CHAPTER
THREE
"Mind
telling me why you demand my presence after telling me that we’re no longer
friends?" Sonny asks as soon as Luke opens the door to his knock, his two
bodyguards following him. "I mean you practically accuse me of killing your
son. And why on earth are we meeting here at Elizabeth Webber’s house?"
"Ok. I
understand your skittishness here Corinthos. After all I said last night I’d be
on guard too. But there’s a good reason why you’re here. First of all, I want
to apologize. I was way out of line. You and Jason were good enough to take
Lucky in when no one would and I was ungrateful in accusing you of Lucky’s
death. Now the reason I brought you here is because you’re the only person who
can do this for me and my son."
"What
are you talking about here Luke?" Sonny is suspicious. He didn’t know if
he should trust Luke or not. As far as he could tell from last night the man
was unstable. But of course who wouldn’t be after losing their only son?
"Sonny…I’m
trusting you again okay. I’m trusting you with the most important thing to me.
My son’s safety."
"Luke…Lucky’s
dead. What more can I do for him now?"
"Lucky!
Come here for a minute please!" Luke calls into the kitchen.
Sonny turns
his head away from Luke. He knew it. The man had lost his mind. "Luke,
listen I know how you feel about shrinks, but how do you feel about making an
appointment with Kevin Collins. He can help you, really."
"Dad?"
a familiar voice answers from behind Sonny. Sonny looks at Johnny, one of his
bodyguards and notices how pale he’s gone, and it takes a lot to get Johnny go
pale like he’s seen a ghost.
Sonny looks
in the direction Johnny is staring and takes a step back. He couldn’t believe
his eyes. He was staring at a ghost. "Lucky?"
"Hi
Sonny," Lucky smiles.
"You’re
dead."
"No
he’s not Sonny. Someone tried to kidnap Lucky last night but he escaped. That
whole fire thing was a set up," Luke explained. "What I need is your
help in finding out who did this and taking them out and keeping my kid safe
until we do. Both him and Elizabeth are going to need your protection."
"I have
a safe house they can stay in. No one will know that they’re there. Plus I’ll
station men everywhere. There’s no way anyone without my clearance and
authorization can get in there," Sonny offers, recovering from the shock.
"Then I’ll put my best detectives on this. We’ll find the people
responsible for this Luke and we’ll make them pay."
"Sounds
good to me," Luke nods. "How about you Cowboy?"
"How
about mom, grandma, Lulu and Nikolas?"
"They’ll be on the clearance list," Sonny nods.
"Wait,
I don’t know about Nikolas…" Luke begins.
"Dad
please. He’s my brother," Lucky said. "To me anyway he’s family. He
has a right to know what’s going on as well as anyone else. Besides, if Helena
is behind this, he definitely has a right to know. She may be planning to do
the same thing to him."
Luke sighed
in resignation This new found loyalty Lucky had towards Nikolas made no since
to Luke. But if he wanted this truce with Lucky to last, he was going to have
to accept it. "Fine. The dark prince can be on the list too. But that’s
all. If you were planning for Stefan to be on the list you can forget it."
Lucky
laughed. "Aw dad, come on."
"Lucky!"
"Kidding!
I’m just kidding," Lucky laughed. "So when do we leave for this safe
house of yours?"
"How
about now?" Sonny suggests. "I’ll escort Liz to tell Audrey that
she’ll be visiting her parents for a while and we’ll get both you and her to
the house."
"Just
let me go get some things together," Elizabeth nods in agreement.
"We
really appreciate this Sonny," Luke nods his approval of the plan.
"I’m
doing this for Lucky Luke," Sonny said, obviously still hurt from Luke’s
accusations the night before. "Don’t make it into any kind of loyalty to
you."
Luke nods,
understanding Sonny’s reasons for being standoffish. He really had hurt Sonny
and that wasn’t to be taken lightly.
"I’ll
go help Elizabeth," Lucky excuses himself, noticing the tension between
Luke and Sonny. He wondered what his father did to ruin the friendship he had
with Sonny Corinthos and why.
*
Audrey
Webber places the phone back in it’s cradle when her granddaughter approaches
the desk, determination in her eyes. Something was up and Audrey wondered if it
had anything to do with a certain young Mr. Spencer.
"Elizabeth.
What in heavens are you doing here?" Audrey questioned.
"Hi
Grams. I came to say good0bye. I’ve decided to go visit mom and dad in Bosnia
for a while. Lucky and I had a talk this morning and we both decided that you
were right. We’re becoming too serious so we’ve decided to take a break and I
decided to go visit mom, dad, and Sarah. I already talked to them and they said
they’d be delighted to have me."
"Oh. Oh
I wish you had warned me first," Audrey takes a step back, her hand on her
throat.
Elizabeth
swallowed, feeling guilty for lying. But her and Lucky have already discussed
this. The less people who knew the truth the better and safer for that person.
"I just wanted to say goodbye and thank you for taking me in like you did
and taking care of me and being so understanding…about Lucky…about everything.
I love you gram," Elizabeth comes behind the desk and hugged her
grandmother tightly, fighting the tears that were threatening to flow. Through
everything her grams had been there for her. She was the only person in her
family that completely understood her.
"I love
you too Elizabeth and you take care of yourself. Don’t be too hard on your
mother and sister."
"I
won’t," Elizabeth smiles backing away from her grandmother. "I love
you gram."
"Good
bye Elizabeth," Audrey waves watching her granddaughter disappear into the
elevator. As soon as Elizabeth is gone, Audrey collapse into tears. She knew
the day was coming when Elizabeth would want to go back to her parents, but she
wasn’t expecting that day to be so soon. She truly will miss seeing Elizabeth
everyday. Her granddaughter’s presence has taken away the pain of losing Steve
and now here she was again all alone.
*
"Did
she buy it?" Lucky asked as Elizabeth dunked back into the limo taking
them to Sonny’s safe house.
Elizabeth
nods, a tear streaming from her eyes.
Lucky pulls
her into his arms and hugs her tightly. "I’m sorry Elizabeth. I’m so sorry
that we have to do this. It’s so unfair."
"It’s
alright Lucky. I understand why I couldn’t tell her the truth. It’s just that
I’m going to miss her so much. I wish everything can be different."
"I do
too Liz. I do too," Lucky kissed the top of her head and joins her in
staring out at the passing scenery as they headed out of port charles and hit
the highway.