Carly creeps into the spare room, seeing Sam sat on the bed looking out of the large window.
"Sam? you you still drunk?" Carly asks.
"A little my damn head hurts, I am never drinking that much again." Sam says, rubbing her eyes. "You still upset?" She asks.
"I was just about to ask you that. I understand if you don't want to talk about him but... you really scared me, Sam." Carly says, Sam noticing that the tone of Carly's voice meant that Carly was trying not to cry.
"Deck was sometimes rather crazy but in a funny way he was someone to always be around and that's how we became, partners in the truck cab." Sam says. Carly made a mental note that Sam rarely used Deck's name.
"I'm sorry that I wasn't around to help... I was... I should've been there... you needed someone to help..." Carly says, hiccuping sobs escaping her mouth. Sam turned around and looked at Carly but didn't see the old before her time bank robber that she met seven years ago.
Sam saw the Carly that Michael and Amanda had told her about before the move to Los Santos...Carly Townley was still there.
Sam got up and wrapped her arms around Carly in a comforting hug.
"It's okay Carly. We wouldn't be human if we didn't let our feelings out." Sam says as Carly lightly sobs into her shoulder. Carly looked at Sam when they pulled apart.
"You never show your feelings." Carly says. Sam's expression instantly changed to a serious, saddened look with traces of anger.
"Alright then fine, I will. I'll be how I feel, shall I?" Sam says, going to the window and looking out to the distant city.
"We both changed when we were too young. I tried to be normal after the car accident but I couldn't. I just... shut myself off... it was after I met Johnny that I started acting like a kid again...for the most part. He never judged me... he... he helped me feel human again." Carly says.
"I know how you feel and what you mean. Deck was similar with me. We saw in each other something that nobody else could see Maybe we always were meant to find each other, I certainly think so. Someday, I'm going to burn that cop station that ordered his killing to the ground. Okay, they didn't directly order it but if they caught him, it would've been execution straight away." Sam says, not blocking any of the emotions in her from showing. Carly could see pain, sorrow, anger and other emotions she doubted even had a name.
"So he helped you go back to being yourself and now that he's gone, you're crazy?" Carly asks, Sam again giving the serious but sad look.
"I nearly killed myself after he died, I'm starting to wish that I did." Sam says, sitting back on the bed and resting her head in her hands. Carly sits down next to Sam, gently rubbing Sam's back. She flinched slightly after Jason kicks her in the ribs, his night owl side being shown.
"You okay?" Sam asks.
"Yeah... he's just got really strong legs." Carly says, rubbing her stomach.
Sam reached one hand back, pulling forward her impossibly long plaited hair.
"It was Deck who said this looked good... I've never gone a day without it in this style since." Sam says. One thing Carly struggled to apprehend was just how long Sam's hair actually was.
"I like it... last time that mine was that long was in middle school... some other girl took a pair of scissors and chopped it right to my shoulders because she hated it." Carly says.
"What was her name? I'll blow her brains out if you want-" Sam says.
"No! That's fine... when did you get so aggressive?" Carly says, looking at Sam's long hair.
"Let me answer that with a question, how do you think you'd go if you watched Johnny blow his brains out?" Sam says, Carly getting the picture.
"I couldn't imagine mine and Jason's lives without him. That day that they took him off the ventilator... I felt like my heart stopped beating. Thank god that Johnny is alive." Carly says, her and Sam unaware that Johnny was listening on the other side of the door.
"Carly, what you felt there was what I feel now, but mine is amplified thousands of times over. Sure, I don't show or release it. I block it out because if I didn't, I'd kill myself on the spot. Me and Deck were going to to try, not expect but just try to get me pregnant we both thought that maybe over the years the damage might have gone." Sam says.
"And? What happened?" Carly asks.
"Do you see a large bump in my belly? That was seven months ago Carly, we never even got around to it so I still don't know." Sam says.
Carly brushes her tears away. She was having a baby... and felt bad because Sam wanted a baby so badly. Right on cue, Jason kicks, harder this time.
"I think he missed his Aunt Sam today." Carly says.
Sam looks down at Carly's stomach before looking over at her phone, picking it up and opening the photos. She opened a picture and gave the phone to Carly, showing her Deck, Sam, the truck and a crimson red sunset, so bright that it cast perfect shadows.
