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May 8, 2008 04:44
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Diane: I came right away because milo called and said it was urgent, but if this is about jason being accused in the ian devlin --
Sonny: That -- that can wait. Just listen to me, ok? This is a priority. I -- i need -- i need you to do whatever it takes to get me sole guardianship of michael.
Diane: Well, this is out of left field. I assume we're going to be encountering some heated resistance. What are your grounds?
Sonny: Carly brought michael to his room at home with -- with the hospital bed, the monitors, the tubes, the whole nine yards. It's not good for morgan. He's a little boy. It's not good for carly, or michael for that matter, because he needs more care than carly can give him, so i need the authority as a parent to be able to take michael to a facility where he'll be -- you know, they can care for him 24-hour.
Kate: Sonny, that might be the worst possible thing you could do.
Luke: Hey.
Nikolas: Hey.
Luke: You up for company?
Nikolas: Sure, sure. Come on in.
Luke: Turns out i'm a little early for physical therapy on this bum knee. Well, you know, you don't look bad.
[Nikolas laughs]
Luke: I guess the operation was a success.
Nikolas: Yeah, yeah. Expected to make a full recovery, i guess.
Luke: Well, that's good.
Nikolas: Yeah. Well, i'm just trying to figure out exactly what that means -- a full recovery. I mean, how do you pick up the pieces of your life and move on without the woman that made it worthwhile to begin with? Look, i'm sorry. I know that's dicey territory for you. I apologize.
Luke: No, no -- no apology necessary. When it comes to your mother, you have nothing to ever apologize to me for.
Nikolas: Ok. Well, then, maybe you wouldn't mind if i ask, how did you? I witnessed some of the fallout from you losing laura twice, and really, how did you bounce back from that?
Luke: Well, at first i didn't. I didn't even want to bounce back. If i was going to go through the rest of my life without her, i just didn't think it was going to be worth it. So i spent a lot time in denial. I kept thinking, hoping she'd find her way back to me if i held her hand long enough or whispered just the right words in her ear. But closing your eyes to what is real only gets you so far. And eventually, truth is stronger than hope. I don't know, nikolas. You just, uh, you get through it. You somehow learn to accept the loss, deal with the pain, and one day, before you know it, you're no longer standing on the edge of an abyss. Somehow, miraculously, you're on the other side.
Carly: Let me guess, sonny called you.
Jason: No, he didn't.
Carly: Oh. I thought that's why you were here. Morgan tried to wake up michael. I heard him from down the hall and i knew what i was going to see when i walked in and opened the door, there he was shaking him, trying to wake him up. I don't know how to explain a coma to five-year-old. I can't even tell him that michael was shot in the head. I just said that he was hurt really bad.
Jason: I think that's all morgan can handle for right now.
Carly: You get that. Sonny doesn't. He came over here and told morgan straight out that michael was never going to wake up. How do you tell that to a little boy? How do you tell that to your own son? Now he wants to go to the court. He wants to get emergency guardianship and take michael away from me so he can send him to some institution that jax found. I don't want to fight sonny. I want to focus on my little boy. But i will. I mean, if sonny pushes me, i'm going to push back.
Jason: Isn't it more important to do what's best for michael?
Carly: Michael being at home is what's best for michael.
Jason: I don't know, carly. If it's going to hurt his brother, it's not. If it's going to hurt you, it's not.
Kate: If carly fights sonny's petition for michael's guardianship, which we can be sure she will --
Diane: Mm-hmm.
Kate: How long do you think it would be for sonny to win?
Diane: Months. Years, possibly.
Kate: And based on what you know about these kinds of cases, what would be the likely outcome?
Diane: That is impossible to predict, even after months of an appeal. A judge may simply decide to leave things exactly as they are. Or in a worse case scenario, if the mud really starts to fly, michael could become a ward of the court.
Kate: You can't do that to carly, or to yourself.
Diane: I shall leave the two of you to work this out. If you decide to file, call me.
Sonny: I went to carly's to see michael. Morgan was right by his side, telling him to wake up. I can't let that happen, kate. I mean, i can't undo what happened to michael, but i can definitely do right by morgan.
Kate: Maybe you should take a step back right now, sonny, and have some faith in carly as a mother. Nikolas: Living through it, that i can grasp. But i don't know, finding love with someone else? I just -- i can't imagine that happening.
Luke: Well, i don't know. You know, you can't recreate love. What i felt for laura -- what i will always feel for laura, what you feel for emily, that's a once-in-a-lifetime deal. But what i have with tracy is once-in-a-lifetime, too. Love is always the first time, no matter how often it comes around. That's the miracle of it. You'll always hold emily in your heart, nikolas. But there is room in there to love again. I know it doesn't seem like that now, but unexpectedly, unbelievably, it'll happen. You're a young man. Anyway, i've got to go. I got a massage with my name on it downstairs.
Nikolas: Ok, thanks for stopping by.
Luke: You take care of yourself.
Nikolas: You, too. Take care of that knee.
Luke: I'm trying.
Nikolas: Luke?
Luke: Hmm?
Nikolas: Thanks, really.
Ric: Scotch rocks, please.
Claudia: When a man invites me for a drink, i expect him to be waiting for me.
Ric: Sorry, i got held up with my ex-wife.
Claudia: Really? Who's daddy is she preparing to take down now, yours or mine?
