Episode 066: THE GUIDING LIGHT
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The Guiding Light: Episode 066
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Written By: Josh Hawkins & Dan Gobble
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Written By: Josh Hawkins & Dan Gobble
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The rain was almost to heavy for Beth to even see the road ahead of her. She glanced down at the speed odometer and then reached for her cell phone.
“I swear…” Beth talked to herself and unbuckled her seat belt so she could reach her phone. Seconds later it was ringing.
“You’ve reached Phillip Spaulding with Spaulding Enterprise…” the recording answered, “Phillip, it’s Beth. Honey you won’t believe the meeting I just had with Callie Evans. If you get this message before I get home put get a bottle of wine from the cellar, we have a lot to talk about.”
“This rain…”
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“Ms. Spaulding would you like to go ahead and order dinner?” A waitress at Towers asked, “Let me just try my date one more time and if he doesn’t answer I think I’ll just go on home.”
“Okay.” The waitress shook her head as Lizzie dialed the phone, “Braxton, where are you?” She questioned as his message played, “Hey it’s Lizzie when you get this call me. I’m going to get a room here at Towers, so just come over when you get here. Bye.”
“Any luck?”
Lizzie shook her head, “No. I think I’m just going to get a room and stay the night.” She collected her umbrella and purse, “Dominique would you call down to the concierge and have them prepare a suite for the evening?”
Lizzie headed toward the elevator while in the lobby below Hope Bauer pressed the up arrow and finished her conversation, “Okay well just be careful Daddy and take your time.” She dropped her phone into, “Alan.”
“Good evening Hope. I was surprised to see you at Roger’s service.”
“Daddy wanted to go and show his support to Holly, I accompanied.”
“Your timing was quite convenient.” Alan replied, “Wouldn’t you say?”
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“Gus!” Alexandra rose from the pew, “I’m so relieved that you’re alright.” She rushed down the isle and reached out to touch his face.
Gus stepped back, “Don’t.” He warned as he stepped around her. “What are you even doing here anyway?”
With her back to him, “Roger was a very large part of my life for a very long time, we would fight so much…don’t get me wrong I loathed that man with every fiber of being. But never will I hate a man as much as I hate my father…”
“Is Roger my father?” Gus questioned.
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And Now "The Guiding Light"
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“So you feel what Holly, smothered in this relationship?” Ed questioned.
“Don’t put words in mouth.” She lectured, “I’m just saying that I might want to fall down every once in awhile and that you should let me.” Holly looked out into the stormy night as silence fell over the room, “And I’m sorry if that…” she paused and turned to face him, “actually I’m not sorry.”
“You’re all over the map right now, maybe you should sit down.”
“You still don’t understand. I don’t want to sit down. I don’t want you to tell me what to do, Ed.” Holly told him.
“Where is this coming from? Holly, this isn’t you?”
She shrugged her shoulders. “Roger’s death has shaken me to the very core and for some unknown reason you chose not to see it. I thought I had made peace with Roger, with the rape and with the fact that even after all he did to me, I still loved him.”
“And Holly you’ve done so well to move forward with your life. Don’t let this push you further back. This is the control Roger has always had on you and no matter how hard I tried to break the hold he…”
“Did you just say what I think you did?” Holly stopped him. “You tried to break the hold that Roger had over me? Do you have any idea the living hell I am going through right now? No! Because the only hold Roger ever over you Ed was me…I suffered, not you. I have lived for the last twenty-eight years loving the man who violated me, who took away something so precious and innocent. I lived my life since that day with something bottled up inside, that you could never fix and I could never let go.” Tears raced down Holly’s cheek as she took a step back, almost afraid to say the words aloud. “I loved the man who raped until the day he died and I will continue to love him.”
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Olivia wrapped the phone cord around her index finger, “Alan Spaulding I don’t know where you are but I suggest you come home, I’m scared.” She paused, “This is your wife in case you’re wondering.”
As she hung up the phone a gust of wind blew open the French doors for the patio and Olivia jumped out of freight. “Mother nature.” She huffed under her voice as she shut them.
“Oh damn!” She gasped, “Phillip do not ever sneak up on me like that again. Just about gave me a heart attack.”
“Jumpy tonight aren’t you?”
