AN:
Yeah, so, not exactly what I had planned for, but Eric decided to not agree with my plans so here it is.
Things happen
Chapter seven
October 26th 01:10 am
Steffy´s apartment
Liam woke up when keys were entering the lock on the door to the apartment, knowing that Steffy was probably very tired when she got back home, he chose to stay in the bed and listen to her going through her night routine.
He hears her coming out of the bathroom and walk into the nursery. He sees her walk over to the crib and look at her daughter to check if she's sleeping before caressing her head and then blowing a kiss.
She walks out of Kelleighs room and into her own and he hears her climb into bed. Listening to her breath even out he falls back asleep.
Two hours later he's awoken yet again, this time by the sounds of his daughter nursing.
"Were you a good girl for daddy?" Steffy is whispering to not wake Liam up and Kelleigh is just suckling away. "I bet you were, you wanna know why?" With being occupied with eating, Kelleigh is not answering this time either. "Because you don't have any reason not to be! I know you so well baby girl. If you just follow your schedule, there's nothing that would cause you not to be a good girl."
She's sitting in the arm chair placed next to the crib, stroking her daughters hair. She's wearing a big oversized t-shirt with a teddy bear on it, a pair of shorts and a pair of fuzzy socks, she also has a blanket laying over her shoulder to shield herself while breastfeeding. And Liam thinks that she's never looked more beautiful.
After a little while, Kelleigh starts releasing her hold on her mothers breast and knowing that her baby has had enough food for this feeding time, she places her with her head on her shoulder and gently taps her back. Kelleigh burps the way she's supposed to and so Steffy walks over to the changing table to check Kelleigh´s diaper.
When she's done, Steffy carries her daughter back to the crib and places her in it, caresses her head and then says good night. She keeps caressing Kelleigh´s head until she falls back asleep, then she walks out the door to her own bedroom and crashes for the night.
~Things happen~
October 26th 09:45 am
Liam´s cliffhouse.
Liam walks through the door of his house with a smile on his face. Hope is in the kitchen starting on next weeks meals.
"Good morning!"
Normally, his smile would multiply on her lips, but as she knew that there's only one reason for that smile she's not as receptive to it as she usually is.
"Good morning!"
"How was your mother yesterday?" Liam walks over to the table and sits down. He checks everything on the table and figures out what Hope is making and gets up and fetches a cuttingboard and a knife and starts cutting up peppers, carrots, onions and tomatos to help his wife with the preparations.
"She was angry that Katie chose to go to the celebration and that Ridge had gotten married, but it is what it is. She can't do anything about it and Ridge is obviously happy with his choice so I'm not going to say anything about it. Anyway. How was your day with Kelleigh?"
"She's such an easy baby that it's amazing to me that I'm her father, I was so not a good baby. But it was amazing being able to put her to bed and being around her for such a long period of time was really nice." He sends her a small smile. "So, I was planning on taking you out for dinner tonight, if you'd like to go out?"
Hope´s smile starts forming eventhough she knows he's doing it because she got mad at him on Friday.
"Yeah! I'd love to. I just need to get all this done and then we can go!"
"I'll make us some sallads for lunch so that you don't have to and I'll work on my collumn for Eye on Fashion while you get these crockpot bags ready." He sees her nod her head. "I'll see you in a little bit!"
She then watches him walk to his home office and she continues with what she's working on.
~Things happen~
Over at Steffy´s place, a similar event is taking place. Since having the baby, she realized that making dinner every night just isn't working any more and so she decided that Sundays would be spent cooking the next weeks dinners, although some would last for more then one week as eating the same thing multiple days in a row was boring and since her brother was single and living alone, he came over and did the same.
She had a sleepless night a few weeks ago and had seen videos on youtube for weekly cooking and some videos on monthly cooking and thought it might be just what she needs.
Being that both of the Forrester-siblings were cooking, they could divide off the meals they made between them.
"So, how was it waking up with Liam in your apartment?" Thomas looks up at his sister from opening cans of crushed tomatos for the lasagna sauce.
