A/N: Some background before this chapter: Courtney divorced AJ after the drunk driving accident and left town and Johnny O'Brien is 19 years old in this story and not working for Sonny though Johnny does know how to use a gun and taught Lily how to. (Without Sonny, Jason or anyone else knowing.) I've also aged Lily to 17 here, which ages Harper as well. (She and Brayden will appear later.)

3 hours earlier…

"It's been arranged. I will finish Sonny tonight. Your yacht sinking is the perfect diversion. He'll be so focused on you, he won't even see me coming."

"I don't want reassurances, I want results."

Lily and Johnny couldn't believe what they were hearing, the two looking to each other.

"They're plotting a double cross…" Lily whispered as Johnny lightly rubbed her back, the two continuing to listen.

"I can't get to the man where he lives. His windows are bulletproof, he's got guards at all the access points."

"It happens tonight or Felicia dies!"

Johnny guided Lily away as the two went to go find Felicia… and Lily and Felicia hugged tightly.

"Sweetie, you okay?" Felicia asked as they let go.

"You need to get Georgie and Maxie and get out of town, Felicia. Roy's gotten pulled into a trap to kill Sonny." Lily explained, Felicia completely horrified and going to explain this to the girls after Lily and Johnny left.

As Johnny drove, Lily looked around nervously as she had a Beretta 70 in her skinny jeans pocket and Johnny had a Desert Eagle .50 in the glove box.

"What's going through your mind, Babydoll?" Johnny asked.

"Brenda's alive… I don't know how she survived but she's back home. And she's trying to get away from Alcazar, who knows what the hell he's put her through." Lily explained, Johnny lightly rubbing her left hand for a few seconds as I Don't Care Anymore by Phil Collins played on the radio and the two kissed.

"He's determined to get her back, he's gonna try whatever tactics he can to… but he's gonna lose." Johnny responded.

"He's pissed off the wrong people." Lily replied, Johnny continuing to drive.

At the penthouse, Sonny was on the phone with Michael who was in Puerto Rico with Leticia.

"All right. Good night, Michael. We love you." Sonny responded before they hung up and he turned to Carly. "Seems like he's having a real good time." He replied.

"Well, I'm glad that we called him before you left." Carly responded.

"You can still fly down there if you want, be with him." Sonny replied.

"Why? So I can sit there and wait by the phone and see how this turned out? No, thank you. You know, I don't have to agree with what you're doing, but I'm certainly not going to hide from it." Carly explained.

"This is the first time Alcazar's shown any kind of weakness. He didn't sink that yacht of his on purpose. Jason says that, you know, he was going crazy when he thought his girlfriend might've been caught onboard." Sonny replied.

"Well, maybe Alcazar knew that Jason was listening, and the truth is we don't know what he's doing and the whole thing could be a damn setup." Carly responded.

"Maybe, but, you know, I've been playing catch-up from the start, and it's my chance now to turn it around. I need you to hold it together, Carly." Sonny explained as his hands rested on hers.

"You think I'm going to panic? You know, I did not stay here to make things harder, I stayed here to help. I mean, why do you think I am sitting here fussing over these wines, ok? It's because I don't want to go to you and wrap my arms around you and ask you to stay. Ok, look, just the sooner this is over, the better, ok, because then you and I, we can get back to life as normal-" Carly responded before Sonny cut her off by pressing his mouth to hers in a kiss as his hands were on her shoulders and her fingers ran through his hair.

They stopped and held each other tightly.

"Or as close as we can get to that. I love you, Sonny. You and Michael are my whole world." Carly replied.

"I love you both way too much to let this chaos continue. It has to stop tonight." Sonny responded before they kissed again and let go, Sonny loading his gun and leaving.

And Carly found herself praying that this plan would work out the way that Roy, Sonny and Jason planned it to…

Present time…

It was pouring heavily as Lily and Johnny stopped at the church, having followed Roy once they saw him… and Lily looked right at the lightning, In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins playing at a low volume on the radio as Lily and Johnny had their guns ready.

"I don't see Sonny yet… or Brenda if she is here." Lily replied quietly as they had raincoats on and she switched the radio off before Johnny turned the engine of the black Honda Civic off, keys in his pocket before they got out… and Johnny lightly held her left hand in his right one before they closed their eyes.

"Lord… we don't do this often but we're asking you to watch over us tonight. We've made a decision we've not taken lightly and we know there'll be consequences for our actions… and we're ready to face them. We need to be alive to do so. Amen." Both responded before opening their eyes, their hands still entwined before they kissed. "I love you, Lily." He replied.

"I love you too, Johnny." Lily responded.

They were still a distance away as Sonny showed up… and the doors opened and he went wide eyed when he saw Brenda.

Before they could speak though, they heard a gunshot go off and Sonny jumped at Brenda to tackle her to the ground and shield her… and he saw that Roy was shooting at Alcazar's men.

Johnny and Lily ducked into cover with their weapons ready, opening fire on the gunmen as well… but then they heard "Police! Drop the weapons!" and heard more gunfire and heard yelling before someone hit the ground.

Acting quickly, Lily pulled the trigger and it struck the gunman in his right upper leg and he fell and she and Johnny rushed over to the cruiser.

Lily was completely taken aback to see that it was Taggert bleeding… and took off her raincoat, pressing it to his left side.

The pressure applied to the wound forced Taggert to open his eyes… and he saw them.

"Don't you dare die, damn it!" Lily replied, Taggert nodding to the teenagers.

At the hospital, they waited as Johnny wrapped a blanket around Lily and the two kissed as they held each other.

Across the ER, Sonny had brought Brenda to be checked over and saw them.

And he knew explaining things wouldn't be easy but he wanted an explanation from them as well.