I do not own or or have any association with Passions, and NBC. However any new characters you do see I do own. I hope you like it. This is my third story I have written, my first about the Passions characters however. I appreciate all reviews because the help me become a better writer, and since that is what I plan to be this also helps me hone on my abilities.

I'm also going to give you a little summary on what the story is about. It is of course a Ethan and Theresa fic, being they are my two favorite characters on the show. The story begins in the present Passions episodes. The story starts after Theresa and Jared are married, and the blackmailer is trying to get Theresa to have Jareds baby, and leave Ethan alone. Trust me on this, I believe if you give it a chance you will love the story. I hope to get ten reviews before I put up the second chapter. Hope you enjoy!!!!

ANA

Chapter One: Big News

" Theresa are you sure, I mean are you positive it was correct? How many did you take, you know, they aren't always trustworthy." Whitney said as she paced Theresa's bedroom. Then she looked over her shoulder and saw her best friend almost in tears, as she rocked back and forth on her bed. Whitney ran to her and wrapped her arms around Theresa in a tight hug, trying to send reasurrance and love.

"I've taken ten, Whit, and they all say the same thing. What am I going to do? I don't want to be pregnant, not with Jared's baby. Why did this happen to my family and I, Whit? Why? What have I really done to deserve this but try to be with the man I truly love?"

"I don't know Theresa. I honestly don't know. No one deserves to go throught what you are right now. Its not fair…How are you going to tell Ethan?"

Theresa gasped and put her hands over her mouth as tears streamed down her face. She shook her head as the sobs started to bubble up her throat. How was she going to tell Ethan. He would be furious, he would be hurt, and worse of all…he would never forgive her for this. He had told her not to go through with it, not to fall into the blackmailers hands, and not to give up on him. But that was just exactly what she did. She gave up on him and how would she explain that to him? How would he ever want her now that she was pregnant with another man's child.

"I don't know what I'm going to tell him Whit, I'm not sure if there is a way to tell him so he will still want to be with me. It's possible that this time I've actually lost him for good."

"Oh, Theresa you can't think like that. Look at what you have both been through and still in the end you two always end up together. It isn't any different now, it can't be any different Theresa. He loves you, he loves you with everything he is. When this is over you will see, he will be there and he will be a father to all of your children, even this one."

"I know, and I am grateful for all those times we have loved without regret. Without having to sneak around and feel dirty after we touched. But he's only human Whit, and this, this isn't fair for him. He forgave me for little Ethan, because I didn't diliberatley get pregnant with him. Even though Little Ethan is Ethans son, he still thinks he's Julians. But this is different. I deliberatley became pregnant with another man's child. It wasn't a mistake, it was purposeful, and even though I didn't want to and he knows that, I still did."

"You're trying to save your brothers, Theresa. It wont work. God, I'm the worst kind of person there is. Gwen and Rebecca are right. I'm nothing more than a whore."

"Don't say that Theresa, your not. Your just trying to do whats right for your brothers. And even though this situation is very very messed up. Ethan will realize that, and in the the end everything will fall into place."

"I hope your right, Whit. Because I can't live without him again. I've tried to so many times and it just doesn't work. My heart and soul needs him to much to survive. I'm only half without him."

"Don't worry Theresa, everything will fall right into place and we all will be happy. Harmony is overdue for some happiness anyways."

Ethan sat in his office looking over papers trying to find something, anything that would get Luis and Miguel out of prison. There had to be something anything, even the slightest hint that everything was a set-up, and that both were innocent. He had to find something now only for Luis and Miguel, not only for Theresa, but for himself. He couldn't live without Theresa again. He was finally able to be a family, with the one woman he truly loved, the one woman that understood him perfectly.

"Come on, there has to be something. This, this, thing, has made a mistake I just have to find it. I have to find if before Theresa goes through with this persons, demands. I can't loose her to Jared. I wont loose her to Jared, and I won't let her have another man's child. The only man she should be having children with is me."

