A day later, Eagle Beach, Aruba…
"I've heard about those two… Nicole, what are you up to here? Trevor will find out if the deaths are faked." Michael says.
"That'll give us enough time to deal with his businesses. Those super weapons that were being contained, they've been greenlit to go and aimed at everything Trevor owns." Nicole says.
"You mean… the ones Immy was secretly working on?" Carly asks.
"Yeah, the four of the nuclear things are all part of one machine that has a devastatingly powerful laser with all of them active, of course only one is needed to be running to do what we need." Nicole says.
"Vaporize the fucker if we can." Carly says, Nicole and Michael knowing that Carly wouldn't normally say that.
Outside of the hotel, K8lynn walked up to Sam, who looked at her.
"Did you find the info you were looking for in your records?" K8lynn asks.
"I'm honestly not surprised that he lied… to drag a doctor into it and forge a medical note is too damn far though." Sam says.
"There's more to it than that." K8lynn says.
"Yeah… because of what I thought was true, me and Rys… on my birthday and the few times since, we weren't exactly careful." Sam says.
"Where do you go from here? If he doesn't get caught in the blast-" K8lynn says.
"I know… he'll go even more nuts but I don't care, I just want him gone from my life… before any of that though, we need to see if what I'm suspecting is even true. I haven't really felt anything yet, but… well, it hasn't been that long either." Sam says.
"What do you mean by haven't really felt anything?" K8lynn asks.
"I did feel a bit dizzy this morning… also woke up at half 11, which is real late for me usually." Sam says.
The door opened and Carly, wearing a pair of cutoff shorts and a navy blue floral print flowy cami, walked out to them, Sam seeing the look on her face.
"I haven't said anything about this yet… but he's already flipped out once about it." Carly says.
4 days ago…
"Quit your yelling. And if I'm being honest, you constantly stressing me out… that's what made me think that I was pregnant. So you're the reason I had that scare, you don't see the damage your constant threats does to any of us." Carly says, Trevor taken aback by that response to his threats towards her… but turning angry at her anyway.
"And tell me, why would you even consider it if you haven't fucked, huh?! Johnny been getting his bellend tickled, has he?!" Trevor growls.
"I don't even know why you try… one day, K8lynn's gonna come to you and tell you that she's pregnant and you'll be over the moon about that. But then Sam will end up pregnant too and you know what? You should really work a lot better on covering your tracks, it wasn't hard to find the unedited records!" Carly says, Trevor putting his right fist through the wall in anger and yanking it out, his hand bleeding.
"You weren't meant to find that!" Trevor yells.
"I did! You should've been upfront with her but no, what you wanted got in the way like it always does and you broke her heart, you selfish, piss poor excuse of a father!" Carly says, Trevor grabbing his knife and putting it to her throat… but saw Carly holding her phone in her left hand, recording the whole thing.
"You hack into personal documents and call me out on it… don't you think that's a little bit SNEAKY?!" Trevor says, yelling at the end and suddenly moving the knife down, stabbing right through the phone and making Carly drop it as three fingers were sliced into, blood flowing quickly from the deep cuts.
"You really screwed yourself now." Carly says with a smirk as Junior ran in and crash tackled Trevor to the ground, handcuffing him.
"Junior, you twit! What the fuck?!" Trevor yells, Carly pressing a towel to her fingers.
"Assaulted my little sister, that was after breaking into her home and threatening her!" Junior says, yanking Trevor up on the ground and escorting him out.
Present time…
"Yeah… that's why they had these on them." Carly says, taking the medical gauze off of her index, middle and ring fingers and exposing the stitches.
"Gimme that…" Sam says, Carly handing her the damaged phone, which had been temporarily replaced with another older smartphone until she got a new one. Sam took her knife out of her pocket and carefully cut into the side before reaching her finger and thumb into the hole, pulling out a small silver square which Carly knew was the internal storage drive. "Probably be able to salvage the clips from it… doesn't look damaged." She says, handing the phone and drive back to Carly.
"Yeah. Can't completely damage a phone, there's always a backup." Carly says, the three heading into the room and to Nicole.
