Note: Tomorrow I will return home from school for spring break. I intend on
updating while at home, but it COULD be something that is impossible. I
don't know... internet could be down and stuff. Just so you know, there may
be unscheduled downtime.
Kayla- Thanks are in order for the kind words, so here is said thanks. Courtney and Damian's relationship is a very strong one, and one that doesn't exactly wane as easily as the others. Here is hoping this update pleases you...
Story-
Scorpio Household-
She was angry at him. She didn't exactly know why, but that didn't change the fact that she was. She didn't like being told that she was kept at arms length for her own protection. That was one of the reasons she wasn't happy. Damian would do anything for her, anything at all. Why did he assume that she wouldn't do the same for him? Maxie would. Everything that Damian felt for her, she felt for him. If he couldn't see that... then maybe he wasn't the type of person that she thought he was. "No," Maxie told herself as she opened the door to her room. She knew that he was the kindhearted soul that had managed to make himself the person that he was despite everything that was placed in front of him. She knew that he would only keep things from a person if he felt that it was necessary, that it would hurt the person if they found out. She knew these things, but it did nothing to make her feel better about what he had done. She loved him. She truly loved him. But she was truly angry at him as well.
Maxie came down the stairs, not even trying to sound discrete about it. In fact she was sounding about as bad as a heard of Elephants coming down the open plains of Africa. Perhaps it was an indicator of her mood. It certainly couldn't be that she had gained weight. Not that he would care if she did. Besides, there was no reason to hide. Georgie and Dillon knew that she was well aware of what had happened the night before. They knew how she would react. In some ways she was horribly predictable. She didn't care. She was going to act this way because she knew it was right. She was worried about him, and she was upset that he didn't come to her. Regardless of how he felt about her mental state after the recent events, he had no right to keep her out of his life like that. She grabbed her coat. She wasn't cold. She was so angry that her body was producing heat that would keep her warm at the North Pole, but she would eventually calm down. He'd calm her down. He loved her too much not to. When that happened, she needed to have her coat.
Even though Georgie knew the answer, she still had to ask the question, "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see him."
"You can't go to the penthouse," Georgie said. There was really no reason that Maxie couldn't go to Sonny's home, but Georgie wouldn't enjoy the feeling she would get while she worried about her sister being in the home of a known criminal. The one time that Georgie had been there in recent memory things had turned up very badly. It was mostly to protect Dillon, but she still didn't like it.
"I'm not going to the penthouse," Maxie shot back. She'd try and stay as far away from that place as she could, much for the same reasons that Georgie did. It wasn't a comfortable place. "We're going to meet at Kelly's."
"Stay safe," Georgie almost pleaded.
"What's going to happen to me?"
"Maxie..." Georgie let her voice hang low. "Please, just tell me that you're going to stay safe."
Maxie smiled a little. Her sister was always looking out for her, even when she shouldn't. "I won't go looking for trouble." Maxie walked out the door and headed towards Kelly's.
When she was gone, Georgie sighed. "That doesn't mean that it won't find you."
Dillon placed his hand on her shoulder, "They'll be okay."
"You don't believe that, do you?"
"I don't know what to believe," Dillon admitted.
"Neither do I." Georgie hugged him. At times she could depend on Dillon for the stability that she needed when things got too bad. At that moment, however, they were both unsure. At least they could look towards each other for comfort and possibly answers.
Corinthos Household-
Damian came out of his room completely dressed and ready to face the day. If things continued down the path that they were taking, he would indeed have to face something before the day came to a close. He certainly hoped that it wouldn't go that badly, but he knew that he would be asking for too much and would likely get hurt in the end. He still didn't have his wallet, which proved to be problematic because it held all of his important possessions. He had some money that he always kept in case something happened, but he didn't feel comfortable with the fact that people were rummaging through his possessions. His bank card was in there... the police knew that he was Sonny's child. What would stop them from trying to tap into his account and siphon out the funds? They'd find that he didn't have much. He tried to keep himself as separated from Sonny's money as possible, but would that stop them from taking the money that he did have? He would need to get his wallet back soon.
Realization hit a moment later. He had much more important things to worry about than his wallet. He went for the door.
"Where are you going?"
His father's voice. He had been so distracted that he didn't even check to see if Sonny was around. Damian turned and looked at Sonny.
"I hope you're not thinking about leaving."
"You keeping me caged in now?" Damian asked.
