a fanfic by SonnyandAlexisGal
Chapter Fourteen
“Alexis,” Kristina begins, “you need to calm down.”
“Calm down?” Alexis repeats. “How can I calm down, Kristina? I have to…” She stops when she spots Mike Corbin in the waiting room.
She heads straight for where he’s standing.
“Mike!” she calls as she approaches. “What’s happening? How is Sonny?”
Mike can see how anxious Alexis is.
“I didn’t get the chance to call you,” he says. “How did you find out?”
“I heard it on the radio and I rushed home to tell Alexis,” Kristina answers.
“How is he, Mike?” Alexis repeats.
He looks into her eyes and sees how frantic they are. He grabs hold of her to steady her.
“You’re shaking like a leaf…”
“Mike…”
“He’s in surgery,” Mike finally answers. “They say that he’s lost a lot of blood.”
“What happened?” Alexis asks. “Where was he?”
“Nobody seems to know…Here, why don’t you sit down?”
“Sit down,” Alexis repeats. “I don’t want to sit down, Mike. I want to know how Sonny is…”
“Mike is right, Alexis,” Kristina offers. “You’re not doing the baby any good by being so anxious.”
“Really? And how would you have me behave, Kristina? I am anxious because someone I…someone I care deeply about has been shot and…I’m fine…”
“Get out!” Carly shouts when she comes back to the waiting area and sees Alexis.
“Don’t talk to my sister that way!” Kristina defends.
“It’s her fault!” Carly argues, her face streaked with tears. “If it wasn’t for her, Sonny would never have been out there tonight! He never would have gotten shot! He wouldn’t be lying on that table in there with those doctors doing God only knows what to him!”
“Carly,” Mike begins calmly, “this is not the time…”
“I don’t care, Mike! Little Miss Perfect here got herself pregnant by Sonny and then she ran out on him…and then he stopped trying to protect himself…”
“That’s not true,” Alexis says quietly, clearly rattled and with tears brimming in her eyes.
“It is true, Alexis!” Carly insists. “Sonny made the mistake of trusting you and he believed that you actually cared about him. And you showed him that he was wrong when you left him…and now he might actually die because of it!”
“I’m…sorry…” Alexis manages.
“Alexis,” Mike begins as he helps her over to a nearby chair, “why don’t you sit down?”
“I…I never meant for any of this to happen,” she continues. “I never wanted anything to happen to Sonny, Mike. You have to believe me…”
“Of course not,” Mike reassures. “Just calm down.”
Alexis drops down into the chair as the tears stream down her face.
Kristina bends down to her, gently wiping her tears away.
“Sonny knows how much you love him,” she whispers. “None of this is your fault, Alexis. Do you hear me – none of it.”
“He was conducting himself in a reckless manner,” she says. “Mike told me so himself. He made himself vulnerable and he did it…after we moved away from him…”
“Oh, that’s great!” Carly says. “Now the brilliant Miss Alexis Davis can see the damage she’s caused! Only now it’s too late because Sonny might be dying in there!”
“That’s enough, Carly!” Mike insists. “What happened tonight is not the fault of anybody here. Besides none of that matters right now anyway because the most important thing for us all to do is to hope and pray that Sonny makes it through surgery. Now why don’t you just concentrate on that…and leave Alexis alone.”
“She doesn’t belong here, Mike.”
“I’ll bet Sonny would disagree about that,” Kristina says.
“Fine!” Carly relents, the words causing a pain deep down inside – because she knows that they’re true. “Fine. You stay…but just stay away from me!”
Carly quickly walks down the hall and away from the waiting room.
Kristina turns her attention back to Alexis.
“Are you okay? Would you like me to get you anything?”
Alexis shakes her head no and wipes her tears.
“No, thank you,” she says, staring straight ahead of her. She takes a deep breath. “I…don’t need anything. I’ll just…wait here – if you don’t mind.”
“Maybe you should go home and get some rest,” Mike says. “You’ve probably been up all day…”
“I had a nap earlier,” she says. “And I’ll rest – right here. I’ll just sit here like this and…I won’t move around a whole lot…I have to be here, Mike…”
“Well, if you’re waiting here,” Kristina says as she takes Alexis’ hand, “I’m waiting here with you.”
She feels Alexis squeeze her hand.
You have to be alright, Alexis’ mind cries out to Sonny. You can’t leave us – not now, not like this. This baby needs you. This baby needs her father. You can’t abandon her, Sonny. You just can’t…
“Sonny has been shot before,” Alexis says. “He made it then. He’ll make it this time, too.” She looks up at Mike. “He will. You’ll see.”
“Yeah,” Mike manages quietly as he resumes pacing.
Alexis nods to herself.
“You’ll see…” she says.