AN:
As always, I don't own a thing, except for the computer this is written on.
Since PF has left the show, I decided to cast AG as Thomas again, DTB was a great Thomas, but AG looks like JMW´s brother.
Floating memories
Chapter three
Two hours later
Spencer Publications
He was furious. He had never been so angry in his entire life.
He finds his father's office and sees him sitting there in his chair working on the computer.
"So, are you happy now?" He grinds his teeth as he's talking, Bill is startled and almost jumps out of the chair.
"What do I have to be happy about now?"
"Well, you single handedly destroyed your sons marriage!"
Bill becomes his smug self. "What do you mean?"
"Did you really think Steffy was never going to tell Liam about what the two of you did? Or more specifically what you did? How could you take advantage of her like that?" He walks over to his father's desk and leans on it to make his point clearer.
"She needed me, I gave her what she needed."
"Really? The woman is heartbroken that her husband broke their vows and you decide to sleep with her? She's crying her eyes out asking how he could do this to her and you decide that Steffy so clearly needs to get laid that you just pounce on her? Are you seriously telling me that a woman who's so clearly in love with your son at any moment told you that you needed to take her?"
"As I said, she needed me and I gave her what she needed."
"Oh my God, even I was a better friend than you are! I can't believe you did that. You know what, I'm leaving Spencer Publications and if I understood Liam correctly, he's leaving too! I can't believe you thought it would be okay to sleep with your daughter in law!"
The gasp heard behind them cause both of them to turn around in chock.
"You slept with Steffy?" Brooke stares at Bill with disgust in her eyes.
Bill stands up and tries to offer an explanation. Brooke isn't having it though, so she walks over and then she punches him with all her strength.
Bill is taken aback by the action. "What on earth is your problem?"
"You slept with my fiancés niece, what do you think is my problem?" She punches him again. "After everything you did to get them together, after everything you did to get Hope out of the way. How dare you destroy that relationship only to destroy the relationship you wanted for your son?"
"Well, it's my turn now. Liam had her, he threw her away. Wyatt had her, she threw that away and I had her before either of them and I threw her away for the likes of you and your sister!" Wyatt blushes and looks away. "The Logan-women, so easy to fall in love with, so easy to get into bed."
The anger returns in Wyatt and he throws his own punch with Bill landing on the floor unconscious.
He leaves a note behind with the words 'You just wait till Ridge finds out about this.' on it. When Bill reads this, he just doesn't care enough to even bother being scared.
~Floating memories~
Thomas apartment
5pm
Liam had fallen asleep on the couch after he finished reading the letter and it gave Thomas and Carter a chance to look over the divorce papers and read the letter.
Thomas looks up at Carter after reading the letter once more. "I don't know how he'd be able to forgive my sister after this."
"Well, he could look back at all the crap he's put her through and wonder if this isn't just a reaction from her being hurt by him over and over and over again. Maybe she really had had enough of feeling like she was his second choice all the time and Bill gave her the sense that she was the only one he wanted. When he told Steffy about Sally kissing him, did he tell her because she deserved to know, or did he tell her to ease his own conscious? Did he tell her for her or himself? I know you said that we are supposed to help him through this, but maybe helping him through this is to make him aware of the fact that his behavior towards Steffy might have had a big part in it? I mean, do you think that Steffy would've slept with Bill had Steffy not gotten her heart broken earlier that day?"
"No, I don't. Steffy has been firm in her feelings for Liam for over six years now, why would she even let the chance of destroying it happen if she wasn't already convinced that it was already destroyed? There's only so much someone can take in a relationship and Steffy obviously reached that point. It's amazing how much she endured because of her feelings for Liam. I don't think I'd ever be able to take that much crap. Yeah, I know she created part of it, but she wasn't the one in a committed relationship flirting with someone other than her partner."
Carter nods his head. "Yeah, watching it from the outside it's a wonder they haven't imploded already."
The two talk back and forth for an hour or so more, then there's a knock on the door and when Thomas opens it, Wyatt has returned.
"Hey! What happened to your hand?" Carter raises his eyebrows.
"Well, it had a meeting with my father's nose. It won!" The three men chuckle.
On the couch, Liam is waking up slowly hearing his brother, brother in law and Carter chuckling. He's pretty sure he's not the reason they're laughing. He decides to listen in on their conversation.
