Chapter 6
Clive had just hung his phone up when he saw Jason Morgan come out from
the back office and stare him down suspiciously with his cold steely
blue eyes. Clive smiled. He was wondering when Jason was going to
figure it out. He knew Jason wouldn’t talk to a FBI agent so he had to
make him a little bit suspicous. It had taken Luke long enough to get
Jason involved in his suspicions. He needed Jason tonight and was about
thisclose to confronting Jason himself, no matter what the risk was.
J: “Mr. Johnson, we need to talk.” Sits down across the table from
Clive”
C: “We most definitely do, Mr. Morgan.”
J: “What the h*ll does the FBI want with Brenda Corinthos.”
C: “You get right to the point, don’t you?”
J: “I don’t have time for small talk. I swore to Sonny Corinthos
that I would protect her if anything ever happened to him. I want to
know what is going on.”
C: “Do you really think that I would tell you FBI business?”
J: “No, but I’ll find out anyways.”
C: “You will, will you? Well to answer your question, we don’t want
anything to do with Mrs. Corinthos.”
J: “Then why the h*ll were you asking about her?”
C: “To get to you, and for personal knowledge.”
J: “Personal knowledge? What is that supposed to mean? What do you
want with me?”
C: “Personal knowledge? You’ll find out soon. You? I need you to
come with me tonight.”
J: “Why would I go anywhere with you tonight? I don’t even know you,
let alone trust you to take me anywhere. You’re a damned FBI agent.”
C: They had been talking in hushed whispers, but Clive started talking
even more quietly so that Jason could barely hear what he was saying.
“Corinthos is coming home tonight and I want you there when I meet him.”
J: Shocked. He couldn’t have heard what Clive had just said
correctly. Sonny coming home? Impossible. He was dead, wasn’t he?
“What kind of game do you think you’re playing, Mr. Johnson? Do you
really think I would believe you?”
C: “No, but you can believe this.” Clive hands Jason a tape recorder
with headphones. Jason listens to it. It was of the conversation that
Clive had just finished with “Sam.” Jason recognizes the voice
immediately.
J: Takes the headphones off. “I’m not sure if I trust you, but you
have my curiosity piqued. I’ll come tonight, but I’ll get there by my
own means. I want you to explain to me what is going on.”
C: “Later. All you need right now are tonight’s details.” Clive hands
a file full of intructions to Jason. Jason takes it cautiously. He
looks at Clive wanting answers now, but can tell that he won’t get any.
Clive gets up and heads to the door. Before he leaves. “Mr. Morgan,
don’t tell anyone about this, not even Mr. Spencer. It would put
everyone in danger if they find out about him too soon.” Clive leaves
before Jason can ask what kind of danger.
Jason is the only one at Lukes. Customers don’t usually come in the
middle of the afternoon, and Luke was out until the night. What was
going on? Was Sonny alive? Why was he involved with the FBI? Better
yet, how did he survive death? Brenda had watched him die and the rest
of the wedding party watched as the EMTs wheeled what seemed like very
dead man to the morgue. Jason had gone to see him in the morgue, and he
had looked so sickly. There couldn’t have been any life in him. This
whole scenario was close to impossible, but Jason somewhere in the back
of his mind and in the corner of his heart he hoped it was true.
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The confrontation scene in Spencer kitchen was starting to heat up.
B: Coming towards Jessi to put her hand on her face. Jessi retreats
backwards and stares cooly at her mother. “Honey, I didn’t want you to
find out yet.” She sees the newspaper and goes to pick it up. Glances
over it and puts it back down. “Or to find out like this.”
J: “Well I did find out like that. Did you think I wouldn’t ever find
out? Did you think I would live my entire life in some dreamworld that
my father was the best man in the world and a great business man?” She
can see the hurt in her mother’s eyes, but she doesn’t care because she
was very angry.
B: “Jessi, I was going to tell you when you were older. You’re nine
years old. I wanted you to live in peace a couple more years before you
were hit with reality of you father. As old as you act, you are still
very young and you shouldn’t have to deal with this.”
J: “I don’t care how young I am, I want to deal with this. I want to
know why…..why he was in the mob, why you married him, why he died.”
She feels tears start to well up in her eyes. She lets them fall down
her face, they somehow make the hurt, anger and confusion seem less
painful.
