Total Eclipse of the Heart Chapter 12, a general hospital fanfic

Total Eclipse of the Heart

OK so I just want to say I am defiantly taking my creative liberties with the whole drug storyline and I hope you approve and keep on reading. Still don't own GH and all resemblance to other works is strictly coincidental

"Shhhh," she heard an accented voice say, "It'll all be over soon."

Claire began to struggle in the mans arms but his grip was far to tight for her to shake as suddenly things went black and she could no longer hear a sound.

Across town at Kelly's Spinelli brought over their meal, an orange soda and grilled cheese sandwich for him and a diet cola and a chicken salad sandwich for her.

She reached over to grab one oh his barbeque chips and he smiled not swatting her hand away from his food.

"So, I was thinking there is this Gallery Opening this weekend at PCU that Kate is invited to, I mean it's not my thing but you always talk about me getting more culture in my life."

"Uh huh," he said mindlessly nodding.

"Is something alright, you were all bright and perky a minute ago, is something on your mind...it's that case you mentioned earlier isn't it."

Spinelli nodded.

"You see Maximista it is about the fact that I have found the connection to the Dastardly Doctor Devlin and the Little Dude's shooting."

"Yea I know Devlin shot Michael so what's with the brooding."

"The Jackal doesn't brood."

Maxie nodded.

"Yea he does."

Spinelli shook his head.

"Well anyways what I mean is I know who hired the hit."

"So then tell Jason."

"It's much more complicated then that."

"How so."

Spinelli let out a sigh and began to tell her all about Nadine's findings and the work on the drug running ring all while swearing her to secrecy on the matter at hand.

The club was rather empty for a Thursday evening granted it was still kind of early for the scene as Kyle and Lucas entered.

"So, this is the Catacomb," Lucas said, "looks like a waste if you ask me."

Kyle grinned and nodded.

"Yea it is kind of drab, but I mean Claire likes it so..."

"So Claire's taste and ours isn't necessarily the same."

"Tell me about it, you know she once hung a dart board in our living room."

"I don't know, I think a dart board would be kind of cool."

"Cool, man it threw off the balance of the room."

Lucas just nodded.

"Well still, sometimes you just need to unwind, have fun...though I think drinks at the Metro Court would be better."

"Amen, I would much rather my headache be from a hangover then blaring music."

Lucas smiled at his date and they headed back out of the club and toward the bar. He hoped his first date in a while would work out for the best.

Meanwhile Kyle was looking at the other man and simply smiled. Even though they already seemed to clash over things Kyle could totally see Lucas as being boyfriend material.

He looked at his watch. He had the time right, the date...

He looked around and she was no place to be seen so he decided to take the elevator up to the floor she was working to check things out, maybe he was supposed to meet her at the clinic instead or perhaps she was still with a patient and couldn't call to inform him she was late.

Matt made his way to the hub and slipped Nadine a note in passing. Flipping the note over she read his scrawl and smiled.

-Kelly's-Breakfast-

Nadine smiled as Milo stepped off the elevator.

"Milo," Nadine said in shock as the young bodyguard headed toward the desk, "what are you doing here; I thought you were going off on a date with Claire."

"I was."

"But what happened, did your car stall because I thought things like that your boss had people for."

Milo shook his head.

"It's not my car, so Nadine, Claire didn't say anything."

"Just that she was glad about having a second chance why."

Milo shook his head.

"No reason," he lied as Matt came over from the stairwell placing a black hair clip on the counter.

"Matt I thought you were heading for your break."

"I was but I found this in the stairwell."

Nadine immediately noticed the clip as being Nadine's and her face turned a ghastly shade of white.

"Nadine what's wrong."

"That's Claire's clip."

"So," Matt said, "women drop hair clips all the time and..."

He noticed the look in Milo's eyes.

"This isn't good is it?"

Milo shook his head.

"Nope," he said with a pain in his heart. If something happened to Dr. Claire Simpson it would be all his fault and he seriously wouldn't know what to do with himself.

She was beginning to come to as a blurry light came into her eyes giving her the sensation of wakening up.

"Good evening love," the accented voice said to her though she couldn't see him. Trying to move she realized that her arms were tied rather tightly to a support beam in what she thought must be some sort of where house probably on the Elm Street Pier if she knew any better.

Mentally beginning to curse herself for giving a mobster a second chance she suddenly felt her captors cool hand on her cheek.

"Don't worry about a thing I won't hurt a pretty little blonde hair on your head," he grinned, "I just need you as shall I say leverage."

"Who are you, what do you want with Milo."

"His silence."

Claire's heart sank...this was a trap, she was sent there to watch Milo Giambetti die.