~Floating memories~
Forrester Creations
Ridge´s office
The knock on the door surprised him, he knew there wasn't any meetings right now, but he called out for whoever it was to come in.
Brooke walks in looking distraught.
Ridge looks up to see who it was that wanted to see him and he reacts instantly. "What's wrong?"
"You need to go see your daughter. She needs you right now."
"Why? Taylor said that she was taking care of Steffy and that Thomas, Liam and I should wait until Steffy was ready for us."
"It's not my story to tell, but you need to go to your daughter!" Brooke is deliberately vague trying to protect both men from doing something that they could end up in jail for and having Ridge go see his daughter was the best option. "You might want to take Caroline and Douglas with you. Trust me, when this blows up, you should not be in LA."
"Okay? I'll call Taylor and see what she has to say about it."
"No, no, you need to go right now!"
"Okay?"
"Promise me that you'll call Caroline and tell her that she needs to pack a bag for her and Douglas and that you need to leave for Paris!" Brooke has her hands on his cheeks looking him straight in the eyes to make her point clear.
Ridge just nods his head.
"Call her now!"
So, he goes and calls Caroline asking her to book them tickets for a flight to Paris as soon as possible and to pack bags for them. Caroline is a little hesitant, but she can hear the urgency in his voice so she does it.
"There we go."
"Good! Don't come back until after it's all calmed down." Then she walks out of his office leaving him confused.
So, he does the only thing he can think of. He calls his ex-wife.
"Hello!" Taylor answers.
"Hello!" Ridge greets her. "So, Brooke was just here telling me to go visit my daughter. Would you say that's a good idea?"
"I would actually, I'd say it's a great idea actually. I should have called you about that as a matter of fact."
"Why?"
"You'll figure it out when you get here, or at least find out parts of the why."
"Should we bring something with us?"
"Like what?"
"Uhm, Liam maybe?"
"No, Thomas is on that, you don't have to worry about Liam. Thomas will bring Liam when it's time for that."
Taylor had figured out pretty much instantly that Brooke had found out about Bill sleeping with Steffy when Ridge said she thought it might be a good idea for Ridge to come visit with Steffy, she felt like Brooke hadn't reacted in a way she thought Brooke would have though.
"Okay, Caroline is booking tickets now so we'll be there soon!"
"Is Caroline and Douglas coming as well?"
"Yeah, Brooke thought it would be a good idea."
"I agree with that. It gives me a chance to see my grandson!" There's an edge to her voice that he isn't used to.
His phone lets him know he's got a text.
"Caroline just sent me the details, we should be there by early tomorrow afternoon!"
"Good, we'll see you then!"
"We'll see you then!"
He then sends a text to Thomas letting him know that they'll be leaving for Paris for a little while and that they'll take Douglas with them.
He gets a text back a little while later letting Ridge know that he might be going to Paris soon himself, there were just some things that needed to be put in place.
~Floating memories~
Back at Thomas place, Thomas puts his phone down.
"Dad and Caroline are taking Douglas with them to visit Steffy in Paris."
"Yeah, Bill might be in too much trouble if Ridge found out about him sleeping with Steffy otherwise." Carter suggests
"I wonder what brought that on."
"I might have the answer to that." Wyatt points out. "Brooke found out about it as I was blasting dad. I think she might have told Ridge to go to Paris."
Both Thomas and Carter nod their heads. "It was a good idea."
Thomas looks over at the couch and sees that Liam is starting to stir.
"So, anyone hungry?"
Wyatt and Carter nod their heads.
"Pizza anyone?"
"Sounds good to me!" Liam says and follows it up with a groan.
"How are you doing?" Thomas looks at his brother in law.
"I'm not really sure. On one hand, I'm happy to find out that Steffy has her memory back, on the other hand I'm pissed that she slept with my father, on the third one, I'm disappointed at myself that I didn't see the signs of her feelings after the renewal or even before, I just thought she was talking about Sally and me. I didn't even notice that she said that she made a mistake after she left. On the fourth hand, I'm so drained, there was so much worry about her when she was gone and then relief when I found out that she was safe and on the fifth hand, I'm so happy that I'm going to become a father, we had planned for a baby for a few months before the Spectra-drama began."
