Once in her vehicle, Kellie pulled out her phone and made a call as Johnny pulled out of the Quartermaine drive way.
"Kellie, is everything okay?" Taggert answered.
"I'm not sure," Kellie said, "I'm wondering what you can tell me about an altercation between my father and Charles yesterday."
"What do you know already?" Taggert asked.
"Just that something happened between them," Kellie said, "And that you and Yuri had to get involved."
"I just herded Sonny along," Taggert said, "Sonny got in Charles face and Yuri got involved at that point."
"Do you know what my father wanted from Charles?" Kellie asked.
"I never heard that part of it," Taggert said, "I heard yelling and went to check it out in time to see Sonny lunge at Charles and Yuri yank him backwards. Out of curiosity, how did you find out about this?"
"Yuri let it slip thinking I knew about it," Kellie answered, "He wouldn't give me any details when he realized I didn't. I was hoping you might be able to fill in some gaps."
"Maybe you should ask Charles about it," Taggert said, "That's if he's willing to talk about it."
"That's why I haven't asked him," Kellie said, "He probably wouldn't want to discuss it with me. Part of the reason any way."
"And the other reason?" Taggert asked.
"I'm not risking Charles talking me out of confronting Sonny," Kellie said.
"That conversation was between them," Taggert said, "It might not be your place to get involved. I know you might be feeling protective of Charles after Victor shot and kidnapped him. But if Charles and Sonny have issues with other, that's between them."
"Unless it involves me," Kellie said, "Maybe I will never find out exactly what happened. But I owe my father visit after other recent events. I just was seeing if I could find out more about yesterday before talking to him."
"You're on your way to Sonny's now aren't you," Taggert said, "There's no talking you out of this is there."
"Nope," Kellie said.
"I don't think I want to ask," Taggert said.
"I wouldn't if I were you," Kellie said, "Thanks for the info."
"It wasn't much," Taggert said, "For what it's worth, good luck with Sonny. Although he might be more in need of it than you.'
Harborview Towers
Before Kellie got out of the car, Johnny locked the doors.
"What gives?" Kellie asked.
"Are you sure about this?" Johnny asked, "Maybe you could talk to Charles first. Find out what happened from him first. Have all the facts."
"I think we both know whatever happened most likely has to do with me," Kellie said, "It likely means Sonny was meddling someplace he had no right to in the first place."
"And the whole debacle with Carly and the SEC," Johnny asked, "I mean the request was of Jason and he's not obliging.
"It was a request that would have a major impact on my life," Kellie said, "I can't let this slide. Not this time. For whatever reason, the only person who doesn't seem to have an issue with me going after Sonny is Tracy Quartermaine. No idea why."
"If Tracy thinks its a good idea, maybe that should make you think twice," Johnny said, "It's probably just for her own personal entertainment anyway."
"Wouldn't be the first time someone's been entertained by Sonny and I fighting," Kellie said, unlocking the car doors with her keys and opening the door before Johnny could lock the car doors, "Let's go unless you want to wait in the car."
Johnny shook his head and got out of the car to follow Kellie.
Sonny's Penthouse
Kellie approached the penthouse door.
"Should I be concerned?" Trent asked.
"The only bullets that fly will be verbal," Kellie said as Sonny opened the door.
"Kellie," Sonny said, "I didn't expect to see you here. I was just leaving. But I do want to talk to you, come in, come in."
"This should be good," Kellie muttered under her breath as she entered the penthouse. Sonny shut the door.
Kellie contemplated saying something to Sonny first, but then decided to wait and see what Sonny had to say first.
"Can I get you anything to drink?" Sonny asked.
Kellie shook her head.
"I don't plan to be here long," Kellie said, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Carly's SEC case," Sonny said, "I know you might have overheard a conversation I had with Jason the other day about it."
"I heard it," Kellie said, "About how you seems to think Jason should go to prison so Carly can cut a deal to get the SEC charges dropped."
"Not just Carly," Sonny said, "Your brother Michael too. Ryan Lavery turned on them. The case against both of them doesn't look good. Prison isn't a place for either of them."
"But it's okay for me to lose my husband, for Kelsey, Jake, and Danny not to see their father," Kellie said, "To throw my entire family's life into chaos if Jason goes to prison with the power vacuum that will be left. We both know him behind bars would encourage someone to make a play for the organization."
"I wouldn't let that happen," Sonny said.
"You forget you're not as feared as you once were," Kellie said, "Not after Jason took your territory and the families voted you out as head of the families."
"No thanks to you," Sonny said.
"They would have done it without my vote eventually," Kellie said.
"You need to think about your sister, Donna and Michael's kids, Wiley and Amelia," Sonny said, "Willow's going through leukemia treatment and Donna needs her mother."
"But screw me and my kids, is that what you're saying," Kellie replied, vehemently.
"That's not what I'm saying," Sonny sputtered, "Nothing about the situation is ideal. Someone gets hurt no matter how this plays out."
