Chapter 11: Forgiveness in Life and Death
Reid stared at Aubrey unmoving. "Reid darling who is it?" Melinda came up behind Reid as the door fell shut. "Oh Aubrey sweetheart you're here."
Melinda moved give her a welcoming hug but stopped when Aubrey hadn't moved, just continued to stare at the floor. "Uh...Aubrey why don't you go down to my room, I'll be down in a minute."
Aubrey nodded. As if just noticing Melinda she smiled weakly. "Hello."
Melinda watched her walk away and looked back at Reid. "What has that lunatic father of hers done now?" She asked with a scowl.
Reid shook his head. "Mom I honestly don't know. But I plan to find out."
"Dinner promptly at seven. I don't expect you two up here mingling with the guests, Aubrey looks to be in no shape for that. Take care of her Reid."
Reid kissed Melinda's cheek. "I will mom."
"And Reid, your father still needs to talk with you about her knowing."
Reid sighed. "Not now."
Melinda nodded. "Go." She said motioning her head down the hall towards the door leading to his basement apartment. Reid went down and as he walked in he saw no sight of Aubrey in his living room space. So he shut the door and walked down the hall to his room. He walked in to find Aubrey's shoes next to his bed, her messenger bag lying next to them and her curled under his covers facing away from the door.
Reid walked over and pulled the covers back on the other side of his bed and he climbed in, feet only clad in socks. He pulled the covers over his body and just laying facing his crying girlfriend. He hated seeing her so sad and broken down.
With a gentleness only Aubrey knew he possessed he brought his hand up resting it on her cheek and the pad of his thumb gently wiped away stray mascara filled dark tears. "Sweets you need to talk to me." He said softly.
Aubrey's breathing was uneven and harsh as she tried to control her tears. "I-I..." She stuttered. Reid's hand slipped back behind her neck and he pulled her towards him as he rolled on to his back, her head rested on his chest, his fingers running soothingly threw her hair and down her back.
Twenty minutes passed and it was as if she could cry no more, her eyes were scratchy and dry from lack of moisture, red and puffy from being wiped at and their were smear marks from her eye liner and mascara under her eyes. She looked so vulnerable at that moment it struck Reid hard in the heart.
"I went...upstairs to find my mother's Christmas things in the attic, my father packed all her things and put them up there after her death. He said he was only keeping them for me." Aubrey said softly.
Reid just remained silent letting her say what she needed to say.
After a long pause she picked up again. "As I was going through her things, I stumbled across a shoe box, it had my name on it. I thought it was just silly scraps of art and gold star papers from elementary school, but I decided to open it."
She stayed quiet for a long time and Reid turned his head slightly kissing her forehead. "Sweets?" He asked urging her to continue.
Aubrey sighed sitting up out of his embrace and moved over so she could lean down off the bed and grab her messenger bag. She pulled it up on to the bed and open the flap. Pulling out an old Spencer year book and a few envelopes she set them on the bed and tossed her messenger bag back on the floor. "Inside I found these instead. The top envelope is written to me, the other's are written to my mom." She opened the front hard back cover of the yearbook and pulled a loose four by six photo from just inside and handed it to Reid. "Look familiar?" She asked.
Reid sat up next to her taking the picture. A beautiful auburn haired woman was standing large arms wrapped around her waist a rather bulky young adult male attached to her back smiling with her at the photographer. "Is that..." Reid's eye's widened.
"Yeah. And according to this..." She held up the envelope addressed to her. "He's my real father."
Flash back:
"Father where are those Christmas decorations of moms?" Aubrey asked looking in on her father in his study.
"In the attic. You know you should go through her things and get ride of the things you don't want or need. A charity could use those things to help other people in need." Her father said flatly.
Aubrey rolled her eyes. "Whatever." She muttered walking down to the end of the upstairs hall to the attic door. Pulling it open she headed up the loud squeaky old wooden staircase and at the top was met with a dusty attic filled with boxes of her mother's belongings.
