Show: General Hospital
Title: Las Vidas de los Corinthos'- Chapter 15
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
A/N: Ultimatums are funny things… that's all I've got to say, for once. R&R as always guys,
'cause it stands.
* * *
The apartment was quiet. Carly had returned from the club not too long ago and quite surprisingly
had not reamed him out with desperate and livid comments about his goings-on in the past week.
She had simply stared at his sullen angry face before going to kiss their son goodnight before
going to sleep.
Things had changed. Remarkably so in the past few days. Sonny smiled ruefully at it all and
sipped his fifth Scotch of the night… his fifth *conscious* Scotch. After Liz's hasty departure, he'd
lost count of how many he'd had. He glanced at the empty crystal decanter. No matter – he'd had
a *lot*.
It was moments like these sitting in the quiet dark of his penthouse that he reflected on his life.
On how far he'd come. It was *definitely* a long way from the Brooklyn slum he'd called his home
in his earlier life. He surveyed the affluence that surrounded him. Something that nowadays he
took for granted in his quest to forget the darkness that was his life before Port Charles.
But that same darkness was threatening to drown him again. It was slowly creeping up on him
like the damp of the closet Deke had regularly imprisoned him in, wrapping itself up his ankles,
slowly, painfully, until it threatened to overwhelm him and sweep him far, far away.
And it seemed he would not be alone in this destruction. The faces of those he'd loved and lost
floated across his mind – his mother Adele, Lily and unborn son number one, unborn son number
two, the victim of a desperate jealous ex-husband, and in the not so distant past his own daughter
and the woman his mouth refused to admit to loving, Alexis.
**Maybe Candy Boy is right** he thought sadly. **Maybe I don't deserve to be loved. All I ever
seem to cause is pain and death**. He remembered a conversation he'd had with Alexis before
they'd become lovers again.
Flashback:
"You can't keep dwelling on those mistakes, Sonny. The past is over. Look at us, if we didn't. We
wouldn't be here like this. Sharing… being what we are best – friends." Her brown eyes had
looked at his with so much concern and understanding as she earnestly spoke to him.
He was momentarily rendered speechless. "All I ever cause is pain. You know this for a fact. I
don't deserve to be loved."
She had stood before and captured his hands in her owns and held his gaze. "Everyone deserves
to be loved, Sonny, even you."
Present:
The silence was his only companion. And pain seemed to be the only thing that loved him at the
moment. Sonny took another sip, not even relishing the smoothness of the 20-year malt burning
down his throat.
**You're right, Lexie. Everyone deserves to be loved… everyone but me**. Silently, crystalline
tears slid slowly down his cheeks.
TBC…
A/N: R&R guys. I wanted to get this last emotional part out before the suspense and possibly,
really cheesy action starts to take place. I'm at a loss though, I could really use some help with
how the upcoming meeting with Ned and Taggliatti should take place. HELP!!!
Title: Las Vidas de los Corinthos'- Chapter 15
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
A/N: Ultimatums are funny things… that's all I've got to say, for once. R&R as always guys,
'cause it stands.
* * *
The apartment was quiet. Carly had returned from the club not too long ago and quite surprisingly
had not reamed him out with desperate and livid comments about his goings-on in the past week.
She had simply stared at his sullen angry face before going to kiss their son goodnight before
going to sleep.
Things had changed. Remarkably so in the past few days. Sonny smiled ruefully at it all and
sipped his fifth Scotch of the night… his fifth *conscious* Scotch. After Liz's hasty departure, he'd
lost count of how many he'd had. He glanced at the empty crystal decanter. No matter – he'd had
a *lot*.
It was moments like these sitting in the quiet dark of his penthouse that he reflected on his life.
On how far he'd come. It was *definitely* a long way from the Brooklyn slum he'd called his home
in his earlier life. He surveyed the affluence that surrounded him. Something that nowadays he
took for granted in his quest to forget the darkness that was his life before Port Charles.
But that same darkness was threatening to drown him again. It was slowly creeping up on him
like the damp of the closet Deke had regularly imprisoned him in, wrapping itself up his ankles,
slowly, painfully, until it threatened to overwhelm him and sweep him far, far away.
And it seemed he would not be alone in this destruction. The faces of those he'd loved and lost
floated across his mind – his mother Adele, Lily and unborn son number one, unborn son number
two, the victim of a desperate jealous ex-husband, and in the not so distant past his own daughter
and the woman his mouth refused to admit to loving, Alexis.
**Maybe Candy Boy is right** he thought sadly. **Maybe I don't deserve to be loved. All I ever
seem to cause is pain and death**. He remembered a conversation he'd had with Alexis before
they'd become lovers again.
Flashback:
"You can't keep dwelling on those mistakes, Sonny. The past is over. Look at us, if we didn't. We
wouldn't be here like this. Sharing… being what we are best – friends." Her brown eyes had
looked at his with so much concern and understanding as she earnestly spoke to him.
He was momentarily rendered speechless. "All I ever cause is pain. You know this for a fact. I
don't deserve to be loved."
She had stood before and captured his hands in her owns and held his gaze. "Everyone deserves
to be loved, Sonny, even you."
Present:
The silence was his only companion. And pain seemed to be the only thing that loved him at the
moment. Sonny took another sip, not even relishing the smoothness of the 20-year malt burning
down his throat.
**You're right, Lexie. Everyone deserves to be loved… everyone but me**. Silently, crystalline
tears slid slowly down his cheeks.
TBC…
A/N: R&R guys. I wanted to get this last emotional part out before the suspense and possibly,
really cheesy action starts to take place. I'm at a loss though, I could really use some help with
how the upcoming meeting with Ned and Taggliatti should take place. HELP!!!