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1994: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship

As the New Year began, Stefano and Peter read the contents of the therapist’s file on Sami and were disappointed that Sami had not admitted the cause of her bulimia to her therapist. They were sure that Sami knew something which they could use to hurt John, Roman, and Marlena, so they decided to steal Sami’s diary instead. Sami herself spent the day with her grandparents, who attempted to assure her that they still loved her despite the scare she gave them over Belle, and that all they wanted is for Sami to return to good health.

Carrie started her new job at Titan, and spent her day with Lucas. He asked her to dinner but declined because she had made plans with Austin. Austin called Brandee and asked her to tell Carrie the truth-- that they never had a relationship. Just as Brandee was about to do as Austin asked, Lucas, who had been spying on the group, called her on her cell phone and ordered her not to tell Carrie the truth. However, Victor’s secretary Marie arrived with orders to fire Brandee. An infuriated Brandee explained Lucas’ scheme to Austin and Carrie. Austin and Lucas immediately began to throw punches and were pulled off of one another. Lucas then tried to explain his position to Carrie, who slapped him. A few days later, though, as Austin and Carrie ice skated in the park, Lucas again apologized to Carrie, who agreed to forgive but not forget and herself apologized for slapping Lucas. Austin was annoyed.

Peter visited Jennifer at her television show and then stole Sami’s diary and delivered it to Stefano. They read the diary and were delighted to learn that John had fathered Belle; neither one of them wanted Peter’s sister Kristen (who was engaged to Stefano’s son Tony) to become more seriously involved with John.

Meanwhile, Marlena informed Sami that she was going to tell Roman about her affair with John. Sami warned her not to do so but Marlena was insistent that honesty is the best policy.

Several days later, Jennifer found Lucas moping in the park and encouraged him to find a way to move on without Carrie. He broke off his conversation with the woman he did not yet know was his half-sister when Sami and Roman arrived to ice skate after one of Sami’s therapy appointments. Lucas asked Sami, who did not like him because of his attempts to hurt her beloved sister Carrie, to be his friend again. Sami told Lucas that she knew he was up to something but that she would be his friend.

Lucas went home to find Victor waiting for him. Bo was deep into the investigation of the murder of Curtis, and both Victor and Lucas suspected the other of knowing more than he said. Lucas did promise that he had been nowhere near the murder site, and he also tried to reassure his mother that her arch-enemy Vivian could not have escaped the Pinehaven Mental Institution, which had recently burned down. Unfortunately for Kate, Vivian had not only escaped but had rescued another of Kate’s old enemies, Laura Horton, who seemed to know something about Kate’s relationship with Curtis.

After leaving the park and Lucas, Sami went back to the Pub where her grandparents reiterated their vow to help her overcome her emotional problems. Roman suggested a family photograph and even asked John to be in it, which greatly distressed Sami, especially when Roman asked John to hold Belle. John whispered to Sami that if she wanted to keep the secret, as he did, then she had to pretend to like him. It was a splendid display of John Black's ineptitude as a parent.

Back at the hospital, Sami happened to run into Stefano and Peter. She recognized Stefano and was naturally afraid, but he pretended that he did not know her and she reluctantly allowed him to read her palm. He told her that she was in love with a man whose initials were "AR" and that she had a secret. She refused to tell him the secret, but Stefano and Peter have already arranged a blood test for Belle. Sami heard about it along with Roman and panicked. She found Jamie and explained the situation; Jamie told her to stay away from Stefano. Sami then informed John and Marlena that they should not tell Roman the truth as he would be destroyed and John agreed. Belle’s blood samples were quickly stolen by Stefano, although Jamie accused Sami of the crime.

At the Kiriakis Mansion, Bo, who had just learned of Lucas’ speeding ticket, interrogated Lucas over the phone. Lucas told Bo he had gone to see Carrie and then changed his mind. When Bo left, Lucas burned a pair of gloves in the fireplace. Victor asked Lucas why Bo had interrogated him and after Lucas told him, he asked Lucas if anything else tied Lucas to Curtis. Lucas assured him that there was nothing. However, when Bo arrived he saw the gloves and further questioned Lucas. Lucas told him that he had only shown Carrie a photo of a visiting teacher from the military academy and had no connections to Curtis. Victor tried to convince Bo that Lucas had had nothing to do with the murder, and Kate became frightened that Lucas had been involved. When Bo left, she asked Lucas why he’d gone out that night. Lucas wanted to know what she knew that made her feel she had to worry that he’d seen something. Neither truly answered the other and Victor promised to protect them both. Victor was however upset that the murder investigation was causing a rift between himself and his (illegitimate) son Bo. He then told Kate and Lucas that he had gone looking for Curtis; and Kate admitted that she had been beaten by Curtis and had tried to pay him off.

On the day of Belle’s baptism, Peter pulled Marlena aside and told her that Stefano knew about her affair. Marlena, who along with John had just promised Sami that Roman would never know, was distressed. When she saw Stefano sneak into the church midway through the ceremony and in her desire to tell Roman the truth before Stefano did blurted out her secret before the entire congregation. Sami told Marlena that she should have kept her mouth shut and Roman became even angrier with Marlena when he realized that this secret was the cause of Sami’s problems. He screamed at Marlena that she was selfish to allow her daughter to suffer. John, who was to have been Belle’s godfather, stood up for Marlena by admitting that he was the other man, and John and Roman came to blows. Later, Sami sat alone in a corner of the Brady Pub while the rest of her family glared at John. He begged them to forgive Marlena even if they could not forgive him.

Lucas, Kate, and Victor continued to tell Bo that they knew nothing about the murder, even after he found a one-hundred dollar bill that could be traced to Titan. Kate and Lucas gave him semi-conflicting stories about a business deal and taking money from the safe.

John again tried to apologize to Roman and Sami was forced to pull the men off of one another. Roman then told Sami that he was getting a divorce but that he would get custody of Sami and Belle.