"You should not be running around Port Charles right now," Sonny stated. "The cops are going to be watching you more now than they ever have before."
"But still not as much as they watch you." Damian sighed, "Sorry. I didn't mean for it to sound like it did."
"You can't leave."
"I'm just going to Kelly's, dad."
"You're going to see her, aren't you?"
Damian stopped. He didn't know why he felt so uncomfortable talking about Maxie with Sonny now. His father had helped him make that date that they shared so special. He should have been the one person that Damian went to confide in during such moments. But he wasn't. "Maxie needs to see me, dad."
"No, she doesn't," Sonny opposed the idea. It wasn't that he didn't like Maxie, he had nothing against her and could see that she brought Damian happiness, which made him happy for his son. But, much like Courtney, he also knew that she was Mac's adopted daughter. The lack of blood didn't matter. Mac and Maxie were as close as he and Michael, maybe even closer. Maxie would tell him things if he asked. And if Maxie knew things, the specific details about what had happened the night before, she would eventually cave and compromise all of them. Sonny liked Maxie, but he couldn't have that happen. He couldn't see his son go to prison for something that Damian didn't do, but he also couldn't see himself and Jason put away for something that they did do. Carly, Courtney, Morgan, Michael, they all depended on Sonny and Jason. They might not make it without them. Damian would. He had proven that he didn't need parents, although he did want them around if he could have them. Sonny knew that Damian would try and keep the family together as best he could, but Carly would likely never accept him being the Corinthos family patriarch. It could bring them down even further. Obviously, neither outcome was an option. The only option was to get Damian cleared of all the charges. It wasn't going to be easy, but Sonny had spent most of his life making the impossible possible.
"I can't live the life you want me to, dad. I can't play by your rules. I've got my own mind and I can think for myself," Damian tried to be as calm as he could, but he didn't enjoy being treated as a child. He wasn't a child. He hadn't been for a very long time.
"You're going to go regardless of what I say, aren't you?"
"I'm going to see my girlfriend. She's very afraid that something will happen to me because of the incident last night. Would you deny Carly the same thing if the situations were reversed?"
"Carly and I have something different."
"You're right," Damian said. "You have a relationship that started with an intense hatred."
"That's not fair."
"But it's true."
Sonny's short fuse was nearing an end, but his son had a point. He cared for Carly. Damian cared for Maxie. If the situations were turned, they wouldn't be acting any differently. "Don't say anything that would incriminate you. You can't take the chances right now, Damian. Not even with Maxie."
"I'll be careful."
"I need you to be more than careful. I need you to just avoid talking about what happened last night." Sonny tried a different avenue as well, "Think about the people that are going to be affected by a court trial. Think of Michael."
Without saying a word, Damian looked at his father and left. Sonny obviously was very good at playing the mind game. It had worked on Damian, at least partially. He wouldn't betray his morals for his father or for anyone else, but he certainly didn't want to put Michael through anything. It seemed like every second that passed the entire situation just ended up getting a lot more complicated.
Lorenzo Alcazar's Home-
Lorenzo had been laying low for some time. Of course, he knew of the shootout. Even if he wasn't one of the most powerful criminals in the East Coast, he would have known because it was plastered all over the news. When he saw Sonny and Carly on the television he knew that it involved the boy somehow. He also knew that Damian was being looked into because, much like Sonny, there were cops who were paid to feed him information.
He smiled at the idea of Sonny being pushed to defending his son. He would not act, not yet.
Kelly's-
Maxie walked into the restaurant. She had been here too often in the past, but there was no other place that she felt entirely comfortable meeting at. She couldn't put the people at the hospital in danger in case something did happen. Even if they didn't get hurt physically, the emotional stress could cause some patients to have a very bad reaction to everything.
That was why she picked Kelly's, it always had a few people in it. Witnesses made it less likely for something to happen. People in Port Charles liked to do the devious acts in a somewhat discrete manner. It made Kelly's one of the better places.
Of course, she had to smile when she saw someone that she wasn't expecting. "Lucky!"
Lucky looked up from his coffee and smiled. "Hey, Maxie."
Maxie sat in the chair next to him, "Can I ask you a favor?"
"You know you can," Lucky and Maxie shared a special relationship. Lucky knew that she once had a crush on him, but that had since cooled. They had a good friendship, though. Lucky was close to both Maxie and Georgie even before he became a cop.
