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  1. IMissAremid

    Chapter 21

    By IMissAremid,

    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't like this turn of events at all.

    Roman told them he was heading to the hospital to tell Marlena what happened. Even though they hadn't spoken in two weeks, he knew the place to find her was with John, who was still in a coma, at his bedside.

    "I'm not sure if Doc will want to come with us or not, but we need everybody's help we can get if we want to figure this out," Roman said. "Maybe she'll save us some trouble and let us use John's plane."

    He told Lucas to pack his bags and be ready to head out first thing the next morning as he had some loose ends to tie up at the police station.

    "Roman, I can come, too," Kate said.

    Roman eyed her skeptically but agreed to accept her offer.

    "Damn those Dimeras for hurting her once again," Roman muttered to himself as he walked out of Chez Rouge.

    Lucas stood up from the table.

    "Mom, I'm going to head out too," Lucas said kissing her on the forehead. "Will should be out of school soon and I need to check in with him to try and explain this latest nightmare. Oh, I guess I should stop by the apartment building and see if Billie can handle Will staying with her a few more days."

    "That's fine, Lucas, but you'll have to go to Titan find your sister," Kate said. "Maybe I should come with you. I can make sure my grandson is all right after what happened and I'm dying to find out how Billie's first day back at Countess Wilhemina went."

    "No, Mom," Lucas said. "I need to do this alone. I need to be alone right now."

    Lucas hurriedly left the table but that didn't stop Kate from yelling out to him, "OK honey! Call me later!"

    Tony shook his head at all of Kate's smothering. What a waste, he thought, to see a woman like Kate wasting so much of her life lavishing attention on an ungrateful, sniveling son like Lucas when there were better, more satisfying things she could be giving attention her to. Like him.

    Kate gulped down her fourth vodka martini, and stood up from the table too quickly so that she needed to put her hands down to steady herself from the head rush. Then she leaned in and flirtatiously told Tony that as much as she enjoyed their lunch she needed to get back to Mythic to settle things before she left for New Orleans.

    "Work?" Tony said pulling her on his lap. "Work can wait."

    Tony shut his eyes as the two of them leaned in for a passionate kiss, but his lips went as limp as a fish's when he opened them to look over Kate's shoulder and see the stunning blonde coming out of the restroom.

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    All Sami's worries, all her troubles melted away in E.J.'s arms she ran her fingers through E.J.'s hair and closed her eyes to say, "I love you."

    Yet E.J. was gone when Sami's eyes opened. In a panic and feeling the sweat ringing around her neck she rolled over in the bed but found E.J. was not in the bed. He was no longer even in the room.

    She heaved a sigh of immediate relief and sat up in the bed before a more long-term concern crept into her mind.

    "Oh, this isn't good," Sami said to herself. "This isn't good at all."

    Sami wondered where these dreams were coming from. She loved Lucas, she thought. She loved being with Lucas and that's why she married him. Or at least loved the simplicity of being with him.

    With Lucas if there was a problem there wasn't a lie or a bedroom trick that she couldn't pull to cover it up. But E.J...

    He always knew what she was up to because he was usually up to something, too. She couldn't hide her lies, her schemes, herself from him the way she could everyone else. She could fool her family, but never him. So what if it that meant it was almost impossible for her to get their acceptance and E.J. cared for her unconditionally? What did a Dimera's love and respect mean anyway?

    And Will. Will wanted so badly for his mom and dad to be together. As Sami looked around the room she suddenly remembered where she was. Maison Blanche. The horrible house that had ripped her family apart and forever ruined any chance of her mother and father getting back together.

    "I am NOT going to be like my mother," Sami resolved. "I am NOT going to be like my sisters. I am going to hold true to my vows and make sure I raise my baby with my baby's father."

    Just then she felt a stab in her stomach. It was a pang of hunger but reminded her she would now have to think of more than just Will when considering her children's feelings.

    Sami was sure that hunger pang meant she slept through lunch, but she wondered how late it was. She wondered where E.J. went. And if he would be back. Then she scolded herself for worrying about him so much.

    "Oh what am I going to do?" she said. "That's it. I can't think of that right now, I'll think of it tomorrow."

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  2. IMissAremid

    Chapter 22

    By IMissAremid,

    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 admit at Titan he did hold a similar role there for Victor. The difference is that Victor never made him feel like a flunkie or a loser... at least until he refused to help him in his quest to get Claire back for Phillip.

    "Dammit," he muttered under his breath.

    Even if it would have meant helping Victor and his brother take Sami's sister's baby away from her, if he could have done things over again he would have done as Victor ordered, he thought.

    He sighed as he stepped up to the counter.

    "Uh, hi, I'm here to see Billie Reed," Lucas said.

    "And you are?" the receptionist asked with an incredulous glance that surprised Lucas.

    "Her brother."

    The receptionist laughed.

    "You're definitely not Phillip Kiriakis," she said eyeing his J.C. Penney suit with skepticism. "Definitely not in that getup."

    "I'm aware that I'm not Phillip Kiriakis," Lucas said fidgeting with his shirt collar defensively. "Just tell her her other brother is here."

    "Oh, are you Austin Reed?" the receptionist asked with excitement. "I thought you lived in Europe? Oh, she's told me so much about you... but you look kinda different than the pictures in her office."

    "No, dammit, I'm not Austin," Lucas said slamming his fist on the counter. "I'm LUCAS ROBERTS! I used to WORK here!"

    "Oh, I see," she said with pity. "It's too bad you don't still work here. I'll call for Ms. Reed, right now."

    But just as the receptionist put the phone to her ear Billie came out to the lobby to greet him.

    "Lucas!" Billie said excitedly. "So nice to see you! I just have to show you my new office!"


    AT THE HOSPITAL:

    Roman paused at the door of John's hospital room trying to think just how he should break the news to Marlena that once again just when their family seemed to have a tiny sliver of happiness -- Sami finally getting the wedding she always wanted -- the Dimeras swept in to turn their lives upside down.

    He decided he would try to be as direct about things as possible since blunt is the only way he knew how to be and knocked on the door.

    "Come in," Marlena said sniffling.

    "Marlena, you're crying," Roman said walking toward Marlena with concern as she sat next to John's bed holding his cold, limp hand and dropping it to wipe away her tears. "Is John... dead?"

    Marlena gasped.

    "Oh no, Roman. He's alive. He's just not able to show me he is," she said getting up from the chair because she couldn't handle looking at her husband any longer. "It's just how I get sometimes sitting here alone. When I start to wonder if he'll ever come out of this. If I should put him in that nursing home and stop waiting for him to come back to me."

    "Listen, Doc," Roman said putting his hands on her shoulders. "You should do what your heart tells you to do about John. There's no wrong answer here. Your heart knows what's best."

    "But I don't know what my heart wants," Marlena said sobbing, then self-consciously turned away from Roman realizing how strange that sounded being said in his arms.

    "Well I don't know what to tell you about that, Doc," Roman sighed. "But I do have something else to tell you. Something you're not going to like."

    "What do you have to tell me?" Marlena said as her tears stopped and fear gripped her face.



    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    Sami looked around the attic room trying to find something to do. She picked up a few of the boxes and coughed from the dust their moving had stirred. She set them back down and then walked back toward the bed sending the globe into a rapid spin on her way there.

    But instead of sitting down on the bed as she originally intended, she chose to kneel at the foot of the Jacobean four-poster bed. Something was calling her to open the rich brown trunk that matched it.

    To her surprise, the trunk wasn't even locked. She slowly lifted the lid to find a collection of books, papers and faded pictures.

    Even though she knew none of the people whose photographs and personal messages she handled, she couldn't resist poring over them.

    Once she had finished reading the handful of letters that weren't in Italian and had stared at all the pictures so intenty they were burned in her mind, she turned to the small leather bound books.

    Sami wondered what sort of book would be kept that had no title and no author noted on the outside. Then she began leafing through the pages and got her answer. She leafed through the pages of the book without much care until she stopped on a page about a quarter through the book and made sure to read every last word on the page.

    "Stefano, how could you?" she said slamming the book back shut.



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  3. IMissAremid

    Chapter 23

    By IMissAremid,

    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 not that. Sami did tell Lucas everything and they still went on their honeymoon," Roman explained. "It's just when they got to New Orleans Sami disappeared. Left Lucas a note saying she was running off with E.J. Wells and she was having his baby. She told him she wanted Lucas to leave her so she wouldn't feel guilty about being with him. She said she thought it would give her family, give us, a reason to accept her decision to spend her life with a Dimera."

    "Oh no..." Marlena moaned covering her mouth with her hand.

    "But I don't believe it, Doc. Not for a second. Something just ain't right," Roman said. "This whole thing. New Orleans. The Dimeras. It actually kind of reminds me of that trick Stefano pulled. With us."

    Roman and Marlena shared a long painful stare as they contemplated Maison Blanche and how even though their marriage was already on shaky ground before that happened, they knew that was the final straw that ruined any chance of them staying together.

    "Well, what does Lucas think?" Marlena asked desperate to think about something else.

    "That's a good question," Roman said. "Lucas came back here to Salem after he found the note and was pretty upset with Sami, but I had a talk with him and now we're going to head down to New Orleans tomorrow to try to search the house they were working at to see if there's anything there we can use to track em down."

    "How are you getting there? Do you want to use John's plane?" Marlena asked.

    "Well now that you mention it... that was something we were hoping..."

    "On one condition," Marlena interrupted. "You let me go with you."

    Roman sighed. He worried about Marlena heading into this house and getting sucked back in to another one of the Dimera's schemes.

    "Are you sure, Doc? What if E.J. is just helping his old man to use Sami as bait to lure us back there? Lure you there?" Roman said. "I'm not sure that's a good..."

    "Roman, you know me," Marlena stopped him. "You know you aren't going to be able to talk me out of this. You also know that I can handle myself pretty well against Stefano. The Dimeras have been coming after me for a long time and they haven't beaten me yet. Like hell I'm going to let them win now."

    "Well, all right," Roman said accepting but not liking the risks he knew Marlena was willing to take for her children. "See you tomorrow."

    He sighed and started heading out then paused at the open doorway. He looked back at Marlena but she had already turned her attention back to John.

    "I guess I should head back home now and start packing for New Orleans so I can help Roman and Lucas try to find Sami, but I'll be back to you just as soon as I can, John," Marlena said to herself as she caressed John's face. "Now I need to leave right now to take care of things and let the pilot know to get ready for our flight to the Big Easy..."

    Marlena kissed John's forehead and got up to leave before turning back to look at him.

    "Big Easy... ha!" Marlena said heading out. "This isn't going to be easy at all, is it?"

    If Marlena had shut off the light of John's hospital room just one second later maybe she would have seen. Maybe she would have stopped as John's eyelashes started fluttering and his lips moved.