"Well, he left before I woke up, but I found a note on the kitchen table that he had fed and changed Kelleigh before leaving and she was having her breakfast slumber. It was nice getting to sleep in after yesterday." Steffy has focused her attention on her brother as she's talking. "So, what's going on with you and Michala?"
Thomas snapps his head up.
"I'm sorry what?"
"You seriously don't think I heard you come from her apartment when you came here?"
Thomas cheeks turns a beautiful red as he blushes.
"Yeah, well. Her ex has apparently found out that she's back in the states and has been bothering her and as she got a little bit drunk last night, she wanted me to take her home."
"Yeah, I figured. We'll make sure he's not an issue, we'll help her out! It's time he lets her go, it's been years. If he doesn't stop we'll just need to report it and help her get a restraining order against him."
There's a knock on the door and Steffy goes to answer it.
"Oh, hi Michala! Are you doing okay?"
"No!" Then she hands her phone over to Steffy and Steffy reads the text that Michala´s ex had sent her.
"Thomas come here!" Steffy calls out. Thomas comes over and reads the text. "We need to talk to a lawyer. We can't wait anymore!"
And so research happens and the next day the first thing Steffy does after taking care of her baby is call a lawyer and find out everything she'd need to get her best friends ex off her back. Turns out they already had everything they needed.
~Things happen~
One month later Michala still didn't feel completely safe, but so much more safe then before. Because of the heavy load of evidence, the guy had actually been put in jail for stalking, which she was really happy about, but she still didn't feel completely safe. Even his own mother had testified against him, which the judge felt was a strong indication that the guy should not still be on the streets and the threat towards Michala was very real.
It was Sunday today and Steffy had come back to work for a few more hours the Monday that same week and with Steffy back at work, Michala had someone she could ride to work with in the morning.
Today was a day off though and it was going to spent spending time with the Forrester-siblings, Wyatt and her god daughter.
She takes her keys, walks out the door, locks the door and walks across the landing. She knocks on the door and waits for someone to open the door.
On the other side of the door, Kelleigh is laying on a blanket on the floor ooh-ing with her mother as Steffy is cutting up some tomatos, sallad, cucumber, red onion and some apples for a sallad a little later on.
"Hey Kelleigh! Will you open the door please!" Steffy says with a chuckle.
Kelleigh responds by expressing a sound that almost sounds like No.
"Yeah, I know honey, you're too young for that and if you did do that, I would be totally amazed!" Steffy laughs. "You want to come with and open the door?"
Kelleigh makes the same sound she did previously and then follows it up with a yawn.
"Well, I'll just open it myself then."
Kelleigh makes a motion of almost nodding her head and then she follows her mothers movements with her eyes and ears.
Steffy opens the door and Michala slips into her arms craving the closeness. Steffy could tell that Michala hadn't had a particularly good morning before she came to see them and so just guided her over to the kitchen table.
Michala sits down and Steffy walks over to the other side of the table and sits down herself.
"How are you doing?"
"I don't really know. I'm not as scared since the sentencing fell, but I just can't make myself feel entirely safe unless Thomas is there. I felt safer living here even."
"I can understand that, so I'm going to ask you a question. I'm thinking about moving to a house, I have to eventually, but I was thinking I should do it now to make it easier for myself. But it would be much easier if Kelleigh and I weren't the only ones living there. So I'd like to know if you'd like to become our housemate?" Steffy reaches over the table to take Michala´s hands into her own as she's talking. "I want us both to feel safe and this apartment is just way to small and now that I have Kelleigh, I need a bigger space. But, a bigger space also adds other things that I'm not prepared to take on right now full on. But a housemate would help with that."
"Yeah, sure."
"I was thinking about asking Thomas as well and if there will be three of us, we could get a house where you could have suits on two floors and then a commonarea and kitchen in the middle. Or maybe half the house in the middle with two suits spanning two floors and then have a common area on the ground floor. Thomas and I can buy the house and maybe that way you'll feel safe."
