Madame X
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{Summary of Events up to chapter 13: Skye and Carly have been planning a take over to shift control of the Mafia. They started by blowing up a warehouse in Florida, which Luis Alcazar, Skye's Ex-Husband was in. The have a partner, 'Madame X'. Skye was accidentally shot when 'Madame X's' men tried to make it look like someone was after Sonny. Sonny and Jason have been arrested for drug trafficking and are in prison until their trial. Skye and Carly broke into a competitor's warehouse and stole a shipment of cocaine, which they stuffed in fish. The girls have taken their children from their homes in Italy to Port Charles to stay with their grandparents while they work things out. While in Port Charles they meet with 'Madame X'.}
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Skye and Carly both turned around to face the much suspenseful meeting with Madame X, otherwise known as Faith Roscoe.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet face to face." Faith told them as she extended her hand to Skye and then to Carly. "About your shooting, again I'm terrible sorry that didn't go as planned."
"That wasn't your gunman's fault, but rather the iron railing. Skye told her, I heard that you had quite the Halloween."
Faith smiled when she answered, "I took out every member of the Five Families and a few representatives from surrounding organizations."
"I applaud your work Mrs. Roscoe. Taking out the five families means you've shifted power here, into your own hands." Carly pointed out.
"Not only that, I'm using Cassadine ships to smuggle product into the country. And don't worry, I'm extremely careful, I plan not to put your sister, Emily in harms way. I'm just trying to get the job done." Faith explained.
Skye nodded, "That's why were here, we need a safe and productive way to get a shipment of stolen drugs into the country without suspicions from Nicholas Caprice or Lorenzo Alcazar."
Faith looked down the docks and then back at Skye and Carly, "When I blew up that warehouse, I thought both Luis and Lorenzo were in there. And Caprice, I thought he disappeared off the face of the earth until I heard he settled in Italy."
"I want to know how to gain power in Italy." Skye told her, "I'm willing to do whatever it takes."
Faith arched an eyebrow, "Anything?"
Carly and Skye both nodded.
"Meet me back here tomorrow night and we'll work out the details." Faith told them before walking away.
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Skye walked into the Quartermaine den, she thought she could be alone. She was wrong. Edward, Lila, Alan, Monica, Emily, AJ, Ned, Tracy, and Dillon and guests were all conversing, until she entered, then they all fell very silent. All eyes on her.
Edward approached her, "Skye, we thought that as long as you're home, we would have a get together." He wrapped his left arm around her waist.
Skye forced a smile. "Thank you, Grandfather."
The first person Skye went for was Lila, "Grandmother." She bent down and kissed her on the cheek, "I've missed you."
"I missed you too dear and I hope that you'll stay here for a while." Lila told her.
She rose to her feet and was bombarded by Tracy, "Skye darling."
She threw her arms around her niece, "Aunt Tracy." Skye managed to breathe out.
Tracy pulled a handsome man towards her, "You remember Jax don't you?"
Skye smiled, "Yes."
Jax extended his hand, "It's nice to see you again."
"Likewise." Skye said retracting her hand out of his.
"So, how do you like living in Italy?"
"I like it just fine. Skye told him, "Sonny and I live in a gorgeous Villa with our four children."
"Four children?"
Skye studied Jax closely, he was obviously a very well renown business man, otherwise Tracy would be no where near him, this she could definitely use to her advantage, she just had to play up the niceness, "Yes, Maximilano, Zacharia, Antonio and Isabella."
Tracy butted in, "And they are such wonderful children."
Skye made her way through the rest of the crowd, talking with Emily and Nikolas about their future plans and Emily following in their parent's footsteps. She talked to Dillon and his adorable girlfriend Georgie and told them how lovely Italy was during the spring and that they should visit soon.
She shared a long conversation with AJ and his new girlfriend, Lydia and then an unusual conversation with Ned and Kristina, before heading upstairs to check on her children.
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Carly paced back and fourth in on the docks, November was colder here than she remembered. Even though the sun was out, it really didn't do any good, the wind came right along and snapped up any chance of warmth. How did it come to this point? When did things get so bad that she and her sister-in- law had to step in and take matters into their own hands.
This wasn't just any business, this was the Mafia, take no prisoners hold no bars type of thing. You were either an enemy or an alliance, there was no in between. Everything had went as planned up to this part, they had the drugs, they were going to be brought over by a Cassadine vessel and no one would ever know.
