The Beach, Miami: Sonny(and Carly walking along the water's edge barefooted)So how did you like your first mob function. Carly:I don't know what you were so worried about. Sonny:Carly, I brought you along, tonight, so you'd get that the mob life has a very dark and ugly side to it, but I'm not sure that you did. You seemed more impressed by the fancy ballroom, crystal chandolier, cavier and french champagne than the fact that one slip of the tongue and you could have been taken out and wasted. Carly:Come on, Sonny... Sonny: You remember that guy you were talking to, tonight? Charlie? Carly:Oh, yeah, the really funny, sweet old little man. The guy who runs a string of bookie joints. What about him. Sonny:Well, awhile back his wife started hitting the sauce a bit too much. When she got tanked up she had a bad habit of blowing off her mouth about good old Charlie's operation and she because a threat to him, so he had to have her taken care of. So one day when she was walking across the street this car came out of nowhere and mowed her down. The police ruled it an unsolved hit and run. Still think Charlie's sweet and funny, now? Carly:Why are you telling me this? Sonny:Because you seem to think being married to the mob is some great thing. Charlie was married to his wife for over twenty years and he loved her, but when she became a threat to him he had to have her removed or risk her ending up getting him killed. It was kill or be killed. Most women who marry into the mob, then later can't hack it and want out end up just like Charlie's wife. Getting out in a pinebox. Carly:If the mob is so bad why do you keep going back to it. Sonny:Because I love the excitement. I crave the power. So I put up with the ugly side of the business. For the most part I'm able to run the operation like a business, but there's still violence and killing when people get too greedy and want too big of a piece of pie, they become a threat to the operation or they believe in running things the old way like Moreno does. Carly:All right, I get the message. But I've had enough of this gloom and doom talk for the evening.(she begins unbuttoning his shirt) Sonny:Carly, what do you think you're doing? Carly:You wouldn't go for a swim with me, earlier, so I thought we could go for one now. Sonny:I don't have a suit with me. Carly:We won't need one. Sonny:Carly, this is a public beach. Anyone could come by and catch us. Carly:Exactly, besides it's the middle of thing night and the beach is completely deserted. Come on, Mr. I-Love-Excitement. Think of how exciting it will be to go skinnydipping on a public beach when at any moment we could be caught. MORENO'S MOB HEADQUARTERS: Bodyguard(enters)Mr. Moreno, our man in Miami just called in. Corinthos and his wife attended a mob function at the Miami Hilton, tonight. Moreno:So he's going ahead with his plans to take back his territory, is he? So Corinthos just ignored my warning. He didn't take it to heart. Bodyguard:What are you going to do, Mr. Moreno. Moreno:I want you to send one of our people over to General Hospital to break into their file rom. They've got a medical file on Corinthos from the time he was admitted after Harry Silver shot him up with heroin. Bodyguard:Why do you need his medical file for. Moreno:I need to find out his blood type. I warned Corinthos there were things worse than death. Since he's refused to heed my warning, it's time for me to make his worse nightmare come true. One that he'll never be able to wake up from. THE BIXBY ESTATE, MANSION NEXT DOOR TO THE QUARTEMAINE MANSION: Brenda(and Jax enter)Jax, why have you brought me here. Jax:(he holds his arms out wide)Welcome to our new home, Brender. Brenda:Jax, what are you talking about? Are you telling me you've bought this place for us? Jax:I signed the papers on it, this morning. So what do you think. Brenda:Jax, I'm perfectly comfortable living in the penthouse. Jax:That place was fine for awhile, but I thought it was time we had our own place. And the location is perfect. We'll be living right next door to the Quartermaines, Port Charles' leading family. Brenda:Jax, I wish you'd have talked to me about this before you'd purchased this place. Jax:What's to talk about. This place is perfect and fits all our needs. I'm going to have people working around the clock to ready the ballroom for our engagement ball. And look at that winding staircase. I can already picture you walking down it in a long, white wedding gown on our wedding day. Brenda:You want us to get married here? I thought we could get married in a church. Jax:You mean like you and Corinthos were planning to do? No, thank you very much. I don't want our wedding resembling in the slightest the one you planned with Corinthos. Just think about it, Brender. Won't it be romantic being married in the house were going to spend the rest of our lives in together.(he wraps his arms around her)Just think about it. After all our guests go home, I'll carry you up that staircase to our big king-sized bed and we'll finally make love with each other. Won't that be wonderful. Brenda:Jax, there's just so much to do. Maybe instead of getting married in one month, we should make it three, so we'll have time to do everything in. Jax:Nonsense, anything can be accomplished if you've got enough money to hire people to do them for you and I've got enough money. Now what do you want to name our new home. Brenda:Name it. Jax:Yes, name it. You know like Scarlett's plantation was named Tara in Gone With The Wind. Brenda;I don't know. How about Jacks Manor. Jax:No, that's too pedestrian. It's not special enough. It should be named something that represents our relationship. I know, how about Nobody Leaves. We could have that engraved on the entrance gate in solid gold. What do you think. Bobbie's Bathroom: Bobbie(is running water into the tub when the phone rings in her bedroom. She rushed to answer it)Hello? Stefan:Barbara, you sound out of breath. Is everything all right? Bobbie:I just ran from the bathroom. What's up? Stefan;I just had a thought. Could you wait before I get there before you get dressed for the evening. Bobbie:Why? Stefan;How suspicious you sound, Barbara. Do you think I have something nefarious in mind. Bobbie:You've made no secret of the fact you want us to become physical again. So is it any wonder I get suspicious when you don't want me to get dressed before you get here. Stefan:Barbara, I don't need to sink to such subterfuge to get a woman in my bed. I can assure you they all come quite willingly, as you yourself can tesitfy to. Bobbie:So why don't you want me to get dressed before you get here. Stefan:I've brought you a dress I want you to wear for the evening. When we arrive at this hospital function, tonight, you can casually drop to Katherine that I'm the one who bought it for you. It'll drive her nuts. Bobbie;Fine, Stefan, whatever you say. Look, I've really got to go. my tub's overflowing. I'll see you when you get, here. Bye.(she hangs up the phone and rushes into the bathroom and sees water all over the floor)Oh, great, this is all I need. (she rushes over to the tub and turns off the taps.)I'll clean it up after I take my bath.(she slips off her robe and climbs into the tub)This is just what I needed. As that commerical goes, Calgon, take me away.(as she lays back in the steaming bubbles, Tony slips into her bedroom and heads towards the bathroom. Then he quietly slips into the bathroom and stands over Bobbie staring down at her. Bobbie feeling his presence the way a person can always feel it when they're being starred at opens her eyes expecting to find herself alone and screams when she sees Tony.) .............................................................. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com