Michala was about to answer when there was a knock on the door. Steffy turns her head and looks at her daughter. "How about this time then?"
Kelleigh denies the request this time as well.
"Okey, I'll do it this time as well, but next time you better go and open the door!" Steffy chuckle and Michala joins in.
Steffy goes and opens the door and welcomes her brother as well as her daughters uncle.
"Well, did you guys decide to come at the same time or is this a total coincidence?"
Thomas and Wyatt look at each other.
"Coincidence!" They both let out.
"Okey. We've got something to talk about Thomas." Steffy makes eye contact with her brother as she's speaking.
"Okey. Is Michala here already? Or should I go get her?" Steffy just smile at her brother.
"No, she came here just before you did. I've already asked her."
"Okey!" The smile on Thomas face grew bigger.
"She's in the kitchen."
And thus, all three in the group by the door walk over to the kitchen table. Thomas sits down next to Michala and Wyatt takes a seat next to Steffy as she sits down.
"So, what I wanted to talk to you about was that I feel like this place is getting to small for me and I was thinking about moving to a house. But it's such a big undertaking that I wanted to ask you and Michala if you wanted to move in with Kelleigh and I." Steffy sends a meaningfull glance her brothers way to make him understand that Michala feeling safe was a part of her reasoning as well.
"Yeah, sure. My lease is going to expire in March anyway so why not."
"The more we are the bigger house we can get."
"Uhm, excuse me." Wyatt interjects.
"Yeah?
"I was wondering if maybe I could join you? I mean, I could live in the basement or something. My lease expires in March as well and I don't want to stay were I am right now."
"Sure. Unless you have an issue living with two women, one baby and a dude who's really messy?"
"Not an issue! Atleast not for me! My brother might have something to say about me living within the same four walls of his daughter though."
"Oh! I don't think that'll be a problem. He'll understand once it's all explained."
Thomas and Wyatt had developed a friendship that was formed through Steffy´s need to spend time with all of them to not loose her mind over only spending time with Kelleigh or going to work. The cooking days just weren't enough.
And so the house hunting begins, but when they come across a vacant lot just outside of LA in the same area as Eric and Stephanie´s house the plans to possibly build a home entered all their minds.
"Hey, why don't we build a house that can house the four of you and then build an apartment on top of the garage, which could connect to the house as well that I could live in?" Wyatt throws out there as a suggestion.
"Yeah, that could work or maybe we could build a house that contains three apartments over two floors, one for Kelleigh and I, one for you and one for Thomas and Michala or we could add another floor and Kelleigh and I could have the whole top floor?"
"You mean three apartments along side each other and then an apartment along the whole length of the building on top of those three apartments?"
"Yeah, or a bottomfloor with shared common areas." Steffy takes out a sketchpad and starts drawing up a rough design for how she pictured the house to look. "Or an H-shaped house where we each have a wing as well as the common areas in the connecting part of the house?"
"That could work." Thomas reaches for the sketchpad and then he starts drawing a beautiful sketch of a house that look similar to the siblings grandparents house, but with added wings. "Like this kind of?"
"Uhm, have you missed your calling Thomas?" Wyatt laughs a little. "I mean, that sketch took you what? 20 minutes to make?"
"Yeah, I think you have a real talent for drawing, maybe dresses and suits isn't what you should be drawing?" Michala interjects as Steffy nods her head in agreement.
"You should look into becoming an architect!" To her mothers statement, Kelleigh coos as if she agrees completely. "See, even your niece agrees!"
Wyatt, Michala and Thomas laughs at Steffy's antics.
It does plant a seed in Thomas head though.
"Hey, you could design our house!" Steffy exclaims and pushes the sketchpad and pensil to her brother. "Now, I got to feed my baby, could you two start on lunch while I feed Kelleigh and Thomas sketches our house?"
Michala and Wyatt nods their heads.