"What happened last night? Why is Damian involved?" Maxie wanted the answers, and she wanted Lucky to be the one to give them to her.
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Kayla- Thanks are in order for the kind words, so here is said thanks. Courtney and Damian's relationship is a very strong one, and one that doesn't exactly wane as easily as the others. Here is hoping this update pleases you...
Story-
Scorpio Household-
She was angry at him. She didn't exactly know why, but that didn't change the fact that she was. She didn't like being told that she was kept at arms length for her own protection. That was one of the reasons she wasn't happy. Damian would do anything for her, anything at all. Why did he assume that she wouldn't do the same for him? Maxie would. Everything that Damian felt for her, she felt for him. If he couldn't see that... then maybe he wasn't the type of person that she thought he was. "No," Maxie told herself as she opened the door to her room. She knew that he was the kindhearted soul that had managed to make himself the person that he was despite everything that was placed in front of him. She knew that he would only keep things from a person if he felt that it was necessary, that it would hurt the person if they found out. She knew these things, but it did nothing to make her feel better about what he had done. She loved him. She truly loved him. But she was truly angry at him as well.
Maxie came down the stairs, not even trying to sound discrete about it. In fact she was sounding about as bad as a heard of Elephants coming down the open plains of Africa. Perhaps it was an indicator of her mood. It certainly couldn't be that she had gained weight. Not that he would care if she did. Besides, there was no reason to hide. Georgie and Dillon knew that she was well aware of what had happened the night before. They knew how she would react. In some ways she was horribly predictable. She didn't care. She was going to act this way because she knew it was right. She was worried about him, and she was upset that he didn't come to her. Regardless of how he felt about her mental state after the recent events, he had no right to keep her out of his life like that. She grabbed her coat. She wasn't cold. She was so angry that her body was producing heat that would keep her warm at the North Pole, but she would eventually calm down. He'd calm her down. He loved her too much not to. When that happened, she needed to have her coat.
Even though Georgie knew the answer, she still had to ask the question, "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see him."
"You can't go to the penthouse," Georgie said. There was really no reason that Maxie couldn't go to Sonny's home, but Georgie wouldn't enjoy the feeling she would get while she worried about her sister being in the home of a known criminal. The one time that Georgie had been there in recent memory things had turned up very badly. It was mostly to protect Dillon, but she still didn't like it.
"I'm not going to the penthouse," Maxie shot back. She'd try and stay as far away from that place as she could, much for the same reasons that Georgie did. It wasn't a comfortable place. "We're going to meet at Kelly's."
"Stay safe," Georgie almost pleaded.
"What's going to happen to me?"
"Maxie..." Georgie let her voice hang low. "Please, just tell me that you're going to stay safe."
Maxie smiled a little. Her sister was always looking out for her, even when she shouldn't. "I won't go looking for trouble." Maxie walked out the door and headed towards Kelly's.
When she was gone, Georgie sighed. "That doesn't mean that it won't find you."
Dillon placed his hand on her shoulder, "They'll be okay."
"You don't believe that, do you?"
"I don't know what to believe," Dillon admitted.
"Neither do I." Georgie hugged him. At times she could depend on Dillon for the stability that she needed when things got too bad. At that moment, however, they were both unsure. At least they could look towards each other for comfort and possibly answers.
Corinthos Household-
Damian came out of his room completely dressed and ready to face the day. If things continued down the path that they were taking, he would indeed have to face something before the day came to a close. He certainly hoped that it wouldn't go that badly, but he knew that he would be asking for too much and would likely get hurt in the end. He still didn't have his wallet, which proved to be problematic because it held all of his important possessions. He had some money that he always kept in case something happened, but he didn't feel comfortable with the fact that people were rummaging through his possessions. His bank card was in there... the police knew that he was Sonny's child. What would stop them from trying to tap into his account and siphon out the funds? They'd find that he didn't have much. He tried to keep himself as separated from Sonny's money as possible, but would that stop them from taking the money that he did have? He would need to get his wallet back soon.
Realization hit a moment later. He had much more important things to worry about than his wallet. He went for the door.
"Where are you going?"
His father's voice. He had been so distracted that he didn't even check to see if Sonny was around. Damian turned and looked at Sonny.
"I hope you're not thinking about leaving."
"You keeping me caged in now?" Damian asked.
"You should not be running around Port Charles right now," Sonny stated. "The cops are going to be watching you more now than they ever have before."
