Thank you so much for waiting a little longer for this chapter! I'm excited for the more chapters to come!
No longer than 10 minutes later Morgan and Sonny are back in the hospital room, without Ava. The silence is awkward and everyone is uncomfortable in the small cramped room. Morgan and Kiki notice the fact that Ava hadn't returned and that there was definite tension between the father and son when they returned together.
Carly was still not awake from the lack of blood that spilled out onto the gallery floor. The gallery was a mob owned business so the bloodshed can definitely be predictable, but to Carly, not so much.
Finally in all the silence Kiki decides to speak up. "Uh, where'd my mom go?" not specifically asking one of the two men recently with her.
Sonny and Morgan look at each other and neither wants to bring up the fact that Morgan had driven her away in the drama and the truth of how Carly got shot.
"She wasn't feeling well." Morgan just mumbled. He was pretty much done with this day. The truth hit him hard and although he wouldn't admit it, he felt horribly guilty about making Ava cry. He hated seeing her upset, and she didn't cry easy so luckily he never had to see her so devastated that she started to cry. Seeing that he made her cry,made him feel guilty since all it took was him to yell and the unbreakable broke in front of him.
"Is she okay?" Kiki asked again, interested since she had no clue about what was wrong with her mother. She had seemed okay before, just shaken up from the day's activities, but she was curious about this. Her mother was tough and usually wouldn't complain if she didn't feel well, as long as it wasn't serious. For some reason she felt there was more to it but let it go for the moment.
Suddenly Michael stands up and peers over to his mother when he thought he heard something. "You guys!" Michael says and steps up closer to the bed as he sees his mother begin to wake up.
Sonny, Morgan and Kiki all join around the bed as well. They realize that Carly is waking up and are grateful for it.
She starts to flicker her eyes, not opening them but making a movement. Her eyes then slowly open up fully and her vision gets in a clearer. She doesn't say anything, in shock, but she can see the smiles of the people in front of her.
Someone grabs her hand, she looks down slowly and notices it is Sonny's. Sonny squeezes her hand as she stares down at it for comfort. "How much do you remember?" Sonny asked his girlfriend softly.
Carly takes a deep breath and stares back up at the friendly faces she sees. She's still fuzzy on everything but she realizes she's at general hospital for the bullet she took for Ava. Ava. Suddenly she realizes Ava isn't there and she's worried. The baby she saved, she needed to see with her eyes it's okay, she needed to know.
"Ava. Where's Ava? She was with me, is she okay?" Carly says voice sounding weak, looking at Sonny so he can understand she means the baby as well as its mother.
"Ava's fine." Sonny tells Carly and he can see relief on her face.
"Well where is she?" Carly asks figuring she's close by, but still not jumping to conclusions.
"My mom had to leave, she wasn't feeling good." Kiki tells Carly answering another one of her frantic questions.
"How are you feeling?" Michael asked his mother.
"How am I supposed to feel? I'm worried." Carly says back to her son. She doesn't know how much everyone knows, or how they feel about it but she doubts they know about the baby.
"The doctors said you are going to be okay, don't worry." Morgan said placing his hand on his mother's knee showing her comfort in a time of trouble.
"Not about me, Morgan, Ava! What's wrong with her, why doesn't she feel good, is it when I pushed her?" Carly says looking mainly at Sonny towards the end of it.
"Pushed her?" Kiki says confused with what Carly was saying thinking she was possibly dazed.
"Oh." Carly says realizing that not everyone knew, not too concerned in the moment about keeping quiet on some things when they'd all be revealed eventually. But she would let Ava tell Morgan, she wouldn't spill the beans on that one. "Uh, Okay, I was shot, but I wasn't the target, I pushed Ava out of the way, I took the bullet for her, that's when I pushed her."
"Carly she was just throwing up, you didn't hurt her, you helped her." Sonny says trying to make Carly know she didn't harm Ava, and in secret, the baby.
"Whoa whoa whoa, you took the bullet for Ava?" Michael says shocked by the truth, so was Kiki. Morgan and Sonny knew of course but Morgan still didn't know why, he took the opportunity to find out.
"Why? You and Ava don't get along, why would you do that?" Morgan asks. He wants answers, he needs them. Ava ever since the crypt incident, if not earlier, just didn't add up to him.
Sonny stares at Carly and vice versa with worry. They couldn't tell Morgan about the baby, they promised Ava and with the state she was in they could push her farther. They were stuck, and they didn't see an easy way out.