CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE

THE GRILLE, THE PORT CHARLES HOTEL:

Andreas: All right, Madam, how are we going to do this?

Helena; I don’t think it’s going to be as hard as you think, Andreas. Just look at who we’re dealing with. Speaking of which, here he comes.

Roy(sat down at their table)Here they are.

Helena: (went through all the deeds now in her name)Excellent job, Roy. How did it go.

Roy: About as well as can be expected.

Helena(reached over and touched Roy’s hand in comfort)Roy, I don’t know how to tell you this.

Roy(jerked his hand away from her touch)What are you talking about? (His move didn’t escape Helena)

Helena: There’s been another murder. Jax even left a note at the scene of the crime, this time.

Roy: Are you telling me that bastard is leaving notes, now?

Helena: Yes, he explained that he can’t stop his work in Port Charles until it’s completed.

Roy: That son of a...Why can’t the police catch him. Why can’t they stop him.

Helena: Consider whose in charge. Mac Scorpio is an oaf. (she gave Andreas a signal to go into his act)

Andreas: It’s too bad were not in the old country. If some madman was preying on our women, the men of the town would join together in a posse to catch the villain and the local constabulatory could be damned since they were obviously not doing enough to bring this man to justice.

Roy: That’s a great idea. Why can’t we do that, here.

Helena: Because, dear boy, the authorities would consider it vigilante justice and they might end up arresting you instead of Jax.

Roy(his voice began to raise in anger)Mac Scorpio is incompetent. How many of our women has he let die. If Jax hadn’t been seen trying to attack you, Mac Scorpio still wouldn’t know who the Stalker was, and he’s apparently no closer to stopping him and putting him behind bars.

Man at the Bar: (who was also in Helena’s employ piped up)Yeah, that’s right. Scorpio is useless. If we leave it to him even more of our women are going to die.

Roy: I say it’s time we did something about this. My daughter was murdered by this madman and Scorpio has yet to bring him to justice.

Man at the Bar: You’re right. Scorpio has had his chance, now it’s our turn. (he turned to the other men in the restaurant)What do you say men? Since Scorpio can’t take care of this, isn’t it time that we did. (several of the men nodded in agreement)

Helena(smiled as she watched Roy walk to the center of the room and preach to the crowd on how it was up to them to do something since Mac had proved useless in the matter)Andreas, it really takes so little to form an angry mob, doesn’t it?

Andreas: Yes it does, Madam. You had a brilliant idea when you thought of this. Now DeLucca will be the prime suspect in Jax’s death. No one will doubt he killed Jax, no matter what he may say to the contrary. But what do you think Mr. DeLucca will do now that he knows Bobbie Spencer had something to do with his release from jail. Will that adversely effect our plans for him?

Helena: He’ll upset Stefan’s apple cart with his little tart, no doubt, which just may work to our advantage. It’ll get Stefan off my back and on to DeLucca‘s. Which is exactly what I want to happen. The last thing I need is Stefan watching me like a hawk and screwing up my plans. We couldn’t have planned this better ourselves. Now let’s get out of here. It’s time we delivered our next demands to Sonny Corinthos. I want full ownership of his mob transferred to me as soon as possible so I can move on to the next part of my plan.

Andreas: You’ve seen the way he is with his wife. Do you really think he’ll go along with it?

Helena: He will if he wants to keep his wife off of death row.