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Isa

Part 2

He had to be there. She didn't know where she would go if he wasn't. He wouldn't go to Italy without Elizabeth? He would try to find her? Right? Carly stood in front of the room on Cortland Street Zander and her had rented to meet when they need to be alone. She just hoped he had come back here to regroup. She raised her hand to knock but before she could the door open.

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Zander knew he had to get out of town. He lost Elizabeth, and he was sure she had overheard something bad for her to just get up and leave. Or she decided that she couldn't leave Jason. Zander wanted to believe the latter but he had a bad feeling that she had been the one following him around the past couple weeks. When he was going to meet Roy and Alcazar he had thought he was being followed but every time he would slow down he couldn't hear anything expect his own footsteps. He had dismissed it at the time to him just being nervous, but when he thought back now he had the feeling of being followed quite a few times.

So he had to leave. Alcazar would soon find out that Elizabeth was gone and probably know she was at Sonny's telling him and Jason whatever information she had discovered. He just hoped Carly could keep her mouth closed long enough for him to get out of town and contact her so they could leave the country together. He didn't know how it happened but he had grow quite fond of Carly over the past six months. At first their relationship was solely based on their hatred for Sonny. Sonny had destroyed his family sending Jason to kill his father, the great Frank Moreno. After Zander had been told of his father's death he left Florida and started making his way north towards Port Charles. When he got there he found Joseph Sorel running his father's territory, and badly at that. The man didn't know how to come through the back door and blow the back of Sonny's head off. He chose to go after people that Jason and Sonny cared about. Like putting the bomb in Elizabeth's studio. All it did was make Jason want to kill him even more. Sorel was quickly turning into a dead man walking. That's when he decided to create the Dead Ted situation. He had to be proud of himself for that one. It had turned out much better than he could ever had hoped, except falling for Jason Morgan's sister.

Emily had been a complication he hadn't been expecting, but one he found most enjoyable. Emily had been a wild cat in the sack for someone how had never been with anyone else. He had actually felt bad when she broke her back and became paralyzed, for about three seconds then his brain started on how he could use it to his advantage. His father had always told him not to get attached to people that you could trust no one except yourself and he had followed that rule all his life. He was even able not to get attached to Emily. What he couldn't stop was getting attached to Alexis. He didn't know why she was so important to him but she was. He guessed it was the way she protected him against everyone including Sonny. She stood up for him. Stood by him. She reminded him of the mother he always wanted but never had as a child. He'd asked his father twice where his mother was if she loved him or not. His father always assured him that if his mother could be there she would, but she couldn't. His father had always gotten a look of disgust when he had talked about his mother so he never really mentioned it again.

He took a look around the room that him and Carly rented to see if he had forgotten anything not seeing anything he turned and opened the door to find a soaking wet Carly.

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Carly hadn't ever been so happy to see anyone in her life. She had date and slept with a lot of men in her time and never fallen in love until she met Sonny. She hadn't even loved Jason. He was just a means to an end. He helped her get away from the Quartermaines. She knew when she showed up on his door that rainy night, seven months pregnant that he would protect her no matter what, because that's the type of man he was. She had truly cared for him, but was never in love with him. She just said she was so she could try and play on his weaknesses. Elizabeth was a complication that Carly hadn't been expecting. The little twit turned out to be more trouble than she was worth. Carly had tried to run her out of town like she did Robin but Elizabeth wasn't having any of it. She was just as stubborn if not more than Carly, but when Jason had left and come back Lucky was back from the dead and Elizabeth was more than willing to play goody-goody girlfriend role for her cousin. So Carly had backed off until Jason came back the second time Elizabeth was once again all over Jason and hurting him by going between him and Lucky so she had given Elizabeth some choice words on more than one occasion. She might have used Jason in the beginning but she did care about him and he helped her when no one else would so she was going to be damn if that little girl was going to hurt him. But instead of her running Elizabeth out of town it was Elizabeth who'd ran Jason out of town.

It had hurt when Jason left but Carly dealt. She just kept reminding herself that she had her family and everything that she wanted all her life, a man that she truly loved the love of her son and mother. She was happy until the day she got the bomb in the penthouse, the day Jason left town. The bomb had scared her more than anything had in her entire life and she did the first thing she thought of.

