*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 toward her until the mystery physician was leaning over her bed.

"Shut up, Sami!" the woman's voice said as the doctor removed her mask. "It's bad enough I have to care for you, the least you can do is not make me go deaf in the process."

"Lexie... I... I thought you were DEAD," Sami said.

"Some days, Sami, I wish I was," Lexie said bitterly as she listened to Sami's stomach with her stethoscope. "Now what is it you needed checked out? Rolf thought you were faking but made me come by just in case."

"Oh, well, you see, I uh, started getting these pregnancy pains you see... but they went away so I think I'm OK now." Sami said quickly.

"Mmm hmmm," Lexie said, clearly not buying it, as she lifted up Sami's sleeve so she could monitor her blood pressure. "That sounds like a patented Sami Brady lie if I've ever heard one. Oh and I have. Lots of them."

"Lexie, well you see, E.J. and I were..."

"Ah yes, you and E.J.," Lexie interrupted. "Remember how I tried to warn him about you? How I told him to drive away from you as fast as he could? But he just couldn't get enough of you even after you married Lucas. It's a shame he didn't listen... I mean, listen to him now."

Lexie paused to allow Sami to hear more of the torturing sounds coming from another room in the Dimera's house of horrors. Sami gasped. Lexie's face betrayed no emotion.

"I do feel bad for my brother, though, even after the way he cost me my job and my husband and my son, all so he could get me back here to care for my father," Lexie said defiantly. "I mean none of this would have happened if the miserable fool hadn't fallen in love with you. Thank goodness Stefano has finally seen the light about him."

"What do you mean?" Sami asked.

"Well, Stefano decided that now that Tony's out of jail he is having him take care of family business," Lexie said. "E.J.'s just made too many mistakes, although after Rolf is done with him, I suspect E.J. will never again fail to put the family first."

Sami pondered what sort of mind control or torment they must be putting E.J. through as Lexie packed up her medicine bag.

"Well, Sami, your vital signs are normal and the baby's heartbeat is fine so I am getting the hell out of here," Lexie said walking toward the door and knocking twice to let Bart know she was there.

As the door opened and Lexie walked outside, she taunted "Sleep tight!"

But Sami definitely wasn't going to be doing much sleeping that night. There was so much she didn't understand and what she did know frightened her too much to close her eyes.

Her mind raced as she heard some shuffling outside her door and then it opened once again. It was EJ!

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