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General Hospital Update for Tuesday, 16-Jul-1996

Author:	Paradise
Posting date:	Mon, 24-Jun-2002 6:36:41 PM PST

ATTENTION: At this time, I only have the summary of the Spencers and the Cassadines, whom this day I promise you, were the ones whose storylines were the most important.

Luke and Laura:

Laura is upstairs in the bedroom, gazing down at a medallion she has kept in her jewelry box. Luke sees her gazing at it as he comes upstairs to check on her, and is aware she is keeping something from him. He asks her if she's still tired, and she sits down on the bed saying yes. He sighs and says, "I was just trying to remember the last time you lied to me...or would I even know?" She looks up at him with a little aggravation, for how much pain she is in and how much she is trying to finally tell him the truth.

Lucky and Nikolas:

Lucky tells Nikolas to get the hell out of his baby sister's room and asks who Nikolas is to Lesley Lu. "The same as you, more in fact," the kid replies. Lucky is totally confused and tells the kid to make some sense. Nikolas gives him attitude right back and says how surprised he is that Lesley Lu is fair-haired like her mother. Nikolas starts to freak Lucky out. Nikolas says he's here for the same reason, visiting his little sister.

"Okay, look, she's got a brother, and that's me, and since...you're not me, you're not her brother, do you follow my logic?" Lucky says.

Nikolas tells him that Laura left him behind for the man who then killed his father. (Uh, as Stavros was shooting bullets at L&L, he fell down the stairs. He was the one holding the gun on them, not the other way around)

Lucky tells Nikolas he's crazy. Nikolas tells Lucky he should've done his research to know that the best doners are siblings. (My question is, the only DNA Nikolas would have that would match Lesley Lu is Laura's, and Laura wasn't a match so huh?) Lucky then says that it's impossible because the doner's not here. Automatically Nikolas says that he came from Switzerland by this great invention called a plane. Lucky tells him to leave before he calls security. Nikolas slowly and proudly does.

Luke and Laura:

Luke asks Laura if she knows who the doner is, she nods in tears. "My son," she says softly. Luke is stunned of course. He automatically assumes it was before they met, and asks if it was Scott's or David Hamilton's. She says it wasn't before they met and he silently freaks out and moves away from her. She tells him that he knows what Stavros did to her, Luke witnessed Stavros raping her. She tells Luke she thought he was dead and that she assumed it was a legal marriage. She tells Luke that she grieved for him desperately but in agreeing to marry Stavros whom she hated, she would be allowed a few hours a week to herself, where she wouldn't have to feel the weight of his body on top of hers and she would be able to take a bath without him present.

She tells Luke that those hours was the only thing that kept her sane, when she could be free to roam the island and cry at the waves and scream her fury at the world as loud as she wanted and no one could hear.

She tells Luke that she eventually learned that she was pregnant, and that she was happier than she ever thought possible, knowing that now there was someone that she could take care of and love for the rest of her life.

And after the baby was several weeks old, she heard of Luke's inauguration as mayor and how she showed up, never expecting to let him see her but wanting to be with all the others there who loved him. And when he saw her and pulled her into his arms and loved her, it rebuilt her from the insanity and the revulsion of Stavros's rape and Helena's torture.

Luke asks her why she didn't trust him enough to tell him, Luke tells her he would've gotten the boy back for her and protected her from Helena. Laura knew that even Luke couldn't have. She breaks down in tears telling Luke that she couldn't stay away from the son she had loved so much, and she had killed her mother because she had dared to try to get him back.

Luke tells her she's overreacting, that Lesley's death wasn't her fault. Laura tells Luke that Helena threatened her and screamed at her and was furious and insane with anger to learn about Stavros's death, and that not only if she ever tried to see her son again would she kill everyone Laura ever loved but if Laura ever MENTIONED her son Helena would kill.

Laura knew what Helena was capable of and made the promise, but in a very short amount of time was unable to stay away from her baby. Taking a plane in 1984 to Athens, she tried to get to the island to get her son back, but Helena met her at the airport, and told her that her mother was dead. Rick Webber, Laura's adoptive father had told Luke and Laura the heart breaking news. Luke though took a different flight and wasn't with Laura at this point. Helena goaded Laura, degraded and taunted her, telling her that her mother was the first, next she would kill Luke and any children Laura might ever have.

And losing her mother was all Laura could handle. Luke is stunned and still cannot quite conceive of how his wife could keep this from him. She tells him how much she loves him and how afraid for him she's been, but that Nikolas did save their daughter's life and without Helena's permission, so maybe there's hope. Luke disagrees, knowing the Cassadine history.

Lucky suddenly comes in, Laura tries to swallow her tears as Lucky tells them about Nikolas, some guy saying he's his brother and Lesley Lu's doner. Luke and Laura know what's going on, and the longer they stay silent, the more freaked out Lucky gets. Tears gather in his eyes as he begs his parents to tell them what's going on.

"Mom and Dad please," he begs.

Preview for Monday:

When Laura says, "Nikolas, he's here," Lucky realizes it's true and starts to walk out. Luke tries to stop him and Lucky shouts at his mother like he's God, "Mom, I don't wanna hear excuses,
all right? I don't care!" Luke shoves Lucky down on the bed and tells him to respect his mother, the mother who has loved him his whole life, and listen to her. He doesn't know the Cassadines, he doesn't know what they're capable of, Luke and Laura do.

"So you just sit there and listen to your mother, we'll both listen to her. She's had to live with this a long time Lucky, and it's been hard, so listen to her."

"I don't get it," Lucky moans.

"Well neither do I, but hell, that's never stopped us before."