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Port Charles Update for Monday, 27-Dec-1999

Author:	TammyR
Posting date:	Mon, 27-Dec-1999 5:28:30 PM PST

Don! Look it’s Don – is making phone calls as Lucy and Charlene discuss christening plans. Scott enters the madhouse – er – Firehouse and mutters so much for him and Lucy being alone. Joe is worried Neil may overdo it out in the mall with Frank –his last blood count was better but Neil is far from out of the woods yet. Joe has been researching on the computer and there are lots of new treatments out there that looks promising, but Courtney knows that they need FDA approval before Neil can try them. Joe is also looking into alternative methods to fight the leukemia but Courtney gets him to admit Neil’s best hope is still a bone marrow transplant. Courtney blames Karen for killing Neil’s best hope. Joe is still determined that they will beat this thing. Courtney worries that the baby was the last and best hope and is gone, what if there is no way to save Neil now?

Karen has a flashback to Frank denying being Neil’s father. Matt approaches in a really funky hat (which would make a great costume by the way – oh and if I were Joe I would be a wee bit worried about all the time Karen and Matt have been spending together recently – I mean Matt is majorly easy on the eyes. Sooner or later Karen is bound to notice.) Matt wonders where Karen went. Karen suggests she’s obsessing about the state of her VCR with Y2K or Howard Stern’s marriage, but no-flies-on-him Matt knows better. Karen admits she has news that could hurt people and she thinks she may have to spill it.

Courtney’s doctor informs her she can’t get pregnant now. Joe swears they will experiment, do what it takes to save Neil. Courtney asks if he is telling her not to lose hope and Joe replies that nothing gets done without it. Joe is determined to save Neil – he is after all his son. Frank and Neil are in the mall discussing the fascinating subject of baseball. Neil sees a scarf, which is over his budget, but he feels will cheer Courtney up. He’s worried about her, she’s been so sad since she lost the baby. Frank thinks by putting their heads together, they can find a way to buy the scarf. Karen and Matt say their howdys. After Frank and Neil literally race out of the mall, Matt muses that Frank seems almost human around Neil. Karen is still worrying about what to do. Matt suggests she makes darn sure the secret is fact before telling anyone. Karen thinks that is a great idea.

Serena leaves for a party, but first yells a casual “Bye Mom” in delighted Lucy’s direction. Lucy realizes Christina needs a middle name. Scott isn’t buying into the christening frenzy – even when Charlene and Lucy discuss combining traditional with out there – a priest and a shaman. Don suggests – tongue in cheek I hope but who knows? – that they play Celtic music so Christina can get in touch with her warrior self. Scott simply wants to take Christina upstairs and expose her to lots and lots of Bonanza. This makes Lucy very unhappy – if you leave, she pouts, it proves you don’t care.

Mary has popped over to check on Courtney when Frank and Neil arrive home – bearing a gift for Courtney. Yes – it’s the scarf. Courtney immediately gets teary-eyed, which worries Neil who wanted very much to make his Mom happy. Mary explains that those are happy tears. Neil thinks Courtney has had too many sad things to cry about and wants her to know he will do whatever it takes so that she won’t lose him too. Courtney and Frank convince him he only needs to worry about making the majors, that everything and everyone will be just fine. (A very well acted scene – kudos all around.)

Karen hands Joe coffee as he discusses his research. Joe admits he’s been a bit hard on Frank (yeah a bit!) and that Frank has been a decent uncle – well even better than that really. Karen points out that Frank is crazy about Neil and Joe returns with Frank treats him like his own son (gee – any bells going off in that head yet Joe?). Karen thinks that is a tad unusual, but Joe rightly adds that Frank has always loved kids.

Don leaves and Aunt Charlene takes Christina away so that Scott and Lucy can have the fight it is obvious they are rarin’ to have. Lucy is angry about Scott’s notable lack of enthusiasm concerning the christening. They evolve into the fact Scott and Lucy haven’t discussed their own wedding in a very long time. Lucy pouts that they dropped that subject long ago. Lucy wonders if Scott thinks that since DV is his father, he is destined to be a bad person and therefore a bad husband. Crazy talk eloquently replies Scott. Lucy has done everything she knows how to do to convince Scott he is nothing like DV – she has tried talking to him, ignoring the subject and hoping Scott would open up on his own, nothing works and now Lucy would like to know just where she stands. Do you still want to have a wedding she asks?

Mary and Neil head upstairs to play. Frank explains that Neil took a video game back and used the money to buy Courtney the scarf. How did two selfish people create such a great kid, Frank asks. If Courtney could pick anyone to be Neil’s dad, she would pick Frank she says. Courtney thinks it’s time to tell Neil the truth – he is missing out by not knowing who is real father is. But Frank will have none of it – Neil can’t take any more shocks to his system (why oh why can’t we tell Joe huh??). Frank nobly wants to wait to tell Neil until Neil can handle it. Awwww.

Joe decides to do a massive PR campaign to make everyone in Port Charles (even the other side? Nah – too big of a dream) about Neil’s condition. Karen suggests Joe be the first to get his blood tested – just to raise awareness of bone marrow procedures. Joe agrees on his way to tell the Q’s – this is the answer we’ve been waiting for enthuses Joe. Karen thinks he may be right.

Lucy wonders if Scott has anything to say and is far less than amused when Scott starts talking about the new millennium. Scott tells Lucy that is when he wants to marry her – January 1st, 2000. A new century, a fresh start, no DV. Lucy wants to know if Scott is very sure and Scott is. Nothing is going to stop us from getting married, unwisely says Scott. Lucy seems to be very happy about this – judging by the very nice way she kisses him.

And that’s the end.