Who Says You Can't Learn From the Past? Chap 12 up

[Sw]

Who says you can’t learn from the Past?
Author: Sw
Disclaimer: I don’t own Days of our Lives and am making no money off of this story, If I did own Days Lumi would be together right now.
Author’s Note: I haven’t watched Days since EJ wasn’t punished for raping Sami. So this isn’t going to following the current storyline exactly. Just something that popped into my head and wouldn’t let go. This is my first Lumi fic so please be kind when you reply and let me now what you think.



Some things were finally looking up for Sami the annulment from EJ would be going through in a few days and Will was coming home just as soon as Sami was able to insure a home for all of her children.

Of course Lucas was still in jail and EJ was still going to be in their lives because he was Johnny’s Dad. But a new lawyer was telling Lucas he’s chances for a appeal was good and he could claim temporary
insanity.

Sami wasn’t holding her breath on Lucas getting out soon though it never seemed like the law could ever work for them like it did for others. But she planned on waiting however long it took until Lucas was freed and back home with her and their children.

Sometimes when she was alone in her bedroom Sami would think of the past in all the time that she and Lucas had wasted. If only they hadn’t kept trying to keep Will away from the other none of this mess they were in now would have happened. Sami liked to think more then likely they were have ended up married much sooner then they had and even perhaps had more children together then just Will and the twins.

Even knowing that EJ fathered one of her twins didn’t stop Sami from always thinking of the twins as Lucas‘. Because he was the one that she truly loved and with who had made love with. A child should only be created in love something even Will had been. Not the romance kind at that time but a friendship type of love it was love none the less.

Sami couldn’t help but think back at how young and stupid she had been if she had only stop pinning away for Austin long enough to see that Lucas was the one she really wanted none of this would be happening. Well thinking like that wasn’t going to help anyone out. And only make her feel that much more lonely tonight.

So Sami instead of just setting around feeling sorry for herself decided to update the twins’ baby books. Lucas was missing so much of their young lives Sami wanted to have everything documented so when he came home he would know when certain events had happened.

Going through first Allie’s making sure she marked down first tooth and word: Ma she then moved onto Johnny’s after writing down the information Sami couldn’t help but remember how doing this so many years ago had revealed that Will wasn’t Austin’s son. If only she had told Lucas that very day.

Turning the pages of the Johnny’s baby book Sami stopped and looked at his blood type and was a little surprised that he shared the same as Will. But what she found really puzzling was that all three of her children did.

That was rare in it’s self that all three siblings were to share the same blood type. But when you’re talking about one of those three being half-siblings those odds were really rare for that to happen. But after all this was Salem where half the town at one point was thought to be dead and turned up alive. Compare to that this was nothing.


But what really had Sami frozen in her seat was shock and just thinking how stupid am I? Remembering when EJ was in the hospital and they had to give him blood he was so sick dying really everyone had thought. She had learned his blood type and never had it ever enter Sami’s mind until this very moment. EJ had the same blood type as Austin.

Johnny’s blood type was the same as Will’s their was no way possible for Johnny to have that type and be EJ’s son. Which means that Johnny is…Sami couldn’t even finish that thought first she had to make sure that Johnny indeed did have this blood type and if he did then they we’re free of EJ forever.

Sami couldn’t help but think as she left both baby books behind and went to get her twins so she could get both test for blood types that sometime you did learn from the past.

[Sw]

Author's Note: The first part was wrote over two years ago I believe and I just wrote this part a few days ago. Also the timeline isn't going to be like in the show I'm taking it off that grid so to speak.


Chapter 2


Sami wasn’t sure how much time had past are what year it was. Time seemed to have stopped after the first few months here and no one came for her. At first Sami had been sure that Eric would come at anytime to rescue her, he had to feel her fear.

But he never came the only other person Sami would have bet money of finding her was Lucas but he was in jail for shooting EJ. Sami hoped against hope that Kate had sent Allie to Carrie and Austin so she could be with Will at least. Knowing that one of her children was stuck with the DiMeras was bad enough. They didn’t have any claim to Allie legally so hopefully she was with Will or even if it made Sami want to scream with her Grandmother Kate. As long as she wasn’t around the DiMeras Sami would be happy and she forced herself to believe that everything with Allie was going fine.

Because Sami didn’t think she could handle if more then one of her children were still forced to live with EJ.
If only she hadn’t been stupid and ever married EJ, why had she let herself be forced into that? It seemed like years ago and it might just have been.

If only she hadn’t realized in the DiMera mansion that Johnny couldn’t have been EJ’s son. She wouldn’t have been hit over the head and whisked away. André and his schemes it seemed that he had picked up where Stefano had left off. How many times had André been killed now? He was like a thingyroach he keep coming back no matter how many times you thought you killed him.

Sami looked around her ‘home’ if you wanted to call it that it was one large room with a twin bed against one wall and a little bathroom off of it. Then against the other wall was the kitchen. In the middle was a couch and TV hooked up with a DVD player. Once a week when the food was dropped off so were a few DVDs.

At first Sami had tried to jump the employee who would dropped her food off and escaped but after doing this three times and then going with out food for days at a time each time Sami did as she was told and entered the bathroom and didn’t leave until the employee finished dropping off her food.

Sami had come to understand this was her life she was never getting out of here. After all hadn’t Stefano kidnapped her Father and held him prisoner for years?

Unless André decided he wanted her family to know where she was Sami didn’t think she would ever see any of them again. She would dream at night of how her life could have been if only EJ hadn’t have raped her. She would have known that Johnny was Lucas and they would both be with their kids now.

Sami didn’t like thinking about all the things that could be happening to Lucas in jail right now. Was he even still alive after all he had shot a DiMera and they didn’t get over things like that easily. It would be so easy for them to pay someone to kill Lucas in jail.

“No don’t think that way” Sami told herself “I would know if Lucas was dead. I would feel it.”

Lucas was the love of her life and the Father of all three of her children only he didn’t know that no one did. They all still thought or at least Sami thinks they all thought Johnny was still EJ’s.


Sami heard a rattle on the locked door something that never happened in less it was food day which had just happened the day before. Holding her breath Sami didn’t know if she should be scared are to dare hope that finally someone had come to rescue her.

As the rattling stopped Sami wasn’t sure if she should yell out to whoever was there are ran and hide in her bathroom and hope whoever it was would leave.

But Sami wasn’t a coward and she wasn’t going to start being one now. Finding her voice she yelled out “Help I’ve been locked in here please let me out”

Then Sami almost had a heart attack when she heard a voice she never thought to hear here answer back

“Mom is that you, what are you doing in there?” Will asked as he tried to get the door handle to open again. Looking around he spotted a key on a hook above the door. Reaching up he got the key off and stuck it in the lock and opened the door. Wondering how his Mother got locked in a room in the DiMera mansion basement a room that it had taken him a hour to find it was so well hidden.

And why she would have been in the basement in the first place was something Will couldn’t figure out she had been at the mansion earlier that day with Johnny and Sydney so that Stefano could see his grandchildren. Will was sure he had seen her leave over two hours ago why did she come back then?

Opening the door Will got his answer to that question in a way he never imaged.

As soon as the door was open Sami had ran and grabbed Will in her arms she hadn’t seen her son in so long and now holding him she realized just how long she had been locked in this room.
Will was taller then her now and it looked as if he had dyed his hair blond she almost smiled at that. But what was must important right now was to get Will and herself out of where they were at before they were caught.

“We have to get out of here” Sami said as she pulled out of the hug and looked around the hallway to make sure no one had saw them. “Who did you come here with? We have to leave right away before they find us and lock us up.”

“Mom what are you talking about who I came here with? You know I live at the DiMera mansion now with Grandma Kate.” Will stated not knowing what was going on his Mother didn’t’ look anything like she had this morning. Her hair was a lot longer and she was thinner too. How had that happened in a few hours.

“DiMera mansion you mean I’ve been here this whole time?” Sami asked looking Will over once again. He had gotten so much older since she had last seen him. Her baby boy had almost all grown up.

If Will had gotten this much older how old were her Twins? And if Will was now living with Kate at he DiMera mansion where were her Twin’s living? And why was Kate living at the mansion and with Will?

“What year is it Will how long have I been gone?” Sami asked not being able to hold back her tears any longer. Not wanting to stay in this place a moment longer she grabbed Will’s right hand and pull him out into the hallway and starting ran down the hall just wanting to get her and Will out of this mansion.

Letting his Mother pull him along Will was starting to understand what was happening before his very eyes. He knew that his Mother wouldn’t have let EJ get away with everything he had done. She wouldn’t have picked EJ over him. Whoever the hell he saw this morning was pretending to be his Mother. The woman before him trying to get him out of the DiMera mansion was his true Mother and she was someone he truly had missed even though he thought she wasn’t real anymore.

“Mom it’s June 2010, how long had you been in that room? How long did that imposter pretend to be you?” Will asked as they stopped at a T in the hallway knowing which way to go Will this time took the lead and still holding his Mother’s hand started to pull her along with him.

“What do you mean imposter? I’ve been in that room since April 2008 just days before my annulment from EJ was going thru” Sami asked and stated. Imposter did that mean what she thought it meant had Andre stole another idea from Stefano and made another ‘Sami’
Had the past once again replayed it’s self was their another John Black only this time a woman who thought she was Sami Brady?

And if she did would this other Sami if she wasn’t in on this give her, her life back. Did she even what her life in Salem back when it was clear that no one knew the difference between her and this fake Sami? She couldn’t hold this Imposter isn’t Will because he hadn’t even been in town when this switch must have taken place.

But what about her Dad couldn’t he tell this person wasn’t her? Well it didn’t really matter at the moment all that did was getting out of this place and getting her twins back after that Sami was thinking leaving town with all of her children sounded like a good idea to her.


TBC….

[Sw]

Chapter 3


Hearing someone talking ahead Sami and Will stopped dead in there tracks looking around for somewhere to hide as the voice got closer. Seeing a door to his left Will turned the knob and was surprised it opened not caring what was behind the door grabbing his Mother pulling Sami and himself thru and just had time to close the door before they heard someone talking on the other side of it.

“Sir, I don’t know how much longer I can keep her secretly locked in the basement before someone finds Sami there.” That voice Sami knew well it was her captured the one who left her food once a week. Looking at Will seeing his eyes wide Sami knew if they were caught they both would be in big trouble.

“It’s getting harder to sneak away without Mr. DiMera or his Son realizing I’m keeping something from them.” The voice stopped then and both Mother and Son could barely make out what was said next as it became clear the man talking on a cell phone was walking away from them back towards what Will guess was his Mother’s room or cell whatever you felt like calling it.

“I think it’s be long enough now that you can call the new Sami a success and get rid of the old”



“ Thank God Mom I found you when I did” Will whisper a full minute after there had been nothing but silences on the other end of the door.

Sami just nodded her head not wanting to voice her fear of them being found and now not just her being the only one in danger. Andre’s hired helper was planning on killing her and now if caught Will as well. They had to get out of here but first they had to make sure Mr. Hired help wasn’t still down the hallway are worse what if he found out she was already gone?

“We have to get out of here now, before he realizes I’ve escaped.” Sami whispered to Will as she opened the door slowly looking around the hallway making sure it was clear. “I’ll go first make sure it safe then you come once I tell you too.” Sami ordered her son she wasn’t going to let anything happen to Will.

Walking out slowly looking back and forth Sami saw no sign of anyone are heard any voices. So she turned back to give Will the all clear when she felt two strong arms wrapped around her and a voice yell “ There you are I was looking for you. I don’t know how you got out but you’re going back”

Will heard every word spoken to his Mother and started looking around the room he was still in the door was cracked open just enough to give light into the room. It looked to be a storage room with lots of boxes stacked up and a few lamps. Will could hear his Mother yelling and knew he didn’t have time to search the boxes to find a weapon. But then all of a sudden Will couldn’t believe his luck in a glass case ahead was what he guess was a collection of old guns. Not wasting a second longer then needed he could hear his Mother fighting her captured he opened the case and grabbed the first gun that he figured he could fire and ran to the door. Pushing it open just in time to see the DiMera Butler holding a gun of his own on his Mother.


“I’m never going back to that room” Sami yelled wanting to make sure Will heard her and knew not to come out. “Just shot me now and get it over with I’m not going back to that room to die” Sami stated then throw her head back hitting her kidnapper in his. As he let her loose to grab his head Sami took off hoping she was headed towards the stairs to get help for her and Will. Or just to get Andre’s minion away from her son.

Sami knew she had to get her kidnapper away from Will so she looked back and when she did he had a gun in his hand. Her legs stopped on their own at this and she just stood still if Will came out of that room now he would be shot. And like any Mother Sami wasn’t about to let her Son be killed. Taking a deep breath to clam herself down she couldn’t past out now, if she did Sami didn’t know what would happen to Will.

“Are you scared of this Sami?” he taunted her if he only knew it wasn’t herself she was afraid for maybe then what happened next wouldn’t have surprised him. “You should be because you’re no longer needed” were the last words the man spoke before a gun shot went off that surprised both the man and Sami.

But Sami recovered faster and grabbed the gun from the man’s hand as he turned to see just who had fired a gun at him or Sami. Before he made the complete turn he fall over and that’s when Sami saw the blood stain on his shirt right in the middle of where his heart is.

“ Mom are you okay” Will asked dropping the gun he had just fired not caring at the moment that he just shot a man. All that he could see over and over was the Butler holding a gun pointed at his Mother.

“Me I’m fine how are you?” Sami asked keeping herself together and she was actually proud of herself for not fainting. But she had to keep herself together for Will, Sami could see he didn’t realize yet just what he had done. ‘When had she and Will turned into Lucas and Kate?’

Will has just killed a man to protect his Mother just like Lucas had done so many years before to protect Kate. That was one story that she had to pull out of Lucas that she planned on never telling a single soul. And now it looked as if she and her Son would share a secret like that as well.

“I’m okay Mom we have to get out of here, before his partner comes looking for him” Will said looking anywhere but at the man he had just shot not wanting to admit to himself that he wasn’t getting up ever again.

Sami walked over to the dead man just to make sure he was dead with the gun in one hand the other she checked for a pulse and wasn’t surprised when she didn’t’ find one. They couldn’t just leave him in the hallway for anyone to find. If what he was saying before on the phone was true no one knew she was being held in the basement. Only Andre and that was the way Sami wanted to keep it she had to get herself and Will out of Salem right away and the perfect way to do that was let everyone think she was still there.

“Will baby can you help me move him back to my room” Sami said as she picked up the legs of the man who had just tried to kill her. “We have to make sure no one finds him. At least not for awhile yet”


Will who only now fully understood what he had done just walked over and picked up the man’s arms and helped his Mother as she lead him back to her room. He didn’t’ say a word as she walked into her old room as the door had been left open. Not one word as they moved the dead man to her sofa and then walked out locking the door behind them.

“It’s not you’re fault Will you did it to save me” Sami said as she took her almost grown son into her arms. “No one would find you guilty of anything for defending you’re Mother”

Tears where running down both of their faces and Will could only think of one thing he needed right now besides his Mother. “We need to go to Dad he’ll know what to do” Will whispered as if he was a little boy again and believe his Dad could make anything better.

Sami looked at Will patting his hair down at least she knew Lucas was still alive now but he couldn’t help them in jail. “Will you’re Dad’s in jail how can he help us?”

“Mom, Dad’s hasn’t been in jail since May of 2008” Will explained almost for a second forgetting that she didn’t already know this. “He’s been in Tokyo for the last few months on work but he’s back in town for Grandma Alice’s funeral.”

“Alice Horton died?” Sami asked feeling like a part of her childhood and Salem it’s self had just been broken.

“Yes she pass away in her sleep it was peaceful” Will said feeling tears start anew thinking about his Great-Grandmother. Everyone loved Alice Horton and Will was blessed to have been part of her family.

“Okay then I guess we go to you’re Dad for help for getting us all out of Salem” Sami stated still trying to come to terms with all she had just learned Lucas wasn’t in jail any longer and a woman that had always been good to her and was thought of by most in Salem as Grandmother had passed away.

And just the thought of Lucas being in Tokyo meant something had happened with the imposter Sami. What had she done to drive Lucas that far away? Did Lucas even love her any longer? Sami didn’t know what she would do if he didn’t but right now the important thing to remember was that Will and she had to get out of this house and out of Salem with the twins.


TBC…..

[Sw]

Chapter 4


The most important thing Sami could think of was protecting Will and that meant making sure their was no prove that Will had been in her room. So Sami had asked Will to stand guard in the hallway as she unlocked her door and got a wash cloth from her bathroom and started wiping her whole little two room apartment down making sure to wipe away anyplace where finger prints might be found most importantly anywhere Will’s could be found.

Sami was scared she was taking to long and kept calling out to Will making sure he didn’t see anyone out in the hallway. Once she had everything wiped clean Sami looked once more at the man laying on her sofa taking a once over on him making sure Will wouldn’t have touched anything on him that could hold prints.

Walking back to the door making sure to use the wash cloth to touch the handle Sami closed the door as she looked around the hallway and saw Will just standing there looking at her as he used to when he had been little and was afraid he was about to get in trouble for breaking something. Taking the key that was on the nail above the door wiping it down after locking the door again and wiping that off Sami turned towards Will.

“Will did you find any rooms in the basement that could be a security room with tapes?” Sami asked as she walked towards her son. He was just her baby and now he had taken a man’s life to save her. If she could Sami would have rather Will hadn’t found her to save him this pain of taking a life.

Nodding his head Will could remember passing a room earlier that he had peaked in that looked to be full of TV screens and on them was different rooms in the mansion above. Knowing that whatever his Mother wanted with the room most likely had to do with what just happened down here in the basement made Will all the more focused on wanting to help his Mom anyway he could.

Sami walked ahead of Will down the hallway making sure no one was there ahead of them. Once they past the room they had hid in early Will took the lead once again he lead them to a staircase that look to have about two flights up. “We have to go up these stairs and then another long hallway, after that theirs another set of stairs that lead to the security room.” Will stated the facts almost with no emotion in his voice.

Sami was starting to worry about him more by the second Will seemed to be in shock. But she had to get any security tapes that could show Will shooting her capture. She had to keep him save from André. Once she had the tape in hand she planned on getting Will to Lucas as fast as possible.

Lucas was the only other person Sami knew she could count on to protect Will with their life.
It seemed like it had taken forever to get to the security room both Mother and Son thought. The door wasn’t locked like Will had discover earlier that day. Sami walked in behind Will and took in the room that it seemed to have more then two dozen TV’s. Sami could see the living room camera it looked to be empty at the moment. As she looked at the next TV screen she could see that it looked like Stefano was in his office and so was Kate.

What was Kate doing in Stefano’s office? Sami thought but right now that didn’t matter. It likely had something to do with the reason why Will was living in the DiMera mansion.

“Will do you see any screen showing basement hallways? Sami asked as she looked from one screen to another but it seemed to be a lost cause at the moment all she could see were cameras from the upstairs rooms.

Looking at the TV screens behind his Mom, Will looked and wasn’t surprised to find a few screens that showed his room making a note to not do anything other then sleep ever again in his room he started looking for the basement hallway on the TV’s.

“Found them” Sami said as she looked at four different screens not sure which once was the right one. But really it didn’t matter what they should do Sami got to thinking was just delete all the video feeds from today or longer. “Will do you think you could help me delete or erase all the videos of today and turn off all the cameras in the whole house?”

“I think I can but why not just delete all the videos” Will asked as he looked around and found a computer he just hit a key and was surprised that there didn’t seem to be a password needed it looked as if someone was already in the system. It had to be the Butler that was holding his Mother hostage he had to be looping the feed so no one saw him getting in are not of the basement.

“Mom I don’t think we have to worry about the video you’re capture has looped the video feed in the basement. But I’ve turned off the ones in the upper rooms of the house and outside the house so we can get out of here without being taped.” Will says this with a smile.

“So let’s get out of here Will and go find you’re Father” Sami said headed for the door never more ready to get out of the DiMera mansion that at the moment in her life.

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

The ringing caught Lucas off guard he wasn’t expecting anyone to call him at the moment he was setting on top if his car looking out at the lake that he and Sami used to go to when they were teenagers. He had taken Allie with him today on a picnic here wanting to show her a place where their was nothing but good memories of him and Sami.

Allie though had fallen asleep on the blanket from their picnic after they had played a game of tag between them. Allie seemed to be a Daddy’s girl which just warmed Lucas’ heart like nothing else could these days. Lucas had lifted her from the blanket to the backseat of his car to let her sleep in peace.

How had everything gotten so confusing between him and Sami? Was the only thing that Lucas could think. For crying out loud Will was living at the DiMera mansion Sami had four children two of those weren’t his. That’s what hurt the most that Sami could go and have another child with EJ after what he had done to her and them. EJ had been the reason their marriage was over. And now she shared another child with him. Johnny being EJ’s he could never hold against Sami she had been raped by EJ. He could never hold that against Johnny either he loved that little boy as if he was his own that was one of the reason why he had taken his Mother up on her offer of a job. He couldn’t be around Johnny without wanting to be his Father.

