CH 33
Panic began to take over as Sabrina struggled with her would be kidnapper who began to drag her back way from the door. Sabrina kicked and flung her arms around as hard as she could but didn't connect with anything.
"Sabrina, calm down, it's me!" the man said as he loosened his grip around her waist.
Sabrina spun around and her fear quickly turned into shock "Juan, what the hell?!"
"Come on" Juan said grabbing her bags from the sidewalk.
"Wait, what the hell is going on? What are you doing here?"
"I'll get into that in a minute. Right now, I need you to get moving!" Juan said as he grabbed Sabrina by the hand and pulled her around the corner into an alley. Once they were away from the walled in building, Juan put Sabrina bags into the trunk of a parked car. "Get in."
"No" Sabrina said arms crossed. "Not until you tell me what the hell you're doing here."
Juan slowed down and took a deep breath "Same thing as you" He replied.
"Wait, you know about Lily?" Sabrina asked confused.
"Of course I do. I've known since Sonny first found out. You may not have been speaking with me over the past few months, but I've still be checking up on you."
"Ok, so if you know about everything, why exactly are we going in the opposite direction?" Sabrina asked annoyed.
"Sabrina, can you just trust me on this one?" Juan snapped.
"Really? You want me to trust you? Is that a rhetorical question?"
"Dammit, Sabrina, get in the car!"
"Not until you tell me how you knew I was here!" Sabrina said standing her ground.
"¡Dios mío! Sonny called me, ok? Can we go now?"
Sabrina unfolded her arms in surprise "Wait, he knows I'm here?"
"Yes, he knows. He called me, told me what was going on and asked me to try to beat you down here to stop you. Luckily I was already here anyway."
"Stop me? Why would he want to stop me? He wants to find Lily just as much as I do. I mean I know we don't have definite confirmation that it's…"
"It's her." Juan interjected.
"It is? That's great. Even more reason for us to go in there and talk to her."
"It's a bit more complicated that…"
"I know she'll be surprise to see us, but if we just talk to her, I'm sure she'll come back…"
"Bree! She's not here of her own free will." Juan said.
"Wha.. I don't understand."
"This guy, Mendoza or whatever, he's very dangerous. More so than Sonny originally thought. And nothing we say is going to make him let her go."
"Are you saying he's holding her hostage?"
"Yes. Which is why us just walking up in there alone is the last thing we need to be doing. Now can we please go?" Juan said opening the car door.
"Wait a minute, Juan. This is our mother. If she's in trouble, we can't just leave."
"Ok and what exactly do you suggest we do, Bree, appeal to his sensitive side? From what I've heard this guy doesn't have one of those."
"We don't know that for sure." Sabrina said solemnly.
"Sabrina, as much as I admire your ability to always see the good in people, now is not the time and this is NOT the guy. We need to get somewhere safe, now! Let's go!
Sabrina looked back at the fortress she had just been ready to enter. Her mother was mere yards away from her. How could she just leave now? Maybe Juan was right. He definitely sounded convincing. As much as Sabrina wanted to take her chances and storm the castle as it would be, she had another life to consider here. The life of the baby growing inside of her. When she ran out of the clinic a few days earlier, she made a promise to herself to never let any harm come to her child. Sabrina turned back around to get into the car as Juan suggested and was met by 3 men with bandanas on their faces. Each holding a gun bigger than the one next to them.
"Any luck?" Patrick said as he, Sonny and Shawn sped through the streets of Colombia.
"No" Sonny replied "Dammit, Juan! Answer your phone."
"What if he didn't get to her in time?" Patrick said thinking of the worst possible scenario.
"It's impossible. He was already here doing his own surveillance. He said he was going to stake the place out until he saw her show up."
"Boss?" Shawn said pulling in to the alleyway across the street from Mendoza's compound.
Sonny looked up from his phone and saw a parked car with both the front doors wide open but no one around it. Shawn parked in front and grabbed the .9mm from his waist band. Sonny did the same. "Let's check it out."
Cautiously all three of them exited their vehicle and slowly approached the abandoned car. They looked in each door but didn't see anything that stood out.
"Pop the trunk" Sonny called to Shawn. Shawn hit the button on the driver said door as instructed. Once opened Patrick ran to the back of the car to view its contents.
