CHAPTER SEVENTY

A MANOR HOUSE SOMEWHERE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE:

Carly(and Sonny enter the bedroom dressed in clothes that looked like they came straight from the Regency period in England)Sonny...

Sonny: Uh-uh, remember while we’re hear, Lady Caroline, it’s Lord Michael.

Carly; All right, Lord Michael, this is not the way I pictured it to be. No cars, no electricity, no running water.

Sonny: No inside plumbing, either.

Carly: What? How are we supposed to go to the bathroom?

Sonny: Ever heard of a chamber pot.

Carly(makes a look of revulsion)Oh, my god! How did these people survive? How are we going to survive for the rest of our time here.

Sonny(smiled)It was your fantasy to live in Regency England. Welcome to your fantasy, Lady Caroline, won’t you come on in.

Carly: It wasn’t like this in the book?

Sonny: Of course not. The authors of those books make it seem romantic otherwise millions of woman wouldn’t read them.

Carly: Then why couldn’t you do the same?

Sonny: Because I never read one of those books, nor do I ever intend to. I just asked the travel agent to find a place where we could honeymoon where we could pretend to be living back in Regency England as lord and lady of the manor and she found this place. This place has been restored exactly as it was in Regency England.

Carly: Without any of the modern conveniences.

Sonny; Because they didn’t have any of them back then. Come on, Carly, let’s consider this an adventure.(he flopped backwards on the bed) Let’s just embrace the experience.

Carly: (crawls on his lap)I won’t have to milk a cow will I?

Sonny: Of course not. You are Lady Caroline not some lowly serf. You have a dozen servants to wait on you hand-and-foot to see to your every need.

Carly:(smiles) Well, that sounds more like it.

Sonny: I’ll even play your lady’s maid at night when it’s time for us to go to bed. (he started examining her clothes)It’s going to be quite a challenge getting you out of this contraption. I’ve got my bra flick down to a science, but undoing all these laces is going to take time. But I’m sure with practice I’ll get the hang of it and be able to get you out of these as quick as I can remove your bra.

Carly(leaned away from him)Your what?

Sonny: My bra flick. Haven’t you noticed how I can remove your bra with a quick one-handed flick of my wrist. I can have a woman’s bra off her in ten seconds flat.

Carly: No, but I’ve noticed it’s always the first thing you go for. We barely start kissing when I feel your hand working its way under my blouse to unhook my bra. It’s like my bra is a magnet to your fingers or something. I guess you must have plenty of experience removing women’s bras from them?

Sonny: You might say that. I guess you could say I’m a real bra man.

Carly: (shoved him away from her)Sonny, you’re disgusting.

Sonny: That’s Lord Michael.

Carly: He’s disgusting, too.

Sonny(pulls her back in his arms)Carly, we’ve both been with a lot of other people. (he held her face in his hands)But I’ve never had with any of them what I have with you. You have no reason to feel jealous of the other women I’ve been with. None of them hold a candle to you. You’re the only one I want.

Carly: It’s hard for me thinking about you with other women because all the other men I’ve been with before you were just meaningless sex. You’re the only man I’ve ever made love with. That’s why the first time you made love to me...Not the time we were together when you got me pregnant, but the second time we were together...I was so nervous about being with you. I almost felt like a virgin who was going to be with a man for the first time in her life. That’s how you made me feel.

Sonny(moved his face closer to Carly’s)Not even with Jason?

Carly(began to close her eyes as she moved in for a kiss)Not even with Jason.(they kissed each other with a gentleness that brought tears to Carly’s eyes.)

Sonny: There’s something I want you to know, too. You’re the only one I’ve been with since that first night we were together. You’re the only one I’ve wanted to be with. After you left that night. Hannah came back wanting me to have sex with her, but I wouldn’t do it. I couldn’t bare the thought of touching another woman after I’d had you. You were the only woman I wanted, even though at the time I wouldn’t admit it even to myself. You’ve ruined me for all other women. I’ll never share my body with any other woman but you because you’re the only one I’ll ever want. I swear it on my life.(Their kisses grew increasingly more fevered as they tugged impatiently at each other’s clothes in a frenzy to remove them as the tenderness gave way to an all-consuming hunger to be with each other.)

VISITOR’S ROOM, PORT CHARLES COUNTY JAIL:

Bobbie(sat down in the chair opposite the plexi-glass barrier that separated her from Roy and picked up the phone. This would be the last time she’d ever be allowed to see Roy alone. She knew Stefan would see to that. Once Roy found out about her and Stefan he wouldn’t even want to see her, at all. But at least Roy would be free. By agreeing to Stefan’s bargain, she would finally repay Roy for leaving him bleeding in front of the Port Charles Hotel over twenty years ago)Roy, I’ve got great news for you.

Roy; What is it?

Bobbie; You’re going to be released from jail, today.

Roy; You’re kidding. How?

Bobbie: Stefan finally agreed to drop the charges against you.

Roy(flashed back on Helena’s conversation with him and erroneously thought she was behind this.)Well, I’ll be damned. She really managed to pull it off.

Bobbie: What?

Roy: Nothing. So, I’m finally getting out of here. I can finally start to hunt down Hannah’s killer and we can finally be together again.

Bobbie:(didn’t have the courage to admit the truth)Roy, I want you to remember something. No matter what happens you’ll always be my one true love. Promise me you’ll always remember that.

Roy: Bobbie, why are you acting so sad and gloomy? Baby, we’re finally going to be together. All our troubles are finally over.

Bobbie; I just want you to remember that no matter what happens or has happened in the past I love you, Roy, and I always will love you.

Roy: I know that, baby, I know that. Are you acting this way because of the things we said to each other while I’ve been locked up in here? I was just going stir crazy and taking my frustration of not being able to get released out on you. But from now on, you and I are going to have smooth sailing. You just wait and see.

Bobbie(smiled and nodded at Roy like she agreed with him, but deep down she knew better. This would be the last time Roy would ever look at her with love in his eyes. Stefan was waiting outside for her to rejoin him. All her things had been cleared out of the Brownstone and moved into Stefan’s bedroom at Wyndemere. Before she came in to visit Roy he informed her that as soon as they arrived at Wyndemere they would go straight to his bed. That’s how Stefan wanted Roy to find her when he came looking for her when he didn’t find her at the Brownstone. Naked in his bed. Thus Stefan’s revenge against her would begin. She was a fool to think she could outsmart Stefan Cassadine and get away with it.)

Roy(looked at the guard signaling him that their time was up.)I guess we’ve used up all our time, baby. But as soon as I get her no one and nothing will ever keep us apart again.

Bobbie(put her hand up to the glass and he did the same thing so it looked like they were touching each other)I love you, Roy. Goodbye.(then she watched as the guard led him away. He had no idea this really was goodbye.)