The Unexpected

{A.N: Sage is the daughter of Luis Alcazar, her mother died during childbirth and Skye became her mother when she and Luis married. So we'll say that Skye adopted her. I just wanted to clear that up. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask!}

Carly gasped, "Oh....my.....God." She lunged forward but Zander's arms around her waist held her back, "Let me go." She screamed, "Let me go."

"I will if you calm down." He told her, "Just calm down."

She took in a few deep breaths, "Okay, I can be calm."

As promised he let her go and as promised she remained calm. Carly made her way over to bed and sat down. "Sage, are you alright, you're not hurt or anything?"

Sage shook her head, "I'm fine I'm just chained to a wall and in a sound proof room that I can't get out of." She yelled, "All because Faith wants to make a deal with Uncle Lorenzo."

"What kind of deal?" Carly asked.

"I don't know." She answered honestly. "But she's using me as leverage against him."

Carly looked her in the eye, "I'm going to get you out of here, I promise." She whispered.

Sage nodded in response. Carly noticed the silver meal tray sitting on the table in front of them, she picked it up and placed it on her lap, "Why don't you eat a little for me." She suggested, "You may feel better."

She looked at Carly not fully understanding her motive, but she took the plate anyway. Carly dropped the fork off the plate, as she leaned down to get it she heard Zander say, "I'll get it."

As he bent down to pick it up of the ground Carly took the silver plate and slammed it down on the back of his head. He fell to the ground in a slump. She got off the bed and down on the ground next to him, making sure that he was out cold. Reaching around on his left side she carefully took the gun off his side.

"He's going to have one hell of a headache when he awakes up." Sage commented.

"No doubt" Carly told Sage, "Take the gun and If he so much as moves, shoot him."

Carly removed the keys from his pocket and the censor to the door. "Do you have any idea where we are?" She asked as she removed the cuff from around Sage's ankle.

"No, but I don't think we're very far out of Port Charles."

Sage was finally free of the shackle. "What are we going to do about Zander?"

"Chain him to the wall?" Carly suggested, "Then Skye and Lorenzo can decide his fate. You can do the honors."

Sage chained him to the wall, Carly opened the door and they were free. "Wow, I thought this was a building, but it's a house." She hit the button again shutting the door. "How long have you been in there?"

"Four days."

Carly opened the front door and they walked outside, "Lorenzo thought that you had ran away from boarding school."

"I did, I ran to the Compound in Venezuela and I was grabbed by two of Faith's men."

"Well, it's over now." Carly assured her.

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Jason held the gun pointed at Faith, "Any last comments?"

Faith let out a small laugh, "I just hope you have better aim than one of your loved ones."

"What?" He asked, more mad than confused.

"Oh my, you are as dumb as you look, I said...."

"I know what you said, what did you mean?"

"That night that I got shot on the docks, I was meeting with someone, she got a little upset and shot me." Faith explained, "Do you know who that someone was Jason?"

"Who?" He asked, going along with her, if only she had given him this information before.

"Your precious.....loving.....perfect.....sister....Skye."

He was silent.

"What you don't believe me?" Faith asked, "It was her, I should know because I was there. Afterwords she threw the gun into the harbor. Go check it out if you don't believe me, I was shot on pier sixty, the gun isn't too far out in the water because I heard the splash when it hit."

"You're lying." He told her.

"Can you afford to take that chance Jason?" Faith asked, "I'm telling the truth. Skye was there that night. Skye was the one who I was meeting with. Skye was the one who shot me. Skye....."

"Shut up." He yelled.

"What's wrong Jason, don't you like hearing the truth?" Faith mocked.

"You've never told the truth a day in your life. I have no reason to believe you."

"I told you where the gun was, go and check and you'll see that I'm right. What's the matter Jason, afraid of what you may find or afraid that your sister isn't as perfect as everyone thinks?"

Jason put his gun away, "I'm going to check your story out and I swear Faith, if you're lying you're going to regret it."

"I'm not worried." She told him casually, "I know what you'll find and you know it to, you just don't want to admit it."

"I'll be back." He said walking towards the door.

"Is that a threat or a promise?" She called after him.

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"You need me, you can't do this without me." He said, flashing his dimples.

"I certainly hope not." Skye told him, smiling.

