Chapter 26 Lucky was trying to wash Foster when Zander walked into the bathroom. �You need help?� Zander asked. �Yeah, hold him,� Lucky said getting water and mud slashed in his face. �I thought he likes water,� Zander laughed as he held the dog down so Lucky could scrub him. �He does. It is the soap Foster can�t stand,� Lucky said and he took the brush and ran it around Foster�s head. The dog wasn�t too happy about it and tried several times to get free but the boys managed to hold Foster down. Later on, Lucky and Zander stood on Lucky�s balcony watching Foster dry by the sun. Zander finally got to what he had come over to talk about. �Ah, Lucky, I wanted to say that I think Nikolas earned exactly what he got this afternoon. He went a little to far with those remarks,� Zander said. �Thanks, but I thought you and Nikky boy were good friends,� Lucky said in a sarcastic tone. �No, he is just the only person around here that talked me beside the adults. You made it very clear that you didn�t want to be bothered,� Zander said with a smile. Lucky thought about this for a moment and then said, �I�m sorry. It wasn�t you that I was giving the cold shoulder to it was Nikolas.� �I know,� Zander said and the two boys headed into Lucky�s room and sat down in the two over stuffed chairs. �So, how is Emily?� Zander asked. �In love with you,� Lucky teased. �All she does when she calls me is gab about you. You really got her in cloud.� Zander smiled at this and said, �I do like her. Even if she is a little young for me right now.� �I�d say that. She is fourteen and you�re eighteen that is young and if Edward finds you hanging around her. He�d shot you,� Lucky laughed. �Who�s Edward?� Zander asked. Lucky smiled and explained Edward to Zander and while he was at it. Lucky told him about the rest of the Quartermaines. ********************************* Alex watched as Victor paced the floor of their bedroom suite. �Victor, what is wrong?� Alex asked. �Between Morgan getting my little girl pregnant and Luke�s big mouth. I don�t know who I want to rip a part first,� Victor yelled hitting the top of the fire place mantel. �Well, I think Mikkos would be upset if you hurt Luke and I like Jason. So, don�t either of them,� Alex suggested. Victor glared at her and snapped, �Your no help!� �Ok you want help. How about excepting Jason and the fact you are going to be a grandfather. As for Luke, let Carly deal with him. She did a good job at the docks,� Alex said with a smile. �I still want to break his legs,� Victor muttered his eyes flashing with rage. Alex smiled and said, �I think he wants to do the same thing to you.� �What do you mean? I didn�t do anything to him. Hell, I helped get him out of prison,� Victor said in his own defense. �Yeah, you did that but first you set a trap for Bobbie or that is how I think sees it,� Alex said. Victor looked at her for one long moment with this suspicious look on his face and then he grabbed Alex�s arms looking for a scar when he noticed it wasn�t there he asked, �Why do you think that?� �Because you didn�t have Carly tell Bobbie the truth. Now, I know why you did it but it still made him angry. Like the other stuff we are hiding is going to upset he ones we love. We might think it is for the best but they are not going to see it that way. You just have except that,� Alex said and she got up and kissed Victor on the cheek before walking out of the room. ********************************** Robert arrived home at the brownstone. He first checked to see if Bobbie was home and when he noticed she wasn�t. He went up to his apartment that he shared with, his daughter, Robin. As Robert walked into the door, he found Robin sitting on the couch with one of her schoolbooks on her lap. �Hey, how is my collage student?� �Doing good. How are you?� Robin asked noticing her father was limping just a bit. �The leg? Oh, nothing. I just spent to much time on it,� Robert said as he walked to the chair and sat down. �Where is Bobbie at?� Robert asked her. �Working. She didn�t think you would be home tonight. The hospital called they were short tonight and so she went in,� Robin said as she got up and helped her father put his leg on the coffee table. �You want something to eat?� �Yeah, but not too much,� Robert said as he laid his head back and closed his eyes. Robin looked at her with a worried expression on her face then she got up and headed into the kitchen to make her father something to eat. ***************************************************** �Zander, why aren�t you in collage?� Lucky asked as the two boys sat nibbling on snacks one of the maids brought up. �I am or in away. All my studies are geared to collage classes. I get credits when I finally get a chance to go,� Zander said as he popped a shrimp in his mouth. �Helena the reason your aren�t in collage now?� Lucky asked as he dipped a shrimp in the sauce and then at it. �Some of it but Victor and Mikkos deal with the WSB is the other reason,� Zander said. �You by any chance know what that deal is?� Lucky asked with cocky grin on his face. �No, I don�t know. I know Carly does and so my mother but they don�t tell me anything,� Zander said laughing at how Lucky was trying to get information from him. �That�s cool. So, you meet Robin yet?� Lucky asked. �No, I haven�t. I wanted to but I don�t know where she is,� Zander said. �I do,� Lucky said picking up the phone to make a call. He figured it was time Zander and Robin got together. They were cousins after all and their mothers were sisters. ***************************************** Robin placed the sandwich and chips on Robert�s lap and asked, �Did you find out anything?� �No, I got more doors slammed in my face. Sean even told me to go home and drop it,� Robert said feeling very frustrated about all of it. �I don�t get it? What�s the big deal? All you are asking is what the Cassadine deal is right?� Robin asked her father. �Not exactly,� Robert said as he ate. �What did you ask then?� Robin asked eyeing him suspiciously. �I asked if there was a possibility if Fasion and Anna survived the explosion,� Robert said finally. �What gave you that idea?� Robin asked. She stopped thinking it was impossible because her father was alive. He came back to her and that meant her mother might be able to come back as well. �Luke saw a scar that matched the one your mother had on her arm on Alex. I know from what Anna told me Alex never got hurt in any shape or form. She even joked about the fact now people could tell them a part,� Robert said seeing the slight look of hope in his daughter�s eyes. �Do you think she could have survived?� Robin asked. �I don�t know. I just know that the Cassadines hiding something and what ever it is I�m going to find out,� Robert said as he rubbed his bad leg trying to get the pain to go away. Robin was thinking about what her father said when Lucky�s call came in. �Scorpio�s? Lucky! How are you? What? Yeah sure but I have to bring BJ and Lucas with me. Bobbie and Tony are both working the late shift tomorrow and I promised I�d keep an eye on them. What? Yeah, BJ loves the idea of having a baby sister but Tony isn�t ready to let her grow up. Yeah, he will learn one day. Four sound ok? Good. See you then,� Robin said and she hug up the phone and looked at her father. �Lucky just invited me to see Zander.� �Interesting. You think you can talk to your aunt for me?� Robert asked her. �Yeah, I think I can and if Alex is Anna or what going on. I might be able to find something out,� Robin said grinning. �That�s my girl,� Robert said and he got up to go lie down. His leg was hurting more and more as he sat there. He was hoping that lying down for a bit would ease the pain. Chapter 27 Back to A Father's Love |