I don't own anything.
John's POV
I can't believe I did that, what was I thinking.
That's the problem I wasn't thinking. This isn't a big deal. I am just not using to having sisters. I probably just got Katie confused with someone else and lost my head.
Damn it, who am I kidding there is no like Katie, she's smart, talented, and fun to be with, and she has amazing green eyes. Ugh! She has my mother's eyes. This is wrong she is my sister, but I just met her, and I think of her more as a friend then sister, but she sees me as her brother, and even though she didn't kiss me like her brother, it doesn't change the fact that I am.
It's a lost cause, why am I denying this, this is the reason that I didn't really accept Mike, or why Miguel's match making schemes bothered me. I can't believe that all my dreams of a family have come true, and I risk it all by having incestuous thought about my sister.
That does it; I just have to distance myself from Katie.
Damn it, I can't to get sleep now; maybe I should go see my Dad puts things in perspective.
Across town in David Hastings's apartment Ivy Crane sits by the window, and plots more evil obstacles for the Bennetts.
Ivy
Good news, in out battle against the Bennetts.
(Turning to look at her flunkies)
David
Really, don't tell me.
Jessica has some terminal disease.
That you plan to exploit to your own benefit.
Ivy
(Smirking)
Funny, but wrong daughter.
David
Hasn't Kay been through enough?
Ivy
(Glaring with hatred in her eyes)
No, she hasn't, but she will get very close.
(Off his look)
An informant in the Hotchkiss manor informed me of the contents
Michael's will.
David
I'm afraid to ask.
Ivy
Katherine has done very well for herself, stock
In the company, and his trust fund.
The story has been "leaked" to the tabloid.
David
What good will this do?
Ivy
It's very simple Kay will be thrust in the spotlight as an heiress,
The pressure will start to weaken the marriage; all the while I will be there to help
Kay deal with the loss and her new found wealth.
David
(Laughing)
Are you forgetting that she hates you?
(Off her look)
I mean really hates you, I'm not sure if she would break
if she saw you crossing the street.
Ivy
But now she needs me,
I am only one that understands what it is to lose a loved one and become rich in one shot.
David
You didn't love Julian, and you were rich before you married him.
Ivy
(Glaring)
The point is as Ethan's mother, and Grace's friend,
I am the most likely person to understand her.
Who knows we might actually learn to like each other
, And then I don't have to destroy her, I may even get her to switch sides.
David
Yeah, I can see her betraying the women that gave birth to her
For the women she considers biggest B*! *! in the world.
Ivy
Don't worry about my plans Kay; just do what I tell you.
Knock interrupts the conversation. David and Ivy look up to seeing John entering the apartment with his key. John stops as he sees his father guest.
John
Hey Dad
Mrs. Crane.
David goes and hugs his son, and invites him to sit down.
Ivy
Hello John, how are you?
John
Well it's been a rough.
Ivy
(Nodding)
Of course, how is your sister Kay?
John
She holding up, but it's going to be a tough journey back to the old Katie.
Ivy
(Grinning)
I'm sure she will with all of you behind her.
John turns to look at his father and notice how quiet e is he turns back to Ivy, and realizes something is going on.
John
I'm not interrupting things, am I?
Ivy
(Looking at David)
I think it's time we told him, David.
David
(Raising an eyebrow)
You do?
John
(Looking between the two)
Tell me what?
Ivy
(Smiling)
Your father and I are dating.
John
(Turning to look at his father)
Really, why have you been hiding it?
Ivy
Truthfully, I had developed feelings for David, when
I was still contesting my divorce to Julian, and when he was murdered it just seemed inappropriate.
John
But you're ready to become public?
David
(Moving to takes Ivy's hand)
Yes, we feel it's time to came clean with everyone.
John
I'm happy for you two.
(Raising)
I should go
David
John, you just got here.
John
I know, but I want to get to the library early for
Summer classes. I can't graduate in December if I don't stay focused.
(Waving)
Bye Mrs. Crane
Ivy
Please call me Ivy
John
Bye Ivy
(Hugging his dad)
Bye dad
John walks out into the hall, and leans against the wall. Feeling for uneasy about his Dad's involvement with Ivy Crane. Deciding that he Dad is old enough to solve his own problems, John begins walking around town searching for answers to his Kay dilemma. Rounding the corner on and ran smack into Father Lonigan.
John
(Wiping off father Lonigan cloths)
I'm so sorry Father Lonigan.
(Shaking his head)
I wasn't watching where I was going.
Father
(Looking right in his directing)
John Hastings
You're distracted, I understand
Your family is in crisis.
Father Lonigan ask John to led him to a bench and sit with him awhile.
Father Lonigan
You're very troubled John.
John
I just feel bad that I can't help Katie
through this.
Father Lonigan
You're right; Kay will have to depend on her brothers and sister
To survive this.
John
(Looking at the priest)
What does that mean,
I am one of Kay 's brothers.
I'll help her through this.
Father Lonigan
I'm sorry John,
I have said too much.
Father Lonigan stands up and walks away, leaving John confused and intrigued. John goes back to his room at the B&B and tries to sleep, but when he can't he goes to look at the photo album that Kay gave him as a thank you for tutoring him. He smiled at the picture on the front cover, taken on a couple of weeks after their talk. Mom had demanded a family photo including the new additions, so Sam, Hank, Ethan, and John moved to lean against the front of the house, while Kay, Jessica, Charity, and Grace moved in front of them, while Miguel took the picture. Ethan had decided to put bunny ears behind Jessica and chase had occurred and leads to a water fight, which explained why Ethan was soaked, and Jessica grinning that winners' grin.
Opening the book John smiled as pictures of Noah, Jessica, and Kay from all ages jumped out at him. Including in the book were pictures of him as a child that Kay had gotten from David, which proved how much she cared ad she couldn't stand his father. The last page of the book caught his attention, and he stared at it like he hadn't seen it before. They were baby pictures of Noah, Jessica, Kay, Ethan, and himself. Then it hit like a bolt of lightening, he started flipping through the pictures again and came back to the last page.
There was no family resemblance between him and his sisters or his brother Noah. Ethan and Noah were almost identical to each other from the time they were born; He see could little pieces of Noah and Ethan in Jessica and Kay, and even in pictures of Charity he could see likeness between the cousins, but he couldn't find any in him. He didn't look like his father, always thinking he favored his mother, but here now he couldn't see it. He didn't have his mother eyes, her nose, her smile, pictures of him and his sisters and brother showed the same thing. Then the conversation with Father Lonigan came back to him, and it became apparent that something was going on.
John
It's time for answers.