Dante sat outside of Kelly's with a hot cup of coffee hoping to enjoy the scenery as it ran towards him. "Hey gorgeous." He smiled.
Caitlyn slowed her pace down to a walk as she saw him, and then took the headphones out of her ears. "You know, you could just call."
"Yeah, I could, but then I wouldn't get to bask in your company."
"Right, my sweaty
and gross company."
"Well, I wouldn't say that, maybe
glistening." He replied. "Although, as an ex-cop I should warn
ya you may want to mix up your trail a bit. You have no idea what
kind of crazy's are out there that could stalk ya."
"I'll take that into consideration." She said and then started placing the headphones from her MP3 player back into her ears.
"Wait, you are not going to stay? Have a drink maybe?" Dante asked.
"I still have another mile to go." She said looking at her pedometer. "But, tell you what, there's a barista down the street from my apartment. Let me un-glisten and I will meet you there in an hour?"
"What's the name of the place?" Dante asked not knowing what part of town her apartment was in.
"Something about Corinthos Coffee. You know it?"
"Yeah, I've heard of it." Dante responded being that it was Sonny's corporate office.
**********
Jason let Carly sleep in as late as she needed to. It seemed as if the bad dreams had finally passed the last couple of nights, and there were no appointments that they needed to rush off to. His thoughts kept going back to the prior night. He had been waiting for what seemed to be forever to tell her how he felt, but knew that it meant forever changing their relationship. They had been everything to each other, but it had been a long time since they had been lovers and they very nearly destroyed each other.
Carly opened her eyes to see Jason staring down on her with a loving gaze. Any doubt she had about the prior night being a dream was shattered in that waking moment. She wasn't sure how she had missed it before.
"I got a call from the concierge. A room has opened up. If you want me to take it I will." Jason stated wanting to make things as simple as he could for her.
"Yeah, I don't think so." Carly grabbed his hand and guided him on the bed. "What do you say about breakfast, or brunch, and then check out some shops in the downtown Georgetown area."
"Shopping?" Jason questioned.
"I haven't been able to pick up anything for the kids yet, and can you imagine how adorable Britni would look in one of those Southern bonnets?"
"You are in a good mood."
"Yeah well, this is a new beginning, right? I've just been told that I'm healthy and I'm going to start living again."
"That's good, you should." He nodded.
"I was going to start by taking a shower." She said suggestively.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah." She smirked.
He smiled and looked away knowing what she was getting at. "Maybe we should take this one step at a time." He backed down.
"Okay." She sat up and kissed him on the forehead then dropped her nightgown before shutting the bathroom door. Jason was enticed, but knew Carly was impulsive and was afraid of moving too fast. He was happy seeing her spark back, and that was enough for him to hold onto for the time being.
*********
"What are we doing here?" Lulu asked in the living room of Elizabeth's house. Liz, Ethan, and Maxie were all seated on the couch.
"I don't know. Nik invited everybody here. He should be here any minute." Elizabeth responded.
As she finished the sentence there was another knock on the door and Lulu went to let her brother in.
"So?" Maxie asked.
"I thought I would cut out the phone tree by inviting everybody together." He also figured that Liz' place would be more convenient then the ferry to Wyndemere.
"What did you find out?" Liz asked.
"Not much actually. Lulu, you were right. Sam and Lucky are working a case together. Spinelli located evidence supporting the accusation that Claudia was the person responsible for hiring Ian Devlin in Michael's shooting." He stated.
"Oh my God." Lulu reacted. She remembered the night it happened and the fight she had with Johnny. She recalled visiting Carly in the hospital the next day swearing that he had nothing to do with it.
"Are you okay?" Ethan asked.
"Not really." She said resting her head against her hand that was propped up from the edge of the couch. "Keep going." She urged Nikolas.
"The evidence was a DVD made by Jerry Jax confessing both his and Claudia's level of involvement, and it had been sent to and viewed by Carly."
"Jerry Jax? As in Mr. Craig? That is who Lucky and Sam are hunting down?" Liz figured it out.
"Okay, but what does Spinelli have to do with this? He doesn't do field work." Maxie added.
"That I don't know. Alexis said that the last time she spoke to Sam was Monday. They were in Miami but probably heading out. She didn't know where to."
"Alright, Maxie did you talk to Spinelli at all between Monday and Thursday?" Lulu pressed.
Maxie thought about it as everyone stared at her. "You know, that's kind of creepy."
"Think." Elizabeth urged. Maxie wasn't her favorite person, especially since she helped facilitate Lucky's pain pill addiction in order to get him to sleep with her, and she really didn't have the patience now.
