Emily: Michael.
Michael: Hey.
Emily: Hey. What are you doing outside after dark?
Michael: Just looking for constellations.
Emily: Nikolas -- Nikolas is better at constellations than I am, but I'll try to help.
Michael: Are you okay?
Emily: Yeah, I'm fine, sweetie.
Michael: Dad says that you're living in the guesthouse.
Emily: Yeah, well, for a while, anyway.
Michael: Is it because you and Nikolas are getting a divorce?
Nikolas and Courtney are kissing on the pier.
Courtney pulls away.
Courtney: God, we have to stop meeting each other like this.
Lucky arrives on the pier.
Lucky: I'm sure glad you two aren't having an affair. I mean, because that would just mess up everything for everybody, wouldn't it?
Courtney: We aren't sleeping together, Lucky.
Lucky: 10 seconds ago, you were telling me how devastated you were about your breakup with Emily, and now -- are you really that hung up on her, or is Courtney just great in bed?
Michael: I don't get why people get married. They always get divorced.
Emily: Not always.
Michael: Well, most of the time.
Emily: Michael, some people never break up. Their marriages last a lifetime.
Michael: Like whose marriages?
Emily: Edward and Lila, your great-grandparents.
Michael: Okay. Who else?
Emily: Alan and Monica have been married for years and years. Although, maybe they're not the best example. But sometimes marriages can be good, even if they don't last forever.
Michael: That's what parents say to kids.
Emily: If Sonny and Carly never got married, Sonny wouldn't be your dad.
Michael: I still want them to be married.
Emily: I know. But sometimes people change, you know, they -- they grow apart.
Michael: I'm growing, but I love the people I love. Why can't people who get married do that?
Emily: It's different. Sometimes people have problems that are so big that it takes too much energy to solve them.
Michael: So they get divorced because it's easier?
Emily: Right.
Nikolas: I understand that you're upset, Lucky, but that doesn't give you a free pass to insult Courtney whenever --
Lucky: No, I'm just to figure this out. Why'd you even bother showing up at my apartment saying you wanted a family with Jax, blaming Elizabeth for everything?
Courtney: I never went to bed with Nikolas.
Lucky: Oh, yeah, you don't even need a bed when you got a pier. You know what, if the kiss that Elizabeth saw was anything like the one I witnessed, she didn't exaggerate about a damn thing!
Nikolas: Would you relax? Come on.
Courtney: You just want me back together with Jax because you want Elizabeth to give up the baby as planned and us to just all go away.
Lucky: Wasn't that the whole point of the surrogacy thing anyway that you and Jax wanted so badly?
Courtney: Yes, I did --
Lucky: Emily has been my best friend since I was 12 years old, all right? She is dealing with a very difficult situation, and she doesn't need to see you making out on the pier with her husband.
Nikolas: You're not helping matters any.
Lucky: Elizabeth turned her world upside down to give you a child you don't even want.
Courtney: I want that child, Lucky.
Lucky: Not as bad as --
Nikolas: Stop just for one second, okay? We get that you and Elizabeth and Jax and Emily are all hurting, okay? But guess what -- Courtney and I are hurting, too.
Lucky: You forgot to mention who will be hurt the most -- the baby. It's not even born yet.
Lucky storms off.
Nikolas: I'm sorry.
Courtney: No, no. You know, Lucky's right, Nikolas. You and I have done a lot of damage, but the worst part is the way we've trashed what was supposed to be that baby's family.
Nikolas: Thank you for meeting me here. Okay, um -- I shouldn't have turned to Courtney. I should've kept trying with you. I love you. And I know that I -- I really hurt you, but I swear, I swear that I did not sleep with Courtney. Please believe that.
Emily: Nikolas, I don't want to talk about what you did or what you meant. The more you try to explain, the worse it hurts both of us.
Emily: You should have these back.
Nikolas: No. No. I can't take the rings back. We're not -- we're not over. We can't be.
Emily: Okay.
Emily places her rings on the arm of the bench and leaves.
Phone rings.
Nikolas: Lucky?
Lucky: I need to see you.
Nikolas: Why?
Lucky: Just -- just get over here.
Nikolas: Look, I'm really not interested in getting yelled at.
Lucky: You won't be.
Nikolas: Well, what is it about, then?
Lucky: I'm asking as your brother, get over here.
Nikolas: Okay, fine. I'll be right there.
Phone rings.
Emily: Hello?
Elizabeth: Hey. I need to see you. Can you come over right now?
Emily: Uh, can it wait until tomorrow?
Elizabeth: Not really.
Emily: Is Cameron all right?
Elizabeth: Oh, yeah, he's fine. It's nothing like that.
Emily: Yeah. I just saw Nikolas. It didn't go very well.
Elizabeth: Well, then the last thing you need is to be alone.
Emily: Elizabeth, you can't fix this.
Elizabeth: But I can be your friend. Why don't you come over and let me?
Emily: Okay.
Elizabeth hangs up the phone.
Elizabeth: Two down, two to go.
Nikolas: Look, guys, it's been a really long day, okay? I assume Lucky told you what he saw on the pier, which is why I'm here --
Elizabeth: That's not why we asked you here. Knock on door.
Emily: Oh, great. I knew it was going to be something like this.
Elizabeth: Just come in.
Emily: Did Nikolas tell you I gave him back my wedding rings?
