A/N: Introducing two new characters, Eleta and Elena, and things will get crazier as the story progresses… reader discretion advised.
"Shh, it's okay." Johnny whispered after Carly jolted awake from her nightmare, their arms wrapped around each other and Carly's head on Johnny's left shoulder as he lightly stroked her hair.
The lights were still out… Carly then shot up when she heard footsteps in the living room and she grabbed a bat and ran into the living room, Johnny following her as she swung at the intruder… who screamed in pain.
"Fuck, what was that for?!"
"Eleta?" Carly asked when she recognised the voice, Johnny grabbing a flashlight and clicking it on as Carly helped 21 year old Eleta Fordson up.
"Carly… hey. Sorry, I… may have broken the door lock while opening it." Eleta says.
"It's okay and uh… sorry for trying to kill you." Carly says, lowering the bat.
"There are times that I'd rather face a Roger Clemens fastball in my head than deal with that little spitfire." Jack says after walking in.
"Oh, ha ha Jack." Carly says sarcastically, her phone ringing and her answering it. "Tracey? Hey, calm down… oh, my fault?! How the hell is it my fault she crashed her car?!" She says, Tracey still yelling and Eleta taking the phone from Carly.
"Your little sister, her husband along with your brother and their friends were tortured by psychopaths yet you're more concerned with yelling at Carly because Amanda stupidly decided to drive while intoxicated?!" Eleta asks.
"She was doing drugs out of worry, she was worried sick about Carly and Jimmy!" Tracey yells.
"Out of worry, keep telling yourself that. Trevor was more worried than Amanda." Eleta says, Tracey laughing humorlessly.
"You believe that? Trevor only worries about himself and K8lynn." Tracey says.
"And you honestly expect Carly to be by Amanda's side when Madam Godzilla has constantly abused her?!" Eleta asks.
"I expect her to take a fucking hint that she's doing something wrong, Mom hits out because it's the only thing Carly listens to!" Tracey shouts.
"The only one screwed up is Amanda… and I'm sure that if the original abusive one is alive, grandma Elena can explain that to you." Carly says once the phone was back in her hand. "I'm not heading over there... want to know why? Because when she's out of that hospital, she's gonna go back to her ways. Don't call me again." She says before hanging up, the lights turning back on and Jack letting Immy in.
"That generator will hold, right?" Jack asks.
"It's water powered, water and wind turns the turbine, all that stuff. If it stops, it means the storm has too." Immy says.
"Well, the storm's not the original source of the blackout, there was a crash downtown." K8lynn asks after Carly lets her into the house, Carly closing the door as the rain and thunder increased.
"And I just got screamed at by my banshee of a sister because Amanda caused the crash and ended up in the E.R." Carly says, handing K8lynn a towel so K8lynn could dry off, K8lynn wringing the water out of her hair. "If what I think worked, I'm gonna have to find a way to permanently kick Amanda out of my life… and if… well, you know where I'm going with that one, he's gonna have to either accept it or-" She says as Trevor runs in, slamming the door.
"Truck flooded again?" Jack asks.
"No… try truck being pulled apart by Altruists!" Trevor says.
"I told you to leave them the hell alone!" Carly says.
"All I did was take a shortcut through the Paleto forest, they just started chasing me… oh, fuck that, no one does that!" Trevor says, looking out of the window and becoming angry as he saw that the Altruists were pulling apart the wires inside the upper light rack. He marched outside, grabbing one of them and pulling him down off of the truck. "Come on, it's not a fucking buffet, it's a truck!" He shouts.
"Okay that's it! You crazy bastards fuck off!" Carly says after walking outside with a Sawn Off Shotgun, aiming it at one of the Altruists.
"This metal has been summoned by-" One of the Altruists starts to say.
"The tow hook will be summoning your ass if you don't get the fuck out of here!" Trevor shouts, stepping threateningly towards the Altruists, who quickly jumped up and darted off back down the road.
"They need to be put in a fucking mental home!" Carly mutters, switching the safety back on before she and Trevor walk into the house, Trevor closing the door.
Meanwhile…
Amanda wasn't one who liked being alone… but she hated being near Benson even more.
"Where the hell did they take Tracey off to?!" Amanda asks.
"She started trashing the E.R so she's in the mental ward on a 72 hour psych hold." Benson says, angering Amanda.
"My oldest daughter is not crazy!" Amanda yells.
"And yet you think your youngest child is?" Benson asks.
"Yes! Three was a huge mistake!" Amanda shouts.
