lucky and luke start a slow process of reconciling when luke kidnaps lucky to an abandoned cabin and lucky watches luke distressfully dream of the rape while suffering from a delirious fever following a wolf trap accident. lucky's relationship with his mother becomes further strained in december 1998 when he and nikolas are told that stefan cassadine (nichols) is nikolas's father, not the presumed-dead stavros cassadine, and laura had kept the secret. lucky and nikolas begin to bond over the betrayal of their respective families. lucky's estrangement with his parents adds to his newfound open-mindedness about nikolas, as jackson told "soap opera magazine": "lucky's been trying to change the way he looks at things, to not become luke. that's part of the process – not having the same relationship with nikolas that luke has with stefan. (...) he's trying to find his own spencer." the former enemies become friends, a sign of lucky's growth of character. actress genie francis (laura) explained to "soap opera digest" in april 1999: "it's huge, absolutely huge. (it's) something that really seemed impossible, but lucky surprises [laura] with his big heart and his maturity." in the same interview, guza described the acceptance lucky had come to have about his parents, recounting scenes where lucky bonds with each. guza explained: "they still have a ways to go, but the important thing is they're making the inroads now. (...) i wouldn't say it's the final resolution between them, but they're well on their way toward it."