Chapter 7

After hearing the news Emily glanced at Nik and smirked.

“Great!” Elizabeth huffed as she walked past them and into Lucky’s car

Lucky turned his head and his body followed as he moved towards the car.

“Call you later, Luck!” Nik called after him

Lucky waved and got in the car

~~**~~

“EEKK, Nikolas we couldn’t have planned this better ourselves!” Emily beamed
“How so?”
“They are going to be together 24/7. They’ll either kill each other or….”
“Just keep ignoring their feelings”
“NIKOLAS! I need you to think positive!” Emily wined
“I can’t help it Em, I’m a realist”
“Well then…start thinking in terms of our goal. This could be a good thing right?”
“Yeah”
“See, there ya go! You’re thinking positive. Oh God, listen to me, I sound like I’m running a self-help seminar”
“I wasn’t gonna say it”

They both laughed

“Come on, Em. I’ll get ya home”

~~**~~

Elizabeth just sat in the car, waiting for Lucky to get going. He sat there; he had put the key in the ignition, but hadn’t started it.

“Well, what are you waiting for?”
“Elizabeth, I don’t want to go home, until we work this out. We’ve never fought for longer than 5 minutes and even than the fights were few and far between, but lately we’re battling all the time.”
“Well you’re the one flaking on me!”
“Elizabeth! I just said I was worried about you getting close with Nikolas”
“Oh, you mean Nikolas, your brother, the guy who was last week not so bad? That Nikolas?”

Lucky turned to her with an annoyed look on his face.

“Look Elizabeth, I’m sorry. You’re right he is my brother and I do want you two to get along. I just got ahead of myself.”
“I’d say! Lucky you know me better than anyone! I just said I was considering his idea of a truce, you know I would never go out with him! Sorry but he is NOT my type”

Lucky laughed

“At least we know you’re not attracted to wax figures!”

Elizabeth laughed

“Lucky!”
“I know, I know…but he may be my brother, but he is also still part Cassadine!”

Finally Lucky reached for the key and started to car.

~~**~~

Lucky walked into the house first.

“Mom? We’re back!” Lucky called out

Laura peaked out from around the corner of the kitchen.

“Lucky!” She smiled
“Hey mom”

Laura walked over and hugged him.

“Hi Liz, so you're stuck with us!”
“I’m sure I can mange. Thanks” Liz smiled
“Hey, we’re glad to have you! Anytime! So you two, how was the trip?”

Liz and Lucky looked at each other.

“It was an experience” Lucky smiled

Liz laughed at his answer.

~~**~~

LATER THAT DAY

*Ring*

“Hello?” Lucky answered
“Lucky, hey”
“Hey Nikolas, what’s up?”
“Not too much. How are things going there?”
“You mean, are Elizabeth and I ready to kill each other?”

They both laughed
“Yeah, I guess, I’m asking that too”
“No, we’re not. We worked it out. We always do.” Lucky smiled
“So where is she?”
“You wanna talk to her?”
“No, I was just curious”
“She’s over at her house, she wanted to shower and get some stuff to stay over”

Nikolas raised an eyebrow

“And where, will Miss Webber, be staying?”
“In the guestroom, where else would she be staying?”
“Oh I don’t know…”
“Nikolas! I told you. We’re best friends”
“Are you completely sure that’s all”
“Yes!”
“I don’t know, Lucky, you sound pretty unsure about that to me”
“Nikolas, I’m not getting into this again”
“Alright, alright. Time has a way of revealing all”
“You’re just a walking fortune cookie aren’t you?”
“Maybe. So what are you two doing tonight?”
“Probably just hanging around, u?”
“Em and I are going to that party in the park. You should come”
“Alright I’ll ask Elizabeth. We’ll probably meet you there”
“See ya later”
“bye man”

Lucky hung up the phone and ran over to Elizabeth’s door. He tried the door, it was open so he let himself in.

“Elizabeth?”
“Lucky?”

Elizabeth looked down from the top of the stairs. Lucky’s jaw completely dropped. Elizabeth was standing at the top of the stairs, in a just above the knee-length bathrobe and her hair soaked. She just got out of the shower.

“Lucky? How did you get in? Lucky? Hello? Earth to Lucky?”
“Humm…aw…what? Sorry”
“What’s the matter?”
“Nothing, nothing sorry, what were you saying?” Calm down Lucky. It’s Elizabeth your best friend, he mentally scalded himself.
“I asked you how you got in”
“You left the front door, open”
“Oh, oops” She smiled

Lucky was still just starting at her. She finally realized what she had on.

