Damage Control
Skye wrapped her arms around Luis' neck, pulling him closer to her. His hands grabbed her arms in attempt to push her away, but she continued to hold on tighter. She was forceful in her kisses, giving him no choice but to respond. Her tiny gasps weren't moans of pleasure, but rather whimpers of suppressed sobs. Luis could fell the moisture on his face from her fallen tears.
Luis successfully pushed her away the second time. He held his ex-wife at arms length and looked into her swollen, red eyes, seeing the tears that he had felt when she was kissing him. Instead of trying to find words to comfort her, he simply pulled her against him, holding her tightly while she sobbed into his shoulder. Several minutes had passed and he was sure that she had gathered her thoughts.
"Antoinette, we both know that this isn't the answer to your problems, baby. This would only make things worse." Luis told her, softly, "You need to think before you act."
She pulled her head up and looked at him, innocently, "I thought you said that you wanted me?"
"I'll always want you." He gently touched her face, "You know that, but things have changed and you're no longer my wife, you're Sonny's."
"I told you that Sonny and I are over." She insisted, continuing to cry, "We're through, nothing lasts forever."
"You and Sonny are far from over." Luis told her, "Besides, do you really think that I could take advantage of a crying woman?" He asked her, smiling.
His words brought a brief smile to her face, "It doesn't change what I've done."
"That it may not." Luis agreed, "But right now the only thing you need to do is figure out where to go from here with your actions. You can add fuel to the fire or you can let the flame burn out."
"Why stop now?" Skye asked, "I can't reverse in of my actions, so why should I stop? Everything has been set into motion, so many sacrifices have been made. I don't want to look back and realize that everything I put into this, everything I did that wrecked my family and my marriage was done for nothing. If I stop now, I've lost twice."
"Then you have to decide your next move." Luis told her, "If you don't hurry up and get everything over with and out in the open, things are going to explode in your face."
"Luis." Skye hesitated, "There's something that you don't know."
"What's that?" He asked, concerned, "Did something happen?"
She looked at the ground, "I shot Faith Roscoe."
"Well, I guess that's one way to take out the competition." Luis laughed. "Kill your alliances."
Skye shook her head although she continued to hold it down, "She didn't die."
"What?" Luis asked, lifting her chin, forcing eye contact.
"I shot her twice." She told him, "But she lived, she's at General Hospital in Port Charles, recovering."
"You shot her but didn't kill her?" Luis asked, "You're as good as dead, I would cut my losses, give her whatever it is that she wants and get the hell out of Oz, Dorothy."
Skye gasped, "You just told me to make a decision and I told you I wanted to move forward." She told him, frantically, "You said that you would help me out."
"That's before I found out that you tried to kill Faith."
"Why does that make a difference?" Skye asked, annoyed by his sudden change in behavior, "Why?"
"Because now Faith has power over you and she's going to play you every step of the way." Luis explained, "Unless you get rid of her."
"There's something else you should know." Skye began, "Because of me......"
He interrupted her, "Come on Skye, just get it out. Because of you...what?" He asked, "Does this have anything to do with Faith?"
"More less." Skye told him, "Um, Faith had Sage kidnapped and took her back to Port Charles."
"What?" Luis questioned in disbelief, "How could that possibly happen when she was here?"
"There's more." She insisted, interrupting him, "She put Sage in some sort of sound proof room and chained her to the wall."
Luis' eyes grew wide with shock, "That bitch. Where does she get off involving innocent children?" Luis asked a little too loudly, "Where's Sage now?"
"She's in Port Charles with my parents." Skye told him, "Carly got her out and Lorenzo and I are going to take care of Zander, the guy who led Carly to Sage."
"I should be there."
"No, Luis, you can't." She said, sternly, "You know you can't it will put everything out in the open."
"Faith can't get away with this." Luis reminded her, "And I think that Sage would be better off here with me."
Skye just looked at him, "I'm sorry you feel that way, but Sage is my daughter too and she's safe in Port Charles. Besides, everyone thinks that you're dead, Luis, how's it going to look if I just send her back here?" Skye questioned him, "What are you trying to say Luis, that I'm a bad parent? That I don't love Sage?"
"I'm just saying that you would never ever put Isabella in danger."
"I would never put any of my children in danger." Skye said, defensively, "I love them."
"Antoinette.......Skye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to come out like that. It's just that I've only seen her a few times in the last few months with everything that's going on and......she's my only child."
