CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

CEMETERY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PORT CHARLES:

Ned(begins to give Alexis mouth-to-mouth in a desperate attempt to revive her)Come on, Alexis. Don’t you give up on me. Fight for me.

Alexis(suddenly begins to gasp and choke as she begins to breathe on her own)Ned, what happened? Where am I?

Ned(picks her up in his arms)I’ll explain it to you later. Right now, I’m getting you out of here.(he looks around to give Andreas a good piece of his mind only to find that Andreas has slipped away)

VISITOR’S ROOM, PORT CHARLES COUNTY JAIL:

Bobbie(picks up the telephone as Roy sits down on the other side of the plexi-glass partition that separates them from each other)Roy, how are you doing. Have you had any trouble yet?

Roy: Not so far. I think I’ll be safe until they transfer me back to prison to serve out the rest of my time.

Bobbie: You’re not going back to prison, Roy. You’re going to be released and we’re going to get married like we were plenty over twenty years ago.

Roy: Don’t fool yourself, babe. I’m going back as soon as I have my hearing on the assault charges on Stefan Cassadine.

Bobbie: Roy, I won’t let them take you back. I won’t let them take you away from me, again.

Roy: Bobbie, there’s nothing you can do to stop it. I’ve accepted it and you’ve got to do the same thing.

Bobbie: No! Never! Listen, Roy, I’ve got a plan. I’m going to make Stefan drop the charges he filed against you and once he does everything will be fine.

Roy; How are you going to do that. Didn’t you tell me that you visited him in the hospital and he refused to drop them.

Bobbie: Roy, I have a bargaining chip he has no idea I have. When I use it he’ll have no choice but to do what I say.

Roy: What sort of bargaining chip.

Bobbie: Roy, Stefan is Carly’s father.

Roy: What! How could you not tell me about something like this.

Bobbie: Roy, nobody knows. Not Carly. Not Stefan. Nobody.

Roy: How could he not know he’s Carly’s father.

Bobbie: It’s a long story that I don’t want to get into right now, but don’t you see. Stefan needs a new kidney and Carly is his daughter. I can convince Carly to give one of her kidneys to Stefan in exchange for him dropping all the charges against you.

Roy: How do you know you can convince Carly to do it.

Bobbie; Roy, Carly owes me. She’ll do it if I ask her to. Given a choice between pressing charges against you and getting the kidney he needs to save his life, Stefan will have no choice but to do as I say.

Roy: If you’re so sure he’ll cooperate, why haven’t you approached him with your offer, yet.

Bobbie: Because he’s not desperate enough, yet. I need to wait until things turn a little more dire for Stefan and he thinks he’s going to die without a kidney transplant. Just when he thinks he has no hope of surviving, I’ll swoop in like Florence Nightingale making him an offer he can’t refuse.

Roy: There’s just one problem to your reasoning, babe. What if someone steps forward and offers them their kidney before you can approach Cassadine and make him your generous offer. What will you do then?

L&B HEADQUARTERS:

Carly(looking over the sketches Chloe did for her wedding gown)Chloe, I can’t believe you came all the way back to Port Charles just to design my wedding gown for me.

Chloe: You can thank Jax. He asked me to do it for him.

Carly: Why would Jax care if I have the perfect wedding gown or not.

Chloe: Apparently, Jax owes some sort of favor to Sonny and Sonny called it in. He wanted to make sure you had the perfect wedding gown when the two of you get married in a couple of weeks.

Carly: (with a dreamy expression on her face)Isn’t he wonderful. You won’t believe what Sonny is doing for our honeymoon. He’s renting out this manor house in the English countryside and he’s going to create this fantasy I had of Sonny and I living back in the days of Regency England as Lord Michael and Lady Caroline. It amazing when you think it wasn’t all that long ago that my favorite pet name for Sonny used to be pig and his favorite name for me was slut.

Chloe: Sounds like its love to me.

Carly: Oh, I wouldn’t go that far.

