"How is he?" Sonny asked Sam.
"Getting worse. Robin says we need to do the surgery soon. She convinced Dr, Drake to come to perform the operation." Sam explained.
"Dr. Noah Drake! Has Robin lost her mind? He's a drunk."
"No, not Noah Drake. His son Patrick Drake. He is the best neurosurgeon in the country. Sam placed her hand on Sonny's shoulder. "I know you're worried, but you have to trust me on this. Dr. Drake is Jason's last chance. I'm already gearing up to fight Carly off with a machete, don't make me have to fight you too. I barely have enough energy to fight her. Speaking of Carly where is she? I though she would have been here yesterday when she was released."
"She's probably with Alcazar. She'll be here sometime today. She would never let Jason go through this with out her, and you can put your machete away. I won't fight you on this. If you and Robin think this will save his life then do it, but I pray to God you are both right." He gave her a long hug for support and then left to go find out where the hell Carly was.
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"What do you mean she's not at the hospital?" Lorenzo yelled into the phone. "Is she with Corinthos? "No excuses. Find out." He slammed down the phone.
He may not know everything about his ex-wife, but there were two things he knew for sure she loved her boys and Jason more than her own life. If she was not with Jason when he was about to have life or death surgery than something really bad must have happened to her.
He was about to place another call to Bobbie when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it." He called and then opened the door.
"Good help's hard to find, huh?" Sonny said sarcastically.
"I guess so since you made it alive to the door." Lorenzo retorted.
"I came to see Carly." Sonny said.
"She's with you? Isn't she?" Lorenzo asked.
"No, she told me you were picking her up yesterday and she was staying with you."
"And she told me that you were doing the same thing. Looks like Carly had a plan and it did not involve either one of us." Lorenzo smile and thought to himself, "She must be back to herself if she pulled this off."
"I'm not sure what you're smiling for? Carly is out there alone."
"Evidently, that is exactly the way she wants it. Carly will come home when she is ready. Not a second before." Lorenzo stated in superior tone.
"She needs to come home now. She can't just be out wandering with out protection. Your enemies and mine will use her as leverage if they got their hands on her."
"Then we find her set up a team to watch her from a distance so she has the illusion of being on her own." Lorenzo simply stated as if Sonny should have thought of it before flying off the handle.
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The bus pulled into the forth stop west of Pine Valley. Carly had been on the bus for over two hours and she thought this was far enough. She had purchased a ticket to the end of the bus line wherever the heck that was, but she was not going to go that far. Once again she had gotten off at every stop and withdrew money from the nearest ATM or if she was lucky a branch of her bank. On this trip there was only one stop near a bank branch so she was only able to get a few thousand dollars. She found the nearest ATM made a withdrawal and then found a phone booth.
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Sonny and Lorenzo were reluctantly working together sharing possible whereabouts of Carly. Sonny suggested they started the search in Florida. Lorenzo quickly shot that down. Carly was too smart to make it that easy.
"Maybe we should start off first by looking into how she got to where ever she is? She doesn't drive." He reminded Sonny. "We should start at the institution and find out who picked her up."
Sonny was about to agree when his cell phone rang. "Corinthos" He answered.
"Sonny." A small voice said from the other end.
"Carly, Is that you?" He asked "Where are you?"
Lorenzo sat up in his chair and leaned forward intently listening to the one sided conversation.
"I'm ok." Carly told him. "And no I haven't lost it again. I just need to be away from Port Charles for a while. I've been with a man every since I arrived there, Tony, Jason, you and then Lorenzo. I need to be by myself to rediscover who I am again without a man."
"That's nonsense" Sonny told her. "You can rediscover yourself right here at home. You don't need to run away to do it."
Lorenzo sat back on the couch. It was like he had thought she had left on her own volition.
"With you and Lorenzo breathing down my neck and Jason not even knowing my name unless I remind him. With guards watching my every move and reporting it back to you. Nope, that's still living the life that drove me nuts. No thanks. I'll do this my way. I just didn't want you or the boys to worry. I'll be back as soon as I can. Please don't look for me." Carly begged and then hung up the phone.
Sonny starred at his cell phone when the line went dead. Then he looked at Alcazar, "We start at the institution. Now." He picked up his jacket and headed toward the door.