Crossing Enemy Lines
Skye's eyes were glued to Luis' as he spoke, "My darling Antoinette Skye, When are you going to learn that Sonny isn't the right man for you? How many times do you have to come crawling back to me before you realize that you belong with me?"
She was silent for several long seconds, "What's wrong Antoinette?" He asked her, "Would you prefer that I call you Skye? I just can't seem to get used to it."
"I have never crawled back to you Luis, I never will come crawling back to you as long as I may live. My place is with Sonny, he's my husband and I love him, I would never do anything to hurt him."
"Is that so? Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" He questioned, "Don't you think that he's going to be hurt when he finds out what you've been doing behind his back?"
"I haven't done anything wrong."
"Playing Mob boss isn't a smart move Antoinette, it's going to get you in more trouble than you ever could imagine. This business isn't for people like you."
"People like me?" She asked, "What do you mean?"
"You're a loving, caring woman, you shouldn't be killing people."
"I'm not killing people."
"No, not yet, but eventually the business will get to you and you'll turn bitter and cold and unremorseful."
"I spared you, didn't I Luis." Skye stated rather than questioned, "I called and warned you that the warehouse was going to blow up, I gave you the perfect opportunity to fake your death once again and now none of your enemies know that you're alive and you're safe here in the prison until they can create your new identity."
"And I'm grateful, but you're working with Faith Roscoe and the woman is insane and I don't want to see you turn into her."
"Faith's not insane, what she does is her way of grieving, Luis, you killed her husband in front of her and it royally screwed her up." Skye explained, "Everything that she does comes from hate and revenge."
"That's the perfect example, you have no reason to do this." He felt her pull her hands pull away from his, he sat back in his chair, "Let Faith continue to do what she wants and stay away from her."
"Maybe I do have a reason. Did you ever think of that?" She asked, "I was nineteen years old and I was told that the man that I loved had been blown to bits in a warehouse in Venezula, by Sonny Corinthos. I thought you were dead and it hurt, I felt the most unbelievable pain, I've ever felt in my life". Skye said as she began to sob.
She looked up at the ceiling, trying to stop the tears in her eyes from falling, "I was left with a four year old girl, who didn't understand why her Daddy wasn't coming home ever again and shouldn't't grasp the concept of death, a little girl who cried herself to sleep every night for a month because she didn't understand what was going on."
Luis didn't understand it, he ran his hands over his face knowing that Skye was right, but he refused to hear what she was saying, "If you loved me so damn much why didn't you stay with me?"
"How could I?" She asked, sniffling, "When I couldn't even look you in the eye, you let me believe that you were dead for four months, four of the most miserable months of my life. But what you did to me was pale in comparison to what you let Sage believe, that her Father was dead.
"I've told you time and time again that I was sorry for what I did." Luis yelled, "It wasn't worth it Antoinette, it wasn't worth losing you. I thought that after Sage welcomed me back with open arms that you would too and that we could be a family again."
Her amber eyes once again found his, "You thought wrong. Sage welcomed you back because her love was unconditional, the innocent love of a child. You hurt me, beyond belief, when you came back all the love that I felt for my 'dead' husband turned into hate." She screamed. "I couldn't stand the site of you, I didn't want to be around you, I didn't want you touching me, I wanted to forget that I ever knew you."
He leaned across the table, wiping her fallen tears, his hands still cuffed, "Don't you think I know what I did was wrong, I did it for all the wrong reasons. I could have protected you and Sage better had I stayed with you instead of running. But I can't change the past, what's done is done and you chose to move forward." He answered, holding back tears of his own.
"I wasn't moving forward, I was running from you, because I knew that if I stuck around long enough that you would convince me to stay with you. So I returned home to my parents, I began seeing Stefan and then this Ric guy and then there was Jax."
She paused, biting her lip, rethinking the past, "We were off to a great start and then I met Sonny, he was everything that Jax wasn't, he was the man that I thought you were when we first married. I ended up staying with Jax while I was with Sonny, because he was married to Lily, then she was killed and we were free to be together, that's when I realized that he was a much better man than I ever thought you were."
