Chapter 21:

"Would you care to explain what just happened?" Laura whirled around to see a deceptively calm looking Luke.
"Luke umm…. I don't know what to say." Laura said as the tears fell down.
"Is what you told him true. Is he Stefan's son?"
"Biologically yes…but you are his father…you always have been."
"Save it Laura. You lied to me for 18 years!!"
"Luke I didn't want to lose you. And if Helena knew that Lucky was Stefan's he would have been in danger."
Luke looked into Laura's eyes and saw the pain and regret in them, but Luke was beyond caring.
"How could you?! For two years I have thought that MY son was dead, and now I find out he's not even my son."
"Luke if you had know then that he wasn't yours it would not have made a difference to you. You are the one that raised him and loved him. He will always be your son." Laura tried to reach out to Luke. "I'm sorry I never told you."
"Sorry!! That's it…that's all you can say." Luke pauses. Wanting to know, but not wanting to know…what he has to ask.
"When did this happen? You weren't pregnant when you left the island."
"Remember when we were in Texas and you were missing for two weeks. I didn't know if you were dead or alive. Stefan showed up one day and he told me about Nikolas. I was starved for information about Nikolas. I was so grateful to him for telling me about Nikolas. It just sort of happened. I didn't plan on sleeping with him."
"It just happened, I was missing so you slept with Stefan. There is an irony to that I think. You thought I was dead so you slept with Stavros. I am missing so sleep with Stefan. Who did you sleep with while you were in Switzerland?"
"Luke you are the only man that I have truly loved. You are my heart."
"I don't want to hear it. I can't believe anything you say. The only thing I do know is that Lucky will always be mine." With that Luke walks out. "Damn you Stefan Cassadine." Luke shouts as the tears roll silently down his face. He feels as if he had just lost Lucky and his angel.
Laura watches him leave than crumples to the ground in sobs.

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Lucky was restless and that was not a good thing. There were a million different things swimming in his head. He didn't know which way was up anymore. There were very few things that he had counted on in his short 18 years, but the one thing he had always known, except for the two years he was with Helena of course, was that Luke Spencer was his father and Laura Spencer was his mother. There was never any doubt. Even when he had found out about Nikolas and the rape he knew who his parents were. Now it was over. He wanted to escape everything that was going on in his head. He just wandered around until he found himself looking over at Wyndemere. He walked over to the garage where the cars were kept and looked around. He picked the lock and walked into the garage. He saw Nikolas's jag and Stefan's Black Mercedes.
'Bingo' Lucky thought to himself. 'Just what I need.' Lucky went over to the Mercedes and found that the door was unlocked. 'Stupid Stefan…Stupid…But good for me.' Lucky hot-wired the car and high tailed it out of the garage.

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"I would like you to keep watch for Spencer tonight I except a visit from him soon." Stefan told his head of security. He hung up the phone and sighed. He was beginning to think telling Lucky the truth was a mistake. Lucky didn't seem willing to believe that he was his father. Not that he could blame him. The kid had been raised to hate the Cassadines. Stefan thought about the earlier confrontation with Lucky. And the angry words he had spoken. "You see, you're still defending Nikolas! You should have cared about me. If I was your son. I don't care about blood tests you will NEVER be my father. My father loved me since the day I was born and he never tried to hurt me."
**I have to prove to him that I do love him and want to get to know him.**
Stefan wanted and needed Bobbie's advice and support now. He she knew that she was angry on behalf of her brother and nephew. But the look in her eyes…the betrayal cut him deep.
**I can not just accept her advice to let Lucky come to me, because he won't willingly, especially not if Spencer has his way. There are things that I could give him that Luke will never be able to.** Stefan mused silently.