"That was in Europe. A place in England, the white cliffs of Dover." Sam says.
"He looks like Hunter... like they could've been brothers." Carly says, finding a picture on her phone and shows it to Sam, Sam noticing the strong resemblance between Deck and Hunter. "Hunter never told me about his family." She says.
"Deck had three brothers, one he called the man of the hunt a man of the hunt is a hunter right?" Sam says.
"Well damn, they were brothers." Carly says.
"Yeah. How old was Hunter when you met him?" Sam says.
"23. Oh, Johnny almost killed Hunter too." Carly says.
"Deck said he never really got on with his brothers he was the rebel of them. They lived in sports cars and nightclubs, Deck lived in old muscle cars or trucks and bars he was great though, even if he was the rebellious, dominant one." Sam says.
"Sam I did not need to know that he was the dominant one!" Carly joked, Sam taking a second to work it out.
"You... dirty git! But if you're interested, he was dominant there too." Sam says.
Carly started laughing, confusing Sam.
"It's been one of those days... I better head back to bed before Johnny realizes that the pillows under the covers isn't me." Carly says, carefully standing up.
"Carly... he's outside the door." Sam says, looking at the shadows of Johnny's feet showing under the door being cast from the light outside. When she said this, Johnny opened the door.
"I had to try it, you won't let me stand up for too long and you said that Gionna used to pull the same trick in high school." Carly says.
"Yeah, she did. For a long time, I thought that she would never really grow up." Johnny says.
"No one wants to You hear kids saying that they want to grow up but when you do, you want to go back." Sam says, running her fingers along her feelingless arm.
"Yeah... to the good old days..." Johnny says.
Alderney, 1996, Johnny's apartment...
"Hey, I'm not the one who went and smashed that guy's head into the pool table. That was Billy." Gionna says before Johnny presses an ice pack to Gionna's bruised right eye. Johnny glances back at Billy Grey, seeing him passed out on the couch.
The 22 year old looks back to the feisty 16 year old, reaching over and brushes Gionna's dark curls away from her face, her hazel eyes glassy which happened sometimes when she was drunk.
"Johnny, I'm okay. It's not the first fight I've gotten into." Gionna says.
"And it's not his either." Johnny says.
"Hey, he's the one who threw a beer bottle at Billy anyway." Gionna says. Her hand still ached from punching Joe Jon but it was worth it. Billy and Gionna were at a bar when Joe Jon showed up and all hell broke loose.
"Whoa! Who are you angrier at, Joe Jon or Billy?" Gionna says, caught off guard when Johnny curses under his breath.
"I worry about you. You're still a kid, Gionna." Johnny says.
"You'll always worry about me but I'm not a kid anymore, Johnny. I haven't been one for a long time." Gionna says, brushing her hand against Johnny's face, Johnny seeing the flash of dark red nail polish from the corner of his left eye.
"Yeah none of us are kids anymore really. Not since we started this life." Johnny says.
"We grew up too fast. That doesn't stop you from seeing me as the little girl who fell out of a tree and broke her right arm in three places." Gionna says.
"Why the hell did you even go up that tree?" Johnny asks, looking at where Gionna's right arm had been broken. The scar was still visible and that was 5 years earlier that it happened.
"Billy dared me to just like he dared you to steal that motorcycle when you were 17." Gionna says. Both of them look at Billy, who was still passed out drunk.
"Back then, we were still kids." Johnny says, removing the ice pack to see Gionna's large bruise.
"If you're thinking of breaking Joe Jon's nose... I already beat you to it." Gionna says.
"Smartass." Johnny says, Gionna chuckling but wincing in pain afterwards.
"It was worth it. The guy's a mean ass drunk, Johnny." Gionna says.
"Just remember, the guy's high up in the A.O.D. Possibly their future leader so just be careful." Johnny warns.
"Fuck the A.O.D!" Billy shouts in his drunken slumber.
"Yeah, fuck them. But one against their leader isn't advisable." Johnny says.
"I'd go against that fuck!" Billy shouts.
"He'd do exactly what our leader would do if one person went against him. If he couldn't take them out on his own, he'd call the whole chapter to him." Johnny says.
"He would... he's going to get himself into a lot of trouble one day." Gionna says, her voice in a serious tone.