"You think you're the only one that was hurt? I hurt myself Antoinette, I had everything that I ever dreamed of, everything that I ever wanted. You and Sage and I were a family, we had more money than we could ever spend in two lifetimes and we were happy." He whispered to her, "We had the lives that only happened in the movies, the lives that people dream about. I took away my own happiness, I hurt you and I hurt myself and there's no one I can blame other than me. The only thing I have to be thankful about is that my daughter.....our daughter, doesn't remember what happened."
"I wouldn't bank on that Luis, one day when you least expect it, she's going to remember what happened and that unconditional love that she's given you for the past sixteen years, is going to vanish into thin air and you're not going to be the hero that you once were in her eyes. That kind of pain scars in the worst possible way. So you better be ready to answer some really tough questions."
"She may not ever remember."
"I hope she doesn't." Skye told him sincerely, "Where is Sage now?"
"At the compound. I explained to her what was going on."
"Why would you do that?"
"She's getting older now and she can put the pieces of the puzzle together, she's adding things up, she knows the life I lead, the life you lead. But what happens when she discovers that it's all a lie? What about your mistakes? You're the only woman she's ever known as her Mother and when you start turning into Faith Roscoe, what is she going to have left?"
"Don't turn this into something else." She told him bitterly, "It doesn't just involve Sage and my parenting skills."
"No, it doesn't, if I were you I'd start thinking about how your boys and your baby girl are going to grow up without their Mother. How their going to face their realities when it's time." His eyes searched hers for a sign of rationality.
"My children have a Mother."
He nodded in agreement, "For now."
Skye took offense to his observation, "What is that suppose to mean?"
"Do you honestly think that Sonny is going to let you anywhere near those precious children once he's found out what you've done? Working with the enemy, setting people up, stealing drug shipments and probably half a dozen other things that I'm unaware of."
"What I've done is no different from what Sonny does."
Luis leaned back in his chair, "Yes, it is. You knew what Sonny did before you ever got involved with him. This thing that you and Carly have cooked up was behind your husbands backs. You've broken his trust, his loyalty and his faith in you. Congratulations, Antoinette, you've just blown your marriage all to hell."
"Ending my marriage wasn't why I did this." She told him honesty.
"No, but Sonny's going to see it like that. You're his possession and now that you've done wrong by him and his code of ethics, he's not going to want to have anything to do with you."
She was silent.
"Maybe you should have thought your plan out a little more before you put it into action. History always repeats itself, Antoinette. You've just wrecked everything you ever had and there's no one to blame but yourself. See the pattern?"
"You're wrong, this isn't going to wreck my marriage, because no one knows about this, other than you and Faith. Sonny's never going to find out about this and I don't plan on telling him." She said confidently.
"Faith could say something."
"Who the hell in their right mind is going to believe anything she says?" Skye asked with a laugh, "Certainly not Sonny."
"You've got this all planned out don't you? Down to every last detail."
Again she was silent.
"You have everything under control, right? At least you think you do, but if you're not careful you're going to slip up and then you're going to get caught. When you first came to me and I agreed to help you, you said that it was a one time shot, just this once. What happened to just one time?"
"I don't know, one thing turned into two and two turned into four."
"You like the power. The Adrenaline. The rush it gives you when you do something that you know is wrong." He softly told her, "You thrive for more, wanting each venture to be more intense than the last. There's no remorse, no regrets, nothing, just emptiness because you keep telling yourself over and over again that it's just the business, when really deep down you enjoy it, it brings you pleasure to be in control and you revel in it."
His words hit her hard, but she was determined not to let it show. "Why do think you have me all figured out? You know nothing about me, we've been apart for a decade. Just because we were married once doesn't give you the right to try to figure me out or invade in my life."
"Somebody has too." He told her bluntly, "You're playing with fire and you're going to get burnt. Do you ask yourself how far is too far? When is it going to be enough? What's it going to take for me to walk away?"
"I know what I'm doing." Skye answered, "I've been planning this forever, nothing's going to go wrong."
"You set Sonny and Jason up didn't you? Luis asked her, "You planted the drugs and then you led the police to them. Just so you could put your plan into action. After all we know that you crave power and now there's no point of return."
