(Let's see how long I can keep up this picture thing...)
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
“Just what is going to hurt me, Samantha?” E.J. asked to Sami’s surprise.
“E.J. I… well…” Sami stammered as she concealed the diary by cradling it in her arms as if she had a chill.
“You what? And something about the baby?” E.J. asked as he set her breakfast tray on a table and then turned around to close the attic door.
Seeing the opening, Sami quickly shoved the diary under the mattress of the bed an
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
PART TWO
We jump ahead several months in the story to find Sami still captive at Maison Blanche and now 8 and a half months pregnant.
Chapter 1
Sami sighed with contentment as she cuddled with E.J. in the Jacobean four poster bed and nestled the crown of her head beneath his chin before then tilting her head back to look up at him.
“Good morning,” E.J. said as he leaned in to kiss her forehead and Sami shut her eyes.
Yet when Sami opened her eyes E.J. was gon
AT THE HOSPITAL:
Marlena watched in horror as the machines attached to her husband pulsated with a cacaphony of distress signals and the doctors and nurses chaotically moved about John's bed in attending to him.
Hearing the commotion, Roman walked toward the room and leaned up to get a look at things through the small square window of the door.
"Ma'am you need to get out of here," A nurse told her putting her hands on Marlena's shoulders and pushing her back.
But Marlena would not be
IN THE ATTIC OF MAISON BLANCHE:
"Oh please," Sami heard a familiar woman's voice on the other side of the attic door say."It's time to give up this charade."
It was Kate!
"Just my luck," Sami whispered. "I get captured by the Dimeras and Kate Roberts is on my Salem rescue squad."
"Shhhhhhhh," E.J. whispered covering her mouth again gently.
"What charade, mom?" Lucas asked. "How is it a charade that I happen to care so deeply about my wife that I am willing to turn over every nook
E.J. shuffled toward the door along with Sami in his arms so that he could lean against the locked door and block it should anyone try to break it down. The two of them could hear everything the voices in the stairway were saying.
Listening so intently to the conversation, E.J. lost concentration for a moment and his hand slipped off Sami's mouth. Sami was also listening intently, so much so she didn't notice.
"Lucas, I really think we've done about all we can do today," Tony said. "I thin
ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF MAISON BLANCHE:
"Lucas, we don't have time for this," Roman said furiously. "Marlena needs to get back to Salem NOW."
Tony sensed he wasn't quite as lucky as he thought, although he knew deep down it's really up to a man to make his own luck.
"Lucas wants to keep the search going... as do I," Tony volunteered. "I think I have a solution for us."
"You?" Marlena scoffed.
"Yes. Me," Tony smiled. "I say you two head back to Salem on John Black's plane while Kate
SPLIT SCREEN OF HOSPITAL AND FIRST FLOOR OF MAISON BLANCHE:
Belle was standing outside her father''s hospital room holding a cell phone up to her ear and crying as she prayed her mother would pick up at the other end of the line.
"Hello," Marlena said.
"Mom... It's Dad... He's... He's..." Belle said crying too hard to get the words out.
"No, not John," Marlena said, her mouth agape as she turned to look at Roman and the rest of them stopped and stared wondering what bad news about Jo
IN THE ATTIC IN MAISON BLANCHE:
E.J. walked toward Sami and sat at the end of the bed and turned to face her but said nothing and sighed.
"Is someone here to save me? Is something good happening to Samantha Brady FOR ONCE? Am I really getting out of this awful place?" Sami said to herself as she excitedly hopped out of bed with her voice picking up in volume as she bounded around the room until it had built to a shout. "Is my dad here? My mom? Did Lu...?"
E.J. stood and covered her mou
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
Tony shut the door and worried what E.J. would do. He had hoped to get Sami downstairs and through the secret passageway to bring her into surgery before the Salem search party arrived, but now he would have to rely on his suddenly quite untrustworthy brother to subdue her and hope for the best -- that no one would look in the attic.
Rolf had told him about his memory erasing procedure he had undertaken on his brother and while Tony regretted Rolf's doing so without his
AT MAISON BLANCHE:
Sami awoke to the sound of two men arguing. At first she thought she was still dreaming as she groggily listened to them carry on.
"We need to get her into surgery now. Father may not last if we wait another five months for the umbilical cord blood. I don't know why you are fighting me on this."
"Sorry, Tony, I won't let you do that to her. Or to her innocent child."
Sami was filled with panic as she recognized the voices. It was E.J. and he was arguing with Tony D
OUTSIDE CHEZ ROUGE:
Anna sighed as she stopped outside the sign for Chez Rouge and waited for the valet to retrieve her car.
She had come back to Salem in hopes of putting the past behind her once and for all, an idea that seemed plausible back in London when she and Carrie dreamed it up but not so much when that past was staring her in the face in the personage of her ex-husband Tony Dimera.
And her ex-husband Roman Brady, who nearly knocked her over as he brushed against her walking p
IN THE ATTIC AT MAISON BLANCHE:
Sami set her fork down on her plate and looked down at the few crumbs she had failed to inhale.
She leaned back in her chair and rubbed her stomach and groaned a little, so full after scarfing down the dinner EJ had brought her it felt as if she had gained another baby growing inside her. Yet still she wasn't yet showing the baby she carried.
Sami didn't know what to do about EJ but she didn't know how to stop thinking about him. Oh I think I'll about tha
AT CHEZ ROUGE:
Kate kissed Tony on the cheek and said goodbye, but before she had even taken three steps away Tony was already locked into Anna’s gaze.
“So why did you come back to Salem, Anna?” Tony asked.
“Well, I’m actually going to be going into business with Kate’s daughter, Billie, if you must know, over at Countess Wilhemina,” she said matter of factly.
“But why would you decide to do that? To come back here to work there when you had her your own company back in England?” To
AT TITAN:
"Oh no, Billie," Lucas said. "Not you, too?"
"Not me, too, what?" Billie said squinting at her brother's strange mood swing.
"This," Lucas said picking up the piece of paper and waving it at her furiously. "After you're finally free of that bastard E.J. Wells now you're going to work for Tony Dimera?"
"What?" Billie was confused.
"This e-mail address. ADIMERA. Antony Dimera," Lucas said. "What is it with these Dimeras? It's bad enough that they all seem to get in mom's p
AT THE HOSPITAL:
"What do you have to tell me?" Marlena said as her tears stopped and fear gripped her face.
"It's Sami. It seems her honeymoon with Lucas was short-lived," Roman said.
"Oh no, did Lucas leave her AGAIN?" Marlena said throwing her hands up in the air. "You know, Roman, I tried to get her to tell Lucas the truth before the wedding. I tried to get her to see that THIS TIME she needed to go into her wedding vows with all her secrets out in the open..."
"No, Doc, it's no
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