He got up from his chair and walked over to where she stood. Her amber eyes sparkled and her smile lit up the room. She looked down and seen that his hands were cuffed together and all her emotions fell flat, her head fell downwards.

"Look at me Skye." Sonny brought his hands up and lifted her chin, "Look at me."

She lifted her eyes to meet his, "I'm so sorry."

"You didn't do anything wrong." Sonny assured her.

She wrapped her arms around him, resting her head on his chest. He wanted to wrap his arms around her, but the cuffs around his hands stopped him. Holding Skye in his arms always made her feel safe and now when she was scared the most he couldn't comfort her.

"Sonny, you don't understand......" Skye tried to explain, "You don't understand what's happening." She was willing to tell him everything.

"I know what's going on. I'm innocent and I'm being set up. Benny and my attorney are getting to the bottom of this they're going to prove that I didn't do this." He told her, "I'm innocent." He whispered, "I swear on my life."

"I know you are." Skye confirmed, "Without a doubt."

"I love the way you believe in me."

Skye smiled, "Sonny, let me help you.....I'll do anything I can."

"The best way you can help me is by staying in Port Charles with your parents, with our children, where all of you can be safe." Sonny told her, "The stakes are high right now and I can't take any chances."

She nodded in agreement, "Can I at least be at the trial?"

"We'll see how things go."

Skye's eyes met his and she knew that all the lying was going to catch up with her, she was going to fall hard. She just needed a way to make the fall softer.

Sonny leaned in closer and placed a kiss on her lips, he licked her bottom lip and drew it between his. With her lips parted he easily covered her mouth with his, kissing her breathlessly with all the passion he had. She held on to him as tightly as she could never wanting the contact to end.

He pulled away from her, "I love you."

She felt tears beginning to swell in her eyes, "I love you." She whispered back, "This is a little too much for me, I have to go I can't deal with all this"

Sonny nodded, "I understand, it's difficult."

"I have to go get my daughter." She told him, "She's at the Compound in Venezuela and she needs me."

"Skye, listen to me." He started, "I want you to take Sage back to Port Charles with you."

"I will." She promised.

He kissed her on the lips again, "Go."

She turned to leave but stopped, she hated lying to him and she couldn't do it much longer, "You're going to hate me for what I've done." Skye whispered, her back towards Sonny.

"Skye, what are you talking about?" He asked, not quite understanding.

"I'm filing for divorce, it'll be easier that way." Skye barely got out, keeping her back to him, "My attorney will be in contact with you."

She left before he could respond and knowing that if she stayed a moment longer she would spill everything to Sonny. Her getting shot by one of Faith's men, her shooting Faith. The drugs she and Carly stole from Caprice. Luis being alive. She had a million confessions and he was going to be blindsided.

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It didn't take Carly and Sage very long to get back into town, but now there was another problem, Faith. Carly kept turning the thoughts over and over again in her head, not knowing what her next move should be. Something was more important than that right now, Sage and her safety.

They ditched Zander's car at Jake's and began walking down the pier.

"I'm going to take you back to the Quartermaine Mansion." Carly told her, "Until we can get all this figured out."

"Is my Mom there?"

"No, Skye's in Italy visiting Sonny and making some business deals, she'll be back tomorrow."

"And Uncle Lorenzo?" Sage questioned.

"He's off searching for you. I'm not sure where he is though." Carly explained, "Probably in Europe because he thought you ran away from boarding school."

"I did, Carly."

"Yeah, but Faith had you kidnapped." Carly said, sympathetically, "That's something that you didn't count on."

"But I know that I have to be careful, I know the risks. My parents have went over them thousands of times."

"Don't blame yourself. Skye and I are going to take care of everything." Carly assured her.

"How did you know where to find me?" Sage asked.

"I made a deal with Faith. One that Skye doesn't know about and if I don't get a hold of her soon, before Faith does, she's going to think that I crossed her."

"Crossed her?"

"It's a long story." Carly said, not wanting to go into details.

Fifteen minutes later they arrived that the Quartermaine Mansion. Sage headed upstairs to bed.

Carly made her way into the den, she shut the doors behind her, it didn't matter if it was two a.m the Quartermaine's would go without sleep to get any information they possibly could. She picked the phone up off the desk, she hesitated before dialing the number, but once she did she felt that she had done the right thing.

