Carly Cassadine, M.D.

Prologue

"Are you sleeping with him?"

"I don't see how that's any of your business."

"Exactly." Stefan nodded in agreement.

Carly turned her head and gave him a look, "Stay out of this." Stefan opened his mouth to object and she raised an eyebrow, "I mean it Uncle." After he nodded she turned back to Luke and continued, "To answer your question…no. I'm not sleeping with him but if I was it wouldn't be any of your business. I'm a grown woman and can do who and what I want and if you don't like it too fucking bad."

"Caroline…" Stefan sighed.

She rolled her eyes and gave him a look as Luke laughed, "Sorry Count…guess you didn't kill all the Spencer in her."

"I never tried to." Stefan retorted.

"Oh I bet." Luke nodded, smirking, "I'm sure you embraced everything about your precious princess, including her oh so unsuitable Spencer side."

"As a matter of fact I have." Stefan nodded, "Which is much more than can be said for you about embracing her Cassadine side."

"I haven't tried to stake her yet." Luke grinned.

Carly covered her face in her hands and sighed, "Will you two please stop it?" Stefan and Luke just glared at each other and she nodded, "Thank you. Now…we're not here to discuss my lineage or my sex life. We're here to discuss my mother."

"I still say Barbara Jean is just fine." Luke shrugged.

"For once I agree with Luke." Stefan nodded, "I spoke to Barbara yesterday and she seemed…"

"What the hell are you doing talking to my sister?!" Luke roared.

"We were discussing Caroline!" Stefan replied angrily, "Not that it's any of your business!"

"Argh!!!" Carly yelled, glaring at them both," I swear to God if you two don't stop…" She was cut off by the sound of her beeper and she glared at them one more time before grabbing her cell phone and dialing, "Hi. This is Dr. Cassadine. I was just paged…No problem…Tell him I'll be right there." She hung up and grabbed her purse, still glaring at them, "I have to go to work. We'll continue this later. Don't kill each other...or if that's too much to ask then just make sure you both finish the job." She gave them each a measured look before walking out the door, muttering to herself, "Had to fuck a Cassadine, didn't you mother?"

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"Jesus…" Carly sighed, running a hand over her face and tossing the chart on a chair before pulling her scrub shirt over her head. She pulled her hair back into a ponytail and secured it with an elastic before grabbing the chart and heading out of the room.

"Hi kid." Tony nodded when he saw her enter the hallway, "You ready for this?"

"Yeah." She nodded, silently following him into the surgical ward. After they had scrubbed in she followed him into the operating room and sighed, "Do you really think it's gonna work?"

"I hope so." Tony sighed, "This guy would be really missed if it doesn't."

Carly looked at him curiously before looking down at their patient and inhaling sharply, "Jason…"

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