Chapter 5
Alexis struggled through the next few days waiting on word from Dixon. She went to her office after meeting with Sonny to check in and was greeted with a stack of mail and a few potential client assessments. Thinking it would probably be best to keep busy, she accepted a couple of cases and began an investigation of her own on another family. She worked from daylight to dawn as she dug in to wait for a call from Dixon. She kept as much distance as she could from Sonny without alerting him to anything being wrong and used him as a liaison to Johnny. She didn't trust herself to keep her tone of voice from betraying her so she talked to Johnny through Sonny.
Dixon finally called on the fourth day and requested a meeting.
They met in their usual place and Alexis waited for Dixon to fill her in.
"Ok, this is what I have so far. He came here from Puerto Rico with Sonny Corinthos. According to eyewitnesses he put himself between an angry racketeer and Corinthos. He took a bullet in his right shoulder that would have killed Corinthos. While he was in Puerto Rico he did jail time on more than one occasion in the defense of kids who were being mistreated. It seems our buddy here hates violence of any kind where kids are concerned. Kind of like you and me. I keep hitting roadblocks when I try to find anything previous to Puerto Rico. It's like someone has very carefully erased his existence up until that point. He doesn't have any friends to speak of and never gets too far away from Corinthos. It seems Corinthos took this guy under his wing and gave him a home. I am still attempting to find something on him previously. I'll let you know if I do."
"Dix, from what all you've heard and found, what is your initial impression of this man?"
"From what little I do know, this is the kind of man, I'd want on my side. He seems to have very high principles and lives by a code of honor. Some of the people I've talked to have been pretty graphic in what they've seen him do when it comes to protecting life, the life of anyone that he believes cannot protect themselves. I'm surprised he isn't serving a life sentence. It looks like Corinthos may have had a hand in preventing that as well. Need anything else?"
"No. Thanks, Dix. Keep me posted."
"You bet."
Alexis got up and began walking toward the park exit. Most of the story Sonny related to her checked out. He hadn't told her about Johnny being shot though. None of this made any sense. Nothing she had heard about Johnny reminded her of 'the Cassadine way' in the least. It seemed as if Johnny in his own way was trying to run as far and as fast as she was away from that island in Greece, if he was indeed connected to it in some way. At this point, she just didn't have enough information to work with and she was reluctantly coming to the conclusion that she was going to have to approach Johnny himself for the answers to her questions. Alexis reached her apartment just as the phone began to ring. She noticed it was Sonny's number showing on the caller-ID she kept by the phone.
"Hello."
"Alexis, it's Johnny. You.. need to come. It's Sonny."
"Johnny? What is it? What's happened?"
"He's been shot."
"Who, Johnny? Who did it?"
"Carly."
"I'm on my way. Tell him... I'm on my way."
Johnny turned from the phone and fell forward across the couch. Johnny took two bullets that had been meant for Sonny. As he jumped toward Sonny to push him away he felt the first hit him in the side and the one that would have finished Sonny off, he took in the left lung. He was able to keep it together long enough to call Max for Sonny and to make the call to Alexis. He had done his job. He could rest now. He let the blackness engulf him and a small smile touched his lips as he saw one last face pass in front of him. Alexis.