    "Marlena," John murmured through labored speech that had guttural tone. "Marlena, doooooon't gooooooo."


    ......................

    AT TITAN:

    Lucas put on a half-hearted show of enthusiasm about her sister's unlikely sudden success as they walked back to her office, but Billie was too oblivious to notice her brother's jealousy.

    "So here it is, bro," Billie said as she paraded around the office. "I am the new president of Countess Wilhelmina. Titan is bringing back the brand and they are letting me spearhead the whole thing. Except this time it's not just cosmetics... it's fashion... it's accessories... it's everything I've ever wanted. Oh it's just SO great to be back working here again! To really get back to my roots, you know. I wish I had never given it up."

    "Yeah, Billie, that's great," Lucas said flatly. "I can see you're really excited about this opportunity. But what about Century Cell and everything you put into your security system? I mean when did Titan even decide to restart Countess Wilhemina? It certainly wasn't something that was even in the idea stages six months ago and here they've already got you working on the relaunch?"

    "Well, for that I have Century Cell to thank, actually," Billie said.

    "I don't understand."

    "Well you know how mad I was at Phillip for using my security equipment to spy on Bo and Hope?" Billie asked.

    "Yeah?"

    "Well Bo and Hope were even angrier with Phillip when he got back from Tinda Lao," Billie said. "But Victor and I reached an agreement where I told Bo that I was wrong when I talked to him before. It wasn't Phillip but E.J. and E.J. alone who was responsible for bugging their house."

    "And Victor's end of the agreement was this?"

    "You betcha," Billie said proudly. "I decided to put up my Century Cell shares as seed money while Titan provides backing for the whole thing and now I get a shot to finally really make something for myself without relying on Bo, or Mom, or E.J. for help."

    Lucas nodded then looked down. A printed e-mail on Billie's desk caught his eye.

    "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?"

    ......................

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    Sami wondered what sort of book would be kept that had no title and no author noted on the outside. Then she began leafing through the pages and got her answer.

    Sami browsed past several pages of the book without much care until she stopped on a page about a quarter through the book and made sure to read every last word on the page.

    "Stefano, how could you?" she said slamming the book back shut.

    She couldn't read anymore. Just when she thought the man couldn't be more vile, more insane or more cruel for what he was doing to his son, E.J., in allowing his memory of the last year to be erased, she had to go and learn that he was capable of this...

    That Stefano had lied to his entire family all these years because E.J. was actually the son of Tony and Anna Dimera!

    She had to tell E.J. what was going on, she thought. But then she worried. E.J. might not believe her. He might hate her for ruining his idea about his family or maybe E.J. would confront Stefano so that Rolf would wipe E.J.'s memory clean again and she would just back where she started... or worse. No, she couldn't tell E.J. She would have to keep it a secret from him just like Stefano had.

    Sami sat down on the floor next to the bed and wrung her hands in frustration as she contemplated how she always knew how cruel the Dimeras had been in keeping people in her family apart because of Stefano's sick vendetta against the Bradys, but she wondered was it really so important to him that he would do this to his son and grandchild?

    She cursed Stefano.

    But then she paused. She thought harder about what she had read. She picked up the diary again and tapped her fingertips across the cover. She thought some more.

    And she thanked Stefano.

    Because she could use this diary to convince TONY to let her go. That Stefano wasn't worth saving after all so that she and her baby's umbilical cord blood weren't needed to save him. She smiled as she formulated ways to go about executing the scheme.

    But when Sami started diligently reading the diary again she became so engrossed in the material she didn't hear the rustling outside the door or the door opening until E.J. was already standing in the doorway holding a tray.

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  4. IMissAremid

    Chapter 24

    By IMissAremid,

    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 pants but why do they have to go after you at the same time?"

    "Whoa. Hold up," Billie said. "Last I heard Tony was in jail so I don't know what you're talking about. And this ADIMERA isn't Antony Dimera. It's Anna Dimera. You know, Carrie's mom?"

    "Oh yeah, Carrie's mom, the fashion designer," Lucas said. "Well, why are you talking to her?"

    "Because SHE is going to be working for Countess Wilhelmina," Billie explained. "I don't know why she wanted to leave behind all that glitz and glamour in London, but when I was calling around everywhere in the industry trying to find someone to head up the company's new fashion division, she said she wanted to come back to Salem and so I decided to hire her right away."

    "I see," Lucas said.

    "Now that that's settled, what's up with you?" Billie asked.

    "So Mom didn't tell you?"

    "No. She didn't. Are YOU going to tell me what's bugging you?"

    "Well I think it would be a shorter conversation if I told you what's NOT bugging me," Lucas said sinking into a chair. "Sami's gone. She actually left me a note on our honeymoon that she was leaving me for E.J. and that she knew even when she married me that baby was his and the whole time had just been hoping I'd find out her secrets and I'd leave her like always so she wouldn't have to feel ashamed of hooking up with E.J."

    "Oh Lucas, that's horrible."

    "Well, I thought so too. That's why I caught the first plane I could back to Salem,: Lucas said. "But talking to Roman about things made me see that there's a good chance E.J. kidnapped her and maybe she still loves me and this is just another one of the Dimeras' sick games, you know?"

    Lucas stood up from the chair and started pacing around the office.

    "Anyway, I was wondering if you could let Will stay with you for a few more days," Lucas said. "I'm heading down to New Orleans to help Roman look for clues tomorrow and I'm not sure when we'll be back."

    "Sure, bro. Anything you need just let me know." Billie said patting his shoulder. "I just wish there was some way we could get that damn family out our lives once and for all."

    "Funny you should say that," Lucas said. "Because even though E.J. has vanished and I finally no longer have to put up with him at work, Tony came back to town today."

    "He did?"

    "Yeah," Lucas said. "Apparently his lawyers got him off on appeal. Some technicality or something. And he's already got his paws all over Mom and now HE is going to be my boss. Again."

    Billie felt bad for Lucas as she saw him throw up his hands as if in defeat, but she knew there was nothing she could do to make him feel better. He would have to find a way to make his life better on his own. The way she did.

    ..............................

    AT CHEZ ROUGE:

    Kate gulped down her fourth vodka martini, and stood up from the table at Chez Rouge too quickly so that she needed to put her hands down to steady herself from the head rush. Then she leaned in and flirtatiously told Tony that as much as she enjoyed their lunch she needed to get back to work at Mythic to settle things before she left for New Orleans.

    "Work?" Tony said pulling her on his lap. "Work can wait."

    Tony shut his eyes as the two of them leaned in for a passionate kiss, but his lips went as limp as a fish's when he opened them to look over Kate's shoulder and see the stunning blonde coming out of the restroom.

    Oblivious, Kate continued to nuzzle at Tony's neck while Tony blurted, "Anna!"

    It was his ex-wife, Anna Dimera. The two hadn't spoken in the more than 20 years since she left for London heartbroken by their failed marriage attempts and the loss of the child they had conceived. So much had changed for both of them but as he saw her standing there he realized his feelings for her hadn't changed.

    Anna laughed as she watched Tony quickly move to disentangle himself from Kate so he could get up to greet her.

    "Oh, Tony, don't interrupt your uh... love in the afternoon, that’s what it was called right?... all on account of me," Anna cackled.

    Kate plastered on a fake smile while she seethed inside and straightened her suit jacket. Tony got up to kiss Anna's hand.

    "Anna, you have no idea how good it is to see you," Tony said.

    "Probably not," Anna said dismissively. “Anyway, I believe this is Kate Roberts you have with you?”

    “Yes, Anna,” Kate said proudly stepping forward to offer a firm handshake. “It’s nice to finally meet you. Austin told me that he and Carrie had a wonderful time spending Christmas in England visiting with you.”

    “Well that’s good to hear,” Anna said wistfully. “It’s funny, I spent most of Carrie’s life across the ocean from her while she was here in Salem and I was in London, and yet when she finally joins me in Europe she winds up encouraging me to come back here.”

    Tony watched the two women size each other up while making polite conversation and couldn’t help but compare them.

    Kate was powerful in her business suit yet sexy in the way her short brown hair was always a perfect mess, her skirt a little too short and how she left one too many buttons of her blouse undone. She wore a little too much makeup but she also knew how to have fun as well as any woman he knew. As hard as life had been for her, he knew that she would be easy for him, Tony thought.

    Anna was graceful in her elegant black dress and gold bracelets with her oversized sunglasses holding back the bangs of her long flowing golden hair. Her makeup perfectly accentuated her sensuality and her manners and movement did the same for her complicated vulnerability. The moment with Anna wasn’t a fun one for Tony as it brought to the surface so much pain and regret. Tony knew it would be hard, if not impossible, to make up for all the mistakes the two of them had made, to get back what was lost in the twenty years since they had last seen one another.

    Meanwhile, Kate sensed the unspoken tension building between Anna and Tony and decided she had enough feeling like the third wheel for the day and left the two of them alone to have things out.

    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.

    ..............................................


    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    "Samantha, I thought you might be a little hungry..." E.J. said pausing while he watched Sami stuff something behind her back. "...so I thought I would bring you an early supper. Sorry I didn't wake you for lunch but you seemed like you needed to catch up your rest."

    Sami felt him eyeing her with suspicion so she turned on the charm as she shoved the book behind her back and under the bed.

    "Oh, E.J., this looks great," Sami said getting up off the floor and walking toward him. "Thank you so much."

    E.J. set down the tray so that Sami could shower him with a warm embrace in appreciation of his gesture. And in that embrace he got a strange sense of deja vu.

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    As he clung to her tighter and tighter holding the back of her head in the palm of his hand, his thoughts were with this dream-like faint memory of him and Sami. They were hugging and he was comforting her, but where they were and why he was comforting her and what she needed comforting from he did not know.

    "E.J.! E.J.!" Sami pounded on his chest while his arms still wrapped around her. "What are you doing?"

    Snapped out of the dream, E.J. quickly released her as he was embarrassed by the episode.

    "Nothing, Samantha. I'm sorry. It's just..." E.J. paused turning away from her with self-consciousness before coming back to face her and returning to his old cocky, flirting ways. "You know, you need to be a little bit more careful about your affections, sweetheart. I mean... before when you took your nap and now greeting me this way... someday you could give an old boy the wrong idea and break his heart. Or worse. He might break yours."

    Hearing those words Sami was instantly reminded of the night when she agreed to have sex with E.J. if he helped her save Lucas's life. She winced and rubbed her stomach as she thought about the night her baby was conceived. E.J. noticed the change in her demeanor.

    "Did I say something wrong, Samantha?" E.J. asked even though he already knew the answer.

    "No. It's nothing," Sami lied. "I just am really hungry and can't wait to sit down and eat what you've brought me."

    Sami put on a fake smile and asked if E.J. would be joining her for the meal.