Chapter 22:

Lucky peeled out of the garage with no destination in mind. Just the overwhelming desire to leave and not deal with the lies. He couldn't wrap his mind around it all. Stefan Cassadine was his father. Everything he had believed in was a lie. He wanted to hurt Stefan as much as he was hurting. Stefan had taken everything he was with one sentence. "I am your father." It was like the scene in Empire Strikes Back. When the truth about Luke Skywalker's parenty was revealed by the Dark Lord, or in Lucky's case, the Cassadine. Lucky laughed bitterly. The ramifications of the truth weighed on Lucky. His mother and Stefan had lied to him his whole life. Luke would hate him now. Luke hated everything Cassadine. As he was thinking about Luke's reaction to the truth, he pressed the accelerator. He didn't notice the puddle of oil on the road. When the tires hit the oil the car swerved out of control and hit the tree. Lucky's head hit the steering wheel. And he faded to darkness.

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Elizabeth had been searching for Lucky everywhere. She went by the Spencer house, but Laura had no clue where he was. She couldn't tell what had happened to Lucky, Laura was crying too hard. The look on Laura's face scared her even more. That in the fact that she had no clue as to what had happened. Elizabeth went by Kelly's and Luke's but no one had seen him anywhere. She was on her way to try her house thinking that may be Lucky was looking for her when she saw a car that had collided with a tree. She walked over to the car to see if anyone needed her help.

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Lucky woke up with a monster headache and his ribs ached. He slowly got out of the car Lucky for him, the right front corner of the car had just grazed the tree. The car was not totaled, but it wasn't in driving condition. He saw that the Mercedes emblem figurine had been ripped off. He picked it up off the car's hood and decided to take it with him. He started walking, as fast as his bruised body would let him, in the opposite direction from where Liz was. "Lucky!" Liz noticed Lucky get out of the car. Lucky slowly turned and saw Liz waving him down. He saw Liz and watched her come to him. He thought about how Liz had been there for him. How she had given him a place to stay when he wanted to runaway from his family, who ever that was, and his life. He thought about how he had tried to leave tonight.

Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
>From the Album - Grave Dancers Union

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

(He saw Liz walking towards him and wanted her to take all the pain a way, but she couldn't, no one could.)

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

(The lies were eating away at him. Finding out that his father had raped his mother felt like a small thing compared to this. That had happened before he was born, but this lie destroyed everything. He didn't think he would ever be able to look at his mother, with out thinking about the lies.)

CHORUS

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded

(Two years he had spent listening to lies that turned out to be truth. His biological father didn't even care about him. He almost killed him in the bog. Luke on the other hand loved him, and protected him to the best of his abilities. But will Luke still love him once he finds out.)

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

(His family got along fine without him for the two years he was gone. Lulu barely knew who he was. Since he has come back, it's only been pain.)

CHORUS

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same

(He looked at the car thinking that it would have been so much easier to have left it all behind, but the car wasn't going anywhere. He looked up at Elizabeth coming towards him. Maybe he could trust her.)

Chapter 23:

After leaving the Brownstone and getting Betty to watch Lucas, Bobbie went to the Penthouse to talk to Caroline. Bobbie had just finished telling Caroline the whole situation. Caroline was glad that she had told AJ about Micheal. Jason and Caroline have custody, but AJ can see him whenever he wants.
"How's Lucky?" Caroline asked.
"You should have seen him. He had this look of complete and utter devestation. I don't know how I can forgive Stefan for doing that to him."
"What are you going to do?"
"I honestly don't know. I thought he had changed and that there were no more lies."
"I'm sorry. You guys seemed so happy. Well as happy as Stefan can be."
"I thought so too. I hope Lucky's ok. I don't know what he is doing right now."
"He's probably angry, scared, and sad. But most of all confused. That is quite a blow to learn that the person you had thought was your parent wasn't. I hope he handles it better then I did. I was so angry for so long. I felt like I had lost all of my self-identity. I felt like I didn't know anything anymore."
"I'm sorry. I love you."
"I love you too, Mom."

