CHAPTER ONE-HUNDRED AND FOUR

STEFAN’S STUDY, WYNDEMRE:

Mrs. Lansbury: You sent for me, Mr. Cassadine.

Stefan: Roy DeLucca will be showing up here, soon. I want you to inform security not to try and prevent him from landing on the island. When he arrives, I want you to tell him Barbara is down in the wine cellar and give him directions to it? The security camera’s are still installed and working in the wine cellar, aren’t they?

Mrs. Lansbury; Yes, Mr. Cassadine. The cameras are serviced regularly and kept in top working condition in case Luke Spencer tries to slip into the cellar and steal some more of your one-hundred year old brandy.

Stefan: Excellent. (the phone rang. He answered it)So, DeLucca just passed the first perimeter. Excellent. Keep me informed. (he hung up the phone) Mr. DeLucca should be arriving imminently. Before you do as I asked, would you also send Barbara to me.

Bobbie: No need to bother. Barbara is here. What can I do for you.

Stefan: I’m expecting an important phone call, so I can’t leave my desk. I was wondering if you’d gone down to the wine cellar for me and bring me up a 1920 bottle of champagne. If all goes well, I’ll be in the mood to celebrate. Tell me, Barbara, has anyone ever poured an eighty year bottle of champagne over your nude body then slowly licked it off of you. Why, Barbara, I do believe you’re blushing.

Bobbie: How do you do that? You come off as this stuffed shirt who doesn‘t have a sexual bone in his entire body, then you say something that’s so incredibly sexual I can’t believe it came out of your mouth? And you say it in that stuck-up blueblood voice of yours on top of it.

Stefan: So, will you go down to the wine cellar for me?

Bobbie: Consider it done.

Stefan(picked up a chess piece)Well, all the pieces are in place. Now we’ll finally find out what the truth is.

THE PENTHOUSE:

Carly(had tried to go to sleep, but it was useless. None of this made sense. What could have happened in the short time Sonny had left her when she got arrested. He claimed when he left he was going to do something to get her out of trouble, and shortly after he came back the charges were dropped against her and she was free to go. So that had to be it. Someone has set her up, and Sonny had done something to get her cleared. But the question was what and why he was acting the way he was. Carly racked her brain, but she couldn’t come up with anything that would make Sonny act the way he was currently acting.)

Johnny(entered)You’re up late, Carly.

Carly: Johnny, do you have any idea where Sonny went to when he left me at the police station.

Johnny: He went to see Helena Cassadine at her yacht.

Carly: Helena Cassadine? Why would he go to see her?

Johnny: I don’t know. But I know a few days ago her manservant dropped by and gave Sonny and videotape and told him Mrs. Cassadine wanted to see Sonny on her yacht after he’d viewed the tape.

Carly: That must have been the meeting Sonny had that he didn’t want to tell me about. I know when he came home he was in quite a temper. Thanks, Johnny. Was there some reason you came in to see me?

Johnny: Mrs. Cassadine’s manservant just dropped by a few minutes ago. This time he left a videotape for you. He asked me to give it to you in the morning.

Carly(took the tape from Johnny)Thanks, Johnny. Would you mind leaving me alone for a little while.

Johnny: Of course. Have a good night, Carly.

Carly(looked at the tape like she was holding a snake in her hand. There was an envelope taped to it. She yanked it off and read it.)If you want to know what’s wrong with your husband, then play the tape. (Carly suddenly got a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. Now that she was about to discover what was wrong with Sonny, she wasn’t sure that she wanted to. Gathering together all her courage, she inserted the video into the VCR and prepared herself for the worse. As it turned out she wasn’t prepared for how bad it really was. Unbeknownst to Sonny, Helena had video taped their entire sexual encounter in her bedroom and Carly watched in growing horror as she watched Helena Cassadine removing Sonny’s clothes, putting her hands all over him and having sex with him. Carly watched every moment of it until the screen went blank. Then she sat staring at the blank screen in shock. It suddenly all made sense why Sonny was behaving the way he was. The reason why he didn’t want to be touched and had shouted he was too dirty to touch her. Helena Cassadine had used her arrest to force Sonny to have sex with her. The question was, what was she going to do about it. Then Carly rewound the tape and watched it again. This time she concentrated on Sonny. On how he seemed to cringe every time Helena touched him and the look of revulsion and disgust on his face. Helena Cassadine had obviously sent her this tape hoping to make her hate Sonny and to make her think he’d cheated on her with another woman. But as Carly watched and rewatched the tape over and over again, it just made her love him all the more. To save her, he‘d let this horrible woman rape him. That‘s what it was as far as Carly was concerned. He just laid there enduring what this horrible woman did to his body and now he hated himself for what he‘d done. By the time she finally ejected the tape and ripped it out of its cassette, Carly was already planning what she was going to do to make Helena Cassadine pay. No one did this to her husband and got away with it, as Helena Cassadine would soon find out. With a purpose to her step, she headed upstairs to get dressed. It was time she paid a little visit to Helena Cassadine. A visit that vicious old bitch wouldn’t soon forget.)