Sonny's Penthouse: Sonny( and Carly are sitting at the table eating breakfast)Could you pass me the butter? Carly:Here. I heard you come in late. Just what were you up to, last night, anyway. Sonny:(butters his toast)I was do something for Luke. Carly:Were you really? Sonny:I can tell by your tone of voice that you don't believe me. Just what do you think I was doing, last night. Carly:I think you were with Brenda. I saw the two of you talking at Wyndham's, yesterday. I saw the way the two of you were looking at each other. Was that when you arranged your rendezvous. Sonny:I've been completely honest with you about Brenda. If I'd spent time with her, last night, I would tell you. Carly:Sonny, ever since that night we made love in the office at the club you've been distant with me. Sonny:Carly, I'm sorry if you feel I've been distant, but I've had a lot on my mind lately. And, right now, I've got to go upstairs and shower and get dressed for work. Luke needs me to go over the books at the club. We'll talk about his later.(he gets up from the table and heads upstairs) Carly(takes out the bottle of Viagra)Well, I know how to end your distance Sonny.(she shakes out two pills into her hand and then begins to crush them into powder) Port Charles Grille: Helena(as Luke sits down at her table)Luke, darling, if I knew by getting married I'd garner so much attention from you, I would have done it ages ago. Luke:(tosses the stack of cancelled checks on the table)I just wanted to return some property of yours. Care to explain them. Helena:(goes through the checks)These were in my safe. So, that's why you really invited me to your club, last night. You wanted to lure me away from my yacht so youcould have an accomplice search it. And the reason you followed me to my yacht and kissed me was because your accomplice was still on my boat and you were distracting me so he could make his escape. Luke:Well, baby, there's no flies on you, is there? Helena:Is there anything in particular that you were looking for on my yacht. Luke:Bobbie told me you were blackmailing her with some tape you have on her and the Bat, so I thought I'd cut you off at the knees by relieving you of it. Helena:Well, thank you for returning my property to me. Luke:Care to explain to me what these payments were for? Helena:I don't think that's any of your business. Luke:Well, I think it is. You see, the woman you made all these payments to just happens to be the woman who adopted my sister's daughter. And the payments you made to Virginia Benson started at about the time she adopted Carly. A suspicious person might think there was some connection between your payments and Virginia Benson adopting Carly, but you'd have no reason to be interested in the Spencer's way back then because that was long before I sent your dearly departed husband to his final reward. Helena:Luke, darling, I suggest you let this drop, because if you don't you just might find out something you're not going to like. Like the Cassadines had a very good reason to be interested in the Spencers long before you murdered my Mikkos. I'm aware you detest the thought of your sister being with my son as much as I do, but if you don't mind your own business you're going to end up pushing them even closer together. Sonny's Penthouse: Sonny(is coming down the stairs when he sees Carly pouring something into a cup of coffee, then slipping a bottle into the pocket of her robe)I was just coming down to apologize to you. You're right, I have been a bit distant with you since the night we made love in the office. Carly:I knew I wasn't imagining things. I could feel you pulling away from me.(she hands him the cup of coffee he saw her pour something into)Here, I made it just the way you like it. Sonny:(takes the cup and looks down at the contents inside)Thanks. You see, after you left the club that night something happened. I suddenly started feeling ill. My heart started beating fast and my head began to spin and I ended up passing out on the floor of the club. I was rushed to the hospital. When I came to in the emergency room they told me I was suffering from a drug overdose and from of all things they said I'd OD'ed on Viagra. Isn't that ridiculous. Carly:Baby, why didn't you tell me. Sonny:I didn't want to worry you. Anyway, if I've been distant ist's because I've been preoccupied trying to figure out how I could have gotten an overdose of Viagra. Do you have any idea how it might have happened? Carly:I haven't a clue. Sonny:(makes like he's going to take a sip of his coffee to see if she'll stop him from drinking it, and when she doesn't he lowers the cup, himself)The closet thing I can figure out is someone put some Viagra in a drink at the club adn I accidentally drank it by mistake. Carly:That's the only explanation I can think of, too.