Kish: Psychics and Schemers

Kish and company were back on today's One Life to Live. It started with Amelia finally showing up at the hospital to visit poor Nick. She'd brought him soup to make him feel better and he told her that he was being released that afternoon. Amelia apologized for having been too busy with Dorian to take care of Nick but he told her that Kyle had been there ever since the night it happened.

Kyle, who at that moment was being all Med Student-y and checking Nick's wrist, told him that he was just doing his job and asked if someone was going to be taking care of Nick once he was out of the hospital. Nick assured him that his Aunt was going to be looking after him.

After Kyle left the room, Amelia noted the lovesick look on her friend's face, something even a blind person would have had little trouble seeing and interpreting. Nick assured her that he'd tried to get over Kyle and when Amelia responded with sarcasm about how well that was working, Nick told her how Kyle had been there for him, taking care of him, ever since he was hospitalized.

Amelia interrupted to tell Nick that he had to get over Kyle and he turned it around on her by asking "Like you got over your ex?" What's this? Amelia has an ex! I love how the writers on this show take seemingly minor characters and slowly develop them into something more. This happened with Kyle himself, who was just a lab tech involved in a DNA story at first. It works so much better than just thrusting new characters right into the action.

At any rate, Amelia reminded Nick that his advice to her was to get over her ex, and now she's telling him the same thing. Nick pointed out that Amelia still loves her ex, though, and Amelia made her escape without commenting further on the subject.

Elsewhere in the hospital, Fish was standing guard outside Mitch Laurence's door when a random nurse brought him a cup of coffee, flirted with him, and then asked if he was seeing anyone. I guess she doesn't watch the international news stations and missed his world wide coming out?

Fish told her he was taken and after she left Kyle came by on his rounds or whatever it is he's doing at the hospital. Fish asked how Nick was doing and Kyle filled him in on things and mentioned that it was nice of Fish to care. Oliver admitted that he had selfish reasons: Kyle had been busy with Nick and Fish himself had been busy with the Mitch Laurence case, and he missed Kyle.

Kyle admitted that he missed Fish, too, and Oliver pointed out that they still hadn't had their first date. Kyle grinned and said that it would be a shame to waste Roxy's presents and Oliver got the most adorable half embarrassed, half excited look on his face when he asked if Kyle had kept 'those'. Kyle said that he had, so that they could pick up right where they'd left off.

Changing the subject, Kyle asked what Oliver was doing for Christmas this year. Fish didn't have any plans and Kyle was shocked, seeing as how Fish owns two reindeer sweaters! Oliver explained that his mother had given him those, but then went on to say that since his parents never even called him back on Thanksgiving, he'd be spending his first Christmas without them.

Kyle saw Fish's distant parents and raised him one dead sister, noting that he'd always spent the holidays with his sister Rebecca. You know, before she helped her boyfriend kill several people, including Fish's partner Talia, and then blew herself up.

Like any good boyfriend, Fish sweetly overlooked that whole serial killer thing and brought up a happier memory, recalling that Rebecca had taught Kyle how to make paper garlands. Kyle told Fish he'd show him how to do that, if he wanted to come over on Christmas. Oliver happily accepted the invitation and then asked Kyle to meet him in the hospital cafeteria when their shifts were over. Aww! The eye contact and goofy, lovesick smiles in this scene pretty much made me melt.

Around the same time, Nick got a phone call from the Aunt who was supposed to be picking him up and taking care of him. Apparently, she'd taken sick and wouldn't be able to. Nick assured her that he'd get someone else to watch over him, and it didn't take a psychic to figure out who he had in mind.

When Kyle returned to check up on his friend and Nick had explained about his Aunt, Kyle suggested Amelia might be able to help, noting that there should be plenty of room at Dorian's place. Nick, to my disappointment if not my surprise, then pretended to call Amelia and lied to Kyle, saying that Dorian had claimed there wasn't enough room in the mansion.

I don't really like that they have Nick lying and scheming now, but I guess this is relatively minor and could be put down to the fact that he's desperately in love. This also marks the start of the first official all male love triangle in daytime, so that's pretty cool.

Nick nobly suggested that he'd hire an aide to care for him, but Kyle pointed out that he couldn't afford that and then did what Nick had been hoping he'd do, which was to offer to take care of him at his place. May I point out that Kyle lives in a small motel room with one bed? How is that going to work?

