Bonds of Love

By Dueler312

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of OLTL.

Chapter 11

Everything was running smoothly at the police station, until Talia and Antonio brought Britney in, being followed by Cole and the other officers. Britney was continuously as Talia was dragging her to the jail cell, "Cole, tell them you wanted to go with me. Come on, Cole. Tell them." Talia threw her to the other officers. "Take her down and get her processed," she ordered.

"Yes, ma'am," said the officers, and with some difficulty, dragged a screaming and resisting Britney down to the processing room.

"Hey, are you all right?" Antonio asked Cole.

"Yeah, I'm okay," said Cole. "I'm still a little woozy from the chloroform, but I should be all right."

"Okay," said Antonio. "Listen, I'm going to let you try to collect your thoughts about what happened tonight, and then I'm going to need a statement from you, okay, Cole." Cole nodded to let Antonio knew he understood. Antonio then backed off and went to his office.

Cole then sat down and tried to remember what had happened, so he could include it in his statement. He been only thinking about a minute when he heard 4 familiar voices calling out, "Cole!" "Dad!"

Cole looked up and saw Starr, Nicole, Patrick, and his mom running over to them. Cole then quickly stood up and hugged his wife as hard as he could, with Starr doing the same to her husband. Nicole, Patrick, and Marty did the same.

"What happened, Daddy?" asked Patrick. "Where did you go?"

"He doesn't know?" asked Cole.

"We didn't know if it was a good idea to tell him, Cole," said Starr. Cole knew, but thought that his son should at least know some of the truth.

"The thing is, son, a bad person actually kidnapped me," said Cole.

"Somebody kidnapped you?" asked Patrick.

"Yeah, but that bad person is caught, and going away for a long time," said Cole.

"Good," said Patrick.

Starr, Nicole, and Marty smiled at that.

"Hey, why don't we get something from the vending machine, Patrick, okay?" Marty suggested.

"Okay," said Patrick, and he went with his grandmother. Marty real purpose though was to try to give Starr and Cole some time.

"I'm glad that you are okay," said Starr. "Someone here definitely helped proved of what Britney was up to," she added, looking at Nicole.

Cole went to his daughter's height, and said to her, "You are definitely one brave girl, you know that?"

"Hey, I knew she was up to something, and I wasn't afraid to stand up to her and show everyone for what she was," said Nicole. "Besides, I don't want to lose you or Mom, Dad."

"And we are definitely proud of you for wanting that, and for acting on your feeling," said Starr. "You really have a pure heart." Nicole turned red when she heard that.

"I really agree with that," said John, who just came in and heard what Starr said to her daughter.

"Are you all right, kid?" asked John.

"Yeah, I'll be okay," said Cole. "I think I'm going to give my statement to Antonio now."

"Do you want me to come with you?" asked Starr.

"No, that's okay," said Cole. "I'll be okay." They both shared a quick hug, and then Cole went to Antonio's office to give his statement.

"Hey, listen Starr. I do need to take a statement from Nicole, seeing as she was onto Britney the entire time, and help uncovered her plan," said John.

"That's okay," said Starr. "Do you want me to come with you, Nicole?" she asked her daughter.

"Yes, I do," said Nicole. "I think saying it a minimal amount of times would be a good idea." She and Starr then followed John into his office, where Nicole told them everything about her stalking them that morning on their first day of school, up until where, she, Langston, Markko, Jake, and Crystal went to her house and uncovered everything. When Nicole had told everything she had learned and suspected, John handed her the statement of everything she had said. Nicole then had signed it with her full name.

"You are really one tough girl to defend your family against something like this," said John.

"Thanks, Commander," said Nicole.

Starr just couldn't believe it. Even though she had her during her teenage years, Starr was glad that she had Nicole here.

Just then the phone on John's desk rang and John answered it.

"No kidding," he said. "Hang on, I'll go down there myself and take care of this." He hung up the phone.

"If you two ladies will excuse me, I got to go calm down our new guest down in her jail cell," said John.

"No problem," said Starr. John opened the door for them, and all three of them headed out.

"Dad!" said Nicole. Starr looked up and saw that Cole was already done with his statement, and was standing by with Marty and Patrick.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked Cole.

"I'm okay, Dad," said Nicole.

"How about you guys go on home?" suggested Marty. "It looks like you guys really need to rest and process this."

"That sounds to me like the best idea that was said all day," said Cole.

"Yeah, come on you guys," said Starr.

"Sure thing, Mom. Bye, Grandma," said Nicole.

"Bye, sweetie," said Marty. She hugged Nicole and Patrick, and then the four Thornharts exited the station. As she watched them leave, Marty just thought to herself and said, "Those four are one strong family."

Down in the jail cell, Britney was still yelling that she wanted to listen to Cole and that he would tell them that he was going with her, while banging and shaking the cell door.

"Hey, knock it off, Ms. Jennings," John shouted as he came to the cell door.

"Commander, oh good. You can listen to Cole. He knows what has happened," Britney said with one breath.

"Yeah, and he's already given his statement," said John. "And I'm pretty sure that it's doesn't match with what he said, or with what we've collected from your house, so I suggest you keep quiet, or I'll find a way to do that."

"Cole just confused because of the accident," pleaded Britney. "He's not in his mind.

"Oh, I know he's in his right mind," said John as he turned to walk out," because I'm pretty sure he walked out of here with his family to spend time with him."

"No, he ISN'T," Britney kept saying as John walked out, but John just ignored her.

"No! COLE, COME BACK!" yelled Britney. "STARR MANNING, YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS, YOU WITCH!"

Sounds like Britney is totally obsessed with Cole. Stay tuned. The story isn't over yet.