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Note: This is the night of the failed double wedding, when Theresa overheard Ethan tell Chad he couldn't marry her and she
had run into the church where Ivy, Gwen, and Rebecca continued to harass her.
There You'll Be Part 1
"You ruined his life and you ruined mine," Ivy almost yelled at Theresa. "And all the people you've hurt, Sam and Grace."
"Oh, Grace's baby," Theresa said. "No, I'm a horrible person. Why would Ethan want to marry me? I'm a horrible person..." she ran out of the church in tears. Pilar and Whitney tried to stop her but she ran out too quickly.
Pilar turned and glared at Ivy, too angry and hurt to say anything for a second. "You had no right to say that Theresa
hurt Sam and Grace when you were the one who tried to break up their marriage in the first place!" she yelled. And the
look in her eyes told Ivy that their friendship was over. She turned to Whitney, "Come on, we have to find Theresa," she
said. They both left, leaving Gwen and Rebecca with a look of triumph on their faces and Ivy with an upset look.
Theresa had been found. She went over to Whitney's house and hid in her room and Ethan, Chad, and Whitney found her the following morning. Ethan and Theresa talked it out and Ethan continued to believe in her innocense. "I love you, Theresa. I always will," he said tenderly, taking her in his arms. "I love you too, Ethan," she replied. They kissed. They didn't know it was going to be their last. Later that day, Theresa was found murdered right outside the woods, a bullet through her chest. To say that Ethan was devastated would be an understatement; he was inconsolable.
Gwen and Rebecca on the other hand were ecstatic. "I can't believe it. Theresa is finally dead!" Gwen yelled.
"I know. And the nice thing is, I didn't even have to pull the trigger."
"Wait, if you didn't kill Theresa, who did?" Gwen asked confused, she thought her mother had killed her.
"It had to have been Ivy."
"Ivy?!"
"Yes. Earlier today I saw her grab a gun and leave with it. When she came back, the gun wasn't with her and she had a look on her face like she had just been avenged."
"Unbelievable," Gwen said. "What a bunch of days these past ones have been. We thought our plan worked, Ivy crashed into the church and almost made Ethan believe Theresa was the one who sent the e-mail. But in the end he didn't and would have married her if I had confronted her. She got what she deserved, being murdered. After Ethan gets over her, I'll have him, so long as he never finds out we sent the e-mail from Theresa's computer."
"Ivy better not find out either, or she'll have our heads," Rebecca continued. "But neither of them will. I will never let that happen."
Little did they know that the tabloid reporter had been eavesdropping on them from behind the building they were standing by. He felt guilty at being partially responsible for Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald's death. And he was definitely going to print this story, how Gwen and Rebecca were Ethan's true betrayers and how Ivy killed Theresa. He went back to his office and quickly typed up the story. It hit the shelves the next morning. The headline read: Hotchkiss Women Did In Ethan "Bennett", While His Mother Kills Fiancé.
Ethan didn't see the tabloid until the later that day, when Chad came to see him at Sheridan's house, tabloid in hand. "Where's Ethan," Chad asked Sheridan.
"In the bathroom," she replied.
"How's he doing?"
Sheridan sighed. "Awful. Same way as Luis was when he thought I was dead." Neither of them said anything for a few seconds. "What's wrong?" she asked, seeing the look on his face didn't have much to do with Theresa.
Chad sighed. "Whitney, Hank, and I are half ready to strangle ourselves for not figuring it out earlier." He shook his head. "Maybe than, Theresa would still be alive."
"What is it?" Chad handed her the tabloid. She just stared at it in utter shock. "Are they both true?" she almost yelled.
"Are both of what true?" Ethan asked, entering the living room. Both Chad and Sheridan looked at him. His eyes were swollen red from crying. "Are both of what true?" he asked again.
Sheridan walked up to him. "There's no easy way to tell you this," she said, handing him the tabloid. Once he saw the headline he flipped through the pages, not saying anything as he read the article.
"Hank and I confronted Gwen and Rebecca," Chad broke in. "They admitted it."
"What about my mother?" Ethan asked looking up at him, not wanting that part to be true.
Chad sighed. "They found the gun buried near where they found Theresa's body. It had your mother's fingerprints all over it." None of them said anything for a few seconds. "She's at the Harmony P.D. Jail."
