Sabrina followed Carlos into their apartment and was greeted with the mess of an apartment she left the night she was admitted to the hospital. Carlos set her bag down on the bed and reached for the TV remote and fell onto the couch. Sabrina knew what her role would be the moment they got into the apartment. Caregiver and housekeeper, was her role and she knew the moment she went back into the apartment, Carlos would not let her rest. She gathered her emotions and thoughts hoping to not miss a beat until he left for work tonight. She managed to clean up most of the apartment and stay out of his way before he left. When he went to leave she accidentally spilled something in front of him and when she got up after picking it up, his fist met her in her eye.
He was waiting for the elevator when his phone rang it was Mr. Wells.
Mr. Wells: "Carlos, are you going to take care of what we discussed tonight?"
Carlos: "Yes, I am on my way right now. I just had to get Sabrina back into her routine at home."
Mr. Wells: " Okay, I will meet you at the office."
Carlos did not realize anyone was standing in the stairwell waiting for him to get on the elevator so they could sneak into his apartment and talk to Sabrina. As soon as the elevator doors closed, Patrick sneaked out of the stairwell. Liz, Felix, and Epiphany all trying to keep their mouths quiet as they made their way down the hall followed him. There was a knock on the door and it startled Sabrina, she had an ice pack on her eye hoping the swelling would go down before having to go to work. Usually if there was a knock Carlos was home and most likely drunk, which usually meant one thing, she would be yelled at or worse hit if she didn't open the door quick enough. She rushed to the door.
Sabrina: "Coming Carlos, I am coming!"
She didn't hear an aggravated voice on the other side of the door, so she opened it with caution. The moment she opened the door completely she saw all of them standing there. She tried to close the door but Patrick was able to muscle his arm against the door and push it open.
Sabrina: "What are all of you doing here?" Trying to hide the ice pack behind her back but wasn't doing a very good job at it.
Patrick: " We came to make sure you were okay, and as I can see from your eye, you are not."
Sabrina: "No I am, I just spilled something I should not have and it aggravated Carlos. Now if you would all please leave before Carlos comes back that would be great."
Liz: "Sabrina, we are not going anywhere. We want to make sure you are safe with Carlos and if not than we can help you pack and get out of here before he comes back."
Sabrina: " You guys don't understand, Carlos and I have a great relationship, he only gets upset with me when he has had too much to drink and I got in his way."
Epiphany was trying to keep her mouth shut, as she was literally holding her lips together with her hands. Once Sabrina stopped talking Epiphany got up and started packing more clothes into the bag she saw lying on the bed. She knew Sabrina had not gotten a chance to unpack because she was busy cleaning the apartment and was too distracted by everyone there to notice Epiphany packing.
Sabrina: "Epiphany what are you doing?"
Epiphany: "What does it look like I am doing Nurse Santiago?" "I am packing your things, I am going to have you stay with Liz until Carlos is behind bars for good."
Sabrina: "Epiphany, Liz you don't have to do this, I can handle Carlos."
As soon as she finished talking she saw everyone's eyes look at the door. Carlos had come back early and was waiting for the best time to make his presence known with learning as much about Sabrina's friends concerns as possible. As he walked in everyone started to move as if on eggshells.
Sabrina: "Carlos, I thought you had some business to do with Mr. Wells?"
Carlos: " I did but I got to the office and noticed I forgot something so I came back, and I'm glad I did."
Patrick blocked him from getting to Sabrina as Felix, Liz, and Epiphany grabbed Sabrina and the bag and got out of the apartment as fast as possible. Sabrina knew this situation was not going to end well.
Patrick moved closer to Carlos and waited until he knew they were on their way to the car before he said anything.
Patrick: " If you think I am going to let you hurt Sabrina anymore than you already have then you are wrong."
Carlos: " And you are going to stop me how?"
Patrick: " I have my ways Carlos, and you will never see her again. That I can promise you."
Liz: "Sabrina get in the car!"
Sabrina: "No! You don't understand what Carlos is capable of. I mean if he can do this to me than what do you think he can do to Patrick."
Liz: "So you do admit Carlos is the one who is hitting you."
Sabrina: "Yes, but this is not the point. I am just worried about Patrick"
Felix: "Don't worry about Patrick, he will be just fine." He pointed in the direction of the building; Sabrina looked and saw Patrick walking towards the car with a bloody lip.
Sabrina: " OH MY GOD! Patrick what happened! I told you to stay out of this. Come on let's get you to the hospital. The sooner you are away from me and Carlos the better." Sabrina felt as if everything was her fault and if she were to just disappear out of Port Charles and go back to Carlos everything would go back to normal, for the people who had come to care about her anyways.
