No Ordinary Love
Author's Note: What's UP Everyone Well you got a HOT STEAMY surprise in the last chapter LOL and I know you all probably wished that Carly stayed with Sonny instead of leaving but it wouldn't be S&C if there wasn't some type of misunderstanding LOL but trust me when I say that there will be plenty more scenes like the last chapter in this story. Tee Hee! Also in the last chapter you got a little bit of S&C history too as I said from the beginning I would be putting actual parts of their history throughout this story. Thanks again for all of those who left me Feedback because I always love to hear from everyone. ~Deonna a.k.a. DCORINTHOS
Chapter 4
The elevator doors open at the lobby of the Harbor View Towers and Carly comes stomping out heading straight for the doors so that she could leave and never look back. She wanted to hurry up and catch a taxi before Max realized that she was leaving; she still didn't want him following her around like a babysitter and just because she agreed earlier not to argue with Sonny about it didn't mean that she changed her mind.
Carly was so upset that she didn't even know the reason why. Why would she be so upset that Sonny didn't ask her to stay? It wasn't like they were a couple or anything. They just had sex that was all. Ugh she shouldn't have let it get that far! When she tried to leave after he kissed her on the couch she should have left instead of allowing him to seduce her into his bed!
The door man opens the door for her as she approached the lobby doors and he asked her if she wanted him to hail her a taxi…of course Carly quickly said yes and impatiently waited for him to get her one. As she waited for the taxi, Carly began to replay her visit to Sonny over in her head…she went there for one thing and wound up in bed with him instead. She had wanted to yell at him for assigning Max to be her babysitter but when she got there she didn't expect to see Sonny in the middle of a breakdown.
*FLASH*
"Why are you here? Didn't I tell you to leave?! Leave!"
"What happened here?"
Gulping down his drink, Sonny looks around the room then laughs a little before saying "What you don't like the place…it's real you see the truth when you step inside."
"Tell me what happened? Why did you trash the place?" Carly asks scared for what he would do next if he trashed his own home
"You ask too many questions you know that! GET OUT! You don't belong here!" Sonny yells at her and then says "This is your chance Caroline! Walk out that door and never look back! SAVE YOURSELF!"
*END FLASH*
After seeing Sonny like that Carly couldn't very well yell at him and since Jason wasn't there she had to be the one to stay with him and keep him from doing any more damage than he'd already done…he'd already trashed the penthouse and she was afraid that if he was left alone that he may do something worse to himself.
When Carly decided to stay and help Sonny get through whatever it was he was going through that made him self-destruct so bad she didn't plan on bonding with him…but then again she wouldn't call it bonding more like seeing the almost human side of him. Ever since that first time they spoke on the phone she had him pegged for a rude, arrogant stick up his ass prick but when she stepped into that trashed penthouse and saw how depressed and vulnerable he was she knew then that there was another side to the man and she couldn't help but feel sympathy for him.
*FLASH*
Sonny smiles while holding back the tears from falling…he closes his eyes for a brief moment then blinks them open again looking at her "Why are you still here Caroline…what do you want? You said you hated my guts but yet you stayed here with me instead of turning around as soon as you came inside and saw the mess I made of the place; you should have ran screaming in the other direction and called the men in the white coats to cart me off to the loony bin…"
With a little smirk, Carly replies "Maybe but I'm not going to…" she pauses for a moment as she places a hand to his cheek rubbing the side of his face with the pad of her thumb "And I don't want anything from you…I'm just trying to help. You seem like you really need it and Jason's not here so that leaves me."
"You know you're making a fool of yourself just being here don't you? You don't know me you can't even get to know the real me…"
"Maybe but I understand now better than I use to…" Carly replies as she lowers her hand from his face
With a curious look, Sonny asks "Understand what?"
"I understand now what the finest lady Jason ever saw…saw in you."
Reaching a hand out to place onto the side of her face, Sonny leans into close so that their lips are inches apart…he lightly wets his lips and then goes in for the kiss.
*END FLASH*
Shaking her head of the memory, Carly forces herself to put Sonny out of her head "Stop it Carly…" she tells herself "It's over with now so just forget about him…" but how could she forget about him after just having the best sex she'd ever had in her life and that included her time with Jason back in Florida.
The doorman calls out to her, "Miss your taxi…"
Quickly walking over to the taxi, Carly says "Thanks…"
Just when she is about to get inside the taxi, Max pulls up with the car and jumps out "Carly wait I'm glad I caught you before you left." he says while running over to her "Johnny called me and told me you were on your way down. You ready to leave I'll take you back home if you want."
"Max you can just go park the car back in the garage because I'm not going anywhere with you." Carly tells him and then quickly gets in the cab and slams the door. When Max starts knocking on the window while calling out her name she rolls the window half way to tell him "Go back and tell your boss I don't need him to assign you to babysit me! And nothing against you Max but if I see you following me the next call I put in on my cell phone will be to the cops." rolling the window back up Carly looks up to the front at the driver and tells him "Let's go…"
Max groans as he watches the taxi pull off…how in the hell was he gonna tell the Boss about this? Knowing that if he didn't follow Sonny's orders to guard and keep Carly safe that he would catch hell for it later Max runs back to the car and jumps inside; he decides to follow her anyway but without her knowledge of it...that way she won't know that he's guarding her and he can still keep her safe like the boss wants.
Harbor View Towers Penthouse 4 – Sonny's Bedroom
Stepping out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist after taking a quick shower, Sonny stops and stares at the bed that looked like a tornado hit it…as he stares he gets a quick flash him and Caroline hastily undressing each other and then lowering her down onto the bed where they combusted together making love underneath his blue satin sheets. But wait they didn't make love…making love would mean that they loved each other…it was sex…just sex…she even said so herself that it was just sex and that they shouldn't read anything more into it. So why didn't he like the fact that she thought of it like that?
When Sonny came out of the bathroom he was half hoping that she didn't leave and that he'd find her waiting for him but she wasn't there…she left and that disappointed him greatly. He would have liked for her to stay but he wasn't going to force her to if she didn't want to and since she did leave it was clear that she didn't want to stay with him.
Walking over to the dresser drawer, Sonny opens it up and takes out a clean pair of boxers then drops his towel to put them on. Once he has his boxers on Sonny picks up the towel and the rest of his clothes from the floor; he puts his suit away to be cleaned later and then places the towel inside the hamper in the bathroom. Grabbing his black silk robe on the back of the bathroom door, Sonny puts it on then slips on his black slippers and heads out of the bedroom.
As he walks down the hallway, Sonny hears Jason calling out his name; with a frown he wonders why Jason was here. Stopping in place at the top of the stairs, Sonny sees Jason standing at the bottom of the stairs looking up at him…
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sonny says with attitude since he was upset that Caroline didn't stay in bed with him
"What happened with you and Carly?" Jason asks
Sonny exhales a sigh as he comes walking down the stairs "You saw Caroline leaving…" when Jason just nods without replying he then asks "Did she say anything to you?" he walks down the last of the steps
"No she just said she didn't want to talk about it and then left…I was actually surprised she blew me off the way she did that's not like Carly." Jason tells him and then says "So what happened?"
"Jason aren't you tired of playing matchmaker psychologist?!" Sonny snaps at him and then walks over to stand at the terrace window doors as he says "If Caroline didn't want to spill her guts to you what the hell makes you think I want to?!"
"Okay fine you don't want to talk about it I won't force you to…" Jason tells him
Sonny turns to look at him as he snaps out "And don't try that reverse psychology crap with me either Jason I know you want me to tell you what happened between me and Caroline. If you saw her leaving then you know we hooked up? You just want me to come out and say that you were right that I'm more than just attracted to her and that I like her don't you!"
"Hey you said it I didn't…" Jason replies trying to hold back a smile
"Yeah well it doesn't matter because Caroline didn't want anything more than just a roll in the sack because she couldn't get out of here fast enough…" Sonny runs a hand through his curly damp hair from his shower and then turns back to stare out the window
"I wouldn't be so sure about that…" Jason tells him and when Sonny doesn't turn back around to look at him he continues telling him "As upset as Carly was when she left I think she would have liked to stay but for some reason she didn't."
"What the hell reason does she have to be upset?!" Sonny fires back turning around "She was the one that left I didn't tell her to!"
Jason holds back a smirk as he says "You two must have got your messages mixed up somewhere along the way. You should go talk to her and straighten it out…"
"I'm not following behind that woman like some sort of lost puppy Jason so you can forget it!"
Looking around the penthouse at the mess, Jason asks "So uh is this mess you made the result of bad memories…" he didn't say Lily's name but it was implied
Sonny takes a look around at the mess then exhales a breath "Yeah I kinda lost it there for a minute…" he gets a quick flash of Carly
FLASH
Carefully and gently Carly places a hand onto Sonny's shoulder "Sonny…"she softly says his name
Finally Sonny turns to look at her "Lily…is that you?" he asks in a soft tone as he thinks she is Lily for a brief moment but then realizes it's not her but Caroline "What are you doing here?" he quickly asks snapping out of his vision of Lily. He then sees that she's still wearing that GAWD AWFUL pink colored shirt and then yells at her "You shouldn't be here! GET OUT!" he stands up from the couch
END FLASH
Snapping out of his thoughts, Sonny says "Caroline showed up and uh…for a moment I thought she was Lily."
"I take it Carly was able to handle the situation…you know since you two…you know"
Sonny looks over to Jason with a little smirk that he couldn't even say the words that he and Carly had sex "Yeah, yeah she uh…she handled herself and the situation better than I expected her to." He replies then says "I was horrible to her I yelled and screamed at her to leave…but she wouldn't go. No matter how much I tried to kick her out she stood her ground and stayed with me. She got me through it…"
Listening to Sonny, Jason sees the look in his eyes as he talks about Carly…yes it was definitely obvious that he's feelings for her had changed and he couldn't deny it anymore especially since they hooked up.
"I'm glad Carly was able to help you…"
"Yeah she got me through it like no one else has been able to…" Sonny says with a slight hint of a dimpled smile then says "She let me talk about Lily and she didn't judge me or blame me she just listened…and let me grieve…and she held me in her arms."
"Sounds like Carly was a great help…she was able to calm you down. I'm glad she was here for you so you wouldn't have to be by yourself."
With a slight nod, Sonny then says "I kissed her…that's how it started. I kissed her and for a moment she kissed me back but then for some reason she got scared and wanted to leave."
"Obviously she didn't…well at least not then."
Sonny grins as he says "Obviously…"the memory of them between his blue satin sheets fondly comes back to him. When he realizes Jason is staring at him doing his best not to smile, Sonny clears his throat "But you know what she left and she's gone now and I don't wanna talk about it anymore…" he says and then exhales a frustrated breath. Deciding to change the subject he then says "Tell me what happened with Sorel…did you take care of him?"
Just when Jason was about to give him the details on what went down with Sorel the phone on Sonny's desk began to ring.
Exhaling a sigh, Sonny walks over to answer it "Hello!"
