*note* Takes place after Dec. 28's Eppy.
Theresa gave the young child back to the orphange care-taker, and then she turned to Ethan and said, "Ethan I need to talk to you."
"Okay Theresa you know you can tell me anything." Ethan replied.
Then Theresa looked at him through her soaken eyes and she said, "Ethan I'm so sorry."
"Sorry for what?" Ethan asked, then wipping her tears away with his thumb and holding the side of her face, "Theresa what's wrong?"
"A lot of things actually, but before I tell you you must promise me something." Theresa said.
"What? Anything." Ethan replied.
"I don't want you to interrupted me, and I don't want you to go anywhere near Julian Crane or do anything stupid." Theresa said.
"Of course not Theresa, if what you say is that important." Ethan said with a concerned look.
"It is..." Theresa took a moment and then said, "I guess there is only one real way to say this, and that's the explain it to you one step at a time."
"Okay," Ethan replied.
"When Julian got me drunk and got us married-" Theresa stumbled over the hard words, "I thoght I was marrying you."
"Yes Theresa I know that, don't worry I don't still blame you." Ethan said.
"Ethan no interruptions please."
"Oh sorry, go on." Ethan said.
"Well, thas not all that happened that night, unfortunatly." Thersea said as Ethan stared at her questioningly, "I thought I was making love to you when in fact I was being more or less raped by Julian Crane."
"What?? You slept together?!" Ethan said, "Theresa how could you not tell me?"
"I just did Ethan," Theresa said while crying, "And now I just found out that I am pregnant." She took a pause, "With Julian's baby."
Ethan was speechless and just stared awe-stuck at his Theresa.
Theresa was choked up as she went on, but she made her words clear, "I'm going to go now, because I know that now more than ever that you don't want to marry me, and I understand. So I've decided the best thing for everybody is for me to leave. I'm going to go so you won't have to be reminded...I'm going to move away and raise this baby on my own." She paused, "Ethan I want you to know that I never meant for anything like this to happen. All I wanted was for you to be happy, and for us to live happily ever after. And no matter what anybody else tells you I want you to know that I love you Ethan, I always have and I always will, and everything I did I did out of love for you."
There was a long pause as Ethan took there staring at his crying finance in awe and wonder.
Theresa's tears would not cease their flow as she said, "Goodbye Ethan."
It was all in slow motion to Ethan as Theresa's hair twirled about her as she turned quietly and walked out of his life.
-|-I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU BY WHITNEY HOUSTON-|-
If I should stay
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go but I know
I'll think of you
Every step of the way.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You my darling you mmm
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I'm taking with me.
So goodbye, please don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
(Instrumental)
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you`ll have
All you've dreamed of.
And I`m wishing you joy
And happiness.
But above all this, I`m wishing you love.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you......
I will always love you,babe I`ll always love you
I`ll always love you.
****
In another place at another time there was a there was a plane crossing the sky as the sun's rays gave a dim coffee coloring to the cloudless sky.
A woman sat in first class sipping her bottled water and looking at the sunset out the window.
"Are you anxious to be returning to Harmony Miss Crane?" The flight attendent asked the woman.
"Don't call me that." She said, "My name is Anna."
"Oh yes Miss-Anna, I'm so sorry." The flight attendent said.
"Don't apolgize to me, its not your fault I'm the grand-daughter of the scum of the Earth." Anna smiled at the flight attendent to signal that all was right, "When will we be arivving in Harmony?" She questioned.
"Very soon Anna." She said, "If I may inquire, why do you wish to leave London now? You've lived their practically your whole life, and now you wish to return to Harmony?"
"Well personal problems back in London added on to the fact that I havent seen hide nor hair of Harmony since I was a young girl-both make me all the more anxious to return home." Anna replied.
The flight attendent went back behide the curtain and the capiton came over the intercom saying, "Buckel your seat belts and lock in your tray tables, we're apporaching Harmony and will be landing in a few short mintutes."
Anna buckeled her seat belt and did has the caption instructed.
There was a young boy sitting next to Anna on the flight, no older than 5 or 6, his name was Eddie.
He was Anna's son.