Deciding to just start to her left she began opening box flaps and peeking inside, half way in she found an old Dolce and Gabbana shoe box, her name scrawled on the top in black permanent marker. She recognized it instantly as her mother's handwriting. Her curious nature got the best of her and she pulled the shoe box from inside the large packing box and saw on the floor legs crossed Indian style and she pulled the lid off the shoe box.
Instead of finding old keepsakes from her childhood she found a cream colored enveloped with her name in the same scrawl as on the box. Beneath it was an old Spencer yearbook. She pulled the year book out, resting the letter in her lap. She opened the front cover and just inside was a photo and a few small envelopes, her mother's name and mailing address in Boston as the recipient written sloppily on the front.
Looking at the photograph she thought she recognized the man standing with her mother, but knew it wasn't her father. She set it aside and retrieved the letter from her lap. She opened the sealed envelope and pulled the two sheeted letter from inside.
Tears pooled in her eyes seeing the same elegant writing. Her mother's writing. Her mother had written this to her.
My Sweetest Aubrey,
I don't know how much time has passed since the cancer took me away from you, but I know I am no longer there to be with you if you are reading this. I know because I lied to you. The doctor never told me the cancer was operable, I couldn't bare to tell you the truth that I only had weeks left to live. Don't be mad at your father, I asked him to let me go.
Aubrey brought her hand up over her mouth to cover her light sob.
I lied to protect you in so many ways my Sweetest Aubrey. But now I must come clean about a lie I've been telling you since the day you were born. I had planned to tell you when you were older and could understand, not just going in to your teens, confused about who you are and what you want to be. I wanted this information to mean something to you and I didn't want you to hate me. I thought if I told you when you were older we could discuss it maturely, but unfortunately that will never happen. And I can't tell you now, especially with this cancer eating away at me. I can't bare to see you so confused and upset right now.
In the box you've undoubtedly opened you will find my Senior yearbook. Inside the cover is a photo and a few letters. Those will be explained in due time.
My darling Aubrey, there's no easy way to tell you this, so I will simplify the story as best I can for you. In my Sophomore year at Spencer I met a boy, Nick. He attended a public school just outside the city limits. We began dating and over time I fell in love with him. My parents being from a wealthy background thought it uncivilized of me to be spending my time frolicking about with someone like him. Meaning unwealthy, carefree, and in a sense a bit of a bad boy.
Against my parents wishes I continued to see him, until the end of my Senior year. Just before I was to leave for college in September we had a fight that ended in us deciding to break up. I later found out he'd only started the fight insecure about me being away at college and if my feelings were as deep as I said. But by the time I knew that information I'd already met Robert.
I met Robert a month after my break up and while he wasn't, like my first love, he was genuinely caring and kind. I started developing feelings for him. My parents worshiped the ground he walked on. Two months into our relationship he proposed, I accepted.
Eight months and two days, after we met you came along. You were not premature, you were right on time. I found out a month into my relationship with Robert that I was pregnant. After his proposal I discussed the situation with him and he told me not to worry. He'd treat you as if you were his own, because he couldn't have kids of his own. I wont go into details as to why.
I contacted Nick two let him know about you. He said it was better this way, you'd have everything you could ask for. Things he couldn't give you. It broke my heart he felt that way, but it was for the best in the end. No matter what Aubrey, this changes nothing you were conceived with love. But I knew Robert would never tell you the truth and I wanted you to know.
Nick and I were so in love. You were my part of him, I always told you I met your father in high school. That was never a lie just a failure to mention which father. I loved Nick with every fiber of my being and no love ever compared to that but you. I think on some level Robert always knew my heart didn't fully belong to him and he resented that fact a little. He resented the fact that I fell in love with someone so different from him, so deeply and that a part of me would always belong to Nick.
I love you and I'm sorry for having to share this information with you like this. I hope you can see why I lied to you all these years, and I hope you can forgive me. I love you so much, Robert loves you so much.