Ric: Not that ex-wife.
Claudia: Well, then, skip it. I'm not interested in a tour of your marital ruins. Why am i here?
Ric: Well, i think i can help you.
Claudia: Is that so?
Ric: You sound skeptical.
Claudia: Well, i haven't seen anything else. I mean, i haven't seen anything from you to make me feel otherwise.
Ric: Your father has shut you out of the business, literally. What if i can help you get back in?
Sonny: Let me get this straight, you're taking carly's side?
Kate: I guess i am.
Sonny: Yeah, well, she's done nothing but hurt you. I mean, you know, michael getting shot has made her mean and unfair and she lashes out at you, she blames you when you shouldn't even be blamed.
Kate: She doesn't have a monopoly on wrong, sonny. Look, i showed up at the hospital at michael's bedside.
Sonny: Yes.
Kate: My intention was to support you, but it came at a time when it was the last thing that carly needed. It was hurtful, and i regret that. But what i'm talking about is bigger. Carly is a good mother. She's a like a mother bear when she protects her cubs. And she has very strong instincts -- or don't you believe that anymore?
Sonny: Yeah, i -- yeah, i do.
Kate: Ok.
Sonny: Ok.
Kate: So you have to trust her. You have to trust that in a week, in a month, she's going to come to realize that she's not helping michael and she's going to face the painful truth that her son's not going to get any better. But, sonny, you gotta give her the room and the respect to figure that out on her own, to come to the other side in whatever way she has to.
Carly: You want me to send michael away?
Jason: I just don't see how -- how is this going to work?
Carly: It's only temporary. Now that michael's home from the hospital, he's going to respond to therapy and he's going to wake up soon.
Jason: I know that's what you want to believe, carly.
Carly: That's what i want to believe? Now you've given up on michael?
Jason: I broke every promise i ever made to that kid. I didn't give him a good life. I didn't keep him safe. I pressured you to stay with sonny all the times that you wanted to get out. I told myself that michael was loved and it made it worth the rest of it. I was wrong.
Carly: That's what you said to me that first night we were standing there in the rain. You told me that your life was too dangerous for a child and i wanted to be with you, so it didn't matter.
Jason: I know, but i let you give me michael when he wasn't mine to have, carly. We did this. The choices you and i made, we put michael in that warehouse with sonny. Look, i'm not telling you what to do with morgan, but i'm asking you, please, don't make that kid grow up with his brother in the next room never moving. Or never speaking. Don't make him watch you drown in guilt every day.
Carly: I have failed michael in every part of his life. I've always done whatever i wanted to do and i put myself first. And this time i have to put michael first.
Jason: Then you have to stop seeing what you want. You need to see the truth. Morgan needs you. You've got to get that kid out of the house.
Carly: I can't!
Jason: Carly, it's what's --
Carly: I can't. I will not give up on my son.
Nadine: Hey.
Nadine: How's it going?
Nikolas: So far, so good.
Nadine: Still feeling pretty groggy?
Nikolas: It's wearing off a little bit.
Nadine: You had a lot of visitors. You must be pretty exhausted.
Nikolas: Yep -- yeah, i am a little. But i've had a lot of food for thought. Will you do me a favor?
Nadine: Sure.
Nikolas: Would you place this in my suitcase for me? It's time to put it away.
Claudia: You're new to the zacchara organization, so maybe you don't know how it works yet. You see, daddy does what daddy wants and the rest of us pretty much just stay out of his way. Daddy wants me out of the business, good luck changing his mind.
Ric: See, that's surprising, claudia zacchara with a defeatist attitude. That's almost an oxymoron.
Claudia: Who are you calling a moron? What do you have in mind?
Ric: Unlike your father, i see your worth and your value as an ally.
Claudia: Hmm.
Ric: So if you share the benefit of your experience, i'll be your conduit to anthony.
Claudia: It's tempting.
Ric: It could be a mutually beneficial relationship.
Jason: Carly thinks i know what's right. If i did, i'd -- i would have never lied and said i was your father. I never would have left you with sonny. I knew about the danger and the violence. That's why i went to work for sonny in the first place. I didn't even care if i died. But you needed the opposite of me. You needed to be safe. I didn't protect you. I realize now i could never protect you. I'm sorry i didn't -- i never did anything good for you, michael. But i'm going to promise you right now that i will never do to jake what i've done to you.
Sonny: You know something?
Kate: Hmm?
Sonny: I gotta admit, you can be pretty convincing when you want to be.
Kate: Oh, does that mean you're going to take my advice?
Sonny: Uh, yeah, i'm going to let carly keep michael at home. And, you know, maybe she'll see the truth sooner than later.
Kate: I don't think you'll be sorry, sonny.
Sonny: You know what?
Sonny: I don't think i could get through this without you, because i would be spiraling out of control even more than i am.
Kate: Stop it.
Sonny: Uh --
Kate: Stop it. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for. I love you.
Sonny: And i love you.
Carly: Sorry.
Sonny: No, is michael ok?
Carly: I'm having michael taken back to General Hospital and they're going to work out the details having him transported to the facility jax found in manhattan.
>> On the next "General Hospital" --
Jax: They're holding a room for michael. We can see it today.
Carly: I hate every single thing in this room!
Sonny: Ian devlin shot michael.
Jason: We have one lead -- kate howard. I want to know why you paid him a million dollars
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