Skye's eyes burnt into his, she abruptly stood up, causing the metal chair to hit the cement floor with a bang. An officer opened the door to see what all the commotion was about. She turned and walked out of the interrogation room, leaving Luis smiling.
"She'll come back, she always does." She heard him tell the officer.
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"Did you expect me not to find out?" Jason asked, again.
Carly shook her head, "Find out about what Jason? Skye and I haven't done anything wrong."
"The two of you didn't kidnap Nicholas Caprice's wife?"
"Sophia?" Carly questioned, honestly not knowing what he was talking about, "Sophia was kidnapped? When?"
"A few days ago." He informed her.
"I can't imagine why anyone would want to kidnap that annoying bitch, she was probably returned to him within the hour."
"No, she was chained to a chair in one of his warehouses, they didn't find her for twelve hours."
"Look, I know that Skye and I both can't stand Sophia, but we were here in Port Charles when all this occurred." Carly told him, "And after Sophia drugged Skye a few years back at that party, don't you think her form of payback would have been much worse than tying her to a chair?"
"I guess so." Jason agreed, "I'm sorry, it's just that I don't want you and Skye in danger, or the children."
"That's why we came over here, to be safe." Carly answered, "My children mean everything to me, everything to us, I would never willing do something that would hurt them or myself."
"I know you wouldn't, it's just that I had this weird feeling a few days ago and I just couldn't seem to shake it, I thought maybe something was wrong."
"Everything's fine." She assured him, "Monica and Alan are very supportive and told us that we could stay as long as we like and that they would do everything in their power to keep us safe."
"Let's keep it that way." Jason said softly, "Has anything out of the ordinary been happening around here?"
Carly pushed her hair back out of her face, "Umm, well, Lorenzo Alcazar was here last night, he was looking for Sage. Apparently she took off from boarding school and can't seem to be found."
"Is Skye upset?"
"Yeah, she left last night to help search for her, Skye thought she might have went home to Venezula."
"So this is serious?"
"Lorenzo said that Sage was in danger because of what happened to some lady mob boss."
"Lady mob boss?" Jason questioned.
Carly nodded, "Attractive blonde woman, wears all black....um her name is like...Hope or Grace or...."
"Faith." Jason finished for her, "Faith Roscoe."
"That sounds about right." She answered.
"What happened to her?"
"Someone shot her. Twice." She added, "She's at General Hospital right now recovering."
He was silent for several seconds, "I have to go take care of some business."
"Jason, you can't, no one can know you're here."
"I'll be fine."
"Please don't. Stay here with us, I couldn't bare to have you thrown back in jail. I need you." She whispered, "Michael and Zoe need you."
He nodded, "I'll take care of things later tonight. It has to be done before I leave."
"Okay." She agreed, "I just want to spend the day together as a family."
Jason kissed her forehead, "I'd love nothing more." He eyed Michael sleeping on the other side of the bed.
"I have to drop something off by the new boutique for Skye though, she said it was very important, do you think that you could spend the morning with the children and when I get back we'll all do something together?"
"Yeah, I know how important this boutique is."
"Great." Carly said with a smile.
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An hour later, Carly quietly made her way down the hospital corridors and into room 584. The room was dark, the shades had been drawn and Faith lay motionless in the bed. She closed the doors behind her and made her way over to where she lay. She sat down in front of her. Faith's eyes opened immediately.
"What are you doing here?" Faith asked annoyed.
"I've come to make peace."
"Peace?" Faith laughed, "Don't make me laugh, it hurts." She drew in a few sharp breaths, "That little twit you call a sister in law tried to kill me, there's no way in hell that I'm making peace with any of you."
"Look, I know what happened and I also know that I wasn't involved in trying to kill you. I didn't know anything about it until after the fact." Carly replied, honestly.
"So you want me to put what happened behind me?" Faith asked.
Carly shook her head, "I know that Skye wants you out of the way. But she's crossed the line, she's taken things way too far and now she has to pay. She deserves what ever revenge you have planned for her."
"You expect me to tell you what my plans are for Skye?"
"No." Carly told her, "I want you to tell me how I can help you."