Okay so it was a mistake to ever think that Sonny would betray his men and turn State's evidence, but she hoped. When Sonny found out when he was arrested that she had set up a deal with the FBI he threw her out of the penthouse and told her to never come back again. He never looked back, unfortunately she did all the time and eventually she started the hate Sonny for destroying her heart she never thought that she would be able to love again. Then she befriended Zander and when she found out that Sonny had paid him to look after her she exploded, she tried to turn against Sonny, and she went looking for his enemies and what she found surprised her. Zander had been working for the bad guys along.

When she confronted him she expected for him to deny it but to her dismay he admitted it almost immediately. Since then they had been working together to bring Sonny down. Then Alcazar showed up in town and Zander had convinced her that if they worked with him that they would do more damage to Sonny. She was hesitant to agree she was afraid of this Alcazar guy turning on them, but when she found out that Jason was a target and that Alcazar wanted to use Elizabeth to get to him she jumped at the chance to see Elizabeth swimming with the fishes.

Now she was in a lot of trouble. She had managed to get close to Sonny and Jason again her plan had been working beautifully. She just moved back in the penthouse with Sonny and Zander had successfully screwed Elizabeth, literally and she staying away from Jason. Alcazar was holding up his end of the deal.

But no Miss goody-goody muffin face had to ruin it in the police station. And now she was the one who was now officially screwed. Sonny and Jason and not to mention Alexis who was a very pissed off Cassadine especially since her sister just died in the warehouse explosion all knew what she had been doing, that she had betrayed Sonny and was trying to bring him down. Plus now Jason knew that she and Zander had planned on killing Elizabeth. There was one thing that she learned about Jason and Elizabeth's relationship was that if you tried to go through Jason using Elizabeth you were going to end up at the bottom of the Port Charles River.

So she went to the only place she could think of. She was just about to knock when the door opened leaving Zander standing on the other side of the door.

"Zander thank god you're here."

"Carly what's happened? What's wrong?" He questioned as he pulled her into the room shutting the door behind her.

Carly looked around Zander had cleaned everything out. All that was left was the bed, a table, dresser, and one chair.

"They know Zander everything. That little twit has been following you around for weeks and tonight she saw us at the airport."

"I know Carly, what are you going to do?"

"ME!?! What are WE going to do."

"Right that's what I meant. What are we going to do? What happened?" He asked again.

"Well when I heard Jason was arrested for Kristina's murder I went to the station to make with the best friend thing, but when I got there Alexis was there with Elizabeth."

"Alexis was there? How did she look? I feel so bad that it was Kristina who died, when it was supposed to be Felicia."

"Can we get off the subject of poor Alexis and get back to what happened at the station."

"Sorry babe."

"Ok so I walked in and Alexis was there I didn't see Elizabeth at first and when I did I was stupid and opened my month and asked her why she wasn't out of town yet and on her way to Italy."

Zander groaned. "God Carly can you be more stupid. Sonny probably right then that you have been lying to him."

"Well yeah, plus Alexis started going of about if I ever came after Elizabeth again that I would be sorry and then told me that we were stupid to think that Elizabeth would betray Jason. That we were stupid to think that she would continue to hurt Jason and all for nothing. I tried to deny everything she said but they believed her. Then Elizabeth came out of hiding from behind Alexis and told Sonny and Jason that I had suggested that you send out Alcazar after Alexis because she is pregnant with his child and would be the best way hurt Sonny."

"She did what? She told Sonny that Alexis is carrying his child. Oh poor Lexi."

"Poor Lexi. Zander did you hear anything I just said Sonny and Jason know everything? That we're working for Alcazar, that we were planning Elizabeth's death, everything."

"Yes I get it Carly. They know everything and we're as good as dead. We have to get out of town."

"I know."

"Where's Michael?"

Carly looked down at her hands refusing to answer Zander. "Carly I said where's Michael?"

"I left him with my mama. I can't trust Alcazar not to hurt Michael."

"So you left him at your moms? You know Jason and Sonny will go over there and get him?"

"I know. I'm hoping on it. They destroyed your family and Sonny broke my heart, but both Jason and Sonny love Michael and would protect him with their lives."

"Ok if you're sure."

"I'm sure. You know Zander we're not just running from Sonny and Jason, but when Alcazar finds out we failed he's going to want our heads on a silver platter."

"Well then lets blow this pop stand baby. I made plane reservations for 2 leaving in 20 minutes." Zander grabbed Carly propelling her towards the door when it flew open and Alcazar came waltzing in.

"Well it looks like your plans have changed. May I suggest a long trip to the desert." Alcazar said as an evil grin spread across his face.