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The next day, Stefan and Alexis
and Nikolas were over at the Spencer
house, discussing Helena.
There was a knock at the door, and Laura
opened it to find Jason there.
He nodded to her as he stepped inside.
She was about to ask where Lucky
was when he appeared in the doorway,
his bag on his back. Luke
got up and stood behind Laura. Lucky cleared
his throat and looked down at his
feet.
"Um, I thought that, since you
know everything and don't blame me for
it, and you know that I got over
your mistakes a long time ago, that
maybe I could come home?"
Luke and Laura were silent, but
happy. Lucky misread their reaction
though.
"Unless I was wrong," he said with
fear in his voice, "Unless you are
mad at me for."
"Whoa, stop right there."
Luke said, "We are not mad at you. Remember?
You did nothing wrong. You
didn't kill that man, Daniel did."
Lucky nodded, and was able to hold
the tears back this time. "Does that
mean I can come home?"
He still didn't get a response
to his question, but knew the answer as
his parents hugged the life out
of him. He ran upstairs then, to put
his bag away, and smiled as he
saw that his room was exactly the same.
When Lucky came back down, he heard
Jason talking.
"I've put my best men on Helena,"
Jason said, "they say they've seen a
man fitting Lucky's description
of Daniel visiting the yacht late last
night."
As Lucky took a seat, Stefan asked
him a question. "Lucky, do have an
idea why Daniel would have taken
you?"
Lucky shook his head. "No.
I remember that he was planning a trip for
us, though. That's why we
were leaving the night the bomb exploded.
There was something Daniel wanted
to do in a town in Colorado. I think
the town was called Polk."
Alexis smiled at Lucky. "That'll
be a great start to research," she
said. "Another thing I wondered
about," she continued, "Was about this
person that double-crossed Daniel
and put the bomb in the mansion. Do
you think they might have something
to do with why Daniel was leaving?"
Lucky sat and thought for a minute.
"That's a great possibility," he
replied, "It did seem kind of weird
that one of his employees would do
it. They were all scared.
And Daniel didn't even have a clue the bomb
was there, so it had to someone
a little craftier than the people he
worked with."
Stefan sat back and sighed.
"So for now," he thought out loud, "We find
out what's in Polk, Colorado, and
who would be bold enough and smart
enough to betray Daniel."
In her yacht, Helena finished packing.
She'd need to be ready when the
time came. The goal of this
plan didn't seem so important anymore,
though. She cursed Stavros
under her breath. He was the reason she
started this plan so long ago.
She was glad he was dead now. To bad he
didn't die before he made it nearly
impossible for anyone to control the
Cassadine assets. Crossing
over to her desk, she picked up a paper
Stavors' had written on.
He really had gone a bit nuts there at the
end. She read it to herself.
Enemies great, though we may be,
Our sons together hold the key.
In a steel box, locked away,
A precious stone does gently lay.
Though we all might try best we
can,
The children hold the key in their
hand.
Helena smirked at the poem.
What a way to put it. Yes, the children
did hold they key, right in their
hands, and they didn't have a clue.
Lucky and Nikolas were sitting down
on the floor with the backs leaning
against the couch as they waited
for the adults to find information
about the town in Colorado.
"Can I ask you something?" Lucky said.
"Sure. What's up?"
Nikolas replied.
"Careful there, Niky, you're starting
to sound like an American." Lucky
grinned.
Nikolas pretended to turn stiff.
"Well, we certainly can't have that,"
Nik said in the most sour voice
he could manage without laughing, "You
must be a bad influence on me,
my uncle will not be pleased."
Lucky chuckled. "Wow, I never
knew you had a sense of humor." Lucky
said without thinking, "Wait, I
didn't mean that in a bad way."
"I know what you meant."
Nikolas said sadly, "I guess there are a lot
of things we don't know about each
other. So what was it you wanted to
ask me?"
Lucky thought about the best way
to phrase this. He didn't want to make
Nik mad when they were just starting
to get along, but he really needed
to ask this. "When you came
to Port Charles to help out Lulu, how come
you just wanted to see her?"
Nikolas looked at him not quite
understanding. "What do you mean? She
was my sister, and I never knew
about her, so I wanted to meet her."
"I know, but how come," Lucky said
as he looked down, "how come you
didn't want to meet me?"
Nikolas was a little stunned at
his words. But Lucky was right. He had
only wanted to see his sister.
"I guess I was jealous of you." Nik
said, choosing his words carefully,
"In my eyes you were someone chosen
over me. It was like you
were standing in my place for a family."
Lucky nodded and swallowed.
"Yeah, I guess I started to see you as
competition after that, too."
"You wouldn't have hated me if
I had wanted to know you too, would you?"
Nik said softly.
"I can't be sure," Lucky said,
"But I know I wouldn't have been so
protective of Lu and mom if you
had."
Nik laid a hand on Lucky's arm
to get him to look up. "There doesn't
have to be just one place, though,
does there?" he asked.
Lucky smiled at him as he answered,
"No, I think we could squeeze two
in."
"Make that three!" Lulu screamed
as she ran over and flopped down on
both of her brothers. Nik
and Lucky looked up to see Laura standing
there, blushing now that she got
caught listening to them.
"Um, I was just coming in here
to, uh.." Laura could not think of a way
out of this.
Nik and Lucky smiled at each other.
"Yeah, yeah, I think you were just
eavesdropping on us." Lucky teased.
"What do you think we should do
with her, Nik?"
"Well," Nik replied as they stood
up with Lulu, "I think we should
suffocate her in a group hug."
Lucky moaned, but Laura just pulled
him close to her and relished in the
fact that she had an arm around
each of her sons, and her daughter
buried somewhere between.
