Return to me

By : Laurie-Lee

Summary : Any memories of Luis have been erased from Sheridan's brain but what will happen when he calls to her through her dreams? Will love conquer Alistair and Antonio's evil plan of keeping them apart? NOW COMPLETE

Author's note : This chapter will be shorter than the otehrs and plz, bear with me on that. Sexual content are contained in this chapter so fair warning to everyone.

I also want to add that Sheridan spent 10 months in the hospital. It's important to know this for the purpose of my story.

Chapter 3: Returned

Once out of the dining room, Sheridan had brought the man she loved back in the living room and pulled him to her. All of their memories, even the one of their past lives together, were coming back to her and a familiar feeling of peace filled her body. Though he thought Sheridan would surely want to meet their sleeping son, the passion and desire he felt for her took over. Luis broke away from the fiery kiss and took her hand, leading her to his bedroom. "Let's go somewhere where we won't be disturbed" he whispered to her as he shut the door.

The dim candlelight in the room flickered off Sheridan's begging eyes as he released her hand. "I... I've been waiting for you to come back to me in my dreams..." she told him, gazing up into his handsome face. "I've been waiting for you to make me a woman again instead of leaving me in the middle of the tango song." she added, coming closer to him.

The words had an instant reaction on Luis' feelings as he pulled her into another kiss, this time sweet and tender. Apparently he'd also been waiting for this to happen. Slowly, he removed the jacket of her suit and throw it away, leaving her with her bra only as a top. That was hiding the smooth skin he'd been dying to touch for months now and the soft light of the candle caressed her waist..

"Sheridan... you're as beautiful as I remember..." he whispered as he kissed her forehead, his hands compassing through the golden silk of her hair as her hands wandered up his chest, feeling the muscled chest she loved so much. She leaned on when he came to the ties of her skirt and pressed a kiss to his soft lower lip, nodding as if to say she wanted him to continue. The last piece of her suit fell to the floor and soon Luis' pants as well as both their underwear followed. They stood before each other, purely naked with desire in their eyes. They wanted each other so bad... Their reactions were purely virginal, as if it was their first time again.

Luis' eyes widened and he looked away from her briefly, realizing he shouldn't do such a thing seeing as she was still Antonio's wife and was matter-of-factly her sister-in-law. Sheridan turned bright red and averted her eyes at his... and cleared her throat, her eyes going to his face. "Luis...." she said, her voice unsure. She took her wedding ring off of her finger as if she understood what he'd been thinking, walked up to him and ran her hands along his washboard stomach and traveled downwards. Luis' eyes closed briefly but then she drew away, waiting for him.

Giving in, his hands explored her curvaceous body. She was so soft... but firm under his fingers and he felt his lust take hold as he pulled her against his body, their lips meeting promisingly at the halfway mark as they both voiced their reaction to the first touch of flesh on flesh since a very, very long time.

Passion and human instinct took hold afterwards as they made love to each other, their feelings indulged and bodies satisfied as they relaxed, their mouths moving across each other's on the bed as they calmed.

Sheridan relished the naked, muscular warmth that was Luis behind her and sighed, turning to kiss him full-mouth. He replied and groaned when she touched him in other areas, pulling away before he could repeat the process that had just taken place.

"As soon as your divorce to Antonio is pronounced, I want to marry you..." Luis told her, his hot breath tickling her soft ear. She moaned and arched against him, yawning deeply.

"And you will..." she replied, a huge smile on her face. He kissed her fervently again before he got up and dressed. "What are you doing?" he heard her ask. He knew without even looking at her that she was frowning, not understanding why he would leave the warmth of the bed.

"Come with me. I have a surprise for you that I'm sure you're going to like." Sheridan got into a silk robe, ran a hand through her messy hair and followed him out of the door. A surprise? I wonder what it is...

They walked a while and when they finally stopped, she was completley lost.

"Where are we?" Remembering she'd never been in the residence after her return from New York, he turned around to answer her.

"Right in front of the nursery. I want you to meet two little persons." She frowned but he didn't care this time. He opened the door, took her hand and walked to the first bassinet. In it peacefully slept a little girl. "This is Maria Ivy Lopez-Fitzgerald, Kay and Miguel's daughter. I don't think you've ever met her right?"

