Chapter 15 Luke walked into Lucky�s room via the secret passageway. �How many are there of these?� Luke asked as he sat down in Lucky�s chair. �They are all over the place. It is easier to get place to place that way then the normal way,� Lucky laughed. �I bet. How is Emily?� Luke asked. �Ok, Edward is an ass,� Lucky snapped as he sat up in bed and placed the book he was reading on the nightstand. �What�s Edward�s problem?� Luke asked. �The Cassadines. He found out that Mikkos says that I�m grandson. Edward refuses to let Emily go near me because of this. He says I�ll get her killed,� Lucky said as he go up and walked towards his father. Lucky stopped at his desk and picked up a notebook. �Here this map of the house,� Lucky said. �Thanks,� Luke said and looked it over. �Tell me about it.� �Well, there are four layers of this house above ground and two blew ground. The house is also divided into five sections,� Lucky said as he sat down beside his father. �Tell me the layers first,� Luke said and he sat back to listen. �The top is attic and like most attics there is nothing junk. The next second is where the guards stay and where most tech stuff is. I haven�t been there much. I get chased out,� Lucky said grinning. �So, they could be hiding something,� Luke said wondering what was above them. �Yeah, but what I can�t tell you. Maybe you can loose Victor enough to find out,� Lucky said grinning at his father. �I plan on it. Next level,� Luke asked. �We are on it. This is living area. Most of the family lives in the west wing and there are three other wings. Two are for guests and the last one the help stays in,� Lucky said. �How many work here?� Luke asked. �I think about two hundred and that isn�t counting the guards. There are about 150 of them,� Lucky said smiling at his father. �You�re joking right?� Luke said. �No, I�m not. This place is big and it takes a lot to run it,� Lucky laughed. �I noticed. Ok, tell me about the bottom floor. What is on it?� Luke asked. �Let�s start at the front door. You walk into a greeting hall and a little ways down is a room where guest are greeted. Off to the right is a set of double doors that lead to the Library, Stefan and Mikkos offices and den kind of like that is where we classes. You go to the left and there is the stairs and behind that leads to the ball room. Behind the ballroom is a sunroom and that is where we have breakfast. Off the right of to right of the sunroom is in door pool. This place even has a gym with work out couch,� Lucky giggled. �I don�t believe this. Ok, what else?� Luke said shaking his head in frustration. �Off behind the dining room is the kitchen and where the staff work and some of their living area is located. In the middle of this place is a hug room that I haven�t been in. The door is locked and I haven�t found the secret way in yet,� Lucky said. �Interesting. Anyone go in it?� Luke asked. �No, not that I know off. I do know Stefan freaks every time I�m by the door,� Lucky said. �Wondered what the bat is hiding?� Luke asked. �Beats me,� Lucky said. �Ok, what else,� Luke asked. �The two bottle layers. The one is the cellar. You find wine and where they store stuff. Under Batman would have fun because Mikkos has yacht docked down there,� Lucky said. �You�re kidding? The bat got it back?� Luke said with a cocky smile on his face. �I guess so. They get supplies in that way and there is more storage down there,� Lucky said to his father. �Show me. We go from the bottom up and by then. Everyone be in bed then we will try that room,� Luke said with a grin on his face. �Alright, let�s go,� Lucky said, with a smile that matched his father and they headed to the secret panel. A half an hour later, Luke was amazed about how much Lucky knew of this place. He was also shocked how big the underground room was and wondered if the house would cave in because of size of the room. The two of them were heading back upwards when Lucky tripped and hit the wall. The wall gave in on him and showed another passage. �Where does this go?� Luke asked. �I missed this one,� Lucky said. So, he had no idea where it was going. �Let�s go,� Luke said and moved in front just incase there was trap somewhere. Luke and Lucky hit a dead end and Luke shoved on the wall. It moved and the two of them walked into a huge room or that is how it felt because at this moment it was pitch black. Luke felt around and found a set of light switches. As their eyes adjusted to the light, they found themselves in the strangest museum on earth. �This that room?� Lucky asked walking around in circles at all the strange item everywhere. �It must be,� Luke said as he looked around as well. �Well right or left?� Lucky asked his father. �Let�s go right and work our way around,� Luke said and they walked to the first display like of items. There were three paints group together with this glass case in front of them. In front of that was like a history of what they were seeing. �I don�t think they dust this room,� Luke said as he brushed off an inch of dust off the display. �I don�t think so either,� Lucky coughed. �What we got?� �Well, it is English that�s a plus,� Luke said and he read over what was in front of them. �Well, who ever wrote this has bad writing but what I get from this is that Gorge here. That isn�t his name but it is so bad that I can�t figure out what it really is was born around 1500�s. He is the oldest and the prince. The one on the right is the younger brother, he was some kind priest and the one on the left is like Victor.