There are so many things I wish I could tell you, so many things I wish I would have the chance to experience with you. But unfortunately those things wont happen. But I want to give you one last piece of advice, find love and hold on tight. Don't ever let go, because nothing is second best when it comes to love. You were my connection to my first true love and that makes you incredibly special, but that doesn't make Robert any less of a father to you. Remember that. And remember that I love you dearly. I'm always watching over you.
Love Always,
Mom
Aubrey grabbed the picture again. "Nick?"
End flash back
"So you're telling me..." Reid said still in shock.
Aubrey nodded. "Yep."
"Wow."
"Yeah tell me about it." Aubrey said looking at the picture she'd taken back from Reid half way through her story. "I just...what do I do? What do I say? I mean he obviously knows, and my father but what should I do?"
Reid shrugged. "Unfortunately Sweets I don't have the answer you're looking for."
"Just tell me what to do? Should I confront my father? Or should I just forget I found this?" Aubrey said looking pleadingly at Reid.
"Which one?" Reid asked confused.
Aubrey through her hands and shoved the letter, picture and yearbook aside as she threw the covers from her body and stood and started pacing Reid's room. "Both! I don't know."
"Aubrey calm down." Reid said calmly.
She sighed and tears started falling from her eyes once again as she sat down on the floor leaning back against the end of his bed. "I don't know what to do Reid." She said her voice hoarse and cracking.
Reid spread out on his bed, one hand slipping off his mattress and resting on her shoulder and Aubrey reached up her hand and he linked their fingers together and pecked a kiss to the back of her head. "Baby you have to choose on your own. I can't tell you what to do." Reid said kindly.
Aubrey sniffled. "What would you do?" She asked softly.
Licking his dry lips in thought Reid rested his chin on the top of her head. "I honestly don't know Sweets."
"If your powers weren't a factor and you were just as normal as me, would you confront the man you thought was your father for the last eighteen years or just try to forget?"
"Me being headstrong, I'd probably choose confrontation." Reid said jokingly earning him a small giggle from her.
Aubrey sighed. "I don't want to go home tonight, I can't even look at him right now."
"You can stay here." Reid said.
Aubrey tilted her head back so she could look at him somewhat upside down. "Thanks. I just need to get my thoughts together before I talk to him."
"No problem Sweets." Reid leant forward and kissed her lips tenderly. "I'll have my mom call when it's about ten and tell him that the party ran late and you'll be home in the morning."
"I think we should just let him stew." Aubrey said a bit bitterly.
Reid kissed her again and grinned. "He's still your father. I'd rather not wake to the cops pounding on our door claiming I've kidnapped you."
"Technically he's not, he's the man who raised me. My father is a whole other person." Aubrey said a bit sardonically.
"Fine then I'll call him." Reid joked.
"No, don't you dare." Aubrey laughed.
Reid laughed. "I was just kidding Sweets."
There was a knock on the basement door. Reid got off his bed and went to his door. Openign it he found his mother. "Reid darling, dinner thirty minutes."
Reid nodded. "K, mom we'll be up in thirty minutes then."
Melinda smiled. "Good." With that she turned and headed back up the stairs. Reid shut the door and made his way back to his room.
"I need to change." Aubrey said getting up from the floor. She grabbed her messenger bag and walked towards Reid's bathroom.
"Sweets?" Aubrey turned and looked at him.
"Yeah?"
"It'll be ok you know that right?" Reid asked smiling at her.
Aubrey smiled slightly. "Yeah." With that she walked in to his bathroom shutting the door. Reid pulled the suit his mother had gotten him from the closet. He started dressing and a few moments later as he was buttoning up the black pin stripped shirt his mother had picked out, the bathroom door opened. Light flowed out freely from inside and he looked in to see Aubrey standing at the mirror.
