Confessions and Confrontations
Skye shoved her once, very hard. Faith tumbled down the stairs backward, all Skye seen were streaks of black clothing and blond hair dismayed as she rolled down the steep Cellar stairs and eventually hit the bottom, landing on her stomach.
"You lying bitch!" she mumbled.
Skye hesitated whether or not to flee the scene or to make sure Faith was all right, after all she did take one hell of a fall. She struggled with her conscience for several long seconds before slowly making her way down to the bottom of the stairs.
She knelt down in front of Faith and gently turned her over onto her back. Faith had a cut above her left eyebrow, she pushed the blond hair back away from Faith's face. "Are you all right?" she asked, almost concerned.
"Why would you care?" she asked, barely above a whisper. "You're the one pushed me."
"Are you all right?" she repeated again. "Is anything broken or cut?" Skye asked her, quickly accessing Faith's body.
"Just my head." Faith answered, trying to pull herself up. Skye attempted to help her, but Faith pushed her away. "I can get up on my own." She pulled herself up into a sitting position before noticing that her left ankle hurt like hell, she let out a sharp cry while reaching to pull her boot off.
"Let me." Skye offered, unzipping Faith's boot and pulling it off. "Do you want me to call an ambulance?"
"No, I'll have one of my men take me to General Hospital."
"That's probably a good idea." Skye agreed. "You'll probably want to have an ultrasound why you're there to determine that your baby is all right." she said, her voice unusually snide.
"I'll be sure to do that." Faith mumbled. "I want to put Sonny's child first."
Skye laughed. "You're very funny Faith, do you know that?" she asked. "You're not pregnant."
"If I'm not it's because you pushed me down those stairs."
Skye stood up. "If you were pregnant Faith, you're baby would not have survived that fall and you'd be bleeding or at least cramping. And I don't see any blood and you're not clutching your abdomen."
"Well, my baby is a combination of both Sonny and myself, it can survive anything." Faith told her. "It has to, how else am I going to get him to marry me after your divorce is finalized?"
"You know what Faith, all of this sounds very convincing. You getting pregnant to trap Sonny into marrying you and using the baby to keep him with you until you get bored of him." she countered. "Everyone that knows Sonny knows that his children mean everything to him."
"Is that why you gave him four?" Faith asked. "So you'd have four reason's to keep Sonny with you."
"I love Sonny, he's my husband and we made our children together, in love." Skye informed her. "If you're pregnant or you were like you claim then your child would have been conceived out of anger and hurt."
"Doesn't matter how it was conceived, just as long as it belongs to Sonny!" Faith snapped. "I own him for life."
"It doesn't matter Faith." Skye said, loudly. "You're not pregnant and you never were. I knew you were lying. Why else do you think that I would have shoved you down these stairs?" she asked. "I would never do anything to intentionally hurt Sonny, even if that means having to endure or raise a child that he had with his mistress, that's what love is Faith, tolerance for one another's flaws."
"You think you know so much, don't you?" Faith snickered. "Which proves my point."
"Which would be?"
"That you would do anything in order to get me out of Sonny's life and keep your family together." she told Skye. "After all it wasn't suppose to be like this was it? You were never suppose to lose Sonny, you were suppose to cut him loose of his unsavory connections, but you never once considered the consequences to any of your actions. You wanted what you wanted and nothing else mattered and now that you realized that you made a mistake you know that there's nothing you can do to make it right again and it kills you."
"I've made mistakes." Skye admitted. "I didn't take other things into consideration before I acted out and I have no choice but to accept the consequences. As will you."
"Well, Ms. Quartermaine, if you're so sure that you're confession of pure honesty is going to bring you redemption, maybe you better try using it on Sonny. Maybe your confession will be your saving grace."
"Maybe you're the one who needs to be redeemed, Faith. You're name is a contradiction to everything that is good and holy."
"What and the name Skye is not one big laugh?" she asked. "Doesn't it mean heavenly?"
