CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

SONNY‘S PENTHOUSE:

Carly(enters to find Sonny sitting on the couch eating popcorn and watching TV)I just had a little run in with Lucy Coe. She tells me you haven’t shown up at any of the rehearsals for the Nurses Ball.

Sonny: That’s right. I told you I wouldn’t perform in the Nurses Ball and I meant it.

Carly: But I promised Lucy you would.

Sonny(pops some popcorn in his mouth)That’s your problem. Look, sweetheart, you can get me to do a lot of things. I’ve let you treat me as your own personal sex toy to do with as you like until Dr. Meadows says we can be together again, but there’s nothing you can do to get me to perform on stage at the Nurses Ball.(he stands up and Carly notices the front of his t-shirt)

Carly: What is that you’re wearing?

Sonny(spreads it wide so she can get a really good look at it)It’s my Nurses Ball t-shirt.

Carly: That’s not the t-shirt the Nurses Ball is selling.

Sonny: Well, it’s my own design, I must admit.

Carly(reads the front of his t-shirt)I survived the Nurses Ball 2000. That’s real cute, Sonny.

Sonny: It’s also true. I have never performed at any of the previous Nurses Ball, nor do I have no intention of performing on stage at any of the future Nurses Ball and there’s nothing you can do to make me.

Carly: Why do you have to be so stubborn?

Sonny: It’s part of my charm.

MAC’S OFFICE, PORT CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT:

Chloe(enters)Mac, can I talk to you?

Mac: Chloe, what are you doing here? I thought you left town with Jax.

Chloe: I did. I’m only back for Carly’s wedding.

Mac: What can I do for you?

Chloe: I’ve had another one of my dreams. Mac, I don’t understand it. When I was away from Port Charles the dreams stopped, but now that I’ve come back they’ve returned. And this one was the worst of all.

Mac: What was it about?

Chloe: I saw this woman being murdered. Mac, it was awful. I saw someone lodge a dildo in her throat.

Mac: Did you say dildo?

Chloe: You seem shocked that I said the word dildo much less that I know what it is. Would it shock you even more to know that I’ve even used one on an occasion or two? (Chloe laughed)I know I look like an angel, but I’ve spent years jet-setting around the world and we got up to some pretty wild stuff. While a lot of my friends experimented with drugs, I stuck with sex. I even once attended an orgy that was thrown by this Italian count at his chateau on the Italian Riviera. I hope that doesn’t spoil your image of me as Little Mary Sunshine.

Mac: I guess I shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover. Maybe when Felicia started hankering after Luke Spencer I should have given her a dildo and told her to knock herself out, then our marriage wouldn’t be over and she wouldn’t have neglected Maxie and Georgie so much. Well, that’s water under the bridge. Back to your dream. Tell me about it?

Chloe: After this person...I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman...lodged the dildo in this woman’s throat, I could actually feel this woman’s struggles as she laid dying. I could feel her struggling to breathe and being unable to get any air into her windpipe. I could feel her lungs and heart about to burst as she knew no matter how hard she fought, she was going to die. And I could see everything go black when she finally suffocated. It was the most grisly thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I was experiencing her death as she died.

Mac: Can you describe this woman.

Chloe: Yes, I’ll never forget it for as long as I live.

Mac: Good, I’ll call in the police artist and see if we can find out if what you saw really happened.

Chloe: Mac, I have no doubt what I saw was real. It was just too real to just be a dream.

HELENA’S YACHT:

Alexis(storms in)All right, you tell me who I am!

Helena(sipping wine)You’re talking in riddles, Alexis. Just what is that supposed to mean?

Alexis: I offered to be a donor so Stefan could have a kidney transplant and not only wasn’t I a compatible donor, Tony Jones told me I also wasn’t Stefan’s sister. You knew that, didn’t you. That’s why you wanted Emily Quartermaine to be a donor. Because you knew I couldn’t be a donor, because you knew I wasn’t really a Cassadine.

Helena: Are you telling me you’re not Mikkos’ bastard. That I had to put up with you for all these years for nothing!

Alexis: You didn’t know?

Helena: Of course I didn’t know you sniveling whelp. So Mikkos’ precious Kirsten betrayed him. All those years he blamed me for that bitch’s death and it was all for nothing. Mikkos turned her into some sort of sacred martyr and if I’d have only let her live he would have discovered the truth about her. That the lovechild he believed to be his belonged to another man.

HALL OUTSIDE OF STEFAN’S ROOM, GENERAL HOSPITAL:

Bobbie(approaches Tony)So, have you scheduled Stefan’s transplant operation, yet?

Tony: Alexis wasn’t a match, so we’ve had to put Stefan on the waiting list for a kidney.

Bobbie: Really?

Tony: Bobbie, I know you have every reason to dislike Stefan Cassadine, but this nothing to feel happy about.

Bobbie: Tony, I know my behavior makes no sense at the moment, but in time you’ll understand.

Stefan(standing in the door of his hospital room)Perhaps you wouldn’t mind explaining it to me, right now. Just why are you so interested in my medical problems.