Carly got back into the swing of things much quicker than she expected. The only real problem she had was her first week back at work. She had to go to the PCPD to pick up some FBI files, she had tried to get Jeff to do it for her but he was on another assignment. Carly quickly walked up the steps and into the lobby trying to avoid eye contact with anyone she knew. As her luck would have it, Taggert spotted her and began his usual attack.
"Anger boy and the thug haven't been arrested yet today so why is the mob moll paying us a visit?" Taggert said with a sneer
Before Carly could respond Allen McCormick, the new DA, walked out of his office with the files for Carly. "Agent Corinthos, here are the files you requested. I hope they help with your cases. As always if there is anything else I can do for the FBI please let me know."
"Thanks very much for all your help, Mr. McCormick. We really appreciate your cooperation." Carly said
"Well I have heard many great things about you, but no one every mentioned how beautiful you were." Allen said with a grin
The man was old enough to be her father but he made Carly smile, "You are too kind Mr. McCormick."
Taggert who had been listening to the whole conversation in confusion piped up, "What the hell is going on? This is Carly Corinthos, the wife of Sonny Corinthos. Why do you keep calling her Agent Corinthos and the FBI?"
"Marcus, you are obviously behind in reading your memos. I sent one around to the entire building. Everyone is already fimiliar with all the other agents and the FBI didn't want her to have any trouble getting any necessary information for her cases." Allen explained
"Does Corinthos know his wife is in the FBI?" Taggert asked
"No, he doesn't. Nobody does, I joined the FBI when I was 18 as an undercover alias agent. I recently came back to work and I would appreciate it if you didn't say anything to anyone yet." Carly said
"This is just to weird, but yeah I won't say anything." Taggert said
Carly smiled lightly and took the folders and left the PCPD with a smile on her face not noticing Max who was tailing her.
2 months later
"Johnny are you sure that Sorel has been arrested?" Sonny asked
"Yeah and from what I have heard they caught him trying to- uh, well he was ummm." Johnny stopped, not sure if he wanted to say this next part
"Spit it out Johnny." Jason said
"They caught him when he tried to kidnap Carly." Johnny said quickly
"WHAT!" Sonny and Jason shouted
"He only had her in the car for like an hour before they got him. One our men who was undercover in Sorel's organization helped get her out." Johnny explained rapidly
"Where was her tail? How the hell did Sorel get to her? And why the hell am I just hearing about this now?" Sonny said clearly pissed off
"Ummm, well a few reasons I guess." Johnny broke off when Carly interrupted
"Oh I can answer that Johnny." Carly said with an icy smile
"Carly---"Sonny began
"NO, listen. You we not informed because I'm dead to you and the other reason is that we are getting divorced so you don't get to know anything about me anymore. Michael is the only part of my life that concerns you. I'm fine Sonny, Ok. No need to lay the guilt on yourself anymore." Carly finished quietly
Before Sonny or anyone could respond Jeff ran up, "Hey babe, nice work! I heard about the arr----" Jeff broke off when Carly stomped on his foot and he noticed who she was standing with, "arcade. I heard about the high score, good job."
Carly rolled her eyes at Jeff's lame cover-up but played along anyway, "Yeah Michael and I were there for like two hours so I could beat the high score. Anyway, whats up?"
"We are taking you out to a celebration dinner!" Jeff said with a smile
"Pick me up at seven?" Carly asked
"You bet! See you then!" Jeff said and walked away
"Who the hell was that?" Sonny asked
"None of your business."
"It is my bus—" Sonny stopped as his cell phone rang and he and Jason and Johnny walked away, "This isn't over Carly, we will talk later."
"Whatever Sonny." Carly said with a shrug
Carly stood on the docks alone and noticed that Jason has dropped his cell phone. She had just bent over to pick it up when she felt a cool blade slide across her neck, "Don't make a sound or I'll slit your throat."
Carly rolled her eyes, this guys obviously wasn't a pro, "Whatever, what do you want?"
"You got my brother arrested. I want him out of jail or your son will die." Tha man said threateningly
Carly's eyes narrowed dangerously, nobody threatens her baby, "I don't think this is going to work for me."
"Oh, I think it will. Boys!" The man said and three very big men came walking out of the shadows. The middle one punched Carly in the stomach and the one on the left slaps her across the face and the one on the right kicks her in the ribs. Carly groaned but prepares to fight.
Johnny's trained ears perked up at the strange noise just as Jason noticed that his cell phone was missing. Sonny, Jason and Johnny turn around and head back to the docks. They arrive in time to see Carly get kicked in the ribs but before any of them can move Carly attacks.
Carly used every move she could remember from her self-defense and Tai-Kwon-Do classes. Two of the guys bailed carrying a third who was badly injured, they didn't get far before meeting some of Sonny's men who were waiting for them. With their guns drawn, Sonny, Jason and Johnny watched Carly and the fourth guy continue to fight. Finally Carly pulled out her gun and shot the man in the leg, "Tell Sorel and the rest of his goons that if anybody tries to hurt my son, you will die and slow and painful death. As for your brother he will rot in jail for life."
The man limped away. Carly sighed and winced at the pain in her ribs. She had not yet noticed Jason, Sonny or Johnny standing behind her. Johnny cleared his throat. Carly's eyes snapped open and she slowly turned around, "Hey guys, uh, whats up?"
They glared at her, "Ok" She said, "I'll bet your wondering what happened here."
"I was kind of wondering where you learned all those moves." Johnny said with a smirk
"See now I was wondering when the hell you started carrying around a fucking gun!" Sonny shouted
"Or better yet, how do you know how to use it?" Jason said with narrowed eyes
"Well, I uh, took some self defense classes after the bomb in the penthouse and this morning I couldn't find my pepper spray so I grabbed my gun." Carly said uneasily
"Bull shit." Jason said with more emotion than usual
"What the hell is going on Carly, and I want a straight answer." Sonny said angrily
"Nothing, don't bother yourself with my petty problems. Go back to Lassie, I think she's in need of some attention." Carly said sarcastically
"Alexis is not Lassie but if you must know I'm firing her as soon as she gets back from her vacation." Sonny said
"I'll believe it when I see it." Carly said and turned and walked away
Cortland Street"You said that getting rid of her would be no problem so can you tell me why she is still alive and in my way?" The woman yelled angrily
"Sorry boss but she had a gun." The man protested
"So do you!" The man started to respond but the brunette cut him off, "You know what? I am tired of your excuses. She better be dead by Christmas."
"But that's only a week away. We need more time, she's always surrounded by guards whether she knows it or not and she's trained in combat there's no way we can do it." He argued
"You will do it or you will be sorry. Carly Corinthos will be dead by Christmas."
FBI Headquarters"Sorel's trial won't be until after the new year, but until then we have some new threats. Sorel's brother and some cronies attacked Agent Corinthos and threatened her son. Now can anybody tell me the problem with this?" Bill asked the agents
"Sorel doesn't have a brother." Charlie, a seasoned veteran said, "At least not as far as we know."
"Exactly."
"So what do we do?" Kevin, a rookie, asked
"Match the descriptions to what we have in the database?" Carly said questioningly
"That's a start." Bill said, "but we also need to question Sorel and bring the rest of the goons that we don't have in. Check all the hospitals and doctors office's." Bill ordered
"Why hospitals?" Kevin asked
"She shot one of them in the leg." Bill chuckled