Chapter Four


Port Charles County Jail:
Stefan:If you've come to gloat, Barbara, you can just turn around and leave.
Bobbie:Actually, I've come to make you an offer you can't refuse. I can get you out of this mess and I will for a price.
Stefan:(laughs)You? Since when did you receive your law degree. I think I'll rely on Alexis, thank you very much.
Bobbie:You have a very annoying habit of underestimating people's intelligence. Mine in particular. I mean, it never even occured to you that stupid Barbara could have been on to you. You bought I was trying to get in that box because of Katherine Bell. Duh! And because of your arrogance, your little takeover the world scheme went poof right in your face.
Stefan:I'm warning you, Barbara.
Bobbie:Oh, what are you going to do? You're behind bars. And you're going to stay that way unless I convince the police Katherine Bell is nothing but a scorned woman looking for revenge. Which I will do in exchange for a divorce.
Stefan:We haven't even been married 24 hours, yet.
Bobbie:Well it's 24 hours too long as far as I'm concerned. So, do we have a deal?
Stefan:You'd have to give an emmy winning performance. Do you think you can do it?
Bobbie:Knowing my reward is finally being rid of you there isn't anything I can't do or won't do.

Katherine's Penthouse:
Kat:Nikolas, come in.
Nikolas:Katherine, I can't believe you had my uncle arrested.
Kat:Nikolas, I had to. I was wrong about Stefan. He's evil.
Nikolas:But you loved him. How can you turn on him like this?
Kat:I loved him, but he was only pretending to care for me so I wouldn't turn him into the police. Now that I have, I'm afraid he may try to finish what he started.
Nikolas:Katherine, he wouldn't...
Kat:Nikolas, he almost killed you twice. And that's not all he's done. I just found out he was behind the blackout at the hospital that almost killed Audrey Hardy. Don't you see, Nikolas, he has to be stopped. That's why you have to go to Dara Jensen and tell her how Stefan knocked you off the mountain and left you to die.
Nikolas:You want me to testify against my uncle.
Kat:Nikolas, if you don't there's no telling what he might do to me. My life is in your hands.

P.C.P.D:
V:Mission accomplished, sir. I am now a waitress at Luke's.
Garcia:Ardanowski, we sent you to get close to Morgan and to get a jobin the organization. Not to get a job in one of his legitimate businesses.
V:Sir, you're not seeing the big picture. I am the worst waitress on the planet. When I worked for Mac Scorpio I didn't even last an hour. And when Mr. Morgan is forced to fire me, I'll behave like the stereo-typical woman and burst into tears. Then while he's comforting me, I'll drop him enough hints to hire me as one of his bodyguards. Then I'll be in.
Garcia:We may have a problem. Now that Sonnyboy's back, he'll be watching Morgan's back. So you'd better convince Corinthos you've gone bad and you'd better make him believe it. He could cause us big problems if he gets suspicious.
V:Oh, sir, I forgot to tell you the best part. When I was leaving, I saw Davis Reese entering.
Garcia:Reese, now that's very interesting. Some of Reese's people got hit. And it was just after Corinthos was shot. Maybe working at Luke's wasn't such a bad idea, after all. Good work, Ardanowski.
V:Thank you, sir.

Sonny's Hospital Room:
Sonny(opens his eyes to see Jason sitting by his bedside)Jason?
Jason:Welcome back to the land of the living. Mike just left to get some coffee.
Sonny:Mike? Where am I?
Jason:General Hospital.
Sonny(tries to sit up)Port Charles? Are you crazy?
Jason:Calm down, Sonny, it's all right. Reese and I have called a truce. The contract has been taken off you.
Sonny:How do you know you can trust him?
Jason:He knows what I'll do to him if he goes back on his word.
Sonny:Where's...
Jason:Madeline? Brenda?
Sonny:Madeline. Brenda and I were history the minute I decided not to show up at the church and sent you there to make her hate me and she believed what you said. She's engaged to Jax now.
Jason:Brenda seems to think you two have unfinished business. But Madeline asked her to stay away until you're fully recovered so as not to cause you stress. Madeline's staying away for the same reason.
Sonny:(rolls his eyes)Tell me how Madeline took it when she discovered she almost married the Godfather of the mob.
Jason:Ex-godfather, don't you mean? She believes it's further proof of manic depression. Some patients who have gone undiagnosed for years have gotten involved in illegal activities.
Sonny:Oh, for the love of...Thank goodness she doesn't know about my abusive childhood. She'd probably say the trauma I suffered sensitizeed my brain to mood swings.
Jason:So you read some of the books I gave you.
Sonny:I skimmed through one enough to know I don't have it. I read patients who have manic depression are often misdiagnosed. So isn't it possible they misdiagnosed me as having it when I don't. I don't want to talk about his.
Jason:Okay, what do you intend to do about Madeline?
Sonny:Stay away from her. I should have never gotten involved with her in the first place. But I let myself forget Reese had a contract out on my life and because of that she could have been killed. When the bullets were spraying all over that church it was a miracle she wasn't shot.
Jason:Sonny, you're out of the business and the threat on your life is gone. There's nothing to stop you from marrying Madeline and having a happy life.
Sonny:I thought I was safe after Tiger Key and the Tin Man killed Joesph. I thought it was safe to marry Madeline and as we were saying our vows a hit squad bursted in. How do I know there isn't some other enemy out there just waiting to pick me off. Enough is enough. No more blood is going to be spilled because of me. I'm sick of having somebody's blood on my hands. I think it's time I just accepted the fact that I was meant to be alone.

Madeline's Room, Port Charles Hotel:
Madeline(lays on her bed writing in her diary)Dear Diary, life is but one big irony. Or maybe it's just my life. First, I meet up with Sonny Corinthos, again, and he, like myself, is living under a new identity. But unlike myself, he didn't have his voice and face altered to avoid detection. Then as we're about to get married, who should show up, but that little tramp, Brenda Barrett. Talk about deja vu. But I didn't give myself away and I pretended I didn't know her. Still, I worry about being back in Port Charles. What if Jax and Mac see through my disguise like they did, last time. And now that I'll be working at the hospital, I'll be in constant contact with Stefan. Well if the worst happens and Mac and Jax recognize me as Miranda and Stefan realizes I'm his sister, Isabella, I'll just have to deal with it. I'm tired of running. I want a life with Michael and I'm going to have it.

Port Charles County Jail:
Kat;Hello, Stefan.
Stefan:Katherine, I can't believe you did this to me.
Kat:Nobody gets away with treating me the way you did.
Stefan:Katherine, I suggest you go to Dara Jensen and retract your story. When it comes out you became romantically interested in the man who shot and paralyzed you, you'll be a laughing stock. No sane person falls in love with the person who shot them. And when Alexis gets through with you, she'll make you look like a pathetic, desperate woman making up lies.
Kat:You're wrong, Stefan. I will be believed. You see, Nikolas has agreed to tell how you almost killed him twice. Which will establish a pattern of behavior for you.
Stefan:You've dragged Nikolas into this. How dare you!
Kat:You've messed with the wrong person this time, Stefan. When Luke and I are finished with you, you'll wish you were never born.

Sonny's Hospital Room:
Alan:(looks up and down the hall before slipping inside. He picks up an extra pillow off the chair as he heads towards the bed. then he glares down hatefully at a sleeping Sonny)You're a disease. If there was any justice in the world, you would have died when you got shot. You've turned my precious Jason into a monster and you don't deserve to live.(he begins to lower the pillow over Sonny's face)

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