Lucky Spencer

Lucas Lorenzo "Lucky" Spencer Jr. is a character on General Hospital. He is the son of legendary supercouple Luke and Laura Spencer. The role was originated by Jonathan Jackson in 1993, he portrayed the character until 1999. Lucky was next played by Jacob Young from 2000 - 2003. Greg Vaughan stepped into the role in 2003, and has played Lucky since then.

Parents

 * Lucas Lorenzo "Luke" Spencer Sr. (father)
 * Laura Webber (mother)
 * Tracy Quartermaine (step-mother)

Sibling(s)

 * Nikolas Cassadine (maternal half-brother)
 * Lesley Lu "Lulu" Spencer (sister)
 * Edward "Ned" Ashton (step-brother)
 * Dillon Quartermaine (step-brother)

Marital status

 * Single

Past marriage(s)

 * Elizabeth Webber (divorced; 2005-2006)
 * Elizabeth Webber (divorced; 2007)

Children

 * Cameron Webber (son, with Elizabeth Webber, not biological)
 * Jacob "Jake" Spencer (son, with Elizabeth Webber, not biological)

Other relatives

 * Timothy "Tim" Spencer (paternal grandfather, deceased)
 * Lena Eckert Spencer (paternal grandmother, deceased)
 * Gordon Grey (maternal biological grandfather, deceased)
 * Lesley Williams Webber (maternal grandmother)
 * Rick Webber Sr. (maternal adopted grandfather, deceased)
 * Barbara Jean "Bobbie" Spencer (paternal aunt)
 * Michael "Mike" Webber (maternal adopted uncle)
 * Rick Webber Jr. (maternal adopted uncle)
 * Spencer Cassadine (nephew)
 * Caroline "Carly" Benson Jacks (paternal cousin)
 * Barbara Jean "B.J." Jones (paternal adopted cousin, deceased)
 * Lucas Jonas (paternal adopted cousin)
 * Michael Corinthos III (paternal first cousin once removed)
 * Morgan Corinthos (paternal first cousin once removed)

Romantic relationships

 * Elizabeth Webber (dated/engaged)
 * Sarah Webber (lovers)
 * Summer Halloway (lovers, deceased)
 * Maxie Jones (affair/lovers)
 * Samantha McCall Samantha "Sam" McCall (affair/lovers)

Early years
Lucky was born in Texas to Luke and Laura Spencer. He spent the first 10 years of his life moving from place to place with his parents to get away from mobster Frank Smith, his father's former boss and enemy. While living in Canada, the threat to their family began again, so Luke and Laura told Lucky to head to Port Charles on his own; they would meet up with him later. Lucky made it to Port Charles safely and his Aunt Ruby hid him at Kelly's.

However, Frank Smith's men found him there. Lucky then befriended a boy named Sly Eckert, who hid him in the city's catacombs. Luke and Laura found him there with his cousin after Sly's father, Bill Eckert, a dead ringer for Luke, was mistaken for Luke and was shot by Frank's men. A few months later, Lucky got shot when he followed his dad to a meeting with a henchman. Fortunately, Lucky made a full recovery.

The Spencer Family settled in Port Charles and Lucky was quite happy with his life. He was thrilled when his new baby sister, Lesley Lu "Lulu" Spencer was born. His happiness soon came to a halt when he found out his mother had a son by Stavros Cassadine while she was held captive by the Cassadines before he was born. Laura's other son, Nikolas Cassadine arrived in Port Charles with his uncle Stefan Cassadine and became the anonymous bone marrow donor for their baby sister Lulu, saving her life. Lucky instantly disliked Nikolas, who was a rival for their mother's love and attention. This rivalry continued on another level when Lucky had a crush on Sarah Webber, who was more interested in Nikolas.

