Chapter 5 Around six the next evening, Mikkos� grand evening was preparing to start. The first person to arrive at the house was Alexis, as she walked up to the front door she was greeted by Victor. �Welcome, Alexis,� Victor said smiling at her. �If Stefan finds out about this he his going to kill me,� Alexis said as she walked inside. �Don�t worry about Stefan. I assure you he isn�t going to do anything to you,� Victor said as he took her arm and guided her into the house. Alexis just looked at him with an unsure of a look but she went on inside anyway. ************************ Stefan decided to take Laura and Nikolas to dinner that night. They climbed into the limo and headed in town. Laura and Stefan were talking quietly when Nikolas broke into the conversation. �I thought we were going to the Grill,� Nikolas said to his uncle. �We are,� Stefan said and he looked out the window to see the limo drive right past their turn off. Stefan leaned forward tapped the glass partition. �You missed the turn,� Stefan yelled to the driver. The driver ignored him. He just kept on going on down the highway heading toward upper class part of town. �Stefan, what is going on?� Laura asked getting a little worried about how things were going. �Easy, Lasha, I�m sure things will be fine,� Stefan told her but he wasn�t sure that things were going to be fine. In fact, he was worried that this might be their last drive they were ever going to take. *************************** �How good is this lawyer?� Robert asked Carly as he drove through the gate of the house. �Alexis said he is one of the best there is. If he can�t figure out a way to get Luke out of prison, she said no one can,� Carly lied. It took a lot of talking to get Robert, Bobbie and Ruby to agree to this meeting. She was almost afraid that it almost wasn�t going to work. �He better be,� Ruby said looking around at all the guards that were located around the area. �Carly, are you sure this is the right place?� Bobbie asked looking at the guards and getting a strange feeling about all of this. �I�m sure,� Carly said and she pointed to Alexis� car that was parked just beside the house. The group relaxed and everyone climbed out. ************************************ Stefan, Laura and Nikolas were shown into library just moments after they arrived at the house. Robert was looking around the room for a sign at what was going on. He been an agent long to enough to know he had been set up. The moment he saw Stefan, Robert immediately thought that he was behind this. �Ok, Cassadine, what�s the game?� Robert demanded. �I�m sorry Mr. Scorpio but I sure you I�m as lost as you are at the moment,� Stefan said. At first Robert didn�t believe him but slowly he realized Stefan wouldn�t have brought Laura and Nikolas along if he was be this. Stefan was walking around looking at the chair set up. Stefan glanced at Alexis and said, �This looks like the family meeting place a home.� �In away it does,� Alexis said. She wanted to tell them that Victor was behind this but he made if very clear to her that he didn�t want her to say a word until the proper time. Alexis just had to bit her lip and hope that Stefan would understand once everything was told. �Your right,� Laura said as she looked around the room. �What is going on here? Why are we here?� Ruby asked. �You can bet Helena is the one that is behind this,� Robert said. Suddenly the door opened and two men shoved Helena and Ari inside the room. �You cretins,� Helena yelled as the door was slapped behind her. �I will have your heads for this!� �I think you lost that bet,� Nikolas said. Helena turned around and saw the others looking at her with smirks on their faces. Helena glared at Stefan and said in a cold toned voice. �Stefan, what is going on here?� Helena started for him and before Stefan could say a word the doors on the other side of the room opened and Mikkos, Victor, Carly, Alex, and Zander all entered the room. Mikkos and Victor were up front and the others were just slightly behind them. �Stefan isn�t the one you should be asking that question my dear,� Mikkos said smiling at his wife. �Mikkos!� everyone said looking at the group with absolute amazement. �Cassadine, I thought you were dead,� Robert snapped. �You thought wrong,� Mikkos said as he walked as the group and stood in the middle of the room. Everyone but Helena stood there with dumbfounded look on their faces. She walked toward Mikkos greeting him warmly. �Hello, my dear,� Helena said as she kissed Mikkos on the cheek. �Hello, Helena,� Mikkos said kissing her back. �I hope my men were not to rough on you.