"Don't you mean four, or have you cast Junior aside as much as he has you?" Benson says.
"No wonder Carly was so damn high strung when I first met her." Both heard, looked and saw Nicole. "Honestly, the only mistake was how you treated her… repeating the abuse Elena put you through." Nicole says.
"Hey, that was a different time, kid!" Amanda shouts.
"Oh so you don't hate Elena for screwing you up for life and for you treating Carly like a punching bag because you had turned into your own mother?!" Nicole asks, Benson taking her into the hallway. "What is it with that woman?!" She growls.
"That's what I've been trying to figure out for 30 years." Michael says after walking over to them. "So what's this about Tracey being in the mental ward?" He asks Benson.
"She went nuts and started tearing the ward apart, it was mental ward or vandalism charges." Benson says.
"Oh, yikes, I… I did not raise my daughter to be like this, I'm sorry she flipped." Michael says.
"It ain't your fault… sometimes, kids take more after one parent than the other and in this case, Tracey's more like Amanda." Benson says.
A week and a half later...
Carly growled as a knock at the door sounded and stood up, walking over and opening in… but instead of Tracey, it was 72 year old Elena.
"You… the original Madam Godzilla. The fuck do you want?!" Carly says, Elena taken aback by that response.
"Well, I was told one of my grandchildren was in a mental hospital and my daughter was in a car crash." Elena says.
"Oh, the daughter that you abused?! The one who turned around and abused me?! You couldn't give a fuck even if your heart wasn't made out of stone!" Carly says, Elena turning angry… but then she saw Midnight aiming a bow and flare arrow at her.
"Touch her and this goes right into one of your eyes!" Midnight growls, Elena leaving after getting into a cab. As Carly and Midnight were about to walk into the house, Nicole's Entity XF pulled up and Nicole got out and ran over to them.
"Nicole?! What happened?!" Carly asks, seeing that Nicole was frantic.
"Trevor took Skye and K8lynn off on some weapons run to Columbia but… their plane dropped off the radar and there's been no signals at all for the last half an hour!" Nicole says.
"Fuck! When I get my hands on Trevor, I'm gonna rip his head off!" Carly growled, calling Lester.
"I know, it's Trevor, well he may not be as bad on this as you think." Lester says after answering.
"How so?!" Carly asks.
"The plane was over the Caribbean and before the signal dropped, for a split second, his left side engine gave off an error signal. This seems to be a plane fault, not a people fault." Lester says.
"If he gets my sister killed, I'm gonna kill him!" Nicole yells.
"I'm sending out search & rescue alerts on the channels, but… the plane's speed and direction means that if the engine did give out… they would've landed in the water, over 50 miles away from any other land." Lester says.
"This is fucked up… seriously fucked up." Midnight says, Nicole taking the phone from Carly and Carly trying to calm down. She walked into her and Johnny's room, only to see Sam had found the unopened test Carly had hidden under the pillow.
"Sam… something happened. Trevor, Skye… and K8lynn went missing. They were on a weapons run to Colombia when... the plane went down into the Caribbean." Carly says, Sam looking at her in shock before turning to denial and anger and setting the test down, Carly jumping back as Sam swung at her. "Sam, calm down!" She says, trying to restrain Sam as Nicole and Midnight ran in.
"Sure I will! What, starting a family and trying to get the old bastard out of the way, Skye and K8lynn as occupational hazards?!" Sam yells.
"This isn't anyone's fault, planes go down because of errors!" Midnight says, managing to drag Sam into the living room as Nicole closed and locked the door.
"And so it just happens that in the same exact hour that my dad is possibly killed, that I find a pregnancy test under Carly's pillow, does it?!" Sam shouts.
"Trevor's a military trained pilot, he can find a way out and get himself and the others back home! There's no need to go blaming your best friend!" Midnight says as Johnny walks in, Sam glaring at him.
"Getting Carly pregnant and getting the old Philips out of the way, huh baldie?!" Sam growls.
"Sam, what happened?! What the hell are you talking about?!" Johnny asks.
"My dad, K8lynn and Skye have all possibly just been killed in a plane crash over the sea… and it just so happens that moments after finding out, I find a damn test under Carly's pillow!" Sam says.
"I'm gonna take her to Sammy, see if he can calm her down." Midnight says, dragging a shouting Sam outside as Johnny ran into the back room, Nicole trying to calm Carly down.
"I barely even know how to fly planes, let alone tamper with one." Carly says, Nicole lightly rubbing her shoulders.