"Boss it's me Max…I just wanted to call and give you an update. Carly…uh I mean Miss. Benson took off in a taxi without me. She said she didn't want me babysitting her and that she'd call the cops on me if I followed her."
Closing his eyes in frustration, Sonny curses inwardly to himself as he became even more frustrated that she was out there somewhere without a guard because of her stubbornness.
"Tell me you still had the good sense to follow her anyway Max…" Sonny says through gritted teeth as he opens his eyes and tries to hold in his temper
Max nods even though Sonny couldn't see him over the phone "Yes sir I'm following her taxi right now and I'm making sure she doesn't see me."
"Good Max and keep it that way…I don't care if Caroline doesn't want a guard she's gonna have one anyway! You stay with her and if she does anything stupid or anything happens you keep her safe and then call me you got that…" Sonny tells him and then looks over to Jason who was watching him closely especially when he told Max to call him. Quickly Sonny adds in "Or better yet call Jason since she's his friend he'll take care of her."
"Yes sir and don't worry I'll keep Miss. Benson safe…" Max replies as he continues to follow behind Carly's taxi at a distance but still keeping the taxi in his line of sight
Hanging up the phone, Sonny looks over to Jason "Not a word Jason…" he quickly warns him not to say anything about Caroline and then says "Now tell me what happened with Sorel." he walks over to his chair to sit down "I trust that idiot is now just a bad memory that can soon be forgotten…"
Jason walks over to the couch and takes a seat "Actually Sonny he managed to get away."
Sonny snaps back pissed off at the information Jason just told him "How the fuck did you allow that to happen Jason?!"
"He wasn't alone at the club Sonny…he had a couple of his men there and he managed to slip out the back…"
Shaking his head in disgust, Sonny replies "What about his men? Did you take care of them at least?"
"Some of them were able to get out along with Sorel but we did manage to grab two of them…I have them on ice waiting for your instruction. I thought you'd want to question them first." Jason replies
With a nod that he definitely wanted to question them, Sonny says "So Sorel's on the run…lucky bastard! If he's smart he won't come back but then again since we know he's a dumb idiot he's probably out there somewhere plotting to hit back at me!"
"He won't make any moves anytime soon but just in case I increased security here and at the warehouse." Jason tells him
"Good…" Sonny replies and then says "It's a good thing I put Max on guard duty for Caroline because after that threat he made about her at Luke's I wouldn't put it past Sorel to use her to get to me. Especially since he saw us kissing…"
"I'll have a talk with Carly about Max guarding her…" Jason tells him
"We don't have time for her to throw a tantrum Jason this is serious that idiot is out there and he's already threatened her once!"
"We'll keep Carly safe don't worry…"
"She shouldn't be staying at the Brownstone it's not safe there! Maybe you should try to get her to come back and stay with you again…at least until we know Sorel is not a danger anymore."
Sonny inwardly tells himself that him wanting her to stay with Jason again was only for her protection and nothing more…well that is what Sonny tells himself but deep down he knows it's more to it than that…especially after they'd just had sex upstairs in his bed.
Trying his best not to grin, Jason replies "Wow that's a big change from before when you wanted her out of the building…"
"This is about keeping her safe Jason nothing more!" Sonny snaps at him
"Okay I didn't say it wasn't…" Jason replies then says "But Carly's not gonna like being told to leave the Brownstone."
"Who the hell cares if she likes it or not Jason? This is a serious situation and I will not have Caroline's blood on my hands because she wants to be stubborn. You talk to her and get her to agree to move back in with you."
"I'll try but I won't make any promises…" Jason tells him
"Why are you even giving her a choice Jason?" Sonny says in disbelief that he would even consider giving her a choice to say no "It's for her safety so you tell her she's moving back in with you and that's that!"
"Sonny I'm not gonna force her to move back in with me but I will talk to her and explain how serious the situation is." Jason tells him and then says "And if she still refuses to move back then we'll just have to make sure that the Brownstone has guards for her protection."
"You actually think Bobbie and Tony are gonna allow our guards hanging around the Brownstone Jason?" Sonny says with a little chuckle while shaking his head "And not to mention that baldheaded jackass Taggert lives there too…you think he's just gonna keep his nose out of it when he realizes our guards are watching the Brownstone?! This is just what that idiot wants! He'll use it to start snooping around where his big nose isn't wanted!" he explains then says "I don't care what you do or what you have to say to convince her but you make her realize that it's for her own safety to move back in with you at your penthouse."
"Sonny like I said I'll try but I can't promise anything…"
Sonny still couldn't believe that Jason was still on this giving her an option crap "Okay…you give her the option to move back or not but when something happens to Caroline because you just wouldn't lay the law down and bring her back whether she wants to or not then don't come crying to me about it!"Standing up from his chair, Sonny walks from around the couch and over to the stairs "I'm gonna go get dressed and then pay our friends a little visit to see if they know where their boss went in hiding at…"
Jason stands up as well and watches as Sonny walks over to the staircase "You want me to help clean the place up while you get dressed…"
After walking halfway up the stairs, Sonny looks back down to at the mess he made…
Exhaling a breath, Sonny looks over to Jason and says "No uh…just call Graciella and tell her I need her to come over immediately. I know she's not gonna like it but tell her I'll pay her triple for her troubles if she could get the place cleaned by the time I get back." he then continues walking up the rest of the stairs "And after that you go and talk to Caroline about moving back in with you…" he tells him over his shoulder
"Yeah sure…" Jason replies with a little smirk and then goes over to the phone on the desk to call Graciella who he knew was gonna have a fit that she had to actually clean the penthouse.
Yes Graciella was Sonny's maid but she wasn't use to actually having to clean the penthouse because Sonny was a clean neat freak and his penthouse stayed spotless 24/7 so she never had much to clean other than dusting every now and then.
After getting Graciella to agree to come clean the penthouse, Jason put a call into Max to see where Carly went to; he wasn't all that surprised when Max told him that he'd followed Carly's taxi to Jake's.
Looking over to the stairs, Jason calls out "Sonny! Graciella is on her way over…" when he sees Sonny walking down the stairs dressed in a new suit he lowers his voice down to normal as he continues to say "She wasn't happy about it but she agreed to come since you said you would pay her triple."
With a little smirk, Sonny replies "I knew that would get her to come over…"
"Yeah" Jason agrees then says "I'm on my way to see Carly…"
Interrupting "Good you go and convince her to move back in with you while I go pay Sorel's goons a visit." Sonny tells him and then says "Once you finish convincing Caroline she needs to move back in with you I want you to meet me at the warehouse."
And with that said Sonny heads out the door with Jason following behind him…
Jake's
When Carly left in the taxi she told the driver to take her to Jake's…she needed to blow off some steam and didn't feel like going back to the Brownstone just yet anyway. She went over to the bar and sat down on one of the stools to order a beer…
Coleman the owner smiles when he sees a hot looking blond sitting down at the bar… "Hey there sweetness what can I get for ya?"
"You can get me a beer and drop the pathetic attempts to flirt with me I'm not in the mood." Carly tells him with attitude
Grinning, Coleman replies "Feisty huh…I like that in a woman." he sets her beer down in front of her and then remembers seeing her in here the other day with Jason Morgan "I think I saw you in here once before…"
"Yeah so?" Carly snaps as she drinks a swig of her beer
"You were with Jason Morgan right…" Coleman replies and then says "You sure know how to pick 'em sweetness…Jason Morgan is Sonny Corinthos' right hand man. You know if you got a thing for bad boys I've been known to be bad myself…" he grins
Just when Carly is about to snap back at him to fuck off she hears a voice behind her says "I doubt the lady is interested Coleman she likes her men way more dangerous than you." A.J. Quartermaine flashes a smug arrogant smile when he sees Carly turn around "You know she use to live with my brother and sleep in his bed…"
Carly turns around and sees A.J. Quartermaine standing there "Ugh what the hell are you doing here?" she says with a glare in his direction
"Nice to see you again too…" A.J. replies and then takes a seat on the barstool next to her. Looking over to Coleman he goes on to tell him "You see Coleman like I was telling you the lady here would rather hang around criminals than stand up citizens like you and me. I already got struck down by her once before for that gangster Sonny Corinthos…first my brother and then his boss"
"You know if you don't want me to make good on my threat at Kelly's to kick your ass then I suggest you shut the hell up and leave me alone." Carly tells him in a sweet little tone then goes on to tell him "And just to let you know you will never be able to be half the man Jason is or Sonny for that matter…" she flashes a smirk "They are both real men and something tells me you're nothing but a pathetic little weasel and any woman that has the misfortune to have sex with you would have to hurry out and get herself a vibrator in order to finish the job and be fully satisfied." And with that said Carly slides of the barstool and walks over to the empty pool table
Coleman bursts out laughing as he witnessed Carly slice A.J. in half and then walk over to the pool table without so much as a backward glance to him.
"Something tells me you don't have a chance in hell with that one my man…" Coleman laughs
A.J. shoots him a glare then says "Shut up and get me a vodka!"
Laughing, Coleman says "Yeah sure coming right up." he pours the drink and sets it in front of A.J. and then calls out over to the pool table where the blond started to play a game by herself "Hey sweetness I didn't catch your name…" he smirks as he casts a quick look to A.J. who was still sulking and downing his drink. Coleman shakes his head at the poor shut down bastard then looks back over to the blond and says "I at least gotta know the name of such a fiery hellcat so I know who I'm dreaming about at night."
After taking a shot with the pool stick in her hand, Carly turns around to him and says "Carly…" she smirks then says "And you're right the only way you'll ever have a shot with me is in your dreams."
"Ouch baby that hurt…" Coleman says with a almost wounded look as he places a hand to his chest "But hey you know what I like you…" he chuckles looking at A.J. then looks back at her "You gave me a good laugh so your beer is on the house."
Picking up her beer, Carly holds it up with a little smile "Thanks…" and then takes a drink before getting back to her solitary game of pool
"Hey quit your lame attempts at flirting and get me another drink!" A.J. says as he hits the bar with his fist
Pouring him another vodka, Coleman tells him "Take it easy man don't make me have to kick you out of my fine establishment." he places the drink in front of him
A.J. shoots him a glare as he picks up the drink and downs it before walking over to the pool table where Carly was…
"Hey Quartermaine didn't you learn from the cold shoulder Carly froze you down with?" Coleman calls out to A.J. then says "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it's still freezing over here."
A.J. waves Coleman off to shut up and then leans on the pool table next to Carly as she lines up her shot "What do you say I join you in a game?"
"How about we don't and a say you did?" Carly tells him while taking her shot still not looking at him
Still not giving up, A.J. says "Come onnnn we got off on the wrong foot and besides I think you'd like me if you just give me a chance."
"How many times do I have to say it?! I'm not interested so back the hell off and leave me alone!" Carly tells him in no uncertain terms and then starts to walk around to the other side of the pool table
A.J. grabs her arm and turns her around to face him then quickly wraps his hands around her waist as he says "What is it with you? You'd rather hang around Sonny and my brother who is now a thug criminal thanks to Sonny but you won't give me the time of day."