"And when he does, I'll be lapping him on to his complete humiliation." Johnny says, nudging Billy which right now, he clearly didnt like.
"I better get home before my mom finds out that I put pillows under the covers to make it look like I'm sleeping." Gionna says, standing up but Johnny can tell that Gionna's too drunk to walk home.
Alderney to Saint Marks was about a two and a half hour walk and there were too many psychos in Alderney and Liberty City. Johnny picks Gionna up in his arms instead.
"Come on, I've walked from Saint Marks to Alderney before... usually cut through the Red Light District to make the walk quicker." Gionna says sleepily.
"It's dark, there are all kinds of people you don't want to mess with at night." Johnny says, remembering what happened to cause Gionna to end up with a long scar on her neck.
"Johnny, I'll be fine." Gionna says.
"Gionna, you'll be on my bike to go home." Johnny says as they reach his bike.
Gionna dozed off seconds after Johnny started up the bike, her soft snoring being the only noise because Johnny kept the radio off as he drove all the way to Saint Marks, members of the Leone family giving him strange looks when he pulls up by the Cipriani house. They backed off when they saw the sleeping brunette on the back of the Hexer.
Johnny picks Gionna up in his arms and walks up the stairs, seeing that the door is cracked open and gently pushes it open before walking in. No sign of Gionna's mother and the car was gone.
"You two fight too much." Johnny says, putting Gionna on the couch and lying her on her right side before grabbing a blanket and pulling it over her.
"She...doesn't..." Gionna says before falling back into sleep.
"Good night, baby girl." Johnny says, kissing Gionna on her forehead.
Present time, the next day...
"Carly, you need a day to forget everything." Sam says, turning off the TV.
"Sam, I'm pregnant. We're not going and stealing cars like we used to do." Carly says, readjusting her navy plaid maternity flowy cami.
"No! I mean we go somewhere, take our minds off of things and have fun." Sam says.
"Last time that someone said that, it was Mom and she dragged me to a yoga class. Did she ever tell you what happened on that day?" Carly says.
"You slipped, bruised your right hip and got back up, punched and broke the yoga instructor's jaw." Sam says.
"That's the main reason I hate yoga and that Fabien." Carly says.
"Well I was actually thinking museum of history. Like, pre-human. Something I could visit with the Space Docker 2." Sam says.
"I hate museums and Terry can verify that." Carly says, hearing a knock at the door.
"Carly? I know that you're home." They hear Amanda say.
"Madam Godzilla is back." Sam whispers, causing Carly to cover her mouth so that Amanda didn't hear her laugh.
"Open the damn door!" Amanda shouts.
"Go back home!" Carly says, still ticked off at Amanda.
"You either open this door or I'll break it down!" Amanda shouts.
"Go ahead and try!" Carly shouts, making Amanda go back to her car and drive away.
"What the hell was that?" Sam asks, Carly shrugging her shoulders.
A few minutes later, a massive roar was heard as Amanda drove back into the garden. But this time, she was in a massive HVY dump truck. That was where Carly and Sam drew the line.
"The hell was that noise?!" Johnny says after running downstairs, Carly picking up the phone and dialing 911.
"Yes, I need the police. My mom just drove up and is trying to break into my house..." Carly says.
"With a fucking dump truck!" Sam shouts, meaning for the operator to hear her.
"Yeah, that's right. One of the massive ones." Carly says.
Amanda sounded the horn before slowly driving forward, crushing the front wall of the house.
"You sure you want to make that fucking dare missy?!" Amanda shouted over the engine noise.
"Cops are already on the way!" Carly shouts as Johnny puts himself in front of Carly and Sam aimed a gun at Amanda.
"You fucking earned this!" Amanda shouts before moving forward further, crushing more house.
"Out! Now!" Sam shouts as the truck crashed into the front room, tearing down the walls and anything in front of it. When Amanda finally reversed out, there were two long gaps in the house where the truck's wheels had been.
"LSPD! Get out of the truck and put your hands above your head!" One of the cops shouts through a megaphone.
"Fuck you!" Amanda screams before pressing the accelerator all the way down, plowing through the house and into the land beyond, cops following.
"I think there's only one way to stop this." Sam said, getting out her phone and calling a number from the contacts list.
