"You." Jason said shocked.
"I was working for Moreno. I was still a kid. But, he promised to promote me, if I succeeded." Sonny began slowly pacing. "In hindsight, it was stupid, I almost did get caught by one of his guards. Many men, more experienced men, had tried to off Jeff Webber, and I don't know why I accepted. But, like I said, I was a kid, still thought it was a game, so I staked out the place for weeks, searching for some weakness. But, you've seen the place it's fortress, I studied the guard patterns, the comings and goings off his entire staff but, I hit pay dirt when I started watching the last person I thought would be able to help me."
"You saw me sneak out." Liz sighed.
"Yes, and then I knew everything I needed to. The next night I was ready, I already knew where the guards would be, so it was easy to avoid them, I snuck into the house and hid, waited for the guards to do their perimeter check at ten as they did every night and then I made my move. I slipped into your Fathers office shot him and slipped out." Sonny continued. "I made sure to take the security tapes and destroy them, it was like I was never there, so, how did you know."
"I didn't, well not at first." Liz began. "Everyone thought it was an inside job, because of their was no trace of a break in, no evidence that anyone else had been there. I was the one who found him, in his office, and everything after that just seemed to happen so fast. I walked out off the office and called Luis, he told me to stay put, not to say anything to anyone. Told me to make sure noone found out he was dead yet. He and Lorenzo had their jet fueled and where on their way out but before they could get here. I don't know why but, I went back downstairs, back into the office, and just sat their staring at his unmoving form. Then it hit me, he was dead, he was gone forever."
"Liz I'm.." Sonny began unsurely.
"And I started Laughing, hysterically. And that's when she walked in, a new maid, she'd only been with us for about a week. I remember her screams, she was terrified. When I finally realized what was going on She's run from the room. She had already dialed 911 by the time the guards came running. Everything was falling apart, the men went into panic mode, but I knew what had to be done. So, I took charge."
"David." Liz yelled over the panic murmurs of the Guards. He was their top guard, she needed him to get the rest of the morons under control, you'd think these men would be used to finding dead bodies not flying into panic. "Get today's tape, and send out another team to search the compound." She ordered. "I need you to make a sweep of the house, make sure there's nothing to find." He nodded getting the men into line.
"What about the office?" He asked gazing unsurely past her as she stood in the doorway.
"I'll handle it, go." She said shutting and locking the door behind her. She quickly walked over to a painting on the wall carefully taking it down. She slowly turned the combination opening it and pulling out the papers inside. She tossed them into the dark fireplace throwing a stack of hundreds on the ever growing pile she'd been making in the middle of the floor. She closed the safe replacing the painting as she approached her fathers desk. She began pulling open drawers throwing anything incriminating into the fireplace As she reached the last drawer she sighed finding it locked She knew he had the key on him and taking deep breath to gather her nerves she searched her fathers pockets finally finding it. She finally had everything as she glanced into the now empty drawer and almost smiled, her father was always prepared, even for this she realized pulling out a single bottle of lighter fluid and a shinny silver zippo. She carefully drenched the papers and threw the lighter onto satisfied as they turned to ash. She gathered the money and guns into the nearly empty trash bag next to his desk tying it carefully as she walked over to the door. She could hear the sirens now.
"Were good." David said slightly out of breath glancing down at the bag in her hand. She quickly swept the room again that's when she saw it quickly picking it up. She nodded to the Guard wordlessly walking past him and up the stairs. She walked into her room sighing as she opened her closet door. Little did anyone know that this is were everything really was. She felt for the notch carefully lifting the floorboards. Her hands went to the combination 2-25-54, her mothers birthday. It was the last place anyone would look for anything, in her room and even if they did, they's never find the safe. Not even his closest allies knew about it. Jeff was a bastard, but a smart one. She realized throwing the bag into the large safe and placing the floor back. She sighed closing the door and heading back downstairs.
She made her way back to the office as she heard the pounding on the door. She could here the angry exchange between her guards and the cops as footsteps thundered down the hallway. Her Gaze once again went to her father's body.
"Looks like you weren't the best after all." She said with s smirk as the police barged in.