Suddenly there was a rumble. Followed by a bigger jolt and a rumble.
"Must just be some terbulance." Anna said outloud.
Then there was a loud expolsion outside on the right. Then on the left.
Everything else was all a blur for Anna. She dove for her son which was her first reaction she forced him onto the floor of the plane and covered him with her body, she closed her eyes as he cried out in confusion.
****
"Over here!" Sam yelled through the smoke. He was in a fire uniform working with other men to get all the survivors out of the jumbled wreckage, "In the first class cabin there could be some alive!! Somebody get on out there!"
"I'll go!" Hank yelled. He had just arrived on the scene and he put his helmot on and tucked in the edges of his fire jacket as he dove into the mess of metal.
"Hello!" He called loudly through all the smoke. There was a fire near the back of the first class cabin, and more fire to the front of the cabin. Smoke clouded the rest of his viewing area and he didn't hear anything except the snapes and crackles of the flames.
"Hello?!" Hank called again, "Is anybody here?!" He made his way as far into the cabin as possible, but it wasnt to far before he stumled and saw even though the smoke, a young woman huddled down on the floor.
Hank grabbed her and turned her over, he took her into his arms and was about to leave with her to see if she was still alive when Hank noticed another huddled being on the floor.
A little boy.
Her son, register Hank. Even though he knew nothing of the woman he just knew, in his gut, that this was her son.
Hank surprisingly felt his heart sink at the though of a husband waiting for her at the airport.
Hank tried to lift up the boy along with the woman, but it was impossible.
He would have to back another trip for the boy - he swore then and there that he would get the boy and his mother out alive at any cost.
With every look every glance he memorized where the boy was so the trip back in would be quick easy and most importantly - harmless.
When he imerged from the wreckage he saw a few bystanders, and a few resuers. But none of that mattered.
He laid the woman down and forced himself away from her side to go and retrieve the boy from the burning wreckage.
Hank knew that there was no way he would allow himself to turn back now. He would resue the boy and make sure him and his mother were alright.
For some reason he felt a strange devotion to the mother and child. Maybe it was the lonely romantic in him or the holiday spirit, but whatever it was it was burning like a fire inside of him just as deeply as that mother wanted to save her child.
He burst back into the flames which wer higher than before, and that messed up his sense of direction, but nothing could stop him.
He searched through the thickness of the smoke, using instincs he never knew he had in him.
He had always been so simple. Nothing special, just Sam's brother. Single Sam's brother who couldn't win over Sheridan but gracisly stepped away for Luis and stepped out of the picture. Anybody's picture.
Sometimes Hank thought that way, other times he didn't. Hank knew that something was waiting for him out there, his destiny perhaps.
Then he found him. There the boy was in a huddled mass with black smoke over his face. Hank snatched him up as quickly as he could.
Then they were out.
Hank colapesed with the boy in his arms next to where the woman had now awoken. She was yelling if he was gonna be alright, and all Hank could do was check him for a pulse. There was one. A strong one. He must just be unconious, Hank thought.
Hank lifted the boy's head and patted him on the pat, as if to revive him in some way.
The boy coughed and the woman cried, "Eddie! Eddie!"
"He's gonna me alright ma'am." Hank said as he picked up the boy-Eddie-and moved him closer to his mother so that she could comfort him.
Hank left them just for a moment and yelled to Sam, "We need 2 strechers over here Sam! Now!"
Sam nodded in return and signaled for the strechers to go.
Hank went back to Eddie and his mother. Hank turned to the mother and asked, "Ma'am, what is your name??"
She was very shaken up as she stuttered out, "A-Anna."
"Alright now Anna, you and your little Eddie here are going to go to Harmony Hospital!" Hank yelled so she could hear him over the yells of the other fire fighters and the flames.
Anna nodded and she tried to stand, after falling over her ankle Hank said, "No no, Anna stay down, the medics will be here soon. Just stay put."
Anna then cried out and held her hand to her side.
"What? Anna what's wrong?" Hank asked, it was then that Hank saw blood on Anna's side, "Don't worry we'll get you to the hosipital." Hank said.
It was then that Anna roughly grabbed Hank's hand and sqeezed it as he said through her teeth, "Take care of my son."