Milo didn't know who had grabbed Claire but the look in Matt's eyes made him realize one thing, that it wasn't necessarily a mob related incident, well that was if the drug runner wasn't a part of the whole mob scene which from the work that was being done the culprit was leaning more and more toward being Andre Karpov even though Karpov came to town after the drugs were in place.

The elevator opened and a young man made his way to the trio at the nurse's station.

"I have a message here for a Mr. Giambetti."

Milo rolled his eyes wondering who knew he was at the hospital in that moment and who would send him a message. It was then a chill ran down his spine as he unfolded the note.

I Don't Know If You Know My Fondness of Games...Well How About Hide and Seek. Don't Worry About Your Date...Pretty Little Thing...She's Hiding someplace and It's up to you to find her...Tick Tock...

The note was written in typical ransom note style of cut up news paper and magazine type letters making the sender all the more harder to identify.

Reading over the message once more he still didn't know who the sender was but he knew one person would hopefully be able to figure that one out.

Picking up his phone he hoped that he would answer.

"Hello...yes I know I'm supposed to be on a date...It's a long story where are you...Kelly's I'm on my way."

Matt and Nadine felt the eyes of their superiors burning into the back of their scrubs as they looked at Milo.

"Milo man call if you hear anything."

"I will."

Nadine turned to Matt then back to Milo.

"If you need any more help call us in the mean time we will be your eyes and ears here."

"Thanks," Milo repeated and headed to Kelly's hoping that Spinelli could help him out and Claire could be saved before it was too late.

Not knowing about his friend and roommates predicament as of yet Kyle was enjoying his night with Lucas. They had since moved from the loud and crazy bar and were sitting at the Metro Court Bar like the two young adults as they were having drinks.

"So, what brought you back to this exciting burg, I know if I were in England I wouldn't want to leave."

"Well Port Charles is the only home I've known, and well when my cousin Georgie died I regretted not being able to say my goodbyes which sucked because she was my friend and confidant. In fact she was the first person I came out to."

"And I take it she accepted you."

Lucas nodded.

"I think most people were accepting though some admit were in denial."

Kyle nodded.

"Yes my mom is still in the denial phase and it's been years since I've come out."

Lucas felt sorry about that. He couldn't imagine how it would have been if his friends and family didn't support him the way they did.

However Lucas shook his head.

"Let's change the subject a bit."

"Are you putting me in the hot seat now?"

"Only if you want to be..."

Kyle gave a sheepish grin. Even though he was kind of shy and hadn't had a real relationship in years he could already tell he was falling for Lucas and falling hard. He now knew how Claire felt when she first met Milo.

"So what about that Miley Cyrus," Kyle said as they began to change the subject from Q and A about themselves to pop topics.

Milo entered Kelly's and situated himself across from Spinelli and Maxie.

"This better be important," Maxie said, like you caught..."

Spinelli covered Maxie's mouth.

"You told Maxie about the case didn't you."

"Nothing gets by you man, so why the call earlier it seemed urgent."

Maxie playfully bit Spinelli's hand causing him to pull back in pain as Milo placed the note onto the table.

"So, Claire has been kidnapped," Spinelli said handing Milo back the note.

"Thank You Captain Obvious," Milo said.

"Hey, the Jackal is just laying out the facts, anyway the Nefarious Nabber is into games...also obvious...and they mentioned you KNOW of the fondness so you must have had some kind of encounter with them before or something."

Milo scratched his head. There was any number of enemies that Sonny had at any given moment. At present the list could be anyone from Karpov, to his lady Lawyer Sasha, to one of the Zacchara's.

"Maybe it was Anthony Zacchara," Maxie said speaking up, "I mean last year at the Black and White Ball he grabbed me and was forcing me into playing Russian roulette."

Spinelli cringed thinking about the night from hell and was defiantly not going to discount the Demented Denison of Darkness paraplegic or not.

"What really gets me," Milo said after a moment of silence, "is that the messenger knew I'd be at the hospital picking up Claire, and knew that I'd head inside to look for her so they could have their goon deliver the letter."

"Don't worry, Jackal PI will track down your ladies fair's whereabouts even if it takes all night."

Claire was still a bit woozy from being knocked out but was beginning to feel more clarity.

"There at Kelly's, so I presume he got it...excellent all things are according to plan."

The man turned around giving Claire a good look at his face.

"Ah Dr. Simpson I see your fully awake now."

Another chill ran down her spine as she looked at the man.

"How do you know my name?"

"I told you before; this is all a part of my plan darling..."

"You...you...monster."

"Monster, I've been called many things, that being among them...however you can call me Mr. Craig, James if you prefer."

TBC

I hope you liked...my muse keeps coming up with ideas for the latter chapters unfortunately to get to them I must muttle through