“Hang on a second”

Elizabeth left the top of the stairs and went into her room to change.

Lucky ran a hand through his hair.

“What just happened there?” he asked himself.

She came down a few minutes later. Wearing jeans and a black tank top. A clip loosely held up her wet hair. Lucky was sitting on the couch.

“So I have an idea for tonight” Lucky said as he regained his thoughts
“What’s that?” She said as she sat down facing him
“Well there is this party in the park tonight. Do you wanna go?”
“Lucky, I don’t know I’m kinda tired and my ankle is still a little weak”
“Come on, let’s go! It will be fun. And if you’re lucky I may just dance with you”
“Oh gee, well then”
“Please” Lucky pouted
“Alright, alright”
“I’ll go get ready. Here, take this bag back with you”
“What’s this”
“My stuff for tonight, I packed it before I showered”

Lucky got up, “I’ll be back in a little while to get you”

Lucky left and Elizabeth went upstairs to start getting ready

~~**~~

LATER AT THE PARK – The Party

“Liz, Lucky! You to made it!” Emily smiled

Nikolas walked over. He handed Lucky and Liz a drink.

“Should I check this first?” Liz smirked

They all looked at her.

“It’s a habit. I don’t think I can break”

Lucky chuckled to himself. He knew her too well.

Nikolas asked Lucky to come and walk with him. He wanted to talk to him. Emily and he had figured another angle to try. Nikolas was gonna ask him, what he thought about him and Emily getting together.

Lucky swallowed hard

“Well if you both feel that way, you should go for it. I mean friendship is great, but love could be indescribable.”

Nikolas smiled inside, knowing how he THOUGHT he felt for Emily and how he really feels about Liz.

MEANWHILE

“So how are things going with Lucky?”
“Things are great”
“Emily, oh my god! I haven’t seen you forever!” A voice cried out
“Oh my god!” Emily squealed

Without really realizing it, Emily walked off with her old friend. Leaving Elizabeth standing alone.

“Oh, well that’s great” Liz smirked
“Hi there” A voice said
“Hi” Liz said looking around for Lucky
“Dance with me”
“No thanks” Liz said looking at the man
“I said dance with me”
“Are you hard of hearing? I don’t want to dance”
“I like a girl with fire”
“Isn’t that nice”
“Come on”

He grabbed her arm and pulled her to where everyone was dancing.

“Let go of me you jerk!”

Liz tired to get out of his grasp, but he held on tight.

“LET ME GO!”
“You let go of her now, or you’ll have more trouble then you can handle”

Liz’s head quickly turned around

“Lucky!”
“Let go NOW!”

The guy let go of her arm.

“Who the hell do you think are you?”
“I’m the guy who, after I’m done with you make you forget your own name. Don’t ever touch her again.”
“Tough guy aren’t you. I just wanted to have some fun with the slut”

Without a split second of thought Lucky’s fist connected with the guy’s nose. He tumbled back a bit. Another guy ran over to him.

“Come on, let’s go!”

The two guys took off.
v Lucky turned back to Liz

“Are you alright? Did he hurt you?”
“My arm kinda hurts, but I bet his nose hurts more. Thanks”
“Elizabeth I would never let anyone hurt you. I’m sorry I wasn’t there fast enough”
“You were still there when I needed you”
“And I always will be”

Elizabeth hugged him.

“Lucky can we go home?”
“We’re on your way”

~~**~~

They walked into his house and it was dark and quiet.

“You wanna go to bed?” Lucky asked
“Not really. Let’s just sit and watch a movie”
“Okay. I’ll get the popcorn started”
“I’m going to get in my PJs”
“I will too, after the popcorn is started”

Lucky made it back down before Liz. He had a pair of plaid pants and a t-shirt. Liz finally came down in her sweat pants and a tank top.

“Ready?” Lucky asked
“Yep, I hope it’s a comedy”

Something caught Lucky’s eye. He walked over to her.

“Is that what that creep did to you?” he asked pointing to the bruise on her arm
“Yea, it’s fine”
“I’m sorry”
“Lucky stop that! You were there for me. You can’t protect me 24/7.”
“I should though”
“Lucky come on”

They both sat down on the couch and watched movies.

