1-I
am playing fast and loose with the legal facts. I have no legal
background except if you count watching Law and Order eppys (LOVE
that show! ).
2-
Sam is moot in this story. She was never preggers by Sonny. 3- I
am kinda hard on Ric in this tale though I love both the character
and portrayer, Ric Hearst. So Rexis fans forgive me on this one!
I love ya!
Kelly W
Chapter 1
Mac Scorpio was not an alarmist. If he called and said it was major,
then the trouble was major. Alexis drove the few miles from her
apartment to the precinct with her heart enfolded in a fist of ice.
She knew instinctively that this would be life changing, and dread
settled on her shoulders like a lead weight as she walked up to
Mac’s office.
Half an hour later, she knew that her instincts had been dead on.
It was not only bad; it was horrific. Her choice: testify against
Sonny, or they would likely place her in jail until they could convict
her of conspiracy to commit murder. Mac’s advice: get a great
lawyer and then--though it would cost her dearly--cooperate fully
with the government.
Not even the Cassadine stoicism that had been ingrained in her as
a child helped her combat the emotion she felt sitting in Mac’s
office. Her eyes betrayed her fear, and in that instant she saw
Mac read the truth in her face.
He sighed, shaking his head. “I’m sorry, Alexis. I had
hoped…”
He wasn’t able to find the words to finish.
“Can I…can we talk just as friends for a moment?”
she asked in a voice that was so small he had to strain to hear.
“Off the record, I mean.”
Mac nodded.
“What would you have done? If you knew Felicia planned to commit
a crime and you also knew that you could stop her…save her
from her mistake. Would you stop her, or would you report her because
you’re an officer of the law?”
He looked at her mutely, and she easily intuited his answer. Mac
would have been moved by love not the law. Just as she had been.
“Then I don’t feel so damn stupid right now,” she
whispered. “Cuz I loved him. And that’s what I acted on.
Just like anyone else would have.”
She stood, nodded to him, and left his office in a numb haze.
*****
Now she sat in her living room, her legs tucked under her and her
head resting on the arm of the sofa. The tears had long since ended;
there was just a persistent ache in her heart. At best, Alexis would
lose her reputation…one that she’d fought long and hard
to restore…all her friends in Port Charles, and her practice.
And Kristina would lose the father she’d never even had a chance
to know. Alexis felt sick to her stomach when she realized those
were the best-case scenarios.
Alice had read the pain in her eyes and had whisked Kristina off
to a park for the afternoon, for which Alexis was seriously grateful.
She couldn’t even look at her precious daughter and consider
having to say goodbye. And just now, she had to gear herself up
to make a phone call she dreaded with all her being.
Lifting the receiver, she dialed the private cell number she’d
never forgotten.
“Hello?”
“Hello, Sonny. It’s—”
“Alexis,” he said, his voice cool even as it held the
obvious question he didn’t ask. Why the hell was she calling
him? Especially after she’d all but attacked him for talking
to her daughter the last time she’d seen him. She could
almost hear his thoughts though he didn’t verbalize them.
“I--I know this is strange. I know you--you and I don’t
talk and, well, we basically have nothing to do with each other
any more so this request is going to seem…bizarre, but you
just need to do what I ask and—”
“You’re rambling,” he said, arrogance coating his
tone.
His statement annoyed her though it was true. “I know I’m
rambling,” she snapped, exasperated. “But that’s
because this is difficult.”
“So why don’t you just tell me why you called? Carly’s
out shopping somewhere. Leticia’s off today and I’m—uh--
kinda busy here with the kids.”
She grimaced. His kids. Sonny would have painful goodbyes, too.
“I-I’m sorry,” she whispered as she registered for
the first time that baby Morgan was screaming his lungs out on the
other end of the line.
“Listen, I—you need to come to my apartment as soon as
possible. There’s been an emergency, and it concerns you.”
“Lexis, what’s this about? Come on, you gotta give me
more than that…”
And then it seemed that the tension of the day that had knotted
in her shoulders and in her gut finally tightened to a strangle
hold and Alexis could not stand one more second of this conversation.
“Sonny, any minute now we’re both going to be in crap
so deep we’ll need hip waders to get through it. Now cut the
interrogation, and get over to my apartment before it’s too
late!”
