Lulu Spencer’s world seemed to tilt on its axis as she stepped out into the cold Port Charles night, Rocco’s trembling words—“Just bring me back home”—echoing through every corner of her exhausted mind, pushing her forward even when fear clawed at her ribs like an unrelenting ache, and in that moment she realized that this journey was no longer just about reclaiming her life after years spent lost in the quiet limbo of a hospital bed but about restoring the fractured pieces of a family that had been forced to keep moving without her, and as she walked toward the dimly lit pier where the truth about Charlotte’s latest entanglements and Victor Cassadine’s lingering shadows awaited, Lulu felt a fire ignite deep within her, the same fierce determination that once made her a Spencer through and through, guiding her toward danger with reckless courage because she knew that turning away would cost her far more than facing whatever waited in the darkness; meanwhile, Dante struggled with the conflict storming inside his chest, torn between overwhelming relief that Lulu was finally awake and the complicated new life he’d built with Sam, yet unable to deny the gravity of the message Rocco had passed along with such raw desperation, because their son had sensed that the family’s center had shifted the moment Lulu opened her eyes, and now he feared that home—their true home—would only be found if his mother fought her way back to them fully, not just physically but emotionally, and so Lulu pushed deeper into the unfolding chaos surrounding Charlotte, uncovering whispers of a manipulative figure pulling strings behind the scenes, someone who had been using Charlotte’s vulnerabilities to orchestrate a plan that stretched far beyond the Nina-Valentin tensions or the typical Cassadine mind games, and as Lulu pieced the clues together it became clear that Charlotte’s strange behavior was part of a chess match she didn’t even realize she was playing, a match that placed Lulu directly in the crosshairs, especially after she discovered a cryptic message hidden inside Victor’s old safe-deposit box indicating that she was the final key needed to unlock a “restoration” that Victor believed would resurrect the Cassadine legacy in ways that could tear Port Charles apart; but instead of recoiling in fear, Lulu pressed forward, because Rocco’s plea had anchored her to a singular truth—her children needed her whole, present, and willing to fight, and as she stood in the abandoned warehouse where the mastermind behind Charlotte’s manipulation planned to corner her into revealing knowledge she didn’t even realize she possessed, Lulu tapped into the Spencer grit that once carried her through kidnappings, heartbreaks, near-death experiences, and impossible choices, and with every breath she reminded herself that she was not the broken woman who had slipped into unconsciousness years ago but someone reborn with a purpose sharpened by loss and love; and just as the confrontation reached a terrifying peak, Dante burst in, breathless and terrified at the thought of losing her all over again, unleashing a storm of emotion that ripped through both of them, forcing Dante to admit that despite the complicated threads of his current life, Lulu’s return had reignited something he thought had settled quietly into the past, and even as sirens wailed in the distance and the warehouse lights flickered overhead, Lulu could only think of Rocco waiting at home, clinging to hope that his mother would walk back through the door, and with a trembling but determined voice she whispered that same promise to Dante—that no matter how many shadows she had to cut through or truths she had to face, she was coming home, truly home, to rebuild the family their son had been praying for, setting the stage for a sweeping emotional arc that would shake Port Charles to its core as Lulu steps back into a life that moved on without her yet desperately needs her now more than ever.