Kate, concerned over Lucas’ possible role in the murder, told him that he should take his friend Alan Harris up on his offer to go skiing. Carrie, who had just broken up with Austin and told Sami who told Lucas, would be at the Green Mountain Lodge as well. Carrie was attacked by a masked man at the Lodge, and Austin, who was begging her forgiveness, believed that the man was Lucas. Austin found Lucas and hit him. Carrie refused to tell the police about the attack and attempted rape; however, she later confided in her sister Sami.

Sami had been busily destroying her diary and with it the proof that Belle had been fathered by John while Lucas, Austin, and Carrie were skiing. Marlena watched and apologized to Sami for the affair. Unfortunately, Stefano had copied the diary and told Roman the truth. When Roman confronted Sami, she lied badly and they both went to tell Marlena that they hated her and Belle. Marlena moved out.

Lucas told Alan about Carrie’s attack after Sami told her family and it became common knowledge. Alan was the attacker, but he did not tell Lucas. Lucas and Alan went to Johnny Angel’s and found a depressed Sami mourning her parents’ marriage. Lucas wanted to cheer Sami up, so Alan told Sami that she looked like Carrie while thinking to himself that he could get close to Carrie by getting close to Sami.

Lucas then returned his attention to the murder trial. Bo had been unable to find a more likely suspect than Billie. On the witness stand, Kate talked about how she had been married to Curtis and he had stolen her babies. Austin and Billie realized that Kate was their mother-- and Lucas their half-brother. Kate meanwhile cried on Lucas’ shoulder that Victor might now regret marrying her. Lucas reminded her that Victor knew much of the dirt on Kate prior to the marriage. This scene was taken in by Laura Horton, who had been presumed dead but who with Vivian’s help crashed the trial with information about Kate and Curtis. She asked Alice to point out Kate’s son and when Alice saw Laura’s stare, she admitted that there was indeed something familiar about Lucas. Laura then went to speak to Lucas, telling him he did not look like his mother. "No," replied the typically snide Lucas. "Apparently, I look like my father!"

Alan began to date Sami, who did not tell her parents because they were busy with their own lives and because she knew they would not approve. Before each date, Sami’s best friend Jamie warned her to be careful and not to dress so provocatively. Sami was excited, though, that "A college boy asked me out! A cute college boy!" When Carrie overheard Sami telling Jamie that she hoped Alan would kiss her soon, Carrie told Sami to stop dating Alan as she was in over her head. Sami refused, and Carrie considered telling their father but after noting the pain he was in over the divorce decided not to. Carrie did tell Marlena, who broke up a date just as Alan kissed Sami on the cheek. She told Sami not to date anyone over eighteen. Sami, who had lost all respect for her mother, told her "you have no right to tell me what I can and cannot do!" Roman arrived and told Marlena to leave and Sami was delighted that her father was once again going to undercut her mother’s authority. But Marlena refused to leave and Roman agreed that Alan was much too old for Sami. Sami asked Marlena why she always ruined everything and telephoned Alan to say that they could still date. She then told Carrie to stay out of her life.

Bo discovered that Kate once attacked Curtis with a butcher knife (in self defense) and Kate, not Billie, became the prime suspect. Lucas, who protected his mother at all costs, stood up in court and yelled "I did it ! I killed Curtis Brown!" He used Carrie’s and Bo’s knowledge of his speeding ticket to provide evidence against himself and was taken to the police station. Alan used the opportunity to persuade Carrie that Lucas was the one who attacked her.

At the police station, Victor asked Lucas for the truth and Lucas told him that all he wanted was for his mother to have happiness with Victor. Victor told Lucas that Kate could never be happy without her son. Victor then ordered Lucas not to sign a confession but Lucas signed it anyway.

Sami continued to date Alan as Carrie worried over her sister. Sami blew Carrie off and forced Jamie to say that she would be with Jamie when she was actually with Alan. Sami kissed Alan, who told her he had promised himself to take it slow with Carrie’s sister, and Sami was mad that everything always came back to Carrie. So Alan whispered to himself that if he couldn’t have Carrie, he would have her sister. The next day in the park he told Sami to get a fake ID so they could go to frat parties together. Carrie interrupted this conversation and reminded them that they were not allowed to see each other; Alan assured her they were just talking and Sami went to visit Jamie.

Laura found Kate to rub her nose in Lucas’ impending conviction. She then recited the whole story to Kate-- that Lucas was the result of her husband Bill’s extramarital affair. Laura planned to embarrass Kate and Lucas with this information but Kate reminded Laura that she did not want to hurt Jennifer, her daughter with Bill who was not so much older than Lucas. Laura later let Bill know that she knew about Lucas’ paternity.

All were present at Lucas’ trial and he was about to be sentenced when Billie broke through her traumatic amnesia and told everyone that neither she nor Lucas nor Kate was the killer. Lucas admitted that he had only confessed because he believed his mother was guilty. Kate, Lucas, and Victor had a happy reunion, but Lucas put a crimp in it by telling Kate that one of the things he would have regretted had he gone to prison was never knowing who his father was. Kate reiterated that she would never tell; Lucas had been fine without him for eighteen years. When Kate and Victor were busy with Titan business, Lucas went through Kate’s records and found a letter addressed to the house where Bill, Laura, Jennifer, and Abby lived. He interrogated them, especially Bill, about previous occupants of the house until Kate arrived to tell Lucas to stop digging into his past.

Lucas was further distracted when Alan tried to get him to break up Austin and Carrie, and Carrie tried to convince Lucas that Austin and Billie were his siblings. Lucas refused to help Alan and refused to believe Carrie; he simply repeated his all-time most over-used line "I have to protect Mom from Austin and Billie." He was sure that they were only after Kate’s money, and in any case he did not want to share Kate. He then gave in to Alan’s plans to have revenge on Austin.