~~**~~

Laura came down the stairs the next morning, smiling at what she found. Both Lucky and Liz were sleeping on the couch. Lucky was sitting up and Liz’s head was on his shoulder. Lucky’s arm was wrapped around Liz, as was hers around his chest.

“Only a matter of time” she smirked


Anything For You Chapter 8

Liz sighed as she shifted in her place beside Lucky. She didn’t really realize where she was though until she lifted her head opening her eyes a bit seeing him.  She smiled slightly liking this feeling of peace whenever she was around him.  She got up walking into the kitchen to see Laura sitting there eating.

“Good morning Laura.”
Laura smiled a bit “Good morning Liz, did you sleep well?”
Liz sighed “Yeah, I fell asleep to the movie we were watching last night.”
She chuckled “I noticed, how are you doing?”
Liz smiled slightly “I’m good…”
Liz sat down at the table with Laura
“Laura can I ask you a question?”
Laura nodded “Sure what about?”
“How do you know you’re in love?”
Laura chuckled a bit “Why do you ask?”
Liz shrugged “My friend…she asked me for advice and I was wondering what I should tell her.” Liz sighed watching Laura’s still questioning expression. “She has a friend and they’re sort of close but she thinks she’s falling in love with him, but she’s afraid that if they go any farther it will ruin their friendship all together.”
Laura smiled leaning on her elbow as Liz continued a bit.

Lucky woke up looking around a bit he stretched standing up walking to the kitchen. He heard voices and paused a moment listening to Liz talk to his mom.

Liz chuckled “I’ve seen them together and she acts like nothings ever going to happen, but they like flirt all the time.  I just want to know if my ‘friend’ is really in love with him, how do you know Laura?”

Lucky backed away thinking about it a moment ‘she can’t be talking about her a Nik can she? That’s ridiculous!” he paced around the living room a bit ‘but they flirt a bit, nah it’s not true she hates him!  Thinking something’s never going to happen though?’ he sighed still contemplating it in his head but walking upstairs to get dressed.

Laura chuckled a bit “Liz, you know when you get butterfly’s in your stomach?”
Liz nodded smiling a bit, “Yeah all the time, except when I’m around someone who I trust at least to a point.”
Laura nodded “That comfortable feeling is love, when you feel safe, and like you’re walking on air. That’s definitely love. So tell your friend that okay.” Laura smiled.
Liz chuckled smiling a bit “Yeah, thanks Laura! I’m going to go and get dressed okay?” Laura nodded “Okay!” Liz got up walking upstairs.  Laura chuckled after Liz left, a ‘friend’ indeed she then smiled peacefully.

Liz sighed looking for her hairbrush remembering where she left it the night before. She walked over to the bathroom just walking in to find Lucky standing there in a towel she stood there stunned for a moment not knowing what to say or do freezing up. Lucky was shocked to see her just walk in she looked him over a bit without even realizing it. His hair was wet and beads of water were all over his chest and arms, he spoke up a bit “Elizabeth?” Liz shook her head ‘don’t do this! It’s just Lucky your best friend!’ she stuttered then “Uh I uh…sorry, just wanted to get my hairbrush.” She grabbed her hairbrush rushing out of there as fast as she could. Lucky ran a hand through his hair a bit embarrassed at her seeing him.  Liz leaned on the wall right outside the bathroom speaking to her self quietly “What was that? It’s nothing no it can’t be.” She shook her head and continued to get dressed.

“I’m gonna hang out at Kelly's today, who knows who’ll I’ll meet up with.”
“What if it’s Nikolas? Why don’t you come hang with Emily and I?”
“Well I’m the first to admit that I’m still not keen on being friends with Nikolas, but I just want to hang with someone today since you’ll be busy, and I’m not going to be a third wheel with you and Em.”
Lucky sighed “I just don’t want you to go, I wanna spend time with you.”
Liz shook her head confused, she knew she couldn’t spend time with him or something will happen that she’ll regret later
Liz shook her hands a him a bit “Why? You’re acting really strange for some odd reason okay, maybe I want to hang out with other people okay, we’ve been inseparable for years maybe for a day or so might be good. I’m sure you’ll have a great time with Em today. I’m just going to be at Kelly's working on a last minute school assignment.”