Sydney though was a whole other story he didn’t have those same feeling he did about Johnny with her. Of course that was because before Johnny was born he believed he was his son and Lucas knew if Sami and him wouldn’t have divorced he would have raised Johnny as his own.

Lucas knew everyone thought he had left Salem because of Chloe and Daniel and he let them think it. It was easier for people to think he was mad or anger at them then for everyone to know that he was still hang up on Sami at least still hang up on his Sami.

Because the Sami that lived in Salem right now didn’t seem to be the same one that he had married and had two children with. It was the look in her eyes she didn’t look at him like he was the love of her life any longer.

Lucas knew he could have forgiven Sami for sleeping with EJ if only she had looked at him with love in her eyes. Sami said the right words but Lucas could tell she didn’t really mean them that’s how he got stuck into Chloe and that nightmare. Chloe was his rebound making Sami see that someone wanted him even if she didn’t but instead of making him feel better all that relationship had done for him was make Lucas miss his Sami all the more.

He had tried the friendship thing with Sami once again but that just made him miss his Sami more. Friendship with Sami wasn’t going to cut it for him especially when he didn’t even like the Sami he seen since his return for his Grandmother’s funeral. Truth be told he hadn’t liked Sami since he was let out of jail.

Hearing the phone ringing again Lucas looked down at his cell phone it said Will on the caller id. Perhaps he decided he wanted to spend some time with Allie and Me, Lucas thought as he hit talk.

“Hey Will” Lucas said feeling a smile come to his face only when he was with or talking to his children did that smile come to his face now at days.

“Dad I need you’re help you have to met us at you’re house right away.” Will replied to his Dad’s greeting locking eyes with his Mother as they walked down the sidewalk. Sami hiding her face behind a hooded jacket of Will’s.

“Buddy you know Nathan lives there now, I’ll meet you at the DiMeras or you’re Mom’s pen house” Lucas said knowing by Will’s voice something was wrong he got off the hood of his car.

“I know that Dad but Nathan’s on call at the hospital all day today. He told me so yesterday. Please we need to meet you somewhere were no one will see us it’s important it’s a matter of life or death” Will plead with his Father knowing that if he didn’t get him to promise to meet them alone there wasn’t going to be a place for them to all meet without getting caught by someone in Salem and right now until they figure out what they were going to do everything had to be a secret.

“Life or Death really Will are you sure it’s that important” Lucas asked laughing a little hoping that he wasn’t about to find out he was going to be a grandfather. “I’ll meet you there I’ve got Allie with me up at the lake. How are you going get to the my house do you need me to come pick you up?”

Will looked at his Mother after having heard his Father’s question no they couldn’t take the chance of his Dad’s reactions to his Mother out in the open where anyone could see. Because Will was pretty sure that when he’s Dad seen his Mother he would put two and two and that needed to be done in private away from the DiMeras.

“No that’s okay we’re take a cab” Will stated as he took his Mom’s hand. Sami smiled up at her son she had let him handle the phone call as she looked around outside it had never looked so wonderful the air smelled so clean. The only other time she could recall it feeling this good to be outside had been when she was let out of death row. The sun shining on her face it felt so warm.

“Okay but who is this we you keep talking about is it you’re girlfriend?” Lucas asked as he closed his car door and got ready to turn his car on. Lucas really was dreading if Will’s answer was ‘yes’. Because the only reason Lucas could think for Will wanting to meet him so badly would be if his girlfriend was pregnant.

“Dad I don’t have a girlfriend so no. You’re meet the person with me at the house until then bye” Will spoke fast and then hung up not wanting to answer anymore questions all he wanted to do was get to his Dad’s house and let his parents figure out what to do next.

“Will you better call that cab” Sami said knowing that Will was starting to fall apart she couldn’t let him do that here once they got to Lucas’ he could. But not until then they had to stay aware and not make any mistakes. No one could know about what happened in that basement.

“You’re right Mom, but I wanted to warn you Dad has Allie with him” Will started as he started to dial information to get a number for a cab company. Sami couldn’t help but smile her little girl she was going to get to see her baby girl after all this time.

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

Lucas pull up to his house well he really didn’t think of it as his any longer. Had he really ever thought of this place as his home? Had Chloe really been his wife? Being out of Salem for awhile had opened his eyes so much Chloe wasn’t his type and he wasn’t her’s as well.

They were both on the rebound and just kind of found each other and for while Lucas had taking comfort in her but now he felt just empty by the thought of that relationship. Turning around Lucas saw that Allie was still sound asleep she looked so much like her Mother when she was sleeping that sometimes it took his very breath away. He had his own little Sami one that loved him completely and one he didn’t have to share her heart with anyone else but Will and Johnny.

Hoping that Will and his guest had already gotten there Lucas lifted his daughter into his arms and started for the house. Once he made it to the front door he knocked on it with his left foot hoping Will would open the door so he didn’t have to put Allie down. The lights were on in the house so in less Nathan forgot to turn them off this morning Will should be there.

“Will are you in there open the door for me Allie is still sleeping and I don’t want to wake her” Lucas said through the door.

Just as Lucas was about to try to open the door himself it slowly opened and Lucas walked in and head right for the couch to lay Allie on. “Thanks Will for getting the door”

“You’re welcome Dad but it wasn’t me” Will said standing on the far side of the couch showing it was impossible for him to open the door for his Dad and little sister.

“Oh so you’re friend opened the door when do I get to meet this mystery friend of yours?” Lucas asked as he looked his son up and down and could see something was wrong Will looked pale and you could see he was about to fall apart any second now.

“You get to meet me right now General” Sami stated as she closed the front door and from the look on Lucas face she would say she had surprised him.

Hearing ‘General’ only one person ever called him that made Lucas turn his head and his mouth fell open when he saw her standing there? Her hair was longer then it had been in years almost to the length it had been when he first met her all those years ago. She looked so pale like she hadn’t seen the sun in a few years. Lucas could also see Sami was upset but keeping it together for Will he was sure.
But what took Lucas’ breath away was Sami’s blue eyes they were shining with the love she always used to have for him. And Lucas knew and that moment without a doubt who was standing before him was his Sami.

[Sw]

Chapter 5

Smiling at Lucas, Sami walked towards him then past to bend down next to Allie on the couch looking at her daughter holding her hand out Sami wasn’t sure if she touch her if Allie would disappear and this whole rescue by Will had been a dream slash nightmare. Because now not only was she in danger from Andre but Will as well.

Lucas found his eyes were glued to the site of Mother and Daughter before him. The way Sami held her hand inches from Allie’s head with tears shining in her eyes. Looking almost as if she believe Allie was to fragile to touch that she might break or disappear if Sami did touch her.

“My baby” Sami whispered as tears ran down her face. And she give into her need to whole her daughter in her arms for the first time in over two years. Not wanting to wake Allie and explain what was going on Sami gently rocked her back and forth like she had done when she was a little baby.

“Oh Will she’s gotten so big. I can hardly recognize her are you sure this is Allie?” Sami asked her oldest child who had came and set next to his Mother after she had picked up his sister.

“Sami what is going on?” Lucas asked feeling like had walked into the twilight zone. Are into the past of what could have been. Here was Sami with their daughter in her arms with their son at her side and she was looking up at him with love shining in her eyes.

“You and Will look like hell” Lucas said looking both of them over again “And forgive me if I’m wrong but Sami what did you do to you’re hair and you look like you’ve lost at least ten pounds since I saw you yesterday”

Lucas was trying to figure out what was happening had Sami been brain washed and just came out of it today? But that didn’t explain her appears. No one can grown that much hair in one day in less it was a wig. And the weight difference you just can’t lose that either in a day. The only other explanation was that their was a imposter Sami and from the look of this Sami who held Allie so lovingly the real on was here.

Not waiting for a reply to his earlier question Lucas turned to Will and asked. “Where did you find you’re Mother at?”

Will and Sami both had been looking at each other not knowing how to answer the questions they had been given without sounding crazy or have Lucas not believe them. But now Will smiled he knew his Dad would figure it out on his own.

“In the DiMera basement locked in a hidden room” Will answered as he shutter remembering who was locked in that room now.

Lucas bent down so he was looking Sami in the face and this time asked her “How long did they hold you for?”

Sami who was still holding Allie looked down at her little girl she had missed so much of her young life. Just like her Father had missed her own childhood. Looking up again into Lucas understanding brown eyes she answered “Over two years”

Two years ago that’s when his life had fallen into the toilet and now he was looking at the reason why. The DiMeras had kidnapped and replace Sami. Lucas felt like hitting himself upside the head.

“Hit me” Lucas demand knowing he deserved it.

“What no I’m not going to hit you Lucas. It’s not you’re fault I as kidnapped” Sami stated as tears fell from her eyes only these were followed by a smile on her lips.

“I should have known it wasn’t you.” Lucas said as he lifted his right hand to wipe away the tears from Sami’s face. “You never would have fallen into bed with EJ after what he had done to you”

Sami had no idea what Lucas was talking about and at the moment while she did care about it she knew it wasn’t important what was, was telling Lucas about what happened this afternoon.

“Lucas listen this is really important we can go over how bad you feel for not finding me later, right now we have to save Will from Andre” Sami informed her ex-husband.

Hearing the name Andre, Lucas was taken aback wasn’t he dead? But then again when you are talking about a DiMera one can never count on them staying dead. And why would he be after Will? Because he found Sami if that’s the reason way they need to get to Roman and Bo right away let everyone in Salem know what had happened. Let the cops handle Andre.

“We should call you’re Father, Sami he will make sure no one hurts Will” Lucas said as he got up fishing his cell phone out of his pocket.

“No we can’t no one can know” Sami yelled as she handed Allie to Will and got up off the couch. Grabbing Lucas she pulled him into the next room knowing what she had to say was better said away from their children’s ears.

Once the door was closed behind them Sami looked Lucas in the eyes he knew something else beside Will having found her hostage this afternoon had happened. Putting his phone back where he got it from Lucas asked worry lacing his voice “What’s going on Sami why can’t we go to the police with you’re kidnapping?”

“It’s like the past is reliving it’s self” Sami started then stopped as tears once again ran down her face she hadn’t cried this much since the first days she had been locked in that room alone. Lucas pulled her into his arms and held her close not knowing just how much he had missed this until Sami melt into his arms. “ Now I know how Daddy felt coming back after years awhile to find no one has missed you that someone else replace you and no one knew.”

“Oh Sami I’m so sorry I sure have known.” Lucas said as he rubbed circle on Sami’s back trying to comfort her. “I should have known you wouldn’t willingly sleep with EJ even if I did walk in on you well her in bed with him”

“What? You walked in on what?” Sami asked forgetting herself and the reason she had pulled Lucas in here in the first place. “How could you not know something was up with the fake me. I mean EJ raped me of course I wouldn’t sleep with him willingly”

Sami pulled herself out of Lucas’ arms at that and started rubbing her arms over themselves. How could Lucas think she would sleep with EJ? The man had raped her as she plead with him not to do this, that she loved Lucas and she just needed his help to save Lucas.

But then again she didn’t know anything about this imposter Sami so she couldn’t hold this against Lucas at least not right now Will comes first and fighting with Lucas over something that had happened years ago wasn’t going to help him.

Lucas felt lower then dirt Sami was right he should have known something was wrong. That Sami wasn’t herself because he knew without a doubt that she would never have willingly slept with Alan after he had raped her why then had he been so quick to believe Sami would sleep with EJ?

‘Maybe because I felt I deserved it’ Lucas thought to himself ‘If only I had believed Sami when I found her in bed with Brandon. None of this would have happened. Sami and I would have been married when EJ got to town and she would have either been pregnant or taking care of a newborn no time to meet new people in town. EJ wouldn’t have been a part of our lives’.

“I should have know it wasn’t you. It just hurt so much finding you with him just after I got out of jail.” Lucas said looking at Sami hoping she would drop the position she held herself in.

“Lucas” Sami whisper as she walked back into his arms “I’m sorry she hurt you like that. It’s not you’re fault this happened it’s mine. I never should have let EJ blackmail me into marrying him”
“Sami you did what you though you had to do even though I didn’t agree with you” Lucas said knowing that rehashing the past was something he and Sami were going to be doing a lot of.

“I shouldn’t have though it has cost us so much time as a family, and now it could cost us Will” Sami said as she cried on Lucas shoulder.

“Sami why could it cost us Will?” Lucas asked feeling dread fill him inside as he remembered how pale Will had looked when he had seen him just a little bit ago.

“Because while I’m reliving my Father’s life, Will is reliving your’s” Sami answered as she pulled back and looked Lucas into his eyes.

“No” Lucas said having already guess at what Sami meant there could only be one thing that he had done that would make Sami this upset and wanting to protect Will at all cost.

“No tell me he didn’t” Lucas plead with Sami now finding himself the one needing comfort.

“He did it to save me like you saved Kate” Sami told Lucas knowing he would understand everything now. “We have to protect Will, no one can ever know what he has done”

Lucas nodded his head against Sami shoulder, while finding Sami and rescuing her would have made Andre mad there was nothing he could do about that without getting himself arrested. But this if he could convince people Will kill a man in cold blood Andre would have his revenge. And Will could be headed to jail for the rest of his life if not the death chamber like Sami had been.

No they couldn’t let that happen they had to get Will clear of this somehow. No matter what Lucas wasn’t going to allow his son to go to jail for protecting his Mother just like he had done some many years ago.

“We will protect our son Sami no one will hurt Will” Lucas promised as he felt tears running down his own face.

[Sw]

Chapter 6


“First things first we have to keep you hidden” Lucas told Sami as he paced back and forth trying to clear his mind and get a answer to how to handle this without the help of his Mother.
“You have to tell me everything of how it happened and where the body is?” Lucas asked the last with a grim feeling.

“It happened in a basement hallway of the DiMera mansion one Will told me that is very well hidden” Sami said as she nervously rubbed her hands together. “We were hiding in a storage room because we heard a man talking on a cell phone ahead of us. He was telling Andre I’m guessing that they didn’t need to keep me alive any longer that” Sami stopped here she found it hard to continue it hadn’t really hit her full force yet that she was if Will hadn’t of found her about to be killed. “ the new Sami had fool everyone”

Lucas stopped his pacing at hearing this staring at Sami he felt once again he had let her down. If Will hadn’t have found his Mother they never would have known that the Sami who lived in Salem now was a fake. His Sami would have died and no one would have ever known. He would have gone on disliking her until his love for her turned into hate again.

Lucas could almost see in that moment what the future would have been like if Sami wouldn’t have been found. It would have been a lot like their past. He would have sued for full custody of Allie and Will not wanting them around the DiMeras no matter how much he loved Johnny and didn’t want to separate the twins he couldn’t let his children be around the DiMeras. Not his little girl not after what EJ had done to Sami. It was bad enough he had allowed it up until now.
But in his defense when he left Sami hadn’t been that close with EJ at the time.

“I don’t know how many times I can say this and it not sound untrue but I’m so sorry Sami, I should have known it wasn’t you.” Lucas stated once again “It was just like the whole Brandon thing I knew in my heart you wouldn’t do that but my eyes just won out.”

Sami nodded her head knowing this subject would eat away at Lucas for along time. But also knowing she had her own guilty that ate away at her over Lucas going to jail. If only wasn’t going to help them at the moment and neither was hashing out the past.

“We have to let our guilty over the past mistakes we’ve made go for now. We have to think of a plan on getting us all out of Salem without anyone catching us” Sami said as she then decide to continue on with her tale of what happened in the DiMera basement. “We stayed hidden and after a minute are so we didn’t hear the man any longer so I made Will stay in the room while I looked around in the hallway. I didn’t want Will to get caught so I looked around and once I was sure it was safe I was going to tell him to come out when all of a sudden I was grabbed me from behind.”

Sami was lost in the memory of her fear for Will it didn’t matter what happened to her at the time all that did was making sure Will was safe. “I was fighting with my capture to tell you the truth I don’t remember everything clearly with that only that he pulled a gun on me and then there was a shot and the man turned and fell.”

“All I cared about was Will and that he was okay, I could tell he didn’t really realize what he had done yet” Sami said knowing Lucas understood how she was feeling she didn’t’ have to explain how the man who was killed didn’t seems as important as their son’s wellbeing would.

Lucas could understand how Will would have been feeling at one time he had been in Will’s place and all that had matter at the time was protecting his Mother. Killing Franco though was something as hard as he tried to forget would never leave him. He had taken a life and in the wee hours of the morning it haunt him. But unlike Will, Lucas was also haunt by his Mother framing Sami for the murder. How if he would have been a minute later Sami would be dead for a crime which he had done one which wasn’t a real crime at all.


“He was just so scared Lucas, I had to act fast so I asked Will to help me move the body to my old room under lock and key” Sami wanted to get this whole story out. So they could get on with planning on what to do next. “We put him on the couch in my old room and then I wiped the room and door clean. I asked Will if he had found any security room when he was searching the basement and he told me he had.”

Lucas listened knowing that right now he just need to get the whole story before asking anymore questions.

“It was a few stair flights up to the security room and Will found out that my capture had already looped the basement feeds. So he erased everything and turned off the cameras inside and outside the house and we got out of there” Sami finished knowing for know that was all Lucas would need to know. The details on everything else could wait.

“The gun Will used Sami where is it at?” Lucas asked having listened to everything Sami had done to protect their son. But not having heard about the item that Will has used to protect his Mother.

“Oh no” Sami said feeling the dumbest she ever had in her life. “I don’t know what happened to the gun Will had.” She started shaking the gun her kidnapper had Sami still had in Will’s jacket pocket. “I took the guy’s gun and left Will’s behind. How stupid am I?”

Lucas grabbed Sami shaking her, he could see she was going into shock. “That doesn’t matter right now Sami I will take care of getting the gun.”

“What we have to do right now is get you a room for the night. And get Will, Allie, and Me back to the DiMera mansion for the night. Once there I’ll take Will with me and we will get the gun” Lucas informed Sami as a planned start forming in his head.

“You’re right Lucas, beating myself up over the gun isn’t going to help. But we must have walked right past it in the hallway and I didn’t even see it” Sami replied as she tried not to think of all that could go wrong if someone found that gun before Lucas and Will could get to it.

“Come on let’s get the kids together and find you a room unfortunately it will be in the bad part of town that’s the only place a person can rent a room without a id.” Lucas told Sami wanting to get her dropped off and back to the mansion and to that gun as soon as possible.
“Let me give you my cell number so you can call me if anything comes up” Lucas said as he and Sami walked back into the living room to see both Allie and Will now were sleeping.

“Okay but don’t worry about me Lucas I still have the gun I got from my kidnapper” Sami said pulling the gun out of her pocket to show Lucas.

Lucas just shook his head and wrote down his cell number on a piece of paper he found and then pulled out a few hundred dollars from his wallet. “Take this you’re going to need money for the room and food.”

Sami took the money sticking it in her pants pocket and the gun back into her jacket pocket. She still felt stupid for forgetting the gun. If only she hadn’t of done that they could have just gotten Johnny and taken off. But no now her oldest Son had to return to that mansion where he just killed a man to protect her.

“Buddy wake up” Lucas said as he gently grabbed Will’s shoulder not wanting to wake Allie up as well. Because he wasn’t sure how to explain to Allie that her Mother was here and looked a lot different.

“Dad I had the weirdest dream” Will started then stopped when he seen his Mother standing behind his Father. It wasn’t a dream he had saved his Mother from being killed and now he was a murder.

“It’s okay Will you’re Mom told me what happened it wasn’t you’re fault don’t blame yourself” Lucas said all he wanted to do at this moment was take Will into his arms like he had done when he was Allie’s age and rock him back and forth and make the hurt his son was feeling go away.

“We have to drop you’re Mom off at a motel and then go back to the mansion tonight act like nothing has happened and get the gun you used” Lucas stated not wanting to say it but knowing he had to.

“The gun how could we forget the gun?” Will asked feeling just as stupid as his Mother had earlier.

“Don’t beat yourself up over this, you both weren’t thinking straight alright it’s not either of your faults.” Lucas said as he looked from Son to Mother. After that Lucas went and picked Allie up and started for the door Sami waked ahead of him and opened the door for them. Knowing time was something they didn’t have a lot of Will followed his parents out the door shutting it after he turned off the lights.

Allie was put in the back seat and Will set next to her Sami took the front passenger side knowing that if Allie woke and saw her she didn’t think she would be able to leave her little girl again.

Lucas hasn’t lied when he said only in the bad part of town would she find a motel room looking it over Sami was glad she had the gun in her pocket. Lucas looked at her from the drivers side of the car “You don’t have to stay here Sami let me rent a room for you in my name somewhere nicer”

“No we can’t take the chance right now I’ll be fine here. I’ll call you first thing in the morning and we will meet somewhere else and make plans on getting our kids out of Salem as fast as possible” Sami stated with no room for argument on Lucas’ part.