B: She can’t stand seeing her daughter in so much pain. She tries to
reach out and hug her, but Jessi refuses her touch again. Jessi does
however let Laura hold her hand. Brenda felt a little comforted by
this. “Jessi we need to sit down, this is going to take awhile.”
La: “Why don’t we all go in the living room and sit down. I’m sure all
of you girls want to know what happened. Brenda, remember Lois and I
here to help you and the girls. This moment has come way to fast for
all of us.”
B: “Thank you Laura.”
They all go sit in the living room. Jessi sits next to Laura on the
couch. Brenda sits next to them. Lois sits in a chair. Brooke sits on
the floor next to her mom. Lulu sits in the other chair in the room.
B: Looks at Jessi. “What would you like to know first?”
J: She had so many questions. Where would she start? How about where
all the lies started. “The wedding. What happened at your wedding?”
B: A sad smile appears on her face. “Where do you want me to start?
The beginning of the wedding or where everything went bad?”
J: “The beginning. You never told me about it.”
B: “Okay. I was wearing an off white fitted dress and had white
flowers in my hair. Your father looked so good in his tux. It was
going to be the happiest day of our lives. I remember the bride music
starting and I walked down the aisle on Mr. Quartermaine’s arm. He was
kind of like a father to me so I asked him to give me away. I got to
the end of the aisle and I looked into Sonny’s eyes and I knew that he
loved me. I don’t remember much about what the priest said I was
looking at Sonny the whole time. The next thing I knew I was Mrs.
Corinthos and I was walking down the aisle on the arm of my husband.”
Brenda smiles. “My husband. That’s all I ever wanted him to be. It
only lasted an hour. We went to the reception and greeted our guests.
Then we started dancing our first dance together as husband and wife.
We were the only ones on the dance floor. That’s probably why we were
such easy targets.” Brenda notices that somewhere during the story,
Jessi had let go of Laura and had inched closer to her. She reached to
grab her hand and Jessi took it and held on to dear life. Brenda felt
her shaking. “Jessi do you want me to continue? Do you think you can
handle this?”
J: Gets closer to her mother and curls up next to her. “Yes, I need to
hear it.”
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Miles away “Sam” is boarding an airplane headed for Port Charles. He is
finally going home. The only thing on his mind is his wife. Does she
still love him? Will she let him explain where he’s been? Had she
gotten married again? He didn’t even want to think about that. He
wanted to finish that dance they had started and live the rest of their
lives together, but would she be willing? God, he hoped so. He hadn’t
gone through h*ll for the last 10 years for nothing.
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Chapter 7
Jessi is curled up next to her mom. Brenda has put her arm around her
and pulled her closer to her. They are holding onto each other
tightly. Brenda not wanting to relive the past and Jessi scared to know
the truth. Both know it has to be done.
B: Tears are starting to form in her eyes. “As I said, we were
dancing. I heard a gunshot. The next thing I know Sonny’s face cringed
in pain as he let go of me and sank to the floor. Blood was
everywhere. He had been shot in his left side. I don’t remember all
the details. I was pretty hysterical. I tried to talk to him, but
Alan and Monica at the party rushed to him and Aunt Lois and Aunt Robin
dragged me a couple of feet back so I could still see him, but Alan and
Monica could look at him. Someone called 911. I don’t even know who.
Alan told me he didn’t think Sonny was going to make it because he was
losing a lot of blood and he was starting to get delusional. I screamed
that Alan was lying. Grandpa Mike came over and tried to calm me
down. He tried to tell me everything was going to be okay, but I knew
he didn’t believe it. I could feel his tears fall on my shoulders as
cried on his. The EMTs came and took Sonny. I insisted that I ride with
him and they let me. They got the bleeding to stop in the ambulance.
They were doing all kinds of stuff to him an d had him hooked up to so
many machines. I wasn’t paying much attention to the EMT’s, because I
kept looking at his face. He looked so weak and sick. I remember one
of the EMT’s yell that they were losing him after one of the machines
went crazy. They tried to get me out of the way, but he grabbed my hand
and looked at me and said, “I love you, Baby. I’ll always love you.” I
cried and told him I loved him too. He closed his eyes and the machines
went crazy again. I knew then that he died. I always knew when he was
in pain, and I felt it then and then I felt empty inside. No more pain,
just emptiness and lonliness. The EMT’s were shouting things and
talking hurriedly. They were busy at work on him. I didn’t understand
a thing they were saying until one quietly said, turn off the machines,
we can’t revive him. I was hysterical. By this time we had reached the
hospital. They hurried him out of the ambulance and I followed. Inside
the hospital I just stood as they wheeled him into the ER. I just hoped
that the EMT’s made a mistake. I waited, and Aunt Lois, Aunt Robin,
Uncle Ned, Grandpa Mike, Aunt Laura and Uncle Luke and arrived. They
were there when the doctor came out and told me that he was dead. He
had died before he even reached the hospital. I couldn’t take it and I
ran from the hospital, I ran from the pain.” Brenda looked around the
room. Brooke had crawled up into the chair with Lois and Lulu had moved
from the chair and was between Jessi and Laura on th e couch. She was
curled up next to her mother. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. She
pulled Jessi closer to her and wiped away her tears.
