Stuck In The Past
By: Beth Anne
It was a warm summer day in Port Charles, New York and everything was peaceful and calm. There was a good reason for that. That reason was because a particular woman had not been in town for a year. This woman happened to be Lucy Coe. You see ever since Dominique Taub (Stanton) was named the FACE OF DECEPTION, Lucy split town and headed to New York City. Now it is one year later and Dom and Scotty are about to be married. We join Lucy and Dom in the brides room...
DOMINIQUE: Lucy, please stop pacing. You are making my head spin and I have a headache and I don't want it to get worse. Could you help me with my hair?
LUCY: Dom, how long have you had this headache?
DOMINIQUE: About a half hour.
LUCY: Okay. Now let's fix your make up and your hair and get you married to my best pal out there.
DOMINIQUE: Lucy could you get Scotty? I really don't feel that well and I am afraid to stand up. I am so dizzy.
LUCY: Okay I will be right back. Just do me a favor will you honey?
DOMINIQUE: What now?
LUCY: I want you to RELAX!!!
Dominique chuckled to herself as she lowered herself to the couch and wondered what was wrong with her.
Scotty Baldwin was outside the church and hardly composed. He wondered if he was doing this for love or to make Lucy jealous. He really hoped it was not to make Lucy jealous. Then as if she was reading his mind, Lucy ran up to Scotty and told him about Dom.
SCOTTY: What is wrong with Dom? She has been complaining of headaches, which she insists are not migranes and she has lost over 15 pounds in the last month. God, please do not let the only person I have ever been in love with, besides Laura Baldwin-Spencer be taken from me.
(Ahh! But little does he know that at this time next year Dom will have died.)
LUCY: Pal! Pull it together here! Dom just has a headache and...(realizes his point and shuts up about the subject)...needs to see you. She is in the brides room. Go to her pal. She needs you right now.
Scotty was totally unprepared for what he was about to see when he walked in the room. Dominique has passed out and is coming to. Scotty kisses her and tells her that if she wants to they can postpone the wedding til she is feeling better.
DOMINIQUE: No! I don't want to wait. Lucy has gone to heck and back to put this wonderfully, lovely, romantic wedding together for us. We HAVE to get married today. She would be crushed if we, her two best pals, did not get married and all her work was wasted.
(Scotty looks at her and caves in.)
Four months later....
Dominique was modeling for the FACE OF DECEPTION photo shoot and suddenly felt weak and sick to her stomach. Lucy was worried so she told Don Lavine that she needed to take Dominique to the hospital ASAP. Don understood and told everyone to pack up and that it was a wrap.
Later Scotty was in court and was interrupted by Lucy's call.
SCOTTY: Lo? Hey Luce. Look this is a bad time can't this wait until--. When did she collapse? Is she okay? I am in court right now but I will try for a recess until tomorrow. Okay, tell Dom I love her. Bye Luce.
JUDGE SAUNDERS: Counselor is something the matter?
SCOTTY: Permission to approach the bench your honor.
JUDGE SAUNDERS: Okay.
SCOTTY: Jon, I have to leave my wife just collapsed at a photo shoot and she is in ICU at General Hospital. Can I get a recess until tomorrow? Please this is important.
JUDGE SAUNDERS: By all means. Court is adjurned until 10:30 tomorrow morning. Scotty tell her to feel better soon.
SCOTTY: Thanks Jon I will and thanks again I owe ya. (thinking:) I just hope I make it there in time.
When Scotty got to General Hospital he found Lucy sitting next to Dom's bed and just staring at her best girlfriend. Scotty put his hand on her shoulder and she looked up and mouthed the words.."Outside Now!"
Once they got out of the room, Lucy dissolved into tears.
SCOTTY: How is she? What is wrong with my lovely Dominque?
LUCY: Scotty, pal. I am as clueless as you are. Alan has not come back with the results of the tests yet. I have not left her side since she got here. I will go find Alan and ask him if he has heard anything. You go be with your beautiful young wife. She was asking for you earlier.
After Lucy went to go find Alan Quartermaine, Scotty went to Dom's room and sat next to her and wished that he could take whatever was hurting her and suffer it himself, instead of her.
Lucy finally found Alan at the fourth floor Nurses Station. She waited until he was done consulting with one of his patients over the phone before she asked how Dom was.
LUCY: Alan? Hi. I--uh--was wondering how Dominique Taub-Baldwin was doing and if you got her test results back yet?
ALAN: Lucy. Hi. Yes I have her results back and I was just about to go and tell her what they are. Would you like to walk with me to her room. I hate to say it but it is not good.