She and Skye were getting in too deep, and everyone knows that once you're in you can't get out, that's why they concocted this whole thing.
Skye gently placed her hand on Carly's shoulder, causing her to jump a foot off the ground, "You're a little tense."
Carly clutched her chest, "You scared the hell out of me."
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention." Skye said as she sat down on the bench.
"Skye, I think that we're getting in a little too deep."
"A little too deep?"
Carly continued to pace back and fourth, "Yes."
"Carly, before we started this thing, we were already in too deep, we're not adding to it, we're just joining in."
"Well, maybe it's time to bow out gracefully before something happens and we get caught."
"It's too late for that now. We can't leave this job half finished."
"Don't you see what we're doing?" Carly questioned, Skye shook her head, "We're turning into people that we hate."
Skye let out a sigh, "So what do you suggest we do? Huh? Sit back in our fur coats, with a martini glass in one hand and and a rolled up hundred dollar bill in the other, snorting as much cocaine as we possibly can? That's the stereotypical Mobsters wife, Sharon Stone played her, Michelle Pfeiffer played her and Diane Keaton was the only one to give us half the credit in the shit that we have to go through day in and day out."
Carly stood directly in front of Skye, "I'm not going to sit back and let my husband go to prison while I run the business that put him there. Wouldn't that be hypocritical?"
Skye looked up at her, "I guess that it really doesn't matter now. Look, Carly, I understand where you're coming from, I've ran these thoughts over and over in my head hundreds of times and I always come back to the same answer. I'm doing what I have to do in order for my husband to become a free man. I couldn't live if Sonny got sent to prison, I hate every minute that we're apart now."
"So you're doing this to set Sonny free?" Carly questioned, "For Sonny."
"I'm doing this because I love Sonny, he has been my husband for almost eleven years now and that means something. I'd never find another love like I have with him, I wouldn't want to and I know that you understand what I'm talking about because you have that with my brother. I couldn't bare losing him, just like I knew that he couldn't bare losing me."
"Skye, I know that you love Sonny and that you would do anything for him, but I think we're taking it a little far. We can just let Faith take over from here, she seems to enjoy doing this type of thing and she should, Luis had Roscoe killed in front of her, could you imagine what that was like for her? She has every reason to avenge his death."
"I know she does." Skye said softly.
Carly sat down beside her, "Is this about Luis?"
"Luis? No, why would it be about him?"
"Skye, it's okay for you to be upset about him. He was your husband."
"Was is the keyword here. Luis was my husband a long time ago. We were young and in love and so incredibly stupid, but things...they just didn't work out for us, we tried really hard to make it work, we just couldn't. And then I had my fun with a few other men, Jasper Jacks and Stefan Cassadine included among others and then I met Sonny and everything changed."
Skye continued, "I have just as much right as Faith. How am I suppose to look into my children's eyes and tell them that their father isn't coming home."
"You can't." Carly told her, "Isabella and the boys are going to need their father as are Michael and Zoe. I respect your decisions and why you want to do things. I just....I need a little time to sort some things out. You've been involved in Organized Crime for fifteen years, you handle things a little better than I do and you understand certain things that I don't."
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Skye approached Faith, alone, "What's my next move?"
"The question is, who is the biggest threat?" Faith asked, "Once that's determined, we can take it from there."
Skye answered without even having to think, "Nicholas Caprice."
"Then you have to go after Lorenzo Alcazar." Faith answered.
Skye shook her head, she didn't fully understand, "Why Alcazar?"
"Going after Caprice has to be something that's perfectly planned because you only get one chance. Once Alcazar's out of the picture it will shift priorities because Caprice will have seen him as his threat, making him lower his guard, making it easier for you to strike him down." Faith explained, "That is if you can handle taking him down."
"You mean kill him?" Skye asked.
"Yes, well, no. You have to ruin his Empire, watch him squirm then after you've claimed victory, you get to kill him. Letting him live would be foolish."
"But what about Lorenzo? Why does he have to die?" Skye asked.
"He doesn't have to, however it would make things a lot easier if he were out of the way. Trivial things likes like your ex-brother-in-law's life shouldn't be a concern. In this business he's your enemy and enemies have to be eliminated, regardless of who they are." Faith told her, "Unless you have some other reason. Like his young niece, Sage."
"What about Sage?"
Faith looked her directly in the eye, "She's your daughter isn't she?"
TBC....
I would like to thank all my wonderful readers and reviewers who keep this story going! Please Review!
