Wyndemere:
Nikolas:No, it's not true. Luke Spencer is not my father.
Laura:Nikolas, it's true and I'm here to take you home.
Nikolas:Home! With Lucky and Luke!
Laura:Nikolas, you don't belong here. You're not a Cassadine.
Nikolas:I'm not a Spencer, either. I don't belong with you. I don't 
belong anywhere.
Laura:Nikolas, where are you going.
Nikolas:(turns around as he exits)Just leave me alone. Haven't you done 
enough to me.
Laura(turns to Sonny)I have to go after him. I have to get through to 
him. He and Lucky should have grown up brother and Luke and I should 
have raised him. Damn the Cassadines.
Sonny:Laura, when you have this all sorted out, you and I have to talk 
about Luke.(she nods and leaves as Jax enters)
Jax:Just who I'm looking for.
Sonny:What do you want.
Jax:I know what you've been up to.
Sonny:You're not still yapping about that kiss, are you? I figured after 
you came out here to try and make some trouble between Miranda and I, 
you would let it go.
Jax:That's not what I'm talking about and you know it.
Sonny:Since I have no idea what you're talking about, why don't you 
spell it out for me.
Jax:Don't play dumb with me. It doesn't suit you.
Sonny:You're acting like a bigger boob that usual. Just tell me what you 
think I've done and leave.
Jax:I don't think, I know. You just keep your hair out of my comb and 
your head off my pillow, or I'll destroy you. You didn't think I'd 
recognize your cologne all over my pillow, did you? But I did and if it 
happens again you'll be sorry.(he storms off)
Miranda:Was that Jax I heard bellowing?
Sonny:Yeah and don't ask. I have to be getting to the club.(he kisses 
her)I'll see you later. (as he's walking out)Keep my hair out of us 
comb?

Port Charles Hotel:
Tracy(and Luke with cigars in their mouths watch Ned as he slips into 
Jax's penthouse)There he goes again.
Luke:Let's follow him.(they slip inside the penthouse and follow Ned 
upstairs)
Tracy:What's he doing?
Luke:He just put a pair of boxers int he top dresser drawer. Kinky.
Tracy:Now what's he doing?
Luke:He's sprinkling something on one of the pillows. He's heading for 
the door. Come on.(they rush out of the penthouse and watch Ned leave a 
few seconds later)Any idea about what we've just seen?
Tracy:I haven't got a clue?
Luke:Did he do weird stuff like that as a child?
Tracy:How would I know. I turned him over to a nanny the minute after I 
birthed him. Then I sent him off to boarding school. All I know is he's 
up to something.
Luke:I agree and we'd better find out what it is so he doesn't interfere 
with our plans.

Wyndemere:
Helena(is sitting in front of the dressing table brushing her hair when 
Stefan enters)Ah, Stefan, have you come to tell me you've made a choice. 
That you're going to live in domestic tranquility with the Bell creature 
and you're giving me back my power?
Stefan(stands behind her)Sorry to disappoint you, Mother. Let me.(he 
takes the brush from her)I used to love to brush you hair as a child.
Helena:And you were very adept at it. You didn't pull my hair the way 
Stavros did.
Stefan:It's so nice to know you think I did something right. I just had 
a visitor.
Helena:Oh? Who?
Stefan:Lasha.
Helena:So she's back.
Stefan:You should have heard the story she told me.
Helena:Ah, so she's talked to Luke. I doubt her homecoming was what you 
would call happy.
Stefan:So all these years you've known about Lasha and I, but never said 
anything?
Helena:Don't you know you can't keep anything from Mother? Ow! Stefan, 
be careful. You're yanking my hair.
Stefan:Sorry. All done.(he begins to coil her hair on top of her hair 
and stick pins into it)Then you and Stavros came up with this insidious 
plan to impregnant Lasha with Spencer's child and raise him as a 
Cassadine.
Helena:Stefan, be careful with those hairpins. What are you trying to 
do? Draw blood?
Stefan:So sorry, Mother, you know how incompetent I am. You said that 
enough as I was growing up. All done.(he rests his hands on her 
shoulders)Had Stavros lived what was the plan?
Helena:At first, Stavros and I would make you watch as Stavros was a 
father to Nikolas, while secretly you would wonder if the child was 
yours.
Stefan(hands begind to caress her neck)I would have been miserable 
watching Stavros, Lasha and Nikolas bond as a family.
Helena:Then we would have found a way to let you know Stavros was 
sterile and couldn't possibly be Nikolas' father.
Stefan(hands wrap lighting around her neck)I would have been in torment 
knowing Nikolas was my son and being unable to claim him.
Helena:Then when we felt the time was right, we would have eventually 
revealed Nikolas' true father was Luke Spencer.
Stefan(begins to tighten his grip on her neck)All these years you knew I 
believed Nikolas was my son and you never said a thing. You watched me 
raise him and love him and not once did you reveal he was my enemies 
offspring.
Helena:Stefan, let me go. Stefan, you're hurting me.
Stefan:You are an abomination. It makes my flesh crawl to think I came 
from your womb.
Helena:Stefan! I can't breathe! Stefan, I'm your mother!
Stefan:(shoves her away from him)I should kill you. I'd be doing the 
world a favor. But that would be too easy. If you were dead, I couldn't 
make you suffer the way I have. You wanted me to make a choice. Well, 
here it is. I choose the power. It's mine, old woman and it will never 
be yours again.
Helena(gasping for air)What about the Bell creature?
Stefan:I'm on my way to tell her it doens't matter that she isn't 
Natasha. It's over between us.

Luke's Club:
Luke(enter as Sonny sits at a table doing the books)That's a welcome 
sight, partner. I've missed it.
Sonny:You're not made because I won't help you get control of the mob 
away from Jason?
Luke:No, I'll just find another way. Though I wish you hadn't called 
Laura.
Sonny:How did it go?
Luke:Not well. Laura siad I've never accepted the way things really were 
with her and the Cassadines and she's right. I just told myself she was 
a helpless victim and none of it was her fault. That everything she did 
she was forced to do against her will. She tried to tell me that wasn't 
the way it was, but I turned a deaf ear to that. Now I know otherwise 
and I'm not sure if I can deal with it. And if I can't than Laura and I 
are going to have problmes.
Sonny:What about the kid?
Luke:We detest each other and just because we share the same blood isn't 
going to change that. I know this is irrational, but every time I look 
at that kid or think about him, I can see Laura and Cassadine going at 
it. It's almost like that kid really is Vlad's son. I don't want to talk 
about this. Tell me who things are going in your life.
Sonny:Jax paid me a visit before I came to work.
Luke:What did he want?
Sonny:Damned if I know. He kept going on about my hair being in his comb 
and my head being on his pillow.
Luke:What!
Sonny:That was my reaction exactly. All I know is he claims my cologne 
was all over his pillow and he thinks it got there by me laying on his 
pillow.
Luke(flashes on Ned sprinkling something on Jax's pillow and starts 
putting two-and-two together)Hey, buddy, I'm going to ask you a weird 
question, but I don't want you to ask me why I'm asking it?
Sonny:All right.
Luke:Do you wear boxers or briefs?

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