July 30, 2006
It's Not You, It's Me
"From Kevin's office make a left. Get into the elevator and take five floors up. I'm on the seventh floor now. Eight. Nine. Ten. Stop it Alexis. It's the floor 12th. He's in room 1277. No names are on the door for the purposes of confidentiality."
Alexis folds her prescription with the directions to Sonny's room on the back. She takes a deep breath and almost falls back, but catches herself on Kevin's closed door. She walks to the elevator and pauses for it to open.
Once inside. "Please close doors. Close. Close." She prays hard that a masked man won't stop the doors from closing and forcing them inside together. She closes her eyes and hears Ned's voice questioning her decision.
"I did it because I just wasn't ready for a commitment. It's not you. It's me." Alexis uttered wishing she had just told him she was too busy to even discuss it.
Ned studied her face refusing to look at him. "You flagged down a semi Alexis. You could have just stopped the ceremony and spoke to me privately. But you chose to hitchhike? How do you think that makes me feel?"
"I'm sorry Ned." She whispered to herself while refusing to open her eyes.
The elevator stops and the doors finally open. An arm reaches inside and Alexis almost scales the wall until she realizes the arm is a friendly one.
"Hey Alexis." Ned greets her with a smile.
"What are you doing here Ned?"
"Picking up Brooke Lynn. Here to see Sonny? I didn't go into his room."
"I need out of here." Alexis rushes out of the elevator.
Ned removes his arm from the door and lets it close. "You ok Alexis? You're not worried about Sonny are you? According to Lois, he was a bit delusional, but he's resting now."
Lois approaches them. "Alexis! I'm glad you finally made it." Lois presses herself against Ned. "Ned. And I. Are going. To take. Brooke Lynn. Christina. And Kristina. For ICE CREAM! TOGETHER! As a COUPLE!"
Alexis stares at Lois not sure if she should play the role of crazy. "You and Ned are a couple?" Alexis questions.
"I feel like the heavens have opened up and saved me." Lois flashes Alexis a look of relief. "Can we leave now Ned? I need a smoothie."
Ned and Lois turn to get into the elevator.
"We'll return Kristina by the evening." Ned says to Alexis before the doors close.
Alexis quickly goes to the desk to inquire the obvious of which direction she should go.
"Excuse me?" She grabs the nurse's attention. "In what direction is room 1277?"
The nurse looks up and smiles. "To the left Ms. Davis."
Alexis jerks her body and holds tight to the desk. "How do you know my name?"
The nurse realizes her mistake of recognition and tries to smooth it over. "Uh. My apologies for catching you off-guard. You were a patient and I was your nurse. I'm glad to see you're doing well."
"I am. I'm here to see a friend. If my visit will disturb him, it can wait till later."
"No. He was asking for you earlier. Take care Ms. Davis."
Alexis starts to walk away, but the nurse yells out to her. "Ms. Davis!"
Alexis stops. "Yes?"
"It's your other left Dear."
Alexis nods to her and continues in the proper direction. Her trek down the corridor seems mindless as she becomes lost in her thoughts. She couldn't determine what exactly prompted her to think about the most prevalent disorder she always seemed to suffer—rejection.
Alexis picked up her glass of water and took a couple of deep gulps. Lorenzo waited patiently for her to finish her thoughts. She finally put down the glass.
"Lorenzo. I know we were building a really good connection. I think you understand me more than I understand myself…"
"Cut to the chase Natasha. You want to end the relationship. It's not difficult to say…"
"It's just that…it's not fair to Ric."
"Ric is a big boy you know…"
"But I have to do what's in the best interest of my family and the firm of Alcazar, Davis, Lansing, and Ward. It's not you. It's me."
"Natasha. Stop reading from a script and be as honest with me as I've always been with you."
Alexis poured her glass full of water and took a sip. She waited for Ric to give her his attention.
"Ric. I know you were hoping that we could give Ricky a conventional family, but I don't think this relationship is going to work."
Ric stopped eating and swallowed hard. "What? You're breaking up with me?"
"Well. I cheated on you."
