Chapter 3
Sam quietly opened the door to her room clicked on the light in her walk in closet and yanked out a black pair of skinny jeans, her favorite black turtle neck and her black leather jacket. She threw them on in less than 2 minutes grabbed her black knee high boots with the stiletto heel and stood in front of her full body mirror that was inside of her closet. She breathed heavily and ran both hands through her hair letting them rest on the back of her neck. Sam had never been one to let her nerves get to her but this time was different and she knew it. She still had not received the call she was waiting for, over an hour ago. So much was riding on what happens tonight and she knew she had to succeed to make her point. It was now or never. Sam looked up at the ceiling closed her eyes and then looked at herself one more time in the mirror.
"Let's go get'em Sammy baby" that is exactly what Nikki would say right before her and Sam were about to raise some hell.
"You can bet your ass on it baby girl" was what Sam whispered into the air as she clicked of the light to her closet and went to her bed where the kids were sleeping. She knelt down and kissed each one on the forehead breathed one last deep breathe to calm herself and walked out of her room. She ran down the staircase to where both her brothers and Alex waited for her. They were still dressed in the suits of all black from the funeral. They all looked at each other and turned in unison and walked down the hallway to the room where the 4 families awaited.
Jason and Sonny sat where they customarily sat in these meetings and that was to the right of Alexander's seat. It was no secret that Alexander trusted Sonny with certain confidences, and shared information with him that the other families were not privy to. No one would dare bring this to Alex's attention for the mere fact that regardless of the fondness he held for Sonny Alexander was always fair to everyone.
Jason and Sonny nodded in acknowledgement to each of the other families who were in attendance and as always were represented by two players from each organization. The Zaccharas were seated across from Sonny and Jason and were represented by Claudia Z and her younger brother Johnny. The Bortelli organization was seated next to Sonny and Jason and was represented by brothers Boris and Jorge. They were two huge burly men with dark features. Looking at them was guaranteed to strike fear into your heart. God help any of there enemies because they never showed any mercy under any circumstances. It was rumored that they had taken out there own mother for being disloyal to them by trying to bust them for the feds. The final family in attendance was the Manfredi Organization. They were by no sense of the word business savvy but to there credit at least Semi Street smart. There problem amongst many others were that it was all about the money and power with them. If it was going to further there territory and fatten their pockets they were all in. They were represented by Giovanni and Santos. They were both strikingly good looking guys with grey eyes. Santos had jet black hair and Giovanni had dark brown. Of the two brothers Santos was the shorter of the two he also walked with a slight limp due to an 'accident' he was in 5 years ago. As they were all waiting for the meeting to begin Santos drummed his fingers on the large heavy wooden table. Alexander, Gabriel, Lucas and Sam were 10 ft away form the meeting room when Sam's phone rang. She stopped abruptly and ignored the quizzical glances and the gestures to hurry up that she recieved from the men in her family. She rolled there eyes and held up a finger for them to hold on as she answered her phone.
"Is it done?" she asked the mystery caller "Good" and with that she hung up, turned her phone off and stuck it in her coat pocket as she looked at her family and smiled.
"What was that about Sammy?" Gabriel asked. Sam just looked at him and smiled smugly. Sam completly ignored his question
"Are we ready to go inside gentlemen?" Gabe squinted his eyes together and eyed her suspiciously.
"What are you up to you pequeña colérica?
Alex looked at her and new that Sam would tell them when the time was right "Lets go" was all he said as one of his body guards opened the door for them to walk through.
Jason had managed to catch a glance at Santos and was wondering what the hell he was so antsy about and why he kept drumming his finger on the wood table. Jason leaned over to his right "Sonny" he whispered, and then he motioned towards his left in the direction of Santos. Sonny looked up but did not have a chance to look at Santos because at that very moment the door opened, and in walked Alex followed by Sam who had Gabriel and Lucas staggered to her right and left. The 4 families stood in respect and waited for Alex to be seated at the Head of the table. Gabriel and Lucas stood to the right and left of there father with Sam inbetween them standing directly behind Alexander's chair.
Jason was livid. He had no idea why Sam was included in this meeting and he didn't care to know. All he knew was that this was not the place Sam needed to be, he needed to know what the hell was going on and he was determined to find out and make sure that Sam was not involved. Sam could feel Jason's pissed of gaze on her face so she pointedly stared at him in the eye and gave him the only answer that he was going to get from her, an icy stare that matched his own. He looked into Sam's eyes. Where he once saw so much light and love, no trace of any of that now looked back of him. In the place of all of that was now emptiness and anger. Jason was the first to look away, he was left to wonder if he had done that to her, if his actions had damaged her so much that he had destroyed who she used to be. He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed. In that exact moment Sam breathed a slight sigh of relief at the reprieve.
