Chapter 8

Deep cleansing breaths are what her ob-gyn had recommended when the stress threatened to send her into a hyperventilation attack and put her life and those of the babies in danger. Alexis took another deep breath and said, "Please come in officer so that we can clear up this confusion."

Michael glared menacingly at Carly and said, "What the hell kind of game do you think you are playing?"

Carly looked at police officer with tears in her eyes "You see officer; she even turned my own son against me. I want you to arrest her for trespassing and kick her out of my house."

Michael cleared his throat and said "Please come in officer, we can clear this up shortly. This woman here is lying. She has been presumed dead for the last 5 years, my mother and father remarried with my father being a widow in the eyes of the law."

The officer took turns looking back and forth between the women. One was apparently pregnant and had the other woman's son behind her with his hands on her shoulders while the blonde banshee screamed about injustice. "Ma'am, can you please come down with me to the station?"

Michael wrapped his arms around Alexis's shoulders and held on tightly. "She's not going anywhere. This woman apart from being my mother is an officer of the court. She's a lawyer and regularly sues the PCPD for fun. Please don't make her take your badge along with the Commissioner's."

Carly turned back to her son and said, "How dare you take her side right in front of me? I'm your mother, I gave you life and you are siding with the enemy right in front of me."

Jason couldn't believe it. She had done it again. Escaped from the safe house and was probably on her way over to Sonny & Alexis to cause more trouble. He took a deep breath and picked up his cell phone "Sonny, I have news for you. News you are not going to like."

He was met with a stony silence as Sonny took a breath of fresh air "I'm not in the mood for anymore bad news. You told me Carly was alive, and she has already shown up at my house causing issues. I haven't even had a chance to speak to Michael about her return. What is it now?"

Jason exhaled and said "She escaped from the safe house again I had her in. I think she's on her way over to your house to cause issues for Alexis."

Kristina looked up as Zander came in the kitchen. "I'm worried about Alexis. I hope you don't mind me not going in to L & B this morning. I'm worried about her. I won't be able to concentrate, if I can't assure myself she's okay."

Zander nodded after planting a sweet kiss on her lips "I'll go with you."

Kristina shook her head and said, "I don't want you to have to miss anymore work and give Ned a reason to fire you. He's already jealous that you won my heart and he lost."

His mother was gone. She had in essence escaped into herself. She was now sitting on the couch in silence as he went back and forth with the officer trying to prove who his mother was. She sat stony-faced and silent. All of a sudden his mother stood up and said vacuously "Michael, don't worry. I'll go down to the station with the officer and talk to Mac. I'm sure Carly will love to go to the police station and explain her disappearance to Mac."

Carly grinned and said "Anytime I get to see you in handcuffs, it is something I won't miss."

The officer shook his head deciding for the first time, that he was taking the lawyer's side. "Ma'am that won't be necessary, I'm not worried about you being a flight risk. You can come down to the station in your own time. I will meet you there; your son here has proved your identity sufficiently and has explained the confusion."

Alexis nodded and after thanking the officer escorted him outside.

"Yes, I'm going with you mom. I'm not leaving you alone with that harpy."

Alexis smiled touched deeply by the display Michael had done for her. "You have school sweetheart, you can't miss anymore on account of this."

Carly chose this moment to pipe up "You really shouldn't miss school anymore than you have to Michael. You are about to graduate and this won't look good."

Michael spun around on her letting all of his frustration be known "You don't get to make a choice. You don't have an opinion. You made that abundantly clear today. I don't want you around here anymore. And to think, Mom had actually convinced me to come see you today. I never want to see you again."

Closing his eyes he prayed for strength. He had beat Sonny to the house and he could hear the screams from inside. Opening the door he saw Michael and Carly going back and forth while Alexis sat on the edge of the chair with her head in her hands.

Jason ran over to Alexis and put his hand on her shoulder shaking her gently, "Alexis, you okay?"

She looked up at him with vacant eyes and said, "I have to go to the police station. Carly asked that I be arrested. Michael was able to prove that I wasn't trespassing and now I'm obligated to go to the police station. Please stop Michael from yelling at his mother he should respect her always. I just don't have the strength to fight anymore."

Michael turned to his mother worried at her words as she solemnly walked up the stairs in silence.

Carly was tired of the insults that were being thrown her way from both her son and her ex-best friend. All for the lawyer who had screwed her husband once and gave him a child. She was winning the battle she had been certain was hers. "So what is this bash Carly day?" The front door banged open as Sonny came running in and came face to face with Carly after 5 years of absence.

Chapter 9

"Mom, I don't want to leave you here alone. I know Dad is here, although he sent me upstairs so he could deal with Carly alone. He wanted me to check on you, but now that he's here, you can go with him."

