Flashback, March 5 2013, North Los Santos High School

Carly touched her right shoulder and tried to tune out the panicked screaming...blood stained her white blouse and everything around her became distorted as she fell to the ground, still conscious.

'I'm gonna die out here.' Carly thought, too numb to move as the world started to fade away.

For a split second, Carly thought that she heard the roar of a motorcycle engine.

"John..." Carly manages to say as Johnny got off his Hexer and ran over to her, kneeling down and putting his hands on the bullet wound to try to stop the bleeding.

"Carly, don't you dare pass out!" Johnny says, keeping one hand pressed on Carly's shoulder while calling 911 with the other, getting blood on his phone but that didn't bother him right now. He just wanted Carly safe and here she was, bleeding out in front of him while the people who didn't run just watched.

"I...Ivory...shot..." Carly tries to say, knowing that it was Ivory Smith who shot her.

"Ivory shot you?!" Johnny says, Carly barely nodding. Johnny pressed his fingers to Carly's neck...her pulse was growing weaker, she was struggling to stay awake.

"Johnny…i can't see." Carly says, her vision a complete blur.

"Carly… i'm sorry." Johnny says, hoping that he'd never have to do this.

"It's okay…i'm not getting out… Ivory wins." Carly says, her voice getting softer.

"I meant sorry for this-" Johnny stops, slapping Carly across the cheek.

"OW! Damn it!" Carly shouts, more awake.

"You're alive." Johnny says.

"You slapped me!" Carly says, shocked and angry.

"Yes and you're alive." Johnny says as sirens sound in the distance.

"FUCK! John, that really fucking hurt!" Carly shouted. There's the foul mouthed firecracker that Johnny cares so deeply about.

Carly's vision became clearer and she saw Johnny.

"Ivory is not going to get the better of us, baby girl." Johnny says, gently brushing his hand against Carly's sore face. She put her hand on Johnny's, nodding in agreement.

Present time...

"I don't know what you're talking about, you lunatic." Carly heard Johnny say but continues sleeping. She was completely exhausted but opened her eyes when she heard the other voice nearby.

'Fuck! Trevor's gonna kill him!' Carly thought, looking down and finding herself tucked in Johnny's bed.

'Oh right, blood soaked clothes.' She thought after pulling the covers off, seeing herself wearing one of Johnny's shirts. Well, most of it was blood from the IAA goons during the incident in the morgue.

"Carly! My niece! You know, tiny little thing, about 5ft tall?! 16 years old, big violet eyes and brown blonde hair?!" Trevor shouted as he stormed into the apartment. Michael called Trevor last night, unable to find Carly and as a result, he and Trevor spent the entire night searching everywhere in Los Santos.

"Normally, i have the whole 'take anything you can when it comes to love' attitude but a grown man fucking a teenage girl is all kinds of fucking wrong!" Trevor says.

"Are you going senile or did you smoke too much meth last night?! Carly's a kid, Trevor! I would never do anything to hurt her!" Johnny says, disturbed by Trevor's accusations.

"Her being a kid is exactly the point! She's too fucking young for a man in his thirties to be putting it in her! Where's your condom?! You did use one, right?!" Trevor shouts, pushing Johnny aside.

"Trevor, you need to leave now!" Johnny shouts.

"Enough! Both of you!" Both men heard Carly say and turn around, facing her. Trevor noticed the bandage on Carly's right shoulder immediately.

"What the hell happened to you?!" Trevor says.

"Gunfight with some IAA goons, nothing out of the ordinary." Carly says, readjusting the sleeve so it covers the bandage. Trevor then realized that Carly was wearing Johnny's shirt instead of her own clothes.

Trevor only saw that Carly had only one gunshot wound...and turned around enraged, facing Johnny.

"You son of a bitch!" Trevor shouted, charging at Johnny and tackling him to the ground, beating the hell out of Johnny...until Trevor fell off and Johnny saw Carly holding a tranquilizer gun.

"Nice shot, darling." Johnny says, picking Trevor's unconscious body up and throwing him onto the couch.

'How long will he be out?' Johnny thought.

"He'll be up in a few hours and back to normal." Carly says, surprising Johnny.

"Trevor normal or 'normal' normal?" Johnny says.

"Trevor normal." Carly says, smirking.

"Wiseass." Johnny says before walking over to Carly, hugging her after taking the tranquilizer gun.

"I'm a wiseass?" Carly says, chuckling a little bit. She glances at Trevor, who's too out of it to notice them.

"Fuck! That really hurt." Johnny says, letting go of Carly and walking over to the kitchen, opening the freezer and grabbing an ice pack, pressing it to his left eye.

Carly was glad that her headache was gone but made a mental note to punch Dave Norton for hitting her.

For now, she was just trying to figure out what to do when Trevor wakes up.