"Finally retrieved it?" Nicole asks, Carly handing her the drive.
"Think there could be anything salvageable?" K8lynn asks, Nicole putting the drive in the laptop before playing it, listening to the slightly grainy conversation.
"And what business is it of yours that I'm trying to have a normal life, Trevor? You pulled this same bullshit back in Ludendorff. You think you can just repeat it but with me as a stand in for my dad?"
"I call it trying to fix your fucked up life!"
"Is this how you're gonna react when your kids start families of their own, tell them that they're fucking up their lives?! And don't forget Ashley, the child you practically kidnapped and raised as your own, only to bail when it got too tough for you! She could've possibly made Brad a grandfather a few times by now if he were still alive!"
A knock at the door made Carly go and open it, her eyes widening in shock.
The two hugged, Carly having not seen Ashley in 12 years.
"Damn, I missed you, kid!" Ashley says as they let go, Ashley walking into the room and her and Johnny hugging as Carly closed the door.
Nicole's phone rang and she answered it.
"It's all set up, kid." Anton says.
Meanwhile…
"And I'm telling you, I don't know where the hell they are! Knowing those two, they might come back as newlyweds!" Tyler says as Trevor held him against the Bodhi.
Even from where the two were in Paleto Bay, the explosion was massive enough to shatter every window and knock down every utility post nearby… Trevor looked in the direction of the smoke after pulling himself back up at the same time Tyler did and Trevor immediately knew what had been blown up.
"My businesses… my home…" Trevor tries to say. "ALL OF IT IS FUCKING GONE!" He yells in rage, getting in his truck and speeding off.
But on the way there, he crashed into a Buffalo S and Benson got out and dragged Trevor out of the truck.
"In a hurry or something, Philips?!" Benson growls.
"My home and my businesses were caught in that explosion, what or who the fuck caused it?!" Trevor demands.
"Do you even have to ask? You've pissed off just about everyone you've met in your life!" Benson says, throwing Trevor to the ground.
Trevor stood up and walked off, eventually reaching the Blaine County Radio Station and finding Ron hidden under his metal desk.
"It was those superweapons, Trevor!" Ron says in a panicked voice, Trevor turning angrier and grabbing Ron by his shirt and yanking him out of the improvised shield.
"Say that again, you scrawny prick?!" Trevor yells, yanking Ron up to his feet.
"The superweapons you tried to get three years ago! They were used to blow up the area!" Ron says fearfully, Trevor letting him go.
"It's… is anything fixable? Is… is there anything left?" Trevor manages to ask.
"Well… not unless you can piece atoms back together from ashes, Trevor. At least, in the actual impact areas. Surrounding it, maybe, but… what is there surrounding the airstrip and caravan that's of any use?" Ron says.
A few hours later…
"Over here!" Carly says, turning the radio volume up as the others ran over to her and Johnny in the beachside restaurant.
"We repeat our breaking news, the Blaine County area of San Andreas was heavily destroyed by a nuclear explosion! Surrounding areas have lost electricity, the tentative timeline for it being restored is anywhere from 48 hours to 2 weeks. Citizens are encouraged to stay as far away from the affected areas as possible…" The news reporter says, Sam turning the volume down.
"They're not mentioning the radioactivity… Immy told me that the impact craters from the shot will be highly radioactive for at least a day." Sam says.
"Good thing the hotel rooms are booked for a few days." Nicole says.
"With mostly nothing left, maybe he'll leave." Carly says, absentmindedly stirring the straw around in her iced tea and Sam seeing that Carly had trouble bending her injured fingers. "It'll be a while before I find out if the nerves are damaged… I rarely use one hand to shoot a gun but at least the fingers are still there." She says, Johnny carefully hugging her and Sam reaching over and lightly rubbing Carly's left shoulder.
"It might fly out of your hand but at least you can still shoot, put it that way." Sam says.
"He still tried to slice her fingers off." Immy says, taking the beer from Jack. "Don't drink like that, you'll get more alcohol on your clothes than in your blood!" She says.
Carly and Johnny snuck off, holding hands as they reached the beach and kissed, pulling their clothes off one at a time…
Comfort was needed in times like these.