No! No! She was screaming for her life. Someone was chasing her. She couldn't see them. It was so dark. She was afraid to look back. She didn't want to know who it was. She only knew that she didn't want them to catch her.
Tossing and turning, yelling at the top of her lungs, "No! No! Please help!", she was living it over again. Olivia, who had been sitting at her bedside ever since they admitted her, reached across to take her hand. It broke Olivia's heart. The girl that she had come to love as a daughter was in so much agony. She got to know her when Laura left after her breakdown. Luke was never around much, so Sonny agreed to take care of Lulu, as well as Lucky. He and Olivia took them in and loved them like they were their own. Dante, their son, had already been a childhood friend. It was an easy fit for all of them. "Shh, honey, it's me, Olivia," she said, with such tenderness in her voice.
"Olivia? Where am I?" she asked, already knowing the answer. She just hoped it had all been a bad dream and she was really in her bed at home.
"You're at General Hospital. You were pretty banged up, so they decided to keep you. Honey, are you ready to talk about what happened?"
Tears were already streaming down Lulu's face. "No," she let out with uncontrollable sobs.
"It's okay. You don't have to say a word. You will when you're ready. You rest right now." She squeezed Lulu's hand and held it until she relaxed again.
Sonny was standing in the doorway. The ex-mobster in him wanted to kill the person who had done this. The anger rising in him with every tear that fell from Lulu's face. However, Lulu's brother and Sonny's son were both cops. He knew that he needed to let the police handle this one. Over time and with his son's help, he had come to trust in the justice system and he knew that they would see to it that justice was served. He also knew that Olivia and Lulu would never want him to get revenge. His anger turned to worry when he thought about how he was going to tell his best friend and Lulu's father, Luke. An even more sickening feeling grew when he thought about Laura. What was he going to say? How could he tell them that their precious daughter had been so brutally attacked. What about Lucky and Dante? What were they going to do? Lucky was Lulu's brother. He loved her dearly. Dante had become like a brother to both Lucky and Lulu. They were close, very close. This would hurt them, but hopefully not rip them to pieces.
Olivia looked over her shoulder at Sonny still standing in the doorway. She got up and walked out with him. They were standing right outside the door. "I've got to call Luke and Laura and let them know what happened. I don't even know where Luke is right now," Sonny let out, with a sigh. "Lucky is going to be furious about this. He's the one I'm most worried about. How do I even begin to tell him?"
"You let me worry about that," said Olivia. "You concentrate on trying to find out where Luke is. I'll handle Laura and Lucky. The other question is what to tell Dante. He'll want to kill the guy, if he ever finds him."
"Do you blame him? I want to do the same thing myself," Sonny said. Just then, they heard Lulu yelling in fear again. "No, please don't tell him!" They went running into her room. Her heart monitor was jumping up higher and higher. Had they known that she was awake still, they would have talked elsewhere.
"Don't tell who, honey?" asked Olivia.
Lulu looked up at both of them with embarrassment and torment in her eyes. "Dante," she muttered quietly.
"Lulu, it's okay. You know that he loves you like a sister. He doesn't want anything bad to happen to you. He would want to see whoever did this to be brought to justice and would make sure that it happened," said Olivia in a soft voice.