    "Actually, I can't, darling," E.J. said kissing her on the forehead before heading out and pausing at the doorway. "But I'll be back later and we can visit some more. First I have some business to attend to with Father."

    Sami watched as E.J. left and the door shut behind him.

    "Father," she muttered to herself. "If only E.J. knew."



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  5. IMissAremid

    Chapter 25

    By IMissAremid,

    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?” Tony asked. “I thought you always said Salem wasn’t good enough for you, wasn’t big enough for you --- that to feel alive you needed the rush and the ritz and the… the… the romance that you could only get across the pond.”

    “Maybe as you get older and closer to death you get tired of all that, the trappings of being among the young and fabulous,” Anna said turning away from him with a sigh. “Lord knows I stopped feeling young and fabulous long ago."

    Anna paused for a moment then turned back to face him.

    "But Tony, I just want you to know, that even after all that’s happened and well, what hasn’t happened, I think it is nice to see you, too.”

    Tony smiled appreciatively.

    “Now I really need to be going,” Anna said, her eyes soft and lips pursed as she waited for Tony to say something, anything back. He didn’t.

    Tony wanted to kiss her just then but he didn’t. He didn’t hug her either. He thought it might hurt too much to hold something he could never have so he just let her walk out of the restaurant and watched her go.

    Tony then sat back down at the table having forgotten the martini mess he had made earlier until the spilt vodka had already soaked right through the jacket sleeve of his fancy Italian suit.

    It reminded him of the bigger mess at Maison Blanche he would have to clean up before Roman and the others got there.

    INSIDE THE SECRET ROOMS OF MAISON BLANCHE:

    Lexie hovered around Stefano's bed as she checked over his chart.

    There had been no change in her father's condition for several days, which was a good thing but also a bad thing.

    Stefano's body had accepted John's kidney and his vital signs were stable, but since the surgery he couldn't get out of the bed on his own and spent much of the day asleep.

    Lexie looked down on her father, the great and powerful Stefano Dimera suddenly helpless and weak, and marveled at how even he was succeptible to life's own fragility.

    Caring for him day after day and seeing him in this weakened state made him seem human to her for the first time, so different from the larger than life monster she had tried to shut out of her life so many times before.

    As much as she hated the way her brother had threatened her to get her to come to Maison Blanche and take care of Stefano, her opinion of E.J. had also changed in the weeks since she had been in Salem.

    She missed Theo, Abe and her mother terribly but she was amazed that despite how cold EJ had been to her and his enemies, how kind he was to their father as he sat with him, fed him ice chips, talked with him. While Stefano was still not able to respond, his eyes lit up at the sight of EJ just the same. Though EJ's devotion to their father had kept her away from her family, for reasons she didn't understand their bond impressed her. Perhaps because she knew she would never have the same relationship to Stefano she was jealous of it.

    Lexie was just about to whisper goodbye for the night to Stefano when a rustling of the curtain behind her startled her so much she nearly fell onto the hospital bed.

    "E.J. You nearly scared me half to death!" Lexie told him catching her breath.

    "I'm sorry, Lexie," E.J. said. "Is there any change in Father's condition?"

    "No. I'm afraid not. He needs that umbilical cord blood or he's not going to make it," Lexie said.

    "Well how long does he have to wait?" E.J. asked concerned.

    "Well *I* think he should make it five months," Lexie said. "Rolf, on the other hand..."

    "What about Rolf?" E.J. asked.

    "Well Rolf is pressuring me to induce labor in Sami," Lexie said. "He is getting impatient."

    "But it's too early, isn't it?" E.J. worried. "Samantha's child would die, wouldn't it? That wasn't part of Father's deal, was it?"

    Lexie frowned hearing E.J. speak of the pregnancy as if it was a bargain, a business transaction. But she knew she would lose everything if she crossed Tony and revealed the truth to E.J. that he was the father of the child.

    "No, E.J., as far as I know that wasn't part of the deal," Lexie said. "But when Tony gets back he might try to renegotiate..."

    "Well you can't do it," E.J. said. "Samantha has been through enough with her troubles whatever they are. We can't take away her child as well."

    Lexie eyed his concern for Sami with surprise.

    "Did Sami tell you something about the baby?" Lexie asked.

    "No... I mean she tried to tell me something earlier but she got upset and I had to calm her down but she said nothing once she was all right," E.J. said. "Is there something else I should know?"

    Lexie looked at him with pity. But not so much pity that she was willing to put her neck on the line to help him. And especially not to help that witch, Sami Brady.

    "No. Nothing," Lexie said before changing the subject and pushing him out the curtain of their father's room. "Really we should both go now. Father needs his rest. And so do you. Good night, E.J."

    E.J. sighed. Lexie watched as her brother left the makeshift medical station and started walking toward his room and out of sight then quickly turned back past the doorway again walking toward the secret passage to the living quarters of Maison Blanche.


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  6. IMissAremid

    Episode 10

    By IMissAremid,

    *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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  7. IMissAremid

    Episode 11

    By IMissAremid,

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

    Sami's heart leapt with joy that he was being returned to the room, but it sank when she saw the disheveled condition he was in as his chin faced the ground, his eyes barely opened, his shirt was ripped open exposing chiseled abs glistening with sweat while Bart and Rolf steadied his shoulders as he slunk across the room to collapse in the bed.

    Sami's sadness turned to rage when she saw the burn marks on his neck, presumably from the electrodes that had been attached there by Rolf or one of his goons. She ran at Rolf and pounded his chest with her fists but Bart quickly pulled her away and restrained her.

    "Are you interested in spending the night tied to this chair?" Rolf asked pointing to the wooden chair in the corner.

    Sami nodded in the negative.

    "Then are you going to cooperate? Can you learn something from your friend over there?" Rolf asked pointing to E.J. writhing on the bed.

    Sami grimaced but nodded in the affirmative.

    "Good. Then I suggest you get some rest," Rolf said.

    "Yeah, Blondie. No more tricks." Bart added as he once more pointed a gun at Sami and the two of them exited the room.

    The door slammed and Sami ran over to E.J. to try to talk to him but he was unresponsive making unintelligible groaning noises as she knelt down to comfort him, helping him to remove his shoes and helping him pull the bed covers on top of him.

    "What are we going to do?" she sobbed as she caressed his face and held his 5 o'clock shadow in the palm of her hand.

    Sami felt his forehead with the back of her hand and watched with concern as the sweat dripped from his temples.

    "Oh, E.J., you're burning up!"

    Sami quickly retrieved a dingy white cloth from a cabinet above the room's wash basin and wet it in cool water from the faucet. She squeezed the cloth a few times and found the splash of the water soothing after what had been such a dreadful night.

    Once the dripping had ceased to her satisfaction, Sami walked over to E.J. and placed the cloth on his forehead and then tried to stifle a yawn with her left hand.

    She looked around the room to try to figure out where she might sleep. The room only had the twin bed and there was no way she was moving E.J.

    "What the hell?" she finally muttered to herself. " It's not like E.J. will mind."

    Sami kicked off her shoes and slid off her jeans, folding them and placing them on the dresser. Next she slowly unbuttoned her shirt while staring at E.J. as he continued to groan and she wondered what exactly the Dimeras had done to him and why.

    She folded the shirt and set it on top of her jeans before tiptoeing across the room and lifting the covers.

    At first she tried turning away from E.J. with her back to him, nearly falling off the bed a few times, but finally gave up knowing that she would never be comfortable that way.

    She turned toward him and lifted up his arm so she could use it as a pillow as she rested her arm across his chest.

    Somehow her troubles and fears quickly faded away there and her mind stopped racing so she was finally able to drift away to unconsciousness.

    E.J. was dreaming too, much less pleasant dreams, but if she had stayed awake and listened closely to all the jibberish and grunts he spoke in his sleep, eventually she would have been able to make out the one word he was still able to say, "Samantha."


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  8. IMissAremid

    Episode 12

    By IMissAremid,

    Sami awoke to the sound of running water but refused to open her eyes so she could hang onto the wonderful dream she'd had.

    She was far away from Salem, far away from everything she knew and frolicking in a magical waterfall in the embrace of a man whose face she could not make out. They had made love for hours and his kiss was more intense, more intoxicating than any she'd shared with Lucas or Austin or even Brandon.

    Suddenly Sami remembered where she was and where she had gone to sleep that night and panicked at the thought of how much she had enjoyed sleeping next to a man who wasn't her husband. Yet she opened her eyes to find a pillow in her arms while E.J. was standing shirtless at the wash basin holding a small mirror and shaving his face. She sat up in the bed.

    "I thought you'd never wake up," E.J. said flatly staring into the mirror, showing no ill effect in his speech or manner from his ordeal the night before save for some redness around his neck.

    "E.J. are you OK?" Sami said, unaware of the bountiful cleavage on display from the black bra she wore without a shirt or sheet to cover it as she spoke.

    "Yes, I feel fine," E.J. said turning his head toward her then looking away embarrassed. "And how do you know my name?"

    Finished shaving, E.J. retrieved Sami's shirt and pants from across the room and blindly tossed them toward the bed.

    "What are you talking about, E.J.?" Sami said as she self-consciously and rapidly dressed. "We've known each other for a year. Quit joking with me."

    But Sami sensed E.J. wasn't joking and E.J. confimed it.

    "Well, at the risk of sounding like a cad, my dear, apparently we have not known each other very well, because other than when I found you in my bed this morning I have no recollection of ever meeting you... Miss... Miss..." E.J. asked for help finishing the sentence.

    "Sami Brady," Sami said hoping that walking closer to him to inspect him might yield clues about E.J.'s strange change. "Actually, it's Mrs. Sami Brady-Roberts."

    "Well, Sami, it's a pleasure to meet you... again," E.J. said taking her hand and then kissing it.

    "Wait a second. You seem like you, but something's not right," Sami said trying to pinpoint the difference. "You don't call me Sami. You call me Samantha."

    "Well, Samantha, it's a pleasure to meet you... again... again," E.J. said with a laugh kissing her hand once more.

    "Stop joking like this. You're weirding me out." Sami frowned.

    "I do sincerely apologize for weirding... you... out... as you put it, but I haven't the faintest idea of what you're talking about, and I do think it's time to go," E.J. said.

    "Time to go, E.J.?" Sami puzzled at his words. "Oh, you mean you're ready to try another escape. Are you sure that's a good idea?"

    E.J. laughed.

    "Actually I'm quite sure helping you escape isn't a good idea, especially since I have been assigned to guard you," E.J. said.

    "My guard? Oh, E.J. what did they do to you?" Sami walked toward E.J. and tussled his hair above his ear, dragging her hand along his now-smooth cheek and staring deep into his eyes with a familiarity that troubled E.J.

    He gently removed her hand from his cheek.

    "Seduction will not secure you my help in your release," E.J. said firmly.