LUCY: My God. Alan! You are acting like this sort of thing happens everyday and is no big deal. Well bub I will tell you that eventhough you might not like Scott because he got me pregnant while I was married to you, does NOT give you the right to condemn Dominique for what happened between me and Scotty! I think that me and Scotty have suffered about enough for that THANK YOU! In case you forgot I LOST THE BABY AFTER YOU THREW ME OUT! I blame you for that Alan! So get off your high horse and help my only friends.
ALAN: Lucy. I am NOT condemning anyone. I am trying to keep a neutral mind and not get emotionally attached to my patients. You misunderstood when I said that it was not good. She has cancer, and that is horrible, but the bad news is that we don't know how far it has spread or if we can operate on the tumor that caused the cancer.
Lucy just stood there fighting the urge to cry.
Dominique felt that there was another person in the room. She opened her eyes and smiled when she saw her loving husband sitting in the chair...sleeping.
DOMINIQUE: Scotty? Honey? When did you get here? Where is Lucy? and the big question is how and why am I here?
SCOTTY: Heyya Dom! I got here about 15 minutes ago. Lucy went to get Alan to see if they got your test results back yet. You were brought in because you fainted at the FACE OF DECEPTION shoot. Lucy and Don brought you over and Lucy has been with you ever since.
(knock on door)
DOMINQIUE: Come in?
ALAN: Hi Mrs. Baldwin. How are we doing so far? You look a lot better than you did when Lucy and Mr. Lavine brought you in. Oh hi Scott did not see you there.
DOMINIQUE: Dr. Quartermaine. Call me Dominique or Dom. I am feeling better. Lucy I am so sorry for what happened. Is Don upset?
LUCY: Don't give it a second thought. No. He was just worried about you.
ALAN: Lucy would you excuse us for a minute I have to talk to Dom and Scotty.
LUCY: Sure thing. I will be in the cafeteria if you need me. Okay?
SCOTTY and DOM: Okay thanks Lucy.
Lucy was just sitting down with a cup of hot cocoa when she suddenly tripped over her chair and landed in the hands of Kevin Collins.
LUCY: Oh my gosh! I am so sorry! I am just preoccupied with something else and forgot to pull my chair all the way out and when I tried to I--well you know the rest.
KEVIN: Don't worry about it. I was not paying attention either. My name is Kevin. I am a psychiatrist on staff here. My brother Ryan is a pediatrician here too.
LUCY: My name is Lucy Coe and I run a perfume business called DECEPTION. My best friend and his wife are learning what is wrong with her. I already know and I--(fighting to keep control)--wish there was something I could do to help them.
KEVIN: Come with me Lucy. Let's go to my office and talk about this in private
Chapter 2
Lucy could not believe that she had met Ryan Chamberlain's brother. Eventhough they are twins they are nothing alike as Lucy will later learn.
LUCY (mid-babble):...So you see when I came back to Port Charles after trying my luck in New York City, I came to find that my pal has moved on and has changed a lot since I left. He and I used to hang out on the edge and risk everything we had. But since he met his wife and my best girlfriend, he has not taken as many risks as he used to. I feel left out of his life some how.
KEVIN: Lucy, it seems to me that you are jealous of this man's new found love and change of lifestyle. From what you have told me, you seem to like to be the center of attention and when you are not you stomp your feet and whine. Am I right?
LUCY: Doctor, am I that transparent that just by walking down the hall and telling you my troubles you can tell what kind of person I am?
KEVIN: Well that depends on a number of things, Lucy. Your body language and eye contact has told me a lot. But I have a feeling that there is more to this problem than you are telling. Are you afraid to confide in me because I look like Ryan? If so let me assure you that I am nothing like my brother and that I would never use anything you say against you.
Lucy was stunned.
Dominique had just heard the news that her test results came in and was waiting for Alan to get to the point.
DOM: Dr. Q could you get to the point. I am tired and want to sleep.
ALAN: Dominique, the tests show that you have a severe case of lung cancer and that the tumor that started the cancer is inoperable.
SCOTTY: No! The tests were wrong! I will not accept this! Dom is not sick and does not have cancer! You are just getting back at me for what I did when you and Lucy were married. Well at least I did not say that Lucy was dying just to get revenge on you. GET OUT OF HERE NOW!
DOM: I am afraid that it is true sweetie. I have suspected this for a while but wanted to believe otherwise. I do not want to leave you alone when I am gone. I want to give you a baby but I do not have time to carry one to term. Would you ask Lucy to come in and see me please?
SCOTTY: Yeah I will go find her. By the way I love you Dom and I always will.
