Chapter 38 Alex rushed to Stefan�s side yelling at the staff that was just about to roll Stefan over. �Don�t touch him!� The staff jumped back and Alex bent down beside him. She checked out Stefan�s pulse and sighed that he was alive. Monica, Alan, Bobbie, Jeff and other members of the medical staff at GH shoved their way through the crowed of people and headed towards Stefan. Alex looked up and pointed to couch where Lucky was lying. �Bobbie, my bag is over there. Alan, get someone to help you take the lid off of Dracula�s coffin. We can use it as a back board,� Alex turned to the two maids that had almost turned Stefan over and said, �Go get me some sheets and rip them in long strips. Plus grab a thick beach towel.� Monica bent down beside Stefan and asked, �How is he?� �Alive,� Alex said and together the women went to work trying very hard not to move Stefan as they did so. Nikolas and Zander showed up moments later carrying Foster in their arms. The dog was whining and it looked like his eyes were swollen shut. Nikolas saw his father lying on the ground and he soon forgot about Foster. He let go of the dog and rushed to his side. Mikkos pulled his grandson back and said, �Let them work!� �What happened?� Nikolas asked. �Helena,� Lucky said from his place on the couch as Zander placed Foster on his lap. Jeff and Alan showed up with the lid of the coffin. Jeff wasn�t needed much with Stefan, so he helped Lucky wash out Foster�s eyes with saline solution. Laura stood between her two son�s trying to comfort them both but needing comfort herself. She finally just gave up and stood there watching as Alex worked on Stefan. ***************************************** Robert walked on Mikkos yacht and started looking around. He didn�t find a sign of life until he got to the main cabin. That is where he found a plate of hot food and a glass of white wine. Robert looked around the room and called out, �Ok, Anna. I know you are here. You might as well come out!� For a moment nothing happened, but then Anna walked out of the shadows smiling a little nervously and said, �Hello, Robert!� �Hello? Is that all you have to say to me? After all this time?� Robert asked as he sat down on the couch. Anna sighed and moved towards Robert trying hard to find the right words. As spoke as she sat, �I wanted to tell you but it was safer for all of us if everyone thought I was dead.� �That include me?� Robert asked. �Specially you,� Anna said. �So, you couldn�t tell me, your daughter or the rest of us but you could go to your sister, you�re ex bosses and Sean. That�s nice to know where stand with you,� Robert said and he started to get up. Anna grabbed him and said, �It isn�t that way! It is more complicated then that.� �Is it? Anna, I know about Fasion, I�m not that dumb. So, let�s stop playing games. Why did you, Sean, and the WSB lie to me? Why did I lay in that hospital thinking my wife was dead? Why did they keep from my family? And don�t bull shit that Fasion would come after us. I have been here for a year. Fasion isn�t here. So, where is he?� Robert yelled and as he pulled free of her. �Right now Fasion is after me not you. He always was. You are safe because I�m dead,� Anna said. Robert started to laugh and said, �How lovely to know. Thanks for telling me.� Robert started to walk out of the room but Anna grabbed him. �Where are you going?� she asked. Robert stopped and looked at her. �I�m going back to Bobbie, her kids and our daughter, Robin. You see Anna I have changed they are right about that. I�m sick of laying my life on the line for nothing. It is time that I get my life back. Now, you can do what you want. I really don�t care, but when Fasion is gone and this is over. Don�t come back to me. I won�t have you,� Robert told her and then walked way. Anna stood there feeling lost and a lone. She dropped down on the couch and cried. ************************************* Stefan was up in surgery while his family sat around the waiting room for news on his condition. Laura sat with her arm around Nikolas looking at the second hand slowly make its way around. Lucky slept with his head resting on Luke�s lap and Lu sat on the other side of her father looking at a magazine. Sonny was holding Alexis trying to calm her fears. While, Jason and Carly talked quietly off to the side. The only one that wasn�t sitting was Mikkos. He paced the floor looking at his watch and trying hard not to think about what could be wrong with his son. Robin, Lucas, BJ and Ruby were there as well. They sat at one of the small tables playing cards. Ruby looked up at Mikkos and said, �Why don�t sit down? You are wearing a hole in the floor.� Mikkos looked up at her and said, �I can�t.