"But still not as much as they watch you." Damian sighed, "Sorry. I didn't mean for it to sound like it did."
"You can't leave."
"I'm just going to Kelly's, dad."
"You're going to see her, aren't you?"
Damian stopped. He didn't know why he felt so uncomfortable talking about Maxie with Sonny now. His father had helped him make that date that they shared so special. He should have been the one person that Damian went to confide in during such moments. But he wasn't. "Maxie needs to see me, dad."
"No, she doesn't," Sonny opposed the idea. It wasn't that he didn't like Maxie, he had nothing against her and could see that she brought Damian happiness, which made him happy for his son. But, much like Courtney, he also knew that she was Mac's adopted daughter. The lack of blood didn't matter. Mac and Maxie were as close as he and Michael, maybe even closer. Maxie would tell him things if he asked. And if Maxie knew things, the specific details about what had happened the night before, she would eventually cave and compromise all of them. Sonny liked Maxie, but he couldn't have that happen. He couldn't see his son go to prison for something that Damian didn't do, but he also couldn't see himself and Jason put away for something that they did do. Carly, Courtney, Morgan, Michael, they all depended on Sonny and Jason. They might not make it without them. Damian would. He had proven that he didn't need parents, although he did want them around if he could have them. Sonny knew that Damian would try and keep the family together as best he could, but Carly would likely never accept him being the Corinthos family patriarch. It could bring them down even further. Obviously, neither outcome was an option. The only option was to get Damian cleared of all the charges. It wasn't going to be easy, but Sonny had spent most of his life making the impossible possible.
"I can't live the life you want me to, dad. I can't play by your rules. I've got my own mind and I can think for myself," Damian tried to be as calm as he could, but he didn't enjoy being treated as a child. He wasn't a child. He hadn't been for a very long time.
"You're going to go regardless of what I say, aren't you?"
"I'm going to see my girlfriend. She's very afraid that something will happen to me because of the incident last night. Would you deny Carly the same thing if the situations were reversed?"
"Carly and I have something different."
"You're right," Damian said. "You have a relationship that started with an intense hatred."
"That's not fair."
"But it's true."
Sonny's short fuse was nearing an end, but his son had a point. He cared for Carly. Damian cared for Maxie. If the situations were turned, they wouldn't be acting any differently. "Don't say anything that would incriminate you. You can't take the chances right now, Damian. Not even with Maxie."
"I'll be careful."
"I need you to be more than careful. I need you to just avoid talking about what happened last night." Sonny tried a different avenue as well, "Think about the people that are going to be affected by a court trial. Think of Michael."
Without saying a word, Damian looked at his father and left. Sonny obviously was very good at playing the mind game. It had worked on Damian, at least partially. He wouldn't betray his morals for his father or for anyone else, but he certainly didn't want to put Michael through anything. It seemed like every second that passed the entire situation just ended up getting a lot more complicated.
Lorenzo Alcazar's Home-
Lorenzo had been laying low for some time. Of course, he knew of the shootout. Even if he wasn't one of the most powerful criminals in the East Coast, he would have known because it was plastered all over the news. When he saw Sonny and Carly on the television he knew that it involved the boy somehow. He also knew that Damian was being looked into because, much like Sonny, there were cops who were paid to feed him information.
He smiled at the idea of Sonny being pushed to defending his son. He would not act, not yet.
Kelly's-
Maxie walked into the restaurant. She had been here too often in the past, but there was no other place that she felt entirely comfortable meeting at. She couldn't put the people at the hospital in danger in case something did happen. Even if they didn't get hurt physically, the emotional stress could cause some patients to have a very bad reaction to everything.
That was why she picked Kelly's, it always had a few people in it. Witnesses made it less likely for something to happen. People in Port Charles liked to do the devious acts in a somewhat discrete manner. It made Kelly's one of the better places.
Of course, she had to smile when she saw someone that she wasn't expecting. "Lucky!"
Lucky looked up from his coffee and smiled. "Hey, Maxie."
Maxie sat in the chair next to him, "Can I ask you a favor?"
"You know you can," Lucky and Maxie shared a special relationship. Lucky knew that she once had a crush on him, but that had since cooled. They had a good friendship, though. Lucky was close to both Maxie and Georgie even before he became a cop.
"What happened last night? Why is Damian involved?" Maxie wanted the answers, and she wanted Lucky to be the one to give them to her.
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