Hank knew that the woman needed reassurance-he gave it to her.
-|-ANGEL BY SARAH MCLACHLIN-|-
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memories seep from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
****
Sheridan looked at the ripples in the water that reflected the silent glow of the lights of Harmony. She was with Brian she knew, but she felt the strongest feeling that somebody was waiting for her in Harmony.
She leaned back and closed her eyes.
She was thinking of the love that Brian and her concluded died. But Sheridan felt the presense of the one she loved. The one she knew something inside of her longed to remember.
She would remember she knew, she just needed something familiar. Something that she was hoping to find in Harmony.
She remember her supposed last moments with the one she loved and lost. Something else was beckoning her at the edge of her mind. Like a voice was crying out to her, trying to explain everything.
But the voice fell upon deaf ears, for Sheridan had lost the hearing of the past.
Of Luis.
****
Luis needed air.
He walked outside and prayed for a mircale. Sadly this was becoming tradition for him, praying for Sheridan to return. H eknew the truth that Sheridan was gone forever, but he could not accept it when he had felt her presence so clearly at he island.
And everywhere else.
Where ever Luis went he carried Sheridan with him in his heart.
Luis walked down passing people he knew on his way and waving at them.
Before Luis knew where he was he was in front of the cottage.
Sheridan's cottage.
Luis knew that no one had put away her things or even been in the cottage most likely, so Luis went inside, longing for a peice of evidence that Sheridan was not just a dream or a fantesy of his own that he had awaken from.
The cottage was cold because no doubt the Cranes would waste heat on a cottage no one was living in.
He ran his hand on the couch, and went into the bedroom.
Luis was slow walking and his gaze went across the room staring at one preicous thing at a time.
Oh how he longed for Sheridan's embrace. He just wanted to hear her laugh, to see her smile one more time.
Luis loves her more than life itself, and its killing him inside.
Maybe one day he'd figure it out. Figure out why the light in his soul had to be taken away when Sheridan died. She couldnt imagine how he could grow old without her there.
Luis looked on Sheridan's desk and found a bottle that said, "Forever Mine" on it, Sheridan's perfume, Luis knew.
He smelled it, and memories flowed back. Of the first night they met, of the time he parashooted down to save her, of their ploy in Paris to the church last Christmas.
Luis sat down on the bed. The bed he and Sheridan had first made love on, Luis knew.
Luis couldn't stand the void in his life, the void that nobody else but her could fill. How he missed her so.
Then Luis said another prayer, he looked at the sky and folded his hands, and prayed with all of his broken heart.
Then a light from the windown crept into the room, lighting the entire area.
Luis looked and had to sheild the burst of light from his eyes.
"Luis," The angel girl said, "Have hope. Keep your faith in your love for Sheridan, and Antonio."
"Antonio? What does he have to do with Sheirdan?" Luis asked.
"Watch the water Luis. Watch the water." was all the angel girl said, "Watch the water."
****
"We're here!" Cried Brian.
"It's here Brian I know it." Said Sheridan.
"What? What's here?" Brian asked confused.
Sheridan sighed and answered, "My past."
"Ok Diana I'm going to go and run a few errands, why don't you go and get us hotel rooms?"
"Alright Brian." Sheridan said.
Brian then walked to his old home. To the Lopez-Fitzgareld home.
Brian-or should I say Antonio-could not believe that he was actually back in Harmony, much less going to see his family.
When he arrived at his old home, he looked in and saw all the lights turned off-nobody was home.
Antonio wondered if they left their door open.
He turned the knob-the door was no locked.
He let himself in and looked at all teh pictures on the mantel.
One of papa, one of Luis, Miguel, Mama, and Theresa all together.
And one that definatly caught his breathe.
One of Luis and Diana. Antonio opened up the back of the frame and read what mama had wrote on the back.
"Luis and Sheridan - Engagment Day"
Antonio could not believe his eyes.
Diana was actually Sheridan Crane, the woman his brother loved.
****
Sheridan walked along the woarf, searching for her memory. SHe laughed at the thought.
She was actaully taking a little work before getting a room at the Harmony Hotel.
That's when she heard it.
