Silent Prayers Chapters 11-15

Chapter 11

Lucky slept for a few hours. No one left, though. Alexis and Stefan sat back by themselves, discussing the situation.

“Who do you think this Daniel is?” Alexis asked.

“I have a pretty good idea, but I might as well wait and explain it to everyone.” Stefan answered her.

“Does that mean you are going to help them?

“We, Alexis, we are. It has nothing to do with Spencer, but Lucky is an innocent child, and Nikolas seems to have started a relationship with him. Besides, this has to do with my mother, and she needs to be stopped.”

Nikolas himself was sitting talking to Emily and Liz.

“I feel so bad for him.” Liz said. “He helped me through, well, a lot of stuff, and I don’t know how to return the favor.”

“Liz, just you being here helps him.” Nik told her.

“The same could be said for you.” Emily said. “I think he likes having a brother”.

“We just spent one day together, because we both happened to have nothing else to do. It doesn’t mean we are on the greatest of terms.”

Emily smiled at him. “No, but it does mean those terms have improved.”

Lucky woke up, and came back out from his room, where his father had moved him. Everyone prepared themselves once again.

Lucky was little uncomfortable now, after pretty much having a break down in front of everyone. “Where did I leave off?” Lucky asked, his voice dry.

“Not so fast.” Luke said. “There’s something you need to know first. What happened was not your fault. You’re not a bad person. You did not commit murder, Daniel Forst did. He is the one that pulled the trigger. If he hadn’t put his hands over yours, you wouldn’t have done it.” Luke leaned forward. “Lucky, you can’t blame yourself for that. Your mother and I don’t. You did nothing wrong. You have to believe that.”

Lucky let the words sink in for a little while, but didn’t know if he still fully believed it. “I guess I know that in my head, but I can’t convince my heart.”

Luke felt his own heart break yet again for his son. He would find this demon soon enough, and he would be punished for what he did.

“Anyway, that happened about four months after I was taken there. Before that, I had only… seen him kill people himself. The whole time, though, he tried to teach me his… business.”

Now Stefan looked up outraged. “This man tried to teach a seven-year-old child how to kill people?”

Lucky looked at him a little surprised that he spoke up like that, but nodded.

“Anyway, a few days after that, Daniel had a big job going down. Some terrorists had hired him to bomb a post office, I think. But someone double-crossed him, and the bomb ended up in the mansion. I was supposed to be in the car, because we were taking off. I thought it was my chance, though, so I got out to take off. I got up to the house to get some cash, when I saw Daniel and Luis arguing in some room. Daniel was saying that Luis betrayed him, but he swore he didn’t. Then Daniel,” Lucky swallowed hard, “picked up a knife and plunged it into him. He was dead before he hit the ground. Then the bomb went off. I was trapped underneath some beams. A month later I woke up in the hospital, not remembering what I’ve just told you. Another month mom and dad showed up. I told them what I could remember. That I got separated from them, and that I found Luis. I thought there was some plan, so I said that Luis made us lay low for awhile.”

“That’s why it took us awhile to find you.” Luke said dully. “We finally started checking all the hospitals. The doctors’ told us they thought you and Luis had mistakenly gotten in the middle of a terrorist job gone bad. They told us he was dead, and you were okay. Is that everything?”

“Yeah, except for when I woke up, the nurse gave me the medallion. She said I had it on when I came in. I think I wore it the whole time I was gone. I’m sorry I never told you about it, but something about it scared me, made me think that I shouldn’t tell about it because it would only cause trouble.”

Laura reached out patted his knee. “Thank you for telling us Lucky. I promise you that we will try to make everything all right now.”

Stefan looked at Alexis, and she nodded. “That goes for us too.” Stefan said.

Everyone, including Nikolas looked at him surprised. Stefan and Alexis looked back a little uneasy. They answered everyone’s looks together. “What?”

“Um, you just said you would help. To the Spencers.” Nik said.

