I don't own anything, except Mackenzie Red Wolf and Patrick O'Neil.
Salem University Hospital Rm. 145The one thing Chloe didn't expect to see when she woke up was Jan Spears by her bedsides. She blinked several times to make sure she was seeing things.
"You're not seeing things Lane, it's me." Jan noticed the unasked question in the girl's eyes. "Shawn was visiting you and got called away to the court house for JT's hearing, I volunteered to stay with you."
"Thanks Jan." Chloe tried to sit up by can't find the strength, so Jan runs to help her up. "So, how's the baby?"
"You don't have to fake concern just because your Shawn's cousin." "I know you don't care, so we don't have to talk, we can just sit here in silence."
"Jan I'm not faking concern, I figured out what happened." Chloe tried to word it carefully hoping she can convince Jan o confide in her, without knowing that Shawn broke her confidence.
"What are you talking about?" Chloe gave Jan a knowing looking. "How did you know?"
"I put the pieces together, I knew Shawn would never cheat on Belle, and even though they weren't together he loved her on the island and he wouldn't have betrayed her." "Jan, you don't have to feel ashamed or embarrassed, it wasn't your fault."
"How do you, know I had been flirting with him since the beginning of the trip."
"Jan, trust me I know, that no matter what you did, when you said no, he should have listened." Jan looks up and sees something she never thought she would see in Chloe Lane's eyes, understanding.
"Chloe, how do you know?" Chloe's eye looks away for a moment, before she turns back to Jan.
"Jan, go make sure no one is at the door and then locked it." Jan follows the instruction then moves her seat close to Chloe. " When I was 12, I was in this foster home with this couple the wife was a manic depressive and the husband was an alcoholic." " The wife would take her medicine and just sleep for the rest of the night, and the husband would start try to force himself on me, but I would lock myself in one the closets." "It was an old lock, so he didn't have the tools to pick, so he would just spend the night sitting by the door, telling me what whore I was for coming on to him and not delivering." Jan gives Chloe a sympathetic look and pats her hand. " I didn't stay there that long, once they found out about the Husband's drinking they moved me, but he was only the first guy that I had to deal with, and I learned something." Chloe takes Jan hand and looks into her eyes " Guys, that do things like that have problems, and isn't about you or me, it's just their problem."
"I was just so scared Chloe, and then Shawn came and for the first time since before the rape I felt safe." She looks up with tears in her eyes. "I know that Shawn gave up Belle to help me, and I feel horrible about it, but I need him Chloe but I need him, and I can't make it right now without him."
"Well now you have me too, and we're both going to get you through this."
"You shouldn't have to deal with now, on top of the cancer and the tape." Chloe looks surprised. "Yours isn't the first tape Cynthia has sent out, and I don't need to see to know what happened."
"Well, I'm going to beat this so don't worry about anything."
"You say that, but I don't think you're sure." Jan looks closely at Chloe's eyes and can clearly see fear, the same kind Jan had for weeks after the rape, and the fear that she would die. "You think you could die, don't you."
Chloe looks at the girl that made her life hell for two years and sees something she never thought she would see, someone to confide besides Brady. Jan was just as screwed up as she was, maybe even more so, because while Chloe always wished for her biological parents to return and love her, Jan's were right in front of her denying her love. "You're right even with a match being so likely to be found, I still think there's the chance that I'll die." She turns to Jan once more. "Promise me something." At the girls nod she continues. "Promise me that if things start to look bad you will tell Belle the truth."
Jan looks at the girl that was once her enemy and realizes how alike they are, and her with her min made up she nods. "I promise, but that won't happen you'll beat this."
"Hey Diva, what's up with the door?"
Jan goes to the door and checks to make sure that she and Chloe are presentable before opening the door to Brady and the rest of the Black family. She turns back to look at Chloe and smiles. "I see you later Chloe, get well soon, and remember what I said." Jan picks up her coat and walks past the shocked family.
"Well don't just stand there come in." Brady enters and takes the seat that Jan vacated. While John and Marlena moved to lean against the wall, Belle on the other hand just stared in the direction where Jan Spears just went.
"So Chloe how are you this morning?" Marlena looked at the pale girl and realized that something important must have happened between her and Shawn's lover, but unsure what that could possibly. "You look well."
Chloe laughs, and the simple act made her look healthier." Thanks Dr. Evan-Black, but I know I look horrible."
Brady lifts Chloe hand and kisses it. "You look breathtakingly beautiful, Diva."
John watches his son with fascination at how easily Chloe Lane relaxes his son, when they arrived and found Chloe's door locked Brady had been sure that Philip was in there bothering her, and the rage that clouded his eyes scared even a ex-mercenary. Finding Jan Spears in the room hadn't made anyone feel better, but hearing Chloe's voice has removed the rage in seconds. John smiles at the picture they make, and prays that cancer won't take another woman from Brady. "That's a fact, Chloe, we Black men know better then to lie about a woman's appetence."
"Well then thank you both." She looks past to where Belle is standing with shock still evident on her face. "Hey Belle."
Belle is finally snapped out of her spell and turned to look at Chloe, she wanted to see how her best friend was doing, but she couldn't stop the question. "What was Jan doing here?" She saw Chloe quickly avert her eyes but bring them back with a strange look in them.
"Shawn stopped by to see me, but I was asleep and then he got called to the court house, so Jan volunteered to wait with me."
Belle was about to ask another question when one of the subject of conversation came into the room smiling form ear to ear, or he was until he stopped the black family there.
"Oh Hey, I just came to tell Chloe the good news, but I can come back."
"No, tell me now you got me all excited." Chloe eyes pleaded with him to try and stay, and he had to give in.
"The judge awarded us permanent custody of JT, and Glen had agreed to not to fight for more." Shawn faces broke into a smile again, and it almost reached his eyes, but the thought of his perfect girl stand close by keep it where it was.
"Shawn that's great." No one was more surprised by her outburst then Belle, who had to stop and try to remember if she had actually said those words.
"Thanks, well I should go." He moves into the room and hugs Chloe whispering in here ear. "Thank you for talking to Jan, she seems better." He pulls back and nods to the group. "I'll see you later Chloe."
The inhabitants all look at Belle confused at what to say, and feeling their eyes on her Belle turns to survey the group. "What? I'm really glad that got to keep JT." Shrugging her shoulders." I just am wondering if this mean they're not going after Isaac."
Private Jet
"Sir, we will be arriving in Salem Shortly." The gray haired man bowed and left the room. Leaving the dark haired man alone in the spacious jet staring out the window.
"Don't worry father, I am coming and will protect Alexandra and all the DiMera interest."