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'Great. This is not what I
needed today. I could just let him deal with this on his own.
He probably doesn't even want my help, but, oh what thehell.'
"What is going on here?"
"Spencer this doesn't concern you."
"You see that's where you are wrong.
You're messing with my brother."
"And what are you going to do about
it. There are four of us and two of you."
"Just evening the odds a little
bit." Nikolas looked at Lucky in shock. Outof all the likely people
that would help him. Lucky was not one of them.These four guys had
picked a fight with him for no good reason. Two of themhad him by
the arms and were about to beat him when Lucky showed up.
"Let him go. As you said
there are four you and only two of us. If you want a fight we'll
give you one. But let's make it fair by letting him go."
The 'leader' nodded to the other
two and they let him go and pushed him
towards Lucky. Lucky and
Nikolas made short work of the first two. They were now fighting
one on one with the other two. Nikolas punched his guy in the face
hard enough to knock him down. He was catching his breath watching
as
Lucky took care of the other guy.
Lucky had stopped to catch his breath when
he noticed one of the guys take
out a knife and move towards Nikolas who was
facing the other way. Lucky
didn't even think about it as he knocked Nikolas out of the way.
Lucky and Nikolas were sprawled
on the ground catching their breaths. Lucky had a black eye forming
and Nikolas had a bloody nose and a split lip. "Where did they go?"
"I don't know and at the moment
I don't care." Lucky sits up wincing. Lucky looks at Nikolas
and notices his bloody nose and hands him a tissue. "Here." Nikolas
takes it.
"Thanks." Nikolas looks at
Lucky and notices the blood seeping through Lucky's shirt.
"Lucky you're bleeding."
Lucky looks at his shirt and sees a three-inch slice on the right of his
body. It's bleeding heavily. He presses down on the cut with
his hands.
"Well it looks like I ruined another
shirt." Lucky says trying to crack a
joke. Nikolas looks at Lucky
concerned.
"This is not funny that may need
stitches."
"Nikolas I'm fine."
"At least let me take you to GH."
"No thank you. They'll tell my
parents. Besides it's not that bad."
"Yeah right. Lucky let me
look at that."
"It's not bad." Lucky said
wincing. Nikolas ignored Lucky and lifted up his shirt.
"Lucky you need to get this checked
out."
"Look Nikolas I don't want to go
to GH."
Nikolas decides to drop it right
now. "Fine. Where are you staying?"
"The boxcar."
"No you're not." Lucky looks
at Nikolas quizzically. "I'm not?"
"You are coming home with me."
"To Wyndemere."
" I don't think so."
"Lucky it's either that or GH."
Lucky sighed. "Fine.
What will Stefan say? Not that I care."
"Don't worry about it. Keep
pressing down on that cut. We have got to get the bleeding stopped.
Let's go." Lucky tried not to wince as he stood up and followed Nikolas.
Lucky and Nikolas boarded the launch
to Wyndemere. Stefan was at the hospital working (Katherine never
fell off the parapet at the ball, but Katherine
decided not to marry Stefan anyway.
She ran off with another man.) On the launch over Nikolas had called
their personal physician to come to Wyndemere despite Lucky's protests.
When they got to Wyndemere Nikolas settled Lucky into one of the
guestrooms and got some quaze to try to stop the bleeding.
The bleeding had slowed, but Lucky's
shirt was still soaked. Ten minutes
later Dr. Greenovitch arrived and
checked out Lucky's side. It had finally stopped bleeding.
The gash did need stitches, which he sewed. The doctor
prescribed some more penicillin
for Lucky and told him to rest. After the
doctor left Lucky was about to
fall asleep when he remembered Elizabeth.
"Oh no."
"What?" Nikolas asked.
"I was supposed to meet Elizabeth
for dinner an hour ago at Kelly's."
"Don't worry about it. I'll
call her and tell her what happened."
"Thanks, I appreciate it.
Elizabeth is probably ready to chop my head off."
Nikolas laughed. "I'll call her."
Lucky nodded and fell asleep.
Nikolas watched Lucky fall asleep. He couldn't believe what had happened.