He looked over at the clock that sat on his desk and sighed. It was almost eight o'clock at night and he had been in his office since five this morning with nothing helping him in his quest to set Luis and Miguel free. He rubbed his hands over his face, trying to rub the sleep away from his eyes. He had to go back to the mansion. He couldn't stay here all night. He wouldn't be good to anyone if he didn't get any sleep. Setting all his papers back into their folders and filing them he got up and left, locking his office behind him. What he didn't know, was that something lurked in the shadows watching him, and his every move. Something that was taking way from him everything that he always wanted, always dreamed of.

"You will be mine Ethan," the dark voice said as the figure came from the shadows, "you will be mine willingly or not. But you will never be with Theresa again, I will kill you and her first."

Theresa sat in the kitchen with only the light of the moon shining on her. She needed the dark now, she needed it because if fit her mood. She rolled the cup back and forth in her hands as she watched the orange juice turn with each move. She couldn't think, she was so worn out from the day that she actually had no thoughts in her head.

She heard the kitchen door creek open then the lights switched on. She didn't turn around, she thought it was Jared coming to find out when she would be coming to bed. She didn't want to go to bed. She just wanted the night.

"Theresa, what are you doing?" That's when she turned to face Ethan.

"Oh, nothing, just thinking."

"About…"

"Life, love, how we always end up here in this place." She said going back to turning her glass of orange juice watching the liquid spin with each turn. Ethan kneeled next to her laying a hand on her arm stilling her hands. Still she didn't look at him. Finally he reached up and put a finger under her chin turning her head to look down at him. She saw the love in his eyes, the love and passion that he only had for her.

"No matter what happens, in the end we will be together. Never doubt that. Our love is stronger than anything that could ever come up against it."

"You say that now Ethan. But there are things, things I want to tell you, that could change your mind."

"Nothing could ever change my mind about this, or how I feel. You know you can tell me anything."

"I would if I knew I wouldn't loose everything."

"What do you mean?"

"Nothing, I shouldn't have even said that much."

"Theresa has this anything to deal with the blackmailer?"

"Some of it does, but I had a choice to make, and I chose to do one thing and it was what I thought was right at the time. Now I wish I had just listened to everyone and did what my heart said. Now I'm in a situation I can't get out of, and all I want is to go to sleep and wake up next to you, every morning. Now I have to wake up to a man that I could have loved if only you weren't in the picture."

"What are you saying Theresa?"

"I'm saying that I have to go through with what the blackmailer has said. I need my brothers out of prison, and I can't wait any longer for you to try and find something to get them out. By the time you do, it could be to late for Luis and Miguel. I just need you to know I love you. I always will, I always have, you must know that in the end of things. When I'm with Jared I will put your face on him."

"Theresa you can't give up on me, I'm working and I'm getting information. Soon I will have enough evidence to get a appeal for both Luis and Miguel." Ethan said just a little bit frantically as he saw the hope in her eyes gently fade away. She was finally giving up on him on the life that they should have always had.

"I'm not giving up on you Ethan. I'm giving up on me. I don't have the strength to wait any longer to have my brothers back. I can't watch my mother and sister walk around like the dead as I just sit here and do nothing. As I sit here and wait, for something that might not happen.

"Theresa…"

"Ethan, I'm pregnant." There she said it and she knew he heard her from the way his face fell as if his very life had been taken from him. He stood, and walked to the door and them back to her. He was angry now, angry, hurt, distraught, all of those put together could make a lethal combination.

"How could you, how could you do this to us. I thought you loved me, you said you loved me and wanted to be with me. How could you have another man's baby?"

"I have to Ethan, its either that of Luis will die and Miguel will be left to rot in prison, I can't let that happen. I love them to much to loose them too."

"You didn't give me a chance…"

"I did, I gave you all the time I could afford to give you. Now they will be set free."

Ethan stormed out of the kitchen, and up to his room. Theresa stayed in the kitchen as she cried for all the she had lost. She didn't know that the creature that had done all of this was only feet away laughing with triumph.