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Date:        4/19/98 8:02 PM
From:        Jan Yarnot, jyarnot@netcom.com

UPDATE THURSDAY APRIL 9: ON PARENTING

Today's stories all have views of parenting skills or dysfunctions.

1. Lucas and Tony

Lucas has the Canned Cute line of the day, say "AWWWWWW" everyone.
He is with Bobbie at the jetty and says "We've been waiting for a hundred
million years." [AWWWWWWW.  *GAG*]  They are waiting for Ever-Ready Betty
an Georgie and Maxie for a day out.  Lucas doesn't want to go to the zoo
because Dad always takes him.  Will Tony come home soon?  Is Daddy a bad man?
[Does he know he has a new sister and a new brother/nephew?]

Bobbie goes to see Tony after his bail request is denied (he's a "flight
risk").  Tony doesn't see the justice of him being in jail while Jason is
free to be with his son.  Bobbie tells Tony to stay away from Lucas.
Tony thinks he will be getting out.  "I'm a responsible citizen ... a ton
of character witnesses."  Bobbie tells him to name one.  Alan?  Tony gets
a puzzled look.

After a talk with Luke, described below, Bobbie meets up with Lucas
again.  He wants to know about the kidnapping and declares he's afraid of
Tony, then changes his mind in two seconds.  Bobbie, having forgotten her
sort-of fling with Alan when she missed Lucas's first sixth birthday party,
or was that his only seventh birthday party before he had his sixth
birthday again and again the last couple of years, but I digress, Bobbie says
"I'll be with you as much as you need me."

2. Jason, Carly, Virginia, and Michael

In Florida, Jason and Carly talk about Virginia.  Carly comments,
originally: "You don't know what you've got until it's gone."  Carly
talks about her father leaving, and about how much her mother loved her
and how awful Carly was to her.  "I killed my mother."  Jason says it's
not true, it's like thinking she was responsible for Michael being sick.
Carly worries that she'll fight with Michael.  Jason has the answer: "Don't."
She will lose patience, she says, but Michael will look up to Jason.
Jason gets a peculiar look on his face and verbalizes the fear of all
parents: he doesn't want to tell Michael what to do, but he doesn't want
Michael to be hurt, either.

----a short, non-parenting interlude with Mac and Felicia in Nawlins.  Unless
you wonder why Felicia is, Yet Again, leaving her girls with E-R Betty.---

They meet a member of the assassin's guild.  Felicia flirts with him, Mac
is jealous, the guy tells them that the assassin was hired with gold
bullion.  Mac knows that means Jerry.

3. John, Lady Jane, and the StuporCouple

[Frankly, Your Fearless Updater thinks Guza has sacrificed two of his finest
characters on the altar of Brender, and YFU doesn't mean Ashley!]

Jax goes to the door, and SURPRISE! It's his parents.  Ashley
materializes at the stairs, and pretends she owns the place and the man,
but V asked last week why Jax hadn't called Ashley, so A. seems to have
been out of town.  Pity she couldn't stay gone, at least till "this dreadful
strike" was over.  Of course, compared to the vapid proprietariness, even
Brenda looks like a good deal.  Jane doesn't like that Ashley left Jerry
in Palau.  They actually came because their son got shot at and dear
Brenda was hurt.  Just then Brenda comes in.  They fuss over her with
Ashley struggling to get the spotlight back.  [Your Fearless Updater
would have loved to see that Ashley was aware of Brenda's new career as a
Genie!]

John and Lady Jane make a fuss over Brenda till she displays the tiny
tiny bandage.  Ashley leaves, getting Jax to escort her.  Jane carries on
about Ashley.  Brenda apologizes about leaving Jax, but J&J are having
none of it.  Brenda is perfect for him, etc., etc.  Jax bursts in with a
"proposal" --- that John and Lady Jane stay over.  They had already
reserved their suite.

John and Jane leave to get a present for Brenda and Jax tells Brenda she
can cash in on the wish.  She wants to know why he dumped her on the bed
and left, and he tells her she's not going to win.  Brender is, again,
cocooned in her "I love Jax, Jax is the only man for me" mantra.  [YFU
*really* wants her to go chase Jagger now!]

John and Jane come back with slippers for Brenda.  Brenda and Jane go off
to the kitchen and talk about Jax, and John tells Jax off.  [YFU thinks maybe
he should have stayed in the commercial fumbling for his gum while he
misses the comet!  He's got about the same amount of brainpower now.]

4. Luke and Lucky

Luke comes into the police station looking for Taggart.  Garcia gives him
a seat.  Taggart asks about Jason.  He asks why Luke gets garbage rmoved
from his club.  Luke answers: "Because I'm nice to people?" [Nonsense.  It's
to throw on the Q's lawn.]

After Bobbie talks to Tony, Luke walks her out.  They talk about Lucas.
Bobbie wants to protect him, but she can't.  Luke tells her he'll know
more about how he's doing with Lucky later (after he tunes into the bugs
on Helena's yacht.)

5. Alan and Emily

Alan didn't check into a clinic, as Your Fearless Updater was hoping, but
into a seedy hotel in Port Charles.  Maybe he'll be nicer about AJ's
reluctance to go away in future?  He has the cold sweats.  He's thrown
out all the pills.  he dreams about Emily, popping into the room just in
time with a fine array of pharmaceuticals.  "This way, we'll always have
something in common."  She suggests he do uppers and she do downers so
together they'll be one normal person.  Alan wakes up, shivering.