CHAPTER EIGHT
HELENA’S YACHT:
Helena(as Andreas enters)So, Andreas, what do you have to report to me.
Andreas: Your son and Ms. Davis just came from an appointment with Dr. Jones.
Helena: Dare I hope that Natasha is deathly ill and she’ll soon shed her mortal coil.
Andreas: It’s your son who may be ill, not Ms. Davis.
Helena: What do you mean maybe ill. Don’t you know.
Andreas: I asked around the hospital discretely and your son had a previous appointment with Dr. Jones, but when I tried to get a look at his medical records I discovered he took them with him when he left Dr. Jones office.
Helena: Then Dr. Jones is the only one who knows what’s wrong with my son. Well, it looks like it’s time I paid the good doctor a little visit and collected on the debt he owes me. Ready the launch to take me to the mainland, immediately.
THE GATEHOUSE, THE QUARTERMAINE ESTATE:
Ned: Let me get this straight. Stefan needs a kidney transplant and you offered him your kidney.
Alexis: That’s right.
Ned: Are you nuts.
Alexis: Ned, he’s my brother. If I don’t give him my kidney, he could die.
Ned: So, let him die. The world without Stefan Cassadine would be a better place, I assure you.
Alexis: I can’t believe you said that. Ned, he’s my brother. What if it were Edward who needed the kidney transplant. Wouldn’t you give him one of yours.
Ned: Hell, no. Besides the old man is too rotten to die. He’d just make another deal with the devil, sell another one of the family’s immortal souls and the devil would spare him the fires of hell that he so richly deserves. That’s what he did with my mother, you know. He sold her soul to the devil in exchange for great wealth and that’s why she’s so soulless.
Alexis: Ned, you know if your grandfather needed a kidney, you’d give him one of yours.
Ned: As rotten as Grandfather is, he’s not as rotten as your brother is. How can you forgot all he’s done to you. He only comes to you when he has a use for you, otherwise he treats you like trash. The only times he comes rapping at your door calling you sister is when he’s in trouble with the law, and that was fine with me because all he wanted from you was your legal expertise. But now he wants one of your vital organs and that’s going too far.
Alexis: Stefan didn’t ask me for a kidney, I offered it to him, gladly.
Ned: And that’s what scares me most of all. Even after the way he’s treated you in the past, your first thought was to offer him one of your vital organs. (he grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her) Alexis, are you forgetting the winter night I found you on the docks after he threw you out without even a coat on your back. Or when you were in the helicopter crash and he didn’t even care enough about you to try and find you. And after all that you want to offer him one of your kidneys. It’s too much, Alexis. Much too much. Do you think if the situation was reversed he’d offer you one of his.
Alexis: Ned, we’re gatekeepers, remember. This is what we do. No matter how rottenly our family treats us, we always come to their aid when they need us. If your grandfather were to come knocking at the door right this minute needing your help, you’d give it to him. (just then there’s a knocking at the door.)
Ned: How did you do that.
Alexis: Maybe it’s not Edward.
Edward:(starts pounding on the door)Ned, let me in. I know you’re in there.
Ned: Maybe if we ignore him, he’ll go away.
Edward(opens the door and holds up a key)Didn’t think I had a key, did you. You will not believe what that Corporate Kangaroo has pulled this time.
Alexis: Who?
Ned: I think he’s talking about Jax. (he turns to Edward)Grandfather, isn’t that Sonny’s favorite pet name for Jax.
Edward: As it turns out, the use of that name is very appropriate in this case.
Alexis: I thought this whole thing was over once Jax succeeded in taking over ELQ.
Edward: Oh, he’s done far worse than take over my company.
Ned: What could be worse.
Edward(whips out a video tape)Why don’t we let the Corporate Kangaroo tell you, himself. (he pops the tape into the vcr)
Jax(comes on the screen)Hello Edward. By the time you watch this video, Chloe and I will be jetting far away from Port Charles on my private jet never to be heard from, again. But I couldn’t leave Port Charles without leaving you a little farewell gift. I’ve decided not to strip ELQ clean and sell it for all its worth. I’ve decided to leave it intact. But before you do a happy dance, Edward, I’m not giving it back to you. I thought long and hard on how I could make you the most miserable and I think I’ve come up with something most fitting. What I’ve done is worse than dismantling ELQ. I’ve given ELQ to Sonny Corinthos. That’s right, Edward. Sonny now owns your precious company. Have a good time trying to wrench it out of his fingers, you miserable old buzzard.(Jax throws back his head and starts laughing, hysterically).
Edward:(snaps off the TV)Sonny Corinthos! Sonny Corinthos!
Ned(as Alexis dissolves in hysterical laughter) Alexis, this is not funny.
Alexis: Ned, this is hysterical. Talk about getting the last laugh on both Sonny and Edward. This is pure genius.
Edward: Ned, I will not have that criminal running my company. My God, even now he’s probably planning how he’s going to use ELQ as a front to launder his dirty money.(Alexis dissolved in laughter again)Ned, you have to do something.
Ned: What do you expect me to do. You’re the one who fired me and put Junyur in as CEO. None of this would have happened if you hadn’t done that.
Edward: Ned, now is not the time for blame. This is all that saucepot’s fault. It’s because of him we’re all at the mercy of Corinthos. Ned, to pay AJ back he’s probably going to run my company into the ground. Ned, you’ve got to get my company away from Corinthos.
Alexis(holding her side as she continues to laugh)That might be easier said than done. It’s been my experience that when Sonny gets his teeth into something it’s like trying to take a bone away from a terrier.
Edward: Nonsense, Corinthos is no match for Ned and me. What do you say, Ned? Will you help me get my company away from that hoodlum?
Alexis(smirking)Yes, Ned, what do you say?