Prince Nikolas Cassadine and Gia Campbell are fictional characters and a formerly engaged couple from the original ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.
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In 2000, after working together to solve a mystery, Prince Nikolas Mikail Stavrosovich Cassadine grew close to Gia Campbell and they formed a friendship of sorts. She was in need of a place to live and Nikolas graciously allowed her to take the spare room in his cottage rent free - while she tried to prove herself and get a job.
Despite her mother, Florence Campbell's protests, Gia continued to live with Nikolas and as they grew closer, they finally gave into their attraction and made love. Shortly thereafter, they started dating.
Things were finally looking up for Gia, but that all came to a startling halt when Nikolas dumped her. What Gia didn't know was that this move was part of a scam to protect his brother Lucky Spencer and to find out once and for all what Nikolas' grandmother Helena Cassadine was up to. Nikolas was still in love with Gia, but he pretended to want Elizabeth Webber to make Helena happy.
Gia tried to reunite with Nikolas and the two even shared a kiss on the docks, but Nikolas quickly went back to his act and cast her aside. In retaliation, Gia attempts to make Nikolas jealous by dating the older Lucien Cane in front of him. After their date, Lucien tried to sleep with Gia, but she denied him because she was still in love with Nikolas. She decided that Nikolas needed to get away from the Cassadines and she tried to get Elizabeth to help her, but when she refused, Gia realized that Elizabeth and Nikolas weren't really in love. She went to confront Nikolas and overheard Helena telling him to kill Elizabeth. Gia freaked out and tried to warn Elizabeth and she even attempted to protect her from Nikolas. When neither Lucky nor the PCPD would help her, she went to try to stop Nikolas herself, but she realized that she was too late when she found Nikolas with a "dead" Elizabeth.
As Gia was threatening to call the police and telling Nikolas what a horrible person he was, Elizabeth woke up, much to her relief. Nikolas then filled Gia in on the plan and she forced Nikolas to let her help him. After being honest with one another they reconciled and made love. Nikolas told Gia all about meeting his father and she comforted him seeing that he was obviously upset. Later, she found a picture of Nikolas with his father Prince Stavros Cassadine and realized that the man she had been dating, Lucien Cane, was actually Stavros.
Before she could warn Nikolas of the deception, Lucien abducted her, taking her to the room meant for Nikolas' mother Laura Webber. When Nikolas showed up with Laura, Stavros locked Nikolas in the room with Gia. Gia and Nikolas made it out of Helena's underground maze without getting hurt. After surviving this ordeal, Nikolas and Gia planned to move on with their lives and got engaged to marry. They moved in together at Wyndemere Castle and Gia devoted most of her time to trying to convince Nikolas that he wasn't going to turn into his father. She even gave up her modeling career at Deception Cosmetics for him.
After Gia started working as a legal assistant for Nikolas' aunt, Alexis Davis, she and Nikolas began to grow further apart nevertheless. She was neglecting their wedding plans and Nikolas wanted to ask her to elope, but she stopped him with the news that she was returning to law school.
Gia and Nikolas' relationship got even more strained when she took more of an interest in the troubled Zander Smith's life. He was repeatedly in trouble with drugs and cops and Gia was trying to convince him to turn his life around. Nikolas became extremely jealous of their new-found closeness and tried to pay Zander to leave town. Gia angrily found out about his actions, and after a fight, the two broke off their engagement.
Soon, both Zander and Gia discovered that his estranged girlfriend, Dr. Emily Quartermaine, had developed real feelings for Nikolas, and they had a one-night-stand. Not long after, Zander and Emily married and divorced, Emily became involved with Nikolas, and Gia left town to go to law school.
