"You're home early." Dante smiled; surprised to see Caitlyn back.
"Yeah, well you're mom thought it would be nice to get an early start to the weekend." She replied greeting him with a kiss.
"I almost forgot it was Friday. Does that mean you don't work tomorrow?"
"Nope." She replied plopping down on the couch. "What have you an Ali been up to all day?"
"Lounging around mostly; I did take her out for a walk."
"Well, the good news is that it sounds like her owner may be coming home soon."
"Dad told me that he and Johnny were heading out to Spain. Do I want to know where you got the information from?"
"Well, I could honestly tell you that Olivia told me this morning, but that would be leaving out the part where Johnny told me last night." She replied.
Dante shook his head. "You know I can't fight with you, right? There's too much going on. I don't have the energy for it. If you want to break this off; if you want me to go, just tell me now, please."
"I don't want you to go." She replied. "And I don't want to hurt you. We haven't had the chance to talk about the kiss. I didn't set out for that to happen."
"I know, but I also can't help but notice that your relationship with Johnny, whatever it might be, is the closest thing I've seen of you needed something. I feel like you hang on to me because you don't want to face that."
"That's not true." She denied. "You're what I want."
"But he's what you crave. We all witnessed Jason break down at that church and rush out of the sanctuary because he could not handle losing Carly. He attempted to keep her at arms length for years; they both watched each other go through relationship after relationship because deep down, buried in their heart, they knew they were meant for each other, but losing each other completely would destroy them."
"Yeah, but they knew each other for years and they bonded over a child." Caitlyn argued.
"Your biggest fear is depending on someone that much."
"Dante, I love you. I've never said that before. Don't you understand how big that is?"
"I know, and I believe you do, but even now as we talk. As my voice is breaking up I don't see a tear in your eye." He observed.
"Is that what you want? You want me to break down and beg you to stay?"
"There you go again. Why do you ask me to tell you how to respond?"
"Because you seem to think there's a correct way." She replied. "If I'm not overly emotional then it must mean that I must just not care at all, right? I do care! I care about you, and I care about your family, and I just want to help."
"Kiss me." He directed.
"What?"
"That's the only time I can feel what you're feeling, just kiss me."
"Okay." She replied and met him half way.
"Hey Krissy, watch this." Morgan pointed out his maneuver around Michael's plane. "First place again!"
"Very nice." She praised him.
"What are you waiting for?" Morgan asked as she looked down at her phone for the 30th time in less than a minute. "Molly sent me an email this morning; it didn't sound like Alexis had told her yet about Sam. Uncle Ric was going to take her out for the day."
"Mom was going to tell her tonight." Kristina replied.
"You're still debating calling the boy?" Michael inferred.
"No; you're right, I would just be putting him in a situation where he would most likely get hurt, and I don't want to do that."
"But?" Michael heard it coming.
"I don't know. He seemed genuinely upset when he found out that the interaction we had, the sparks between us when are gazes met, was built on a lie. And yet still he wanted to help. Mom told me that when she was sixteen she let Lars go because she was afraid that her ties to Helena and Mikkos would get him hurt, not that it ended up mattering, but is that what I'm going to have to do?"
"Do what?" Michael asked as both he and Morgan listened on.
"Give up all the decent guys in life and go after the criminals and psychos instead?" She questioned.
"No; God no, you better not. Your mom didn't have the luxury of having Stefan and Stavros around to screen her dates. There's no way Dante, Morgan, or I would let any guy resembling the likes of Jerry Jacks near you."
"Nope." Morgan shook his head in agreement.
"Great, does this mean I need to look into a career as a nun? I'm too dangerous for the good guys, and too good for the dangerous guys."
"It's not you it's your… wow, I really shouldn't say anything about that, should I?" He contemplated. He had spent months battling his own fear of how his life could affect Alyssa, and weeks battling her parents with it.
"Oh wow, look." Kristina grinned looking down at the text she was getting in.
'Hi Christina, I hope you don't mind. Was worried about you, is your sister okay? 3 DK.'
"DK?" Morgan questioned. "You know if you switch those initials around…?"
"It's Kristina Davis? Yeah, I noticed that." She smirked before initiating her reply back. 'I don't mind at all, wasn't sure if you wanted to talk to me after finding out my family secret. Sister is missing, but I believe the information you me gave me will help. Thank you! ~ Kristina.'
'Kristina – I like. The family secrets didn't bother me. I was more put off that it meant you weren't applying to B-G. I'm glad the info helped, let me know if you need more help bringing the witchma down. Call me when you can. 3 DK.'
"Witchma?" Michael laughed as she showed it to him.
"I think that's supposed to be in the place of grandma." She deduced
"Yeah, I got that. It fits." Michael smirked.
"You're trying to map it out in your head, aren't you?" Joey questioned watching Stella gaze out the window.
"Isn't it natural to become familiar with your surroundings?" She responded.
"It's also deadly." He warned her.
"Once that baby is born Zacchara isn't going to have any use for me or Claudia; we have to figure something out, and for the sake of the child it needs to be before the third trimester." Stella explained.
"What's the plan? Learn the route, set yourself up with some tickets home, and then seduce Brutus for access to the car keys?"
"I hadn't exactly gotten far beyond the 'learn the route' part. Let's be honest the only one that would be able to hook us up with plane tickets and get us to the airport would be…"
"You're right I could. I could call Mateo and get him to set it up with no questions asked. Jump in the car with you and Claudia while Zacchara was sleeping and not look back, and I would."