Lucky and Elizabeth
Things changed for Lucky when he found Elizabeth Webber, Sarah's younger sister, in the park one night. She was badly bruised and her dress was ripped. Lucky came to her aid and called his aunt, Bobbie Spencer for help. Elizabeth told them that she was raped by an unknown man. Lucky started to feel protective of Elizabeth and promised to keep her safe. Lucky and Elizabeth worked together to try and find her rapist. Elizabeth would serve as a source of comfort when Lucky's childhood was shattered again.

During a fight with Lucky, Nikolas told his younger brother that Luke had raped Laura before they were married. Lucky thought that Nikolas was lying, but was shaken by this information. He confronted his father. Luke didn't deny that he raped Laura and confessed to Lucky what happened the night at the disco. He refused to have anything to do with his father and was angry with his mother for allowing his father to get away with it. Laura returned home and tried to explain her reasoning but Lucky refused to accept it. Lucky was disgusted with his father, so he left the house. He rented a room above Jason Morgan's bike shop in exchange for helping him around the shop. Through the ordeal, Lucky grew closer to Elizabeth and they fell in love. Elizabeth helped Lucky understand and forgive his parents for not being perfect. Lucky eventually forgave them, but wanted to live on his own.

As the relationship between Lucky and Elizabeth blossomed, they began to make plans for the future. Lucky began to develop himself into a very thoughtful, caring, and remarkable young man. Elizabeth began to grow as well, as they each encouraged the other to follow their dreams. Lucky in music, and Elizabeth in painting. Elizabeth even opened up her own studio for a time, and Lucky became fond of an old abandoned boxcar that he slept in occasionally.

After Ruby died, Lucky, Elizabeth, Nikolas and Emily shared one very special evening together at Kelly's. One filled with laughs, friendship, and contemplation, as Lucky managed to say goodbye to his parents with plans to move with Elizabeth to Manhattan. Their plans were cut short when a fire broke out at Jason's bike shop one night. A body was found in Lucky's room with the necklace he had given to Elizabeth, leading everyone to believe that Lucky had died. When in reality, Lucky was alive and being held captive by Cesar Faison, who was hired by Helena Cassadine. The entire town, the Spencers, and Elizabeth deeply grieved the loss of Lucky.

Back from the dead
For a year, everyone believed Lucky was dead. But before Faison died in a boat explosion, he revealed to Luke that Lucky was indeed alive. Luke investigated and started finding clues to Lucky's true whereabouts. Helena led Luke and Laura down memory lane, as she traveled with Lucky to the Haunted Star, Ice Princess Island, and Texas. Their last destination was in Canada where Luke, Laura, and Lucky had lived before returning to Port Charles. When Luke and Laura had figured out the last clues and arrived to save Lucky, he slugged Luke in the face and ran off. It turned out that during the time Lucky was held captive by Faison, he had started to program Lucky through mind control. Lucky was instructed under hypnosis to forget about his last days in Port Charles and focus on the disgust he felt for his parents. Lucky returned to Port Charles, but he was under Helena's control. Helena instructed him to push Elizabeth away and encourage her to be with Nikolas.

Elizabeth was suspicious of Lucky's behavior, so she continued to have contact with Lucky. During a conversation between Lucky and his best friend, Emily Quartermaine, she accidentally spoke Helena's catch phrase for Lucky's programming, "protect your queen", and became the first person to actually witness Lucky's transformation. Emily literally shook him out of the trance, but told Lucky what happened to him every time she spoke that phrase. Finally, Lucky realized that he was not himself and had been programmed by Faison and Helena. After some initial reluctance, Elizabeth was able to convince Lucky to see Dr. Kevin Collins. Dr. Collins helped break down the lower levels of programming, which helped Lucky lose his anger towards his parents. He was able to admit that he loved them and told them that he was under Helena's control. Lucky continued to fight Helena's control and rebel against her.