"You just decided that someone should be me," Kellie said, "That my family gets to be the one to deal with the fallout from this SEC debacle. Why should my husband be the one to clean up Carly and Michael's mess this time? Sacrifice his life, our family's lives. What's stopping you from making a deal with the feds to give them just you? Your enemies may not fear you still. But I'm sure the feds would still love to put you behind bars."
"Now that Jason runs the organization," Sonny said, "I don't think the feds would take the bait."
"It's well known you're working with Brick running Cyrus's east coast territory," Kellie said, "if the rumors about you working with Pikeman are true, believe me when I tell you the feds want you more than they want Jason."
"You don't know what you're talking about," Sonny snapped.
"How many times have you said that to me when you don't like what I have to say," Kellie said.
"About as many times as you refuse to listen to me about what needs to happen," Sonny replied, "You may not like the solution.…"
"Except no one else is on board with this solution you came up with," Kellie interrupted, "Not Carly or Jason that's for sure."
"I need you to convince Jason to do this," Sonny said.
"Absolutely not," Kellie said, "Do you even listen to yourself? How can you stand there and ask me to take a match to my life like that?"
"I know this isn't easy," Sonny said, "But you're strong. You and Jason can handle this. Carly and Michael, prison's no place for either of them. You've said it yourself, you've always understood this life, the business means there's certain ugly truths, harsh realities we have to deal with."
"I never thought it would involve you asking me and my children to take the hit for something someone else did," Kellie said, "Let Diane sort out the charges and fight it. Or turn yourself in, but leave my family out of it."
"Kellie," Sonny pleaded.
"Just stop," Kellie said, "You know, I really thought I'd seen everything from you. I really didn't think you could surprise me any more. Sure, we've never really gotten along consistently and there's lots of things we disagree on. I've accepted that we were never going to have a great relationship especially once I figured out your egocentric arrogance was never going to change.
"Wait a minute," Sonny protested.
"You might your have moments where we connect and things are good," Kellie continued, "But there's always another shoe waiting to drop with you from…actually there's no point in rehashing old history. Yeah, there I things I expect and know happen with this life. But I don't think I ever thought for one second you'd ask something of me that tells me….You know what I've wasted enough time here."
"What were you going going to say?" Sonny asked.
Kellie thought for a moment.
"If somehow the roles between Michael and I were reversed or even between Kristina and Dante and I," Kellie said, "Would you ask something like this of my other siblings? Or am I the only one?"
"That doesn't even make sense," Sonny said, "You're the one married to Jason. That's not something that would ever apply to your siblings."
"Basically, maintaining my siblings lives and keeping their families together is more important even if costs me mine," Kellie said.
"That's not what I'm saying," Sonny replied.
"Well that's the message I'm getting," Kellie said, moving towards the door.
Sonny moved to block Kellie from getting to the door.
"You are completely misunderstanding me," Sonny said.
"No, I'm not," Kellie said, "You just don't want to admit it. But it doesn't matter because I can at least admit it and know that I deserve better than for my father of all people to ask me to make that kind of sacrifice."
Kellie reached around Sonny and banged on the door.
"Don't contact me again," Kellie said, "I'm done…just done with all this."
Trent cracked the door open causing Sonny to move.
"Kellie come on," Sonny said.
"No," Kellie said, "Even if you understood how messed up this is and apologized, I probably wouldn't believe you anyway. As far as I'm concerned you just need to stay from me and my family and that includes Charles. I know Yuri had to stop you from going after him."
"That's not what happened," Sonny started to say, "I just..."
"Save it," Kellie interrupted, "I don't know why you approached Charles yesterday. I have no interest in whatever excuse you have."
"That's what this is about isn't it," Sonny yelled, "Charles is back. So you don't have time or space for me in your life anymore."
"Charles has nothing to with this," Kellie replied, her eyes flashing angrily at Sonny, "We both know we'd still be having this same conversation if Victor had actually killed Charles like we thought for the last year. Before that, I was barely speaking to you after Nixon Falls as it was. That's on you."
Kellie shoved to her way past Sonny when he grabbed her arm as Olivia showed up.
"Sonny, enough," Olivia said as Kellie yanked her arm away, "I can hear the two of you yelling all the way down the hall from the elevator. What is going on"
"This is ends here," Kellie said, lowering her voice to Sonny, ignoring Olivia's question, "Like I said, we're done. So stay away from me, my kids, my family, Charles. And if you even think about continuing with this idea of Jason going to prison to get the SEC charges against Carly and Michael dropped, I wont' hesitate to dig up the dirt to turn you over to the feds myself. We both know I could do it. If you want to test it that's up to you. Understood?"
Sonny looked as if he was about to say something when he caught Olivia's glare.
"Don't you dare," Olivia mouthed.
Sonny nodded, grudgingly. Kellie stormed out of the penthouse and Olivia shut the door before turning her attention back to Sonny.