CHAPTER 38

"Are you threatening me?" Elizabeth asked Mike, hoping her voice wouldn’t show how scared she was

"Of course not!" Michael quickly replied. "All I meant was that you are lucky I’m not one of them, because they would’ve killed you, no questions asked. Look, when I got offered to work on this, I didn’t care who the prisoner was, all I wanted was the easy money. If I had known you were a friend of Emily, I would’ve made it so you could escape a long time ago"

"But who are you, exactly?" She asked carefully.

"Michael Morgan. I’m the little redhead you used to babysit with Emily"

Elizabeth sighed. Finally she had a friend in this. She smiled at Michael and he shook his head.

"No, Elizabeth. To everyone else I’m still your jailer. They mustn’t know we are planning your escape. If they became to know, you and I would be killed. Do you understand you have to let me do this and I will tell you when its ready"

"Who is she? What does she want from me?" Elizabeth asked. "I know I met her a long time ago but I don’t know why I did for her to hate me so much"

"Well, she told us it was about her brother, or something like that, but I don’t know more. I’m sorry, for all of this. I just hope my cousin and my uncle can forgive me for that one day."

Elizabeth gently and quickly cupped his cheek, before smiling at him. "I always knew you weren’t like one of them Michael, but why are you doing this?"

"After I left my uncle Luke’s place, my father practically disowned me. He made it so no one in Port Charles would hire me, except for making drinks at Lukes, making meals at Kelly’s, or working in the mob. I left and came here, to try and finish school and make something of myself. But I ran out of money and quick, and I didn’t want to come crawling back to my father so I took his job. It was a one time deal, and it paid good money. Bobbie guaranteed me you wouldn’t get hurt. I know now that she lied to me"

‘Bobbie, is that her name?"

"Roberta. That’s her whole name, but we call her Bobbie."

So Roberta was the name of the woman who was keeping her captive. For something with her brother.

"So you better listen to me next time or I swear you will have a correction you won’t forget" Michael growled suddenly and Elizabeth saw the famous Roberta enter her room.

"Keeping her in line Mike?" She asked sweetly and he nodded. "Good, now leave us alone"

Michael took one last look at Elizabeth and smiled, trying to tell her to stay calm, he would get her out of here.

"Will you now tell me why you are keeping me here?" Elizabeth asked, hoping to sound annoyed, but truth be told, she was terrified.

"I want to protect the world from trashes like you" Roberta answered coldly. "My brother was obsessed with you and that’s what killed him. Well, you are the one who pulled the trigger, but if he stayed away from you it would never have happened"

The trigger. Tom. Oh God, why was she always in trouble because of Tom? Why every time she cried, it had to be because of him? "Tom’s your brother?" She asked in disgust.

"Yes he is. Half brother, but still is my brother and I loved him. I helped him every time he tried to have more money for us, but I guess with Emily it was too much at once, and he got caught. I never knew why he accepted the bargain to go to Jail, but I hoped when he got out, he would’ve forgotten about you. What I don’t understand is why was he so hung on you, when he had a fiancee who was willing to do anything to and for him. Montana was quite a little slut if you ask me, and why he wanted to stay with her I don’t know. We were happy just Tom and I, but then he started looking outside the house and that’s what killed him." Roberta took a breath and smiled, before she continued her horror tale.

"I tried to help him though. When I found Lucky dying in the water, I took care of him and made sure he wouldn’t die until I carried out my plan. I left him at Montana’s door, and wrote ‘Roberta’ in a paper in his pocket, to let Montana know he was sent by me and she had to take care of him, no questions asked. But that idiotic woman thought Robert was Lucky’s name, and when he came to, he had no memory at all.  I wanted her to fall in love with Lucky so I could show my brother she was a no good, but she kept faithful to Tom, so I took care of her and made it so everyone would now believe Robert or Lucky or call him however you want, was her daughter’s father. I lost his track after he found out you were married to Nikolas and when his father’s club went up in flame and I didn’t know he was back until Tom told me found his daughter, and then all hell broke loose again.  You took Tom away from me and now you have to pay for it by watching Lucky fall in love with someone else" She answered coldly. "He’s here to meet a woman"

‘Yeah and the woman is me you psychopath’ Elizabeth thought but kept her mouth shut. How was she gonna be able to get out of here without being killed? It was clear Roberta was dangerous, even more than Tom was, and she had allies. In Natty and in Ralph, although Michael was now on Elizabeth’s side. "So you have me, what will you do with me"

"I’ll make you suffer like my brother did, obsessed by the little virgin he raped in the park. I bet his mother didn’t think about the fact that my brother was sentimental, and that he would see it as some kind of sign that you were destined to be together. Romantic fool" Roberta sighed

"ROMANTIC? YOUR BROTHER RAPED ME!"

As soon as she screamed Ralph rushed in her room to make sure she wasn’t hurting his boss.

"Yes he did" Roberta answered. "But he fell in love with you that night, and all he could think about was being with you again, and in the end you killed him. Just because he couldn’t get you out of his system!" She hissed

"You are sick!" Elizabeth yelled

"Maybe, but still I am the one allowed to go outside, I’m the one who’s free. And you are not"

With that she left, with Ralph right after her, leaving a crying Elizabeth alone with her thoughts.

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"Uncle Luke? It’s Michael" Luke heard into the phone. "I have something to tell you, and it’s important, but your son can’t know about this"

"All right, he’s out for the moment anyway, what can I do for you?"

"Well, first you have to know that I didn’t know it was her, I didn’t know you knew her or that my aunt Emily did because if I did I wouldn’t have accepted it keep the secret for so long"

"What are you babbling about Mickey, cut to the chase and after we’ll talk about what you knew and didn’t"

"I know where Elizabeth is held. I’m one of the person keeping her against her will, uncle Luke"