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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: SLIGHTLY LATE UPDATE, Thursday April 18
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 06:44:04 GMT

Beginning to catch up: it's the

ONLY A LITTLE LATE UPDATE, THURSDAY APRIL 18

SIDAR RAMPANT: or Will No One Rid Me of This Annoying Storyline?
Sonny is staring out the window, brooding, as Lily comes up.  She wants
to know why he broods.  He denies he ever broods, she argues, and he
eventually admits he broods (but less often than he used to.)  He's
worried about Luke, but Harry can handle it.  [Harry's supposed to call.
He doesn't think he should call when Laura is arrested?]  She goes off to
Windom's to get their ski stuff.

At Kelly's, over breakfast, Brenda gives Jax back the money for the
trip.  He comes close to tearing up the check, as he wanted it to be his
treat, but she says, the savvy businesswoman that she is, that she can
write it off on her modelling contract.  He picks up the breakfast tab,
however, and is off to a meeting about a leverage buyout in Thailand.  If
she wants to know more, she can read the prospectus.  No, she's "just
checking."  He tells her he isn't into obsessive secrecy.  he comments
that he's not Sonny Corinthos.  She says "I know" and he asks, cleverly,
"DO you?"  He promises her another flying lesson that afternoon, and
she's off to Windom's to do some shopping... for lingerie for UNDER the
new wardrobe.

Ruby comments to Brenda "He's terribly handsome."  "Yes he is, and he's a
Very Good Friend."  "Why on earth," says Ruby in a sensible moment,
"would you want him for a FRIEND?"  Brenda says "Trust me, Ruby, I know
what I'm doing."  [Competing theories here: 1. Ruby is still serving PC
water when the rest of the city went to bottled, safer, not mind-altering
water.  Against this is that Lois has been at Kelly's for a while and
still is making sense.  2. Brenda was at that susceptible age for young
girls, and the water of last summer has permanently altered her brain.
She'll have PC-Water flashbacks the rest of her life.  And they say JASON
is brain-damaged. She should hire RC Chambers, big-name worthless lawyer,
and sue the PCWaterCompany.]  Lucy bubbles in, looking for Jax, not sure
she can trust him.

At Windom's, Brenda overhears Lily talking about her plans to ski at
Steel Mountain.  She gets crafty-looking.

Lucy frets at Jax but eventually does the deal to get back at Edward.
And she can hardly wait [me either!] to see Kathy's face.

Brenda comes back and lies to Jax, talking him into skiing at Steel
Mountain, because she is "ready to take that next step in our
relationship."  [If she'd only told him the truth, maybe he could have
hustled her off to an asylum...]

FAMILIES, PART I
Ned goes to see Gloria and Carmine.  Lois isn't there, but Gloria assures
him they are completely neutral [In a pig's eye, too.  No offense, Tante
Joan!  I'm FGC Gloria for a reason... she reminds me of me.  My kid comes
first.  However, I would hope to be as even-handed in appearance as the C's
are, anyway.]  She invites Ned to stay for canneloni, and of course
Carmine wonders what's the occasion.  Gloria says (unable to kick
Carmine's ankle) "it's our SON-IN-LAW [nudge, nudge, wink, wink!]!"  She
heads off to do the marketing and just incidently to meet Lois.  Ned
tells Carmine he doesn't want a divorce, "I don't want to lose my family
before I have a chance to experience it."

In a great keeper scene, Ned and Carmine discuss women and marriage while
Gloria and Lois in the park discuss men and marriage.
Carmine says he got nervous after the "weasel" episode when he realized
Lois and Ned were actually in love.  Ned can lie when he needs/wants to,
Lois cannot.  Marriage is a compromise.  He mentions Jason and AJ and Ned
gets all nervous that Lois told them.  Carmine says not to worry, they
are Family, though it's obvious Ned doesn't know what that means.  Ned
asserts "As warped and as twisted as we are, the Quartermaines are worth
protecting."  Lois, says Carmine, applied Cerullo rules to the
Quartermaine family, which is probably a mistake.  "You have no idea,"
agrees Ned.   Carmine continues: "You told her the truth last, when she
expected to hear it first."  But at least Ned did tell the truth.
Cut to Lois and Gloria in the park: Lois says "I want him to be honest."
Gloria tells her "You're holding some pretty high standards, Lois Marie."
Carmine tells Ned "I guarantee you for the next 9 months it'll be nothing
but hormones."  Lois tells her mother "I can't think straight."  Gloria
agrees, "Men will do it to you."  The parental advice, at cross-purposes,
goes on in both locations.  Then the women come home.  Ned and Lois make
tentative moves during their talk.  Ned doesn't stay for dinner.

