I know it has been a while and watching a Brothers and Sisters episode I got a really good story idea for a Reba fanfic. All I can say is it is not a normal Reba fanfic…

Reba's Secret

She was doing what she always did when she had the house all to herself, reading a book with the TV on quietly in the background. She wasn't paying attention to either as she lay on the couch thinking, thinking of 30 years ago when she was only 20. The pictures she had found in the attic had brought back the memories and the questions. She wondered where he was. Does he know? What was he doing? If only she knew who he really was, yes she knew the name Robert Jeremiah Gray, her oldest son. Only her parents and Lorrie Ann knew, well and Matt the pig-headed ex-boyfriend who had gotten her pregnant in the first place and the pictures just hurt her so much. Every year at Christmas time a greeting card would come with a long letter telling of what had happened that year and at least three photos showing him through the years till he turned 25 and they just stopped coming, Reba could see her curly red hair and bright blue eyes and Matt's big ears and square chin in every single picture. She could feel tears start to fall down her cheeks but she soon wiped them away when the phone rang, it was Barbra Jean asking if Reba wanted to have lunch, Reba said no so she could have some time to herself. Once again her time was interrupted this time by the doorbell and she got up to answer the door as the TV went to commercial, Reba walked to the door hoping that whoever it was would go away before she got there but he was still there when she opened the door. Reba gasped at the resemblance to the boy in the photos but quickly shook the thought away and smiled to greet the red haired stranger.

"Hello is this the residence of Reba McKinney?" the man asked timidly and with a southern accent.

"It's Reba Hart now and yes I'm her." Reba said back to him while still grinning and taking in the shaggy red hair and piercing blue eyes, she also noticed his square jaw and muscular build.

"Oh hi, I know this may seem like a very invasive question but have you ever given up a child for adoption?" the man asked being very straight forward. Reba's grin immediately faded away as she nodded her head and asked him to come in and have a seat.

"It was a very long time ago." Reba said trying to explain.

"Almost 30 years." He said nodding.

"I'm assuming your Robert Grey." Reba said sitting down in a chair.

"Yes I am." Robert said still nodding.

"I only want to know why it took you 30 years to find me." Reba said staring at her hands.

"I found out I was adopted 5 years ago after my mom died, she had written me a letter explaining everything she knew but she left out your name. It took me four years of bugging my dad to find out who you were and to get your address and another year to talk myself into coming to see you." Robert said before finally looking up and into her blue eyes.

"Well a lot has happened in those 30 years." Reba said also looking up at him.

"Please tell me everything." Robert said with confidence.

"I was 18 when I met Matt. He seemed perfect, like a guy I could settle down with and raise a family. He had promised that we would marry after graduation so I figured why should we wait and well it happened really fast and really before I knew what had happened we had sex. Three weeks later I got sick and it didn't stop so I told my mom who took me to the doctor, I was pregnant and as soon as Matt found out he dumped me and well he ran away saying that kind of pressure was not what he needed at that time in his life. I just didn't know what to do, I discussed it with my parents and we decided adoption was the best option. We searched for 6 months to find the right kind of people to take you in and then we finally found Joan and Harry, or Mr. and Mrs. Grey or whatever I'm supposed to call them, and they were so happy that we picked them. A month later you came and let me tell you it was the easiest labor I've gone through and it was extremely hard but I knew I had to give you up because you could have a better life with a stable set of parents instead is a shy little teenager that had her nose stuck in a book all the time." Reba looked up and finally saw the tears that had been in his eyes and she stopped talking.

"You said I was the easiest labor you went through so I'm guessing you have kids now." Robert asked before quickly wiping his eyes.

"Yes, three kids. Cheyenne is 20, Kyra is 16, and Jake is 11." Reba said while watching him react to having three half-siblings.

"This might be a weird question but do any of them look as much like you as I do." Robert said with a little bit of a smile.

"Kyra has my red hair but all three of them have blue eyes." She said also smiling a little.

"I know this may seem weird but can I meet them, I don't have to be a person from your past I can just be a friend of yours who wants to meet them." Robert said softly.

"I'd like for them to meet you but I'd be fine if it was as a half-brother, if you're fine with that." Reba said hopefully.

"Yeah that would be even better." Robert said with a bigger smile.

"Well I was just about to start dinner if you want to help or you could sit at the table and watch me cook if you want to do that." Reba said getting up from the couch.

"I can cook pretty well actually, surprised a lot of girls by cooking dinner actually." Robert said blushing.

"Well let's see if that's true or if you are just trying to impress me." Reba said leading him into the kitchen.

"Tell me more about you, what do you do?" Robert asked as he followed her.

"I'm a dental assistant right now but I am hoping to change jobs soon. I don't like my boss and I have a good idea of going into real estate, I got my license a while ago but then I got pregnant with my youngest so that idea went out the window." Reba explained wile searching through the fridge.

"Why are you a dental assistant if you don't want to be?" Robert asked as he grabbed the food Reba was handing him.

"Money, I had just gotten divorced and had almost no money so I went to work at a dental office because I had worked in my husband's dental office for a little while when we were married so I had experience." Reba said as she grabbed cooking utensils from the cabinets.

"So you're divorced?" Robert asked quietly.

"Yeah as of three years ago." Reba said quietly too.

"Can I ask why?" Robert said hesitantly.

"We were on a break trying to give each other space and he slept with his dental hygienist and she wound up pregnant so we got divorced so he could do the right thing and marry her." Reba said with a small sad smile.

"So um… happier subject, is your older daughter um…" Robert started.

"Cheyenne." Reba interjected.

"Yeah is Cheyenne going to college?" Robert asked.

"Yeah University of Houston, she wants to be a dentist like her dad." Reba said while chopping vegetables for a salad.

"Well since you keep mentioning him, what's you ex-husband like?" Robert asked while frying the chicken Reba had given him.

"We met in college and got married after graduation; we had three kids, and were married for 20 years before we divorced. We are still friends, you kind of have to be when children are involved and he lives three houses down with the new wife and son." Reba said with almost no emotion.

"Does he have a name?" Robert said with a laugh.

"Brock Hart, the new wife is Barbra Jean, and their son is Henry." Reba said blushing.

"He has kind of a weird name." Robert pointed out with a smile.

"Well Reba isn't exactly on the top 100 baby names either." Reba pointed out with a smile.

"Right, well I think the chicken is done." Robert said still smiling.

"Yeah salad and green beans are done too, now we just wait for the family to start coming home." Reba said while getting plates to set the table.

"Where are they?" Robert asked curiously.

"A new movie that everyone wanted to see, I offered to go but they said I should stay here a relax." Reba said with a smile before she heard Elizabeth wake up from her nap through the baby monitor on the coffee table.

"What was that?" Robert asked confused by the sudden noise.

"Elizabeth, hold on let me go get her." Reba said before rushing to the stairs.

"Here she is." Reba said carrying Elizabeth down the stairs.

"Who is that?" Robert asked still confused.

"This is Elizabeth, my granddaughter. Cheyenne is married and this little girl is hers." Reba said while placing Elizabeth on the floor next to all her toys.

"Oh." Robert said trying to figure out how old the child was.

"Cheyenne was 17 when she got pregnant, she married her boyfriend Van and Elizabeth arrived the day they graduated from high school. Elizabeth is three now, same age as Henry." Reba said trying to explain it all to him.

"Ok I think I get it now." Robert said with a smile.

"Hey mom we're home." Cheyenne said as she and Van came through the front door.

"Hi honey there is some one I want you all to meet…"

OK I thank you all for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. I will up date soon with everyone's reaction to Reba's Secret. Till next time…