"Junior, we've got a small big problem. Yes, very big. If you and your dad think you can pull over a heavy dump truck really? Alright then, they're heading for the Great Ocean highway." Sam hung up.
"Junior and Benson are on it. Me and Junior-" Sam stopped, knowing that Carly worked it out. Carly let out an aggravated scream, startling Johnny and Sam.
"That woman has made my life hell for the past eight years! Now she does this?! I have had it with her!" Carly yells.
"There is always... a double hut at Elstone?" Sam says, suggesting that Carly and Johnny do what she did.
"Johnny, I think that you were right when you said that we should move to San Fierro." Carly says, tears falling down her face. She didn't want to move away from her family but Amanda was driving her crazy.
"Now Carly, I'd struggle to see you then." Sam says.
"You're a free girl, couldn't you just drive up?" Carly says.
"Not when... not when I'm..." Sam struggled to say it as the image of Deck was constantly in her mind.
"What?" Carly says, a bit aggravated.
"Carly... I couldn't when I'm in a relationship with the sheriff of LS." Junior. Sam says, feeling better to admit it.
Carly wanted to speak but couldn't find the words to say so she sits down on the couch, burying her head in her hands.
"I know it's a shock that I've... sort of changed sides a bit but yeah I love Junior and he returns the favor to me. You can't control who you love." Sam says, sounding a little ashamed.
"Seven years ago, I was saying those words to Trevor." Carly says.
Sam looked at her phone, seeing a text from Junior. 'Suspect apprehended and in Dad's cuffs. XX.'
"I'll just go." Sam says before walking to the doorframe, the front door no longer there.
Carly grabbed her cell phone, typing in house repairman.
As Carly looked for someone to repair the damage, Johnny followed Sam outside.
"Sam, we don't hate you for it. Carly's just-" Johnny says.
"No, I hate that you had to find out in this way. And Carly was involved in my chases with Benson and Junior I wouldn't blame her if she hated me. I'm going home to sleep for ten years." Sam says before driving away in the Phoenix, which she recently retrieved from Michael and Amanda's house before she left to drive trucks. She'd left the Ruiner there since she didn't have the room to store it at Elstone Ranch.
Johnny walks back inside, seeing Carly on the phone.
"What caused the damage? My crazy mother drove through the wall...no, I don't think that she was drunk. Okay, me and my husband can wait for a few minutes...thank you very much." Carly says before hanging up.
"You'll never believe this but my mother also drove through the neighbor's fence and there's a repairman a few houses down the street." Carly says.
"May take a while she did drive through the whole house, including the roof." Johnny says, pointing back to the two long gaps in the ceiling leading to the open sky.
"See why I'm scared of turning into monster mom? She drives me crazy!" Carly says as Johnny walks over to Carly and hugs her.
"You're not your mother, you're Carly. You're your own person and that is nothing like your crazy ass mother." Johnny says, gently rubbing Carly's back.
"I think that she needs to be locked up." Carly says before her phone rang. "Hello?" She says.
"It's Junior. Just a suggestion, if you're willing to have a small plastic chip placed just under the skin in your hand, you'll never have to worry about your mother as much again." Junior says, perking Carly's interest.
"How hard would it be to file a restraining order? Last time I had a needle stuck in my arm, it was a flu shot and I'm allergic to those, which is why I stay away from needles.'' Carly says.
"Restraining order is what I mean but different. You have a tiny plastic chip in the back of your hand, Amanda has the same. If the two chips come within seven feet of each other, an alarm sounds. If that alarm doesn't stop after three seconds, the nearest police unit is signaled to come and arrest Amanda." Junior explains.
"You're crazy if you think she'll cooperate. Oh and if you break my sister's heart, I'll break your neck." Carly says, hanging up and calling Brad.
"Hey, kiddo." Brad says.
"Yeah... Brad, my crazy mother destroyed mine and Johnny's house." Carly says.
"You fucking kidding me?! She's become one crazy ass bitch!" Brad says.
"Yeah, no kidding. Me and Johnny need somewhere to stay, any ideas?" Carly says.
"I only know of one thing and that's renting out a holiday cabin or something like Sam does." Brad says.
"Yeah, she suggested that... is that Trevor in the background?" Carly says after hearing drunken yelling.
