Do enjoy everyone happy reading hope your day is great!! This one should be getting good specially with EJ and Stefano OH MY :)
Kimberly
TV Reality Mom
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
by ChickenGrrl
Chad entered the DiMera mansion and overheard E.J. instructing some
workmen to store the portrait of Stefano in the warehouse -- until they
burned the painting in a bonfire. Chad was worried that Stefano would
"lose it" when he found out. "He already has," E.J. began, and explained
that he had successfully taken control of DiMera Enterprises -- and the
house -- away from Stefano. After E.J. instructed the men to begin work
on the master suite, he continued that it had been a great pleasure to
be able to tell Stefano the news to his face.
Chad was in awe of what E.J. had managed to pull off. When Chad
learned that the plan had been in the works for months, he guessed that
it hadn't just been payback for Sami taking the blame for Bernardi's
shooting. "No, it's not, but if I ever doubted for a second that I was
doing the right thing, that sealed it." Chad was shocked when E.J. added
that Sami didn't know about what had happened yet. E.J. explained that
the plan had required complete secrecy or Stefano might have found out,
although it had helped that Stefano had been distracted after learning
about Kate's affair with Rafe.
E.J. stopped the workmen before they took away the portrait of
Stefano to commemorate the occasion with champagne. After pouring a
glass for himself and one for Chad, E.J. declared, "To our father, a
heartless, hollow bastard who I spent far too much time trying to
please. Goodbye and good riddance. May you never darken my door or hurt
those I love ever again." Chad added, "Amen." The brothers clinked
glasses, then the workmen carried the painting out. "You won't be
missed, old man," E.J. said.
As E.J. removed some knickknacks, including an abacus, he informed
Chad that he planned to do some redecorating -- and make some changes
around there. "Samantha always said this place reminds her of a
mausoleum. Not anymore. I want this to be a real home. I want everybody
here. I want us to be a real family," E.J. declared, and Chad deduced
that E.J. wanted him to move in.
E.J. assured his brother that he would have plenty of privacy. Chad
agreed to think about it. When Chad rose to leave, he got dizzy, but
blamed it on the champagne. After Chad had gone, the workmen returned
with a large painting. The men removed the cloth covering it, and E.J.
chuckled, pronouncing it "perfect."
At the hospital, Cameron reassured Gabi and Kate that the agitation
they'd been witnessing while Rafe slept was probably a result of vivid
dreams, a normal side effect of the medication they'd used to induce the
coma. He cautioned them that Rafe would be "fuzzy" for a while until
the drugs worked their way out of his system.
When Sami crept into Rafe's room and his alarms didn't go off, she
reassured herself, "See? You're not upset that I'm here, are you?" Sami
pulled up a chair and began talking to him in a quiet, conversational
tone. She joked about his relationship
with Kate, but added more seriously, "Sleeping with her almost got you
killed." As she was filling him in about what Johnny and Sydney had been
up to, Rafe's eyes slowly opened.
Rafe turned his gaze toward Sami, who told him that Gabi would be
there soon, maybe even with Arianna. Rafe looked confused, so Sami
reassured him that Arianna was fine. Sami noted with a happy sigh, "It's
so nice to see your eyes. When I think about how close you came to…
Thank God I had that gun." Rafe suddenly recalled his nightmare in which
Sami had shot him outside Common Grounds, and his alarm monitors began
to sound.
Sami called for help, and Cameron rushed in, followed quickly by
Kate and Gabi. Cameron ordered Sami to leave, and Gabi and Kate hustled
Sami out the door. Out by the nurses' station,
Sami insisted that Rafe had been about to tell her something before
Kate and Gabi had jumped all over him. Kate demanded to know what Sami
had
been talking to Rafe about. Sami explained that she'd been telling that
he would get to see Arianna soon.
Gabi quickly realized that Rafe had been confused, because although
he had known that she had planned to name the baby Arianna, he had been
unconscious when she was born. "So the only Arianna he's thinking about
is our sister!" Gabi concluded. A horrified Sami apologized sincerely
for confusing Rafe by telling him he was going to see his dead sister.
Kate and Gabi lit into Sami for always doing whatever she wanted no
matter whom she hurt.
Cameron emerged from Rafe's room and announced that Rafe was doing
better, so Gabi went in to see her brother. Kate urged Sami to go home,
reminding Sami that Daniel had told her that she would upset Rafe.
Cameron said that he agreed with Daniel, and warned Sami that if she
tried to return to Rafe's room, hospital security would call the police.