"Well, they're all acceptable feelings to have. You just need to sort out which are the important ones." Thomas starts searching for a restaurant to order their pizzas from. "I vote for the happy parts and the drained one. Figure out exactly why you're angry with her for sleeping with your father after walking out on you and take her feelings into consideration. Because both you and I know that Steffy never would've slept with Bill had she not thought your marriage was over. There's only one other reason she would've and that would be she was drugged, but your father couldn't have been that stupid right?"
"No, Steffy never would've cheated on me, not like I've done to her."
"Yeah, about that, what was that roll on your bed with Hope about? Why did you let her into the bedroom at all?"
Liam looks taken aback. "What do you mean?"
"Back when Steffy went to Paris to visit dad after Hope and yours cancelled Do over-wedding after Puglia, she went home to tell you about the baby and found you and Hope rolling around on your bed."
"She never told me about seeing that?"
"Yeah, well, Steffy didn't feel the need to tell you everything she knows you did."
This statement makes Liam think back on everything that happened during Steffy and his relationship. He looks back on every kiss shared with a woman that was not Steffy during their relationship, the jealousy he felt when she told him that Wyatt had kissed her even though he was in a relationship with Ivy at the time, what she said to him after he told her he'd married Ivy to keep her from getting deported. The fact that she stepped back over and over so that he could have happiness with someone else.
"She should've walked out on me years ago."
"Yeah, I agree with you on that, but love is a mysterious thing and her love for you has never changed."
"But she married my brother!"
"So? You went to break up with Ivy to be with Steffy and came back married to Ivy. You kiss her on the bed in Puglia, then goes and marries Hope."
Liam makes to defend himself.
"Yeah, I know Steffy told you to, but you had just said that you'd leave with her right now if that's what she wanted. She did want that, but she also knew the hurt it would cause Hope, so she sent you away. What you should have done was to postpone the wedding because you obviously had mixed emotions about it!"
Liam looks down on his hands. "Yeah, you're right. I sent so many mixed signals at her that it's a surprise to me that she loved me when she came back from Paris."
"Yeah, that was another thing you completely messed up. Why on earth would you think she'd sell her shares to you after getting them back from your father? Especially because you wanted to save Ivy from Rick?"
"Well, at the time all I could see was that Ivy was being mistreated by her cousin."
"So, you decide to mistreat Steffy instead?"
"Looking back on it, it would seem like that yes."
"You know, listening to you guys talk, I just don't understand where all this love Steffy has for Liam comes from." Carter looks from one Spencer, to the other and then to Thomas.
"Steffy feels so grateful to Liam for saving her life, then she fell in love with him and when Steffy loves someone, they'd have to do something totally unforgivable for her to let them go, apparently Liam hasn't done something like that yet. Steffy loves hard, solid and forever. Unless you disappoint her in a way she just can't forgive. It's been like that ever since she first fell in love and for family it's even worse. If she sees you as family, you're in it for the long haul."
"Yeah, I can see that. I mean, after everything the men in her own family has put her through, you'd think she'd cut them out of her life already." Wyatt agrees with the assessment of Steffy. "I guess that's why it was so easy to leave me behind."
"No, that's not it. Her feelings for Liam overshadowed everything else. She was so hurt when Liam called and told her he was in Australia that she grieved their relationship. Then when Liam came back and said the things he said to her, she still has no clue why he did that, I don't either."
"Because I found her in bed with Wyatt and she lied to me about it."
Wyatt looks over at his brother and then scoffs.
"So, you blamed her for losing the baby saying she killed it because you found us sleeping on your bed?"
"Yes. She was laying there in her bra and panties and Wyatt was probably naked under the covers."
Wyatt starts laughing. "You stupid idiot! She went to bed alone, then I walk into the bedroom asking if she'd want to go swimming, I pull of my shirt while asking if she'd want to go take a swim and then I say something about maybe we're supposed to be together and she says how much she loves you and that she doesn't really believe you'd leave her for Ivy, but that the signs were there. She then asked me to lay down in the bed and hold her and had you lifted the covers, you would've seen that I was still wearing my pants."
Carter looks between the two Spencer-brothers. "You really screwed that up dude!"
Liam looks ashamed.
