When she comes back

Chapter 18

Hannah felt like she had been crying for forever once she made Jason leave. She knew that Lulu or Jason would have told everyone that she was awake. She also knew that it was a matter of time before someone came to check up on her, but she didn't want to deal with anyone. Hannah had a lot to figure out. She needs to start her life over, a life that didn't involve the man that she loved.

A few hours later Monica came in to check on her but Hannah was a pro at pretending to be asleep. She didn't want to deal with people. Especially Jason's mother. Monica must have told everyone that she had fallen back asleep because no one came to see her.

The next morning Hannah went to find Luke and put her new life plan into motion. "Hey Luke" she said walking into the living room where she had seen him last night.

"Hey there kid you gave us a scare last night. You have no idea how hard it was to calm Lucky down." Luke told her thinking about what would have happened if Lucky lost someone else. He didn't want the drugs to come back but he could judge knowing that he has his own demons.

"I'm sorry about that. I will find him after I go talk to Carly about finding a place to stay and maybe some type of job." She wrinkled her noise at the thought of some stupid job. She used to run Laura's old cosmetics company but she assumed that it was gone now along with what seemed like everything that mattered to her.

"You know that you can stay here if you want. You are as much my family as you are to the Quartermanes. Anything that you need you can come to me." Luke told her. Hating that someone that he viewed as a daughter was going through such a hard time.

Hannah went over to Luke and hugged him "I know that I can come to you for anything. It's just that I have been so dependent on people for so long I think that I forgot how to take care of myself. Carly made a joke about how I used to be fearless I need to find a way to get that Hannah back."

The pair had spent the rest of the morning talking and catching up. Luke gave her support and told her that she was always welcome back. With that she left to find Carly. Her first stop was the Metro Court. Hannah was again making her way back to the info desk.

"Let me guess you are looking for Carly" a voice said from behind her.

She rolled her eyes and turned around to face Jax. "I think we both know the answer to that. So where can I find her?"

"She has a meeting with Nikolas Cassadine." Jax said his name with distaste. "He wants to invest in the hotel. Maybe you can convince Carly that that is a bad idea."

"Why? Isn't Nik a great business man?" She asked before she remembered what Carly had told her about the love triangle.

"Let me guess you would be team Nikolas. There are a lot of people picking sides but there are some that are still on the fence."

Hannah looked back on all the time that she spent with Nik. She remembered being there with Lucky when he had found out about his new brother. She was loyal to the Spencer's so she went along with the emotional roller coaster that Lucky went on while dealing with the thought of Laura having another son. She might not have agreed with a lot of the things that had happened but she would always stick with her family. Nikolas was a part of that family but she didn't know what to do now. "I think I'm on the fence. But he is as much my brother as Lucky…kinda." She told him honestly.

"Understandable. So is there anything that I can help you with or is it strictly Carly stuff." Jax asked hoping to get away from their current topic.

"No it's not strictly Carly stuff I just wanted to talk to her about finding a place to live on my own and a job. The hard part will be trying to convince her that I can be on my own."

"Well I can't help you with that but the other stuff I can. There is an apartment available in my building and there is a huge hotel that could always use people."

"Jax that is great and I will keep all of that in mind but I feel like I should talk to Carly first about all of this. I don't want her to think that I am trying to replace my best friend." She said with a laugh.

Just then the elevator opened and she was able to hear Carly laugh. She stood up from the seat that she had taken to talk to Jax. She watched Nikolas step out of the elevator and continue to talk to Carly. She noticed that he looked bigger like he was hitting the gym. He wasn't the young man that she would hang out with when all the siblings would get together and do something fun with Lulu. She stood there not wanting to interrupt. Hannah and Nikolas didn't have the bond that she had with Lucky. They were close but she didn't know if it was a closeness that could withstand a 5 year absence.

Carly looked over at her direction and waved and motioned that it would be a little longer. Hannah nodded in understanding. Nikolas was curious to see what had taken Carly's attention away so he looked in Hannah's direction. It took him a while to understand who he was looking at. He was about to brush it away as someone that he simply didn't know. The woman smiled at him and he knew that he knew that smile but didn't know from where.

Nikolas walked over to Hannah when he was done with Carly to figure out who this person was. "I'm sorry I don't mean to be rude but you look so familiar do I know you?" he asked.

"I think that this alone she push you in the direction of team Jax." He said with a grin on his face that he knew would drive Nikolas crazy.

"Shut up" was all she said.

"What at least I know what my siblings look like. Well as long as they don't get plastic surgery on their face."

Hannah gave Jax a weird look, and Nikolas wanted to punch Jax. Sibling that word kept playing in Nikolas's head, he had Lucky and Lulu and well the sister that he never really talked about because he always felt guilty thinking of her as a sister because he knew that was a bond between her and Lucky not the two of them. Lulu was different she was blood Lucky had no real claim on her. But he sure did have one on Hannah. Even if she came around to accepting him before Lucky or Luke he still felt that she was more Lucky's than his even if she would smack him for thinking that. "Jax that isn't funny you know my siblings and there is no way that this can be Hannah."

"Why?" Jax asked gaining himself another look from the woman.

"One she was been missing for 5 years. Two there is a vast amount of people that wouldn't let her out of her sight. And third she wouldn't be sitting here talking to you."

"Nikolas" she said in frustration as she pinched the bridge of her nose. The look of pure shock on his face was enough to make her burst out laughing. She walked over and hugged him. "We have a lot to catch up on. How about you round about Lucky and Lulu and we will have lunch at Kelly's. I have to talk to Carly."