When Helena realized that the lower level of control had been broken, she resorted to a higher level involving the use of the Ice Princess diamond. Helena gave Lucky a diamond ring to give to Elizabeth and instructed him to propose to her. Later, Lucky had a run-in with Nikolas at GH. They started fighting in the stairwell, when Nikolas tried to persuade him to get help from Dr. Collins again. Stefan interceded to protect Nikolas from being hurt by Lucky. So, Lucky hit Stefan in the face and knocked him down a flight of stairs. Nikolas broke up the fight, but Stefan pressed charges and had Lucky arrested for assault at the Port Charles Grille during his engagement party.

Realizing that Lucky was under Helena's control again, Luke and Laura tried to help Lucky by getting him to see Dr. Collins once more. Dr. Collins went to see Lucky in jail and tried to de-program him, but wasn't successful. Helena, dressed as a cleaning lady at the jail, put him under her spell and instructed Lucky to start a fire in his cell and escape. Lucky did what Helena asked and managed to escape, but later didn't realize how he did it. Elizabeth found him and convinced him to get help, telling him what he had done. Helena later instructed Lucky to pour a vial of mysterious liquid in his cousin, Lucas' drink at the Brownstone. Lucky did what Helena asked, but didn't remember doing it later on. After he learned that Lucas was rushed to GH and in a coma, Lucky felt uneasy and started to feel that he had something to do with it. Lucky and Elizabeth moved into Nikolas' house, so that they could keep a better eye on him and keep him from being alone with Helena.

When Helena took several Port Charles residents hostage in her underground lab, she gathered all of the captives and revealed her secret weapon -- Lucky. She told Lucky the secret trigger phrase, but nothing happened. So she pulled out the Ice Princess to try and get him to focus. But Helena didn't know that Lucky had managed to break through her programming by focusing on his love for Elizabeth. Fists started flying and people started running. Lucky helped Stefan destroy the massive computer system before they fled from the lab. Everyone made it out of lab and Helena was arrested.

Laura's Breakdown
Lucky went back to being a photographer for Deception. His parents had reunited and planned to have a wedding in late summer. As Laura planned the wedding, she began to have flashbacks of a night in the attic of her childhood home. Luke then poked around in the attic for clues and discovered an old camera with its film still in it. He took it to Lucky and he was able to develop it. The first picture he developed, was of a young Scott Baldwin covered in blood. While Luke pursued the new lead, Lucky managed to get another picture developed. Before Lucky could discern what was in the photo, Luke realized what it was and took off in search of Laura.

When Luke and Laura didn't show up for their wedding, Lucky and Nikolas grew worried and went to the attic to search for clues. Instead, they found Rick Webber, Laura's stepfather, dead on the floor. Worried that Luke had killed him, they put Rick's body in his car, covered him in booze, and then pushed the car off a cliff to make it look like a drunk-driving accident. But Scott and Mac knew that it was staged. Lucky was also haunted by what he had done to Rick's body. While the Nikolas and Lucky evaded being arrested, they worried about their mother and speculated about what happened in the attic. Lucky was relieved when Luke finally called, but Nikolas was worried for Laura's safety. Against Lucky's wishes, Nikolas told Scott the couple's whereabouts, but the couple had already left by the time they got there. Mac and Scott finally caught up to the couple when they returned to the attic. Lucky and Nikolas were devastated to learn that their mother had a severe mental breakdown. They went to see her in the hospital, but she had retreated so far into herself, that she believed she was still a teenager and didn't recognize her children. Nikolas and Lucky said a tearful goodbye to their mother before she was committed to a mental institution.

Scott arrested Luke for Rick's death. Lucky tried to help him break out of jail, but Luke refused and had Nikolas help him instead. Lucky became worried when his father disappeared for awhile, especially when a copy of Luke's will arrived on his doorstep. Elizabeth and Lucky managed to find Luke working on a chain gang in the south and brought him home. Lucky did his best to keep Luke out of trouble, but Luke was determined to punish himself for Laura's condition. He set fire at the police station and would have died if Lucky had not run in and saved him. Luke began seeing a therapist on Scott's order and Lucky tried to get on with his life.