~Floating memories~
March 31st 6:30 am
Paris
Taylor´s house
When Taylor wakes up that morning she finds the house smelling like pasta sauce. She gets up and goes through her morning routine and then she walks into the kitchen to find some coffee and to find out where the smell is coming from and finds a pot with tomato sauce cooking. "Mmm, smells delicious."
She then goes to find her daughter. Steffy is laying on her daybed with a pair of headphones on her belly and another pair in her own. Taylor walks over and gently touches Steffy´s shoulder to not scare her.
"Hey honey! Have you had a good night?"
"Yeah, it's been calm and relaxing. Nothing much has happened."
"Your dad called early this morning and said that he and Caroline would be bringing Douglas to see you today, they should be a few hours away." Taylor sees Steffy´s eyes start to sparkle with excitement. "Apparently things are about to blow up over there and it was expressed to him that maybe he should go to Paris before he ends up somewhere he shouldn't be."
"Yeah, I can see him ending up in jail for assault on Bill if he were to find out in LA. Dad never liked Bill very much. This would just hurt him too much. I wish dad never would have to find out. But it's a consequence of my choices, so I'll have to live with it."
"Yeah, well, you know. You can just point out what he's done in the past if he decides to make a fuzz about it. He's made some questionable choices of his own. Some of them not so long ago."
"Yeah, well, my choices are my choices."
"So, what's the plan for the tomato sauce on the stove?"
"Well, I've been craving pasta, so I rummaged through the pantries and found stuff for the sauce. Just need to boil some pasta."
"Should I use the big shells?"
Steffy nods her head and then Taylor walks to the kitchen and starts getting the pasta ready.
~Floating memories~
March 31st 0:22 am
Airplane to Paris
They had boarded the flight a little over two hours ago, having found a flight that soon after deciding to fly to Paris had almost been a sign that they were supposed to go to Paris. Caroline still wasn't sure why Ridge wanted to go, but it would be nice to leave for a while and she hadn't been to Europe in a while.
"So, are you going to tell me why we're going to Paris?" Caroline checks on her son and then looks at her husband to be.
"Brooke came to see me today, acting strange and it looked like she'd found something out about Steffy, so she told me that it would probably be best if we were to go see her while the fall out calms down. I just can't see what would cause that reaction though."
"Oh." Caroline turns back to watch her son sleeping.
The rest of the flight is spent caring for Douglas, sleeping and working on the computer.
When they get to Paris, it's 12:32 pm and Taylor is meeting them at the airport. She leads them to her car and then they're off.
A bit into the drive Ridge is beginning to get confused.
"Hey!" Taylor looks over at him. "I thought we would be going to your house?"
Taylor chuckles a little bit. "We are."
"But we're going the wrong way?"
"Nope."
Half an hour later they pull up on her driveway and they see Steffy sitting on the porch wrapped up in a blanket as it is still a little cold outside.
Steffy hears the car coming and gets up from her spot but doesn't let the blanket fall from her frame.
Taylor parks the car and gets out to help with all the bags. Ridge gets out of the car and goes straight to his daughter.
"Hi Steffy!" He gives her a smile.
"Hi daddy!" She says and it reminds him of his daughter's younger self.
He walks up the steps to give him a hug, but she shyly backs away from it. Taylor sees what her daughter does and isn't surprised by it. Caroline is however.
She looks over at her fiancé's ex-wife. "What's going on?"
"You'll know in time. Before you leave to go back to LA, it'll all make sense." Taylor being mysterious was new to Caroline as well.
Ridge is also confused, which Taylor can see.
"Welcome to Paris!" She then gathers up the blanket and looks towards her mother. "I'm going to go lay down, come get me when dinner is ready."
Steffy opens the door and goes inside, Ridge turns to Taylor with confusion on his face.
"She's happy to see you, she really is, but what you're about to find out is weighing heavy on her and it's taking a toll. So, you need to just let her show and tell you herself. Don't force her. It's her story to tell and she'll let you know when she's ready to do so. You'll probably find some things out during dinner. Steffy and I had lunch before I came and got you at the airport. Did you eat on the plane or do you want something to eat now?"
"Something to eat might be good. The food on the plane wasn't that big of a hit." Caroline accepts the offer to eat.