"It's okay, you're upset, I understand." She told him, softly, "I get it."
"Faith can't get away with this."
"I don't intent to let her." Skye told him, firmly, "But I need your help."
Luis knew that nothing was going to stop her, "Just name it."
"I need manpower. I need people who will take orders from me."
He didn't even have to think about it, "Consider it done."
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"Jason Morgan, you're under arrest for violating your bail." The officer cuffed him and escorted him out of the room.
"Did you call the police on him?" Lorenzo asked her.
Faith just looked at him.
"Not a smart move." He told her, seriously, "You just dodged a huge bullet tonight, literally. He's going on come back and finished what he started tonight when you least expect it."
"I never said I called them."
"You never said you didn't."
"Then I guess you'll never know." Faith taunted, "Besides it doesn't matter now." She said, relaxing back in her bed, "Why are you here? Are you concerned for my well being or are you just here to fool around with me?"
"I'm here because I want to know something about Skye."
Faith rolled her eyes, "You've come to the wrong person."
"I've come to the right person." Lorenzo said sternly, "Tell me about your connections to her."
"Well...." Faith began, "I'll tell you but you'll never believe me."
"Try me." He challenged.
"Skye came to me about a year ago while she was here in Port Charles, she was about six months pregnant and told me she needed my help, she wanted to clear Sonny from the business so that their family could be safe and normal. At first I hesitated and then I decided that I could use it to my advantage." Faith explained.
She waited a few seconds before she continued, "I was going to help Skye and then turn it all over to Sonny and watch his perfect life crumble, but then I got a better idea. I was suppose to have someone shoot at Sonny and Skye, but I had my gunman aim to kill her, he fired four rounds and one went into her chest."
"Does she know that you were trying to kill her?" He asked her, looking up.
"No." Faith answered honestly, "It looked like an accident."
"Why would you kill her?"
"Because that would be the best way to bring Sonny down." Faith whispered, "By killing his wife."
"You're some piece of work."
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Skye walked through the doors of the Quartermaine Mansion, she quietly made her way into the den, where she found Carly sitting at Edward's desk.
"It's about time you got here." Carly responded, "You're late."
Skye took off her coat and laid it across the back of the sofa, "I was a little delayed."
Carly got up and walked over towards her, "We have to talk, a lot of things have happened in the past few days."
They both took a seat on the couch, "I went to see Faith in the hospital." Carly started, "I told her that I was on her side, that I planned to double cross you and that I would work with her anyway I could to bring you down."
Skye nodded, "Did she buy it?"
"It took a little while to convince her." Carly admitted, "I told her that I had no part in what happened in her shooting and that I thought you should be reprimanded for your actions."
"So that convinced her?" She asked Carly, "She truly believes that you're on her side?"
"There was a catch, I told her that I would do anything to prove myself to her, so I met Zander on the docks and he blindfolded me and took me to the Panic Room where I found Sage."
"I know." Skye told her, "Sage told me and thank you Carly, I thought she was at home in Venezuela and I was wrong, but you found her and made sure she was safe."
"The Mother in me reacted first." Carly said softly, "I was going to follow through and then come back for her, but I couldn't.....I couldn't leave her there like that. I knocked Zander out and Sage and I got the hell out of there. Zander's chained to the wall and I told Sage that you and Lorenzo would take care of him."
"And we will, no one hurts my family and gets away with it." Skye assured her, "Especially not Faith."
"I'll do whatever I can to help you." Carly told her, "When I was talking to Faith, Jason knocked on the door. I had to hide in the bathroom and when he left I came back out. She could have given me up, but she didn't, so I know that she believes me."
"Can you keep her convinced that you're still on her side?"
"Why?" Carly asked, "We've got Sage and Zander's in the panic room, what's she going to think when he doesn't show up?"
"It doesn't matter." Skye responded flatly, "Just tell her that Zander brought you back, don't let her know that Sage is with us and she'll never know the difference."
"Let's hope not."
"Double cross is a very dirty game." Skye told her, "Are you sure that you're ready?"
Carly smiled, deviously, "If this is what it takes to get even, let the games begin."
"This is it Caroline, we can walk away with everything or we can walk away with nothing." Skye said, holding back her emotions, "I've come to far to quit now."
"What are you trying to say?"
"I think you should just walk away and let me handle this."
