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General Hospital Update for Monday, 8-Jul-1996

Author:	Paradise
Posting date:	Sun, 09-Dec-2001 10:26:00 AM PST

This was basically a LAURA day, which is my favorite type of day because Laura is the goddess of General Hospital! I love her! She did beautifully today, glowing and looking like an angel, it's a must get if you are a Laura fan! Also, it's the beginning of Spencer VS Cassadine...my e-mail address is Para8Dice@aol.com if you have any comments...

Here we go......

Lesley Lu Spencer remains sick in the hospital. Very close to death. We saw Friday that Laura received a phone call by someone calling her "Lasha", and she flipped out. She went to the docks on Spoon Island. We saw a man's hand with the Cassadine ring, and heard Laura in fear say, "Stavros?"

A man, (played by Stephen Nichols) came down the stairs slowly to face her. Laura's face lights up in joy and relief. "I should've known!" she exclaims happily. The man is obviously not happy with her, and is purposely frightening her.

Laura is extremely tense to be in the face of a Cassadine again. To have the past opened to her again, to have to face her life on the island and all she had done, leaves her very uneasy.

This man asks her why she called him Stavros? He tells her he will call her Lasha, the name Stavros gave to her. He asks Laura if there are other nights she wishes Stavros were in front of her again. Laura is afraid and whispers,
"Stefan...please don't do this."

Stefan asks Laura if she wishes Stavros were here now and she screams "NO"! Laura looks at this man, obviously knowing him very well. And stunned because he is completely different from the man she knew. He looks at her intensely with hatred. Laura, afraid for her daughter's life can only say, "Whatever you thought of me then, whatever it is that you think of me now...I'm very grateful that you're here." Stefan is unaffected.

Laura proceeds to tell Stefan that she's been trying to contact Helena. Stefan Cassadine is Stavros's brother. Son of Mikkos and Helena Cassadine. He tortures her with words, obviously knowing so much about her that we don't.

Laura asks Stefan, "How is he?" Stefan replies, "Who?" "Is he with you? Can I see him please?" Laura's in tears, desperately trying to see "him". Stefan looks at her blankly, so she turns and begs him to help her save her daughter's life. He makes it hard for her, driving her nuts, and then tells her he is going to avenge his brother's death.

She says, "You're better than this..." and he replies, "Yes, tell me Lasha. How much worthier I am than Stavros and the rest. Used to work on occasion." Hmmm...okay. That sounds interesting. Genie does some fabulous acting screaming at him through her tears. "Why did you make me come here! What do you want? Do you wanna see me beg? FINE! I will beg! You want me to kneel? You wanna see me cry?"

Stefan laughs. "What makes you think I would give a damn for your tears? You killed my brother, you destroyed my people. The Cassadines owe you nothing."

He begins to walk away and Laura stops him, telling him how evil Helena is, that he knows! Laura reminds him that Stavros kidnapped her, made her believe she had nothing to live for. She then screams, "You know this! Why are you doing this to me?!?" So Stefan knows all about Laura being abused by Stavros...why does he hate her now?

Stefan receits the last words of Stavros Cassadine to frighten Laura. Laura flashbacks to 1983, in the hospital room with Stavros. Laura asks how he could've been there. She looks back up at Stefan and he says, "Do you begin to feel it now Lasha?" Meaning, the power of the Cassadines, to know her every step.

Stefan tells Laura every step she took, knowing everything she's done since she left the island in 1983, scaring the hell out of her. She accepts it, understanding that he hates her now. She begins to play the game back. And it gets interesting. And Genie's best acting, hoo...amazing.

"You wanna avenge Stavros's death," she says. "Stavros would never have done this to me."

Stefan coolly replies, "Well he may have been dazzled by you but I never was."

"Think back," Laura says intensely. Again...what's going on here?

"To what?" Stefan says.

Laura's eyes widen slightly. "You know what," she says in a very spooky voice. She comes closer to him. "You couldn't have changed that much. Please..." she says, begging him to save her daughter.

"Did I say I wouldn't grant your request?" he says.

"Then you'll let me see him! Where is he!"

"Did I say I would," he says and leaves.

Laura tries to chase after him, but the poor woman's in those heels again and she should've taken them off and thrown them at him!

You see Laura and Stefan have a very intense, mysterious relationship. Chemistry is incredible between Genie and Stephen. Laura leaves, goes back to the hospital, and you see Stefan stand at the docks of Spoon Island, watching. Very spooky...

Other than that, Luke tries to find more info about Bobbie's daughter from Virginia Benson, but gets no where. The rest of the day not a whole lot happened. This door has opened for the Cassadines...