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{Summary of Events up to chapter 13: Skye and Carly have been planning a take over to shift control of the Mafia. They started by blowing up a warehouse in Florida, which Luis Alcazar, Skye's Ex-Husband was in. The have a partner, 'Madame X'. Skye was accidentally shot when 'Madame X's' men tried to make it look like someone was after Sonny. Sonny and Jason have been arrested for drug trafficking and are in prison until their trial. Skye and Carly broke into a competitor's warehouse and stole a shipment of cocaine, which they stuffed in fish. The girls have taken their children from their homes in Italy to Port Charles to stay with their grandparents while they work things out. While in Port Charles they meet with 'Madame X'.}
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Skye and Carly both turned around to face the much suspenseful meeting with Madame X, otherwise known as Faith Roscoe.
"It's a pleasure to finally meet face to face." Faith told them as she extended her hand to Skye and then to Carly. "About your shooting, again I'm terrible sorry that didn't go as planned."
"That wasn't your gunman's fault, but rather the iron railing. Skye told her, I heard that you had quite the Halloween."
Faith smiled when she answered, "I took out every member of the Five Families and a few representatives from surrounding organizations."
"I applaud your work Mrs. Roscoe. Taking out the five families means you've shifted power here, into your own hands." Carly pointed out.
"Not only that, I'm using Cassadine ships to smuggle product into the country. And don't worry, I'm extremely careful, I plan not to put your sister, Emily in harms way. I'm just trying to get the job done." Faith explained.
Skye nodded, "That's why were here, we need a safe and productive way to get a shipment of stolen drugs into the country without suspicions from Nicholas Caprice or Lorenzo Alcazar."
Faith looked down the docks and then back at Skye and Carly, "When I blew up that warehouse, I thought both Luis and Lorenzo were in there. And Caprice, I thought he disappeared off the face of the earth until I heard he settled in Italy."
"I want to know how to gain power in Italy." Skye told her, "I'm willing to do whatever it takes."
Faith arched an eyebrow, "Anything?"
Carly and Skye both nodded.
"Meet me back here tomorrow night and we'll work out the details." Faith told them before walking away.
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Skye walked into the Quartermaine den, she thought she could be alone. She was wrong. Edward, Lila, Alan, Monica, Emily, AJ, Ned, Tracy, and Dillon and guests were all conversing, until she entered, then they all fell very silent. All eyes on her.
Edward approached her, "Skye, we thought that as long as you're home, we would have a get together." He wrapped his left arm around her waist.
Skye forced a smile. "Thank you, Grandfather."
The first person Skye went for was Lila, "Grandmother." She bent down and kissed her on the cheek, "I've missed you."
"I missed you too dear and I hope that you'll stay here for a while." Lila told her.
She rose to her feet and was bombarded by Tracy, "Skye darling."
She threw her arms around her niece, "Aunt Tracy." Skye managed to breathe out.
Tracy pulled a handsome man towards her, "You remember Jax don't you?"
Skye smiled, "Yes."
Jax extended his hand, "It's nice to see you again."
"Likewise." Skye said retracting her hand out of his.
"So, how do you like living in Italy?"
"I like it just fine. Skye told him, "Sonny and I live in a gorgeous Villa with our four children."
"Four children?"
Skye studied Jax closely, he was obviously a very well renown business man, otherwise Tracy would be no where near him, this she could definitely use to her advantage, she just had to play up the niceness, "Yes, Maximilano, Zacharia, Antonio and Isabella."
Tracy butted in, "And they are such wonderful children."
Skye made her way through the rest of the crowd, talking with Emily and Nikolas about their future plans and Emily following in their parent's footsteps. She talked to Dillon and his adorable girlfriend Georgie and told them how lovely Italy was during the spring and that they should visit soon.
She shared a long conversation with AJ and his new girlfriend, Lydia and then an unusual conversation with Ned and Kristina, before heading upstairs to check on her children.
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Carly paced back and fourth in on the docks, November was colder here than she remembered. Even though the sun was out, it really didn't do any good, the wind came right along and snapped up any chance of warmth. How did it come to this point? When did things get so bad that she and her sister-in- law had to step in and take matters into their own hands.
This wasn't just any business, this was the Mafia, take no prisoners hold no bars type of thing. You were either an enemy or an alliance, there was no in between. Everything had went as planned up to this part, they had the drugs, they were going to be brought over by a Cassadine vessel and no one would ever know.