Sami, meanwhile, obtained a fake ID and bought new clothes for the fraternity party. Jamie again told her that she was wearing clothes not appropriate to their age but Sami did not care. Sami then overheard Carrie making a date with Alan and was angered that Alan liked Carrie better than her. Alan promised that he only accepted Carrie’s invitation so it would not look suspicious. He then called a therapist and talked about how he was afraid that he was mentally unstable and obsessed with a girl. Alan rigged Austin’s car so it would break, leaving Carrie unprotected, and made sure Sami got drunk at the frat party so she would not know when he left. Austin and Carrie managed to get a ride to the Lodge, so Alan decided he would have Sami instead. Sami, though, had shaken off the alcohol and noticed Alan’s absence; he convinced her that he had not really left, but the Salem PD broke up the party. Alan visited a hung-over Sami at school the next day and told her their next date would be just the two of them-- maybe she could make dinner at his apartment?

Kate attempted to bond with Austin by letting him work at Titan and Lucas told Kate that she had to choose between him and Austin/Billie. He then went to Bill to ask for more information on his mother’s past; he knew Bill had been her doctor. Bill lied to Lucas and then decided that he could not continue to lie to his own son and chased him down the street, only to be stopped by Laura. Laura later agreed that Bill should tell Lucas the truth, but when Vivian made sure she saw Bill comforting Kate at a party that night, Laura decided to embarrass both Bill and Kate. She told everyone about Bill’s affair and how it had caused the mental break that put her in an institution for eighteen years. Vivian also arranged for it to be announced that Curtis and Kate had never divorced and Victor’s marriage to Kate was invalid. Jennifer was disgusted with her father for not telling her about her brother and for his role in her growing up without a mother. Bill’s brother Mickey also screamed at Bill for breaking up his own marriage to Laura if he was only going to hurt her; Mickey only backed off when Alice ordered him to do so. For his part, Lucas would not even speak to Bill and yelled at Kate for keeping the truth from him. Victor also yelled at Kate and said he would not come home that night.

Lucas later went to Bill’s house to ask him how he could fail to acknowledge him as a son. Bill explained that he knew everything about Lucas-- his grades, his friends, his achievements at the military school. Lucas did not accept this explanation and left, snapping at his new sister Jennifer on his way out. Jennifer reminded Lucas that his life was not the only one that had changed that night , and took her turn screaming at her father. Bill decided that neither Lucas nor Laura would ever forgive him and soon left for Somalia.

Although his personal life was in turmoil, Lucas continued to do well professionally. Kate promised that Countess Wilhelmina would one day be his. Billie had just re-arranged Lucas’ Countess Wilhelmina display at the mall to make it sell better, and Lucas extracted a promise from his mother that Billie would never work for Countess Wilhelmina again. Kate agreed, and sealed the deal by allowing Lucas to call Billie a tramp in her presence. Lucas also had his usual argument with Austin before Billie went out for a night with Bo.

Bo and Billie needed to borrow a CD from Sami and that nearly interrupted her date with Alan. She had made him dinner at her home since Roman was at a police conference. Alan ran out the back door when Bo arrived and Sami was able to pretend that she had been spending the night with Jamie. Billie had been attempting to get Jamie to admit that her father had molested her, and Jamie finally told the truth to Bo and Sami. Sami promised to support her friend and later told Alan that she felt guilty for acting like her life was awful when Jamie had been going through that kind of trauma all alone.

Tony DiMera owned 49% of Countess Wilhelmina’s stock and gave Billie a job, and Lucas was angered. Carrie threatened to resign if Kate tried to veto Tony’s plans for Billie, and Lucas was further upset when he could not change Carrie’s mind because she was so attached to Austin and Billie.

On another date with Alan, Sami studied at his apartment and he was about to rape her when she decided to go home early to have dinner with Carrie and Roman. Roman told his daughters that his divorce from Marlena would soon be final. Alan stalked some other women in the streets and continued to worry that he was mentally unbalanced.

Oblivious to Alan’s problems, Sami went over to his apartment again, this time to cook him dinner. He cajoled her into posing for seductive photographs, and then he raped her. When she accused him of raping her, he told her that she wanted it and reminded her that the photos proved it. He informed her that no one would believe her if she claimed that she had been raped, and she left the apartment in tears. At home, she took a long shower and barely noticed that her father was leaving to go to Maison Blanche, where Marlena and John were being held captive. Roman also noticed nothing odd about his daughter’s demeanor. For the next several days, Sami repeatedly ran into Alan and they repeatedly argued about whether or not he had raped her. Sami suffered flashbacks and nightmares about the rape, and even called the rape crisis hotline. Her trauma worsened when she learned the truth about Marlena and John’s whereabouts.

Lucas’ new half-brother Mike arrived in Salem and tried to help Lucas get over Carrie. They went to a disco and saw Carrie and Austin together, and Lucas became upset. At a police fundraiser, he donated $10,000 to impress Carrie, and he swore to Alan that Carrie would come back to work for him and forget about Austin. He also began to notice that Alan and Sami were both behaving strangely.

Sami demanded that Alan get an AIDS test, but she herself tested negative for AIDS. Her relief was short-lived when the doctor told her that she should also have a pregnancy test, but that, too, was negative. She nearly told Roman about the rape when he returned but Alan talked her out of it. Alan then spent some time with Lucas, who went through his friend’s wallet and found the suggestive pictures of Sami. Lucas cornered Sami and asked her what had happened. She admitted that she had been raped and told Lucas the whole story. That evening, Roman told Sami that he was leaving town; Maison Blanche had convinced him that he could not keep living near Marlena and John. Lucas told Sami that her father would not leave is she told him what had happened, but she refused. In over his head, Lucas called Carrie for help and they ran to the airport to tell Roman what had happened. Roman left without finding out, however, so Lucas and Carrie attempted to get Sami into counseling. Sami refused that as well, so Lucas and Carrie decided to get Alan’s confession on tape, using Carrie as the bait. The two broke into Alan’s apartment to steal the incriminating photos of Sami, but found only the mask Alan wore when he attacked Carrie and a shrine to Carrie that he built.