"Yeah, he just showed up...Trevor, no! Why would she want to talk to you?!" Carly and Johnny hear Brad say.
"Because I'm her Uncle T and I'll always be her Uncle T!" Trevor shouts.
"You tell him that he stopped being Uncle T when he revealed how he treated Sam." Carly says before hanging up and searching for the Elstone Ranch number in the phone book.
"Barrel of monkey nuts." Carly mutters under her breath and any other time, Johnny would've laughed but he knew that Carly was frustrated.
"Carly... Sam sent you the number a while ago." Johnny says, Carly looking in her phone to see that she did indeed have the number for the Elstone ranch reception desk.
"I'm losing my mind." Carly says before handing Johnny the phone.
"No you're not, we're just surrounded by crazy people." Johnny says, kissing Carly before walking into the kitchen and dialing the number for the Elstone Ranch.
"Daddy's right, we're surrounded by crazy people." Carly says, rubbing her stomach when Jason kicks.
Two hours later...
Johnny stopped his bike outside the cabin they'd been given. Since his new three wheel bike had a towbar, he could pull light trailers so had brought the things they'll need in that while Carly had called a lift since she wasn't riding bikes at this time. When they arrived, they realized that Sam's cabin was just up the dirt road, on it's own at the base of the hill.
Carly had been up in Paleto Bay before but only a few times and usually for a weekend.
"Come on, I'm not tired." Carly says even though Johnny could tell that she is struggling to keep her eyes open.
"Carly, you've had a rough day, get some sleep." Johnny says before a car speeds past them, stopping at Sam's cabin. Carly and Johnny worked out that it must be Junior's own car, not his police one.
"I'll go see what's going on." Johnny says after helping Carly lie down on the bed. Carly was asleep within seconds and Johnny walks outside, closing the door behind him and walks over to Sam and Junior.
"Would you mind slowing down when you drive? It's dark out here and I'm trying to keep my pregnant wife from getting hit by a car!" Johnny says, Junior not too pleased with Johnny's sudden anger.
"Well I'm sorry if my lover decided that getting drunk out of her mind and having a heart attack was a good idea!" Junior says, getting his keys.
"Sam's had a heart attack?!" Johnny asks, in complete shock.
"Yes, she did! Maybe your hormonal wife caused it!" Junior says, pissing Johnny off.
"Carly had no part in this!" Johnny shouts before the door was opened from the inside, revealing Sam clutching her chest in pain. None of them had noticed that Carly had woken up and was watching them.
"Junior... it keeps stopping. I think there's something very wrong." Sam says, a tear falling down her face.
"Sam?!" Carly says, running over to them but Johnny pulls her away when Junior grabs his taser gun, aiming it at Carly.
"You two just go to your cabin, make love or watch TV. I'll take care of Sam." Junior orders. Carly couldn't help but think back to the confused, in-training Junior she remembered.
"You're not going to keep me away from my little sister!" Carly cries out, tears falling down her face.
"I'm not trying to. It's just-" Junior says, interrupted by Sam.
"You lot just put your differences behind you and get the hell along! Junior is not like Benson, he's better. If you won't take it from-" Sam stopped as her heart did again, sending a searing aching pain through her chest.
Paleto Bay Medical Center, E.R, Carly's p.o.v
It never ends...why? Why can't Sam and I live normal lives? Why are we trying so hard, it isn't working!
I close my eyes, taking a deep breath. Don't think of the worst case scenario. Sam's strong... she'll be okay.
"Where is she?! Where's my daughter?!" Johnny and I hear Trevor yelling in the hallway. Trevor bursts into the room, heading straight through heading for where Sam is.
Me and Johnny both get up as Trevor bursts through the double doors of the surgery room. They weren't performing any proper surgery on her, just looking at what happened, ready to do something if necessary.
"You! What did you fucking do to her?!" Trevor yells after charging over to us. Johnny puts himself in front of me, resting his hand on my stomach protectively.
Trevor notices... and he's even more enraged than normal... I didn't think that was even possible.
"Tell me who he is!" Trevor orders, already knowing that Sam was in love but not knowing it was Junior.
"Trevor, get the fuck out of this hospital right-" Johnny was stopped by Trevor throwing him to one side and grabbing me, holding a knife just an inch in front of my stomach.
He knew how to get to us... threatening mine and Johnny's son.
