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Finding the guard that is suppose to be watching over you dead is never the best thing to find. Well that is exactly what I found when I stepped off the elevator in my penthouse complex. Lex Carpentor was dead. The two hundred twenty plus guard was dead on my doorstep. That was never a good sign. When I noticed the door I knew it was business related. "MAFIA PRINCESS" was written in Lex's blood across my penthouse door.

My name was Josephina "Joey" Corinthos, sister and partern to Michael "Sonny" Corinthos, mob king pin to Port Charles, New York. I was always being confused for being a guy, just because of the nickname. To most of the mob world though I was known as the Mafia Princess, hence the blood on the door. To my family (my brother and his family) and friends I was Joey, the crazy, cocky, spunky, down to earth, loving person. My friends and I lived together, but I knew that they weren't home, they were still at PCU (college) a place I would never set foot at. That was a good thing I would have plenty of time to clean up the mess.

"Corinthos-Morgan. Mike speaking." I heard as I held the phone to my ear, stepped over Lex's body, pulled the sleeve of my jacket down over my hand and opened the door with it.

"Sonny." I said as I almost tripped over my ransacked penthouse.

"He's in a meeting."

"Mike, put him on the phone. I know that there isn't a meeting today." I replied as I swore under my breath after I stubbed my toe on a turned over table.

"Sorry Joey. I didn't realize it wa syou hold on." Mike said as he put me on hold.

"Hey Angel. What's going on?" Sonny's voice filled my ear.

"I need two guys. Lex is dead and my penthosue is ransacked. And my door needs to be replaced." I said as I continued to pick up pieces of broken objects.

"Jose what happened?"

"To be honest I think we have a problem with territory."

"Let me guess. Five families meeting on your mind? I'll send Seth and Dan. Then I will set up the meeting."

"Dammit!" I swore out loud on the phone. I was now bleeding from the palm of my hand. I had picked up a broken picture frame and the glass had slipped out and caught my hand.

"What!" Sonny's concerned voice filled my head.

"Cut myself. Listen I have to pick up the house so that when Georgie, Dillon, Maxie, Jesse and Lucas come home it's not a mess." I said as I marched toward the sink to run my hand under water.

"Ok Angel. They are on their way. I'll call you about the meeting. Take care. Love you." Click.

Okay so now I had to find a way to clean the house, change the door, get stiches and still be home before anybody else got home.

Knock...Knock...Knock.

"Hold on." I said as I tried to find a way to get to the door without hurting myself anymore.

"Joey! It's just us." I heard Seth yell.

"Doors open!" I yelled back and watched as the door swung open to reveal two men about two years older then myself.

"Oh my god."

"Now take Lex and the door. And I need three more guys to help with the clean up so I can get stiched up." I said as I tried to stop the tears from coming. My hand hurt like hell and there was no way I was going to clean the house before anybody else got home. Sometimes being the mafia princess sucked.

"Go. We'll pick up here. Go get those stiches. The house will be fine and clean by the time everybody gets home." Dan said as he helped me to the elevator and handed me my purse.

Ten stiches and three hours later, I walked back into a very clean penthouse new door and no blood stains.

"Good. You're home. What were Seth, Dan, Logan, Felix, and Jordan doing here? They wouldn't tell us anything." Georgie asked as she, Dillon, Maxie, Jesse, and Lucas came walking into the living room. My hand was wrapped andI was in need of one of the pain killers badly.

"Joey what happened to your hand?" Maxie asked as I set my purse on the now upright desk.

"Business." That was all I was going to say. I turned towards the stairs, I needed a shower and a pain killer. They knew I wasn't going to say any more, they couldn't know what had happened . Of course replacing Lex and the door would probably give away the answers as well.

"Why is Lex gone?" Jesse asked as the cop in him was coming out. That's right I said cop. And yet he was one of my closes friends.

"CHRIST! Once again business. You push anymore and so help me, Lex won't be the only one." I said as I was now looking at the mortified faces of all my friends. "Sorry. I'm just in pain. And I'm frustrated. Sorry."I said as I was cracking. The mafia princess was starting to cry.

"HeyJoe. It's okay. We didn't mean to jump all over you. It's just this is the thrid guard in two months. Are we in danger?" Lucas asked as he gave me a hug and rubbed my back.

"I don't know yet. Thank you. Now if y'all don't mind I'm going to get a shower and then go to bed." I said as I wiped the tears on my face and smiled at them. "Once again I'm sorry. Night y'all." I said as I walked up the stairs and disappeared around the corner. The shower was calling my name and I was going to enjoy the hot water falling over my body. The shower did take the stench of the horrifying day. Boy those pain killers were taking effect, I was tired and needed to get our before I passed out in the shower.

Two days later, one new door, new guard and pain still in my hand. Life was always changing and today was no exception.

Bang...Bang...Bang...

"What the hell?" I was sitting watching a movie with Maxie, Lucas, Georgie, and Dillon. Jesse was at work. "Y'all sit tight." I said as the sound faded. I walked towards the door grabbing my gunon the way by the desk. "Turn around so y'all can't see this." I knew the sound so well it was of three shots. They all did as they were told.

I opened the door and knewI was going to be having another conversation with Sonny about setting up a five families meeting soon. Like I said life was always changing. This was just how life was when you're in the Mafia. I was use to it but my friends weren't and I knew now that we were going to have to be going to a safe house this afternoon as soon as Jesse got out of work. If they didn't like it that was too bad I needed to protect my friends and the only way I knew how to do that was to go to a safe house where nobody could find us for a couple of days. That was until Sonny and I had taken care of the problem.

"Go pack. Now. Pack for at least three weeks." I said as I watched the four of them run up the stairs and around the corner. "Sonny. Five families meeting tonight. Arange it." I said into my cell phone as I was now walking up the stairs to go pack.

"Why?"

"Greg. Shots. I'm taking the guys to the safe house." I said as I walked into Maxie and Jesse's room. "Pack for Jesse." I said as I put my hand over the phone and was talking to Maxie. "Call him and tell him to meet us at Kelly's in ten minutes." I said as I walked out of the room and down the hall to my room.

"I'll meet you guys at Kelly's." Sonny said as I hung up my phone and started to pack. This was going to be one of the longest three weeks of my life. But this was the life I chose, and I knew how to deal with being without contact with my family, but my friends, they didn't. Like I said this was going to be three very long weeks.