On the day Carrie and Lucas wanted to trap Alan, the power went out and Alan cancelled his date with Carrie. Lucas took off for Titan, where the blackout had trapped Kate and Vivian in an elevator. Knowing that Kate was very claustrophobic, Lucas drafted Austin into helping him manually pull up the elevator to save their mother. Back in Carrie’s apartment, Alan arrived after all, as a surprise. A frightened Carrie repeatedly called Lucas from her bathroom, but he did not get her messages before Alan held a knife to her throat and dragged her to his apartment. She left a tape-recorded message and dropped an earring so Lucas and Austin would be able to track her.

Alan tied Carrie in his apartment and she told him that she wanted him to make love to her so he would untie her. She then managed to turn her wire on and Austin and Lucas heard the conversation. She did not get a chance to say where she was being held even the next morning, when a newly arrived Marlena found out what was happening. Lucas then told Sami of the plan. Sami recognized a noise on the wire as being unique to Alan’s building and ran to save her sister, telling only Jamie where she was going. Her attempt at heroism resulted in her being tied up as well.

Alan left Sami and Carrie so he could steal a car and take them away. Austin and Lucas saw Alan try to steal the car; meanwhile, Jamie told Abe and the rest of the police department what Sami was doing. When Alan returned, Sami and Carrie knocked him out but he regained consciousness while Sami searched for the key that would let the two out of the apartment . . . just in time for Austin and Lucas to realize where Sami and Carrie were and arrive to save the day.

Alan was let out on bail for kidnapping and assault, but Sami did not want to press rape charges. When she saw that he would otherwise go free, and with some prompting from Carrie, she changed her mind. Marlena overheard Sami pressing rape charges and attempted to comfort her daughter but Sami was too angry with Marlena to accept her. Alan, of course, called Sami a liar. He once again got out on bail and found Sami at the health club. He told her that the whole town would know what a tramp she was if the case went to trial. He again found her in the park and taunted her until Austin came along to beat him up and save Sami.

Lucas still resented and feared Austin and Billie. He told Vivian of his problems, prompting her to brand him "Hamlet." Kate decided not to go on maternity leave after all because she wanted to help Lucas develop a good working relationship with his siblings. Lucas was more inclined to listen to Vivian than to his mother, and Billie ended up watching as Gina/Hope and Bo did a photo shoot together, although thanks to Lucas Bo believed he was doing it as a favor to Billie.

At Alan’s preliminary hearing, he taunted Elaine, another woman whom he had raped. Elaine was frightened and when she took the stand she swore Alan had not raped her. Sami still could not deal with Marlena’s presence, so Carrie comforted her. Rape charges were soon dismissed, and the next day when Sami and Carrie went shopping in Salem Place, they found tabloids bearing the headline "cry rape" featuring Alan’s pictures of Sami. A permanent rift was created that day between Sami and Carrie when Sami screamed at Carrie that she blamed her for making her look like a liar to the whole town.

Sami was still upset at her seventeenth birthday party and only attended at all because Austin asked her to. Seeing Austin’s effect on Sami, Carrie asked him to continue to compliment her and she decided that to punish Carrie for the Alan fiasco, she would have Austin for her own. She told Jamie of her plan and received a necklace from Marlena to complete the day.

The next Salem party after Sami’s birthday was a Halloween party, which Sami attended as a nun. Lucas attended as well and spent his time switching cards so that Bo would be unable to tell Gina/Hope from Billie. Alan lured Sami away from the party; because he was masked she believed he was Austin. He tried to attack her, and the real Austin saved her. Alan again denied that he touched Sami.

Realizing that Austin would always protect her, Sami began to make up stories about being followed to distract Austin from Carrie. One day she called him to the Pub and then threw away the notes he left Carrie and unplugged the phone so he could not call her; they had a cozy evening together.

However, Sami decided that she needed help to break up Austin and Carrie. She found Lucas and told him that if they worked together, the results would benefit them both, thus setting the staged for years of shared adventures.

Sami’s hatred for Carrie increased when Alan’s lawyer tricked Carrie on the witness stand at the rape trial. The taped confession was thrown out as evidence and a mistrial was declared. Alan gloated to Sami, Carrie, Jamie, and Austin. Carrie apologized to Sami and said that she took the blame; Sami responded that she hated Carrie and then slapped her sister. Lucas took in the scene and decided that Carrie would be much better off with him and told Sami that he would help her with her plans.

Jamie also helped Sami with her plan unknowingly by calling Austin when Sami again claimed she was being followed.

1995: Runaway

Austin and Carrie’s romantic New Year was ruined when Austin went to make sure Sami was safe. Carrie noticed that Sami always yelled for help when she and Austin were planning a special evening and confronted Jamie. Jamie said that Alan was outside the Pub as they spoke, and if Sami was not lying she was imagining things. Carrie told Austin of her suspicions and Austin did not agree with her, so the next time Sami called, Carrie did not give the message to Austin. When Lucas called them later that evening about Countess Wilhelmina, Austin complained that they were always being interrupted. Carrie smugly remarked that that was why she hadn’t told him about Sami’s earlier call. A furious Austin ran to the docks with Carrie in tow.

On the docks, Alan was indeed stalking Sami. He pulled a gun on her, but she lunged for it. He taunted that she did not have the nerve to shoot him, but it turned out that she did. The bullet castrated Alan as Carrie, Austin, Lucas, and the police arrived. Sami admitted to shooting Alan in self-defense, and at the hospital Mike Horton informed the interested parties that Alan would live but would never rape anyone again. Austin took Sami home and Carrie felt both guilty and jealous. At the hospital, Lucas stayed with Alan who vowed revenge on Sami and Carrie; because of them he would never make love to another woman. Alan later told Carrie what he knew of Sami’s schemes; Carrie slapped Sami and a disgusted Austin took Sami’s side. Sami gleefully recounted this story to Jamie and Lucas, who told her to quit while she was ahead and to stop hurting Carrie, who loved her and whom she loved, too. Sami would not listen, and soon decided to seduce Austin by wearing sexy lingerie. She succeeded only in making Austin uncomfortable.

