Nikolas and Kristina had seen Alexis sway and they managed to grab her just as she blacked out. As they helped her to the ground Sam rushed over. The utter fear in her eyes was there for everyone to see. As Sam knelt by her mother's side Nikolas looked up at the man who'd walked into the room. He was a little older then the pictures he'd seen but it was clear that he at least looked just like Mikkos Cassadine.

"Johann, fetch Nassir." Mikkos demanded.

"Already on his way, my Prince." The man replied as he made to move towards Alexis.

Sam gave the man her most powerful Davis glare as she barked, "Get away from my mother!" She was so frightened, angry, and worried that she didn't care that there were tears welling in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. If anyone tried to touch her mother in that moment she'd hurt them, and everyone in the room knew it.

"I mean her no harm, Princess." Johann said as he held up his hands in a disarming manner.

Nikolas stepped closer to his aunt and cousin as he addressed the dark, round, man who stood there looking at each of them in turn. All his life Nikolas had been training to become the Cassadine Prince. He never once thought he'd actually have to become that prince, but as he stood there with his beloved aunt passed out cold, his other aunt and cousin scared and unsure, he knew the prince is what he had to be. "Who is Nassir?"

Mikkos raised a brow at the boy. He'd literally watched the boy change before his eyes from a boy to a Cassadine. "My personal physician."

A dark skinned man appeared in the room with a medical bag in his hand. He moved towards Alexis but once again Sam stopped anyone from coming near her mother and unborn sibling. She didn't trust these people. Nikolas eyed the man carefully. "You're a doctor?"

"Yes." Nassir said. He opened his bag and pulled out his identification, which he held out to Nikolas. "I'm not going to harm her."

Nikolas accepted it and looked it over. "Samantha, he's a doctor, let him help."

Sam looked at Nikolas as if he were crazy but in return got a reassuring look that said it was ok. She let the doctor look her mother over but didn't move away from her. She glared at the poor man as he asked questions that Kristina answered regarding the pregnancy and general health questions.

The doctor pulled something out of his bag after giving Alexis a quick look over and held it under her nose. A few moments later she was coming around. "Lets get her into a chair."

Nikolas had to put his hand on Sam's shoulder as the doctor and another man helped Alexis into a chair. Once she was settled he went to his aunt and stood beside her protectively, as did Sam.

"Mom?" Sam asked. She wanted to scream, to fight, but mostly to cry. She wasn't sure how, but she managed to keep most of those emotions in check for the moment. She didn't realize she'd been crying the whole time. "Are you ok?"

Alexis groaned. "I think so." She saw the tears streaking down her baby's face and reached out to wipe them away. "I'm ok, Sam." She reassured before asking, "What happened?"

"You fainted, Natasha." Mikkos said gently.

Alexis yelped. So that hadn't been a dream. She looked at the man who continued to stand in front of them. The man couldn't be her father; he couldn't, because Luke had killed her father while she was finishing boarding school. Her father died shortly after her daughter was born. Remembering her last encounter with her father, Alexis stood up and pulled Sam behind her as if to protect her from being taken again. "I don't know what's going on here but my father is dead."

"I know there is a lot to be explained." Mikkos said as he took several steps closer to his family.

"Ya think?" Alexis snapped before she could stop herself. "My father froze to death in his own machine. The WSB took his body back to the U.S."

"Did they?" Mikkos asked. "Did you see the body before it was entombed?"

Tears she didn't want anyone to see welled in Alexis' eyes. She hadn't known Mikkos was her father then. He was her uncle, her parent, and before he'd forced her to give up her child she had loved him with the kind of innocence that only a child could. "No." She said softly as she looked away. "I wasn't allowed to attend his funeral. Helena, forbid it."

Sadness clouded Mikkos' dark eyes for a moment and he too had to look away. Once he'd composed himself he walked over to the head of the table and sat down. "Everyone, sit, dinner is getting cold."

Kristina was so stunned she simply couldn't form a coherent thought. She had never expected to meet one of her parents, they were both long dead, and yet here sat a man claiming to be her father. Like her niece and nephew, Kristina looked to Alexis for confirmation as to what to do. When Alexis gave them a slight nod they all took their seats.

"Wonderful." Mikkos said with a charming smile that reminded both women of their beloved brother. It was a little creepy to everyone.

"I think you need to start explaining things." Alexis told the man sitting at the head of the table. "I need a damn good one to believe that you really are who you appear to be."

Mikkos nodded. "Of course you do, Natasha. You have always been a very logical thinker." He paused as the servants poured the wine. Then he began, "Luke Spencer did indeed force me into the chamber. I did indeed freeze. What Mr. Spencer didn't know, what no one knew, is that my scientists were close to finding a way to defrost human beings following the freezing process. On the way to the U.S. my operatives were able to get me off the transport and safely tucked away in stasis." He sipped his wine. "I spent over a year that way before they could revive me. It took several years before I was even close to being healthy."

Alexis listened. She took in what he was saying as well as the sound of his voice. It wasn't the voice she remembered from Cassadine Island, but it wasn't the voice she heard echoing in the hallways of this house either. "You've been living here for the last ten years?"

"Yes." Mikkos answered. "I came back here to live out the rest of my life. I saw no need to return. Stavros pounced on the family like a leopard on its prey, which had its benefits. It kept him and Helena so busy that Stefan was able to take care of what mattered; you and then Nikolas."

"Stefan." Kristina said as she finally spoke up. "Why isn't he here?"

