CHAPTER
NINE
Laura and Lulu are in the living
room playing chutes and latters when the door bell rings.
"Shall I get that?"
Laura grins over at her daughter, who just simply smiles and nods after looking
out the window. "Nikolas came to see me."
"He has? Well let’s let him in shall we?" Laura picks Lulu up and
carries her to the door. "Nikolas!" Lulu happily exclaims as Laura
opens the door.
"Hey Lulu!" Nikolas
takes his sister and hugs her. Lulu’s eyes widen as she sees Lucky standing
behind Elizabeth.
"Lucky came back from
heaven!" Lulu squirms out of Nikolas’s arms and runs to her long lost
brother.
"What?" Laura tries to
get a look at where Lulu had run off too. "Lulu where did you go?"
"She’s right here mom,"
Lucky steps out of the shadows with Lulu tightly holding his neck.
Laura’s face fades to ten shades
of pale and suddenly she’s on the floor, having fainted from the shock. It’s
Luke that gets her to the couch.
"Laura? Laura wake up,"
He slaps her face a couple of times.
"I didn’t mean to frighten
her," Lucky stares down at his mother, worry gleaming in his eyes.
"It’s okay Cowboy. Listen,
why don’t you three take Lulu up to bed and read her a story. I’ll explain
things to Laura down here," Luke nods to the stairs.
Lucky nods and follows, Elizabeth
and Nikolas up the stairs, with Lulu in his arms, leaving Luke alone with
Laura.
"Laura, wake up. It’s okay.
Wake up," Luke whispered, gasping her hand, tightly. It’s takes fifteen
minutes of running her hand and whispering softly to get her to wake up. By
that time, Lucky and the others are downstairs, having gotten Lulu asleep.
"Luke?" Laura opens her
eyes, only seeing her ex-husband at the moment. "What happened?"
"You fainted darlin,"
Luke explained, setting back as she sets up.
"Fainted? Why would
I…," Laura suddenly remembers the vision of Lucky on the front porch. It
must have been Luke and wishful thinking had made her see Lucky instead.
"Thought you were Lucky…I guess I was missing him without realizing
it." Tears well up in Laura’s eyes.
"I missed you too mom,"
Lucky walks up behind Luke, who looks up at his son and back to his wife who
stares at her son in disbelief.
"It’s not a vision Laura.
Our son’s really home," Luke grinned.
"Lucky?" Laura stands
from the couch and approaches her son, forgetting that Nikolas and Elizabeth
are there. "Is it really you?"
"It’s really me mom," Lucky smiled, a tear welling up in his eyes.
There were times when he had thought he’d never see his mother again, but here
she was in front of him.
"Oh Lucky!" Laura
embraces her son tightly, tears freely streaming down her face.
"Lucky!" She pulls away from Lucky, but still holds tightly onto his
arms. "We all thought you were dead. What happened."
"Helena and Cesar Faison
happened," Luke answered. "The whole fire was a set up. Helena and
Cesar had set the whole thing up. For Helena we all know it was revenge. I’m
still trying to figure out Faison though."
"Revenge? Oh my God Lucky
I’m so sorry," Laura hugs her son again. "I’m so sorry you had to pay
our problems."
"It’s okay mom. Besides the
beatings, they were pretty decent to me," Lucky tries to smile for his
mother. "I’m fine and I’m home."
"Oh Lucky," Laura
whispered, touching her son’s face, making sure he was real.
"I’m fine mom. I’m
fine," Lucky reassured her.
"Thank you," She turns
to Luke. "Thank you for bringing our son home."
"Don’t think me Laura. It
was the Prince here. Lucky had managed to contact him and he came straight to
me with the goods," Luke nods to Nikolas, her blushes with embarrassment.
He didn’t really want to take any credit for Lucky being home. He was just glad
to have his brother back.
"Is this true?" Laura
turns to Nikolas and looks back at Lucky.
"Pretty much," Nikolas
shrugged.
"I can’t tell you how happy
I am this moment," Laura smiled at both her sons. "I never thought
I’d be this happy again."
Lucky smiled tiredly. It was a
long trip and it had about zapped all his energy. He’d do anything for a nice
soft bed right about now. Laura must have saw this in his face, because her
hand flies to her mouth.
