CHAPTER THREE
Author's Note: Known dialog is from the transcript of January 21st, 2010.
UNEXPECTED BUT YET EXPECTED NEWS
CARLY'S ROOM
"You are finally going to get the rest that your body craves, Princess." Bo carefully brushed aside the fallen hair from her closed eye lids. "You can't out run your body." Sighing as he just simply watched the second true love of his life sleep. "Don't worry about the bail money. Abe agrees with me and not sending you back to the dark and closed in cell. Abe isn't even worried on what the outsiders are going to say about you and me."
He swallowed. "Please Princess be all right. Please don't leave me. Again. Please." Bo couldn't keep the lone tear from sliding down his cheeks. "I lost you twice, I can't lose you a third time."
"I'm sorry to interrupt." Lexi said coming into the room. "I need to run some tests."
Bo looked worried.
"It's natural when someone faints like that to check things out. With Carly's past hmm, adventures should we say the past three days, she needs extra care." Lexi said as she began to do the general check up. Turning her head as she checked the pulse. "You need to wait outside Bo."
Bo shook his head. "I'm not leaving." He took Carly's life less hand in his.
"I have to do a full check, Bo. You have to leave." Lexi said firmly letting Carly's waist go. "Now."
"I just can't Lexi." Tears welled up in his eyes.
Lexi moved an inch and put a gentle but firm hand on his shoulder. "She's not going anywhere. No one can get in here. You'll be right side. Plus there are guards posted on both doors."
"I can't leave her, Lexi. I just can't." Bo wept. "I left her last time, and then I had to say good bye to her in her coffin."
Lexi knelt down so she was eye level. "That's not going to happen this time, Bo. She's not dying. She's no where close to dying. Vivian won't be able to have a chance to get to her." She squeezed his shoulder. "You need to allow me to take care of my patient."
"I can't leave her. Not again." Bo just tighten his hard on her hand.
"You need to leave, Bo. I'll stay by her side. I'll keep her safe." Hope said from behind him.
Bo stood to his feet and leaned over to breath on Carly's face. "I'm just going to be right outside the room, Princess. No more than just ten feet from you. You are going to be safe here. Lexi is here to check you out. Hope is going to remain by your side. She won't let anyone get to you. I'll be right back, Princess." He placed his lips against hers.
Hope watched the love of her life comfort the second woman whom he loved. She held back the tears. She couldn't break down now. Not yet. She had to remain strong. After a few moments, Bo pulled back. "I love you." He whispered in the still room. Her heart and soul broke the final break. She knew now that she had lost Bo for all time. She watched as he kissed Carly's forehead before standing straight once more. "I'll keep her safe for you." She whispered after he turned to face her.
"Thank you Fancy Face. I can't lose her again." Bo shook his head and left the room.
"Okay time to help my patient." Lexi said in a falsely cherry voice.
"You think is more serious than what you led Bo to believe." Hope said in an soft accusing voice.
"Don't you?" Lexi looked pointing over her right shoulder at Hope. "You were in the Cannery room with her."
"She was more intent on protecting her daughter from Vivian." Hope quickly said. She looked at the sleeping fallen woman. "But, her eyes weren't right. I couldn't touch her to check her pulse. But, I'm sure it was speeding up and perhaps even slowing down at the same time. I'm sure her heart was running wild … not knowing what to do." She walked over and stood next to the right side of the bed. "I promised Bo that I will remain by your side, Pr .. Carly. I promise you that I won't allow Vivian to get within a inch of you. You are quite safe."
Lexi silently went to work. She wanted to test for everything. But how can she test for one important thing without Hope noticing. "I know that you want to test her ... it's okay, Lexi." She looked up into Hope's eyes and nodded.
WAITING AREA / NURSES DESK
"Bo." Maggie put a hand on Bo's right shoulder.
"I can't lose her again, Maggie, I just can't." Bo whispered not tearing his eyes from the closed door. "Once was enough. I can't go through it again."
