Elizabeth sat in the hospital waiting room with her husband on one side, and Emily on the other. Next to Emily was Nikolas. The four musketeers, except now she had two kids who were in the hospital day care center with their cousin Spencer.
And soon she might have one more. Angel baby was a miracle since the day she was born. Liz could look at her and smile instantly. Because the kid was a fighter.
But never once did Liz see Lucky in the child. Wouldn't I have known, she thought, if I was looking at his baby? Even just had a feeling?
Cara , her daughter with Lucky, looked like her daddy. She had his eyes, his nose, but her mother's hair color. Still in a room full of babies a stranger would be able to match Lucky and his daughter.
Isabella didn't look a thing like Cara. But Liz knew that didn't mean anything. Her sister Sarah didn't look like her, act like her, think like her.
What if Isabella grew up to be like Maxie?
But Liz didn't think she would. Too many people loved her and would keep her on the straight and narrow.
Emily reached for Liz's hand. Liz looked at her. "It will be okay." Emily whispered
Liz took strength in the bond they shared, and sitting there with the three people she relied on most in the world, she waited for the news that might change the rest of her life.
LUCKY was thinking about what it would mean to have another daughter. A constant remainder of his days of drugging, of the lowest point in his life. It would not be fair to think that when he looked at Isabella.
But he was afraid he might.
Still he had to know. There was no way he would ever walk out on his kid.
So he sat, feeling torn over what to hope for, and waited for someone to tell him if he had two baby daughters, instead of just one.
PATRICK AND ROBIN waited outside of the DNA lab. Kelly said to them, "I supervised the test myself so the results are accurate. Are you ready to hear them?
Robin said, "I need to call Jax first. He should be here."
Jax answered his phone on the first ring, "Do you know yet?"
"The results are ready but we haven't read them yet. Where are you?" Robin asked
"On the hospital room."
"Jax."
"Don't worry, I'm not going to jump." He said "I have a daughter that needs me."
"Yes, you do. Can you come to the fifth floor waiting room now? So we can all hear this together?"
He let out a breath. "Maybe you should read it first. Just in case. We could always... Carly suggested we could... change the results if Lucky is the father. Listen, Robin, I know you would never break the law but this time... for our daughter...maybe we should..."
Robin felt tears welling up in her eyes. "I've thought about it but I just can't..."
Patrick gently took the phone from her. "Jax, get down here. We're reading the results in ten minutes with or without you. And stop upsetting Robin. No one is taking Izzy, no one, you hear me? It will not happen!"
Patrick knew he was taking out his own fear on Jax but it felt good to say the words aloud. It felt like it made them true.
Patrick hung up on Jax.
NIKOLAS said, "Isabella is really a lovely child. And it would be nice to have another kid in the family. Then there would be four new musketeers."
Emily said, her voice light, " I thought we were having the final musketeer!"
"You sure you want to be the mother of a Cassadine baby?" he asked "My grandmother..."
"Can go to hell." Lucky said
"Don't try to weasel out of our engagement now, Prince. You promised me a bacchanalia engagement party, a big wedding in Greece, and another child to add to our family. And I am holding you to it."
"You tell him, Em." Liz said smiling. She looked at her husband. "There is plenty of room in our lives for more love, more children and more second chances."
JUST THEN Kelly, Patrick and Robin walked in.
"We have the results," Kelly said
Everyone in the room looked at her, holding their breathes.
LULU laid in Dillon's arms, they hadn't left the bed in her condo since yesterday afternoon.
"You should move to Miami," she said
"You should come back home with me," he said.
"You should go back to film making," she said, smiling
"You should go back to school, period." he said, running his hand up her bare arm.
"You should shut up and kiss me," Lulu said
"You should.." he started
"Now, Dillon."
His body shifted over hers and his lips were once again dropping kisses on her face, neck, shoulders. She touched her jaw and brought his lips back to her mouth.
"We should stay in this moment forever," she whispered
"Works for me." Dillon said
JAX stepped into the room right when Kelly was saying "The results reveal..."
Kelly looked up and paused.
Jax thought of Carly, wishing she was here. But after the way the social worker shot down her as a possible adoptive mother for Angel baby Carly had decided to keep her involvement with Isabella quiet. So that the social worker didn't use Carly as an excuse to not allow Jax to adopt.
ROBIN was staring into Patrick's eyes, trying to find that strength she needed so desperately. And he was giving it to her, without a word. Saying he would stay right by her side, no matter what. That somehow Isabella would be their daughter, and no test could take her away.
LUCKY put his arm around Liz. She nodded at him. They were in this together. They had been through worse, they could make it, her eyes told him. And like always, Lucky believed her.
Kelly finished, "Lucky is excluded from being the father of Isabella."
Lucky nodded, taking in the news. He was surprised to feel a little disappointed but he knew things would work out better for everyone this way. He had the family he wanted, the family he dreamed of since he was a teenager, and now Isabella would have her own family with Robin, Patrick and Jax.
Robin fell into Patrick's arms. He hugged her and whispered, "See? She's not going anywhere, sweetie. She's ours."
Jax let out a long breath. That was a close one. He had felt his daughter slipping away and now she as back. He couldn't wait to sign the adoption papers and make this all legal.
Lucky stood up, "I'm sorry I put everyone through this."
Nikolas said, "You had to know, though."
Patrick said, "Well now you do."
Robin said, "Lets go get our girl. She's with my parents and Noah at his apartment."
She took Patrick's hand and started to leave the room. Then she looked over her shoulder and said to Jax, "You coming?"
"Would I ever pass up a chance to see our little Angel baby?" he smiled and left the room with them.
Author's note- okay, now it is official! I thought it was important to show Lucky stepping up and doing what he thought was right.