In 1993 Victor Newman, like he's done so many times
since, just up and left Genoa City. Driving himself,
he apparently stopped to pee on a deserted road in
Kansas and a man popped out of the tumbleweeds,
robbed him at knifepoint, and then drove off in his
Rolls. The car was later found burned to a crisp and
all police found was Victor's ID bracelet and a
piece of his driver's license.
For the longest time Victor's family thought the
great man was dead. But as fate would have it Victor
was seen later on foot approaching a farmhouse and
ever so coincidentally witnessed a man assaulting
the farm's owner, Hopeless Adams. After browbeating
what turned out to be a disgruntled hired hand,
Victor agreed to stay with Hopeless until her nerves
had settled and helped around the farm slopping pigs
and gathering eggs.
Slightly concerned that is family might be worried,
Victor called his man Friday and learned from Col.
Douglas Austin that everyone was doing just fine
without him. His former wife, Nikki Newman had
arranged to have Cole Howard's book - coincidentally
titled Hope in a Bottle, but not about Hopeless
-
published and celebrated by getting it on with him
although she was pregnant at the time with Jack
Abbott's baby. It didn't really matter as Jack was
about to dump Nikki because she had indicated a
desire to re-marry Victor. Still, Nikki was hot for
Cole and competing for the young stud with her own
daughter, Victoria.
Knowing what a friggin' mess he'd left behind,
Victor decided Kansas was the place to start life
anew. He had, after all, been faced with his own
mortality. Learning Hopeless had been blind since
birth and that she had grown up in an orphanage like
he had was all it took for these two to stick like
clue. Besides being an orphan, Victor liked that
Hopeless was so spiritual. It did, said Victor, make
her "unlike" any woman he'd ever known before.
Smitten with Victor, Hopeless called off her
engagement to longtime neighbor and friend Cliff
Wilson saying that Victor
had an effect on her "unlike" any man she'd ever
known.
Then one day Victor heard on the radio that Jack had
taken over the Newman Empire. Determined to get back
what was his, Victor packed up Hopeless and away
they went to Genoa City leaving poor Cliff to gather
the eggs and slop the pigs. On the plane ,Hopeless
repeatedly sputtered how she'd never flown before and
how it was like being in a different world.
On the ground, Victor sent out anonymous invitations
to a "Gathering of Great Importance" to be held at
the ColonRoom's private dining room. When the guests
had assembled Victor popped out. There was much
shock and awe followed by Victor trying to prevent Jack, and his former squeeze Ashley Abbott,
from bonding with Hopeless.
By the time 1994 rolled around Victoria and Cole
were married. Returning home from their honeymoon
the happy couple were shocked to learn that,
according to Victor, they were brother and sister.
The marriage was annulled, Victoria patched things
up with Nikki and Nikki gave up the idea of making
Cole her own. It was learned later that the two were
not related and so Cole and Victoria remarried.
Still, because Victor hadn't told her what he'd
known all along about Cole, Victoria refused to
invite Victor to the wedding.
Victor went on to fall in love with Hopeless but she
wasn't so sure he could commit to a blind woman.
When Victor proposed, Nikki swooped in to tell
Hopeless she would never be able to satisfy a man
like Victor and later crashed the wedding reception.
Hopeless also found out that Victor didn't take well
to babies but that didn't stop her from getting
pregnant. When Victor found out his skin crawled.
What if the baby came out blind?
As it so happened, Hopeless got into an accident on
her way to have an abortion. Unharmed, Hopeless
thought it was a sign from God that she should have
the baby and so she did. And lo, but what Victor and
Hopeless didn't start having marital problems. They
did, it was said over and over, come from two
different worlds. And in 1995 a healthy Victor Adam
Newman Jr. was born.
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