CH 11

Sonny walked hand in hand into the restaurant with Olivia for what he thought would be a peaceful and romantic date. The minute he saw a group of people staring at him from the bar, he quickly knew that it wouldn't be. Especially when he recognized one of them from his past.

"Hey, stay right here. I think I see someone I know. I'll be right back." Sonny said to Olivia as he pulled her chair out for her to sit.

"Ok, but hurry up. I'm starving." She replied.

"Juan? Juan Santiago, is that you?" He asked reaching the bar.

"Hey Sonny" Juan replied standing up to give his onetime step father a hug. "Long time"

"Yeah it has been. What brings you back to Port Charles?" Sonny asked. When Juan didn't immediately answer, Sonny noticed that everyone else in the group by the bar was looking at each other strangely. "Hello Patrick" He said redirecting his attention.

"Sonny" He replied

"Ok, I get the feeling I'm interrupting something that's none of my business. I should get back to my table. It was nice seeing you again, Juan" Sonny said turning to leave.

"Actually it is your business" Juan said stopping Sonny from leaving. "My mother is your business and so is your daughter."

Sonny slowly turned back around and looked at Juan perplexed "Your mother? Listen Juan, I know there was a lot of things that played into you mothers death, but I thought we talked about that decades ago."

"We did. I'm not here to talk about that or Hernando's involvement. I'm here to talk about your daughter."

"My daughter? Juan, what the hell are you talking about?"

"Oh my god…" Sabrina chimed in barely above a whisper "I think I need to sit down" Patrick grabbed a chair from an empty table for her to sit. He was surprised she was able to keep herself upright this long.

"Sonny, Sabrina is your daughter. Yours and Lily's" Juan stated plainly.

Sonny looked at Sabrina then looked back at Juan "Are you insane? That doesn't even make any sense. Lily is dead. And has been dead for a long time."

"Sonny… You may want to sit down for this as well" Juan said before rehashing the entirely unbelievable story that he had just finished telling Sabrina. He wasn't sure if Sonny believed him or not. And neither was Sonny. He sat there stone faced during the entire rewriting of his own history. A history that he had never been able to fully come to grips with. Seeing his pregnant wife die in such a horrible way. Yes, Sonny was in love with Brenda at the time, but when Lily told him she was pregnant, he had committed himself to her and their baby. Wanting so badly to be a better man for them just to have it all taken away in a fiery death.

"So…" Sonny said after Juan was finished "You're telling me that the entire thing was to keep my kid away from me?"

"Well it wouldn't be the first time" Patrick answered thinking to when Alexis had kept Kristina way from him as well.

Sonny ignored Patrick's unwarranted comments and remained focused on Juan "And you knew this the entire time? When you came to Port Charles to find me… to blame me for your mother being dead… you knew she wasn't?"

"I was an angry kid Sonny. I wanted to blame someone for everything she had been through. And after you took a trip to see my grandfather and made him put a bullet in his temple, you were the only person left that I could blame." He replied.

"Sonny, is everything ok?" Olivia said walking into the heated conversation.

Sonny didn't even acknowledge her presence. "How am I supposed to believe this story Juan? How? I saw it with my own two eyes! I saw her get in that car! I saw it go up in flames! I still sometimes have nightmares about it!" He screamed standing up from the dining chair.

"You saw what they wanted you to see Sonny! And from what I've heard, you relived it a few years ago with another one of you ill-fated brides. But you don't have to believe me. Look at her! Look at her and tell me she doesn't look exactly like my mother. Like your wife!" Juan shouted.

Sonny looked over to Sabrina who had tears rolling down her cheeks. He didn't know her very well. One of the only times he even remembered her was from the Nurses Ball earlier that year. He knew she was dating Patrick because he had seen them around town. He remembered being happy that Robin's family had found happiness again after her death. But he never saw anything else until that very moment. The way she was biting her lip nervously. Those big brown eyes. The shape of her face. How her hair was parted. It was like a younger version of Lily was sitting right in front of him. It was true. Sonny collapsed back into the chair he was just sitting in.

