Lifelike

Chapters 31 - 35

Luke and a disguised Ria,
Chapter Thirty-Seven

"Something's happening in there, Nik. Maybe we shouldn't interrupt," Ria hissed outside the hospital door. Nikolas turned to her in worry.
"What do you mean something's happening in there? Is Elizabeth in trouble."
"Oh, she's in trouble all right. She's falling for li'l bro... and I think he's falling right back at her."
"It's about time!" Nikolas muttered.
"Ah, little Nikky the matchamker!" Ria grinned. She caught sight of someone down the hallway. "Oh God." She turned around and faced Nikolas directly. "Luke's coming." The siblings looked at each other, both gulped in unison.
"Hello." Luke said. Ria turned around. "Nice disguise there, Ria." Ria raised an eyebrow.
"How'd you know?"
"What? Let down your guard so quickly?" Luke shook his head in dissapproval.
"Hell-in-a Cassadine has no reason to kill me now, unless she decides to kill me just because I happen to take after my mother. I no longer pose any threat to the Cassadine heir."
"Ria, there is no-" Ria clamped her hand over Nikolas' mouth.
"Nikky boy, you got a lot to learn. Go check on li'l bro and come back and tell Luke how he's doing, okay?" Nikolas nodded and went inside Elizabeth's room.
"Damn, I've never seen him even obey Stiffy like that!" Ria smiled.
"He knows I can beat him up." She replied, making Luke laugh. "So, did your WSB paternity test come back yet?" Luke stared at her, to shocked to deny it.
"How did you-"
"A lady never reveals her sources... and neither do I. How did you know it was me?" she asked.
"Maybe it was a paternal instinct. Anyway, you aren't disguised that well for you."
"Whatever do you mean, Daddy dearest?"
"I think you know exactly what I mean, ValleyGirl8275." Ria's eyes widened.
"Oh, shit!" She cursed.

Ria and Luke walked into a hidden room near the parking garage of GH.
"How much do you know and what IDIOT told you?" Ria cried.
"Let's just say I have some friends in high places over there."
"Oh, that's comforting!" Ria replied, still very angry. She ran her fingers through her blonde wig absently. She took a deep breath and began to calm down. "Okay. Who told you." she asked calmly.
"An old friend."
"Are you trying to be difficult or does it come naturally to you?"
"Little bit of both." Luke grinned.
"Luke, this is serious. If there's a leak, how do I know that there aren't three hits out on me and a sniper aiming at my head right now?" She waved over her shoulder to an imaginary sniper. "Hi there!"
"There isn't a leak. He owed me. I just wanted him to find out everything he could about you. I got a little bonus."
"Tell me something I don't know! Do you know that I quit the WSB? VG8275, master of disguise, quit."
"I knew you did, but I didn't know why. Care to share?"
"When I found out what was thought to be my true identity, I immediately became a danger, a risk to any mission I was a part of. Kind of like Luke Skywalker in that last Star Wars movie, ya know?"
"So, Steffin would be Darth Vader, Helena would be the Emperor... I guess Nikky would be Leia-" Luke began.
"No, actually I think Lucky would be Leia because of the Han Solo factor."
"Really? And who might Han Solo be?"
"I can't tell you until he admits to it himself." Ria got a shocked look on her face. "I'm sorry!"
"What?"
"I completely forgot that we're supposed to be really uncomfortable around each other!" Ria smacked herself on the head. "Dammit!"
"That reminds me, I want to know how you found out." Ria looked at Luke.
"I know what you want me to say, even if you don't. You want me to say that I figured it out, that Laura told me, that Steffin figured it out, something like that. Well, sorry, pops." Ria patted him on the shoulder. "Ya called my bluff."