Caroline Benson 1998 43

Caroline Benson 1998 43

Virginia Benson, Carly's adoptive mother, enters the bar. Bobbie's jaw drops when Virginia walks in and hurries over to embrace Carly, calling her " Caroline". Bobbie realizes Carly is telling the truth. Virginia happily introduces Bobbie to her biological daughter. With Carly's bizarre story now confirmed, Bobbie bitterly calls the girl a bitch and accuses her of sending for her adoptive mother. As a baffled Virginia wonders what's going on, Carly is forced to admit how she came to Port Charles two years ago to find Bobbie. Virginia berates her daughter for trying to destroy Bobbie's life, then reels in shock yet again when Tony informs her that she has a grandson. Tony continues that while she was sleeping in his baby, she had a baby with another man. Carly and Virgina sit quietly at a table to talk privately. Carly raves to her how everything has worked out, she lives in a beautiful penthouse, how wonderful her baby is, how great the baby's father is and how much Virigina will like him. Carly assures her the lies are all over now, the truth is out and Virginia can be part of her life. Her hurt mother can't believe that Carly thinks they can just pick up as if nothing has happened, after she has kept the truth about her life secret for almost two years. Virinia asks if she is going to take any responsibility for her actions? She broke up a marriage, deceived Virginia, and kept the existence of her grandchild from her, and now she thinks it is all okay now that she told the truth for one night?

Tony walks up, thrilled that Carly is getting her comeuppance but snarks, "I don't think guilt is a word in Carly's vocabulary!" He tells Virginia about the baby's heart defect, how Carly abandoned him when he was in ICU, that the father is a gun totting criminal and she left her son alone with him for almost a month! As Tony calls her a tramp, Carly turns to Virgina and says, "See this is the man I took away from Bobbie?" She tells her mother that she hurt them, but they hurt her too, that both Bobbie and Tony treated her like dirt since she arrived. Carly demands that just once Virginia take her side, that since Frank (her adoptive father) walked out on Virgina that she has blamed Carly for that and everything else. She can't believe her mother is going to take the word of two total strangers over hers? She admits that she doesn't like Tony, but she does like Bobbie. Carly yells at Virgina to just go. Virgina gets up but collapses on the floor of the Grill.

Bobbie heads to Wyndemere and demands to know if Stefan knew that Carly was his daughter? He did and admits that he capitalized on her husband's infidelity. She asks why he didn't tell her? He says that when they married, he didn't need to tell her and didn't want to hurt her. After they broke up, it served no purpose. He snarks that the rumors of her daughter's death were greatly exaggerated, by her brother! Stefan gleefully reveals that Luke was a pivotal part of the lie and the cover-up concerning Carly and Luke also knew the truth. Bobbie heads to Luke's house and sits in the dark waiting for him to come home. When he does, she tells him that Lucky is dead. As he looks at her in shock, she coldly asks him how that feels to hear his child is dead? Bobbie bitterly reveals that she knows he lied about her daughter's "fatal" car accident, Luke attempts to explain why he hid the truth about Carly's true identity to protect her from further pain. Bobbie promises a shaken Luke that she will never forgive him for what he's done.

At GH, Monica wakes a sleeping Carly and tells her if she wants to see her mother that she should come now. The doctor informs a weeping Carly that Virginia did not survive her second stroke. Sitting by her mother's body, Carly fears she's lost the one person in the world who loved her unconditionally despite all her flaws. After venting part of her rage on Keesha, Carly turns her anger on Tony and accuses him of killing Virginia. As a desolate Carly stands at the elevator, when it opens she comes face to face with Luke!