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From: rika1@mindspring.com (Rika) Subject: PC: Update, Thursday, Feb. 26, 1998 Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 03:13:44 GMT X-Server-Date: 28 Feb 1998 03:16:32 GMT PORT CHARLES UPDATE Thursday, Feb. 26, 1998 Today I learned that it's hard to type when you're crying. And crying. And crying. TODAY'S STORYLINES: ------------------- * And the Matt Came Back * "Ta" AND THE MATT CAME BACK ---------------------- Matt and Ellen, in a continuation of yesterday's episode, are at Ellen's apartment. Matt is surprised that Ellen doesn't seem happy to see him. She is worried about his safety. Matt explains that he has left the Witness Protection Program. He gave his testimony, and now he wants to take charge of his life. He tried to prepare for another fresh start, but he found that he couldn't do it - he couldn't imagine his life without Ellen. Ellen objects - they don't have that kind of relationship. Matt wonders, in that case, why she ran into his arms when she saw him. She was just glad to see him alive, she explains. He insists that they could have something good together; doesn't she remember how she felt when she thought she'd never see him again? You can't build a relationship on one kiss, she replies. Matt remarks, "It's a start;" Ellen retorts, "No, it was supposed to be an ending." She apologizes if she led him on. Matt isn't happy to hear that. Matt changes tacks - he doesn't want to give up his career after working so hard. He intends to check into a hotel, since he can't go back to his apartment. Ellen offers to let him stay with her. He doesn't like the idea - it would endanger her - but she points out that if he uses a credit card at a hotel, he could be located. He admits that she's right and accepts her offer. He wants to get his address book from his apartment, since he might be traced through his friends. She convinces him to let her go alone to get it; she goes to the Recovery Room frequently so it wouldn't seem suspicious for her to show up there. When she gets the keys from Matt, he takes her hand in both of his and tells her to be careful. She assures him that she's always careful; he touches her face and remarks, "Yeah, I've noticed." Grace arrives at the Recovery Room looking for Matt. She talks to Mike and finds out that Mike didn't know Matt was leaving town (she tells Mike about Ellen's minimal explanation of Matt's disappearance). Mike's response makes it clear that he has a good idea what's going on, though Grace doesn't notice that. The whole thing doesn't make sense to her and she's worried. Ellen arrives, and Grace asks her about Matt again. She can't believe that Matt would leave without telling his landlord. Mike tries to help Ellen make excuses for Matt, but Grace isn't reassured. Ellen orders a dinner to go, and Mike goes off to get it. Grace can't believe that Ellen is so unconcerned about Matt; Ellen tells her that Matt must not want them to know his business, and there's no reason to get hysterical about it. Grace doesn't think being concerned means she's hysterical, and her conscience won't let her just assume that Matt is okay. She leaves angrily. Then Ellen, looking to see if anyone is watching, slips quietly into Matt's apartment. Later, Ellen exits Matt's apartment and is about to leave, until Mike reminds her of the dinner she ordered. He asks if she found what she was looking for in Matt's room; she claims to have left her electronic organizer there. He asks how she got in; she claims the door was unlocked. Mike is duly unimpressed by her explanations. He repeats the offer he made to Matt to help if help is needed, because he can tell it's a dangerous situation. "TA" ---- Lucy wakes up to find that Kevin has fallen asleep while sitting beside her, his head resting on the edge of the bed. She strokes his hair and he wakes up. She's concerned because he looks tired and uncomfortable, after hours of sitting on the same hard stool. He spins around on the stool and teases that he ordered a dozen of them for the Lighthouse. Scott, Karen, Jake, and Joe enter the room with - the antidote! But there's a catch. It's an unusual combination of chemicals and they aren't sure of the dosage. If they guessed wrong, the antidote could be lethal, but there isn't time to test it completely. Without it she is certain to die. Lucy asks what the chances are - 50/50? "Not that good," Jake reluctantly replies. Lucy asks Kevin his opinion. At first he tells her that it has to be her choice, but when she presses him for advice he tells her that a small chance is better than no chance. Lucy agrees and asks for the antidote, but first she wants to have some time with Scott and Kevin. The interns leave the room. Scott sits beside her while Kevin walks over by the door. Scott apologizes for getting her into this mess. She admits that he's gotten her into a lot of messes, but this isn't one of them. He insists that he should have protected her. She assures him that she did what she did to protect Serena, and it was worth it no matter what happens. Scott