"Good! We've set you up in the guestroom behind the kitchen. I believe there is some pasta left from lunch, I'll just warm that up for you!"
"Sounds good!"
Ridge comes down the stairs and helps with the bags. They walk into the house and finds the blanket that Steffy had wrapped around herself laying over the couch. They can also hear music playing softly from a room upstairs.
"Why is she playing music? Didn't she say she was going to go sleep until dinner?" Ridge looks at Taylor after putting the bags down on the floor in the guestroom.
"She's been playing music to go to sleep ever since I found her in Monaco, it relaxes her and fills her dreams with happy memories. She tried sleeping without the music a few weeks ago, but she couldn't stay asleep, so she put some music on and slept for eight hours straight. She fell asleep just when I left for work and was asleep when I got home five hours later. It's something she needs right now, especially with everything that's about to happen in LA."
"Okay, but classical music?"
"Yeah, one of the nurses at the hospital played classical music for her while Steffy was in her coma and it seemed to help with the healing. But don't worry, she only listens to classical music when she's about to sleep otherwise it's the music she normally listens to." Taylor looks around. "Anyway, I took the liberty of getting some information on diaper size and food Douglas eats from Thomas and got him some things. I'll leave you to get settled and I'll come get you when the food is heated."
Taylor leaves the room and the two of them opens up the pack n' play for Douglas. The soon to be two-year-old had fallen asleep in the car on the way to the house and was probably not waking up for at least another hour. They put him down and Caroline goes to lay down for a bit herself, the time difference taking its toll. Ridge lays down next to her and they fall asleep listening to Douglas breathing.
~Floating memories~
March 31st
Thomas apartment
LA
All four of the men had stayed up all night talking things over and Carter had helped the two Spencer-brothers compose their resignation letters.
Thomas had helped him try to find a new place to live and after careful consideration, Thomas had offered to let Liam stay at his apartment until he could find somewhere else to live since he had an extra room.
They had also rented a truck, a storage unit and found moving boxes. They had fallen asleep just after three thirty and then woke up about four hours later. Sleeping on Thomas couch and in the armchairs weren't a good idea.
Carter left to go deliver the resignation letters, Wyatt went and got the truck and the moving boxes while Liam and Thomas went to start packing up everything that was Liam and Steffy´s personal belongings from the cliff house.
They were leaving everything that the house came with, like the furniture and cutlery, but clothes, photos, things he had bought for the house, products and stuff were going to the storage unit.
They started by clearing out the closet, taking all the clothes off their hangers and folding them up, he went and got zip lock bags to place everything in incase they'd be in the storage unit for a long time. Especially Steffy´s clothes as they didn't know when she'd return to LA.
When Wyatt came with the truck and moving boxes, they had started on Steffy´s dresser. Liam had been given the task of handling Steffy´s underwear because Thomas didn't want to know what Steffy wore under her clothes.
Wyatt and Thomas started putting the zip lock bags into boxes and when that was done, Wyatt took a box and emptied out the drawers in the bathroom and Steffy´s vanity in the bedroom.
They pack up bedsheets and blankets, comforters and everything that you could imagine.
They work on packing the house up for two hours, then the doorbell rings.
Liam goes and opens the door. On the other side is his father.
Needless to say, Bill´s bruised nose gets a meeting with Liam´s fist.
"Yeah, I probably deserved that. But you'd better think about what you've done!" Bill holds his nose with one hand and points at his son with the other. "You're not innocent in this you know!"
"Oh, trust me, I know I'm not, but that did not give you the right to have sex with my wife while she's a mess emotionally."
Hearing Liam screaming makes Thomas and Wyatt come out into the living room. Thomas eyes starts throwing darts over at Bill.
"What are you doing here?"
"I own the house!" Bill spits back.
"Well, you're welcome to it because I'm leaving!"
Bill is taken aback by that.
"What do you mean you're leaving?"
"Do you seriously think I'd want to stay here in your house after what you did?" Liam glares at his father. "I'm leaving Spencer Publications and I'm leaving you behind!"
"I am too!" Wyatt looks at Bill almost the same way that Liam is.
"Seems to me you managed to destroy your relationship with both your sons over this Bill Spencer. Now leave so we can get done packing this place up!" Thomas demands before walking up to Bill, putting his hands out to start pushing him out of the house. "I'll come by with the keys in a bit. I hope you're happy with your choices!"
