Kate hung up the phone and had yet to make eye contact with Alexis
"What did he say?" Alexis questioned as if she were a little worried herself about his reaction to his daughters whereabouts
Alexis didnt realize what Kate had just done - she had called her father
A brief conversation full of powerful words
Kate hadnt spoken to him in over a month... he was in London where Alexis believed her to have been... but Kate flew into New York from Paris...
"Hes sending his jet to get me"
"Just like that?" Alexis said as if she couldnt have predicted his reaction "He didnt ask why you came here?"
"He knows why I came here..."
"But no other reaction than hes sending his jet to come get you?"
"You told him to keep me away from you... and I defied his wishes and yours... what did you expect?" Kate said somewhat coldly
Alexis sat back down on the edge of the couch trying to gather her thoughts
Kate followed taking a long look at Alexis as if she were reading her mind
As if she understood that Alexis wasnt only worried that Connor would now just send a plane to get Isabella without so much as a hello and good-bye.
But that he would actually show up with a hello and a good-bye
"You loved him"
A statement not a question
"What?"
"You loved him... or at least I know you did enough to leave your daughter with him to raise"
"I trusted him" Alexis responded quickly
"You were in love with him"
"Dont put words in my mouth!"
"Does the truth hurt that much? Did loving him hurt that much?... I mean you dont seem to love now but you did back then..."
"Isabella I was young. I was too young!"
Alexis tried not to discuss the subject of love
"You made some pretty adult decisions"
"I had too"
"He loved you enough, he loved me enough to take responsibility, to raise me, to keep your secret all of these years"
Alexis leaned back on the couch as if she was giving in. Kate was looking for answers, the truth
"I was at boarding school, I was 16 and Connor was a senior... he was smart and handsome and he treated me like no one ever had... And he didnt run away from me because of my family... I fell in love with him. He was my first love. I trusted him completely..."
Kate listened intently
"I was living a dangerous life just sneeking around with him... trying not to get caught! Then I found out I was pregnant with you. He didnt run, he promised he would protect you and I and that we would be ok. But thats not how it worked. If Helena had found out about you. I would have been dead literally and so would have you and probably Connor too... So I hid being pregnant with you as long as I could and the day I gave birth to you I gave you to Connor and his family and I made him promise that he would do anything in his power to keep you away from the Cassadines and to keep your identity that you belonged to me a secret"
"And he did" Kate said interjecting
"He did" Alexis said agreeing
Kate looked at Alexis
"Hell be here by the end of the week" she said boldly
Alexis eyes widened and she tried to catch her breath
"What?"
"Hes coming to get me, personally"
"Isabella"
Alexis now understood what that whole conversation was about
"Why do you fear seeing him? You talk to him occasionally, why should seeing him be such a big deal?"
"This is going to get too complicated."
"It got complicated 22 years ago"
"I cant see him... Ill talk to him if you want to stay. Ill tell him were going to be careful that well take it one day at a time but I cant see him not now, not after all these years"
"Why? What are you afraid of?"
"Afraid? Im not afraid of anything... I just cant deal with having Connor here..."
"Thats not a great excuse"
"Just please understand that I dont want to see him..."
"Does he know about Kristina?"
Isabella knew how to hit a nail on the head
"Isabella"
"Does he?"
"No, he doesnt"
"She didnt come up in conversation?"
"You are always the conversation..."
"So you purposefully didnt bring her up"
"Isabella, Kristina is not a concern of his"
"Youre a concern of his..."
"No Im not"
"You know so little about him..."
"I would be long forgotten if it werent for you"
"Im a constant reminder of you"
"I can understand that... but Im not in his life anymore and I cant be"
"Why cant you be?" Kate said interrupting
"He has a life! You have a life...and Im not about to interrupt it especially if he doesnt want me too"
"He would want you to"
"You cant just say that Isabella"
"He knows about Ned"
"What? What does Ned have to do with this?"
"I remember when he found out about your engagement to Ned, he was heartbroken"
"He couldnt have been..."
"It was in the Port Charles paper... he had gotten a copy and he had left it on top of his desk... I found it folded to your picture... I questioned him, he said you were in love with Ned and that you deserved to be happy. I asked did he care he only said he wanted you to be happy..."
"That doesnt mean hes still in love with me"
Kate let a moment of silence go between them
"Like I said... you know so little about him..."
"Isabella... I cant do it again"
"Is it because of Ned? Do you love him?"
Alexis looked at Kate frustrated
"I loved your father, I loved Ned. Neither are no longer in my life in that way, ok. Love comes and goes!"
"Not for you it doesnt"
"Isabella you dont know me that well"
"Alexis Davis Ive spent my whole life memorizing what little bit I do know about you... and I do know that love doesnt just come and go"
"Why are you so sure?" Alexis asked calmly
"Because I wouldnt be here, because Kristina wouldnt be here, because you wouldnt be worried about Connor or Ned or even Stefan... if love would just come and go"
"Its called life Isabella!"
"Its called love!"
Alexis stared at her daughter. A daughter that was wise beyond her years. A daughter that was raised to understand and to recognize what love is...
Alexis stood up
"Hell be here by the end of the week" She said stating as if she were calculating how long she had to prepare for his arrival
Kate still sat on the couch watching her mother struggle through a thousand different emotions
"The end of the week"
Alexis then only shook her head agreeing
