Mount Zonah E.R

"Well thankfully, nothing's broken… just bruised." Carly says after she was examined, Carter lightly stroking her hair.

"Yeah, I was worried about you kiddo." Carter said.

"I was worried too… I could've damaged myself badly and not be able to have kids. I want to wait for another decade but I do want children." Carly says as the two hug.

"Hey, you'll make a great mother one day, just like my Norah…" Carter said.

"I still can't believe it… do you know whether it's a boy or girl?" Carly says after they let go.

"Well when Macey was pregnant with Blake, I thought of a girl and even your dad as well." Carter explained. "So, I'm guessing for another girl and Norah's thinking the same way."

"That little baby's gonna be beautiful." Carly says as the others ran in, Carly and Michael hugging and Blake and Carter hugging as well.

"Ladybug…" Carter says after they let go. Somehow, he noticed fainted pinkish marks on the pale skin of her forearms. It looks like fainted cigarette burns to him...

Blake saw rage surface in Carly's eyes, Carly remembering that Macey smoked when angry.

And Carly's mind flashed back…

9/30/11, Ludendorff…

It had been nagging at her since she remembered it which led her to the old house, 14 year old Carly pounding on the door… and Macey opening it.

"You and my dad have been hiding something, Marcelline! Who's Blake's real father, my dad or Uncle Carter?!" Carly growled, Macey nearly dropping her cigarette in her shocked and angered state.

"Carly!" Blake cried, Carly heard Blake's voice coming from the basement. "Is that you, cousin?"

Carly tried to run past Macey, who overpowered the tiny violet eyed brunette and jammed a knife into Carly's right thigh, Carly falling to the ground.

"I'm sorry… but you won't be seeing my little black rose for a very long time." Macey said, evilly. "I want to her to stay in my heart forever, instead of her abandoning me…"

"You're abusing her! Blake's coming home with me, bitch!" Carly says, bolting up and knocking Macey against the wall, her fists slamming into Macey's head until Macey was on the ground.

But Carly's legs gave out and she lost consciousness.

When she woke up in the ER, Carly was still disoriented as Jade stood by the bed.

"Blakesleigh…" Carly managed to say.

"Wrong person." Jade said. "I'm Blake's friend, Jade. I found you outside of her home... you must be Carly, the one who abandoned her along with your family."

"I didn't have a choice… I was six years old, I didn't want to leave. They practically dragged me out of my home…" Carly says, Jade seeing aged splinter scars on Carly's hands and softening a bit.

"Listen... I've stayed by her side, she was left alone in elementary school… she cried at the swings and I happened to be there. You should have seen her. She was crying for you, her dad and someone named Uncle Mikey." Jade explained.

"I was crying for her too! For everyone I was forced to leave behind! I didn't understand any of it, all I understood was that… one uncle was dead, one had betrayed me and then ran like a coward! He's probably laughing at all of us!" Carly says, pulling the IV out and blood pressure cuff off before getting out of the bed, Jade stopping her when her right leg buckled.

"If I was you, I suggest you go back home… Forget about her… I can take care of her now… I know about the abuse before you… and you can't do anything to save her… Macey has her locked in that house forever and she's unable to attend school." Jade said.

"We'll see about that." Carly says after getting dressed, brushing past Jade and into the freezing cold.

As she reached the house though, medics had come and gone… and Carly once again lost consciousness.

But Blake had gotten free and ran to aide her injured cousin.

"No, you're not supposed to come back…" Blake cried, holding Carly in her arms. "You're gonna get killed… and I'm gonna get stabbed when Mommy puts me to sleep with that sleeping syringe."

"What happened?!" Johnny asks after bolting from the stolen Albany Emperor, Blake putting Carly in Johnny's arms.

"Take her back! Please, I don't want Mommy to know that she came back… I told my friend to take her to the hospital… take her back home… and tell her I'll be fine." Blake said, running towards her house and leaving Johnny holding Carly close to him.

Johnny stood up and put Carly in the warm car, closing the door before getting in it and driving off.

"Blakey…" Carly said incoherently, Johnny brushing Carly's hair back after covering her with his jacket.

"I'll explain it all when we get home, Darlin'..." Johnny whispered…

Present time…

"I didn't remember it fully… not at first." Carly says once she and Blake were alone. "The stab wound fractured my femur, I wasn't sure how I was able to stand, let alone walk…"

"You should have listened to Jade… I couldn't risk you being hurt again, every day to me is like a living hell…" Blake said.

"I flew into panic… I didn't want to leave you there, Blake." Carly says as tears formed in her eyes.

"But I survived didn't I?" Blake said, giving Carly a couple of tissues. "I got out alive… thanks to my dad for creating this special box for me."

Carly brushed her tears away, hearing Heaven And Hell by Black Sabbath play from her phone and Blake seeing 'Unknown' flash across the screen.

"Who's unknown?" Blake asked.

"No idea… but that's a Sandy Shores number." Carly says, letting it go to voicemail.

The caller said nothing and the dial tone clicked, the girls looking at each other.

"Might've been a wrong number…" Carly says.

"Yeah, but there's something else about the box that my dad made for me…" Blake said.

Carly sat up, Blake about to tell her but the phone rang again and Carly saw the same number, turning angry.

"Turn off the damn phone." Blake said.

Carly answered it. "What?!" She demanded, heavy breathing on the other line. "Listen you creep, I will track this number, find where you live and beat your ass senseless! Got it?! I don't take too kindly to stalkers!"

The caller hung up, Blake blinking in shock as Carly did too.

"Wow… I guess he got the message." Blake said, pulling out a folded piece of paper from out of her pocket.

"I hope so… is that what was in the box?" Carly says, seeing the paper.

"Yeah, it's a letter from my dad, Carter. And he told me that he created this box for me the day before he left… but there's something off about this letter." Blake said, unfolding it to show Carly. "I'm not a genius, but somehow it ain't my dad's handwriting. I have most of his letters when I was a kid growing up in Ludendorff with you."

Blake handed the letter to Carly for her to examine it.

"It's not Carter's… it's my dad's…" Carly says, pointing to how Blakesleigh Victoria was written as she recognised Michael's handwriting style.

"Wait… your dad… my Uncle Michael… wrote me that letter and made me that box full of stuff for to take with me and use?!" Blake asked.

"Brad made one for me too…" Carly says before both saw Ethan walk in with a letter and hand it to Blake.

Carly Jade… if you're reading this, it means I'm dead.

There's something you should know about Trevor… Camari isn't his only child. Trevor fathered Claire's twin girls, two boys from different mothers and two other girls.

He abandoned one in the desert and the other has a damaged heart from his meth use… there's no telling if she'll live much longer with it.

If you see him again, keep your distance and keep him out of your life and the lives of others around you. It's for the best.

Be safe, Carly Jade. Your uncle, Brad Snider.

"Brad knew more than he told us when we were kids…" Blake says as she and Carly handed the letters back to each other.

"He was gonna make sure that we found out… even if he couldn't tell us face to face." Carly says.

"But what about my letter?" Blake asked. "Why would he make this for me? Was I something special to him? I know I'm his niece and goddaughter…"

"Family bonds run deep… but secrets do too." Ethan says.