J: “Where did you run mama?”
B: This caught Brenda by surprise. She hadn’t been called mama in such
a long time. Jessi had decided when she started kindergarten that she
was a big girl and big girls didn’t use “mama.” She had been “mom” ever
since. “I ran to my special place to think. I stayed until Uncle Jason
came and took me home.” Brenda hated lying even more to her daughter,
but the incident at the docks was something she didn’t want Jessi
dealing with along with the issues about her father. Brenda realizes
she sounds like Sonny. She was and had been lying to the person she
loved the most in this world to protect her. This is what would get her
so upset with Sonny. He always lied to her to protect her. She hated
the lies, but she finally understood. Silently in her heart she said,
“I forgive you Sonny. I finally understand.”
J: “Mama, tell me about him.”
B: “What about him? You’ve already heard all the stories I have at
least a million times.”
J: “Tell me why the man you loved, the man that was my father, was in
the mob?.”
B: “Turning to crime was a mistake he made long before he met me,
honey. He felt like he had power, respect, control, everything he
didn’t get when he was young. He was good at it. He liked the danger.
At times I think he liked the world being against him, and others I
think he just wanted to feel like he belonged somewhere. Then he met me
and realized how much danger he was in. He was going to get out. We
had it all planned, but someone else’s plans got in the way.”
J: “Did you ever find out who shot Daddy?”
B: Lying through her teeth again. “No, honey, we didn’t”
J: “Would Daddy have loved me?”
B: “You don’t have ask that Jessi. He would have loved you very much.
You would have been his pride and joy. Besides he always had a soft
spot in his heart for little girls. He loved being around Lu and Brooke
when they were babies.”
J: “I have lots more questions, but I don’t want to talk much right
now. I just want to go home and think about everything for awhile. Can
we go home now?”
B: “Sure, honey.”
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A little later in the evening “Sam” is in an airplane. The pilot has
announced that they will be landing in a few minutes. “Sam” prepares
for the landing. He’s a little worried. He was so excited to get home,
he forgot to ask Clive how he was supposed to recognize him. He had
been in contact with the man for years, but had never once met him face
to face. Clive would find him. He always did.
The plane has landed and “Sam” is walking out of the passenger
walkway. He looks around hoping to see a face he can put with the voice
of Clive. Someone callse out, “Sam!” He turns in the direction of the
voice. He sees two men. One is tall with light brown hair, the other
one looks exactly like, no wait, it was Jason Morgan.
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Chapter 8
Jason had been standing in silence with Clive for about half an hour.
Neither one trusted the other. Jason had no desire to talk to Clive
unless he was going to get answers so he waited for them instead. Clive
called out the name “Sam!” and Jason turned in the direction that Clive
was facing. The man that had responded was in jeans and had on a long
sleeved button down red shirt on. His face was partially covered by the
shadow of his black baseball cap. Jason decided that the man’s attire
was very unSonnylike, but the way he carried himself and the way his
dimpled smile radiated at the recognition of his friends screamed Sonny
all the way. As the man approached the two men, he removed the hat.
That is when Jason knew for a fact that he was indeed Sonny Corinthos.
S: “Jase, what are you doing here?” he said as he hugged his friend.
“You’re the first friendly face I’ve seen in years.”
J: Nothing ever really shocked Jason, but people returning from the
dead did. It was something that just didn’t happen. “Sonny?”
S: Pulling away from the hug. “Yeah, it’s me”
J: “What are you doing here? Your supposed to be six feet under.”
S: Smiling. “Still direct and to the point, huh?” Doesn’t wait for
Jason to answer and turns to Clive. “So Clive we finally meet face to
face.” He holds out his hand to Clive, who nods yes and shakes his
hand. Sonny keeps talking as he shakes Clives hand, releases it and
lets it rest by his side. “Is everything really taken care of? I can be
at home without looking over my shoulder all the time? They’re not
after me anymore?”