Carrie briefly put aside her anger with Sami to tell her that her mother was possessed by the devil. Sami felt that her mother was faking her illness but went to visit her hoping to score points with Austin. The devil laughed and called Sami a hypocrite.

Lucas went to his "friend" Alan’s apartment with a healthy supply of alcohol and a drunken Alan announced that he had indeed raped Sami. Lucas recorded the confession and headed to the Cheatin’ Heart to mope about losing Carrie. Sami was also at the Cheatin’ Heart after being told by Austin that he loved Carrie and wanted Sami only for a friend. Men who had read Sami’s tabloid article began to torment and hit on her. Lucas rescued Sami and took her to Titan, where he played the tape. Sami gave Lucas a thank-you kiss and the two ended up making love as Lucas assured her that eh cared about her and wanted to be with her. She was not damaged goods. Austin, who had been looking for Carrie, saw them and since Sami was wearing Carrie’s shirt he believed that Carrie was making love to Lucas. He and Carrie had just finished another fight about Sami and Austin became convinced that this break up was permanent. Lucas attempted to tell Austin with whom he had had sex but then discovered that he just wasn’t that nice a person and kept his mouth shut. He tried again at a dinner party later, but Sami was also at the dinner party and reminded him that she was not yet eighteen and therefore he had committed statutory rape. Not that Sami was blackmailing Lucas, but she would press charges if he told Austin that he had made love to her.

Several days later, Sami stole drugs from the hospital while Lucas was meeting his new younger half-brother Philip, the son of Kate and Victor.

Sami then went to Austin’s apartment to talk to him about getting back together with Carrie. She promised to help him as she had before, and when he wasn’t looking she dropped the pills into his drink. She led Austin into the bedroom and he made love to her thinking she was Carrie. The next morning Austin was horrified to find Sami in his bed and told her that he would not continue the affair. She still believed that he loved her, and when she visited Marlena later that day the devil told Sami to go after Austin. Taking the devil’s advice to heart, Sami waited for Austin naked in his bed. Austin told her to get dressed because there would never be anything between them, so she left town, as usual telling only Jamie.

Austin and Carrie took off to find Sami while Jamie and Lucas waited in Salem. Lucas was at first disgusted when Jamie told him that Sami had run away because the search was allowing Carrie and Austin to bond, but Jamie’s worry eventually became contagious. Jamie admitted that Sami had been through a lot but said that that was no excuse for her behavior. Especially towards Carrie, added Lucas. And you, said an adoring Jamie. Jamie and Lucas figured out that Sami had used to drugs to get Austin into bed and Lucas thought that because of that Austin would tell Carrie everything that Sami had done, and Lucas would also be implicated. Jamie assured him that Austin promised not to tell what he knew, and Lucas admitted that despite the crazy things she had done he was genuinely worried about Sami and wanted her to come back. Jamie believed that Sami wanted to get lost and stay lost if she could not have Austin. Lucas’ life became more complicated when his mother’s plane crashed into the ocean and she was presumed dead. Kate had written Lucas a letter explaining Vivian’s role in her "death" but Vivian found the letter and burned it before Lucas could read it. Jamie offered what comfort she could, but Lucas refused to accept that his mother was gone and Victor was forced to just give his stepson time to deal with the tragedy. Vivian worried that Billie was on to her tricks, so Vivian manipulated Lucas into throwing a tantrum about Billie planning the memorial service. Lucas screamed at Billie to get her hands off his mother’s things.

Carrie and Austin tracked Sami to Los Angeles, where she was calling herself "Gene," but she had already left for Seattle when they heard about Kate’s death and went back home. Carrie agreed to marry Austin but comforted Lucas over Kate’s death. Lucas bounced back from his grief enough to brag to Jamie that he and Carrie would go on a tour of the world. Jamie told him that he would never break up Austin and Carrie, and when Carrie heard Lucas describing the great cities of the world she announced her engagement to Austin. She also insisted that Austin use Lucas as his best man and declared her hope that Sami would return in time to be maid of honor.

Vivian told Lucas that Billie had a hand in Kate’s death because she was desperate to get Countess Wilhelmina back, so when Billie attempted to comfort the still-distraught Lucas he pushed her away. He also called both Austin and Billie gold-diggers when Kate’s will was read and split Kate’s fortune equally between the four children; a year before, it would have been Lucas’ alone. Vivian sympathized with Lucas and promised to get Carrie for him if he helped her get Kate’s old job. He agreed and faked making peace with his older siblings, hugging Billie and thanking her for helping while apologizing for his earlier behavior and swearing to set a good example of sibling relationships for Philip, as Kate had wanted. He also threw Carrie and Austin’s engagement party. Everyone but Austin bought his act. As Carrie and Austin grew closer, Lucas demanded that Vivian break them up within two days or lose his support.

Months passed without anyone seeing Sami. (Not sure what Alison Sweeny was doing but she obviously had time off.) Then some girls in a slum in Seattle began to discuss that weird girl who was so angry but who could wrap a man around her little finger. Sami, who had been carefully avoiding investigators and the "missing" posters of her that had been plastered all over the West Coast by Carrie, Austin, and John, finally decided to return to Salem. She called Jamie but hung up before Jamie could tell her that Carrie and Austin would soon be married. A trucker drove Sami home, and Jamie was finally able to tell Sami about Austin and Carrie. Sami returned to Seattle and told her new friend Ashley that Stefano DiMera had sent a certain set of goblets to her parents just before their marriage fell apart. She bought an identical set of goblets, much to the annoyance of Ashley who had wanted the money to be used for more practical purposes, and sent them to Austin and Carrie. When the couple toasted, Carrie, as planned, took it as a bad omen.