Then he pushes the door shut right in Bill´s face.
"Now, let's get this done!" Thomas start walking back to where he came from when they heard Liam yelling. "Remember to put things that you need to have with you in my car. The rest can go to the storage unit."
Liam walks over to the couch and sits down sighing. "I know what I'm going to do."
Both Wyatt and Thomas stop in their tracks.
"Really?"
"Okay? So, what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to ask Steffy that we take it back to the beginning. We put a blank slate over everything and start dating again. Get to know each other for real this time. We pretend that we're not married and let our relationship evolve from that. Maybe we decide to get a divorce after that or we renew our vows for real. I just don't know. But in the meantime, we're not going to be living together."
"Sounds like a good idea." Thomas nods his head. "So, you're putting the divorce on hold for now?"
"Yes. I played a big part in what happened between my father and Steffy, I can't deny my own responsibility and I love Steffy so much that I can't throw my marriage away for something I helped happen. It's like you said. If I hadn't broken Steffy´s heart, she wouldn't have slept with my father."
"Are you absolutely sure that this is what you want to do? You want to put all of it behind you and move forward? Because you can't throw this in her face every time you argue ever like you've done with her losing the baby. All of that have to have been put away, you can't use any of this against her and if you do, I will make you hurt!" Liam looks over at his brother with surprise on his face.
"I'm absolutely sure and if I do, I'll gladly let you make me hurt. There is so much that I've done to Steffy without knowing that I'm doing it that have hurt her deeply and she still loves me." Liam looks over at Thomas. "It's the least I can do."
"So, are you ready to go to Paris?" Thomas asks.
"Not yet. There are some things I need to do first. I need to find my own place, preferably a house. Fix the place up and do a room for the baby. Find myself a job and get settled there. I also need to change my last name back to Cooper."
"Why don't we start a company of our own?" Wyatt walks over to the armchair. "That name change might be a good idea for me too! I kind of miss being Wyatt Fuller."
"Yeah, I can't imagine what my stepdad thought when he found out I had changed my name. It's time to honor my parents again!"
"Sounds like a plan!" Thomas walks over to the fridge. "Something I'm missing right now is a beer. But I can wait till I'm back home."
"Let's get this done before planning out our future!" Wyatt gets moving again.
~Floating memories~
Paris
Taylor´s house
6 pm
Taylor walked up the stairs to wake up her daughter for dinner. "Steffy! It's time to wake up!"
She whispers to her daughter while caressing her hair to gently wake her up.
"Is it dinner?"
"Yes, your father, Caroline and Douglas are already sitting at the table ready to eat."
"Dads here?" Steffy looks at her mother with confusion in her eyes.
"You met him just a few hours ago before going to sleep." She puts her hand on Steffy´s forehead to check if she has a fever. "You're really warm, we should check if you have a fever."
She leaves her daughter and goes into her ensuit to fetch a thermometer to check her daughters temperature. She walks back and hands it to Steffy. When it beeps, it says 39.6 degrees Celsius.
"I need to call your OB, that's a really high fever you've got going on there!" Taylor caresses her daughter's cheek and then she leaves.
She walks downstairs and sees that their guests are still waiting, so she walks over. "Yeah, so, you can start eating. I need to make a call because Steffy has developed a fever and I'm not sure it's safe for her to have one."
"Why wouldn't it be safe for Steffy to have a fever?" This just added on Ridge´s confusion.
"It's not for me to say." Taylor excuses herself and goes to make the phone call.
Then she walks back up to her daughter.
"She's coming in a little bit to check on you!" Taylor puts down a glass of water on the bedside table next to Steffy.
Steffy can barely focus on what her mother is saying. But she nods anyway. She goes and dampens a cloth and takes it back to lay it on Steffy´s forehead and then walk down stairs to wait for the OB to come.
The doorbell rings and when Taylor opens the door, the OB is standing on the other side, but there's also a man with her that introduces himself as a doctor who works at the same clinic, just a different department. The OB had decided that she needed someone that wasn't as specialized on one part of the body as her with her to this appointment.
"Thank you for coming!" She starts leading them up to Steffy´s bedroom.
