At times I'll just redo several episodes, and in no actual order of seasons either.. Sometimes it's season 23, sometimes all the way to season one. They don't effect my timeline..
Carly, Mike and Seras touch down at Trevor's helipad and find Trevor there, Carly surprising him with an actual hug and saying she actually missed him. Trevor himself speaking more softly to her than usual.
"Sally with you?" Franklin asked, being there two.
"Sally, oh she's.. No she's staying." Carly said awkwardly.
"Well have her call, she hadn't in a long..."
"I kinda just got home, I don't wanna think about that right now." Carly said quickly, though in truth just trying avoid the conversation as she knew why. And she also knew she didn't wanna go over this right now.. Or maybe ever.
Seras looks over at Carly and makes up something about her looking exhausted to get her to Seras's truck and driving off. She could tell Carly was uncomfortable and eventually Carly did confess it to her.
"I did feel an odd sense that I relieved the same day twice." Seras admitting.
ONE WEEK LATER:
Dash ended up finally ending her many AA meetings and this time when she comes out she's greeted by Sally exiting a cab. "Sis!" Sally cried, excitedly running and hugging her, nearly knocking her over. "Hey easy, the cold turkey is giving me a head ache." Dash groaned.
"You mean..." Dash said excitedly.
"Yeah, I'm finally cutting back. Peter and I didn't take it seriously though til we were shown what our futures would be, he had death I had Kate.. Either way I finally got the message."
"So it worked? Do they.. Do they take requests?" Sally asked.
"I mean.. I really should do something about my growing pot addiction, I mean I even had it on the drive over." Sally admitted, showing a green glass bong as proof.
"Fine, but I ain't waiting up, call me when your done." Dash said dryly and heads tob her blue, old rusty car. Which even does the gas blast as before she drives off, Dammit - Blink182 playing from the radio.
Sally sighs and goes it.
"Hello there. You an alcholic too?" Bruce said.
"No, I.. I have a weed problem."
"Hmm, I think we can work the same steps into that, sit down." Bruce said, pointing at a chair. He himself taking another one.
Sally goes and sits. Surprisingly nobody else was there, but all the better to her.
"Well guess it started from high school.. It was originally just look cool, but clearly it kept going."
"That's how most of these things start, very common." Bruce replied, using his commonly laidback nature to act as comfort.
"Like with drinking our step is finding out why you're so dependent on it."
"Well, it was always something that relaxed me. I mean Dash is, well Dash had always been crazy, the booze made it worse but she was always like that.. And then there's Carly. I thought it would better with her, but trouble always finds her. Stress is everywhere I can never just..."
Bruce shushed her, as she was getting worked up by the last part. Sally actually whipping a tear away.
"Seems to me like you need a vacation somewhere, away from everyone else."
"I- I do, I still can't go back to Franklin, what happened is still fresh in my mind, I can't move past it right now.. I need time. I need a trip."
"And no weed."
"Yeah, and no weed." Sally said, almost blushing. "I just have so many bad memories though."
A flashback reveals Sally was old enough that she was a young member of CJ's group of 1994. Probably the youngest one there in fact, being just barely an adult at the time. Sally was a homeless woman at the time who CJ took in as a roommate til she could afford a motel. But in the end she still ended up broke enough she had to rob Franklin's house several years later, and the rest is history.
Another alternative being Franklin himself was also with CJ's crew, and they met then. Obviously this ages Franklin up, but the rest is the same.. This version is explored in my story "Gang Life".
Regardless, Sally was close friends to Big Smoke, to the point she refuses to believe he was a double agent even getting mad at Carl for suggesting it. And she remains on Smoke's side, when he starts shooting several of CJ's men Sally becomes more suspicious but still tries to keep denial.
Eventually though CJ himself becomes a target and the two men get into a duel, Smoke wounding and preparing to execute him. Sally, at the last second shoots Smoke though the side of the head, trying to make it painless despite what he did. Cause even then Sally almost breaks down but CJ comforts her, insisting on Tenpenny being to blame. That he corrupted Smoke.. CJ probably hoping to believe in that himself.
"I.. I need a smoke." Sally said, heading outside.
Meanwhile Pinkie is joining the Smiths at a water park, sliding down a water slide as the others clap.
"You were right guys. This vacation is exactly what I needed to finally relax, I was so worried about Carly that I.."
"Forget her, she's no longer our problem, and your family now.. Family hug!" Stan said and they all do so.
"Helloooo." came a sudden voice.
"Roger?" Steve asked in confusion.
Suddenly Roger's face fills the entire screen behind them.
"Wakey wakey eggs and bac-ey!"
Everyone screams til suddenly they awaken in green containers in the back of the Smith house. "What the..." said a confused Pinkie.
"Sorry I had to wake you up, I needed to borrow Francine's blue dress for a new character." Roger said.
"Why are we in these, things!?" Francine cried angrily.
"Oh the goo? Every year Stan checks out these artificial-memory chambers from the CIA, plops you suckers in and then programs a great vacay.. This year's Maui. Sweet. Did you get me one of those "hang loose" T-shirts? (laughs) Get it, because you didn't really go."
"Wait, if we're here? Where's Stan?!"
Stan is in the TV room with Klaus, both watching a football game with jerseys, and cheering as Stan's team scores. Doing the team logo til he sees the others angrily glaring at him.
"Oh.. So you're awake."
"There's an old German saying, "Don't blame the fish."
"Shut up Klaus!" Pinkie cried angrily, he just awkwardly smiles with a nervous flag wave.
"Let me get this straight. All of our vacations, the only thing that ever brought this family together... have been a big, fat, fake lie?!" Francine cried.
"Yes." Stan said rather nonchalantly.
"How did you get us into those vats?" Hayley asked.
"Well, remember when I cooked you guys pancakes?
Pinkie: aren't you guys excited to go to the Galápagos Islands?!
Stan: Can't wait. Now eat up.. (they do so and all pass out at the same time)
Stan (narrating) Then I gingerly carry your bodies downstairs... ... strip you down, put you in the goo... ... and program the greatest family vacation ever.
"So in Mexico when I went hang-gliding... and you told me you loved me...?" Steve asked timidly.
"Neither of those things ever happened." Stan said again nonchalantly.
"You drugged me?! YOU BASTARD!" Pinkie yelled and runs at him only for Stan, who panicks and flips her over a table. "Oh, sorry, CIA instincts."
"Oooo." Pinkie agonied.
"Well she's breathing, but anyway, you all wanted you to have good memories... but my idea of a vacation is a vacation away from you people." Stan explained.
"That's terrible!" Hayley cried angrily, lifting up Pinkie and putting ice on her.
" Stan, we are going on a real vacation and this family is going to bond!" Francine cried angrily.
ANOTHER WEEK LATER:
The family are all at a ski lodge and cheer to the good times only to be unplugged from the goo, and this time finding Steve having fancy dinner with Snot and the others. Steve admitting Stan had the right idea which enrages Francine who the others follow, other than Pink.
"You undressed me?!"
"What? Oh no Toshi did."
Toshi (subtitled): I was not gentle!
Pinkie, who actually understood him straight up punches him off his chair and storms off. Toshi actually seeming aroused by this saying "that was pretty hot.", but Steve, not knowing what he said, just replying with "hey she's a family friend, no calling her that."
For the Record, in mine Pink and Carly are around 16/17 at this time rather than 13 or whatever, I like having them a bit older than Balor would.