Chapter 8 After leaving the prison, Robert headed home. He walked into the brownstone where he lived with Bobbie and found her sitting alone in the dark crying. �What�s wrong?� Robert asked going to her side with a worried look on her face. �I just realized that my big brother isn�t brother any more,� Bobbie cried looking up at Robert with this lost look on her face. Robert smiled sadly at Bobbie and sat down beside her. �I don�t think Luke sees it that way. I think no matter what you will always be his baby sister,� Robert told her as he held her tight. �It�s not the same. I don�t know why but it is not,� Bobbie cried. Robert held her not knowing what to say to her about any of this. He knew it was hard on all of them. This bit of news sent all of their worlds spinning. *************************************************** Luke spent the rest of the day quiet and alone. Roy tried several times to talk to Luke but Luke wasn�t up to talking. He just spent the day thinking. He was still thinking when the lights went down a bit and he laid in bed listening to the nighttime sounds of the prison. Luke tried to shake this feeling that part of what Robert said was true. Luke knew he never had a birth certificate. The story he was fed was that he was born at home and no one bothered to file one. It did fit his father that was for sure. The other thing that helped put Mikkos story in being the truth was his father�s out burst when he was growing up. Beating after beating. Luke remembered being told he wasn�t a Spencer. He always thought it a drunk ranting but now. He wasn�t sure. Now, he had a picture to something he didn�t want to believe. Then his mind wouldn�t let it go. �Why Ruby? Luke muttered to himself as he rolled over to look at the clock. Sleep wasn�t coming to him tonight and what was worse time moved slowly at night. So, Luke was forced to lay there and think about all of this over and over again until it almost drove him made. ****************************************************** Back around suppertime, Ms. Lansberry talked Lucky into going down for supper. He had spent the day in his room brewing. So, by the time he joined the others at the table. He was ready to blow. Laura noticed this and she kept watchful eye on him. Lucky sat down and picked up his knife. He tapped it on the plate and watched as everyone talked around him. Mikkos watched the boy as well as Laura. He knew that look very well. He had seen it on his brother�s and father face often. It was a look of a Cassadine mad at the world and ready to make everyone around him pay for it. The meal went on at first fine. Everyone ignored Lucky mostly and they enjoyed the meal but after a while Lucky�s tapping got to Stefan and he decided to do something about it. �Young man, I think it is enough,� Stefan said taking the knife out of Lucky�s hands. �You could break the plate and it belongs in a set that has been in this family for ages,� Stefan informed Lucky. Lucky glared at Stefan with a glint of hot rage flashing in his baby blue eyes. Victor and Mikkos gave each other knowing looks and waited to see what Lucky would do. Laura muttered, �Lucky don�t.� Lucky stood up and at first it looked like he was just going to leave the table but then Lucky picked up the plate and held it in his hands. �This worth something to you?� Lucky asked Stefan. �Yes, so put it down,� Stefan ordered. �Fine,� Lucky snapped and he pitched the plate across the room crashing it into the wall. �Lucky!� Laura sculled. �Young man that plate was worth,� Stefan started to say but Lucky shot him a look the quieted him. �It is worthless,� Lucky snapped at Stefan. �Just as this worthless,� Lucky yelled and he walked over to the china cabinet and before anyone moved to stop him. Lucky shoved it over sending it crashing to the ground. �Young man that is enough,� Stefan yelled. �I just got started. You want me this family well it is going to cost you and since you love money then that that is what you will loose,� Lucky said and he turned and left the room. You could hear a crashing should in the hall and Stefan remembered of the Faberasha Egg collection that was in the hallway. He had a feeling most of them were on the floor in pieces by this point. Laura looked at Mikkos with a growing fear that her son could get hurt. �I�m sorry. He is just angry,� Laura said with wide scared eyes. �It is ok. I don�t blame him. I don�t expected Lucky to open his heart to us that quickly,� Mikkos said to Laura and then he looked at Stefan. �As for you, next time leave the boy to his mother or me. I don�t� think Lucky likes you and you could make matters worse but trying to guide him in any way,� Mikkos told his son. �Yes, father,� Stefan said shocked how his father was dealing with this. If he done a stunt like the roof would have been blown off the roof from all the yelling. Laura was shocked as well but grateful. She wasn�t looking forward to explaining any of this to Luke if Mikkos hit Lucky for any reason. It wouldn�t be pretty when Luke got out that was for sure. *********************************************************** Jason and Carly went to the club that night. They knew things would be hard with Sonny and Robert but they didn�t know how hard it was going to be. �What is she doing here?� Robert demanded pointing to Carly when the couple walked into the bar. �Knock it off,� Jason snapped at Robert as the two headed toward on of the tables. �No, I�m not going to knock it off. I want answers and she give them to me,� Robert said and he pulled Carly toward the office. Jason grabbed Robert�s arm but Robert used his years of experience and knocked the younger man off his feet. �Look, You can think with that little brain of your but this girl is Cassadine. They are not to be trusted and they will end up trying stab you in the back,� Robert said to Jason and he grabbed Carly�s arm again and pulled her into the office. Jason got to his feet to go after them but Sonny stopped him. �Don�t,� Sonny warned. �She isn�t up anything,� Jason told Sonny. �Let Robert decided that. He dealt with this family way long you have,� Sonny said and he turned to go back to work. Jason looked at the door but finally he turned and sat down at the bar to wait for Carly. Inside the office, Carly stood in the center of the room with her arms crossed glaring coldly at Robert. �What do you want to know?