part to make this easier too. "
"Me too," Kellie said.
"But at least he seems to worry about his new sibling," Jason said.
"He just doesn't want to admit it," Kellie said, "Anyway, Charles called me and asked me to meet him him at the MetroCourt. Something from Helena Cassadine's estate showed up. I'll go see what that's about. Then Molly asked to come over to the house later to talk about Kristina. You missed that part, Molly and Kristina were fighting about Shiloh before I showed up. Molly told her she was in a cult."
"Hopefully, she'll figure it out soon enough," Jason said, "Why don't I come with you to see what Helena sent you."
"We honestly have no idea what it's about at this point," Kellie said, "I promise I will fill you in when I see you later. But I really think you should go do what you would normally do if I wasn't pregnant. I know that you want to be all protective of me and our child. I probably need to do a better job of letting you do things for me. But if you hover over me 24/7 from now until our kid's born, I'm going to go insane."
"As much as the two of you probably need to have this discussion," Johnny said, "We're going to be late to meet Charles if we don't leave now."
"Just call me if you need me, okay," Jason said, "We'll talk at home later."
"Thank you," Kellie said, kissing Jason before she got in the car to leave.