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"Lucky are you alright? What happened?"
Lucky shrugged and winced at the movement 'Not a good idea.' "I'm fine. I wasn't paying attention and lost control."
"Lucky you are not ok, your already have a bump on your head."
"Liz I am fine. Don't worry." Liz looked at Lucky skeptically.
"How did you get the car?"
"I stole it."
"Why? From who?"
"From my father, because I wanted to leave. I don't know, I needed to get away."
"You just got back." Liz was confused. "Lucky your dad doesn't have a Mercedes."
"Stefan Cassadine does." Seeing her confused look. "You didn't know. I thought Nikolas would have told you. Stefan Cassadine is my biological father. It seems that the lies were not over."
"Oh Lucky, I am sorry." Liz tried to give Lucky a hug, but Lucky didn't want any comfort. He was afraid that if he allowed Liz to help him that he would fall apart right there. That was the last thing he wanted to do.
"Don't Liz." Liz looked up at Lucky stung.
"Ok." She tried to smile. "What are you going to do?"
"I don't know."
"Well you can't leave."
"Why not?! Why the hell should I stay? All I ever hear is lies. All lies. The people I trusted most in the world told me nothing but lies!" The emotional pain of the days events seemed to make him forget about the physical pain of the crash.
"Lucky…"
"What Liz? What can you say to make me change my mind?! Luke will hate me!"
"No he won't Lucky, he loves you. He was devastated when you died."
"May be I should have stayed dead."
"No, Lucky I am so glad you are alive I have missed you."
"Well maybe you shouldn't have. Everyone would have been better off if I had just stayed away. You know it was easier when I didn't know who I was." With that Lucky left and walked quickly away ignoring the pain in his ribs and head.
"Lucky!" Lucky ignored her and left. Liz let the tears flow. He is in so much pain, but I don't know how to help him

Chapter 24:

Stefan Cassadine was in the main room of Wyndemere anticipating Luke Spencer's arrival. He hoped that his security team would be able to warn him as to when Spencer arrived.
"Hello Steffie." Stefan sighed he had to get a new security force.
"Luke, what can I do for you today?" Stefan turned to look at Luke, and looked right into the barrel of Luke's gun.
"You can stay out of my son's life!" Luke said as he took of the safety.
Stefan showing no fear replied. "He's my son and I will do what ever I please!"
Luke pulled the trigger and hit a vase behind Stefan. "That was a warning: stay away from my son. You are not his father…you will NEVER be his father."
**It took me two years to get my son back, and I will not lose him to Cassadine. Stefan will not use Lucky like he uses everyone else.**
"You will not stop me." Luke raises the gun again to Stefan's face. Stefan thinks **He's really going to do it.**
"Don't try me Stefan. I have had a very bad day. Which is in thanks to you. Just because you slept with his mother, does not make him your son." **He is my son, and I will make Lucky see that Spencer is not worthy of being Lucky's father.**
"It changes Lucky." Luke sighed and lowered the gun. **Lucky is the reason I will not destroy Stefan. However much I may want to. That should be Lucky's decision.** Luke thought.
"You don't even know Lucky, and you have no idea how much you have destroyed his world. I hope you are happy."
Luke turns to leave he pauses a second then turns around. "I forgot something."
"What-" Stefan says as Luke punches him in the eye.
With that Luke turns and leaves and as he walks out he lights his cigar.

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Lucky woke up the next morning wincing at the pain in his ribs. His head ached, but not badly. Overall he decided he would be ok. He got up and looked at his surroundings. He's not really sure how he ended up here, but to him underneath the docks was better than his house. He wasn't ready to deal with his mother yet, and he didn't know when he would be, or if he even wanted to. As he was standing up a flash of metal caught his eye. It was the Mercedes' logo from Stefan's car. Lucky grinned, he knew exactly what to do with that.

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Elizabeth Webber was lying in her bed hoping that Lucky would call, but after last night she doubted he would. She hoped that he was ok. She didn't know where to look, but she was tired of doing nothing. For lack of something better to do she decided to call Nikolas. Nikolas had moved into the guesthouse a year ago. He needed his space and a chance to be on his own.
Well as alone as his uncle would allow him to be.
Ring…**Come on Nikolas please be there.**
"Hello."
"Nikolas, thank god."
"Elizabeth what's wrong?" Nikolas said waking up quickly from the panic in her voice.
"Have you seen Lucky?"
"No, why have you?"
"Not since last night. I am really worried about him. He wouldn't talk to me, he was too cold and distant."
Nikolas sighed and looked out the window. He noticed that Lucky was walking up the path to the main house.
"Liz I'll talk to you later, Lucky is here."
"Nikolas wait-" Silence. Nikolas had hung up. 'Bye.' Liz thought to herself. Nikolas hurried up and got dressed and went over to the main house.