AJ(standing in the doorway listening to them)Oh, why not. You equate love with money just like all prostitutes do.

Carly(stands up and glares at him)No matter how many diamonds and trips you threw at my feet, you could never get me to say the word love in conjunction with your name. The money and jewels were great, unfortunately there was one big drawback. You came along with them.

Chloe: AJ, what are you doing here?

Carly: He probably followed me. Did you? In case its slipped that booze-soaked brain of yours, you and I are divorced. What do I have to do to get rid of you? Kill you.

Chloe: Carly, let’s just ignore him and maybe he’ll go away. (she showed Carly two sketches of wedding gowns she did)Which one do you like best?

Carly(focused on the sketches)I don’t know. I want this gown to be perfect. It has to be just right. I like certain things on both gowns, but neither one feels like it’s the one.

AJ(leaning drunkenly over Carly’s shoulder wreaking of alcoholic fumes)Why so choosey? I got you a gown and you were thrilled to wear it. You weren’t worried if it was the right one or not when you married me.

Carly(glares up at him)You just answered your own question.(she directs her attention back to Chloe)I was thinking of something in Spanish lace. I’m going to be wearing the mantilla Sonny’s mother wore when she married Sonny’s father as my veil as my something old. So I was thinking the gown should be antique Spanish lace, as well.

Chloe: I think that’s an excellent idea. In fact, it’s given me inspiration on what the gown should look like.(Chloe begins to sketch rapidly)

AJ(nearly falls on Carly)So where’s Sonnyboy taking you for your honeymoon. Not Hawaii by any chance?

Carly(shoves him away from her)If I never step foot in Hawaii again it’ll be too soon for me. I was bored out of my mind when I was there with you.

AJ:(takes out his flask and takes a drink)You’re lying. You loved it there with me. That’s when you and I really started to connect.

Carly; I spent all my time thinking of Jason wishing I was there with him instead of you. Every time I had to have sex with you, I’d close my eyes and pretend you were Jason.

AJ(lunges towards her)That’s a lie!

Chloe(steps between them)AJ, leave! (she shoves the sketch in Carly’s face)What do you think of this.

Carly(smiles as she looks at it)Chloe, this is it! This is the gown I want to wear when I marry Sonny.

AJ: Well, I’m so glad for you. And while you and Sonny are off on your honeymoon, I’ll just spend some quality time with Michael.

Carly: Over my dead body. Sonny and I will be taking Michael with us to make sure he’s safe from you.

AJ: You can’t keep me from my son, forever. I will get him back.

Carly: In your alcoholic delusions you will. Do you think any judge would take Michael away from Sonny and me to give him to some drunken loser like you. Especially after Sonny and I get up on the witness stand and tell him how you killed our baby. (she puts her face close to his)When you killed my baby, you killed any chance you ever had of getting Michael away from me. So why don’t you go off and crawl in a booze bottle and forget you ever had a son, the same way Sonny and I have to try and forget the same thing thanks to you.

THE GATEHOUSE:

Alexis: So you’re telling me Helena kidnapped me and buried me alive all so she could lure you away from Emily?

Ned: Emily is Stavros’ daughter and she thinks Emily is the perfect person to donate a kidney to Stefan.

Alexis: But I’m going to donate a kidney to Stefan.

Ned: Yes, but Helena doesn’t know that.

Alexis: So, Helena in her own sick and twisted way is trying to save Stefan’s life. But she hates Stefan. This doesn’t make any sense.

Ned: Maybe Stefan and Helena have as twisted of a relationship as my mother and I have. I know somewhere deep down my mother loves me, but it’s in a very sick and twisted way. Maybe Helena is the same way with Stefan.

Alexis: Or maybe she doesn’t want Stefan to die from a bad kidney. Maybe when Stefan dies she wants it to be at her hands.

Ned: Whatever the case, Helena has got to be stopped. You almost died because of her. If I’d have found you one second later and you would be dead.

Alexis; What are you going to do?

Ned: I don’t know, yet, but I know I’m going to do something.