"Get your filthy drunken hands off of me you creep!" Carly tells him as she tries to wiggle free of his hold but he wouldn't let her go…
Just then Jason comes walking inside Jake's at that exact moment seeing Carly trying to break loose of A.J.'s hold on her; as he rushes over to pull him off of Carly he halts in place when he realizes that he didn't have to do a thing since A.J. was now on the floor in the fetal position after Carly kneed him in the groin.
Coleman bursts out laughing again once again witnessing it all "You go girl!" he laughs then adds in "That deserves another beer on the house."
Carly sees Jason standing there "Jase I didn't realize you were here…"
"I just got here actually…" Jason replies and then looks down at A.J. wallowing on the floor groaning in pain. He goes over to lift A.J. up off of the floor "If you ever put your hands on her like that again I'll make sure you regret it." Jason says to him as his icy blue eyes stare into AJ's letting him know he was serious. Pushing him back down to the floor, Jason then says "Get the hell out of here!"
A.J. staggers to stand up from the floor and then looks over to Jason as he says "Fine, fine, fine I'll go…" he snaps out as he stands up and then looks at Carly "You wanna hang around my little brother then fine…see if I care!" he limps over to the exit still in pain from Carly kneeing him in the groin "I'm outta here."
"Hey, hey man what about your drinks you didn't pay for!" Coleman yells out
"Put it on my tab!" A.J. yells back and leaves out of the bar
Walking over to where Carly stood, Jason says "I'd ask if you are okay but I see you handled A.J. just fine yourself."
"Yeah well I've handled drunken losers like him before back in Florida. Before I became a physical therapist I use to be a waitress in different bars and clubs." Carly tells him and then asks "So how'd you know I was here?"
"I called Max and he told me…" Jason confesses
Carly exhales a frustrated breath and shakes her head "I thought I made myself clear to Max that I didn't want him following me."
Jason takes the pool cue from her hand and places it down on the table "Come sit with me I need to talk with you for a minute." he places his hand on her back and leads her to sit at one of the tables
Sitting down, Carly immediately says "If this is about Max being my guard then you can just get that out of your head Jason because I don't need a babysitter. I'm a grown woman and I will come and go as I please and I'll do it without Sonny ordering Max to follow me around like a child."
"Carly listen to me…" Jason says as he leans forward a little bit and speaks in a low tone so only she can hear him "It's for your own safety and protection that Sonny put Max on guard duty for you."
"For my protection? What are you talking about Jase?"
Interrupting her, Jason says "That guy at Luke's that interrupted you and Sonny kissing…"
"Ugh, Sonny told you about the kiss at Luke's today?" Carly says frustrated
Jason continues on saying "Carly focus here I need you to listen to me this is important…"
"Okay, okay I'm listening."
"That guy…his name is Joseph Sorel. After you left he made a threat towards you to Sonny."
"Why would he do that?" Carly asks confused
"To get to Sonny…since he saw you two kissing he figures you would be a good way to get to Sonny so that's why Sonny ordered Max to guard you." Jason explains "And you are gonna have to not fight us on this okay. Max is here for your protection so you need to let him stay with you at all times."
"Jason I don't like this…I don't like being told what to do and I especially don't like being followed around like some child that needs babysitting."
"Carly please just trust me on this because this is serious. No way will I allow anything to happen to you because of my business. I'm the one that brought you here to Port Charles in the first place and you wouldn't need guarding if you didn't come here."
"Hey I came here because I wanted to so you can't blame yourself for that." Carly tells him and then says "And don't you go blaming yourself because one of Sonny's enemies chose to use me to get to him even though I'm not a way to get to Sonny because I'm not his girlfriend."
Jason holds back a grin as he tells her "Just tell me that you'll agree to allow Max to guard you."
Exhaling a sigh, Carly replies "Okay…I'll let Max guard me but he won't be able to stand outside my door at the Brownstone. There is no way Bobbie and Tony especially are gonna allow that…and then there is that cop Taggert to think about too."
"Well actually I was gonna suggest that you move back with me into the penthouse."
Shaking her head no, Carly says "Not gonna happen Jase…I just moved out."
"I know but Sonny thinks…"
Immediately interrupting him, Carly says "Sonny thinks! So Sonny is the one that came up with the idea for me to move back into the penthouse with you?"
Jason inwardly curses to himself for even saying Sonny's name because now Carly would definitely fight him about moving back in with him "Yeah uh…he just feels that it would be best if you move back in the penthouse with me because the Brownstone isn't safe for you to stay…"
"Yeah I just bet he does…" Carly mumbles as she inwardly tells herself that keeping her safe wasn't the only reason Sonny wanted her living across the hall from him. Now that they've been intimate he probably thinks that if she was close by that they could hook up whenever he wanted and then she wouldn't have far to go when she leaves his bed. Shaking that thought from her head, Carly says "I thought you said Max would be guarding me so the Brownstone should be safe enough."
"Yes Max will be guarding you but the Harbor View Towers building is heavily secured and the penthouse is on the top floor of the building and it has bullet proof windows. If you were to move back in with me we would know without a doubt that you'd be safe but if you stay at the Brownstone we won't be able to assure your complete safety."
"Jason I'm not moving back into the penthouse with you and that's that. So you and Sonny are just gonna have to accept that I'm even allowing Max to guard me." Carly tells him
There was no way she was gonna move back in to the penthouse with Jason…that would mean she'd be living across the hall from Sonny. She didn't know why but that scared her.
"Carly this is serious; Sorel is dangerous and he made a specific threat towards you." Jason tries to explain once again
"I'm sorry Jason but the answer is no. I'm not moving back into the penthouse I'm staying at the Brownstone."
"Why so you can keep up with your plan for payback for Bobbie?" Jason asks and then quickly adds "Don't you know that once you go through with your plan that Bobbie is most likely gonna kick you out afterwards."
"Probably but until that point I will be staying at the Brownstone and then maybe I'll move back in with you…but only if I'm not able to find another place."
Jason runs a hand down his face then exhales a exhausted breath "Why do you have to go through with this crazy plan for revenge on Bobbie? I thought if you'd spend time with her that you'd change your mind and drop it."
"I can't do that Jason…I just can't…" Carly tells him and then says "I will allow Max to guard me but like I said he won't be able to stand guard at my door. Bobbie may not mind but I'm sure her husband Tony and of course that cop Taggert will have a problem with it."
"Of course if you'd just move back in with me then we won't have this problem…" Jason points out to her
"Well like I said that's not gonna happen so just drop it already will ya…"
Closing his eyes for a brief moment, Jason opens them again as he says "Okay but you make sure you take Max wherever you go and don't ditch him."
"I won't I promise…"
"Good" Jason replies with a sigh
Carly began to wonder did he know what happened between her and Sonny or for that matter did Sonny run his mouth and tell him in another one of their gossiping teenage girl sessions like before.
"So uh…you saw Sonny today after I left?" Carly asks and then nibbles on her bottom lip
A small smile forms at the corner of Jason's mouth before he replies "Yeah…why?"
"No reason…I uh was just wondering if he said anything about me that's all."
"If you're wondering if he told me what happened between you two he didn't have to because I already knew." Jason tells her and when he sees her curious and confused look he tells her "Well I kind of saw you two when Sonny was carrying you up the stairs…"
Covering her face in embarrassment, Carly says "You saw us?"
"Yeah well you two were otherwise occupied and you didn't notice when I came inside." Jason explains then says
Peeking through her fingers, Carly says "Go ahead and say it…"
Jason lowers her hands down from her face as he says "Say what?"
"Say I told you so. Say you were right and I was wrong? Say that you were right that I sorta, kinda, maybe like Sonny."
With a laugh, Jason says "Sorta, kinda, maybe like?"
"Yes okay…I can't very well say I'm not attracted to him anymore now especially since we had slept together."
"No I guess you can't…so does that mean you and Sonny are through with the fighting and throwing insults at each other?"
"Maybe through with the insults but the fighting is another thing all together." Carly tells him
"Why? I would think that with you two now intimate with each other that you'd get along better."
"Sex isn't a miracle worker Jason…" Carly replies and then says "Sonny is arrogant and a control freak and so damn infuriating he drives me crazy."
"Yeah and I'm sure he can say the same about you…" Jason chuckles then says "So why didn't you stay…you know…afterwards. Why did you leave?"
"Sonny didn't want me to so I left."
Jason laughs as he leans his head back to look up at the ceiling shaking his head and then looks back at her as he says "What gave you that idea?"
Confused about his reaction, Carly says "He did…because he didn't ask me to stay. I left because it was obvious that Sonny didn't want me to stay so I didn't." still confused as to Jason's reaction with him still laughing and shaking his head she then asks "Why are you laughing? It's true Sonny didn't want me to stay he basically told me to go."
"Did Sonny actually say the words for you to leave Carly?"
Thinking about it for a brief moment, Carly then says "Well…no he didn't say it but he implied it. I said maybe it would be best for me to go and he got out of the bed and said if I want and then went inside the bathroom and closed the door. If that didn't say get the hell out then I don't know what else would."
"Carly trust me Sonny would have liked it if you would have stayed…"
"If that's true then why didn't he just say it? Why did he get out of the bed and go into the bathroom and leave me alone staring at the bathroom door like a fool?"
"You two talk about driving each other crazy when I'm the one that you're driving crazy insane with being in the middle of you." Jason replies and then says "I don't know why he didn't come out and tell you to stay but trust me if you would have stayed Sonny wouldn't have had a problem with it."
"Well now we will never know…and hey it's over now. It just happened that one time and it won't happen again. Actually I shouldn't have allowed it to happen at all but…"
"But what?" Jason asks
"Okay…when I went to Sonny's I was gonna yell at him for sending Max to babysit me but when I stepped inside the penthouse and saw it trashed and then saw him sitting on the couch staring down at a picture of his dead wife on their wedding day…I don't know…I probably should have left but I couldn't."
"I know that couldn't have been easy for you to see Sonny like that…" Jason says
Shaking her head, Carly replies "No it wasn't. He yelled and screamed at me to leave but I wouldn't…I couldn't leave him there like that. So I stayed and made sure he wouldn't do anything bad to himself." she pauses for a brief moment and Jason stays quiet letting her gather her thoughts "He told me about Lily…it was sad…and he cried and I held him in my arms. He uh…he was so vulnerable Jason and so…I don't know he just made me see him in a different light."
Jason sat quietly listening to her replay what happened with Sonny just as he did earlier with Sonny "That's good…" he tells her "I'm sorry you had to witness Sonny slip into that dark space but at least now you know that he's not all that bad; and I'm glad you were able to help him come out of it."
"Yeah…" Carly says with a slight smile and then says "He kissed me you know…and I don't know if it was just him getting caught up in the moment because his emotions were all over the place or what but he kissed me. I kissed him back…but then I stopped it and tried to leave but then he accused me of running scared."
"Were you?" Jason asks
"No…maybe…I don't know." Carly says as she runs a hand through her hair and then exhales a breath "Before I knew it I was agreeing to go upstairs with him and then…well you know the rest."
