Storylines
Lily returns to Genoa City as a troubled fourteen-year-old in 2002. Her mother, Drucilla Winters (Victoria Rowell) took her away from Paris because Lily had gotten in trouble with her friends spreading graffiti art around the city. Dru hopes Lily's father Neil Winters (Kristoff St. John) will help reign her in, but instead it is them who help him with his own problems with alcoholism. Dru and Neil plan to marry, much to Lily's chagrin. She wants her mother with Wesley Carter. Over time she comes to terms with her parents relationship.
In 2004, Lily becomes the victim of the 25-year-old online predator Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart), who statutorily rapes her and infects her with chlamydia, an STD. He gets away with the crime because of lack of evidence. Lily eventually forgives him when he rescues her from a man who drugs and attempts to rape her that same year. Unbeknownst to Lily, the drugging is a setup orchestrated by Daniel Romalotti (Michael Graziadei) and Kevin in an attempt to make Kevin look like a hero. In 2005, she began dating Daniel, and they marry years later. Later, Lily finds out that her biological father is Malcolm Winters (Shemar Moore), not Neil. As the truth comes out, Lily's relationship with her mother becomes strained. They reconcile before Dru is presumed dead after falling off a cliff along with Sharon Newman (Sharon Case), during an argument with Daniel's mother Phyllis (Michelle Stafford).
Lily discovers that Daniel is keeping his addiction to pornography from her. The couple undergoes counseling but ultimately end their marriage. She later is attracted to Cane Ashby (Daniel Goddard). Before they become an official couple, the difference in their ages becomes an obstacle for them. She is twenty and he is thirty-one. They fight their feelings before ultimately giving in and starting a romantic relationship with each other, which Neil disapproves of.
Lily wins the Fresh Faces of Jabot contest and becomes an exclusive model for Jabot Cosmetics, owned by Cane's family, the Chancellors. She does photo shoots and undergoes constant criticism from Chloe Mitchell (Elizabeth Hendrickson), Lily's modeling mentor. Chloe encourages Lily to lose weight. She realizes she is pregnant with Cane's baby. He proposes marriage to her, but she declines. Lily miscarries the baby and blames herself for the loss. The couple later must deal with Chloe, who is pregnant, and tricks Cane into thinking it is his child, when in fact it belonged to Cane's "brother", Billy Abbott (Billy Miller). After months apart, Lily and Cane reunite.
Cane and Chloe become jealous of Lily and Billy's relationship. When they find out they are spending Valentine's Day together in the mountains, Cane and Chloe, separately, go up to the cabin they are staying at. Just as Chloe arrives, Billy confesses to Lily that he is the father of Chloe's baby. Chloe goes into labor and gives birth in the cabin. After Cane discovers the truth about the baby's paternity he pursues custody of the child. Lily disagrees with the choice and refuses to marry him because of it. Cane later changes his mind and proposes to Lily again. She accepts and they marry. Shortly after marriage, Cane and Lily decide to start a family.
Nina Webster Chancellor (who was Phillip's wife at the time of his supposed death) begins background research on Cane, as part of her efforts to adapt Katherine's memoir into a screenplay. Her suspicions about Cane continue to grow, and she eventually orders the exhumation of Phillip's body for genetic testing. When it is discovered that Phillip's casket is empty (and, in fact, never contained a corpse at all), Nina demands that Cane submit to DNA testing to verify his status as Jill's biological son. Upon learning of Nina's demand, Cane retrieves a vial of blood marked "Langley" from a carousel of vials he has kept in a hidden freezer for use in DNA testing. On July 2, 2009, Paul reveals to Nina that the blood given for the test to confirm Cane's identity had blood cells which had burst, meaning it had been at one time frozen. When confronted, Cane reveals that he is not actually Phillip Chancellor III. Everyone is furious, except for Katherine who simply wants to know why he had tricked them all. When asked why he did it, the real Phillip appears before Cane can answer the question.Lily and Cane break up after Lily finds out he lied about being Jill Abbott's son and pretended to believe he fathered Chloe's baby in order to continue with the ruse. Lily is later diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Her uterus is taken out during a surgery to remove the cancer, but the doctor is able to harvest two of her eggs. Lily reunites with Cane while continuing with cancer treatment. They decide to continue their plan in starting a family and pursue surrogacy options. Mackenzie Browning (Clementine Ford) agrees to act as their surrogate and becomes pregnant with Lily and Cane's twins. Soon after, Cane gets arrested by an immigration officer who plans to deport him. Cane hopes something happens that will prevent that.
