Yuletide Serenity

A General Hospital Christmas Story

Written by Stef With an F

Prompt 10

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart

But the very next day, you gave it away

This year, to save me from tears

I'll give it to someone special

Serena walked down the stairs of the fire house. She gave up her hotel room the night before when she decided she was done sneaking around. It was Christmas and for once she was going to spend it with family. Funny that lately this was not a given thing. It was a fact that since her father divorced Lucy Coe, the woman she considered her mother in all ways that matter, her life was kinda in limbo. Though she did get along with Kevin fairly well, it still wasn't the same thing and then when Ian came into the picture, all bets were off.

She did not have a romantic relationship of her own to speak of. Sure she went on dates and he had a broken heart or two but she hoped that one day she would fine someone that made her smile and made her heart wild. Her time would come and she knew it.

Now she was worried about two people she loved very much. Two people that did not seem happy at all and she wanted to change it. She watched from the top of the stairs.

"Serena?" a voice from behind her said.

Serena turned around and placed a finger to her lips.

Christina raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing sister dear?"

Serena pulled Christina closer to her and kissed her on the cheek.

"If you want to snoop with me," she whispered, "You better be quiet."

"The tree is beautiful isn't?" Lucy said to Scott.

Scott nodded. "Yes it is."

"Surprised you made the time to even get one," Lucy added.

"Me too–hey! I get festive when the mood arrives."

Lucy nodded, "Yes I know. Can I ask you a question?"

Scott crossed his arms and leaned dangerously close to the tree.

"Of course, Lucy," he replied, "What is on your mind?"

"You and I, you and me, what happened to us?"

Scott raised an eyebrow. "What hasn't?"

"We used to be happy," Lucy replied.

"Yes. We used to be. A lot has changed with the both of us."

Lucy nodded.

"Yeah. I thought that Kevin and I were made for each other. We complemented each other. I mean I..."

"Left me to go back to him? Yeah, I remember. It wasn't the first time."

Lucy closed her eyes.

"True. It does seem that when one of us is ready the other runs away. Like the magnets. Repelling each other because we are so alike."

Scott turned away and focused his attention to the collection of Christmas cards he had on the shelf above the fireplace.

"Yeah. We repel each other, but some how I never get you out of my hair. No matter how much I try."

"You think fate is trying to tell us something?" Lucy asked.

"That we are nuts?"

"No, that there is perhaps a reason the two of continue being a part of each other's life?"

Scott flashed Lucy a look.

"Well, yes of course, their names are Serena and Christina."

Lucy nodded.

"Yes, and they are the two people I love with all my heart and I always will. Maybe it is the winter air, or the flame of the fireplace ."

"You are crazy."

Lucy stared at Scott.

She just stood there for a few moments not knowing what to say.

She threw her hands in the air.

"I don't understand you! What happened to you? What made you so bitter and it is Christmas."

"You don't understand me? Now whose fault is that?"

"We both are two blame for what happened to us Scott."

Scotty nodded. "Yeah."

Scotty thought back to the lies and the frustrations, how he sneaked behind Lucy's back to adopt Christina under his last name, and now Lucy later blamed his daughter Karen and her drug problems on why they almost lost custody of her. This fact was yet another reason he blamed Sonny on many of his problems. By making it his problem, it took some of it off himself, and some it off Lucy. It hurt him a lot how she just threw their marriage away, though the real crime was their lack of communication.

What was his problem? And why did women he love run from him? Laura to Luke, and later Eve to Kevin, though as he looked into Lucy's eyes, he never forgot the relationship in the middle, the way he felt when Lucy told him after she miscarried their child, that she was leaving town with Greg Bennet.

He was not sure he could get his heart broken again and survive.

Lucy stood silent for a just a moment as she realized Scott was not going to say anything more detailed, that it was her responsibility to make the first move.

So she did, right there, without a second thought, she touched her lips with his.

End of Part 10