Episode 969
 
It Should be a Celebration
Written by: Dallas Walsh | Originally Released: August 25, 2023

Episode Theme song: "Hollow" Maisie Peters

Previously on One Day at a Time
- Clayton told Nicholas that he would leave Andy, and Madeline, broke unless Nicholas left Andy for him. Robin, meanwhile, told Andy at the altar that there was no sign of Nicholas as their wedding began
- Abby pleaded with Dominick to understand her actions surrounding not wanting him to remember that Eva is alive but he claimed that she might have just lost him and their marriage
- Will overheard Bryce and Frederick talking about Eva being alive. Bryce, meanwhile, told Frederick that he would stop medicating Felicia unless he told him where Victoria was. Victoria and Eva stole some of Frederick's files before trying to escape the hospital
- Jacob kissed Isabelle after Natasha told him not to waste any time with her dying with. Cassie, meanwhile, wondered what was really going on after Sophie admitted that she saw Natasha and Shane in bed together

The Tower's; Floor One; Andy & Nicholas' Condo

Andy is still wearing his tuxedo but the bowtie is on the coffee table in the condo that he shares with Nicholas. Kim and Madeline are standing close to him, trying to support him as he remains gutted that Nicholas didn't show up to their wedding a short time ago. Andy feels like a complete and utter fool for inviting so many guests to their special day, only for Nicholas not to make an appearance. He has no idea what happened but he knows that his relationship with Nicholas will, now, never be the same.

"You guys don't have to hang around here," Andy finally looks over at his sister and former sister in law. "I'm fine, I just…I need some rest, I think."

"Are you sure?" Kim asks him as she moves up to Andy and pulls him into a hug. "If you need us, we are here for you."

"Kim is right, you don't have to be alone right now," Madeline agrees with Kim.

"Nah, I'm okay," Andy admits to them. "It hurts like hell but I'm going to have to get some rest so when I see Nicholas I can get some answers. I mean, if he changed his mind about the wedding, the least he could have done is spoken to me about it."

"We don't know the details yet, just remember that," Madeline tells him. "There might be a logical explanation to this entire thing."

"I'll keep you guys posted," Andy forces a smile on his face. "Thanks for being here. I'll let you know if I need anything."

He hugs Madeline goodbye before she and Kim depart the apartment. Once the door is closed, Andy lets out a loud sigh of relief. He feels his eyes swell with water at the sight of all the guests in the church learning that the wedding was cancelled because Nicholas didn't arrive.

"What a fool I looked like," he whispers to himself as he moves into the kitchen and opens a cupboard door. His eyes freeze on a bottle of vodka that Nicholas keeps in the house for special occasions. Andy moves his hand towards the bottle and caresses it slowly. He shuts his eyes and imagines what the vodka must taste like. He opens his eyes and is about to pull the bottle out of the drawer when he hears a faint knock on the door. He closes the cupboard door and moves back to the entrance way of the condo.

He opens the door and freezes when he sees Nicholas and Clayton standing together. "What the hell is this?" Andy asks them as they move into the condo. "You missed the wedding? Because you were with Clayton? What is going on here?"

"I'm sorry," Nicholas turns back to him and he can, already, feel his heartbreak inside his chest with the news that he has to tell Andy. "But I can explain."

"We can explain," Clayton tells Andy with a grin on his face. "You see, Nicholas realized that we belong together. And earlier today, Nicholas and I, we got married," Clayton reveals as Andy gasps back to him.

"You did what?" Andy asks as he turns to Nicholas looking for explanation. "You married Clayton on our wedding day?"

The Pink Flamingo at the River Rock Casino

"So, that's the entire story," Cassie tells Max as they sit across from one another at a table in the restaurant at the casino. Cassie just finished telling her son about her suspicions that something is going on with Natasha that she hasn't figured out yet. A few weeks ago, Shane announced that Natasha was dying from a terminal illness; in turn, Natasha told Jacob that her dying wish is for him to be with Isabelle, which has made Cassie furious. Then, Cassie ran into Sophie, who revealed to her that she witnessed her mother in bed with Shane. Cassie has no idea why Shane would come on to her and then a few weeks later be in bed with Natasha, who is supposedly dying. "There's something here that isn't adding up, I just don't know what it is."

"So, Sophie told you that she saw Natasha and Shane in bed together?" Max asks as Cassie nods back to him before she takes a sip of her martini. "I guess that is why she looked preoccupied the night that Natasha told her she was going to get a position at Roboto; she must have been thinking about her mother and Shane?"

"I believe so," Cassie tells him. "She was thinking about it when I saw her as well. But if Natasha is dying, why is she in bed with Shane? And why would any man want to make love to a woman who is dying? Doesn't that gross you out?"

Max chuckles back to her. "I mean, yes, but I can also see that you to get off while you still can," he admits to her. "I don't know, this is all very weird. What are you going to do?"

Cassie sighs back to her son. "I wish I knew," she tells him. "But I have to figure this; I won't let Natasha's dying wish for Jacob to be with Isabelle ruin my future with Jacob and Carter. I refuse to let that happen."

