This chapter was written by Melissa.
Chapter Fourteen
"Why did you want everyone to think that you were dead? Marty, Tea, Blair, Vicki, the kids, they all grieved for you, they all missed you. I overheard a little of that phone call that you were so desperately trying to keep from me. You were worried about what would happen if they found out that you were alive, but you weren't just talking about you, I heard you say we. Who else is faking their death?," Todd asked and then everything suddenly came into focus and he knew who Victor had been speaking with.
"Let it go Todd, the truth can be very dangerous, hurt a lot of people that we both love, so for their sake, let me walk away," Victor warned.
"It was Cole wasn't it? Marty was right, she saw him, just like I'm seeing you. Do you have any idea how much she has suffered, how much Starr has suffered. She's in prison for killing Sonny Corinthos, all because she thought that he had murdered her family. Cole has been alive this whole time and you let my little shorty suffer. I may hate you, but you have my memories, you thought you were me for eight years, so how could you do this to the people that we love?" Todd asked.
"I know that I hurt Marty, that I hurt Starr. I hated knowing that her grief caused her to snap like that. I hate all the pain that Tea, Blair, Vicki, the kids are all going through."
"Then how could you have hurt them this way?" Todd questioned.
"I didn't have any other choice and you would have done the same thing, made the same decisions as I have, cause as much as I hate hurting them, at least they're alive."
"I need the truth Victor and I need all of it now, who are you running from? Who has threatened our family."
"The same assholes that kept you prisoner for eight years and let me take over your life," Victor confessed.
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Bo cautiously opened the door and smiled as he saw his old friend Robert Scorpio carrying a box of Pizza.
"Robert, Anna, I was hoping it was you," Bo said as he let them in.
"I heard what happened between Nora and Clint and I, we had to come and help."
"I'm not sure anyone can help me, I killed Clint, I killed Bo's brother. He hurt me very badly, did sadistic things to me, it was self defense, the only way that I could survive and when the police find me, I'll go to prison."
"You're not going to prison," Anna stated.
"He was an abusive monster, but he was smart, he didn't leave any proof behind that he tortured me. I know how the law works and I know that there is more than enough evidence to convict me for killing Clint," Nora stated.
"That's just the thing, you didn't" Anna began to say.
"Anna, it's top secret," Robert said as he looked at her.
"What's top secret?" Bo asked as he looked to Robert for answers.
"We have to tell them, they are our dearest friends," Anna stated as she grabbed Nora's hand and gave it a squeeze of encouragement.
"You're right, but what we say can not leave this room until the investigation has been completed," Robert stated.
"What investigation?" Bo asked.
"We have been investigating Irene Manning," Robert explained.
"Todd's mother, what does she have to do with Clint?"
"A lot, four years ago she kidnapped Clint and replaced him with Colin Maciver," Anna explained.
"What?" Nora gasped as she shuddered.
"I know it sounds crazy, but Colin had his face reconstructed to look like Clint all so that he could carry out his demented fantasies with Nora. Irene agreed to help him so that he would keep her secret about replacing Todd with Victor."
"So I didn't kill Clint? It was Colin this whole time, I think I'm going to be sick," Nora said as she ran for the bathroom."
"I'll go check on her," Anna informed Bo.
"How do you know any of this?" Bo asked as he took a step backwards. Was it possible that the brother that he loved wasn't a psychotic monster after all.
"Your brother managed to escape Irene's compound and he came to me when he saw the news that Nora was a fugitive for killing him. We have him in a safe house."
"It's true, Clint's alive," Bo said.
"It's true," Clint stated as he entered the room.
"What are you doing here? You were supposed to stay at the safe house," Robert said in exasperation.
"I had to come, I had to talk to my brother. I didn't hurt Nora, I would never do that to her or to you. I know how much you love her, the same way that I love Vicki. I'm sorry that it took me so long to escape, but I need your help to take down that vindictive bitch Irene so that I can return back to Vicki and back to my family and so that you and Nora will be safe," Clint pleaded with Bo.
"Clint," Nora whispered as she and Anna came back and she locked eyes with the man that she thought had hurt her beyond repair, the sadistic monster that enjoyed torturing her, the man that she thought that she had killed. Only it wasn't him, it had been Colin, she knew the truth, but she didn't know how to process it as she looked into the face of her tormenter.