The phone rings, Liz picks it up “Hello?”
“Hey Liz? It’s Emily I was wondering if you could meet me at Kelly's I have this out fit I want you to see before Lucky does okay?”
“Sure Em I’ll be there.” She hung up the phone telling Lucky what was going on. Walking to the door turning back to him.
“Lucky you’re just going to have to deal with the fact that I have other friend and your brother just happens to be one of them I can’t spend every minute of the day with you, just like you can’t with me.”
Lucky looked hurt “I know it’s just I want to spend time with you.”
Liz knew she couldn’t or else something might happen that she didn’t want to. “I want to spend time with you too but we do all the time, why don’t we spend time with everyone else too.”
They both agreed on it and Liz left to meet Emily. Lucky sat down on the couch when he heard a knock at the door.

Liz walked to Kelly's waiting outside for Emily, when Nikolas came up behind her “Boo!” Liz jumped turning around rolling her eyes at his presence smacking him “Don’t you ever do that to me again.”
Nik smiled sheepishly “Sorry!”
Liz sighed “What are you doing here I’m supposed to meet Emily.”
He shrugged “She told me to tell you that she was running late and didn’t care about it anymore.”
Liz chuckled a bit “So I guess I’m stuck with you aren’t I?”
“Guess you are!” he smiled.

Emily had been at the door, Lucky wondered why she didn’t meet Elizabeth but she said that she wanted to spend time with him and didn’t care about her outfit anymore.  She whisked him off and they started walking.
“Liz is going to be left hanging.” He remarked.
“Oh don’t worry about it, I sent Nikolas to keep her company.”
Lucky rolled his eyes a bit Em noted this smiling to herself.

They came upon Kelly's Emily spotted Nik and Liz talking. Nikolas was flirting with her but she was just being friendly. Emily smiled “Look there they are! They are so cute together!”
Lucky watched them trying his best to shake the thought out of his head.
Emily and Lucky then met up with Nik and Liz and they spent their day together. Though Emily and Nik kept Liz and Lucky distracted from eachother the best they could. Lucky was a bit cold to Nikolas, but Liz didn’t call him on it.

~*~Next day @ School~*~

Lucky waited at Liz’s English room for her to get out. He loved his P.E. class always letting him out early. Liz walked out of the room with a book in her hand looking at it a bit. He walked up to her “What was your grade?” Liz smiled at him a bit.
“I got an A!” She exclaimed showing him her paper he smiled taking her in his arms giving her a huge hug.
“That’s great! I knew you would ace it!” They both chuckled Lucky saw the new book.
Questioning it. “What’s that? New assignment?”
She nodded “Yeah ‘Anne of Green Gables’. I’ve read this whole series so it should be easy enough. Plus I’ve seen the movies. I don’t know but this was always one of my favorite books.” She talked as they walked down the hall.
Lucky’s raised a brow “Why so?” Liz just shrugged.
“I don’t know, I guess it was the romance between Anne and Gilbert. Always bickering, the love-hate thing going on when truthfully they were mad about eachother.  Always liked that.” The warning bell rang Liz smiled “I gotta go, bye!”
She disappeared into her class sitting down next to Nikolas who spoke to her and obviously made her laugh a bit and slug him.  Lucky saw this thinking of what she said, ‘There won’t be anything more with them, there can’t be!’ he shook it off and walked to class.

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CHAPTER 9
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After Elizabeth had sat down, in the only seat left….next to Nikolas.

“I planned it that way?” Nikolas smiled
“You planned what?”
“Making sure the seat beside me would stay free”

Elizabeth couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Well, gee I’m so completely thrilled” she sarcastically stated as she hit his arm

Elizabeth briefly glanced up to see Lucky turning away. He looked like he was in turmoil with himself. The teacher hadn’t entered yet, so she got up and entered the hallway. Lucky was already half way down.

“Lucky?”

Elizabeth started to jog to catch up with him. Lucky stopped and turned around. Elizabeth had already caught up to him.

“Elizabeth what are you doing? You’re going to be late for class”
“Lucky, what’s wrong?”
“What do you mean what’s wrong? Nothing’s wrong” Lucky smiled
“Lucky I know you to well. I know that look in your eye when something is on your mind”
“Elizabeth I have tons of things on my mind”
“You know what I mean, something is really bothering you”
“Elizabeth, I’m fine really. I promise. Now go to class your going to be late.”
Liz laughed “You know as well as I do I can use the old ‘girl problems’ excuse! Believe me that can buy as much time as I want, especially since this is Mr. Harrison’s class!”
“Does it matter if it’s Mr. Harrison or not?”
“No, but his a guy! It only really works well on guys”
“Okay so, you don’t have to go, but I do. I don’t have an excuse like that to use!”
“Okay, okay. Are you sure your okay?”
“I’m fine”


They both took off, Liz back to her class and Lucky to his.