Her hair was down, and curly, the purple in her hair more prominent than her natural dark brown now that she'd had more highlights put in just recently. The dress she wore hung down just above her knees, black silky looking fabric, the heels on her feet were obviously pumps, some design on them Reid couldn't make out. He left his shirt untucked and walked in to the bathroom. Aubrey was wiping at the black smear at either corner of her eyes.
Reid wrapped his arms around her waist and she pulled back away from the mirror, letting him see through the object the front of her dress. It was strapless and hugged perfectly to her chest. "You look beautiful." He whispered in her ear.
Aubrey smiled back at him in the mirror and then turned around looking over his wardrobe. "You clean up nicely." She said grinning at him.
"Well it's not my first choice but it'll do." Reid said acting nonchalant. Aubrey tilted her head up expectantly and Reid smirked. "I have something for you."
"Oh yeah what's that?" Aubrey asked frowning slightly since she hadn't gotten the kiss she was expecting.
Reid grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the bathroom. He turned her back towards his bed. "Close your eyes." She said.
Aubrey did so and felt his hand slip from hers. "Reid? We don't have time for games."
"Just keep your eyes closed." Aubrey clasped her hands in front of her and waited with her eyes closed silently. She felt his presence in her space. "Ok open."
Aubrey opened her eyes to find him standing before her, his black blazer now on and his palm outstretched and upwards holding a small blue box. "What's this?" Aubrey said gently plucking the box from his hand.
"Your Christmas present." Reid grinned.
"Oh shit." Aubrey said and sighed. "Yours is in Val's dorm room. I was going to pick it up before I came over and then..."
Reid shook his head. "Don't worry about Sweets, just open yours."
"But..."
"No, no. You'll give it to me some other time, right now you're going to open yours." Reid insisted. Aubrey pulled the lid from the box and gasped putting her spare hand over her mouth as the lid fell to the floor. "Like them?"
"Reid their beautiful." Aubrey said breathlessly looking at the darling white gold dragonfly earrings to match the necklace he'd gotten her for her sixteenth birthday. "Reid this is too much though you..."
"I hate when you say that." Reid said looking a bit disappointed. "Just say thank you and kiss me."
Aubrey set the box on his bed and jumped up in to his arms, Reid having quick reflexes wrapped his arms around her waist to hold her up. "I love them thank you." She said smiling at him before planting a firm kiss on his delicious lips. As she pulled away he released her and she slid to the floor, her pumps making her taller then usual though. "I'm just not use to getting gifts like these." Aubrey said picking the box up once again.
Reid kissed her softly and his hand came up delicately cupping her cheek as his other moved around her waist holding her close to him, their lips not parting for even a second. When they did finally break away again Reid rested his forehead to hers. "Get use to it." He said with a grin.
Aubrey giggled softly and began removing the earrings from the box and placing them in the first whole of her lobe, the second already adorned with white gold hoops in both ears. Aubrey walked back towards the bathroom and picked up her messenger bag again and began rummaging. "Oh no."
"What?" Reid asked walking in.
"No, no, no." She said frantically dumping the remaining contents out on the bathroom counter. "It's not here. I know I grabbed it."
"Grabbed what?"
"My necklace." Aubrey said stricken. "Oh god." She said softly not finding it in the random contents on the counter. A pen, a pack of gum, her wallet, sidekick, mascara, eye shadow, and lip gloss were strewn about but now necklace in sight.
Reid grabbing her arms gently turning her around. "I'm sure it's somewhere Bre. Give me your keys and I'll go look in the car, while you keep my mother distracted from my absence."
"Reid I love that necklace, I can't believe I lost it." She said tears in her eyes.
Reid lifted her chin and smiled at her. "Sweets it's ok. Calm down, don't cry I'm sure it just fell out in your car on the way here. If not it can be replaced."
"No Reid it can't it wont be the same." Aubrey said tears no running down her cheeks.
He grabbed her face in his hands gently. "Sweets, please calm down. It's fine."
Aubrey sighed hanging her head and leaning forward so her forehead rested on his chest. "I'm sorry." She sniffled. "My emotions are just a little crazy right now."