Opening the car door Sami got out then turned and said “Go on get to the DiMera mansion get that gun. I can handle getting a room for the night on my own”

Lucas nodded his head knowing and Will and him both didn’t like leaving Sami here alone after just having gotten her back. But following her order Lucas pulled the car away after Sami closed the door leaving her alone on the wrong side of town with a gun in her pocket. Those didn’t really sound like good things to Lucas.

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

“Dad before we go into the mansion you have to know we can’t talk about Mom there are anything that happened in the basement in case they’ve turn the cameras back on.” Will said as they pull onto the DiMera driveway.

“You’re right Will as soon as we get Allie to her room we have to head for the basement get the gun and get out of there” Lucas said as he stopped his car. “But we have to stay the night Will can you do that are would you rather stay at a friends house?”

Will knew he didn’t want to stay another night in the DiMera mansion but he couldn’t leave his Father and siblings there alone. Besides he planned on meeting with his Mother tomorrow morning when his Dad went to talk to her and he couldn’t do that if he went to stay with a friend.

“Okay then just know if you need me you can come to my room at anytime of the night” Lucas stated feeling trapped by how things were playing out at the moment.

“I’ll be okay Dad don’t worry” Will said trying to act the man he was becoming.

Lucas and Will got out of the car and his time he decide he wanted to be the one who carried Allie. So Lucas held open the door so his two children could walk into the enemies lair.

What Will and Lucas hadn’t counted on was walking into the house and hearing ‘Sami’ and EJ talking. Both Horton men looked at each other and felt like throwing up listen to the fake Sami.
They were talking about Johnny and Sydney and what they would like to do with them the next day. Lucas felt angry at them only a few hours ago he would have thought Sami had forgotten all about their daughter. But now he felt relived that they hadn’t made any plans for his daughter to be part of their little family. It was bad enough they were making plans for Johnny he knew Sami wouldn’t like to hear about that.

Lucas knew the real Sami wanted to get out of Salem with all her children that included Johnny and Lucas was all for that but he wasn’t sure just yet how they would go about doing that just yet. But he did know they weren’t leaving Johnny behind even if he was EJ’s son.

Silently as they could be Will and Lucas took Allie to her room putting her on the bed they left her there knowing she would wake up soon they had to get to that gun and back before then.

They made it to the basement stairs in record time noting that no one was around they headed down them. Neither one of them said a word not wanting to take a chance the cameras might be back on. It seemed to Will it took them forever to reach the hallway where he had taken a man’s life earlier in the day.

Will grabbed his Dad by the arm when they reached the door of the storage room. Lucas stopped and started looking around on the floor then on right next to the wall was a gun. Lucas bent down and pick it up it looked to be a older gun. But before he could get a better look at it Will had taken it from his hand and was wiping it down with what looked to be a wash cloth.

Then when he was done Will opened the door behind him enter the storage area and walked right back to the glass case he found said gun he had in his hand in. Putting it back and wiping the glass case off.

Lucas just watched as his Son took charge and he couldn’t help but be impressed by Will. He was leaving the gun right where he found it make it look like it had never been touched. Hopefully when the body was found it would be awhile from now and no one would think of one of these guns as the murder weapon.

They both headed out of the storage room and then Will wiped the handle off. They headed back up the stairs Will was in the lead and Lucas almost run into him when he stopped at another room ‘this must be the security room’ Lucas thought as Will walked into it.

“It’s okay we can talk now Dad there still off” Will said looking at the TV screens that were all blank.

“Is there anything else you can think of we need to do?” Lucas asked Will as he took in the security room.

“No I think Mom took care of everything else” Will said as he took a set in te chair next to the computer. He didn’t want to return to the upper part of the house and play son to his fake mother.
“When do you thank anyone will notice the Butler’s gone?” Will asked trying to keep from looking at his Father not wanting to see his face when he talked about the man his son killed.

“It was the Butler that was holding you’re Mother?” Lucas asked not really surprised anyone who worked for the DiMeras could be considered a criminal. Lucas felt at times like hitting himself in the head for ever working for Tony even if it was for a little while.

“Yes I murder the Butler, Dad and I was so busy with my own life I don’t even know his name” Will stated with tears filling his eyes.

“Oh my little Buddy” Lucas said not caring that his son was almost fully grown he walked to the chair Will was setting in and pulled him into his arms. “It’s not you’re fault no one would call you a murderer for saving you’re Mother”

“But Mom always called you one for saving your’s” Will replied saying something he had never told anyone he heard before out loud.

Lucas felt anger at Sami flash through his mind but then dropped it because if his mother Kate hadn’t of framed Sami for murder she wouldn’t have said that and Will wouldn’t have overhear.

“You’re Mom didn’t really mean that Will she was just angry at Me for her being framed for murder.” Lucas said wishing Sami was beside him now telling their son the same thing making him understand she didn’t mean it.

“No one and I mean no one would call you a murderer because you’re not one” Lucas stated as Will pulled away from him. “You’re not Will, but I won’t lie to you this will haunt you with what if. But you did the right thing and so did I with Franco what I did wrong and still haunts me until this day is I almost killed you when I ran off with you after drinking.”

Lucas didn’t know if Will even knew about that. “I was driving with you and ran into a tree and while I was knocked out you’re Grandmother Kate framed you’re Mother for Franco’s murder.”

“When I woke up I wanted to tell the truth and was going to but you’re Grandma kept telling me she would get into trouble for framing you’re Mom and that Sami was innocent and she wouldn’t get found guilty. I still would have told Sami but she was so angry at me for getting you hurt” Lucas stopped he had to admit to his faults and not let his son think it was okay the part he played and almost getting Sami killed.

“I was just so angry and hurt at you’re Mom then Will, I took the easy way out and drown myself in drink. To forget what was going on when you’re Mom was find guilty then I married Nicole and things just kind of snow balled until I confessed to save you’re Mother’s life”

Lucas hated what he allowed to happen back then and he knew a main reason his Mother had been able to setup Sami and Brandon was because he wouldn’t allow himself to take the blame for almost getting Sami killed. He wouldn’t allow his memory to go back to a time when he hated Sami as much as his Mother had. To even be clear minded enough to see Sami had been telling the truth he should have known it Kate had tried with his help to kill Sami how many times? Yes while killing Franco didn’t make him a murderer having helped his Mother almost kill Sami so many times made him something much worse in Lucas own eyes. Even if all those times he didn’t want Sami dead he had just wanted to keep Will.

“Dad” Will didn’t know how to response to what his Father had just told him. Grandma Kate had tried to kill his Mother there was no way around that. Sure he knew she had set up his Mother with the whole Brandon thing but to know she had actually try to have her killed well that was a whole other can of worms that Will at the moment didn’t think he could handle.

“I know you can’t forgive me for helping your Grandmother for framing you’re Mother, but you have to know something you can’t trust you’re Grandma Kate.” Lucas said it hurt to say this because it had taken him so long to admit it but Kate Roberts only looked out for herself.

“If something happens don’t go to her for help she would turn on you in a minute if it will save herself.” Lucas spoken this from a lesson he already had learned along time ago he still had the scars to prove it.

Will looked at his Father and felt bad for him he didn’t hate him. He knew a lot of things had happened between his parents when he was younger that wasn’t good. His Mother had done things to his Father as well he was sure. She had a habit of lashing out when she was upset not really realizing how she was hurting those around her. Look at the whole Stan thing that just proved people did stupid things when they were hurt.

“Dad I don’t hate you and yes I can forgive you” Will said knowing if his Mother had die over that whole Franco thing he wouldn’t have been able too. But his Mother had if she hadn’t of there wouldn’t be a Allie here now so he wasn’t going to hold it against his Dad either.

“We better get back up to Allie’s room before she wakes up and gets scared” Lucas said knowing they had to get out of the basement sometime and he really just wanted this day to be over with so he could meet with the real Sami again. And come up with a plan to get their family out of Salem.

[Sw]

Chapter 7

Dinner that night was a long drawn out affair for the two Horton men both thought they held their tongues well enough at how EJ and ‘Sami’ acted around each other. Will of course had to act normal and that was for him to make smart remarks to just about anything EJ said. Lucas himself had to keep from laughing at some of them.

‘Sami’ had reprimand Will about his behavior towards EJ and it had taken both of their self control not to yell out it was none of her business. Lucas for his part at the dinner table tried not to stare at the fake Sami. Now knowing the truth it was easy to see she wasn’t really Sami. It was in the way she held herself she didn’t have the Sami Brady glare down right either he had been receiving it all evening when he didn’t correct Will’s behavior himself.

Instead he focused on the twins, Allie and Johnny were setting next to each other. And Lucas couldn’t help but feel the same pull towards Johnny that he always felt with Allie. They were just quietly eating their mash potatoes. Lucas would smile as he watched them carefully hide as they pushed their peas off their plates onto the floor. He wasn’t going to tell on them even though he was Allie’s Dad and should make her eat her greens he couldn’t bare to break up this sister/brother bonding time between them.

Sydney wasn’t at the table with them ‘Sami’ had announced to the whole room before dinner that she had already retired for the night. And Lucas was thankful for that he didn’t want to have to watch Allie play with her baby ‘sister’ knowing now that she wasn’t. And that soon Allie would been missing her.

It did explain though why Sydney didn’t look like any of her siblings. Only Johnny would be related to her and only as a half-brother. Johnny though didn’t look like Sydney either he looked more to like if Lucas didn’t know better he would say himself. But that wasn’t possible EJ was Johnny’s Father the dna test proved that.

It didn’t matter though because soon when Sami and he along with Will come up with a plan they would be taking Johnny and Allie away from here and Lucas would raise Johnny as his own son. Once they did leave though with Johnny Lucas knew the DiMeras won’t stop looking for them they would be on the run for years not just from EJ and Stefano from Andre as well.

Those thoughts didn’t scare Lucas though the Twins had to be rescued from the DiMeras just like Sami had been only hours ago. Sure he had shared custody of Allie but with the way fake ‘Sami’ was hanging off of every word EJ said that meant half the time his daughter would be around EJ and that was something Lucas wasn’t going to stand for.

What Lucas didn’t understand was what had happened to Rafe wasn’t Sami dating him last he knew? Well it really wouldn’t surprise him if Rafe wised up and left Sami behind she was always doing something to drive men away. Lucas stopped mid chew and almost chocked on his food. He had just been thinking about fake Sami as real Sami. It was real Sami who always drove her ex’s away with schemes to keep them. Not fake Sami that meant he was going to have to keep his guard up after this whole get out of Salem protect their children thing past with Sami she was bound to have a scheme cooked up soon to keep him.

That thought made Lucas smile because he knew the Sami he had dropped off at the motel earlier still had feelings for him and would stop at nothing once this was over to make him hers. Should he play hard to get or just pray to God she still wanted him once she learned he had married Chloe while she was locked in a room in the basement for two years?

“Are you okay Lucas?” Kate asked her son hoping he wasn’t chocking.

“I’m fine Mom just tired with the time change and Grands funeral I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep lately” Lucas lied so easily it just rolled off his tongue he didn’t’ even have to think about it. Because that was his reply the last few days to anyone who asked him a question he didn’t want to answer or when he was caught staring off into space.

He couldn’t very well tell everyone he was thinking about Sami and what a mess his life had become since their first failed wedding. Just like he couldn’t tell his Mother what he was really thinking. Will locked eyes with his Father and nodded his head understanding all to well the lie and with a small smile started eating his own food knowing he wasn’t going to be able to use that excuse to get out of acting weird.

So Will had to keep up the act of caring what his fake Mother was doing with EJ. When he really just wanted to scream at the two of them they deserved each other both were fake people pretending to be something they were not. EJ playing at being a nice honesty person and his fake Mother pretending to be Sami Brady.

One thing though being forced to eat dinner with these people was keeping him on guard and not allowing him to think about having shot the Bulter. Didn’t anyone even realize the man was missing yet no one had mentioned it?

Looking around the table Will kept a eye on Stefano if anyone was going to figure out something was wrong with his Dad and him Stefano would be the one to who would.
‘Have to keep it together’ Will kept telling himself silently. ‘For Mom and the Twins’

“Well I think I’ve had enough of this sham of a family dinner I’m going to bed” Will announced looking at his Father hoping he had set it up right for Lucas to realize he need to discipline him for that statement in such a manner.

Lucas had been once again staring at the twins when he had heard Will but knew if he didn’t say something ‘Sami’ would and right now Will didn’t need that he had taken enough of her rebukes all through dinner.

“Willaim Horton I know that your Mother and I rasied you better then that” Lucas said knowing as he looked at Will that this was what his son wanted Lucas understood Will wanted a out so he didn’t have to act the part of son for the rest of the night for this fake Sami.

“I think you should go up to you’re room and stay there for the rest of the night and think about how you’re behavior is upsetting you’re siblings” Lucas stated knowing he was doing Will a favor while he would have rather have Will here with him where he could keep a eye on him, Lucas knew Will needed to get away from what he rightly called sham of a family.

“Dad I’m just telling the truth this isn’t a family it’s a prison one I can’t wait to get out of” Will said as he got up out of his chair and almost ran out of room. Hardly keeping the smile off of his face once he was freed from the dinner table.

“I don’t’ know what we’re going to do with him Lucas, he’s just so angry all of the time.” Fake Sami said sounding like a concerned parent. “He just doesn’t seem to understand that Rafe and I aren’t getting back together no matter how badly he wants it”

Lucas couldn’t help it his mouth fell open Will wanted Sami to get back together with Rafe? Why in the world would he want that? Rafe wasn’t his Father and while the guy seemed like he was a stand up all around good guy Will wanting his Mother with him didn’t make much sinces.
Now if Will had been fighting about wanting his parents back together Lucas could have understood that. But not Rafe had he really been gone that long it was only a few months that Will had replaced him with Rafe in his life?

Lucas felt at that moment that he had failed as a Father. Wasn’t it only a few years ago that Will was ranting about wanting his parents together? Was he so easy to replace with Rafe? It seemed Sami had been easily replaced with her imposter.

“You know Will, Sami he doesn’t take to new men in you’re life well” Lucas said trying to keep his resentment at bay for being so easily case off by Will wanting another man as Father. “He didn’t like Rafe at first did he?”

“I feel you’ve let him get away with this behavior far to long” EJ said making his way into the conversation that he had no business being in.

“EJ” Stefano said as he saw the flash of anger in Lucas’ eyes “We should let Samantha and Lucas discuss this among themselves.”

“No Father, as long as Will lives in this house he should show respect to his elders” EJ started
“He has been nothing but rude ever since I’ve been living here again. And I’m sick of it.”

Lucas kept waiting for ‘Sami’ to jump in and yell at EJ for talking about Will. But low and behold fake ‘Sami’ really showed her true colors while she just set back and allowed the man that raped the real Sami to talk about who she thought was her son.

“Will needs to be punished and told to behavior his age he’s too old to act the part of spoiled brat” EJ finished and just went back to eating.

Lucas looked around the table waiting for ‘Sami’ or his Mother to day something in defence of Will but neither one did. Yes Will was behaving like a brat but who was this man to demand his son be punished?

“Well if you can’t stand Will’s behavior it’s a good thing you weren’t around when Sami was that age you would have disliked her as well” Lucas said as he got up out of his seat not able to play this little game any longer of happy ex husband setting down to dinner with the new man in his ex wife’s life. The man that caused the end of their marriage.

“I’m going to retired for the night” Lucas said not looking back as he left the group to talk about Will’s behavior and how it came from Lucas no doubt.

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


Knocking on Will’s door Lucas stood in the hallway mindful that the converstation he was going to have with Will had to stay in certain areas. But he needed to know what had been going on the last few months in Will’s life. Coming back for his GrandMother’s funeral Lucas hadn’t had time yet to seat down and really talk to Will. And now he could see just how much his son needed that.

‘I shouldn’t have left’ Lucas thought as he took in how messed up Will’s life seemed to be. The last few months he hardly got to talk to Will on the phone with the time difference. His son had needed him while he was off trying to forget Salem and his problems. Lucas knew he should have taken Will with him when he had come and gotten Allie for her visit. But Will hadn’t wanted to leave because of school.

“Will it’s Dad can I come in?” Lucas asked thinking maybe Will was playing at being asleep not wanting to talk to anyone else in the house.

“Come in Dad” Will answered has he opened his door looking behind Lucas making sure no one else was with him.

“Did they send you up after me to give me the talk about showing some respect to Mom and EJ?” Will asked.

“No” Lucas laughingly answered “I’m sure their talking about how much alike you and I are”

“I’m surprise Grandma Kate isn’t up here with you.” Will said shutting the door behind his Dad.

“Well I’m sure she would have offered to come with me if I give her the opportunity which I didn’t. I think we need to have a Father, Son talk” Lucas said wishing he was anywhere else to have this conversation. Because they couldn’t talk freely here.

“Why didn’t you tell me how awful it’s been for you here?” Lucas asked not wanting to start off with how Will’s behavior had been unacceptable. Because if that had been the real Sami down stairs and anyone else but EJ, Lucas just shook his head if it had been anyone else Will wouldn’t have been acting this way not this bad.

“Dad I just I didn’t want to hurt you, make you think you were letting me down by not being here” Will said mindful of his answer. Now wasn’t the time to get into a angument with his Dad over the mess that their lives had been for the last few years.

‘They shouldn’t have sent me away’ Will thought ‘I would have known it wasn’t Mom if only I had been here when they were switched’ thinking like that though wasn’t going to help at the moment.

“Nothing is as important to me as you and you’re sister. Don’t you know that Will?” Lucas asked setting on the edge of Will’s bed. “I know when Me and you’re Mom got divorced you were upset and I don’t think you’ve forgiven me and you’re Mom for that”

Will of course wanted to denial it tell his Dad it wasn’t true he wasn’t that little kid anymore who believe if he tried hard enough his parents would get together and they would be the perfect family that all his friends seemed to have. But as he opened his mouth to denial it nothing came out instead he found himself crying and his Dad wrapping his arms around him.

“I’m so sorry Will, you didn’t deserved all the troubles Me and you’re Mother have put you though.” Lucas said feeling like a heel because Will wasn’t just crying because of the last few years and what fake Sami had done. No it was all the years before that too all the hurt he and Sami had done to their son in their quest to cut the other out of Will’s life. Thinking they were doing Will a favor by trying to take his other parent from him.

“I’m going to tell everyone tomorrow at breakfast that you’re coming to live with me in Tokyo” Lucas said just incase the cameras were back on knowing Tokyo was the last place they would be going after Sami and their children left Salem.

Will nodded his head and wiped away his tears he was almost a man and grown men didn’t cry all the time. Beside it looked like he might be getting that perfect family he always wanted soon once again.

“I sure EJ will be happy to be rid of me” Will stated.

“Well it doesn’t matter what EJ thinks” Lucas said knowing that what he was about to asks was going to hurt him but he needed to know where Will stood on this subject “But it does matter what you think about Rafe?”

“Rafe?” Will asked almost ascent mindedly where had that come from? “I think he’s okay well better then EJ. Why do you what to know?” Will asked wanting to know what Rafe has to do with anything any longer his real Mother didn’t even know Rafe.

“It’s just down stairs you’re Mother” Lucas had to forced that word out. “said you wanted her with Rafe. And I just don’t understand why I mean I can see you not wanting her with EJ but why Rafe and not well Me?” Lucas asked trying to make it sound unimportant.

“Dad, I don’t want Rafe to be my Father no one can take you’re place. Mom has tried that enough times that I’m sure you would know that by now.” Will said as he remember the men his Mother always tried to replace his Father with. “But Rafe he’s a good guy he’s not going to hurt Mom by losing his cool like Brandon would have and he loves her not like Uncle Austin who wanted to change Mom all the time.”

“But most importantly I kind of thought once you got over you’re whole marriage to Chloe you could come and steal Mom away from Rafe” Will added the last super fast not wanting really to admit to having thought that. “I mean Rafe is a great guy and all but he is kind of boring and you know Mom she doesn’t do boring”

Lucas couldn’t help but laugh at that only his and Sami’s child would want his Mother with a boring guy so he could be a place holder until his Father could come back into the picture.

“Oh Will you are too much like you’re Mother and Me”


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



Lucas was almost asleep when he heard a knock at his bedroom door. Getting up incase it was Will or Allie and opening the door. It was neither of his children instead it was ‘Sami’.

“What do you want Sami I was trying to get some sleep” Lucas rudely stated falling back into a patren him and the real Sami had used for many years.

“I wanted to know if you had talked to Will tonight?” ‘Sami’ asked.

‘Oh’ Lucas thought ‘she acting the part of Mother now’. Running his hand thrown his hair trying to keep remembering this wasn’t the real Sami standing before him. This wasn’t like when Sami would come over when the killings were going on to talk about Will and really want to be around him and used Will as a excuse.

“I’m actually glad you’ve come by’ Lucas said as he opened his door wide and let the fake ‘Sami’ into his room. “I talked to Will and we’ve decided it would be better if he would return with me to Tokyo when I leave in a few days.”

“Will leaving the country isn’t going to help with his resentment of Me or EJ” ‘Sami’ stated.

“I think it will, he doesn’t want to be here Sami you heard what he said at the dinner table. Getting away from Salem I think is what’s best for Will” Lucas defended finding he had to come up with reasons he would have given the real Sami.

