The
next day Alexis and Ric had just begun their trial downtown against
Scott Baldwin, and had just won round one when they’d gotten
their client released on bail. Ric and Alexis were walking together
out of the building.
Ric: “So how are things going with my brother?”
Alexis: “Just fine…Actually it’s not him I’m
worried about!”
Ric: “Then who?”
Alexis: “Carly! Usually she’d make her presence known
as well as her opinion about Sonny, Kristina, me and the whole situation
but not once has she showed up!”
Ric: “I’d call it a blessing!” He grinningly replied.
Alexis: “Stop it…I’ve had this strange feeling in
the pit of my stomach that something awful would happen, and I’m
worried!”
Ric: “Whatever it is I’m sure you’ll figure it out
soon enough. Besides…Carly can’t do anything to you and
Sonny, right? You and Sonny share a child together Alexis, and no
matter what Carly does she won’t be able to undo that!”
Alexis: “Yeah…You’re right! Listen: I think I’ll
walk back to the office?”
Ric: “Then I’ll walk with you…?” He offered,
but Alexis needed to walk by herself to get some thinking done so
she replied
Alexis: “Thanks for the offer but I really need to be by myself
– I’ll see you, OK?”
Ric: “OK – see you…” He replied kissing her
on the cheek quickly before walking towards his car to drive to
the office.
Alexis ventured into the park to make a shortcut to the office,
and then also because she loved to watch the children play with
their parents there. She thought back to the year: 2002 after Carly
had moved back in with Sonny, and had practically ‘ordered’
Alexis to find another place to live.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “I'm touched by your concern, but it's misplaced. I
like this apartment.”
Carly: “Yeah, it certainly was convenient for staying close
to Sonny and dropping by at a moment's notice, camping out in his
living room, but those days are over, Alexis.”
Alexis: “I'm sure you think so.”
Carly: “No, I know so. You see, at this point, you're just
an embarrassment to Sonny. You're that one-night stand that just
refuses to go away. And let's face it, he's got what he wants now
and he really doesn't have any more time to throw you any more scraps.”
Alexis: “Then why are you so threatened, Carly?”
Carly: “I am just trying to do you a favor and point out the
obvious since you somehow seem to have missed the fact that Sonny
and I are back together. And then you show up uninvited and interrupt
us in a…Well, let's just call it an intimate moment…And
you stand there at the door like a lovesick teenager, yammering
on about something that you could have easily left on his answering
machine. But I guess you can't take a hint. It's all right, though,
because I guess you saw it with your own eyes. Sonny's mine.”
Alexis: “I'm sure that he would appreciate you talking about
him like he's a piece of property. We all know how he loves to be
treated like chattel. Let's let him decide, shall we?”
Carly: “Oh, let's. Because Sonny loves me and I love him and
we are back together now, and you are on the outside looking in.”
Alexis: “Like you were looking in, Carly, the night you drove
your car off a cliff? Did you get all the attention that you were
craving, that incredibly desperate, transparent cry for sympathy?”
Carly: “Like I've said it before, I hope you really enjoyed
that one night with Sonny in his bed because you will never find
your way back there again. There's no room because I am there now.”
Alexis: “Termagant.”
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “Carly has never really known how to be subtle, but
this is not at all like her! She’s usual very visible when
she thinks I’ve taken something of hers. Especially when it
comes to Sonny, whom she considers to be hers.” She thought
to herself, as she continued to walk through the park seeing a couple
of children playing football with their parents, which started a
whole new set of memories, which centered around Sonny’s adopted
son: Michael.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Carly: “It was always up to me to…To accept a half-explanation
or none at all. Look, I won't do that where my child is concerned.”
Alexis: “Do you think it's a good idea to use Michael to hold
over Sonny's head?”
Carly: “Look, don't imply that I'm using my child.”
Alexis: “Aren't you?”
Carly: “Then why don't I just go ahead and sign over the adoption
papers, give myself a permanent tie to Sonny? I don't want to use
Michael, and that is why I waited. I just don't see a point for
you to adopt a child if you're going to be leaving his mother.”
Sonny: “Michael needs to know he can count on me.”
Carly: “He does.”
Sonny: “Yet it has to be legal. That way there isn't any question.
I don't want to be a stepfather or someone Michael used to know.
