The Boathouse, The Q Mansion:
Brenda(lays wrapped in a boat tarp practically purring like a cat whose 
been in the cream, while Sonny stares down at his wedding band already 
regretting what happened)That was incredible, baby, but then you always 
are.(he suddenly sits up and she notices the marks she left on his back. 
She runs her fingertips over them)Oh, poor baby, look what I did to your 
back.(she sits up and begins kissing his back)Let me kiss them and make 
it all better.
Sonny(pulls away from her)Brenda, don't!(he throws back the tarp and 
grabs his pants)
Brenda:Sonny, what's the matter.
Sonny:(steps into his trousers and zips them up)What's wrong? In case 
it's slipped your mind, I happen to be married. I just cheated on my 
wife. That's what's wrong.
Brenda:(lays back and relaxes)Oh, is that all.
Sonny:Is that all? I just committed adultery. That's a mortal sin.
Brenda:You and I both know why you married Carly, so I'm sure it doesn't 
even count. Besides, you don't love Carly, you love me. You only married 
her to help her keep her kid.
Sonny:That's not how it works. It doesn't matter why I married Carly, 
all that matters is that I'm married to her in the eyes of God. That's a 
holy sacrement. A convenant between me and God. We took sacred marriage 
vows together and I broke them.
Brenda(rolls her eyes)You and your catholic guilt. Thank god, those 
pesky nuns didn't manage to brainwash me the way they have you. Sonny, 
do you have any idea what a truly perverse creature that you are. You 
don't even flinch over breaking the law, but you break your stupid 
marriage vows and you act like some celestial lightning bolt is going to 
shoot you in the butt or something.
Sonny(yanks his arms angerly into his shirt)I'm so glad you find this so 
amusing, but I don't.(he buttons up his shirt)This is a mistake that 
should have never happened and I promise you, it's never going to 
happen, again.
Brenda:Oh, yes it is, Sonny. You love me. We belong together.
Sonny:I told you before. This isn't what I want. I don't want this.
Brenda:What are you saying, Sonny? Are you saying Carly is what you 
want? Sonny, you don't love Carly, you love me. All you have with Carly 
is sex.
Sonny:And that's all I want.
Brenda:She can't make you as happy as I can make you.
Sonny:She also can't make me as miserable, either. If I have to give up 
the incredible highs I feel being with you so I won't have to experience 
the devastating lows that go along with it, it's a sacrifice I'm more 
than willing to make.(he grabs his jacket and storms out)
Brenda:Sonny, come back.(she throws off the tarp and grabs for her 
dress)
V(enters just as Brenda's pulling her dress up.)My god, you had sex with 
him, didn't you? And right under Jax's nose.
Brenda:Stay out of this, V. This doesn't concern you.(she heads for the 
door)
V:(grabs her arm)Doesn't concern me? Excuse me, Jax and I were on our 
way to get married until you showed up and ruined everything.
Brenda:Look, I haven't got time to discuss this with you. I've got to go 
after Sonny.
V:Make time. Sonny Corinthos is all you can think about, isn't he. He's 
all you really care about.
Brenda:What's this all about.
V:The truth, Sunny. That is what you were calling yourself in California 
before you realized you were Brenda Barrett, isn't it?
Brenda:Well, well, little V has grown claws, hasn't she?
V:I'm not just going to sit by while you hurt Jax, again. I went to 
California and I know the truth. The man you had memories of when your 
memory was returning was Sonny, not Jax. He's the one you really came 
back to. But when you learned Sonny married Carly you lied and told Jax 
he was the one your remembered and loved. That he was the one you came 
back to. You know, I used to wonder how you could choose Sonny Corinthos 
over Jax, but now I know. It's because you're just as rotten as he is.
Brenda:Where do you get off judging something you could never hope to 
understand. Sonny and I are two very complicated people who love each 
other and have a very flawed and complicated relationship. People like 
you and Jax could never hope to understand what Sonny and I share. I'm 
sure to people like you our relationship seems sick and obsessive and 
Sonny and I seem, as you would put it, not very nice, because people 
like you and Jax don't feel as deeply as Sonny and I do.
V:I could care less about your relationship with Sonny Corinthos. All I 
care abaout is making sure you don't hurt Jax, again. Which is why I'm 
giving you an ultimatum. Either you tell Jax the truth or I will. What 
will it be.
Brenda:Look, V, if you'll just be patient for a little while longer, Jax 
will be all yours, again. I'm just borrowing him for a little while.
V:Borrowing him! Jax is a human being with feelings. He's not a cup of 
sugar.
Brenda:Look, I didn't twist Jax's arm into dumping you and coming back 
to me. So why shouldn't I take advantage of the situation to help me get 
Sonny back. If you're worried I'm sleeping with Jax, I'm not, nor do I 
intend to. I'm just going to make Sonny think I am to drive him crazy.
V:I don't believe you. How can Jax love someone like you.
Brenda:Because he doesn't know the real me, he only thinks he does. Just 
like he made totally false assumptions about my relationship with Sonny 
based on very little knowledge, he did the same thing with me. He sees 
me through rose-colored glasses. Sonny says I have this habit of putting 
men up on pedestals and not seeing them for the way they really are. 
Well, that's what Jax has done with me. He decided a long time ago what 
I was really like and believes the image of me he's built in his mind is 
the real me. Jax basically loves someone who doesn't really exist, while 
Sonny loves me for the devious, spoiled brat that I am. Sonny knows and 
accepts that I'll do anything I have to to get what I want, while the 
one time Jax got a glimpse of the real me, he didn't like what he saw. 