Back in Salem, Lucas watched Carrie get fitted for her wedding dress and demanded that Vivian fix his problem. Vivian told him that she was too busy running Titan, so he went to tell Victor what he knew about Vivian’s role in Kate’s demise. Vivian stopped him just in time and hired a private investigator to find Sami. Ashley loyally lied to the investigator that "a lot of girls come through here" and she had no recollection of Sami. Sami herself realized she was being followed and the detective was unable to grab her, although he did report to Vivian and Lucas that Sami was alive and well in Seattle. This was not good enough for Lucas, but Vivian informed him that she was going to put Carrie and Austin on the cover of Bella so "a certain runaway in Seattle" would see it and know that she was running out of time if she wanted to take Austin from her sister. Vivian also sent extra copies of Bella to Seattle. Vivian’s ploy worked like a charm, and Sami stole a car to get back to Salem as quickly as possible. However, Sami seldom gets into a car that she doesn’t crash, and this was no exception.

Sami was taken to a hospital where she would not give her name; nonetheless, Vivian’s detective found her and called Lucas with an update. Lucas gloated to Jamie that there would be no wedding. Carrie watched from afar and later commiserated with Jamie, whom she knew wanted Lucas for herself. Meanwhile, Lucas demanded that Vivian fly to Seattle herself and bring Sami back. However, Mr. Panetta, the owner of the car Sami stole, wanted to press charges and Sami was to go to jail as soon as she was released from the hospital. She and Ashley planned an escape, but Sami was given a tranquilizer and could not stay awake to complete the plan. Sami was also informed that she was pregnant. She was still unconscious when Vivian and Ivan arrived. A lawyer Vivian quickly hired coached Sami to play innocent and apologetic, but Mr. Panetta and the police did not believe her.

In Salem, Marlena died from a devil-related illness and Lucas gloated when Carrie postponed her wedding. He also threatened Vivian with dire consequences if she did not bring Sami home.

On one of many escape attempts, Sami was caught by the policeman guarding her door, and it was decided that she must be well enough to go to jail. Vivian, who had been looking for a way to blackmail Mr. Panetta into dropping charges, finally had Ivan pose as Sami’s mother and ask for mercy. Mr. Panetta agreed to drop the charges, but Sami had already been booked, and the police station was full of "missing" posters that explained exactly who this "juvenile delinquent" was. Vivian called Lucas with an update, and a furious Lucas told her that he was flying to Seattle himself and if Sami was not out of jail, Victor would know all. Desperate, Vivian paid Sami’s bail and checked her into a luxury hotel. She then gave Sami money for a makeover and got Sami’s ankle tag removed so she could leave Seattle. Sami wondered why Vivian was helping her but accepted the help anyway, promising in return not to tell anyone that Vivian had been her savior. Sami said good-bye to Ashley at a dinner arranged by Vivian so Sami could not pull any more tricks before her flight left the next morning. Vivian also fielded phone calls from a nervous Lucas, who was suffering through Austin’s bachelor party. Sami snuck away from Vivian and Ashley and changed her flight reservations so she could leave that night.

Sami arrived in Salem but did not tell Lucas, Vivian, or anyone but (you guessed it) Jamie that she was home. She made Jamie promise to stay quiet and snuck into Carrie’s room, where she considered attacking the wedding dress with scissors but then decided she had a better idea. Lucas continued to tell Vivian that if Sami did not stop the wedding, Victor would be hearing some interesting information from his favorite stepson.

The wedding began without Sami. Then Mickey Horton spotted her and stopped the wedding so Marlena, who had returned to life when John battled the devil one last time, and Carrie could hug their daughter/sister. Carrie pulled Sami into the dressing room and made her impromptu maid of honor. Sami was nervous when Carrie acted thrilled to see her but disgusted when she learned that Carrie was marrying Austin knowing he had slept with someone else and that she didn’t know or care who. Carrie made it to the altar, and then Sami fainted, to the surprise of everyone but Jamie, who knew her friend was faking. Sami regained consciousness and spoke about how worried she was about her baby-- she was five months pregnant. She had just found out and wanted the comfort of her mother and sister-- how was she supposed to know that it was Carrie’s wedding day? Carrie and Marlena believed her and did some quick math and realized that the father was from Salem. They promised to make him take responsibility and Sami tearfully told Carrie that she had never wanted to tell her, but the father was Austin.

Outside, Vivian figured out Sami’s plan and told a delighted Lucas. Then Carrie stormed out of the bridal room and up the aisle to slap Austin and call off the wedding. Lucas yelled at Jamie for knowing what Sami was up to and not telling him, and Sami assured Jamie that soon she and Austin would live happily ever after. For his part, Austin apologized and denied everything, so Sami faked cramps to get Austin to the hospital with her. Lucas smoothly picked up his side of the plan by telling Carrie that Austin shouldn’t have led on the just-raped Sami when he knew she had had a crush on him for years. Carrie allowed a secretly gloating Lucas to comfort her. They then went to Austin’s apartment to move her things, and he told her she should move into the Kiriakis Mansion where she would almost never see Austin. Meanwhile, Sami and Austin looked at a sonogram of their baby and he promised to help her. She was disappointed that he did not marry her on the spot.

The next day, Sami and Lucas spent some quality time together and Lucas asked Sami if she was sure the baby was Austin’s. Yes, I’m sure, said Sami, although she had done no tests to prove it. Lucas did not force the issue and the two went to watch as Carrie returned Austin’s ring. Lucas then took Carrie out to lunch while Sami dealt with her grandmother’s suspicions that she had indeed known that the day of her return was Carrie’s wedding day. Austin continued to assure Sami that he would take care of her but would only and always love Carrie, who attempted to have a romantic dinner with Lucas that was interrupted by Victor’s declaration that Kate wanted Carrie with Austin. Carrie told Victor that she was through with Austin but then told Lucas that she was jealous of Sami as she had wanted to have Austin’s children.