Alexander motioned for everyone to take there seats. The four families did as they were instructed, but it was evident that everyone was confused as to why Sam was in the room. They all knew her as Jason's ex girlfriend but they had no idea the connection she had to the Torres's.
"Things are about to change" Alex began "What happened to my daughter…..is unforgivable and will not go unpunished!" he growled. He had his hands on the table with both fist balled trying to control his anger.
"My family will find out what happened to our Dominique. And while we are doing that the day to day operations shall be run a little differently" Alex paused and began to answer the question that was on everyone's mind.
"I am aware that you all know the beautiful woman behind me as Morgan's ex-girlfriend, however she has been apart of my family long before Morgan ever entered the picture. She has been like a daughter to me for over 20 years and starting today you all will no longer just answer to my sons Gabriel and Lucas but you will also answer to Samantha as well. You will treat her no differently than you do my sons and you will do whatever she tells you to do…I hope I am making myself clear" Alex looked around the room beginning on his left and let the realization of what he just said sink in. When he looked to his right and looked at Jason he could see that Jason looked as if he were going to implode with anger and Alex could not help but feel a twinge of guilt. Alex had just buried one of his daughters if something were to happen to Sam he would not be able to contain the guilt and sadness that he knew would engulf him. But unlike Morgan he knew that trying to stop Sam once she had already made up her mind, was not only a complete waist of time but it would only make things worse because she would then go and do this on her own. And that was to dangerous to allow, besides Alex was determined to protect her at all costs so this was the only alternative that Alex could think of that would appease everyone.
Santos was the only one who was not stunned into silence long enough to keep his mouth shut.
"Alexander with all due respect have you gone mad?! I understand that you are grieving but are you really that out of your mind that you would put a bitch in that type of position.. with that much power?"
As soon as Santos finished his sentence he immediately wished he had said nothing. Jason's piercing blue eyes were staring at Santos. The only thing he heard come out of Santos mouth in that entire statement was the word bitch in reference to Sam.
"Watch your mouth!" Jason hissed at him through clenched teeth.
Gabriel glared at Jason and then turned his gaze to Santos "You would be wise to listen to Morgan's warning Santos!" the warning he gave to the smaller Manfredi was clear in his tone.
Sam looked Santos in his eye and held his gaze the entire time she spoke.
"Jason, Gabe I am sure Santos calling me a bitch was just a slip of the tongue; I would bet…my life on it that he did not mean to offend me. And I know that he did not mean to offend Papa. Isn't that right?"
Santos scowling expression was clear but he was not going to ignore the warnings he received from Jason and Gabriel both of whom he knew would not hesitate to kill him right now.
"I would never intentionally offend you…please accept my deepest apologies Ms. McCall, Alexander I am truly sorry for my outburst"
Sam nodded her head in acceptance.
"Do not let is happen again." Alex warned his eyes had started to turn from hazel to dark brown.
Santos nodded he dared not look up and meet Alexander's gaze. He knew he had just screwed up and he hoped this meeting would be over quickly. He already knew that he was not going to like this arrangement at all. Giovanni chose this time to speak knowing that he needed to try and take some of the heat of off his brother.
"Our deepest apologies Alexander, emotions are running high and my brother reacted poorly to this new structural information. Again I am sorry for his outburst but this news is unexpected" Giovanni could see that Alexander's eyes were starting to lighten; Alex was starting to relax slightly. What Giovanni didn't bank on however was a petite brunette standing in the middle of the Torres men that was going to blow him and his brother out of the water.
"The reason for your brother's outburst is more than understandable Giovanni" Sam smiled with a glint in her eye that immediately put Giovanni on the offensive. "But would you care to explain the reasoning for the underhanded, and disloyal behavior that you and your brother are participating in right now as we speak?
Giovanni and Santos didn't even look at each other they just stared at Sam in mock confusion.
"What are you talking about Ms McCall? We would never be disloyal to Alexander!" Giovanni tried to sound convincing but he could not con a former con.
Sam moved from behind Alexander and away from her brothers. She stopped when she was virtually standing in front of the Manfredis. She was very aware that everyone was staring at her and waiting for what she would say or do next.
"So your going to look me in my eye and tell me that you would never betray my fathers trust!?" it was more like a statement rather than a question but Giovanni was going to answer it anyway. He would be damned if this little twit was going to cast doubt on him and his brother.
"We would never betray Alexander's trust!" he said with all of the conviction he could muster up.