~Things happen~
A lot of things had happened in the Spencer-house as well. The tests that Katie had gone through had proven their concerns to be true and Katie would not be able to carry another pregnancy to term. So, they had spent days thinking about the pros and cons of adoption and surrogacy. In the end, after a long discussion, they had decided on surrogacy.
They knew that they didn't want anyone close to the family to carry their baby if they decided on surrogacy, but they knew that they wanted to use their own eggs and sperm. So they had started the IVF-process and knew that if it didn't work, adoption was still on the table.
They had gotten in contact with a center that focuses on connecting possible surrogates with families. The center had found five different women who would be perfect and Katie and Bill just had to decide what they wanted to do.
November would be the first time they were doing an egg retrieval.
~Things happen~
The visits with the therapist were still a secret, but Hope was working up the courage to tell her husband. She felt like she was making progress and her therapist agreed to some extent, but felt that there was so much that still needed to be talked about.
Hope had been apprehensive in the beginning, but as time went by, she felt more at ease and felt she could talk to this woman freely and she realized that it was so much easier to talk to someone who had no affiliation with her family because there was no history there and she could then give another perspective to the situations that Hope describes as monumental in her life.
Such as realizing that even though Steffy tried to seduce Oliver away from her, Steffy isn't the reason their relationship ended, Steffy actually had nothing to do with that and she realized that Steffy had been treated unfairly by Ridge and her mother at the time.
Her realizations hadn't detered her from her feelings about Steffy though, although they had calmed slightly. She wasn't ready to spend time with either of Steffy or Kelleigh and it would be a long time until that would happen.
~Things happen~
When Taylor and Ridge had returned from their honeymoon two weeks ago, they went straight to the Forrester Mansion to check up on Eric and see how Stephanie was doing.
Stephanie was doing good, but her emotions were all over the place because she could tell that Eric´s health was deteriorating as the days went by.
During the last two weeks Stephanie had been thinking about hiring a nurse to help her take care of her husband and the first time she brought it up to Eric, he agreed instantly because he could see the effects that the stress was putting on his wife.
And this is why Stephanie, Eric, Taylor, Ridge, Thorne, Felicia and Kristen were currently done talking to some women that an agency had found for them and were now discussing who they'd feel would fit the best within the family and had the qualifications to do the job.
"Well, I don't think we'll get to much of a decision right now. However, is there anyone all of you don't think is the right one?" Taylor tries to defuse the argument currently happening between the four Forrester-siblings.
Every single one of them points to two of the seven women.
"Okey, so, they're gone. No reason to keep them in the running." Taylor reaches out and takes away the youngest and the oldest. The five remaining women ranges from a certified nurse in her thirties with a speciality towards the geriatric section that didn't quite fit in with the family to a woman that has gone to nursery school and didn't finish due to having a baby, but fit in quite nicely and that seemed to be the problem. "So, do we choose experience and knowledge over fit within the family? Because that's were we are right now. Stephanie, you decide since you're going to be the one working with the nurse."
Stephanie looks over to her husband, who just nods his head. "We'll talk to her again." She points to the younger woman with the certifications.
"Okey, I'll call the agency and ask to meet with her again." Taylor collects the other files and walks out the patio doors to call the agency back to have them call the nurse they wanted to talk to again back and to bring the papers in case they were needed.
As she walks back into the room, Eric is falling onto the floor as he comes back from the kitchen after getting a glass of water.
Ridge and Thorne rushes over to their father and pick him up to place on the couch and when they pick him up, they realize just how much weight Eric has lost over the last few months.
Knowing that it would be a good idea to take him to the hospital, Taylor calls 911 and then when that's done, she calls the agency back to postpone the meeting that afternoon.
Four hours later, they're sitting in the doctors office to discuss the course of treatment.
"The thing that worries me the most is the fact that his energy disappears so quickly. Just that short walk into the kitchen and back resulted in him laying on the floor because his energy left him so fast." Taylor is the one most 'there' to talk to the doctor.
"The best situation for Mr Forrester right now is for him to spend time with his family because it seems like there isn't that much time left. So if it's possible, he should move down stairs and a nurse should be with him at all times."
