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Subject:     GH: Update for Monday, Dec. 4, 1995
From:        Jeff Jungblut, jeffmj@port-charles.com

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I didn't have time this week to watch Monday's or Tuesday's episodes, so I
picked this update from the GH message board on AOL:

Subj:  MONDAY 12/4 SUMMARY
Date:  95-12-04 20:49:34 EST
From:  AnneBPT

Hi--sorry this is so  late --here goes...

     It's still the day of the Memorial for Stone.  Most of the crowd is
gone, but Brenda, Mac, Kath,Lily,.....and Simone,Justus and Tom.  I wonder
why those three have stayed so long, when say, Alan, Tony, or Kevin and
Lucy have left.  Anyway, Simone arranges for Tommy to spend the night with
Tom.  The three of them get ready to leave.

     Sonny is still holding Stone's glasses.  Brenda looks longingly at
him from across the room, then finally approaches saying,"Stone would have
liked today."  Sonny was thinking how Stone would have found a way to make
them laugh.  Brenda laughs and they smile at each other.  Brenda says
she'll remember Stone by thinking of  some funny or irreverant thing he
said or did, which will make her laugh instead of cry.  She takes the
glasses from Sonny.  Sonny says,"His magic glasses...that's what he called
them."  Brenda makes another pitch for Sonny,"Well in a lot of ways he saw
more clearly than any of us."
     Lilly has been hovering in the backround, watching them, but to her
credit--not interrupting.  I'll say one more nice thing about Lilly, then
never again:)  Her hair looks *much better now, the way she had it today.
OK, back to Brenda and Sonny...
    Brenda sees the others leaving, and says she should be going too(It's
clear she'd rather stay).  Sonny offers her ride.  Foolishly she tells him
Ned and Lois were going to bring her home.  You can feel the connection
between them as Brenda hands Stone's glasses back to him, and their hands
touch.  Brenda says goodbye to Robin, as Lilly swoops in to grab Sonny.
     Kath and Mac are leaving too.  He'll drop her off before he goes to
meet Garcia.  Kath was hoping that he'd cancel the meeting tonight, but
Mac feels he has to go through with it.  Robin tells them she is going to
stay over at the penthouse tonight because she "needs some quiet time to
stay goodbye to Stone."  Mac understands.  (I'm  so proud of him. he's
come a long way since the beginning of the AIDS story.)  Kath and Robin
say how much they like one another.  As Robin walks away, Mac worries
about how the information on the Sonny-Damian connection will effect her.

     Kevin:) and Lucy are just home at Lucy's after the Memorial.  Lucy
wonders and worries about what kind of sevice her "friends" would have for
her when she goes.  Kevin says that today's memorial was a testament to
Robin and Stone's strength and courage.  Kevin tries to reassure Lucy that
they will have a long and happy life ahead of them(right --on a soap).  As
they kiss--Sigmund starts quacking up a storm.  "Now what's wrong with the
duck?"  Kevin asks.  Lucy thinks that Sig's upset because they didn't
greet him when they came in, so Kevin gives a little, sweet, sarcastic,"Hi
Sigmund, ....now shut up!"  Siggy still quacks away--the doorbell rings,
and a smug Lucy takes Kevin to answer the door.
     It's Damian.  He opens with,"It's only fair to warn you that I'm as
mad as hell!"  Kevin's response,"Really?  Please don't come in and tell us
about it."  Damian comes in anyway.  Sigmund is very upset, so Lucy tells
Damian to say what he wants to say and leave before Siggy gets hoarse.
Kevin comments that Sigmund is a very discerning duck.  Damian comes at
him again saying he could press charges for assault against Kevin because
of what happened in Buffalo.  Kevin says he was simply defending Lucy's
honor.  Kevin has my LOD#1, "Well if your 'stomach'(I thought the kick was
a *bit lower) hadn't been where it wasn't wanted in the first place, there
never would have been an assault.  On the other hand, it was highly
satisfying."

Lucy begins protest that the situation was under control, and she really
can take care of herself.  Damian tries to goad Kevin by saying he acted
like a Neanderthal. Kevin smiled,"She liked it."  Lucy agrees that she did
like it--but she didn't really need to be rescued. The arguing continues,
with Lucy stepping between the two men.  Kevin tells Damian, with a little
wink,"Don't expect an apology."  Damian calls Kevin foolish and stupid for
someone who likes to throw his intelligence around.  Daiman mockingly
calls Kevin "Doc."  I thought I might get to see Kev deck the idiot after
all--but no.  Lucy asks Damian to please go.  Kevin say, "Yes please.  Go
to Hell!  Please do!"   Damian then tells Lucy *she is being foolish and
stupid, and that that can be extremely dangerous.  Lucy doesn't know what
to feel after Damian leaves, angry or scared.  Kevin to his credit, does
not remind her that he warned her to stay away from Damian in the first
place.
     Kevin and Lucy discuss how she may be stuck with Damian as her
partner.  Kevin doesn't say anything about it, he's learned his lesson,
but he can't help looking worried. Lucy is worried too, about what Damian
might do.  The doorbell rings again.... it's.... Officer Johnson!  Lucy
thinks he might be there to protect her from Damian, but no he's there
about the duck.  New neighbors across the alley have been complaining
about Siggy's quacking, he'll have to give her a warning.  No Sig won't
have to appear in court.  Lucy wonders if Damian sent the police about
Sigmund.  Kevin replies that he doubts it, Damian's threat was to Lucy,
not her duck.