"No…" He whispered.
"Are these her bag?" Sonny asked.
"Yes." Patrick replied checking the luggage tags. "We're too late."
Sonny slammed the trunk in frustration and began pacing back and forth thinking what to do next.
Shawn walked to the back of the car and looked towards the brick wall with the razor wired door "Plan C?" He asked.
"Plan C? What the hell is Plan C?" Patrick asked.
"No. Not yet. We don't know for sure…" Sonny said before being interrupted by the vibration of his cell phone. "It's Juan" He said recognizing the number.
"Put it on speaker!" Patrick demanded.
"Juan? Where the hell are you? Do you have Sabrina?"
"Si, Mr. Corinthos. We definitely have something you want" the voice on the other end of the phone replied.
"Who is this?" Sonny asked.
"Now now, you're a smart man. I think you know the answer to that."
Sonny tilted his head back and balled up his fist. "What do you want, Mendoza?"
"Funny, I should be asking you the same thing. You're the one who has been watching me for weeks. Bet you think I didn't notice. I have eyes everywhere. You may run a small town in the United States, but I run all of Colombia. Nothing happens that I am not aware of."
"Ok, so you know. Now what? What do you want?"
"I think I have everything I want. I have the wife you thought you buried. And I have your daughter. And let me tell you, she is a beauty. It's like staring at the younger version of my dear Elena. Oh I'm sorry, that's Lily to you."
"Oh my god…" Patrick said running his hands through his hair.
"Listen to me very carefully, because I am only going to say this once" Sonny said angrily "You have greatly underestimated me if you think I am going to let you get away with hurting my family."
"Ah, the all-powerful Sonny Corinthos, all bark. I know all about how you operate." Mendoza chuckled.
"Good, then you know that I have no problems with ending your life and stepping over your corpse."
"Must we be so violent? I was hoping the two of us could come to an understanding."
"Name your price."
"See that right there is where you and I differ, Sonny. I don't put a numerical price on life. And besides, there is nothing you have that I want. I'm the one holding all of the cards."
"Everyone has a price, Mendoza, even you, so what is it? Because the more you stall, the angrier I get."
"Fine" Mendoza sighed. "Since you're in such a giving mood, there is something you can do for me. I need you to stop my extradition to the US. The charges that I'm facing on US soil… Let's just say I like it much better where I'm at. Make that go away, and you can have your daughter back."
"How the hell do you expect me to do that?" Sonny asked.
"I don't know, divine intervention. I don't really give a damn. You and I are in a very similar line of business and you've never done time for any of it. Channel that classic Corinthos law evasion for me."
Sonny looked at Patrick who had a look in his eyes begging him to comply "Fine, but you have to do something for me too."
"I'm sorry, I must have missed the part where this became a negotiation."
"I'm not doing a damn thing until I know for sure that my daughter is still alive."
"I can guarantee you not a hair has been harmed on her pretty little head."
"Your guarantee means nothing to me. Let me speak to her or no deal." Sonny demanded.
"Fine" Mendoza sighed "Hold on."
After a few seconds of silence Sabrina's voice was finally heard through the speaker phone. "Sonny?"
"Sabrina, are you ok?" Sonny asked relived.
"Yes. I'm ok…" she replied
"Sabrina?!" Patrick said with tears in his eyes.
"Patrick? Is that you?" Sabrina asked surprised.
"Yes, I'm here baby, and I promise we will get you out of there. I love you. And I know about… Hello? Sabrina?"
"Ok ok that's enough of that" Mendoza said coming back on the line. "You have 24 hours, Corinthos. Stop my extradition or you'll be retuning your daughter back to Port Charles in a pine box."
"Son of a bitch!" Sonny yelled as the call went dead.
"He's going to kill her…" Patrick whispered.
"No he's not. I won't let him." Sonny said sternly.
"Sonny, how the hell can you stop a Federal extradition?" Patrick asked.
"I can't, but I can make him think I can." Sonny said locking eyes with Shawn.
"Plan C?" Shawn asked again to which Sonny nodded his head. It was do or die time and Sonny was ready to make sure that the only one who died in this scenario was Edwardo Mendoza.