Two months later

Carly walks into the house obviously very upset. Then Brenda follows. "Carly, are you okay?"

"Sure I'm great! I mean I go into family court and then voila my husband is getting temporary custody of my kids! What is not to be okay about!" she breaks down and cries, "It isn't fair, they cannot take my kids away from me."

"Carly, it is going to be okay, alright, now look, Sonny and Sam have not won, he has temporary custody, it isn't permanent, this just gives us time to figure out how to beat them."

"We can't Brenda Sonny had the lawyers and the money, what do I have?"

'What you have is dirt on Sonny, his little love affair with the whore Sam is going to work in your advantage alright, so he uses your dirty little secrets you'll use his."

"I don't want to hurt Sonny!"

'He had no problem hurting you, hey what happened to the carly who didn't take anyone's crap, huh, the one that would have no problem ruining peoples lives, and scheming to get what she wants?"

"What happened was, was that she lost her kids because of it, and I will not give sonny any more ammunition than he already has."

"SO what are you just going to give up?"

"Hell no! But I won't ruin Sonny's life, because as much as that ass has hurt me, I still love him, and the boys love him."

"This is why I have sworn off love."

'I thought the reason was because you were falling for Jas-"

Brenda interrupted, "Hello, please do not say that, it is just so... eh...I don't want to talk about it, and you promised you would never speak a word of it to anyone and that includes me!"

"Okay, okay but you are my friend now so I have absolutely no problem with you and Jason being together."

"Look, even if we weren't friends I still wouldn't care if you had a problem with it or not, it is me who has a problem with it, mainly because he is well Jason."

"I know that it is weird for you, and I have to admit it is weird for me too, but you and Jason are perfect for each other, I mean he lights up every time you enter a room."

'Hah, Jason doesn't light up."

"Yes he does, maybe you would notice if you stopped avoiding him.'

"I'm not avoiding him, I just...like my space...and I've been busy."

"Yeah right. Whatever, you guys belong together...and no I'm not going to tell Jason about your undying love for him."

Brenda grabs a couch pillow and hits carly with it, Carly grabs one of her own and hits Brenda with it, then they are both hitting each other and trying to block the others hits. The door opens and Jason comes in he smiles and says, "Wow, a pillow fight! Don't forget to kiss when you are done." Both carly and Brenda start hitting him with the pillows and they start to laugh. The door opens and there standing by the door way is Sonny and Sam.

I would like to call this family meeting to talk about something that is very important. At least three months ago I found out that I had...well that I'm dying, and that there is absolutely nothing the doctors can do about it, I've accepted it, so I hope that you will too, I'm dying, and I've written up a new will-"

Tracy interrupted, "Father, you can't be serious, this is wrong, there has to be something that the doctors can do, I'll call a specialist. There has got to be something." Tracy starts to cry along with Emily.

"Now, now I know this is hard for you, but this is the way it has to be, and I would appreciate that after I have passed that you all try to be civil towards one another. And Tracy I know that I'll be asking a lot but I would like it if you would be nice to Jason."

"What?! How can you ask me to be nice to him, he should be the one that should be nice to me. You know what father it doesn't matter because he never comes around."

"Well he doesn't come around because you aren't nice to him, and you don't treat him like family, and he is family."

"No, what he is, is a contract killer, he kills people and he doesn't feel a thing, he is heartless and not to mention mean spirited. He has no soul or conscience, he is a disgrace to the quartermaine and Morgan name."

Emily shouted, "Jason is not a disgrace, you are Tracy, Jason is the most loving and caring person I know, and you would know too if you gave him a chance instead of putting him down all the time."

"Please Emily sit down, this is not the time, what I was going to say before I was interrupted was that I've made a will, this will be permanent and well, I'm having a difficulty figuring out who the company goes to and who will take my place as head of ELQ."

"Well, of course, I will, or Dillon"

"Tracy, I know how much you want this, but I have got to think of the company, and I just don't think that you are the right person for the job."

'What?! That is an outrage, of course I am, I mean I have, the brains, the creativity, the-"

'Tracy it isn't all about that, what it is, is that you are lacking a quality that you so desperately need in this game, it is ruthlessness, devotion, and loyalty, you got two of those, but I have yet to see any loyalty from you, from any of you." he glances at the room looking at the sad, tear stained faces, and the confused ones as well. He turned around while shaking his head, "what am I going to do?" and then walked out. He went upstairs to the room with the tvs to watch how his family members would react, and hear what they say.

Carly looks at sam and sonny angrily, "what the hell are you doing here?"

Sam said, "we came to get some of Michael's things." she said with a fake smile

Brenda said, 'well, carly and I will go through his and Morgans thing's and we will send them over okay."

Sam said, "very well, fine, Babe let's go." she begins to walk away but notices that sonny isn't following, "sonny are you coming?"

Sonny stares at carly for another moment and says, "sam, I need to talk to Jason about the thing we discussed earlier, so I'll meet you at home, if I'm late don't wait up and give the boy's a kiss for me."

"Sure thing." she notices the way sonny and carly are looking at each other, she goes over to sonny and pulls him into a kiss, "just something to leave you with." she walks out, Brenda and sonny were both shaking there heads with a look of disgust on their faces, Jason was standing there very pissed off.

Sonny says, "Jason, could I have a word...in private?"

Brenda says, "NO! You can't if you want to talk to jason do it somewhere that isn't your wife's place."

Carly put in, "no you know what do what you want just don't think about coming over here anymore unexpected bringing you whore, unless the boys need me got it?"

Sonny said, "I got it, sam just wanted to make sure you were okay."

"She doesn't give a rat's ass"

"Yes she does, carly why do you always have to make things so difficult."

"Difficult! Difficult! Is that what you wanna call me, after, my husband had an affair, after you decided you wanted to be with her, after she got pregnant and I had to wait to find out if it was your's or not, when you had every intention to stay with her, after you and that tramp stole my children is that what you call difficult, because I call it hell!"

"I'm sorry that I put you through all that, but I believe the kids are better off with me, where they can have a real family, a father, siblings, and a mother."

Jason and Brenda were in complete shock, they were angry, but not as angry as Carly. "She will never be their mother, I'm their mother, and I will fight you for custody, and I'll win, I'll do whatever I have to, to do it."

"If that is what you want to do, by all means do it, but you'll be wasting your time carly, Jason can we please talk."

Jason looked to carly who nodded in agreement, "sure, lets go into the kitchen."

Brenda and Carly began talking and carly stood by the window and Brenda sat on the couch. Sonny and Jason entered the kitchen when Jason starts yelling at sonny for saying that to carly. Carly is neat tears and Brenda gets up to console her. Jason stops yelling and sonny says, "I need a favor, it is pretty big, and it will change your life.' Brenda walks towards carly when all of a sudden tire screeches are heard and gunshots are heard. Jason says, "you know I'll do anything.

Brenda sees bullets flying through the windows, and carly and her are trying to get out of the way, "Carly!" Jason and sonny hear gunshots and hear Brenda yelling "Carly!" they race out there to find Brenda on the floor crying. She says, "Call 911 Carly has been been shot!"