Fate
by Susanne

Chapter 9 - Blaming Each Other

Jax: "You always have bad news, and you know why? Because no one and nothing can be safe as long as you're involved! You practically gave Kristina to the kidnappers by allowing someone as destructive as Carly to take her to the park." He replied, as he walked away from Alexis, and got into Sonny's face.

Sonny: "You don't think that I feel bad enough as it is? Kristina is my only child, and probably the only child I'll ever have. I'm going to get her back, all right?" He said looking straight into Alexis' eyes.

Alexis: "Don't make any promises you can't keep, OK?"

Sonny: "What's that supposed to mean?" He asked not understanding where Alexis was coming from.

Alexis: "This is the exact reason why I didn't want us to share custody over her! You poison everything you come in contact with Sonny! I already lost a sister because of your 'reputation', and I don't want to lose my only daughter."

Cameron: "You're not going to, OK? If the people, who took Kristina are involved in…Sonny's business then they'll call, and state some demands."

Gina: "Here's some coffee…" She replied entering the livingroom.

Alexis: "Thanks Gina - you don't have to stay down here. You must be exhausted from your trip to LA? Go on up, and get some rest!"

Gina: "Ms. Davis?"

Alexis: "Please Gina…There are more than enough people here for when the kidnappers call, all right?"

Gina: "Of course Ms. Davis!" She complied before she made her way upstairs to her room to get some sleep.

Cameron: "Maybe you should follow your own advice…"

Alexis: "I can't sleep…"

Sonny: "The doctor's right Alexis - you really ought to…"

Alexis: "DO NOT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!! I am not going to sleep or even relax until Kristina is back in this penthouse got it?" She yelled angrily at Sonny because everything she'd feared of having everyone know Sonny was Kristina's father had come true.

Jax: "Then how about we order some food, huh?" He asked wanting to relieve the tension in the penthouse.

Alexis: "I think I'll pass - I'll be up in the nursery…" She replied extremely quietly before making it upstairs.

Jax: "Good going Corinthos! Why in the world would you trust Carly with Kristina? Don't you know that, that woman is vindictive?"

Cameron: "Jax? What about giving Sonny some slack? He's feeling just as bad as you are - maybe even more!"

Sonny: "DON'T DEFEND ME, ALL RIGHT?! This isn't "Analyze This"; you're NOT Billy Crystal, and I'm sure as hell NOT Robert De Niro!" He exploded, as he didn't want Cameron defending him to Candy boy.

Jax: "What are you yelling at Cameron for? None of this is his fault!"

Sonny: "And it's mine?"

Taggert: "Not necessarily!" He exclaimed entering PH2 together with two uniformed police officers.

Sonny: "Haven't you heard of knocking Taggert?"

Taggert: "I'd be a little more welcoming towards law and order right now Sonny boy if I were you!"

Sonny: "And why is that?" He asked not being up for another one of Taggert's acts.

Taggert: "Because I've got an eyewitness, who says that it was Lenny Bromovitz; one of Faith Roscoe's bodyguards, who snatched Kristina."

Jax: "And I suppose you also think that Ned had something to do with this?"

Taggert: "Actually yes; Ashton was seen sitting in a car waiting for Lenny to come with Kristina - I suppose he never got over the fact that the father of Kristina was Sonny!"

Jax: "I don't buy it - Ned would never hurt Alexis or Kristina like this."

Cameron: "I don't know Jax - when Alexis and I met Ned some nights back he didn't seem at all like the Ned, Alexis almost married."

Taggert: "Well…I just thought that you'd like to know that we're having both the phones of PH2 and PH4 bugged just in case Ned or Faith call." He explained, as he and the two officers went to the dining table in the livingroom, and started connected some high-tech machines to the phones in the penthouse.

Sonny: "Excuse me…" He replied, as he headed upstairs to the nursery.

Alexis was sitting in the rocking chair placed by the window of the nursery clutching a teddy bear to her chest. Kristina's old room had been converted into a nursery for her namesake.

Alexis: "If you were here Kristina I'd turn to you but that's not the situation, and that's why I'm turning to you in heaven. What am I going to do? Ned isn't the same man I almost married 3 years ago - he's changed and not to the better. Please give me some kind of sign in what my next move should be. Just like I asked you at your memorial service; look over us Kristina - I…We really need you now…" She sighed clutching the teddy bear even more so to her chest.

"I Am Blessed" performed by Eternal

Here in the silence I say a prayer
Though I've never seen you somehow I know you're there
You're in the faces of the people that I meet
You're as silent as the Earth beneath my feet
So if I should complain that all I have is not enough
Forgive me, I've been given so much

Chorus:

And I am blessed, every time I look into my baby's eyes
I think of all the friends who've touched my life
I realize in a world where some have more and some have less
I have love and I am blessed

So many changes this world can put you through
Sometimes it's hard to find a way if a heart can get confused
But then I hold you and it all falls into place
You've given me what time cannot erase
So when I'm feeling down or feel sorry for myself
I look around and it's easy to tell

(Chorus)

Every time I look into my baby's eyes
I realize
I think of all the friends who touched my life

(Chorus)

(Eternal - Power Of A Woman)

Sonny was standing in the doorway simply watching the mother of his child sitting in a rocking chair clutching a teddy bear to her chest asking the heavens above to take care of their mutual child. Alexis never ceased to amaze Sonny, and he intently prayed that, that would never happen because she was a special woman, who needed to be extraordinary.

Alexis: "Why don't you come on in?" She suddenly asked, which surprised Sonny a little.

Sonny: "Taggert's downstairs, and he's said something that I think you'd like to know about!"

Alexis: "What?" She asked getting up from the rocking chair still clutching the teddy bear to her chest. Alexis had changed into a pair of jeans together with a chestnut colored sweater, which matched her hair perfectly. Sonny could immediately see that she's been crying, as her usually brown eyes had turned red around the edges.

Sonny: "They've got an eyewitness, who saw someone named Lenny Bromovitz snatch Kristina, and Taggert's having both our penthouse phones tapped just in case they call."

Alexis: "What aren't you telling me?" She asked walking closer and closer to where Sonny was standing.

Sonny: "What do you mean?" He asked not wanting her to become even more upset than she already was.

Alexis: "I think that we can safely say that I know you just as well as you know me so stop this charade especially when it's our daughter we're talking about here!"

Sonny: "Lenny Bromovitz is one of Faith Roscoe's many bodyguards, and Ned was seen in the getaway vehicle!"

Alexis: "WHAT?! That's impossible; Ned wouldn't do this to me or to Kristina by taking her away from her mother and father."

Sonny: "Ned has declared war on me for the past year ever since Kristina died, and what better way to hurt me than to kidnap my child?"

Alexis: "Oh God!" She exclaimed out of breath placing her right hand over her mouth, as Sonny quickly took her into his arms, and Alexis placed her arms around Sonny's neck wanting to feel close to the one person who could understand what she was feeling right now.

Sonny: "I have all my men out looking for Faith Roscoe, all right? You know how much I care for Kristina, and as her father I promised to protect her from any danger, and I meant it, OK?" He said trying to comfort Alexis, who continued to sob in his arms. Sonny closed his eyes tight, and promised himself that when this was all over he'd fight to get Alexis and Kristina back into his life, and suddenly remembered a verse in a poem he'd heard Courtney recite the other day

"I'm counting
on a
leap of faith
even if I
don't deserve you"

Cameron stood in the doorway watching the two embrace each other in order to help each other through what no parent should go through. He knew then that the relationship Sonny and Alexis had had was on it's way back, and if he didn't watch himself it was going to destroy all of them including the little girl, who was missing at the moment.

chapter 10