The night of the Nurses Ball, Carly goes out
to buy shoes to match her dress. When
she returns she finds Sonny telling Mike he would rather not go because the
night is too painful for him. Carly
tries giving him an out but he decides it’s important to show up for Stone and
the cause. Before she dresses Carly
tells Michael that she loves him and would do anything for him. At the ball, Carly pulls a gun on AJ
determined that he has to die in order for Michael to be safe. Sonny talks her down and realizes that she
needs to get away in order to heal.
Sonny takes Carly to his island for some much
needed R&R. They bond over the loss
of their child and finally become lovers again. Unfortunately, Carly overhears a conversion between Sonny and
Benny that leads her to believe that Sonny is only staying with her because he
promised Jason he would look out for her and Michael. Determined not to be an obligation to Sonny, Carly decides to
leave him when they return to Port Charles.
Sonny, too stubborn to admit how he feels for her, allows her to move to
the Brownstone.
When things don’t seem to be working out at
the Brownstone, Carly seeks out Sonny to discuss her options. She finds him comforting Elizabeth and
(being Carly) naturally jumps to all the wrong conclusions. AJ threatens to get back Michael now that
Carly is no longer with Sonny. Bobbie,
finding her daughter camped out in her house upon her return from her vacation,
tells Carly that she must find somewhere else to live.
Carly picks a fight with Hannah at Luke’s,
trying to get Sonny’s attention. On her
way out, she runs into AJ and gets into another fight. Sonny intervenes and makes it clear that
Carly and Michael are still under his protection. Bobbie tells Sonny she wants
Carly out of her house. Sonny agrees to
find her a place.
After more difficulties with her mother,
Carly agrees to ask Sonny if she can move back in until she finds a place of
her own. As she waits for Sonny in the
penthouse, she decides to surprise him with dinner. When she emerges from the
kitchen she finds Sonny comforting Elizabeth again. Carly loses it and she and Sony fight terribly. An upset Carly goes to Lila for advice. She thinks that Sonny has no use for her
anymore and that he thinks she’s trash.
Lila tells her not to be so sure.
Sonny spends the evening alone eating the meal Carly had prepared for
the two of them.
Carly asks Sonny to be Michael’s other
responsible adult for his pre-school application. Sonny agrees. He asks her about her wanting to move back in but
she says it makes no sense if the move is just temporary. Alexis warns Sonny about taking
responsibility for Carly and Michael as a lifelong commitment. Carly and Elizabeth have another fight at
Kelly’s. When Sonny finds out, he rips
into Carly calling her a user and saying that Jason was smart to walk away from
her. Roy finds Carly in tears and
comforts her as she confides in him.
Sonny comes back and apologizes to Carly for his treatment of her. He takes her home to the Brownstone where
they talk and Carly agrees to move into Jason’s penthouse.
Sonny leases Jason’s penthouse to Alexis in
the hopes of forcing Carly to move back in with him. When Carly realizes Sonny rented the place out from under her she
gets angry. She tries to make Sonny
jealous by hitting on Roy at Luke’s club but only succeeds in making Bobbie
angry. Carly agrees to start looking at
some houses.
Mike approaches Carly and asks her to borrow
forty thousand dollars from Sonny (to cover a gambling debt to Sorel) but not
to tell Sonny it’s for him. Carly
refuses. She and Sonny discuss Mike and
their past together. Sonny thinks that
his father has changed. Carly realizes
it will hurt Sonny if he finds out the truth about his father and reluctantly
agrees to help Mike in order to spare Sonny any pain.
As Sonny is about to ask Carly to move back
in, Carly lies and tells him she’s found a house and needs money for a down
payment. When it becomes clear that she
doesn’t have the house picked out she tells him she needs the money to improve
her credit rating. Sonny agrees and
gives her the money.
Carly gives the money to Mike on the
condition that he tells her the location of the meeting with Sorel. Sonny, approached by Sorel, is informed of
Mike’s debt and is told that he is the payment. Carly calls an anonymous tip in to the police and gets trapped in
the motel room before the meeting starts.
When Sonny arrives instead of Mike, Carly interrupts the meeting but not
before Sonny incriminates himself on (her) tape and the police arrive. They are arrested. The police let Carly go but Sonny has to spend the night in
lock-up. After his arraignment the next
day, an angry Sonny goes to Brownstone and tells her that she’s moving back in
with him – he doesn’t trust her to be on her own. Back at the penthouse Carly confesses her involvement in the
scheme with Mike. Sonny tells Carly
that she will do exactly as she is told from now on. When Carly asks why she should agree to such treatment, Sonny
tells her because he is the only thing that is standing between AJ and her son.