The soft quiet sound of a man's tears and whispers.
Sheridan crept closer, and she saw the man sitting on a bench nearby.
She could only see the back of the man's head, but she knew that he was in tears.
She listned closely and heard, "Lord, please bring Sheridan back to me. I just don't think that I can live without her. I love her. I love her more than life itself. I want to feel her touch again, hear her laugh, see her smile, hold her hand, please, I need Sheridan back into myself. I regret that we never did get married, please Lord, bring her back to me."
"Sheridan..." The name ran through Sheridan's mind like a rabbit in a marathon. "That name..." She turned the corner so she wouldn't disturb the man, but she pressed her back against a wall and closed her eyes.
After mintutes of imagines and lines and glimpses, she gasped.
"Brian is Antonio Lopez-Fitzgareld." She said, "I love Luis Lopez-Fitzgareld."
She paused as she remembered the last details, "With all my heart."
-|-BETTER DAYS BY FAITH HILL-|-
Hard times are fallin' on you
Even when you smile
I see the hurt come through
And I know it feels like it's never gonna end
You say nothin's been right for a long time
And every step you take is a uphill climb
I see you're reachin' out
So let me tell you friend that
Better days are comin' around
I know you feel like
The whole world's gone and let you down but
Better days they're comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right there makin' sure they do
And if your sky ain't lookin' the fairest
There ain't no reason to be embarrassed
Ain't nobody in the world ain't felt the rain form time to time
And just you think it's all over and done
The nights get easier one by one
So take my hand and hold on tight
And soon you're gonna find that
Betters days are comin' around
I know you feel like
The whole world's gone and let you down
But better days they're comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right here makin' sure they do
I know what it's like
To have to face the fight
But I won't let you stand alone (oh)
Better days are comin' for you
I know it feels like
The whole world's gone and let you down but
Better days are comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right here makin' sure they do
Oh, better days
I know, I know, I know
The whole world's gone and let you down
Better days are comin' for you
I know they will
****
Check back soon for Chapter Two
Theresa gave the young child back to the orphange care-taker, and then she turned to Ethan and said, "Ethan I need to talk to you."
"Okay Theresa you know you can tell me anything." Ethan replied.
Then Theresa looked at him through her soaken eyes and she said, "Ethan I'm so sorry."
"Sorry for what?" Ethan asked, then wipping her tears away with his thumb and holding the side of her face, "Theresa what's wrong?"
"A lot of things actually, but before I tell you you must promise me something." Theresa said.
"What? Anything." Ethan replied.
"I don't want you to interrupted me, and I don't want you to go anywhere near Julian Crane or do anything stupid." Theresa said.
"Of course not Theresa, if what you say is that important." Ethan said with a concerned look.
"It is..." Theresa took a moment and then said, "I guess there is only one real way to say this, and that's the explain it to you one step at a time."
"Okay," Ethan replied.
"When Julian got me drunk and got us married-" Theresa stumbled over the hard words, "I thoght I was marrying you."
"Yes Theresa I know that, don't worry I don't still blame you." Ethan said.
"Ethan no interruptions please."
"Oh sorry, go on." Ethan said.
"Well, thas not all that happened that night, unfortunatly." Thersea said as Ethan stared at her questioningly, "I thought I was making love to you when in fact I was being more or less raped by Julian Crane."
"What?? You slept together?!" Ethan said, "Theresa how could you not tell me?"
"I just did Ethan," Theresa said while crying, "And now I just found out that I am pregnant." She took a pause, "With Julian's baby."
Ethan was speechless and just stared awe-stuck at his Theresa.
Theresa was choked up as she went on, but she made her words clear, "I'm going to go now, because I know that now more than ever that you don't want to marry me, and I understand. So I've decided the best thing for everybody is for me to leave. I'm going to go so you won't have to be reminded...I'm going to move away and raise this baby on my own." She paused, "Ethan I want you to know that I never meant for anything like this to happen. All I wanted was for you to be happy, and for us to live happily ever after. And no matter what anybody else tells you I want you to know that I love you Ethan, I always have and I always will, and everything I did I did out of love for you."
