"Can't believe we agreed to do this." Carly muttered as she and Michael waited outside Dr Friedlander's office for Amanda, Tracey and Jimmy to show up.
"Be patient, they'll show up and we can get this over with." Michael says before Amanda's red Sentinel pulled up and her, Tracey and Jimmy get out.
"Family therapy, what a fucking joke!" Jimmy mutters as The Heat Is On by Glenn Frey played from Carly's phone, her looking at it and seeing that Johnny was calling.
"Don't-" Amanda says, Carly answering it anyway.
"Hey, babe." Johnny says.
"Hey. Got to get through this family therapy session and I'll meet up with you afterwards, Johnny boy." Carly says, stomping on Amanda's right foot when Amanda tries to snatch the phone away, Amanda biting her tongue to keep from screaming. "Eh, Madam Godzilla's just being her usual bitchy self… okay. I love you too, John." She says before they hang up, Carly putting her phone in her denim shorts pocket.
"Let's just get this over with." Tracey says before Michael knocks on the door, Dr. Friedlander opening it and letting them in, closing it as everyone sits down on the couch.
"Well, you've all made it here without physically hurting each other." Dr. Friedlander says, completely ignoring that Amanda was massaging her right foot.
"Trust me, I might get stabby, stabby on Madam Godzilla." Carly says, reminding the rest of the De Santa family of Ashley's attitude.
"You really shouldn't have hung around Ashley when you two were kids." Amanda snaps at Carly.
"You never gave the girl a chance as a kid, all you did was treat her like something you scrape off the bottom of your hooker shoes!" Carly retorts in a snarky manner.
"Alright. Amanda? Carly? Now calm down, both of you. This is therapy, this isn't fight club." Dr. Friedlander says, both women calming down for now. "Besides, insulting each other is beneath both of you." He says.
"No, normally, she's under that bald biker prick and letting him shove it in her!" Amanda says, Carly chuckling humorlessly.
"You know, for someone who spends all the time 'working on themselves inside and out.', I've gotta tell you doc, her progress has been real fucking slow!" Carly says, Amanda glaring hatefully at her.
"How would you know what progress is like, you cold blooded murdering bitch?!" Amanda yells.
"Yeah, how would you know?! You're exactly like Dad!" Tracey and Jimmy yell simultaneously.
"Oh, better than being a plastic filled, Coke snorting ex hooker, a bleached blonde wannabe porn star or a lazy ass stoner with nothing better to do than play video games and shout racist remarks at the other players!" Carly shouts, Michael trying to calm the four down.
"Now hold on a-" Michael starts to say, Amanda cutting him off.
"That little mistake gets her bad behavior from you, considering you're the reason that our marriage is no longer a happy one!" Amanda shouts, making Michael's blood boil.
"One time, one fucking time I cheated 15 years ago and you still can't let it go! You tried to kill the woman, kicked my knee out when I tried to stop you and pushed her over the balcony and onto that damned Infernus! And yet you still think of yourself as the scorned wife and good mother?! You abandoned a sixth month old child by running from your wedding to that child's father! You were an unfit mother then, Amanda, and you still are!" Michael shouts, Amanda's eyes widening in shock and Carly, Tracey and Jimmy looking at each other before looking at Amanda, all three siblings having mixed feelings of shock and rage.
Amanda lowered her head and muttered something under her breath, Michael looking at her angrily.
"Say that again?!" Michael demands.
"I wasn't ready to have Junior! You don't know how hard it was to look at someone who turned out to be the result of a one night stand and a guy who's father wouldn't stop threatening to take Junior from me unless I agreed to marry Benson! Then I thought… why would I want anything to do with either of them? So I put them out of my mind, met you and we had our perfect little family… until she was born!" Amanda says, glaring at Carly.
"Until I was born?! You're resorting back to your old worn out tactics, blaming me for your evil behavior, which started all the way back to you being a whore that Benson knocked up at 17! And yet, you wondered why I wasn't sure about having kids at first!" Carly says, the last part completely taking Amanda by surprise.
"You better not be-" Amanda says.
"No but Johnny and I have talked about having kids… waiting for a few years-" Carly says.
"Not a few years, not ever! The only way either of you three you'll ever have any mistakes is when I'm dead and buried!" Amanda shouts.
"See, now you're behaving exactly like Trevor!" Carly says, infuriating Amanda.
