Chapter Seven: Confessions and a Dinner

Dante woke up with a knock at his door. He figured it was Lulu, she had probably forgotten something after she left for work, but when he opened the door he was surprised to find his brother.

"Micheal, hey man." He smiled.

"Um, hey Dante." Micheal seemed nervous. "I really need to talk to you."

"Yeah sure, come on in." He said letting his little brother into his and Lulu's place. "What's up?"

"You can't send our father to prison." He blurted out.

"Micheal, I already told you-"

"You don't get it!" He yelled. "He didn't kill Claudia, I did!"

"Look, I know you want to protect your father, but lying isn't the way."

"Why does everyone think I'm lying? I thought my mom getting kidnapped was my fault so I decided to runaway to Canada, I saw a car parked on the side of the road, it was crashed, but I found a parking ticket from the Metro Court and I knew it was the car Claudia took." He explained. "I ran through the woods and found a cabin and when I heard my mom screaming and begging Claudia not to take the baby I grabbed the first thing I could find, an ax handle, and hit her with it."

"You have to believe me, Dante." Micheal said with tears in his eyes. "I'm not lying."

Dante sighed. "Why didn't you tell the cops what you told me?"

"I did, they didn't believe me."

"I mean, why didn't you tell them this in the first place."

"My dad and Jason said not to, that they were trying to protect me and if I said anything I could go to jail." Micheal cried. "I just, I feel so guilty."

"It's my fault not dad's, he's just trying to protect me."

Dante put his hand on Micheal's shoulder. "You have to tell the truth, Micheal."

He nodded. "I know."

Dante sat in the courtroom waiting for the judge to give his verdict. This was one of the most surprising and interesting trials he had ever witnessed.

Not only was Sonny not guilty, but his own son was the one who did it.

Dante told Micheal to tell the truth, but he didn't mean to interrupt the trial and scream that he was the killer.

Micheal had confessed and Diane did her best to make it seem like justifiable homicide, but nothing was for certain.

Lulu sat down in the seat next to him. "Hey."

"Hey." Dante smiled kissing her on the cheek.

He looked around to see if anyone was paying attention before slipping his hand under her coat, gently rubbing their little two month secret.

"You feeling okay?" He asked.

"Yeah." She smiled. "What's going on?"

"Micheal confessed."

"What? Here? Today?"

Dante nodded. "The poor kid, it doesn't look good."

Before Lulu could say anymore the judge returned with the decision.

"The jury has made a decision." He said looking down at the paper in front of him. "They find Micheal Corinthos the third, guilty of the murder."

"He will serve three years probation and be required to have two years of therapy."

"Thank God." Dante said under his breath because he knew his brother just got away with the impossible and now they could get passed this.

"Dante."

Dante turned around, finding Sonny.

"Thanks for, you know, being here." He said. "It means a lot to me."

"I was here for my brother, Sonny. That's all." Dante said walking out of the court house.

Lulu kicked off her high heels and pulled her long blonde hair into a bun on top of her head.

"This day has been exhausting." Dante said diving on the couch.

"Don't get to comfortable, we have dinner with my family." Lulu smiled pulling a water out of the fridge.

"Oh yeah, what time?"

"Six." She said disappearing into the bedroom.

"Okay." He said pulling off his tie.

"I think we should tell them." She called from the other room.

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I mean we have to eventually." Lulu smiled walking back into the living room.

"I have a feeling this isn't going to be good." He shook his head.

"It doesn't matter what anyone thinks, Dante." She sat down beside him. "We love each other."

"I know." He smiled.

"Hello Pumpkin." Luke smiled opening the door.

"Hi dad." She smiled allowing him to kiss her on the head and then handing him to store bought pie they had picked up.

"Dante" Luke nodded.

"Luke." Dante nodded back.

"Are we the first here?" Lulu asked.

"Lucky's in the kitchen, Cam and Jake are upstairs with Tracy and much to my disapproval, Nicholas is in the kitchen also."

Lulu smiled. "So their speaking?"

Luke nodded. "Some what. It's more for the kids."

"You okay?" Dante asked when Luke left the room and he noticed Lulu rubbing her stomach.

"Yeah, I'm just nervous."

"You sure?"

She nodded.

"Coming!" Luke shouted hearing the doorbell ring.

He moved past Dante and Lulu and opened the door to let the guests in.

"You've got to be kidding me." Dante said under his breath.

"What?" Lulu asked as she turned around, still rubbing her stomach.

Her eyes widened as Sonny and Olivia stepped into the house.

"What are you-" Lulu started to say, but couldn't finish because the pain was to intense.

"Lulu!" Date said catching her before she hit the floor.

He gently slid onto the floor with her in his arms. "Lulu, Lulu can you here me?"

"Call 911!" Olivia yelled at Sonny who was already dialing the number.

"Come on, baby. Wake up." He said holding her. "Don't do this."

"What's going on?!" Lucky and Nicholas asked running out of the kitchen.

"I don't know." Luke said. "She collapsed."

Dante slid her out of her coat and put his hand on top of her stomach.

"She's pregnant!" He yelled doing everything he could not to cry like a baby.

A/N: This is chapter is long overdue, I hope you enjoyed:) I decided to jump ahead a few months, just because I didn't have any ideas about the trial. Thanks for reading and please review:)