J: He’s getting really impatient at not knowing what is going on. “Can
someone please tell me what the h*ll is going on!? And why do you need
me involved?!
C: “Mr. Morgan please keep your voice down. You will know very soon,
but not here. There’s too many people who can overhear. Do you know of
any place that would be safe to talk in.”
J: “Yeah, but I want answers soon.”
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Brenda, Jessie and Julia have arrived at Luke’s to enjoy the singing of
Eddie Maine. Luke’s hasn’t opened for the evening yet. Workers are
frantically trying to set up the stage for Eddie. Lulu and Brooke are
sitting at the bar talking with Luke who is stocking the shelves behind
the bar. Jessie goes to join Brooke and Lulu. Lois, Brenda, and Julia
start a conversation.
L: “How is she Bren?”
B: “I think that she’s handling it as well as she can. She’s been
really quiet since we left the Spencers. She hasn’t spoken to me except
to insist that she wanted to still come here tonight. I hope tonight
she can relax a little bit. I also hope that talking with her friends
will help her open up.”
L: “I’m sure she’ll come around sooner or later. It must be really
hard for her learn about her father the way she did.”
J: “Yeah, Bren. Jessi will deal with this and be fine. She’s strong
and is a fighter just like you.”
:B: “Thanks guys. I really hope so.”
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Luke turns aound to see that Jessi has joined the girls.
L: “Hi darlin’. I’d serve you a drink but you’re a bit too young.”
Jessi looks at him smiles, but doesn’t say anything. Luke knows
something is up because Jessi usually talks his ear along with his
daughter and Brooke.
L: “Jessi, hon, are you okay?”
She looks at him again but doesn’t say anything.
Lu: “Dad, I don’t think she is in the mood to talk. We kind of found
out about how her father died today.”
L: a little stunned at this. “What? How?”
Jessi still isn’t that interested in the conversation.
Lu: We found an old newspaper in the attic.
L: “Damn. I shouldn’t have stored that box up there, but I didn’t have
room here, and Brenda didn’t want to go through it when I told her about
it. The only place left was the attic.” He turns to Jessi and looks at
her. “Hon, I’m sorry about what happened today. If there is anything I
can do, you just tell me.” She nods yes as if she understands what he
is saying and looks away again.
“Lu and Brooke, watch over her okay. She needs all the friends she can
get right now.”
Lu: “Always dad.”
Chapter 9
The echos of Eddie’s last song ring out into Luke’s. Brenda, Julia,
Jessi, Lois, Brooke, and 5 year old Edward Michael Ashton sit at one
table. Luke, Laura, Lindsey, Lulu are at another. Lucky, Emily, and
their 5 month daughter, Lisa Paige Spencer have just joined the Spencer
table. Jason, Clive, and Sonny converse in the back office of Luke’s.
This is not where Jason wanted to hold a private conversation since
anyone could and would walk in at anytime, but there was no where else
to go. Jason’s apartment was being fumigated, and he had planned on
staying with Brenda and Jessi for the night, so a meeting at either one
of those two places wouldn’t work. Any remotely quiet place outside was
out due to the rain and windstorm that was making it’s way through Port
Charles. That left only Luke’s and as soon as they had entered the back
door and went into the back office, Jason got a feeling in his gut that
Luke’s was not a good idea.
Back out in the main part of Luke’s Eddie has finished singing. Ned has
stepped off the stage and Brooke and Little Eddie run to hug him. Ned
leans down to scoop them up into a giant hug. Over at the Spencer table
Lucky is gently raising Lisa up down as he makes faces at her. She
giggles with baby glee. Luke has Lindsey in his lap and is trying to
show her how to play musical glasses while Lu sits and laughs at her
father’s antics. Luke looks at her and tells her that he is the
happiest man on earth because he has two beautiful daughters. Laura
gives him a hug and helps Luke teach Lindsey how to play musical
glasses. Lu grabs a spoon and joins in the fun.