Nikolas: No, no, I'm sorry, I didn't have a chance. I just got here.
Emily: This is a bad idea.
Elizabeth: Maybe so, but you're staying, okay?
Lucky: Yeah, and so are you.
Nikolas: You're only aggravating an already painful situation, okay?
Emily: You're trying to help, Elizabeth, but you aren't.
Lucky: Listen, we love you both. You're family and we're going to help you get through this.
Knock on door.
Courtney: I'm not going in there.
Elizabeth: Please --
Emily: Oh, God. Okay, I feel like I'm on a reality show -- "Clueless wife meets the other woman."
Nikolas: I think it's best if we all just went home and forget --
Elizabeth: Nobody's going anywhere.
Courtney: I don't really appreciate being set up, you guys.
Nikolas: Yeah, neither do I.
Emily: Look, good intentions don't always guarantee good results. I think the best thing we can do is just walk --
Nikolas: You know what, Emily, I'm not crazy about this setup, either, but, hey, if it gets you to listen to me, then maybe this is a good idea.
Emily: I've listened, Nikolas, and mostly what I hear are half-truths and excuses.
Knock on door.
Jax: Wow. Whose bright idea was this?
Lucky: Nobody's leaving until we fix our broken lives.
Courtney: Okay, look, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but you can't fix somebody else's life.
Jax: And I refuse to be coerced into amateur marriage counseling.
Elizabeth: Just do it for the baby.
Jax: I can raise my child. I don't need any more interference.
Lucky: After you tried to ruin our lives for months?
Nikolas: This is absolutely pointless. It's only making everything worse.
Elizabeth: Maybe you're right. Maybe this whole thing is a mistake.
Courtney: Great, then can I leave now?
Lucky: Nobody is leaving! I don't care if this is a mistake or not. We've all made mistakes from the start. If I would have swallowed my pride and let Nikolas pay my medical bills, then Elizabeth would've never been pregnant with your child.
Elizabeth: Yeah, and if I had trusted Lucky's instincts about this whole surrogacy arrangement, maybe we would've all slowed down a little.
Jax: You know what, you need to slow down now.
Courtney: Maybe you should sit down or something.
Elizabeth: Treating me like a baby incubator? That's another mistake you both have made.
Lucky: You do look a little pale.
Elizabeth: What?
Lucky: Just --
Elizabeth sits down on the couch
Elizabeth: Fine, all right, is everybody happy now?
Nikolas: You know, we could sit in here all day and it's not going to change anything.
Lucky: Oh, my brother the Cassadine, always looking on the bright side of things.
Nikolas: Look, Courtney and I have made some mistakes, some serious mistakes, but it's over now.
Lucky: Are you sure about that?
Jax: You know something I don't?
Emily: Look, who cares who knows what, okay? Even if you and Courtney haven't slept together, you wanted to.
Nikolas: So we're being punished for being tempted?
Emily: I don't want to punish you or anyone else, Nikolas. I just want you to admit what's going on. There have been too many coincidences. You and Courtney can't hide the way you look at each other. I just -- I'm going to leave.
Elizabeth: No, no, please don't go. You keep fighting, we're just going to end up further apart.
Jax: Would that be so bad?
Elizabeth: Okay, can we find a way to stop hurting each other and to stop lying and stop expecting the worst out of each other? If we can't figure out a way to work it out right now, tonight, we're all going to end up alone.
Jax: If Emily wants to leave, let her.
Lucky: Not until we work this out.
Jax: What do you think is going to happen?
Elizabeth: You've had a crush on Nikolas since you were a teenager.
Emily: I'm over it, Elizabeth.
Lucky: Emily is the love of your life, like Elizabeth is mine.
Nikolas: That's true, she is.
Elizabeth: Jax, you and Courtney --
Jax: Oh, what is the point of talking this to death? It's not going to resolve anything. There's no magical place where we can all forgive and forget.
Courtney: Would you at least try, Jax?
Jax: The only thing that I want to forget is my brief and misguided marriage to you.
Nikolas: You know what, there's no point in talking to her like that. You're not helping matters at all.
Lucky: Why are you defending Courtney with Emily right here?
Jax: If Emily wants to leave, please, let her go.
Elizabeth: Why do you always have to blame him?
Emily: Okay, can we please just stop fighting?
Jax: Nikolas, do you even care about what happens to your own wife or are you too busy watching mine?
Lucky: Hey.
Nikolas and Jax go after each other
Nikolas: I've had about enough --
Lucky breaks them apart
Lucky: Hey, hey, no fighting!
Courtney: Look, there's nothing to fight over.
Jax: Yeah, because you destroyed it.
Courtney: That's a lie, Jax.
Jax: You know what, I guess we're all liars then, aren't we? You guys lied about the affair, we've been lying to each other about having children. And you have made the pregnancy for Elizabeth torture, and now you're trying to cheat me out of my own child.
Lucky pins Jax to the wall
Lucky: You aren't the only player here. Do you get that?
Elizabeth: Lucky? Something's wrong.
Lucky and Emily rush to Elizabeth's side
Jax: Is it the baby?
Lucky: Just back off!
Emily: Okay, just try to breathe, Elizabeth -- calm, steady breaths, okay?
Elizabeth: I've got this pain, it's like -- it's like I'm cramping. I think something's wrong with the baby.