Sam cocked her head to the side and clucked her tongue on the top of her mouth. She was trying to give them a chance to come clean but these dumb bastards were not budging. For that they would be sorry. Sam uttered four simple words.
"Turn your phones on"
"What? Why?!" Santos asked
"Turn your phones on" she said again visibly irked that that she had to repeat herself. They were going to question her again but Lucas interrupted.
"If you even think of questioning her again I will have a bullet in you before you can complete your sentence..Now DO AS SHE ASKED!" he yelled.
Giovanni and Santos exchanged nervous glances and took out there phones and turned them on. No sooner had they turned them on did they start ringing and buzzing. Sam smirked as she saw the nervous looks on their faces.
"I knew this meeting was going to be interesting" Claudia whispered to John with a smile
"I don't understand what their phones have to do with anything" Boris said noticeably irritated. Sam just looked at him blankly
"You will" was her reply.
She looked from Giovanni to Santos and back to Giovanni. She knew from this brief meeting and from her previous yet limited experience with the Manfredis that Santos was the weaker link. She was going to prove a point that she nor her family are to be disrespected and to never underestimate her.
"Santos" she said still looking at Giovanni "listen to your voicemail"
Giovanni did not dare say anything, he was busy trying to figure out how he and his brother were going to get out of this mess alive. Santos swallowed hard and pressed in his voicemail code.
"Put it on speakerphone" Sam instructed
Santos pressed the button so that everyone could hear the voicemail.
"Santos we have a problem the shipment for tonight was blown up, call me back when you get this message" the unknown voice said before hanging up.
Santos breathed a sigh of relief the message just said that the shipment was blown up it didn't say where it was. Sam chuckled "You moron" she said, she knew that Santos thought that they were off the hook. She looked at Giovanni and the look on his face said that he knew otherwise. Sam could tell he was still trying to figure out how to weasel his way out of this. To show him that she knew what he was thinking she answered the question that he had not asked.
"Yes, you are so busted you lying douche bag" Giovanni closed his eyes and silently cursed himself. She then turned to Sonny and Jason "Sonny turn on your phone, check the voicemail and put it on speaker"
Sonny did not like to take orders from anyone, but he knew better than to disobey an order from someone that Alex had put in charge. He took out his phone and did as he was instructed. Sam smiled at his obvious resentment that he had to do what she told him, but she did respect his resolve to do as her father instructed and to follow what she said without question.
Sonny's voicemail was from Bernie.
"Sonny we have a problem a shipment was blown up on Pier 52 but we were not expecting any shipments tonight per your order to lock everything down call me back."
Sonny looked at Sam straight in the eye and immediately understood. He then turned to look at the Manfredi's his brown eyes flooded with anger and he knew Jason's face and emotions echoed his own at the total lack of respect these two idiots showed. Before either of them could open there mouth Sam looked at her brothers, and father to explained.
"You see Ren and Stimpy over there took this tragedy as an opportunity to move an unauthorized shipment though Sonny's territory. They knew that Sonny would show you the utmost respect by shutting down any movement that he had planned for today. Being the untrusting person that I am I sent some of our men to Port Charles to just watch sonny's territory, men that had been there before so it did not raise any red flags within Sonny's organization. I wanted to know if there was anyone that would actually be manipulative enough to take advantage of this families loss and the respect that Sonny has for you."
Sam paused and saw the anger building in her father, brothers, sonny and Jason.
"Sam why did you blow up the shipment" Sonny asked barely able to contain his anger. Right behind him Gabriel followed with a question of his own
"How did you know that the shipment belonged to the Manfredis?" Gabriel asked this only partly out of curiosity the rest was to put an exclamation point on the example that Sam had just set to not fuck with them.
"The reason why I blew it up was because these sorry bastards were trying to get a shipment of drugs into your territory."
"You are dead men!" Sonny spat as he hit his fists on the table and glared at the Manfredis. Sam waited a minute before she continued
"Gabe to answer your question they use a special type of ship. It is black and is bigger than any of the ships that anyone else uses…apparently they think bigger is better, but that is not the case if you don't know how to use it"
"Aint that the truth" Claudia responded All the men in the room shifted there weight in there chairs visibly uncomfortable at the direction that this conversation had turned.
"Not only are there ships black but they all have a specialized horn installed, but the easiest detector that the ships were the Manfredis were that they all have the name Manfredi monogrammed on the side of the ships…dead give away" she said with a wink towards her family. "So when I realized that someone was on the move and that it was not Sonny and that no one was authorized to move anything I gave the order to the men to blow that puppy sky high."