I wrap my arms protectively around my stomach... I'll die before I let this maniac anywhere near Jason!
Damn it, Trevor! Jason's innocent, he hasn't done anything wrong!
"Carly, if anyone makes one wrong move, I'll slide this knife right into your preggie belly! Now who is Sam's lover?!" Trevor yells, Johnny finally looking surrendered. Everyone knew that Trevor could move that knife and kill Jason in less than a second.
"Junior!" I shout as Junior tells Trevor to drop the knife and back away. Trevor does as Johnny stands up, pulling me away from them and cradling me close to him. I hold onto him, scared out of my mind.
"Junior... you fuck my daughter?" Trevor says, Junior boldly giving a nod.
"Yes, we ve done that-" Junior was cut off by Trevor ramming into him at speed no one ever thought he was capable of. Junior wrestles Trevor's knife away, both pushing on it. There was a loud bang and Trevor was suddenly in pain. As everybody looks to the shooter, it was Benson.
"Nobody and I mean nobody hurts sheriff Junior Law, even if he is in love with my former worst enemy." Benson says as Junior gets up, running and hugging his father. Johnny and I let go, surprised to see Trevor hurting.
"We're okay. He's kicking like crazy, we're okay." I say as Johnny rests his hand on my stomach. I put my hand on his, tears falling down my face.
"And Trevor. If you try anything like this again, I'm going to get an axe and you will never have to worry about opening your fly again." Benson says, Trevor pointing to the ceiling with his middle finger.
"Go ahead, Benson! Why should their son be allowed to live when my daughter is dying?!" Trevor yells.
"Their son is innocent. He hasn't done anything wrong." Benson says.
"Yes he has, by being created!" Trevor yells. Benson just drew the line.
"Right, that's it. Junior, go and get the tomahawk axe. Someone tie him in place and a very special one shall get the honor of removing his pants." Benson says. My god, he is actually going to do it.
"Just tie him up. As much as I'd love to see Trevor hurting, there's a time and a place for that." I say, sitting down. I'm more worried about Sam right now and judging from the intense kicks, so is Jason.
"It's okay, little guy. Aunt Sam's gonna be okay." I say softly, rubbing my stomach. Trevor could've killed him... the old Trevor would never hurt an innocent child... what happened to the Uncle T who used to hold me in his arms and say that he'd never hurt me?!
Benson looks at me...seeing me for who I really am. A scared soon to be mom.
"Guys, don't chop his dick off." We all hear, looking around to see Sam, dressed in regular clothes like nothing ever happened.
"Sam, what the hell is going on?" I ask. Just now, she was having repeating heart attacks!
"I should be much more careful. Fractured sternum is all." Sam says. Must've happened when she fell off of the train... no, don't think of that, she's okay.
Injured but not dying. As many times as I've gotten injured during heists and gunfights, i can relate to feeling like your injuries are killing you.
"So any precautions?" Johnny asks.
"Not really, just don't hit my chest." Sam says. It's good to know that she is okay. Now maybe we can all try and live normally for once, something that Sam hasn't really ever experienced.
"Was he..." Sam says, seeing the knife on the ground and me with fresh tears in my eyes. I nod, shaken up.
Sam quickly goes to Trevor, ramming her foot into his temple and knocking him out.
"Sleep well you ugly some bitch." Sam says. She's been listening to Junior and Benson. Johnny pulls me into his lap, wrapping his arms around me and kissing my forehead.
I close my eyes, taking a breath... this... how the hell is Trevor still alive?! Hasn't he pissed someone off bad enough to the point where they'd try to kill him?!
"Everyone, I'm tired, I'm going home to sleep for ten years. Goodnight." Sam says before walking out with Junior and Benson. Johnny and I followed.
When we arrived back at Elstone ranch, Sam called to us from the end of the road.
"Maybe I might make my new career path a reality what would you two think of officer Sam?!" Sam shouted to us. She wants to be a cop now?
"There's which side of the law and then there's which way is up." I say. Can't help it, I'm a Miami Vice fan.
All of us enter our cabins, closing the door behind us. Sam and Junior went straight to sleep judging by how quickly the light went off.
Johnny picks me up and puts me on the bed, pulling the blanket over me.
I close my eyes, falling asleep.