� �No, but you could have come see me yourself. You didn�t need to send your men for me,� Helena said trying to hide the hurt in her voice. �It was necessary, I sure you,� Mikkos said and he patted her lightly on the arm and walked to greet the others. Helena stood there waiting with anticipation as he walked toward the others. Thinking that he was about to put his enemies in their places. That isn�t what happened, Mikkos walked to Stefan first pulled Stefan toward him and greeted him openly. �It is nice to see you again, Victor gave me a report on the status on the family and everything he told me I�m pleased with,� Mikkos said after parting. �Thank you,� Stefan said unsure what to say about any of this. He never dreamed his father would be happy with how he ran things. Mikkos gave Stefan a sly smile and moved on greeting Nikolas and Laura. When he arrived at Alexis, he noticed that she was standing off to the side looking like she was trying to vanish. Mikkos walked to her pulled her into the center of the room and kissed her hand lightly. �Alexis, my dear, there has been a great injustice played on you. I hope you will forgive me for allowing it to go on this long,� Mikkos said. She stood there not uttering a sound not understanding what he was talking about. Mikkos looked at the others in the room pulled Alexis closer to him and said, �I would like to introduce you to my daughter, Natasha Anastasia Cassadine,� Mikkos said. Victory, Alex, Zander and Carly knew what he was about to do smiled at Alexis to show her that they openly accepted her as his daughter. Stefan was in shock but part of him always known deep down that Alexis was his sister. Nikolas and Laura were in shock and tired hard to smile for Alexis. Helena, who had been shocked to his attitude up to this point, was shoved over the edge with his accepting Alexis as his daughter. �Mikkos, how dare you claim that tramp�s daughter as yours,� Helena snapped at him. Mikkos turned toward Helena with this plain empty look on his face. He approached her slowly raising his hand to let it slowly and almost seductively rub it under her chin. In one quick movement thought, he gripped her chin in an iron grip. �You will not call Natasha�s mother or Natasha a tramp. In fact, you will never address any of my children in that tone of voice again,� Mikkos, said his eyes flashing with the rage and hate he had kept hidden for Helena from the first time he walked into the room. Helena was locked in fear. She saw his rage and knew what could happen to her when he was in this kind of state. She had her hand over his trying in vain to pull free from him. Finally though, Mikkos let her go. She fought her impulse to rub her chin. She stood there looking at him picking her words very carefully. �Mikkos, I�m sorry for my out burst but we did have agreement. Alexis was never to find out that you were her father,� Helena said reminding him of their agreement. �That was before I learned of your treachery in your plot to defraud this family,� Mikkos snapped at her. �What treachery?� Helena asked a little confused at why he was so angry with her. Mikkos glared at her then waved a butler over to them. He pulled a letter off the tray and waved it in front of her face. �This treachery! Victor gave me the letter you ordered him to burn that your father wrote me before his death,� Mikkos told her. Helena glanced at over at Victor giving him a cold look and then she turned to Mikkos and said in a pleading voice. �I told your brother that my father was ill. He wasn�t in is right mind when he wrote that letter. Nothing he said in it was the truth,� Helena said trying to pull the letter way but Mikkos yanked it out of her reach. �He was sane Helena and that is more then I can say for you,� Mikkos snapped at her. He looked at her rubbing his hand over the diamond necklace she had on. �You look like a queen. You even talk like one. I doubt any one here would know that you were once noting but a play toy friends and me used. I just the rotten luck in thinking that you were harmless.� �I�m not the tramp. Those other woman you pulled to your bed were the tramps,� Helena yelled at him. She might be afraid of him but no way was she going to stand there a let him talk to her in that tone of voice. Mikkos laughed at her and in one quick movement he pulled off the necklace she had on. �You�re right, my dear, He said in a cold empty voice. �Your aren�t a tramp but a slut!� �You bastard,� Helena yelled slapping Mikkos hard across the face. Mikkos slapped her back almost knocking her off her feet. �Don�t you ever hit me again or Helena, you will not live to regret it!� Mikkos warned her. Robert had had enough. He started toward and ordered, �Mikkos, stop it!� Mikkos turned to Robert and said as he lifted Helena�s chin just a bit. �You are defending her? After what she tried to do to Lucky?� Mikkos said in a sarcastic tone of voice. �What do you mean?� Laura asked. �She was the one that hired those men to fire bomb your son. They messed up and the boy lived but the others that crossed my wife paths weren�t so lucky. Alexis� mother, my first wife and a few others paid with their lives. Thank fully to my son�s nanny, he survived her murderous attempt,� Mikkos said. Robert really didn�t care what she had done. He was about to approach the couple but two guards grabbed him and shoved him in one of the chairs. Helena ignored Robert and looked at her husband. �Mikkos, I did not kill your wife. She died in an accident,� Helena said. �Did she? Why don�t we ask the nanny?� Mikkos said and he grabbed Ruby by the hand and shoved her toward Helena. �Tell Helena what my wife�s last words were to you,� Mikkos ordered. Stefan, Alexis, Laura�s jaws dropped at this bit of news. Bobbie tried to go to her aunt�s aid but Mikkos guards had grabbed her as well. Robert fought to get free but the men held him in the chair. That left Ruby alone to deal with Mikkos, at first she thought about lying but from the look on his face. She knew he knew the truth. She also knew it was no use hiding the truth any more. Tonight everyone was about to learn the secret that she fought very hard to kept hidden. Chapter 6 Back to A Father's Love |