    "Seduce you?" Sami laughed at the absurdity of it all while E.J. shot her a quizzical look. "You really don't remember me or anything about us, do you?"

    "No, Samantha," E.J. said shaking his head.

    Sami didn't stop staring deeply in his eyes.

    "If I haven't yet made that clear I hope to do so now by telling you I truly have no recollection of ever meeting you," E.J. said. "And I'm quite sure that based on this encounter, if I had it would have left quite the impression on me."

    Sami sighed.

    "Now, if you're ready it's time for you to have some breakfast," E.J. said.

    "Oh are you going to go get it?" Sami asked as she walked back toward the bed and sat down. "Do you think there is any way you could bring me back some orange juice? My throat is kind of scratchy. Or wait, you could make me some of your nanny's tea!"

    E.J. laughed.

    "My nanny's tea? What are you...? You're trouble, has anyone ever told you that?" E.J. asked.

    "Well, you did. Once." Sami responded.

    E.J. laughed harder.

    "Smart man," E.J. said. "Now come on, Trouble. We're going to have breakfast.*"

    Sami got up out of the bed and walked toward the door and watched as E.J. knocked twice and it opened.

    "After you," E.J. said waving her through and following close behind.

    As Sami left the room she passed Bart, who said nothing while E.J. escorted her back toward the fireplace passageway. At that moment, she stopped questioning E.J.'s sanity and began to question her own.

    But crazy or not, Sami knew her goal of escaping Maison Blanche had just gotten infinitely more difficult.

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  9. IMissAremid

    Episode 13

    By IMissAremid,

    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 been waiting for five minutes in Mythic's conference room to hear word from Kate and Lucas about the state of the company and the status of E.J. Wells.

    Lucas paused a moment to think and rubbed his eyes, which were red and puffy from the sleepless night he'd had the day before.

    Lucas had raced as quickly as he could back home catching the last flight from New Orleans to Salem when he learned that Sami had run off with E.J., but he had failed at leaving behind any of his bitterness or regret that he masked with self-righteous anger.

    "I can't believe Sami ran off with that bastard who's framed us for embezzling," Lucas groaned as he stood up from behind the computer desk and threw his hands in the air. "It's over, Mom. He's got us. And there isn't anything we can do about it."

    Just then E.J.'s office door opened, which was startling because Kate had locked it behind the two of them when they went to work. Lucas's mouth hung agape and Kate held her breath when she saw the tan, middle-aged well-dressed man enter.

    "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?"

    .............................................

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    Sami couldn't have been more confused about what was happening to her at Maison Blanche or what had happened to E.J.

    She sat silently at breakfast and watched as Lexie and E.J. laughed carelessly as he told stories about his time on the European racing circuit over their orange juice and the pancakes he had made. The two of them carried on as if they were old friends, Sami thought, then realized no, the banter and stories and jokes reminded her of something else. The conversations she would have when she talked on the phone with her twin brother, Eric. She wondered if she would ever speak to her brother again and almost started to cry before putting him out of her thoughts with other matters.

    Even with Bart and Rolf out of sight and E.J. distracted, Sami decided not to attempt another escape for a while. The horrifying work of Rolf on E.J. had served its purpose.

    "Sami... Sami..." Lexie said shaking Sami out of her thoughts. "You hardly touched any of your breakfast. Remember, you're eating for two now so you need to be careful.

    "How could I forget," she mumbled to herself.

    Sami began shoveling in several large bitefuls of her breakfast while E.J. and Lexie went back to their conversation. About a minute later she slammed down her fork on the plate interrupting them.

    "All finished," Sami told them. "Now, I would like to lay down for a bit. Is that possible, E.J.?"

    "Well, I suppose that's all right," E.J. said turning to Lexie.

    "I'll clean up the breakfast mess," Lexie told him. "You go ahead."

    E.J. told Sami he had to take care of something first but would be right back.

    As the kitchen door shut behind him, Sami started in on Lexie, "So has Rolf wiped your memory clean, too? You sure seemed to enjoy E.J.'s screams of pain last night."

    "Listen Sami, I'm just trying to do what I have to do to survive. So that one day I can get back to my son... and my husband, if he'll ever take me back," Lexie said defensively before turning it back on Sami. "That's something I'd think you could relate to, isn't it?"


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  10. IMissAremid

    Episode 14

    By IMissAremid,

    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 few years and a few million dollars in attorney fees, but oh does our judicial system work."

    Lucas's brow furrowed while Kate laughed nervously at Tony's joke.

    "Well, Tony, we welcome any ideas about how to save the company," Kate said walking closer toward him as if drawn by a magnet. "I assume you are here to tell us the whereabouts of your brother?"

    "Well, no, I'm afraid not," Tony said. "My brother as I assume you already know, Lucas, has foolishly decided to run away with another man's wife and totally shirked his responsibilities to this company. I am here to make things right. And when I'm done with that I plan to assume the position of Mythic CEO."

    "But how?" Kate asked.

    "With this," Tony said producing a stack of papers from inside his suit pocket. "I have proof that my brother, E.J. Wells, deflated earnings reports last year so he could pocket $10 million for himself."

    "You're going to turn in your own brother?" Lucas asked, betraying some jealousy in his voice from the knowledge that he would not be the one to get bring down E.J. and would have to get revenge some other way.

    "Yes, Lucas I am," Tony explained. "E.J. is family and I do value my family. But not at the expense of this company's investors. Now if you two would join me in the conference room for our presentation..."

    "Yes, Tony. This way," Kate said, locking her arm in his and escorting him to the waiting board of directors.

    "Oh and Lucas?" Tony said smiling and turning his head back toward Lucas who trailed behind them. "I really think I'm going to like working together again."





    -------------------------

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    As the kitchen door shut behind E.J., Sami started in on Lexie, "So has Rolf wiped your memory clean, too? You sure seemed to enjoy E.J.'s screams of pain last night."

    "Listen Sami, I'm just trying to do what I have to do to survive. So that one day I can get back to my son... and my husband, if he'll ever take me back," Lexie said defensively before turning it back on Sami. "That's something I'd think you could relate to, isn't it?"

    "But..."

    The two of them stopped as E.J. re-entered the room.

    "Ready to go, Sami?" E.J. asked cheerfully as Sami looked at him, then Lexie and sighed and got up to leave.

    "After you," E.J. said ushering her through the kitchen door.

    Sami started walking back toward the fireplace when E.J. came close behind her and grabbed her shoulder.

    "Where you going, sweetheart?" E.J. said.

    "Well, I thought you were taking me back to my cell so I could lay down," Sami said flatly.

    "Your cell?" E.J. laughed. "No, we're not going back to my room. Do you really want to go back to that wretched hovel?"

    Sami was perplexed.

    "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.


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  11. IMissAremid

    Episode 15

    By IMissAremid,

    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 gentlemanly ways were not appreciated.

    "No. You go first," Sami said frightened of the unknown, which E.J. sensed immediately after he had said the words.

    "As you wish," E.J. said and kissed the top of her head. He stepped up into the room leaving Sami on the top step while he retrieved a lantern, lit it, and returned back to her.

    Sami could have run away just then but she didn't think to. Perhaps it was her curiosity that compelled her to stay.

    "Well, I checked, Samantha, and there are no monsters here," E.J. said with an impish smile.

    Sami made a face as she thought, I hope so.

    "A lot of dust and maybe some cobwebs, but if there are any spiders here they are no match for me," E.J. said making a show of putting up his fists.

    Sami shook her head and let out a sheepish grin as she stepped up into the room to join him.

    "Did I just get a smile out of you?" E.J. said teasing. "I think I did."

    But Sami was too distracted by the room to notice. Sure there were plenty of dusty boxes, candles everywhere, bookcases stacked with old books and odd pieces of furniture including an old desk, benches and even a large globe that she would have to sort through later... but first her eyes were drawn to the far corner where the room offered a beautiful dark brown Jacobean four poster bed with a trunk to match resting at the foot of it, the most beautiful bed Sami had ever seen.

    Sami just loved the wine-colored plush drapes that gilded the posts and its same-colored bedding. Despite her earlier fear of this room and how little she still knew of it she couldn't resist racing over to the bed for closer inspection and began running her fingers over the soft luxury it provided. She sat down and found the bed soft, but not too soft and smiled to herself.

    "A little bit nicer than your accomodations last night, eh?" E.J. said as he set down the lantern and used all of his 6'4" inch frame to reach up and pull back some dusty curtains on a small window that seemed to let in a quite disproportionate amount of sunlight into the room for its size. The sunshine did more than just illuminate the room. It filled Sami with a feeling of warmth.

    E.J. looked back at Sami and bit his lip as he saw the way the sunlight made her bright blonde hair sparkle before snapping out of it.

    "And I believe this is your suitcase, Samantha," E.J. said dragging a heavy piece of luggage from a large walk-in closet that Sami had not yet spotted. "If you so choose however, you are welcome to any of the clothes here in this closet. They're a bit old and fancy and formal for just lounging around the house, of course, but they've just been cleaned and I'd have to say they are in pretty remarkable condition."

    Sami's blue eyes appeared almost green as her eyes perked up at the thought.

    "Although judging by how heavy that bag is of yours I'm not sure how necessary you will find the closet," E.J. said with a chuckle.

    Next he pulled back a curtain along the wall opposite from the bed.

    "Sorry this water closet doesn't offer more privacy, my dear, but it does work well and it looks like someone left you quite the array of toiletries and some fresh towels here," E.J. said as he picked up one and held it in front of his face for a second to take in the feeling of home it gave to him.

    Sami didn't know why but she had always loved white tubs with feet and was glad this room had one. She couldn't wait to use the flower-scented bubble bath that had been left for her and soak for a while and relax. She couldn't remember the last time she relaxed between her breakup with E.J. and getting back together with Lucas and what happened the night she and E.J. were together and Lucas was saved and all the lies and heartbreak and wedding stress and now this awful honeymoon that followed. She needed to relax.

    And as she saw E.J. holding that plush, white towel she couldn't help thinking back to their first their meeting when he was wearing nothing but one and laughed to herself. She started to mention it, but then she remembered E.J. would have no recollection of the memory.

    "Hey, E.J. This is all... great... I mean... I never would have expected all this..." Sami tried to get out.

    "Samantha, it is nothing," E.J. said. "You deserve nothing less and probably much more."

    "That's nice, E.J.," Sami said getting off the bed and walking toward him. "But I have to say I'm rather confused exactly why you are letting me stay in this room and why you're being so nice to me. I mean if Stefano sent you to guard me and keep me prisoner here, I don't get it."

    "Prisoner?" E.J. said just as confused as Sami had been. "I'm not here to keep you captive. I've been instructed by my father to protect you."

    "Protect me?" Sami said exasperated. "From what?"

    "From yourself," E.J. said to Sami's surprise.

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  12. IMissAremid

    Episode 16

    By IMissAremid,

    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.