"If…?"
"If there was anyway I could assure that Anthony wasn't going to go after Mateo and Teresita first, and then come after us. At least here and now I can look after you without Zacchara considering me a traitor." Joey replied.
"And what exactly does looking after me entail?" Stella asked him.
"What do you want it to mean?" He asked slowing down to the city traffic. "I am not going to let Anthony hurt you."
"That's sweet." She smirked believing his conviction.
"Here's the supermarket." Joey pointed out.
"In Madrid?" She questioned.
"No." He shook his head. "Not quite."
"Well, at least I know to head south."
"What?"
"It doesn't take a genius to realize that the sun is headed towards our right."
"You have to stop that or else I won't be able to take you with me." He replied.
"Fine; I won't say a word." She promised as they walked away from the vehicle.
"That's not exactly what I meant." He smirked back.
"That's the vehicle." Romero's partner pointed gazing out the passenger's side window.
"We need to be certain." Romero replied before spotting Limbo and a woman heading through the doors of the market. He grinned at the conformation. "You know what to do, right?"
The man held up the device. "Lo tengo aqui."
"Bueno. I'll call Mr. Corinthos." Romero responded allowing his partner to casually walk by the SUV in order to slip the tracking device under the vehicle.
"That's him." Sonny pointed out after the first ring.
"It's done." Romero responded as soon as he picked up.
"And we're sure that this is hooked up to the GPS?" Sonny questioned as Johnny turned it on to verify. He showed Sonny the coordinates to confirm the location of the market.
"That's it." Romero assured him.
"We're on our way." Sonny said before hanging up to which Johnny grabbed everything they brought with to take in the car. "What is it?" Sonny questioned Johnny's hesitation.
"I sort of hoped we would have more time to plan out what we're going to do when we find my sister."
"I'm going to go with get her out of there." Sonny responded smugly.
"My father isn't going to let her go without a fight."
"Then we fight; do you think you can do that John? If it came down to it, would you be able to take down your own father?"
Johnny thought back to Anthony's previous threats against his sister and the feel of Caitlyn's blood against his skin. "No question about it." He said coldly.
"Then let's go."
"Here you are." Jerry said approaching Carly outside the beach house. She was sitting on the sand looking out over the sea.
"Here I am; although without knowledge of who I am can 'I' really be anywhere?" She asked philosophically.
"Don't do this Cora." He pleaded with her.
"I like the waves. The sound; it's soothing." She replied. "In New York did we live by any…?"
"We were right off the Niagara shore. Our backyard had a bridge peaking over the harbor. You use to love it there."
"What did you do for a living before you dropped everything to bring me here?"
"I was in imports; medical supplies mostly. A lot of my business was in traveling to international markets finding the best equipment. That's how I met Doctor Walker."
"Did I ever go with you?" She asked wondering how much time they spent apart.
"It depended on how active your business was. We typically tried to plan at least one special trip a year for the both of us."
"Have we ever been here before?"
"Not to this exact beach, but we've been to the area." Jerry told her. "It was actually Tasmania where we stayed for our honeymoon. We took a catamaran out in the area and saw this Island. Since then it was always your hope to come out some day."
"It's beautiful; the whole Island. I wish… I wish I could enjoy it the way I should; the way I always wanted."
"All you have to do is stop worrying about what was and focus on what is. Who cares what time we have; we have now." Jerry insisted.
"You're right. I have to stop doing this to myself. I guess it just seems so normal; worry about the past, worry about the future while forgetting about the moment we're living in." She conceded.
"And yet that's all we have control over." Jerry replied starting to draw forward inching himself towards her in a kiss. She seemed to respond; if nothing else but to please him or behave in a way that she thought she was supposed to until struck mind wrenching fit of pain.
"Car….Cora!" He called out wrapping his arms around her as her head sunk between her knees. "Let's get you inside." He suggested scooping her up into his arms. He rushed in to the doctor.
"When's the last time she took her medication?" Dr. Walker asked him.
"This evening." She assured him attempting to breath threw the migraine. "I think I could use something a little stronger. Percocet maybe?"
"I can look into that just let yourself relax. Mr. Phoenix, can you grab the ice mask?" He requested. "Okay, Mrs. Phoenix where does it hurt the most?"
"I don't know." She cried. "The whole thing is throbbing."
"I'm going to give you a sedative okay?" He said pulling out a needle. Carly nodded allowing him to stick it into her arm.
"That must have been pretty powerful." Jerry commented only minutes later Carly had fallen asleep.
"She's getting worse; we have to do something." Dr. Walker warned him.
"I was this close." Jerry said holding up his fingers.
"Can I get you another?" A girl asked approaching Jason at the pool table as his drink neared its end.
"I can't give you what you're looking for." He assured her.
"How do you know? It's pretty painless; a couple drinks and a game of pool followed by some no name sex. No complications and no 'call me' in the morning, I swear."
"Free advice?" He asked the twenty-something year old. At first he was sure that he was imagining her; the vision of a young Carly approaching him. "It's never that painless."
"Who is she?" The girl questioned.
"I wasn't supposed to be anything more than her 'boy on the side'. It didn't work out that way. We started as lover and then friends. Somewhere down the line we became soul mates." He reminisced.
"And then she broke your heart." She assumed.
"The only way a soul mate really can." He replied. "Do yourself a favor and think about what it is you're truly looking for."
She replied back pensively. "You do the same."
Jason finished the last gulp and got up to leave. "I came here to try to stop."