Skye didn't answer her, instead she headed up the stairs. "I'll send one of your men down, so they can get you to the emergency room right away."
Carly looked over at Helena, she wanted to laugh, but knew better. Helena would have her head on a platter in a heart beat.
"The Quartermaine's have my Heir." Helena repeated, cooly.
"Your Heir?" Carly asked, thinking that this time, Helena had completely lost her mind. "The Quartermaine's have your Heir?"
"Yes." Helena told her, without a doubt. "If you don't believe me why don't you ask Monica and Alan."
"Look, Helena, I'm really sorry about Nikolas, we all are, but can can't go out of your way to make someone else your Heir just because you lost him."
"I'm not going out of my way." she insisted. "I'm simply telling you the truth. I want you to keep in mind what I said and when I'm ready to make my move you'll come in handy."
"Forget it." Carly told her. "I'm not helping you do anything."
"In time you will." Helena taunted. "When everything slowly starts to fall apart and the family you've come to know and love crumbles, you'll have no where else to turn."
"Am I free to go now?" Carly asked her, a little unnerved.
She smiled. "Of course, I wouldn't want to keep you. I'm sure you have much more important things to do."
Carly left Helena and Port Charles. She need Jason and her children.
Skye stepped into the elevator at the penthouse and rode up to Sonny's floor. When she stepped out she was greeted by Johnny.
"Is Sonny here?"
"Yes, Mrs. Corinthos." he answered. He lightly tapped on the door before opening it. "Mrs. Corinthos is here to see you."
Sonny nodded and Johnny opened the door all the way, allowing Skye to enter and then closing it behind her. Sonny was sitting at his desk, going over paperwork, which he immediately stopped, he got up from the desk and walked toward the sofa. "Have a seat." he offered.
Skye shook her head. "I really can't stay."
"Oh."
"Are the boys here?"
"No. I came over for the day, I have this little bit of work to finish up and then I'm heading home tonight." Sonny explained. "I have a special day planned with them tomorrow."
She looked at the floor, "I'm afraid I may have put a damper on your plans."
"What are you talking about?"
"I just came from the Cellar." she said.
"What where you doing at the Cellar?" he asked, curiously.
"Faith and I were having a discussion about some things." Skye told him. "Mainly about you. Things got a little heated......actually a lot heated. I tried to leave but she followed me up the stairs, we argued some more." Skye looked down at the ground. "Then it happened."
Sonny waited for her to finish her sentence, but when she didn't he panicked. "What?" he asked, alarmed "What happened?" He placed his hands on either side of her shoulders.
Skye lifted her watering eyes to meet his. He really couldn't read her expressions, he just waited for her to finish. "Faith told me that she was pregnant." she finally got out. "And that the baby was your's."
He was very quiet for several seconds, then he pulled her against him, wrapping his arms around her. "I'm so sorry Skye, I never meant for any of this to happen." he murmured in her ear.
Skye allowed herself to be comforted in his strong arms, she even allowed herself to forget for a moment how badly she had messed things up between the two of them. Because she knew that when she told him what she had done that it would all be over with.
"Faith and I were at the top of the stairs." she whispered to Sonny. "When she told me I turned to leave but then I don't know what happened.......I turned back around and she had this look on her face........like she was pleased with herself.....I don't know why....or how...but....but...I ....I shoved her backwards and she went flying down the stairs."
Sonny dropped his arms from around her and slowly backed up, not believing what she had just confessed. "Why?" was all he could ask.
"I told you, I don't know."
"How could you do that?" he yelled. "How could you push her down the stairs, knowing that she was pregnant?"
"I don't think she is Sonny." Skye said, defending herself.
"Probably not anymore." he snapped bitterly. "How could you do this to me? How could you kill a child that belonged to me?"
"Because, it didn't belong to me." Skye said coldly. "Faith wasn't bleeding or having any cramps when I found her laying at the bottom of the stairs. I accused her of lying about being pregnant and she said that she was and that the baby could survive anything because it was a combination of both you and her."