Alexis sighed. “I realize we aren’t the best of friends, but this obviously has something to do with Helena. I don’t think anyone here could deny that even we are not on the best of terms with her. For once I think we could work together to bring down a common enemy.”

Stefan nodded in agreement, and Nikolas and Laura smiled at them. Luke looked a little angry. Work with Cassadines? Then he glanced over at his son. His son who had been through so much when he should have been growing up in a normal town leading a normal life. All right, for his son he would do this.

“Fine. But how can you help?” Luke asked.

“I believe we can easily find out who these two people, Luis and Daniel, are.” Stefan said. “Lucky, did Daniel say anything to you when you saw him talking to Helena?”

“Yeah. Helena had asked me how I was, and I asked her why she cared. Then he turned around and said that was no way to talk to a lady. He came over to me, and stuck his hand out. He said his name was Daniel Forst.”

“What happened then?” Alexis asked.

“Well, I couldn’t move. I was too stunned. And he just stood there smiling at me, like he knew that I remembered him.”

“How’d you get out of there?” Luke asked.

Lucky answered, his voice sounding surprised, like even he didn’t believe it.

“Helena. She shook my shoulder, and told me I should probably get home before dinner. It was kind of weird, though. Normally when I see her, she has all this hate on her face for me. This time, I don’t know, she was different.”

Stefan was a little worried about that, but put it aside for now.

“All right. I think I can tell who Luis is. Luke, did this man have brown hair, that looked nearly gray?”

Luke nodded. “And brown eyes.”

Then they finished together. “And a thin moustache.”

“So you knew him?” Luke asked.

“I was related to him. The man you’re describing is Luis Traken, Helena’s brother. He wasn’t blood to my family, but he still wore a medallion. He and Helena were up to something, and hired Daniel many years ago. But I believe Daniel started to take over. He believed himself more worthy of ruling our family, and even had medallion himself, the one Lucky now has.”

“And what plan was it that he was hired to do for Helena? And why is he back now?” Luke pushed.

“That’s what we have to figure out now.” Stefan said.

“Before it’s too late.”

Chapter 12

Luke sighed as he fell back on his bed. He rolled over on his side and put his arms around Laura. “What are we going to do, babe?”

“I don’t know,” Laura replied, “It’s tearing me up inside that all this happened to our son without us even knowing. And now this monster is back, and we don’t know why.”

“We’ll find out soon enough.” Luke rubbed his temple with the tips of his fingers. “Lord, can you believe I just spent the night having a civil conversation with the Cassadines?”

“It was pretty amazing,” Laura chuckled, “they seem like they really want to help, though.”

“Yeah, they do. Laura, I-,” Luke breathed deeply, “I really need to apologize to you. I’ve been horrible to your son. But I promise now, I won’t stand in the way of you seeing him anymore. Tonight, Lucky was so vulnerable, and Stefan was sitting within five feet of him, but he never took a shot at him. That’s one favor I owe to the old bat. And if Stefan can put things away for our children, I can too.”

By the time he finished Laura was crying. “Luke, you don’t know how much this means to me.”

“Yeah I do, angel. I saw what it was like for you tonight. There was a time when I too lost my son. I’m so sorry. And not just for that. But that I made friends with that mad man.” Luke shuddered as he remembered how much he trusted Luis. “And I let my son fall right into his hands.”

Laura gripped Luke’s hands with her own. “Stop that. It’s not your fault. I knew that man too, and would have handed Lucky over to him without a second thought if we were in danger. We can’t go back and change what happened, but we can prevent anything else from happening. Luke, we will keep our son safe.”

Luke buried his head in Laura’s hair, and held on to her for dear life, as they both cried themselves to sleep.

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 the key, right in their hands, and they didn’t have a clue.

Chapter 13

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.”

Chapter 14

“You’re kidding!” Laura exclaimed.

