The Island and Beyond
By LashaLaura
Chapter1
Setting: Cassadine Island
Laura was sitting on the northern end of the island thinking about the day she first arrived. It seemed like yesterday yet it had already been six months. Staring at the view of the other islands of Greece Laura detached herself from the beauty around her and thought of the circumstances under which she was brought here, Stavros' obsession. The terror that she felt that night after she had woken up in what she learned later were his quarters. Stavros had been lurking in the shadows watching "his beloved Lasha" sleeping. Lasha… That was his nickname for her, he never called her Laura no matter how much she protested! Oh how she missed Luke, her beloved Luke! She had been only half alive since Helena casually let it slip that Luke had perished in an avalanche! How was she going to live without him and who was going to save her from this prison and from him….?
In the six months she had been there, she had been spurning Stavros' advances until…last night! Last night was her… wedding night! After six months of dealing with her fate she didn't have the will to fight anymore and agreed to become Stavros' wife… although the fact that Helena had threatened the life of her mother and father if she didn't comply didn't help matters. The details thankfully were blurry but after it was over and she was sure he was asleep she just started to cry!!! Since last night she truly believed that she was consigned to this hateful place for all time, the one man she loved was gone and no one knew she was here. Suddenly, after six months of holding back, she let the tears flow! Her shoulders started to shake and she just wanted to cry out all of her sorrow, maybe it would ease her loneliness.
Laura was too wrapped up in having a good cry to notice that someone was moving around behind her! Then she heard a rustle of the bushes in between her sniffles! Thinking it was Stavros' she quickly wiped her tears away and sat straight up just like he liked, he always said that "his Lasha was too beautiful to slouch" God how she despised him, she thought this as she sat there waiting for him to call an order to her! But instead of screaming his commands, he placed his warm hand on her shoulder! This was not like Stavros' but none the less she was abnormally calmed by the gesture. She turned around to look at him but…… it wasn't Stavros! Laura moved away from the man but not because of fear, she could sense that this man would do her no harm though he was obviously a Cassadine. But in the back of Laura's mind she could only remember hearing of a certain number of family members, Helena, Mikkos, Victor and Stavros. But who was this man???
