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Port Charles Update for Tuesday, 5-Feb-2002

Author:	TammyR
Posting date:	Tue, 05-Feb-2002 4:42:26 PM PST

It is such a great thing that after a truly awful day that PC can give me the gift of a truly awesome episode – maybe days like this are why I keep holding on to my soap habit. And on to the update –

We begin with Chris and Amy and Amy has an offer for Chris – an explanation. She was simply borrowing the picture she explains somewhat (okay pretty much) lamely. Chris, the truthsayer himself, wants nothing but the truth. Amy figures she has two choices if Chris insists on digging in her little closet of secrets, one she can tell him everything and two she can simply kill him. Chris looks like he is frozen between laughing merrily and running for his life.

Meanwhile, Victor and Mary, Livvie and Jack all worry about Kevin and are soon joined by Rafe and Allison. Livvie informs them that Kevin is in a coma and things just don’t look good if he doesn’t wake up soon. It’s gonna take a miracle to bring Kevin back to them. Hey miracles – right up Rafe’s ally, right Rafe? Allison asks and Livvie looks at him hopefully as we wander over to the emergency room where Kevin’s seizures have thankfully stopped. Eve and Ian have definitely not kissed and made up, they are still arguing over the best treatment for Kevin and whether or not Ian did the right thing by inducing the coma.

Lucy is right there, right at Kevin’s side, and rightly determined not to let him go. She tells him that he is not going anywhere, that she needs him to stay. Paige needs something from Kevin also, in the whiteness where they are standing; she needs Kevin to take her hand. She is ready to take him to the other side and informs him it is time to leave – and calls him “my love.” Or since she is British is it my luv? Anyway, Paige goes on to say that she is here to be his guide into Heaven (a place she likes so much she begged to go back to the land of the living). A guide into Heaven, so it turns out is someone close to your (or rather Kevin’s) heart. Kevin, no dummy he even when surrounded by whiteness, asks isn’t that person supposed to be dead?

Rafe reminds Allison and Livvie that he is here on a pass and without powers to boot. He can help though; he can help Livvie pray for her father. Rafe takes a few steps away from the group so he can have a memory flash of his and Ed’s last conversation about the fifth chair – in case his or our memory spans are really really short. Victor tells the group that his Monk is very stubborn thank you very much and will come out of this just fine. Rafe pops back over to remind Livvie that the life here isn’t the end, that it is merely a stop along the road. Rafe after dropping those pearls of wisdom wanders away again as a very confused Jack asks for a translation.

Ally accuses Rafe of preparing Livvie, because she thinks Rafe thinks (got that?) Kevin is going to die. Back in the emergency room the dueling doctors are happy to discover there is no bleeding in Kevin’s brain. Lucy informs Kevin that it is okay if he doesn’t wake up right away, that if he needed the rest okay but she was going to stay right there until he does wake up. She reminds him she loves him and loves being his wife. She’s never been happier – and it’s all because of Kevin. She wants them to follow the path they were meant to follow and promises their journey will be amazing.

Paige still wants Kevin to take a different journey – and informs Kevin they can cross over together. Kevin doesn’t know, it doesn’t feel right. Paige informs Kevin that it is right, that all he has to do is trust her. Paige thinks Kevin is just scared (actually that should probably read Paige HOPES Kevin is just scared) and is all ready to take care of Kevin (I bet.) She tells him he will feel just like he did in the old days, young, carefree and very happy. Paige loves Kevin, she knows now she never stopped and gee her husband won’t mind a bit if she spends eternity with Kevin (okay I made that last bit up.) Paige again asks Kevin to take her hand, this time he does.

I bet you’ve forgotten Chris and Amy were on haven’t you (well unless you are as Chris obsessed as Val). Anyway they are on and they are back and Chris (who should know) informs Amy that she has a warped sense of humor but then has to check – she was kidding right? Amy indeed has a secret – she is a lowly staff counselor by day and by night she is a hired assassin for the mob. Two seconds before Chris bolts like a scared jackrabbit, Amy admits she was she joking. But Amy does have secrets and reasons for keeping them. She wonders if they can come to an understanding. Chris, all intrigued, wants to know what he could possibly want from her. My body, she offers so angelically.

Allison realizes that Rafe knows someone is going to die, and although Rafe tries like crazy to deny it, she remembers how flipped out he was about the possibility of Jamal being the one. She asks him if angels aren’t supposed to help people and when he has no answer for her she concludes that everything was just a lie and walks away from him. Lucy wonders why Kevin is not waking up. Just keep talking to him, Ian urges. Again Eve and Ian sparkily argue about Ian’s “unnecessary” risk. Ian again reminds an unconvinced Eve that Kevin would be dead if he hadn’t induced the coma. And then he reminds her that there was a time she supported him. You think I killed Kevin, Ian says in his Ian-like way of getting to the heart of the matter.

Lucy is telling Kevin about her dream of their 40th wedding anniversary. They are surrounded by the people they love and know they are truly blessed. And the most awesome part of the dream was Kevin kissing Lucy’s hand and Lucy feeling it right to her toes. Just like the first time he kissed her, just like every time he kisses her now. She pleads with Kevin to come back to her, to make all her dreams come true. Come back....

Lucy? Kevin hears her in the whiteness but Paige is waiting for him, it’s time for them to go. Kevin looks back toward Lucy’s voice. Chris laughs at Amy, she is crazy – he doesn’t just jump into bed (which is quite obvious since he keeps becoming a revirgin) he likes to have dinner first. They have a deal. Chris admits he likes the look of the menu and if that wasn’t enough sexual innuendo for you, tells her he has quite an appetite. Chris leaves and Amy whispers – so you want to get close to me Chris? Be careful what you wish for.

Allison is in the hospital chapel and as Rafe watches and listens in, she prays out loud. She admits she is having trouble keeping faith, everything she loves and cares about has been taken from her. She is trying so hard to be strong but she feels like she is falling apart. Lucy can feel that Kevin can hear her, but he can’t come back to her just yet – something is stopping him. Eve thinks it is time Lucy got some sleep. Lucy isn’t leaving Kevin and when Eve tries to argue, Ian pops in that he thinks Lucy should stay if she wants to. Eve makes a catty comment about Ian knowing best and walks out. Lucy tells Kevin that he has to come back to her, she needs him. Paige, pulling to Lucy’s pushing – or is that vice versa? – tells Kevin that everything is waiting for them. Back to Lucy begging Kevin not to go, that he promised her forever and it isn’t forever yet. If you love me, come back to me right now. Kevin’s eyes open – Doc??? Kevin tells a thrilled Lucy that she brought him back, he heard her calling for him. Livvie, Victor and Mary rush into the room, Victor informing his son that he gave them a hell of a scare. Eve tells Ian he was lucky, Ian comes back with he was right (and so he was.) Paige watches Kevin and his happy family through the door.

And so our episode ends, with Paige losing (oh yeah!) the Kevin contest and the fifth chair as empty as ever....

Tammy