Luke shook his head as he sat down. “Nope. Stefan said the ice princess 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 Spencer’s. 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.

Chapter 15

Nikolas was in agony. He was convinced that if Daniel ever had trouble taking out the people he was hired to kill, he could just talk to them for a few hours and they would die from boredom. Discretely looking down at his wrist, Nikolas checked his watch for the millionth time that night. It was 9:30. They had been here for an hour. He hoped Lucky and Luke had finished searching the yacht. Most of them were already done with dinner. Nikolas was still picking at his dessert, trying to stall. Half an hour more was probably the longest he and Stefan and Alexis could keep Helena and Daniel there.

Laura brought in a tray of three hot chocolates and cookies. It screamed motherly solution, but she needed something to do, and as silly as it seemed, it put her at ease to do this. Emily and Liz smiled at her as they each took a cup and a cookie.

“So, tell me I’m not the only one worried here.” Laura said.

“No, I think both of us are going crazy here too, Laura.” Liz said.

Laura smiled at the girls. “You both care a lot about my sons, don’t you?”

The both nodded. “Yeah, they’ve both been great friends to us.” Emily said. “Lucky helped me when my mom died, and even though we’ve been distant for a while, we talked the other day, and we’re like we used to be. And Nikolas really helped me through my, my drug problem when I didn’t have many other friends.”

Laura smiled. “I’m glad they were there for you, but I know you’ve helped them just as much. The same goes for you, Liz. Lucky didn’t just help you after...”

Laura dropped off, remembering Emily was there. “It’s okay, Laura.” Liz said. “Emily and I have done a little bonding lately, and she knows about my rape. And you’re right. Lucky and I helped each other through so much. And Nikolas was great about not telling anyone I was raped when he found out.”

Emily spoke up a little timidly now. “Laura, Liz and I would like to help you and Luke and Lucky and the Cassadines. I know neither of us have as much training in things like this that you do, but I Liz and I have learned a lot from Lucky.”

Laura frowned slightly. “I don’t know, girls. Taking down Helena and this Daniel could get very dangerous.”

Liz spoke up, feeling bold. “Laura, we realize that, but this is something we both have to do. Nikolas and Lucky have been there several times when we needed them, and pretty much saved our lives. Now we’d like to do the same.”

Laura saw the determination in both girls’ eyes. “Okay. I think I’d have a hard time fighting you two on this, so I won’t even try. You know, I’m not only proud of my sons, but also the wonderful girlfriends they have.”

Emily and Liz exchanged rather shocked and embarrassed looks. “Uh, Laura, I think maybe you have the wrong impression…” Emily started to say, but was cut off by Laura.

“No, I’ve seen the way Nikolas looks at you Emily. And Liz, you and Lucky seem to have become each other’s life. I know this is way in the future, but I can’t wait to have you two as daughters’-in-law.” Liz and Emily blushed, but giggled along with Laura.

On the yacht, Luke rummaged through the last drawer of the last file cabinet. Helena kept stuff well hidden. They had found Daniel’s computer, but no disks anywhere.

“Find anything, Cowboy?” Luke called to Lucky, who was crouched down on the floor under the desk.

“Not yet, Dad.” Despite the stress of the situation, Luke smiled to himself. It was great having his son back with him.

Lucky slid his hand along the underneath side of the middle desk drawer. Suddenly a compartment flew open on his right side. Inside were several disks. “Dad, get over here!” he shouted. Luke ran over and grinned at his son. “Jackpot.” He reached over and thumbed through the disks. Lucky and Luke exchanged a look of triumph when they saw the one labeled Helena. Luke checked his watch.

“Great going kiddo, but we gotta get out of here now. They’ve been gone for an hour and a half.” Lucky nodded.

“All right dad, you go check to see if anyone’s out there yet, and I close this back up.” After Luke got up, Lucky paused before he shut the compartment. Another disk had caught his eye. He stared at it as he picked it up. Hearing Luke call for him, he quickly pocketed it and shut the compartment, and then ran out to the docks after his father. They just made it out of sight when the Cassadines and Daniel arrived.

