Title: "The Secret That Changed Everything"
Author: Chandler7Roxanne20Fan90Forever
Genre: Drama, supernatural, multi-chaptered
Rating: G
Main Character(s): Lucy, Kevin, Rain Hampton, and Chandler and Roxanne play a really important role in this story.
Coupling: Lucy and Kevin are married and Chandler and Roxanne are married…I guess that counts a little
Character Death(since some people hate it so much): Before you read this, you should know that Chandler and Roxanne are dead in this story. But, they will still play a big role in it.
Didclaimer: 7th Heaven is the property of Brenda Hampton, Aaron Spelling, The WB, etc…not of I, Alexa Stock, and it never will be. I also don't own the words to the Madonna song 'Live To Tell', which verses from it will appear at the beginning and the end of this and possibly other chapters, but I might pick another song, I'm not sure yet. But, I do own: Rain Hampton-Kinkirk, Amanda Kinkirk, Jonathon (John) Kinkirk, Landon Kinkirk, and Kimberly (Kim) Kinkirk.
Setting: Sixteen years after early season 9, but it doesn't follow anything from season nine. If this confuses you, be sure to read the a/n after the summary.
Summary: Rain Hampton's parents, Roxanne and Chandler, died in a car accident a month after she was born so she never knew them. Lucy and Kevin Kinkirk adopted her and they raised her as one of their own kids. But now, on the 16th anniversary of Chandler and Roxanne's deaths, Lucy and Kevin tell Rain the truth. How will she react?
A/N: Sorry if this is confusing at all. I wrote this story way back last February when the 8th season was still airing so things are really different. In this story, Lucy and Kevin did not get pregnant at the end of season 8 and Roxanne and Chandler got married instead of breaking up because it worked for this story. So really, season 8 or 9 never really happened. Also, this happens in the year of 2020.
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"I have a tale to tell
Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well
I was not ready for the fall
Too blind to see the writing on the wall"
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Chapter One: A Truth Never Told
Lucy Kinkirk looked gloomily at the calendar on her bedroom wall. It was that day once again.
December 15th.
It was the once again the date of the untimely death of Chandler and Roxanne. Lucy remembered what happened so clearly. One night they went out, and they never returned home. They left behind so much in their lives. Great friends, careers, and their daughter Rain. But they didn't leave behind great families. Being that Roxanne's dad objected their marriage and wanted nothing to do with them and her mother was murdered years before. And Chandler's dad died of lung cancer the summer of 2003, and his mother wouldn't speak to him because he hadn't given her the money she demanded from his father's estate that was left to Chandler in his will, and his brother was a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. But everything else had been going great for them.
The fact that they died seemed to drift away slowly. People in Glen Oak ridded memories of them away, the church hired a new associate pastor, and Kevin was assigned a new partner. People would visit their graves in the local cemetery sometimes. Other people would talk about how tragic it had been that they died so young and hopeful. But mostly, people would forget that they ever even existed.
Lucy would sometimes still hear people say, "It's a shame that that minister and his wife died so young a few years back. I mean, he was only 25 and she was only 23, they were just married a few months before, and their poor little daughter became an orphan. I wonder, whatever did become of that little girl?"
Well, Lucy new what had happened to that little girl.
She had adopted her with her husband, Kevin Kinkirk.
Because when Rain Lydia Hampton was born on the day of November 18th, 2004, Roxanne and Chandler issued Lucy and Kevin her legal guardians. So that if something happened to them that caused them to die while she was still below eighteen, they could adopt her. This was because Roxanne's father wanted nothing to do with her or Chandler or the baby, Chandler's mother was a cruel, faithless, nasty, bitter old woman who wanted only money from her son, not his child, and his brother was still fighting his problems with drugs and alcohol. Lucy and Kevin were the only ones left to allow custody to Rain. So, it was official, Lucy and Kevin were the legal guardians of Rain Lydia Hampton.
But a month later on the night of December 15th, 2004, Roxanne called Lucy and asked if she could baby-sit Rain for her while her and Chandler went out to dinner. Lucy happily said yes, she loved sweet little Rain so much.
But then, on the way home from that very same dinner, Roxanne and Chandler had met their fate. It had been9:00 pm when they left the restaurant. They were driving along the rode when a drunk driver came speeding out of nowhere right towards them. Chandler, who had been driving, tried to avoid hitting the truck. But before he could do anything, the truck crashed right into them, killing Chandler instantly. Roxanne, on the other hand, was still alive, but she cold feel herself dying. So she quickly pulled out her cell phone and made one last call. A call that still haunted Lucy to this very day, the last words that she ever heard come out of Roxanne's mouth…
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Lucy was sitting on the couch of her and Kevin's garage apartment, her eyelids heavy from caring for an infant all evening. Rain had fallen asleep only moments before. The phone rang. Lucy got up to get it. She looked at the caller ID. It was Roxanne's cell phone number. A million bad thoughts raced through Lucy's mind. what if something bad happened to Roxanne? Or Chandler? She really hoped it was just Roxanne calling to say that her and Chandler were stuck in traffic and they would be a little late picking up Rain. She picked up the phone.