The next day, Sami and Lucas met to compare notes and Sami shared her concerns that Nurse Lynn Burke remembered telling Sami about the drugs she used on Austin. Lucas told Sami that if she kept Austin from Lynn, he could keep Carrie from Lynn. While keeping Austin from Lynn, Sami subjected herself to a line of questions about the night she and Austin made love. She changed her story enough that even Austin suspected she was lying and she was forced to start crying to distract him. She then vowed to make up a story and stick to it. Lucas told Austin to go away and stop upsetting Carrie while returning the wedding rings to him and managed to overhear Lynn discussing how hanging was too good for the slut that seduced Austin. Lynn was trying to get close to Carrie to score points with Carrie’s pal Jonah, who only had eyes for Wendy Reardon. Lucas arranged for Lynn to get a job in another city while Sami dodged questions from her sister, mother, and grandmother by reminding them all that a possessed Marlena TOLD her to go after Austin, and besides, both Marlena and Caroline cheated on their husbands and bore illegitimate children. Sami played the victim, reciting her reasons for having trouble trusting men, and ending with "and that’s how I ended up alone and pregnant on the streets of Seattle." Sami also went shopping for maternity clothes with Jamie and made a point of drinking milk "nothing but healthy foods for me and Baby."

That night, Sami and Lucas met at the Cheatin’ Heart to discuss Lynn. Lucas offered Lynn a job at Titan that would transfer her to Chicago, and after hitting on an unresponsive Jonah, Lynn accepted. Sami then saw Austin and cried on his shoulder about how she had ruined her life and everyone blamed her for ruining Carrie’s. She grew more upset when Jamie told her that Austin had been asking around, trying to find out what had happened the night he slept with Sami. Jamie warned Sami that she could not keep her secret forever, and Sami ran to a pay phone to make an appointment at an abortion clinic. Jamie overheard the call, and Sami told Jamie that it was just a scheme but she would go through with it if Jamie did not call Austin and tell him what she was planning. Jamie reluctantly called Austin, whose car broke down before he was able to make it to the clinic. Sami reacted strongly to a mild sedative and was unable to stop the abortion herself. Carrie snooped through Sami’s things and realized she was at a family planning clinic, and got Lucas to take her to Sami. Austin arrived as well, and when Sami woke up, crying "My baby? Is my baby okay?" all were relieved to hear that Sami was anemic and the operation had not been performed. Austin told Sami he would do everything in his power to support and protect her, and then drove her home as a heartbroken Carrie watched.

Marlena kept telling Sami to let Austin be with the woman he really loved and Sami kept blowing her mother off.

Sami continued to pull Austin closer to her by asking him to take her shopping for more maternity clothes, letting him feel the baby in case it kicked, and attempting to get him to take her to a magic show. Austin and Carrie were handcuffed together at the show while Sami and Lucas watched. Sami was frantic, Lucas amused and calming Sami down. Sami decided that there were too many close calls with Austin and Carrie wanting to get back together and told Vivian that if she did not give her a job at Titan she would tell everyone what she did to get Sami out of Seattle. Vivian acquiesced (after Sami listed her contacts-- Caroline, Abe, Billie, John) and gushed to Ivan "Sami is ever so much more advanced than I was at that age."

Sami went to the gym where Austin was with Carrie and faked stomach pains so Austin would help her exercise. But Carrie and Austin found more alone time at Titan the next day, so Lucas pretended to give Sami a tour of the building and then took test shots of Sami because pregnant women should feel as beautiful as models. Lucas even put Austin the pictures, and when Austin felt the baby kick Carrie was crushed at his joy. Then Lucas convinced Austin to take Sami home.

Sami and Lucas continued to work on their own siblings as well. Sami told Carrie that she worried that Austin would not support her if he thought he had a chance with her sister and Lucas told Austin that he had to set Carrie free. Austin asked Lucas to make sure that Carrie did not get involved with the wrong kind of man, and when Austin thought Lucas was talking about this to Carrie, Lucas actually said that Carrie should date someone else to make Austin focus on Sami. He eventually suggested that if Carrie didn’t want a new man in her life, he should pretend to be that man. Austin, though, wanted to take Carrie to the Penthouse Grill and was silly enough to tell Lucas of his plans. Lucas naturally told Sami, who told Carrie that she wanted to cook dinner for Austin to thank him for taking care of her. When Carrie told Sami where Austin would be that night, Sami moaned that she would never do something so romantic since she’d gotten pregnant at seventeen. Carrie responded by telling Austin to take Sami, not her, and by asking Lucas to take her to dinner to convince Austin that she was over him. Sami thanked Austin profusely, comparing herself to Cinderella, as Lucas walked in. Austin was upset, but Carrie told him she had moved on.

Austin’s life spiraled further out of control when his main support, his sister Billie, left Salem to allow her fiancŽ Bo to go back to his resurrected wife Hope. Sami comforted Austin and talked about how she missed her father. Austin was frustrated, though, and went hunting for Lucas, telling his brother that he was supposed to keep an eye on Carrie, not date her. Austin and Carrie nearly reunited when they read good-bye notes from Billie telling them they were destined to be together, but as always Sami and Lucas were spying at the opportune moment and Lucas told Carrie not to answer. Remembering her reasons for pretending to date Lucas, Carrie replied that she no longer wanted Austin.

The strain took a toll on Carrie, and when Lucas took her to the hospital for a checkup, they ran into Austin and Sami, there for an ultrasound. Austin did not want to know the sex of the baby, so Sami agreed to be surprised, although she did say that if it was a boy she wanted to call it Austin Junior. Austin felt the baby move inside Sami and talked about Lamaze classes with her.

At Titan, Vivian wanted Lucas to help her win Victor and he said no, so in retaliation Vivian sent both Carrie and Austin to the Green Mountain Lodge on business. Lucas believed Carrie was going to Miami and he planned to follow her. Sami began to get stomach cramps, so Lucas cancelled his reservations, but Sami told Lucas she would feel better only if she knew he was with Carrie. Lucas reluctantly left Sami alone with her doctor and Vivian, who, angered that Sami would not get Lucas to help her, swore to get even with the two.