“You’re just trying to steal Will from me just like you’ve always wanted to do” ‘Sami’ yelled she wasn’t going to let Lucas take her son away from her.

“I’m not I promised I would never take Will away from his Mother remember and I’m not.” Lucas said knowing he planned on making sure Will was with his Mother soon. “But Sami he’s miserable here. How can you want him to stay here when you know he’s so unhappy.”

‘Sami’ just nodded her head with a defeated look on her face knowing Lucas was right and yet not wanting her little man to leave her.

“We have to do what is best for Will, Sami and living with me for awhile is what’s best” Lucas said really finding it hard to believe he hadn’t seen this woman before him wasn’t Sami before she was really going to fall for this. The real Sami wouldn’t let Will go to another country to live with Lucas sure he would be planning on turning Will against her even though they were on good terms again.

No the real Sami would have demanded that Lucas move back to Salem and then she would have let Will move in temporary with him until she got her own place back. Come on the real Sami never would have let her son move into the DiMera mansion something he was sure Sami wasn’t going to let me forget anytime soon.

“I know you’re right Lucas but it doesn’t make it any easier on me. Allie and Johnny are going to miss having their big brother around” ‘Sami’ said looking around the room as she turned back towards the door on her way out.

“Don’t forget Sami that I still have two weeks left with Allie” Lucas said knowing if he wanted to get all the kids out of Salem he had to start with his own and then work on a plan to get Johnny as well.
“Wait you want to take both Will and Allie with you back to Tokyo?” ‘Sami’ asked.

“Yes it will be easier on Allie that way she can get used to the idea of Will living with me. And who knows maybe just after a few weeks Will might shape up and decide to return with Allie” Lucas laid the latter on so Sami would not put up as big a fight about Allie coming too.

“I don’t know Lucas, Johnny missed Allie so much during her visit with you already. I don’t know if I can do that to him again.” ‘Sami’ said thinking of her little boy who was all upset without his twin around.

“Sami we share custody and it’s my turn with Allie. If Johnny is that upset you know I would love to have him come along I still think of that little boy like my own” Lucas offered praying she would agree but knowing that EJ wouldn’t allow the DiMera heir out of the states.

“Thanks Lucas but I don’t think Johnny visiting Tokyo is in the cards after all like you said we share custody of our kids not mine and EJ’s.” Sami said as she opened the door and walked through it. “We’re talk about this more in the morning after you’ve gotten some sleep”

As the door closed Lucas walked back to the bed and grabbed a pillow putting it over his face and screamed. This ‘Sami’ was a real piece of work. Lucas didn’t think he was going to be able to get any sleep tonight with thoughts of Johnny being raised by EJ running through his mind. Somehow Lucas knew he had to come up with a plan to get Johnny away from the DiMeras.

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


Meanwhile across town the real Sami Brady had found she couldn’t sleep the motel room she had rented was dirty and bugs seemed to make their selves right at home in every corner.

So Sami had decided to try and watch Tv anything to keep her mind off of the bugs and what was happening at the DiMera mansion. Had they found the gun was her family safe? Had anyone found her captured yet? Thinking these thoughts over and over was driving her crazy when she couldn’t get any answers.

The motel didn’t have cable so Sami found she could only get a few channels. What had really gotten her mouth to drop open was when she seen a clip of Nicole on the news. Not so much that she was now playing news reporter but that her last name happened to be DiMera.

If Nicole was a DiMera that meant she either married Stefano or EJ. And with Nicole you never knew which one it could be after all she was married to Victor for awhile. But Sami thought Nicole had learned her lesson with older men. So more then likely that meant she was married to EJ. And once again had played step mother to one of her sons.

But if she was married to EJ why was she working as a news reporter? And from Lucas’ comments about finding the fake Sami in bed with EJ the real Sami kind of thought they were together. This being Salem though anything was possible.

Having finally found a rerun of a show she had been watching before her kidnapping Sami try to relax and enjoy the show maybe even close her eyes for a few minutes as she waited for morning to come and she could get out of this motel.

Resting her eyes for a moment or what seemed like a moment to Sami brought sun light from the window showing her that she must have fallen asleep setting up on the bed. The morning news was on and Sami got caught up in it when they told of the memorial service for long time Salem residented and Horton Foundation founder Alice Horton. Sami couldn’t help but feel sad about Mrs. Horton’s passing she was such a great lady they just didn’t make them that way any longer. Having been married so many years to Doctor Horton and never once did they stray from each other. Sami couldn’t even say the same about her Brady grandparents.

How wonderful that would be to have a love like that. Sami knew she and Lucas could have that if only they would trust each other completely. “That is if Lucas hasn’t already found someone else” Sami whispered aloud.

From what she got from Will and then Lucas it seemed that right after he was released from jail Lucas had caught fake Sami with EJ. So knowing Lucas like she did Sami knew he went out and fell into the arms of the first available women he could find. It was something Lucas had done even before she had met him for comfort.

Was Lucas seeing someone? He didn’t have a wedding ring on so that gave Sami hope that they might be able to repair the damage she had allowed the DiMeras to do to them. And even if he was seeing someone from Tokyo was it? That was going to last long not once they got their kids out of Salem and went on the ran from Andre.

Sami knew she shouldn’t be thinking romance right now not when all her mind power was better at figuring out how to get the twins away from her fake self. But she couldn’t help but think of Lucas and the way he made her feel. Lucas was the love of her life and Sami found she couldn’t help but want to be with him. For so long she had forced herself to keep thinking he was alive and suffering in jail instead of dead by the DiMeras’ hand.

And all this time it she was the only one that was being held. Lucas had gotten out and what moved to Tokyo that just didn’t’ make sense why would he leave their kids into the hands of the DiMeras like that? Did he realize just how dangerous they are hadn’t working for Andre possing as Tony learned him anything?

You don’t mess with the DiMeras and you surely don’t just hand you’re kids over to them. ‘Not like stupid me did” Sami thought as she got up off the bed and walked to what passed for a bathroom.

Sami didn’t know why Will was living in the DiMera mansion are why Lucas was staying there with Allie either but whatever the reason it had better be a good one are there would be hell to be paid for Lucas.

Getting as clean as she could without a tooth brush Sami braided her hair and washed her face with soap and her hands not trusting the wash cloth. Once that was done she made her way back to the bed and Will’s jacket with the gun still in the pocket as she decided to find a pay phone to call Lucas instead of using her rooms phone.

Sami just wanted to get back in touch with Lucas and get starting planning the exit from Salem for their family.

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


Lucas had gotten out of the DiMera mansion before sunrise. He knew Will would want to go with him to see Sami but before that Lucas had a few things he needed to do. He was now just returning and hoped that Will was up and ready to leave the mansion so they could skip breakfast with the DiMeras.

So to say Lucas was shocked to see Will outside the mansion wouldn’t be true but what was is that he had Allie and Johnny with him all dressed and ready to go. Had Will decided to just take the kids now. That wasn’t really a good idea at the moment not until they we’re sure that Will was cleared of murder. And that they had a plan in place to hide the twins until they could get out of the country.

“Will what’s going on here?” Lucas asked looking from his son and daughter to her twin brother.

“I promised Johnny and Allie that I would take them to the park this morning because their’s no preschool for them today. Mr. DiMera thought it was great idea for me to send time with Johnny before I leave for Tokyo with you” Will said feeling defeated he had wanted to go see his Mother this morning and now he wouldn’t be able too. But Will didn’t want to get on Stefano’s bad side at the moment. The last thing they needed was for Stefano to stumble across the truth.

“How about I give you a lift there on my way to meet a friend” Lucas said as he walked over to Allie and Johnny he couldn’t believe they had grown so much it seemed like they still should be learning how to walk not going off to preschool already.

“That’s okay Dad were just waiting for Grandma Kate to grab her keys she’s going to take us to the park down from the Brady pub if you and you’re friend get time you should stop by later.” The hidden meaning clear to Lucas, Will was telling him to drive by with his Mother later so she could see the twins in action.

“I might do that if I get time, I only stopped by now to see if you wanted to come with me but since I see you’re busy I’m on my way to meet my friend” Lucas said as he made his way back to his car then stopped and turned “Breakfast wasn’t to bad a affair was it?”

“Wouldn’t know Dad, me and the twins ate in the kitchen. I was trying to avoid Mom and EJ”
Yes avoid fake ‘Sami’ and EJ two people Lucas wanted to avoid as well.

“If you need me for anything Will you’ve got my cell number call me” with that said Lucas got in his car. He barely got down the driveway when his cell rang the id was a number he didn’t know but was from Salem so he hit talk.

“Meet me where are friendship fell apart in twenty minutes” Sami said fast then hang up not waiting to spend another minute on the pay phone as she saw the bus she needed to board stop across the street.

‘Okay’ Lucas thought ‘if I knew where that was I would meet you there. Come on think where did our friendship end?’

Getting on the road Lucas kept trying to think of where Sami wanted to meet at. He ran every memory he had of every fight and came up empty handed because Sami wouldn’t go to any of those places for fear of someone recognizes her. The time was starting to run out when suddenly Lucas had a light bulb moment and knew exactly where Sami was. Snickering at how absently mind he had been Lucas head to where Sami was waiting for him and it indeed was where their friendship had ended.

[Sw]

Chapter 8

As a little girl Sami always dreamed about a perfect wedding here with her hair pulled up in ringlets and a handsome boy waiting for her down the aisle. Then she learned when she was five you couldn’t marry you’re twin brother and the dream changed. This time to a Prince charming waiting for her at the alter. For along time she had put Austin’s face on the prince and felt ensured that her dream would come true. And a few time it almost had once in this very church.

It was one of the lowest days of her life when Carrie and Mike with Lucas’ help had stopped her wedding. But even at the time it wasn’t only because she had lost Austin but she had lost something much more valuable: Lucas.

After that day their relationship has never been the same. Even when they had forgiven each other and started dating the day of her almost wedding to Austin always was there. If it hadn’t been Lucas never would have believed the whole Brandon setup. Lucas was always waiting for the other shoe to drop waiting for another betrayal because she had broken his complete trust in her.

It was something Sami had a lot of time to think of in that room for over two years. All the pain she caused because she hadn’t told the truth when she realized Will was Lucas’ instead of Austin’s. It still wouldn’t have been easy on Austin or Lucas knowing that they both had lost Austin a son turned instead into a nephew and Lucas a nephew turned into a son.

‘Had I really been that selfish’ Sami thought ‘too not care how not telling Lucas would deprive him of his son?’ and the answer was ‘Yes’ at that time she had been. It has been so easy at the time to not tell Lucas, she had reasoned in her mind that Will loved Austin as a father and she didn’t’ want to hurt him by changing who his Father was. But she hadn’t given thought to how Lucas would really feel only that he wanted Carrie and if the truth came out he would be a loser as well as she would.

How couldn’t she have remember how upset Lucas had been learning that Bill Horton was his Father and having been lied to his whole life. How upset she herself had been when John turned out not to be her Father.

Maybe that was one of the reason she didn’t tell Lucas, Sami could see now looking back she had been scared not just of losing Austin but of Will getting hurt the same way she had when she learned about John not being her Father.

Had she been afraid of Lucas not being able to be a Father to Will? He had always been a great Uncle too him only that time when he went along with her scheme of apartments and Will got kidnapped would you have called him a bad Uncle and then you would have had to call her a bad Mother as well.

So no that wasn’t it. Sami could clearly see now she had just been to young and selfish and scared of the changes Lucas being Will’s Father brought into her life.

It was just like a lot of older people would say that youth was wasted on the young if Sami only knew then what she knew know things would be a lot different.

During her bus ride over to St. Luke’s Sami realized she hadn’t told Lucas the reason she had been held hostage. She hadn’t told him that history once again had been repeated and that he had another son.

And this time she was going to make sure she told him right away well as soon as she could. Sami wasn’t going to hold this informative from Lucas he deserved to know and what better place to tell him then the place he learned he was a Father the first time, Sami had to chuckle at how her life seemed to keep repeating itself.

Sami had taken a seat in the front row looking up at the altar and began to pray that Lucas, and their kids and herself would get out of Salem unharmed. She still had on Will’s jacket and the hood was over her head hiding her blonde locks from view.

Sami lost herself talking to God and asking for forgiveness for all the wrongs she had done in her life. Letting go of hurts that she hadn’t been able to before. Tears running down her faces as she silently prayed that Will wouldn’t let what happened in the DiMera basement scar the rest of his life.

For two years never having anyone to talk to Sami had found herself praying a lot and making peace with the past and looking forward to a day when she hoped to be free. But since yesterday and everything that had happened with Will she hadn’t taken the time to remember that.

But now setting here in this church remembering how all of her past schemes had hurt so many did Sami know that she had truly changed. Never again did she plan on being that selfish Sami again. She had to think of her children and getting them out of this town had to happen soon. Things happened in Salem that didn’t happen anywhere else and keeping her kids away from a town like that sounded really good to Sami.

Hearing the double doors open in the back of the church Sami didn’t turn around incase it was someone she knew and didn’t want anyone to see her. With the hood up on Will’s jacket no one would be able to tell it was her as long as she looked ahead.

Lucas looked around St. Luke’s slowly taken in the church it looked to be empty but he knew Sami was somewhere here. It was here in this church where his faith in Sami had been broken. Where he had learned that Will hadn’t been his nephew but his son.

Closing his eyes Lucas could picture Sami in her wedding dress tears running down her face as her dream wedding fell apart. Never had he dreamed the reason it would not happen was that his best friend had kept the truth from him. Since then he had learned that she hadn’t known but only a few months that Will was his son.

Still it was a few months to long. And yet since then hadn’t he done awful things to Sami as well and she had forgiven him completely and yet he still had this fear that Sami couldn’t be trusted when came to his position in their children lives. Lucas kept waiting until she decided to replace him as Daddy with another of her boyfriends or would be husbands.

Lucas knew it wasn’t fair to Sami she hadn’t done anything in years to deserved his distrust she had confided in him about EJ’s raping her and her marriage to EJ was going to be in name only just long enough to end the feud between the Brady’s and DiMeras.

But the problem was while he knew that was all his Sami had done the fake ‘Sami’ had hurt him beyond words when he had caught her in bed with EJ. It was like learning Will was his son all over again the betrayal run so deep.

He had been sent to jail because he had try to kill EJ so he couldn’t hurt his family and then the woman Lucas thought of still as his Wife was in bed with him. At the time all Lucas could see and feel was hurt and it just didn’t’ go away. Not until the moment he heard Sami’s voice say “You get to meet me right now General” .

And Lucas found it was like a first meeting all over again all the hurt he had felt towards Sami these last few years fell away and all he felt was disappointment in himself for not realizing that the ‘Sami’ that had been with EJ willingly was a fake.

Lucas knew that once they got the twins and Will out of Salem that they were going to have to set down and have a conversation about their past and let all the hurt go something they should have done when they first started dating. This time Lucas knew his Mother wouldn’t be a problem as they would be leaving Salem and her behind with it.

Making a swipe of the front row with his eyes Lucas saw a person with a gray jacket setting and recognized it has the one Sami had been wearing the night before. Making his way down the aisle to the front as quickly as possible taking a seat next to Sami noticing she was staring straight ahead Lucas let out a breath of air and smiled when Sami turned to look at him.

Sami had bags under her eyes and Lucas thought ‘So I’m not the only one that didn’t get much sleep last night’.

“Morning I would have been here sooner but it took me a little while to remember just where you would consider our friendship to have ended.” Lucas said making sure to make it in a teasing tone. Not wanting to set Sami off on one of her rants.
“I’ll give you we’ve had so many fights over the years it would be hard to pen pin.” Sami said as a reply supporting his claim in a teasing tone of her own. She could see that Lucas also didn’t get much sleep it was easy to see worry sketched across his handsome face.

“But you’re right this is where I allowed are friendship to end” Lucas whisper only loud enough for Sami to hear because she was setting beside him. “You asked so many times for me to forgive you and I just wouldn’t”

Lucas could picture the tear stained Sami in her wedding dress begging him to forgive her something she had done twice now and both times for different reasons. And both times he should have forgiven her are at least listened to her the last time.

“You had a right to be mad at me Lucas” Sami looked down at her hands not wanting but knew she had to get this out “I should have told you right away about Will. If I could go back and change it I would”

“I know that Sami I’ve known that for along time” Lucas said as he framed her face between his hands wanting her to know he had forgiven her. “And I would have forgiven you a lot sooner if I hadn’t been drinking so much back then”

Sami had known if it hadn’t been for Lucas’ drinking problems and his Mother’s hatred of her they would have made peace years before they actually did but to hear Lucas say it brought a tiny smile to her face. If only their problems were just between them fighting again over who gets Will but they weren’t anymore so Sami couldn’t allow herself to bask in the happiness of knowing Lucas and she were finally starting to admit to their past mistakes. That it just wasn’t her that had ended their friendship that Lucas had a hand in it as well.

“I should have realized just how much I had hurt you back then and not just expected you to forgive me over night” Sami whispered as Lucas inched closer towards her still holding her face between his hands.

“But I should have tried to forgive you Sami, it just hurt so bad knowing you didn’t want me to be Will’s Father” Lucas after having said this let Sami’s face go and turned so he was setting forward not wanting Sami to see the tears filling his eyes.

“Lucas it wasn’t that I didn’t want you do be Will’s Father I just couldn’t believe you were Will’s Father. I had this whole dream I was living in then.” Sami stated thinking about how just a few minutes ago she had been thinking the same thing. “I was just so selfish then Lucas you know how I was like back then I couldn’t see anything but Austin”

And that’s the kind of thinking that scared Lucas till this day because it was the kind Sami had never out grown. Every time she got into a relationship all Sami could see was the man and what she could do to keep him from leaving her.
Thinking about it Lucas realized that he was the only man she had ever willingly walked away from. Turning to look at his Sami again he knew that wasn’t even true she hadn’t given up on him just got kidnapped instead.

Sami had decided to stay silent until she saw Lucas staring at her then she decided to speak again try to clear up this mess of hurt feelings. The last thing they needed while trying to get their kids to freedom from the DiMeras were hurting feeling between them.

“Looking back now Lucas I don’t know the person I was then. I don’t even like her and can’t believe at one time I was her. All those schemes we played on Carrie and Austin they were awful and because of that I think “ Sami had tears running down her face at this “ is the reason EJ did all those awful things to us. We had to pay for what we had done”

Lucas pulled Sami into his arms as much as he could with the two setting next to each other. Over the last few months and all of last night those same thoughts had ran through his mind as well.

“Sami baby you didn’t deserved to be raped again no matter what we did to Austin and Carrie in the past” Lucas said then kissed her tenderly as he held her close letting her know he wasn’t going to let her go again.

As the kiss ended Lucas wiped away Sami’s tears and knew they couldn’t stay here in St. Luke’s much longer without someone discovering Sami. “I have my car parked in the parking lot we should go before someone sees you”

“No first I have to tell you something, I have to make right a wrong that I did to you a long time ago.” Sami pleaded now it was her holding Lucas’ face between her two hands lovely. “I would have told you this time as soon as I found out if I could have”

Lucas knew whatever Sami was about to say was going to change his life and this caused him to hold his breathe. The serious look in her eyes along with her love for him shined clear along with unshed tears.

“It’s like history keeps repeating it’s self but this time I’ll do things right this time I will get to tell you Lucas” Sami paused locking eyes with the love of her love “Johnny isn’t EJ’s son he’s your’s”

Lucas pulled his head away from Sami’s hands as he tried to shake away the shock of her statement. “How what I know how I mean when did you learn this?” Lucas asked Sami as a smile slowly started to form on his face. Johnny was his son?

“It’s the reason I was kidnapped, I was filling out the twins’ baby books wanting to document everything for you so you’d know when they did things first when I noticed that both twins have the same blood type as Will.” Lucas had a feeling where this tale was going it sounded like history truly did repeat it’s self.

“I knew from when you shot EJ that he has the same blood type as Austin. So their was no way possible that he Fathered either Allie or Johnny. But just to make sure that their blood type was wrote right in their baby books I took the twins to their Doctor and had their types checked.” Sami recount the events of the last day she had of freedom for over two years until just yesterday.

Lucas just set still waiting for Sami to continue as the shock was given way to a feel of utter amazed that he had another Son. He always had loved Johnny as if he were his son and now he knew why because some how deep down no matter what those dna test said he knew Johnny was his son.

Tears running down Sami’s face as she continued “And the blood type came back the same as their baby books said. I had never been so happy before Lucas, I thought I finally had EJ out of our lives. You’re lawyer told me about you’re appeal and I finally thought things were going my way that you would be out of jail soon and we could be a family again”

Hearing the sadness in her voice Lucas pulled Sami back into his arms. If only Sami hadn’t have been kidnapped and replaced then they truly could have been a family when he had gotten out of jail. Sami, Will and their Twins. Just the thought of that brought a smile to Lucas face.

“Then what happened how were you kidnapped?” Lucas asked hugging Sami close not wanting to let her go.