"I noticed." Reid said kissing the top of her head. "Come on, give me your keys and we'll head upstairs. I'll go search your car real quick I'm sure it's there."
Aubrey nodded and walked back in to his room she grabbed her keys from his nightstand and handed them to Reid. He slipped them in his blazer pocket taking her hand and they headed up to the main level of the house.
Reid and Aubrey walked in to the small room where everyone was gathered, it was the front sitting room, elegantly decorated. Mrs. Garwin had an incredible eye for interior design. "Ah Reid, glad you could join us." Randall said.
"Actually I need to go look for something in Aubrey's car, but I'm sure Aubrey can tell you a few jokes while I'm gone to keep you entertained." Reid said grinning at her. Aubrey gave him a playful glared and then turned to the guests.
"I'm not that funny." She said making the guests smile. She was nervous, she didn't know these people and Reid was going out to her car for only god knows how long.
"I'll be right back." Reid kissed her cheek and then left.
"Everyone this is our son Reid's girlfriend Aubrey. Aubrey dear come sit with me." Melinda waved her forward and Aubrey did just that. After she took a seat Melinda introduced her to the guests. The men settled in to a conversation while the woman conversed to each other as well.
"May I say I love your hair." The youngest woman in the group, besides Aubrey herself, she was in her early twenties named Sienna told her kindly.
Aubrey smiled bashfully. "Oh I did it on a whim really."
"It's stunning." Sienna confirmed with a smile.
"Thank you." Aubrey said.
"Mrs. Garwin, dinners ready?" Odelia, the maid, said smiling kindly at Mrs. Garwin.
Melinda nodded. "Thank you Odelia. Well shall we all go to the dinning room?" She asked everyone. The guests started heading for the dining room, Melinda had linked her arm through Aubrey's and was walking with her when Reid came jogging back in to the house. Aubrey turned and Melinda continued in to the dining room after letting her go.
"Did you find it?" Aubrey asked looking at him pleadingly. Reid grinned and nodded holding the chain up for her to see. Aubrey smiled as he motioned for her to turn around and he placed it on her collarbone while she pulled her hair to the side. "I knew I loved you for a reason." She said as he moved her hand away from her hair, just like the first time he'd placed the necklace on her. She turned around facing him and Reid put a hand to his heart.
"I think I'm wounded."
Aubrey smiled. "You're my prince charming you know that."
"Trying to suck up?" Reid joked.
"Well I don't want to sleep alone tonight." Aubrey teased lightly.
Reid chuckled. "I'd never pass up the chance to have you in my bed." He grinned bending his head and giving her a quick peck on the lips. "Come on, mom's probably holding the meal hostage till we come in."
Aubrey giggled as he took her hand and lead her in to the dinning room. There were two seats together at the end of the table. Across from the two seats was Melinda, and at the end of the table just next to the seats was Randall. Aubrey let Reid sit on the corner while she sat in between him and Michael McKenna, one of Randall's business partners. Dinner got under way and conversation was pleasant enough.
"Reid where are you planning on attending college?" Jordan, another of Randall's partners, asked Reid from across the table next to his wife Jodi.
Reid glanced at his father and mother before answering. "Hard to say, I've gotten a few acceptances, but I haven't decided yet." Aubrey knew that was a lie. He had gotten the acceptances, but had told her he was going to probably end up doing online course for a business degree
"And you Aubrey?" Sienna asked politely.
Aubrey looked over at Reid and then up at the other's who all seemed to be staring at her. "I, uh, plan to attend Brown, but that may change. I haven't gotten my acceptance letter from them yet. But I have gotten them from Yale and Duke."
"Well you've got good choices." Michael said nodding his head in an approving manor. Aubrey smiled politely. The rest of the dinner went smoothly and soon Aubrey and Reid found themselves back downstairs.
"Reid can I..." Aubrey stopped when she turned around to find Reid holding a t-shirt out to her. She smiled and kissed his cheek as she accepted the article of clothing. "Thanks."