Maggie moved around and faced him. "Carly is going to be just fine, Bo. She's just exhausted is all. She just needs to get much needed rest right now."
"Vivian did this too her. Just like last time." Bo seethed. "I'm not going to allow Vivian to put Carly back in that coffin, with six feet of dirt on top of her. I'm going to protect my Princess."
"That's not going to happen this time, Bo." She didn't have to say that it won't ever happen again. But, hopefully next time, Vivian herself would be dead for a long time. Also next time they would make sure that Carly was truly gone from them. They would never make mistakes concerning Carly's burial ever again.
"You can't promise me that. No one can. I can't even promise her that." Bo whispered.
CARLY'S ROOM
"All right almost done. Then Bo will be back your side." Lexi said as she finished with the one test that she knew would break Hope's heart if it came out positive. But the test had to be taken. She had to take in every possibility here. She gently covered Carly back up after lowing the grown back down to decent level. Placing a hand on Carly's calmly face. "It's going to be all right now, Doctor Manning. It'll be all right." She softly said. She turned and walked to the door.
Hope simply watched as Bo rushed in and took Carly's hand in his. "I'm here Princess. I'm not going to leave you again. I promise." He whispered as he bent and captured her lips with his own. She turned away from the sight and left the room herself.
"I called Nicky. He's on the way here." Bo said after he sat in the chair. "I told him about his sister. I had too Princess, he had the right know the full situation before he came to the hospital. Don't worry I didn't tell him about Lawrence. Just that he has a new found sister is all."
"I also called Jennifer. She's on her way also." He said with a slight smile on his lips, as he traced the right side of her face. "We are going to have a good old family reunion. You, Nicky, Melaine, Jennifer and I. Daniel too. Seeing how he's part of your family now that he's Melanie's father."
"You and are going to be married within this year, Princess. Shawn Douglas, Nicky and Melanie of course will be in the wedding. Standing up for us. We are going to finally be together for all time, Princess. Just as we planned seventeen years ago. Nothing and no one is going to stand in our way now."
DUBLIN
"My mother is in the hospital. She's currently unconscious, and had just shot my younger half sister. The half sister that I never knew I had." Nicholas looked into the green eyes of the slightly younger man beside him. "My mother had an affair with one of her doctor colleagues. A Daniel Jonas at a medical conference."
"Not surprising." The young man shrugged his board shoulders.
"She's a no good whore. I'm sure that she cheated on my father with more men beside Daniel." His dark eyes glinted, "I'm sure there had been many, many booty calls with Bo Brady over the years." His fists clenched on the table. "I want you to look into every possible unwanted love children that my mother has had. Melanie can't be the only bastard sibling out there."
"I'll see to it." The young man nodded.
"I don't want Vivian to get any hint of this. I don't want dear old Vivian handing my mother's punishment." Nicholas breathed out. "That Gabriel is my duty. My soul duty for my father's murder." He fully knew the details of his father's death. He knew his mother had murdered his father in cold blood, and fled back to Bo's arms. He was going to avenge his father's death – and he would make his mother pay dearly for her role. Also for her betrayal against his father.
"I need to know how many siblings I have out in the world. I have to figure out how to contain this and make sure that I'm the sole heir to the Von Leuschner fortune." His right hand rose to tap his lower chin. "That fortune is mine. All mine. Dad made sure to leave me the sole heir in his will." A smirk lit up his face. "I can't wait to see mother's face when she learns this."
AFRICA AIR PORT
"Dad thanks for getting us here. I'm sorry that we have leave in such a rush. With no warning. But -" Jennifer hugged her father hard against the chest. "But, we are needed back home. Hope. Bo. Gran. Maggie."
"Carly needs you also." Bill said holding his daughter tightly against him. "It's okay to actually go home for your friend, Jennifer. It's okay to admit it."