"Yeah you two got your messages mixed up and now you're thinking he wanted you to leave and he's thinking you didn't want to stay…"
"That's because he didn't want me to Jason…if he did then he should have said so." Carly argues back then says "You know what it's over now and it's not gonna happen again so let's just drop it okay."
"Sure whatever you want…" Jason tells her but inwardly knows that whatever was happening between her and Sonny was not over by a long shot. "You want Max to take you home or do would you rather I take you?"
"You can take me…I like riding on the back of your bike" Carly says with a little laugh
Jason smirks then says "Yeah I know you do…" standing up from his chair "Come on let's go."
Pier 7 Old Warehouse
Inside the old abandoned warehouse was Sonny taking out his anger on both of Sorel's men that Jason brought back there for him to question. For the past twenty minutes Sonny beat down one of the men who was now lying on the floor with Milo pointing his gun down at him making sure he didn't go anywhere. Sonny was now doing the same to the other guard of Sorel as Johnny and Francis stood watching nearby and waiting for instructions.
Bending down to the man who was on the floor groaning in pain "I'm gonna ask you one last time…" Sonny says as he grabs the man by the shirt collar and makes him look him in the eyes "Where is your boss? Where is Sorel hiding?!"
In pain from the numerous gut and face punches Sonny hit him with he was half conscious as he tries to speak "I don't…" he pants out trying to catch his breath after having the wind knocked out of him "I…I don't…I don't know."
Shoving the man back down on the ground, Sonny looks over to Johnny and Francis and tells them "Stand him up…" once Johnny and Francis have him standing back up as they were ordered, Sonny gives him another swift punch in the gut "Wrong answer!" watching as he slumps down to the ground groaning in pain, Sonny tells Johnny and Francis once again "Stand him up!" when they stand him back up again, Sonny then asks "What's your name…" when he doesn't get an immediate reply, Sonny yells "I asked you a question! What's your name?!"
Out of breath and using the strength he had left to look up at Sonny "Hector…"
"Well Hector you got five seconds to tell me what I want to know…" Sonny pulls out his gun and points it to him
"I don't know, I don't know, I SWEAR I DON'T KNOW!"
"You work for Sorel how the hell don't you know where he's hiding at?!"
"I don't I swear…" Hector pants out and then coughs out blood onto the floor
Sonny places the gun to his head and says "You sure about that?"
"Okay, okay, alright, alright I'll tell you!" Hector quickly starts rambling out anything he could think of to tell Sonny "He, he, he, he's has a place d-d-d-down on Courtland Street he may be held up in! It's a pawn shop he owns! He has an office in the back! That's all I know!"
With a little grin, Sonny lowers the gun from his head "Now was that so hard." he says and then looks to Johnny and Francis "Let him go…"
Hector was relieved to hear Sonny tell his guards to let him go but his relief didn't last long because not a second later did Sonny smack him back down to the ground with the gun he still held in his hand.
As Hector laid unconscious on the ground, Sonny looks down to him and then over to the other one of Sorel's men he had beat down before Hector…
"Milo go get the car ready…" Sonny tells him…as Milo puts his gun back in place behind his back under his suit jacket and goes to the car Sonny looks over to Johnny and Francis and says "You know what to do."
"Yes sir…" both Johnny and Francis say in unison
And with that said, Sonny leaves out of the warehouse and gets into the back of the limo…
Lowering down the partition, Sonny tells Milo "Take me to the warehouse." when Milo nods Sonny presses the button to raise the partition back up again.
The Brownstone
Jason pulls up in the front of the Brownstone and stops his motorcycle…
Carly looks over at the building and says "You should have parked on the side that way I could go in through the sideway entrance." she gets off the back of the bike and hands Jason his helmet
"Is there a reason you don't want to go in front?" Jason asks as he turns off the motorcycle then gets off and takes the helmet she held out towards him
"No, no reason…it's just getting late and I don't want to disturb anyone."
Jason notices Luke's car parked nearby "Well it's not all that late just a quarter to eight…" he says looking down at his watch and then says "I doubt everyone is asleep and besides Luke's car is here so…"
"Luke is here?"
"Yeah that's his car over there…" Jason tells her and then says "Why are you scared to go inside?"
"I'm not scared…it's just that every time I see Bobbie she's always so nice to me and welcomes me with open arms and…" Carly starts to say but then stops
"And you're maybe starting to rethink your plans…"
"Sometimes I do but then I start thinking about how she abandoned me and went off to have this other great life and great family with another child and then any thought I had to not go through with it is out the window and I'm more determined than ever."
"I think you need to tell Bobbie and that way you can get some answers to all the questions in your head. You don't have to go through with paying her back…"
Carly looks at him and then looks back over to the Brownstone building…for a moment Jason thought that she was gonna tell him that she wasn't gonna go through with her plans but then she starts walking up the walkway to the front door…
"Thanks for the ride…" Carly says over her shoulder
Shaking his head knowing that she hadn't changed her mind for the plans she had to ruin Bobbie, Jason says "No problem…" and then adds in "Oh and remember if you go anywhere take Max with you."
Without turning around, Carly gives Jason a little wave that she would and then continues to walk up to the doorway.
Jason walks over to the car Max was parked in across the street a little ways down the road and then knocks on the window.
When Max lowers the window down, Jason tells him "Stay here and keep an eye on things and if she has to go anywhere I want you right there with her."
"Sure no problem"
And with that said, Jason walks back over to his motorcycle and rides off away from the building and on his way to the warehouse to meet up with Sonny.
Meanwhile as Carly walked inside the Brownstone she was met with a house full of people sitting in the living room area talking and laughing on the couch.
Bobbie looks over to her and smiles "Carly you're home" she gets up from the couch and walks over to her "I'm glad you are here come on over and sit with us; Tony will be back in a few minutes with some take out Chinese food. You can join us."
"No, no that's fine it looks like you have company and I wouldn't want to intrude…"
"Oh no it's no intrusion at all we'd love to have you." Bobbie tells her and then says "This is my sister in law Laura Spencer she's married to my big brother Luke." she introduces Carly to Laura
Laura stands up and shakes Carly's hand "It's nice to meet you. Bobbie has been telling us all about you. I swear the way she talks about you it seems like you are part of the family. You two seem to have bonded nicely."
"Yeah well Bobbie has been very sweet to me…" Carly says with a little smile
Bobbie keeps up with her introductions "And that little guy over there is my son Lucas…he's eight." she gestures for Lucas to come over "Lucas put down that video game you and your uncle Luke can finish playing in a minute I want you to come meet somebody."
"Mooooom I'm just about to blast Uncle Luke with my death ray." Lucas says with a little whine not wanting to stop his game
"Hey the game ain't over yet I can still beat ya!" Luke says while pressing the buttons on the controller
Lucas jumps up with a shout cheering "YES! Take that Uncle Luke! I won you lost!" he starts to do a little happy dance then holds out his hand towards Luke's face as Luke throws the controller down "Pay up give me my ten bucks"
"Lucas Lorenzo Spencer…" Bobbie says with a shocked look over to Luke "You actually made a bet with my son for money?!"
"I don't know why you're upset Barbra Jean your kid is the one that hustled me outta ten bucks." Luke grumbles as he takes out his wallet and gives Lucas a ten dollar bill
Bobbie and Carly laugh at Luke having to pay up after losing to Lucas "Serves you right; and besides you should have known you were gonna lose that bet." Bobbie tells him and then says to Lucas "Now that you've successfully hustled your uncle can you come over here I'd like you to meet Carly."
Lucas comes over to stand in front of Bobbie and Carly "Hi" he says looking up to Carly "You're pretty."
Carly genuinely smiles down at Lucas "Thank you" she replies and then says "You're pretty cute too." she smiles "So you like video games."
"Yeah they're the best? Do you play? I can set the game back up again…"
"Careful Carly he's a shark!" Luke tells her
"Maybe another time…" Carly tells him since her stomach was starting to do flip flops because this was her actual family that she was standing here with and they didn't have a clue that she was one of them
Bobbie looks from Lucas to Carly and smiles…she began to get a warm fuzzy feeling inside like everything was complete; she didn't understand what that meant but she liked it.
"Oh and that handsome young man over there is my nephew Lucky…"Bobbie points over to her nephew "He's Luke and Laura's son and the adorable little dark haired munchkin next to him is Lulu. She's Luke and Laura's daughter and my adorable niece."
Lucky holds up Lulu's little hand to wave hello and then he says "Hey what's up? Good to finally put a face to the new tenant my aunt can't stop talking about."
"I haven't been talking that much…" Bobbie says and Luke, Laura and Lucky all give her a whatever look "Anyways you are welcome to stay and have dinner with us. Like I said Tony should be back any minute; I hope you like Chinese food."
"Love it but uh…I'm not gonna stay. I mean this is a family gathering and again I wouldn't want to intrude on your evening." Carly tells her once again
Just when Bobbie was about to protest and insist she stay, Tony comes inside with two big bags full of Chinese food one in each hand… "I'm back! Who's hungry?" as he walks into the living room area where everyone was, Tony halts when he sees Carly standing there next to Bobbie.
"You're back…finally I'm starved." Bobbie says as she walks over to him and takes one of the bags from him then places a kiss onto his cheek "I'm gonna go take this to the table." she looks over to Lucky and says "Lucky can you bring the other bag."
"Sure no problem" Lucky moves Lulu off of his lap and stands up and takes the other bag from Tony
Bobbie looks over to Carly and says "Look who's here…" she walks over to stand next to Carly "I invited Carly to stay and have dinner with us; she's protesting but I'm not taking no for an answer." she smiles at Carly and then walks into the dining room with Lucky following behind her and Laura taking Lulu's hand to follow also
Tony's eyes instantly stare and travel up and down Carly's body but then he quickly realizes what he's doing and tries to cover himself with a cough as he says "Uh yes, yes you should stay with us for dinner it's no problem at all we have plenty of food."
"You know you both are very kind but that's okay I don't want to intrude on family…" Carly tells him. She didn't like the look Tony was giving her and yes it was her plan to use him in her revenge plot for Bobbie but the more he looked at her and made those subtle advances towards her the more he creped her out. Maybe there was another way she could get her payback on Bobbie that didn't involve creepy Tony she inwardly tells herself. "I'll just uh go up to my place and you guys can get back to your family."
