Laura is at Spoon Island on the docks talking to Bobbie... enter Nikolas
Nikolas extremely shocked looks up and down at Laura several times
Nikolas: You're alive!
Laura: Yes
They hug... very emotional
Nikolas: I can't believe this is happening. You're alive... my mother's alive!
Laura: Nikolas there is so much I need to explain to you.
N: Me too.
L: I need you to listen very carefully.
N: I will I promise, but before you say anything else...
L: Nikolas let me...
N: Mother please let me finish
L: Oh my God
N: What?
L: You called me mother, you've never done that before.
N: Well, you are aren't you?
L: Yes, I am.
N: When I heard you were dead, I thought I was going to have to spend the rest of my life regretting the things I never had the chance to tell you...
L: No
N: and now by some miricle, I have another chance. I can't wait one more minute. I'm sorry...
L: No
N: I'm sorry for all the hurtful things I ever said to you.
L: No, you have absolutely nothing to appologize for.
N: Yes I do
L: No
N: I wasn't fair
L: You were hurt
N: I was to busy feeling sorry for myself
L: You had every right to
N: No, I didn't, I was angry and I was deliberatly cruel to you and I didn't understand. (Nikolas begins to cry) I didn't understand until it was too late, how much you really loved me and that the only reason that you left is because you had no other choice.
L: Nikolas, listen to me, what happened to you was truly unfair
N: (interupts Laura)it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter!
L: and I would do anything to undo the past, anything.
N: You're here now and we can start over.
L: I want to, I really do
N: (pauses for a second) I love you. There, I said that too, I love you. (they hug and both are crying)
L: I love you too, oh Nikolas, I've always loved you but never more than this moment. I'm so sorry.
N: Wait.... mother... please, please, tell me what happened, it was Luke wasn't it? He took you away against your will didn't he?
L: (looking back and forth from Bobbie to Nikolas) ... Oh God
N: What?
L: uh... uh... oh God, this is going to be so hard!
N: please.... please you have to tell me the truth
Bobbie: Yes Laura, by all means, tell Nikolas the truth
Laura: This is very complicated. Your grandmother Lesley, she's alive.
Nikolas: What... then... the explosion was some kind of setup?
L: yes
N: My uncle
L: No, Stefan had nothing to do with this. He doesn't even know that I'm alive.
N: So then it was Luke.
L: Yes, he was involved... but... not the way you think
N: I'm sor... I don't understand.
L: I went along with the plan. It was not against my will.
L: Please Nikolas... please try to understand, none of this was ever intended to hurt you.
N: Out of all the possibilities of action available, the only one you oculd come up with was to fake your own death?
L: uh... yes...
N: Did you think the news wouldn't affect me?
L: No... of course not, I just, I didn't know what to do. You have no idea how sorry I am.
N: That's your middle name isn't it? Laura Sorry... sorry for abandoning me as a child, sorry for choosing her husband and her other son over me, sorry for letting me think you were dead.
L: No, I swear to you, I was going to come back.
N: Tell me, did Lucky know you were alive all this time?
L: Yes... he...
N: yes... and you said you loved us equally.
L: I didn't choose him over you.
N: I know in addition to being sorry for everything, you never have a choice what to do. The Cassadines are to blame for everything.
L: Please don't hate me... please not now. Not when we've just begun to understand what we mean to eachother.
N: (shakes his head) You're nothing to me.
L: Don't say that.. please
N: You come to me with your tears and profession of love and then you turn around and tell me the hell you put me through was all a game.
L: No, no, it wasn't.. there was nothing I.... I
N: (interupts) That's enough, that's enough, please, you've accused the Cassadines of being cold blooded, of manipulating people for their own good, let me tell you something, Helena... Helena pails in comparison to you. She never claims to love you while stabbing you in the heart with a knife and twisting it around for good measure.
L: I take full responsibility for all that happened. I made a choice... a difficult one. See I was afraid if I told you the truth...
N: I'd go run to my uncle and tell him, right? You're right, I wouldn't leave him to mourn the way you left me. My tears don't count anyway, afterall, I'm only a Cassadine.
L: No... no.... Nikolas
N: Did Luke enjoy this? I'm sure he did. We all know you do everything he says even if it means leaving your own son for the thrid time.
L: I made a huge mistake
N: No, you didn't. For once I think you did exactly the right thing. For once you were honest, you don't give a damn about me.
L: No, that's not true
N: Just admit it OK, so we can just move on. Lucky and my sister are your real children, I was just an embarrassment that you accumulated along the way.
L: No, that was never the case, never, not a day went by that I didn't think about you.
N: I should thank you really, all these weeks I spent visiting your grave, pouring my heart out to you, berating myself for all the things that I said to you, making you into this saint, this angel that could do no wrong, all the time you were just in hiding with your real family. Now that I know you for what you really are, I won't make the mistake of missing you again.
L: Oh please... don't do this to yourself. Don't do this to us. I haven't had a moments piece since all of this began, I even.... I almost tried to sneak away so I could tell you the truth.
N: But you didn't, did you?
L: No, but that's because Luke promised me that as soon as my mother was in safe hiding that I could come back for you.
N: And what did you think, I'd just be waiting here for you with open arms? Turn my back on my family for more of your lies? Or were you scared that you might need me if Lesley Lu got ill again?
L: No
N: Yeah, that's all you really needed me for anyway wasn't it? Well, don't worry because if she needs me, I'll be there. Her life is my responsiblity and I glady shoulder it but, as for the rest, the game is over, so you can stop wasting your time acting like you care about me.
L: My feelings for you are real
N: Nothing about you is real
L: No... please
N: He's a Cassadine, therefore, he's always in the wrong which means... which means we no longer have anything to say to eachother.
L: Nikolas, please... I'm your mother, I love you... don't do this...
N: You're dead to me
Nikolas walks up the stairs back to the house. Laura tries to follow.
Laura: NO.... Nikolas.... wait....
Bobbie: (stops her) Laura don't you think you've done enough damage for one day? (Laura is crying...)