"Wait, he did say something about booking tickets to San Antonio, and I asked him what on earth he would take me to Texas, and he said they weren't for us, and so I dropped it. Actually I was working on a spread sheet so I shouldn't really have been on the phone in the first place, and I told him I had to go, and he said that he would see me, well, yesterday."
"When was that?" Ethan asked hoping the rambling was finished.
"Tuesday, I remember because that was the day that I was working on the New Years lay out."
"Okay, does anyone here have a computer?" Nikolas asked.
"Yeah, hang on." Liz went into her study to find her laptop.
"This is bad, isn't it?" Ethan gathered from the seriousness of everyone's expressions.
"Jerry is almost as bad as Helena." Lulu explained.
"What are we going to do?" Ethan asked.
"The plan is still to find out if Lucky and Sam are okay." Nikolas explained.
"At least one of them was able to contact dad and Spinelli as some sort of reinforcement. That's encouraging." Lulu added.
"What are we looking for?" Elizabeth asked bringing up the internet search engine.
"Here, let me look." Nikolas replied. He looked up any local news for San Antonio for the days early that week. "I think I found something."
There was a story about a small explosion at the Alamo. No victims were reported, but witnesses said that a male guest was thrown back but denied medical assistance. He and a female left the scene before the cops arrived. The local police department was still looking into the perpetrator of the explosion, but there was an alarm in the area for a medium build man with an English accent who had mob affiliations.
"That was Tuesday?" Lulu asked. She wasn't sure if hearing the story made her feel any better about the situation.
"Yes." Nik replied feeling the same way she did.
"Okay, I have an idea." Lulu replied.
"What's that?" Maxie asked.
Lulu took out her cell phone and dialed her brother's number. "Hi Lucky. It's me, again. I'm here with Liz, Nik, Ethan, and Maxie. We know what you are up to, and we understand why you didn't want to involve any of us, but we really need to hear that you and Sam are okay. Please, just get back to one of us or we will keep digging."
"That should do it." Nik commented.
"Maxie, Ethan let's go to McCall and Jackal PI, let's see if we can find anything on the computer." Lulu suggested.
"We'll call you if we hear anything." Liz said.
"We will do the same." Ethan added.
***********
Jax went to the office early. He was having a hard time being in the house designed by Carly, in the bed he shared with Carly, with Carly's mother down the hall. He hoped being at work could distract him, but to no avail. Everything reminded him of the life he shared with his wife.
"Am I interrupting?" Olivia asked after knocking on the open door.
"No, come in." He invited.
"I didn't expect to see you in today."
"I had to go out for awhile." He admitted.
"What's bothering you? The 3 am feedings?"
"No." He shook his head. "And actually they are currently at midnight and 5 am."
"So?" She pressed.
"Carly wants a divorce." He blurted.
Olivia sighed. "Am I to assume she found out about Mrs. Corinthos' hired hit?" Olivia had found out as Jax viewed the disc for the first time.
"You pinned the needle in the horses back."
"How did she take it? I mean, besides the obvious."
"Which time?"
Olivia looked confused. He quickly explained about the night of the collapse, the argument they had, and how he hoped that as soon as she got back from the clinic he could explain everything.
"Do you think Jason told her?" She asked noticing a certain amount of animosity anytime he mentioned Jason's name. "That doesn't really sound like him."
"It would make it easier if I could believe that. I would appreciate being able to shift the blame, but no. After waking up from his coma Michael mentioned hearing bits and pieces of what was said to him, usually when he was dreaming."
"You don't think she lost the memory of the argument." Olivia gathered.
"No, I think it got buried in her unconscious and just happened to come out before I had the chance to tell her."
"Maybe it's not too late. No paperwork has even been started yet. Go to her. Take your jet to South Carolina and really talk to her." Olivia pushed.
Jax looked at her playing with the end of the pen that was in his hand.
"What? What am I missing?"
"I'm pretty sure she's probably been with Jason by now." He cringed.
"Wow. You're jumping to some big conclusions there. Why would she do that?" Olivia asked. She had only known Carly for the past year, but from what she saw Carly was completely devoted to her husband.
"Because she had always carried a torch for Morgan, and now he's returning the feelings."
"And you know for sure that they are sleeping together?" She questioned. "Look, I don't really know their history, but I think you owe it to the both of you to find out the truth before you find yourself doing something you may regret later."
"Maybe." Jax responded. Luckily nothing had done farther the prior night.
