A Face of True Love
Here is something for original TNT fans.
No copy infringements. These character belong to their owners
My first fan fiction all reviews welcome.
Quick note all memories will be in italic.
CHAPTER TEN: THE UNKNOWN
"It's Tomas, Todd." Tea said walking around the couch and made her way to the foyer.
Tomas and Del both came in with worried faces and both looked at Tea. Del made a face seeing Todd standing close to his sister. Tomas had a conversation with him at the police station. Tomas express his worry. He like Todd feels this is not over. While at the police station informing Del's old acquaintance commissioner Bo Buchanan about what was going on, and the unbelievable story of what had been going on for the past eight years.
"Bo wants to see you at the station." Del said pointing at Todd.
Todd made a face.
"Don't worry Todd, I took care of it. I told him that you were busy with Tea and Dani at the hospital." Tomas said looking at Todd.
Todd looked relived he did not want to go see Buchanan right now. He had other things to worry about.
"Michael is in the slammer right?" Todd asked Tomas.
"For now I'm just not too sure how long. I got a strange call from a FBI agent asking me questions about Tea, Michael and you." Del responded looking at Tea.
"What?" Todd asked.
"Don't worry Todd I will protect." Del stopped and swallowed, "our family."
"Del." Tea said.
"I had a long conversation with Tomas. For now I will be on your side Todd just don't do something stupid or illegal. You both will need to sit down. Tomas has something to tell you also." Del said walking into the living room.
They made their way to the living room. They both looked at each other and sat down.
"Tomas tell them what you told me at the police station." Del said.
Tomas cleared his throat and said, "When I was working for the CIA I was informed about a rogue FBI unit. I was given names. I informed my supervisor at the time and I left it in his hands. Shortly thereafter I went on sabbatical. When we took Michael into jail and Del received the phone call from Agent Barker, that's when I remember about the rogue FBI unit that was one of the names that I was given too. I think they are behind it."
"Agent Barker called you?" Todd asked. He got up from the couch and started pacing. His gut feeling was right this was not over.
"Todd do you know him?" Tea asked watching him carefully.
"Yes he's one of sons of bitches that handle me at that facility. He used to drug me." Todd answered.
"He wanted me to release Michael into his custody. I told him was already transferred to my FBI facility." Del said.
"Did Michael say anything to either of you?" Tea asked.
"The only thing he said was that he was not alone and he would never give the names of his allies. He said that he expects you Tea as his wife to get him release." Tomas said.
"He is fucking crazy if he think Delgado is going anywhere near him." Todd said in anger.
"I'm not going to bail him out. After everything he's done to me to my daughter." Tea said, "I just found out from Daniella that Michael has been mean to her when they are alone."
"He hurt Daniella?" Tomas asked concerned.
"He said hurtful things to her. I checked for bruises at the hospital." Tea said walking over to Todd.
"What now?" Tea asked.
"We protect you all. We will use my men from my department only. They will be here in two days." Del said.
"We might as well get some rest. Tomorrow we will figure out what to do next." Tomas said heading up stairs.
"Del you must also be tired." Tea said.
"Yes. I'm just going to check the house."
"I already did that." Todd said.
"Come on Del I'll show you to your room." Tea said.
Tea waited for Del to follow her. Her thoughts were with Todd. After she got Del settle for the night, she checked on Daniella. So many things had happened. Todd was back in her life, but where was it going to lead. She was so surprised that he elected to stay here with her family. She knew that Todd was not going to go to sleep. She went into the kitchen and got some chips and a beer for Todd. She made her way to the living room. She placed the chips and the beer on the coffee table. She sat down on the couch and turned on the TV with the volume low. She was waiting for Todd to stop pacing.
"Want to talk about it?" She asked quietly.
"Whatever." He stopped pacing and grabbed to beer from the coffee table.
"You look tired Delgado you should go to bed." He said softly sitting down next to her.
"I need to unwind first."
Todd took a drink from his beer and then said "Remote."
Tea smiled and giving him the remote.
"I'm going to go see Blair tomorrow and talk to her. Starr said she was pretty upset. She wants to talk to me about the kids."
"Okay."
"I'll be back after. Delgado, do you want to stay here?"
"No I want to leave as soon as possible. This house was never meant for me." Tea said.
"So why live here then?" Todd asked.
"Because this where I thought you lived." She answered yawning.
She got comfortable curling her feet on the couch. Todd smirked, because he knew Tea was about to fall asleep. They both ended up falling asleep on the couch.
