The
next morning Kristina had been by with some change of clothes for
Alexis, and had spotted Sonny asleep on the couch in the waiting
room, and couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. She knew what
he was, but she still felt that he and her sister were meant to
be.
Jax: “Are you just about ready?” He asked, while Alexis
was in the bathroom changing.
Alexis: “Yeah…What do you think?” She asked stepping
through the bathroom door wearing a pair of black pants together
with a black top, a blue, unbuttoned shirt, a pair of black sandals
and half of her auburn hair placed in a bun on the back of her head.
Jax: “You look like a million bucks!!” He exclaimed smiling
at his beautiful friend feeling proud that their talk had invested
so much confidence in her.
Alexis: “Where’s Kristina?”
Jax: “She’s at your penthouse getting it cleaned up for
your arrival!”
Alexis: “That really isn’t necessary!”
Jax: “She’s put her mind to make you feel comfortable
in the days up to your biopsy – I’d let her, who knows
when you’ll be fortunate enough to have her do that again?”
He smiled, as he was opening a window in the room to allow some
fresh air entrance into the room.
Alexis: “Have you seen Sonny?” She asked sitting down
on the bed.
Jax: “He’s outside – where he’s been all night
I might add.”
Alexis: “Why?”
Jax: “Maybe because he feels that this is where he needs to
be.”
Alexis: “That’s just it! It isn’t where he needs
to be! He needs to be at home with Carly before it’s too late…”
Jax: “Too late for what?” He asked joining Alexis on the
bed.
Alexis: “I don’t want Sonny taking care of me, which is
exactly what he’ll do if he ever finds out that I’m pregnant
and could possibly have cancer. I won’t have him sacrificing
his life for me…”
Jax: “Then how about telling him that? Tell Sonny that he needs
to back off!”
Alexis: “He won’t accept it Jax…”
Jax: “He will if you make it clear to him that he has no place
what so ever in your life!”
Alexis: “So you want me to turn away from him, and hurt him
to let him know that I mean business, and in the process lose the
man I’ve waited my entire life for?”
Jax: “It’s either that or you’ve got to tell him
the real reason that you’re here…”
Alexis: “You know that I can’t tell him that! You know
that he’ll just go in, and take charge of the situation! Sonny
has to be in control of everything, and everyone around him. I’m
not about to destroy him just because I’m pregnant with a lump
in my breast.”
Jax: “Then get him to back off! You’re clearly upset by
his presence in the waiting room so why don’t you just tell
him that his place is with Carly, and that you’ve got all the
friends that you need in Ned, Kristina and me?”
Alexis: “You really think that he’ll accept that? We’re
talking about the same man, who hired Zander to spy on Carly for
him!”
Jax: “He won’t have any other choice…You’re
not his wife so he doesn’t have any say in who you see or don’t
see for that matter.”
Alexis: “Are we talking about the same Sonny Corinthos?”
She asked walking to the window where she got lost in past memories
of her and Sonny’s relationship.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “You know…Ahem…There's really no point in
dragging this out, all right? You were wrong…Not about firing
Zander because that's probably the best thing that has ever happened
to Zander. And you didn't fire him to save him. You fired him to
punish him because he dared to tell you the truth.”
Sonny: “I was punishing Zander for telling Carly the truth.”
Alexis: “That…You see that is just pathetic.”
Sonny: “Oh. Is it?”
Alexis: “You have the most vicious double standards I have
ever encountered in a lifetime of dealing with questionable people.
You won't lie to Carly, but you'll order someone to lie to Carly
for you. You won't tell your sister about the hell you lived through
all your life, but you will punish your father relentlessly for
allowing it to happen.”
Sonny: “That's right.”
Alexis: “You have an impossible code to live up to. It's not
because you expect people to meet them but because you don't. I
mean, you can't wait to push people away. You can't wait for people
to screw up, and it's sad, it's destructive. It is. But, you know,
apparently…”
Sonny: “I'm sorry. I'm…I'm sorry.”
Alexis: “What did you say?”
Sonny: “I said I'm sorry.”
*** FLASHBACK ***
Jax: “But in Sonny’s defense then things have happened
in his life that has made him this controlling! After having lost
Lily and their baby to that car bomb anyone would want to protect
the other women close to him.”
Alexis: “I know that Jax…But I’m afraid that he’ll
lose himself if he get’s involved in my treatment! I don’t
want him to feel as helpless as I did watching my mother fight this
illness day and night!” She exclaimed turning away from the
window.
Jax: “Just hold your horses, OK? We don’t even know if
you’ve got this illness yet? Right now we’re still talking
about a lump – which can just as well be benign as it can be
malignant!”
Alexis: “Sonny went absolutely crazy when Carly was carrying
his baby! He also controlled that including how much she ate –
I don’t want him to know because it would mean that he’d
do it out of pity – and because of some kind of ‘code’
he felt he had to follow.”
Jax: “Code?”