Despite all of that, Cane is there for the birth of his and Lily's twins, son Charlie and daughter Matilda, who are born on June 25, 2010. He also remains determined to helping Lily overcome her cancer so they can both be there for each other and their children for a long time to come. Cane is happy when Traci Abbott Connolly, Colleen Carlton's mother, agrees to be the twins' godmother. Cane is a rock for Lily as she overcomes cancer. Soon they are living a happy life with the twins.
Weeks into Lily's remission, Cane begins to be blackmailed by the crime family he turned in while in Australia. Cane embezzles money from Tucker McCall's company with the reluctant assistance of Sofia Dupre, Malcolm Winter's fiancée. In addition, Cane's birth father, Colin Atkinson comes to town to help Blake, the leading person blackmailing him. Soon Colin, without telling anyone that he is Cane's father, begins romancing Jill Fenmore and despite Jill and Cane's lack of a blood or legal relationship, he wants Colin to have nothing to do with Jill. Quickly Colin and Jill become engaged and Tucker discovers the embezzlement and fires both Cane and Sofia. Lily confronts Cane about what has been going on recently and he comes clean to Lily, except for mentioning the truth about Colin being his father. He tries to convince her and the kids to skip town with him, but Lily adamantly refuses, saying that Cane needs to own up to his problems and he is then kicked out.
The evening that Jill and Colin are to be married, Cane is shot by Blake in the chest after they engage in a fight on the steps of the church. Colin originally ordered Blake to make sure Cane doesn't interfere with the wedding. Blake falls down the stairs and breaks his own neck. Cane is alive for a few moments and then is pronounced dead by a paramedic with Jill, Colin, and Lily all crying over his body.
Since Cane's death, Colin and Jill's marriage seems to be going on fine and Colin admits that Cane's sister Samantha was also shot. Jill tells Colin that he has been a great help to her during these difficult times. Colin has also been comforting Lily. Interesting, Lily has begun involved a number of mysterious events which seem to involve Cane. For example, after her ex-husband, Daniel Romalotti Jr. visits and Lily kisses him goodbye, Lily gets a text message suggesting that it is too soon for Lily to be kissing other men. Lily finds a message written on the condensation of her window. A number of these moments have led Lily to believe in an afterlife in which Cane is communicating something to her. Olivia Winters, Neil Winters, and Daniel, have all suggested several times that Lily should visit a psychiatrist. Lily reluctantly agrees. However, soon Lily sees Cane again, but this time after he vanishes there are actual footprints left in the ground. She sees him increasingly and on May 18, 2011, her twin babies' eyes follow Cane in the room. She begins to realize that Cane might not be a figment of her imagination. On May 23, 2011, it is revealed that the character is not actually Cane, but Cane's identical twin brother, Caleb, and is plotting to help his father, Colin, take Lily and Cane's babies away from Lily (who is completely unaware of Caleb and Colin's plan) and take them to Australia to raise them as Atkinsons. However, Caleb and Colin's plan seems to be going in the wrong direction as Lily ends up admitting to Neil that she is losing her mind and she admits herself to a psych hospital. Also, Caleb's mother and Colin's ex-wife Genevieve Atkinson comes to Genoa City to help with Caleb's plans. However, it appears that Caleb is actually against his father's plans as he confides to his mother. It is later revealed that Caleb is actually the real Cane. Back in February, Caleb Atkinson came to Genoa City early to help Colin. The night Cane was shot, it was actually Caleb who died. Cane was now alive and well and pretending to be Caleb, all the while trying to protect Lily and the twins from Colin. On July 7, 2011, Lily and Daniel kiss. On August 5/6, 2011, Lily goes to see Cane at the bar in which he works at, and tells him that she is filing for divorce. On August 18, 2011, the divorce papers were served and Lily and Daniel half way make love, before Lily starts to have good thoughts of Cane. On August 31, Cane meets Lily at Crimson Lights, finalizes the divorce and tells her that he's going to move back to Australia. As Cane is about ready to board on an airplane to Australia, Lily bought Mattie and Charlie to the airport to decide whether or not Cane wants to go back to Australia. Cane ends up staying but has to deal with Lily's hatred of him. After they are divorced, Cane ends up getting supervised visits with his children due to Lily's distrust of him, but he starts winning her over to where she begins letting him be around the children more without the supervision.
After learning his reasons for keeping secrets from her, Lily reunited with Cane. They later remarried.
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