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From: cordet@munged.mindspring.com (maryb)
Subject: GH: Update Wednesday 7/22
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 10:46:16 -0500
X-Server-Date: 2 Aug 1998 14:51:27 GMT

Mac comes home from Albany to  find loads of wedding gifts have
been unloaded into his living room. Filly gets there and the two
agree they have far too many friends. Conversation moves to the
upcoming rehearsal, and devolves into an argument about who's
going to be the dumpee vs dumper.

Felicia starts worrying about the realities of what will happen
when their scam gets exposed, and tries to give Mac an out.
Then, she tries to give him a real "in," and he kinda ignores
it, goes to change for the rehearsal.

When he comes downstairs, TPTB throw a little trick at us,
literally stopping the soap time to give Mac a chance to
reveal his exact feelings for Filly without her hearing it.
In this time, he asks her to let him have and relish these last
24 hours to pretend the wedding was truly going to happen.

Later, in another action stoppage, Filly does the same in
reverse; the next 24 hours are spoken of as sheer
torture to be gotten through, because of what won't be
happening at the end.

Back in RT, they get back to nitpicking and express how
much fun they'll have individually when the cherade is
up. Then they both do an action stoppage and, in it,
neck a little. Breaking up the mutual fantasy, they
leave for the rehearsal.

Laura phones Luke at his club and informs him she's accepted
an invitation to picnic with Nikolas. Her husband accepts the news
stone-faced and tells her to have a good time.

Meanwhile, Nik is at the park laying out his spread when Stef
happens along and quizzes him on the picnic basket contents.
Goose liver patŽ, something French I didn't catch, and tube
steaks.

*Tube steaks*? My god, there's a _real_ food called
tube steak? I have been mislead.

Anyway, Stefan moves to horn in on the lunch action, under the
guise that he should be there to protect the tender young Nik
from the eeeeevil Spencer influence. Nephew doesn't buy it,
and insists Stefan scram, but gets ignored.

Nik hits the bullseye - accuses Stefan of deliberately crashing
the picnic to torture Spencer, via the little woman. He only
misses Stef's crush on Laura, and his uncle 'fesses guilty
as charged.

When Laura arrives, she's not entirely comfortable with
Stef's presence; he sucks up to her via Leslie Lu, and
then proceeds to take over the entire affair.

When Nik takes Lulu off to the carousel, Stefan takes
a moment to remind Laura of Lasha times by handing
her a cup of blueberries - what she used to pick on
the island - which he just happened to have in his coat
pocket. They stroll down memory lane for a minute,
and Stef grabs her hand. Laura pulls it back, cautioning
about Nik and they go back to watching the kids, nervously
complimenting each other on their parenting skills.

Stefan: "This is the life we never enjoyed. The wild laughter
of children. The quiet pride of watching them grow."

[Laura gives him an "I'm-getting-very-weak" look. He adopts a
"cat-that-swallowed-the-canary" pose.]

Stefan: "What's important is we're together with our son.
Even if no one can know."

[MHGC Stefan: "Y-e-c-c-h-h-h"]

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Sissie Cassadine heads to Luke's and begs him to put a leash
on his wife before Laura kills Stef's legal case. Mr. Spencer
doesn't necessarily see that as a bad thing, but Alexis
tries convince him otherwise. Luke counters that it's
Stefan himself who's wrecking his case in the Laura
dept.

Alexis reminds her partner-in-crime she'll do anything to
get her bro a not-guilty verdict, and that includes implicating
Luke. This brings a reality check and they go back to plotting
against Helena. The case: Helena manufactured Stefan's
obsession by leaving Laura's stuff all over Wyndemere,
in an attempt to drive off KatyBell.

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Back at the park, Nik and Lulu return to the blanket and
Stefan again directs the action and becomes the star
of the show, vis the proclamation he's never seen cotton
candy before. After a taste, he declares "It melts away
to nothing, leaves behind a memory of sweetness."

Luke lurks in the hedges, watching.

At the docks, Jason is giving BBQ a sort of show and tell
of harborside life. ("See that ship right there? That's
where all my black-market Peeps are stashed. Someday,
all this will be yours.")

AJ drops in and asks to see the baby, but Jason refuses
him and hands BBQ off to Renaldo ("Now I'm going to
fight with your uncle. Bye, sweetie.") The Quartermaine
is also there to hassle Jason about the lack of work
being done on their dock project, and oh yeah, the subject
if Carly is brought up.

Jason wrings a towel over his ex-bro's head for using
Carly to get to him, and screwing the woman in the
process. AJ, apologizes, but says it was business and
it will probably happen again, so why not bring the
bambino by the mansion for a visit.

No dice, the J-man says, and brings it around to the fact
there's a junkie in the Q house that he refuses to subject
the baby to. AJ spins it to ask what danger is BBQ in from
Jason himself?

Again, they fight over the Q's actions to Carly, and the
lack of action on the docks. This is supposed to be
some kind of juxtaposition, I suppose, but um. Well.

AJ tells Jason to watch his back and leaves.

Mary