(Next Day)
In the morning Daniella ran down the stairs. Her mommy wasn't in her room. She made her way to the living room and saw both her mommy and daddy sleeping. Her mommy had her head on her daddy's shoulder. Her daddy had his arm around her mommy's shoulder. She smiled and an idea popped in her head. She was going to make breakfast for her mommy and daddy. She walked into the kitchen and started doing what her mommy would do to make breakfast. As gathered all the ingredients milk, eggs, flour mix, and the bowel to put the mix. She grabbed a chair to put against the cooking counter, because she could not reach.
Both Tea and Todd were sleeping when they heard glass breaking. Both jolted up, and looked at one other.
"What the hell was that?" Todd asked.
Tea's maternal instincts hit and she ran to the kitchen. She stopped dead in her tracks as she saw her daughter covered in flour, the kitchen floor however was covered in glass, four, milk, and eggs.
"Aye Dios Mio, Daniella Tea Delgado Manning, what are you doing?" Tea demanded.
Dani looked up and saw that her mommy was angry and her daddy was standing behind her mommy.
"Daniella, don't move." Tea stated making her way to her flour covered daughter and continued, "Let me guess pancakes."
Daniella nodded her head yes with tears in her eyes. Tea moved picked up Daniella and moved her over to the kitchen doorway. Todd burst out laughing. Tea arched her eyebrow giving him a look that said don't mess with me. She turned around and began cleaning her daughters mess. She made sure her daughter nor Todd did not see her smile spreading across her face.
"Come on Sparky; let's go get you cleaned up." Todd said walking out.
(Later that night)
After spending the day with Daniella and Tea at the house. Todd let Tea know that he was heading out to Blair's. He was dreading it but he knew he had to go. He wonder if Jack was going to accepted him like Daniella did. Jack was a year in half older than Daniella so he hoped. After everything that was revealed last night. He was a little edgy about going to see Blair. He knew he had to keep his temper in check. He knocked on the door.
The door opened and there stood Blair's new husband Justin Stevens.
Justin Stevens study Blair's ex-husband. He moved aside to let Todd in.
"Who's at the door, Justin?" Blair asked walking into the foyer.
"Blair."
"Todd my husband Justin Stevens, Justin this is my ex-husband Todd Manning." Blair said.
They gave each other the look over.
"Starr said you wanted to talk to me."
"Yes, come on in the living room." Blair said turning away from her ex-husband and her current husband.
Todd smirked and followed Blair into the living room.
"Would you like something to drink, Todd?" Justin said.
"You got a beer." Todd said.
"I'll be right back." Justin left them alone.
Todd watched Justin leave, and turned back to face Blair.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Todd asked.
"I'm so sorry for what happened to you, Todd. I know you told us at the hospital, I am still in shock."
"You have no idea what I went through so don't assume you know. Look I don't want to fight with you. Am I pissed of that you let an imposter into our children's lives? Yes, but right now there are other important things to discuss. This is not over I need to keep you all safe." Todd said.
"What do you mean not over? He's in jail right." Blair asked.
"As far as I know yes, only something strange is going on I can feel it."
"Well Tea's brothers are involved right. Are the kids in danger?"
"I think so. Starr said your new hubby got extra security around here. I talked to Del he said that he is also going to have his men watching and protecting us." Todd said.
"How bad is it?" Justin said walking in with two bottle of beer.
Todd took the beer from and opened it he took a big drink.
"It's pretty bad. My ex-brother in law Del is now involved. He's with the FBI. He said he got a weird phone call from an Agent that was holding me hostage. While at the police station Michael demanded that Tea go and help get him out."
"How is she?" Blair asked.
"She was shocked at first. She didn't believe it until I started telling her things about us that only she and I would know about. Then what happened to Daniella didn't make things easier for her."
"I can imagine. Justin and I spoke with Starr, Jack and Sam in depth. Justin was amazing with Sam. Sam is my adopted son and is biological son of Michael. Starr was so happy about that you're here Todd. I'm worried about Jack. Justin has been helping me. You're going to need to take things slowly with him, Todd." Blair said.
Blair smiled and said, "I got out the albums so you could see what the last eight years of our kids have been like."
"I'm not going to deny that we all need to take things slowly, but I want you to know Blair that I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to be around. My kids." Todd said.
"I know. I don't want to fight with you either Todd. We'll work something out as a family." Blair said walking over to him.
"Wow what happened to you Blair? You are even friends with Tea." Todd asked.
"I'm happy Todd." Blair answered looking at Justin and continued, "We are friends, because of the children."
