PLAN
"I need your help." Carly tosses her purse onto an empty chair.
Sam looks at her in confusion. Carly coming to her for…well anything…was unheard of. She gestures for Carly to take a seat.
"What can I help you with?" Sam asks cautiously. "Why didn't you call Jason as usual?" She can't resist adding.
"Because he won't let me go." Carly says simply. "I need to get out of here for a while and you're gonna help me do it."
Sam jaw drops. "What makes you think I'd…?"
"Because you know just like I know as long as I'm around I'm always gonna be a threat to your relationship with Jason." Carly shrugs.
Sam shakes her head and laughs. "Carly, you and Jason have been over for damn near 19 years."
"Jason and I haven't slept together but you know good and well we are not 'over'. Hell our relationship is even closer than when we were having sex." Carly laughs. "I'm his other half. I always have been."
Sam knows it's true even if she'll never speak the words out loud. She knows in her heart the woman sitting across from her is the love of her life's real love.
"What do you need me to do?" Sam asks begrudgingly.
Carly sits back with a smile.
"How'd it go?"
Carly rubs her tired eyes. "It went. Now it's time for the hard part."
"You sure you wanna go through with this?" He asks.
Carly shifts the phone to her other ear. "Of course I'm sure. They're gonna pay for what they did to my son and to me. I'm so sick of people doing shit to me and mine and getting away with it. Sonny, Ric, Kate, Dante, Lulu…it's never ending."
"Jason." He states evenly.
Carly shakes her head. "No. Jason hasn't been my Jason in a really long time but he's always been there the best he could for Michael and I'll never ever forget that. He went to prison for him. He put the rest of his life on the line. No, Jason is safe and off limits."
"I love Jason as much as you do but let's get real!" He says angrily. "Jason let Ric get away with chaining you to a fucking wall. Jason didn't tell you Sonny bartered for Dante's life by using Michael's safety in prison. Jason didn't tell you what really happened to Michael while he was in there. Jason is protecting Brenda…"
Carly closes her eyes tightly. "I know what Jason did and didn't do. That's why I didn't go to him with this. Jason will be hurt enough once we're gone. That's something we're all gonna have to live with. Do not and I repeat do not touch Jason."
"Yeah whatever." He shoots back.
Carly rolls her eyes. "Okay let me put it another way. If he so much as gets a hangnail I will pop a cap in your ass myself. I've been practicing so trust I can do it."
"It's about time you learned to shoot straight." He laughs.
She flips off the phone. "Screw you. Now can we get back to the plan?"