� Ruby nodded and went to her game. �I wonder if father found Helena?� Carly asked. �I don�t know,� Mikkos said. He knew if Victor found Helena, then she was dead because that was the order he gave his brother before heading to the hospital. Carly nodded her head and went back to her conversation with Jason. It was about an hour later, when Alex walked in looking tired and very worn out. Mikkos stopped pacing and looked at her. �How is he?� Alex sighed and said, �He is alive. We repaired his lungs and ribs. We had to wire one of them up it was broke really bad.� �His back? How is it?� Nikolas asked looking at Alex with a growing fear at what she was about to tell him. Alex looked at Nikolas and said in a sad voice. �It�s broken. It would heal yes but we don�t know now long it will take plus there he bruised his spine. There are two major sections that show up on the x-ray. We will not know how long or if ever Stefan will be able to move around again.� Nikolas buried his head in his mother�s shoulders and Alexis asked, �You mean he might paralyzed?� �I don�t know yet but it is a possibly,� Alex said. Mikkos turned around and growled. Alex put her hand on his shoulder and said, �I am doing my best.� Mikkos pattered her hand and said, �I know. It is me that messed up.� And with that said, Mikkos turned around and walked out of the room. ********************************************* Victor laid on a rooftop looking into the window watching through the scope at a room in the hotel across from him. Caesar Fasion sat in a chair just out of Victor�s sight reading a paper. When Helena stormed into the room. �That little bastard can�t even die right!� Helena yelled as she stormed into the room. �What did you do now?� Fasion asked his sister as he put down the paper. �I didn�t do anything. Stefan that fool destroyed everything before us,� Helena said as she sat down in the chair across from her brother. �What you talking about?� Fasion asked as he lifted his glass and emptied it. �He killed Merck,� Helena said looking at her brother in disgust. Fasion was puzzled about what she was talking about for a moment then he got it. �Oh, he told you,� Fasion said as he put down his glass and sat back in his chair. �You knew!� Helena said her eyes glowing in anger. �Oh, please sister. Don�t tell me you are still in love with the man after all this time. Merck used you just used all of us. The only thing he ever loved was money and power. You never understood that and that is why you never understood what was going on,� Fasion said. �Enlighten me!� Helena snapped. �Alright, for starters, I�m the one that helped hide Merck�s murder,� Fasion said. �Why?� Helena demanded. �Because he watched as Mikkos hurt you and he bragged about it. Helena, Merck didn�t love you. He loved himself. So, for got about that man and start thinking about now. We are very close in finally getting what is rightfully ours. Don�t let your feelings get in the way now!� Fasion said leaning closer to Helena. Helena sighed and said, �You are right. Merck is dead but we still can get what is ours. Stefan wasn�t willing to help out. You have an idea on how we can get control over the family?� Helena asked. �Oh a few, and the kids are at top of the list,� Fasion said and he stood up and went to refill his drink. The bar was in front of a big picture window. As Fasion lifted the decanter of liquor window in front of him broke and the decanter shattered in his hands. Helena stood up and looked at her brother very puzzled. �Caesar?� Fasion turned around and there in the center of his chest was a big red spot quickly getting bigger every moment. �Mikkos..Ruby�.Luke�s parents�.� Fasion said and he dropped to the ground dead. Helena didn�t have time to grieve for her brother another shot whizzed on by her missing her by inches. She quickly ran out of the room almost getting hit several times as she ran. Across the street Victor stood up and shook his head in disgust. �That witch has nine lives!� �You missed her?� the guard beside him asked. �Yes, but I got her brother,� Victor said handing the gun over to the man and the three of them quickly left the rooftop. ************************************** Robert left Spoon Island and started to walk. He heard about Stefan from the guest that were left lingering around the party yet but at this moment, Stefan was the last thing on Robert�s mind. He went to talk to Anna but the moment he saw her, Robert didn�t want to talk. All he wanted to do was get very far away from her. The last time he was this mad at Anna was when he learned she was double agent. Robert was walking along the docks when a car pulled up along side him and the back window rolled down. �Get in!