Lucky and Summer Halloway
Lucky met a beautiful blonde named "Laura" while enrolling in some college courses. They met on various occasions and a friendship grew between them. He learned that she was a former high-priced call girl trying to make a fresh start, but a former client wouldn't let go. He beat her and had her arrested. So, Lucky blackmailed Scott into helping her dispose the man. After the incident, Lucky and Laura's friendship blossomed into something more, although it took her awhile to get used to being with a guy who didn't pay her.

One day, Lucky saw Luke and "Laura" together. It turned out that "Laura", whose professional name was Summer, was Luke's mystery blonde. Lucky got upset and believed that she'd been playing them, hoping to gain financially from them. But Lucky and Summer decided to keep Luke in the dark about knowing each other. When Scott discovered the truth, he gleefully told a shocked Luke. Luke tried to get Lucky and Summer together, but they still had problems and Summer returned to being a call girl. Lucky later discovered that Nikolas had hired Summer to distract Luke from trying to find their mother. Lucky eventually told Luke and confronted Nikolas. Summer told Luke that Nikolas had blackmailed her into portraying a Laura look-a-like, but she had met Lucky by mistake. Lucky, Luke, and Summer then embarked on an adventure to locate Summer's brother, Matt. When they found him, he revealed that he wasn't Summer's brother before dying from a stabbed wound. Summer confirmed that she was only looking for Matt, her ex-boyfriend, so that he would tell her where the money he had stolen from the Cassadines was hidden. They got arrested for Matt's murder and Nikolas showed up to bail them out, although Luke refused to leave with them. Their adventure ended in a tunnel underneath an old Cassadine estate in Russia, where the money was supposed to be buried. But the money had been replaced by worthless coins, so they returned to Port Charles empty handed.

Back in Port Charles, Summer finally admitted that she loved Lucky and she became a waitress at Kelly's, so she could move into the room across from his. When Lucky finally went to see his mother at the mental institution, Summer went with him. Luke blamed Lucky for giving Nikolas complete control over Laura's medical treatment and got into a physical fight with Lucky. Summer knocked Luke out to end the altercation, but Luke later showed up at Lucky's after being given drugs at the hospital. He was delusional and believed Summer was Laura. She went along with it, but when Lucky showed up, Luke ran away. Later, Summer helped Lucky trick Luke into being committed to a mental hospital.

At Nikolas and Emily's engagement party at Wyndemere, Summer was walking out on the bluffs in the heavy fog when she was pushed from behind. Nikolas and Lucky rushed to the bottom, only to discover that the fall had killed her. Lucky was devastated and vowed to find the person responsible for Summer's death. When Luke showed up at the party, Lucky attacked a shocked Luke and accused him of being responsible for Summer's death. Alexis theorized that Luke didn't do it and that Emily was the intended victim, since she had also been out there that evening. However, no one else believed that Luke was innocent. Lucky later learned that one of the servants on the island that night had disappeared and he believed that the servant was the one who pushed Summer off the cliff.

Believing Stefan was responsible for Summer's death, Lucky tried to urge Mac Scorpio to work harder in finding evidence to arrest him. But Mac told him to back off or become a cop and look into the case himself. So, Lucky went to the academy and became a cop. He worked with Nikolas' new bride Lydia, to secretly tape Stefan discussing how he hired Darius to push Emily off the cliff, but Darius mistakenly pushed Summer. The tape got Stefan arrested, but it didn't keep him in jail. Luke came back to town, extremely unhappy to hear that Lucky had become a cop. Luke then brought his own brand of justice to Stefan by kidnapping him and holding a mock trial that he broadcasted on TV. Lucky was later forced to arrest Luke after he fought with Stefan, who wounded up with a knife in his chest. Luke managed to escape and Lucky tracked him to Skye's lake house. Skye then knocked Lucky out, to keep Luke hidden. The charges against Luke were later dropped when Nikolas discovered a suicide note left behind by Stefan. Luke was free but the rift between father and son still existed. They had a brief moment of closeness during the holidays, but Luke continued to live his life apart from his son.