Luke was the only one besides Carly that caught the look Tony was giving her; Luke inwardly tells himself that was the same look that was in Tony's eyes he had back at the club that night Carly came to meet Bobbie. What the hell was his doc bro in law thinking? He'd better not be thinking what he thinks he's thinking because if he's thinking what he thinks he's thinking and he hurts his sister he'd have to kick Tony's ass! Luke looks over to Carly and sees that she noticed the look too but he also pays close attention to her reaction to it and sees from her body language that she didn't like it. Well that's good at least he tells himself…
Walking over to Carly, Luke places a arm around her shoulder "You know Barbra Jean is not gonna like it if you bail on us and she's practically adopted you into the family anyway. So I tell you what how about I make you a honorary Spencer for the night…"
Bobbie comes back into the room hearing Luke trying to convince Carly to stay "Honorary Spencer I like that" she says with a little giggle
"You don't have to do that…" Carly says
"Hey we don't hand out the honor to become a Spencer to just anyone…" Luke tells her and then says "You come highly recommended from my little sister so you're a shoe in. The only other way you get to join the Spencer Clan is to marry into the fold like Doc Bro in Law over there…" Luke shoots Tony a little look then says "Yeah once you take a Spencer for a spouse it's for life…that is unless you're unfaithful then we have to kick you out." he keeps his eyes trained on Tony as he continues to say "But we have no worries on that front because my darlin Laura is my soul-mate and the good Doc over there would never think about being unfaithful to my sister. Isn't that right Doc Bro in Law?"
With the way Luke was glaring at him, Tony began to wonder if he caught him staring at Carly before "That's right and I'm appalled you'd even bring something like that up Luke."
Bobbie swats Luke's shoulder as she shoots him a glare "You stop trying to stir up trouble big brother before you are the one I kick out."
"Hey don't get your panties in a bunch Barbra Jean I didn't say your hubby was unfaithful I was just explaining to Carly the ways to be inducted in and out of the Spencer's Family Dynasty." Luke tells Bobbie and then lowers his arm from around Carly and looks at her as he says "So what do you say? I got your badge and secret decoder ring ready…are you in or out?"
Bobbie looks over to Carly and says "I'd really like for you to join us…"
Carly sees that Bobbie really wants her to stay but she couldn't; how could she when she knew what they didn't and that was that she was Bobbie's daughter. This was her family and in a way it scared her because she never had a real family before.
"Maybe another time…" Carly tells her and then says "I'm gonna go on and go up to my place."
Before Bobbie could make another plea for her to join them Carly had quickly made her way out of the room…
Luke looks at Bobbie as she had a sad disappointed look on her face "Come on Barbra Jean you can't make her stay if she doesn't want to." inwardly Luke told himself that the reason Carly probably didn't want to stay was because she noticed the looks Tony was giving her just like noticed them.
Yeah he'd have to have a little talk with his Doc Bro in Law but not now and now when Bobbie is around…
As Carly quickly unlocked her door she hurries inside and closes the door…she presses her back up against the door as she closes her eyes for a brief moment while trying to catch her breath some since she ran all the way up the stairs and down the hallway.
Opening her eyes, Carly says "Get yourself together…" looking down at her stomach when it starts to growl "That Chinese food did smell real good…" she starts to nibble on her bottom lip thinking about maybe going back downstairs but then decides against it "I'll just make myself a frozen pizza." Walking into her kitchen she opens the freezer door and takes out a frozen pizza "I'll eat my pizza and finish watching my movie from earlier and then go to bed since tomorrow is my first day on the job at GH."
Corinthos – Morgan Warehouse
Sonny came straight to his office at the warehouse after he'd gotten the information he wanted out of Sorel's men. Hopefully the new information he had on Sorel's whereabouts of where he could be hiding out at was true. He wanted this Sorel situation over yesterday…he didn't want Sorel to make good on the threat he made about Caroline.
After making a couple of phone calls Sonny gathered a couple of his men in his office and is now sitting at in his chair behind his desk while he issues out orders to them of what he wants them to do…
"I have it on good authority that Sorel may be hiding out at a Pawn Shop he owns down on Courtland Street…he's got an office there in the back. Jason should be on his way here and when he gets here I want all of you to go with him and check the place out to see if Sorel is there." Sonny tells them and then says "If he's there I want him brought back to me alive so I can handle the bastard myself…" Just then Jason comes walking inside the office "Perfect timing. I need you to go out on a job. Sorel's men may have come through with an actual place he could be hiding. I want you to go there and check it out."
"Sure no problem but I need to speak with you first in private…" Jason tells him
Sonny nods and gestures for his men to leave the office and give them some privacy…as they leave out the office Jason closes the door behind them
"This about Caroline…did you talk to her?" Sonny asks
Exhaling a sigh, Jason sits down in one of the chairs and looks across the desk straight at Sonny as he tells him "I saw Carly and yes I explained to her how serious the situation is and that she needs to let Max guard her."
"Did she refuse? Because if she did Jason you need to tell her that she doesn't get a vote in the matter! This is about keeping her safe and Max is gonna be her bodyguard whether she wants it or not." Sonny fires back
Jason quickly tells him "Carly didn't say no to allowing Max to guard her…"
"Good, that's good…" Sonny says
Adding in just as quickly, Jason says "But she did say no to moving back into the penthouse with me…"
Slamming his fist down onto the desk, Sonny practically yells "She what?!" standing up from his chair he goes on to rant out "I thought I told you to tell her it's for the best and for her safety if she moves back in with you!"
"I did tell her that Sonny but she still refused…I tried to tell you she wouldn't want go for it!" Jason tells him
"And I told you not to give her the option on whether she wants to move back or not! You should have told her she was moving back in with you and that's that!"
Standing up from his chair, Jason tries to tell him "Look it will be okay…Max is guarding Carly he's one of our best guards and he'll make sure she's safe!"
Not accepting that answer, Sonny storms from around his desk and heads to the door "I swear if you want something done right you gotta do it yourself…" he mumbles underneath his breath just loud enough for Jason to hear
Looking at him confused as to where he was going, Jason asks "Where are you going?"
"You go to that pawn shop and see if Sorel is there or not! I'm gonna go do what you should have done!" Sonny says to him over his shoulder as he leaves out of the office.
That meant he was going to the Brownstone to see Carly…
Shaking his head as he stares at the open door Sonny just left out of, Jason didn't even bother trying to talk him out of it because he wouldn't listen to him anyway…
The Brownstone
"Hey who ate all the Moo Goo Gai Pan?" Luke says as he looks inside of the empty box
Lucky looks over to his dad with a laugh as he says "Hey you snooze you lose old man…"
"Who you calling old?" Luke says with a look over to his son "You know that's my favorite now you're gonna have to go out and get me another box…"
"Luke for goodness sakes you can have the rest of mine…" Laura tells him as she starts to scrape her portion onto his plate
"Well you ate the last eggroll…" Lucky tells him
"Okay children stop the arguing over a stupid eggroll and some moo goo gai pan…" Bobbie tells the Spencer boys
Both Luke and Lucky say at the same time "He started it…" they point to each other
Bobbie and Laura just roll their eyes at them and have a little laugh at their expense…
Hearing a knocking on the door, Bobbie says "I wonder who that could be?"
"Are you expecting anyone?" Laura asks
"No…" Bobbie replies and then gets up from her chair and goes to answer the door
Standing at the door, Sonny starts to knock again; he was so keyed up that he didn't go inside through the side entrance like the last time.
As Bobbie walks up to the door she looks through the glass portion of the door and sees that it is Sonny… "Sonny hey…" she greets him opening the door "It's always good to see you. Were you looking for Luke he's in the dining room?"
"No actually I came to see Caroline…" Sonny tells her and then says "Can I come in?"
Stepping aside, Bobbie says with a little smile as she inwardly tells herself that Sonny was definitely smitten with Carly "Sure come on in…" she closes the door behind him "We're all in the dining room eating Chinese food…I invited Carly to stay and join us but she decided not to. She's upstairs in her apartment so if you'd like you can go on up and…"
"Thanks Bobbie…" Sonny says not giving her a chance to finish her sentence as he heads up to Carly's apartment
Inside Carly's apartment she was just taking out her pizza from the oven when she hears a banging on her door.
Turning off the oven, Carly walks over to the door but stops when she hears Sonny's voice yelling "Caroline! I know you're in there! Open the door!" he bangs on the door some more when she doesn't open it
"Go away Sonny!"
Staring at the door hearing her tell him to go away, Sonny gets even more frustrated "Jason told me you refused to move back into his penthouse! I'm here to tell you that you don't get a vote and to pack your bags because you're moving back in with him tonight!"
"THE HELL I AM! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME DO A DAMN THING SONNY!" Carly yells back at him through the door
"Caroline this is NOT up for discussion! This is for your own safety! Do you not get that?!" Sonny yells back then starts banging back on the door again "Now open the damn door!"
"NO!"
"Open the door or I'll kick it down!" Sonny threatens
"GO AHEAD! KICK DOWN THE DOOR AND I'LL CALL THE COPS!" Carly threatens back
Both Sonny and Carly are surprised to hear "No need to call the cops Miss. Benson I'm already here…" Marcus Taggert says as he comes out of his apartment after hearing the loud banging on the door and their arguing back and forth at each other.
Sonny groans when he turns around and sees Taggert standing there looking smug while holding up a pair of handcuffs "Stay out of this baldy don't you have better things to do like call in a prescription to the hair club for men?!"
Carly presses her ear up to the door listening as she hears Taggert reply back to Sonny saying "Funny Corinthos but we'll see who is the one laughing once I haul your ass down to lock up for disturbing the peace and attempted breaking and entering. Sonny Corinthos you're under arrest…" he reads Sonny his rights while placing the handcuffs on him behind his back
Shaking his head in disbelief as Taggert puts the cuffs on him, Sonny fires back "This is the best charge you can get me on Taggert?! HUH?! I'll be out in thirty minutes!"
"Yeah well we'll see about that…"
Carly opens the door and sees Taggert carting Sonny down the hall…Sonny looks back over his shoulder and sees her watching him.
"Why are you arresting him he didn't break down the door?!" Carly yells at Taggert
"Don't try to cover for him Miss. Benson I heard his threats to you…" Taggert replies over his shoulder as he continues to lead Sonny down the hallway
"Caroline…" Sonny calls out her name then tells her "Call Max and tell him to call my lawyer Justice Ward!"
Carly nods and then hurries back inside her apartment to get her purse; with her purse in hand she hurries out the door as she searches through it for her cell phone.
The Spencer-Jones clan who was just gathering back into the living room gets a shock of seeing Taggert walking a handcuffed Sonny towards the door.
"What's going on here? Why are you arresting Sonny?" Bobbie asks
Carly comes practically running down the stairs catching up with them as she talks to Max on her cell phone "Max you need to call Sonny's lawyer and have him meet Sonny down at the police station! And I'm on my way outside so come and get me so I can go too!"
"Caroline you stay here! My lawyer will handle it!" Sonny yells out to her when he heard her say she was coming too
Taggert leads Sonny out the front door and down to where his car was parked…
"Shut up you ungrateful ass! I'm coming and that's that!" Carly says following behind them out the door…she then starts yelling at Taggert "What's the name of your boss because I'm sure he'd like to know that you are arresting Sonny for no reason at all! I didn't call you and I sure as hell didn't tell you to arrest Sonny!"
"Maybe not but he still was disturbing the peace…I could hear everything from my apartment!" Taggert argues back
Back inside the Brownstone, Bobbie looks over to Luke and the others as she says "Maybe I should go down to the PCPD too…Carly was pretty upset."