Once they get there, the OB takes out a heartbeat monitor to listen to the baby's heartbeat.
"Well, the baby doesn't seem to be in any distress, I'll come by tomorrow and listen to its heartbeat again just to make sure it's still okay." She then talks a little with the doctor. "Dr. Marron doesn't seem to think that it's nothing but a little bug, because she's pregnant, he doesn't want to expose the baby to any antibiotics at the moment, so she'll just have to ride it out, she should be just fine though, there's no need to worry right now. She could be just fine tomorrow! Just make sure she drinks lots of fluids and make sure she eats. Get her a blanket for when she has chills. While fighting fevers it's always best to have multiple layers so that you can remove one if you get hot and add one if you get cold. As I said, she'll be fine and I'm coming over tomorrow before work to check on her."
"Thank you!" Taylor shakes both their hands and then leads them downstairs again.
After sending them off, Taylor walks to the kitchen and sits down to eat. "She'll be fine, there was nothing to be too concerned about."
Just as she's about to take her fourth bite, her cellphone rings. She sees that it's her son.
"Hi Thomas!"
"Hi mom! I just wanted to let you know that we'll be coming to Paris in a while. Liam will explain when we get there, but it's not bad."
"So, he didn't sign the papers then?"
"Not yet. He might in the future, but he's willing to put it behind them and work on getting to know each other again. If it doesn't work, they'll sign the papers then."
"Good, do you know when you'll be coming to Paris?"
"No, he wanted to get some things done before that could happen. He wanted to find himself a new place, change his last name back to Cooper and start up a company with his brother before dragging Steffy into the mess that would be his life if she came back now or if he were to go to Paris right now."
"Well, it's good he has his priorities straight!" Taylor chuckles.
"Yeah, I was taken aback by what he said. I think what we pointed out to him last night made an impact."
"Okay. I'm guessing you had a good talk with him then."
"We did. We pointed out some things that he had done wrong that might have made his mistakes pile build up and this time Steffy just had enough. Then his father came by the cliff house just now and it made Liam think. Anyway, has dad and Douglas gotten there? How is Steffy doing?"
"Ridge, Douglas and Caroline got here a few hours ago, we're eating lunch right now." Taylor looks around herself. "Steffy is fighting of a fever right now, but the doctors said she'd be fine, she just has to fight it off."
"Oh, good! Tell Steffy to get better by the time we get there!"
"I will!" Taylor sees that Ridge would like to talk to Thomas. "Your father would like a word."
"Okay!"
She hands over the phone and listens to Ridge talking to Thomas about things going on at Forrester this week. They hang up five minutes later and it seems like Ridge and Thomas had a good talk.
Suddenly, Taylor hears Steffy calling out for her, so she gets up to go to her daughter. She gets there and feels the cloth on Steffy´s forehead, it's dried out completely so she takes it and walks back in to place it back on Steffy´s head. The moment she does, Steffy calms down and goes back to sleep.
The glass on Steffy´s bedside table is also empty so Taylor fills it up before going downstairs to find a pitcher filling it up with ice and water. Then she walks upstairs again and puts the pitcher down next to the glass on a towel because of the water forming on the outside of the pitcher.
"Thank you, mom!" She hears as barely a whisper coming from the bed as she's walking out from the bedroom.
"Anything for you my darling!"
~Floating memories~
AN:
Yes! Steffy has a fever and Liam has decided to go back to where they started. Wipe out their whole history and just start over.
What do you think? Did Liam make a good choice? In regards to both Steffy and SP/Bill/Cliffhouse.
Giving the first punch to Brooke was not something I thought of when I started writing this chapter, but apparently, she wanted it so she got it. I'm also proud of Wyatt for decking his father.
Now, it might seem like Liam isn't reacting the way he's supposed to, like he's going way too easy on Steffy, but as stated by Carter, Thomas and Wyatt, Liam has gone off on Steffy previously without having all the information and he's made an a$$ of himself. This also made him realize that Steffy most certainly believed that they were completely over as she never would have cheated on him otherwise. There is so much that he's done that has caused her pain before, that this must have been a reaction to everything that has been swept under the rug by Steffy previously in their relationship. My Liam Cooper has grown since Steffy disappeared about five months ago, even though it doesn't seem like it. He knows what's important and where his priorities should be!