    Mac meets Garcia in the park.  "The raptor is on the wing." He says.
Alex wants no fooling around spy stuff, that's not why he came.  Mac
agrees someone he loves is putting their life on the line.  Alex assures
him that any information given to him will go no further.  Mac reveals
that the bank account information did not originate with Luke.  Alex isn't
suprised, Luke would have acted on it himself, not just passed the
information on.  Alex asks,"Who is she?"  "Did I say she?" Mac replies.
LOD#2 for Garcia:"Mac, with you it's always a she!" (Since when????  Kath
has been his only girlfriend, his only date since Felicia, in what, almost
1 1/2 years?  Alex doesn't seem to know Mac well:)  Alex says everything
is falling into place, but looks very suprised(??) when Mac says Kath is
the source.  Mac lays out the info on the accounts and the connection to
Sonny.  It's the beginning of a paper trail between Sonny and Damian.  Mac
assures Alex that Luke is clean, not involved--but he now knows about the
connection.
     Alex wants Kath to testify and go into the witness protection
program.A few more good lines from Alex,"Encourage her to testify, at
least she'll be on the record as having co-operated, then if anything goes
wrong, we nail Smith for silencing her........Come on Mac, at least it
would be some satisfaction."  Apparently Garcia doesn't care much if Kath
gets silenced, as long as she testifies first.  Mac doesn't like the sound
of it, he's too emotionally involved says Alex.  Though he's not thrilled,
Mac will run the plan by her--some plan:)
     Mac goes to Kath's apartment.  She opens the door before asking who
it is.  It's only Mac, luckily.  Mac tells her about Alex wanting her to
testify and go in the witness protection program.  She won't go for it.
He tells her about how it wouldn't be bad, they could go to Europe, India,
Down Under...What about Robin?  He can't leave her now.  Mac may have a
plan to go after Damian himself.  He asks Kath to give him all the
information she has on Damian as fast as she can.

 Tom and Tommy have just finished watching a science program that's even
better than the Power Strangers.  Tommy asks about Stone's party.  Tom
says it wasn't a party, but a remembering time.  Yes, some people cried,
but mostly they just spent some time together, and remembered Stone.
Tommy asks,"What if someone dies and no one remembers?"  This seems to
effect Tom, maybe he's thinking about Africa?  He quickly says to Tommy to
remember happy things too.  Tommy's happiest moment of the week, when
YCCMM(You can call me Mort) shed his skin in one piece.  Tom says his
happiest thing is Tommy.
     Later they are both in bed.  Tommy is asleep, but Tom is not.  Tom is
awake, drenched in sweat, and having flashbacks to Africa.  Tommy wakes up
and asks if Tom's OK.  He say's it's just Stone--and Africa.  Tommy is
glad he came home.  The flashbacks are getting worse, and Tom runs to the
bathroom, telling Tommy to stay in bed.  Tom is freaking--Tommy's worried
and runs to get help.  Tom is on the floor in the bathroom, it's getting
worse.  He hears screams of women and children, machine gun fire, barking
dogs.  Faces are flashing in front of him, women, a little boy, dogs
guns....Tom crawls around the bathroom floor, like he's crawling in a war
zone.  He's really in bad shape.
     Felicia and Bobbie come back in with Tommy.  Bobbie tells Tommy to
come with her for some hot chocolate.  Tom can bearly utter a coherent
word, but he's worried about Tommy seeing him like this.  Felicia assures
him Tommy went downstairs with Bobbie, so he can open the door.  She wants
to help.  He opens the door, but Bobbie has let Tommy get away from her
and run upstairs(She can't do anything right lately).  Tom freaks even
more, Bobbie gets him out of there.  Felicia  tries to calm him down, find
out what's going on.
     We return to the scene, Tom's hyperventilating.  I wasn't watching
the screen at first, I swear I thought it was the duck:) It sounded like
him.  Tom tellls her about Africa.  He's still a little disjointed.  He
talks about the village, and the power struggle, and that people didn't
have to die.  He had to make choices, there had to be order, they fought
back, the women, the children.  A little boy near Tommy's age had been
blown to bits right in front of him.  He needed Tommy and Simone.
    Tom finally seems to be coming out of it.  Felicia suggests calling
Kevin or Gail to meet them at the hospital--he needs help.  Tom doesn't
want to go, he feels he's getting better.  This doesn't happen as often
anymore.  She should have seen him when he first got home.  Felicia says
she understands why he tried so hard to stay with Simone, even when she
wanted to end it.  Tom says he needs Tommy and Simone because he doesn't
like who he is without them.

     Sonny is with Robin at the penthouse.  She thanks him for letting her
stay the night.  Robin says she keeps thinking Stone needs something, then
remembers that he's not upstairs anymore.  Sonny says Stone is still with
them, he taps his chest over his heart, and says, "right here."  Robin
heads upstairs to lie down.
     Lilly brings Sonny some Spanish coffee.  He wonders how she knows
what he needs before he needs it.  She says,"That's because I listen to
you with my heart." (Blech!)
     Sonny says that Stone is healthy and happy now.  Lilly says Sonny
will be happy again.  Sonny says it had better be in this lifetime,
because he doesn't think he'll make it to heaven.  Lilly says heaven might
just be a place in people's hearts, and today Sonny had,(Most Awkwardly
Spoken  Line of the Day),"already earned a place in a number of hearts
including mine."

Robin is standing alone in the penthouse livingroom, looking out the
window.  An Arm goes around her--Sonny?  I thought?  Nope, Stone!
  "Don't be lonely.  I'm here.  I'm with you."  He says.
  "I know."  Robin responds.
  "Brave Robin! Wonderful, beautiful Robin!  I love you so much!"
  "I love you too"  Robin replies.  Sonny and Lilly come downstairs and
see her standing alone, almost transfixed in the window.  Sonny asks if
she's ok.  She smiles with tears streaming down her face, and says she's
OK, she was just standing feeling close to stone.  Sonny assures her that
everything will be OK.

--
Jeff Jungblut
jeffmj@port-charles.com

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