� she asked him. �I want to know why you came in Bobbie�s life and the blew it up?� Robert asked her. �Why should I care that I hurt mommy�s feelings. She threw me away like a piece of trash,� Carly snapped at Robert. �She might been right. Cassadine are nothing but trash,� Robert snapped back. �You don�t know anything about us? You think you do but you don�t. You know Robert; you called us untrust worthy and back stabbers well that is what Luke is. He is Mikkos son and there is nothing you can do about it. I�m also Bobbie�s daughter and she changed that fact. She slept with a Cassadine and ended with me,� Carly said and she started for the door. Robert grabbed for her arm but she shoved him away. �Don�t touch me. I�m not a rag doll and I don�t have stand here and list to you.� �That only tells me that you got something to hide. I�ll find out what it is and sweet heart, you better hope that nothing happens to Luke or his family or I�ll go yours with everything I have,� Robert warned Carly. Carly laughed at Robert and said, �Luke is family. You think this game and that we are plotting something. No, plot! You want what I wanted when I came here? I wanted to see my mother and my uncle needed me to look grandson. No taking over the world or anything that big, all we are doing is being a family,� Carly said and with that she turned and walked away. Robert watched her go thinking that Victor raised his daughter right. She was pure Cassadine. **************************************** Lucky was sitting on the cliff looking out towards the dock. He had great view of the club�s neon sign flashing in the distance. �You should be there,� Lucky muttered to himself. �Who should be where?� Mikkos asked walking up toward the young boy. A butler placed a stool down and handed Lucky a sandwich. �You hungry?� Mikkos asked. �No, and what�s the game?� Lucky asked Mikkos. �No, game. I was worried about it. It is late and you haven�t eaten in a while,� Mikkos said. �Yeah, right,� Lucky muttered turning his back on Mikkos and looking toward the club once again. �You miss him don�t you?� Mikkos asked Lucky. �What�s it to you,� Lucky snapped at Mikkos. �I care. You might understand this but I care,� Mikkos said. Lucky laughed and said, �No you don�t. You don�t give a damn about me.� �What would make you believe that I care?� Mikkos asked Lucky. Lucky looked at Mikkos and pointed toward the club. �Get my father out of prison. Make this nightmare I have been living go away. He didn�t do! Hell, Damion isn�t dead but we can�t prove it. We have to find him. Until then he sits in prison for a crime that set up to look my mother did it. But that�s not half of it, I let him do it. I was the bait,� Lucky said the pain was clear in his voice and his eyes. He had tears flowing freely down his cheeks. �Why hasn�t the police looked for Damion?� Mikkos asked. �They got their man and what are we going to do. Say hey it was a mistake that mom was hit Damian over the head but she didn�t kill him. He�s alive,� Lucky said sarcastically. �You have a point. You have idea where Damion is?� Mikkos asked Lucky. �No, the last I heard the guy was in Florida but Robert lost him. I haven�t heard anything else,� Lucky said looking up at Mikkos with a puzzled look on his face. He wondered if this guy was really going to help. Would he see his father again that didn�t deal with a glass wall between them? �I�ll have Victor check things out. If Damion is out there, I�m sure we will find him,� Mikkos said in a matter of fact tone of voice. �If you do that, then I think about giving you a chances as long this is no game,� Lucky said and he got up and started toward the house. Mikkos walked beside him thinking he won Lucky over a little bit and that to him was what mattered. The stuff Lucky broke really meant nothing any more and for a man that dreamed of having it all that was a big change. *********************************** The next morning, Lucky was outside playing with Foster. He found out that because Helena had managed to slip by the police and at this moment no one knew where she was. Mikkos decided that it would be best if Lucky stayed on the island unless accompanied by himself or Victor. So, going to school was a bad idea. This meant Lucky was to do his studies there for now. Lucky didn�t like the idea and right now he was on strike. Lucky was near the pool when he spotted Stefan talking to Alexis near the pool house. Lucky decided to listen in as he neared the couple from behind Lucky got an ear full. �Alexis, I don�t� see why father has to have Luke out prison,� Stefan said in his stuffy tone of voice. �You want Laura to yourself. Luke out of the way, you will have to compete with him and I don�t father cares about that. He is doing this for Lucky. If I were you, I do just do what he asked,� Alexis told him. �I�m not worried that Luke will take Laura from me,� Stefan said. Alexis laughed at him. �You are. I see it in your eyes. You won Laura over because she was lonely just as you had when Stavros was around. They only difference is that Luke is prison not thought to be dead,� Alexis said. �She does love me,� Stefan said not liking what Alexis said to him. �She thinks she loves you. She got scared and you used that. I know that and so do you. You just aren�t going to admit it,� Alexis said and she turned to go back to the house. Stefan soon joined her and Lucky stood against the wall fuming. Lucky hated Stefan because to Lucky he was the one that destroyed his parents marriage and now he had proof. Lucky was planning doing something about it. With his cold smile on his face, Lucky headed up to Stefan�s room! ********************************************** Roy walked into his cell and found a package lying on his bed. He opened it up and saw hand made knife wrapped up with a note. The note read: �Its time!� �Damn,� Roy muttered wishing Damian would have wanted something else but Luke�s death. Any thing but this but Roy knew he had no choice. He was going to have to do what Damian wanted. Chapter 9 Back to A Father's Love |