FAMILIES, PART II, or Sonny Has a Really Good Day, part 1.
[Mike works a double hustle, poetry in motion.]
Mike is at the pool table at LUKES when Sonny comes in looking for Luke.
While Harry is supposed to call him should anything happen, he'd
appreciate it if Mike would also keep him informed.  He also
appreciates what Mike did for Lily (is this the cooking?)  Mike says
"Lily is a damn decent woman.  If she ever learns to cook, she'd be
damn near perfect. " As Sonny turns to go, Mike casually asks if he'd
ever told Sonny about the night he was born.  The fish is hooked: Sonny
can't resist.  Mike tells about calling Adele from Trenton and telling
her he'd be home in about two hours, make dinner.  Then he stops at a bar
for a quick one, and a game of poker, and 8 or 9 hours later he pulls
in.  Adele positively glowed.  "Some women don't do 'pregnant' so good,
but your mother did."  She had held dinner for him, even though she'd gone
into labor about the time he called.  He raced her to the hospital and
paced in the waiting room.  When he saw mother gazing at baby, he told
himself "You stupid bastard, who do you think you are to deserve these
two perfect creatures?"  Sonny whispers "Nobody's perfect."  "So you say."
Sonny fights the hook a little, but asks "Best two out of three?"  They
cue up, and Sonny asks what Mike had been in prison for.  Mike says it
was jail, "I was never that good."  [Or that bad, surely?]  Sonny will
laugh about the first one, it was for unpaid parking tickets.  Sonny
agrees that was dangerous, and maybe the second was for jaywalking?
Nope, that time Mike had his hand in the till.  Meanwhile Mike is
cleaning Sonny's clock at pool.  He invites Sonny to dinner, but Sonny
has to go home to leave on the trip, but will take him up on it when he
gets back.  "See you."  "See you, Michael", mumbles Mike.

SONNY HAS A REALLY GOOD DAY, PART 2
Jason has been watching over a sleeping Robin, at the bridge.  She wakes
up, and assures him she is tougher than she looks.  Where was he,
anyway?  He tells her he went to the bus station, but then he remembered
he hadn't told her goodbye.  And he owed Sonny $100 and Reginald $50.
And then came the realization that he couldn't leave, he had to stay and
fight the Quartermaines for his (*his*) life.  "They can wreck every job
I'll ever have, but they can't make me come back and be their good Jason."
Robin comments that he wouldn't have gotten far without money.  He says
"Oh, I have money" and shows her the $100,000.  First he claims to have
mugged "the old guy who says he's my grandfather" but she doesn't believe
him, and so he tells her about the gunfight on the docks.  She tells him
the money is illegal.  He sneers, "Really."  She tells him to stop acting
brain-damaged and to take it to Sonny for advice.

Sonny finds Jason waiting and asks how long he's been there.  "I don't
know," Jason says, "I don't have a watch."  He gives Sonny the money, and
Sonny wants to know who told him to go there.  He's touched that Jason
thinks of him as a friend.  [A father, the better part of $100,000 (less
the bus ticket), and a friend all on the same day.] He offers Jason a
job, but Jason (who is not afraid of getting killed) says the
Quartermaines would turn up and he didn't want to let Sonny down.  Sonny
tells him "The Quartermaines don't scare me." [Yes, but what about Cook?]
Just then Lily comes home, and Jason leaves, and Sonny is smiling.  He's
had a surprisingly good day.  They prepare to leave for Steel Mountain.
--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book, the
        Booklist Boy, the IRS Guy, the Tycoon, and Sunbunny.
        Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.
jyarnot@netcom.com                 Putting the fun in "dysfunctional."