"Hell,." Lucy said, trying to hide the worried tone in her voice.
"Luce, it's Roxanne," Roxanne's voice sounded weak…dead almost.
"Roxanne, what's wrong?" Lucy asked.
"Luce, there was an accident. This big truck come out of nowhere and hit our car," Roxanne said. Her voice grew weaker.
"Oh my gosh, Roxanne…are you and Chandler ok?!" Lucy asked in a freaked out voice. This isn't good. This is bad…very bad. This sucks…this really sucks. Those were the thoughts running through Lucy's mind.
"Chandler's dead, Lucy. And I'm going to die soon too, I can feel it," Roxanne said, her voice was getting more faint each time she spoke.
"No! Don't say that! I'll send an ambulance, just tell me where you are. You'll be ok Roxanne," Lucy said, tears falling from her eyes.
"No, Luce, it's too late for me. I just called to tell you to take care of Rain for Chandler and me. Get custody of her, adopt her, and raise her. And don't her tell about us until she's old enough. When she's sixteen, Luce, tell her sixteen years from now…" Roxanne's voice died out at those words.
"Roxanne! Roxanne, are you there?! Please answer me! Roxanne…Roxanne…ROXANNE!!!!" Lucy yelled into the phone, but she knew it was too late. Chandler was dead, and now Roxanne was too. Lucy broke down onto the floor in sobs and clutched her knees to her chest.
She looked over at a sleeping Rain, "They're gone, Rain….they're really gone. Your parents and my best friends are gone. Roxanne and Chandler are gone…forever."
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So, Lucy and Kevin did what Roxanne had told them to do. They were able to get custody of Rain through court. They adopted Rain, and her last name changed from Hampton to Kinkirk. They raised her and treated her like their own child. But now it was sixteen years after the death of Roxanne and Chandler, the day she was supposed to tell Rain the truth about them.
Lucy wasn't sure she could. She knew Rain wouldn't be happy. She thought she had been born a Kinkirk. But now she would have to find out that she wasn't a Kinkirk at all, but a Hampton. She had a whole another family that she never had never known. And everyone thought of her as Rain Kinkirk, not Rain Hampton. But at times people asked if Rain was really Lucy and Kevin's real child.
This was because Rain looked nothing like any other of Lucy and Kevin's other children. Their 14-year-old son Jonathon Chandler Kinkirk, who was called John for short, looked a lot like Kevin. He had his light brown hair and blue-green eyes. Their 12, soon to be 13-year-old daughter, Amanda Roxanne Kinkirk, looked a lot like Lucy. She had Lucy's blonde hair and huge blue eyes. And their two youngest Landon James Kinkirk, who is 10, and Kimberly Elaine Kinkirk, called Kim for short, who is 5 are a mix of Lucy and Kevin. Landon has Lucy's blonde hair and Kevin's blue-green eyes, while Kim has Kevin's light brown hair and Lucy's huge blue eyes. But Rain has really dark brown hair that hung down a few inches past her shoulders, and had a slight wave to it, and blue eyes with a gray tint. She looked a lot more like Chandler with her hair and eyes than she ever would look like Lucy and Kevin.
Lucy made sure that no pictures of her two friends were hung up in the house. That way, Rain wouldn't ask any questions about them. She hoped there was no kind of newspaper article or story on the news about their death. Lucy wanted to tell Rain about Roxanne and Chandler, she didn't want her to find out from anyone or anywhere else.
Lucy pulled out a box from underneath her bed. It was labeled "Roxanne and Chandler" on it. She would pull it out sometimes when she wanted to remember her friends. It was loaded with pictures and some of Chandler and Roxanne's smaller belongings that had been left to Lucy and Kevin. Lucy's hand searched the box. She moved stuff around, until she came across an old, clipped out, folded up newspaper article. She unfolded it. The headline was "Associate Pastor at the Glen Oak Community Church and Wife Die in a Car Accident". The date across it read: December 16th, 2004…the day right after Roxanne and Chandler's death. Lucy took a deep breath and braced herself, and then slowly began to read the article.
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"The truth is never far behind
You kept it hidden well
If I live to tell
The secret I knew then
Will I ever have the chance again"
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A/N: And that's chapter one to this story. Is it any good at all so far? Please send a review telling me what you thought. And I'm sorry that my other stories haven't been updated lately, I've got rotten writer's block. So, expect me to only really be updating this story or putting some new one-shorts up(I have another Chandler/Roxanne and a Mary/Wilson one in the works). Well, I'm going now. Goodnight! Don't forget to review!-Alexa