There was a long pause as Ethan took there staring at his crying finance in awe and wonder.
Theresa's tears would not cease their flow as she said, "Goodbye Ethan."
It was all in slow motion to Ethan as Theresa's hair twirled about her as she turned quietly and walked out of his life.
-|-I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU BY WHITNEY HOUSTON-|-
If I should stay
I would only be in your way.
So I'll go but I know
I'll think of you
Every step of the way.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
You my darling you mmm
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I'm taking with me.
So goodbye, please don't cry.
We both know I'm not what you, you need.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
(Instrumental)
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you`ll have
All you've dreamed of.
And I`m wishing you joy
And happiness.
But above all this, I`m wishing you love.
And I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you.
I will always love you......
I will always love you,babe I`ll always love you
I`ll always love you.
****
In another place at another time there was a there was a plane crossing the sky as the sun's rays gave a dim coffee coloring to the cloudless sky.
A woman sat in first class sipping her bottled water and looking at the sunset out the window.
"Are you anxious to be returning to Harmony Miss Crane?" The flight attendent asked the woman.
"Don't call me that." She said, "My name is Anna."
"Oh yes Miss-Anna, I'm so sorry." The flight attendent said.
"Don't apolgize to me, its not your fault I'm the grand-daughter of the scum of the Earth." Anna smiled at the flight attendent to signal that all was right, "When will we be arivving in Harmony?" She questioned.
"Very soon Anna." She said, "If I may inquire, why do you wish to leave London now? You've lived their practically your whole life, and now you wish to return to Harmony?"
"Well personal problems back in London added on to the fact that I havent seen hide nor hair of Harmony since I was a young girl-both make me all the more anxious to return home." Anna replied.
The flight attendent went back behide the curtain and the capiton came over the intercom saying, "Buckel your seat belts and lock in your tray tables, we're apporaching Harmony and will be landing in a few short mintutes."
Anna buckeled her seat belt and did has the caption instructed.
There was a young boy sitting next to Anna on the flight, no older than 5 or 6, his name was Eddie.
He was Anna's son.
Suddenly there was a rumble. Followed by a bigger jolt and a rumble.
"Must just be some terbulance." Anna said outloud.
Then there was a loud expolsion outside on the right. Then on the left.
Everything else was all a blur for Anna. She dove for her son which was her first reaction she forced him onto the floor of the plane and covered him with her body, she closed her eyes as he cried out in confusion.
****
"Over here!" Sam yelled through the smoke. He was in a fire uniform working with other men to get all the survivors out of the jumbled wreckage, "In the first class cabin there could be some alive!! Somebody get on out there!"
"I'll go!" Hank yelled. He had just arrived on the scene and he put his helmot on and tucked in the edges of his fire jacket as he dove into the mess of metal.
"Hello!" He called loudly through all the smoke. There was a fire near the back of the first class cabin, and more fire to the front of the cabin. Smoke clouded the rest of his viewing area and he didn't hear anything except the snapes and crackles of the flames.
"Hello?!" Hank called again, "Is anybody here?!" He made his way as far into the cabin as possible, but it wasnt to far before he stumled and saw even though the smoke, a young woman huddled down on the floor.
Hank grabbed her and turned her over, he took her into his arms and was about to leave with her to see if she was still alive when Hank noticed another huddled being on the floor.
A little boy.
Her son, register Hank. Even though he knew nothing of the woman he just knew, in his gut, that this was her son.
Hank surprisingly felt his heart sink at the though of a husband waiting for her at the airport.
Hank tried to lift up the boy along with the woman, but it was impossible.
He would have to back another trip for the boy - he swore then and there that he would get the boy and his mother out alive at any cost.
With every look every glance he memorized where the boy was so the trip back in would be quick easy and most importantly - harmless.
When he imerged from the wreckage he saw a few bystanders, and a few resuers. But none of that mattered.
He laid the woman down and forced himself away from her side to go and retrieve the boy from the burning wreckage.
Hank knew that there was no way he would allow himself to turn back now. He would resue the boy and make sure him and his mother were alright.
For some reason he felt a strange devotion to the mother and child. Maybe it was the lonely romantic in him or the holiday spirit, but whatever it was it was burning like a fire inside of him just as deeply as that mother wanted to save her child.