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Skye's eyes were glued to Luis' as he spoke, "My darling Antoinette Skye, When are you going to learn that Sonny isn't the right man for you? How many times do you have to come crawling back to me before you realize that you belong with me?"
She was silent for several long seconds, "What's wrong Antoinette?" He asked her, "Would you prefer that I call you Skye? I just can't seem to get used to it."
"I have never crawled back to you Luis, I never will come crawling back to you as long as I may live. My place is with Sonny, he's my husband and I love him, I would never do anything to hurt him."
"Is that so? Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" He questioned, "Don't you think that he's going to be hurt when he finds out what you've been doing behind his back?"
"I haven't done anything wrong."
"Playing Mob boss isn't a smart move Antoinette, it's going to get you in more trouble than you ever could imagine. This business isn't for people like you."
"People like me?" She asked, "What do you mean?"
"You're a loving, caring woman, you shouldn't be killing people."
"I'm not killing people."
"No, not yet, but eventually the business will get to you and you'll turn bitter and cold and unremorseful."
"I spared you, didn't I Luis." Skye stated rather than questioned, "I called and warned you that the warehouse was going to blow up, I gave you the perfect opportunity to fake your death once again and now none of your enemies know that you're alive and you're safe here in the prison until they can create your new identity."
"And I'm grateful, but you're working with Faith Roscoe and the woman is insane and I don't want to see you turn into her."
"Faith's not insane, what she does is her way of grieving, Luis, you killed her husband in front of her and it royally screwed her up." Skye explained, "Everything that she does comes from hate and revenge."
"That's the perfect example, you have no reason to do this." He felt her pull her hands pull away from his, he sat back in his chair, "Let Faith continue to do what she wants and stay away from her."
"Maybe I do have a reason. Did you ever think of that?" She asked, "I was nineteen years old and I was told that the man that I loved had been blown to bits in a warehouse in Venezula, by Sonny Corinthos. I thought you were dead and it hurt, I felt the most unbelievable pain, I've ever felt in my life". Skye said as she began to sob.
She looked up at the ceiling, trying to stop the tears in her eyes from falling, "I was left with a four year old girl, who didn't understand why her Daddy wasn't coming home ever again and shouldn't't grasp the concept of death, a little girl who cried herself to sleep every night for a month because she didn't understand what was going on."
Luis didn't understand it, he ran his hands over his face knowing that Skye was right, but he refused to hear what she was saying, "If you loved me so damn much why didn't you stay with me?"
"How could I?" She asked, sniffling, "When I couldn't even look you in the eye, you let me believe that you were dead for four months, four of the most miserable months of my life. But what you did to me was pale in comparison to what you let Sage believe, that her Father was dead.
"I've told you time and time again that I was sorry for what I did." Luis yelled, "It wasn't worth it Antoinette, it wasn't worth losing you. I thought that after Sage welcomed me back with open arms that you would too and that we could be a family again."
Her amber eyes once again found his, "You thought wrong. Sage welcomed you back because her love was unconditional, the innocent love of a child. You hurt me, beyond belief, when you came back all the love that I felt for my 'dead' husband turned into hate." She screamed. "I couldn't stand the site of you, I didn't want to be around you, I didn't want you touching me, I wanted to forget that I ever knew you."
He leaned across the table, wiping her fallen tears, his hands still cuffed, "Don't you think I know what I did was wrong, I did it for all the wrong reasons. I could have protected you and Sage better had I stayed with you instead of running. But I can't change the past, what's done is done and you chose to move forward." He answered, holding back tears of his own.
"I wasn't moving forward, I was running from you, because I knew that if I stuck around long enough that you would convince me to stay with you. So I returned home to my parents, I began seeing Stefan and then this Ric guy and then there was Jax."
She paused, biting her lip, rethinking the past, "We were off to a great start and then I met Sonny, he was everything that Jax wasn't, he was the man that I thought you were when we first married. I ended up staying with Jax while I was with Sonny, because he was married to Lily, then she was killed and we were free to be together, that's when I realized that he was a much better man than I ever thought you were."
