Title: Family is Everything

Author: debba1211

Fandom: Guiding Light

Pairing: Olivia/Natalia, also including Emma, Rafe, Ava, Phillip, Doris, Ashley, Blake, Buzz and yeah unfortunately Frank too.

Rating: G-R(NC17 eventually)

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters in this story. They do however belong to P&G and Guiding Light. I just thought it would be nice to have the come out and play for a little fun. I am not using them for profit!

Ok this is my second fan fiction story, please be gentle. Comments are love.

Chapter 1

Natalia was worried about Olivia when she had not come back to work at the Beacon after running some errands. The Latina had been trying to get a hold of the older woman on her cell phone but was unsuccessful and decided that she would leave work early and run home to see if Olivia might be there.

Natalia pulled into the driveway of the farmhouse and noticed that Olivia's car was in fact there. Right away, thoughts of something happening to Olivia with her heart started running through her mind. "Did she forget to take her medicine this morning? No, that can't be she thought to her self because she saw the older woman take her medicine with her breakfast this morning. I wonder what is going on."

Natalia entered the house they shared through the kitchen door and heard Olivia's voice saying "Ok, that sounds good. So I'll see you in a couple of hours, ok bye."

Natalia walked through the kitchen and into the living room and saw Olivia sitting on the couch.

The Latina says "hey, I thought you were coming back to work after you ran your errands."

Olivia says "hi, what are you doing home so early?"

The younger woman proceeds to tell Olivia "well when you didn't come back to work or answer your cell when I tried calling you; I started to get worried about you and decided to come home and see if you were here and make sure you were alright."

The older woman pinched the bridge of her nose, a tell tale sign that something is wrong and then she proceeded to get up off the couch and started walking towards the stairs.

"Olivia?" Natalia says.

"Look, I am fine I just have a lot on my mind right now. Sorry I didn't mean to worry you."

As Olivia reached the bottom of the stairs Natalia says "something is wrong, why are you acting like this? I can tell something has you upset, just talk to me Liv."

Olivia lets out her breath knowing that there is no way around this and that she just needs to be honest with Natalia. She was hoping that she would be able to talk to her later about it once she had figured things out, but she knew that the younger woman was not going to just let this go until she got some answers.

When Olivia turned to face Natalia, Natalia could see hurt and painful expression on the older woman's face. This in turn really concerned they younger woman.

Olivia didn't want to look Natalia in the eyes and really tried to avoid doing so when she finally says "listen Natalia, I just can't do this anymore."

Right away Natalia asks "do what anymore?"

"Live here" Olivia says.

"What? Why?"

Olivia continues in saying "Emma and I can't stay here, we need to find a place of our own and I am meeting a realator in a couple of hours to look at some places."

"Why can't you and Emma stay here? This is your home Olivia!"

Olivia didn't answer right away.

Natalia is clearly upset and confused at what she is hearing and tells the older woman "Olivia, I don't understand. What has you so upset that you can't say here and that you and Emma need to find another place to live?"

"Emma and I can't stay here since you are going to marry Frank."

"What? Who said I was going to marry Frank? I mean, yes he did propose and I didn't give him an answer and he told me to think about it but that's about it. I never said yes that I would marry him! You know this, so why are you going to move out?"

"Natalia you should marry Frank. He is a good man and he can give you the life and family you deserve and Emma and I can't be in the way of that."

"First of all yes, Frank is a good man and secondly I do love and care about him, but I do not love him or care about him the way a wife should. And thirdly you, Emma and Rafe are my family."

Emotions are running high right now between both women when Olivia says "but" and then she was cut off.

"There are no buts about it Olivia!" The younger woman states firmly.

"Natalia, just think about what a life with Frank can be for you and Rafe."

"That's just it Olivia, I can't imagine a life with Frank. I told you when I slept with Frank that it was a mistake and that it could never happen again. I even told him that it was a mistake and that it could never happen again and then he shows up here and gets down on one knee and asks me to marry him. I was just in shock that he had the guts to propose to me after I told him that what happened was a mistake and that it couldn't and wouldn't happen again. That is why I didn't say No right then and there. I couldn't believe him."

