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If Someone Had Known

by Joise

AU This story takes place after Brody makes a surprise visit to Rex and Adrianna's wedding. This story will jump from past to present in various chapters.

Summary: Gigi's endanger, but who will save her?

Prologue

Rex was pacing outside the door of the emergency room. The shock of the last few hours has finally started to take a toll. He was torn between two equally powerful emotions: track down Brody and kill him with his own two hands and staying here being completely useless as Shane and Gigi's life hangs in the balance.

"Rex," Marcie said slowly as she rested her hand on his shoulder, "You need to relax…"

"Relax!" he hissed as Marcie as he turned to face her, "How can I relax when they're in there and I have no idea what is going on! Are they alive? Will they be okay?"

"You need to calm down Rex," Marcie said in a hushed whisper, "Gigi and Shane need you to strong for them."

"What they need is that man to be found," Rex hissed, "I swear to God Marcie the moment I know they are okay I'm going to hunt down that bastard and kill him with my own bare hands!"

"Rex I know…"

"How the hell did this happen Marcie!" Rex screamed, "Why didn't anyone know?"

"I don't know," she said, her eyes full of tears threatening to fall.

"Why didn't she come to me?" Rex said, his face soften as the tears formed in his eyes. He didn't have the strength to hold them at bay anymore as they fell freely, "Why didn't she tell me? I would have….I'd never…Why?"

"I don't know Rex," she whispered, as she reached into her pocket and clutched a letter, "I wish I knew what to say….but I don't."

"They have to be okay," Rex said, "Please tell me Marcie that they will get through this, they have to get through this."

"She's strong woman," Marcie said, "and Shane has his father's strength…

"Don't you dare compare that sweet boy to that monster…"

"I'm not," she said firmly cutting him off, wishing her friend had told Rex the truth years ago, "Gigi asked me to give this to you if something happened to her." She held out the faded envelope to him.

"What is it?" he said, hesitant to grab it as if it would bite him.

"I don't know," she said truthfully, "She gave it to me a few months after your wedding. She wanted me to give it to you in case of an emergency. I never opened it and she wouldn't tell me what was in it."

Rex tentatively reached out and grabbed it. He looked at his name scribbled on the envelope and recognized her handwriting. "I can't," he said, "If I read it this means she's going to die."

"Rex."

"That's why she gave it you right?" he asked, "Incase she died?" Rex walked away from Marcie as her only response to his question was tears from her eyes as she looked at the ground. He heard the hush whispers of his mother-in-law and wife. He was about to turn the other direction when he heard Shane's name.

"This wasn't suppose to happen to Shane," Adriana whispered.

"What are you talking about Adriana?" Dorian asked, "What are you not telling me?"

"I didn't care what happened to her, I paid him to keep her away from Rex," she said, "but he wasn't suppose to go after Shane like that…"

Dorian's eyes widen at her daughter's confession, "You knew and you didn't do anything"

"I thought she was doing it for attention," she defended herself, "but when…"

"You what!" Rex screamed so loud it drew the attention of all those in the waiting room. His eyes were flaring with anger as he pointed his finger at her, "You knew he was….and you..." He was so frustrated and angry that his brain could not form a sentence.

"Rex," Adriana said, "It wasn't like that…"

"How long!" he demanded.

"I've known since before our wedding," she said, "that's why I paid Brody to come back…"

"What are you talking…"

"I didn't want her to tell you about Shane," Adriana continued with her confession, "I paid him to stay with Gigi…"

"You paid that sick bastard to do that to Gigi and Shane!" Rex screamed.

"I didn't know that he would do that," she confessed through her tears, "I couldn't believe it when I saw it…" her eyes widen at her slip as she covered her mouth as a way of preventing the rest of the sentence from coming out. She looked at the shocked of her husband.

"How long?" he demanded

"Rex you have understand…"

"How long!" his voice rose even higher than before, the vein in his neck was bulging out.

"You have to understand I did this for us..."

"Oh I understand alright," he said his voice full of venom as he towered over her and narrowed his eyes, "You're a heartless bitch and I never want to see you again." Rex turned around and stormed past the gathering crowd to look for a moment of piece.

"Mom…"

"Don't Mom me," Dorian scolded her, "You knew and you didn't say anything! I know I have been accused of horrible things in my time…but I could.." She looked at her daughter in disgusted and said, "Who are you and what did you do to my Adriana?" Dorian walked away from her daughter, ignoring her pleads and went to the door that Gigi was taken into, "Gigi," she said as she placed her hand on the door, "please forgive me. If I had known….I never would have….I'm sorry."

Rex sat down on a chair close to Gigi and Shane's room. He wanted to be close incase anything had happened. Anger was racing through his blood as his hands balled into a fist. He quickly released his right hand as he realized he just crushed his letter from Gigi. He wiped the tears from his eyes as he tried to straighten out the crinkles. He carefully broke the seal and pulled out the letter. He reread it several times not believing what he was reading, "How can this be true?" he said to the paper as he read it again.

Dear Rex,

I have something to tell you. Something I have been holding in for a really long time. I hope you can forgive me, even though I know I do not deserve this, but you need to know the truth. If you are reading this my life is in the balance and if I died before I wake up to tell you the truth…I want you…no need you to know the truth. The truth I wanted to tell you at your wedding to Adriana. Do you remember that day….

Two years earlier

"Dad!" Shane yelled as Gigi watched in surprised horror as her son ran to a man that was suppose to be dead, "You're alive!" Gigi watched the dead man pick up her son and embrace him.

"Gigi," Rex asked, "who is that man?"

"Brody," She said in shock, "but how?"

"Can you have this family reunion somewhere else?" Adriana demanded.

Rex noticed Gigi starting to pull away and he grabbed her hand to stop her from walking away, "You had something important you wanted to tell me," he said in a gentle voice. He was confused at the dread that seemed to be on Gigi's face. "What did you want to tell me?"

Gigi looked at their joined hands and then back at her son and his faux father. Her son looked happy, really happy. She looked back at the only man she ever loved and the true father of her son. She held back her tears as her heart broke into smaller pieces, "It doesn't matter."

"Of course it matters," he said reaching up with his free hand to wipe away the tears that escaped, "I know you Morasco," he said, "I can see it at your face that it's something important. Please talk to me."

"I can't," she said as the tears flooded from her eyes, "Brody's here."

"I can see that, but you're not right," he said as his face softened, "Morasco, tell me."

"It doesn't matter about the truth anymore, reality, or my dreams," she said cryptically, "My son is happy and I must live the story and say good-bye to reality."

"What?" he asked as his face crunched in confusion.

"Forgive me," she whispered before kissing him on the cheek and freeing her hand from his.

"Morasco…"

"Balsom," she said with each second she was losing her resolve "I can't tell you this, not anymore. I have to live the fairytale now and forget reality."

"Gigi," Adriana interrupted before Gigi would have time to rethink the decision she just made, "Can you please take your family reunion somewhere else? I think you interrupted the wedding long enough."

"I'm so sorry," she said in tears as she walked to the back of the church. Adriana grabbed Rex's hand and dragged him a little back to altar. Gigi looked back to see Rex's sad eyes and crestfallen face before exiting the chapel. She wiped her tears as she heard her son.

"Are you here forever?"

"Forever," Brody said.

Gigi's heart shattered as her son went on to tell Brody the life he missed when he was away at war. Gigi walked out of this church knowing her life will never be the same, if only she had known how true that would be.

At the altar of the church Rex couldn't help but wonder why his heart was telling him to run after Gigi as his mouth said the words "I will too."