CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

QUEEN OF ANGEL’S CHURCH:

Chloe(continues to scream and point. Everyone looks at where she’s pointing. Suddenly AJ comes staggering out of his hiding place)

AJ(holding his hands over his ears)Would you please tell her to shut up. She’s giving me a headache.

Sonny(stomps down the aisle to confront AJ)Quartermaine, what are you doing here.

AJ: I’m not going to let you marry, Carly. Carly and I belong together. We have a child together.

Sonny: Carly and I would have a child together, too, if it weren’t for you, Booze Brain. I don’t know what it’s going to take for you to get it, but Carly wants nothing to do with you. And I’m getting sick of seeing your stupid face every time I turn around.(he shoves AJ towards the exit)And now you’re leaving.

AJ: Who do you think you are?

Sonny: I’m the guy whose going to rip your head off and feed it to your granddaddy for lunch if you don’t stay out of my face.

AJ: You can’t treat me like this I’m a Quartermaine.

Sonny: What you are is a pain. (he shoves him out the door and closes it behind him.)

Carly(turns to Chloe) Chloe, I know AJ is repulsive, but he’s nothing to scream over.

Chloe(continues to stare at Tammy, but doesn’t see her as she looks at present, but as she’ll look in the future. To Chloe, Tammy looks like a walking corpse. Tammy’s hair is hanging in lanky strands. Her lips are a bluish, bloodless color. And her skin is stretched so thinly over her face you can actually see her skull beneath it.) I’m sorry that I interrupted the rehearsal.

Carly: Confidentially speaking, if I’d seen him lurking around the church I probably would have screamed, too.

TALLAHASSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, FLORIDA:

Stefan(enters and goes over to the clerk)Hello, I was wondering if you could help me. I went back to an area I haven’t been in for almost thirty years and it was completely changed. As a result, I’m not sure if it really is the same place I was in so many years ago. Is there any way you could help me.

Clerk: I’m not sure. We have a lot of photos of Tallahassee through the years on our computer‘s hard drive, but I’m not sure if they’re what you’re looking for. You could check our computers to see if anything would be helpful to you.

Stefan: Thank you. I’ll do that. (he heads over to one of the computers. It takes him awhile to go through the archives, but he finally finds out what he’s looking for)So, it is the same whorehouse I was in as a teenager. Now the question remains, how does this figure into what Barbara is keeping from me?

THE PENTHOUSE;

Sonny(as he and Carly enter)That was one weird wedding rehearsal. I sure hope she doesn’t do that at the actual ceremony.

Carly: Who could blame Chloe. You weren’t too calm when you spotted him, yourself.

Sonny; AJ is becoming a real problem. If he doesn’t lay-off of us, I may have to deal with him before our wedding.

Carly: I told you we should just kill him. He’s like some little blood-sucking leech that’s attached himself to my skin and wants to suck all the life out of me.

Sonny: I shouldn’t have lost my cool the way I did. The whole point of moving against him while we’re getting married is so neither one of us will be blamed for it.

MAC’S OFFICE, PORT CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT:

Mac(as Chloe enters)You sounded upset on the phone. What’s wrong?

Chloe: Something strange happened to me at Sonny and Carly’s wedding rehearsal. I happened to glance over at Tammy Carson and it was like I was looking at a corpse. Mac, nothing like this has ever happened to me before. Usually this only happens when I’m asleep.

Mac: So, what do you think it means? You obviously think it means something.

Chloe: I think Tammy Carson is going to be the Sex Toy Stalker’s next victim. I think what I saw was a warning if I don’t do something to warn Tammy she’s going to die.

THE QUARTERMAINE MANSION:

AJ(slips in and makes sure no one sees him. Then he makes his way to Edward’s den. He stands in front of the glass cabinet where all the guns are kept, studying them with the rapt fascination he usually saves for a bottle of vodka. Then he goes over to Edward’s desk and removes the key to the gun cabinet. After removing a gun from the cabinet, he loads it with bullets)There’s not going to be a wedding, Sonny, there’s going to be a funeral. Yours. And once your dead Carly will have no choice but to come back to me.