"You think you're the only one that was hurt? I hurt myself Antoinette, I had everything that I ever dreamed of, everything that I ever wanted. You and Sage and I were a family, we had more money than we could ever spend in two lifetimes and we were happy." He whispered to her, "We had the lives that only happened in the movies, the lives that people dream about. I took away my own happiness, I hurt you and I hurt myself and there's no one I can blame other than me. The only thing I have to be thankful about is that my daughter.....our daughter, doesn't remember what happened."
"I wouldn't bank on that Luis, one day when you least expect it, she's going to remember what happened and that unconditional love that she's given you for the past sixteen years, is going to vanish into thin air and you're not going to be the hero that you once were in her eyes. That kind of pain scars in the worst possible way. So you better be ready to answer some really tough questions."
"She may not ever remember."
"I hope she doesn't." Skye told him sincerely, "Where is Sage now?"
"At the compound. I explained to her what was going on."
"Why would you do that?"
"She's getting older now and she can put the pieces of the puzzle together, she's adding things up, she knows the life I lead, the life you lead. But what happens when she discovers that it's all a lie? What about your mistakes? You're the only woman she's ever known as her Mother and when you start turning into Faith Roscoe, what is she going to have left?"
"Don't turn this into something else." She told him bitterly, "It doesn't just involve Sage and my parenting skills."
"No, it doesn't, if I were you I'd start thinking about how your boys and your baby girl are going to grow up without their Mother. How their going to face their realities when it's time." His eyes searched hers for a sign of rationality.
"My children have a Mother."
He nodded in agreement, "For now."
Skye took offense to his observation, "What is that suppose to mean?"
"Do you honestly think that Sonny is going to let you anywhere near those precious children once he's found out what you've done? Working with the enemy, setting people up, stealing drug shipments and probably half a dozen other things that I'm unaware of."
"What I've done is no different from what Sonny does."
Luis leaned back in his chair, "Yes, it is. You knew what Sonny did before you ever got involved with him. This thing that you and Carly have cooked up was behind your husbands backs. You've broken his trust, his loyalty and his faith in you. Congratulations, Antoinette, you've just blown your marriage all to hell."
"Ending my marriage wasn't why I did this." She told him honesty.
"No, but Sonny's going to see it like that. You're his possession and now that you've done wrong by him and his code of ethics, he's not going to want to have anything to do with you."
She was silent.
"Maybe you should have thought your plan out a little more before you put it into action. History always repeats itself, Antoinette. You've just wrecked everything you ever had and there's no one to blame but yourself. See the pattern?"
"You're wrong, this isn't going to wreck my marriage, because no one knows about this, other than you and Faith. Sonny's never going to find out about this and I don't plan on telling him." She said confidently.
"Faith could say something."
"Who the hell in their right mind is going to believe anything she says?" Skye asked with a laugh, "Certainly not Sonny."
"You've got this all planned out don't you? Down to every last detail."
Again she was silent.
"You have everything under control, right? At least you think you do, but if you're not careful you're going to slip up and then you're going to get caught. When you first came to me and I agreed to help you, you said that it was a one time shot, just this once. What happened to just one time?"
"I don't know, one thing turned into two and two turned into four."
"You like the power. The Adrenaline. The rush it gives you when you do something that you know is wrong." He softly told her, "You thrive for more, wanting each venture to be more intense than the last. There's no remorse, no regrets, nothing, just emptiness because you keep telling yourself over and over again that it's just the business, when really deep down you enjoy it, it brings you pleasure to be in control and you revel in it."
His words hit her hard, but she was determined not to let it show. "Why do think you have me all figured out? You know nothing about me, we've been apart for a decade. Just because we were married once doesn't give you the right to try to figure me out or invade in my life."
"Somebody has too." He told her bluntly, "You're playing with fire and you're going to get burnt. Do you ask yourself how far is too far? When is it going to be enough? What's it going to take for me to walk away?"
"I know what I'm doing." Skye answered, "I've been planning this forever, nothing's going to go wrong."
"You set Sonny and Jason up didn't you? Luis asked her, "You planted the drugs and then you led the police to them. Just so you could put your plan into action. After all we know that you crave power and now there's no point of return."