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“This rain is almost too much.” Beth tossed her phone to the passenger seat only to have it fall to the floor. Once it started ringing she reached for it again…as her car hit a large spot of water, sending her hydroplaning off the road and into the ditch…her phone still ringing.
“Hi, you’ve reached Beth Spaulding, leave a message.” Phillip decided against a message and just hung up, he would see her when she got home.
Beth felt a sudden pain in her stomach and moaned in pain, “Oh God.” She brought her hand to her temple and felt the blood, “Oh God! Someone help me.” She called out but no one heard her. There was no one around to hear her.
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“Alan, stop hiding behind bushes and speaking in riddles. If you have something to say, say it.” Hope told him as she stepped on the elevator the doors frozen open for only a few seconds, “Do you need an invitation?”
“I heard a rumor that Charles Grant had brought you back to Springfield for a special project is all.” Alan told her as the doors closed, “The restaurant?”
Hope shook her head yes. “Did you hear this rumor on the playground as well?” She laughed, “As a matter of fact yes Charles did invite me to Springfield and proposed a very lucrative offer.”
“Oh what’s that?” Alan asked as the elevator climbed slowly to the top.
“I signed on as the interior designer for the Cedars renovations.”
“You done what?!” Was the last thing Alan remembered saying…as Lizzie waits for her arrival on the ground floor the lights suddenly flicker…off, then on again and even in the elevators they all three hear two loud claps of thunder.
“Alan!” Hope cries out, “Alan can you hear me?”
He immediately tried to brace himself. “Hope are you alright?”
She shook her head as the emergency lights came on, “Oh God, Alan…don’t tell me you you’re still claustrophobic. Alan…” she raised her voice as he immediately began loosening his tie. “Oh…why me? Just when I thought it was safe…” Hope rolled her eyes and reached for the emergency phone.
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“What?” Alexandra gasped! “You bite your tongue.” She demanded, “There is no way on God’s green Earth or the Devil’s fiery hell that man is your father.”
“Then why all of this?” Gus gestured around the church, “Alexandra was it not enough for you to lie to me all these months, put Harley in a coma…”
“I warned her.” Alex defended, “It was her choice, coming to Bar Harbor, getting in that car…I will not be blamed for her condition and I will not apologize for being alive.”
“You had to do it here though? In front of the entire town. Why, why? I didn’t deserve that. Matter of fact I didn’t deserve any of the hell you’ve put me through Alexandra.” Gus choked back his tears, “So tell me why you did it?”
“Oh you where never supposed to know the truth…” Alexandra leaned against a pew, “I had…have two sons, Lujack and Nick, but when Brandon, my father found out I was pregnant he gave them away.”
“Am I supposed to feel sorry for you?” Gus questioned, “My whole life has been turned upside and inside out…so you better cut to the chase and quickly before you lose me.”
“Don’t say that.” Alex rushed towards him, “Please don’t ever think that I want to lose you. What I did was wrong I see that now, but I didn’t until yesterday. I knew if I went back to Brandon’s house pregnant again, I knew what would happen to you and I couldn’t go through that again. So Vera and I came up with a plan and it worked for a very long time.”
Gus stood stone face as he listened, “I knew that Brandon and Alan would have made me give you away and that breaks my heart because I wish I had been stronger then, perhaps I would still have all three of my boys, but I wasn’t. It was not a woman’s place to question the men in her life, be it her husband or in my case her father.”
She took his head as tears rolled down both of their cheeks, “Yes I gave you away I won’t deny or lie about it any longer. But I knew who I gave you too. Joe and Angela were two of the best people I knew, then and now. Gus you can hate me or you can love me, that is your choice to make, but what I did…giving you up for adoption I will not now, nor will I ever apologize for. I knew what my father would have done and I decided to do what I wanted to do on my terms. Remember that, my terms.”
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Phillip poured himself a drink, “It’s a just a thunderstorm.”
“I grew on an island, every thunderstorm had the potential to turn into a hurricane.”
“We’re pretty much inland here. I think we’ll be all right.” He scoffed.
“I know that, but here we have to worry about flooding, tornadoes…” she paused, “it doesn’t matter just don’t sneak up on me like that. Make yourself known.”
He tipped his glass, “Where is everyone place sounds dead?”
