"That was close. You alright?" Connor says, Carly nodding as Connor pulled her up to her feet. Both had been walking around in the Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness, enjoying the unseasonably mild November weather when they were chased by several members of the Altruist cult and fell down the embankment.
"Yeah, I'm alright. You?" Carly says.
"Compared to what kind of injuries we usually deal with, cuts and bruises ain't so bad… and I think those rabid bastards are gone." Connor says, him and Carly walking back up the hiking trail and to the grey Imponte Ruiner that Connor drives, getting in and driving off. The two headed back towards Chumash, stopping on Ineseno road and in front of the house that Carly and Johnny recently moved into.
"Okay, what the fuck did those assholes want this time?! This can't just be about what happened out at Cape Catfish, that was two years ago!" Connor says.
"Hey, you'd be surprised at how long someone can hold a grudge." Carly says, rubbing her left leg.
"You didn't hurt that leg again, right?" Connor says.
"Hope not, once was bad enough." Carly says, remembering having fallen out of that tree 13 years ago and how terrified Ashley was, Brad having ran off to find Trevor while Ashley stayed with Carly and tried to make sure that Carly was calm enough.
Carly and Connor got out of the car and walked to the door, Johnny opening it and immediately pulling Carly into a hug.
"What the hell happened to you two?!" Johnny asks, helping Carly sit down.
"Alturists are crazed, bloodthirsty bastards, that's what happened! They ambushed us near the Chiliad Mountains!" Connor says, finding a med kit as Carly untied her left motorcycle boot and pulled it and her sock off when Johnny returned with an ice pack and towel.
Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N Roses played from Connor's phone and he answered it.
"Hey, Packie… wait, Dash was shot, is she okay?!" Connor says, Carly trying to stand up but Johnny gets her to sit back down and prop her leg back up, putting the towel and ice pack on it.
"Yeah, she's okay. It was only a flesh wound. Look, I called Michael and told him what kind of trouble that we're in." Packie says.
"Might be a day or two before we head to Liberty City… Carly and I got into a bit of trouble ourselves and she busted up her leg when we were being chased by those crazy cult bastards." Connor says.
"Ow! Are you alright?!" Packie says.
"Yeah, just a few cuts and bruises. Insanely lucky but it… I feel like we were targeted and it wasn't a random ambush." Connor says.
'Been in this life to know that not too many things happen randomly… he's right, something's off.' Carly thought, lightly gripping Johnny's hand after he fixed up her scraped wrists and hands, both kissing.
"Okay, tell Roman not to panic. We'll be there as soon as possible." Connor says before hanging up.
"That wasn't good news." Carly says.
"Yeah, Dash went and killed someone who was holding Roman at gunpoint. Turns out, the guy Dash killed was a member of a gang in Liberty City and they didn't take too kindly to it, now they've put a hit out on Dash." Connor says.
"Damn it. She's been through more than enough for one lifetime. The violence just never ends." Carly says before Last Flight by Jan Hammer played from her phone, Carly seeing that it was Trevor that was calling.
Carly ignored it, in no mood to talk to Trevor right now… maybe it was all the hell Trevor caused her and Johnny but something was telling her that he had an involvement in what happened earlier.
Carly's P.O.V
Okay, one random ambush, I can chalk up to that, a random ambush.
Twice?! Something is fucking wrong. I don't want to think the worst of Trevor every time something happens to one of us but he's been really pissed lately, especially since he overheard me and Johnny talking about getting married some time in the near future.
"Hey, there you are. You alright?" Johnny says after I walk out of the bedroom, drying my hair off after getting cleaned off and changing into a red racerback tank top and navy pajama shorts.
"Yeah. Hey, where's Connor?" I say.
"He went to go tell the others about what Packie has in mind." Johnny says before we kiss. Johnny then stepped back afterwards, reaching into his jacket pocket and revealing a little velvet box, opening it and revealing an Alexandrite engagement ring.
I reach into my shorts pocket, revealing a silver ring before we hug and put the rings on each other's ring fingers before kissing.
Yeah, this is gonna send Trevor completely over the edge… but it's out of his control.
Just because Trevor wouldn't know normal if it bit him on his ass doesn't give him any right to stop me and Johnny from starting a life together.