Sami reluctantly left.
Gabi was frustrated because she wanted to stay with Rafe but there
was no one available to take care of Arianna. Kate promised that she
would be there for Rafe. Chad arrived as Gabi was leaving. Chad informed
Kate, "E.J. did some ninja corporate thing and took over the DiMera
enterprises. E.J. kicked the old man out of his own company." Kate was
stunned but clearly impressed.
When Chad approached Cameron later, Cameron asked if Chad were
there to have his head checked out after the spill he'd taken at the
lake. "My head's fine. Listen, um, there's some things going on that you
don't know about," Chad began. Cameron stated that he couldn't talk
because he was the on-call doctor for the whole floor.
As Kate sat with Rafe, he struggled to talk. "Why?" he said weakly.
Kate inquired, "Why what?" With great effort, Rafe managed,
"Why…did…Sami…try and kill me?"
Sami returned to the DiMera mansion, slamming both the front door
and her keys on the foyer table. When E.J. greeted her in the entryway,
she launched into a tirade about what had happened at the hospital.
Grinning patiently, E.J. spoke to her in a soothing voice as he tried to
calm her down, then told her that he had something that might cheer her
up.
E.J. led Sami into the living room and asked if she noticed
anything different. "Uh, no, it's still the same mausoleum…the
chessboard and the ancient furniture," Sami noted with a bemused frown.
E.J. steered her further into the room, and when Sami turned around, she
saw that instead of Stefano's picture looming down over the room, there
was a portrait of her and E.J. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, eyes wide.
Sami worried that Stefano
would be furious when he found out that E.J. had replaced his portrait.
"My father is never setting foot in this house ever again!" E.J.
declared, adding, "He's out. My father came back into Salem this morning
to learn that he'd been the victim of a hostile takeover. He lost the
company."
An amazed Sami quickly figured out that E.J. had been responsible,
but she noted that it would take years of planning to pull off something
like that. "For a lesser man, maybe. Took me five months," E.J. said.
Sami was proud of her fiancé -- until she realized that he had been
planning it for that long but had never told her.
At St. Luke's, Maggie was picking up tickets for the school
dedication and private reception from Eric. After commending Eric for
his hard work in getting the school finished, Maggie remarked, "I heard
that you ran yourself so ragged that you got sick. In fact, you still
look a little peaked." Eric assured Maggie that he was all right, thanks
to her son.
When Maggie asked if there were anything she could do to help with
the event, Eric confided that things had been tense between Nicole and
Victor the last time Eric had witnessed them together. Maggie reassured
Eric that she would make sure Victor behaved, and Eric promised to do
the same with Nicole. Maggie thought it was nice that Eric still looked
out for his first love. Eric stressed, "We look out for each other. I
mean, she's the one who saved the school. She saved my life."
When Nicole arrived at the Kiriakis mansion, she handed Brady the
mail, which she had gotten from the mailman on her way up the front
walk. While Brady looked through the mail, Nicole picked up the donation
that he'd left in the entryway for St. Luke's new school. Observing
Brady's odd reaction to a letter, Nicole asked what was wrong. Brady
showed her the letter, which was from the adoption agency, asking if
Brady and Kristen were ready to proceed with their adoption.
When Nicole started to tear up the letter, Brady stopped her. She
offered to call the agency for Brady, but he declined, insisting that he
could handle it. Nicole was worried that Brady was thinking about
getting back together with Kristen. Brady insisted that he wasn't,
although he couldn't tell Nicole why he didn't want her to call the
adoption agency. Nicole proclaimed that Brady was a great man and
Kristen was a "worthless user" to have turned on Brady.
Brady maintained that Kristen had grown to love him; even Jennifer
had seen it. "Stop buying into her lies!" Nicole ordered. She asked why
Brady wouldn't let her rip up the adoption papers. Brady mused that
perhaps the idea of having kids didn't really have anything to do with
Kristen. "Maybe I saw the chance to have --" Brady began, but he stopped
and apologized when he saw that how words had affected Nicole.
Nicole acknowledged that the idea of having children was a hard
thing to let go of. Brady asked if Nicole had ever considered adoption.
"I don't know. Maybe I'm just not meant to be a parent," Nicole said
with a shrug. Brady grabbed her and embraced her, declaring that she
would be a great parent. As Brady walked Nicole out, he paused to stew
over the adoption papers again. Nicole encouraged him not to hang on to
something that was only going to hurt him, because he deserved to be
happy.