“Well, Helena, Daniel, I hope you had nice time tonight. I hope we can do it again.” Stefan said. Helena just nodded.

“I know this evening was about something, Stefan, and I will find out.” Stefan just nodded as she and Daniel disappeared on the yacht. He put an arm on Alexis and Nikolas, and steered them to their waiting limo. Before they went home, they intended on checking on the Spencer’s. None of them were too surprised when they got in and found Luke and Lucky already inside.

“I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t smoke in my car, Spencer.” Stefan said as he pulled the cigar from Luke’s mouth.

“Aww, relax, Stefan, I’m just celebrating.” Alexis and Stefan looked at him curiously, but it was all they could get out of him until they got to the Spencer house.

Laura jumped up as the door opened, and practically knocked Luke and Lucky down as she threw herself on them.

“Hey now, darling,” Luke said, “You weren’t worried about us, were you? Sneaking onto Helena’s yacht was a piece of cake.”

Laura batted playfully at him as they all went inside. “Well, what you do, decide to have a party while we out?” Luke asked. “Hello girls.” Emily and Liz smiled at him.

“Well, I guess we all just decided to worry together.” Laura said.

Luke laughed when he saw Jason enter from the kitchen. “Don’t tell me you got all anxious about us, too.” Luke teased.

Jason smiled, and slapped Luke on the back. “No, I just got here. I wanted to see if you found anything out tonight.” Jason replied.

Luke turned as Lucky came down the stairs with his laptop. “Well, we’re about to find out.” He said, as he pulled the disk marked ‘Helena’ out. He handed it to Lucky, who inserted it into the computer. Everyone huddled around the screen, on which flashed information about how much Helena was paying Daniel when she hired him, and other details like that. Scrolling down, Lucky finally found something useful.

“It says here Daniel was hired to kidnap me and take me to Polk, Colorado by Helena and Luis. He had to keep me for so long in the mansion because they were waiting for someone else to join them. Luis and Daniel were told by Helena that whomever they were waiting for would meet them there. Then Daniel realized someone had double-crossed him on the bombing job, but it was before he knew the bomb was in the mansion. He accused Luis, and even though he denied it, he killed him.” Lucky swallowed hard at the memory of witnessing that event.

Luke put his hand on his shoulder. “Any clue as to who they were going to meet?” He asked. Lucky shook his head. “No, but from the way things were written, the other person was about as willing to come with them as I was.”

Nikolas then pointed at the screen. “What’s that poem about?” He asked as he read it out loud. “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.”

“I don’t know, but it appears to be written by Stavros about the Ice Princess.” Stefan said. “Alexis and I will research this some more, and see if can find out who they were waiting for. Luke nodded at them, and everyone but Jason went home for the night.

“You got guard on the girls, right?” Luke asked Jason.

“Yeah, even a few on the Cassadine's.” Luke grunted but didn’t say anything. “You going to hang around here for the night?”

Jason nodded. “Yeah, I’d think it would be best if I stayed close. I’ll just crash on the couch, okay?” Luke nodded, and threw some blankets and a pillow at him before he went upstairs.

Jason had just settled in, when he heard footsteps on the stairs. Adjusting himself slightly and quietly, he saw Lucky walk down and sit at the computer. Jason realized he must not know that he was staying there tonight. He got up and walked over to Lucky, who had inserted another disk in the computer and was staring intently at the screen.

“Uh, hey, what’s up?” Jason asked. He didn’t want Lucky to think he was spying on him, but knew he should make his presence known. Lucky jumped as he spoke, and pushed the screen down.

“Hey, what are you doing here?” He asked. “I thought it would be a good idea if I stuck around. I didn’t mean to scare you.” Jason replied. “Is it all right if I ask what you’re doing?”