"Yes, Carly needs me." Jennifer admitted in her father's chest. "She needs to know that I have never abandoned her or truly believed that she was gone for good." Pulling away from her father, "I have so much to make up for with her. So much that I have apologize for. So much,"
"She understood." Bill sternly said. "She never held it against you."
"How do you know that, dad?! How can you possibility know that!" Jennifer exclaimed. "I haven't seen her since she left Salem seventeen years ago. I wasn't even there when she got her memory back. I wasn't there to say good bye to her. The last time I saw her was when she still couldn't remember me." Tears run down her cheeks. "The last time I spoke to her was just the morning before she went into that damn coma, that killed her."
Bill pulled his daughter back into his arms. "I don't know what else to tell you."
Jennifer pushed away from her father. Lifting her hands to her cheeks and wiped away the tears. "There's nothing you or anyone can tell me, dad. Nothing. I will live with this guilt for the rest of my life." She took a few breaths. "I'm sorry for breaking down like this. I'm sorry that this is going to be the last image you are going to have of me for a long time. Perhaps until you come back to Salem for a visit."
"Aren't you coming back home?" Bill tilted his head to the right.
"Salem is my home." Jennifer stuffed her hands in her pockets. "If Carly choose to leave Salem, than I'm going to be right by her side. Wherever Carly Manning is, that is my home."
Bill sighed. "I understand."
MELANIE'S ROOM
"May I come in?" Hope gently asked as she stood in the part way open door to Melanie's room.
"If you are here to defend Carly, than you should leave." Melanie snared through her nose. "But, you aren't going to defend Carly are you Hope? After all my dear old mother stole your husband from you. She stole your children father from them. What a fucking horrible whore!" She breathed in deeply. "You won't have to worry about her anymore Hope, I'm going to see to it that she rots in prison for shooting me."
Hope had closed the door the moment the younger woman spoke. "You can't do that Melanie. Your mother is very claustrophobic."
"What so that gives her the right to run around free and clear! That gives her the right to be able to shoot and kill anyone whom she pleases. Because she can't handle small spaces. Fuck that." Steel had entered Melanie's soul as she ranted. "I'm going to personally see to it that Carly Manning will rot behind bars for the rest of her worthless life. She'll won't even get to get out of that jail cell. I'll make sure that she only has the smallest of all window - so high above her that she can only see the teeniest piece of sky known to man kind."
"You mother was buried alive, Melanie." Hope spoke above Melanie's ranting.
Melanie opened her mouth to respond to that, but she closed it once more. .... you could end up six feet under …. buried alive. You make a wrong decision with this woman. …. end up six feet under …. buried alive. Vivian Alamain is a sadistic, cruel, merciless …. a card – carrying sociopath. …. six feet under …. buried alive. Buried alive. Buried alive. BURIED ALIVE! "Oh my God." She whispered.
Are you going to answer my question Dr. Manning, why am I so important to you? … you could end up six feet under …. buried alive. Why are you trying so hard to be part of my life when you're clearly not? …. six feet under …. buried alive. You might have forgotten that I faced down the devil. …. six feet under …. buried alive. , and it was no contest. He lost. …. six feet under …. buried alive. I don't know how she's planning on doing it. But this woman has a track record of wrecking people lives. …. six feet under …. buried alive. Look at me … buried alive. God knows she has made my life a living hell ….. six feet under …. buried alive. Evil doesn't begin to describe her. Six feet under ….. buried alive. Buried alive. Buried alive. BURIED ALIVE! You get your paws off of her or I'll kill you with my bare hands. … you could end up six feet under …. buried alive. Buried alive. Buried alive. Buried alive.
Melanie closed her eyes as she tried to get a hold of her erratic breathing. She felt firm arms wrap themselves around her, and she was pulled into a warm chest. She felt her arms wrap around to meet on the back of the comfort that she found. She couldn't stop the sobs from ripping from her chest. The physical pain was no match for the pain that her soul was in.