Tony quickly says "Bobbie Sonny was arrested for a reason you shouldn't get involved."
"Carly shouldn't be down there by herself…"
"Carly shouldn't be down there period…" Tony replies then says "Maybe now she will realize that Sonny Corinthos is bad news and stay away from him."
Luke casts a look over to Tony as he wonders about his motives for wanting Carly to stay away from Sonny…
"I still say that Carly shouldn't be down there alone…" Bobbie tells him and then looks over to Luke "Can you take me down to the station?"
"Yeah sure let's go…" Luke replies and then looks over to Laura and the kids "I'll call you when we get there."
Luke and Bobbie leave out the door and head down to the police station…
Port Charles Police Department
Mac Scorpio was just getting ready to leave work for the night and go home…he was tired it had been a long day and all he wanted to do was go home and relax. As he's headed towards the exit Mac is met with loud voices arguing and then moments later in comes Taggert with Sonny Corinthos in handcuffs with a blond woman right on their heels yelling and screaming. Mac groans since this is just what he didn't need; he was almost out the door and now this. Mac stands watching and listening to everything…
"Caroline how many times do I have to tell ya to go home…you shouldn't be here!" Sonny yells
Carly ignores him as she continues ranting and raving to Taggert as she follows them inside the police station "You have no right to arrest Sonny! I want to talk to your boss! I didn't tell you to arrest him he didn't do anything! Where is your boss so I can tell him how you are harassing us and arresting an innocent man?!"
Taggert laughs then says "Innocent…you gotta be joking right?! The day Sonny Corinthos is innocent is the day pigs fly…" he walks over to stand next to Mac so he could talk to him but couldn't get a word in edgewise since Carly was still yelling.
"You had no right to arrest him! Sonny and I were just having a disagreement on something and he made a comment that he didn't mean!"
"He threatened to kick down your door!" Taggert yells back
At that moment Luke and Bobbie come into the station and see Carly getting up in Taggert's face…they stand back and watch along with everyone else in the police station. Sonny had given up on trying to get Carly to listen to him because she was in a whole other zone screaming and ranting at Taggert. As he stood watching her give it to him with both barrels a little hint of a dimpled smile appears at the corner or his mouth…
"So what?! He didn't do it!" Carly yells back as she stands
"Only because I showed up just in time…" Taggert replies back
"Who the hell asked you to?!" Carly yells and then says "You hate Sonny so you look for any excuse you can to arrest him! Well this time you went too far because he didn't do anything!"
Sonny stood amused as he watched hurricane Carly take on Taggert…
"You call disturbing the peace and threatening to break down your door nothing?! And what would have happened if Corinthos did kick your door down? Would he have smacked you around a little bit?! No wait I distinctly remember hearing him tell you that you didn't get a vote and to pack your bags because you were moving back in with him…so we can probably add attempted kidnapping to the list too. You know kidnapping is a federal offence…"
"As usual you got it all wrong cue-ball!" Carly fires back "Sonny didn't want me to move in with him…"
"Well it sure did sound like it to me…"
"Then you need to get the wax cleaned out of your ears because you don't know what the hell you're talking about!"
Mac stood watching them yell back and forth and finally he got tired of all the screaming "Alright that's enough!" he yells out to get their attention and goes over to Taggert "I don't know what's going on but somebody better start explaining!"
When Taggert starts to try to speak, Carly cuts him off before he could as she looks at Mac and says "Are you his boss because if so you need to put a leash on him!"
"What seems to be the problem?" Mac asks
"The problem is the Lieutenant here has a grudge against Sonny and arrested him for no good reason at all!"
"I'm sure whatever my lieutenant arrested Sonny here for had to be a good reason." Mac looks back at Taggert while he still addresses Carly "We here at the PCPD don't just go around and arrest innocent people…isn't that right Lieutenant Taggert. So what are the charges?"
Justice Ward came walking inside the PCPD and was getting ready to make his presence known as he stood back next to Bobbie and Luke but when he sees and hears Mac ask what the charges were he stays quiet so he would know just what it was he was dealing with…
"Disturbing the peace and attempted breaking and entering and if I wouldn't have showed up when I did you could probably add domestic violence and attempted kidnapping to the list too."
"Sonny would never hit me! And how many times do I have to say it?! Sonny didn't kick down my door it was just something he said in the heat of the moment so there was no breaking and entering! And as you can see I'm standing right here in front of you so there was no kidnapping either!"
Although Sonny loved watching Carly steamroll Taggert he also knew that saying to much would make Taggert twist your words around and use it against you…
"Caroline be quiet! Don't say anything!" Sonny yells to her
Carly continue on ignoring what Sonny said to her "And as for the disturbing the peace Sonny and I were having a simple disagreement that all! And if you go around arresting everyone who has an argument then half the people in this damn city would be in lock up!"
Justice steps forward making his presence known "The lady is right and if that's all the charges you have against my client then I suggest you take off the handcuffs and release him."
"Well it's about damn time you got here Justice…what took you so long?" Sonny says looking over to his attorney
"Hey I do have a life of my own too Sonny…" Justice tells him and then goes to stand by his side and looks over to Mac to say "Mac you have to admit that these charges are bogus and your Lieutenant should have known better than to even haul my client down here in the first place." Looking over to Carly, Justice asks "Did you call the cops?"
"No I didn't he's just some nosey neighbor of mine…" Carly tells him as Bobbie comes over to stand next to her side and Luke on her other side
Justice nods then says "Well when the Lieutenant came out of his apartment did you tell him to arrest Sonny?"
"No I didn't he just came out of nowhere and butted his nose in where it wasn't wanted or needed for that matter…" Carly shoots Taggert a glare as she crosses her arms over her chest
"Well if the lady here didn't call the cops or tell Taggert to arrest Sonny then I don't see why my client is in handcuffs and had to be dragged all the way down here to the PCPD."
Getting frustrated since it seemed Sonny was gonna walk and escape the charges "He was disturbing the peace damn it! I heard him banging on Miss. Benson's door and threatening to kick the door down myself!"
"But he didn't kick the door down did he?" Justice asks
"No but…" Taggert starts to say
"And Miss. Benson didn't call you over to intervene did she?"
"No she didn't but…"
Cutting him off again, Justice then asks "So did the landlord at your apartment building at least call you to make the arrest for disturbing the peace at least?"
Bobbie steps in and quickly says "That would be me and no I didn't. I was shocked and surprised to see Taggert hauling Sonny out the building handcuffed behind his back. When I tried to ask what was happening Lieutenant Taggert just kept walking out the door and explained nothing to me at all."
"Well there you go…" Justice says with a smile over to Taggert and then tells Mac "I think it's obvious here that your Lieutenant jumped the gun Mac so either you let my client go or I'll file harassment charges against Lieutenant Taggert here and your whole department."
Taking a brief moment to think about it, Mac sighs then says "Cut him loose…"
Sonny starts to laugh at Taggert's expression and Carly grins pleased with herself that she was able to help get Sonny released…
Pissed off, Taggert says "Mac come on! You can't be serious?!"
"I said cut him loose Taggert!" Mac tell him once again
With a frustrated sigh, Taggert goes over and removes the handcuffs from behind Sonny's back "Well you must be pretty pleased with yourself Corinthos…you still have a woman fighting your battles for you."
"Unlike you who doesn't have a woman period huh…" Sonny replies back with a smug little grin as he rubs his wrists and then walks over to stand next to Carly making Luke move over by Bobbie.
Looking over to Carly, Taggert tells her "I feel sorry for you, you know that…right now you're all caught up in Sonny's so called charm and his money but one day you will see the real Sonny and realize you should have taken my warnings seriously. Hopefully it will be before you end up like his dead wife did…"
"You heartless bastard…" Carly yells as she makes a move to lunge at Taggert but Sonny quickly grabs her with his hands circling around her waist holding her back as she keeps yelling "What the hell gives you the right to talk about somebody's dead wife like that?!"
"Caroline let's go he's not worth it…" Sonny says as he holds her back and starts walking her towards the exit "Come on let's go."
Mac goes to stand in front of Taggert as he tells him "In my office…now." he walks frustrated back to his office and Taggert grumbles following behind him.
A grinning Luke looks at Bobbie and with a little chuckle he says "Looks like Caroline can handle herself…" he says Caroline instead of Carly since he noticed Sonny kept calling her that "If I didn't know any better I'd say she was a real Spencer."
With a smile of her own Bobbie watched as Sonny leads Carly out of the door "Oh yeah she can definitely handle herself just fine…and Sonny too for that matter."
Justice comes over to Bobbie and says "Do you have a couple of minutes I want it on record that you didn't call the cops or Lieutenant Taggert for that matter and tell him to arrest Sonny for disturbing the peace."
"Yeah sure…" Bobbie says and goes with Justice to do some paperwork
Luke calls out to her "I'll be right here darlin…I'm just gonna call Laura and let her know everything is fine."
Meanwhile outside of the police station, Sonny and Carly stand facing each other as he says "That was some performance you put on in there…"
With a little smile and shake of her head, Carly replies "Just say thank you Carly for helping me not spend the night behind bars…"
"Well actually my lawyer did that all you did was rant and rave like a crazy woman…" Sonny says with a dimpled smile and a little laugh
"If it wasn't for me your lawyer wouldn't have been able to prove Taggert's charges he arrested you for were bogus." Carly replies and then says "And I'm still waiting for my thank you Carly for saving my butt." she places her hands onto her hips as she looks him straight in his chocolate brown eyes
Grinning, Sonny says "How about we talk about it back at the penthouse when you move back into Jason's place tonight…"
When Sonny reaches a hand out to place onto her waist, Carly pushes his hand away "Are we back on that again?!" she says in disbelief "I'm not moving back into Jason's penthouse so get it through your thick skull because it's not happening…"
"We'll talk about it on the ride back…" Sonny tells her then opens the back door of the limo Max brought her to the PCPD in "Come on let's go…"
"I'm not going to the penthouse; Max is taking me back to the Brownstone." Carly tells him as she gets inside the back of the limo.
Sonny closes the door and gets in the front sitting in the passenger seat; Carly looks at him confused as to why he was sitting in the front seat but then remembers that Taggert brought him to the police station in his car.
"Lock the doors and the windows Max…" Sonny tells him which causes Carly's eyes to open wide at what he just told Max to do.
"What the hell are you doing?" Carly asked with an instant frown and then tries to open the doors but they wouldn't open and the windows wouldn't lower when she pressed the window button "Sonny you open this door right now!"
"Take us back to the penthouse Max…" Sonny tells Max
With a nod, Max replies "Yes sir…"
"Max don't you dare take me to the penthouse! You take me back to the Brownstone! I mean it Max you take me back to the Brownstone!" Carly yells from the back seat as she keeps trying to get the door to open even though Max has already pulled away from the police station.