(she watches as he brings the coffee cup up to his mouth, again, to take a sip) Sonny(blows on it, instead)This is really hot. I suppose you're right. But it still makes me wonder. Did someone put it into their own glass or did someone try to slip it into someone's drink without them being aware of it. Carly(laughs nervously)Why would someone do that? Sonny:(laughs, too)I don't know. Maybe they wanted to give their partner's sexual performance a little boost without them being aware of it. Carly:(smiles weakly)Maybe. Shouldn't you drink your coffee before it gets too cold. Sonny(smiles as her as he takes a sip, then he spits it back into the cup and bangs it down on the table)You'd actually let me drink this stuff after what I just told you, wouldn't you? Carly:Sonny, I don't know what you mean. Sonny:Stop lying. I saw you put someething in my coffee. Just like you did that night at the club. My god, you could have killed me. You don't know how much I didn't want to believe it was you because I really fell in love with you. And I didn't fall in love with you because we had great sex togetehr. I fell in love with you the person. Sex had nothing to do with it. Why couldn't you have just played it straight with me. Carly:How could I when Brenda wasn't playing it straight. You're my husband. Mine! But every chance she got she used it to try and take you away from me. She seduced you at the Quartermaine party. She even tried to seduce you at her own engagement party. What was I supposed to do. Just lay down and play dead for her and just let his take you away from me. Sonny:So you drug me with a sex pill. How was that supposed to keep me. Come on, Carly, out with it. I've been racking my brain to think why you'd do something like this to me and I've come to the conclusion that there's more to it than just you thinking you could hang on to me through sex. You must have had some elaborate plan for doing this, so out with it. Carly:You're right, there was more to it than just having sex. I knew if I got pregnant with your child you'd never leavae me. And to get pregnant, you've got to have sex. Sonny:How did you think you were going to get pregnant. We've had protected sex everytime except that night at the club.(he catches a fleeting look of guilt cross her face)What else did you do. I know you did something. So out with it. Carly:I poked holes in your condoms. Sonny:(gasps hardly able to believe what he just heard)You poked holes in my condoms! Carly:I didn't have a choice. I was fighting for my marriage and to keep my husband from the clutches of that homewrecking hussy. Sonny:Well, your stunts have had just the opposite effect, because you've lost me. It's over between us.(he heads for the door) Carly:What about Michael! If you leave me AJ will take Michael away from me. You promised me you wouldn't let that happen. Sonny:You should have thought about that before you started drugging me. There's no way I can continue with this marriage after this. Carly:You're going right to her, aren't you? Sonny:Yes, I'm going to Brenda. You've made my choice for me.(he slams out the door) Carly(yells at the door)Sonny, I'm not going to lose you!(she rushes over to the phone and calls Jax)Jax, it's me, Carly. Sonny's on his way over to Brenda. Jax:What happened. Carly:He left me. You've got to take Brenda out of town or something so Sonny can't reach her. If you can keep her away from him long enough I know I can get him back. Jax:Don't worry, I'll handle it.(he hangs up the phone and turns to his father) John:What is it? Jax:Corinthos has finally made his choice. He's on his way to tell Brenda. John:Don't worry, I'll take care of it.(he picks up the phone)Moreno, it's John Jacks. You've got to move against Corinthos, now. The Docks: Sonny(on a pay phone)Brenda, it's me. Brenda:Sonny, why are you calling me. Sonny:I've left Carly. It's over between us. Brenda:Does this mean what I think it does? Sonny:I love you, Brenda. I want to be with you. Brenda:Where are you. Sonny:I'm on the docks near the spot where we first met. Brenda:Stay right there. I'm on my way. Sonny:I won't move a muscle. Brenda:I love you, baby, and we're going to be so happy together. Just you wait and see. Sonny:I love you, too.(as he hangs up the phone someone comes up behind him and holds a chlroformed rag over his nose and mouth until Sonny goes limp in their arms and passes out) Will February Sweeps be a dud? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com