Return to Port Charles
By Misha

Disclaimer and Rating in Part One.

Part Eleven

"I went to see Jason today." Carly told her husband after dinner as they were sitting in the living room, drinking wine.

"I figured you would." Sonny said neutrally. Jason wasn't his favourite subject, but he wasn't going ot lose his temper. Not yet. "What did he say?"

"That his relationship with Brenda was none of my business." Carly admitted. "He called her his best friend and made it clear he'd choose her over me."

Sonny could sense Carly's hurt. He didn't know what he could say. Jason was not a good subject with him.

Also, he could see why Jason might feeling closer to Brenda. His and Jason's friendship was long over and that had strained Carly and Jason's relationship. So, perhaps, it wasn't surprising that she wasn't Jason's closest friend anymore, though he knew she didn't want to hear that.

"I heard something similar from Brenda." He admitted.

Carly glared at him. "So you went to see her."

"Yes." Sonny said. "I did. Carly, she meant a lot to me once, btu that was a long time ago." He looked Carly in the eye. "She's a totally different person now." He told her. "I could see that when I talked to her, when I heard her talk about her husband and her little girl. She's not the Brenda I knew."

"Jason said the same thing." Carly said bitterly. "He said that she had changed."

"She has." Sonny said quietly. "As much as I hate to agree with Jason, Brenda has a changed. Quite a lot, actually."

Carly made a face. "I still don't like her."

"Nobody's asking you too." Sonny said, rolling his eyes. Heaven forbid that ever happen.
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"I went to see Brenda today." Skye confessed to Jax.

"Why?" He asked her.

"Because I wanted her gone." Skye told him. "I wanted to make sure she stayed out of our lives."

"Skye-" Jax began, but Skye cut him off.

"Don't." She told him. "You don't have to say anything, Brenda said it much more convincingly than you ever could."

"What do you mean?" Jax asked.

"I mean, that I spoke to her and for the right time I knew that she'd never try to come between us." Skye told him. "She's not a threat to me."

"Skye, I could have told you that." Jax told her.

Skye laughed bitterly. "No, you couldn't. Because no matter how much you deny it-if Brenda wanted you, you'd go back to her." Jax started to protest, but she cut him off again. "It's okay, I've accepted it." Skye told him. "I know she has some hold on you that I can never break and I've learned to live with it, but I no longer have to live with the fear that I'll lose you to her again. She gave me that, because you never could."

Jax didn't say anything, he didn't know what to say. There was a lot of truth to what Skye had said, he wasn't sure he'd ever have been able to truly assure her that it was over with Brenda. Because part of him wasn't sure he'd ever really be over her, no matter how much he might delude himself.
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