admits that he was a fool for keeping Serena away from Lucy for so many years; she assures him that it's ancient history. She wants him to remember that she loves him, and to tell Serena that she loves her too. Scott promises to bring Serena to see her when she's better. "You know how I feel about you," Scott says, and Lucy nods. Then he leaves her alone with Kevin. Kevin sits beside her, and Lucy remarks that this may be 'goodbye' for them. Kevin refuses to accept that. Lucy tells Kevin how much she loves him; he has made her happier than she thought possible. He tries to stop her from saying what sounds like "goodbye," but she asks him to let her say some things she needs to say. In her past relationships, even with the men she married, the men really didn't really know her or even like her - she probably embarrassed them. But Kevin loves her and accepts her for who she is. Kevin interrupts to assure her that loving her is the "easiest, most right thing" he's ever done. Lucy continues. Kevin has been completely loyal, and he is kind and good; a few years ago, he probably would have been *too* good for her, but now she knows that "good and kind" is what she wants. Kevin tells Lucy that she is everything he searched for his entire life, and that he will always love her, no matter what. She will always love him too, she replies. She makes him promise that if the worst happens, he won't go to "that dark place," but instead that he will let people help him to get through it. They kiss, holding each other tightly, and then Lucy tells Kevin that she's ready to proceed. They embrace and kiss again - obviously saying goodbye whether they admit it or not - and then Kevin goes to get the others. He pauses at the door to look back, and Lucy whispers, "Ta." Later, Kevin sits on Lucy's bed holding her hand while Scott, Jake, and Joe, and Karen stand around the bed. Lucy thanks them for their efforts and asks them, if the worst happens, not to blame themselves. She knows how hard they tried, and she appreciates what they've done. As Karen injects the antidote into Lucy's IV line, Kevin mouths the words, "I love you," and he and Lucy look into each other's eyes as they wait. A while later, Kevin is still sitting on Lucy's bed, holding her hand, but she is now unconscious. Scott paces the room nervously. A machine beeps, and Kevin jumps up, saying, "Oh, no!" Karen races in. Kevin tells her Lucy's breathing is too shallow, and Karen listens to Lucy's chest and reports that Lucy is in respiratory arrest. Karen yells for a crash cart, while Kevin grabs a ventilator bag. When he makes a remark about entubating Lucy, Karen reminds him of the DNR order. Kevin retorts that he can't sit by and watch Lucy die, no matter what papers Lucy signed. Karen insists that Lucy didn't want extreme measures (then why did you order the crash cart, Karen?) The crash cart arrives, and Kevin begins to entubate Lucy himself. Karen tries to stop him, but Kevin tells her either to help or to get out of the way. Scott grabs Karen and begs her to help Kevin; evidently she does what her daddy says, because she immediately agrees to help Kevin, and he gets the breathing tube inserted. Kevin, Scott, and Karen watch Lucy, now attached to the ventilator. Scott remarks that she looks like she's sleeping; Kevin replies that she is completely nonresponsive. Scott still holds out hope that Lucy will get better. Kevin thanks Karen for her help; he hasn't entubated anyone since med school. Kevin is doubting his decision now. Scott asks what other option Kevin had, and Kevin answers, "I gave her my word." He explains that he promised Lucy that he would abide by the DNR order: "The one thing she asked me not to do, I've done." Scott insists that Kevin did it because he loves Lucy; Kevin answers, "In a selfish way." Scott assures Kevin that he would have done the same thing. Karen feels guilty - perhaps the antidote caused the respiratory failure. Kevin insists that she shouldn't feel that way. Joe arrives with some bad news - the lab rats who originally responded well to the antidote are now dying, one by one, of respiratory failure. Kevin seems to lose hope at first when he hears this, but then he recovers, insisting that there are enough differences between rat and human physiology (well, yeah, with some exceptions here and there) that there is still hope. Boardman arrives (and why he's involved at all isn't clear; he's a surgeon and she's a medical case). He opens with his characteristic tact: "I heard she crashed." Kevin gets up from Lucy's bed and walks over to face Boardman; he insists that Lucy is alive and will recover. Boardman reminds him of the legal and ethical implications of ignoring the DNR. "I saved her life," insists Kevin. Boardman reminds him that he did so against Lucy's wishes; Kevin replies that Lucy was "barely coherent" when she signed the DNR. Boardman insists that Lucy has to be disconnected from the machines at once. Kevin glares at Boardman and warns him, "You even breathe on one of those machines and I will rip you apart." -------- by Rika, Thursday updater