Alexis smiled at her son and said, "I'm fine sweetheart."

Michael looked at her in unease and said "You haven't said that in a long time mom. What's going on?"

Alexis grimaced softly, "I'm tired of fighting Michael. I'm not as young as I used to be and I just don't have the energy to fight Carly for Sonny. I just don't. I know your father told me that he wasn't willing to lose me but what if I'm not willing to fight? I'm almost middle-aged; I have three children and two on the way to think about. Where does my peace come from? Why am I being forced to leave my own house just to satisfy Carly? The doctor tells me no stress and what do I get? Carly gift-wrapped in a bow on my front doorstep?"

Michael pulled his mother in his arms as the tears flowed down her face freely.

"Carly." That was all Sonny had managed when he had seen her in his living room fighting with Michael and Jason. Alexis had just walked up the stairs when Jason turned to him and let him know that Carly had tried to upset his unsuspecting pregnant wife and his eldest son.

"What can I say to you? What do I say to you? You've been missing for more than 5 years and you just drop back in here with all of the hatred you left here with and none of the gratitude. Nothing for Alexis, who helped me raise your children? You've said nothing of the fact that you have been presumed dead for 5 years. You just came in here making demands that you expect to be fulfilled. It's not going to happen that way, not this time."

Carly had been sure that she could get through to Sonny but now she wasn't so sure. A lot had changed in 5 years. "Sonny, what do you expect me to do? I come back to find my children being raised by my worst enemy. My husband is in love with her and my children are turning on me to defend her. Do you notice a pattern here huh? I want what is mine."

Kristina came into the front door at the sound of all the commotion. She wished on second thought, she had brought Zander. He would have kept her sane and held her back from going off on this bitch. "Why is this bitch allowed in my house?"

Kristina smirked and said "Sonny, the trash goes out on Thursday. You should really take her outside; she smells up the living room."

Jason coughed to cover the laugh that threatened to escape. No, he didn't get along with Kristina on principle alone but she certainly knew how to throw insults.

Kristina ignored Carly after her little barb and turned to Sonny "Did she leave for work already?"

Sonny shook his head and smiled "She's getting ready to go to work."

Carly chose the moment to let her truth come out with a smirk, "Actually she's getting ready to go to the police station."

Three sets of astonished faces turned to her and said, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Michael helped his mother put on her jacket and then gently touched her stomach where his brothers or sisters lay and kissed his mothers cheek.

"I will always look out for you and them Mom. Don't worry about Carly downstairs or me missing school. I will make it up today after we get back from the police station."

Alexis shook her head in negation, "I will go to the station by myself, or maybe I'll call Kristina. You don't miss school on account of this foolishness."

Michael pulled her in his arms and said "How did we get so lucky to have you as a mother?"

Alexis choked up and said, "I'm the lucky one. I'm the one that doesn't deserve everything that this family has given me."

Carly looked back at the three angry people who were staring at her with loathing. She knew she had gone too far with the policeman but she wanted attention drawn to the whore lawyer who was sleeping with her husband and stealing her family. She was saved from having to speak as Michael came down the stairs with his arms on Alexis's shoulders and a backpack thrown over his shoulder.

Alexis couldn't look Sonny in the eye. Although she knew it was killing him to realize that she wouldn't look at him she wasn't prepared for his eyes. Eyes had always been a window to each other's soul for them and if he looked into her eyes the vacancy in hers would devastate him.

Michael ignored Carly completely and locked his eyes on his Dad and Aunt with relief. "Thanks to Carly here, Mom has to go down to the police station so that she's not put in jail for trespassing on private property. I was going to accompany her but she refused stating I needed to go to school, but I'm glad you're here Dad. You can go with her."

Alexis cleared her throat and said, "Thanks for talking for me Michael but I'll be fine. Kristina will go with me."

Kristina nodded eager to be out of the presence of the woman who was causing her sister such pain. She walked over and locked her hands with Alexis.

Sonny walked over to Alexis and pulled her into his arms. He wanted her focus totally on him to forget about all other outside influences and focus on him and their love; he lifted her eyes up to meet his and saw the fear in them and was angered at Carly's presence in his home and in his life. He touched her face gently with his hand and she leaned into his touch, inhaling his scent. He felt his heart skip a beat as he pulled his wife in his arms and touched her lips gently to his. At the sigh she released, he pulled her tighter in his arms and locked lips with her again. He forced his tongue into her mouth and felt her resist at first but then open herself up to his invasion and gave him everything that was inside of her. Leaving her breathless he released her and placed their foreheads together and said, "I love you. Don't ever forget that." He sealed his declaration with another gentle kiss on the lips and said, "We will talk when you get back."