� Sean ordered. �Go to hell,� Robert snapped as he walked on. Sean looked at the driver and ordered as he got out. �Go up a head just a bit.� Sean was walking beside Robert and looked at him in frustration. �Are you going to keep voiding me?� �Yes, I am,� Robert said and he quickened his pace. �Damn, Robert this is more to this then you know. We had to keep this quiet!� Sean yelled. �I hard this before. I hard it so many times that I can repeat it word for word. So, you can save the speech. If this is what you thing is best then live with the cost,� Robert said and with that he walked away. Sean let him go. He knew not even telling Robert the truth now would make a difference to him. ************************************* Mikkos sat in the chair beside Stefan�s bedside listening to the respirator breath for him. Alex told him that this wasn�t permit but for some reason Mikkos couldn�t find a way to believe that. All he could think about was that Helena had finally gone to far. She finally did what she always tried to do. She destroyed Stefan. Mikkos sighed at this though and got to his knees and looked up. �My sister would tell me that this happens for a reason. I can�t figure out that reason at this moment. I do know that none of this is Stefan�s fault. It was me that turned my back on my children forcing them to grow up in away that isn�t far. So, if you are punishing Stefan for something he did. Go at me! I�m the one to blame not him!� Mikkos said and he laid his head down near Stefan�s hand. Mikkos didn�t hear the door opened up. It wasn�t until a loving hand rested on his shoulder that he realized that he wasn�t a lone. Mikkos turned to see Ruby standing there looking down at him with worried look. �God isn�t that way!� �I don�t know any more. All I know is every time I think the past is gone something happens to bring it back. Helena did this to Stefan because of me. Why didn�t she just come at me?� Mikkos said with tear in his eye. Ruby bent down and lifted Mikkos to his feet and then she looked him in the eye and said, �Helena is evil. We always have known that from the first time she walked into out lives. This is her fault not yours. You couldn�t have seen it coming,� Ruby told him. �No, but should have killed her when had my hands around her neck,� Mikkos said the rage coming through the pain at that very moment. �You should have tired,� Helena said as she shoved the door open the rest of the way and stood there holding a gun on Mikkos and Ruby. Mikkos shoved Ruby behind him and asked, �You come to finish the job on him?� �No, I came for you and your wife,� Helena said as she slowly closed the door. Mikkos felt Ruby�s hand grip his arm a little tighter and he patted her hand to reassure her that things will be fine. Mikkos then turned his full attention towards Helena. �You think I�m just going to stand here and let you shot us?� Mikkos asked her. �Yes, because I know you. I know that you leave your killing up to Victor. You wouldn�t dream of getting your hands dirty,� Helena said. Just outside the door, Alexis was walking by with two cups of hot coffee in her hands. She looked in window to see Helena standing there with a gun in her hand. Alexis dropped the coffee and ran towards the waiting room. �I might change that rule just to get rid of you,� Mikkos said his eyes growing hard as nails. Helena laughed and said; �The Prince finally shows his true colors. Mikkos, that act is old as you are besides I don�t scare like the others. I have just as much power in this family as you do. I always have.� �Yes, but my power came by birth. You slept your way into yours,� Mikkos shot back. �Watch it. You could dead sooner then you think,� Helena warned him. It was Mikkos turn to laugh and he walked closer to Helena putting himself between Helena�s gun and Ruby and Stefan. �Helena, do you really think you can get away with this? You kill me and I sure you, Victor will destroy you. So, put down the gun and walk away,� Mikkos advised her. �I have nothing to walk away, too. You and this family of yours destroyed everything that mattered to me. Luke killed my Stavors. Stefan killed Merck, and Victor just murdered my brother. So, Mikkos my dear, I have nothing left but my hate for you and that witch. So, go to hell!� Helena said and she raised to gun aiming right at his chest. Ruby screamed at the very moment, Luke kicked in the door and wrapped his hand around Helena�s wrist pulling the gun aimlessly upwards. �NO!