Helena's Yacht: Ari(enters)Madame Cassadine, I've just gotten reports from the men you have watching your granddaughter and Brenda Barrett. Your granddaughter has discovered she's pregnant and that her husband is really the father of your great grandson, not AJ Quartermaine as she originally believed. Now she's headed in the direction of the airport. And the Jacks/Barrett wedding was called off and Ms. Barrett is also heading in the direction of the airport. And as we speak, Sonny Corinthos' plane is making it's final descent to Port Charles Airport. Helena:So it seems the situation is about to come to a head, does it? Ari, send for my launch and have my limo at the docks waiting to take me to the airport. Justice Of The Peace: V(looks at the clock on the wall as it turns two o'clock)Well, I've given Jax plenty of time. It looks like he's not going to show up, after all. He's obviously decided having his revenge against Brenda is more important than marrying me.(she looks at the Justice Of The Peace and his wife)I'm sorry for wasting your time. There won't be a wedding, here, today. JOP:That's quite all right, my dear. I'm sorry things didn't work out for you the way you wanted them to. JOP's Wife:Maybe he'll still show up and you should give him a little more time. V:No, I think I've given him more than enough time. Felicia:What will you do, V? V:I'm going to do what I should have done a long time ago. I'm going to leave Port Charles and start over somewhere else.(she pulls open the front door to leave and finds a breathless Jax standing in the doorway) Jax:Am I too late? V:I don't know. Tell me what kept you? Jax:I had to announce there wouldn't be a wedding and send all the guests home. Then I had to go to Brenda and tell her it was over between us for good. I told her she wasn't worth losing you. V:Did you mean it? Jax:Every word. V, I know you've put up with a lot from me, but if you just give me one last chance, I promise I'll spend the rest of my life making you the happiest woman in the world. V(smiles)To answer your question, no, you're not too late. I'd say you were just in time.(she turns to the JOP's wife)It looks like there's going to be a wedding, here, after all.(The JOP's wife plays "You Saved The Best For Last" on her piano as her husband conducts the ceremony and pronounces Jax and V husband and wife) Wyndemere: Stefan(comes out of the bathroom as Bobbie is sitting at her dressing table brushing her hair)You know, Barbara, I've been thinking a lot of my past, lately. Actually, about the first woman I ever fell in love with. Bobbie:We're having another one of those weird coincidences we've been having a lot of, lately. I've been thinking a lot about Carly's father, lately. He was the first man I ever fell in love with. Stefan:My mother ruined my relationship with my first love and I think all these years, unconsciously, I've been trying to recreate that love with all the women I've been in love with, but with you I think I've come the closest to finding that kind of love, again. Barbara, you make me happy. You make me laugh.(he takes her hand in his and goes down on one knee)Barbara, I know things ended badly between us, last time, but I promise this time they'll be differetn. Barbara, will you marry me? Will you become my wife, again, only this time for life? Bobbie:(holds his face in her hands)I love you, Stefan. Yes, I'll marry you. (then he pulls her into his arms and kisses her passionately) Port Charles Airport: Carly(rushes in and heads to the information desk)Hello, I was wondering if Flight 407 from Italy has landed, yet? Clerk:It's landing as we speak. Passengers should be disembarking at any moment. Carly:Thank you.(she begins to pace, nervously)Should I just tell Sonny or lead up to it, slowly. And what should I tell him about, first. The baby or Michael?(just then Sonny walks through the gate but as she makes a move to go towards him her arm is grabbed. Just then Brenda rushes in and smile happily when she spots Sonny and rushes towards him. Carly struggles to break free of the arm gripping her)Let me go! I have to get to him before she does! Helena:(continuing to restrain Carly in a steel grip)My dear, I'm doing this for your own good. Sonny(seeing Brenda running towards him is filled with relief that she's all right. All through his flight he was afraid he might not get back in time to save her from her mother and that when he got back he'd find her dead. He pulls her into his arms and holds her tightly)I thought I'd be too late and that I'd lose you, forever. Brenda(smiling happily)You'll never lose me, baby. Don't you know that.(they begin to kiss each other, hungerly) Carly(yanks her arms out of Helena's grip)Now, look what you've done. If you hadn't grabbed me, I'd be the one in his arms. I'd be the one he was kissing. Helena:I know why you're here. You were going to tell him you're pregnant with his child and that he's really Michael's father. Is that the way you want to hang on to him? Carly:If that's what it takes. Helena:My dear, if you do exactly what I say, your husband will be with you because he loves you and only you. Carly:How? Helena;You have to let her have him for now. Carly:No way! Helena:(gives her a hard shake)Yes! You have to let him get this relationship out of his system. Then when he comes back to you, he'll be yours and only yours. No other womand will be in his heart and mind, but you. Carly(points to Sonny and Brenda still kissing like they'll never stop)Does he look like he's about to get her out of his system? He hasn't gotten her out of his system up until now. If I do what you ask, I could lose him to her, forever. Helena:If you trust me and do as I say, he'll be yours, forever, and only be hers, temporarily. Carly:How can you be so sure of that. Helena:I know all about those two. They believe it was just the mob that caused all the problems between them, but your husband needs to find out that even without the mob in their life it'll never work between them. Then when he comes back to you and the children the two of you share, he'll be completely free of her. Carly:But what if it does work between Sonny and Brenda and I lose him for good? Helena:You won't. Are you forgetting about the two secret weapons you posess. Your husband is Michael's father and you have another one of his children growing inside you as we speak. Do you really think any relationship could really survive that?(she puts an arm around Carly and steers her out of the airport terminal)Now, come along, my dear and I'll tell you how to play it when your husband comes home to you, so you'll come off looking like the self-sacrificing wife putting her husband's happiness above her own.(she looks back at Sonny and Brenda still kissing and smiles)Yes, my dear, we've got a lot of work ahead of us. Will February Sweeps be a dud? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com