"No." Carly told her, sternly, "We're in this together, from the beginning, I'm not about to walk away now after everything that's happened and leave you to take the fall. We're partners in crime, Antoinette. If we can't count on each other, who else is there?"
Skye nodded, "This is going to be World War three."
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A few hours later Skye walked down the docks, patiently waiting for Lorenzo, he startled her when she stepped out of the shadows.
"Skye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"That's quite alright." She said, smiling "You're on time as always."
"It's one of my best qualities." He commented, "Did you find Sage?"
"No, but Carly did. Faith had her kidnapped." Skye went on to explain to him exactly what happened with Sage's kidnapping.
"How did Carly know where to find her?"
"She made a deal with Faith."
"Was that a smart move?" Lorenzo asked, "It's Faith Roscoe that you're messing around with, not some sweet
"It doesn't matter now."
"Skye, Jason came to see Faith in the hospital when I was there and she told him that the gun she was shot with was in the bottom of the harbor."
She just looked at him, not knowing what else to do.
"Faith told him that you were the one who shot her."
"Did Jason find the gun?"
"No, but I did, I barely got to it before he did. I was listening outside the door when Jason was holding her at gun point, he didn't believe her, but eventually he left to check. I added up the pieces and figured out what was going on."
She was silent.
"Skye, what's going on with you?" Lorenzo asked, "Are things so bad and it's come down to this? Faith told me about your partnership and how things had spiraled out of control."
He waited for her to respond, "Aren't you going to say anything?"
Skye looked up at him, "How can I when there's nothing left to say?"
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Jason sat in the interrogation room, waiting for his attorney. He was handcuffed to the table and all thanks to Faith Roscoe. He knew better than to leave her there why he went in search in some sort of bogus theory, he knew better to think, even if it was for just a second, that Skye would have tried to kill her.
The door was thrown open and Sonny came walking in. He was dressed in a suit and tie and most surprisingly, no handcuffs were around his wrists.
Jason just looked at him in disbelief, "You're out?"
"And I'm going to get you out." Sonny assured him, "I'm just waiting for the paperwork to go through."
"How?" Jason asked, "The trial is another two weeks away."
"Well, it was quite easy...." He began, "Considering that I set everything up."
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Skye wrapped her arms around Luis' neck, pulling him closer to her. His hands grabbed her arms in attempt to push her away, but she continued to hold on tighter. She was forceful in her kisses, giving him no choice but to respond. Her tiny gasps weren't moans of pleasure, but rather whimpers of suppressed sobs. Luis could fell the moisture on his face from her fallen tears.
Luis successfully pushed her away the second time. He held his ex-wife at arms length and looked into her swollen, red eyes, seeing the tears that he had felt when she was kissing him. Instead of trying to find words to comfort her, he simply pulled her against him, holding her tightly while she sobbed into his shoulder. Several minutes had passed and he was sure that she had gathered her thoughts.
"Antoinette, we both know that this isn't the answer to your problems, baby. This would only make things worse." Luis told her, softly, "You need to think before you act."
She pulled her head up and looked at him, innocently, "I thought you said that you wanted me?"
"I'll always want you." He gently touched her face, "You know that, but things have changed and you're no longer my wife, you're Sonny's."
"I told you that Sonny and I are over." She insisted, continuing to cry, "We're through, nothing lasts forever."
"You and Sonny are far from over." Luis told her, "Besides, do you really think that I could take advantage of a crying woman?" He asked her, smiling.
His words brought a brief smile to her face, "It doesn't change what I've done."
"That it may not." Luis agreed, "But right now the only thing you need to do is figure out where to go from here with your actions. You can add fuel to the fire or you can let the flame burn out."
"Why stop now?" Skye asked, "I can't reverse in of my actions, so why should I stop? Everything has been set into motion, so many sacrifices have been made. I don't want to look back and realize that everything I put into this, everything I did that wrecked my family and my marriage was done for nothing. If I stop now, I've lost twice."
"Then you have to decide your next move." Luis told her, "If you don't hurry up and get everything over with and out in the open, things are going to explode in your face."
"Luis." Skye hesitated, "There's something that you don't know."
"What's that?" He asked, concerned, "Did something happen?"
She looked at the ground, "I shot Faith Roscoe."
"Well, I guess that's one way to take out the competition." Luis laughed. "Kill your alliances."
Skye shook her head although she continued to hold it down, "She didn't die."
"What?" Luis asked, lifting her chin, forcing eye contact.