    Lucas turned his head from them and stared off into space.

    Sure, Tony had succeeded in convincing the investors that E.J. had been responsible for Mythic's missing money and E.J. would be broke and likely arrested if the police could ever find him, but that didn't matter. Lucas realized E.J. would always have Sami. If she could forgive him after he raped her... if she was even telling the truth, he thought, and cringed looking down at his left hand... then she was E.J.'s forever no matter what Sami said when she placed the band of gold around his finger that he was now fussing with.

    And as he noticed the background to his thoughts was Kate and Tony carrying on and guzzling vodka martini after vodka martini while he sipped on gingerale, his bitterness only grew. Even though they were probably thousands of miles away, all he could see was E.J. with Sami, his wife, and his fist began clenching on its own tighter and tighter.

    "So I was saying... Lucas... Lucas, aren't you listening to me?" Kate attempted to draw him back into their conversation.

    "Sorry, mom. I'm just real tired from last night is all," Lucas said. "I think I'm just gonna head back to the apartment and take the rest of the day off."

    "Like hell you are," Tony blurted.

    Kate was shocked. Suddenly it was as if she was snapped out of a spell and she glared at Tony after hearing him talk to her son that way.

    "Now Tony, Lucas flew in late last night to help resolve this shareholder situation and hasn't had hardly any sleep," Kate said. "Can't you give him a break just this once, I mean, especially after what that bitch..."

    "MOM!" Lucas shouted.

    "Sorry, Lucas... I see even after all that happened you still have feelings for her... but as i was saying after what that witcherr... woman did to him," Kate said as she stirred her martini.

    Tony smiled.

    "I see how harsh that sounded and I apologize," Tony offered diplomatically. "But what I meant was I don't think you should go home Lucas. I mean, all those memories. You shouldn't put yourself through that right now. If you would like to get some rest I would be willing to put you up in a suite at the Towers for as long as you needed it."

    "Well, Tony. That's very generous, but I..." Lucas said before interrupted.

    "Oh, Lucas, it's not an entirely selfless gesture," Tony explained. "Just because we pacified the shareholders today doesn't mean that Mythic doesn't remain in a very precarious situation. We need you focused on your work going forward and not getting distracted by what is in the past."

    "Lucas, I think that is a great idea," Kate said. "Tony, I truly don't know what I'd do with out you."

    Kate cooed while Lucas gagged and turned around to get up to leave after he noticed they had resumed their giggling and flirting. But just then the 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.

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    "I have to say I'm rather confused exactly why you are letting me stay in this room and why you're being so nice to me," Sami said. "I mean if Stefano sent you to guard me and keep me prisoner here, I don't get it."

    "Prisoner?" E.J. said just as confused as Sami had been. "I'm not here to keep you captive. I've been instructed by my father to protect you."

    "Protect me?" Sami said exasperated. "From what?"

    "From yourself," E.J. said to Sami's surprise.

    "Myself?" Sami snickered and turned away from him and sat down on the bed.

    E.J. followed her and sat down next to her. He reached for her hand and clasped it in both his hands.

    "Look, Samantha, Rolf told me everything..." E.J. said stroking the back of her wrist and hand with his.

    "Everything?" Sami said as she rolled her eyes. "Just what did that crazy doctor tell you? I want every last detail."

    "Well... I can see this is upsetting to you... I'm not sure if I should bring this up right now, Samantha," E.J. said dropping her hand. "Maybe I should just let you rest."

    E.J. got up off the bed to stand up but Sami pulled him back down.

    "No, E.J." she said staring deeply in his eyes. "I NEED to know what Rolf told you."

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  13. IMissAremid

    Episode 17

    By IMissAremid,

    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 around and sat back down at the table.

    "Roman... hello... it's nice to see you," Kate said uncomfortably.

    "Nice to see you, too, Kate," Roman said passing harsh judgment on her with his eyes and then turning his attention to Tony. "But I can't say the same thing for this bastard. Not very smart of you to come back to Salem after you broke out of jail, Dimera."

    Tony smiled.

    "I understand if you're not interested in being friends now that I'm back in town, Roman, but I'm a free man now and have the right to live wherever I please and be with whomever I please," Tony said looking at Kate for that last part before shifting his attention back to Roman. "But I just want you to know that in a show of good will and my interest in showing that I am an upstanding citizen of Salem, I promise I will help you however I can as you search for my brother and your daughter."

    "Your brother and my daughter? E.J. and Sami? What's he talking about?" Roman said looking at Lucas.

    "You haven't told him yet, Lucas?" Tony asked.

    "Told me what?" Roman wanted to know.

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    "Look, Samantha, Rolf told me everything..." E.J. said stroking the back of her wrist and hand with his.

    "Everything?" Sami said as she rolled her eyes. "Just what did that crazy doctor tell you? I want every last detail."

    "Well... I can see this is upsetting to you... I'm not sure if I should bring this up right now, Samantha," E.J. said dropping her hand. "Maybe I should just let you rest."

    E.J. got up off the bed to stand up but Sami pulled him back down.

    "No, E.J." she said staring deeply in his eyes. "I NEED to know what Rolf told you."

    Her head turned as she thought to herself, I need to know what I'm up against.

    "OK... well the way I understand it, and while your figure certainly doesn't show it, that beautiful glimmer in your eye is indicative of the fact that you are currently with child... with a Dimera child, is that right?" E.J. asked.

    "Yes," Sami said. "It's true. At least that's what YOU told me."

    "What I told you?" E.J. said his as his eyebrow raised. "Oh boy. I really don't think I can go on, Samantha. Maybe another time."

    E.J. stood up once more yet Samantha tugged on his waist to pull him back to her once more.

    "Go on," Sami encouraged. E.J. nodded.

    "The plan for this pregnancy with the Dimera child that you're carrying from what I understand is that the umbilical cord blood from the baby's birth is used to develop a cure for my father's illness," E.J. said.

    "Yeah, that's the plan," Sami affirmed.

    "Is it coming back to you, now?" E.J. said furrowing his brow at her.

    "Just finish the story," she sighed.

    "And the reason I am assigned to guard you is that you were having too much stress back in Salem and we brought you here for me to keep an eye on you because..."

    "Because what?"

    "You tried to attempt suicide," E.J. said with pity. "You were upset about something, Rolf didn't tell me what, and you almost burnt yourself alive at a cabin. And you survived but the stress of the whole ordeal put you in the hospital where you almost lost the baby."

    "Pfffft," Sami shook her head. "Rolf said that, did he?"

    "Yes. And also that you became pregnant because my father, Stefano Dimera, agreed to pay you $10 million if you were willing to have one of your eggs implanted with the Dimera seed and be the surrogate mother for his child," E.J. said somewhat embarrassed even though he wasn't sure why.

    "WHAT?" Sami asked, so livid she shot right up out of the bed and folded her arms in front of her chest before turning back toward E.J. who had also stood up. "Rolf told you THAT! Oh how could he do this? How could Stefano do this to both of us?"

    Sami's blood pressure went through the roof as she paced back and forth with a scowl enveloping her entire face.

    "Samantha, I don't understand what I've said to upset you so," E.J. said attempting to calm her. "I'm so sorry..."

    E.J. reached out to put his arms around her and get her to stand in one place.

    "It's not true, E.J. It's not true," Sami said pounding her fists on his chest. "The truth is you... you..."

    But before Sami could say more she felt a stabbing pregnancy pain and started sobbing.



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  14. IMissAremid

    Episode 18

    By IMissAremid,

    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 disgust for a few moments before collecting himself again.

    "I don't believe it," Roman said. "I don't believe it for a second."

    "It's true, Roman," Kate said. "Lucas, tell him."

    Lucas still was too hurt to speak but the pain in his eyes let Roman know that Lucas agreed with his mother's assessment of the situation.

    "Look, I know Sami's done some pretty horrible things to the three of us," Roman said looking at Lucas and Kate.

    Tony cleared his throat.

    Roman glared at him but continued, "I know she's done some pretty horrible things to ALL the people of Salem... but running away with E.J. just days after she married Lucas? It doesn't make any sense."

    "Since when has there been any sense to the things that little witch does," Kate said.

    "Hey!" Lucas and Roman said in unison.

    "Oops, I slipped. Sorry," Kate said remembering herself as Tony quietly chuckled.

    Roman glared at him then looked at Lucas.

    "When were you gonna tell me this? Tell her family that she was gone?" Roman asked. "And how do you even know it's true? She told you that she was leaving you for this scum?"

    "Not... exactly..." Lucas said.

    "Well what is it then exactly, Lucas?" Roman asked.

    "Well... she left me a note..." Lucas said as he reached into his suit coat pocket and handed it to Roman. "...and then she left me and she left Will and she left you and she left all her family for E.J. Wells."

    Roman looked over the note and scanned it.

    "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? I'm taking this down to the police station to get handwriting analysis done and check this piece of paper for fingerprints."

    Tony eyed Roman nervously as he remembered handling the note with his bare hands when he forced Sami to write it back at Maison Blanche.

    ..........

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    "Oh no," E.J. said desperate to help Sami back toward the bed so she could lay down.

    E.J. positioned the many pillows on the bed to allow her to lay back somewhat upright as he knelt beside her clutching her face.

    "Sweetheart, just breathe with me," E.J. said breathing along with her and staring deeply in her teary blue eyes.

    Sami complied and stared back at his face with wonder as she calmed down in his gaze. Here he remembered nothing of her, of them, yet somehow he was just as he was back in the hospital when she had these pains before.

    The two breathed together for about fifteen seconds when the pains subsided and E.J. wiped her bangs out of her eyes soothingly.

    "Are you sure you're OK now?" E.J. asked with a concerned look on his face.

    "Yes, I'm all right," Sami said.

    "Do you want me to get Lexie so she can check out you and the baby?" E.J. asked.

    "No, I think I'm fine," Sami said then sighed.

    E.J. smiled with relief.

    "Well I'm glad you're all better now," E.J. said smiling and still caressing her face. "You put quite a scare in me just then. Now, at the risk of upsetting you all over again, Samantha, do you think you can tell me now what you were trying to tell me before?"

    Sami went to tell him, but stopped herself before she said the words. She knew he wouldn't remember. The truth would only confuse him or make him think she was crazier than he already did.

    "Oh, it can wait," Sami said trying to put what she had to say before out of her mind. "But could you do one thing for me?"

    "Anything," E.J. grinned from ear to ear.

    "Would you just hold me?" Sami asked longingly then blinked quickly surprised at herself for saying it.

    Suddenly E.J.'s grin turned to a confusion as his lips quivered and he held his mouth agape while he stopped to think.

    "Samantha, I'm not sure that's such a good..."

    "Please?" Sami begged realizing it was what she really wanted.

    "Well, I did say I would do anything for you, didn't I?" E.J. said with a nervous laugh.