Sonny seen the look of hurt and betrayal that laid behind the anger on her face. "I have to get to Faith." he told her.
"Sonny, Faith's not pregnant, she never was, she's lying."
"How do you know she was lying Skye?" Sonny yelled. "You could have dragged her to General Hospital and demand that Monica give her a pregnancy test, you would have known in no time. You don't think before you act, that's your entire problem."
"I'm sorry Sonny, I don't know what else to say to you." Skye yelled back. "I acted on instinct, do you honestly think that I would push her if I actually thought she was pregnant? Why else would she have told me other then to gloat about it?"
"Sorry doesn't cut it." he told her loudly. "Faith was carrying my child and you may have killed it."
"Are you saying that Faith really is pregnant and that you knew?" Skye asked, shocked. He didn't answer her though. "Sonny did Faith tell you that she was pregnant and that it was your child?"
Sonny was still silent.
"And you just fucking believed her, just like that, no questions asked? I mean why wouldn't you take the word of a longtime rivals widow? Because everyone knows that everything that comes out of Faith Roscoe's mouth is gospel." she told him sarcastically. "So you just automatically believed her because she said that it was so."
"I've been sleeping with Faith for over a month now."
"I'm sorry, is that suppose to comfort me Sonny?" she asked loudly. "Is that suppose to make me feel better, because you've been involved with her for over a month? You know Faith had told me that she had been carrying on a affair with you for years, she had me convinced until you told me otherwise. Don't you see what she's doing Sonny?" she asked. "Faith is playing us for everything we have and you're letting her."
"Faith is pregnant and the child is mine." He told her, simply.
"She kidnaped my daughter." Skye screamed. "I can't believe this, after everything you're still involved with her."
"She said Zander took Sage."
"That's bull shit and you know it." Skye countered. "How can you take up for her? You know, Faith was seeing Ric Lansing for a very long time, did you ever think that her baby, if she even is pregnant, could belong to him?"
"No."
"Are you threatening to risk everything we built as a family because of your possible baby with Faith?" she asked. "Because if you are then that means victory for Faith, she's got you just where she wants you."
"My child with Faith deserves a chance, just as much as a chance as Sage did."
"That was different Sonny, Luis already had Sage before we were married, she wasn't the product of some affair." Skye argued.
"The baby is mine and I will give it everything that I gave our children."
"When did she tell you that she was pregnant Sonny?" Skye questioned. "Was it recently?"
"A few days ago."
Skye nodded. "And your reaction to the happy news?"
"It's a baby, Skye, not a puppy, I can't just tell her that I don't want it." Sonny argued. "I told her that I would be there for her and the baby."
"Why?" Skye asked, "Why do you have to honor her?"
"Because she's carrying my child or she was" he said, rubbing his eyes. "I don't know what's going on now, that's why I have to get to her."
"You want this child don't you? A child that you made with another woman." Skye said softly. "Tell me Sonny when it comes down to it and you have to choose between Faith's baby and our children what are you going to do?"
"I will never choose between my children." Sonny told her sternly. "I can't believe your acting this way."
"How am I suppose to feel Sonny? Am I suppose to be thrilled that you're giving our children another sibling? Or do you just want me to take Isabella and the boys and walk away and leave you to your happy life with Faith?"
"If you're hurt Skye, then why don't you do what you do best." Sonny told her. "Get revenge. But wait, you already have, you pushed Faith down the stairs at the Cellar, that's your revenge, unless the child survives, then what lengths are you going to go to in order to get what you want? Because it's always about you Skye."
"You're wrong, Sonny. Everything is always about you. You go to great lengths to make everything revolve around you and then you think you have the right to be pissed off when something goes wrong."
"You wanna get even with me Skye?" Sonny asked. "Then be my guest, why don't you go running to your cop....."
"He's a Detective." Skye said, interrupting him.