The Torres men could not help but smile at Sam, and Alex could not hide the sense of pride from revealing itself on his face.
Both Giovanni and Santos closed there eyes in utter disbelief. They knew they were as good as dead.
Sam took one step towards where her family stood at the other end of the table.
"YOU BITCH!" Santos screamed as grabbed Sam's right arm and spun her around to face him with his arm rising to strike her. Immediately Sam heard all of the chairs slide back from the table, everyone was on there feet and had taken a step towards Sam but what they did not anticipate was Sam grabbing he gun from behind her back and having it pointed right between Santos eyes before he had even fully raised his hand to be in a position to strike her.
"Bad move Stimpy!" she said
Alex who was on his feet with everyone else was beyond angry.
"YOU WOULD DARE TO TRY AND PUT YOU HANDS ON MY DAUGHTER!" he yelled as he flipped over the wooden table "The total lack of respect that you have shown to first move an unauthorized shipment, but not just any shipment a shipment of DRUGS no less and through Corinthos territory! and secondly which is the mistake that was the biggest of all...To even attempt to hurt my daughter!You…WILL…PAY…WITH…YOUR…LIVES!" He growled his eyes dark as coal. It was at that moment and that moment only that Sam realized that there were 10 guns point pointed at Santos and Giovanni and only one of them belonged to her. She lowered her gun and put it back in her jeans waistband.
"No papa, I have a better solution" she said looking him straight in the eyes
"Sam he will die for what he just did" Lucas said seething with anger.
"I understand that under regular circumstances yes that is how this would be concluded but these are anything but regular circumstances, given what has happened tonight let Santos and Giovanni serve as walking examples of what happens when you cross the line and do not obey the rules."
Alex looked at Sam for what seemed to be forever before he let out a breath and nodded his approval and then motioned for Gabriel and Lucas to take Santos and Giovanni away. Gabriel and Lucas each grabbed a Manfredi by the neck and took them outside and handed them off to some of there body guards, with the instructions to take the Manfredis to an undisclosed location.
When Gabe and Lucas came back into the room Boris and Jorge were flipping the table back into its upright position. Everyone who remained had taken their seats and Sam was standing besides Alex. Alex waited until his sons were standing at his side before he spoke.
"Let this serve as an example that anyone who disrespects me or my family will be dealt with accordingly. When we find who killed my Nikki…God himself wll NOT be able to save him, I hope I am making myself clear"
Everyone nodded there agreement they knew they had been warned andfortunately for them they were all smarter then the Manfredis and were not going to test Alexander's patience.
Boris looked Sam in the eye and said
"Are there anymore where you came from McCall? Because your father's organization just got a hell of a lot tougher with you in his corner"
"Sorry I am the lone ranger" Sam replied with a smirk
"I have only seen one other person move with that sort of quickness and unwavering coolness that you possessed in response to this attack and that is Morgan." Boris winked at Sam and walked out of the room with Jorge close behind.
Everyone in the room was stunned to silence. They had never heard Boris or Jorge give anyone a compliment let alone give a compliment to a woman, that had nothing to do with her rack.
"Well Hot damn" Lucas replied under his breath
"This meeting is over" Gabriel stated as Alex rose to his feet
"Corinthos, Morgan come with me to my study" Alex turned and looked at Sam "You come with me as well mija this concerns you too, Lucas, Gabe tend to our friends Giovanni and Santos." As they were walking down the hallway to the study Alex protectively wrapped his arm around Sam's shoulders as she wrapped her tiny arm around her father's waist. When they reached the study Alex opened the door and Sam walked in followed by Sonny and Jason. Sonny was standing near the seat in-between Jason and Sam. Alex took a seat behind his desk and motioned for everyone to sit down. Alex looked down and breathed in a deep breath. He knew this was not going to go well.
Gabriel looked in on Marco and Sophia who were still sleeping soundly in Sam's room before he went downstairs to meet with Lucas. They were putting on their coats when they heard Sam yell from the study.
"You CAN NOT be serious Alexander!"
Gabe and Lucas looked at each other and exchanged knowing glances. Sam only called there father Alexander when she was beyond pissed off.
"He must be in there telling her that Morgan is going to be involved" Lucas snickered
"Oh yea, and judging by the tone in her voice he is going to be fighting an uphill battle because she is li-vid! Now come on and lets get out of here we have a long night ahead of us"
"Damn right, it is time we go show those fuckers what happens when they disrespect any one of us!"
Okay let me know what you think.....I will try and make updates twice a week as long as the chapter comes out in the same way that it looks in my head before I write it lol....I hope you all enjoy it and thanks for the wonderful comments and encouragement!