Todd looked at both of them. Yes Blair deserved to be happy. In fact she did and she looked like she was in love with her new husband.
"Are they home, Blair?"
"Todd, Starr is with friends. She excited that her Dad is back. Jack and Sam are with Kelly. I wanted to talk to you first about Jack."
"I still want to see them."
"We understand Todd." Justin said.
"We could get together at Viki's." Blair said.
"Whatever just as long as I get see my kids. I will let Viki know. How about tomorrow after school?" Todd asked finishing up his beer.
"We can do that. Starr said that you went to stay at Tea's." Blair said.
Todd looked at Blair and said, "Yeah I stayed at Tea's. I'm trying to get her to leave the house."
"I don't blame you. Daniella doesn't like it there."
"How do you know that?" Todd asked.
"Daniella told Starr one day. She was asking Starr a lot of questions about you Todd." Blair said.
"Michael is lucky he is in jail. After what Daniella told me last night. He's lucky he didn't get a bullet."
"Did he hurt Daniella?" Blair asked in concern.
"Daniella said that Michael was mean to her when they were alone." Todd answered
"Well he wasn't too happy when he learned about her. I seem to remember getting in an argument with him. Starr was so happy, and Jack, Todd he takes such good care of her. Both of our children took to that little girl. When I finally met her I even took to her. She is really sweet. She loves being over here, too. She fights with Dorian." Blair said smiling.
"Really?" Todd asked proudly.
"Oh yeah, when all four them are together it's girls vs. the boys. They see who can get Dorian mad."
Todd started laughing.
"Tooddd."
"Sorry, no I'm not. My kids don't like your Aunt Dorian." Todd said laughing.
"Stop it." Blair said putting her hands on her hips.
Justin smiled and laughed.
"Not you too." Blair said pointing at her husband.
"I take it you don't like Dorian either." Todd said.
"I get what you're saying man." Justin answered.
Todd stopped laughing and said, "Well go over the albums when we are at Viki's, cause knowing my sister she will have some pictures to show me as well."
"Would you like to stay for dinner?" Justin asked.
"No, Tea is waiting for me. And I don't want to leave them by themselves any longer." Todd said.
"Todd, give her some time." Blair said.
"I think too much time has passed, Blair. I have too much to make up for."
Blair nodded.
"Ok gotta go tell Starr I'll call her later tonight. Justin see you around." Todd said walking out to the foyer followed by Blair.
"One question is he good to the kids?" He asked.
"Yes very good. I'm happy with him." Blair said.
"I'm glad, Blair." He said leaving.
Todd got into Tea's car. As he drove to Tea's he thought about what Blair had said. Daniella didn't like living at the house so he was going to give her that. Maybe he still owned the Penthouse. Tea would know.
Once he was at Tea's he saw Tomas's car in the garage. He enter the house and heard Dani racing down the stairs. She jumped into his arms.
"Daddy, did you see Starr?"
"No Sparky I didn't. Where's your mom?" Todd asked.
"She's upstairs with Uncle Del." Dani said.
"Go get your mom I want to ask her something." He released Daniella.
She ran back upstairs yelling, "Mommy! Daddy wants to talk to you."
"Hold on Mija." Tea yelled back.
"Tea!" Todd yelled as he made his way into the living room.
"Delgado!" Todd yelled again.
"Aye Dios Mio, I have both of you yelling. What Todd?" Tea said coming down the stairs.
"Hey when can I get my money and my newspaper?" He asked.
"I'm going to start filling out the paper work today but I've been busy with our daughter Todd." Tea said annoyed.
"Do you know if I still own the Penthouse?" He asked looking at her.
"I think you do. I will check after dinner. Why? What are you planning?"
"I don't want to stay here, and I'm not going to live with Viki." Todd said walking up to her.
Tea looked to the floor. She couldn't look at him.
He's going to leave us. How am I going to explain this to Daniella? She thought sadly.
"Oh I will look into it after dinner ok." She said still looking at the floor.
Todd notice Tea looking at the floor.
"Okay, no salsa grub though right? He said.
He was trying to get her to look into her eyes. He could always tell what she was thinking when he would look into her eyes.
"What's wrong, Delgado? I thought you wanted us to leave here. I just thought that the Penthouse would be a great way to get out of here as soon as possible." He said quietly.
Tea finally looked up into his eyes. "Oh you want all of us. I just assumed you wanted to leave here."
"Whatever Delgado." He said staring into her eyes.
He brought up his hand to caress her face lightly. He leaned down to kiss her lips that she just licked. They out of nowhere he heard giggly.
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