One Way Street

Chapter One

Brenda’s cottage

 

Erin hurried around the state of the art kitchen getting everything ready for her picnic with Nikolas Cassadine.  The fun part was that he had no idea what they were going to do, she had just told him to be there by 11 and she would do the rest.

Brenda came down the stares from her office and walked into the kitchen.  “You got up early this morning, you were up before I even go here.  Something going on that I should know about?”  Brenda gave the teenager a knowing smile.

“Nothing that you should worry about, Nik and I are just going out for a picnic.  How did you sleep last night?”  Erin pulled out the chair of a very pregnant Brenda.

Brenda rubbed her belly and sighed.  “I swear this little one is going to be a kick-boxer when he grows up, the way he was kicking me last night.  Then again, if it’s a girl we won’t have to worry about anyone picking on her,” Brenda smiled at the thought.  Erin couldn’t help but laugh.  “What’s so funny?”

“I was just thinking.  No one would dare pick on her with Jax as her father and you as her mother.”

“Yah, your probably right.  Jax would scare anyone senseless if they tried anything,” Brenda and Erin enjoyed a few good jokes about Jax’s protective nature.  “So where are you and Nikolas going to go for you’re picnic?”

“Just out in the woods here, I don’t want to go too far from you.”

“I don’t need you to baby sit me.  I’m a big girl.”  Brenda said rolling her eyes.

“I know that,” Erin sat down next to her.  “But I feel better if I’m not too far from you.  Now don’t give me that look missy,” Erin said in mock stubbornness.  “Anyway if you need anything wile I’m out here is my pager number.  You call for anything, even if it seems like it’s stupid”

 “You don’t have to do that Erin.  I’m not a baby.”

“I know but you’re going to have one and that can be twice as bad.”

Brenda gave her a silly look.  “And how would you know that may I ask?”

A look of sadness came over her face and settled like a dark cloud.  “Because I had a baby brother and I remember how my mother got when she was pregnant.”

“I didn’t know you have a brother.  How come he didn’t come to live with you?”

“Because he’s dead,” Erin looked down at her hands and continued.  “My mother found out she was pregnant only a few days after the divorce was final.  They got divorced about two years before the accident, so I was lucky enough to watch him grow up that much at least.  He was killed a few moths after the accident.”

Brenda reached over and took Erin’s had.  “If you don’t mind me asking, how did your brother die?”

“No, I don’t mind you asking.  Our house caught on fire and somehow I was able to make it out, but no one went in after Mike.  They thought that the fire started in his room, that’s probably why no one when in after him.”

“That’s awful, did your father ever know that he had a son?”  Brenda asked, saddened by the story.

“No, it was probably better that way.  He had lost so many people in his life, that knowing that he had had a son who had died before he could ever meat him, would have been to hard for him.  I remember how he was when he lost my mother.  They may have been divorced but he still lover her, and I didn’t want to be the one to tell him about a son that he didn’t even know he had.”

“It must have been torture to not tell your father.”  Brenda said sadly.

“No it wasn’t that bad.  I thought of how my father had to keep secrets from me for my own good, and justified it by saying I was keeping this secret for his own good,” Erin shrugged and looked at her watch.  “Whoa, Nik is going to be here any minute I better finish things up.

 

Unknown to the women, a shadowed figure stood behind a near by tree and watched them.  “Well, my dear this little bit of news if going to be something that I will just have to share,” he pulled out a cell phone.  “Gass up the plane, I have a little erron to run in Europe,” He closed the phone and watched with a smirk on his face.  “You’re going to have a little surprise soon.”  The man whispered.

Some where in Europe

A man lay a bed covered in bandages.  There were doctors all around him.  “So what do you think his chances of recovery are?” A woman asked the head doctor.

“I don’t know, he has been in a coma for over six moths, but his vitals are improving every day, so I think he has a good chance.”

Brenda’s cottage

Erin had just finished backing the picnic basket when Nik knocked on the door.  “Perfect timing.  I just finished getting ready,” Erin lead him into the kitchen and handed him the basket and they went out the back door.  Erin lead Nik a long a winding trial just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.  They come to a small clearing at the top of a hill, “Well we’re here.”  Erin spread the blanket on the ground and sat down. 

Nik put the basket down and sat next to her.  “You know, it seems that you always know the perfect places to go.  You’ve been here, what, a little over eight months and already you know this town better then me.”

“Well if you would spend less time on that little island and more time in the real world then maybe I wouldn’t know this town better,” Erin shrugs and gives Nik a little smile.  “You know, Port Charles is a big city maybe one of these days you can surprise me and take me somewhere I’ve never been before.”

