Sonny's Penthouse:
Sonny:(and Carly enter)I don't want to talk about this.
Carly:You can't keep this bottled up inside of you or get yourself so 
liquored up you wont' have to think about this. You have to deal with 
this.
Sonny:Oh and just tell me how I'm supposed to do that. I've just had a 
death sentence delivered to me. My life is as good as over.
Carly:No, it's not. Look at Robin.
Sonny:I'm not Robin. I'm not the HIV posterchild. I don't want to get up 
every year at the Nurses Ball and give some uplifting speech about how 
I'm positive about being HIV positve. This isn't fair. I didn't do 
anything to deserve this. I didn't do drugs. I didn't have unsafe sex. I 
was attacked on the docks and injected with infected blood.
Carly:I know...
Sonny:No, you don't know. You don't know what I'm going through or what 
I'm feeling. I watched this disease slowly devour Stone alive until 
there was nothing left of him. I watched helplessly as first it robbed 
him of his sight then his life. And now I've got it and it's going to do 
the same thing to me.
Carly:You don't know that you've got it.
Sonny:Oh, I've got it, all right. I just know I do.
Carly:All right, let's say you do have it. It doesn't have to change 
anything.
Sonny:It changes everything.
Carly:Not between us.
Sonny:There is no us, anymore.
Carly:It doesn't have to be that way.
Sonny:Carly, I have a sexually transmitted disease. I saw what it did to 
Stone when he passed it one to Robin. I won't do the same thing to you. 
My sex life is over.
Carly:It doesn't matter to me if we never have sex again as long as we 
can be together.
Sonny:Who are you kidding. You fed me Viagra because sex is so important 
to you.
Carly:That had nothing to do with sex. It was a desperate act to keep 
from losing you.
Sonny:Well, be glad that you have. Consider yourself lucky and get out 
while the getting is good.
Carly:Are you saying that because of Brenda. Because you want her to 
help you get through this instead of me.
Sonny:No, it's over between Brenda and I. She has someone who is healthy 
and can give her a long, happy life. I can ask her to give that up for 
me to end up watching me die in the end. I can't give her children, much 
less sex, but Jax can. The next time I see Brenda I'm going to tell her 
to forget about me and go through with marrying Jax. And I'm telling you 
the same thing. Find yourself someone who can give you and Michael a 
long happy life and forget about me.(he heads upstairs)

Airport:
Brenda(on the pay phone)I've tried calling Mr. Corinthos' room and I 
can't get an answer. Can you take a message for me and deliver it to his 
room, personally. What? He's checked out? Thank you.(she puts some more 
money into the phone and begins to dial the penthouse)
John:(standing behind her)I hope you're not trying to call Mr. 
Corinthos', my dear?
Brenda:(hangs up the phone and turns to him)And if I am?
John:That would be an unfortunate mistake...for Mr. Corinthos, that is.
Brenda:Just what are you saying.
John:You don't need me to spell it out for you, do you? Wasn't what 
happened to him on the docks enough for you.
Brenda:I'm waring you. If you dare to harm him...
John:All you have to do to insure his continued safety is to stay away 
from him. Now, shall we join Jax on the plane.

Jax's Penthouse:
Veronica(enters then turns to the bellhop)Thank you for letting me in. I 
should have told Cousin Jax I was arriving from Paris, this afternoon.
Bellhop:It's all right, Ms. Jacks. It was no trouble letting you in.
Veronica:Thank you.(she closes the door behind him)So, Jax, you're 
living somewhere else with my daughter now, are you? Well, I'll just 
have to find out where, won't I?(she begins searching through his 
desk)What's this? A purchase agreement for a mansion on Harborview 
Drive? I think I'll just go and check it out.

Stone's Room, Sonny's Penthouse:
Sonny(stands in the doorway staring at the empty bed as he remembers 
sitting by Stone's bedside at night as he laid dying)
Carly(comes up behind him)Don't do this to, yourself.
Sonny:I always used to hate the nights, you know. Robin and I would sit 
by Stone's bed all night long listening to him breathe wondering if he'd 
make it through the night or if this was the night he suddenly stop 
breathing. When I'd see the first light of dawn shining through the 
window, I'd know it was safe for me to return to my own room and finally 
get some sleep. Strange, isn't it. I guess we never outgrow the fear of 
the dark of night and think safety lays in the light of day.(he looks 
over his shoulder at her)That's what you'll have to look forward to if 
you insist on staying with me. Sitting by my bed at night listening to 
me breathe wondering if this is the night I won't make it to see the 
light of dawn shining in that window. Then there's the dementia. Near 
the end, Stone's mind was starting to go. One night he woke up and 
didn't know where he was. He thought we were still living about the 
club.
Carly:Sonny, don't do this to yourself.
Sonny:I'm just telling you what you have to look forward to if you stay 
with me until the bitter end.(he walks towards the bed)After Stone died 
I used to come in here and sleep in his bed so I could feel close to 
him.(he lays down on the bed)Tell me, Carly, when I'm dead, will you do 
the same thing?
Carly(comes and lays down next to him on the bed)Sonny, we don't even 
know if you have this. There's still a chance that you don't.
Sonny(in a little boy voice)Why did this have to happen to me?
Carly(I don't know.(she holds him in her arms as he finally breaks down 
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