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Faith pulled her self up in bed, "Dammit that hurts," She said to herself, covering her abdomen with her hand. She turned and reached for the phone, she placed it beside her on the bed, picking the phone up off the receiver she dialed the number and placed the phone to her ear, waiting for an answer.

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Skye sat silently in the back of the limo. She was on her way to the airport and to Venezuela. She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket and scanned the memory. She pressed send without hesitation and brought the phone up from her hear, telling herself that she was doing the right thing.

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The door to Faith's room flung open, but she didn't notice, she was asleep. Lorenzo made his way over to her bed and sat down beside her. He pushed the hair out of her face, her eyes fluttered open, but she couldn't keep them that way. Lorenzo leaned in closer to her. His lips crashed down on her's, hard, kissing her unwilling mouth.

"You lying bitch." He whispered in her ear.

"I love it when you talk sweet to me." Faith told him, "Turns me on. What was that little kiss for?"

"It was your last kiss goodbye."

"Is that so?" Faith taunted, "Why are you going to kill me?"

"That offer certainly is tempting." Lorenzo told her.

"Well, before you do, could you at least give me a ride on the Lorenzo express?" Faith asked, with a devious smile, "I want to go out a happy woman."

Lorenzo was silent.

"You could never kill me, there would be no one to warm your bed up on those cold nights." She told him. "And besides you need me more than you know."

Jason walked inside the hospital room, "Being in the same room certainly makes this easier." He shut the door behind him, "Question is, which one do I get to kill first?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Faith asked, "Did you get the gun?"

"What gun?" Lorenzo asked.

"The gun that Faith said was in the bottom of the harbor." Jason explained, "The one she was shot with."

Faith knew she was in trouble, "Well look again because it's there, she threw it in the water." She explained frantically.

"There's nothing there." Jason yelled, "You were lying."

"Well, being that I have a choice." Faith began, "I pick.....Lorenzo."

"I have no idea what the hell is going on here." Lorenzo said, defending himself.

Before Jason could answer the door flung open again, an officer entered, "Jason Morgan, you're under arrest for violating your bail."

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Skye stopped by the docks to make sure that the Jacks vessel had taken off okay. She then headed for the plane, she was off to Venezuela and then quickly back to Port Charles. As she was getting comfortable her cell phone rang.

She searched through her purse until she found it, "Hello?"

"Mom?"

"Sage, I'm on my way to get you." Skye told her, "I just talked to your Father."

"You're on your way to Venezuela?" Sage asked, "Right now?"

"Yes. I'm coming to get you and bring you back to Port Charles with me."

"But I'm already in Port Charles."

"What?" Skye asked, "When did you get there?"

"I ran away from boarding school and to the Compound and then two of Faith Roscoe's men grabbed me and brought here. They put me in some sort of sound proof room and kept me there for a few days." She explained, "I really don't want to talk about it over the phone."

"Faith?" Skye repeated, reclining back in her chair. "I'll be there as soon as I can." She told Sage, ending their conversation.

All bets were off, everything she had worked for was just taken away and now nothing could stop her from going forward with her actions. Her revenge was going to be brutal and anyone who stepped in her way was going to be eliminated. Faith. Nicholas. Luis. Jason. Sonny. It didn't matter, not now, nothing did.

Skye's plane had landed an hour ago, she was pacing back and fourth through the living room, waiting for him. He was late as usual, hell maybe he wasn't even going to show up. When she looked up her eyes met his, "I never thought you'd get here."

"I told you I was coming."

Skye walked towards him, "I told Sonny that I wanted a divorce."

He pushed a lock of hair behind her ear, "I'm so sorry." He cupped her face in his hands, "You deserve so much better." He whispered, "You deserve to be happy." His lips gently touched her, showing her a gesture of his kindness, his understanding.

But there was something he hadn't counted on. Skye looked up into his eyes and then shifted her focus to his lips, he knew what she was going to do and he wanted to stop her, but it was too late, her lips were on his and he didn't have the willpower to pull away.

TBC.....................

Did you really think that I could let Carly double cross Skye with Faith? Not in a million years! I picture Sage as played by the original in this story, but I guess you could picture her however you like. Please, please, please review and if you have any ideas I'd like to hear those too!!!!