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Chapter One (((Author's Note: The setting: This begins the night of Florence’s heart attack…on those ubiquitous docks….and I warn you…it will be a long developing story….)))) This night had been a total disaster. That’s all Nikolas could think as he walked the docks. The only way it could have gone any worse would have been if Emily had been shot in front of them. Lucky was playing the guilty martyr, feeling that it was all his fault. As if he’d been the only one to do anything. But Nikolas knew better. He was stupid to agree to the plan in the first place. He was a Cassadine, he should’ve known better how to cover up something like that. Thought of a better plan. He never thought he’d want to be more like his grandmother, but this was one occasion where it would have come in handy. If he had been a little more ruthless about dealing with Zander, and not even involved the cops, just dispensed a little Cassadine justice, then Emily wouldn’t be in trouble now, and he wouldn’t have had to endure seeing Gia walk so brazenly into danger…. Gia? Why was he thinking about Gia? Maybe because she was sitting on the bench in front him….and appeared to be crying… He sat next to her.. “Hey…..you ok?” “What…oh yeah…yeah…how’s Emily?” “No word yet. Do you….do you have some sort of condition or something?” “What are you talking about?” “It seems water is spontaneously flowing from your eyes…” “Real funny…but don’t worry yourself, rich boy….I’m fine”.. “I was just asking.” Something was really wrong…she wasn’t as smart-assed as usual. “Are you sure….I mean…” “It’s my mom…she had a heart attack…” “Is she all right?” “I don’t know, okay…but just don’t worry about it…” “You don’t know. Why don’t I take you to go see her…My car’s…” “Being driven down the interstate by a cop killer, remember…don’t worry about it…I can’t go see her anyway….” “Why not…what’s stopping you?” “My brother…..he’ll be there and I can’t face him yet. Especially after what we did tonight…”…. “What do you mean….why would what happened with Emily have anything to do with your brother?” “He was there….” “He was there…at the rave?” “Yeah, in all his TJ Hooker glory….Marcus Taggert, Strong Arm of the Law…”… “Taggert’s your brother….?” “Yeah, so you see, I’m not afraid of cops…just one in particular ….or didn’t you notice that everytime I kissed you , he was around?” He can’t help but smile…“Actually, I wasn’t noticing much of anything that was around me…” “So, now you know…you can keep walking…” “You don’t want to go see your mother?” “I can’t. What if he saw me tonight, he’ll kill me…or arrest me. I’m sure by now little 'Juanabe' has spilled his guts about the whole thing. Can’t you just see me, Queen of the cell block?” “Lucky won’t say anything….and if I ask, Liz won’t either…” “Why would you ask? And what about Juan?” “Juan, I don’t know about, but you’re probably right. But not tonight…so what are you doing down here?…There’s nothing keeping you from going to the hospital…” “I can’t face him …not tonight.” “But your Mom…” “IS PROBABLY DYING….I KNOW……I just…” Those are the last words she can get out…she’s crying so hard . He pulls her to him and she cries herself to sleep. Back to the: Library |