He burst back into the flames which wer higher than before, and that messed up his sense of direction, but nothing could stop him.
He searched through the thickness of the smoke, using instincs he never knew he had in him.
He had always been so simple. Nothing special, just Sam's brother. Single Sam's brother who couldn't win over Sheridan but gracisly stepped away for Luis and stepped out of the picture. Anybody's picture.
Sometimes Hank thought that way, other times he didn't. Hank knew that something was waiting for him out there, his destiny perhaps.
Then he found him. There the boy was in a huddled mass with black smoke over his face. Hank snatched him up as quickly as he could.
Then they were out.
Hank colapesed with the boy in his arms next to where the woman had now awoken. She was yelling if he was gonna be alright, and all Hank could do was check him for a pulse. There was one. A strong one. He must just be unconious, Hank thought.
Hank lifted the boy's head and patted him on the pat, as if to revive him in some way.
The boy coughed and the woman cried, "Eddie! Eddie!"
"He's gonna me alright ma'am." Hank said as he picked up the boy-Eddie-and moved him closer to his mother so that she could comfort him.
Hank left them just for a moment and yelled to Sam, "We need 2 strechers over here Sam! Now!"
Sam nodded in return and signaled for the strechers to go.
Hank went back to Eddie and his mother. Hank turned to the mother and asked, "Ma'am, what is your name??"
She was very shaken up as she stuttered out, "A-Anna."
"Alright now Anna, you and your little Eddie here are going to go to Harmony Hospital!" Hank yelled so she could hear him over the yells of the other fire fighters and the flames.
Anna nodded and she tried to stand, after falling over her ankle Hank said, "No no, Anna stay down, the medics will be here soon. Just stay put."
Anna then cried out and held her hand to her side.
"What? Anna what's wrong?" Hank asked, it was then that Hank saw blood on Anna's side, "Don't worry we'll get you to the hosipital." Hank said.
It was then that Anna roughly grabbed Hank's hand and sqeezed it as he said through her teeth, "Take care of my son."
Hank knew that the woman needed reassurance-he gave it to her.
-|-ANGEL BY SARAH MCLACHLIN-|-
Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memories seep from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
So tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
you keep on building the lie
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees
In the arms of the angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort there
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
****
Sheridan looked at the ripples in the water that reflected the silent glow of the lights of Harmony. She was with Brian she knew, but she felt the strongest feeling that somebody was waiting for her in Harmony.
She leaned back and closed her eyes.
She was thinking of the love that Brian and her concluded died. But Sheridan felt the presense of the one she loved. The one she knew something inside of her longed to remember.
She would remember she knew, she just needed something familiar. Something that she was hoping to find in Harmony.
She remember her supposed last moments with the one she loved and lost. Something else was beckoning her at the edge of her mind. Like a voice was crying out to her, trying to explain everything.
But the voice fell upon deaf ears, for Sheridan had lost the hearing of the past.
Of Luis.
****
Luis needed air.
He walked outside and prayed for a mircale. Sadly this was becoming tradition for him, praying for Sheridan to return. H eknew the truth that Sheridan was gone forever, but he could not accept it when he had felt her presence so clearly at he island.
And everywhere else.
Where ever Luis went he carried Sheridan with him in his heart.
Luis walked down passing people he knew on his way and waving at them.
Before Luis knew where he was he was in front of the cottage.
Sheridan's cottage.
Luis knew that no one had put away her things or even been in the cottage most likely, so Luis went inside, longing for a peice of evidence that Sheridan was not just a dream or a fantesy of his own that he had awaken from.
The cottage was cold because no doubt the Cranes would waste heat on a cottage no one was living in.
He ran his hand on the couch, and went into the bedroom.
Luis was slow walking and his gaze went across the room staring at one preicous thing at a time.
Oh how he longed for Sheridan's embrace. He just wanted to hear her laugh, to see her smile one more time.
Luis loves her more than life itself, and its killing him inside.
Maybe one day he'd figure it out. Figure out why the light in his soul had to be taken away when Sheridan died. She couldnt imagine how he could grow old without her there.