“I had just gotten back from the twins appointment and was starting to get things together to pack our bags when I was hit in the head from behind. When I woke up I was in my basement room or cell whatever you wanted to call it. And I had no idea where I was at. There was a TV with a DVD player connected to it on.”

Sami could still recall what that DVD message Andre left for her had said. “Hello my dear Samantha, It Andre I hope you like you’re new home. I will have food left for you once a week so be sure to make it last for the week. I truly am sorry that you found out the truth about Johnny but I can’t let you tell anyone else. The Brady, DiMera feud must end and this is the only way for now.”

He had stopped then and took a slip of what looked on the TV screen to be brandy before he continued on “I have to say I own your former Mother in law Kate many thanks for having the Dna results switched to make it look like Johnny was EJ’s. I’ll never understand that woman’s thinking wanting her grandchild to be raised by the DiMeras but it doesn’t matter why she done what she did only that it helped me.”

“Be a good prisoner my dear and do not try to escape, I can’t promise you’re safety if you do.” with that said the DVD ended and Sami was left alone in her room for the next two years.
Sami didn’t know if she should tell Lucas about what Andre message said about Kate are not? She was his Mother and even though she had done some awful things to tear them apart in the past Sami didn’t know how Lucas would be able to stand being in the same room as Kate for doing the unforgivable.

Paying to have the Dna test switched was something Lucas wouldn’t be able to forgive his Mother for. Sami knew this first hand Lucas didn’t forgive easily when it involved his child wasn’t that the reason they had been enemies for so many years because she lied about Will.

“Sami whatever it is you can tell me” Lucas told her as he started to worry whatever happened in that cell when she first got there still haunted her.

“Lucas I don’t know how to tell you, I don’t want you to get hurt worse because for all I know it could be a lie. Andre had a DVD message waiting for me when I woke up” Sami said holding onto Lucas knowing he was going to be hurt by what she said next. “He said on it that Kate had Johnny’s dna test switched”

Lucas’ first reaction was to denial it his Mother wouldn’t do that she wouldn’t keep his child from him. But Lucas mind’s eye replayed a scene he had walked in on a few days ago of her playing with Johnny the loving way she answered all his questions reminded him of how she used to treat Will at that age.

At the time he thought she was just being a good step-Grandmother but now looking through the eyes of one informed he could see how his Mother didn’t like holding Sydney at all. In fact she tried to stay across the room from Sydney at all times not the same with the twins she was very hands on with them.

His own Mother had done this if she wouldn’t have switched the dna results he would still be married to Sami and the twins would have been raised by their true parents together. Not split up for months at a time when fake ‘Sami’ had been in hiding.

“She did it Sami he wasn’t lying” Lucas told her as he kissed her forehead. “She hated us being together more then caring about the safety of her grandson.”

“You don’t know the things she’s done while you’ve been gone. Kate is compliable of anything Sami she doesn’t let her children happiness get in her way. A lesson she keeps teaching me over and over is I can’t trust her and this time I never will again” Lucas firmly stated and meant every word this time unlike any before she had crossed a line he never thought she could. This was worse then when she made him sign custody of Will over to Sami this time she had handed his son to a rapist to be raised.

“I shouldn’t have told you” Sami said looking into Lucas’ wounded brown eyes.

“No Sami you did the right thing, I needed to know that I can’t trust my Mother I mean yes I told Will not to trust her but I don’t think I truly believed until you told me what she has done that she would risked the safety of our kids just because she doesn’t want us together” Lucas felt so very tired at the moment but knew just want would pick him up. “Come on Sami we need to get out of here. I know a place that we need to be at just about now”


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

Sami looked out the passenger side window of Lucas’ car he hadn’t told her where they were going only that ‘she would like it’. Lucas had been very quiet as he drove, Sami knew he was trying to get all the information he had learn filed away. It was a lot to take in finding out you have another son and that you’re Mother was the reason you didn’t know in the first place.

As they drove down the streets Sami saw that Salem hadn’t changed in the last two years everything seemed to look the same and yet it felt different. It most likely was because she had changed not the city or the builds.

“I saw Nicole on the news last night how long as she been doing that?” Sami asked trying to keep herself from asking where they were going instead. “I was surprised because she is working for Titan news”

Lucas took his eyes off the road and looked at Sami for a second and she could see he was surprised he must not have known about that which made it look like Nicole hadn’t been your girl Friday for long.

“I didn’t know that, I guess Philip felt sorry for her and give her a job. Or he figure the ratings would go up with her on there.” Lucas said not thinking of the information he just let out.

“Why would he feel sorry for her?” Sami asked she couldn’t think of any reason she knew of for Philip to feel bad for Nicole his former step-Mother.

“Me and my big mouth” Lucas said as he looked straight ahead. He hadn’t had time to think of how to tell Sami about Sydney. And knowing her like he did she wasn’t going to let this go without a answer.

“Sami I’ll tell you but first let me get us to where were going.” Lucas said stalling for time given himself a chance to think of just how to tell Sami about what her fake self had been going through.

“Okay but you promise to tell me once we get there?” Sami relented knowing that she would needle the information out of Lucas eventuality.

“Once we get there and if you still what to know about Nicole I’ll tell you I promise” Lucas response knowing if she saw the park and put two and two together Sami would forget all about Nicole in a heartbeat.

“So where are we going?” Sami asked feeling she had to rattle Lucas a little since he wouldn’t tell her about Nicole. And she hadn’t even gotten to asks why Nicole’s last name was DiMera now.

“Sami, Sami you just have to wait and see. We’re almost there anyway you won’t have to wait much longer now” Lucas teasing told his love.

“Fine be that way” Sami pouted as she started to noticed just about where they were at. “Why are we going to the park?”

Lucas smiled and felt happiness as he decided to share a secret with Sami. “Because I happen to know that is where are children are sending their morning.”

Their kids, Sami couldn’t help but giggle her babies were at the park right now. “Go faster Lucas I don’t what to miss seeing them”

“Sami their going to be there all morning there is no need to speed to get there” Lucas said although he felt the same way he had to force himself not to push down on the gas to get them there faster.

It seemed like forever but was really on a few minutes before they pulled into a parking spot on the street across from the park. Getting out Lucas ran around to the other side to grab Sami’s hand so he could bring her to a spot in the park he used to hide to watch Will while Sami had sole custody.

It was just a little spot covered by trees but a wooden bench was there and a clear view of the swing set and slide could be seen. The bench must have been put here before the trees had over taken the spot years before.

As Sami set down both her and Lucas’ eyes were glued to the three figures playing on the swing set together.

Will was pushing Allie on his right side and pushing Johnny on his left. Both twins were begging him to push them higher. Yelling of “Higher Will higher” could be heard by their parents.

Tears filled Sami’s eyes as she watched her three children playing together. She could recall clearly Will when he was younger asking for a sibling telling her how he would help take care of it and play nice and even share his toys.

“Their so beautiful together” Sami whispered afraid to talk to loud and be overheard by anyone other then Lucas. “Will always wanted a younger sibling. But he could never make up his mind on a sister or brother”

“It’s a shame he had to worry about that for so many years when he got both at one time” Lucas teased as he smiled showing off his teeth.

“Go on” Sami told Lucas “I know you’re dying to go play with our kids. I’ll be fine here watching you four together”

Lucas nodded his head not wanting to leave Sami alone yet not being able to resist going to play with his new found son. The pull all three Horton kids had on him was to great but before he left Sami he bent down and kissed her hard on the mouth letting her know he wasn’t going to forget about her being there hidden from view but not from his heart.

Sneaking out of the trees and walking back towards where he parked his car halfway there Lucas turned around to make it look like he had just gotten there and was coming from his car. Forcing himself not to run to the kids when he heard their voice Lucas smiled and knew he would have to watch just how happy he acted around the DiMeras and fake ‘Sami’ are they would know something was up.

And by DiMeras he meant his Mother included she sure acted like one although she had only been married to Stefano a short time. I mean how does one go from being married to a cop to a criminal next. Lucas pushed that thought away he wasn’t going to allow Kate to blacken his mood not for one second he had with his children.

“Dad’ Will said seeing him walking towards him and his brother and sister. Looking around he didn’t see his Mother anywhere but Will was sure she was somewhere here just hiding so she could see the twins.

“Hey Will” Lucas said as he finally got to the swings it seemed like it had taken him forever to get here.

“Daddy” Allie said as she jumped off her swing and ran to Lucas putting her arms up waiting to be hugged. Johnny had jumped off his swing as well just standing next to Will watching Allie with her ‘Daddy’.

“I miss you lots Daddy” Allie pouted as he pick up his mini Sami. Lucas couldn’t help but chuckle at his daughter she believed she owned him and all his time should be spent with her.
Something he had been doing lately before her Mother had return into his life. Lucas couldn’t help but think that both his girls were going to have a hard time sharing him.

Putting Allie down slowly Lucas then bent down next to Johnny. Just last night he was thinking how Johnny looked like him but had push the thought away as wishful thinking now though that he knew the truth he let himself clearly see Johnny. What Lucas saw was a child that looked so much like he did at that age that if he had been raised in Salem his whole life there would be no doubt by anyone who Fathered Johnny.

And there was no way his Mother couldn’t see that she knew without a doubt Johnny was her Grandson and let EJ raise him. Lucas stopped himself for continuing with that line of thought he couldn’t not now not when his second born son was staring at him.

“Can I get a hug from you Johnny as well?”

Johnny looked at Lucas at first like he was crazy then seeing Allie shaking her head ‘yes’ he should Johnny relented and let Allie’s Daddy hug him. It felt weird because whenever his Dad held him it never felt this good. He never had this pull with his Dad but with Allie’s Daddy he did not understanding why Johnny pull himself out of Lucas’ arms and run over to Allie.

“Let play on the swings again” Johnny said as he took his sister’s hand and pulled her back towards the swing set.

“But I want to play with my Daddy” Allie pouted once again looking at Lucas with sad eyes.

“You can do both Daddy will push you both on the swings doesn’t that sound like fun?” Lucas asked his younger children knowing they both thought he was only talking to Allie.

“Yes’ they replied and ran towards the swings.

“Will why don’t you take a break and walk around the park a little you must be tired. Over there behind those trees is a bench you can set on catch you’re breath a little” Lucas said as he pointed in the direction Sami was hiding.

Will saw the look in his Father’s eyes and knew his Mother was somewhere over in those trees watching. “That’s sound great Dad I could use a break if you need help with the twins just holler for me and I’ll come running”

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

Sami had tears in her eyes as she had watched Father and Son hug. Just the way Lucas held Johnny and the tears he held in broke her heart for the man she loved. Her baby boy had gotten so big she wanted nothing more then to run out of this hiding spot and grab all of her children into a great big hug and never let them go.

Just taken in the sight of Johnny she couldn’t believe how big he had gotten he looked a lot like what Sami thought Lucas would have at that age. She was so caught up in watching Lucas push their twins on the swing set that she didn’t notice she had company in her hiding spot until said company spoke “Mom”

Will’s voice had almost caused Sami to jump out of her skin but she turned to him and smiled.
“How’s my little man today?”

“Mom I’m not little anymore, you should pass on that nick name to Johnny” Will supplied as he took a seat next to his Mother then pulled her into a hug.

Once they pulled apart Sami kissed her oldest child on the cheek and informed her son “Nice try Will but that isn’t going to work. It was a better excuse then you’re last attempted at getting me to stop calling you little man though.”

“Mom I’m almost fully grown you have to stop calling little man someday” Will whined finding it just so easy to fall back into the Mother, Son relationship he always had with his Mom.

“No I don’t you’re always be my little man, just like Allie is my little girl or baby girl and Johnny my baby boy” Sami said watching as Lucas push the twins higher like they were requesting from their Father.

“Why can’t Johnny and I switch nick names I would rather be baby boy” Will complained but secretly loving his nickname. It been so long it seemed since he last heard his Mother utter it.

“I just can’t give Johnny you’re nickname because every time I say it I see a picture of you about Johnny’s age with you’re face cover in chocolate. Maybe if you and Johnny were closer in age I could have but it was just you and me for so long Will you’re just always going to be my little man” Sami confessed to her son knowing she missed out on all of that with the twins. She could never get those times back.

“It’s okay Mom, I don’t mind it as much as I pretend too” Will said as he saw tears in his Mother’s eyes. The last thing he wanted to do was upset her, she had been through so much.

“Do you think their forgive me for not being there for them?” Sami asked as the twins had jumped off the swings and headed for the slide with Lucas following after them. “Do you forgive me for not being there for you Will?”

Will didn’t know how to answer those questions what was there to forgive his Mother hadn’t left them of her own free will she had been kidnapped of course he could forgive her. But Will didn’t think she meant about being kidnapped.

“Mom I know you thought you were doing the right thing by marrying EJ” Will looked Sami straight in the eyes “and I didn’t agree with it and I still don’t but I know you did it to protect everyone. So yes I can forgive you for that”

“As for the twins Mom they won’t remember most of this in a few years it will be like you were never gone. It will be harder on Johnny because he will be taken from his Father when will leave but I know Dad will treat him no different then Me or Allie. Really Johnny needs rescued the from the DiMeras” Will answered knowingly as he watched his Dad waiting at the bottom of the slide as the twins with Allie first and Johnny in the back slide down together.

Sami didn’t know if she should tell Will the truth now are wait until Lucas was with her but given that she was in hiding it would be better to just tell him the truth now so she could answer any of his questions.

“Will sweetie I have to tell you something important and I don’t know if I should or not because I don’t know if you should be force to keep another secret.”

This sounds serious Will thought as he try to read his Mother’s face to see if he could guess at what she could be trying to tell him. She was right so much had happened this last day could he keep another secret and not go crazy?

What ever it was though he needed to know so he wasn’t in the dark. What if not knowing could cause a problem with them getting out of Salem.

“I can keep one more secret without going crazy Mom” Will said in a teasing tone he had gotten from his Father.

“Okay then here goes Johnny isn’t you’re half-brother little man, he’s your full”

[Sw]

Chapter 9

The words kept recycling over and over in Will’s head “Johnny isn’t you’re half-brother little man, he’s your full.”

Just like it had yesterday the world as Will had known it had taken a turn on it’s ear and everything was different once again. Johnny was him all over again, having one man raise you since you were a baby another actually being you’re Father. But in Will case he didn’t remember thinking that his Uncle Austin was his Dad. But that wasn’t going to be the case with Johnny at least not for awhile.

Unlike with Him, Johnny didn’t have a close relationship with his true Father. Will had seen pictures of himself with his Dad when he was a baby. Pictures that were taken when his Dad was simply Uncle Lucas in fact on the back of a couple of them they said just that Uncle Lucas holding Will.

The only pictures that Johnny had with his real Father was the ones of the twins when they were newborns. There might be a few of them with Allie because she insisted she wanted her Daddy and twin in the same picture.

Will brought his hands up and run them through his hair. Everything just had gotten a lot more complicate. Johnny needed out of the DiMera mansion yesterday so the sooner the better. His little brother was being lied to everyday of his life just like all of them had been with their fake Mother but now also Johnny had a fake Dad as well.

Will turned to look at his Mother to find she was just setting there looking at him, he could see that she was upset and concern for him. “I’m okay Mom, I’m not going to fall apart although the last few days have been crazy”

“I know little man and I just wanted to say Thank You for saving me.” Sami said as she tried to fix the mess Will had made of his hair. “I like what you’ve done with you’re hair, little man”

Will turned a little red at that comment no one had seemed to notice his blonde locks expect his Dad who when he seen Will had just nodded his head and tried to hide a smile of merriment. What was it with his parents being the only ones that noticed things like that about him?

“I wanted to see if it was true if blonde’s have more fun” Will stated.

“And have you had more fun?” Sami asked finding it hard to believe Will was old enough to have the ’fun’ that that sayings entitled.

“I know what you’re trying to do here Mom” Will said as he had to admit it was working if only for a minute are too she was taken his mind off of what he had just learned. “Thanks for trying but it’s not going to work we have to get started on that plan on getting Johnny out of the DiMeras’ hands”

“Just Johnny?” Sami asked wondering if that meant Lucas already had a plan for Will and Allie.

“You’re imposter told me this morning right before Grandma Kate drove us here that Dad was determine to take Allie and Me with him when he returned to Tokyo. She asked if I would try to talk him out of taking Allie.” Will supplied. That was one conversation he was glad only lasted for a few minutes.

“Oh” Sami said feeling jealous that this imposter was asking things of Will. That the fake her could be seen in public with Will while she herself at the moment could not. That because of her Sami knew Will was in danger. She could blame the whole thing on Kate and say if only she hadn’t had the dna test switched none of this would have happen and while that was true it also wasn’t fair. Because Sami knew she had made so many mistakes that had caused where they were at right now just as much as Kate’s scheme had.

“Mom we will get Johnny out of there” Will said pulling his Mom into a hug fast. Knowing she blamed herself for this whole mess their lives were at the moment. But it wasn’t her fault this all started because of EJ DiMera and the DiMera need to end their feud with the Brady’s.

“I know we will, I’m just jealous that she has gotten to spend so much time with you kids” Sami replied knowing Will knew who the ‘she’ was she spoke of.

“She hasn’t spent that much time with Allie and Me, I think Chloe spent more time with Allie then she has” Will informed his Mother knowing that once she got to be with the twins again it wouldn’t be hard for them to welcome her back into their lives. His Mom was a very hands on Mom none of this fake ‘Sami’ letting other people watch her kids all the time. So she could spend all her time taking care of first Grace who Will would always love as a sister and then Sydney it was like he and Allie didn’t matter at all.

“Why would Chloe be around Allie?” Sami asked wondering why Brady’s ex-wife would be around her daughter.

Will’s eyes grown wide and he felt the taste of shoe in mouth as his dropped open, oh man his Dad hadn’t gotten around to telling his Mom about his ill-fated very short in Will’s mind marriage to Chloe. Will wasn’t sure how to handle this to tell or not was the question?

Sami could see from Will’s face whatever the answer was she wasn’t going to like it. But what could that mean Chloe was around Allie so either she was Lucas’ babysitter or Sami stopped at that thought she didn’t want to go beyond that it hurt to think that Lucas had enter into a relationship with anyone but her. Him having a few one night stands Sami could understand and over look but Lucas having a relationship meant he truly had gotten over her and started a new life without her. And yet that kiss he had given her earlier proved that wasn’t true and he wouldn’t have done that if he was in relationship with Chloe. Lucas was loyal he would never cheat.

“Will please answer my question, I think it will be easier hearing it from you” Sami truly believe that it was be easier to hear Will tell her then have to hear it from Lucas and see in his eyes guilty about having been with someone else while she was locked in a room pinning away for him.

“Mom know this Dad isn’t seeing anyone right now.” Will started wanting to soften the blow a little “Chloe was around because Dad was married to her until she cheated on him with Dr. Daniel”

Sami couldn’t help it instead of the tears she had expected herself to shed she was laughing. It had happened again poor Lucas he just couldn’t get a Wife to be faithful expect her of course she had been faithful the length of their marriage. Of course it didn’t set well with her that she had ended their marriage in order to marry someone else.

“Mom are you okay” Will asked thinking learning his Dad had been remarried for awhile had finally done it. It was the last straw for his Mom and she had snapped and gone insane.

Tears we’re running down Sami face she was laughing so hard as she could remember some of the names that Belle had told her that Chloe had been called back in high school. It was wrong of her to take joy in those mean spirited words now but Sami couldn’t help it as she wiped away her tears trying to stop herself knowing Will was worried about her.

“Honey I’m fine don’t worry I just found it funny that you’re Dad has trouble keeping a wife is all”

“Mom you know you’re include in his count of ex wives, and lets not forget all you’re ex’s” Will said feeling the need to defend his Father.

Hearing Will’s tone and not really taking his words to heart Sami stopped laughing. Will was right she herself had, had a lot of trouble with ex’s. Usually though she didn’t get to the I do’s before they left her.

“Will I know that you might not remember this because of all the stupid things I have done, but I love your Dad very much. And earlier when you told me about him and Chloe it was one of those moments where you either cry or laugh.”

Will lifted his right eyebrow at his Mother in a look that said nice try you’re going to have to do better then that.

“I know I did both Will, but it was easier for me to just think of how awful you’re Father’s luck is with women. Then to think he replace me as his Wife and planned to spend the rest of his life with someone else.” Sami now was fighting back tears but not from finding anything funny about Lucas marriage to Chloe.

“Oh Mom it wasn’t like that you don’t know what was going on at the time Dad married Chloe. Dad had every reason to believe you didn’t love him anymore.” Will again defended his Father but this time wanting to try and help his Mother not feel like his Dad just gave up on her. “That imposter made Dad think there was no chance of you guys ever getting back together”

Sami knew that Lucas had told her how hurt he had been finding fake ‘Sami’ in bed with EJ that right there was enough to end any thought of them getting back together. And there was more to this story Sami knew from the way Will was looking at her like he was holding something back.