LUCY: Okay you want the whole story? FINE! My dad left when I was two. My mom killed herself the day I graduated high school. I was date-raped in college and had a miscarriage during the pregnancy resulting from the rape. I dated a murderer. I married two guys for money and cheated on one with my best pal. Then my husband at the time, Alan, threw me out when he found out and I miscarried the baby. Then my best friend married my only girlfriend and now she is dying of cancer. There are you happy?
KEVIN: I am happy that you told the truth. But I am sad about your friend. I know what it is like to loose someone you love.
Lucy is about to answer when her cell phone rings.
LUCY: Lucy Coe.
SCOTTY: Hey Luce. Dom wants to talk to you about something important can you come right away.
LUCY: Yeah, sure I am on my way. Ta!
KEVIN: Going so soon?
LUCY: I have to. My friend wants to talk to me about something. Can we meet later?
KEVIN: Sure thing Lucy. Bye.
LUCY: Ta Doctor!
Dominique was nervous she did not know how to ask Lucy to carry her baby for her. She was thinking so hard that she did not see Lucy slip into the room.
LUCY: Heyya Pal! What did you want to see me about?
DOM: Lucy, you heard about my condition I am sure. I cannot give Scotty a baby. So I was wondering if you would act as surrogate mother and carry our baby for us?
LUCY: I would be delighted to!
Chapter 2 Part 2
--The biggest gift--
Lucy was thrilled and excited that Dominique asked her, of all people, to carry her baby for her. Surely Dominique knew about her history with pregnancy, even so she had faith in her best friend and so did Scotty.
LUCY: Are you sure you want ME to do this for you? You do know that I have had two miscarriages. I might not be the best choice. But if you REALLY want me to..I am willing to try.
DOM: I have faith in you, Lucy. I know that you will carry Scotty's and my baby to term. I just know you will. I believe that you miscarried before because God did not think that it was the right time for you to be a mother. But I believe that He thinks now is a good time and you would be doing me and Scotty a favor. Thank you so much for doing this.
LUCY: Honey, you know I would do ANYTHING for you. You are my only friend besides Scotty and Tony. Speaking of friends I met a new friend today. His name is Kevin Collins and he is a psychiatrist here at GH.
DOMINIQUE: I did not know that you knew Kevin. How'd the two of you meet?
LUCY: Well you know how I was gone while Alan was telling you the news? Well I sorta bumped into him, literally. Bumped into him. I tripped over my chair and spilled my hot cocoa on him. We went to his office and talked. He wants to see me later. Wait a minute...you said that you did not know I knew Kevin. How do YOU know him?
DOMINIQUE: I have been a patient of Kevin's for about six months now. He is nice. He helped me through accepting that I might be terminally ill. (Lucy gives her a look.) That was before I knew for sure. I could not tell Scotty what I predicted because what if I had been wrong? He would have suffered for nothing.
Before Lucy can answer this there is a knock at the door. Kevin comes in followed by Alan and Scotty. Alan is in blue scrubs. Kevin is there to be with Scotty in case anything happens to Dominique while Alan implants the embryos into Lucy.
4TH FLOOR OB EXAM ROOM
APRIL 1, 1993
4:30 pm
Alan had just implanted the embryos into Lucy and has asked her to stay in the exam room lying down so that they have have a better chance of Lucy concieveing. Lucy is nervous. She asks to see Kevin. She has to talk to him.
LUCY: Hi again.
KEVIN: Hi Lucy. I cannot believe that you are doing this for Dom and Scotty. I hope that this is a success. If you want to I can guide you though this. I would like to spend time with you outside of the hospital as well as professionally.
LUCY: That would be fine, Kevin. When will we know if I am pregnant?
KEVIN: I just saw Alan ordering a blood test and the results of that could be found out as soon as late tonight. Do you want me to stay with you until we know for sure that you are pregnant with their baby? You look like you could use a friendly face, not to mention some company.
LUCY: I admit it! I am scared to death. Kevin I have not had that much luck in the pregnancy department of my life. I miscarried twice and cannot go through that again. I tried to talk Dom out of it, and to ask someone else but she is insistant that it has to be me. The reason that she is so insistant is that she thinks that God thought it was the right time as well. Let's hope so.
DOMINIQUE'S ROOM
APRIL 1, 1993
11:30 pm
Lucy was in Dom's room and Kevin was sitting with her on one side of Dom's bed and Scotty was on the other. Alan came in with the test results.
ALAN: Okay...I have the results of the blood test I gave Lucy earlier today. Congratulations Lucy you are now officially 7 hours pregnant with Scott and Dom's baby.
LUCY: Are you sure?
ALAN: I checked the tests three times, to make sure that they were right. You are pregnant Lucy.
Lucy was too stunned to speak. She just hugged Dom and Scott and Kevin and cried happy tears. This baby she vowed will be born!
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