"Whether Jimmy and I want to make you and Dad grandparents, that's up to us and whoever Jimmy and I find to spend our respective lives with! Carly wants to be a mom one day, then you have-" Tracey says, cut off by Amanda slapping her, making the young blonde scream out in pain and rage. "You heartless bitch!" She yelled, charging at Amanda and tackling her, both fighting as Michael, Carly and Jimmy tried to break it up, Carly slamming her fist into Jimmy's face after he accidentally kicked her left ankle.
"All of you, cut this out-" Dr. Friedlander shouts, cut off by Amanda's foot slamming into his chin, knocking him down with blood falling from his bottom teeth.
"CUT IT OUT!" Everyone hears being yelled from a female voice, the voice sounding amplified but when they looked at the brown haired, light blue eyed girl, there was no sign of any megaphone of any kind. "Seriously, you're a family for fuck's sake, you're acting like lions fighting over a rotting carcass, and rotting because it's worthless and there's no point fighting over it because it was made ages ago!" She shouts.
"We'll do whatever the fuck we want-" Amanda yells, cut off by the girl, who couldn't be any older than 19, picking her up with a strength that seemed almost inhuman, and holding her against the wall.
"No, you won't. Because if you do, other people will too, which may involve harm towards you and that wouldn't be surprising." The girl says, everyone now noticing something… on the left side of her face, there was what looked like a network of small microchips and even a USB socket just under her ear.
Carly grunted as she tried to put weight on her left ankle, the girl glancing and seeing Jimmy help Carly up and apologizing for kicking her left ankle out and Carly apologizing for punching him.
"See, that's how you should be. Now, are you gonna change your ways or am I gonna throw you out of the window like you did to that girl 15 years ago? Because holding you, my strength is only at 49% capacity, I could hold up another fatty like you and one of your kids!" The girl says.
Amanda nodded, the girl letting go.
"I'm gonna change alright… by leaving this crazy family. Ain't no use fixing what's been broken for longer than I care to remember." Amanda says before leaving, Michael helping Tracey up before both helped Dr. Friedlander up.
"Sorry about that, doc." Michael says, Dr. Friedlander lowering his hand after trying to put a tooth back in his mouth.
"I'm alright… well… now you've met my adopted daughter Ayumi." Dr. Friedlander says, surprising everyone. "She was… taken and experimented on by some insane scientist, she and another boy the same age were made into… well, what she is." He says.
"I chose the name Ayumi… because I couldn't remember my old one and Ayumi is better than XP-O." Ayumi says.
Ayumi carefully approached Carly, taking in her disheveled appearance and helping clean the blood off of Carly's right shoulder, seeing a bite mark that matched Amanda's mouth perfectly.
"Nothing's too late to be fixed, ever… I got most of my humanity back, you can all get a family back. If you really want it, you can get it." Ayumi says.
"We've tried… believe me, on all that is holy, we've tried… and it was okay for a while. Until… I introduced my boyfriend to my family and Madam Godzilla went crazier that former Uncle Trevor." Carly says, unaware that Trevor was in the doorway, seeing the destruction in the office.
"Would that be the guy who's currently 7 feet behind you?" Ayumi says, Carly turning around.
"What now? Here to gloat, having think you've found people crazier than you, Trevor?" Carly says.
"Just wanted to make sure you're okay." Trevor says.
"Because you only like seeing me in pain if you're the one who's caused it, physically or emotionally, right?" Carly says sarcastically.
"Hey, you call me stupid? I've got a daughter, a soon to be wife, I'm not crazy anymore… trying not to be, anyway." Trevor says.
"Yeah, when hell freezes over. Immy was right, people don't change, good or bad. They already have to have it in them." Carly says.
"Maybe so, but doesn't it piss you off when people insult you? I haven't thrown a single insult yet, and you just said I'm never gonna change and that I love seeing you in pain." Trevor says.
"You've got a lot of damn nerve, throwing that back in her face!" Ayumi says, startling Trevor.
"Hey, it's true! Have I insulted anyone since I walked in this house?" Trevor says.
"Office, to be specific. Ayumi, can you take Carly out of here? I need to talk to Michael as well as Tracey and Jimmy." Dr. Friedlander says.
"Come on, 102.648 pound girl." Ayumi says as she picks Carly up, carrying her outside.
"102.648? How the hell did you figure out the exact measurement?" Carly asks curiously.
"It's not just my head you know, I've got microchips and circuits throughout my whole body. And actually, it's 102.6472965228, I just rounded it to three decimal places." Ayumi says.
The two ended up at the beach, Johnny and Sam seeing them and running over to them.
"What the fuck happened?!" Johnny asks.
"What's that game show name? Family Feud?" Ayumi says.