When Maggie returned home, Brady was still in the foyer, staring at
the adoption documents. When he didn't hear a word she said praising
the new school, she realized that something was troubling him and asked
him to tell her all about it. As they went into the living room and sat
on the sofa, Brady reminded Maggie of the warning they'd received in
A.A. about replacing drug and alcohol addiction with something else.
Brady wondered if one could become addicted to falling in love and
breaking up.
Maggie said that it was possible because there was a lot of
adrenaline involved in both of those things -- but real love didn't jerk
people like Brady had been. Brady confided, "The feeling that I have
right now…is like withdrawal. It feels just like it, like I can't let
go." Maggie encouraged Brady to go to a meeting. "You have discovered
something really smart today, Brady. Don't let it slip away," Maggie
cautioned.
Brady vowed that he was going to end his downward spiral right
away. Maggie reminded Brady to take things one day at a time -- and if
he ever needed his sponsor, she was just down the hall. Brady was
grateful. After Maggie left the room, Brady ripped up the adoption
papers.
When Nicole arrived at St. Luke's, Eric had the phone in his hand,
but he placed it back in the cradle before dialing. Nicole asked whom
he'd been about to call. Eric explained that Dr. Jonas had run the
second set of tests because Eric had experienced a slight relapse.
Although she was a little freaked out, Nicole hoped that the new tests
would provide some answers about what had made Eric sick.
A little later, Eric informed Nicole that the programs were ready
at the printer. Nicole volunteered to pick them up, but first she made
Eric promise to call her if he heard anything from Daniel. Once he was
alone in the rectory, Eric knelt at the small altar and prayed, "Please,
Lord, just help me find some answers. Help me find out why I'm sick so I
can serve you better." Eric suddenly recalled running into the woman --
really Kristen in disguise -- in the lobby of his hotel in the state
capital.
In the park, Kristen read Dr. Chyka the riot act and informed him
that Father Eric's doctor had called in a specialist to try to figure
out what was wrong with the priest. Dr. Chyka tried to reassure Kristen
that the chances of the drug being detected were minuscule -- but he
added that he would feel more comfortable if he could look at the lab
results.
Kristen made a phone call during which she stated, "Thank you so much. I will call Dr. Jonas tomorrow."
After she hung up, she muttered, "And I will get in his face today."
Dr. Chyka was alarmed. Kristen told him to shut up and wait for her
call.
Daniel was on the phone at his apartment, discussing Father Eric's
lab tests with another doctor, Kevin. "I think I found the key to Father
Eric's illness," Daniel declared, pointing out a slightly out-of-range
number. Daniel asked Kevin to put a rush on things in case Eric really
had been poisoned.
Daniel was making noted in Eric's file when his pen ran out of ink.
He opened a desk drawer to get another one and ran across a note from
Jennifer. Trying to shove the feelings aside, Daniel had just sat back
down with the file when Kristen stopped by on the pretense of talking to
him about Jennifer. Daniel asserted that it was none of Kristen's
business and asked her to leave.
Stalling for time, Kristen reminded Daniel how she had butted in
and kept him and Jennifer from breaking up after Chloe had pretended
that they'd slept together. Daniel pointed out that the situation was
different, but Kristen begged him to let her help him. Daniel asserted
that Kristen was only there for the same reason she had visited Eric in
the hospital: to score points with Brady via his friends and family.
Kristen maintained that she truly cared about Brady's friends and
family.
Daniel declared that there was no way he was getting involved in
Kristen's relationship with Brady. Kristen reminisced about how close
the four of them -- her, Brady, Daniel, and Jennifer -- had all been and
how much fun they'd had together. She acknowledged sadly that she had
lost Brady for good. Daniel expressed his regrets about what had
happened between Kristen and Brady -- but suggested that Kristen should
visit Jennifer if she really wanted to help Daniel and Jennifer.
Parker called out to his daddy from the bedroom. "Is that Parker?
He sounds so cute!" Kristen said with a giggle. She reminded Daniel that
she'd never met his son, and Daniel somewhat reluctantly agreed. After
Daniel left the room, Kristen whipped out her cell phone and began
taking pictures of Eric's file.
Kristen put her phone away when she was finished, but noticed that
she hadn't left the papers from the file the way she'd found them.
Daniel returned to the room and found Kristen at his desk, straightening
the papers. "What in the hell are you doing?" he demanded angrily.
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