And when I saw how disgusted he was by me when I broke into Miranda's 
room and read her love letters from him, I ended up pretending to be who 
he wanted me to be to please him, instead of being who I really am. But 
I'm done doing that. From now on, I'm going to be me and whoever doesn't 
like it is just tough.
V:The more I hear, the more convinced I am Jax needs to be told the 
truth about you and told now.
Brenda:V, Jax won't think you for shattering his illusions about me. 
When Miranda told Jax the truth about me,he turned on her, and he'll do 
the same thing to you. Just keep quiet and let this thing between Sonny 
and I play out to it's conclusion and you'll have Jax back in the end.
V:You want me to just sit back while you rip Jax's heart out, again? 
Well, I can't do that.
Brenda:No, you'd rather do it, yourself and risk Jax hating you in the 
process. You know, they don't shoot the messenger for nothing.
Jax(enters)Brender, here you are.(he hugs her)I've been so worried about 
you. Why did you leave the party like that.
Brenda:I just needed some fresh air. Isn't that right, V?

The Boat Dock, near the Boathouse:
Carly(finds Sonny sitting on the dock with his arms wrapped around his 
bent knees staring out at sea)I've been looking for you everywhere. Are 
you all right?(she sits down next to him)
Sonny(can't bring himself to look at her)Yeah, I'm fine.
Carly:Why did you disappear from the party the way you did.
Sonny:The part was getting to me and I just wanted to go somewhere quiet 
and be alone for awhile.
Carly:I can't say I blame you. Brenda Barrett hasn't given you a moments 
peace since you arrived. You know it's a funny thing. Brenda disappeared 
from the party about the same time as you. I felt sure I'd find the two 
of you together.
Sonny:Carly, I really don't want to talk about Brenda. I'd prefer to 
talk about us. Carly, you know our marriage is just temporary until 
you're granted permanent custody of Michael, but I wanted to be a good 
husband to you until then. I wanted to honor the wedding vows we took. 
My mother and the nuns raised me to believe that marriage vows were a 
sacred promise you made to God and to each other and no matter what the 
circumstances are you don't break them for any reason. Carly, I've done 
some really rotten things in my life and I've crossed the line when it 
comes to the rules were all supposed to live by, but I've drawn a line 
for myself over things I won't do and I live by my own code of honor. 
I'm unquestionably loyal, when I make a promise I don't break it and I 
don't cheat. Carly, until now I've never broken my own rules, but I did, 
tonight. Carly, I didn't leave the party alone. I left with Brenda and 
we...
Carly(suddenly pulls him to her and kisses him to stop him from 
finishing what he was about to say)Sonny, don't say anymore. I don't 
want to hear it. Sonny, you'r a good husband to me and that's all I need 
or want to know. You're the best. Any other man who'd only married me so 
I could keep custody of Michael wouldn't treat me as good as you do. You 
treat me as if you'd married me because you're in love with me and as if 
our marriage was really going to last until death do us part. You don't 
owe me any explantions.
Sonny:Carly, I'm not a good husband. I've betrayed you, tonight, in more 
ways than one. My god, earlier this evening I even accused you of theft. 
I should have never accused you of stealing those stupid bracelets. I 
should have known you wouldn't do something like that. I'm sorry. I'm 
sorry for that and everything else I've done tonight to dishonor you. I 
promise you I'll make it up to you, somehow, and it'll never happen, 
again.
Carly:Sonny, I have this keychain that says, "Caroline". Jason gave it 
to me for Christmas when I was pregnant with Michael. If I'd discovered 
it missing, I would have done the same thing you did. I would have 
accused you of stealing it and demanded you give it back. It means the 
same thing to me as those bracelets mean to you. (she suddenly 
smiles)You haven't figured it out, yet, have you?
Sonny:Figured what out?
Carly:I am you, Heathcliff.
Sonny:Carly, I don't know what you're talking about. And why are you 
calling me after that fat, lazy, cartoon cat.
Carly:Sonny, I wasn't talking about that Heathcliff. I was talking about 
the one in Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff was this dark, brooding, 
tortured soul who couldn't ever really be happy and eventhough he did 
some really rotten things he was considered the hero of the story. The 
heroine, Catherine, knew she and Heathcliff were the same person and 
when I was a teenager I wanted to meet my very own Heathcliff one day 
who would know and understand me without me ever having to explain 
myself to him because he was me.
Sonny:And you think I'm your Heathcliff and you're my Catherine?
Carly:I know it. Sonny, we are the same person. We're two sides of the 
same coin. If anyone crosses us, were vindictive and we make them sorry 
they ever dared to mess with us. We have a hard time trusting people. 
We'll keeping fighting with our last dying breath because all we know 
how to do is fight. We don't take anything off anyone. We get in 
people's faces until they'd probably like to smack us. Were both capable 
of doing some pretty horrible things; you almost slashed someone's face 
and I drugged AJ. When we look at each other it's like were looking at 
our own reflection in the mirror. Our fathers abandoned us as children. 
And the one thing we've both always wanted was a real family. Sonny, I 
know Brenda is the love of your life, but she's not your soul mate. I 
am. And I should warn you, I promised myself if I ever found my 
Heathcliff, I'd never let him go.(she suddenly stands up)
Sonny:Where are you going?
Carly(holds out a hand to him)Come on, Heathcliff, let's go home. I've 
had enough of this party, haven't you.
Sonny:(takes her hand and stands up)More than enough. I wish we'd never 
come here, tonight.(as they head in the direction of their car they meet 
up with Jax, Brenda and V who've just exited the boathouse. Sonny and 
Brenda lock eyes for a moment before Sonny and Carly continue on their 
way to their car and Jax and Brenda head back to the party, while a 
troubled V remains behind not knowing what she should do next.


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