"I love watching that show, Steve Harvey is hilarious." Carly says, Ayumi laughing a bit.
"Well, I guess you just went through the more physical version where feud turned to fight." Ayumi says.
"A fight?!" Sam asks.
"Started by arguing… escalating when Tracey finally beat the hell out of Amanda after Amanda slapped her. Me, my dad and Jimmy tried to break it up, I got bitten and got my ankle kicked out from under me, then punched Jimmy… not knowing it was accidental when he kicked my ankle." Carly says.
"So John, be careful with your 100 pound girl." Sam says.
"102.6472-" Ayumi starts to say, Sam smiling a bit.
"Oh, don't start!" Sam says, Ayumi laughing a little.
"Wait, you two know each other?" Carly says.
"Met a few weeks ago, I was walking along the beach and she'd just moved in to Friedlander's house, came out for a stroll around the beach and I asked why she was wearing a hat that covered the sides of her face in weather that hot." Sam says.
"Yeah… and I think that the family therapy session cracked Carly's nerves…" Ayumi says.
"And I found out that Junior Law is my half brother." Carly says, unaware that Benson just heard her say that after throwing a still rage filled Amanda in the back of the Buffalo S, the Buffalo's right taillight broken as well as a dent in Amanda's Sentinel.
Benson walked over to the group, seeing how rough Carly looked after the brawl.
"What the… hell happened?" Benson asks.
"Family therapy session happened. Never again." Carly says firmly.
"And I thought me and my brothers were fucked up beyond all repair as kids." Benson says, Ayumi laughing a bit. "And hello, little lady. Sam, what have you told her about the Law family?" He says.
"I… did tell her about last year's truck job and how pissed Mack and Peter were when their cars got crushed like cans." Sam says.
Ayumi looked up as Michael, Tracey, Jimmy, Trevor and Dr. Friedlander approached them, Dr. Friedlander trying to keep a bit of distance between him and Trevor.
"Uh… do we need to find a new shrink, doc?" Carly asks nervously.
"Amanda does… but if I'm honest, the rest of you show… improvement." Dr. Friedlander says.
"You call brawling with each other improvement?!" Trevor shouts, Ayumi jumping up and grabbing Trevor's throat.
"Leave. My dad. Alone. Got it, lunatic?!" Ayumi growled threateningly as Trevor struggled to breathe.
"And one daughter, T? Have you completely forgotten about Ashley?" Michael says, startling Sam.
"I have… a sister?!" Sam manages to ask, starting to become angry.
"Yeah, you do… look, all of you, stop picking at my mistakes because it's that that stops me from changing! You want me to change, then treat me how you want me to treat you!" Trevor says.
"Now I know why Tracey and Dad insisted that you not come along to the therapy session!" Jimmy says, startling Trevor. "Lying isn't a mistake, especially lying to your youngest kid!" He says, unaware that Ashley and Clint were nearby.
"Aw, fucking hell… wait, what happened to Carly?!" Ashley says as she and Clint run over to the group, Ashley carefully hugging Carly and Carly hugging her back.
"Damn, I missed you." Carly says.
"I missed you too, kiddo." Ashley says as the two let go, Ashley glaring at Trevor. "What the hell did you do to her?!" She asks.
"What, why would you assume that I physically hurt Carly?!" Trevor yells.
"Hey, can we get back on the subject, please? You want to be treated respectfully Trevor, you have to earn it instead of demanding it." Johnny says, Trevor turning his rage towards Johnny now.
"Look, I am earning it as best as I can, okay?! Doesn't it seem fair that I treat you how you treat me?! It's not just me that has to work for this you know, it's not all on my shoulders!" Trevor says.
"Carly, Johnny… little raven haired kid with similar eyes… too similar, actually. How many of us Philips kids are out there?" Ashley says, curious about the last part.
"That can be dealt with another day. Right now, I feel like going home and washing my shoulder wound out, who knows how many diseases Amanda has." Carly says, Sam snickering.
"And I'm gonna go make sure my dad's teeth can be fixed, tiny Carly." Ayumi says before she and Dr. Friedlander leave.
"As far as any kind of peace between us and… well, it might not ever happen." Carly says, Trevor noticing that her doubts about him would always be in the back of her mind. "What, did you think I was gonna insult you again or are you gonna take what I said as an insult? I'm just being honest." She says.
"I'm trying to lower the chances of it never happening… with anyone." Trevor says.
Carly growled in an aggravated manner, like Ashley used to.