"We've been talking with an agency who will provide us with care for Eric. I guess we'll convert the downstairs office to a bedroom for him." She looks around at the other people present and sees that they still aren't completely out of their haze. "I'll take care of the arragements!"
"That's good! Let me know if there's something you need." The doctor sends off a smile. "Now, we want to keep Mr Forrester here for a few days to check on his vitals and see if we can get his energy up. But when those days are over, he would probably need to start thinking about what needs to be done to prepare the family for the future."
The doctors smile turns into a compassionate smile.
"We'll talk to him about that when he comes home. We need to find and hire the nurses and rebuild the office and we don't have that much time to do it and I need to talk to the rest of the family." She starts getting up and collecting all of her things. "Thank you for your time and advice and we'll see you when we get to take Eric home?"
"Yes, you will! I'll see you then."
She turns around and gets her husbands attention he then reaches out to his mother and siblings to point out that it's time to go.
~Things happen~
An hour and a half later they have visited Eric in his room and then they went home and Thorne and Ridge have been put on taking the furniture out of the office while Kristen and Felicia packs boxes full of books, awards and important papers and take them out to the guesthouse closest to the house for the alterations of the office.
Taylor and Stephanie are currently in a meeting with the agency discussing what they'll be doing.
"The doctors said that he'd need someone with him almost constantly, so we'll need atleast eight nurses on a rotating schedule. Four nurses per day doing seven hour shifts so that they'll be able to inform the nurse that's coming in after them. They'll be able to eat with the family and we'll provide the food, they shouldn't have to waste time to fix up food for themselves. They're here to care for my father in law and that's what they should focus on. They will not use their phone in any way. We'll need them here within the next few days." Taylor counts of some more things that's important.
"Yes, you set the groundrules for what is and isn't acceptable in your house outside of the rules we have for the staff we have working for us. This is our standard contract and you can add your rules to it."
Taylor looks over the contract and sees that most of the things she listed were already written in the contract.
"We'll write up the rules we want added to this and then we'll sign with the staff we feel are the best for the job. We've decided to pass on these two," Taylor hands over the files of the nurses they passed on. "the other five you sent as suggestions would work, but we need three more."
"When you called to let us know that you've rejected two of the ones we suggested and then called us again to postpone the meeting due to Mr Forrester collapsing we figured that the two you rejected wouldn't come back up on the table and that you'd need some more. So we checked our system and found these five."
"We'll need to discuss this with their children and then we'll be in touch." She collects the files and then gets up to bid the representatives from the agency good bye.
She shows them the door and then walks back to Stephanie. She reaches out and takes Stephanies hands in her own.
"Thank you for helping us with this, I know I'm not that much help right now." Stephanie says with tears in her voice.
"Hey! There's no need to thank me! I wouldn't have it any other way." Taylor looks her mother in law deep in the eyes. "Well, I would like for Eric not to have this decease at all, but since that's not happening, this is where I'm needed."
"Thank you anyway!"
"You're welcome!"
Stephanie pulls Taylor into her arms for a hug.
"We need to talk to your children now."
~Things happen~
November 27th 2013
New York
Bridget knew that her father wasn't doing as good as he probably should and the phone call she's about to receive wouldn't make things any easier.
The phone starts ringing just as she's about to walk out the door to drop Logan off at the hospitals daycare.
"Hello?" She doesn't recognize the number and is unsure whom she's talking to.
"Hi Bridget! I'm sorry to call this early, I know you need to get to work, but this is probably the only time I can call about this." She can tell that Taylor is nervous and extremly worried.
"Hi Taylor! Is dad okey?"
"He was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon and we found out that there's not much time left. We're trying to figure out how to best care for Eric and right now your brothers are remodeling the office downstairs for him to live in from now on and we're in the middle of choosing the nurses that are going to take care of him and we were wondering if maybe you'd want to come home and help us decide?"
"Yes, I would actually. How long will dad be in the hospital?"