    E.J.'s pulse quickened as he gingerly climbed into bed with Sami. As soon as he had positioned himself comfortably laying on his back, Sami turned so that she could rest her head over his heart. E.J. self-consciously hoped she couldn't tell how much his heart was racing beneath her head while Sami reached with her left hand to wrap it around the right side of his long torso.

    Finally E.J. gave into the moment and clutched the back of her head with his right hand wishing he could touch every last strand of golden hair on her head while his left hand reached out for her right one and found it.

    Instinctively he clung to her wishing they could stay like that forever.

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  15. IMissAremid

    Episode 19

    By IMissAremid,

    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 station to get handwriting analysis done and check this piece of paper for fingerprints."

    Tony eyed Roman nervously as he remembered handling the note with his bare hands when he forced Sami to write it back at Maison Blanche.

    But to his relief, an unwitting Kate came to his rescue and stopped Roman in his tracks.

    "Roman, did you talk to Sami before she left for the honeymoon? About that picture that showed up in her and Lucas's wedding video?" Kate asked delicately.

    "The one of the two of them together the night John Black was shot," Roman said sighing. "No, I didn't have a chance to talk to her about that."

    Lucas put his head in his hands listening to his mother explain the situation to Roman.

    "Well, after the reception, Sami told Lucas that she and E.J. had slept together that night and E.J. told me the same thing," Kate said. "And this whole time she has been making Lucas think that he was the father of the baby she is carrying, she kept it a secret that the baby may be E.J.'s"

    "But she helped us set him up with the police that night," Roman said. "SHE was the reason he went to the boathouse the night John was shot. She wouldn't sleep with him unless she had no choice. Oh God..."

    AT MAISON BLANCHE:

    Finally, E.J. gave into the moment and clutched the back of her head with his right hand wishing he could touch every last strand of golden hair on her head while his left hand reached out for her right one and found it.

    Instinctively he clung to her wishing they could stay like that forever. He wished he could stay with Samantha in that bed forever.

    But he knew they couldn't.

    Sami knew that as well, but she just couldn't stop herself from clinging to him tighter and tighter. She needed this. A moment of peace in her chaotic life to just be held and feel safe for once. For the first time since E.J. held her like this so many times last summer.

    It's not that she forgot that E.J. had been manipulating her then to get her to trust him and that many of those embraces were a result of his schemes. It's that in that moment when she really thought about it she realized so much of herself in them, she understood them, she had lived them, the way that she had always fought so hard and so many times fought dirty to get what she wanted, the man that she wanted, whatever the cost.

    And she had been fighting for so long - fighting for Austin, fighting for Will, fighting against Lucas, fighting against her family, fighting against E.J. - fighting so hard for so long she realized that she had forgotten what it was like to love. Or perhaps, she thought, she never knew what it was to love.

    A small part of her felt some guilt in his 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.

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  16. IMissAremid

    Episode 2

    By IMissAremid,

    “Sadly, if you refuse my help, I think you… and our baby… are alone on this one,” E.J. whispered with regret as he clutched her shoulders with his hands.

    Sami stared intently at E.J.’s face for several seconds trying to discern the hidden meaning behind his cryptic warning until she was distracted by the sound of what she thought was a man’s laughter.

    “Did you hear that?” Sami asked.

    “Hear what, darling?” E.J. said, clearly perplexed.

    “It sounded like… it… well… nothing. I… just want you to leave. Leave me alone. Let me have this one moment of happiness without you and these games and my secrets getting in the way of it.”

    “Oh, so should we wake Lucas then and let him know I’m here? Oh Lucas! LOOOOOO-CUSSS!” E.J. calls up the stairs.

    “What are you DOING? Please just get OUT of here before he sees you!”
    E.J. laughs and grasps her left hand.

    “Good to see married life hasn’t changed you too much, my dear,” E.J. said before kissing her ring finger.

    “Ugh. Just GO!”

    E.J. obliges and shuts the front door behind him just as bleary-eyed Lucas appears at the top of the staircase.

    “Was someone here just now? Was E.J. here?!” Lucas shouted.

    “What? What are you talking about?” Sami said biting her lip.

    “There was a man calling my name. I’m pretty sure he had a British accent.”

    “Well, as you can see, no one is here but me. I was getting a glass of water. Honey, go back to bed. You must have been dreaming.”

    “Well… OK… I’ll be waiting for you.”

    “OK. I’ll be right there.”

    Lucas heads back to bed. Sami sighs and rubs her stomach.

    “Oh what are we going to do?” she whispers to the baby growing inside her. “I thought if I married Lucas, if I got Lucas to be my husband then we’d be home free, but this wedding didn’t really solve anything, did it?”

    Sami headed toward the kitchen to get her water when something caught her eye and caused her to stop in front of the bookcase. She noticed an old copy of “Gone with the Wind” on the bookshelf and picked it up.

    “Wow. A copy from the original printing.”

    Sami leafed through the pages.

    “And in such good condition. I’d love to take some time to read this again. I wonder if the owner would mind if I borrowed this.”

    “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

    “Tony!”

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  17. IMissAremid

    Episode 20

    By IMissAremid,

    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 have in mind?" Sami flirtaciously asked.

    "It's a surprise. Just give me a minute," E.J. said getting up from the bed.

    One more wink from him and Sami had a grin a mile wide spread across her face. She let out a sigh as she anticipated just what E.J. had in store for her and watched him walk away.

    As she laid there waiting for E.J. to return she took in a deep breath and noticed an intoxicating fragrance was suddenly filling the air.

    She blinked only to open her eyes to find E.J. standing over her wearing nothing but a white towel, much like he looked that first day they met, the day so much had changed for her and for them. If only she knew then what she knew now she would do so much differently.

    But E.J.'s words swept her out of her thoughts.

    "Are you ready?" he asked.

    "Ready?" Sami asked. "For what?"

    "For this!" E.J. said as he reached down and scooped her up off the bed.

    Sami giggled appreciatively.

    E.J. carried her to the other side of the room sweeping away the curtain to reveal a tub filled with a sparkling freesia-scented bubble bath surrounded by candles. He put her down and the look of surprise and excitement she gave when she saw what he had done for her lit up his face with contentment and pride.

    He put his hand on her face and pulled her into his gaze.

    "Oh, E.J." Sami said. "This is so lovely, I don't know how I can..."

    E.J. stopped her by pressing his right index finger over her lips.

    "I do," he said as his towel dropped to floor and he leaned in for a kiss.

    Sami at first bobbed her head a little bit to avoid his lips but like before she realized she was tired of fighting and she finally gave in to a kiss more intense and passionate than any she had ever felt.

    All her worries, all her troubles melted away in his arms and as she came up for air she ran her fingers through E.J.'s hair and closed her eyes to say, "I love you."

    Yet E.J. was gone when her eyes opened. In a panic and feeling the sweat ringing around her neck she rolled over in the bed but found E.J. was not in the bed. He was no longer even in the room.

    She heaved a sigh of immediate relief and sat up in the bed before a more long-term concern crept into her mind.

    "Oh, this isn't good," Sami said to herself. "This isn't good at all."

    AT CHEZ ROUGE:

    "Well, after the reception, Sami told Lucas that she and E.J. had slept together that night and E.J. told me the same thing," Kate said. "And this whole time she has been making Lucas think that he was the father of the baby she is carrying, she kept it a secret that the baby may be E.J.'s"

    "But she helped us set him up with the police that night," Roman said. "SHE was the reason he went to the boathouse the night John was shot. She wouldn't sleep with him unless she had no choice. Oh God..."

    Roman was horrified. Kate put her hand on his shoulder to try to console him as he sat down and laid the note on the table.

    "I can't believe I let Sami get drawn into this," Roman said. "What was I thinking? How could I have used her like that to try to get E.J. to the boathouse so we could bring him down? And that bastard gets his revenge by raping her that night?"

    Roman was in anguish.

    Lucas finally decided to start chiming in.

    "Well there's more to the story than that, Roman," Lucas said. "She slept with him that night because she needed his help to save my life and lift up the beam when I was trapped in the cabin and that was the only way he would help her."

    In that moment, Roman's nostrils flared as his heart filled with quiet rage when he looked at Lucas and wished Sami had let him die.

    "So Sami loved you so much that she let E.J. have sex with her and that's the only reason you're alive today," Roman said angrily. "And now after she marries you, she disappears and you automatically think she would just walk out on you for HIM? What kind of husband are you?"

    Lucas pondered Roman's words. The criticism stung but he knew he deserved it after all the times he had doubted Sami before.

    "Roman, there's more to this," Kate said trying to justify Lucas's suspicions.

    Tony's eyes lit up as he thought how lucky he was to have Kate around to help him, even if she didn't know she was doing it. He leered at her lustily wondering what other ways she could be helpful to him.

    "Sami also kept it a secret from Lucas that she drugged him and was with E.J. the night that his cabin burned down," Kate said. "This was after E.J. had told me and Lucas that he was running off that night to Las Vegas to marry a Brandy Mathas."

    "What?" Roman asked.

    "Brandy Mathas," Kate said. "It's an anagram for Samantha Brady. Remember I told you all this the night that I came to you at Chez Rouge for help getting in Lucas's hotel room the night that it turns out that I was right all along and Sami had drugged him to be with E.J."

    Roman wasn't interested.

    "Don't you know all of this is just like what Stefano did to break up me and Sami's mother?" Roman said. "He kidnapped Marlena and he made me think... he made me think she had been unfaithful with John."

    "Well wasn't she?" Kate said to another quiet chuckle from Tony.

    "We were trying to make it work..." Roman blurted before he started getting wistful. "If that monster hadn't taken John and Marlena hostage at Maison Blanche all those years ago and made me think she had run off with him, maybe the two of us could have worked things out. Even after Belle was John's daughter."

    Tony didn't like the way this conversation was heading.

    "I think I get what you're saying, Roman," Lucas said. "We need to find Sami to find out the truth."

    "Exactly," Roman said. "I need to talk to Marlena and tell her what the hell's going on right now, but later all of us need to get together to try to come up with a plan to find Sami."

    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't like this turn of events at all.

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  18. IMissAremid

    Episode 26

    By IMissAremid,

    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 that tomorrow, she said to herself.

    Then something she spied across the room through the corner of her eye caught her attention.

    Sami walked toward the attic walk-in closet and decided it was time to explore more of the secrets of Maison Blanche. She dragged her hands over the elaborate ballgowns of gold and purple and green and black, smiling as she felt the unique, cool, luxurious texture of each dress on her skin, before stopping on the red.

    It reminded her of something she'd seen in a movie once before.



    Sami examined the burgundy ball gown of French silk velvet and marveled at its heart shaped bodice clearly intended to accentuate the wearer's decolletage, its poofy sleeves and flowing skirt. Pinned inside the dress she found a matching set of gloves which she slid on her hands and arms.