"Hey, don't do-" Trevor says, resting his hand on Carly's right shoulder but Carly screamed out when part of Trevor's thumb dug into her bite wound and backed away, Johnny stepping in front of Carly. "Hey, that was an accident!" He shouts, trying to move Johnny out of the way but Johnny shoved him back.
"Don't ever put your hands on her again!" Johnny yells.
"When you do that, THAT'S WHY I CAN'T CHANGE, WHEN YOU STOP ME FROM TRYING TO HELP THE ONES I LOVE! IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU, JOHN, IN SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE ON THIS ROCK, YOU MEAN ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL AND NONE OF US ARE ANY DIFFERENT!" Trevor yells.
Carly completely lost it then, grabbing the switchblade that Trevor gave her and throwing it against a wall of the nearest building, breaking it in half.
"None of us are any different, huh?! Well then tell me how you really feel about me because ever since you came back, all you've done is try to pull me away from the one I love! Go on, Trevor! Tell us all how you really feel!" Carly says, her and Johnny holding each other's hands.
Trevor sighed, looking down. "Me and K8lynn are getting married. We're going to have a child together, she's pregnant. I'm gonna have a family with her, I want to change, if not for anyone else, for them. I don't want to lose the ones I love just as you all don't, I want to reconstruct the life we used to all lead, then move on in those lives. That's how I feel. And if I'm completely honest, turning this around between us, if you're really so blind and you really can't, or won't see the truth, I may well just follow what you want inside and just up and leave." Trevor says.
"That life… the one from over a decade ago… that was never gonna last long. You would've never let me grow up, even if you did stick around for all of my childhood… because you wouldn't love me like you used to when I was little." Carly says.
"Seriously… you really can't accept me, can you? You look at me, you hear me but you can't see me… you know what that's like! I'm not in Ludendorff in 2004, I'm right here in front of you, if you'd just open your damn eyes and see me, for who I am and who I want to be! But no… you can't… because you and your family, you had to go and run away from me and get Brad killed, didn't you?! Michael had to deal with the FIB because that's who you are, you were always this! I try to change, I did think of you all after the bank job where that deal made me think for 9 years that my best friend was dead and buried, then I try to show you all I care, but you can't see any of it… this is what I get, my reward… well, it's NOT FAIR!" Trevor says, yelling at the end and pulling out his pistol, throwing it against the wall where it smashed. "Well… no point in staying around then… I pass on my reward to some other poor fucker." He says before starting to walk away.
Carly breathed through gritted teeth, Trevor stopping and glancing at her before seeing the murderous look in Ashley's eyes.
"You… let Brad die! You didn't even try to save him and then you turn around over a decade later and throw his death in Carly's face, holding her responsible for it, YOU BASTARD?!" Ashley says angrily, yelling the last part as loud as she can.
"I only blame Michael for Brad's death, he's the one who set that whole fucked up thing up! I don't blame Carly for anything that happened then, I was saying that all of this rejection from you lot, the yelling, the threats, is what I get after everything I've been through! Well I'm not having it, I've had enough of fucked up people so I'm going to start a normal life just as you all want to! You can come with me or never see me again, because if this is what you think of me even after I've opened my heart up to you all, I really can't care what you all do!" Trevor yells before going back to his truck in the car park.
Trevor got in his truck and sped off, Sam and Johnny turning to Carly and Clint turning to Ashley.
"You alright?" Clint asks.
"Been looking for him for years… just didn't know what he turned into until now." Ashley says, Michael noticing a look in Carly's eyes that rivaled his on the day of the bank job… when he saw Trevor's true colors when Trevor ran off into the snow and fog.
"Carly?" Michael says.
"I hope he crashes that truck and burns to death in that wreck." Carly says bitterly before she and Johnny leave.
It was late into the night when Carly heard a knock at Johnny's caravan door, got out of bed and walked to it, opening it and finding K8lynn.
"K8? What happened?" Carly says, noticing that K8lynn had been crying heavily.
"You know, with all I've been through… it hurts me when I hear that someone rejects what me and Trevor have been trying to fix." K8lynn says.
"Trying to fix, did he even tell-" Carly says.
"HE CRASHED HIS TRUCK AND IT BLEW UP! NO ONE'S SEEN OR FOUND HIM SINCE!" K8lynn yells, waking Johnny up.
"Are you fucking serious?" Johnny asks after walking over to them, completely shocked.
"Yes, I'm fucking serious, me and Trevor don't lie anymore! You're the ones who broke him and made him drive like that, if you'd just accepted him, he wouldn't have crashed and gone missing now!" K8lynn shouts.
Carly stayed completely quiet, K8lynn seeing that Carly, despite what happened earlier, was completely shattered from what she just heard.