"Yes. She's so beautiful." She was captivated by the baby's figure. Maria had the Lopez-Fitzgerald tanned skin and her mother's face. "Oh Luis, I hope we'll have daughters as beautiful as her."

"There's no doubts in my mind that we will. Now come over here." said Luis from the other side of the room. Sheridan walked to him and noticed a wooden bassinet behind his shadowy figure.

"I present you my son, Martin Lopez-Fitzgerald." As if she'd been stabbed in the back, the blonde took a few steps back. It was Beth's son. His and Beth's son.

"You and Beth have a beautiful little boy..." she managed to blurt out, still hurt by the thought.

"She's not the mother of my child Sheridan. She was never pregnant by me.

"Oh..." she simply stated. "But, what about the baby she had?"

"He'd been separated from its mother at birth."

"That's cruel from her. But what about Martin then?" she asked, horrified at the thought that someone else was the mother of Luis' firstborn. Her eyes went back to the baby. In the darkness of the room, she could not tell if it was a newborn or a one year old boy.

"Since he isn't Beth's, I only see one other person..." he trailed off, waiting for Sheridan to realize she was the mother but when she kept quiet, he continued. "Martin's mother left Harmony 11 and a half months ago." A look of shock spread on Sheridan's features as she realized who Luis was talking about.

"I....I..." she mumbled, unable to say the words...

"Yes...You are this little boy's mother. Martin is our son.2 Tears immediately fell down Sheridan's cheeks as the truth sank in her heart. The baby sleeping in Luis' arms was hers; the child she'd bore nine months and that had been ripped off of her body and arms so cruelly. She approached and looked at her little boy.

"Let me hold him Luis. Let me hold our son." he cried softly. He placed the baby in her arms and as soon as Martin made contact with his mother, he slowly opened his eyes. They were blue just like hers. As if Luis knew what she was thinking, he put a hand on her shoulder.

"Even though Beth and me had brown eyes, I didn't asked questions at first seeing as Mrs. Wallace's are blue too. But when Martin began to walk, he had a little accident in the stairs here. I brought her at the hospital since Beth was working and Dr. Russell told me she needed to do a blood transfusion. He'd lost a little too much blood to just have his wounds closed. We checked if I had a matching blood type but it came out negative. I called Beth to ask her to come down to the hospital and after Eve checked her blood type, she realized it wasn't a match either. I am A negative and Beth was O positive. However, Martin is B positive so either I was not the father or Beth wasn't the mother. Dr. Russell did a DNA test proved Beth wasn't the mother. I then put her under arrests and had her locked up in jail where she'll rot until she die. When I came back from the police station, Eve came to me and asked me when the baby was born. I told her and she did a research on her computer to see if there was any other babies born the same day in the state. She came up with a list of fourteen. Fortunately, only five had been kidnapped or certified as dead. She looked the blood type of the mothers and combined it with mine to see if it would give a match Martin's blood type. She came up with two perfect matches. Either the mother was you or a certain Anna Greenwood living in Portland. Eve phoned her to ask her two questions; did she have blue eyes and did she had herself inseminated. You know I'd given my semence to help women have children if they couldn't." Sheridan nodded, proving she followed the story and understood. "When she told us her child had been conceived naturally, I knew only you could be the mother of my son. It also implied that Beth was one of your kidnapper..." he trailed off, not sure if he should continue or not.

"I know..." she replied, confusing Luis. He lifted an eyebrow.

"How?"

"When I remembered everything earlier, some of your memories were mixed with mine. I know all about Beth and her plan." She looked down at her son who'd returned back to sleep and smiled. "But let's not talk about the past anymore. My child and the man I loved have been returned to me and I have to look forward to a wonderful life." Luis smiled, knowing it was the beginning of a new era for all of Harmony's citizens.

They were wed a week later much to everyone's joy. Alistair's funeral and burial were never celebrated and the Crane patriarch was just buried in the common cemetary instead of the Crane private one. Beth died only four years after she'd been thrown in jail. Her soul is now in hell. Sheridan had a beautiful baby girl 9 months after and she and Luis moved into the Crane cottage where they lived happilly ever after, with the blessing of Tabitha, until the end of their days.

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-Laurie-Lee