Faithe-- Chapters 22 & 23
~22
A few moments later the door opened and Lucky, Liz, and Nikolas walked in.
“Dad!” Lucky said and Nikolas looked uncomfortable at Luke’s presence. “What are you doing here?”
“Well it appears that I’ve joined this little circus.” Luke smirked.
“What!? You’re going to help them? They want to kill Nikolas!” Lucky yelled.
“If I help them they won’t have to.” Luke retorted.
Lucky stared angrily at his father.
“You have to decide where your loyalties lie Cowboy.” Luke said in a warning tone.
Lucky looked back and forth from Luke to Nikolas. He finally looked to Nikolas and sighed, “I’m sorry Nikolas.”
Ilias smiled. Faithe was right, if forced to choose, Lucky would choose his father. Especially if he thought his actions would help save Nikolas. This was all working perfectly, Ilias thought. He loved to watch Nikolas squirm in fear.
“Elizabeth, if you don’t like this, we won’t help them.” Lucky said firmly
Liz looked between Nikolas and Lucky, worried. “This is going to keep Nikolas safe isn’t it?”
Lucky nodded.
“All right Lucky, if you think it’s best.”
Ilias smiled again, everything Faithe had predicted was coming true. The look on Nikolas’ face was what Ilias loved the most, a wonderful mixture of fear and shock. He was finally going to get everything he deserved.
Just then the door opened and a guard entered breathing frantically and very panicked.
“Sir! Sir it’s a…” The guard was interrupted by a blow to the head from behind.
“Trap!” Sonny finished for him, smiling widely in excitement.
Jason followed Sonny into the room and tossed a gun to Luke, Faithe, and Lucky. Sonny and Luke both had their guns trained on Ilias.
Ilias looked at Faithe with fury in his eyes. “Faithe! You betrayed me!” He yelled.
Faithe smiled triumphantly. “Don’t give someone a gun unless you’re sure where they’ll point it.”
Faithe looked at Lucky, Nikolas, and Liz. “Let’s get out of here.” She said as she walked to the door. She was glad she could finally show her disgust at Ilias’ presence.
Faithe’s eyes were cold and her demeanor almost businesslike. The only trace of emotion was the disgust in her eyes. Nikolas was amazed that she could just put on any mask she wanted to.
“What about him?” Luke asked pointing to Ilias.
“Leave him.” Faithe said turning back to glare at Ilias, “He won’t bother us, it’s Chrystos we have to worry about.”
Faithe turned and exited the room with Liz, Lucky, and Nikolas following her. Sonny shot a glance at Luke, who just shrugged his shoulders and followed.
Outside
They were nearly off the island; they could see the boat about 50 yards away. Sonny, Jason, Liz, Lucky and Nikolas were about 30 feet in front of Luke and Faithe. Sonny couldn’t help but feel that they were getting off too easy. Just then Sonny heard a gun shot from behind them. Both him and Jason dove for the ground pushing Liz, Lucky, and Nikolas along with them. Sonny’s heart stopped as he heard Faithe’s scream.
“NOOOO!”
Sonny looked back to see Luke come tumbling to the ground as Faithe fought to help him.
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~23
Faithe heard the gunshot and then felt Luke grab onto her shoulder. She looked at him and saw him stumble to the ground. She tried to steady him but when she put her hand on his back she felt she felt the warm and sticky substance that was quickly soaking his shirt. She heard someone scream “NO” and then realized that it was her voice. She knelt next to Luke, who was now lying on the ground quickly losing consciousness. Not taking her eyes off Luke she screamed for help.
“Lucky, Nikolas!”
Her voice sounded very unsteady to her ears. She lifted her eyes to the direction in which the gunshot came from and saw Chrystos standing there looking very pleased with himself.
Lucky flew to Luke’s side followed quickly by Nikolas, Liz, Jason, and Sonny. Sonny took off his jacket and placed it on Luke’s back over the bullet wound. Another gunshot whizzed over their heads and they all looked up to see Chrystos coming towards them.
“Jason,” Lucky started, “get Liz and Nikolas out of here!”
“Lucky no!” Liz yelled
“I’ll be there in a few minutes. I love you.” Lucky said kissing her softly.
“I love you too.” Liz said quietly
As Liz turned away from him, Lucky turned to Nikolas and mouthed ‘Take care of her’
Nikolas nodded and followed Liz and Jason to the boat.
Lucky looked at Sonny and Faithe. He knew there would be no use in trying to send them away. This was partly Faithe’s fight and Sonny would never leave Luke unprotected. Another gunshot was fired and Lucky could almost feel the bullet as it flew by his head.
His anger grew as he stood to face Chrystos, who was now only 15 feet from them.
Faithe stood up next to him, her anger flashing in her eyes.
“You didn’t think you’d get off that easy, did you Faithe?” Chrystos said menacingly.
“Chrystos why can’t you just let us go?” Faithe said
“Pleading? Faithe that isn’t like you.” Chrystos said disapprovingly.
Chrystos looked down at Luke and looked to be disappointed. “Why is it every time I try to kill you I end up hurting someone else.” He paused and smiled. “But then again, that hurts you more in the end, doesn’t it?”
“You’ve hurt too many people I love.” Faithe said, her voice cold. “My mother, my father, and now Luke. You won’t hurt anyone else.”
Faithe slowly raised her gun so that it was pointed at Chrystos’ head.
Lucky looked shocked, although he had wanted to kill Chrystos for shooting Luke, he knew he probably wouldn’t be able to bring himself to do it. He didn’t think Faithe had it in her either, but then again he hadn’t known her that long.
A slow smile spread on Chrystos’ face. “You can’t do it. Your father had too much of a conscience and your mother had too much of a heart. You don’t have it in you. If you killed me you would be just another Cassadine.”
Lucky raised his gun at Chrystos. “I don’t know Chrystos, if you’d done to me all that you’ve done to her I wouldn’t hesitate to kill you. And if she doesn’t, I will.” Lucky saw Faithe out of the corner of his eye. She was still; her eyes were cold. She seemed to be consumed by anger and that scared Lucky. He hoped his little bluff could get them all out of there alive. “If you want to live to see tomorrow I suggest you drop your gun and let us leave.”
Lucky glanced behind him and saw that Sonny had Luke up and was trying to get him down the path to the boat.
Chrystos looked nervous and then threw his gun down to the ground beside him.
“Faithe, let's go.” Lucky said to her.
Faithe seemed to snap out of whatever trance she was in, and nodded and followed Lucky down the path. Faithe shook her head as if to rid herself of the anger and hate that clouded her mind.
Faithe heard something behind her and turned to see Chrystos pull a gun from his sock and aim at her and Lucky. Almost without thinking she raised her gun and fired, hitting Chrystos square in the chest. All she could hear was the echo of the gunshot in her head. And all she could see was Ilias, standing about 50 feet behind Chrystos, watching in horror as his father sank to the ground, dead. Her mind froze at what she had done. She had just done to Ilias what Chrystos had done to her. Later she would tell herself that it was self-defense and that Chrystos deserved it, but right now Chrystos’ words were repeating in her head.
‘…you would be just another Cassadine.’
Finally Lucky’s yelling penetrated the fog in her mind and she allowed herself to be dragged to the boat, with the parting image of Ilias falling to his knees next to his father’s body flashing through her mind.
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