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CHAPTER 12
Alexis laid still for a few moments after she came to trying to get rid of the grogginess. She no longer had any sense of how long she had been unconscious or how long it had been since Valentine had kidnapped her. She tried to get up, regretting it immediately as she felt her empty stomach revolt at the movement and bile rise up in her throat. She laid back down trying to calm her rolling stomach and throbbing head. She drew her legs up clutching them up to her chest hoping to ease the pain. As she tried to breath through the pain a gurgling noise penetrated through the haze and fog in her head. Afraid, she snapped her eyes open and saw an incredulous sight in front of her.
At the foot of the bed, she was lying on, was a bassinet. She sat up to investigated, her nauseous stomach momentarily forgotten, as the contented gurgles suddenly turn into piercing cries of discontent. She cautiously scooted over to peek into the bassinet, what she saw in it made her gasp. In the bassinet was a baby, and guessing by the blue jumper it was wearing the little darling was a little boy. Alexis immediately picked him up to comfort the little guy who was very displeased at the moment. His little hands were bunched up into fists and his little face was scrunched up in anger. As soon as she picked him up the little boy began to calm down and his cries turned into soft whimpers. Alexis looked around and saw a baby bag by the bassinet. She settled the baby into the crook of her arm so that she could look in the bag. She found what she needed; water and baby formula. She set about making the bottle as the baby, seeming to sense he was in good hands, calmly watched her as she made the bottle.
"Hi Sweet pea" she cooed as he latched on hungrily to the baby bottle. He looked up at her when he heard her voice and Alexis fell in love with him the minute his big brown eyes looked up at her and smiled at her with the cutest, gummiest smile she had ever seen. "Little one you are going to be a little heartbreaker when you get older" He smiled at her stealing another little piece of Alexis's heart. Alexis looked him over as he ate and was surprised at how much the big, brown, soulful eyes looking at her reminded her of the man she loved with all her heart.
"Julian" she whispered as she felt tears run down her cheeks knowing that in this lifetime they had only been given months to enjoy the love that so encapsulated the two of them before they were once more separated.
She looked down at the baby to distract herself from thinking of everything she had lost. The baby seemed to be healthy and well taken care and she wondered whose baby he was and why Valentine had put him in the cell with her. She felt sick at the thought of what his parents were going through wondering where their baby was. Alexis knew how it felt to have your baby taken away and her heart broke at the thought of someone else going through that kind of pain.
After she fed the baby she looked around, scared as she suddenly realized Stefan was no longer in the cell with her. She looked towards where she had last seen Stefan and she saw that her brother's blood still stained the floor. She tried to not let her imagination run wild thinking of all the things that Valentine could have done to Stefan while she was unconscious. She looked down at the baby and knew she needed to keep her wits up if there was any chance of getting them out of this alive.
"Your parents must be scared to death sweet pea" she whispered not wanting to startle the baby whose eyes had started to close. "What are we going to do" she sighed as she held him tightly to her.
Alexis heard the jingle of keys signaling that another guard was probably coming down to inject her again. She quickly looked down to make sure the baby was asleep before getting up to lay him down in his bassinet. Before the guard reached her cell she laid on the bed and closed her eyes hoping to catch the guard by surprise and try to escape.
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Daniel looked into the cell where the women the boss called 'Natasha' was being held until the boss came back from his mission. He knew what the plans for the women were and though he thought they were a crazy he didn't get paid to think he just got paid to do what Mr. Cassadine wanted and right now he was getting paid to make sure the women was kept unconscious. He tap the injection twice making sure it was ready to be injected the moment he entered the cell.
Alexis, stayed as still as possible to mot let on that she was awake. She felt it immediately when the guard relaxed his stance, assuming that she was still out from whatever they had given her earlier. Alexis kept up the pretense that she was still sleeping, waiting for the right moment to make her move. She knew what she was about to do was dangerous, as the guard was tall and probably weighed twice as much as she did. But she knew that she couldn't just lay here and wait for Valentine to come back for her. Alexis would rather risk her life on a small chance to get out than live a lifetime in the hellish fantasy that Valentine was preparing for her. She waited for the guard to sit on the bed and as he set the injection down and starting prepping her arm she open one eye and spotted where he had set the injection. She waited until both his arms were occupied and he was completely distracted to make her move. She grabbed the injection and aimed for his neck, pushing the plunger all the way down until every last drop of liquid was in his system.
She had not expected the howl that ripped from his throat or the way he grabbed her by the neck lifting her off the bed so that her legs were off the floor. "You Bitch" he yelled as he threw her across the cell causing Alexis to collapse in a heap. She tried crawling away but the wind had been knocked out of her causing her to fall in heap on the ground. He quickly made his way to her, pulling her up by her hair.
"Where the hell do you think you are going" he held her roughly by the arm as he pulled back to slap her. Alexis felt the stunning blow and turned away to spit out the blood that had begun to fill her mouth. Still dazed she worried of the damage he might have inflicted on her as she heard a ringing in her ear. She moaned in pain and fear consumed her as she felt him push her onto her back. He climbed on top of her and was straddling her as he wrapped his big meaty hands around her neck. As he tighten his grip around her neck she felt panic as she realized that he was going to kill her. After so many years fighting and outwitting the Cassadines she would die at the hands of one of their guards not Helena, Stavros or even Valentine.