With a little laugh, Sonny tells her "Sorry can't hear you you're gonna have to speak a little louder…" he cups his ear
Shooting him a glare up in the front seat, Carly yells back "Oh you can't hear me?! Well see if you hear this you CONTROL FREAK ARROGANT PIG HEADED SON OF A B…"
Sonny rolls up the partition cutting off her "Sorry I still can't hear ya…" he laughs
"SONNY!" Carly yells out his name in frustration as she starts banging her fist on the raised up partition "UUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she sits back on the seat as she folds her arms more pissed off than ever
Back up in the front seat, Max asks Sonny "Boss if uh you don't mind me asking how are we gonna get her out the backseat when we get back to the garage. As soon as we open the door she's gonna kick and scream bloody murder…"
"That's why you're gonna open the door first Max…" Sonny tells him
Max gulped as he got a mental picture of opening the door and Carly kicking him in the nuts and falling to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
A thought came to Sonny and he asks Max "Where did Milo go? He was the one that drove me over to the Brownstone; what he didn't follow you to the police station?"
"No uh I told Milo he could go back to the Harbor View and that I would take care of the situation since I was calling your attorney and bringing Miss. Benson to the PCPD with me. I had him take the car I had back to the garage and I drove Miss. Benson in your limo. I thought that once you were released you'd want to ride in your limo. " Max explains and Sonny just nods; they ride the rest of the way back to the penthouse in silence
As they finally made it back to the Harbor View Towers, Max pulls the limo into the garage and parks in Sonny private parking section where all of his cars and limos were kept.
Looking over to Max and seeing the pained expression on his face, Sonny tells him "Stop your bellyaching and get out the car and wait for me to tell you to open the door."
With a slight nod, Max gets out of the car and closes the door behind him. Once he was out of the car, Sonny presses the button for the intercom so that he could speak to Carly before he had Max open the door.
"Caroline I have no doubt that you're sitting back there pouting and plotting your escape as soon as I open the door…" Sonny tells her then says "And I don't normally do this but I'm gonna ask you nicely to behave yourself and come up to the penthouse with me so that we can talk. After we talk and I explain everything to you again since Jason obviously didn't get through to you and you still insist on not moving in with him then I won't fight you on it. Do we have a deal?"he lowers down the partition and looks over his shoulder at her "Do we have a deal or not?"
Shooting him a deadly glare, Carly keeps her arms folded across her chest as she finally replies "Fine! But when I still decide I'm not moving back in with Jason you have to promise to keep your promise and not try to stop me."
Exhaling a sigh, Sonny says "Deal…" why did it feel like she was rejecting him all over again like she did earlier when she didn't stay in bed with him
Opening his door, Sonny gets out and closes it behind him and then looks over to Max and tells him "Go ahead and open it…" when he sees Max hesitate before opening the door he exhales a breath and tells him "I talked to her and Caroline promised to behave so you have nothing to worry about Max…open the door."
Max inwardly tells himself that he'd rather Sonny open the door even though she promised to behave there was no guarantee she'd actually do it.
Taking a deep breath, Max opens the door and quickly steps back behind the door just in case her foot came kicking out at him towards the family jewels. Sonny just shakes his head that Max was actually scared of a woman that was less than half his size.
Carly gets out the back of the car without yelling or kicking or screaming; she behaved herself as she promised so that Sonny would keep his promise not to stop her from leaving when she once again turned down moving in with Jason. Max closes the door behind her in relief that he didn't get kicked in the groin…
"Okay let's get this over with…the sooner we talk the sooner I can go back to my place." Carly says with a look over to Sonny as she folds her arms back across her chest
Sonny walks over to her and places a hand onto her back as he starts to walk her over to the private elevator he uses; as the elevator doors open he lets her walk inside first and follows behind her. Inside the elevator, Carly puts as much space between her and Sonny as possible…she has her back against the side wall as Sonny looks at her from the opposite side of the elevator.
Not liking the fact that she was looking everywhere but at him, Sonny breaks the silence as he says "Well this is the quietest I've ever seen you? Why aren't you yap, yap, yappin and going off on me like you were back at the police station with Taggert?"
Still not looking at him, Carly replies as she stares up at the numbers lighting up as the elevator went up to the top floor "I agreed to behave otherwise you'd be getting an earful right now…"
Waving his hand to get her attention "Hey, hello…over here." Sonny says wanting her to look at him and stop staring at the damn numbers lighting up. When she finally turns to look at him, Sonny says "That's better I know the view of looking at me is better than watching some boring old numbers light up."
Carly rolls her eyes at him "You just have to be the center of attention don't you? Well let me tell you Sonny the world does not revolve around you."
The elevator doors open and Carly immediately walks out and starts to head over to Jason's place thinking that they were gonna talk there since that was where he wanted her to move back to and also the fact that his penthouse was trashed when she was there last.
Sonny steps out of the elevator and looks over to her standing in front of Jason's door "What are you doing?"
"You said you wanted to talk so…"
Walking over to her, Sonny takes her hand and leads her over to his door "That's right but we're going to my place." he says cutting her off and then adds "And besides Jason isn't home he's out on business."
Milo is standing at Sonny's penthouse door and immediately opens the door for them to enter inside.
Carly looks around the place and is shocked to see that it is spotlessly clean "You had the place cleaned up I see…last I was here the place was trashed."
"Yeah well we control freaks don't like to keep a mess around for to long…" Sonny replies as he watches her walk over to the terrace window doors and open them "What are you doing?"
"Just checking out the view…" Carly says as she steps out onto the terrace looking for an excuse to put some more distance between them. She steps outside and looks up at the night's sky and the view of the city below "You have a beautiful view up here…"
Sonny walks up behind her and watches her for a moment enjoying his own view of her "Very beautiful…"
Carly turns around and sees him staring at her and immediately gets butterflies in the pit of her stomach with the way he was looking at her "Well uh…" she clears her throat a little "You wanted to talk so let's go back inside and talk." she pushes her way quickly past him and walks back inside the penthouse
Sonny flashes a little dimpled smile as he could tell she was nervous for some reason and then walks back inside and closes the terrace doors back again.
"You thirsty…can I get you something to drink?" Sonny makes an offer
"No but I'm hungry…you got any chips?" Carly asks as she starts to walk towards the kitchen
Seeing where she was headed, Sonny quickly stops her before she could go back into the kitchen "Where do you think you're going?"
"To the kitchen to get some chips..." Carly tells him then says "What's your problem?"
"Sorry but you're not gonna find chips in my kitchen. I don't put junk food crap into my body like some people I know."
"Oh come on Sonny everyone has chips…" Carly says as she tries to step around him but once again he stops her "What the hell? Move out the way I'm hungry. I never got to eat my frozen pizza because somebody showed up banging on my door then got himself arrested."
"First of all that whole scene with Taggert could have been avoided if you'd have just opened the door…" Sonny tells her and Carly rolls her eyes at him as she folds her arms again "Second of all nobody goes into my kitchen but me…that is not unless I invite you in and I haven't done that with you so…"
"Hey it's your fault that I'm starving because like I said I didn't get to eat my pizza…now either you step aside so I can raid your fridge or I'm leaving and you can forget about our little talk even though I can already tell you what my answer is gonna be." Carly tells him
"Frozen pizza…how can you eat that cardboard garbage?" Sonny asks with a disgusted look
"It's not cardboard garbage…oh I forgot you're one of those health food nuts." Carly gives him a disgusted look of her own
"I don't do junk food I prefer to cook myself and the right way instead of zapping something in a microwave or heating up some frozen cardboard pizza in the oven."
"You cook?" Carly asks with a laugh and giving him a whatever look "Yeah right…"
"Don't be so shocked I'm actually an excellent cook and I'll prove it to you." Sonny tells her with a flash of his dimples
"What you're gonna cook for me?"
"I'm gonna make you the best damn homemade pizza you ever had and it's gonna be better than any cardboard pizza you can heat up in the oven or any bucket of grease pizza you call and have delivered."
With a little laugh, Carly says "This I gotta see…" taking her hand, Sonny walks her inside of his kitchen and Carly says "Wow it's huge and spotless in here like one of those chef's kitchens you see on the food network."
"That's the idea…and don't touch anything all you gotta do is sit down over here" Sonny leads her to a stool on one side of the island in the middle of the kitchen "And I'll handle the rest."
"I hope this isn't gonna take forever cause like I said I'm starving…forget about making me a pizza let's just order one."
"Not gonna happen sweetheart…" Sonny tells her shaking his head no
"Hey the pizza place makes a guarantee to deliver in thirty minutes or less so that's how long I'm giving you; and I highly doubt you can cook eggs let along a homemade pizza."
"Ouch that hurt…" Sonny replies and then says "I'm gonna make you eat those words because it just so happens that I'm a hell of a cook. And just to prove it to ya you'll have your pizza in thirty minutes and you'll love it and then you'll have to apologize for insulting my cooking abilities."
"Oh I'm sorry did I crush that massive ego of yours?" Carly teases him "Maybe I should leave out the kitchen so there's enough room for you and your ego."
"Funny…" Sonny says with a half smile then says "You just sit quiet and let me make your pizza and then while you're eating we can have our talk."
"Then hurry up and get to making my pizza…your thirty minutes starts right now…"
Out in the hallway the elevator doors open and Jason comes stepping off…
Looking over to Milo, Jason asks "Sonny home?"
"Yeah Miss. Benson's inside with him. Do you want me to let the boss know you're here?"
Hearing Carly was inside with Sonny, Jason shakes his head "No that's fine…I'll speak to him later."
As Jason walks over to his door he inwardly tells himself that maybe this time around they won't get their messages mixed up. He wouldn't interrupt them and besides he could inform Sonny on everything later…
Carly watches as Sonny prepared everything and made her pizza…she smiles watching him because it seemed like he enjoyed cooking and for that matter it seemed to relax him. Sonny liked that she was watching him so intently…she seemed to be enjoying herself.
If you would have told Sonny when he first came back into town a few days ago that he would have Carly in his kitchen and cooking for her he'd have laughed in your face. All in the span of three days they have gone from hating each other, yelling, screaming and calling names to lust, attraction and being intimate…and not to mention a trip to the PCPD and now here Sonny was taking her into his kitchen and making her a homemade pizza.
All while he was making her pizza and they waited for it to finish baking in the oven Sonny and Carly exchanged casual conversation and exchanged few laughs as they truly enjoyed each others company. Sonny didn't want to bring up her moving back in with Jason until after the pizza was done and she was eating and of course after he got his apology from her for insulting his cooking abilities.
Exactly thirty minutes later, Sonny pulls out Carly's homemade pizza from his oven and places the pizza pan down onto the island in front of her so she could see how beautiful it was.
"There you go…" Sonny says with a dimpled smile "Now isn't that a thing of beauty…better than that frozen stuff you wanted to eat."
Carly nibbles down on her bottom lip with a little smile as she leans forward and inhales its scent and looks at the bubbly cheese and pepperoni on the pizza.
"Looks good…" Carly nonchalantly says as she sits back up and looks over to him looking all smug "Hey just because it looks good doesn't mean it tastes good."