"Whatever, why don't you go running over to him at PCPD, let him get you pregnant and we'll call it even."
"I don't want to have any other man's baby. I only want yours." Skye told him. "And I thought you didn't want any other woman's child, but apparently I was wrong. Tell me this Sonny, is Faith's baby your revenge?"
"No, I never meant for Faith to get pregnant." he told her, sincerely. "I really didn't."
"Then you should have been more careful." Skye told him. "It's not like we of all people don't know the consequences of sex."
"I know, you don't have to lecture me in safe sex and how to conceive a child." He snapped.
"Wait!" Skye yelled. "Why are we fighting? We don't even know if Faith is pregnant or if she was. And if she is, does the baby belong to you or Ric. There are too many unanswered questions right now for us to make a decision that is going to effect our children for the rest of there lives."
"I'm going to General Hospital." he told her. "I want you to stay here until I get back."
"No way." Skye objected. "If you're going then so am I."
"Fine." Sonny reluctantly agreed. "But, while I'm talking with Faith, you're staying with your Mother or Father until I find out what's going on."
Sonny and Skye rode up the elevator at General Hospital, when the doors opened both Monica and Alan were waiting. The moment that Skye stepped out of the elevator both her parents grabbed each of her hands and led her directly down to Alan's office. While Sonny went to find Faith.
Monica shut the door behind them. "Skye your Father and I want to talk to you." she told her as she took a seat beside Alan on the sofa.
Skye sat down behind Alan's desk. "About what?" she asked, casually.
"Sonny and Faith." Alan answered softly. "I want to know what happened."
Skye picked up a picture of her children up off of her Father's desk, she looked at it for several long seconds and then set it back down. "Sonny's been sleeping with Faith for a while now. I talked to her tonight at the Cellar. She told me she was pregnant, I didn't believe her and I knocked her down the stairs. End of Story." she told her parents, entirely too casually.
"That's not the end of the story, Skye." Monica said firmly. "Don't you have anything to say?"
"No." Skye answered loudly. "Faith's lying."
"And if she's not?" Alan asked.
"Then I hope the baby's not Sonny's." she muttered. "I value my family most and I will not lose everything because of Faith Roscoe."
The nurse at the desk directed Sonny to Faith's room. When he entered she was laying on the bed, still in her black clothing, with the exception of on of her ankle that was wrapped up. "Are you alright?" he asked her, sitting down in the chair beside her bed.
"I'll live." she mumbled. "How did you know where I was?"
"Skye told me."
"Skye told you?" Faith questioned. "Skye told you everything?"
Sonny nodded. "She told me that she went to the Cellar and the two of you got in an argument after you told her you were pregnant and then she said she pushed you down the stairs."
"At least she was honest."
"Skye doesn't think that you're pregnant. She thinks that you're making it all up just so that I'm marry you." Sonny explained. "Skye would never push you down the stairs unless she thought you were lying."
"I'm not lying Sonny. I am pregnant and I told you this and you seemed to believe me. Maybe if you were the one that told Skye she would have believed you and none of this would have happened."
"Did you lose the baby when you fell?"
"No, everything seems to be fine. At least that's what Doctor Meadows said." Faith told him. "I don't want Skye anywhere near me ever again."
Skye watched from the window, she couldn't believe how her life had turned upside down. Faith was really pregnant, she wasn't lying and she actually pushed a pregnant woman down the stairs. Tears filled her eyes. Alan walked over to her and wrapped his arm around her waist, guiding her over to the chairs in the lobby. "I'm so sorry Princess."
She continued to cry. "This is all my fault Daddy."
"No it's not." he said softly, trying to console her.
"You don't understand." she said through sobs. "It really is all my fault, I'm the one who drove Faith into Sonny's arms. I did it." Skye hugged her Father tightly before getting up and walking over to the elevator. She waiting as the doors opened and stepped inside, she gave one last glance toward Faith's room before the door closed.
