CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

BALLROOM, THE NURSES BALL:

Helena: All right, Andreas, if you didn’t kill Tammy Carson, than just who did you kill?

Andreas: I have no idea, Madam. I thought I was killing Ms. Carson.

Helena: All right, of those six women that Lucy Coe creature mentioned, who have been accounted for.

Andreas: Bobbie Spencer, Amy Vining and Tammy Carson.

Helena; So that means it could have been Hannah Scott, Chloe Morgan or Alexis. Maybe it was Alexis you killed, Andreas. Wouldn’t that be wonderful. (their attention is drawn to the stage as another bachelorette is about to reveal her identity).

Lucy: Going once, going twice. Bachelorette has been sold to Ned Ashton.

Helena(as the bachelorette removes her wig and mask)Damn, it wasn’t Alexis.

Alexis(as Ned helps her down from the stage)Ned, why did you get in a bidding war over Bobbie. You thought she was me, didn’t you? Why would you think that? Why would you think Stefan would be bidding on me.

Ned: Alexis, now that he knows you’re not his sister, I wouldn’t put anything past him. I’ve always felt his feelings for you went a lot deeper than brother and sister.

Alexis: Me and Stefan? (she starts laughing)

Ned: Alexis, it’s not funny.

Alexis: Ned, we grew-up together thinking we were cousins, then brother and sister. That’s perverted.

Ned: Well, he knows his mother is his mother and it doesn’t prevent them from kissing each other on the mouth.

Helena: There’s just one bachelorette left. That means you either killed Hannah Scott or Chloe Morgan. Well, next to you killing Alexis, the next person I’d would have chosen was Chloe Morgan. (she watches as the bachelorette removes her mask)This just isn’t my night, is it? So you killed Hannah Scott. You killed an FBI agent. Just great. Now that one of their own has been killed, the feds will be bound-and-determined to find the Sex Toy Stalker. This couldn’t get any worse.

Chloe(as Mac helps her down from the stage)Thank you for bidding on me, Mac.

Mac; It was my pleasure. Shall we go back to the table.

Carly: I wonder what happened to Hannah?

Sonny; Who cares? Can we leave now?(before Carly can answer, Lucy comes out on stage)

Lucy: I want to thank you all for participating in our charity auction and donating so generously. Now it’s time for our next act. Get ready for some really hot dancing as Sonny Corinthos and Carly Benson do the Tango for us.

Sonny(turns furiously to Carly)What did she say?

Carly(pulls him up to his feet and begins dragging him to the stage)When you refused to do an act with Mike, I told her we’d do an act together.

Sonny: Without telling me?

Carly: That seemed the best way to handle you. If you knew about it, I wouldn’t have been able to get you within ten miles of here, tonight.

Sonny: You’re damned right about that. We haven’t even rehearsed. You don’t even know if I know how to do the Tango. What if I make an ass of myself like AJ did.

Carly: You won’t. Sonny, if anyone was born to do the Tango, it’s you. Just do what comes naturally to you and you’ll do fine. Everyone knows the Tango is really just sexual foreplay set to music and I know from experience just how good you are at that.

Sonny: You know instead of taking the risk of making a complete fool of myself, I could just walk off this stage and leave you hanging.

Carly: Yes, you could, but we both know you’d never do that to me. So let’s show these people how it’s really done. (just as the music begins and they take their positions Robin enters and stands in the entrance shocked at what she‘s seeing. By the way Sonny and Carly are touching each other and looking at each other as they dance it becomes immediately obvious to her that they’re lovers. Only a couple who knew each other’s bodies intimately could dance the way Sonny and Carly were dancing. )