"I shot her twice." She told him, "But she lived, she's at General Hospital in Port Charles, recovering."
"You shot her but didn't kill her?" Luis asked, "You're as good as dead, I would cut my losses, give her whatever it is that she wants and get the hell out of Oz, Dorothy."
Skye gasped, "You just told me to make a decision and I told you I wanted to move forward." She told him, frantically, "You said that you would help me out."
"That's before I found out that you tried to kill Faith."
"Why does that make a difference?" Skye asked, annoyed by his sudden change in behavior, "Why?"
"Because now Faith has power over you and she's going to play you every step of the way." Luis explained, "Unless you get rid of her."
"There's something else you should know." Skye began, "Because of me......"
He interrupted her, "Come on Skye, just get it out. Because of you...what?" He asked, "Does this have anything to do with Faith?"
"More less." Skye told him, "Um, Faith had Sage kidnapped and took her back to Port Charles."
"What?" Luis questioned in disbelief, "How could that possibly happen when she was here?"
"There's more." She insisted, interrupting him, "She put Sage in some sort of sound proof room and chained her to the wall."
Luis' eyes grew wide with shock, "That bitch. Where does she get off involving innocent children?" Luis asked a little too loudly, "Where's Sage now?"
"She's in Port Charles with my parents." Skye told him, "Carly got her out and Lorenzo and I are going to take care of Zander, the guy who led Carly to Sage."
"I should be there."
"No, Luis, you can't." She said, sternly, "You know you can't it will put everything out in the open."
"Faith can't get away with this." Luis reminded her, "And I think that Sage would be better off here with me."
Skye just looked at him, "I'm sorry you feel that way, but Sage is my daughter too and she's safe in Port Charles. Besides, everyone thinks that you're dead, Luis, how's it going to look if I just send her back here?" Skye questioned him, "What are you trying to say Luis, that I'm a bad parent? That I don't love Sage?"
"I'm just saying that you would never ever put Isabella in danger."
"I would never put any of my children in danger." Skye said, defensively, "I love them."
"Antoinette.......Skye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to come out like that. It's just that I've only seen her a few times in the last few months with everything that's going on and......she's my only child."
"It's okay, you're upset, I understand." She told him, softly, "I get it."
"Faith can't get away with this."
"I don't intent to let her." Skye told him, firmly, "But I need your help."
Luis knew that nothing was going to stop her, "Just name it."
"I need manpower. I need people who will take orders from me."
He didn't even have to think about it, "Consider it done."
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"Jason Morgan, you're under arrest for violating your bail." The officer cuffed him and escorted him out of the room.
"Did you call the police on him?" Lorenzo asked her.
Faith just looked at him.
"Not a smart move." He told her, seriously, "You just dodged a huge bullet tonight, literally. He's going on come back and finished what he started tonight when you least expect it."
"I never said I called them."
"You never said you didn't."
"Then I guess you'll never know." Faith taunted, "Besides it doesn't matter now." She said, relaxing back in her bed, "Why are you here? Are you concerned for my well being or are you just here to fool around with me?"
"I'm here because I want to know something about Skye."
Faith rolled her eyes, "You've come to the wrong person."
"I've come to the right person." Lorenzo said sternly, "Tell me about your connections to her."
"Well...." Faith began, "I'll tell you but you'll never believe me."
"Try me." He challenged.
"Skye came to me about a year ago while she was here in Port Charles, she was about six months pregnant and told me she needed my help, she wanted to clear Sonny from the business so that their family could be safe and normal. At first I hesitated and then I decided that I could use it to my advantage." Faith explained.
She waited a few seconds before she continued, "I was going to help Skye and then turn it all over to Sonny and watch his perfect life crumble, but then I got a better idea. I was suppose to have someone shoot at Sonny and Skye, but I had my gunman aim to kill her, he fired four rounds and one went into her chest."
"Does she know that you were trying to kill her?" He asked her, looking up.
"No." Faith answered honestly, "It looked like an accident."
"Why would you kill her?"
"Because that would be the best way to bring Sonny down." Faith whispered, "By killing his wife."
"You're some piece of work."
~~~~~~~~~~
Skye walked through the doors of the Quartermaine Mansion, she quietly made her way into the den, where she found Carly sitting at Edward's desk.
"It's about time you got here." Carly responded, "You're late."
Skye took off her coat and laid it across the back of the sofa, "I was a little delayed."