"If you still don't believe me, the two of you are more than welcome to take a DNA test" Juan said quietly.

"Yeah, we'll do that" Sonny sighed.

"The hell we will!" Sabrina shot up from her chair and damn near knocked it over. "This is ridiculous! None of this makes any sense, Juan. Why are you doing this to me?" She cried

"Bree, I never meant to hurt you. I swear. I honestly thought I was doing what was best for your safety. For you."

"What was best for me?! Do you have any idea what I went through? Do you have idea what this bastard put me through?" She said looking at Pablo who had remained silent since the moment Sonny came in the door. "All this time I wanted a father to love me and your telling me that you purposely kept him from me?! How could you?" Sabrina could barely talk through her tears.

"Prima…" Juan whispered

"Don't call me that! According to you, I'm not your cousin, remember? I'm your sister. I can't believe this." Patrick tried to comfort Sabrina as best he could. All while hiding his disgust with the situation. He knew it was a completely selfish thought, but he couldn't help feeling outraged that once again Sonny was going to be an important person in the life of the woman he loved. He was never thrilled with how close he and Robin were. But this was on another level. Sabrina and Sonny were blood. And Patrick knew all too well the kinds of things that could happen to the people cursed to have Corinthos blood in their veins.

"I can't deal with this right now. I have to get out of here" Sabrina said pulling away from Patrick's arms and running towards the elevator.

"Sabrina, wait for me" He screamed running behind her.

Sonny didn't bother stopping them. He felt like doing the same thing himself. When Sabrina and Patrick disappeared behind the elevator doors, it was like a light bulb had gone off in Sonny's head. He turned to face Juan again. "This story of yours, Juan, true or not true has one huge hole in it."

"What's that?" Juan replied.

"Well if Lily didn't die in that car bomb and she did give birth to my child and give her to her sister to raise…. the only question I have for you, Juan, is where the hell is she now?"

By the time Patrick and Sabrina had made it back to their house, her tears had stopped. She was in such a state of shock that she couldn't even form words in the car. She just sat there and stared at the pavement rushing by. "I'm going to call and check on Emma. Make sure her sleep over is going ok" Patrick said when they got into the house. Sabrina nodded as if she had heard him. She couldn't hear anything over Juan's voice in her head. Sonny Corinthos was her father. It was a hard thought to have in her head. How was she ever going to say it out loud?

"Emma's fine. Beth's mom said they're working on their second bowl of ice cream" Patrick chuckled.

"How did you know about Lily?" Sabrina asked abruptly.

Patrick looked down at his feet "Robin told me about her years ago. Robin was best friends with Brenda Barrett. Brenda and Sonny had a relationship that most people in this town are pretty well versed on. Robin said that for some reason though Sonny had married the daughter of a Puerto Rican mob boss named Lily Rivera. I asked her what happened to Lily and she told me she died in a car bomb. Everything else is a shock to me too."

Sabrina shook her head as if trying to shake out the reality of the day's events "He's… my father. I don't… I don't even know what that means, Patrick. Other than being affiliated with the Mob, I don't know anything else about him."

"There's not much good to know." Patrick said rolling his eyes

"Clearly you don't like him" Sabrina responded picking up on the distain in his voice.

"Let's just say we aren't close." Patrick couldn't help but notice that Sabrina was standing roughly in the same spot as Robin was when Sonny barged into their house and shot her. He wasn't there at the time, but Robin explained everything that happened and how he was aiming for Jax. To this day Patrick hated that Robin always defended Sonny. He knew he was going to have to have this discussion with Sabrina at some point but not that night. She had already been through too much. He didn't have it him to express how this news was affecting him. He didn't think it was his place. After all it was her world that had just been flipped upside down. He had little right to feel the way he did and zero right to share it with Sabrina. He despised Sonny and everything he stood for. He wouldn't want Sonny around his dog let alone his girlfriend. But Patrick kept that to himself.

"Listen" He said pulling Sabrina into his arms. "We're going to get through this like we have everything else. Together." He placed a kiss on the top of her head as he made a promise that he wasn't sure he would be able to keep.