~~**~~

Elizabeth waited for Lucky at his car after school. She sat on the grass right in front of the car. A pair of hands covered her eyes from behind. She knew who it was, but didn’t say anything.

“So missy, tell me who I am?”
“hummmm, my dream guy”
“Of course”
“Well Jonathan, how did you find me?”
“Jonathan?”
“Yeah! You said you were my dream guy”
“And just who is your dream guy?”
“Jonathan Jackson”
“Really?”
“Yep”

One of the hands slipped free, but the other hand was covering both Elizabeth’s eyes.  The free hand made it’s way to her sides.

“Are you sure”
“Yep, Lucky don’t you dare!”

Lucky tickled her now, with both hands. Elizabeth was kicking and laughing

“St…haha…sto…hahah stop! Lucky! Hahaha”

In her kicking and screaming fit, Elizabeth knocked over Lucky too. He fell to the ground beside her.

Liz laughed, “That’s what you get!”

They were extremely close. It became very noticeable to both now, just how close they were, but either one of them moved. Elizabeth bit her lip.

“Hey Luck, do you ever get butterfly’s in your stomach?”
“I guess so, doesn’t everyone?”

Both slowly moved towards each other, like their bodies were gravitating towards each other.  Lucky reached his hand out and softly brushed off to the side, a piece of hair that fell into Elizabeth’s face.


“Lucky hey!”

Elizabeth sat up immediately. Lucky slowly sat up after her.

“Hey Chris, what’s up?”
“Not much. Hey Liz”
“Hi” Elizabeth awkwardly smiled as she stood up
“So what are you guys up to?”
“Not much, just about to go home”
“Cool. I just wanted to ask you Lucky, what happened in English class today?”
“Not too much, we were just going over that Shakespeare play we finished. Oh! The test for that is going to be on Friday”
“Okay thanks man”
“No problem. I’ll catch ya later”
“Bye Liz”
“See ya”

Chris jogged over to his car. Lucky turned to Elizabeth who was now standing beside the passenger side of the car. Lucky walked over to her door and unlocked it, he moved around the back and hopped in the driver seat. The ride home was pretty awkward. They had conversation, just avoiding the main issue at all costs, ‘what would’ve happened if Chris hadn’t shown up’.

Lucky pulled into the driveway they both got out.

“Hey Luck, I’m just gonna go over to my place for a little while okay”
“Yeah okay”
“I’ll be over soon”

Elizabeth walked up to her front door and opened it. The minute it was shut she slumped against it.

“What just happened there? Am I imagining things or did Lucky want to kiss me as much as I wanted to kiss him?”

Elizabeth shook her head and made her way upstairs to her room, completely forgetting it was almost right beside Lucky’s. She lay down on her bed just thinking. After a little while she reached for her sketchbook and began to draw.

~~**~~

Lucky walked into his house. No one was there, Laura was off with Lulu somewhere, and Luke was off on one of his adventures. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a coke can and went to sit down on the couch.

“I can’t believe that? I just imagining that? Man, I need to stop reading into things, I mean we were just having fun right?”

Lucky tried to convince himself.

~~**~~

“Hey Emily”
“Hi Chris”

Emily had been shopping when she ran into Chris.

“How are you?”
“I’m good, u?”
“Fine. Did you find anything you like?”
“Yeah I found a few things”
“I’m here with my little sister. Say can I ask you something Emily?”
“Sure”
“Well you know Elizabeth and Lucky right?”
“Yeah”
“I was just wondering when they finally became a couple?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well I accidentally interrupted something I think”
Emily smiled, “Really, what happened?”
“Well I went to go talk to Lucky about what happened in English today and they looked like they were about to kiss”
“That’s so great!”
“What?”
“Oh I mean, I don’t think anything has happened between them”
“Well if it hasn’t yet, I’m sure it’s gonna happen soon. Look there my little sister, I gotta go”
“Okay Bye Chris”
“Bye Emily”

Chris walked off to catch up to his sister.  Emily stood there smiling from ear to ear. She reached into her purse and pulled out her phone.

“Nikolas, guess what!”
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