WAITING ROOM / NURSES DESK
"I don't agree with the fact that Hope feels the need to inform Melanie now that Vivian actually buried Carly alive." Daniel growled as he looked at his daughter's closed door. Tears were freely rolling down his cheeks, as he listened to his daughter's heartbreaking sobs.
"Melanie is so angry that she would willing allow Carly to plead guilty and go to prison. She has every right too know what Vivian did to her. Melanie has too see that even though she angry, upset, hurt and betrayed by Carly's action on her birth …. that she can't use this tragedy to punish her mother." Maggie said in a compassionate and firm voice.
"Melanie isn't strong enough for this yet. She just learned that Carly is her mother. She just learned some of the evil that Lawrence put her through. She still has yet to learn that I'm her father." Daniel whispered. "How much more does she have take before she gets the rest that she truly needs?"
MELANIE'S ROOM
Hope gently pulled Melanie away from her. Her hands cupping the sides of the young girl's face. "One thing I know about your mother, Melanie, is that she loves you. She would willing die for you." She swallowed. "She's planning on pleading guilty for shooting you."
"She can't do that." Melanie whispered. "She will die in prison. I won't allow that to happen."
"I know that you wouldn't. Your heart would never allow you to dwell on the hurt, and anger." Hope gently brushed the younger woman's cheeks.
"I still never want to set eyes on Carly ever again. I don't want to know any more about her." Melanie said still with steel in her eyes. "She hurt me too much, Hope. I'm just beyond my point of pain. I can't allow anymore pain to touch me. Not Carly injected pain." Her hand reached up to her heart. She felt the bandage that covered the spot. "It just simply hurts too much to have Carly Manning as my mother."
"I never got the chance to get to know my own mother. She died saving me when I was just a baby." Hope said.
"I would give anything for her to be with me today. Even if she had turned out to be …."
"Don't even say it Hope. Don't even say that you would love to have a mother like Carly by your side." Melanie snared. "No one should have a mother like Carly Manning. Oh, wait that's not even her real name. Katherine Von Leuschner." Pulling away from Hope she pushed the older woman away from her. "I want to be left alone, please just leave me alone."
"I can't do that honey." Hope said. "There's more that you need to know."
"I don't want to know anything else." Melanie said wrapping her arms stubbornly across her chest.
"Your mother is lying unconscious in the room to the right of you." Hope said.
"I should care because?" Melanie's chin jetted out.
"She's your mother." Hope replied.
"Got anything else?" Melanie shook her head. "I am not going press charges against her. But, I still don't give a flying leap about her. So she's unconscious in a hospital bed. Big deal. She'll be fine. She has Bo by her side." Rubbing her chest with her right hand, "In case you haven't noticed, Hope, I can't very well leave this bed right now. I'm recovering from a bullet wound to the chest after all. A bullet that my dear sainted mother put in me never less."
"I'm tired. Please leave." Melanie said closing her eyes and turned away from Hope.
Hope sighed and stood to her feet. Looking down at Melanie for a few minutes, she turned and left the room. Melanie opened her eyes and stared at the wall across from her impassive.
CARLY'S ROOM
"Why hasn't she woken yet?" Bo didn't tear his eyes off of Carly's closed eyes. "Why isn't she waking up or moving?"
"Her body is taking it's time to relieve itself of all the stress and strain it had been under." Lexi said stopping at Bo's side. "This is normal and she's going to be okay."
"She has too be okay." Bo gently traced Carly's jaw line. "What did the tests show?"
"She's fine. Tense, stressed, overwhelmed. But with everything considering, she's just fine." Lexi flexed her jaw. "I need you to look me in the eyes right now, Bo."
Bo slowly looked up. "What is it that you aren't telling me, Lexi?"
"Carly is pregnant." Lexi stated in a soft tone. "Congratulations."
Bo turned back around. Standing and bending slightly, he placed his lips on Carly's still lips. Pulling away after a few minutes. "Hear that Princess, we are finally going to have our baby with us." Kissing her lips once more, "I love you so much."
END CHAPTER THREE