Luis looked on Sheridan's desk and found a bottle that said, "Forever Mine" on it, Sheridan's perfume, Luis knew.
He smelled it, and memories flowed back. Of the first night they met, of the time he parashooted down to save her, of their ploy in Paris to the church last Christmas.
Luis sat down on the bed. The bed he and Sheridan had first made love on, Luis knew.
Luis couldn't stand the void in his life, the void that nobody else but her could fill. How he missed her so.
Then Luis said another prayer, he looked at the sky and folded his hands, and prayed with all of his broken heart.
Then a light from the windown crept into the room, lighting the entire area.
Luis looked and had to sheild the burst of light from his eyes.
"Luis," The angel girl said, "Have hope. Keep your faith in your love for Sheridan, and Antonio."
"Antonio? What does he have to do with Sheirdan?" Luis asked.
"Watch the water Luis. Watch the water." was all the angel girl said, "Watch the water."
****
"We're here!" Cried Brian.
"It's here Brian I know it." Said Sheridan.
"What? What's here?" Brian asked confused.
Sheridan sighed and answered, "My past."
"Ok Diana I'm going to go and run a few errands, why don't you go and get us hotel rooms?"
"Alright Brian." Sheridan said.
Brian then walked to his old home. To the Lopez-Fitzgareld home.
Brian-or should I say Antonio-could not believe that he was actually back in Harmony, much less going to see his family.
When he arrived at his old home, he looked in and saw all the lights turned off-nobody was home.
Antonio wondered if they left their door open.
He turned the knob-the door was no locked.
He let himself in and looked at all teh pictures on the mantel.
One of papa, one of Luis, Miguel, Mama, and Theresa all together.
And one that definatly caught his breathe.
One of Luis and Diana. Antonio opened up the back of the frame and read what mama had wrote on the back.
"Luis and Sheridan - Engagment Day"
Antonio could not believe his eyes.
Diana was actually Sheridan Crane, the woman his brother loved.
****
Sheridan walked along the woarf, searching for her memory. SHe laughed at the thought.
She was actaully taking a little work before getting a room at the Harmony Hotel.
That's when she heard it.
The soft quiet sound of a man's tears and whispers.
Sheridan crept closer, and she saw the man sitting on a bench nearby.
She could only see the back of the man's head, but she knew that he was in tears.
She listned closely and heard, "Lord, please bring Sheridan back to me. I just don't think that I can live without her. I love her. I love her more than life itself. I want to feel her touch again, hear her laugh, see her smile, hold her hand, please, I need Sheridan back into myself. I regret that we never did get married, please Lord, bring her back to me."
"Sheridan..." The name ran through Sheridan's mind like a rabbit in a marathon. "That name..." She turned the corner so she wouldn't disturb the man, but she pressed her back against a wall and closed her eyes.
After mintutes of imagines and lines and glimpses, she gasped.
"Brian is Antonio Lopez-Fitzgareld." She said, "I love Luis Lopez-Fitzgareld."
She paused as she remembered the last details, "With all my heart."
-|-BETTER DAYS BY FAITH HILL-|-
Hard times are fallin' on you
Even when you smile
I see the hurt come through
And I know it feels like it's never gonna end
You say nothin's been right for a long time
And every step you take is a uphill climb
I see you're reachin' out
So let me tell you friend that
Better days are comin' around
I know you feel like
The whole world's gone and let you down but
Better days they're comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right there makin' sure they do
And if your sky ain't lookin' the fairest
There ain't no reason to be embarrassed
Ain't nobody in the world ain't felt the rain form time to time
And just you think it's all over and done
The nights get easier one by one
So take my hand and hold on tight
And soon you're gonna find that
Betters days are comin' around
I know you feel like
The whole world's gone and let you down
But better days they're comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right here makin' sure they do
I know what it's like
To have to face the fight
But I won't let you stand alone (oh)
Better days are comin' for you
I know it feels like
The whole world's gone and let you down but
Better days are comin' for you
I know they will
'Cause I'll be right here makin' sure they do
Oh, better days
I know, I know, I know
The whole world's gone and let you down
Better days are comin' for you
I know they will
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