� �He don�t look like Victor,� Lucky said not wanting to meet any of these men in dark alley. The woman were worse they looked witches in one of those black and white horror moves Lucky watched with his father late at night. �I know,� Luke said patting his son on the shoulder. �What�s their story?� Lucky asked. �It says here the prince�s wife, Maggie, I�m going to call her that because I can�t figure out her name, had two kids, the boy sitting at her feet and the one she is holding was born later but that kid died at birth and she had him, oh god,� Luke said getting a pail suddenly. �She had what?� Lucky asked and he ran his had over to pick up where his father left off. �Stuffed?� Lucky said. �That is what it says. Dad, there is a baby in this glass thing? You don�t think?� Lucky asked pointing to the glass they were standing in front off. �If it is then Stefan is a sick puppy,� Luke said not wanting to even look to closely at the child. �Go on,� Lucky said finally. �Ok,� Luke said and he read on. �The towns people thought she had been be witched by the priest her brother in law. They were both burnt at the stake and the prince hung himself. The middle brother raised the boy,� Luke said. �Dad, I hope we are not Cassadines,� Lucky said finally. �So, do I,� Luke said and spite what wanted to do. Their curiosity kept them going on deeper into the room. About an hour later, they had counted that five of princes were mass murders, five committed suicide and two where just plan loons. Only four were ok but they died too early to do to much damage. Lucky and Luke were standing in front of anther display and Lucky was reading. �Oh, this one is real winner,� Lucky said. �What�s his hang up?� Luke asked. �Well, this one was murdered by his wife. She found him in bed with a stable boy and she killed both of them in a fit of rage,� Lucky said. �He looks light on his feet,� Luke said as he looked at the picture. �Yeah, well. She was beheaded for that crime and her son was raised by the princes older sister,� Lucky said. Luke shook his head and walked on to the next display. The next set were normal compared to most of the people in this room. The last set two in line were Mikkos grandfather and father. �Oh, great. He was Nazi,� Lucky muttered pointing to Mikkos grandfather�s picture. �That doesn�t shock me,� Luke said. �Nothing does any more,� Luke said. �Yeah,� Lucky said and he read over what was written. �Nope, I was wrong. He didn�t work for Hitler but he did work for Mussolini,� Lucky said looking at his father. �Just as bad,� Luke said. �I agree. No real crime or none that is report that is in this,� Lucky said. �You sure?� Luke asked. �Yeah, just his birth and death. Also who where his children. The same goes for Mikkos father,� Lucky said. �Now why did they end it this way? Wonder what they are hiding?� Luke asked. �I don�t know. It�s weird. They tell of mass murder, torture, and every other crime against god but when they get to the end. It�s like poof. They became good,� Lucky said. �Or they are hiding something that they don�t want anyone to know about,� Luke said looking around the room at the strange items before him. �I have no clue,� Lucky said. Luke looked up wards and found a loft of some kind hanging over them. �Let�s see what is up there,� Luke said. �Ok,� Lucky said and they went up stairs. The loft was like an office or a library. There was a desk with papers all over it and several of the books were laying open as well. �What is it?� Lucky asked as they sat down at the table to look at the papers. Luke found a name and a date that looked familiar and said, �You remember the lady with the stuffed baby?� �Who could forget. What about her?� Lucky asked. �Well according to Stefan�s research. She either suffered dementia or some kind of depression that was why she stuffed the kid. What he thinks started it off was the fact that she had an affair with the middle brother. She went to the younger brother the priest for help. He confronted his brother but he denied it. When the priest went to talk to his sister in law. The middle brother went to see the older brother and pointed the finger at baby brother. The oldest turned the so-called lovers over as witches and it wasn�t until their deaths did he learn the truth. He hung himself out of grief because of it,� Luke said. �Now that made sence,� Lucky said. �Yeah, and there is a plus. The boy of the prince found out about this years later and had his uncle and aunt behead along with his entire family to make amends of that death,� Luke said to Lucky. �What the entire family?� Lucky asked. �Revenge. He didn�t want one of the kids to come back on him. So, he made sure that part of his line was wiped out,� Luke said. �Now that sounds like a Cassadine,� Lucky said. �Yeah,� Luke said. Luke looked at his watch and realized it was near four in the morning. �We better get going or we could get caught. We will come back here later to find out more,� Luke said and they headed down the steps and back to the secret passage. Lucky dreaded the next day because he just realized that he had studies early that day and he knew there was no way out of it. He would just have to get some sleep after his studies. Chapter 16 Back to A Father's Love |