"Dad, what the hell is going on here?" Eric asked in shock as he watched
his father slowly standing up.
"Son, you don't understand what's going on here. Why don't you just turn around
and forget what you saw?" Roman asked wiping the blood away from his lip. "We can
pretend that you never came here. This is between me and your mom Eric."
"I can't do that dad." Eric said standing protectively in front of Marlena. "You
aren't going to touch her again."
"Eric, this is between your mom and me!" Roman yelled again trying to make his
way past Eric to an unconscious Marlena. "Now leave!"
"No Roman. You aren't getting near her!" Eric said placing his hand on Roman's
chest and shoving him back into a wall. "I'm not going to let you hurt her
again."
"Son don't make me hurt you." Roman explained grabbing Eric's
collar. "Don't try to get in my way."
"You aren't going to touch her
again." Eric announced staring his father down.
"For God's sake Eric,"
Roman began screaming as he swung a punch at Eric. "I'm your father and you have to
obey me."
"As far as I'm concerned my father's dead." Eric screamed swinging
back at Roman.
"Lex," John said hanging up his cell phone again. "the phone is still
busy."
"Maybe Marlena just forgot to hang it up right after she got off the phone." Lexie
suggested as Carrie entered the room.
"John, I thought that you were with Marlena." Carrie said looking at Lexie, Mike,
and John. "What's going on in here?"
"Carrie, we got your father's test
results back." Mike informed her.
"Well?" she asked looking at John.
"He's cured." John explained to
her.
"That's wonderful John." Carrie cried out hugging him. "Now you and Marlena
can be together again."
"It's not that simple Pumpkin." John said looking at her. "There's something that
you need to know about your father."
Jenny stepped out of the elevator in front of Marlena's apartment and she noticed
that the door was smashed in. She instinctively took her pepper spray out of her pocket as
a man rushed past her causing her to fall to the ground. She looked up and saw Eric
racing out the front door towards the elevator.
"Get back here you bastard!" Eric yelled hitting the elevator door after it closed.
"Damn it!"
"Eric, what's going on?" Jenny asked looking at him from the floor.
"Oh God Jenny." he said helping her up and giving her a hug. "I'm so
sorry."
"What's happening Eric?" she asked noticing that he was out of
breath. "Who was that?"
"It was my dad, I mean Roman. I have to find him." Eric explained looking at her
with rage in his face. "You have to go in there and take care of my mom."
"What's wrong Eric?" Jenny asked grabbing his arm as he tried running
away.
"Things just got out of hand in there with my parents." Eric explained as he gasped
for air. "My mom is hurt really bad and you have to help her for me. She needs to be
taken to the hospital."
"Where are you going?" Jenny asked him.
"I'm going to see to it that
Roman pays for what he did to my mother." Eric announced spinning around and running
down the hall to the stairs.
"Marlena," Jenny called out rushing into the penthouse and finding Marlena on the
ground.
"My baby..." Marlena mumbled as Jenny looked her over. "...please
don't let anything happen to my baby..."
"Marlena, everything is going to be
okay." Jenny said rushing to the phone and dialing 911.
"John...." Marlena whispered faintly as the world around her grew black once
again.