Will didn’t need this right now Sami knew that he had to much happen to him in the last day. So she stuck up her tears and push away all thoughts of Lucas and Chloe together they weren’t now and that’s all that matter. Her little man needed her to not be in a mood right now, who knew how long this little visit they were having could last she didn’t’ need to waste even a second of it on things that had happened in the past.

“So tell me Will what’s been going on in your life these past two years? I want to hear everything” Sami said she rested her head on Will’s shoulder wanting to just be close to her oldest child.

“Well I really don’t know where to begin, I guess last you knew I was living with Aunt Carrie and Uncle Austin” Will said and then begin his tale of what his life had been like without his Mother being in it.


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

Will’s tale of life in Salem with the fake ‘Sami’ had ended five minutes ago and the real Sami was still trying to take in all she had learned. Right now though she needed to make sure Will was okay he was telling her about some very emotional events that had taken place this last year of his life.

“I’m so sorry sweetie that you lost you’re baby sister Grace” Sami said as she looked into Will’s eyes. Knowing it didn’t matter that Grace wasn’t Will’s blood sister she had been his sister in the tiny amount of time she had lived and Will had loved her.

“It was just so awful Mom” Will was pulled into his Mother’s arms at this as he leaned his head against her chest. “She was just so little and needed to be taken care of all the time and I would babysitter her and she would smile up at me you know.”
“She was fine then all of a sudden she got sick no one else did. I just don’t know why it had to have been Grace Mom, why couldn’t it have been me I’m so much stronger then she was.” Sami kissed Will on the top of his head and just let him vent his feelings she knew he knew she didn’t have the answers.

“Then it was like Mom I mean the imposter” Will said sheepishly look at his Mother “Didn’t care anymore about what happened to Grace once she learned that Sydney was really her daughter and Grace was Mia and Chad’s.”

Sami just listened and played with Will’s hair as he went all and all about Mia then and all the troubles he had with her. Sami made herself not comment on how she didn’t like this Mia and how the girl didn’t ever deserve Will as a boyfriend. Because the last thing Sami ever wanted to do was turn into Kate Roberts so she was going to try and stay out of Will’s love life. Beside Will didn’t like Mia anymore.

“Will” the heard Allie yell and both Mother and Son knew there time together had come to a end.

Setting himself up Will smiled and actually felt so much better then he had in long time. Because he knew his Mother cared about him she had listened to him talk about how his life was going and she didn’t let him feel like he was the problem and everything else and everyone else fine.

And he knew she had to be dying to asks all these questions about Sydney and Nicole and everything that happened with that but she hadn’t instead she only had stuck to questions about how those events happening made him feel. It was so great to have his Mother back and know he was loved.

“I’ve got to go if I don’t she might thrown a fit” Will whispered before he kissed his Mother cheek and then made his way to his little sister and brother who both looked ready to play again with their older sibling.

Sami just watched them play together as the twins worked really hard to push Will on the swings with Lucas watching she could see he had offered to help them but they had shook their little heads ‘no’.

Lucas was such a great Father when he was sober he always had been. But the problem was when Will had been the twins age he had been drinking to much and didn’t want to admit he had a problem.

It had hurt Sami for Lucas to know he had fallen off the wagon again and for the likes of Chloe Lane. But it was more then that Sami knew had Lucas drinking, a lot of awful things happened and Chloe’s infidelity was the last straw.

How many times can one man find out this his wives have cheated on him without that driving him to drinking? First Nicole with Eric and Sami still didn’t know what her twin had been thinking. Then Carrie with Austin which Sami could kind of see but not really because Lucas was a good husband but because Carrie and Lucas hadn’t loved each other. They really got married because she had thought she was pregnant. And Lucas was on the rebound from their second failed wedding attempted. And hurting because he thought she went running right back to Austin.

It was really her own fault that marriage ever happened she shouldn’t had altered the tests results. Sami knew sometimes she did really stupid things that one was right up there at the top.
But she wanted Lucas to be happy and at the time didn’t think they could ever be together again and Austin did seem to care about her and defend her when no one else had. But she wasn’t thinking about those mistakes. No she was thinking about all of Lucas’ ex-wives which she was a member of that club.

Then there was herself of course she hadn’t cheated on him but Lucas had believed she had even if they were divorced at the time. Well it’s pretty easy to see how he could fall for Chloe she is a beautiful woman a little stuck on herself but after years of being made fun of for being ugly she was entitled to that a little Sami thought.

Sami was angry on Lucas’ behalf for the way Chloe had treated him but she couldn’t find herself overly upset over it. Because if Chloe had been a dutiful wife then Sami knew everything would have been so much harder right now. Because Lucas would have had to choose between his Wife and Children. There was no way that Sami and their children could stay safely in Salem any longer and with that knowledge Sami knew neither could Lucas.

Hearing childish giggles Sami looked through the tree breaches and found that somehow Lucas had ended up on the ground with all three of his children tickling him. Well Will was more holding his Father in place so the twins could tickle him.

“I gave” Lucas cried out loud enough for Sami to hear and laugh along with their kids.

“You guys take to much after you Mother single mind until you get you’re way” Lucas told them as they one by one got off of him. And in the next second he had scooped up Johnny and started to tickle him. It felt so good to be able to just hold his child and play with him. It hadn’t been easy but after the first hour Johnny had started to warm up to him and that made Lucas’ day.

Allie the little princess of Lucas’ world was trying to help her twin brother get freed. Locking eyes with Will, Lucas nodded and there watched as his oldest grabbed his sister up in his arms and started to tickle her.

The twins we both laughing and acting like they didn’t like it but Lucas could tell they were having tons of fun. If only Sami didn’t have to hid in the trees and could come play with them this day would be prefect.

“I think it would be best if you let my son down now” Lucas heard from behind him and felt a cold shiver run through him. Gently lower his son to the ground then turning around he saw EJ DiMera standing behind him with baby Sydney in his arms and beside him the woman who has been passing herself off as Sami Brady.

Johnny the second he was set on the ground took off to his ‘parents’. “Dad” Johnny called out to EJ. “Are you here to play with us too?”

“No you’re Mother and I have come to pick you up.” EJ answered as he passed Sydney to ‘Sami’ and bent down to pickup his son.

“But I want to play more” Johnny offered instead. “Allie’s Daddy has been playing with us and I don’t want to go”

Lucas felt his heart stop at Johnny’s words his son didn’t want to leave him even though he didn’t know who he really was. Will had stopped tickling Allie and set her on her feet as well. Not one to be undone Allie continued where Johnny left off “I don’t want to go either let us stay, Grandma Kate is coming to pick us up”

“No sweetie she isn’t” Fake Sami answered knowing Allie had gotten a little spoiled from spending so much time with Lucas. “That’s why EJ and I have come to pick you up instead.”

“But I don’t want to go home with you” Allie cried “I want to stay with Daddy”

Lucas’ heart was breaking here he couldn’t keep Allie with him. Sami was here and there was no way for a child of her age to keep the secret about their being a real and fake Mommy.

“Allie on the way home we’re stopping for ice cream” EJ bribed with.

Allie’s tears stopped and she started to smile ice cream she loved ice cream. “Are you coming too Daddy?”

Lucas couldn’t help but laugh at the way her tears had just quit and now a smile showed on her tiny face. “I can’t Allie, Daddy has some things he has to do but I will be back later and I’ll read you a bedtime story.”

“Will are you coming with us?” ‘Sami’ asked. Will wasn’t planning on leaving this playground if he had a choice in the matter.

“Is it okay if I come with you Dad?” Will asked not wanting to force his presence if his real parents might need some time alone. But he was hoping his Dad said yes because what his Dad didn’t know how he just spilled his guts to his Mother. And Sami Brady wasn’t known to taking news like that well.

“I thank that’s a great idea Will, I’m not sure if there is room enough for all of us in the car anyway” EJ stated making himself look like jerk both Horton men thought. Why bring a car if it won’t fit all the people you were meant to pick up?

‘What had they planned to do if Dad wouldn’t have been here?’ Will thought ‘ Just leave me here?’

“Are you sure sweetie you don’t want to come with us” Fake Sami asked being all Motherly.

“He’ll be fine with Me, Sami go on get the twins and Sydney some ice cream” Lucas told his fake ex. Just wanting them out of the park as soon as possible and away from any chance of finding the real Sami who was just a few hundred feet away hidden behind trees.

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

The real Sami at that moment was not making a sound and found breathing to come in and out to loudly she was sure EJ would turn around and find her. The fake ‘Sami’ looked identical to her expected she was heavy then her and her imposter’s hair wasn’t as long.

Sami could hear their voices but not make out what they were saying the imposter sounded just like she did it was like listen to yourself talking. But it was EJ’s voice that brought fear to Sami’s entire being. This was the man that had forced himself on her when she had plead with him not too.

That man right there in the park was the one who threatened her family if she didn’t marry him and tormented her during her pregnancy with the twins. And in his arms he was holding her baby boy.

Tears silently came down her face as Sami watched her imposter and the man who raped her walk off with her twins in tow. ‘This was a nightmare’ Sami thought ‘those people have my children and I can’t do anything about it right now. If I would have came out of my hidden spot Andre would be sure to frame Will for first degree murder.’

And then there was Sami’s other fear that Andre would come after her again but this time not just kidnap her but the children as well. She couldn’t let anything happen to them her kids had already been through so much.

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

Lucas and Will had taken two swings to set in waiting to make sure that EJ and fake ‘Sami’ had left before daring to get the real Sami out of hiding. Neither said a word to the other not sure they could hold in their anger at the moment for having to send away the twins.

Will felt guilty for having to kill a man to save his Mother because of that they couldn’t go to his Grandpa Roman or Uncle Bo for help. For all they knew Andre already knew about his Mother’s escape and was just waiting for the chance to recapture or kill his Mother the second she came out in public.

Lucas felt awful having to let his youngest children leave with EJ after all they wanted to come up with a plan to get the children away from the DiMeras and yet just now he had to hand them over and act all happy and not worried about it. Seeing EJ holding Johnny just made him sick this was his son and he had lost so much time there that he could never get back it was much worse then the time lost with Will. Because while he didn’t know Will was his son he was in his life as a Uncle and got to be there and see all his wonderful moments of firsts.

Not with Johnny though EJ and Nicole had been there for a lot of Johnny’s firsts when fake ‘Sami’ had been in the witness protection program. Just like Chloe had been with Allie which was sure to make Sami upset to learn two women other then her fake self had a large role in their twins lives. Too large a role in both Chloe and Nicole’s case. At least Nicole had loved EJ and was trying to keep him even if her scheme had been unforgivable. Chloe though Lucas had no idea why she had been in his life if she didn’t love him.

At first they were just both hurting and got comfort from the other. Fake ‘Sami’ had hurt him so badly that all he had wanted at the time was to forget everything Sami but their kids. Chloe had just cling to him early on in their relationship and Lucas had felt like he wasn’t worthless and that his life wasn’t out of his control any longer when he was with her.

He could finally have a normal family again have a Wife and kids that he shared with Sami but not have all the heartache. Of course it didn’t really work because he had never stop loving his Sami. He tried to be friends with what he now knew was the fake ‘Sami’ but that just didn’t seem to work because Lucas could finally admit to it he disliked that ‘Sami’.

That ‘Sami’ had gotten pregnant by a man that had raped the real Sami and then for some stupid reason Lucas had though she should tell EJ about it. It had to be this town because good common sense seemed to be on a vacation in Salem. Once Lucas had gotten out of town his brain started working again and he realized how stupid he had been acting.

Shaking those thoughts away Lucas wasn’t looking forward to telling Sami all about what has been happening here in Salem the last few years but knows he has too.

Looking down at his watch he can see that Will and him had been setting here for the last ten minutes that should be enough time for EJ and ‘Sami’ to get the kids in their car seats.
“I think it’s been enough time since they’ve left for me to go get you’re Mother” Lucas told Will as he got off his swing. “You stay here and be look out if you see anyone talk really loud with them and we’re stay hidden until there gone”

“Dad wait a second” Will almost shouted “ Earlier when I was talking to Mom she asked about what has been going on with me for the last two years and I told her” Okay that was something Lucas hadn’t expected but just what had Will told her.

“Told her what?” Lucas asked as he felt his feet take roots to the spot he was standing in.

“Everything” Will said barely loud enough for his Dad to hear.

“You told her about the baby switch, Nicole going to jail. Mia and my falling out with my Mom?” Lucas asked trying not to sound angry at his son. Because he really wasn’t looking forward to having that conversation with Sami anyway. But it would have been nice to have told her first so he could put his own spin on it.

“Yes I told her all that, and about you having been married to Chloe” Will said this super fast almost to fast for Lucas to make out what had been said.

“Okay” Lucas nodded his head and set back down on the empty swing. “She’s going to kill me and you’ll have to help her save the twins from the DiMeras without me”

“Dad, Mom isn’t going to kill you” Will stated feeling like his Dad was the child and he the parent at the moment. “She told me she loves you”

At hearing this Lucas’ head shot up and he looked at Will seeing if he was telling the truth are just saying that to make him feeling better. “Before or after you told her about Chloe?”

“After Mom told me she still loved you after she knew about Chloe” Will said leaving out the part about how his Mom had laughed her head off about his Dad’s bad luck with women. “I had to tell her about everything after I let it slip you were married to Chloe. To explain how you didn’t think you would ever get back together again”

“Will it’s okay, Sami had to find out sometime” Lucas said not wanting his son who had been through so much to think he was angry at him. “And I know you wouldn’t tell you’re Mother anything untrue.”

“But now I have to go face you’re Mother, gave us a few minutes alone so I can talk to her about what she’s learned” Lucas stated once again getting off his swing.

“I’ll just set here and wait until you return if you need any help with Mom just holler.” Will said as he moved the swing little with his feet on the ground. “Good luck Dad you’re gonna need it” that last was sound with a laugh.

“Ha ha laugh it up, we’re be back in a few minutes” Lucas said trying to keep himself for a nervous laugh. “And Will if anyone looks to be getting to close to the trees stop them”

“Will do Dad you can count on me” Will said as he watched his Dad walk towards his Mother’s hiding spot.


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

Lucas took his time getting through the trees trying to think of what he needed to say first to Sami. He could always tell her they could talk about this later after they had gotten out of Salem. But just stalling for time wasn’t going to solve the conversation they did need to have. And worrying about what Sami was thinking and feeling would weight on his mind something he didn’t need extra of at the moment.

All thoughts of what he was going to say left Lucas’ mind when he heard crying coming from up ahead where Sami was setting. Not caring about anything but getting to her Lucas ran through the trees and stopped when he saw Sami crying.

“Sami are you okay?” Lucas asked as her took her into his arms. Sami shook her head ‘no’ and continued to cry.

“What’s wrong Sami did someone find you here?” Lucas asked as he held her tighter running his hands up and down her back.

“No” Sami managed to get out “I just saw him and heard his voice and it just brought it all back”

“It’s okay baby, I won’t let me hurt you again” Lucas said wishing EJ had died when he shot him. Sure he would have been sent to death row for murder but Sami and their children would have been safe from EJ.

“I had convinced myself because I didn’t want Johnny to have been born from rape that it wasn’t.” Sami said as she pulled back from Lucas not feeling she deserves his comfort. “But now that I know he wasn’t it just all hit me when I saw EJ”

“I plead with him to stop” Sami said as her mind went back to that night “and begged him to just help me save you” tears stopped her from saying more.

Lucas pulled her back into his arms and felt like a failure he hadn’t been there to save her once again. Instead she had went looking for help for him and gotten attacked and raped once again.
“And he just kept telling me that if I really loved you I would sleep with him” Sami said through tears as she cling to Lucas tighter. “that if I didn’t you wouldn’t live. And I couldn’t even fight him off because when I tried he told me that he wouldn’t help you”

“I let him rape me Lucas” Sami stated feeling she had failed him and their children. If she would have just found someone else to help her that night anyone else they would have known the twins were Lucas’ for the beginning.

“No baby you didn’t” Lucas said as his own tears started running down his face. If anyone was to blame it was him he shouldn’t have taken Sami up there that night.

“You didn’t let him do anything Sami, he forced you” Lucas was firm with this not wanting her to think for a second he thought anything else.

“But … but I listened to him when he threaten our family and divorced you breaking Will’s heart and yours” Sami cried as she let all of the tears she held in over all the hurt EJ had done to her out.

“He was threaten your family Sami our kids” Lucas said listing all the reasons she had given him for their marriage ending.

“Because of me you went to jail Lucas” that was something Sami knew she couldn’t forgive herself for.

“No I went to jail because I did something stupid instead of just taking you and our kids and running. I don’t blame you Sami I never did” Lucas said “But I’m not sure if you can forgive me for marrying again?”

Sami pulled back from Lucas and wiped his tears away and then kissed his lips sweetly with her own. When the kiss broke Lucas returned the favor and wipe Sami’s tears away slowly both smiled at the other.

“As long as you still love me Lucas I can forgive anything” Sami answered “Not that there is anything to forgive you thought I had moved on for crying out loud Lucas she had a baby with EJ”

Lucas smiled once again and pulled Sami close as his lips claimed hers it was like coming home. This is what had been missing from his life the last two years. Lucas was never letting Sami go again. “I love you” Lucas whispered when they broke apart to breathe.

“I love you too General” Sami replied as she pulled the man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with into another breath stopping kiss and for the next five minutes no more words where heard as Sami and Lucas put their lips to good use in another way.

“I think it’s time we start planning the plan on getting Johnny out of Salem” Lucas said still a little out of breath from their kissing session.

“You’re right General we have to start that right away” Sami teased but was serious with agreeing with Lucas. “And we better go get Will from the swings” that she said laughing a little.
“I never though at Will’s age I would have to say that”

“Yea that does bring back memories doesn’t it?” Lucas asked as he helped Sami up off the bench. “Will always loved this park when he was a little kid.”

“I still can’t believe my little man has gotten so big” this being said as Sami followed Lucas out of the trees into the open park. “And did you notice what he’s done to his hair?”

Lucas nodded his head and knew better then to comment on their son’s hair afraid Will would over hear them. The truth was Lucas had to keep from laughing his head off when he seen Will with blonde hair the kid never had blonde hair is entire life. It looked good on Will through made him look older.

“Will son you ready to go?” Lucas yelled out as they were about twenty feet from the swing set their son was setting on. Will looked up and Lucas knew right away he was upset as his son put on a fake smile and walked towards his parents.

“Let’s go guys we don’t want anyone to see Mom do we?” Will asked as he walked passed them and headed out of the park.

Both Sami and Lucas turned to look at each other and knew something was up with Will and after everything he been through yesterday they both hope they could help him as they followed Will out of the park.

[Sw]

Chapter 10


As Lucas pulled the car to a stop in the same spot as he had the day before when he had brought Allie up to the lake. The ride up was silent as Sami curled up much in the same way their daughter had the day before sleeping. Sami had at first meant to just lay like that until they left Salem but Lucas knew she was tired and wasn’t surprised to find she had fallen asleep before they made it out of the city limits.

Will wasn’t in a talking mood it seemed he had just looked out the window the whole way up. The only time he had said anything was to asks his Dad to stop at a gas station and get some type of food for lunch. That was fun going in a gas station and picking out prepackaged sandwiches that didn’t look like they’d been there since last week.

Lucas had just grabbed four and gotten a couple bags of chips and a two giant sodas with a few candy bars made small talk with the checkout guy about how he was spending the day with his son then left all the while hoping the checkout guy didn’t look to closely at his car and notice anyone is the back.

The stop took less then five minutes and made Lucas’ nerves worry twice as long. At this moment Lucas felt all of his almost 36 years. If one little thing went wrong he knew that it was very likely that they would lose Johnny. That was something Lucas couldn’t let happen again.

Knowing that setting here wasn’t going to get anything done Lucas asks Will. “Do you want to wake you’re Mother are should I?”

“You can do it Dad, I’ll get the blanket I know you keep in the trunk and setup a mini picnic for us” Will replied as he grabbed the bag of sandwiches and other lunch items.

Lucas nodded in agreement and opened his car door walking the few steps it took to open the back door he couldn’t help but smile at Sami’s sleeping face she looked so much like the young girl he used to bring here so many years ago. He couldn’t believe for a moment that it had been close to 20 years ago since the first time he had brought that young trouble maker named Sami Brady here.

She had just been a friend then his only real friend and for along time after he had felt that way. It wasn’t until Alan had raped her did Lucas finally notice he felt something more powerful then friendship for Sami but at the time he had thought it was love like you had for a sibling. Lucas had to shake his head at having been so naive at one time for ever even thinking that.

The first time they made love and that what that night at Titian was had shown Lucas he didn’t love Sami in a sibling way after all. But he had gotten scared by his feelings for her that run so deep that it was easier to pretend he still loved Carrie then face the fact he never had. Sami was so easy to fall in love with and so hard to love at the same time. She made a habit of pushing the people that truly loved her away and running after the ones that didn’t. At least she did back then not anymore.

Lucas couldn’t help but smile as he touched a strand of her long blonde locks and hoped Sami decided to keep her hair long like this he had missed it over the years to him it brought back all the good times they used to have as teenagers.