"The doctor said that we should be able to bring him home this Friday, so he won't be there very long." Bridget can tell that Taylor is in planner mode.
"I'll talk to my chief about taking a leave of absence. I feel like maybe I should be there for the rest of the time dad has left. Have you talked to Rick yet? What about Thorne, Kristen or Felicia?"
"I talked to Rick briefly yesterday evening and he should be coming over in just a little bit with Caroline. Or is he with Maya now? I can't remember. Anyway, talk to your chief about that and call me when you have. Talk to Nick, Jackie and Owen as well so you know that they're prepared when you have to leave. Will you be bringing Logan with you or will you leave him with his father?"
"I think I'll leave him with Owen for now, but if it goes on for a longer period of time, maybe they should all come back. I don't want to tear him away from his routines if it doesn't last long." Bridgets voice breaks at the end of the last sentence.
"Yeah, let's see how long you need to stay here before making plans to move Logan away from his friends, isn't he going to start school soon?"
"He is. We're going to be doing our first visit of the school Jack goes to so that they can go to the same school. But like you said when you called, I was on my way to work and I need to talk to some people. I'll call you as soon as I know!"
"I'll be expecting your call!"
They both say good bye and Bridget rushes out the door with her son and drops him off like planned. She goes and gets changed for her day and then she goes and knocks on the door of her chief.
"Come in!" The chief of Bridget´s department looks up. "Hello Dr. Forrester, what can I help you with?"
"My father was admitted to the hospital yesterday and my sister in law just called and asked if I wanted to come help with the decisions. I said that I did and now I need to ask for some time off to go back to LA to help care for my father." Bridget looks straight into her chiefs eyes.
"Okey, when do you need to leave?"
"Yesterday?" Bridgets voice breaks a little.
"How long do you need to be gone for?"
"I have no idea." Bridget gives a shaky breath.
"How about I give you a leave of absence for one month and you'll either come back when your dad is better or we'll discuss our future plans when the month is over?" She sends of a small smile towards Bridget.
"My sister in law said there isn't that much time left so if I were to come back before the month is over it's because my father passed away."
"Oh, I'm sorry! How about I give you a month extra and we'll see after that?"
"Thank you!"
"Are you working today or will you leave right now?"
"There are a few people I need to talk to, but they're currently working so I think I'll work some hours and contact the patients I was going to see today and then brief the doctor that will be taking over my patients those two months. Do you have anyone in mind?"
"I was thinking that maybe Dr Johns could take over your patients, I know he doesn't have that many right now and he's got the experience to care for your patients." Dr. Morris looks at her computer to check what Dr Johns is doing. She then picks up the phone and calls out that Dr Johns is to report to Chief Morris´s office.
Fifteen minutes later, Dr Johns walks through the door.
"Hello! You wanted to see me?"
"Yes, we did. Dr Forrester here is going to be taking a leave of absence for two months and I thought you could take over her patients for those two months, if that's okey with you?"
"Absolutely! Most of my patients have gotten to a point where they have had the surgery they needed and are progressing well with their pregnancies. So I can't see any reasons why I couldn't take on Dr Forresters patients for the next two months. May I ask why she needs to take a leave of absence for two months?" He looks from one of the women to the other.
"My father was admitted to a hospital yesterday and with his cancer, he doesn't have that much time left so I'm going to go to LA to be there for him during his last days of life." Tears start to threaten to spill and Bridget starts blinking.
"I'm sorry. I hope he's well looked after until the end and not in much pain."
"Yeah, my sister in law is a therapist and she's working hard to make sure he get's treated well."
"That's good. Should we get started on the briefing? I mean, I need to know things where your patients are concerned."
"Yes, let's go to my office and look at the files. I need to send a quick text to my sister in law and then I need to call my patients that I'm seeing today, or maybe you'd like to meet them with me?"
"That would be preferable. When is your first consultation?"
"In about an hour, so if you want we can get you up to speed about the others? I'm going to be leaving at two pm to go home and get things ready for me and my son as well as talk to his father, his fathers wife and his stepbrother about me leaving for a little while."