Sami soon learned that Austin and Carrie were alone together at the Lodge. She decided to follow them, but Jamie threatened to tell Marlena. Sami agreed not to go to appease Jamie, but as soon as Jamie left to do homework, Sami went to Lucas’ office to steal his car keys. When Lucas returned from a Carrie-less Miami, he and Jamie realized that Sami had taken his precious BMW and probably headed for the Lodge. A concerned Lucas knew about the bad weather that was heading for the mountains and called Sami on his car phone to warn her. She lost control of the car as they spoke, and Lucas called Austin and Carrie at the Lodge just before they fell into bed. All three later found Lucas’ totaled car, with an unconscious Sami still inside. An ambulance was called for Sami, and Austin and Lucas fought on the way to the hospital because Lucas lamented the state of his car. He later said that he was only upset because Sami’s injuries might be as grave as those suffered by the car. At the hospital, the baby’s heartbeat slowed and a guilt-wracked Carrie dumped Austin as Lucas gloated. The baby then recovered.

Vivian came to the hospital and forged a you-shut-up-and-so-will-I deal with Sami and Lucas. When Sami was ready to leave the hospital, Austin took her home to stay with him. Austin quickly ran over to visit Carrie, and Sami interrupted them before anything could happen, as always. Austin asked Sami to help him get Carrie back, and because Lucas had told Sami of Carrie’s vow never to take Austin back, Sami agreed. But when Austin went out to dinner, Sami loosened Carrie’s light bulbs so she would use candles and put Carrie and Austin’s romantic CD in the player. She then called Lucas and told him to come romance Carrie, but to leave the door open so Austin would see. When Austin did see, Sami explained that her grandfather had the chicken pox and since the rest of her family was in Aremid, she wanted to stay with Austin until the baby came. Austin said again that he would never have a relationship with Sami, so she said she would go to another friend.

As usual, she lied, and she really went to the house that had stood empty since Roman and Marlena’s divorce. She cried about the state of her life and then felt a stomach pain. She was frightened when her water broke, especially since the house had no electricity and no working phone line, but she assured herself that first babies take a long time to be born. Wrong. She went to her old bedroom and fell unconscious. Luckily, Carrie and Austin had been alerted that Sami was nowhere to be found and Carrie had thought to check her old house. Candles were burning in the windows, so they went inside and took Sami to the hospital. Sami apologized to Austin through the pain, and hoped that God would not punish her baby for her sins.

The baby’s heart rate dropped at the hospital, so Sami underwent a C-section as Austin stayed by her side. Sami decides to name the baby boy William, in honor of Austin’s sister Billie. Outside, Lucas eavesdropped and collected information, and cringed when Marlena told Carrie that she should go back to Austin. Austin and Carrie were again separated when the doctors told him that Will was ill with a bacterial infection caused by the delay in getting Sami to the hospital. Lucas reiterated to Austin that Sami needed him, and snuck into to visit Sami and tell her about what Marlena and Carrie were saying about Austin.

Austin spent Sami’s first night in the hospital with her, but Carrie and Austin spent the end of Sami’s hospital stay at Titan while Lucas and Sami plotted. Lucas insisted that Sami breast-feed her son, although she did not want to because she was in enough pain as it was. "Sami, I know my brother. He’s a sentimental guy . . ." and sure enough, Austin was touched when he saw Sami breast-feeding his son. Lucas also told Sami of Austin’s guilt over not letting her stay with him earlier, and when Carrie came to visit Austin that night, she was greeted by Sami, who stated "Will and I are living here now." Carrie and Austin still saw each other at work, and when Sami called Austin home on his first day back, Carrie and Lucas came along. Lucas pulled Sami aside and told her that she was not trying hard enough.

Sami soon convinced Austin to work from home, but Carrie worked from home as well. Sami called Lucas and told him that it was his job to get Carrie back to Titan. Lucas called Carrie, and she and Austin ended up nearly kissing as she came out of her shower. Only Will’s crying stopped the kiss. Lucas continued to work on Carrie and got her to the Titan Christmas Party while Sami and Austin were at the Pub party. However, Carrie dragged Lucas to the Pub and kissed Austin under the mistletoe, to the delight of everyone but the fuming Sami and Lucas. Sami then attempted to have a private Christmas morning with Austin and Will, but Carrie and Lucas came by, and after Sami kicked them out she sent Austin and Will for a walk so she could brag to Jamie about how her cooking would make Austin forget about Carrie. In the park, Austin and Will met Carrie, and Austin sketched Carrie while she held her nephew. Sami was pleased to see the sketches until she realized that they were not of her but of Carrie. Jamie told Sami and Lucas that this was only further proof that Austin and Carrie were meant to be together, but Sami ignored her and snidely told Lucas "he drew her like some kind of Madonna . . . we have to keep them apart."

Austin and Carrie decided that if they could not have Christmas together, they would have New Year’s, and they planned a building-wide party. A frantic Sami called Lucas, but he had an attack of decency and told her that he wanted Carrie to be happy and she was happy with Austin. Sami then fainted, and Austin canceled the party to stay with her. Lucas also expressed concern for Sami when he realized that for once she wasn’t faking. Sami admitted to Lucas that she was in real pain a lot of the time from the C-section. Despite the cancelled party, Carrie and Austin planned to meet on the roof at midnight. If one of them did not show up, that meant the relationship was over. Sami overheard the plans and called Lucas, who insisted that he didn’t care, but Sami told him Carrie would be alone for New Year’s if he didn’t come over. She then set the clocks in Austin’s apartment back fifteen minutes and took her time ironing Austin’s clothes so Austin and Carrie missed each other on the roof. Lucas wisely listened to Sami and Sami grinned as she watched Austin overhear Carrie tell Lucas that she was through with her ex-fiance. Lucas went back into scheming mode and rubbed Austin’s face in the fact that Carrie would spend the new year with him.

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I would like to personally think Medea for allowing me to use the final product of all of her hard work compiling Sami's history. Isn't she wonderful?