After effectively destroying Bobbie's marriage to Tony Jones (Brad Maule), Carly Roberts (then Sarah Brown) moved in with him, but after a fight, she went to a bar looking for her friend Jason Morgan (Steve Burton). She ended up having a drunken one-night stand with Jason's brother, hapless buffoon A.J. Quartermaine (then Billy Warlock), who blacked out from the alcohol and didn't remember anything. Of course, she got pregnant as a result, and for a time pretended it was Tony's. Then she roped Jason into claiming he was the baby daddy. A.J. eventually learned the truth and worried that the wealthy Quartermaine family would take baby Michael away. Carly ended up marrying him in 1999 so that she could drive him to drink even further, shamelessly preying on his alcoholism.
They had a lavish wedding ceremony at the Quartermaine mansion, but after a while, Carly couldn't stand A.J. anymore. She went to find Jason for a quick roll in the hay and misinterpreted things when she spied him dancing with Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst). So, she did what Carly always does, and went and slept with Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard).
She got pregnant yet again, this time by Sonny, and when A.J. confronted her about having an affair, he accidentally knocked her down a flight of stairs and she sadly lost the baby. Needless to say, they were done, and her marriage to A.J. was one of the shortest on "General Hospital."