"You must be exhausted. I’ll
go upstairs and get your room ready and then you can go up and get some
sleep," She turns to the stairs.
Lucky stops her by putting a
restraining hand on her arm. "Mom that’s not necessary. I’m not staying."
"What?" Laura turns to
stare at her son.
"Well…it’s just that…things
never really did get resolved around here . I just don’t feel like this is home
anymore. It wouldn’t be right for me to stay here," Lucky sighed.
"Well then where will you
stay? Your father’s apartment. Surely you can’t go back to that awful
boxcar."
"He can stay with me,"
Nikolas steps up. "There’s plenty of room and besides, I kind of already
have a room prepared for him."
"I can’t do that
Nikolas," Lucky shakes his head. "I’d be intruding."
"Not as much as Elizabeth
has already," Nikolas laughed, ignoring the sharp look Elizabeth threw
him. "Besides, it’d be fun, the free of us sharing a cottage. Come on
Lucky. Say yes. Move in with me."
"I don’t know," Lucky
sighed. "It’d mean seeing each other every single day and putting up with
each other’s habits."
"Lucky, I rather deal with
your bad habits then deal with the grief of losing my only brother,"
Nikolas looks Lucky straight in the eye. "Please Lucky. Move in with
me."
"You won’t give up til I say
yes will you?"
"Nope."
"Elizabeth will be there
too?" Lucky grabs her hand.
"If she’s not sick of my
snoring by now, she’s welcomed to stay," Nikolas nods.
"Well then…ok. Fine. I’ll
move in with you. But on one condition, keep the opera music to a
minimum," Lucky laughs.
"Amen to that,"
Elizabeth grinned.
"Okay fine. No opera music,’
Nikolas shakes his head in amusement.
"This makes me so happy.
Both my sons under the same roof…even though it’s not mine," Laura hugs
both her sons.
"Humph," Luke grunts.
"Dad be nice," Lucky
turns to his father, who was frowning intensely. "It’s better Nikolas’s
than the boxcar or Jason’s old penthouse like Sonny offered. Right?"
Luke nods. "Of course. Plus
Helena won’t try another scheme like this again, as long as her grandson’s
under the same roof."
"This is going to be
great," Elizabeth lays her head on Lucky’s shoulder. "The three of us
roommates."
"Maybe we can get Emily to
move in too," Nikolas grins. "The four musketeers together
again."
"Lucky, are you hungry? I
have some stew left if you want something to eat," Laura looks up at her
youngest son.
"Well…if it’s not too much
touble," Lucky stammered,.
"Make some for Liz and I too
Laura. We haven’t eaten since this morning," Nikolas followed Laura into
the kitchen, leaving Lucky and Elizabeth alone with Luke.
"So Cowboy…are you sure
moving in with Nikolas is what you want?" Luke asked, making a face.
"I’m positive. Dad, I know how
you feel about Nikolas and I want to thank you for at least being this civil to
him. It means a lot to me," Lucky goes up to hug his father reassuringly.
"He means a lot to me dad."
"I know cowboy. And I
promise, I won’t let this feud me and Stefan have going on come between you
two. You have my word on that."
"Lucky! Liz! It’s
ready!" Laura called from the kitchen.
"Let’s eat," Lucky
grins at Liz, pulling her into the kitchen.
Somewhere over India…
Cesar Faison sets in his private
jet, running the past couple of days through his head. He just couldn’t believe
he letted the Spencer kid go, for what? Freedom? That he already had. The
government agencies haven’t been able to catch him yet and they never would. He
was too smart for all of them. He should have just dragged the Spencer kid into
the chopper and take off, then continue on with his plan…the plan that was
almost ruined now. But lucky for him, he always had a plan b if plan a didn’t
come to fruition. Like it was supposed to. He’ll just have to wait a couple of
more months…when everyone let their guard down and felt as if everything was
back to normal, then he would strike again.
He’ll take Lucky Spencer and bend
the kid’s mind to do his well. He’ll train the kid so he’ll be the perfect tool
to work Faison’s ultimate revenge for the death of his Anna and no one, not
even the cunning Luke Spencer will be able to stop him.