The tree was up, presents were stacked underneath and the halls were decked with holly.
There was only one thing missing.
The rest of the family.
Jason had insisted that they come back to Italy and while she agreed, she would really miss seeing Bobbie and Luke and even the Quartermaine's. And then there was Skye and Sonny who to their own accords parted ways. Carly never thought that anything could come between the two of them and that gave her hope and faith that her union with Jason would last forever, but now, she wasn't so sure.
Time would tell.
She looked in one last time at Zoe, to make sure that she was fast asleep and then she made her way down the hall and into her room. When she entered the bedroom Jason was already in bed. She shut the door behind her and slipped off her robe, which she threw on the bench in front of the sleigh style bed. After turning the lamp off she climbed into bed.
"You're not tired are you?" she heard a voice ask.
"I thought you were asleep." Carly said as she leaned over, searching for his lips in the dark and then kissing him soundly. "What did you have in mind?"
Jason covered Carly's lips with his, kissing her passionately, throughly and breathlessly, their tongues danced around each others as his hands held her face gently in his hands. Her hands roamed over his bare chest, heightening his arousal, her lips parted from his and she kissed his neck. She threw the sheets back and continued to give wet kisses down his chest and down to his abdomen.
"Carly." he breathed. "Come here."
She placed a finally kiss over his belly button and moved back up his body. The only light in the room came from the moon, it wasn't much but he could see her dark eyes dancing. His eyes burnt into hers as he slowly slipped her nightie over her head. His hands skimmed over her delicate skin and then drew her down to him, drinking feverishly from her lips.
A few minutes later they were both completely undressed and laying under the slippery satin sheets. He held himself above her, looking down into her dark eyes. They held such determination, such devotion, such love. He brushed a lock of hair away from her face. Carly looked up at him, trying to figure out what he was doing.
"Is something wrong?" she asked, nervously.
"Can't I just admire my wife?" he asked softly.
"Well." she said in a breath. "When you put it that way."
Jason kissed his way down her neck, breathing in her intoxicating scent, his lips were drawn to her like a magnet. He caressed her breasts throughly and then moved his mouth to cover the left nipple, suckling lightly, before moving to the right. Her hands threaded through his hair as he continued his sweet assault.
His moved back up her body and captured her lips in a torturous, dueling kiss. Shifting his weight, he pulled her legs around his waist, connecting them. Slowly he began to make love to his wife. Every movement was a reassuring sign of their love. They moved together slowly, but intimately, soft and gentle yet, relentless.
Their lovemaking was everything it had always been. An intimate, unbreakable bond between the two of them. With the touch of his hand he ignited a fire within her that she wasn't able to contain.
Sensual, passionate kisses lingered as he continued to fill her with his body time and time again, she was right there, moving right along with him. He wanted to be as close to her, as one with her as he could possible be.
"I love you." he told her.
"I love you." she whispered back.
They sailed over the abyss and into nirvana.
Moments later, Jason moved off of her and onto his back, pulling her against him, he kissed her lips lightly. There was no need for words.
Carly smiled up at him, even though she knew that he couldn't see her. She knew that when the truth came out that they would make it, they always did. Tonight she would sleep in the love and security of her husbands arms, knowing that tomorrow was a turning point in business.
The next morning Sonny walked through Lila's rose garden and found Skye sitting on one of the benches, she was twirling the stem of a carnation between her fingers. He sat down beside her, noticing right away that she had been crying.
"What's wrong?" he asked softly.
"Oh, Sonny, everything's gone wrong." she sobbed. "I've made everything worse."
He moved closer to her and drew her against him, he gently stroked her hair. "Just calm down and tell me what happened."
"Helena." she said, bitterly. "Helena knows."
"What exactly does she know what?" Sonny questioned. "What does Helena Cassadine have on you?"
She pulled out of his grasp and looked directly in his eyes. "Helena knows that Max is really a Cassadine."
"What?" He shouted, outraged.
TBC..............................
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