This is the first Days of Our Lives FanFic I have ever posted. So please leave me your cmments!

Disclaimer: I don't not own Days of Our Lives or any of the characters. Please don't sue me for this!

This is set after the possible future death of Philip, so if you love Philip and want Claire to be his child don't go any farther!

Thomas Zachary Brady is my own thought up character!

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Things Can Change

By: DallasStar

She had just arrived home and had let the nanny go to bed, she went into her and searched her room until she found the old crumpled photograph and the tears began to flow. After her day she knew what she had to do, after five years she would have to go and face everyone in Salem. She had not even been in the office five minutes when she had received the notice that her brother was very sick and had been taken home to be cared for by his family. She looked down at the photo and seen herself, Brady, Chloe, Shawn, Mimi and Philip. She had cut herself off from her friends and even her family. But with the news she knew what she had to do.

Tears flowed as she clutched the photo and walked down the hall to peer into the room of her small five year old daughter Claire, who was sleeping so peacefully. She looked into the room next to it and watched her 3 and half year old son Thomas Zachary rest so calmly. The small children's peaceful world was about to be turned upside down.

She lay in her bed a few minutes later and regretted ever closing her eyes because the horrible flash backs came to her for the first time in three years…….

It was not long after the horrible car crash that had killed Philip. When she find out the real paternity of Claire. It was all an accident, before the crash Philip had taken the test to check his sperm to see if they were the reason they were not pregnant, and a few days after his death did she find out that he was sterile and that there was no possible way he could ever have kids. So at that moment did she realize who the father was there were no other possibilities. She kept it to her self all that day; she had gone up to the roof top that night to think, and who had shown up but Shawn. They talked for what seemed like hours, and in a few moments Shawn cheated on Mimi; he made love to Belle on the roof top. She had awakened the next day in her bed alone with a note next to her, "Belle last night was wonderful. But I had just gone up there to comfort you and things got way out of hand, it can not and will not ever happen again. I can not keep in contact with you and I can not talk to you I must keep the distance, our friendship ended last night. I love Mimi and must respect our marriage vows I am truly sorry." She was crushed she tried for weeks to talk to Shawn to tell him about Claire but he would not even listen. She could not count the times she had the doors slammed in her face, gotten hung up on, letters and emails returned unopened. The last straw was the night she busted in on a party at Chez Rouge, that was being giving for Shawn and Max and everyone on the car crew, that she had not been invited to! She was carried away by Salem Police screaming Claire was his daughter. Shawn just stood there and held Mimi close to him, as the hysterical Belle was carried away. Everyone there had she had lost her marbles because Philip had just died and she would be raising baby Claire alone, even her own parents thought that.

The night she lay on the cold cell floor she had realized she was pregnant with Shawn's baby, she vowed as soon as she got out she would leave this dreadful place behind and everyone in it. She was bailed out by a mystery person who she later found out was Sami. Belle went home and made a few calls and was gone by sun rise. Sami had come over the next day to check on her younger sibling but found an empty apartment.

Belle had gone as far away as possible and started her own wedding dress design company in London. It has even made its way to the states, to keep her identity a secret she called it Tink Design Co., she did not go by Belle anymore she went by Isabella.

The beeping of the clock awoke her, she knew she had to face the music someday but she did not think it would be this soon.

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