Ric put down his fork and wiped his mouth. "Yea. I know. With Lorenzo. You both made a damn fool out of me. But I'm smarter than the both of you combined."
"Didn't Lorenzo tell you of the affair? How does that make you smarter? He led you to the truth."
"Are we going to get into a pissing match in the middle of a restaurant Alexis? Why are we doing this here?"
"I don't like confrontation. It's not you Ric. It's me. Just understand that sometimes people are better off apart."
Ric started to eat again. "I guess I should be glad you didn't flag down a semi at our wedding."
Alexis snaps out of her thoughts and makes it to Sonny's cracked-open door. She notices a nurse checking on Sonny so Alexis decides to leave. The nurse rushes out to stop her.
"Ms. Davis." The nurse exclaims to her. "Mr. Corinthos is awake."
Alexis turns back to the nurse leaving the room. "Are you sure?"
"Just don't be alarmed by his behavior. Dr. Collins is his psychiatrist. He has set Mr. Corinthos up for evaluations first thing tomorrow."
Alexis looks at the nurse in shock. "Did Mr. Corinthos authorize those tests? I would be surprised."
"No Ms. Davis. He's not in the state of mind."
"Who is listed as Mr. Corinthos' power of attorney?"
"I will check Ms. Davis, but I think it might be you."
"Please check. And hold the tests until I discuss this with Dr. Collins."
"Yes Ms. Davis."
The nurse leaves and Alexis enters Sonny's room. He immediately opens his eyes and grins at her from ear to ear.
She sits down next to his bed and musters up something to break the ice. "What is it that Lois calls you? Her Sonny Bunny?"
"Something like that? Where is she?"
"Uh. She and Ned took the babies and Brooke Lynn for ice cream."
Sonny looks at her perplexed. "So he survived?"
"Who survived?"
"You said the babies. I guess Ricky survived?"
"No. Oh no. I'm sorry. Christina Baldwin is the other baby. My mistake. She and Kristina are inseparable."
"Am I going to go to jail? Are you here to question me?"
Alexis' eyes grow wide. "Oh Sonny. That happened a couple years ago Dear. Don't worry about it. So Kevin brought you here?"
"Yea. I don't know how he found me. How he knew my address. Deke was yelling at my mom again. He asked her what she was doing there?"
Alexis starts to find it hard to breath. "Have you gotten plenty of rest today? Maybe we should forgo the Superman tent for good."
"Thank God you got it right this time." Sonny continues to smile at her. "I hate it when you confuse Superman with Spiderman."
"Yes I know. Spiderman's web is not necessarily foolproof. You always make me laugh Sonny."
Alexis watches Sonny fade off to sleep. Alexis tries to hold back the laughter of his sane times and memory of his insistence on having Superman over Spiderman.
Alexis handed him a Home Depot bag. He yanked out the box from the bag and studied the packing. Expecting nothing less than excitement on his face she drews disappointment instead.
He looked at her and forced a smile. "Uh. Thanks? I hate to be picky and everything but you bought me a Spiderman tent. My tent was a Superman."
She gripped her hands together and tried to stay calm. "What is the difference? They both end with the word man."
"Yea but I don't like Spiderman. I never did. All that climbing is way too much work. Superman could fly."
"Sonny, he has the web! He swings from the web! So in essence he flies."
"I have my theories on that. What if the web stops gripping?"
She took a deep breath and hurried past him to her door. "I'm going to have a moment of silence across the hall. You know where you can shove that tent."
"In my backyard right!"
The nurse breaks up her memories and enters Sonny's room with his file. "Ms. Davis. I found out that information for you."
Alexis stands up to give the nurse her attention. "I'm his power of attorney right?"
"No Ms. Davis. You're not."
Alexis bulks for a moment. "Who is?"
"Dr. Robin Scorpio. And she ok'ed the tests."
Alexis presses her face in her hands and tries to keep calm. "Ok. I guess it is what it is."
The nurse nods to Alexis and leaves. Sonny opens his eyes again and realizes Alexis is still there.
"Alexis, can you make sure my mother gets home safely?"
"Yes Sonny. I will make sure she gets home safely."
Alexis watches him fall back to sleep with certainty she'll keep her promise.