CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

LEFT ALONE ONCE again in their glorified prison cell, Sonny and Carly cuddled on the bed. After Helena had made her indecent proposal, the doctor and Carly had come out of the bathroom giving Carly a clean bill of health. “So what did the old witch want with you alone.” She finally brought up the topic most on her mind.

“Nothing she’s going to get.” Sonny told her. “It isn’t even worth repeating.” Then he brought up the subject most on his mind. “The doctor behaved himself with you in the bathroom, didn’t he?”

“Of course.” Carly smiled. “He knew if he tried something, I would have quite literally ripped his throat out.” She added. “He also told me I could give birth at any moment. Our time is running out, Sonny. What are we going to do?”

“Just wait and hope we get an opening to turn the tables on them and escape.” He told her. “I think it’s likely to happen once the baby is born and they try and kill us. When they come, we’ll try to make a break for it. And until then, I’ve been thinking.”

“About what?” She asked.

“The vampire marriage ceremony.” He answered. “I think we should do it, tonight.”

“Sonny, are you crazy.” She replied. “Why would you want to do it, now?”

“Because I’m finally ready to do it.” He told her. “I don’t know what our future holds for us, but whatever it does I want to be joined to you in every way possible so we’ll have that no matter what happens in the future.”

Carly looked around their room in distaste.” Sonny, this is not the way I dreamed of it happening.” She told him. “With us in captivity facing imminent death. I wanted it to be romantic. I wanted us to go back to your island to that old crumbling church I saw while we were there. I’d be dressed in a white flowing nightgown and you’d be dressed in white silk pajama bottoms. We’d have just finished making love and taking a bath together. The church would be lit with candlelight and at midnight we’d enter and do it on the church altar.” She added. “Sort of like the vampire version of the mortal wedding ceremony.”

“That’s really a nice fantasy, Carly.” Sonny replied. “But our lives have never been like that. We’ve been served lemons most of our lives and we had to make lemonade out of them.” He looked around the room. “This is another lemon we’ve been served, and I’m suggesting we make lemonade out of it.” He added. “Carly, if you want us to do this, it may be the last opportunity we have.”

She looked around the room uneasily. “Sonny, it might not work.” She told him. “Knowing we’re being watched on a hidden camera might prevent it from working.”

He fingered the curtains on the canopy bed. “If we close these.” He suggested. “They won’t be able to see us and it’ll be like we’ve enclosed ourselves in our own little world.”

“It would, wouldn’t it?” Carly said hopefully.

“It’ll work, Carly.” He assured her. “I know it will.”

“When do you want to do it?” She asked.

“How about now.” He suggested. “There’s no time like the present.”

“No, not now.” Carly sat up. “Maybe it can’t be exactly like I dreamed of it happening, but let’s try to make it as close to it as possible.” She looked around the room. “There’s candles over there. At midnight we could spread them around the room and light them, then get in bed and close the curtains around us and do it. We could do it in a ceremonial way so we can make a real marriage ceremony out of it. What do you say?”

“Let’s do it.” He looked at his watch. “At midnight you and I will become husband and wife the vampire-way.” He leaned over and kissed her passionately, hoping she’d never guess the real reason he suddenly wanted to do this.

BOBBIE’S KNEES began to buckle as she gasped for air. Any second now she’d be passing out from lack of oxygen. Just when Bobbie felt darkness about to descend upon her, the grip on her throat began to loosen. Then was removed completely from her throat. As Bobbie held a hand to her throat and choked in gasps of air she looked at Sorel wondering why he suddenly decided to stop choking her. Only to see Sorel was as shocked about the action as she was.

Sorel looked down at Stefan’s hand like it was a serpent. “What’s going on here?” Then he gasped in horror as the hand that had been choking Bobbie only minutes ago fastened on to his own throat and began to squeeze.

“Get out of my body, Sorel!” Stefan spat.

“Stefan!” Bobbie gasped. “Is that you!”

“Yes, it is, Barbara!” He answered as he continued to choke himself. “Now get out of here like you promised me you would.”

“Cassadine!” Sorel gasped. “You bastard! You tricked me!”

“I’m not leaving you, Stefan!” Bobbie declared. “You wouldn’t abandon me, and I won’t abandon you.”

“Look at me, Barbara.” Stefan ordered. “I’m fighting for my life, here. I can’t be worrying about you. I need all my strength to deal with Sorel.”

“All right, I’ll go.” Bobbie headed for the door.

“I’m not leaving your body, Cassadine.” Sorel declared as he tried to use Stefan’s other hand to pry his hand from his throat. “Let go, Cassadine! If you kill me, you’ll kill yourself!”

“So be it.” Stefan replied. “One way or another, you’re going to be history, Sorel.” Stefan’s body fell to the floor as Sorel and Stefan continued to battle for control. Bobbie watched from the doorway longing to help Stefan, but knowing there was nothing she could do.

The battle seemed to go on forever, as Stefan’s body writhed on the floor in agony. Then suddenly Stefan’s body became still while a giant gust of wind forced the French doors open and lightning flashed in the sky.

Bobbie rushed over to Stefan. “Stefan, are you all right?”

Stefan opened his eyes. “Barbara, I thought I told you to leave.”

“Just answer my question.” Bobbie insisted. “Is it over. Is Sorel gone?”

“Yes, he’s finally gone.” He got to his feet. “I managed to expel him from my body.”