Carly got up and walked over towards her, "We have to talk, a lot of things have happened in the past few days."
They both took a seat on the couch, "I went to see Faith in the hospital." Carly started, "I told her that I was on her side, that I planned to double cross you and that I would work with her anyway I could to bring you down."
Skye nodded, "Did she buy it?"
"It took a little while to convince her." Carly admitted, "I told her that I had no part in what happened in her shooting and that I thought you should be reprimanded for your actions."
"So that convinced her?" She asked Carly, "She truly believes that you're on her side?"
"There was a catch, I told her that I would do anything to prove myself to her, so I met Zander on the docks and he blindfolded me and took me to the Panic Room where I found Sage."
"I know." Skye told her, "Sage told me and thank you Carly, I thought she was at home in Venezuela and I was wrong, but you found her and made sure she was safe."
"The Mother in me reacted first." Carly said softly, "I was going to follow through and then come back for her, but I couldn't.....I couldn't leave her there like that. I knocked Zander out and Sage and I got the hell out of there. Zander's chained to the wall and I told Sage that you and Lorenzo would take care of him."
"And we will, no one hurts my family and gets away with it." Skye assured her, "Especially not Faith."
"I'll do whatever I can to help you." Carly told her, "When I was talking to Faith, Jason knocked on the door. I had to hide in the bathroom and when he left I came back out. She could have given me up, but she didn't, so I know that she believes me."
"Can you keep her convinced that you're still on her side?"
"Why?" Carly asked, "We've got Sage and Zander's in the panic room, what's she going to think when he doesn't show up?"
"It doesn't matter." Skye responded flatly, "Just tell her that Zander brought you back, don't let her know that Sage is with us and she'll never know the difference."
"Let's hope not."
"Double cross is a very dirty game." Skye told her, "Are you sure that you're ready?"
Carly smiled, deviously, "If this is what it takes to get even, let the games begin."
"This is it Caroline, we can walk away with everything or we can walk away with nothing." Skye said, holding back her emotions, "I've come to far to quit now."
"What are you trying to say?"
"I think you should just walk away and let me handle this."
"No." Carly told her, sternly, "We're in this together, from the beginning, I'm not about to walk away now after everything that's happened and leave you to take the fall. We're partners in crime, Antoinette. If we can't count on each other, who else is there?"
Skye nodded, "This is going to be World War three."
~~~~~~~~~~~
A few hours later Skye walked down the docks, patiently waiting for Lorenzo, he startled her when she stepped out of the shadows.
"Skye, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you."
"That's quite alright." She said, smiling "You're on time as always."
"It's one of my best qualities." He commented, "Did you find Sage?"
"No, but Carly did. Faith had her kidnapped." Skye went on to explain to him exactly what happened with Sage's kidnapping.
"How did Carly know where to find her?"
"She made a deal with Faith."
"Was that a smart move?" Lorenzo asked, "It's Faith Roscoe that you're messing around with, not some sweet
"It doesn't matter now."
"Skye, Jason came to see Faith in the hospital when I was there and she told him that the gun she was shot with was in the bottom of the harbor."
She just looked at him, not knowing what else to do.
"Faith told him that you were the one who shot her."
"Did Jason find the gun?"
"No, but I did, I barely got to it before he did. I was listening outside the door when Jason was holding her at gun point, he didn't believe her, but eventually he left to check. I added up the pieces and figured out what was going on."
She was silent.
"Skye, what's going on with you?" Lorenzo asked, "Are things so bad and it's come down to this? Faith told me about your partnership and how things had spiraled out of control."
He waited for her to respond, "Aren't you going to say anything?"
Skye looked up at him, "How can I when there's nothing left to say?"
~~~~~~~~~~
Jason sat in the interrogation room, waiting for his attorney. He was handcuffed to the table and all thanks to Faith Roscoe. He knew better than to leave her there why he went in search in some sort of bogus theory, he knew better to think, even if it was for just a second, that Skye would have tried to kill her.
The door was thrown open and Sonny came walking in. He was dressed in a suit and tie and most surprisingly, no handcuffs were around his wrists.
Jason just looked at him in disbelief, "You're out?"
"And I'm going to get you out." Sonny assured him, "I'm just waiting for the paperwork to go through."
"How?" Jason asked, "The trial is another two weeks away."
"Well, it was quite easy...." He began, "Considering that I set everything up."
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