"Good… he tried everything he could and you still refused to see him… whether he's dead or not, none of you are ever seeing me or him again because each and every one of you is the reason my child may not grow up with their father now… so goodbye, god bless, open your hearts and then rot in hell." K8lynn says before going back to her Sandking XL and driving away.
Carly just let her tears fall, Johnny pulling her into his arms as Sam and Ashley walked over to them, having heard what K8lynn just said. Ashley rested her hand on Carly's back, Carly glancing at her.
"If he was really dead… would they have found... his body by now?" Carly manages to say.
"I don't know. Me and some of the Hunterz are going to see if we can find proof that he is dead." Ashley says.
"She said either way, she or both of them aren't coming back… in less than a day, they went from never wanting to let us go to flat out leaving." Johnny says.
Carly and Sam looked at each other, Sam reaching over and brushing Carly's tears away.
"I… really don't know what else…" Carly says, Sam figuring it out.
"If he's gone… he's gone. If he's faking his death to punish us out of his anger… then he's purposely walking away from K8lynn and their child. And that he can't blame on anyone but himself." Sam says.
"If any of what he said was true… I doubt he'd leave K8lynn. If he meant what he said, she means more to him than anyone else." Johnny says.
The four walked into the caravan, Carly trying to get herself to unwind and close her eyes but Johnny knew that it wouldn't work, he knew her too damn well. Marcus's truck was there, with him and Tommy in the front, while Ashley climbed onto the back with Clint.
"What do we do? What happens… if he's really gone?" Ashley manages to ask, tears in her eyes as Clint hugged her.
"We try to move on with our lives." Clint says.
Meanwhile, a man in a pair of dark pants and a dark hoodie dragged a somewhat burned Trevor into the cabin, Trevor opening his eyes.
"You've got some nerve… doing that to them." Trevor heard the man say, noticing the faint lines of a tattoo similar to the one on his neck.
"They don't matter to me… not anymore… I want to marry K8lynn and raise our child, I can't do that with that lot around… I don't want to see them again, so I don't… see why you're even bothering with me." Trevor says.
"Because you left me behind… I barely survived and the little girls who were hiding near that barn saw who you really are." The man says, pulling the hood down and revealing his face, Trevor's eyes widening in shock.
"Brad… if it matters, go to them… I don't even want to be Trevor Philips anymore… it may seem like I'm pulling a Michael trick, and that's right, that's exactly what I'm doing… if you think that all I do is cause them pain and do no good, then just let me go so I can't do it anymore." Trevor says.
Brad turned and left… but Trevor's ears snapped up when he heard the front door lock from the outside and realised it didn't unlock from inside the cabin, angering him.
"BRAD, YOU BASTARD! LET ME GO!" Trevor yells as loud as he could.
"And what, let you go and pretend that you're not the same, demented prick you've always been?! Bye bye, Trevor!" Brad says before walking to a blue and red Phoenix, getting in and driving off.
"Fuck… I just… don't want to be here." Trevor says, sliding down against the wall to the floor. That was where he remained for the next few hours, walking around the building and trying to find a way out, finding only an air vent which was way too small for him to fit through.
Then he heard a large engine going at a quick speed, looking through the plastic flip panels of the vent and managing to catch a glimpse of a rush of dark blue before the wall a few feet away came crashing down, the nose of K8lynn's dark blue Sandking XL reversing out of the wall so Trevor could get in.
"How… how did you find me?" Trevor asks after closing the door.
"Let's just say that Brad made one mistake. While you were out, he searched up the phone number for the tattoo shop in Vinewood on his phone using mobile data, so it wasn't hard to find a phone named 'Brander's' which is clearly Brad and Snider together, in the memory of this area's data router." K8lynn says, Trevor just hugging her but grunting in pain when she touched one of his burns. "Can't take you to a hospital, they'll find us quick as hell… all our stuff is in the back." She says.
"Then I'm ready to get out of here." Trevor says, him and K8lynn kissing before K8lynn reversed back and started on her way to LS International, Trevor seeing the tickets in the space between the two front seats, apparently for a Mr and Mrs Guiles.
"Guiles? Where'd that come from?" Trevor asks.
"The Crucible, one of my favorite plays as a kid… it's just to get us there, we can go by another name on the other end if we want." K8lynn says.
"Where is the other end?" Trevor asks, K8lynn pointing to two words on the ticket which Trevor smiled at seeing. Far away from America and anyone else the two knew.
New Zealand.
Trevor leaned back as the plane took off… leaving San Andreas behind.