Luke cleared his throat from the
doorway as he walked in with Stefan and
Alexis. "I hate to break
up this Kodak moment, but I think I must."
Luke had tried to make his voice
gruff, but he had a small smile on his
face, as did Stefan. Laura
turned around and wiped a few tears from her
eyes. "Did you find anything
out?" she asked.
"Babe, you won't believe what we
found." Luke replied. " Guess what
happens to be lying in a bank at
the little town of Polk, Colorado?"
Laura shook her head and Luke smiled
at her as he pulled out a cigar.
"The one and only," Luke said,
pausing to light his cigar, "Ice
Princess."
"You're kidding!" Laura exclaimed.
Luke shook his head as he sat down.
"Nope. Stefan said it was stolen
not long after the famous weather
machine fiasco. And it appears
Stavros left a paper trail to it
to this bank. But it has some kind of
weird key to it or something.
No one's figured out how to open the box
it's in. I'm sure it's there,
though, because we also found out that
Helena made several attempts to
get the box open after Stavros' death.
Then she cooled of for awhile."
"But Daniel wanting to go to Polk
with Lucky proves that he knows about
it too, doesn't it?" Laura asked.
Luke nodded and added, "Yeah, and
him being back again, we can't rule
out the possibility that he's after
it again."
"But what does this have to do
with Lucky?" Nikolas asked. "There had
to be a reason that Daniel kidnapped
him and wanted to take him to Polk
with him."
"I don't know," Stefan said shaking
his head, "but we might find out
soon. Jason's men told us
that Daniel seems to have moved onto the
yacht, and has been seen bringing
computer disks in with him. If we see
what's on those disks, it could
be helpful."
"So what's the plan to get on the
yacht?" Lucky asked, like it was no
big deal.
"Hold up there, son." Luke said.
"We've got a plan, but it doesn't
involve you. This is dangerous,
and if we get caught, we could be face
to face with Daniel. I don't
want you anywhere near him."
"Dad, please.." Lucky started
to say.
"I said no, Cowboy." Luke said
cutting him off.
"Dad, look at me." Lucky
said as he walked over and stood directly in
front of Luke. "I need to
go with you. I can't stay here at home and
hide from Daniel Forst. If
I start doing that, I'll never be able to
stop. I can't live my whole
life being afraid of him." Lucky took
another step forward, looking his
father in the eye. "I can't, and I
won't."
Luke looked at his son with pride.
He looked over at Laura, who nodded,
and then looked back at Lucky and
smiled at him. "All right, Cowboy,
you're in."
Stefan smiled, though he tried
not to. He would never admit it, but if
you were on the same side as the
Spencers, it was hard not to admire
them. "Well, let's sit down
and discuss the plan then shall we?" he
asked.
"That we shall, Steffie."
Luke said.
Stefan shook his head. Of
course, just when he started to think Luke
was tolerable, he had to go and
be a pest again.
"Okay, after we found out what
Jason's men told us, we happened to take
a walk on the docks." Alexis
said. "We being Stefan and I. Helena and
Daniel were standing there talking.
Stefan had met Daniel a few times
after Helena had just hired him.
They had always been civil to each
other, so it was easy to invite
them to dinner. Of course, Helena
didn't want me there, but Stefan
told her that for Nikolas' sake, the
whole family should get along."
"So while those two step out for
a family dinner tonight," Luke picked
up, "You and I," Luke nodded to
Lucky, "will let ourselves on the yacht.
She only has Ari to guard the place,
and I know from experience that
it's not to hard to temporarily
get him out of the way."
"So am I going to the dinner too?"
Nikolas asked.
"I'll leave that up to you."
Stefan replied. "It will not be pleasant
to sit there with those two, but
it would make Helena less suspicious.
"Then I'll be there." Nikolas
responded. He wanted this plan to go as
smoothly as possible, for Lucky's
sake.
That night at 8:30, Nikolas, Alexis,
and Stefan took a deep breath as
Daniel and Helena entered the Port
Charles Grill, and sat down with
them. They weren't too worried,
though. Of course, Helena would be a
bit suspicious as to what this
was about, but she would never guess that
they were working with the Spencers.
The thing that most troubled
Nikolas was sitting there smiling
as he was introduced to Daniel Forst,
when he wanted to tear his smug
eyes out for Lucky.
Luke and Lucky, both dressed in
black, silently walked onto the yacht.
They watched through the window
as Ari got up and walked into the other
room. Quickly they went inside,
Luke paused to pour something into
Ari's drink, and they hid behind
the bar. It wasn't long after Ari came
back and sipped on his drink while
he read the paper. Soon his head
began to nod, and he fell asleep.
Luke and Lucky smiled at each other
as they got up to search the place.
"Just like old times, huh dad?"
Lucky asked. "Sure is, Lucky,"
Luke said, "we always did make a good
team."
Laura sat at home, with an open
book in her lap that she really wasn't
reading. Everyone had a part
in the plan tonight except for her, which
left her all alone worrying herself
to death. She was startled by a
knock at the door. Opening
it, she found Liz and Emily on the other
side. They smiled warmly
at her as they stepped inside. "I'm sorry,
but I'm the only one home right
now." Laura said.
"We know, Mrs. Spencer." Liz said.
"We stopped by Jason's, and found
out what was going on tonight.
We figured you could use some company,
before you go crazy with worry
here all by yourself."
Laura smiled at them, touched.
"You're right, I could use a couple
people to talk to. But one
thing, call me Laura."
Liz and Emily nodded, and all three
sat down, trying not to think of
what was happening at that moment,
but still praying everything went
okay in the back of their minds.
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