Family Ties
by Susanne

Chapter 6 - Dead Man Talking

When Sonny and Alexis were both in the interrogation room Alexis walked up to each window, which had a Venetian blind, and closed it shut before turning to Sonny with angry eyes.

Sonny: "Go ahead - let it rip!" He urged her knowing that a well-known Alexis Davis outburst was on its way.

Alexis: "You have got to be the most obnoxious, overbearing, chauvinistic, blatantly human being that I've encountered in my entire life. You purposely set out to hurt and use your own daughter! How can you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?"

Sonny: "I did what I had to do to keep my family safe!" He yelled, which made Alexis see red, and without her really registering it she'd lifted her right hand, and she smacked him hard.

Alexis: "If you ever talk about 'family' that way you can expect another one of those. You do what you damn well please Sonny, but when your life goes, and hurts my daughter I'm going to take action, and you'd better believe that it won't be pretty."

Sonny: "Kristina isn't hurt!"

Alexis: "Really?"

Sonny: "I've explained everything to her!"

Alexis: "Including how you used her own mother to further your own agenda? I hope to God that you have a better explanation for the hell you've put us through these past weeks than that it was for your family?" She asked outraged.

Sonny: "You were the one, who didn't want her protected during the showdowns I would have with my enemies - you're the one, who wanted her to live a normal life when she's the daughter of a well-known criminal."

Alexis: "You're actually blaming this on me? You're saying that because I didn't want my daughter several thousand miles away it's my fault that you can't live a 'normal' life? You're so full of it Sonny! You swore to me, and to Judge Farmer that you wouldn't do anything callously to Kristina - and look at you now!"

Sonny: "Everything I've done at the present time has been to insure Kristina her family, and if you can't accept that -then whatever!"

Alexis: "Whatever? How can you just brush this away like it's nothing? You let me, your daughter, your sister, your father go around thinking that you're dead! And then when we've slowly started to come to terms with it you show up, and announce that it was all a game."

Sonny: "I know that it was a hard blow on Kristina to see me alive, but if you want to she can stay with Carly and me the next few days, and…"

Alexis: "Do you actually believe that I would entrust you or that insane wife of yours with my daughter?"

Sonny: "Our daughter! And don't even try and say that you want to go to court asking for full custody because of this?"

Alexis: "Why not? Not only have you used both Kristina and I, but you've also broken all the rules Judge Farmer put on the table for you to share custody over Kristina with me!"

Sonny: "No judge will grant you full custody over Kristina!"

Alexis: "Really? And why is that?"

Sonny: "Number 1: you have confessed to killing Luis Alcazar and number 2: you've always known about my 'business', and that sure didn't keep you from making love with me!"

Alexis: "I think that all that mousse and gel you use for that hair of yours have achieved access to your brain cells because you're obviously suffering from brain damage." She replied going back in time to April of 2002 recalling who had taken the first step to them being together that fateful night.

*** FLASHBACK ***

Sonny: "You know what you are to me now? Someone who matters, someone I need too much to push away. What am I to you? I mean, what are we to each other? You're like a dance, Alexis, and I'm not talking about drunk on rum in Puerto Rico. You…You…You like to dance around me. And that's fine because I…I like to dance with you, too. But not tonight. You forced me to choose, and I…I chose you. I wonder if the positions were reversed, would you choose me? You're a great lawyer and a great friend. We can keep it that way, or we can just keep dancing indefinitely. All you gotta do is walk out."

*** FLASHBACK ***

Sonny: "I don't recall you resisting me. That must mean that you wanted us to be together just as much as I did?"

Alexis: "I wasn't the one, who went back to my vindictive spouse a few days later - now was I? And I wasn't the one, who wouldn't accept my guilt in Kristina's death. So I think that I've got some right to be outraged at you right now - if not for using me than at least for having hurt me again and again no matter what!"

Sonny: "I have already apologized for that!"

Alexis: "Oh please…You only apologize when you don't see any other way to go about the certain subject. Even when you witnessed Carly being cruel to me you didn't do squat to stop her - how do you think that I felt about that?"

Sonny: "No worse than I did when I discovered that Kristina was my daughter despite your swearing that she was Ned's."

Alexis: "I told you that…"

Sonny: "Ned came to the rescue and claimed paternity of our daughter, but you could have stopped him Alexis - why didn't you?"

Alexis: "Because of THIS! Because of what's just happened - because of the man that you are, and because every time something happens that has a connection with your 'business' the people close to you always end up paying the price."