Skye's eyes burnt into his, she abruptly stood up, causing the metal chair to hit the cement floor with a bang. An officer opened the door to see what all the commotion was about. She turned and walked out of the interrogation room, leaving Luis smiling.
"She'll come back, she always does." She heard him tell the officer.
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"Did you expect me not to find out?" Jason asked, again.
Carly shook her head, "Find out about what Jason? Skye and I haven't done anything wrong."
"The two of you didn't kidnap Nicholas Caprice's wife?"
"Sophia?" Carly questioned, honestly not knowing what he was talking about, "Sophia was kidnapped? When?"
"A few days ago." He informed her.
"I can't imagine why anyone would want to kidnap that annoying bitch, she was probably returned to him within the hour."
"No, she was chained to a chair in one of his warehouses, they didn't find her for twelve hours."
"Look, I know that Skye and I both can't stand Sophia, but we were here in Port Charles when all this occurred." Carly told him, "And after Sophia drugged Skye a few years back at that party, don't you think her form of payback would have been much worse than tying her to a chair?"
"I guess so." Jason agreed, "I'm sorry, it's just that I don't want you and Skye in danger, or the children."
"That's why we came over here, to be safe." Carly answered, "My children mean everything to me, everything to us, I would never willing do something that would hurt them or myself."
"I know you wouldn't, it's just that I had this weird feeling a few days ago and I just couldn't seem to shake it, I thought maybe something was wrong."
"Everything's fine." She assured him, "Monica and Alan are very supportive and told us that we could stay as long as we like and that they would do everything in their power to keep us safe."
"Let's keep it that way." Jason said softly, "Has anything out of the ordinary been happening around here?"
Carly pushed her hair back out of her face, "Umm, well, Lorenzo Alcazar was here last night, he was looking for Sage. Apparently she took off from boarding school and can't seem to be found."
"Is Skye upset?"
"Yeah, she left last night to help search for her, Skye thought she might have went home to Venezula."
"So this is serious?"
"Lorenzo said that Sage was in danger because of what happened to some lady mob boss."
"Lady mob boss?" Jason questioned.
Carly nodded, "Attractive blonde woman, wears all black....um her name is like...Hope or Grace or...."
"Faith." Jason finished for her, "Faith Roscoe."
"That sounds about right." She answered.
"What happened to her?"
"Someone shot her. Twice." She added, "She's at General Hospital right now recovering."
He was silent for several seconds, "I have to go take care of some business."
"Jason, you can't, no one can know you're here."
"I'll be fine."
"Please don't. Stay here with us, I couldn't bare to have you thrown back in jail. I need you." She whispered, "Michael and Zoe need you."
He nodded, "I'll take care of things later tonight. It has to be done before I leave."
"Okay." She agreed, "I just want to spend the day together as a family."
Jason kissed her forehead, "I'd love nothing more." He eyed Michael sleeping on the other side of the bed.
"I have to drop something off by the new boutique for Skye though, she said it was very important, do you think that you could spend the morning with the children and when I get back we'll all do something together?"
"Yeah, I know how important this boutique is."
"Great." Carly said with a smile.
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An hour later, Carly quietly made her way down the hospital corridors and into room 584. The room was dark, the shades had been drawn and Faith lay motionless in the bed. She closed the doors behind her and made her way over to where she lay. She sat down in front of her. Faith's eyes opened immediately.
"What are you doing here?" Faith asked annoyed.
"I've come to make peace."
"Peace?" Faith laughed, "Don't make me laugh, it hurts." She drew in a few sharp breaths, "That little twit you call a sister in law tried to kill me, there's no way in hell that I'm making peace with any of you."
"Look, I know what happened and I also know that I wasn't involved in trying to kill you. I didn't know anything about it until after the fact." Carly replied, honestly.
"So you want me to put what happened behind me?" Faith asked.
Carly shook her head, "I know that Skye wants you out of the way. But she's crossed the line, she's taken things way too far and now she has to pay. She deserves what ever revenge you have planned for her."
"You expect me to tell you what my plans are for Skye?"
"No." Carly told her, "I want you to tell me how I can help you."
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