Alexis: “Every, single thing that Sonny Corinthos does –
he does because of this code he has to live up to. And if he were
to waver from that code – he’d go insane.”
Jax: “You’re probably right…Well should I go and
get you released? Ned and Kristina are probably expecting us very
soon?”
Alexis: “OK – I’ll get my purse, and I’ll meet
you out there in a little while…”
Jax: “OK!” He exclaimed kissing her on the cheek before
exiting the room, and making it out to the reception.
Sonny: “How is she?” He asked coming from the bathroom
where he’d just finished washing up.
Jax: “Do you care?” He asked sarcastically trying to protect
Alexis the only way he knew how.
Sonny: “Don’t give me that Candy Boy! Is she OK?”
Jax: “Considering the fact that she was tossed into a coffee
table by your ‘loving’ wife then yes: she’s doing
OK!”
Sonny: “Did Alexis tell you that Carly tossed her into a coffee
table?” He asked having a bad feeling of how far Carly might
be willing to take this.
Jax: “Not in so many words, but in all the years I’ve
known Alexis I’ve never been wrong about how she’s felt
at certain times – she’s scared Sonny!”
Sonny: “Of what? Me?”
Jax: “Listen…I’ve said all that I’m going to
say about this! If you want answers then why don’t you go and
talk to the source?” He asked turning around when Audrey brought
Alexis’ release papers for Jax to sign.
When Sonny entered Alexis’ room she was sitting on the bed
with her mother’s journal on her lap just staring into the
thin air.
Sonny: “Alexis?” He replied clearing his throat wanting
to make his presence known to her.
Alexis: “Sonny!” She exclaimed, quickly placing the journal
in her purse before turning around to face him.
Sonny: “You OK?”
Alexis: “Yeah, I’m fine…I understand that I really
scared a few people last night!” She exclaimed putting on her
best-faked smile.
Sonny: “How long have we known each other now Alexis? 4 years?
I know when you’re telling me the truth, and I know when you’re
lying to protect someone. The only question is: whom are you lying
for this time? Yourself or someone else?”
Alexis: “Why would I lie to you?”
Sonny: “Because you’re scared of needing someone –
especially someone, who cares about you just as much as you care
about this individual.”
Alexis: “You couldn’t be more wrong…”
Sonny: “Really?” He replied not believing her for a second.
Alexis: “I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself
and others close to me without having to run to you for help –
get this Sonny: I’m not Carly!! I don’t have to explain
myself to you or anyone else other than myself.”
Sonny: “I’m not asking you to explain yourself, I’m
just asking that you be honest with me…”
Alexis: “I am!”
Sonny: “How is it that you can be honest with Candy Boy but
not with me?”
Alexis: “Excuse me? You’re making this to be about the
animosity between you and Jax? Can you be more egotistical or self-centered?”
Sonny: “Why don’t you tell me?”
Alexis: “What?! You’re calling me egotistical and self-centered?”
She asked not believing the nerve Sonny had.
Sonny: “What else would you call a woman, who faints in front
of a crowd, and then thinks that it’s OK to just keep the real
reason of her dizziness a secret from anyone, who dares to care
about her?”
Alexis: “This has got nothing to do with other people Sonny,
and you know it! This has got to do with the fact that you’re
craving someone to control! Well get this Sonny: I’m not someone
you can control, and neither is our…” She stopped herself
before making a mistake by telling Sonny about their baby.
Sonny: “Our what? Alexis? Our what?” He asked.
Alexis: “…Relationship…Our relationship isn’t
something that you can use as an excuse to control me or to control
the people close to me!”
Sonny: “That’s not what I’m doing!!”
Jax: “Really? Sounds like it to me Corinthos…You ready
Lex?” He asked standing in the doorway of the hospital room
after having signed Alexis’ release papers.
Alexis: “Yeah…Let’s get out of here…” She
replied fetching her purse before following Jax out of the hospital.
Johnny: “Boss? What’s up?” He asked after Sonny had
called for him at the hospital.
Sonny: “Johnny I need you to pack up Carly’s things at
the penthouse, and send them to her house!”
Johnny: “Boss?”
Sonny: “Just do it Johnny – and if Carly makes any trouble
tell her to call me, OK? I need to get my life straightened out,
and that begins with cleaning out the penthouse…”
Johnny: “You got it boss!” He exclaimed leaving Sonny
alone in the room.
Sonny: “Whatever’s bothering you Alexis can be fixed,
and I’m certain that I can do something about it! But first
Carly has got to leave…” He replied remembering back to
a time where Alexis had tried to give Sonny her real opinion of
his marriage to Carly.
*** FLASHBACK ***
Alexis: “Find somebody new. Find somebody reasonable. Find
somebody logical. Find someone sane who will inevitably have her
own personally monogrammed set of dysfunction and could ultimately
end up as neurotic as Carly…picture that. This is just a long
way of telling you that there are just no guarantees in this life,
so I have given you three options, a, b, and c. Pick one.”