    Suddenly she felt elegant and graceful. She felt wealthy and powerful. She wondered what sort of a woman wore those gloves before her, if any Dimera woman had worn them or they were just kept as props for Stefano's games.

    Still, even the thought of Stefano couldn't shake the spell this gown had over her. She can began to disrobe down to her bra and underwear and held the dress up to her front while standing in front of a full-length mirror with her back to the doorway.

    So taken by this outfit, Sami hadn't noticed the man who had just entered into the room with her until she saw him in the mirror.

    "E.J. Haven't you ever heard of knocking?" Sami snarled with frustration.

    "Sorry. Sorry." E.J. said averting his gaze and covering his eyes with his large right hand. "I didn't mean to interrupt dressup time. I just needed to talk to you."

    Sami quickly pulled the dress over her head but had not unfastened all the buttons in the back before doing so. E.J. couldn't help but chuckle to himself as he listened to Sami struggle with the gown with her face covered and peeked through the space between his fingers so he could watch her arms pumping furiously in the attempt to pull the dress down.

    "Sweetheart, do you need some help?" E.J. asked, not really interested in helping Sami become fully clothed, but making the attempt at being chivalrous.

    "No, I think I got it," Sami huffed as she finally pulled the dress into place and bent over the bed heaving out of breath from the struggle, her face flushed and her long golden hair flowing wildly.

    "So what do you want?" Sami asked standing up to face E.J.

    "Wow." E.J. said emphatically. "Darling, you look amazing."

    Sami looked down and noticed her cleavage practically spilling out onto the floor and covered her chest with her arms self-consciously.

    "I said... what do you want?" Sami said.

    E.J. shook his head for a second as if snapped back into reality.

    "I wanted to talk to you, Samantha," E.J. said sitting down on the bed to face her while she stood. "Although I must admit I feel a little funny having this talk with you dressed like this."

    "We're not having this conversation with me naked, E.J., so just say what you came here to say," Sami said impatiently.

    "All right. Here it is. Something has bothered me all day today, darling. What was it you were trying to tell me before? Before your pains started? Before I helped you breathe again? Before we...?"

    "Any WE before was a mistake, E.J." Sami scolded. "I regret asking you to lay with me even if it was only to sleep. It was wrong and it was unfair to you."

    "How was it unfair to me?" E.J. asked.

    "Because I'm married!" Sami said. "And I plan on staying that way."

    E.J. had sensed as much as he felt the gold band around her ring finger when they held hands before, but he had hoped the man in question had left her when she decided to become Stefano's surrogate. Or better yet the man who had given her that ring was dead.

    "Oh," E.J. said. "Well I'm sorry if I haven't been as gentlemanly as I should have been in my dealings with you, Samantha. But may I ask... when did you marry this man? Before you agreed to be the surrogate mother of my father's child?"

    "Dammit E.J. I am NOT Stefano's surrogate and this baby isn't his!" Sami screamed. "It's yours!"

    "But you said you're married to another man..." E.J. said awash in confusion.

    "I am," Sami said exasperated. "But I am pregnant with your child because..."

    "Because what, Samantha?"

    "Because you RAPED me!"

    Sami gasped after she said the words and tears started spilling out her eyes as she watched the words explode in E.J.'s face like a nuclear bomb. First there was the shocking noise they made, then brilliant, bright fury and finally total devastation.

    "What do you mean, I raped you?" E.J. said, his voice quivering. "We just met this morning for the first time and you are accusing me of rape? Accusing me when I have been nothing but kind to you, nothing but a gentleman to you aside from this moment when I didn't announce my presence before entering the room?"

    Sami sobbed as she watched E.J. pace around the room.

    "I could NEVER rape someone. Never... especially... especially not someone like you." E.J. said defensively though he didn't know why. "Where do you get these crazy ideas anyway?"

    "I got these ideas from the truth, E.J.," Sami said through tears walking toward him and putting her hand on his face. "Even if you don't remember it. It's the truth."

    E.J. looked deeply in her eyes and put his hand on hers and he knew her hurt was real. Yet still he had no memories of hurting her that way. Even if he knew he had lied when he told her he wasn't capable of hurting her that way.

    "I'm sorry that you think this is what happened, Samantha, but I need to go," E.J. said crestfallen and pushing her hand away. "Good night."

    Sami cried as she watched E.J. solemnly walk out the door of the attic and shut the door behind him. She quickly threw off her dress and climbed into bed collapsing in a heap of sobs and wishing she had kept her big mouth shut and wondering if she had thrown away any chance of escape.

    That night Sami cried herself to sleep.

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  19. IMissAremid

    Episode 27

    By IMissAremid,

    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 purposefully to the restaurant's front door.

    "Hey, watch where you're going," Anna said with a laugh.

    "Anna? Anna! I'm so sorry! It's so good to see you," Roman said sheepishly while offering her a friendly hug. "When the hell you'd get back in Salem? And how long you staying?"

    "I just got back recently, Roman," Anna said. "And I'm not sure how long I'll stay. At least as long as it takes to complete the Countess Wilhemina relaunch. I just joined up there to head their new fashion division."

    "Wow. That's great," Roman said wistfully. "You know I can't tell you how nice it is to see you. Finally some good news on what's been a truly awful day."

    "What happened?" Anna asked. "What's wrong?"

    "Oh hell I don't think it's fair to dump all my troubles on you yet," Roman said. "I was just coming here to pick up a cell phone I left behind but whaddya say I buy you a drink and then I tell you all about it. And you tell me all about what's going on with you. And how Carrie is doing in Europe. I hate that damn time difference and how the two of us can't have those father-daughter talks like we used to."

    "Actually, Roman, I'd love to but I have to..."

    "You have to have a drink with me because I'm not taking no for an answer, Anna," Roman said. "C'mon. One drink."

    Under other circumstances Anna would have been loathe to turn down a free drink, especially with a kind man like Roman. But she got uncomfortable imagining walking into Chez Rouge with him and Tony seeing them together and getting the wrong idea. He might get jealous.

    Just then the memory of that trashy tart Kate Roberts sitting in Tony's lap flashed in her brain.

    Hmmmm, she thought, he might get jealous.

    "OK, Roman, if you insist," she said plastering on a flirtatious grin and locking arms with him as the two of them entered the restaurant.

    As the two of them walked through the crowd of the bar to take their seats Anna craned her neck to glance at Tony's table but other patrons and the restaurant's waitstaff obstructed her view.

    Finally the sea parted and she got a good view of his table. And her heart sank.

    Tony was gone.

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  20. IMissAremid

    Episode 28

    By IMissAremid,

    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 Dimera, who had come to try to take her baby. At first Sami reached down beneath the bed for Stefano's diary and prepared to reveal all to Tony, but the menace in Tony's voice terrified her so much so that instead she quickly pulled her arm back without the men noticing and pretended to be asleep. Sami pulled the sheets up to her eyes while listening in horror.

    "Where did your sudden interest in the innocents of this world come from, brother?" Tony asked. "You know as well as I do that this woman agreed of her own free will to Father's plan to pay her $10 million to become pregnant with this child for the sole purpose of saving Father's life."

    "Do I?" E.J. muttered, but not so quiet that Tony couldn't hear him.

    "What's that supposed to mean?" Tony asked.

    But before E.J. could answer they heard rustling and then the murmurs of people's voices through the vents downstairs.

    "Damn," Tony said. "I thought they would arrive here later than this."

    "Who is they?" E.J. asked.

    "Don't worry about it," Tony said. "Just keep the girl here in this room and keep her quiet. Do NOT let her get out so that they might see her."

    "Why can't these people see her, Tony?" E.J. asked.

    "I'll tell you later," Tony said. "Just know that Father's life depends on you following these orders."

    Tony left the room to head downstairs while E.J. looked over at Samantha now sitting upright in bed clutching the sheets tightly with her hands. He pondered what to do next.

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  21. IMissAremid

    Episode 29

    By IMissAremid,

    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 authority he was disappointed it did not afford them the control over E.J. that they expected.

    Tony quietly tiptoed down the steps to the second floor when suddenly he heard footsteps and voices coming up the stairs.

    Luckily, Tony was able to dart back up and hide behind a bend in the staircase between the second floor and the attic while he watched Marlena, Roman and Lucas ascend the top steps of the grand staircase without noticing him and then turn right and disappear down a long hallway once they arrived at the second floor. He listened as Lucas led them into a far bedroom and showed them where he slept the night Sami disappeared.

    Seeing his opportunity, Tony bounded down the the steps of the grand staircase swiftly but with precision, like a tiger. Heaving a sigh of relief when he saw no one and nothing downstairs in the large front room he calmly adjusted his suit tie and walked toward the fireplace just about to press the button to open the secret passageway and make his escape... when a familiar voice stopped him.

    "Tony, just what do you think you are doing here?" Kate whispered.

    Tony recognized the voice and turned on his heels back to face her with a smile over his face.

    "Kate, love, I'm here to join the search party," Tony said. " E.J. made off with $10 million of our money and I intend to track him down and get it back from him."

    Kate scoffed.

    "I see, Tony," Kate said throwing her hands up in the air. "Funny how you failed to mention your New Orleans trip yesterday."

    "Am I sensing a little skepticism?" Tony asked flirtatiously.

    "Not a little," Kate said just as flirtatiously. "A lot."

    "Well, Kate, dear," Tony said moving toward her and caressing her face. "I assure you that I want to find E.J. and Sami and bring them back to Salem just as much as you do."

    Kate knew that meant he actually didn't want to find Sami and E.J. at all, but considering them staying gone would mean the end of Lucas's marriage to the witch she was intrigued.

    Kate licked her lips and leaned in for a kiss but stopped when they were interrupted.

    "Hey, just what in the hell is going on here?" Roman asked furiously, while a disgusted Marlena and a horrified Lucas looked on.

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  22. IMissAremid

    Episode 3

    By IMissAremid,

    "Tony!" Sami exclaimed before covering her mouth in shock.

    "Sami. Did you miss me?" Tony said with a smile.

    "How did you...? What... what are you doing here? I thought you were in jail!" Sami said before contemplating just how the night could get worse.

    "Oh I was. Thanks to YOU, of course. But I've paid my debt to society and am a free man now," Tony said while fishing around in the inside of his suit coat pocket.

    "What do you want from me? Tony, you have to know, I'm sooo sorry for everything. I promise I won't tell anyone I saw you..."

    Tony finally retrieves a black handgun from the inside of his coat and brandishes it.

    "No, you won't tell anyone you saw me. And I agree you'll soon be quite sorry for every single trick and scheme and lie and backstab you've ever done."

    "Tony, no! You can't do this."

    "Can't I?" Tony said grinning from ear to ear.

