The explosion rocked the porch, blowing off the screen door and sending particles flying. Nikolas is thrown to the ground by the impact of the explosion. Lucky and Luke race to him and roll him over and over, extinguishing the flames that caught on his clothes. Lulu and Laura watch in horror as they watch the flames go out. Lulu quickly pulls out her cell phone and dials 911.

A noise is heard in the bushes. “What’s that?” Luke shouted. They see a flash of black and movement. “Oh my God, she’s here!” Luke yelled. “Come here and hold your brother!” He yells to Lulu.

Lucky and Luke run off into the bushes after Sam. They could see her up ahead as she darted in and out of the dense trees and bushes. Every tree branch was hitting Lucky’s injured shoulder. “She’s getting away!” Lucky yelled wincing in pain, out of breath all ready.

They could see Sam reaching a clearing next to a road. “Sam!” Luke yelled. “Sam, stop!”

Sam suddenly stopped and slowly, cautiously turned around. The two Spencer men stopped about ten feet away from her. “Stay away from me!” She yelled frantically.

“Sam, what’s going on with you.” Luke asked, breathing heavy. “Where have you been?”

Confused she looked from one man to the other. “I, I don’t know either one of you. I have, I have never seen you before.”

“Sam it’s me, Lucky Spencer and I am a police officer. I need to ask you some questions if that’s ok with you.” Lucky said softly.

Sam was very agitated and unsure of what to do. She looked around wildly. “What did I do? I don’t want to go anywhere with you.”

Lucky started to advance slowly towards her. “Sam, I am your friend here. Do you want to see Jason? If you come with me, you can see Jason in an hour, I promise you that. And us Spencers always keep are promises.” Lucky was about five feet away from her.

“Who’s Jason? I don’t know anyone named Jason.” Sam said softly.

Lucky matched his tone with hers. “Jason is a very good friend of yours who misses you terribly. He wants to see you very much. I can…”

Tires screeched behind Sam and a commanding voice yelled out, “Samantha! Samantha! Let’s go!” From the car, loud classical music pumped into the air. Sam turned and looked at the car. When she turned back around she had a cold, detached look in her eyes. She turned and kicked Lucky in his injured shoulder. He screamed in pain as blood started to pour from his wound. Sam followed up with a left hook which felled Lucky. Luke charged Sam, who quickly sidestepped him. She turned and faced him. She jumped and grabbed the tree branch above her. She swung herself so that she kicked Luke so hard that he stumbled and fell over, knocking him unconscious. Sam ran to the car and was gone as Taggert and some of the other officers came running into the clearing.

Scott arrives at the courthouse to pick up Alexis. She had called him earlier that day saying that she needed to speak to him. He was whistling as he opened the door to her office. Her secretary motioned him into Alexis’ office.

Scott opened the door, “You wanted to see me counselor?”

“Come in Scott.” Alexis looked up from the file she was working on and took off her glasses. “Have a seat Scott.”

“What’s going on Alexis?” Scott asked easily as he sat himself down in a chair.

Alexis stood up and walked around the desk. She perched on it and faced Scott. “Scott, I have to tell you something.”

“I knew it, you are in love with me and want to get married.” Scott joked. “If you want, we can take off to Vegas and get hitched.”

Alexis shot him a look. “I just wanted to let you know that until Sam is found, Ric will be moving in with me.”

“WHAT?” Scott shot up from his chair, “Like hell he is!”

Alexis was taken aback. “Scott.”

“That no good ex husband of yours in not moving in with you! That, that parasite will be trying to I don’t know, try to get into your bed if you know what I mean” Scott said, walking around the office and crazily waving his arms around.

“Don’t be ridiculous Ric!”

“See, you are already calling me Ric! What does that say about us Alexis!” Scott raged. “I can’t believe this. If you were that worried about Molly and Kristina why don’t you have me move in with you? Or go to Wyndemere? You already have plenty of security Alexis.” Scott accused.

Alexis spoke quietly, “Ric is Molly’s father and I don’t think it would be a good idea if you moved in Scott.”

“Well I don’t think it’s a good idea that Ric moves in with you.” Scott practically shouted.

“Scott, it’s not like you and I are together.”

Scott walked forward. “Oh yeah!” He roughly pulled her to him and kissed her passionately. He kissed her long and deep and his passion turned to gentle tenderness. He released her and stepped back.

Alexis raised her hand to her lips. “Oh my.” She sunk against the desk, stunned. “Oh my.”

“Hi Carly.” Sarah said as she breezed into the Metro Court. “What’s going on?”

Carly looked up from her clipboard and smiled, “Not much Sarah. What brings you here?”

“AJ and I were going to have a late lunch but he got called into a meeting at ELQ. Since I already had the time off, I decided to come over here anyways.” Sarah looked around the nearly empty restaurant. “Want to join me?”

Carly was bored with what she was doing so she shrugged and said, “Sure. Let’s sit by the window.” Once they were settled and had ordered, Carly asked, “How is life at the Quartermaines?”

Sarah shrugged, “Good. You know what it’s like being in the Quartermaines. You never know if you are doing the right thing.” Carly laughed. “How is your marriage? I heard you were married.”

“I am. My husband is in Australia with his sick mother. I came back here with the kids because of Alan.” Carly confided.

Sarah feigned sympathy. “I am sorry about your mother in law.”

“She’s very nice, but I always feel like I am in the shadow of Brenda, you know?”

Sarah paused while their food was being placed in front of them. “What is so special about Brenda anyways? Does she have some kind of hold over men? AJ told me that a long time ago, they tried to urge her not to date Sonny.”

Carly took a bite of her salad, “Well, she was a lot younger when they started dating, like 18. Even when he said he wasn’t in the mob, he was and she was always in danger. Trust me, I know first hand what it is like to be involved like that.”

“What do you mean?”

“Both Brenda and I have been shot at because of Sonny. I have seen more guns, my children have seen more guns because of Sonny.” Carly confided, “Don’t get me wrong, Sonny loves his kids and is a great father. But the danger and the guns just got to be too much. It literally drove me crazy. That’s another thing Brenda and I have in common, we have both been in hospitals because of Sonny.”

Sarah’s mouth dropped open, “Wow. Carly I had no idea. I am so sorry. I know you hardly know me, but you can talk to me anytime.”

Carly continued to talk and talk. She needed a friend and Sarah seemed trustworthy. An hour later, Sarah got up to leave. “Carly, let’s do this again. OK?”

“I will see you soon anyway, as Ned wants me to come over soon. I said I would help him get custody of his kid away from that tramp.” Carly said spitefully.

Sarah picked up her purse. “Great, I will see you. Take care!” Sarah walked away confidently. When she was outside and in her car, she turned to AJ. She opened her purse and took out a small tape recorder. She rewound it and hit play. Carly’s voice filled the air. “See honey, I told you I could get you Michael back.”