The Calimo Mansion

Natasha sits up in her large bed in the Calimo mansion with a smile on her face as she and Shane just finished making love again. She and Shane have been growing closer while they have been trying to think of a way to ensure Jacob stays away from Cassie; their first idea was for Shane to seduce Cassie, but she pushed him away. That's when Natasha came up with the idea to pretend that she is dying and she would use Jacob's pending mourning to pull him away from Cassie by asking him to be with Isabelle before she dies. She knows that Jacob is close to doing just that, which means that their plan would have worked. Then, she will be able to recover and Cassie will be left out in the cold. The part that she wasn't expecting, however, was her reunion with Shane, but it is a perk.

"Mom, hey, can I come in?" Sophie asks her mother as she slowly moves into the bedroom. She can see that her mother is seemingly in a good mood, but she still hopes that she's not interrupting.

"Of course my beautiful girl," Natasha replies to her. "You know that I always love seeing you."

Sophie smiles as she moves closer to the bed and she sits on the edge. "How are you feeling today?"

Natasha shrugs back to her. "As well as to be expected," she tells her. "I am just grateful that I woke up today. It looks like a beautiful day outside. And you? How are you? How are you liking the position at Roboto?"

Sophie moves a piece of hair behind her ear. "The position is good," she replies to her. "Thank you, again, for the opportunity. I will do everything in my power to make you proud."

"You already have," Natasha grabs her daughter's hand. "So, if you're so excited, why do you look so blue? What's going on with you?"

"That's what I need to know," Sophie looks back at her quickly. "What is going on?"

"What do you mean?" Natasha asks her quickly. "Why do you think something is going on?"

"Because," Sophie bites her lower lip. "I…I saw Mom. I saw you and Shane together."

"Shane is my doctor, of course we were together."

"No," Sophie shakes head back to her mother. "I saw you two having sex, in this very bed. So, I'll ask you again, what the hell is going on here, Mom?"

Roboto

"So, you're game with all of this?" Jacob asks Isabelle as they continue to stand in the main office of Roboto looking into each other's eyes. Isabelle just finished telling him that she would jump at the chance to be with him; ever since she first met Jacob, she has been attracted to him, so to hear that it is Natasha's dying wish for them to be together, is music to her ears.

"I am," Isabelle nods back to him. "I told you Jacob, I have had feelings for you since I first met you. I am guessing that your Mom picked up on our chemistry and that is why she wanted us to be together."

"She probably noticed that I can't take my eyes off you either," Jacob smiles back to her. "This is crazy, isn't it? We are being thrown together by this…"

"Act of fate," Isabelle finishes his sentence. "It is like something out of a movie, but sometimes that is how the greatest love story's begin."

"Then, let's do this," Jacob looks into her eyes. "Let's get married, Isabelle? What do you say? Be my wife?"

Isabelle smiles back to him before she kisses him passionately on the lips. "I would love nothing more," she whispers back to him before they kiss again.

The Calimo Cabin

The front door of the cabin opens and Eva and Victoria hustle inside, closing and locking the door behind them. The cabin is pretty close to Raven's Meadow, so after the mother and daughter were able to leave the secret office that they found, they came to the cabin as per Victoria's suggestion.

"I am so glad that we are here," Eva says as she sets some of the bags that she is carrying down on the sofa. "I've been so happy to see anything other than that damn hospital."

Victoria looks around the cabin is immediately taken back to when she was here last time; Bryce had just saved her from Frederick attempting to perform a lobotomy on her at Raven's Meadow. She, at the time, was struggling to understand how and why she thought her multiple personalities had come back; it was only when Bryce admitted that Vinny was blackmailing him into drugging her into believing she had split again that she understood. Of course, she forgave him because she had fallen in love with him. Still, the memories of Vinny showing up with his gun and shooting Bryce, and himself, in the process are haunting her.

"Are you okay?" Eva asks her daughter, as she notes that Victoria appears to have gone pale. "You don't look so good."

"It's just…this place brings up a lot of bad memories for me," Victoria admits to her. "But, this is the perfect place for us to us to hide out until we figure out our next moves."

"You don't think Frederick will think to look here?"

"I don't know, Mom, but it is worth a shot. We just need a few days until things calm down and he stops looking for us. Hopefully, by then, we can review these files and find some information that he doesn't want to get out and we can use that against him."

Eva comes up to Victoria and hugs her. "You're so brave, thank you for helping me get out of there."

"I would do anything for you," Victoria smiles back to her. "You have to know that. Now, let's get settled and then we can start going through these files."

Raven's Meadow

Will paces back and forth in the lunch room as his mind races about with the fact that he overheard Bryce and Frederick talking about Eva being alive. For months, he has mourned Eva and now, he is floored to learn that she is alive and well. The fact that he has been having dreams about Eva now makes sense; she was trying to tell him that she was alive and well.

"I can't believe this," he whispers to himself as he runs his hands through his hair. "Eva is alive! She's really alive. After all these months, I can be with her again; I can finally be back with Eva!"

He looks around the room and quickly realizes that he has to find Eva before Frederick and Bryce do. "I don't know what they were talking about, but I have to find Eva before they do. I have to figure out where she is."