She gripped at the hands threatening to suffocate the life out of her. She tried to pull his hands away but he was just too strong. Alexis thought of her family, frantically searching for her, and wished that they would somehow know that she had died almost instantly and had not been forced to suffer through the sadistic plans that Valentine had in store for her. She felt as darkness started overtaking her, she fought harder as she thought of the baby, but he was just too strong for her. Just before she passed out she heard the voice of another one of the guards yell out in alarm.
As darkness started to claim her she turned her head to the side her eyes landing on the bassinet. The baby had began crying hysterically, scared by all the yelling and commotion. But above all the commotion she was able to distinguish the unmistakable tones of the aria her mother had sung, when she made her debut in the Russian Opera, begin. After her mother hit the crescendo and the song ended she heard Valentine's voice begin: My dear Natasha, at this point you have probably met the babe I left in your care. You are probably wondering who he belongs to. Well my darling I will tell you now. The child is a product of our love. You are his mother and I am his father. Congratulations, Natasha, you are the mother of my first born son.
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"Get the hell away from her you son of a bitch" Damien yelled as he saw Daniel sitting on top of Alexis, his meaty arms still wrapped around her neck. When Daniel didn't immediately climb off of her Damien got behind him putting him in a choke hold until Daniel had no choice but to remove his hands from her neck to defend himself.
Damien felt the first of a series of blows as Daniel started taking out all his anger towards Alexis on him. Damien tried to deflect the punches and was even able to get in a few punches of his own but before he knew it Daniel was on top of him. Daniel was in a frenzy not caring where or how hard he punched. Damien felt as his mouth fill with blood and his eye swell shut. He struck back in a futile attempt to stop Daniel from killing him.
Several moments passed before Philip and Larry burst into the cells and thankfully pulled Daniel off of him. He sat coughing and gasping for air "Take him out"... he gasped "Get the doctor to come check on Ms. Cassadine" he crawled over to Alexis and gently put two fingers to her neck hoping to find a pulse for all of there sakes but especially for Ms. Cassadine, she didn't deserve what was happening to her.
"Ms. Cassadine" he said hoping to get her to come back "please wake up" he pleaded afraid that the longer she was out the more likely that Daniel had caused permanent damage.
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"What happened here" asked the coarse voice of the doctor who finally made it down to the cell. When he knelt down by Alexis, Damien moved away to give him room and so he could distance himself from the feeling of guilt that were quickly threaten to overwhelm him.
"Daniel" he said simply, knowing that the doctor was well aware of Daniel's inability to control his temper.
"Aw" he said knowingly and maliciously " I believe that this little loss of control by Daniel will finally be the end of him working for Mr. Cassadine" he said unable to hide the hatred he felt for the man. "Must say couldn't have happened to a better man". The doctor place some smelling salts underAlexis's nose and it was seconds before Alexis moaned and started moving her head from side to side. Daniel, relived that she was coming to, finally stood up and moved over to the still crying baby. He lifted him out of the bassinet and cradled him to his chest. The baby's loud wails quieted down to a small whimper instantly as he was finally tended to.
Alexis felt groggy, her throat hurt and every time she took a breath it felt like she was going to pass out.. Scared she called out softly to the one person who she knew would help her "Julian" she paused waiting for him to answer. When she received no response she sat up, opening her eyes she saw two men standing over her. She immediately moved away as she realized that it was not a nightmare. Valentine had gotten her.
"Ms. Cassadine" the doctor said gently.
"Davis" Alexis retorted knowing it would change nothing but needing to be defiant.
"Ms. Cassadine" the doctor insisted. "Please tell me if this hurts" he asked even as he started checking her ribcage for broken bones. When he heard her hiss in pain he stopped and started pulling an injection. "I am going to give you this for pain"
"No please" Alexis begged not trusting him to only be injecting her with pain medication.
"Ms. Cassadine" Damien said soothingly trying to calm her. "Nothing bad will happen. Please let the doctor do his job"
Alexis looked up at the guard and suddenly gasped as she remembered what she had heard before passing out last time. She felt the tears well in her eyes and a hand went up to her mouth as she felt bile rise up to her throat. "Please tell me it's not true" she pleaded unable to keep her eyes off the baby in Damien's arms.
"Ms. Cassadine" Damien couldn't say the words seeing the horror in her eyes at the thought of the baby he held being hers and Valentine.
"How" she needed to know how a baby had been created. There was no way. She was struggling with the conflicting emotions of loving the baby because he was hers and an innocent is this whole mess but at the same revolted at the thought of what the implications were of a baby being born from her and her half-brother. "No, please tell me its not true" she pleaded with Damien as tears began flowing down her cheeks.
The doctor saw that she was becoming hysterical and stepped in "That's enough" he said as he prepared a sedative.
Alexis tried to scramble away only to be pinned down by the doctor. "I'm sorry but I can't let you stay conscious" he said in a soft voice trying to calm her. His attempt to calm her only served to infuriate Alexis more.
She did her best to fight him off "No, get away from me" she started thrashing trying to get away.
"Hold her down" he yelled at Damien who was pacing back and forth trying to calm the once again crying baby.
"Can't we just" he started trying to get the doctor to back off.
"No, you know Mr. Cassadine's orders as well as I do" he started filling the syringe. He looked up knowingly "You overstep and you are next" then added maliciously "Or maybe your family."
"Don't mention my family" he shouted
"Then do as you were order and hold her down"
"No, please, stop" Alexis felt the tears streaming down her eyes. She hated feeling as helpless as she had when she was a child and at this moment laying on her back as the two men decided her faith made her feel so weak and small.
"I'm sorry" she heard Damien say before she felt the doctor put the syringe in her arm.
"No your not" she slurred just before once again succumbing to the drugs in her system.