    "No. You can't," said a male voice, who walked in the mansion through the front door to Sami and Tony's surprise.

    "This is no concern of yours, brother. In fact, if you had taken care of business, I wouldn't have to be cleaning up this mess of yours."

    "E.J., what is he talking about? Was this whole thing just some scheme of yours and Tony's to get back at me for helping put Tony behind bars? Ugh. I think I'm going to be sick. I can't believe I..." Sami whispered with regret.

    "You can't believe what, Samantha?" E.J. asked, his eyes squinting to try to see the truth Sami tried so hard to conceal.

    "I can't believe I... ever thought you were my friend is all," Sami said throwing her hands in the air. "You know I shouldn't be surprised that you and Tony were working together all this time."

    With that, Tony broke out into a fit of laughter.

    "Sami, you must know that none of this has turned out as I intended." E.J. said before turning toward Tony. "Listen, Tony, there must be another way to handle this. Let me take care of this."

    "Ha! Because you've done such a spectacular job taking care of this so far."

    "Tony, I won't let you harm Samantha." E.J. said stepping in front of a frightened Sami.

    "Won't let me, eh? That's funny. Because you know as well as I do that I have no intention of harming Samantha." Tony said to a defiant-looking E.J. and a confused Sami.

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  23. IMissAremid

    Episode 30

    By IMissAremid,

    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 mouth with the palm of her right hand before she could finish her thought about her husband coming back for her.

    "Samantha... I... I can't let you... I'm so sorry... So so sorry," he whispered.

    To E.J.'s surprise Sami bit down hard on his hand.

    "Owww," E.J. said in shock more than pain as he shaked away the minor sting.

    "You're sorry?" Sami said incredously, turning to face him and pounding at his chest with her fists. "No, you're not sorry. Maybe you could have been sorry before. But not now. Not after Rolf wiped your memory clean. Not after Tony has just proven that you were never here to PROTECT ME you're hear to IMPRISON ME."

    Sami began to sob.

    "Not after I've told you the truth which you refuse to acknowledge and you still believe that this child..."

    "Samantha, I don't know what the truth is..." E.J. said pausing to wipe a tear from her cheek with his thumb. "I only know that disobeying Tony right now puts your child... or our child... if that is the case... in more danger than doing what he says."

    ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF MAISON BLANCHE:

    "Well, Kate, dear," Tony said moving toward her and caressing her face. "I assure you that I want to find E.J. and Sami and bring them back to Salem just as much as you do."

    Kate knew that meant he actually didn't want to find Sami and E.J. at all, but considering them staying gone would mean the end of Lucas's marriage to the witch she was intrigued.

    Kate licked her lips and leaned in for a kiss but stopped when they were interrupted.

    "Hey, just what in the hell is going on here?" Roman asked furiously, while a disgusted Marlena and a horrified Lucas looked on.

    Tony smiled.

    "Is it a little early yet for love in the afternoon?" Tony joked but was the only one who laughed. "Sorry, I just couldn't resist. But Roman, if you must know I'm here to lend you my services."

    "Your services?" Lucas scoffed.

    "Yes. You see I'm here to help out the search party any way I can," Tony said grinning, not even bothering to feign sincerity.

    "Why do you care if we find my daughter?" Roman asked angrily. "How did you even know where to find this place?"

    "Well, as you all know by now, my brother, E.J. made off with quite a bit of money that Kate and I have a responsibility to try to track down as Mythic's chief corporate officers, so she thought I might join you here," Tony said with a wink at Kate.

    "Oh did you, Kate?" Marlena snarled, still filled with fresh hatred for Kate for the danger in which Kate's son Phillip had put Belle and her granddaughter Claire in Tinda Lao.

    Not to mention her lingering disdain for Kate keeping Claire's paternity a secret from Belle and Shawn and the fact that while she no longer wanted Roman, she hated the idea of any other woman having him even if it was only for a short while in Kate's marriage to Roman.

    Suddenly defensive, Kate played right into Tony's hands covering up for him not so much to protect him but to protect herself from Marlena's damning stare.

    "Look, I know I have had my issues with Sami over the years, but she is... my son's... wife," she said gulping as the words came out of her mouth. "And I just thought we should use all the resources that we could to track her down and Tony certainly has a lot of them."

    Tony smiled.

    None of them were buying Kate's story but it wouldn't matter because at that moment Marlena's phone started ringing.

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  24. IMissAremid

    Episode 31

    By IMissAremid,

    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 John Black awaited Marlena on the other end of the phone call.

    Roman put his arm around Marlena knowing he couldn't protect her from whatever bad news she was getting but wanting to help her get through it just the same.

    "Belle," Marlena said setting aside her concern for her husband for that of their child. "Calm down. It will be all right. Just tell me what happened."

    "Oh... OK... well... you see... after... you left... today," Belle said through tears. "Dad... he started to move... He moved his hand when I was here."

    "He's coming back to us. Finally. That's wonderful," Marlena said sighing in relief and placing her hand flat against her heart.

    "Well... no, Mom. It's not," Belle explained. "Because after... after he moved his hand... it stopped moving... And his machines started beeping... And all the nurses and doctors rushed in... They made me leave," Belle said. "Mom, I think Dad's going to die soon."

    Marlena said nothing for a few seconds and covered her mouth with her face as a single tear dripped down her face.

    "Belle, you've just got to keep your spirit up, all right," Marlena said smiling through tears. "I need you to keep believing in your dad. Because you know he's believing in us right now. Inside. Deep down. Whatever he is like on the outside. I'm going to leave right now and get there as soon as I can. I just need you to believe until I get there, all right, sweetie."

    "O.K. Mom," Belle said as her sobbing subsided somewhat. "I'll see you soon. Bye."

    "Bye, honey," Marlena said. "I love you."

    Marlena closed her cell phone and fell into Roman's arms sobbing. Roman knew his search for Sami was over.

    "Well, let's go," Roman said to Kate and Lucas as he shepherded Marlena toward the mansion's exit so they could hurry back on John's jet to Salem.

    Tony couldn't believe his luck.

    But Lucas didn't follow Roman, Marlena and Kate toward the door.

    "Lucas, let's go," Roman said while Marlena continued to cry. "Are you coming or not?"

    "I'm not," Lucas said.

    IN THE ATTIC OF MAISON BLANCHE:

    "You're sorry?" Sami said incredously, turning to face E.J. and pounding at his chest with her fists. "No, you're not sorry. Maybe you could have been sorry before. But not now. Not after Rolf wiped your memory clean. Not after Tony has just proven that you were never here to PROTECT ME you're hear to IMPRISON ME."

    Sami began to sob.

    "Not after I've told you the truth which you refuse to acknowledge and you still believe that this child..."

    "Samantha, I don't know what the truth is..." E.J. said pausing to wipe a tear from her cheek with his thumb. "I only know that disobeying Tony right now puts your child... or our child... if that is the case... in more danger than doing what he says."

    "You're so naive," Sami said shaking her head.

    "I'm naive, eh?" E.J. said. "O.K. Maybe I am naive. But I'm not CRAZY. Which is exactly what you are telling me this insane story that my family had my memory wiped clean for disobedience yet begging me to disobey my brother now."

    Sami rolled her eyes but deep down sensed he might be right about this.

    "Look, Samantha," E.J. said. "You have an ally in me right now. Regardless of what you think happened between us in the past. Regardless of what I think about the baby you're carrying. Regardless of our talk last night..."

    E.J. let out a sigh.

    "I like you, all right."

    "You... LIKE... me?" Sami laughed.

    "That's funny, is it?" E.J. said, his ego bruised. "Well it's true. I... I... don't know what it is about you. But I want to help you. And I think I can if you stay here."

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  25. IMissAremid

    Episode 32

    By IMissAremid,

    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 and Lucas can continue the search and we can all head back to Salem on the Mythic company jet that I took here to New Orleans."

    "You're using the Mythic jet already?" Lucas sneered.

    "Lucas, we are very fortunate that Tony used that jet and joined us here so that we can continue the search," Kate scolded.

    "Now I'm not so sure about...." Roman said before Marlena interrupted.

    "Roman, you can stay too if you want," Marlena assured him. "But I have to get back to Salem."

    "I know you do, Doc," Roman whispered hugging her warmly with one arm while opening the door with his free hand. "Let's go."

    The two left and Tony's grin grew.

    Tony and Kate shared conspiratorial glances as they followed Lucas around the house, occasionally picking up objects to look busy but mostly just waiting for Lucas to give up the search. The way he always gave up at everything.

    Yet this time Lucas seemed intent as he went about the house, running his hand along walls, opening cabinets and drawers and closets throughout the first two floors of the house. Something about seeing Marlena learn that perhaps she was about to lose the love of her life made Lucas cling that much tighter to the faint hope he could be reunited with Sami.

    Still, even noticing that intensity, Tony chaperoned Lucas's search throughout the house with total nonchalance. That is until sweat beads began gathering around his neck and his pulse raced when he saw Lucas start walking up the stairs to the attic.



    IN THE ATTIC OF MAISON BLANCHE:

    "You... LIKE... me?" Sami laughed.

    "That's funny, is it?" E.J. said, his ego bruised. "Well it's true. I... I... don't know what it is about you. But I want to help you. And I think I can if you stay here."

    Sami considered his words with not just her brain, but also her eyes and mouth, before responding several seconds later.

    "E.J., I was pretending to be asleep before," Sami revealed. "I heard Tony say that he wants me to go into surgery NOW. That he needs to take this baby from me to stop your father from dying."

    "Well, that's not true," E.J. said. "That's just Rolf's impatience. Father can wait until your child is born naturally. And I am NOT letting Tony take your child. Neither is Lexie."

    "Ha! Lexie?" Sami said throwing her hands in the air.

    "Lexie hates me, E.J. After everything I've put her through over the years with Brandon and her cancer screening and my sister and losing her job at the hospital..." Sami said ticking off her litany of crimes against his sister before stopping when she looked up and noticed E.J.'s confusion. "Just suffice it to say, there's no way she would stick her neck out for ME. She hates me."

    "Well she doesn't hate me," E.J. said.

    Sami was once again reminded of how much E.J.'s lack of a memory of the last year colored his outlook on things with much more optimism than the situation should have allowed.

    "And she wouldn't let her brother's child be killed. If everything is as you say and I've had my memory erased... if everyone is just lying to me as you say then Lexie knows that this child is mine and wouldn't let anything happen to it. Right?"

    But before Sami could answer E.J. and Sami heard voices outside the door. E.J. instinctively wrapped his arms around Sami. E.J. covered her mouth but this time Sami didn't bite it or try to speak. Nor did she struggle.

    She realized she would have to show Tony the diary to make this madness stop if it ever was to stop. She would have to pray that Tony's outrage that Stefano had kept the fact that E.J. was his son a secret all these years would be enough to protect her baby.

    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.


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