Meanwhile Jessi is watching all the happy families around her. She
hears her mother and Aunt Julia talking to her but she can’t make out
the words. She’s not paying attention. All she sees are happy
families, and that she will never have one. Sure she had people her
loved her, but she didn’t have a mommy and a daddy living in the same
house. As a matter of fact she only had a living mommy. Her daddy was
dead. He always had been and always would be. She didn’t even know
him. She used to wish that he was alive so she could talk to him, but
now she didn’t know. She was a little bit afraid of the image that her
mind and the newspaper had created of a mob boss. She couldn’t tell her
mother this, because she wouldn’t understand. Somehow her mother must
have accepted and understood that kind of lifestyle or she wouldn’t have
fallen in love with him. Jessi wasn’t sure if she could trust her
mother’s feelings on her father. She wanted desperately to love the
image of her father that her mother had created, but that was now
clouded by the truth that she was scared of.
Brenda and Julia are trying to get Jessi to talk to them. Lois has gone
over to join her family by the stage. Jessi is not responding to
anything they say. She glances at them occasionally, but doesn’t say
anything. Brenda can tell that she is lost in thought and this worries
and frustrates her. Jessi usually tells her everything, but since this
afternoon, Jessi hasn’t told her anything. She wants to know what is
going on in Jessi’s head so she can possibly try to help her. She can’t
do a thing if Jessi won’t talk to her.
Julia tries to help Brenda get Jessi talk, but the whole situation
saddens her. She loves her sister and niece dearly, and can’t stand the
pain in both of their eyes. Damn Sonny Corinthos. Julia knew he was
bad news. She had heard about his reputation before she had left for
London. She had tried many times to get Brenda to see the light about
her letters. Brenda never saw the light. Julia was sorry about the way
that Sonny had died, but she wasn’t sorry that he was gone. Brenda knew
this, and they both agreed to not talk about Sonny in each other’s
presence. They wanted to keep their sister relationship in tact better
than it had been in the years that they had growing up and during the
time that Julia was in London. They had done a good job of it so far.
Julia looked before and shook her head. Jessi was such a pretty child.
She didn’t need the burden of her father on her. Jessi was the only
thing that Julia was thankful to Sonny for. Sonny of all people had to
be this beautiful child’s father, and he was responsible for the pain
that she was going through. Silently Julia vowed, “Sonny, I don’t care
if you’re her father. I’ll never forgive you for this.”
Luke looked up from his game and glanced at Jessi. The poor little
darling was still so lost looking. Jessi was usually full of life and
spirit. Sometimes he swore that Sonny’s spirit was reborn in her. She
had his looks and his temper. She also had his business mind. Not the
illegal activities part, but the math part. Sonny was always good with
the numbers for the club. Lulu was two years older than Jessi, but she
went to Jessi for help in math. Luke smiles as he knew Sonny would if
he could see his girl now. He would be very proud of her. Jessi was
also a lot like Brenda. She hated to be lied to. Tonight was pure
evidence of that. Luke knew that Jessi was strong, but she could she
take this stress? He didn’t want to know how Lulu would handle the same
situation if it had been him who had died instead of Sonny. Silently he
pleaded, “Sonny help your daughter. She needs you know. I promise I’ll
help her as much as I can, like always, but she needs you buddy.”
Sonny walked around the office. It had been so long since he had been
there. The old desk was still there. Luke’s safe was still in the
corner. There was a family portrait on the desk. Sonny picked it up.
Wow, the Spencer family had grown, he thought. Luke and Laura with
Lulu, Lucky, Emily Quartermaine, a small three year girl, a baby girl,
Carly Roberts, AJ Quartermaine, a red-haired boy, Bobbie, and his father
Mike were in the picture. He figured that Luke and Laura must have had
another daughter. Lucky must have married Emily and they had a baby
girl. He couldn’t figure out why Carly, AJ, and his father were in the
picture. Spencers and a Quartermaine in the same picture? What had he
missed when he was gone? There was another picture on the desk. Sonny
picked it up. It was of three young girls. He recognized Lulu from the
first picture, the blue-eyed dark haired girl reminded him of Lois so he
thought she must be Brooke. He couldn’t place the small girl in the
middle. She was a pretty child with dark black hair, intense brown
hair, and dimpled smile that would be sure to break a few hearts when
she was older.
Jason came up behind him and looked at the picture.
J: “Nice picture, huh?”
S: “Yeah. This here is Lulu, and this is Brooke, but who’s this in the
middle?”
J: “Jessi.”
Sonny looks at Jason expecting some sort of explanation, but the look in
Jason’s eyes tells him he’s not going to get one. He’s curious now. He
feels like he should know this girl, but why?
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