If I went back
in Genoa City history I'm sure I'd find that at one time or another every
major player has told the other how "amazing" they are. There are amazing
men, amazing women and amazing kids. Everything in this crazy town is
amazing.
There are
those who have been stabbed in the back repeatedly yet eventually get
around to telling their assailants how amazing they are. I've written
previously about the many times Ashley stabbed her brother in the back and
vice-versa but you'd never know it from the way Jack Abbott and his sister
are carrying on. Now they're the loving siblings who share the same
mother, dead as she may be, and the same father, despite that old man John
'Yawn' Abbott isn't Ashley's biological father and both have kept this
secret from Yawn since day one. Together, these amazing people want
nothing more than to take Nikki Newman and Phyllis Summers' company, a
company the two, ahem, ladies founded, away from them.
This from two scumbags who at one time wanted to do right by Nikki. This
from Jack who was once married to Nikki, who shared a baby with her,
albeit a dead one and who just a few days ago stabbed the man - who had it
not been for Ashley might very well be in a nut house right now - in the
back. This from Jack who while married to Phyllis called her an "amazing"
women a number of times and vice-versa.
Funny, as I write this again I can't help but think how it came to be that
Yawn doesn't know Ashley isn't his baby when so many others do. Funny too,
that with Nick Newman telling Phyllis he'll be there for her even if her
baby isn't his, she considers him to be an "amazing", ahem, man. Just how
I wonder will Nick be there for Phyllis when his wife finds out there's a
bastard Newman kid sprung forth from Phyllis' loins. Will Sharon Newman
say, "Oh, Phyllis called. She needs you to be there for her. Run along,
Nick, I'll do the dishes while you're gone. When you get back we'll hit
the sheets and have sex because you are such an amazing man you won't mind
putting the pork to me while you think of your other family."
Imagine in a
few years how amazing it will be when Noah Newman learns he has a
half-brother who has the same mother as his role model Daniel Romalotti.
Yes, friends, these are certainly some amazing, always there for those
they've knocked up or stabbed in the back, people.
Getting back to Ashley, I recall at least two times she's threatened Jack.
Not that he doesn't deserve it, Ashley was putting her college training to
work as a chemist turning skunk oil into Jabot cosmetics in 1982. She
didn't want any special favors from co-workers so she went by the name
Susan Ashley. Brian Forbes, working with Susan and hot to trot, warned her
to stay away from Jabot's president, Jack. Later, Brian was shocked to
learn from Jack that Susan was really Jack's sister and feared Ashley was
spying on him for Jack. Ashley told Jack if he wanted to stay president of
Jabot he better damn well butt out of her personal life or she'd make him
pay. Prior to that, Ashley warned that if Jack did anything to hurt Patty
Williams, she'd make him pay for that too.
In 1985 when Brent Davis told Ashley he was her pa, Ashley was so freaked
she staggered into a stormy night, into a park where she got mugged and
onto a highway where some trucker dudes named Hank and Vince picked her
up. As fate would have it, the truck broke down, the truckers pulled into
a motel to make repairs and rented two rooms one for them and one for
Ashley. The next morning the truckers took off leaving Ashley behind to be
taken by a local hooker to the next town where a sympathetic diner owner
named Tom gave her a job and a place to stay.
What Tom didn't know was that the name Ashley had given him (Annie) wasn't
her real name. While Annie sold apple pies at the diner, Vince, thought to
have been miles away, had a great need for some sex so he worked his way
back and found the diner. Vince got Annie into a backroom where he was
about to rape her when who should blow in to save the day?
Victor Newman!
Mind you, it couldn't have been that simple. When he heard screeching
tires in the parking lot, Vince tied Annie/Ashley up, returned to the
diner pretending to be a chef and told Victor he'd seen the woman Victor
was looking for. Vince said two men had taken her to Iowa. Victor bought
the story and left. But as he drove along Victor got a vibe. Something
about the 'A' in the chalkboard sign in the diner plugging Annie's pies
made him think Annie was really Ashley! Victor whipped back to the diner
and sure enough found Vince about to pork Ashley and saved her!
Victor took Ashley to the Newman Ponderosa where he alerted the Abbotts
that except for not knowing who she was, Ashley was safe and needed to
stay with him until further notice.
By 1986
Victor's mind was stuck on Ashley. He saw her as a "strong willed"
"corporate executive" who he could, and did, fall in love with despite
that he was married at the time. Nikki Newman in turn turned to Jack for
loving and later asked Victor for a divorce.
Victor was elated. He ran straight to Ashley and asked that she marry him
as did Nikki who asked Jack if he'd like to get married too. Jack said no.
Why buy the cow when the milk was free? The next day, or so it seems,
Nikki's sister learned that Nikki had a fatal disease. Suddenly, Victor
was remorseful. He wanted Nikki back and made her sister promise to keep
her mouth shut. Under no circumstance was Dr. Casey Reed to tell Nikki she
could be dying.
Again, as fate would have it, while Ashley was in Paris she came down
pregnant. She raced home to tell Victor only by then someone had flapped
their gums. Word was out that Nikki was near death. Thus, thinking Nikki
needed Victor more than she did, Ashley didn't tell Victor of her
pregnancy.
Now, this is where it gets into the "amazing" and "always be there" crap.
Victor's brother, Matt Newman, told both Nikki and Ashley that he'd always
be there for both of them! He even offered to be the father to Ashley's
baby. Unfortunately, before it was outlawed, Ashley had decided to have an
abortion.
Besides the amazing and always be there crap, we see here too why Nikki is
an old cow and Ashley is a baby-killing bitch. Aborting her baby would not
be the last time she'd kill an unborn child or be pregnant with Victor's
kid. When Victor found out what Ashley did he was pissed. Ashley was at a
remote cabin at the time. After their argument, she again ran out into a
storm with the sounds of a baby crying in her head. Amazingly, Ashley was
later found wandering the streets of New York City where she was committed
to a mental hospital.
Keep in mind that all this time Yawn Abbott had no idea what was
happening.
