CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO

STEFAN’S ROOM, GENERAL HOSPITAL:

Mac: My God! What was that?

Taggart:(came running in the doorway)Mac, it’s Helena Cassadine. Someone just tried to attack her. (Taggart and Mac rushed out of the room)

Alexis(as she saw Stefan getting out of bed)Stefan, what do you think you’re doing. You just had major surgery.

Helena: Don’t try to stop me, Alexis. I’ve got to find out what Mother is up to, this time.

THE BEDROOM, THE PENTHOUSE:

Carly(looked at a sleeping Sonny as she carefully got out of bed. After the vigorous love making they’d done in the bathtub and in the bed, she figured he’d be out for some time to come. Just enough time for her to take care of the AJ problem. AJ came too close to killing Sonny, this afternoon, and he had to be stopped before he got the chance to do it again. She slipped on her robe and headed downstairs where she could call AJ without the chance of Sonny overhearing her or figuring out what she was planning to do.)

Sonny(opened his eyes the minute he heard Carly closing the door behind her. He’d just been pretending to be asleep. Now that the sexual languor had finally wore off at him, the realization that someone had tried to murder him, this afternoon, was sinking in. No way did Sonny think the crate incident was an accident. But the question was who was behind it. He picked up the phone and dialed Benny’s number)Benny, this is Sonny. I want you to have our people find out who was behind what happened to me on the docks, this afternoon. (After he hung up the phone, his mind turned to Carly. He began to wonder why she’d snuck out of the bed the way she had. And there was no other way to describe it. She had snuck. She tried not to wake him, not realizing he was already awake. She was obviously up to something she didn’t want him to know about. And something told him it was going to be something he didn’t like and something that was going to cause big trouble for both of them.)

Carly(picked up the phone once she got downstairs and dialed up AJ’s number. When he answered the phone, she didn’t waste time with pleasantries.) Let’s deal.

AJ: Carly, is that you?

Carly: You know it would be me, you little worm.

AJ: (was loving his moment of victory over Carly. He didn’t know what kind of deal she was going to offer him, but before he agreed to anything, he was going to make her crawl)Now, now, Carly, if you want to make a deal with me, you’d better be nice to me.

Carly(spat)You just tried to kill the only man I’ve ever truly loved and you want me to be nice to you. You’re even more delusional than I thought you were. Look, Junior, I’m going to make this offer to you once and only once. If you don’t take it, then I’m going to be forced to kill you. That’s the choices I’m giving you. Either accept the deal or die. Contrary to what that bloated ego of yours thinks, you’re not the one in control. You’re playing in the big leagues messing with Sonny and me, Pee-Wee. But to keep Sonny safe I’m willing to deal with you.

AJ: And just what is this deal that you’re offering to me?

Carly: I’ll leave Sonny, divorce him and come back to you, on the condition you leave Sonny alone. If you’re agreeable to the deal, meet me on the docks where you tried to kill Sonny, tonight at midnight, to discuss the terms with me. (then she slammed down the phone before AJ could reply.)

HELENA’S ROOM, GENERAL HOSPITAL:

Mac(rushed in)Mrs. Cassadine, what happened?

Helena(putting on one great performance as a distraught female)Commissioner, it was the Sex Toy Stalker. He tried to kill me.

Mac: Tell me what happened.

Helena: I was asleep when I had this strange sensation I was being watched. (she looked at the door and saw Stefan and Alexis standing there)I thought it was Stefan. We’d had an altercation, earlier, and I wouldn’t put it past him to try and hold a pillow over my face while I was sleeping. It wouldn’t be the first time he tried to do be bodily harm. But when I opened my eyes it wasn’t Stefan I was looking at. It was him.

Mac: Him who?

Helena: The Sex Toy Stalker.

Mac: How can you be so sure it was the Stalker.

Helena: Because of what he had in his hand. It was a dildo. I started screaming as he lunged towards me and tried to ram it down my throat.

Stefan: You’re not believing this, are you, Scorpio. She obviously set the whole thing up to throw suspicion off of herself. I told her I was going to prove she was the Stalker and sent her to the electric chair to fry.

Helena: (grabbed Mac’s hands and turned a pathetic, pleading look in his direction)Commissioner, why would he try to attack me. I’m not like all those other women who were attacked.

Stefan: Please tell me you’re not buying this helpless act of hers. She’s as helpless as a fang-toothed cobra.

Mac(turned on Stefan)I’ve had just about enough of you, Cassadine.

Stefan: You don’t even know that she was even really attacked. All we heard was her screaming. For all we know she got a look at herself in the mirror without her make-up on and gave herself a bad fright.

Taggart: Actually, we can prove it. When I heard her screaming, I came running and I saw her trying to fight him off.

Helena: I can’t believe he tried to kill me. I’ve always had such a soft spot for him, too.

Mac: Are you saying you saw the Stalker’s face? That you know who he is? That you recognized him?

Taggart: Yeah, she did, and I did, too. Mac, you’re not going to believe who it is. I saw it with my own eyes and I still can’t believe it. The Sex Toy Stalker is Jasper Jacks.