Sara is on the couch with Sonny. Her crying has slowed a little. Jason had gone to get her a glass of water. She took it gratefully.
Sa: "Thank you, Jason."
J: "No problem." She sips a few sips and calms down a little more.
S: "Sara, do you think you can answer a few question for us? If you're up to it."
Sa: "Sure, as long as you answer some for me."
S: "I think that can be arranged. Do you mind if I go first?"
Sa: "No, ask away. I'm not sure if I can answer, but I can try."
S: "That's all I want is for you to try. Do you know how you ended up in Washington living with your Grandma Jane?"
Sa: "I don't really know. That's what I was hoping you could answer for me. I knew that Grandma Jane had known my mother, but she didn't talk about her much. I figured that she must have died and Grandma Jane didn't want to talk about it. Around my sixteenth birthday she started giving me hints that my mother might still be alive. She gave me mom's engagement ring for my birthday and told me the story behind it, then she told me that my mother would come looking for me some day. That's all she told me. She wouldn't say when she would come and she didn't say why she had left in the first place. She didn't tell me anything about you. I guess she didn't know much about you or she disapproved of you she did because of your line of work. When she died she left me a file folder of information about you and mom. Her lawyer told me that it was only to be given to me in case of an emergency or in case Grandma Jane died. Inside was my birth certificate and a note to go to Port Charles to look for you because you would know how to protect me, from what I have no idea. I was supposed to look for a place called Luke's or was once called Luke's to find out where you were. If that didn't work I was supposed to hunt down Luke Spencer, or Jason Morgan or Mike Corbin. I guess I've found everyone. What do I do now?"
S: "First, we need to get protection on you, then we need to figure out what is going on."
Sa: "Do you have any idea of what is going on and why do I need protection?"
S: "I'm not sure what is going on, but I know you need protection, although I don't know why."
Sa: "Does this have anything to do with your business?"
S: "It could, but I really don't know. All I know is that when Brenda disappeared, no one in the organization ever contacted me about a ransom or a trade offer to get her back. Whoever took her might be coming after you too."
Sa: "Why?"
S: "I don't know, except that Brenda called Jason today telling him to find and protect you."
Sa: Eyes go wide. "What? She called here? But she's dead, isn't she?"
J: "That's what we all thought, but that was her on the phone today."
Sa: "Do you know where she is? I want to find her."
S: "We all do, Sara."

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Brenda sat on her stairs looking at Tom who was still leaning against the wall by the front door.
B: "Why do you hate this? You seem to enjoy it."
T: "I hate what it's done to my family. I never wanted them to get hurt."
B: "You have a family? You never mentioned them before. Where are they now?"
T: "Doesn't matter now."
B: "What do you mean it doesn't matter? You should be with your family instead of doing whatever it is you keep doing to me. What is that by the way? Protect me? Scare me? Kill me? Sometimes it's hard to read you."
T: "I'd like to think I was protecting you, but you don't usually seem to think that."
B: "And why would that be? Maybe because you dragged me away from my home, never allowing me to back or keep in contact with them. Well, you do let me call Julia once in awhile, but never my husband, or my daughter. Why is that?"
T: "You're my family too, Brenda. Julia's my wife."
B: "She's your what!? Why didn't you ever tell me?"
T: "She didn't want you to know."
B: "She didn't want me to know that she was behind my kidnapping? She sent you to do it, didn't she?"
T: "She doesn't know that I kidnapped you, she thinks you went willingly. She told me to warn you and to keep safe from him, she just didn't tell me how."
B: "So this was all your idea?"
T: "It was the only way I could get you out of there fast. That bastard was already on his way to get you, time wasn't on my side."
B: "So you decided you would take me? Why not tell Sonny? He could have protected me."
T: "He would have wanted to, but he couldn't. He doesn't know how your father or his associates worked."
B: "And you do?"
T: "Yes, I worked for him. I'm risking my life here double-crossing him to protect you and your sister. She doesn't want you to be hurt.
B: "How sweet. Daddy's little girl is worried about the little girl he never gave a damn about. Even from his grave he still manages to ruins my life.