Reid nodded and watched her as she unzipped the back of her dress and let the item fall and pool around her feet. She'd already removed her heels and they were sitting next to the door. Her bottom was clad in black and white polka dot boy short panties and it didn't look as though anything was covering her chest. She wore no bra, her back turned to him she slipped the shirt over her head and then proceeded to head in to the bathroom.
A grin plastered itself to Reid's lips, he was the luckiest guy in the world to have a girl like her. Aubrey walked out of the bathroom, bare legs exposed hair in a loose braid to the side. "Well Baby I've been here before... I've seen this room and I've walked this floor... You know I use to live alone before I know ya...and I've seen your flag on the marble arch... love is not... a victory march... it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah ..." Aubrey noticed Reid staring and stopped singing. "What?" She asked shyly.
Reid gave her a look. "What song is that?"
"Hallelujah." Aubrey replied. "It popped into my head in the bathroom, sorry I know I sing horribly."
"No, you sang beautifully."
Aubrey scoffed brushing it off playfully. "Yeah right." She said pulling back the covers on his bed.
Reid smiled at her and walked over stopping her from climbing in to his bed. "No, honest. Where'd you hear it?"
Aubrey smiled said as she rested her hands on his bare biceps. "It was my mom's favorite song. She use to sing it to me as a little girl." Aubrey told him. "I heard the newer version recently, done by some young artist, Kate something, and it was beautiful, just got me remembering." She answered softly.
Reid nuzzled his face in to the side of her bare neck, kissing softly at her soft skin. "Will you sing it to me?" Reid asked lightly. He wouldn't usually ask that, but something about the way she sang it interested him even more.
"It's late Reid and it's been a long day. It's no time to be singing confusing love songs." She said resting her head on his bare torso.
Reid wrapped his arms around her cocooning her into his body. "Please?"
Aubrey sighed softly. "Can we lay down?" Reid moved towards the bed and fell on top of her making her giggle. "Reid." She hit his arm. Reid rolled off her grinning. Aubrey just moved into a sitting position, her back leaned back against his headboard the blankets drawn up over her lap and Reid moved next to her, he lay his head on her stomach, since her body was slunk down a bit into his pillows. He pulled the blankets over his body.
So they lay there comfortably for a few moments in silence before Aubrey began to sing from the beginning. She ran her fingers through his hair soothing him into to slumber by the end of the song. She gently reached off turning the light on his nightstand off and slipped down further into the bed after moving his head slightly on to his pillow. It was already late so Aubrey just cuddled up to him and fell asleep.
Next morning:
"Hey! Hey you can't go in there!" Aubrey registered the voice slightly as Mrs. Garwin as sleep drew further away. She groaned and covered her head with the blankets.
"That's my daughter sleeping with your son!" At that she sat up fully awake looking at the door of Reid's bedroom to see her father coming storming in, angry beyond anything she'd ever seen before. "Get out of that bed right now young lady!" He barked.
Reid woke up at that moment and sat up looking around. "What the fuck?" He mumbled rubbing at his eyes. Aubrey hadn't moved, still in shock at her father's audacity to barge in to a home that wasn't his and just make his way around and order people about.
"No." She shook her head.
Robert walked over grabbing her bicep and pulled her out of the bed. Aubrey's stumbled barely catching her footing before Reid was off the bed. "This is not how you behave! You two are over! Am I clear!"
"Get your hands off her." Reid yelled as Aubrey tried desperately to stop her father from dragging her from the room.
"You can not just barge in to our home..." Melinda was cut off though when Aubrey moved faster then her father getting in front and slapping him clear across the face. Reid was shocked, Melinda was standing there hand over her mouth in bewilderment as well.
They were now standing in the living room of the basement apartment, Robert had let Aubrey go in his state of shock. "How dare you..." Robert said looking at her livid.