I don't want to disappear like his room in my penthouse or the 50
other places he's lived since he was born. Listen to me, OK? You've
been great with Michael. Even when you were dead wrong, you were
fighting for him, and that's what I'm trying to do. He matters more
than our divorce, more than all the ways we could wreck each other.
OK? So all I'm saying is you may be, you know, a little selfish,
I'm selfish, but not about Michael. We cannot be. I want to be his
father because it's what he needs.”
Carly: “He needs more than that. I want you to call off the
divorce. You can have what you want if I can have what I want. OK?”
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis had now reached the end of the park, and walked across the
street just as she could hear a car engine being fired up. The only
thing she registered was a black BMW coming at her in full speed
before everything went black.
In the meantime Sonny was at Carly’s spending some time with
his kids – Michael was the only one, who was available for
him because Morgan was napping.
Sonny: “How do you feel about Alexis, Michael?”
Michael: “She’s cool like auntie Courtney…Her daughter
is cute!”
Sonny: “Have you met Kristina? When?”
Michael: “Me and Leticia met her at the Supermarket! Alexis
gave me a Big Brother present, but mommy threw it out in the trash
when we came home…”
Sonny: “What did Alexis get you…?”
Michael: “Something really cool! A baseball cap with the ‘Yankees’
slogan on! Why did mommy take it away from me, daddy?”
Sonny: “I don’t know son – I’ll go into the
kitchen and talk to your mommy, OK?”
Michael: “OK daddy!” He exclaimed, as Sonny got up from
the couch, and walked into the kitchen to confront Carly, who was
on the phone with a mystery man.
Carly: “Just tell me if it was successful?”
Voice: “It was successful Mrs. Corinthos – Ms. Davis won’t
be making any more trouble for you anymore!”
Carly: “And that’s for sure?”
Voice: “Let’s just say that your husband won’t want
to stay by her side for one second after one glance at her…”
Carly: “That’s exactly what I wanted to hear! Thanks!”
She exclaimed, as they both hung up. As Carly turned around she
spotted Sonny standing in the door opening.
Sonny: “What was that all about?”
Carly: “How long have you been standing there?”
Sonny: “Since ‘Just tell me if it was successful?’
– what is it exactly that needed to be successful Carly? Planning
on someone’s demise already?”
Carly: “Don’t be so melodramatic Sonny – I’ve
been doing some business with an indoor decorator, and I needed
to know if our latest project had been successful!”
Sonny: “An indoor decorator? Carly? You hate decorating! You’d
rather die than find ways to decorate a room with!”
Carly: “I put ‘Club 101’ together via a decorator
so that does make me pretty competent – thank you!” She
exclaimed angrily.
Sonny: “Sorry…If that’s what makes you happy! I actually
needed to talk to you about something else. Michael just told me
something that’s troubling me!”
Carly: “What’s that?”
Sonny: “Something about Alexis having given him a Big Brother
present that you’ve thrown in the trash – how come?”
Carly: “How come I threw it out? Maybe because your mistress
has no business buying items for MY son!”
Sonny: “She was merely trying to make Michael happy about his
little sister!”
Carly: “Half little sister!”
Sonny: “My God! Have you always been this cold or have I just
had blinders on? Alexis is only trying to make Michael comfortable
around her! Something you’d been planning on doing with Kristina
if we’d…”
Carly: “Stayed together? Yeah: don’t remind me, OK?”
She replied turning around, as Sonny’s cell phone rang.
Sonny: “Yeah!” He answered the phone, as a ragged voice
said
Voice: “Boss? It’s Ms. Davis!”
Sonny: “Johnny is that you? What’s happened?”
Johnny: “Ms. Davis decided to walk home, and I was following
her like you’d ordered me to but suddenly she was gone…”
Sonny: “What are you saying Johnny? Has she been kidnapped
by my enemies?”
Johnny: “No Boss! She’s at ‘General Hospital’…”
Sonny: ”Why?”
Johnny: “A few minutes after I’d lost her out of my sight
I heard a car speeding up, and then a lot of people began screaming.
When I’d made it through the crowd I found Ms. Davis face down
on the road bleeding severely.”
Sonny: “My God!” He exclaimed making Carly full of joy
over having beaten her rival.
Johnny: “I’m very sorry Boss!”
Sonny: “I’ll be right there…” He replied turning
off his cell phone charging through the kitchen into the livingroom
where Michael was, and just ran out the house not even stopping
to say goodbye to Michael because he knew he had to get to ‘General
Hospital’ and Alexis.
