Total Eclipse of the Heart
Later that afternoon Jason entered the office to see Spinelli sitting behind the desk laptop in front of him and Milo sitting on a chair next to him.
"What are you doing in my chair?"
Spinelli smiled.
"All will be reveled in time."
It was then the door swung open a second time.
"Please don't tell me you knocked up my daughter or so help me...."
"Relax; though Maximista and I have shared carnal knowledge of each other on two separate occasions I assure that...well at least the last time we used protection..."
"TMI," Milo whispered in the young rambling mans ear as Spinelli nodded.
"Anyway back to the task at hand as to why I summoned you both to this office."
"My office," Jason mumbled as Spinelli continued.
"As you know there has been a ring of counterfeit drug runners at the hospital."
Both men nodded as Mac glared at Jason.
"Anyways so Jackal PI along with countless other associates and acquaintances of mine well we tracked it down."
"You busted a drug ring," Mac questioned.
Spinelli let out a sigh wishing he had the prowess to bust a drug ring on his on however this wasn't the case. Not that he minded as Maxie was in fact his and in her eyes he was her hero.
"Not exactly but between my Jackaling and the sleuthing abilities of people like the fearless nurse Nadine and super Sam well we as a team found out who was running the drugs among other things."
"What other things."
Spinelli let out a sigh thinking about the laundry list of things he had come into knowledge about the past few weeks.
"Where do I begin," he said as he began to tell them about Karpov dealing the drugs and the fact that the trifecta of Claudia Zacchara along with the late Jerry Jacks and Ian Devlin were the cause of Michael's shooting and that Jerry was also the murderer of Stan Johnson.
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Back at the hospital Claire was in her room watching some random black and white movie when there was a knock on her door.
"Hey Claire Bear."
"Please don't call me that."
Kyle smiled and nodded.
"Anyway I brought you some fresh flowers and a few of those celebrity magazines...."
"Great, cause I've wanted to know what teen pop princess Nick Jonas was dating today."
Kyle smiled knowing that Claire was being sarcastic.
"So, anyway I would have thought you'd be with Lucas, I mean you're off the clock aren't you."
"I am. It's just that after breakfast we got a call at the Brown Stone."
"A Call."
"Yes, it seems his mother wants to introduce me to her."
"But you already know Nurse Spencer."
"I know I know Bobbie Spencer but not as her only sons boyfriend, and Lucas mentioned something about his sister Carly wanting to meet me and I just don't think I can do a big family dinner."
"I'm sure you'll be alright."
Kyle nodded.
"Change of subject, how are you."
"Patrick told me that my injuries don't look to be permanent and that with some physical therapy I could very well walk again."
"That's great, I'm sure Milo must be thrilled."
"I-I haven't told him," Claire said in a hushed tone.
"And why not."
She let out a sigh wondering just how she should put this.
"Well, I mean what if it doesn't work, I don't want to get his hopes up you know. To say I'll walk again and then not be able to. I mean he already thinks my being captured by Jerry Jacks is all his fault for being in the mob."
"Well indirectly it is."
"Shhh, I know but I'd never tell him that."
Kyle nodded taking her hand as they engaged in more small talk.
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After a refreshing morning out at Kelly's diner Nadine's pager regrettably beeped causing Matt to let out a small sigh. What he wouldn't give to spend the whole day curled up on the couch with a woman who once caused him so many headaches and yet now he couldn't picture his life without.
'Since when did I care for all this sentimental lovey dovey garbage,' he wondered as he was sitting back at Mac's place channel surfing as there was a knock on the door.
Making his way to the door he peeped his eyes into the peep hole as if it were some solicitor he wasn't in the mood at the moment. However it was his brother and he thought the nice thing to do would be to open the door.
"You look like shit," were the first words out of his mouth as the haggard Patrick Drake entered the room.
"I just finished a double...anyway change of subject how are you."
"God you'd think I just woke from a coma or something instead of just having minor smoke inhalation."
"Well you were passed out for a bit there...."
Matt just glared.
"I'm sure you didn't just come to check up on me Patrick."
"No, I didn't."
"And Mac's not here so if it's about Robin..."
"It is but well...we set a date."
"A date."
"Yea, we both finally decided what the hell, let's give our little bean a real family instead of living in sin."
"Please don't tell me you plan on naming out niece bean."
'Actually I'm pulling for Dale but Robin is dead set against Mildred."
Matt let out a laugh.
"I'd push for bean...anyway you set a date...so how long before your suckered into being Mr. Robin Scorpio."
"Ha ha, anyway we plan to get married the end of October and well I was wondering if you want to be my best man."
"Best man, this isn't some excuse to bond or anything."
"And if it was."
Matt looked at his older brother and let out a sigh thinking of Nadine and what she'd say and do about this whole sinario.
"I'd be honored but under one condition."
"And what's that."
"That you go home to get some rest....oh and that I can hire a stripper."
"That's two conditions and no striper."
"Fine...well then it's still a deal."
Patrick smiled thanking his brother as he headed out the door.
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Maxie was busy toiling in the Crimson office still basking in the afterglow of waking up in the arms of the man she loved when Kate stormed in.
"No Clarisse...no...no...yes..."
It was then she spotted the young blonde at her desk. Hanging up she turned to her.
"Lulu still..."
Maxie nodded.
"Yep..."
It was sad really what was going on with Lulu. She had killed Logan Hayes in self defense however the guilt of the matter was too much for her and so she committed herself though that was short lived. No Lulu didn't kill herself or anything else drastic no; she took a page from the book of Luke Spencer and decided to flea town for a while instead to clear her mind.
"She sent me a postcard though."
"That was thoughtful..."
"It was, anyway Kate I've set up a cake tasting and have talked Federico into designing the reception gown like you asked and..."
"And cancel it...all of it."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean the wedding is off."
"Off."
"It turns out Sonny wasn't as out of the mob as he said he was...."
"He's not."
Kate shook her head as she thought about the meeting she recently walked into that her now ex fiancé was having with Karpov's lawyer Sasha.
"Anyway it doesn't mean that the bridal issue is shot."
"Plan B."
Kate nodded as Maxie began to shuffle around looking for the notes that Kate had made in case her wedding was a miss.
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Back at the coffee house Jason and Mac were just looking at Spinelli in shock.
Mac had just called to put an arrest warrant out for Karpov and the Russian mob syndicate while Jason, Spinelli and Milo could tell was in shock about hearing about Michael among all other things.
"So the Jackal seeks bout of your sage advices as to how to move forward..."
"You've done enough Spinelli," Jason said, "all that you need to do is to tell Epiphany about who killed Stan."
"And promise me that you'll NEVER drag my daughter into something like this ever again."
Spinelli nodded at both men and looked over at Milo.
"We did good," Milo said as Spinelli nodded giving his friend a high five from under the table.
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TBC
OK so I really want to get this done and have a few plot points in mind (the family dinner, telling piff and scrubs wedding) Also as you can see I've totally deviated from cannon at this point and am making this go my own way. Please feel free to inform me (especially from this chapter on) if my continuity is off. Anyways thanks for reading and happy holidays in case I don't update before then