“Wakey wakey sleeping beauty” Sami heard as she felt someone pulling gently on her hair.

“I know you’re up open those blue eyes of yours” Lucas scolded “Are I just might let Will eat your sandwich”

At the mention of food Sami opened her eyes and smiled she hadn’t had breakfast this morning and was hunger. She had wanted to asks Lucas to stop for some type of food but must have fallen asleep before she could. Pulling her self into a setting position Sami smiled up at her ex-husband looking around the car she noticed Will wasn’t in it and from the windshield she could see they had made it to the lake already.

“This place sure brings back memories doesn’t it?” Lucas asked as he offer Sami his arm helping her get out of the car.

“Yea it does it’s a shame we let our mistakes take so many years awhile from us” Sami said as she pictured a young Lucas at this very lake he had been so full of his self then and charming in a young stupid I know everything kind of way.

“I can’t believe you guys never brought me here when I was younger” with that Will joined their conversation. “We could have had so much fun here”

“Well we would have had to have gotten along and shared you then and that was something that your Father and Me well mostly me hadn’t learned to do well when you were little” Sami stated truthfully. Having had the spare time to think about those types of things Sami did know it would have been better for Will if she had accepted Lucas’ offer of joint custody when he was little.

“It’s okay Mom” was Will’s fast reply.

“No it’s not I should have put you’re needs first and not let my all are nothing custody battle cost you so much time away from you’re Dad and Me”

“Sami it wasn’t just you fighting that battle, I should have tried harder to get you to realize that I wasn’t trying to take Will from you. And not use that to punish you for not telling me the truth about Will sooner” Lucas said looking at Sami who he truly wanted to be able to call Wife once again.
“I should have told you at least this time I got it right with Johnny. I only wish I would have been able to tell you sooner” Sami said as she seat down on the blanket Will had laid out next to the bag of what Sami guessed was their lunch.

“See it’s true you can learn from you’re past huh Mom?” Will teased as he took a spot next to her on the blanket and tried to swap the lunch bag before she could get it. Lightly slapping his hands away Sami grabbed the brown bag and looked inside.

“Yea sorry about that” Lucas said as he seen the look on Sami’s face when she pulled out a cold ham and cheese sub “it was the best I could do at the gas station”

“It’s fine I’m so hunger at the moment I could eat a horse” Sami replied as she emptied out the contends of the brown bag and laid them before her on the blanket eyeing the bag of corn chips Sami grabbed them and the ham sub and torn into them not waiting to see what the two Horton men would pick.

Will grabbed his lunch next not letting his Dad get the chance to get the turkey sub and leaving Lucas either a tuna salad sandwich or another ham and cheese this one on plain white bread. Lucas though had grabbed his bag of chips before Will could get the wave ways. Leaving Will the BBQ ones instead. Decided no to take the risk of food poisoning Lucas took the ham and cheese that was left.

“Not to sound ungrateful for the food but did you remember to buy anything to drink?” Sami asked having already finished her food and eyeing the candy bars that Lucas was nice enough to buy.

“Yes dear I did remember” Getting up off the blanket Lucas headed to the car and came back with the two giant soda bottles. “I thought we could share Sami I even got the kind you liked.”

Will took soda bottle his Dad offered him knowing just like his parents why their were only two brought. For a few minutes they had escaped thoughts of the DiMeras and fears of getting caught. And just been the Horton family enjoying a picnic. Will just watched for a few minutes as his Parents share their soda and enjoyed the smiles they shared and realized it hadn’t been destroyed the DiMeras hadn’t won. His Parents still loved each other and this was going to work out. They we going to get out of Salem and be the family they also should have been.

“As much as I love seeing you guys made lovely dopey faces at each other we need to start planning on getting Johnny out of Salem” Will stated in that tone he inherited from his father at least Sami thought so, Lucas on the other hand thought he had gotten it from her.

“Will sweetie I love you but please don’t say dopey ever again it just doesn’t work well in any sentence” Sami said as she blush red at having been caught by her son flirting with his father.

“I think we should take a page out of Nicole’s book and kidnap Johnny” Will said ignoring his Mother’s early teasing comment.

“Will that’s kind of a given” Lucas said not wanting to make his son seem unimportant but knowing that the only option they had at the moment to get Johnny out of Salem would be to kidnap him.

“Dad I mean Mom should do it” Trying to explain as this ideas came to him “ the first people their going to look at when Johnny goes missing is us. But if Mom takes him 1. He’ll go to her thinking she’s the fake 2. “ Will said making his points holding a finger up as he spoke them “if Mom does it we can get a air tight alibi.”

“We can’t do that Will it’s too big a risk to you’re Mother what if she gets caught with Johnny?” Lucas asked knowing Will wanted to help but his plan was to risky.

“No Lucas it could work no one would say anything to me if they see us together I’m his Mother. ” Sami agreed with Will this was a risk she had to take to freed her baby boy.

“Sami you don’t look exactly like you’re imposter at the moment she’s heavy then you and has shorter hair” Lucas said trying to fight the idea out of her head but knowing once Sami Brady had her head set on something you couldn’t stop her from it.

“I know that I can cut my hair wear some baggie clothes I’m not wanting people to see me Lucas just if they did they won’t stop me” Sami said as she pictured herself with Johnny walking down the street trying to get them out of Salem without getting caught.

“It’s not going to be that easy Sami okay say you do get Johnny where are you going to take him?” Lucas asked feeling the start of a headache coming on. These we’re things they hadn’t really had time to think of answers to yet.

Sami and Will both had no answer to that yet looking at each other they didn’t say a word. This wasn’t going to be easy there were so many things that needed to be done but it was clear that as it was right now they needed someone else to help them the problem was who could they trust with this information?

“We need help” Sami admit out loud sadly knowing they really had no one to turn too that would help them.

Lucas felt forlorn as well at one time he would have went straight to Victor without thought but to much water had run under that burned out bridge for Lucas to trust his family’s safety to his former step-father. He could go to Philip but involving Philip meant Victor so he couldn’t do that. Austin wasn’t in Salem and while he would help Lucas was sure their wasn’t much he could do anyway. He was just about to asks Sami if she thought Eric might help them when Will jumped up and smiled and yelled out “I know who can help us”

“But were going to have to leave the lake I need my cell phone to work and it doesn’t seem to here” holding up the phone in his hands Will could see no signal bars showing.

“Will if you’re thinking about you’re Uncle Austin I really don’t see how he cou” Lucas didn’t get to finish his sentence because Will had just started laughing at that.

“No Dad not Uncle Austin, I’m thinking more on the lines of another Uncle”

“I don’t think Eric can help either. I mean if he did care about me at all why hasn’t he felt my fear in the last two years and came looking for me?” Sami stated more then asked feeling decidedly hurt at her twin.

“No Mom not that Uncle either”

“Well Mike would help us but I think he returned to Israel already” Lucas answered mad at himself a little for not thinking to check and see if Mike hadn’t left yet so he could have given Sami a once over just to much sure she was okay after having been held so long.


“Not that Uncle either, I’m talking about Uncle Rex you do remember you’re shared brother right?” Will asked as if he was talking to two five year olds.

“I’m sure you’re Dad remembers are shared sister Cassie better then Rex” Sami barely got out before she was laughing.

“Sami it isn’t that funny” Lucas said then turned to Will “How can Rex help he isn’t even in Salem”

“Dad he lives in Chicago that’s only a few hours drive away. He’s a genius that can hack into any computer and make fake id’s and passports which I sure we’re going to need in the near future”

“You’re right little man Rex sounds just like the help we need. But do you think he will help us neither you’re Father or I were very close with him before he and Cassie left Salem?” Sami asked cursing her behavior towards her younger half-brother.

“I know he will he hates the DiMeras for how they treated Aunt Cassie and him and we’re kind of close. We talk every week on the phone and he sends me new video games he’s making all the time.” Will said as relief flood him all they needed to do now was get his Uncle Rex on the phone and tell him what was going on he would then take over the planning of rescuing Johnny.

“Are you sure we can trust him Will?” Lucas asked feeling awful for having to asks his son that question when he himself should know the answer. Why hadn’t he stayed in contact with his younger brother? He knew for a fact his Mother hadn’t Rex had left Salem and made sure to not have contact with Kate at all something about not needing a demanding woman who never raised him telling him what to do. Right there in Lucas’ eyes prove what a genius Rex was for getting Kate Robert well DiMera now out of his life.

“I trust him” Will said.

“Okay then let’s pack up and get you back in cell service” Lucas said praying silently that Will was right and they could trust Rex.



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



Rex Brady was waving bye to his brother and nephew as he watched Lucas’ car pull out of the rented vacation home he rented every year. To say he had been surprised when Will had called and sounded so upset that Rex had dropped everything and asked Will to meet him here.

Will hadn’t needed to tell him anything other then one word DiMera and that was enough for Rex to know what ever had Will that upset had to be bad and he needed help. He had just dropped everything didn’t even tell Cassie where he was going just that he would call her tomorrow.

Turning to look at the door to the house Rex shook his head glad that he had picked a house to rent that wasn’t close to any other houses so no one would notice Sami staying here for awhile.
Rex didn’t like the idea of Sami staying here alone but until the time came for her to get Johnny they really didn’t have a choice.

Rex would like to stay with her but knew he couldn’t because he had to get back to Chicago first thing in the morning and get to work on getting fake passports for Sami and Johnny and Rex was thinking for the Lucas, Will and Allie as well. That was something that would take him a little time to get together.

Walking back into the house Rex looked around the living room but didn’t notice Sami anywhere until he came upon the couch and seen her sound asleep on it. A smile appeared on his face as Rex shook his head the way Sami was curled up remind him of how Cassie would sleep.

Looking around he found a notebook and pen and wrote out a note to let Sami know he was going to the store and would pick her up some food for the next few days until he could return and set their plan in motion.

The plan was simply wait until Lucas, Will, and Allie left the country then Sami with his help would rescue Johnny and with their fake passports would leave the country too but not met up with the others until a few weeks later. Then the Horton family would all meet up and disappear together as a family.

Rex knew more then likely after he helped his Sister and Brother he might not ever see them again but that was something he accepted as the price he would have to pay for insurance that his nephews and niece along with their parents were kept safe from the DiMeras.

Rex locked the door as he left the house and knew that Sami wouldn’t like being left there alone after all she had been locked away in a small room for over two years even a nice three bedroom rented house would still seem like a prison to her having to say in it all the time.

Rex decided as he was pulling out of the drive way to buy a prepaid cell phone so he could keep in touch with Sami so she wouldn’t feel so alone and since the house was so far back if Sami wanted to set in the backyard she could do that. She just couldn’t go anyway of course not having a car kind of made that impossible anyway.

Not having a car might be a good thing for Sami, Rex thought he had heard some of her driving tales and he didn’t feel like having to go car shopping at the moment. Laughing to himself Rex got on the main road and looked in the rear view mirror happy that you couldn’t see the house from here and hoping Sami slept through his food run.

[Sw]

Chapter 11


Everything was in place but Sami still felt it was taken to long the plan would be put into action the next day. Rex had been the master mind behind the details some of which Sami wasn’t exactly sure of only her part in them. Time once again seemed to be standing still for her, feeling like she was trapped again only this time in a house in the middle of nowhere.

Rex had gotten her a throw away cell phone as he had called it a prepaid that was only for her to use at the house and only to call him and no one else. Sami hadn’t been allowed to call Lucas are Will. She hadn’t seen either of them in over two weeks Rex was the go between he carried messages and wrote some type of computer virus that erased any emails between them that had been sent.
Rex took freeing the Horton family from the DiMeras’ serious and wasn’t about to let any clue be left for the crime family to follow. It was pain striking being once again away from her children and the love of her life. But Sami knew as much as she didn’t like it this was for the best soon she would be with her family again safe and happy away from the DiMeras’.

Lucas she had learned from Rex had followed his part of the plan and had taken Allie and return to his job out of the country. Sami knew Lucas wouldn’t want to leave her and Will behind but Allie had to be protected and kept safe and he was the only one that could do it. Besides it also was his cover story because he wouldn’t be there to much longer.

Will though Sami was worried to death about she had plead with Rex to plead her case of Will also leaving with his Father after Lucas had talked fake Sami into letting him have Allie visit with him. After all they had almost all agreed that Will was leaving with Lucas then Will had to put his foot down and told them he wasn’t leaving his baby brother alone in the DiMeras’ mansion. That he was the only one that had a reason to stay there.

From Rex, Sami learned that Will had force a lot of I’m sorrys out and had to act all happy to be there around EJ and his fake Mother. In fact Will was acting so good that EJ had started trying to buddy up with him. Of course EJ hadn’t been around back in the day to see just how like his parents Will really was. Sami couldn’t help but think about her days fooling everyone into thinking she didn’t have her memories. Yes acting to get what you wanted was in Will’s blood.

But it didn’t help Sami not worry about both her little boys with the DiMeras’ around them. At least Kate was there even if Sami hated her she hope the woman would not allow Will to be hurt. But with Kate no one ever did know if you could trust her are not. That woman had almost killed Lucas trying to kill Victor.

Thinking like that though wasn’t helping Sami so instead she took out the new throw away phone Rex had gotten her for tomorrow and plugging it in. Making sure it was fully charged. Then Sami opened the next box that also was another prepaid phone this one was for after she had Johnny so they could stay in contact the only number in it was for a phone Rex had brought two weeks ago and had never used. All these prepaid phones was driving Sami crazy they had changed so much in the time she was locked away.

She silently thanked her little brother for getting different types and color phones so she wouldn’t mix them up. These phones were Sami’s life line she needed them so if anything went wrong she could get help. And she needed the phone for tomorrow so she could follow orders.

Sami knew she could never repaid Rex for this not only for all the help but he also had made sure she knew he had money in a hiding space for her after she got Johnny enough that Lucas and she wouldn’t have to worry about working again for a long time if ever. The boy was a genius as he told Sami so many times. Rex had enough money to live five lifetimes and never spend it the computer and any other industry Rex played in had made him very rich in a very short time.

Besides as Rex reminded her daily being on the run wasn’t cheap and neither were kids and add the two together and Lucas and she were going to need lots of money to stay ahead of the DiMeras’.

Still Sami felt bad taken the money from her little brother but Rex who had live his whole childhood locked in a lab because of the DiMeras’ felt it was his true life’s work and calling to stop his nephew and sister from being trapped and hurt by them any longer.

But Sami still couldn’t help but wish Will had left with Lucas and Allie even after Rex had assured her that if the kidnapper’s body was going to be found it would have by now. Rex had also hacked into the DiMeras’ security system and made sure that Lucas and Will had gotten any video proof erased.

For what she could get out of Rex, Sami knew Will was going to stay behind in Salem for awhile to keep a eye out on the DiMeras’ and then he would ‘apply for a school in England’ and meet up with the rest of his family.

Sami and Lucas both didn’t like this plan Rex had told his sister in detail how Lucas had tried to talk Will out of this and Sami only wished she could as well have talked to Will about this. But Will would not leave Johnny behind alone with the DiMeras’.

At least if something come up Will could count on Rex still though Sami just wanted to scream. Will shouldn’t have to be put at risk and if only she could have talked to him herself Sami was sure she could have order Will to leave with Lucas.

Of course when her own Parents had order her to do anything Sami knew it didn’t usually go well. But this was different Will needed to get away from Salem. But he was just to much like Lucas and wouldn’t see reason or was it like herself, Sami had to admit and couldn’t see past his goal of watching out for his little brother.

It didn’t make Sami worry any less about her first born though. She knew though somewhere someone was laughing at her for all the trouble she had caused when she was a teenager now she had her own teenager to behold and he was turning out to be so like her.

Will wasn’t going to back down and because of that Sami found herself praying even more that everything went well tomorrow. The only thing she had gotten out of Rex about Will’s part in tomorrow’s rescue was he would have a air tight alibi .

Rubbing her hands up and down her face Sami took a deep breath and let it out knowing worry about her sons wasn’t going to help her any. In fact it might just make things worse she didn’t need to be a basket of nerves. If anything Sami knew she had to try and get some sleep while she could Rex would be picking her up in a few hours so they could drive to Salem in the dead of night so no one would see them together.

Once there Sami would put phase one of the plan in motion and by the end of the next day if all went as planned she would have her youngest son in her arms again.

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



William Horton had kept his hatred for EJ DiMera well under wraps these last two weeks. If anyone had ever earned a Oscar he certainly had. Today would be hopefully the last outing Will had to pretend to enjoy with his Mother’s rapist.

Will knew today was the day that Johnny would be freed but other then his part in the plans he was kept out of the planning. Rex Brady hadn’t wanted anyone but himself to know all the details of the rescue. If fact Will knew his Dad didn’t know today was the day they were going to free Johnny. Like Will, Lucas only knew his part which wouldn’t be until a few more weeks or a month depending on how things played out.

Both Will and his Dad argued with Rex over not being told the whole plan but he refused to tell them. Rex had pointed out he knew the DiMeras’ better then they did and he was the genius and therefore they needed to listen to him. He wasn’t going to let anything happen to them.

Then after that conversation which they had on the phone all contacted as order by his Uncle Rex was to be done on the laptop. Expected for their weekly calls and those were only allowed to be filled with their usually talk of video games and girls things like that.
Uncle Rex had also insisted that he not talk to his Dad about the plan on the phone are by laptop. So Uncle Rex became everyone go between. Will was still able to talk to his Father and little sister on the phone though which keep his spirits high. Playing with Johnny also kept Will happy he made sure when he wasn’t acting with the rest of the DiMera family to spend all his free time with him. Will knew that after Johnny was freed it would be awhile before he would be able to see his little brother again not to mention his Parents and little sister as well. So he wanted to get in as much time as possible with them.

Will took a deep breathe and force himself to smile as he looked at EJ who had taken Will with him on a business meeting claiming to wanting Will to learn first hand what he did. Of course Will still had no idea what EJ really did for a living other then just being born into a rich evil crime family.

Will’s job though today had been easy so far he just had to report to Uncle Rex what Johnny was doing for the day and who he would be with. Then he was to keep EJ always for Johnny or the fake Sami as long as possible. But never letting on he was doing that. Which by the why Will had seen EJ and his fake Mom react to his sudden turn about it wouldn’t be hard.

He just had to keep this up a few more hours once the call came in that Johnny was missing or taken. Will wasn’t sure how Johnny’s disappears would be labeled at first since what happened with Sydney would they automation assume it was another kidnapping?

Then Will could actually let out what he was truly feeling because he knew once this plan started he wouldn’t be okay until he knew that his Mother and Johnny were both safety awhile from Salem and reunion with his Dad and sister.

So with that thought keeping him going Will made it through lunch and even found he could joke around some with EJ knowing the joke would be on him soon. It wasn’t until late afternoon that the call Will has been waiting for came in. And what surprised Will was it hadn’t been EJ’s phone that rang with it.

When Will had seen his fake Mother’s phone number light up his phone he was scared to death something went wrong with their plan and his fake Mother who truly believe she was his Mother was calling to make sure he was okay or called to yell at him for helping with trying to kidnap Johnny.

Knowing he was being watched Will told EJ in what he hoped was his normal voice “It’s just Mom I bet she’s wondering when were getting home?”

“Hey Mom don’t worry EJ and Me will be home soon” Will answered as he pushed the talk button. Trying to play it cool incase he was wrong before and this was just what he told EJ a call to see when the pair would return.

“Oh Will” fake Sami cried out and Will found the breathe leave his body for she sounded so like his really Mother that for a moment he forgot she wasn’t.

“Mom what’s wrong? Is something wrong with Sydney?” Will asked. He could see EJ had gone still at that question. And Will had to silently praise himself for his thinking to bring Sydney up first to keep EJ guessing and because both of them knew that Johnny wasn’t home today he was going to be at preschool. So if something was wrong it would be nature to first think Sydney would be who Sami would call about.

“It’s Johnny he’s gone” fake Sami moaned. And then Will heard her start crying.

“Gone what do you mean gone Mom, you’re not making any since?” Will barely got out that sentence when his cell phone was ripped out of his hands and into EJ’s.

“Samantha what’s wrong with Sydney?” EJ demanded.

“It’s…it’s not Sydney” fake Sami cried “It’s Johnny he’s gone”

“Gone what do you mean gone Samantha?” EJ once again asked in a demanding tone.

Will was holding his breath as deep rooted fear of being discovered took hold. He was smart enough though to take that and use it instead to seem worried about what could be wrong with his little brother.

Tears were escaping Will’s eyes as he thought of how scared Johnny must be at this moment not understanding what was going on. Why him and his Mother were alone somewhere without the rest of their family.

Wiping his eyes Will looked at EJ as he was sure his fake Mother was informing him that Johnny wasn’t hurt but kidnapped. EJ nodded then in a order Samantha to wait for them at the mansion they would be return right away. As soon as the phone call end EJ handed Will his phone back.

“What’s happened to Johnny has he been hurt?” Will asked letting all his worry in the last few weeks out in his voice.

“Johnny is missing” was the only reply Will received as he followed EJ out of the room.

