CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Sonny’s penthouse…
Luke leans back in the hard backed chair watching over his sleeping son. It’s been a whole hour since they had arrived at Sonny’s penthouse and tied Lucky’s hands to prevent any attempt at an escape.
Luke hated seeing his son tied up like this, but he knew that there was no choice. If he woke up and insisted on returning to Faison…there would be no other way to stop him.
"Are you ok?" Robert appears in the doorway, his heart going out to his friend. If this was Robin, it would be tearing him apart.
"As ok as I’m ever going to be," Luke shrugged. "You know, looking at him like this…takes me back when we first came back to Port Charles…he was ten years old and the only evil he knew was Frank Smith. None of this Cassadine/Faison crap. And of course I was his hero."
"Luke…this wasn’t your fault. I hope you know that. In fact, if you want to blame anyone, blame me. It was me that Faison was trying to stick it to…"
"But it was because of me that he was kidnapped in the first place. Let’s not forget that it was Helena Cassadine who had Faison kidnap my kid the first time," Luke stands from his chair. "That old witch better glad I didn’t cut her heart out when I had the chance."
Robert’s about to reply when there’s a knock at the front door. Both men are immediately in the living room as Johnny opens the door.
"Miss. Webber and Mr. Cassadine," Johnny announces. "Shall I let them in?"
"It’s okay Johnny," Sonny nods.
"We just wanted to check if there was news on Luke’s progress in finding my brother," Nikolas enters, a solemn Elizabeth following behind him. Neither notices Luke until they’re all the way into the building.
Elizabeth is the first to notice Luke and Robert standing outside a closed bedroom door, both looking extremely worried. "Luke? Mr. Scorpio? What are you still doing here?"
"Yeah," Nikolas crosses his arms, an annoyed tone to his voice. "Why aren’t you out looking for my brother?"
"I think you two better set down. The both of you," Luke nods to the leather couch. "I have something to tell you."
"What? Is it about Lucky?" Elizabeth’s eyes widen and she grabs Nikolas’s hand for support.
"Yes sweetie. It’s Lucky," Luke nods. "We found him…or rather he found us."
"What? You found him here in Port Charles? All this time Faison was holding him in port charles?" Nikolas’s brow furrowed.
"I don’t know if he was here in port charles the whole time or if Faison dropped him off. I just know that we have him back now," Luke pushes back the frustration at Nikolas. Getting mad at the kid wasn’t going to help Lucky.
"Wait a minute what happened? You said he found you. And where is he now?" Elizabeth asked.
"Well…I’ll just say it. He tried to kill Robert here," Luke nods to his friend who was setting at his side.
"What? Lucky try to kill Mr. Scorpio? But that’s impossible. Lucky would never hurt anyone," Elizabeth’s eyes widen with disbelief.
"I know, if I wasn’t there I wouldn’t believe it either. But Cowgirl it’s the truth. Cowboy had tried to kill Robert here. We had to get rough with him in order to get him back here."
"What do you mean by rough?"
"Luke hit him," Robert looked at the floor.
"What!!! You hit my brother!" Nikolas stands up, fury burning in his brown eyes. "Hasn’t he been through enough without you beating up on him?!"
"I had no choice! It was either let him run away, which he would have done or knock him unconcious! What would you have had me do!"
"Not hit him!" Nikolas yelled. "God Luke! Was Stefan right about you?! Are you some sort of barbarian to hit your own son?!"
"That’s it!" Luke stands up and balls up his fists and sends it at Nikolas, knocking him to the ground. "Don’t you dare say I beat my son! Don’t you dare say that!"
"Stop it!" Elizabeth bursts into tears, immediately going into emotional overload.
Robert stands up and grabs Luke’s arm as he goes for Nikolas again, Elizabeth’s cries going ignored. "Stop this Luke. Lucky’s in the next room. What will his reaction be if he wakes up to you beating on his brother?"
Luke glares down at Nikolas, who wipes blood from his lip and sighs in defeat. Robert was right as always. If Lucky woke up to this…it wouldn’t be good.
"Can we see him?" Nikolas gets to his feet and brushes off his clothes.
"Not until Alan and Kevin does," Sonny reenters the room.
"Please," Elizabeth pleads with her eyes. "I need to see him."
"Elizabeth…let’s wait until he wakes up ok? So we can know what his state of mind is." Robert squeezes the girls shoulder. Hey it’ll be all right. I’m sure of it."
Elizabeth just sniffs back her tears and nods in agreement. "I’ll just set her until he does then."
"Me too," Nikolas sets back down next to her and tightly holds her hand in his. "We’ll both wait."
"Suit yourself prince," Luke shrugged emotionlessly before returning to Lucky’s room. Continuing his bedside vigil.