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Chapter 1

He couldn't believe that she was gone. She couldn't have left Michael…or him. It was his fault, or at least that was what he believed. He believed that he was to blame for Carly driving her car over that cliff. If only she hadn't seen him with Alexis in his bed.

He didn't even know why he slept with Alexis. He loved her, yes that was true, but in his moment of weakness he confused loving someone and being in love with someone. He knew that it wasn't the same. Why did he have to sleep with her! He knew it would hurt Carly if she found out, but he wanted her to hurt; she left him and he wanted her to feel the pain that he had to hide from everyone. No, she hadn't left him, had she? He left her. Yes, it was true that she had signed the divorce papers first but he had left her long before that, he was the one who really left. He was in love with her and he left her because he couldn't find a way to forgive her.

The phone rang.

"Yeah?"

"Sonny, it's Jax. It's about Carly."

" What about her?" his heart pounded in his chest, 'please don't let her be dead' he prayed silently.

"They found her", Jax said and Sonny let out a sigh of relief. " She was unconscious when someone found her. They kept her in their home for a few days, supposedly they didn't have a phone to call G.H. They finally got her to Memorial, a hospital in the next county. They are transporting her here right now."

"I'll be right there"

Sonny got to GH as fast as he could, and when he got there Bobbie was sitting next to Jax sobbing. ' Oh no,' he thought,' please let Carly be all right, just let her be okay.'

"Sonny," Bobbie hugged her ex-son-in-law. " She's alive, my daughter's alive!"

"Where is she?" he asked, he wanted to see Carly, that was the only way he could be sure that this wasn't a dream.

"Alan's in with her right now," Jax replied, " he's going to be out in a minute to talk to us."

It seemed like forever be fore Alan came out of Carly's room. When he did he had a somber look on his face.

"Bobbie. Sonny. Jax… Carly is in stable condition for right now, but due to the extreme hypothermia and the lack of oxygen to her brain when she was in the lack there is a very good chance that she could have brain damage. The longer it takes for her to wake up the worst off she is."

"Can I see her?" Sonny asked.

" Yes, but only for a minute and only one at a time." Alan told them.

"Sonny , you go in first I want to call Leticia and check on Michael." Bobbie said.

Sonny walked into Carly's hospital room and saw her lying on the bed. She was so pale that it almost didn't even look like her. 'How could I have let this happened?' he thought. He had promised Carly that he would take care of her, that nothing bad would happen to her or Michael. And here she was; on the verge of death and Sonny had never felt more helpless than he did at that very moment.

" Carly," he said taking her hand in his and kissing her finger tips. " Carly, you gotta wake up. Michael needs you, he talks about you everyday, about how he can't wait to see you walk through that door at home and give him a hug. You know, that you have to wake up for him, Carly. You have to wake up for me, please. I need you in my life, Carly, I always have. Come on, Carly, I know you, you're a fighter and you can't give up so easily. Remember everything that you have to live for, remember that everyone here is counting on you to wake up and start causing all sorts of trouble like always. Please, please, Carly, you have to open your eyes for me."

She just laid there. It broke Sonny's heart to see her like that, he wanted so much to see her just wake up and start screaming at him for sleeping with Alexis. He wanted her to wake up and hit him for it. All he wanted her to do was just wake up, just wake up and show him that she was okay.

Sonny had sat by Carly's bedside for days waiting for her to open her eyes and she hadn't. it had been almost a week since they had brought her to GH and she hadn't moved a muscle since, Sonny was beginning to give up hope that he would ever see her beautiful brown eyes again. Sonny was sitting by her bedside when it happened, ahe moved. Her hand had squeezed his and her eyelids began to open. He ran to the door and called for a nurse and then ran back to Carly's side.

"Carly, can you hear me? Come on now open your eyes."

Slowly her eyes fluttered open and descended upon his face, but when she saw him she didn't have an expression of overwhelming joy, she looked frightened.

"Who are you?" were the first word's that came out of her mouth.