She and Skye were getting in too deep, and everyone knows that once you're in you can't get out, that's why they concocted this whole thing.
Skye gently placed her hand on Carly's shoulder, causing her to jump a foot off the ground, "You're a little tense."
Carly clutched her chest, "You scared the hell out of me."
"I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention." Skye said as she sat down on the bench.
"Skye, I think that we're getting in a little too deep."
"A little too deep?"
Carly continued to pace back and fourth, "Yes."
"Carly, before we started this thing, we were already in too deep, we're not adding to it, we're just joining in."
"Well, maybe it's time to bow out gracefully before something happens and we get caught."
"It's too late for that now. We can't leave this job half finished."
"Don't you see what we're doing?" Carly questioned, Skye shook her head, "We're turning into people that we hate."
Skye let out a sigh, "So what do you suggest we do? Huh? Sit back in our fur coats, with a martini glass in one hand and and a rolled up hundred dollar bill in the other, snorting as much cocaine as we possibly can? That's the stereotypical Mobsters wife, Sharon Stone played her, Michelle Pfeiffer played her and Diane Keaton was the only one to give us half the credit in the shit that we have to go through day in and day out."
Carly stood directly in front of Skye, "I'm not going to sit back and let my husband go to prison while I run the business that put him there. Wouldn't that be hypocritical?"
Skye looked up at her, "I guess that it really doesn't matter now. Look, Carly, I understand where you're coming from, I've ran these thoughts over and over in my head hundreds of times and I always come back to the same answer. I'm doing what I have to do in order for my husband to become a free man. I couldn't live if Sonny got sent to prison, I hate every minute that we're apart now."
"So you're doing this to set Sonny free?" Carly questioned, "For Sonny."
"I'm doing this because I love Sonny, he has been my husband for almost eleven years now and that means something. I'd never find another love like I have with him, I wouldn't want to and I know that you understand what I'm talking about because you have that with my brother. I couldn't bare losing him, just like I knew that he couldn't bare losing me."
"Skye, I know that you love Sonny and that you would do anything for him, but I think we're taking it a little far. We can just let Faith take over from here, she seems to enjoy doing this type of thing and she should, Luis had Roscoe killed in front of her, could you imagine what that was like for her? She has every reason to avenge his death."
"I know she does." Skye said softly.
Carly sat down beside her, "Is this about Luis?"
"Luis? No, why would it be about him?"
"Skye, it's okay for you to be upset about him. He was your husband."
"Was is the keyword here. Luis was my husband a long time ago. We were young and in love and so incredibly stupid, but things...they just didn't work out for us, we tried really hard to make it work, we just couldn't. And then I had my fun with a few other men, Jasper Jacks and Stefan Cassadine included among others and then I met Sonny and everything changed."
Skye continued, "I have just as much right as Faith. How am I suppose to look into my children's eyes and tell them that their father isn't coming home."
"You can't." Carly told her, "Isabella and the boys are going to need their father as are Michael and Zoe. I respect your decisions and why you want to do things. I just....I need a little time to sort some things out. You've been involved in Organized Crime for fifteen years, you handle things a little better than I do and you understand certain things that I don't."
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Skye approached Faith, alone, "What's my next move?"
"The question is, who is the biggest threat?" Faith asked, "Once that's determined, we can take it from there."
Skye answered without even having to think, "Nicholas Caprice."
"Then you have to go after Lorenzo Alcazar." Faith answered.
Skye shook her head, she didn't fully understand, "Why Alcazar?"
"Going after Caprice has to be something that's perfectly planned because you only get one chance. Once Alcazar's out of the picture it will shift priorities because Caprice will have seen him as his threat, making him lower his guard, making it easier for you to strike him down." Faith explained, "That is if you can handle taking him down."
"You mean kill him?" Skye asked.
"Yes, well, no. You have to ruin his Empire, watch him squirm then after you've claimed victory, you get to kill him. Letting him live would be foolish."
"But what about Lorenzo? Why does he have to die?" Skye asked.
"He doesn't have to, however it would make things a lot easier if he were out of the way. Trivial things likes like your ex-brother-in-law's life shouldn't be a concern. In this business he's your enemy and enemies have to be eliminated, regardless of who they are." Faith told her, "Unless you have some other reason. Like his young niece, Sage."
"What about Sage?"
Faith looked her directly in the eye, "She's your daughter isn't she?"
TBC....
I would like to thank all my wonderful readers and reviewers who keep this story going! Please Review!