"You just go back to the dining table and I will cut it for you and bring it out so you can eat and then apologize."Sonny tells her with confidence she will love the pizza and have to apologize to him.
Carly laughs at him "Oh my goodness you are actually serious about apologizing for insulting your cooking abilities…is it that serious Sonny? I mean really?"
"Yes it is now go…" Sonny says with a little smirk then points for her to leave out the kitchen
Sonny watches her hips sway as she walks out of the kitchen…once she was gone he cuts the pizza up into slices then gets a beer out of the refrigerator for her. Carly's eyes zero in on the pizza he had placed on a medium sized silver plate platter and when he sets it down in front of her on the dining table she smiles down at it.
"Here you go" Sonny smiles as she immediately picks up a slice and takes a bite "I brought you a beer too…" he places it down on the table and takes a seat in the chair next to her
Carly was so hungry she just dove into the pizza and didn't care that he was watching her eat and smiling that arrogant smug smile of his knowing that he was right and the pizza was amazing.
"Okay so it's good…" Carly admits and when Sonny's grin got wider she rolls her eyes at him and takes another bite out of the slice she had in her hand
"And…" Sonny says waiting for his apology
"And what?" Carly says while knowing what it was he was waiting for her to say
"My apology"
"Hey just because you can make a pizza doesn't mean you are excellent cook…"
With a little chuckle, Sonny says "I'm not gonna get my apology huh?"
"Afraid not but I will admit you do make a hell of a good pizza how's that." Carly admits to him
With a little dimpled smile, Sonny replies "I'll take that…for now." he says and then exhales as he then says "Now about you moving back in with Jason…"
Shaking her head no "I'm not moving back into Jason's place; I told him I wasn't and I'm telling you the same thing too. No…" Carly tells him and then picks up a second slice and takes a big bite out of it.
"Caroline I don't think you understand how serious the situation is…that man Joseph Sorel the man you saw at Luke's before you left is very dangerous. I wish he didn't involve you in this but he did and it's because of me. He made a very serious threat about you and it's up to me to keep you safe and see to it that you stay that way. The Brownstone is not safe enough to keep Sorel from sending one of his men after you; it would be best if you would move back in with Jason just until we are able to assure Sorel won't be a danger to you or anyone else."
After drinking down some of her beer, Carly looks at him and says "Does that mean you have a hit out on this Sorel guy?"
"That means it's none of your business just let me and Jason handle it and let us keep you safe." Sonny replies
With a sigh, Carly says "Sonny I understand you and Jason want to keep me safe and I appreciate that don't think that I don't because I do…but I won't live my life in fear. I agreed to let Max guard me and I promised Jason that I wouldn't ditch him."
"I don't get why you are being so stubborn about this…we are talking about your life here Caroline we are talking about keeping you safe and breathing. Why would you even consider saying no to moving back with Jason if it means your life?"
"You really think I'm in that much danger?"
"Yes I do…" Sonny tells her
"Then maybe it's a good thing that I do stay at the Brownstone since I do happen to have a cop for a neighbor. Sorel's men wouldn't dare dart the Brownstone knowing that a cop is living there across the hall from me."
"You're putting your trust in Taggert instead of me and Jason?"
"No…never!" Carly snaps back and then exhales a sigh before calming herself and telling him "I'm just saying that this Sorel guy would be less likely to try something there than anywhere else…and I will have Max with me everywhere else I go so I should be fine."
Sonny runs a frustrated hand down his face and then says "You're determined to say no, no matter what I say aren't you."
"Mr. Control Freak is just gonna have to learn that he can't control everything and you will never be able to control me. I take my own chances and make my own decisions and my decision is to stay at the Brownstone…but I appreciate you looking out for me."
Sonny didn't like it but he had to accept and respect her decision…"If you're so determined not to do what I say then I'm gonna have Johnny added to your guard duty along with Max. The same thing goes with what Jason said…wherever you go you stay with your guards. Max and Johnny will make sure you are protected and you cannot ditch them for any reason Caroline.
"I won't I promise…" Carly tells him as she dives in to her third slice of pizza
Watching her make the slice of pizza disappear in a matter of a few bites, Sonny chuckles as he says "Told you you'd love it…"
"Whatever Corinthos…" Carly says as she tries to ignore his smug grin and continue eating
As he sat watching her, Sonny's thoughts began to wonder with memories of the last time she was here in his penthouse…memories of her holding him in her arms while he cried, memories of him kissing her on the couch, memories of carrying her up the stairs and of course memories of them rolling around naked in his bed.
Carly catches the look in Sonny's eyes as he watched her eat and she could tell that he was no longer thinking about that Sorel guy and his threats…the look in his eyes told her that he was thinking about them upstairs in his bed. She especially knew she was right when he began to lightly wet his lips…
Sonny was debating on whether or not to bring up to her why she didn't stay with him in his bed after they were intimate together upstairs in his bedroom. Carly also began to wonder to herself if she should bring up if he actually wanted her to stay like Jason said that he did and if he did want her to stay why didn't he just say so.
There was a silence in the penthouse that was so loud it was deafening as the two just sat looking at each other as they were lost in their thoughts about the other.
Finally Sonny breaks the silence as he says "You know I gotta hand it to you…you uh really gave it good to Taggert back at the police station. Poor bastard didn't know what hit him once Hurricane Carly came charging at him."
"Yeah well he deserved it…" Carly replies and then drinks some more of her beer
"You didn't have to come to the police station with me…my lawyer would have handled it."
"Sonny I wasn't gonna just let him railroad you like that…and besides I don't abandon my friends."
"Oh so I'm your friend now…" Sonny says with a dimpled smile "What happened to I hate your guts."
Carly smirks at the look he was giving her "You're not all that bad…" she picks up another slice of pizza and takes a bite
"Wow that's some compliment coming from you…" Sonny replies and then says "With all that ranting and raving and getting up in Taggert's face the way you did I have no doubt he'll think twice before going up against you again."
"He'd better because if not he'll get more of the same…"
"You uh…you know that if you did agree to move back in with Jason that we would be neighbors."
With a little crooked smile, Carly says "Yeah…so?" she puts down the half eaten slice of pizza and picks up a napkin to lightly dab the corners of her mouth.
"So I think I would be a much better neighbor to have than Taggert…"
Carly smirks then replies "And better to look at…"
Sonny flashes his dimples "Definitely better…"
"But sadly I'm not moving across the hall so you'll just have to keep missing me I guess."
"Who says I miss you now…" Sonny says in a low raspy tone then wets his suddenly dry lips once again as he glances down to her lips
Standing up from her chair, Carly tells him "Don't you?" she starts walking towards the door
Sonny gets up immediately from his chair and follows behind her…
Carly turns around when he places a hand onto her shoulder "You see I was right…you do miss me and I haven't even left out the door."
"Well if that's true then I should give you something to miss so I won't be the only one…" Sonny says in sexy tone
Placing his hands onto her hips, Sonny pulls her body against his; Carly's lips slightly part as her heart rate began to increase with how close they were…
Sonny glances down to her lips as she began to lightly nibble on her bottom lip…he places a hand onto her cheek and places the pad of his thumb on her lip to release it so she couldn't nibble on it.
"Come'er…" Sonny whispers inches away from her mouth as his tongue lightly darts out wetting his lips once more before he goes in for the kiss
Wrapping her arms around his back, Carly accepts his lips upon hers and allows his tongue entry to inside of her mouth. As his mouth takes possession of hers in a heated kiss, Sonny backs her up until her back is met with the door. Carly moans into his mouth as he deepens the kiss while pressing his body against hers and keeping her trapped against the door.
They stay kissing for a good couple of minutes both not able to get enough of each other but neither taking that next step like they did before when he took her upstairs to his bed. Finally Carly began to lightly push him back and Sonny pulls back from her lips ending the kiss.
"I should go…" Carly says in a soft whisper as she searches his eyes to see if he would ask her to stay the night…
Inwardly Carly asked herself that if Sonny did ask her to stay would she? She didn't know the answer to that question but it was very tempting. But hey she probably should go since tomorrow was her first day on the job at GH; although that didn't mean she couldn't stay for a little while but only if he wanted her to. Jason did tell her Sonny wanted her to stay before…but like she told him if Sonny wanted her to stay why didn't he say it instead of letting her leave.
Sonny wanted to ask her to stay longer with him but here she was again wanting to leave…of course like before he wasn't gonna make her stay if she didn't want to. He then began to remember back to what Jason told him earlier that she was upset when he saw her leaving and that maybe she did want to stay if only he'd have asked her. He inwardly asked himself why she left if she really wanted to stay after they were together earlier today…
Just like before when they were upstairs in his bed, Sonny says with a sigh "If you want…" he lowers his hands from her waist and takes a couple of steps back stepping out of her personal space.
They stare at each other for a brief moment and then Carly clears her throat a little then says "Okay then…" she opens the door then looks back over her shoulder and says "I guess I'll see you later…"
Sonny watches as she closes the door behind her and then mumbles a curse under his breath to himself once she was gone "Damn it!" he walks over to his newly stocked mini bar and pours himself a drink. Boy did he need a cold shower after that kiss…
Out in the hallway, Carly stands for a moment staring at the closed door…why was she so disappointed that he didn't ask her to stay. She places a hand to her lips where his lips just gave her the most amazing kiss…
Exhaling a breath, Carly turns and walks over to the elevator and presses the button…
Looking over to Milo, Carly says to him "Can you call Max for me and let him know I'm on my way down."
"Sure no problem…"
As the elevator doors open, Carly steps inside and just when the doors are closing Jason comes walking out of his penthouse door…he wanted to ask Milo if Carly was still inside with Sonny but he knew the answer since he caught a glimpse of her getting on the elevator before the doors closed.
Jason walks across the hall to go check in on Sonny to see if everything was alright since he just saw Carly leaving; Milo opens the door for him. Sonny looks over at the door opening and sees its Jason coming inside...
"What took you so long Caroline just left five seconds ago?" Sonny says and then downs the drink in his hand
"You okay?" Jason asks since he was drinking…maybe things didn't go any better between him and Carly as he thought
"Yeah I'm fine…" Sonny replies and then tells him "Caroline refused to move back in with you."
"I could have told you that." Jason replies with a little laugh "Carly is stubborn and when she has her mind set and made up it's hard to get her to change it."
"Yeah I witnessed firsthand how stubborn she is tonight at the PCPD…"
"You got arrested? What happened?" Jason asks confused
"Trust me you don't wanna know…" Sonny replies then says "You wouldn't believe it unless you were there and saw it with your own eyes." he shakes his head and then asks "What happened with Sorel? Did you find him at that place?"
Shaking his head no "My guess he's somewhere laying low until he's ready to make his move…" Jason tells him
Sonny places his glass back down on the mini bar then runs a hand back through his hair "I want that son of a bitch found Jason!"
"We'll find him…" Jason replies and then says "He can't stay in hiding forever…"
"We better find him…dead or alive I don't care which one!" Sonny says with deadly determined look in his eyes
End of Chapter 4
By
Deonna a.k.a. DCORINTHOS