"That along with the maids testimony of how she found me earlier made me their prime suspect." She explained. "The next thing I knew I was being handcuffed and brought down to the PCPD. Then all the questions started, which I knew not to answer, then the FBI stepped in taking over. They kept asking the same damn questions over and over, I just wanted them to shut up, I wanted five minutes to just breath. So, I confessed."
"But, Why?" Jason asked.
"That my friends is the million dollar question." Liz said with a hollow laugh.
"You didn't even know Sonny then and..." Jason began.
"I didn't care Jason, I didn't care who did it. I was just so glad it was done. And I would have done it, if I wasn't such a coward, so afraid of him, to afraid to do it myself." She interrupted. "I knew they wouldn't leave me alone until I confessed or gave them something so I did. And it worked. I got to go to a nice comfy cell and for the first time in years I could just sit there and breath. But that didn't last long. Next thing I knew I was back in the interrogation room, they kept offering me deals, promising if I didn't take them I'd get the death penalty. Trying to scare me into spilling anything I knew. But little did they know I wasn't scared, they couldn't scare me, not anymore, he was gone."
"That still doesn't explain how you knew it was me." Sonny replied curiously.
"It was few years later when I found out. After Jason's accident. It was the night of the nurses ball. Everyone was getting ready, and you came over because Robin flipped out because the tux place hadn't given you any cuff links."
"I didn't want them." Jason corrected.
"Yeah well, Lily said Sonny had tons and went upstairs to get you a pair. I was up their getting dressed, I was going with Lily's cousin James, what a dork he turned out to be." She said smiling at the memory. "When I poked my head out the door and saw you trailing behind Lily pouting."
"I don't pout." Jason replied.
"Fine grumbling about dumb cufflinks." She corrected causing Sonny to smirk.
"I don't care which ones, just give me s damn pair." Jason groaned.
"Liz, help me pick some out." Lily called smiling at her young friend.
"What's your problem?" She asked walking past a very annoyed Jason.
"Poor Baby needs some cufflinks." Lily said laughing as she pulled out a tray from the top drawer of the dresser setting it down on the bed as she began examining the small pieces of jewelry. "How about these?" She asked holding up a pair.
"No, Robins dress is green." Liz replied nixing the red stones.
"Oh right." Lily replied as Liz settled onto the bed next to her.
"Just pick a pair." Jason groaned impatiently.
"How about these." Liz said handing him a small pair.
"Great lets get going." Jason said grabbing them
"Wait." Liz began something capturing her eye as she pick up the small silver cufflink. She recognized it, she knew that small gold piece of Jewelry.
"It's Beautiful isn't it." Lily smiled.
"It's St Michael, The Archangel." Liz replied turning it over in her palm.
"Sonny's mom gave it to him, to watch over him, keep him safe." Lily explained.
"Where, where's the other?" Liz asked already knowing the answer.
"He lost it, a long time ago. He'd probably have just thrown it away like he usually does if he loses one of the pair, but it was from his mom." Lily explained sadly.
"That's to bad." Liz said gently placing it back in the tray.
"You lost the other, the night you killed my Father." Liz said turning to Sonny. "I knew then it was you."
"Why didn't you ever say anything." Sonny began unsurely.
"Why would I?" Liz replied. "I mean we never really talked about my dad. What did you want me to say thanks for shooting my dad?"
"Thank me?" Sonny began confused. "I know you didn't get along with your father but,"
"Look, we never talked about him, he wasn't a good man, and not just in the sense that what he did for a living wasn't legal. I spent sixteen years being the ass holes punching bag, wishing I'd die, that he'd just kill me and get it over with. End it." Liz interrupted.
"I didn't know." Sony replied stunned.
"Noone did, except Jason." Liz replied. "Anyways it doesn't matter that's over and done with we have to figure out what were going to do about Lorenzo, because even if I did tell him the truth, he'd still be after you guys."
"So, what do we do?" Jason groaned. "If we take him out, we'll just end up with even more people after us."
"No, after me." Liz corrected.
"And anyone that comes after you will have to go through me." Jason replied.
"Were not going to let anything happen to you, your Family." Sonny added.
"Oh my god Sonny that's it!" Liz exclaimed. "It's so obvious."
"What's obvious?" Sonny asked confused.
"Family. I know how to make it so Lorenzo can't come after you, ever again." Liz said happily.
"How?" Jason asked skeptically.
"We get married." Liz replied stunning the two men.