Caroline Benson 1998 39

Caroline Benson 1998 39

""It's true," Carly tells a stunned Bobbie. "I'm your daughter." Bobbie's joyful tears from seeing Micheal at last reunited with his mom are still glistening in her eyes. Her face turns stony with shock. "Jason, please take the baby," she murmurs. Everyone is there, the Qs, Keesha, Robin, all watching in stunned silence as Jason carries the baby off. "You're diabolical," Bobbie tells her. Was this whole set up tonight just another step in Carly's plan to destroy Bobbie's life? "You're relentless. Like the plague." Carly has softened (at least temporarily), why would she lie? It just seemed like the perfect time, after Bobbie has helped her hold her son, to tell her that she has a daughter and a grandson. Carly tells her that she never knew how to get what she wanted without fighting dirty. When she first came to PC she didn't know what she was looking for. She realizes that she should have told Bobbie the truth at the very start. Carly's sorry for everything she's done, and wants to make it up to Bobbie now. "My little girl is dead, all right?" Bobbie cries bitterly. "She's dead!"
"I'm not the only one who lied to you," Carly answers. (Luke is the one who told Bobbie that her daughter, Caroline, was dead).

A seething Bobbie accuses Carly of sinking to new depths to hurt her with yet another terrible lie. Carly tries again to convince Bobbie that she's on the level about the bond which ties them. She apologizes for not telling her sooner. She says she was angry at Bobbie for abandoning her. She thanks Bobbie for helping her to connect to her son, Michael. Bobbie isn't believing any of this, as she turns to walk away, Carly grabs her hand. Bobbie flashes back to her baby girl holding her hand. Tony enters, and Bobbie shares the news with him. Tony believes Carly, he says it answers a lot of questions about why Carly entered the nurse's program when she was obviously so unsuited for it. He goes through a list of Carly's actions since she first came to town. It all makes sense to Tony. Now he knows it was never about him but about Carly sleeping with her mother's husband.