Sonny: "Like your sister?"

Alexis: "Yes - exactly like Kristina, whom our daughter strangely enough is named after!" She exclaimed slamming her black purse down on the table before taking a seat behind the chair followed by Sonny sitting down too.

*** FLASHBACK ***

Alexis: "Hi. The good news is you can't argue with me. So you're going to have to just listen. I've never owed anyone an apology as huge as the one that I owe you. My only excuse is that I was desperate to protect my baby. I tried to tell him. I thought about telling him. I couldn't. I can't. I don't want my baby anywhere near his life. Sonny confronted me. Ned happened to be there. It was an impulsive thing. It just seemed like the best thing to do at the moment for everyone except you, and I am so sorry. I was so wrong. I should have told you everything. The only other time I've felt this much love and this much protection for another human being was for you when you were a baby and I hid you to keep you safe. That's how I feel about my baby now. I love you. And I would do anything to keep you safe and well. You…I would do anything to make you better, to make it all better."

Kristina: "I forgive you."

Alexis: "I'm going to name the baby after you, even if it's a boy."

*** FLASHBACK ***

Sonny: "Yeah…I remember coming into her room asking her if she had something to say to me, and she said 'not anymore'."

Alexis: "Kristina knew that we needed to keep the baby safe from your world, and after she died, I decided to honor her decision and keep the truth from you. Otherwise my sister would have died for absolutely no reason."

Sonny: "I need my daughter in my life Alexis - if you take her away from me…"

Alexis: "You should have thought about that before accepting this charade of having everyone around you believe that you had died. Do you have any idea of how much suffering you caused?"

Sonny: "I guess that means that you do care a little?" He smiled half-joking.

Alexis: "Do you think that this is funny? You deceived, used and inflicted pain on every and each member of your family! I can't allow my daughter to live in a world like that!"

Sonny: "Then let me arrange for her to go with Michael the next time…"

Alexis: "No, no, no - you got me wrong! There won't be a next time because as of right now there won't be anymore contact between you and Kristina. In order to protect my daughter I have to cut you out of our lives - for good!" She exclaimed standing up.

Sonny: "I won't let you do this!"

Alexis: "You don't have a choice in the matter, Sonny - I can't live like this anymore. The only difference now is that I'm not turning you into the Fed's - I'm just protecting something precious, and something that I couldn't dare to lose - again. Goodbye…" She replied exiting the interrogation room where Sonny took the chair, and threw it through one of the windows, as Jax and Alexis made their way out of PCPD.

As Jax and Alexis were making their way home in Jax's car, Jax suddenly asked his friend

Jax: "What happened in there?"

Alexis: "What do you think?" She asked drying away a tear from her cheek.

Jax: "Well…It's got to be bad if you're crying over Corinthos!"

Alexis: "I told him that I was cutting all his ties to Kristina - for good!"

Jax: "What? Alexis? You can't do that - especially not when the father is Sonny - he'll fight for her!"

Alexis: "I'm very aware of that Jax, but it's for Kristina's own good, and she'll understand that one day."

Jax: "Are you sure about that?"

Alexis: "What's up with you? You're defending Sonny? After everything he's done to you, and to Brenda? Aren't you the Jasper Jacks, who claimed that any woman, who came into contact with the man was in both emotional and physical danger?"

Jax: "Yeah, but…"

Alexis: "No! No buts - Sonny Corinthos is a dangerous man, and he can't be trusted to keep his job out of his personal life. And I'm not about to wait for his death to become real before protecting my daughter."

Jax: "OK!" He exclaimed thinking back to when he would discuss Sonny with Alexis only with her defending him, and he questioning their relationship.

*** FLASHBACK ***

Alexis: "Shouldn't ex-spouses be honest with each other?"

Jax: "Yeah, whenever possible."

Alexis: "Then admit that you came over here to bother me about Sonny. And I remember when I first represented Sonny, you gave me a very thoughtful, a very detailed lecture on the drawbacks…From his moral lack, to his criminal ties, to his…"

Jax: "Yes…To the way he treats women, to the way he burns them out and then throws them away. Now that his wife is on her way out, you could be next in line, depending on your feelings for him. Are you in love with him?"

Alexis: "I am not now, nor have I ever been, nor do I have any plans to be in love with Sonny. There. Feel better?"

*** FLASHBACK ***

When Jax looked over at Alexis, he could tell that she was devastated - but the reason was unclear to him.

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