“Alan and Lizzie aren’t home yet. Beth doesn’t speak to me, let alone give me a play by play of her days. And Ms. Walker took Zac and James to a movie, no doubt they’ll be there for awhile.”
“So we’re alone?” Phillip questioned.
“I sent the staff home earlier, so it would appear that way. Yes.”
“Could be dangerous. Very bad things happen when you and I are alone together.”
“They do and somehow we continue to find ourselves in situations like this. Why do you think that is Phillip?” She smiled.
He shrugged his shoulders and knelt down to get a fire going. “Coincide maybe?”
“Destiny.” Olivia replied, “Destiny.”
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“Really?” She snapped and tossed her head in Alan’s direction, “Where you aware there’s a thunderstorm going on outside?” Hope asked sarcastically.
Alan rolled his eyes, “Tell him…”
“I know.” She held her hand up, “Who you are. Listen I apologize for my uncouth temper however, I’m stuck in an elevator with not only my ex-husband who I loathe more than you could possibly imagine, but he also suffers from claustrophobia.”
“Hope…” Alan spoke from the corner of the box. “Hope…”
“Would you shut up?” She hissed, “No of course not you.” She told the man on the phone, “Do what?”
“What’s he saying?”
“Well apparently you don’t know who my ex-husband is and I’m not one who usually drops names, he’s Alan Spaulding. And he owns a majority of this entire town…so get someone to get us out of her right now!”
Hope hung the phone up and slammed the door, “Amateurs. You know things didn’t used to be like this in Springfield.”
Alan chuckled lightly and then started coughing, “Roger.”
“Roger?” Hope looked up from her purse, “Are you really going to blame Roger for this?”
“Haunting me from beyond the grave.”
“Sit up.” Hope ordered him and wrapped her petite jacket around his chest, “Now drink this.” He done as he was told and she willed him to be calm, “Okay look at me…Alan…look at me. You’re going to be fine, before you know it we’re going to be out of here and fighting just like we were three minutes ago.”
She smiled and it brought back memories from decades past. Hope dug around in her purse and pulled out a small sewing kit. She pulled out the scissors and cut a piece of her pant leg off.
“What are you doing?”
“Making a washcloth for you.” She poured water on it and began dabbing Alan’s forehead.
“Why are you being so good to me?” Alan managed to ask.
Hope shrugged her shoulders, “No matter how hard I try to forget,” she ran the rag down his cheek, “you’re still the father of my son.”
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She sank to the sofa as Ed stood over here. As silence fell over the room the thunder outside crashed, “If you’ve come to be my knight and shining armor, if you’ve come here tonight to pick up the piece of my fragile existence, if you want to rescue me one final time…it’s now Ed.”
“Holly why don’t you let me give you a sleeping pill or something that will calm you down?”
“Because I don’t want to calm down.” Her mind was racing with thoughts.
“I think it would benefit your health if you did.” Ed advised, “Your blood pressure will no doubt have rose.”
“I don’t care if my blood pressure skyrockets and I have a heart attack, it doesn’t matter. You came over here to my house and I want to relieve the good moments and the bad moments, I want to be close to Roger.”
“Oh Holly.” Ed said with a hint of disgust in his voice. “I don’t understand how you can say these things, after everything he’s done to us all.”
“You’re not supposed to understand! Just like I don’t understand how you could have fallen in bed with Lillian and broke Maureen’s heart.” Her words rang true and cut straight to the heart. They hurt Ed, but Holly didn’t care at this point. “Are you going to leave so I can mourn Roger in my own way?”
Ed shook his head.
“No. You don’t need to be alone, not night.”
Holly grabbed her jacket, “You never learn do you? Ed if you want to save me then by all means do it, but I won’t be here.”
“Holly.”
She threw open the front and reached for her car keys on the table, “Ed.” Holly mocked him, “We’re finished. It’s over.”
Ed stood frozen in the living room as he watched the door slam…the thunder rolled and lighting struck…Holly’s car started and his mind raced with painful memories as he raced for the door and into the stormy night.
“HOLLY!”
:Fade to Black:
Next on “The Guiding Light!”
- One woman receives a proposal.
- Lillian and Sandra stuck together!
- Olivia and Phillip relive their past!
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