Nick pretended to decline, saying that Fish wouldn't like that very much, but Kyle assured his ex that Oliver would understand. When Kyle met Fish to cancel their cafeteria date and explain what was going on, Fish wasn't exactly thrilled, but clearly was trying to be understanding. He told Kyle he just wished someone else could help Nick, and Kyle promised that he and Oliver would find some time to be together.

Fish: Yeah, when you're not making him breakfast in bed.

Kyle: I don't make breakfast.

Fish: But he'll be in your bed.

Kyle: Okay, then maybe I'll be in yours!

I really liked that while Fish was clearly uncomfortable with the situation and the fact that Kyle would essentially be sharing a bed with his ex, the above scene was played very lightly between the two of them and not for heavy dramatic effect.

Meanwhile, Mayor Lord had made her triumphant return to her mansion after spending some time in jail. She quickly vowed to her daughter and niece and their respective boyfriends that she was going to be taking her marriage license and her fiance down to City Hall to make the marriage legal. (Wait, I'd been under the impression that it had already become legal when she'd stamped it during the swearing in ceremony. I guess not.)

No sooner had Dorian made this vow than Madame Delphina, Llanview's resident psychic, burst through the door, warning that there would be death for someone in the room if Dorian went through with the wedding.

I should explain that Delphina has been a recurring character on the show for about the last year and a half and is played by out comedienne Lea Delaria. I always love it when Delphina pops up in a story, she's a lot of fun.

Delphina has never been wrong before in any of her predictions, which Dorian knows, but Mayor Lord vowed to fight on for marriage equality, even if it meant death. Delphina got a bit more specific and told Dorian that she'd be the one who died, but before she could scare Dorian any further, Amelia returned home and asked 'Del' what she was doing there.

When Dorian asked if they knew each other, Amelia explained that Delphina was her ex-girlfriend!

Dorian: Delphina, this means you're a...

Delphina: A psychic.

Dorian: A lesbian!

Delphina: Wow! You must be a psychic, too!

The Llanview teen crowd was bearing witness to all of this and at that point, Cole asked his girlfriend Starr "Is everybody gay?" Because, you know, if they are, then it would be totally okay for him to admit that he feels more than just bromance for his buddy Markko!

Seriously, though, I've really liked that they've involved the teen crowd in this storyline so much and had them be very in favor of marriage equality. Starr and Langston have been especially supportive, but their boyfriends have been as well. For instance, they all attended the mass wedding, where a protester who knew Markko's mother mistakenly thought that he and Cole were getting married. Instead of being offended or rushing in with insecure denials, the guys played along, letting her think they were in love and demonstrating that there was nothing wrong with that.

Back to Delphina and Amelia. Delphina admitted to making up the prediction about Dorian's death to stop her from filing the license. It turned out that Delphina had been very insecure about her relationship with Amelia, constantly listening to her spirit guides about all the potential ways she could lose her. In the end, Amelia had loved gay marriage more than she'd loved Delphina.

Amelia insisted that she'd only agreed to marry Dorian so that she could one day marry Delphina legally, as she'd explained to Delphina before when she'd promised to come back to her. Amelia said that she couldn't be with someone who didn't have any faith in her.

Delphina admitted that she didn't know what to believe and the teen crowd jumped in, with Cole pointing out that no one gets any guarantees and then each of them pointed out the things that have threatened to get in the way of their own relationships: drugs, interfering parents, psycho cousins, crushes on sexy teachers, and, in Langston's case, "Hot guys pouring water over their bodies in the barn!"

In spite of all the risks, though, the kids assured Delphina that people can get through anything as long as they love each other.

Delphina: Mel, I still love you.

Amelia: And I still love you, too, Del. You believe that, don't you?

Delphina: Of course I do. Come here.

(They kiss)

After they'd made up, Delphina and Amelia agreed that they wouldn't be needing Dorian and Amelia's marriage licence any longer (but, why not? the fight for equality suddenly doesn't matter?), but when Delphina tried to take it from Dorian to rip it up, Dorian was having none of it.

That was all for today, but what a big day it was. First of all, we saw a new side to Nick, one that I hope won't go too far. I don't mind a bit of desperate scheming that he'll later see was wrong, but I hope he'll still be sweet Nick with the puppy dog eyes underneath it all and not go all Stacy Morasco-esque. Once he realizes that he and Kyle are not meant to be, I want him to find a boyfriend of his own, not wind up crazy or irredeemable as a character.

We also found out that we have another lesbian character on the show, bringing the total of LGBT characters currently on the show to five, which has to be a record not just for daytime, but for any American show outside of specifically gay themed shows like Queer as Folk or The L Word. Talk about groundbreaking!