The next morning Lana came to work. She looked around discovering that the light in Dana's office was on. She opened the door to turn the light off and saw Dana asleep with her head down on the desk. From the sight she realized that something had to be wrong. An hour later Dana woke up and walked out of her office.

"Hi" Lu was tosuprised her so early in the morning "You look different, something is missing"

"13,000 dollars is missing" she whispered

"You lost 13 grand, how?" Lu was almost yelling, Dana held out her left hand

"You went to France to get your French tip" she asked

"No, Lu. My engagment ring is gone and so is my wedding wedding"

"You lost it" she asked

"No, Nick and I aren't togther anymore" she sighed

"So this has nothing to do with Paris and nails"

"NO" Dana yelled "I'm going home to shower. Can you cover for me until I get back"

"Yeah, sure." she agreed with sympathy
An hour later Dana walked of the bathroom to see Nick standing infront of the door.

"What are you doing home" Dana asked

"I was about to ask the same"

"Nick, I have to tell you something"

"Go ahead"

"I..." she sighed "I want a divorce" she pulled the ringsoff her finger and handed them to him "I'm sorry" she said in a whisper.

"What happen to seperation" he asked as he put the rings in his pocket

"I can't live like that. Either we're togther or we're not."

"When you pulled into the driveway you weren't wearing these, why did you put them on before getting out of your car"

Dana smiled" Your watching me, now. I guess I just wanted to try to feel it again. To see if it feels the same as it did when Jess was 5. I wanted to pretend for just a little longer before ..."

"Your right. A divorce is the best way to go" he interuped her, so he wouldn't hear the rest of her statment

"I've already filed"

"What" Jessica interupped their conversation

"Aren't you suppose to be in school"Nick asked

"In August?" she answered "You're pregnant and getting divorced. That's phenominal" she yelled and left

"You wanna a divorce? After everything you really wanna go your seprate ways?"Nick asked not wanting to beleive it.

"I'm sorry but, yeah. We don't love each other, at least not the way we used to. We're ruining each other's life"

"Dana, if it's what you want then do. I only want you to be happy" he said and walked out
The same day at about five.- Dana had just finshed witha aptient in the ER. She was walking back to her office when Lana cought up with her.

"Soemthing happened and you're not telling me" she said

"You really wanna know" Dana asked, Lana nodded "Nick and I are getting a divorce. We're not togther anymore"

"What?" Lana didn't know how to react "Wait unt"l The Rittenhouse (the magazine) hears about this"

"Rittenhouse is not going to hear about this, Lana."

"What about the kids? Do they know yet?"

"Jessica walked in on us while we were talking, she heard the whole thing"

"Dana, I know what Robert Jackson said to you last night" she blurted

"What?" Dana yelled "How?"

"I was outside, I forgot something on my desk when I came back to get it I heard the whole thing"

"I don't no what to do. How the hell did I get my self into this"

"You didn't know that Robert has a thing for you" she asked as Dana shook her head "For like 10 years now"

"Why does he like me"

"It's simple, men like women they know they can't have. When he first lyed eyes on you, you were 20. Already married with a child. He knew he couldn't have you no matter how hard he tried"

"That make's no sence"

"It make's plently of sence Ms.Harverd Grad. Just think about it." Lana said and sat at her desk. Once Dana entered her office she saw Robert sitting behind her desk.

"Have you told him?" he asked

"Yes, I have, Robert"

"Good than I'll see you at home tonight"

"Tonight?"

"Yes, Dana, tonight. Is that a problem?"

"No... no, not at all" she answered as he walked out the door.
Three weeks later- Robert and Dana were at his house. They were sitting on his bed watching the Discovery Channel.

"This is boring,I wanna go out"

"Well I can't afford to take you out'

"You make a million bucks every week, you can afford anything. Let's go racing I know a place near by."

"No, I like this"

"Robert, please.It's 8:30 and we're already in bed"

"Well... I'm the king in this castle and according to my rulings you are not to leave this house for reasons other than work. Now shut up and let me watch this." as he finished his statment she got out of the bed and left the room.

"Don't try to sneak out" he yelled after her "You'll regret it if you do"
At the exact same time Nick was at home trying to take care of the kids.

"Dad, I need help with my homework" Jessica entered the room

"What subject?" Nick asked

"Italian and French" Jessica answered

"I don't know Italian or French"

"How can you not know Italian? You're from Italy."

"Well than call your grandmother! Or your mother she knows italian and french, she'll be happy to help you"

"She changed her phone number"

"What do you want me to say?" he paused "I got it! Drop the class! French and Italian aren't going to need it in America."

"You're useless" Jess said and left the room

"Dad, if I put an egg in the microwave will it explode" Elena yelled from the net room

"I don't know, why" he answered as he walked into the kitchen

"I put 7 of them in there" she answered and a second later came the sound of a loud explotion

"I wonder how we're gonna clean that" he mumbled
The next day- Nick walked into the RWHC.

"Have you seen Dana?" he asked Lana

"Yeah, she's benn crying in her office all morning, everymorning since the..." with wanting to hear the rest of her sentance he walked into her office.

"I thought we should talk"

"About what" she asked

"Custity of the kids"

"You can keep them, and the house. I don't want anything"

"There is one more thing I wanted to tell you. When I was 18 I went to this party on the Harverd campus. It was a engagment party my friend knew the guy and asked me to go with him. So I did and there I saw this girl. She seemed perfect and I thought 'What the hell I'm gonna ask her out' then this guy came and I saw them kiss. It turns out it was their party. It was your party. The first time you saw may have been at that Starbucks but I had seen you before, I had talked to before. I asked you if you thought if real love is worth dying for. You said quote 'Dying for is easy, living for it is what's hard'. Now 18 years later I realized that's true."

"Nick, get out. I don't want to talk to you or hear your right now"
That night at about 3 am - Dana was paged to the ER. She calmly walked over from her office asd they brought the patient in.

"BP is 120/80 pulse- weak, breathing- shallow " the EMT told her, she glanced at the patient before being approached by a nurse

"Dr. Stowe, the name of the patient is not known."

"Get Jessica Biancavilla's chart for and I need blood work ASAP" she directed and turned back to her patient with a sign, she put her stethoscope to Jess's lungs and then back aaround her neck.

"Mom, my chest hurt"

"I know hun, don't talk. Get her up to the Pediatric ICU, she needs a breathing tube and a line of IV saline." she instruced as they drove her away. "Was she alone" she asked one of the EMT's

"No, her sister is with her; but she said that she doesn't want to see her mother's reaction so she's waitng in the cafiteria"

"She's not going to like her mother's reaction" Dana mumbled as she walked toward the elevator, minutes later she entered the cafiteria to see no one but Elena sitting at a booth alone. Dana sat infront of her.

"Hi" she whispered

"What are you doing here, aren't you suppose to be with your boyfriend"

"Elena, I don't..."

"Shut up! Don't tell me you don't have one. I've seen the pictures in the magazine."

"What happen to your sister"

"She stopped breathing so I called 911"

"And where was your father"

"He's on a date" Elena answered as Dana looked at her watch

"At 3:26 am?"

"He's alway out all night on date nights" she wasn't making any eyes contact with her mother

"Something elae ia bothering you. What is it?"

"Why are you with that door knob? He's old and ugly and you look scary togther. And now your marrying the ass hole. Why are you marrying him? Just tell me that and I'll leave you alone!"

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