Chapter 3

"No calls tonight." Carly said in a deadly soft voice holding the gun steady as she pointed it as the phone.

"Carly!" Sonny said, "Where have you been?"

"What do you care?" Carly spat, "You have her dead best friend. What do you need her for?"

"Carly--…" Jason started

"SHUT UP!" Carly screamed, "All of you shut up!"

"Carly just put the gun down." Sonny said calmly

"Sorry, She can't do that. This is has to end today." Carly said still in the same eerily calm voice

"What's going to end today Carly?" Jason asked

"The lies." Carly answered

"Nobody lied Caroline." Reese said

"Shut the fuck up." Carly screamed at her, "You lied you stupid bitch. Sonny lied, Jason lied, Sam lied, you're all liars and it stops today."

Carly began to pace the room waving the gun wildly as the other four stood still in their same positions, "Why can you forgive Charlotte for lying to us all and coming here to steal my life? How can you forgive her for spending more time trying to get you into bed then finding our son? How can you forgive her for that and not forgive Carly?" She glared at Sonny but gave him no chance to respond before she turned her glare to Jason, "And you! How could you lie to her? You were the one person that she would never have guessed could hurt her like that. How could you?"

She turned back to Reese, "You were best friend. You were closer to me than a sister. I watched your head go through the glass. I saw the paramedics try to resuscitate you. I went to your funeral. I cried because I knew it was my fault. But you, how could you do this to me? Believe me you will be very sorry you ever did that to me."

Sonny watched as Carly's eyes glazed over and she took aim, "No!" He shouted but it was to late she already fired, not once but three times.

When he opened his eyes Reese was still standing unharmed, as were Jason, Sam and himself. Carly had shot the pictures on his desk. The ones that they had taken at Christmas per Michael's request. To an outsider they looked like a perfectly happy family.

Carly stood shaking with tears running down her cheeks. She kept trying to fire the gun but it had run out of bullets. "It ends today. The lies are over." She kept repeating this like a mantra. Sonny walked over, "Carly baby, give me the gun OK. We are going to get you what you need."

Carly kept muttering under her breath but she allowed Sonny to take the gun out of her hand. He tossed it to Jason who wiped it down and threw it in Sonny's desk drawer.

Sonny framed Carly's face with his hands, "Carly? Please talk to me. Say something."

Carly twisted her face out of his hands, "Carly is dead. My name is Caroline." She spat.

Just then Ric came bursting in followed by 4 police officers, "Sonny I heard the shots! Is anyone hurt?"

"Ric get the cops out of here. No one is hurt." Sonny said

"Sonny! How can you say that? Carly clearly needs help." Reese said

"Carly shot at you?" Ric asked incredulously

"No she was shooting at the pictures." Sonny explained

"I'm sorry Sonny we still have to take her in." Mac said

As soon as he moved towards Carly to handcuff her she started screaming and thrashing. Jesse and Jack moved forward to hold her steady. They carried her out to the police car so they could give her a sedative and take her to the PCPD.

"No! Mac! Don't take her. She needs help and I can give it to her." Sonny said.

"I'm sorry Sonny. We have to take her in. Come down to the station and we can figure something out." Mac said

Mac walked out leaving Ric standing with Sonny and Jason and the girls. "Sonny, I am so sorry. I didn't know it was Carly. I thought you got attacked."

"Its fine Ric. Just listen; you cannot let them commit Carly to any kind of an institution. She would kill herself if she had to stay there." Sonny said

"I'll do what I can but I don't know what I'll be able to do with Durant around." Ric said

Ric left quickly to go to the police station. "We have to get down there and figure something out." Sonny said to Jason

"Do you want me to call Justice?" Jason asked

"Lets wait and see if Ric can handle it and if not then we'll call him." Sonny answered, "Look Reese why don't you go home and I'll call you tomorrow. I need time to figure out what's going on with Carly."

Jason pulled Sam into a hug and whispered to her that he would meet her at home and she and Reese left together. Jason and Sonny left quickly after that. At the police station they ran into Ric who was sitting at desk filling out some paperwork. "Where's Carly?" Sonny demanded

"In the interrogation room." Ric started to continue but before he could finish Sonny and Jason ran past him. Carly was sitting in the chair facing the door. She sat still as glass, her eyes wide but unseeing with tears running down her cheeks.

"What's wrong with her?" Jason asked Jesse who was sitting on the corner of the table. Sonny ignored the other two men and went other and knelt next to Carly. He whispered something to her that neither Jason nor Jesse could hear.

"She's heavily sedated." Jesse explained, "We gave her a mild one when we got in the squad car but when we got here she was trying to cut her wrists on the corner of the desk so we had to up the dosage."

"Carly? Jason and I are going to find out how to get you out of here. We'll be right back." Sonny said to Carly even though she made no admission that she even heard him.

They walked out of the interrogation room and back over to where Ric was sitting. Ric looked up with a regretful expression on his face, "I'm sorry Sonny. We can't release her. She has to be committed. If not to ferncliffe then to Shadybrook. Mac was considering releasing her into your custody but then she tried to slash her writs and we can't risk her trying to shoot someone else."

"Ric I can't take her there. Last time Carly was in Shadybrook Faith was having her drugged and Alcazar was brainwashing her. I can't take her there." Sonny said

"I don't know what to do then." Ric said, "What happened anyway? Why is she acting like this?"

"I don't know." Sonny said, "At first she was just acting a little strange but then she completely trashed her apartment, she had cuts all over her body and she left Bobbie this message about Ruby telling her that Bobbie rented rooms at Kelly's and she wanted to rent one."

"What about tonight?" Ric asked

"She just showed up at the house and shot the phone. It was really weird because she won't respond to the name Carly and she was talking in the third person." Sonny said

"Except when Reese referred to her as Caroline. Then when she talked about their high school and going to Charlotte's funeral it was 'I' and 'me' again." Jason added

"We just need a plan." Sonny said, "I can take care of her. I just need a chance."

"If you promise to keep her at your house and don't let her get out I'll tell Mac that you and Jason decided to personally transport her to Shadybrook. But your going to have to make sure that if anyone calls for Carly while she's at "Shadybrook" that they tell them she's not allowed any phone calls or visitors." Ric said quietly

"All right just get her out of here." Sonny said

Ric went to talk to Mac and explain to him that Sonny and Jason were taking Carly to Shadybrook.

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