AT TITAN:
Lucas paused for a moment before walking over to the Titan receptionist to ask for his sister.
Sure, the pitch to the shareholders had gone well and he would get to keep his job at Mythic Communications, but that didn't assuage the shame he felt returning to Titan for the first time since Victor Kirakis fired him.
He only realized then how much he missed his old job at Titan. He missed not feeling like a lapdog for his mother or E.J. Wells or Tony Dimera, even if he had to ad
AT CHEZ ROUGE:
Roman reached for the note but before he could grab it Tony stood up and upset his martini glass so the letter was drenched in vodka.
"Oh, Roman, I'm dreadfully sorry..." Tony said feigning regret for his calculated clumsiness.
"Dammit," Roman said. "Well there's no way to get the fingerprints off this now. We're going to have to head to New Orleans and that house you two were working at to search for clues."
Tony's impish smile turned to a frown at the words. He didn'
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
A small part of Sami felt some guilt in E.J.'s embrace. As she rested her weary head upon E.J.'s chest it was filled with fleeting thoughts about her vows to Lucas. But she was so tired. Tired of fighting E.J. Tired of fighting her feelings. So, so tired.
She looked up at E.J. and he gave her a wink and a wry smile. He tenderly brushed the bangs out of her face and held her chin.
"You need to relax, Samantha," E.J. said. "Let me do something for you."
"What do you
AT CHEZ ROUGE:
"This is all you got," Roman said scoffing. "You gave up on your wife because of a piece of paper? You really think she would abandon her wedding vows and run off with this bastard who shot her step-father, tortured her uncle and God knows what other horrible things he's done to her family? After she finally got the wedding she wanted all these years? How do you even know that Sami wrote this letter?"
Roman turned to walk out and said, "I'm taking this down to the police sta
CHEZ ROUGE:
Lucas started to speak but quickly shut his mouth to try choke back the emotion he felt.
"Lucas, it's OK," Kate told him. "I'll tell him."
"What is going on?" Roman asked as he was getting impatient. "Oh God, Is something wrong with Sami? The baby?"
"In a way, Roman... both. You see E.J. apparently tracked down Lucas and Sami to New Orleans. And she ran away with him," Kate said. "Because the baby she is carrying... is a Dimera."
Roman was shocked and shook his head in
AT CHEZ ROUGE:
Lucas decided he could not stand for one more second to listen to his mother coo as she flirted up a storm with Tony Dimera over their lunch at Chez Rouge.
While the two of them were blissfully unaware and lost in their own conversation, Lucas turned around to get up to leave. But just then their giggling stopped when Kate and Tony felt a middle-aged man's hands on each of their shoulders.
"Hey, just what in the HELL is going on here?" the man said.
Lucas turned aroun
AT CHEZ ROUGE:
Lucas felt sick as he sat with his mother and Tony for lunch at Chez Rouge watching them giggle and flirt with Tony whispering in Kate's ear and his mother licking her lips every minute. It was too much for him to take... the excessive touching, the stares... it all looked too familiar and then he realized how much he hated the idea that just when his life had been rid of the Dimera who had been ruining his life the past six months another Dimera sprung up in his place.
Luca
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
"I've been told a flat for you in the attic has finally been finished so if you would like me to show you I'll take you there," E.J. said.
"O.K." Sami said, a little fearful but less so once E.J. grabbed her hand and held it as they made their way up to the stairs to the heavy door at the top of the stairs that he started to unlock.
Sami held her breath as the key turned and E.J. opened the door to the dark room.
"After you," E.J. said, but this time his gentleman
AT MYTHIC COMMUNICATIONS:
"Why Kate and Lucas Roberts? It's been a long time no see, hasn't it?" smiled Tony Dimera.
"Tony," Lucas blurted. "What are you doing here?"
Tony chuckled.
"Now by here do you mean in this office, or in Salem or outside of a jail cell?" Tony asked sarcastically. "Well I am here in this office because I am going to save this company, I am back in Salem to reclaim my life and I'm outside of the jail cell because... well our judicial system works. It may take a
AT MYTHIC COMMUNICATIONS:
"Lucas, the shareholders are getting restless," Kate said as she hovered over Lucas's shoulder.
The two of them had spent the entire morning searching for documentation that proved E.J. Wells had been skimming profits from Mythic Communications, but Kate's search through his file cabinets had turned up nothing and Lucas's snooping through E.J.'s computer files had been fruitless as well.
Kate worried what they would tell the board of directors who had already
Sami awoke to the sound of running water but refused to open her eyes so she could hang onto the wonderful dream she'd had.
She was far away from Salem, far away from everything she knew and frolicking in a magical waterfall in the embrace of a man whose face she could not make out. They had made love for hours and his kiss was more intense, more intoxicating than any she'd shared with Lucas or Austin or even Brandon.
Suddenly Sami remembered where she was and where she had gone to sleep t
Sami's mind raced as she heard some shuffling outside her door and then it opened once again. It was EJ!
