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Chaos reigned in the air as shots rang out. Nikolas jumped on Lulu as a bullet missed them. The bullet ricocheted off the wall and hit Lucky in the ankle. Lucky was also hit in the hip. Luke, hit in the arm, scrambled over to Laura who was not moving. “I need a doctor! My wife has been hit! My kids! Lulu! Are you hit? Lucky, Nikolas? Where the hell are the doctors?” Luke screamed. "My Laura is bleeding!"

Lulu was in tears and Nikolas patted her down, “Luke, Lulu is ok. Just shaken up. Lucky was hit twice. What about Laura?” Nikolas shouted.

Luke cradled Laura as Patrick jumped onto the stage. “Patrick, she’s bleeding everywhere. You have to stop this.” He gently lay Laura down onto the stage, “Who did this? Did anyone see?”

Robin rushed forward to attend to Luke and Lucky. She ripped a tablecloth and made tourniquets out of them. She tied them above Lucky's ankle to stanch his bleeding there. She moved over to Luke and fastened a tourniquet above his arm. He told her to go back to Lucky, which she did. Lucky was moaning in pain. “Be quiet Lucky. Monica has called 911, they will be here shortly. I am just going to hold this on your hip to stop the bleeding, is that all right?” Lucky nodded his assent. Robin looked at Nikolas, “Nikolas, just stay with Lulu and bring her over to Bobbie. I don’t want her going into shock.”

“Where’s Scorpio?” Luke bellowed.

The paramedics arrived then and rushed to the stage. Taggert and Mac ran to the stage to start questioning people. Luke yelled, “Where the hell is Scorpio? Where is Robert?”

Robert came forward, “I am right here.”

“I need you to find out exactly where the hell Baldwin was when this happened. I bet my bank account that he is behind this!”

Sonny, concerned that he couldn’t find Brenda walked outside with Max. The two of them walked around, searching for her. “Boss! Come quick!” Max was over by the wall. He was standing over an unconscious Brenda, who was half covered by the bushes.

“Brenda, Brenda, wake up honey.” Sonny knelt down next to her and gently slapped her face. “Max, go in and get some paramedics. Then I want you to call Leticia and tell her you are coming to get her. Call Ned Ashton and tell him what has happened. Tell him you are bringing James and Leticia to him and you are to stay with them. Got it? Now go!” Max rushed off.

“Brenda, I need you to wake up. Please baby.” Sonny kissed her as a paramedic came running over. “Please help her. We found her here in the bushes. I have no idea what happened.” Sonny stood up as the paramedics started to work on her. He ran his hands over his face and stood there watching, worried. “Please tell me she will be all right.”

“Sir, we need to bring her to General Hospital. What is her name?”

“Brenda Barrett.”

The doors flew open and the stretchers carrying an unconscious Laura, an alert Lucky and angry Luke came out. Following behind were Robert, who was talking on a cell phone, Patrick, Robin, Monica, Bobbie and Carly. Nikolas and Lulu were on their heels. Catching sight of Sonny, Carly stopped. “What the hell is going on Sonny?”

“It’s Brenda. Max and I found her out here, unconscious.”

“Maybe she knows who shot up my family.” Carly said belligerently.

Sonny stared down Carly, “Leave it alone Carly. My main concern is Brenda at this point and her son.” He started to walk away from her.

Carly caught his arm. “Do you want to ride to the hospital with me?”

Sonny shook his head. “I will not let Brenda out of my sight for a minute.”

The doors flew open to the emergency room and Noah was waiting. “Put Laura in trauma room three!” He yelled. He motioned for Bobbie to follow him. “We need to get this bullet out. Patrick will get the bullets out of Lucky. Emily will assist Patrick. Monica will stabilize Luke and then you and I will operate on Luke. I need you to scrub in now.” Bobbie complied.

In his room, Luke was yelling out for Robert and Lulu. Lulu, still in tears, came running in. “Daddy, are you all right.”

“Princess, do you think that anyone can hurt your father?” Luke kissed the top of Lulu’s head. "Watch my arm honey."

“But someone tried to shoot us. If it wasn’t for Nikolas, I would have been shot too. He jumped right on top of me. He saved my life.” Lulu wailed.

Robert came to the door and stepped away. “I know Princess. Nikolas is a hero. But you are safe.” Luke comforted his daughter, “Your mother and brother are getting the best possible care that they can. Someone will be getting in to see me soon. We will get to the bottom of this. No one can bring the Spencers down, you know that. Now, I want you to stick to Nikolas or Robert like glue until I am out of here. OK?”

Lulu nodded. “Now Princess, I need to talk to Robert. Go see Nikolas, ok?” Luke kissed Lulu again and repeated, “Remember, stay with either Nikolas or Robert. I trust them with your life.”

Lulu left and Robert walked in. “Where the hell was Baldwin?” Luke half shouted.

“Wasn’t him Spencer. He was at his headquarters the whole time. He was giving a speech when this happened.” Robert told him.

“Then who in the hell did this?” Luke bellowed.

Sarah walked into Brenda’s ER room. She pulled up a chair and sat across from Sonny and pushed back a now awake Brenda’s hair, “Hi Brenda, I’m Sarah Webber Quartermaine. I am a physician’s assistant here at the hospital. You are going to have a nasty bruise there. We need to take you down to get an MRI. But first, can you tell me what happened to you tonight?”

Brenda struggled to speak, “I went outside to call my house. I wanted to see how my son was. Oh Sonny! Where is James, is he ok?”

“Shhhh, James is with Ned. Max is with them as well.” Sonny reassured her.

“Oh good. Thank you.” Brenda refocused on Sarah. “I am sorry, I have a massive headache. I was walking away from the MetroCourt entrance when someone was walking very purposefully towards me. They looked sort of familiar to me and I remember starting to say something."

The screen goes to an isolated room

The Shooter is seen walking into a room where Helena Cassadine is sitting.

Back to Brenda's hospital room

Sarah asked, “Do you know who hit you?”

Brenda nodded, "I started to say, you look like me."

Back to Helena's room

Helena smiled, “Excellent job my dear. What a success on your first mission. "

Brenda's hospital room

"I don't think I have ever met her. Sonny, you know her though. I can't place her name.