� Helena yelled and she fought with Luke trying in vain to over power him. The gun twisted and turned until it was between them. Then there was another shot. Luke and Helena stood there not moving. Everyone held their breath as they waited to see who was the one hurt. Luke stepped back and it was clear that he won over Helena. Helena had a big red spot in her blouse that slowly grew larger. She looked up at Luke and slid into his arms. �Well, at least I finally get to join the ones I love but before I go. I want to introduce you to your mother. Christina Cassadine,� Helena said and she pointed to Ruby. Luke looked at Helena to stunned to talk. He wanted to demand what she meant by this but it was to late. Helena let out her last breath and then she died. Luke laid Helena�s dead body on the floor and then stood up looking between Ruby and Mikkos. He was about to laugh it off when Ruby said, �Luke, let me explain.� This was like kick in Luke�s gut. He backed up right into Sonny. Sonny looked at him and asked, �Luke, you alright?� Luke couldn�t reply. He just turned and started walk down the hall. Ruby ran after him and grabbed his arm. �Please Luke. I want to tell you why I lied,� Ruby begged him. �Get off me,� Luke yelled the rage coming at him in full force. �I don�t want to hear anything for you!� �Luke, you have to understand!� Ruby pleaded with him. �Understand what? Tell me, Ruby! How many times am I going to hear this story? How many versions are there? And while you think up another one tell me this. If you are my mother then why was I raised by that bastard that used beat me, the woman I call my mother and Bobbie? Tell me!� Luke yelled grabbing her by the arms and shaking her violently. Mikkos shoved him off Ruby and yelled, �Don�t ever touch like that!� �Go to hell old man, you are just as bad or worse then she is. All she did turn her back on me, you watched while the bitch you all a wife beat your two kids daily,� Luke yelled and then walked way. �Daddy!� Lu yelled after her father but didn�t stop. It wasn�t that he didn�t care about her. He just didn�t hear her past his rage. Lucky yelled as well and he ran after Luke but Luke was already to elevator and gone before Lucky go to him. Lucky turned and looked at the stunned crowed. Bobbie was standing near her childen feeling the world crash around her. Laura was holding Lu and Nikolas at the same time. She had no idea what to think of this turn of events but she feared what Luke was going to do. Alexis was by Sonny gripping him tightly feeling that everything she ever knew was finally gone. Carly was even thrown for a loop and she looked at her father in the hope that he didn�t know about this but he had to. He was around when Ruby and Mikkos got married. She knew that what he had told her about her birth had been a lie. Lucky looked at Mikkos and yelled with tears filling his eyes, �If he leaves me because of this, I�m never going to forgive you!� Then Lucky turned and ran down the hall. �Lucky!� Laura yelled after him. �I�ll go,� Nikolas said. �Me too,� Zander said and the two of them rushed after their friend. Robert arrived right then and he looked at the crowed and asked, �what happened.� �Robert,� Bobbie cried and rushed to him. Robert held Bobbie not understanding what was going on. Robin walked up and said, �Let�s get her out of here. I�ll tell you what you missed.� Robin took BJ and Lucas hands and Robert held Bobbie as they walked away. Laura picked Lu up and went after son not even looking at Mikkos or any of them once. Alexis looked at Mikkos and said, �I want you to stay away from Stefan and the rest of us for good.� �Alexis, I care about you,� Mikkos said reaching out to her. �Get off me. Don�t ever touch me or look at me again. You have done nothing but hurt us from the moment you came into town. Helena is gone and so is the danger. So, get lost,� Alexis said and she gripped sonny�s hand and they walked away. As Sonny walked by Jason he said, �If you really love Carly get her as far away from these people as you can get her.� As Sonny walked away, Victor walked towards his daughter and said, �What is his problem.� �You,� Carly said backing away from her father. �Carly,� Victor said. �Don�t Carly me! You lied to me! You have been lying to me my entire life,� Carly yelled and she turned to Jason. �Lets go!� �Sure,� Jason said and they started to walk away. Victor grabbed for Carly but Jason blocked his arm. �Don�t think about it!� Jason threaten! �Boy, you are getting in my way!� Victor threatened. �What to do something about it?� Jason asked Victor. �Don�t!� Carly said and she pulled Jason down the hall. Victor turned and looked at his brother. �What in hell happened here?� �Helena�s last revenge,� Mikkos said and looked in Stefan�s room at his wife�s dead body. �I hope you enjoy hell!� Chapter 39 Back to A Father's Love |