“Okay next time I pick where we go and you have no say about it.”

“Oh no, I’m giving a Cassadine control over my life.  Just think what Luke would say,” Erin said laughing.  Nik couldn’t help but laugh.  He and Luke were civil now but Luke still gave Nik a hard time any chance he got.  “But I kind of like the idea of you taking me somewhere that I haven’t been.  If you haven’t guessed by now I like the mysterious type.”  Erin said teasingly.

Liz’s apartment

Liz was lying on the couch and just staring off into space.  She still couldn’t believe that Lucky had really asked her to marry him last night.  Maybe it had all been a dream; maybe everything had been a dream.  Liz shook her head to clear those thoughts from her mind.  No, it couldn’t have been a dream, then Lucky wouldn’t be in her kitchen making her breakfast.

Liz was so lost in her thoughts that she didn’t hear Lucky come out of the kitchen and walk up behind her.  “So, what has you so lost in though?”  Lucky asked wrapping his arms around her.

Liz jumped slightly and looked up at him, a soft smile quickly spread it’s self over her lips.  “Oh, nothing, just last night.  I was trying to convince myself that it wasn’t a dream.”

“Well if it was a dream would I do this?”  Lucky leaned over and kissed Liz all over her face and then softly on the lips.

“Well, I think I could use some more convincing?”  Liz teased.

“Oh really?  Well then I guess then I’ll just have to find someone to do that, it seems that I’m not doing a good enough job.”  Lucky started to leave but Liz caught his hand.

“No, I think you are doing a fine job, I just need a little more.”  Liz pulled Lucky down to her and kissed him.

“That will have to weight until after breakfast.”  Lucky took Liz’s hands and pulled her off of the couch, into the kitchen and sat her down in one of the two chairs.  Liz smiled at the large breakfast Lucky had made for her.  Liz had given him a key as soon as she had moved in, and he had snuck in wile she was still asleep.  She had woken up to the smell of hot coffee.

They ate and Liz told him about some of the assignments that she had been given; she was now in charge of the photography department of Flash magazine.  They were just starting a new column featuring exotic and flamboyant homes.

They finished eating and Lucky had cleaned the dishes, Liz had said that it was only fair for her to do the dishes sense he cooked but Lucky wouldn’t hear of it.  They went back into the living room and sat back down on the couch.  “I need to give you something,” Lucky got up off the couch.  “Come on sleepy head, we need to get going.”

“Well are you going to tell me where we are going?”  Liz asked walking into the bedroom and getting dressed.

“First off we need to go to my house, then we have a lot of people to tell.”  Lucky said giving her a lopsided grin.

Montauk (Jason and Robin’s honeymoon)

The two newlyweds were sitting comfortably watching the sunrise on the terrace together.  Jason wasn’t really looking at the sunrise; he was more content just watching Robin.  Robin laughed when she noticed that he was looking at her.  “What’s funny?”

“I was just wondering what it was about me that you found so interesting that you never get tired of staring at me.”

“I don’t know maybe it’s because you are so beautiful, and I’m trying to figure what I did to deserve someone like you.  God knows that it wasn’t my line of work that attracted you to me,” Jason said pulling her closer to him.  “I’m just lucky I guess.”

“You aren’t the one who is lucky.  I found the perfect man when you found me on the bridge.  I was the lucky one, if it wasn’t for you I might not be here, you gave me something to look forward to, something to dream about, you gave me a reason to go on.”

“I didn’t do anything.”

“You always say that.  It’s never true.”

“I was just at the right place at the right time,” Jason paused and looked out at the sunrise which by now had begun to fade.  “How about we go for a walk into town?”

“Don’t you think it would look a little odd to these people to see two people with guards following them wherever they go?”  Robin said reminding him that they were in a little town and the people weren’t used to seeing mob bosses in town.

“That’s the point.  No one here knows us so I can have the guards follow without being noticed.  We’ve been here twice and I don’t think we have ever been in town, besides, we are only going to be here another…” Jason trailed off mysteriously.

“You never did tell me where we were going to go after here.  Are you going to tell me now or do I have to force it out of you?”  Robin said putting on a fake pouting face.

“Now none of that,” Jason teased.  “This is a surprise, and it’s going to stay that way.  Now do you want to go into town or what?”

“Well sense you put it that way…I think I have something better in mind.”  Robin began to kiss Jason teasingly and lead him back into the bedroom.