Aubrey glared daggers at him. "No how dare you!" She roared angrily. Aubrey was finally snapping, she was so sick of his orders. "You aren't my father." She said lowly.
Robert's eyes widened. "Young lady..."
"Oh don't give me that young lady bullshit! Mom told you to tell me, and you didn't."
"What did you want me to say? That your real father was some low life bartender!" Robert yelled.
Reid and Melinda were just watching silent as the fireworks began to explode. Aubrey pushed Robert hard knocking him back a few steps. "Better a low life bartender than an arrogant son of a bitch like you. You think everyone is beneath you, and those that aren't you kiss ass to, to get in good with them so that you can be Mr. Big shot! And just because you don't approve of Reid and his wilder ways doesn't mean I don't love him."
"You know nothing of love." Robert growled. "I loved your mother! And yet she couldn't give me her whole heart! She still loved that low life! The day she died, she said his name in her last breath after asking me to tell you the truth. I couldn't. I'd invested to much in your future to let that low-life ruin it! And then he came along." Robert pointed to Reid. "And everything I'd been working so hard to accomplish for your future was washing away!"
At that moment everything fell in to place for Aubrey. She looked at her father in contempt. "You hate Reid because he's just like him. He's carefree, rebellious, and even a bit daring. Everything your not. You resented mom for loving those qualities, because you could never possess them." She said loathing in her voice. "And you resent me for loving those same qualities in Reid!"
"He has no ambition! No future!" Robert yelled. "He's just like him." He declared bitterly.
Aubrey grinned and nodded her head. "You're right. He's right." She said looking at Reid. She could see hurt flash in his eyes and she gave him a small smile. "Reid is just like him, but I can guarantee Reid has a future." She saw the hurt leave his eyes. "And as long as I have Reid I'll never have to settle for second best, like mom did." Aubrey said giving Robert a once over angrily before walking over to Reid. "I'm not going to end up like mom, settling for second best when my heart already belongs to Reid. A real father would not stop me from being with the man I love."
"Aubrey I did those things for your own good. You needed to stay focused on your future, not hung up on a high school crush."
"Save it." Aubrey said shaking her head.
"Aubrey..."
"No. Until you can accept the fact that I love Reid, I am no longer your daughter. And I intend to have a relationship with my blood related father, so if you can't accept that either than you can just forget I exist. Mom wanted me to know, to be able to have a relationship with him and you weren't ever going to tell me because you were jealous, how fair is that to me, the daughter you supposable love."
"I do love you Aubrey!"
"Then you should've told me the truth and you should never have kept me from Reid. I can't blame you anymore for mom's death I know now that she lied trying to protect me, but I can hate you for everything you've done to Reid and I. I can hate you for keeping something from me my own mother wanted me to know. And I do hate you right now, and it's so deep I can't even comprehend..." Robert looked stricken with sorrow. Melinda looked on the verge of tears, Reid was just being stoic and silent. "But someday, somehow I'll be able to find it in me to forgive you. Now the question is will you forgive mom and let all that anger you let accumulate over the years and resentment, can you let it all go?"
"I don't know." Robert said lightly.
Aubrey felt Reid take hold of her hand. "Until you find it in your heart to forgive woman who's deceased, I can't find it in me to forgive the man who's still alive." Aubrey tugged on Reid's hand and they walked back to his room together. As soon as the door was shut Aubrey almost collapsed, Reid caught her and carried the now crying form of his girlfriend back to bed. He placed her under the covers and went to the other side of the bed and got in pulling her close to him and just letting her cry.
AN: I know everyone's like what the hell? Right? Well it's late I've already confused myself so if it's confusing let me know. I'll try to fix it as best I can. For some reason this popped in to my head, and I thought what the hell. If no one likes how this came out I can always change it. Just let me know honestly. And I hope you all can figure out who her father really is...lol...I'll be posting some pics for the story tomorrow, but it's late I'm tired and I have physical therapy in the morning, well actually in 9 hrs and 19 minutes, so goodnight all!