"I hope it all works out. Let's get to work!"
The two doctors leaves Dr Morris office and the rest of the day just flowed.
The discussion with Owen, Jackie and Nick worked out like she hoped. It's about 10:22 pm when she calls her sister in law to tell her that she'll be on a plane out tomorrow morning.
~Things happen~
November 28th 2013
LA
When her mother hadn't been in touch for over two days, Steffy was starting to get a little worried, so, she calls her mother.
"Hello?"
"Hi mom!"
"Oh, hi Steffy, how are you doing?" Steffy can hear that her mother isn't in the mood to talk to her daughter right now.
"Well, my mother hasn't called me in the last two days so I was getting a little worried."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I meant to call you, but with everything that's happened there were things that needed to be done."
"Why? What's happened? Are you and dad okey?" Then a thought hits her. "Is granddad okey?"
"He was admitted to the hospital two days ago and we needed to make sure he'll be well looked after when he comes back home. Kristen, Thorne and Felicia stayed in LA for a while after the wedding celebration and so when we were trying to decide who we should hire as a nurse to care for Eric, he walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water and on his way back he collapsed. We're going to go bring him home tomorrow." Steffy gasps at the news.
"And I thought I had news. I'll come right over to grandmas house to see how she's doing."
"Yeah, I think that's a great idea, gives her something else to think about." Taylor sighs on the other end of the line.
"I just need to call Liam to cancel his time with Kelleigh, I think Grandma needs Kelleigh more then he does right now. He can have her for a longer period of time tomorrow instead."
"Send me a text when you leave the flat!"
"Will do! Bye mom, see you soon!"
"I love you!"
"Love you too!"
At the moment, Kelleigh is taking a small nap and Steffy can call Liam without having to worry much about her daughter.
The signals chime over and over until the call disconnects. Steffy knowing that Liam would normally answer his phone sooner then that calls once again, two rings in it disconnects again. Having had two failed attempts at calling his phone, she tries his office phone, but the same thing happens. She tries one more time and when the call disconnects when she tries his cell a third time, she gives up and calls his father.
"Hello! Bill Spencer here!"
"Well, hello Bill, do you think you could tell me where your son is? I've tried his cell and office phone multiple times and it disconnects over and over."
"Well, Liam is sitting right in front of me right now, but he doesn't have his phone with him. Do you need to talk to him?"
"No, can you just tell him that I need to cancel his time with Kelleigh today because granddad was admitted to the hospital two days ago and we need to see grandma and bringing Kelleigh along with me is going to give grandma something else to think about for a brief period of time other then granddads illness and current situation and we need to get going right now. Liam will have more time with her tomorrow as compensation!"
"Of course I will tell him that!"
"Thank you!"
They both say good bye and after Bill has hung up the phone he looks at his son.
"If you're supposed to have Kelleigh today, why don't you have your phone with you to meetings?"
"Well, this meeting wasn't supposed to be taking so long. Why?"
"Well, apparently Steffy has been trying to reach you over both your cell phone and your office phone, but they kept getting disconnected, to tell you that Kelleigh is needed at Steffy´s grandmothers house today and you'll get more time with your daughter tomorrow."
"Why is she needed at Stephanie and Erics house?"
"Eric was admitted to the hospital two days ago and Kelleigh is needed to distract Stephanie for a little while."
"Oh, of course. Anyway, are we done?"
"Yeah, I think so. I'll let you know if I remember something else we need to talk about."
"Good! I'll see you before I go home!" Liam gets out of the chair and starts walking to the door. He grabs the handle and hears his father say he will too. Liam nods his head and walks out the door to go his own office.
He opens the door and is startled when he sees who's sitting in his office chair.
"Of course, that's why the calls kept getting disconnected." Liam sighs.
~Things happen~
What is it with me and cliffhangers? Although you probably already know who's sitting in the chair behind Liam´s desk. Or do you?
Anyway Eric's collaps was not something I planned on happening right now, but he disagreed so here we are.