A/N: Partly inspired by chapter 12 of American Dollar, written by Shadow Knight1121.
Carly stood up, looking around at the mayhem currently taking up half of the Hawick area. It wasn't just her, Johnny and Noah who had been crashed into, several other vehicles were damaged in a trail leading to Downtown Vinewood and tire tracks were all over the place and drivers that weren't severely injured were flipping each other off, shouting abusive language and slamming on the horns… some of the accident victims were dead, having been thrown out of their vehicles.
"You've really gone and gotten into trouble now, kiddo."
The second Carly heard those words, she spun around from the multi vehicle wreck and was face to face with Brad.
"Am I… dead? Are they dead?" Carly asks, Brad resting his hands on her shoulders.
"Seatbelt and airbag saved you this time and they're okay… you've… kind of been yanked out of your body again because we need to talk. Ashley's gonna be pissed and so is Trevor... but Ashley has every right to know the truth, which is what Trevor never intended to tell her." Brad says before hearing Johnny and Noah stirring around, trying to wake Carly up. "Damn… these always get cut short… but Trevor's not the only problem, there are others after-" He says before a white light surrounded both of them, Carly looking and briefly seeing Johnny holding her in arms after he and Noah managed to get her out of the car...
Carly let out a loud gasp for air as her eyes snapped open and she looked around, flinching and covering her ears as the Kumura exploded.
"Others…" Carly says, Johnny confused but thinking Carly was disoriented and lightly stroked her hair to comfort her.
"You've been out of it for a while and had me scared to death, darlin. Just relax, help's on the way." Johnny says, hanging onto Carly as Noah dialed 911 and reported the car crash.
Carly looked herself over, finding several cuts and scrapes on her arms from the glass flying everywhere. The same was with Johnny and Noah but Noah also had bruises forming on his left arm and shoulder as Noah carefully approached them.
"Anyone get a glimpse at the other driver or do we even need to guess who it was?" Noah asks, trying to lighten things with a little sarcasm at the end.
"Trevor takes things too far… thing is, how did he even find out that we were onto his deception? Or if it was even him who crashed into us?" Carly says, clearly trying to hide the pain that shot through her right eye, nose, right shoulder and neck as Noah pulled his jacket off and tied it around Carly's shoulder as a tourniquet.
When they were all brought into Mount Zonah, Clint decided to try to check on Noah first, seeing as how he was the one driving and the other vehicle hit the driver's side.
"I'm okay, just-" Noah says, cut off when he and Clint heard a pain filled scream.
"Damn it, Carly." Clint mutters, Noah chuckling.
"She does this a lot?" Noah asks as Josh walked in.
"Your tiny friend scares me, McCall!" Josh says.
"Well, don't poke her with needles." Clint says, seeing the bruise forming on Josh's face. Clint went to go check on Carly, Josh shaking his head.
"That poor kid is really out of it, she keeps mentioning something about others trying to attack you guys." Josh says, Noah now completely alert.
"She mention anyone by name?!" Noah asks.
"No… why? You think someone could be after you guys?" Josh asks.
"Someone besides Trevor Philips. I'm gonna go check on Carly and Johnny." Noah says, climbing off of the gurney and heading to the room Carly was in.
When he got there, Carly was sedated and Clint was explaining to her that the new pin in her ankle was completely undamaged and she was mostly okay, just cuts and bruises. Noah quietly sighed in relief, glad that Carly's injuries weren't as bad as they initially looked.
"I'm gonna let you guys get some rest before letting you outta here, okay?" Clint says, Carly and Johnny nodding and Clint leaving, Noah walking in.
"Hey. How's your arm?" Carly says.
"Haven't got it checked out yet. Doc said you were saying something about someone trying to attack us." Noah says, sitting down.
"At first, I thought she was disoriented… she's suffered head injuries before, one caused her to lose her memory." Johnny says as Jack, Ashley and Jackie ran in, Ashley and Carly hugging.
"I'll deal with Trevor later. You just rest up, kiddo." Ashley whispers, both letting go and Ashley helping Carly lie back against the gurney before leaving.
Ashley got in Jack's Kumura, having stolen his keys, got in and sped off to where she knew Trevor would be...
Ashley's P.O.V
Son of a bitch! Trevor fucking takes me from my biological father, raises me for part of my life and then fucks off after the botched Ludendorff job…
And with Michael being alive, that means Brad never survived that damn job, it was a damn FIB agent pretending to be him… no need to take a guess at how that got started, Trevor reached out to who he thought was Brad.
I stop outside of the Vanilla Unicorn, seeing the truck and the only damage I see is the headlights being cracked… not really consistent with a multi vehicle accident, there's no blood on it at all.
Maybe he rinsed the blood off the truck… he could still be the one who put Carly, Johnny and Noah in the hospital.
"Ashley?" Trevor says after approaching the car. I get out, giving him a look… that look. "I take it you know the truth…" He says.
"What else have you been lying to me about, Trevor?!" I ask in a calm tone, though I was far from calm… and from the look on his face, he damn well knew it...