He suddenly recalls how he heard noises that seemingly were coming from the walls of the hospital. "My God, was that Eva? Did Frederick place her in the hospital and she was able to escape? I have to find out where you are before it's too late.

***

Meanwhile in Frederick's office, Bryce appears in the doorway and clears his throat to get the chief of staff's attention. Frederick looks over and sighs at the sight of Bryce as he knows that Bryce has been demanding that he reveal where Victoria is or he will stop giving Felicia the medication that she needs.

"I was expecting to see you today," Frederick announces to him. "You've made it pretty clear what you want."

"Then you will tell me where my wife is?" Bryce asks him as he moves into the office. "What did you do with Victoria, Frederick?"

Frederick sighs back to him and moves to the bar, where he pours a scotch. He takes a sip of it. "Alright, I'll tell you," he says to Bryce. "The truth is, Victoria did show up at the mansion the day that Dominick stopped my wedding to Felicia. She had discovered her mother, Eva, was alive and well."

"She figured it out?" Bryce asks in surprise. "I knew that she was starting to get suspicious but I didn't know that she had put all the pieces together."

"She had because she saw Eva in the flesh," Frederick replies to him quickly. "She and Eva were together. And, I knew that everything would unravel if Victoria left here with Eva."

"So what did you do to my wife?" Bryce asks him, worried about Victoria's safety. "Did you hurt her?"

"I gassed them," Frederick reveals to him as Bryce feels his blood boil. "I knew I had to get them out of the mansion and somewhere secure; so I put them in a padded cell, here in the hospital."

"You did what?"

"Relax, they were both fine. Neither one were hurt the last time I saw them."

"What do you mean the last time you saw them? Where are they? Take me to my wife, now!" Bryce demands as he grits his teeth together.

"I wish I could," Frederick reveals to him. "The truth is, they escaped the padded cell and I have no idea where they are now. The venting system in this hospital is massive; they could be anywhere."

"I will say this to you again, Frederick," Bryce glares back at him. "If anything happens to my wife, you will live to regret the day you met me."

Dominick's Townhouse

"Dominick, please, please, listen to me," a desperate Abby pleads with her husband, who just told her that she may have lost him because of her deciding to drug him to ensure that wouldn't remember the events leading up to him stopping Felicia and Frederick's wedding. She knows that drugging him was wrong, but she was scared that she was going to lose her marriage because Eva is alive; it means that Dominick is still legally married to Eva, and she has been so scared to lose her marriage. "I only did this, all of this, because I didn't want to lose you! I didn't want you to remember that Eva is alive because then our marriage wouldn't exist. Don't you see? Don't you understand? I did this because I didn't want us to be over!"

Dominick chuckles back to her. "You've been so worried about losing me but you're kissing Ethan Alexander? You're spinning circles, Abby."

"No, Dominick," Abby shakes her head. "I've been so tormented by all this; Ethan was just a distraction. I am so sorry! Please, tell me that you believe me! Tell me that we can make this work! I don't want to lose you, Dominick!"

"What do you want me to say Abigail? What do you want me to do?" Dominick yells back at her. "You…you drugged me to prevent me from remembering all the while you have been making out with a much younger man!"

Abby feels her heartbreak inside her chest as more tears stroll down her cheeks. She falls to her knees and puts her hands on his legs. "Please! Please tell me you'll forgive me! Dominick, please!"

Dominick looks down at her and starts to move away. "Look at you, you're on your hands and knees begging?"

"Please Dominick, just listen to me," Abby pleads with him as she moves with him, as he tries to walk away. "I won't let you just throw us away!"

Dominick stops and looks down at his wife and, suddenly, he grabs his chest. "Abby, help…help me…"" he says in a quick breath before he falls to the ground unconscious.

"Dominick?" Abby asks him quickly moving up to him. "Dominick? Wake up! Dominick! Oh my God!"

The Tower's; Floor One; Andy and Nicholas' Condo


"Answer me, Nicholas!" Andy demands to his fiancé as they stand in the living room of his condo, stunned that Clayton just told him that he and Nicholas got married earlier in the day. "Is this true? Did you marry Clayton on our wedding day?"

"He did," Clayton replies for Nicholas. "Look at our hands, we have rings and everything. Oh, I'm so happy. We are together, forever this time."

"I don't understand any of this," Andy shakes his head back to Nicholas. "How could you do this? And I want to hear from Nicholas, so shut up Clayton."

"I see someone is testy," Clayton winks back to Andy. "I'll give you two sometime alone."

He turns to hug Nicholas and whispers in his ear, "Remember, you say anything and I will ruin Andy and Madeline."

As they exit their embrace, he winks to Nicholas, who fumes back to him. Clayton then turns to Andy and waves to him. "Tata Andy!"

Once they hear the door close, Andy looks at Nicholas. "Tell me this isn't true! Tell me you didn't marry that jerk?"

"I…" Nicholas finally speaks. "I wish I could. But it's true, Andy. I married Clayton. Clayton is my husband," he reveals as Andy feels the blood drain from his face.

Next on One Day at a Time
- Chris and Trenyce return
- Will Dominick be okay?
- Jeff and Paige have a heart to heart

 
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