"Damn them," Ethan said. "Damn them all!" he yelled, walking past Chad out the door before either of them could stop him.
Ethan had gotten hold of a gun and went up to Rebecca and pointed it at her. Rebecca was too shocked to move. "You
were one of the people that took away the love of my life," he almost yelled. "Go to hell!" And then he just started firing
the gun and wouldn't stop. Sam had heard the gunfire from around the corner and when he saw what was going on he ran
up to him and struggled to get the gun out of his hand. Ethan eventually gave up and collapsed on the ground in tears.
The judge declared him mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to 1 1/2 years in a psychiatric facility in Boston. (Gwen had showed up to the hearing and left soon after; partially because she was mad at Ethan for killing her mother, but partially because she still loved him and couldn't bear the look he gave her when he saw her. She left Harmony soon after and never came back.)
Right before he left, he visited his mother in jail, the third woman he hated. They both didn't say anything for a few minutes; Ivy couldn't look into her son's eyes, she couldn't bear the hatred that were flowing through them.
"Did you see the tabloid?" Ethan finally broke the silence.
"Yeah," she replied. "I'm sorry for what I did."
"That's not good enough. Sorry's not good enough at all." Neither of them said anything for a few seconds; Ivy was ready to cry. "Do you know how many lives you ruined? How many people you hurt?"
"How's Theresa's family?"
"What do you expect? They're miserable. The Bennetts' are just as unhappy. Kay died yesterday."
"What?!"
"When Hank and TC went to bring Miguel back and tell him that his sister was murdered, they found all them crying or looked like they had been. They told them Kay had died."
"What happened?"
"I didn't get to much of the details cause I was too busy with my own sadness but from what I understand, the warlocks on the island kidnapped Charity and when everyone else tried to rescue her, Kay fell into an abyss."
Ivy didn't say anything for a second. "That's all to unreal."
"After everything that happened with hell a few months ago, I'm willing to believe anything. They haven't found Kay's body either." He shook his head. "The half-sister I never knew." Neither of them said anything for a short while. "The whole town's feeling sad. What you did only is one of the reasons for it."
"I'm sorry, Ethan. I...I don't know what to say."
"There's nothing you could say. Nothing you can do. You killed Theresa and I'll forever hate you for it." Ivy had completely burst into tears by then. "You ruined my life when you ended Theresa's. I'll never forgive you for that."
Just then the door opened. One of the guards entered and motioned for Ethan that it was time to go.
Ethan turned and looked at his mother for the last time. "This is the last time I'll ever see you," he said. "I never want to
see your face again." And then he turned and followed the guard out of the jail, leaving his mother in sobs.
Sam visited almost every weekend. Jessica, Chad, Whitney, Luis and Sheridan visited a lot too. All of his friends visited
every now and then as well. Finally, a year and a half had gone by. Ethan was given a prescription for heavy antidepressants
and was released. Sam was there to pick him up. Ethan was going to live with his family, the Bennetts, in their rebuilt
home. It was about 6:45 that evening when they left. They didn't say anything much on the way home. The drive from
Boston to Harmony was about an hour and a half. When they were almost to Harmony, Ethan decided to turn on the radio.
It was a beautiful but sad song that played. Neither of them knew why they didn't change the station, because it just made
them feel even sadder. They listened anyway.
When I think back on these times
And the dreams we left behind
I'll be glad cause I was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look back on these days
I'll look and see your face
You were right there for me
In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky
In my heart there'll always be a place for you for all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am there you'll be
Well you showed me how it feels
To feel the sky within my reach
And I always will remember
All the strength you gave to me
Your love made me make it through
Oh I owe so much to you
You were right there for me
In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky
In my heart there'll always be a place for you for all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am there you'll be
Ethan closed his eyes to stop the tears from falling. It wasn't working too well; they fell anyway.
Cause I always saw in you
My light, my strength
And I wanna thank you now
For all the ways
You were right there for me
You were right there for me
Always
In my dreams I'll always see you soar above the sky
In my heart there'll always be a place for you for all my life
I'll keep a part of you with me
And everywhere I am there you'll be
And everywhere I am there you'll be
There you'll be
Ethan opened his eyes and just gave up trying to control the tears and let them fall. He turned and looked at Sam. Sam still had his eyes on the road, but Ethan could see tears falling down his eyes; and he could tell that he wasn't crying for Theresa.