Lucky: I really never really knew you, Courtney, before all this except, you know, by your reputation. And from everything people say about you, it's true.
Nikolas:: Watch it, man, I'm telling you.
Lucky: I mean, you meet a guy, then you sleep with him. You maybe even get him to marry you. And then when something better comes along, you dump him so you can have a bigger fish.
Nikolas:: All right, shut up, Lucky, just shut up.
Lucky: You're just a slut, and you're a fool for --
Courtney:: Stop it. Don't do -- guys!
Courtney:: You guys have to stop this! What are you -- what are you trying to prove? Nikolas, please --
Lucky: This is between me and my brother!
Courtney:: No, it is not just between you and your brother. I am stuck right in the middle, Lucky.
Lucky: Well, it was your choice to sleep with a married man.
Nikolas: Separated.
Courtney:: Look, my -- my marriage to Jax was a sham, okay? He pretended to care about me just to get the baby.
Lucky: Listen, I'm not going to sit here and defend Jax. He's been a jerk, as far as I'm concerned. But you didn't have to go and trash Nikolas and Emily's marriage to get revenge on your husband.
Nikolas: Lucky, I already told you, we were already over, okay?
Lucky: Did you stop loving her? Huh? Then I guess we'll never get a chance to know. Did it ever occur to either one of you that lives would be wrecked? Like Elizabeth's and the baby she's carrying? Your baby.
Nikolas: Ah -- thank you.
Courtney: I can't believe you got into a fistfight.
Nikolas: Yeah. My brother has kind of got a short fuse, doesn't he?
Courtney: Yeah, because of me.
Nikolas: Yeah, well, he doesn't see you the way I see you.
Courtney: No, no, he sees a home-wrecking slut.
Nikolas: Courtney, don't go there.
Courtney: What?
Nikolas: He was just angry.
Courtney: I -- I know. I know. He loves Emily. Everybody loves Emily. I can't really blame them. She's -- she's an amazing woman. But it's just -- when did we become the bad guys here?
Nikolas: I don't know.
Courtney: You know? I know that you tried to make it work with her, Nikolas. You gave her everything you had. And still, it just seems like --
Nikolas: What? Seems like what?
Courtney: People will always say that if it weren't for me --
Nikolas: Yeah, well, people will be wrong, okay?
Courtney: You know, I just feel like we're all alone in this. You know, no one's going to understand the way we feel.
Nikolas: It's okay. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, okay? We know the truth.
Courtney: Do you think that you could just hold off on that until I let you know? Okay. Thanks. They want to know when to deliver the baby furniture. I mean, I can't even begin to know how to answer that.
Nikolas: I'm sorry.
Courtney: No, it's -- I mean, I had good intentions, right? I just -- I wanted to give a child the life I never had. You know? A stable, loving home, two parents that love each other, a future ---all the things I missed out on. Maybe I didn't work hard enough to keep my marriage together.
Nikolas: Yeah? Out of love for Jax? Or just, what, for the sake of the baby?
Courtney: It was all about the baby now. Look, I can't let that child be born into a climate of spite and geger.
Nikolas: You won't allow it and neither will Elizabeth, so --
Courtney: Yeah. You know, the funny thing is, is I actually believed that Jax would make a wonderful father. So if me backing off is going to be better for the baby, then it's just what I have to do. I'm not going to tear that baby into two, Nikolas -- no, or three, if you think about the child's biological mother.
Nikolas: Listen. Come here. If you -- if you want to fight this, you know, I'll stand right there by you.
Courtney: No. Enough people are fighting over this baby right now. God, you know, if you think about it, I am right back where I started. You know? I mean, I was supposed to be the mother and now I feel like I have the least claim of anyone. You know, I mean, this was my dream and now it's just gone up in smoke.
Nikolas: Hmm. Yeah, dreams have a way of doing that.
Courtney: Look, I know that we never set out to hurt anyone.
Nikolas: Yes, I know. But look at all the damage we did anyway.
Courtney: Hey. Nikolas, you tried to be the man that Emily needed -- you did. Okay? But she -- she pushed you away, she wanted a divorce, and I know that she was dealing with the rape and I know that you will always be sorry that you couldn't have helped her, but, hey, don't think that you -- you didn't try.
Nikolas: You know something? You've -- you've lost more than your share in all this and still you find a way to make me feel better. That's the part of you that I wish Lucky could see.
Courtney: You know, you're right. We shouldn't care what anyone else thinks.
Nikolas: Yeah. You know, I want you to know something. What Jax did to you was -- I mean, it was awful. All you did was love him and all he did was lie to you and treat you like dirt, so as far as I'm concerned, he deserves whatever he's going to get now.
Courtney: Are we together just to get back at Emily and Jax?
Nikolas: Being with you, being close to you like this, it's -- it's not a way to punish myself or it's not -- it's not a reaction to what I went through with Emily. I mean, I think -- I think if it was, it wouldn't feel this damn good.
Courtney: Yeah.
Nikolas: And I've been dealing with the insurmountable for months. I mean, I look like the man who -- who raped my wife, you know? And I could -- I could wait forever and nothing would ever be the same between me and Emily. And with you, I just, I don't have to -- I don't have to question myself or second-guess myself. I can just feel whatever I want to feel and not be afraid to say it.
Courtney: Okay, then why don't you say it.
Nikolas: I want you in my life. I like who I am with you.
Courtney: I need you, too. I didn't want to need you. I didn't want to be a complication.
Nikolas: Too late.
Courtney: Hmm. You know, I didn't need Jax or anyone else to drag me into your arms. No, I found my way there all by myself. There's no where else I would rather be.
Nikolas: Good.