Will kept the smile off his face as he started to jog to keep up with EJ. Their plan at last had been put into motion. Now Will knew came the most dangerous part to himself playing the grieving brother and son.


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


Lucas wasn’t having a good morning he couldn’t get hold of Rex through emails for the last few days. And though he did talk to Will last night or was it morning in Salem at the moment the time differences between here and there didn’t matter. Will could only tell him about his day and that everything was going good there between him and his ‘mother’. That being code for everything was on track and their plan was still a go for whenever Rex decided to act.

It was the waiting that was driving Lucas crazy, not knowing when his Sons and their Mother would be back with him. Every night since he and Allie had step foot off the plane nightmares had plagued Lucas.

Ones where Will was found out and brought up on murder charges for killing the DiMera Butler. And he wouldn’t defend himself not willing to give up his Mother and their plans to save Johnny. Or where André comes to take Will away for killing his henchman.

Are ones where Sami was found by the DiMeras when she tries to get Johnny back. Or where André finds Sami and takes her into the woods somewhere and kills her no one would be ever the wiser. And even ones where Rex was found to be helping them and he too gets killed.

Lucas paced back in forth in the living room of his apartment running his right hand through his hair. The need for a drink so strong it almost made his legs buckle. Drinking though would only make things worse. And as much as Lucas knew this it didn’t make the pull to go out and get drunk any less.

Once upon a time not so long ago Lucas would have listened to that pull and got himself so drunk he wouldn’t be aware of anything for a few days. But there was something Lucas loved more then drinking and that was his children and Sami. They came first and because of that he wouldn’t let himself fall off the wagon.

He had to keep Allie safe that was the only reason he left Salem. Sami just thinking about how he had to leave her in their Brother’s care made him ache. But he had promised Sami he would protect their little girl. Allie was the only thing that kept Lucas from hopping on a plane back to Salem this very minute.

Rex planned for Allie and him to disappear a few weeks after Johnny was rescued. Rex had it all worked out. Lucas would be on a business meeting for Home and Hearth and with the recent disappearance of Johnny he would take along Allie. It would just be a small plane the pilot someone Rex hired. The plan was that after they left the airport the pilot would land the plane in a vacant field then drop off Lucas and Allie.

That was all of the plans for his and Allie’s disappearance that Lucas knew. Rex he knew had planned more then that but as he was sure they all were tired of hearing it was a need to know. And Rex himself had decided he was the only one that needed to know everything.

Lucas did know that a mile from where Allie and he would be dropped there would be a car waiting for them. And Rex had said funds for Allie and him to live on. Lucas didn’t want to take Rex’s money but didn’t really have a say in the matter he couldn’t take any of his own money with him.

No all his hard earned money was going to be held up in black tape for a long time after he disappeared. That’s why Lucas had began putting money into a account that was label for college for Will. Lucas hated that he had to waste money by doing the same for Allie, seeing as she wasn’t going to get to use any of it.

Will’s college fund as he called it which in truth was money that Will could use as soon as he needed it. Lucas wasn’t sure how long it would be before he would get to see his son again and wanted to make sure he had funds incase he had to make a quick get away from Salem.

This worrying all the time had Lucas on edge Allie had seen it and asked him what was wrong? After that Lucas had forced himself to smile more and pretend to be happy. He couldn’t let anyone see that something was wrong. Lucas couldn’t leave any doubt in anyone’s mind.

The phone ringing broke Lucas out of those thoughts it was still early only 7am here in Hong Kong . So the ringing had caused Lucas’ heart to stop and his breathe to quicken. As he saw the caller ID. He had to pull himself together fast Lucas didn’t want the phone to wake up Allie. Because if this call was what he thought it might be Allie didn’t need to know anything about it. She didn’t need to be upset with Johnny having gone missing and hurting over it.

Taking a deep breathe Lucas answered his phone on the fourth ring and asked in what he hoped was a sleep filled tone. “Did you forget the time difference again Sami? It’s only 7am here Allie’s still sleeping”

“Lucas dear it’s you’re Mother” hearing his Mother’s voice at first confused Lucas. Why did she use Sami’s phone instead of her own? Until he heard in the background crying.

“Mom why do you have Sami’s phone? Is something wrong with Will? Is that Sami crying in the background?” Lucas fired off his questions feeling dread in his stomach at the thought of something happening to Will. Lucas’s nightmares come to the front of his mind.

“Nothing is wrong with Will he’s here with us comforting Sami. I have Sami’s phone because she was trying to call you and broke down before you answered.” Kate said.

“What happened then?” Lucas asked all thoughts of dread leaving his mind. Could it be had Sami gotten Johnny already?

“It’s just awful sweetie Johnny has been taken” Kate said then Lucas heard a long pitiful moan for fake Sami he was sure. “Sami was wanting to talk you to make sure Allie was okay”

“She’s still sleeping Mom, but I’ll go check on her right now” Lucas said as he walked from the living room to Allie’s room. His little princess was sound asleep. “Allie’s fine Mom tell Sami I won’t let her out of my sight”

“How did it happen? When did it happen?” Lucas asked having not been part of that side of the plan Lucas really wanted answers to those questions.

“Lucas, Roman is here he wants to talk to you” Kate said then Lucas heard what he guess was the phone being handed off to his former step-Father and former Father in law.

“Lucas have you noticed anyone following you lately?” Roman asked sounding every bit the police officer he was.

“No not that I’ve noticed why? Is someone after Allie now too?” Lucas questioned wonder just what Rex was up too.

“Not that we know of but I don’t what to take any chances with my granddaughter” Roman answered. “Has there been anyone that spooked you lately by being to friendly to you or Allie?”

“I don’t think so of course people came up to me from time to time to tell me I have a beautiful little girl. But nothing over the top.” Lucas replied not knowing just how to answer these kinds of questions. Had Rex expected him to lie and tell Roman, Allie had been getting stalked? More then ever Lucas wished he had gotten a answer to his emails.

“Just keep a eye on Allie at all time Lucas I’ve lost one grandchild today I don’t want to lose another.” Roman said sounding sorrowful. And Lucas felt his heart break a little for Roman. Because if all went to plan Roman was going to lose two more grandchildren soon.

“What do you mean lost? Mom said Johnny was taken he’s not die is he?” Lucas asked trying to keep himself from crying just at the thought of having to asks such a question about his son.

“He was taken after his preschool let out. The teacher said he was there one minute gone the next. We haven’t gotten the video back yet so we don’t know much yet” Roman answered.


“Oh God what do I tell Allie” Lucas asked fully well knowing he didn’t plan to tell Allie anything about this conversation.

Lucas didn’t get his answer right away instead he heard two men’s voices talking then he heard EJ’s voice through the phone with a order “At the moment tell Allie nothing just keep a eye out”

With that the phone called ended from their end. Man that EJ was a jerk putting it nicely
Lucas thought. He had been hoping to get to talk to Will for a second to ask how he was doing.

A smile creep slowly to Lucas’ face as he walked back to the living room getting on his laptop. First thing he was going to do was email Rex again ask him if Sami and Johnny were okay. Then asks his little brother not that he would get a answer Lucas was sure. When he could be reunited with Sami and Johnny.

Logging into the email account Rex had setup for him Lucas wasn’t really surprised when he had a new email waiting for him. The subject line just read Cherish’s come back Tour.
At that Lucas couldn’t help but laugh and wonder how Rex had gotten Sami to confine how they met to him.

Opening the email it looked to be spam and only a few reasons told Lucas it wasn’t. 1. No one had this email address but Rex. 2. Cherish had stopped singing years ago last Lucas read online was she had became a born again Christian had gotten married and left show business behind. And 3. The time and date listed for the concert was yesterdays date in Hong Kong.

What had tears of laugher running down Lucas face was the picture of Cherish in the email she was wearing the same outfit she wear when he last seen her face to face all those years ago. Sami most of told him what concert it was and everything for Rex to be able to find a picture of her on that concert.

It was true what they said women forget nothing. In this case though that was good news because now he knew for sure that Sami had Johnny and they were okay. Looking the email over once more which was really just the picture of Cherish and the date and time posted. A time that no one would ever have a concert at 3 in the afternoon.

That must have been the time Sami had gotten their son back. Now the tears that Lucas was rubbing awhile from his eyes where ones of great joy. Soon, Lucas knew he would have his family back together. Marking the email as spam and moving it to that folder, Lucas waited a few minutes then went into his spam folder looked at the email once more then deleted it.

Rex had told him to do this every single time he had gotten a email for some reason. Lucas didn’t know why but did as he was ordered. It was weird how Rex had email a fake spam email instead of just a plan one telling him it was done. But Lucas knew that Rex took leaving any type of clue behind serious.

Now especially Rex and so would Lucas be on guard they couldn’t let anything slip no matter how small. Will of course was Lucas’ greatest fear right now he was in the loins den. Will had to act the part of grieving brother and comforting son at the moment. Having live through this once when Sydney had been kidnapped Lucas could only hope no one seen a difference in Will’s behavior then from now.

Will though was a tough young man, Lucas knew that but as his father he always would think of him as his little boy. Little boy it was hard to believe but so welcome to know he had not one but two Sons with Sami.

Sami the one person Lucas knew he could be himself around. Who would love him for being just Lucas Horton. They both made a lot of mistakes but over time they had over come all their hate and anger. And now Lucas was counting down the days until he had her back into his arms.

“Daddy” Allie’ voice called through the apartment. “can you get me something to eat?”

“Sure Allie, Daddy will get you whatever you want” Lucas replied as he turned off his laptop. Then headed for his daughter’s bedroom to help Allie start her day. And hoping soon that the rest of their family would be together.


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

TBC…

[Sw]

Chapter 12

‘Is this what’s it going to be like?’ Sami thought ‘Always worrying that at any moment someone would break down her door and drag Johnny away from her?’

At the moment Johnny was sleeping in her lap. Sami hadn’t be able to let him out of her arms since the moment they entered this house that Rex had text her the directions to. After she had text him that Johnny was with her.
The house it’s self was a lot like the one she had been living in until last night. It was in the middle of nowhere and if she hadn’t of be given very detail directions Sami knew she never would have found it.

Rex having left her a car was a surprise. But Sami knew she was going to need a car because hiding out in Salem was going to be impossible. The DiMeras’ would leave no stone unturned in that town looking for Johnny.
Are a clue as to who had kidnapped their heir to the crime family.

Another surprise from Rex had been left in the house. A new cell phone with a note telling her to destroy her current one in fact sometimes she felt Rex was treating her like a child. He had typed out a note with a step by step on how to destroy her cell phone and make sure if it was ever found that it would never be useable again.

Rex had also left two suitcases Sami hadn’t looked through them yet. But knowing her little brother he was sure to have packed whatever he felt she and Johnny would need.

In fact Sami was sure that inside those suitcases she would find passports and airline tickets to another country. It had taken Sami a lot of trust to put so much faith in Rex that he wasn’t going to do anything that would get her caught. After all every other sibling she had at one time are another had let Sami down. Eric had looked down on her for all the schemes she used to do and hadn’t even felt through their connection she was in trouble. With Carrie there was so much bad blood in the past a lot of things they had both did to each other.

Sami could look back now and see she had started the feud between them. But that didn’t mean Carrie hadn’t done awful things to her as well. It was something that they both it seemed had gotten trapped in. And Sami was ashamed of herself that she had let all her angry over being raped by Alan be projected on Carrie. Yes Carrie has set in court and help Alan get away with raping her. But she hadn’t meant too the lawyer had twisted things around on her. But a young sixteen year old Sami Brady hadn’t understood that.

“No” Sami whispered to herself. “I had to blame Carrie because she didn’t save me” In the end after a lot of time thinking this over Sami found that was the real reason she was so angry at Carrie.

As the big sister Carrie was supposed to look out for her protect her from harm. Carrie was perfect in Sami’s mind at the time, she had wanted to be just like her. Then when Alan had started paying attention to her Sami had thought she finally was like Carrie to someone.

But she had gotten hurt and Carrie wasn’t there and then the trail and everything went horrible wrong. Carrie had called her a lair on the stand and that had hurt Sami so much. It was no wonder it had taken years before Sami could now see the reason why she had hated Carrie so much.

But it wasn’t Carrie’s fault she had been raped and it also wasn’t her fault Alan had gotten off. The later part had really taken Sami a long time to admit. Thinking about this made Sami want to talk to her sister and really make true peace between them perhaps now they could get back to their once true sisters relationship.

It made Sami sad though knowing she wasn’t going to be able to do that. Things with Carrie would have to stay how ever they were with the fake ‘Sami’.

Pushing Carrie from her mind Sami thought of her youngest sister Belle. And how the girl had turned on her for no reason. That had hurt when Belle had taken her wedding day without any thought to her older sister at all. Sami couldn’t remember other then the time she had tried to run away with Belle when they were younger of ever doing anything to hurt her.

Belle was just a spoiled brat though thinking of no one but herself. Sami had to smile though at that thought because it was almost like looking in a mirror of when she was that age. Belle took to much after her, so Sami had decide not to hate her little sister and let the anger go. She hope Belle grew up and become a wonderful mother.

While Cassie was also her sister Sami couldn’t help but laugh when she thought of the younger woman. Lucas and she sure got along. Trying to stop herself from laughing. Sami looked down at her sleeping son.

Johnny had gotten so big and looked so much like his Father that everyone had to be blind not to see it. Sami put all other thoughts out of her mind as she got lost in all she had missed out on with her children.

She hadn’t gotten to see Allie or Johnny start to talk in sentences, walk, potty training. Sami didn’t even know what her youngest children’s favorite food was. And let’s not forget the all important first day at school. All those things had been stolen from her.

But worse of all her children thought of another woman as their Mother. Was this deep ache in her heart the same one her Father felt when he returned? ‘Is this what Daddy felt?’ Sami thought ‘When he finally was freed and then learned that John had taken over his life.’

At least in Sami’s case the woman looked just like her so it would be easy for people not to know. But in her Daddy’s case John looked nothing like him and yet everyone was fooled for years into thinking he was Roman Brady.

The DiMeras’ had caused so much pain and now it was time to outsmart them. And Sami knew the only Brady who could hope to do that for good would be Rex. That was one of the reasons she listened to everything Rex said and followed his directions step by step.

Pretending to be the her fake self this afternoon was what Sami had thought the plan would be. She had pictured the whole thing in her mind for days. On just how she would hold herself and prepared herself for cutting her hair to match her doubles. But Rex had told Sami not to change anything about herself. Which had confused Sami until this very afternoon when he had called her on the before cell phone and told her in great detail his plans for her getting Johnny.
Dressing in a outfit that hid most of her shape and using her long hair to cover most of her face. Sami stood by the fence gate at Johnny’s preschool they had just let out after lunch. In a spot that Rex had told her wasn’t viewable to the cameras. The play area had two exist one that lead to the front of the school which had no gate on it. Or the second one where Sami was standing hidden from view behind a gate and it’s pole.

A loud ringing noise sounded. And Sami watched in amazement as all the children lined up one behind the other and started walking back towards the other exit. Making sure to stand in line with the fence pole not being seen Sami watched the teachers and children file out of the play ground.

Hoping that Rex knew what he was talking about she looked back into the playground area and was upset to see that Johnny was on the swing set just swinging away. No one had gotten the little boy off the swing.

Rex had hinted that Johnny was a little bit spoiled and that from the notes he had hacked into at the school he never listened very well to his teachers and wouldn’t follow any school drills. In fact they had mention this to his ’Father’ many times but EJ had just told them to education his son not discipline him.

After reading that file Rex had his plan in place he just needed to figure out how to get Sami in without her being noticed by a teacher or guard at the school.

A Fire drill was the perfect way to get Johnny away from his Teacher and fellow students. The little boy would never leave whatever he was doing to follow the rules. Rex had told Sami it had taken him a week’s time finding the one spot in the school where the cameras wouldn’t see her.

Because of budget cuts the cameras on this side of the building were only on when the kids were outside. Sami had been in this spot for a hour before they were let out.

Sami then took a deep breathe and said a quick prayer that God would give her the strength to do this and not mess it up. “Johnny DiMera what do you think you’re doing?”

The little boy had stopped swinging at once when he heard his Mother’s voice. Jumping off the swing he headed for Sami’s hiding spot to investigated why his Mother was at his school.

“Mommy is that you?” Johnny asked as his run towards the gate became a slow walk as fear of getting punished for his behavior of not listen to his Teacher came to mind.

“Yes sweetie it’s Mommy” Sami said as she kept the tears at bay. Here she was after all this time talking to her baby boy. It had been so long ago that she last held him in her arms and told him she loved him.

“I sorry Mommy I will listen to the Teacher next time” Johnny said as he stopped at the fence not knowing how to open the gate before him. And wanting to not get into any trouble from his Mother.

“That isn’t going to work Johnny you know you’re supposed to mind you’re Teacher baby” Sami said using the tone she had always had when Will was in trouble.

“Because of you not listen you have to come with me right now” Sami stated as she carefully opened the gate but made sure not to stick her head out from behind the gate. Only her arms that were covered by a shirt could be seen. Wanting to get Johnny out of the playground as fast as possible. What if his Teacher decided to come get him or the drill was over and everyone came back before she could get Johnny out?

“Okay” Johnny whisper as he dragged his feet but did walk through the gate. As it closed behind him Johnny looked up into the face of his birth Mother.

“Mommy you look different” Johnny said as he grabbed his Mother’s hand. “Your hair is longer, I like it that way better”
Sami just smiled and patted Johnny’s head with her free hand as she lead him away from the school to the car that was waiting for them. As much as she would love to kiss and hug her baby boy right now she didn’t have the time.


Johnny had been filled with questions about why they had a different car then he remembered. And why his Mommy was smaller in the face then she was this morning.

Sami had laughed at that comment knowing that Johnny was to young to know what he really meant was thinner not smaller. She had just smiled at all his questions and answered them with the same reply. “When we get to where were going I’ll answer all you’re questions.”

Of course she was saved from having to answers those questions for now. Johnny had fallen asleep before they had made it to their safe house. It truly was in the middle of nowhere with trees all around it. Sami couldn’t help but wonder how in the world Rex had found this place.

The house it’s self wasn’t bad at all it needed a little work here and there but nothing Sami would call a deal breaking if you were going to buy the place.

The power was on and Sami hoped that meant they had water as well. Knowing she had to see just want was in those suitcases in case Rex wanted her to leave this place right away. Sami gently lifted her sleeping son out of her arms onto the sofa.

She opened the suitcase she came to first and a laugh escaped Sami when she saw a few toys along with lots of young boy’s clothes. And what looked to be a blonde short hair wig for a child.

Going to the next suitcase Sami found one that was full of clothes for herself and had a large envelope in it. Pulling the envelope out Sami set down on the sofa next to her sleeping son. She open pulling the contents onto her lap.

There was a stack of money with a bank wrapper around hundred dollar bills. And of course passports and airline tickets. Everything Sami knew she and Johnny needed to leave the country. Opening the tickets she read the departing date was 2 days from now. And the alias she would be using was Sarah Jamie.

The last name throw Sami it made her think of a long lost friend. One that truly had been a good friend but she had let her deep rooted need for Austin destroy that friendship. Jami Caldwell had been there for her through so much and Sami knew she hadn’t returned the favor. Jamie had deserved a better friend then she had been. It was one of many things if Sami had to do over again she would have been a better friend.

Even before she had been taken anytime Sami would think of Jamie she would feel guilty. That was one friendship that would have stood the test of time if she hadn’t personal destroy it.

Sami couldn’t help but wonder what Jamie was doing now? If she had gotten over all the horrible things that life had dealt her. Had Jamie gotten married and had children?

Thinking about her lost friend wasn’t going to help Sami now though so she decided to think about that another time. Looking at Johnny’s ticket Sami smiled when she noticed his alias Robert Jamie.

As much as Sami disliked Kate and agree with Lucas when he changed his name to Horton she missed the name Roberts. When she first wanted to marry Lucas it was as Mrs. Lucas Roberts she pictured herself being called. Names though didn’t matter now Sami knew as she pushed away the paper work on her lap and looked at what did matter. Johnny sleeping soundly not a care in the world.

Getting up slowly Sami found the kitchen and hope Rex had it stocked because there wasn’t anyway for her to leave and get food. Opening the cupboards Sami wasn’t disappointed when she discovered them full. In fact alone with that she found a note on the counter that read:

Johnny hates peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But loves just peanut butter ones. He doesn’t like them cut in half either. He won’t eat tuna fish and loves apples that are sliced. He begs for soda pop but you can’t let him have more then half a glass are he won’t sleep at night. His bedtime is 8pm but he always tries to stay up later. I love you both Mom please be careful.

It was unsigned but Sami knew it was from Will at least the words were seeing as the list slash note has been typed out.

“Mommy” Sami heard being called out from the living room. Smiling and taken a much need breathe of air she headed to face her youngest son. Hoping that she could answer all his questions without upsetting her little boy.

[Stephentiefe]

Hi, here on the forum guys advised a cool Dating site, be sure to register - you will not REGRET it bit.ly/35muJRk