Title: A Chance at happiness 61/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to once and again except any characters you don't recognize
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions. This is my first once and again fan fic so any ideas or comments you have would be great. So please email me with them. J oh people I have been reading the reviews and the very least I can see if first OMG! I am so shocked I have gotten so many reviews. If you have any other questions then email me at purplehaysc@netscape.net Oh and after finding out about the cancellation of the show I've found it harder to write some reason because when I watch the show inspiration comes so if you have any suggestions email me purplehaysc@netscape.net or im me at purplehays10 (ok I'm going to use the kiss that happened on the last eps with Karen and Henry as if it did already happen but that's the only thing I'm actually keeping) (oh and I'm keeping Miriam and Aaron together)
"Look I'm sorry, Judy. I didn't mean to…" Sam said.
"I know you didn't but you did, you always do." Judy said.
"Always do what?" He asked confused.
"Always blow off the topic of having children, do you even want children?" She asked.
"I already have one child, remember Jamie?" He asked.
"You know Sam I'm ok with you not wanting a child right now but I'm not going to wait around forever for to suddenly want a child. You know I will raise a child on my own if I have to." She said.
"What exactly do you mean?" He asked.
"I mean Sam if you don't want to have a child with me then I will go to a sperm back."
"What!" He asked shocked.
The door opened.
Lily and Barbara walked in.
"We'll talk about this later." Judy said as she went over to her mother and sister.
"There's no doubt about that." Sam said still shocked.
"Grace?" Lily asked as she walked into the room.
Jake and Grace looked up. "Oh hey mom." She said happily.
"Jake, is it ok if I talk to Grace for a second?" She asked.
"Sure, I'll be down stairs." He said as he started to leave.
Lily sat down on her bed. "So how you feeling?"
"Better I just… I didn't want you all to know." She said.
"Know that you were still hurting?" Lily asked.
"Yeah, I guess but at the same time I didn't want you to think that I was completely recovered either." She said. "I know that makes no since but…"
"Actually it does, in a strange way it does. So do you want to talk about because I'm here…." Lily started to say.
"Actually I think I've said way too much today about everything." Grace said as she sighed. "I never thought I'd say all that all at once." She said shocked.
"It took a lot out of you didn't it?" She asked.
"Yeah, when ever I talk about anything related to the rape it does." She said sadly.
There was a knock at the door.
"Yes?" Grace asked.
"We wanted to see if we could join you." Judy said as Zoe, Jessie, Barbara and Karen stood behind her.
Lily looked at Grace. Grace nodded. "Ok, come in."
Everyone walked in. "So are you two talking about my brother?" Jessie asked as she sat next to Grace.
"Oddly enough no." Grace said.
"Why not? Now that's it's out in the open, I want to talk about it." Zoe said.
"Now that what's out in the open?" Judy asked confused.
"That's what I'd like to know." Barbara said.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't tell you. Well Aunt Judy, B Eli and are dating." Grace said with a smile.
"Eli as in your stepbrother Eli?" Judy asked shocked.
"Ok which one is he?" Barbara asked.
"He's…." Grace grabbed a picture she had of the wedding and handed in to Barbara. "He's the young guy in the picture."
"And he's who's son?" Barbara asked trying to remember.
"He's my son… and Rick's." Karen said speaking up and then she realized that Barbara might know who she is. "Oh and I'm Karen, Rick's x-wife and this one's mother." She said tickling Jessie.
"Oh." Barbara said.
"You know something Lil, you need to call me every once a while and tell me what's going on here." Judy said tired.
"I'll try." She said smiling.
"Ok so is the living arrangement staying?" Karen asked.
"What's that?" Lily asked.
"Well before Eli would stay at my house at night and come over here in the morning, allowing Grace to sleep in his room. Is that going to change?" she asked.
Grace looked at her mother. "No." Lily said.
Zoe looked at her mom and Grace and said. "You know this just isn't far."
"What's that sweetie?" Lily asked.
"You both have a Sammler guy but there's no one for me." She said.
Everyone laughed.
"Sorry about that Zoe." Karen said smiling.
"You should be." Zoe said laughing.
"So how did your talk go with Grace?" Eli asked as Jake came down.
"Really well." Jake said as he sat down to Eli on the couch.
"So is there anything else you're going to scare us with today?" Rick who was sitting next to Sam asked Eli.
"Well there might be something…." Eli started to say.
"Oh great, what now?" Jake asked worried.
"It's just…" Eli again started to say.
"Eli, just tell us!" Rick said getting impatient.
"It's just there's nothing more to say." Eli said laughing.
"That's not funny." Rick said annoyed.
"You know dad, you should have seen your face. It's was priceless." Eli said laughing.
Rick turned to Sam who was laughing. "It wasn't funny." Rick said.
"Right, Rick, sure." Sam said trying not to laugh.
Jake looked at Jamie. "You think this is funny?" He asked.
Jamie just smiled.
"See even the kid agrees." Eli said.
"Well if I was you I wouldn't do that again, and I mean never again!" Rick said to Eli.
"So I think we should take only two cars, that is unless Eli or Grace wants to drive the Zoe, Jamie and Jessie." Judy said.
"That's fine with me." Eli said as he grabbed his dad's keys.
"Where is Jamie?" Lily asked.
"Jamie?" Sam screamed.
"I'm watching TV come see. Grace is on the news." Jamie screamed.
"What?" Grace asked in shock.
They all headed into the living room.
"Turn it up." Rick said.
"We're reporting live from the local high school where Mr. Augustine Dimitri, who use to be the English and Drama teacher here is being hauled off by the cops. It's seems the he was caught back in the school trying to rape another girl."
"Oh no…" Grace said.
"We just got word that this is the second time Augustine Dimitri has been accused of raping a student here. Though we cannot get the name of the latest victim it seems that the identity of the first victim is know. It was 17 year old Grace Manning who was apparently a student of Dimitri's."
Grace started crying.
"Turn that off!" Jake screamed and Jamie did.
"Grace, are you ok?" Eli asked holding her.
"Rick, is there any chance that you've told you mother about this?" Barbara asked.
"Why?" He asked.
"Because if this news gets to her…" Barbara started to say.
"I'll call her." Rick said.
"How could they do that?" Grace asked in horror.
"I don't know." Eli said shocked. "Mom…."
"I'll see if they broke in any laws, maybe there's something." Karen said.
"Now everyone knows." Grace said sadly.