Chapter 25:

Stefan is in the main room of Wyndemere eating breakfast.
"Mr. Cassadine, young Mr. Spencer is here to see you."
Stefan looked up in surprise as Lucky walked in. He noticed the knot on his forehead, but didn't think that Lucky would appreciate him commenting on it.
"Lucky what a pleasant surprise."
"Stefan I didn't come here to chat. I just thought you would like this back- Catch." Lucky throws him the Mercedes logo figurine. Stefan fumbles to catch it.
"What…how…" Stefan says baffled.
"I just came by to say thanks for the use of the car. I really appreciated it. Sorry that's all that's left though. I accidentally hit a tree."
"How did you get the car?"
"I stole it. Broke in to the garage and hot-wired it. I didn't think you would mind."
"Lucky get back here."
"Stefan, why are you going to act all fatherly now? I don't think so. You want me as your son you have to deal with the consequences." With that Lucky walks away. Leaving a surprised and angry Stefan in his wake. However, Stefan isn't sure who he was angry at the most. Either Lucky or himself, he understood why Lucky would do that. And he knew if he tried to punish Lucky that it would drive him completely away, not that Lucky was close to him at all.

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Lucky left the room and walked straight into an angry Nikolas. Nikolas could not believe that Lucky would do something that stupid. He really didn't care that Lucky had stolen the car. He understood Lucky's need to find a release, he just didn't want Lucky to get hurt.
"What the hell do you think you were doing?"
"Nikolas leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you." Lucky tried to get past Nikolas, but Nikolas slammed Lucky into the wall. Which brought last nights injuries back to the surface.
"Nikolas why the hell did you have to do that?" Lucky said wincing. Nikolas was surprised not to see any anger in Lucky's eyes. They were practically with out emotion. Nikolas let go of Lucky.
"You are going to listen to me. Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
"It doesn't really matter, does it?"
"Lucky we thought you were dead for two years, I don't want to lose you again."
"Sorry Nikolas, but I don't give a damn anymore. I did and it hurts too much. Everything in my life has been a lie in one way or another. I don't care anymore."
With that Nikolas watched Lucky turn and walk away.

Jumper
By: Third Eye Blind

I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend,
You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in,
And if you do not want to see me again,
I would understand

(Nikolas looked to where Lucky had just left. The lies have devastated him.)

The angry boy, a bit too insane
Icing over a secret pain,
You know you don't belong,
You're the first to fight, You're way too loud,
You're the flash of light on a burial shroud,
I know something's wrong,
Well everyone has got a reason to say
Put the past away

(**Lucky needs help, but he isn't listening to anyone. He won't talk to Liz or me. He definitely won't talk to Stefan or Laura. Who knows how he feels about Luke…who will he let him help. D*amn them for doing this to him.**)

I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend,
You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in,
And if you do not want to see me again,
I would understand

(**I want to help him, but how can I get him to trust me. He's walking on a fine line.**)

Well he's on the table, and he's gone to code,
And I do not think anyone knows,
What they are doing here,
And your friends have left, You've been dismissed,
I never thought it would come to this, And I want you to know,
Everyone has got to face down the demons,
Maybe today, We can put the past away,

(** He was so cold. I think he is ready just to give up. I don't know what to do. He needs to make piece with it. But I don't know if he will. How can he?")** I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend,
You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in,
And if you do not want to see me again,
I would understand,
I would understand . . .

Can you put the past away,
I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend,
I would understand . . .

(**I just wish he would let me inside and help him**)

Nikolas sighed and walked into the main room where Stefan was still staring at the piece Lucky had given him.