"That's very simple, Kristina." Mikkos said as he looked at his youngest child. "My beautiful Kristina. So much like your mother." Sadness and longing clouded his eyes again. It was very clear that he still missed Kristin. Then he became serious again. "This is Kristin's home. I will not have anything tainted by Helena in this house."

Nikolas looked up then. "Then why am I here?"

"You may share Helena's blood, Nikolas." Mikkos said to the boy. "But you have not been tainted by her presence in your life. You're uncle has protected you from that. You're aunt has been the sole female influence in your life." He smiled at the boy. "Kristin would have adored you." He paused and then looked at his daughters again. "I will meet with Stefan before time runs out. This is about you and my grandchildren."

Sam snorted in disgust. She was sitting in the chair beside her mother with her arms crossed over her chest. "I'm so not your grandchild."

"I know there is still some doubt regarding my…."

"Doesn't matter if you are or it you're not." Sam cut in. "Grandparents don't rip babies from their mothers' arms, and then let them get sold off to the highest bidder. I have one grandfather and one only and his name is John Jacks. And you sure the hell aren't him."

Alexis reached over and put her hand on Sam's arms. She was a little surprised to find the girl trembling. "Sam." She said softly but firmly. When she was sure Sam was a little calmer she looked back at Mikkos. "What is this all about, Mikkos? You've been dead all this time. Why come back now?"

"I will explain all in time, Natasha." Mikkos replied after turning to look at her. He'd been looking at Sam, who looked so much like her mother at that age. "But for now I wish to have dinner with my family."

"You can't keep us here, Mikkos." Alexis told him as she glared at the man. He was really pissing her off. Not to mention how overwhelmed she was feeling about all of this. "We have lives and people who will be looking for us."

Mikkos sat back as the servants served their dinner. "This is your home, Natasha, not your prison. When our visit is over you'll be allowed to go back to your lives."

"It's not a prison, but we'll be allowed to leave when you say so." Alexis said with a huff.

"Everything will be explained in time, Natasha." Mikkos told her in a very firm and commanding voice. "Right now we are going to have dinner together. I would like to get to know my daughters and my grandchildren."

Jax was on the phone in his office. Jerry was working his less then legal contacts while Jax was trying his more legitimate ones. "No, no, we need to keep this from blowing up. If the people who took them or others who mean them harm knew about this they'd use it as a sign of weakness. Yes, we're sure it's a Cassadine thing." He had his back to the door and didn't see her slip in. "My wife's family have these medallion things that they wear, they're onyx and gold with the family crest, both she and her sister have one, and both are missing. Yes, we have to think global. Yes, they are royal but don't ask me to explain how because I can't." Jax sighed and in a flare of anger yelled, "Just do whatever it takes to find my wife and daughter!"

Brenda flinched when Jax slammed the phone down. When he turned to face her she smiled at him. "You're wife? Since when is Alexis Davis your wife?"

"What do you want, Brenda?" Jax asked in a clipped tone. "I'm a little busy."

Brenda looked hurt and pouted. "Jax?"

Jax sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He had dark circles under his eyes and it was more then clear that he wasn't taking care of himself. He barely slept, he wasn't eating, and all his focus was on finding Alexis, Sam, Kristina and Nikolas. When Brenda came over to him and lifted her hands to caress his face he pushed away her touch. "What do you want Brenda?"

"I need your help." Brenda told him after the shock of his rejection wore off. "I've gotten myself into some trouble, financially, and it might cost Julia and Lois their companies." She gave him a sweet innocent smile with big bright eyes. "So, I need your help to get out of this."

"I can't, Brenda." Jax replied.

Brenda pouted. "What do you mean you can't? You always help me, always. Jax, I'm depending on you!"

Jax picked up a framed picture from his desk and turned it to show Brenda. "Do you see this little girl?" He demanded as he showed her Sam's picture. "She is depending on me, Brenda, my daughter and her mother and our unborn child are depending on me."

"But Jax." Brenda replied. She was getting angry. She was use to Jax dropping everything for her. "You always save me when I've gotten myself in to deep. Let Alexis' brother find her, let the Cassadines take care of their own."

"I value our friendship, Brenda, but that's all it is. I love Alexis, I love our little girl and the baby we're having. They are my own." Jax told the young woman. "I can't play your rescuer anymore. If I'm going to be someone's hero, I'm going to be my family's hero. Ask Sonny or the Quartermains for help."

Jax knew Brenda was angry when she left but it couldn't be helped. For the first time in his life his priorities were straight, and those priorities were Alexis, Sam, and Kristina. When his office door opened again he was ready to snap at whoever it was but stopped when he saw it was Luke.

"So, pretty boy, you ever been to Budapest?" Luke asked as he looked at the younger man.

"Budapest?" Jax asked.

Luke nodded. "You know, city in Hungry, I got a working theory. Care to come along or shall I save Natasha myself and reap all the rewards for being her hero?"

Jax shot to his feet. He knew that if anyone had a chance of finding Alexis is was Luke. "Keep your hands off my wife, Spencer."

Luke looked at the man with a raised brow. "You two elope behind our backs?"

"No." Jax said. "But I don't need a damn piece of paper or a ring to tell me that Alexis is the only woman I want to spend the rest of life with."

"Rest of your life is a long time, pretty boy." Luke replied as they left Jax's office, knowing full well the younger man would follow. "A lot can happen in all that time."

"And whatever happens I know that in the end she and I will be the ones left standing." Jax said as he pulled out his cell phone. He called Jerry and then he called the airport to have his jet prepared. "Budapest, huh?"

Luke nodded. "It's where we start."