"She's just in shock, Carly... she's just found out that you might be pregnant and that her father might be dead, both in the space of less than 10 minutes." Nicole says.
"There's no need to put off taking it. Nicole, can I talk to you?" Johnny says before he and Carly hug, Nicole and Johnny walking into the hallway as Carly went into the bathroom.
At the same time, Sammy opened the door to his house in Paleto Bay, Midnight dragging Sam in.
"Samantha Louise Philips, calm the fuck down!" Midnight yells.
"Me?! How the fuck can you calm down, do you care that he's most likely a drowned corpse by now?!" Sam shouts.
"Lashing out at your best friend and trying to hit her is not the right way to handle this!" Midnight says, Sammy closing the door.
"Maisie just called me, scared to death… Sam, someone saw a small figured woman at the airfield but it wasn't Carly!" Sammy says, Sam still angry, crying and refusing to listen.
"That bitch killed him, she didn't want him around her child so she fucking murdered him and had the nerve to fucking deny it!" Sam says through her tears.
"Carly realised there are worse people than Trevor… I looked up Vaas, Buck and Hoyt. They tortured, killed, sold people into slavery… Buck even raped Dash, that was the second time she went through that! Do you honestly think Carly would've murdered Trevor or K8lynn and Skye?!" Sammy says, Sam taking deep breaths to try to calm down.
At the same time, Dash and Packie were driving around when they saw a half naked Tracey running around barefoot in Downtown Vinewood.
"Does she look drunk to you, Packie?" Dash asks, Packie climbing out of the red Comet and running over to Tracey.
"Hey, calm it down, Trace!" Packie says, trying to drag Tracey to the car.
"Keep your fucking hands off me!" Tracey yells as Niko gets out of his orange Infernus.
"What in the hell is going on here?! Michael called me, completely panicked because his oldest child escaped the mental hospital!" Niko says angrily, Dash getting out and punching Tracey, knocking her out.
"Who's the guy Sam's been hanging around lately? I forgot his name and I haven't been able to get in touch with Trevor." Dash says.
"You're going to love the names they had to run into each other with. Sam and Sammy." Niko says.
Dash swore in Serbian, Niko knowing that she picked it up from him as Packie dragged Tracey to his car. When the four made it to Paleto Bay, Packie picked up an unconscious Tracey and slumped her body halfway over his right shoulder, Sammy letting them in and Sam and Midnight looking at them.
"What in hell's name happened?!" Sammy asks after closing the door.
"Found her running around in Vinewood, straitjacket, shirt and shoes gone." Packie says, throwing Tracey onto the couch and Sam slapping her.
"Wake up!" Sam shouts, Tracey groaning in pain.
"Those assholes at the asylum… tried to kill me. My head feels fuzzy." Tracey mutters.
"Yes, I'm sure, but I want to know what you did after you got out of there." Sam says, everyone knowing she'd gone through her usual sequence. The moment she'd been angered, she'd become just like Trevor was, and now she was in the stage after she'd vented her rage, where she became almost what could be described as very dark and careless about what consequences her words and actions caused.
"I kept running… can't remember exactly where to, I just… wanted to be out of there. It was… getting warm so I tried to cool off. The sun was blinding, dust getting into my eyes." Tracey says.
"Sounds like the airfield." Dash says.
"There was an M on the sign… and then a plane. Uncle Trevor used to bring me toy airplanes." Tracey says.
"What about the plane?! Who fucked it up?!" Sam demands after shaking Tracey.
"It was easier to pull off than I thought… you already blamed Carly, didn't you?" Tracey says, smirking… and Sam turned furious, punching Tracey and hearing Tracey scream in pain.
"Call Nicole." Sammy says, Midnight walking outside and dialing Nicole's number.
"What's going on, M?" Nicole asks.
"Tracey just admitted to sabotaging the plane Trevor, K8lynn and Skye were on." Midnight says, Nicole nearly dropping her phone and Midnight hearing Carly's voice in the background.
"No Carly, stay here! You and that little baby won't be safe around Tracey!" Nicole says, Johnny getting Carly to lie down.
Midnight was about to respond when pain filled screams echoed from the house, Midnight running in and seeing Sam beating Tracey with a crowbar until Sammy and Dash managed to pull Sam off of Tracey.
"As much as I don't blame you for bashing the blonde demon's head in, she needs to be in a cell!" Midnight says.
Sam stood up and dropped the crowbar…
She had two things on her mind… one was apologizing to Carly for blaming her.
The other was finding Trevor and the others.