Sami's heart leapt with joy that he was being returned to the room, but it sank when she saw the disheveled condition he was in as his chin faced the ground, his eyes barely opened, his shirt was ripped open exposing chiseled abs glistening with sweat while Bart and Rolf steadied his shoulders as he slunk across the room to collapse in the bed.
Sami's sadness turned to rage when she sa
*KNOCK KNOCK*
Sami nearly fainted with fear when she heard the thumping at the door while her ear was still pressed against it. Sami backed away into the corner and crawled into the bed awaiting the newest calamity and hiding her face behind her hands.
Sami widened the space between her fingers to watch as the door creaked open to reveal a doctor wearing blue surgeon's scrubs and a mask over their face.
Sami launched into a hysterical high pitch scream, but the doctor continued lurching
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
We're almost home free, my dear," E.J. said as he bent down to kiss Sami's forehead. She smiled at him as he reached to press the button that would allow their freedom through the fireplace passageway back to the living room of Maison Blanche.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that," said a man with a familiar and menacing accent.
E.J. was filled with regret that he had let himself get distracted by Samantha and allowed the man to sneak up on him while his weapon was at his
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
"Samantha, I thought if I punished you, tormented you the way you had my heart, used Kate to make you jealous... I thought if I did all of these things it could make me stop loving you, maybe even hate you," E.J. said, "but it's really just made me hate myself."
Sami was speechless. And suddenly E.J.'s hands were free from the rope.
Sami was too caught up considering his words to notice.
"Oh so you hate yourself now, do you?" Sami said with a scowl. "Well that make
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
" Bart, I am trusting you to stand guard outside this room. Don't fail me. And Rolfe, I hope you will walk with me out to the car so we can talk over these medical reports," Tony said, ignoring his prisoners, before turning back to get another look at the two of them helpless and struggling against each other.
Tony laughed.
"Now I think I'll leave you two alone. Don't thank me too profusely, little brother," Tony said before exiting, slamming the door shut behind him
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
"I'm so sorry for this, Samantha," E.J. said as the two of them headed into the mysterious room with him holding her hand. "I promise I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
Sami stared at E.J. fearfully but said nothing.
Behind them, Tony was shoving them forward in the darkness warning of rustling upstairs.
Sami gasped as she heard the fireplace door close behind them and then started to scream.
"LUCAS! LUCAS I'm in... hgurhghgh!" Sami's speech was garbl
"So where are you taking us?" Sami asks.
"Taking you? Why you're already here?" Tony laughs.
"What?"
"Welcome to Maison Blanche, Samantha." E.J. says.
A look of horror sweeps across Sami's face.
"Did you say Maison Blanche?" Sami asks is disbelief. "The place where Stefano kept my mother and John and Hope hostage all those years ago? I thought that place burned to the ground!"
"Oh, it did," Tony assures her. "But I think you're well aware of how us Dimeras always seem to find
"Tony, I won't let you harm Samantha." E.J. said stepping in front of a frightened Sami.
"Won't let me, eh? That's funny. Because you know as well as I do that I have no intention of harming Samantha." Tony said to a defiant-looking E.J. and a confused Sami.
"Then just what is your intention?" Sami asked even though she didn't really want to know.
"Oh hasn't E.J. told you?" Tony said grinning. "Well, you see, it's quite simple, Sami. That baby you're carrying is going to save our fathe
"Tony!" Sami exclaimed before covering her mouth in shock.
"Sami. Did you miss me?" Tony said with a smile.
"How did you...? What... what are you doing here? I thought you were in jail!" Sami said before contemplating just how the night could get worse.
"Oh I was. Thanks to YOU, of course. But I've paid my debt to society and am a free man now," Tony said while fishing around in the inside of his suit coat pocket.
"What do you want from me? Tony, you have to know, I'm sooo sorry for
-At the Brady Pub, Kayla comes out of the kitchen and tells Caroline she put all the leftover food away from the picnic. Caroline is silent. Kayla asks if she is still mad at her for what happened at the picnic. Caroline says of course she is. She is mad at the whole family for their antics. A day of family bonding that she hoped would at least lead to them all getting along turned into WWIII. Kayla apologizes but reminds Caroline she warned her that all the tension in the family could lea
“Sadly, if you refuse my help, I think you… and our baby… are alone on this one,” E.J. whispered with regret as he clutched her shoulders with his hands.
Sami stared intently at E.J.’s face for several seconds trying to discern the hidden meaning behind his cryptic warning until she was distracted by the sound of what she thought was a man’s laughter.
“Did you hear that?” Sami asked.
“Hear what, darling?” E.J. said, clearly perplexed.
“It sounded like… it… well… nothing. I… just want
OK let's see if I can get this to work right.
So here's the setup for this fanfic:
I started writing this EJami-centric fanfic right after the Lucas and Sami wedding and when the spoilers came out saying that Lucas and Sami would spend their honeymoon at Maison Blanche. This fic picks up basically where that storyline was then while Phillip, Shawn and Belle have all made it back safely from Tinda Lao to take their place on the backburner with Nick, Chelsea, Willow, Bo, Hope, Steve and Kayl