“Where do you think he is now?” Bobbie got an answer to her question when Sorel’s voice filled the room. When Stefan and Bobbie looked towards the mirror they saw Sorel’s reflection in it.

“You both think you’ve won, don’t you?” Sorel asked. “Well, this isn’t over with by a long shot. All I have to do is find myself another body and I’ll be back. I’ll make you both pay. This isn’t over!” Then he vanished from the mirror as if his reflection had never been there.

Bobbie turned to Stefan. “Is what he just said true?”

“It’s possible.” Stefan admitted. “But let’s not worry about it for now. Finding himself another body to possess won’t be as easy as he thinks.” He added. “I don’t know about you, but I could use a brandy. Why don’t we go downstairs and get one.”

NED ARRIVED AT Helena’s yacht and saw her watching Sonny and Carly on a monitor. They were dressed for bed and they were going around the room lighting candles. “What are they doing?”

“Who knows?” Helena sighed. “They’re vampires. They have strange ways we don’t understand.”

“Now they’ve got into the bed and closed the curtains around them.” Ned noticed.

“I guess they know we’re watching them.” Helena replied. “And they don’t want us watching them do what comes naturally to them.”

“Have they guessed where they are, yet?” Ned asked.

“You mean, that they’re here on my yacht?” Helena shook her head. “No, they don’t have a clue.”

“Have you decided how you intend to dispose of them once the child is born.” Ned inquired, wanting to figure out how he could thwart Helena in her plans and save their lives without Helena finding out.

“I haven’t decided, yet.” Helena unknowingly just thwarted Ned. “It all depends on Mr. Corinthos and if he changes his mind about the offer that I made his, this afternoon.” She looked back at the monitor at the canopy bed with the curtains all closed. “If he doesn’t, then Mr. and Mrs. Corinthos will be meeting a very unpleasant end, indeed.”

ONCE SEQUESTERED IN their own little world, Sonny and Carly sat facing each other in total darkness. Because of their vampire eyes for them it was like they were sitting in the room with the sun shining and they could see each other clearly. “So, now what do we do?” Sonny asked. “You’re the one who read up on this vampire marriage ceremony.”

“Well, it’s supposed to encompass the basics of a vampire’s life.” She replied. “Pleasure and pain. Life and death. Not to mention sex. It‘s a very sexual ritual.”

“Of course.” Sonny smiled. “That goes without saying. But you still haven‘t told me what we do.”

“I’ll go first.” She informed him. “The first thing I’ll do is strip you naked, then I’ll lay you out and pay homage to you.”

“You make me sound like a sacred cow or something.” Sonny laughed. “Just how will you pay homage to me? Will you throw a few gold pieces at my feet.”

“No, I’ll worship your body with my mouth.” She continued in a serious tone. “Then once you’re reveling in the pleasure I’m giving you, then I’ll cause you pain by impaling you with my incisors and drinking from you.”

“Then comes the life and death?” Sonny guessed correctly.

“As I continue to drink from you and drain you of all your blood.” She nodded. “You’ll find the life draining out of your body, as well. But it’s very important you not try to shove me away and stop me. You just have to lay there and let me do to your whatever I like. You have to trust me that I’d never hurt or harm you in any way. You have to believe in your heart and your soul that your life is safe in my hands.”

“Now I know why I didn’t want to do this.” Sonny said uneasily. “What you’re asking me to do is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. Trusting people is very hard for me to do. Especially to this extent.”

“We don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.” She gave him a way out.

“No.” Sonny put a finger to her lips to silence her. “I want to do this. “ He held her face in his hands and kissed her passionately. “I just want you to know one thing before this begins. No matter what happens, I love you with all my heart and all my soul.” Then he released her and laid back so she could do with him what she would.

“Don’t act like you’re about to be strapped in the electric chair, Sonny.” She smiled as she took his hand into hers. “You’re going to enjoy this part.” She slid his finger into his mouth and sucked on it.

“I feel like I’m a sacrificial lamb or something.” He sighed. “I am permitted to talk, aren’t I?”

She trailed kissed up the inside of his arm. “You can talk as much as you like, baby.” She ran her hands down over his chest. “In fact, I’m looking forward to hearing you moan in ecstasy over what I’m doing to you.” She lowered her mouth over his nipple and put proof to her words.

Sonny moved his head restlessly on the pillow. “If you keep that up you won’t have to wait long.” Then his breath caught in his throat as he felt her untying the draw-string belt of his pajamas and sliding them off of him. After that Sonny stopped thinking and just gave himself up to feeling the pleasure she was giving him until he felt her sharp teeth sinking into his neck and drinking from him.

At first the feeling of Carly drinking from him was heightening the pleasure he was already feeling. But as she continued to drink of him, he felt a weakness coming over him as his life began to ebb out of him. When he first felt the feeling coming over him, his first instinct was to shove Carly away from him, but he didn’t give into it and continued to just lay there and let her continue to drain him off his life and his blood. If he was to die, he’d rather it be by Carly’s hands then by Helena Cassadines. Then just as he felt all life flowing out of him, he could feel Carly forcing his jaw open and impaling his incisors into her neck. As he felt the first drop of her blood drip on his tongue, he began to drink greedily of her. And in a short time all the life flowed back to him and he opened his eyes.

Carly smiled down at him as she caressed his hair. “How do you feel, baby?”

“Incredible.” He sighed. “I don’t think I’ve ever felt this good before.”

“Good.” She lowered her mouth to his and kissed him. “Not it’s your turn to do to me what I just did to you.”