"But you said you would think about it."

"I never said that I would think about it. He saw that I was in shock and told me to take the ring and just think about it. I tried to give it back to him right then and there and he wouldn't take it back. Honestly there isn't anything to think about and no need for you and Emma to leave our home and break up the family that we have built together."

Olivia starts to cry and asks "so you don't want us to move out? You don't think we are in the way?"

Natalia crying her self now says "no, you are not in the way and I certainly do not want you and Emma to leave our home."

The two woman crying, looking at each other walked to each other and embraced in fierce hug. They just stood there holding one another for what felt like forever until they both were calm enough and sit on the couch to relax because their emotions were running so high they both felt exhausted from all the stress of it.

They sat on the couch together, sort of facing one another with their knees touching and Natalia grabs one of Olivia's hands and asks "so, what brought all of this on? Who said that I was going to marry Frank?"

"Frank. You really need to talk to him because he is under the impression that you are going to marry him."

"What? But I never answered him! Wait a minute! When did you talk to Frank and is he the reason that you were going to look for another place to live for you and Emma?"

"Well, as I was walking out of the post office from mailing that package to Ava, Frank stopped me and asked if we could talk for a minute. I said sure Frankie, what's up? He then proceeded to ask me when Emma and I would be moving back to the Beacon."

"I asked him why would Emma and I be moving back to the Beacon?"

"And his answer was that once the two of you got married that basically Emma and I might feel a little uncomfortable staying here with newlyweds. So, I took it as you had said yes to his proposal and that he was letting me know with out coming and saying it bluntly that Emma and I wouldn't be welcome here anymore."

"Oh my, Olivia, he really said that to you?"

"Yeah, he did. And when I stopped and thought about it he was right, so that is why I came back here instead of going back to the Beacon. I figured that I would find a home for Emma and me instead of going back to the Beacon. I don't want Emma growing up there. It isn't a real home so that is why I called a realator and was going to find a nice place that Emma could come home to, to grow up in."

"Wow Olivia, he is sure of himself isn't he?"

"Ya think?"

"Olivia, I have been avoiding him. I was avoiding him after I slept with him and especially after he proposed to me. Remember the day of Emma's presentation?"

"Yeah, I remember." "My Two Mommies."

This made both women smile.

Natalia continues, "Well, if you remember correctly after you kissed me and I was asking you why you did that, my phone started ringing and you asked me if I was going to get that. Well, after I looked at my cell phone caller ID and dropped my phone back into my purse and I said it wasn't Rafe so I wasn't going to answer it."

The older woman says "I do remember that."

"Well, it was Frank calling. I was avoiding him back then."

At this point, the young Latina is just furious at what she has just learned about what happened between Olivia and Frank. And Olivia still wasn't completely sure that Natalia was thinking things through clearly enough with not marrying Frank.

So, even though Olivia was nervous to ask she had to be sure that this is what Natalia wants.

"Natalia, are you sure that you don't want to marry Frank?"

"Olivia?"

"No, Natalia, just hear me out ok! You deserve to be happy and Frank can give a family and a steady future and..." Olivia's emotions are starting to get the better of her again as she starts to cry again and she continues on and says "he can give that, he can give you all the things I.." and she stops dead in her tracks before saying what she really wants to say. She looks down and away from Natalia.

Natalia reaches over with her fee hand and uses her thumb and index finger to guide Olivia's face to look right at hers and says "Olivia finish it, finish what you were going to say" knowing full well what she was going to say and she honestly needed to hear her say it, she needed Olivia to confirm what she thought she has been feeling for sometime now as well as she knew she felt the same way.

Olivia says, "no, I don't want to."

"Liv, finish what you were going to say!"

As Olivia is now crying harder and fighting not to say what she truly wants to say, Natalia asks her one more time and Olivia breaks down and yells "I am in love with you! I am in love with you and I can't give you the things that he can."