In a million years he would not have suspected that Lucky would try to
protect him. Besides it wasn't his
job to. Nikolas was supposed
to protect him, he was older. Nikolas sighed
and walked into the hall to call
Liz.
"Hello?"
"Hi Mrs. Hardy, this is Nikolas
Cassadine, is Elizabeth home? I have to tell
her something about Lucky."
"Ok. I'll get her."
Mrs. Hardy put the phone down and
walked upstairs.
"Elizabeth, Nikolas is on the phone."
"I don't want to speak to him."
Mrs. Hardy looked at Liz and noticed that she was close to tears.
She knew that she was supposed to meet Lucky, but something must have happened.
"He says it's about Lucky."
Elizabeth looked up startled.
Nikolas would never call about Lucky. "I'll get it."
Elizabeth grabbed the phone that
was next to her bed.
"Hello?"
"Hi Liz. I just called to
tell you that Lucky is sorry that he couldn't meet
you."
"Why isn't he calling?"
"Well, you see he got stabbed tonight."
"Again? What happened?"
"He noticed that these four guys
were giving me a hard time and he stepped in.
We fought them and when we thought
they were through one of them was about to
stab me when Lucky pushed me out
of the way. He ended up getting stabbed."
"Is he ok?"
"Yeah, the doctor just told him
to rest and prescribed him some penicillin."
"Where is he?"
"At Wyndemere."
"How did you pull that off?"
"I told him it was either that
or GH."
"I'm surprised he didn't chose
GH."
"Frankly so am I." Nikolas
hears the door open.
"Nikolas!" Stefan was calling.
"Hey Liz, I got to go. My
Uncle is home."
"Ok. Tell Lucky I'll see
him tomorrow. If that's ok with you."
"Sure. That's fine.
I'll tell him. Goodnight."
"Goodnight. Thanks for calling."
"Your welcome. Bye."
Nikolas hangs up the phone.
Elizabeth could not believe that
Lucky had been stabbed again 'I swear that
boy just finds trouble.' She thought
to herself.
Nikolas took a deep breath and walked
downstairs.
"Hello Uncle."
"Hello Nikolas, how was your-"
he stops speaking as he gets a better look at Nikolas.
"What happened to you?"
"I got into a fight with Lucky
Spencer."
"What? That insolent Spencer Brat!"
"Uncle listen."
"He has troubled you for the last
time."
"Wait. Lucky and I got in
a fight against these four other guys. They were
picking a fight with me when Lucky
came and took my side."
"I find that hard to believe.
That brat has been after you since we came to Port Charles."
"It's true he's upstairs now."
"Why?" Nikolas told him the whole
story including how Lucky pushed Nikolas out of the way of the knife.
"Why didn't you just take him to
GH?" Stefan did not like this at all.
"He did not want to go. Are
you upset with me?"
"No, Spencer is not going to be
pleased to find out that his son has been
staying here."
"Since when do you care what Luke
Spencer thinks."
"I don't. Good Night, Nikolas."
"Good Night, Uncle."
Nikolas could not believe that
his uncle did not seem to care that Lucky might
have saved his life today.
He sighed and went upstairs. He went into check
on Lucky.
"I heard you and your uncle talking
he didn't sound too happy."
"Don't worry about it."
"I'm not. Besides it probably
annoys Stefan that I am here, which I don't
mind at all." Changing the subject,
"So what did Elizabeth say."
"She said that she'll see you tomorrow
and that she was surprised that you came here. Also, when I mentioned
that you were stabbed she said 'again?' What happened?"
"Uh I was accidentally stabbed
three weeks ago."
"What happened?"
"It's not important. I'm
fine now, I mean before I got stabbed again."
Nikolas decided to let it drop.
"I just wanted to tell you thanks
for helping me today. You may have saved my
life."
Lucky was embarrassed.
"Don't worry about it. It wasn't a fair fight.
I just made the odds a little more
even."
"Thank you, anyway."
'Good Night Nikolas." Lucky
closed his eyes not wanting to dwell on what happened tonight, and he was
too tired to continue anyway.
"Good Night, Lucky." Nikolas
watched as Lucky slept. He wanted to make sure
that his little brother was ok--little
brother--that's a change. He sighed and
left the room.