A bad, bad girl...

A bad, bad girl...

April 25, 2002

Skye: Ooh. What are you doing so far away? Wait, hmm, don't tell me. You are going to go out and get us another fabulous French feast.

Jax: Nope.

Skye: Um, Russian? Japanese?

Jax: No, no, no, no. Today I make business calls.

Skye: Oh, pooh.

Jax: Come on, don't pout. That's how I make all that nice money that you're so fond of.

Skye: Weren't you even going to say good-bye before you left?

Jax: You were sleeping so peacefully, I didn't want to wake you.

[Jax points to a note he left for her]

Skye: Hmm. [she reads his note] Oh, please. This business is with Carly? Blow it off, come back to bed. You know you want to.

Jax: You're right. I do.

Jax: But I have to go.

Skye: Oh, oh, come on. I don't know why you're bothering with that stupid club anyway. It's not like you need it.

Jax: Well, it's a hell of a lot more interesting than the stock market at the moment.

Skye: I mean, you can't seriously intend to stay partners with Carly now that we, we're...

Jax: We're what? Well? Carly and I shouldn't be partners because you and I are, are what?

Skye: Well, we're back from the Caribbean.

Jax: Oh.

Skye: And I've trashed my relationship with AJ to side with everyone else against him and Courtney. I mean, call me selfish, but I really don't want you in business with the woman who put this whole thing into motion.

Jax: Ok, you're selfish, and don't go making Carly the bad guy here.

Skye: You got to be kidding. That woman locked me in the boathouse and left me to die.

Jax: Ok, we're being a little too dramatic now. Carly assured me that she was coming back to let you out.

Skye: Jax! I almost drowned! And I may not have had her arrested because, well, you asked me not to, but I do think attempted murder qualifies as "bad guy." You know, if you went out into the street right now and took a poll among people and asked them what they thought about a guy who's sleeping with one woman while he's partnering up with her worst enemy, I think you'd be vilified across the board.

Jax: A poll?

Skye: Mm-hmm.

Jax: Why would I care what people in the street think about me?

Skye: Look, the point is what I think, ok?

Jax: Oh.

Skye: Jax, come on. I did what you asked me to. I turned on my brother to help the sister of a man who's keeping AJ away from his son, who happens to be my nephew who I never get to see because of, well, who else? Carly. And, the thug of a husband who makes everything possible for her. I'm not taking some moral high ground here, ok? I realize that that would be a joke. What I am saying is that two degrees of separation between me and Carly just isn't enough. I'm asking you to cut her loose, Jax, clean. Will you do that for me?

Jax: I know what you're doing.

Skye: I'm asking you to take my feelings into consideration.

Jax: No, no, you're testing me, Skye. You're flexing your muscles. Look, Carly's my friend. Just leave it at that, ok?

Skye: And I'm your lover.

Jax: Yeah. If I was to say that I'd stop doing business with Carly, you'd take it as some kind of verification that you and I equal X. Well, I won't play that game, Skye. I'm not going to make decisions based upon whether it gives you a win on your mental scorecard.

Skye: Ok.

Jax: Ok.

Skye: Maybe you're right. Maybe I do need a win. I didn't just vaguely disapprove of AJ, you know, I turned on him. When I told my father and Monica he'd been drinking again, well, I just ruined it with the one person in the world I could count on.

Jax: Look, I understand that you're feeling genuine loss, but you did the right thing. So don't go looking for award points. Ok? What AJ is doing with Courtney is wrong. And if he's drinking again, then the fallout for her is only going to be worse. And as far as Michael is concerned, you know, I'm sorry that he's not a part of your life, but if that comes with AJ attached, then maybe Michael is better off without you.

Skye: AJ loves his son.

Jax: Then why is he using the kid as a pawn? Why isn't he straightening, straightening up his own life? Look, Skye, what you and I have is a good thing. Don't wreck it for something that was, that was set in motion long before we got here to make some obscure point, ok? That would be a mistake.

Skye: Ok. I can live with this. I'll drop the whole Carly thing.

Jax: Good.