(Note: This is the same scene as the last one in chapter 11, but reversed.)

Jason can be heard in the background on his cell phone quietly cursing someone out about not doing their job. [My guess would be the bodyguards that had been put on Sara before Sonny and Jason left. Apparently Sara had 'conveniently' ditched them hours before she left for the airport.] Jason was having a hard time being quiet, but he didn't want to disturb anyone, so he had retreated to a corner in the kitchen. It didn't matter where he was, no one was paying any attention to him anyway and he didn't blame them. The news was a shock to him, too, and he was desperately looking for some answers. He couldn't help to feel guilty because Brenda had relied on him to protect Sara, and he had failed.

Julia is silently sobbing against Tom's shoulder.

Sonny looked at Brenda shocked. Had she gone crazy? He looked at her again; she was dead serious. There was no way he was going to leave her, not after he just found her.
S: "Brenda, I'm not leaving you like this."
B: "Please go. They took my,... our daughter. I won't let them take you too."
S: "Bren, No one is going to take me from you. I'd put up a h*ll of a fight."
B: "They won't let you fight back. You just saw what they did to Sara." She looks away from Sonny. "She didn't even have a chance." A realization strikes her and she looks back at Sonny. "You never got a chance. You never got a chance to know you were going to be a father. You have…" She squeezes her eyes shut trying to blot out the reality. "…had a daughter, Sara. I was going to tell you that night…" Her controlled sobbing turns to an uncontrollable sob and her body begins to tremble. She mumbles "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" over and over between sobs.
S: He tightened his grip on her and smoothed some hair away from her face. A single tear fell down his face. "I had a chance sweetheart. Sara found me a few days ago."
B: Looks at him and wipes a few tears from her face. "She did?"
S: "Yeah." He smiled at the memory. "When I first saw her she had her hair up in this fancy do and she was wearing this purple dress. I remember thinking what did I do to deserve a daughter as beautiful as her mother?" Brenda smiles a little through her tears. "She could be tough one moment and very gentle the next. She was extremely stubborn, but you could have probably have guessed that." They both slightly laugh.

Everything is silent for a moment except for Jason's ranting in the background to his phone, and the television that was still on. Sonny can't take trying to be calm anymore. He gets up off the floor and forcefully hits the off button to the television. He starts pacing around the room and starts to shout, "Why? Someone tell me why! Explain why "they" killed Sara! Who are "they"? Is this my fault? Did I do something?!"

Brenda gets up and tries to follow Sonny around the room. She grabs one of his arms and he stops his rant and looks at her. "Please calm down Sonny, this wasn't your fault. What happened to Sara had nothing to do with you."

"Calm down?! Brenda I just found out my daughter was killed and that my long lost wife is afraid of some nameless danger that no one bothers to explain to me. You expect me to calm down?! Just how am I supposed to do that?"

As if on cue, Ring ring.

This is not what Sonny wanted to hear right now. He didn't feel like talking to anyone on the phone. He pulled the phone out of his pocket. "Damn phone. Jason!" Jason comes over and Sonny hands him the phone. "Handle it." Jason looks confused for a minute but he takes the phone, barks an order to the phone he has to his ear than goes back to the kitchen to handle Sonny's phone.

"Brenda please tell me what's going on."

Tom who has been trying to console Julia and keep a close eye on Sonny and Brenda at the same time speaks up offering warning, "Brenda..."

Brenda who decides now is the time to let out all her frustrations, her years of pain and hurt, and her grief for the daughter she barely knew turns to Tom, "Shut up! I'm tired of playing this by your rules. If I want to tell Sonny I'm going to tell him."

Jason comes back in the room with the phone again. "Sonny, you need to take this call."

"Jason, I can't deal with the phone right now, can't you deal with it or have them call me back?"

"It's urgent and you're the only one who can deal with it."

"Of all the insensitive things you could make him do right now…" Brenda started in on Jason. But she didn't get to finish.

"It's about Sara."

Sonny immediately took the phone from Jason and puts it to his ear. "Corinthos here."

"Daddy?" Was what he heard on the other end, in the sweetest voice he knew. It was Sara's voice. It had to be. Fate wouldn't be so cruel as to play mind tricks on him would, it?

"Sara?!" He answered back, in shock, disbelief, and overpowering hope and love.

"Yeah, Daddy, it's me..." Sonny closed his eyes and sighed in relief as she went on. He went further in conversation with her until he saw Brenda looking at him curiously wanting to know what was going on. He whispered to Brenda, "She's alive, both of them" as he went to stand behind her and positioned the phone so that both of them could hear her.

Brenda gasped as she heard her daughter's voice. It was real. They hadn't gotten her. Just listening to her voice wasn't enough. She began to tug on the phone until Sonny let her have it. She introduced herself and when Sara called her "Mama" she felt like she was in heaven. That was a word she only dreamed about hearing, and to hear Sara call her that, it made her feel a mixture of awe, happiness, pride, sadness, and guilt. She continued on with the conversation as Sonny watched her glow with happiness as she talked to Sara. After a few minutes she reluctantly gave the phone back to Sonny, but she listened on. She couldn't get enough of hearing her voice.

Sonny hung up the phone and pulled Brenda into his arms. She buried her head in his chest and started to sob again. "Sweetheart, why are you crying?"

She looked at him with shining eyes and smiled the smile that always made his heart melt. "I'm happy. Sara called me Mama and her favorite color is purple. She's real which means they didn't win."