Title: A Chance at happiness 62/?
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)
"So what do you want to do?" Eli asked Grace.
"I want to go see my uncle." She said seriously.
"You know Grace you don't have to do this." Lily said.
"I know I don't. But I want to. So how about everyone let's go. I still want to have time to drop by Faith's." Grace said to everyone.
Karen looked at her watch. "You know what, I just realized I don't have time to go."
"You sure? Karen, I mean if you want to go then you can." Lily said.
"I know, I just told Henry I'd meet him in five minutes so I'm sorry." She said looking at Grace.
"It's ok." Grace said.
"Bye, Karen and thanks." Zoe said smiling.
Lily looked at her questionably.
"Karen?" Rick asked.
She turned around.
"Can I talk to for a minute?" Rick asked.
"Sure." He followed her outside.
"You're going to the station right?" He asked.
"As soon as I leave, I know I'm not really able to do anything right now but I want them to know that you all mean business and the sooner I do it the better." She said as she headed to her car.
"You know Karen you don't have to do this." Rick said.
"I know but I want to. Tell Grace I hope she feels better, Eli I'll see him tonight and oh yeah I think I fixed Zoe attitude towards the babies." She said getting in the car.
"Oh she told you?" He said sadly.
"Yes she did and Rick… I'm happy for you." She said starting the car.
Rick headed back in.
Judy knocked on the apartment door.
"Aaron?" Lily asked as she opened the door.
"Miriam?" Rick asked as he followed her in.
"Where are they?" Barbara asked concerned.
"I don't know." Lily said.
"Well they've been here recently." Jake said.
"How do you know?" Rick asked.
"The stove is still a little hot." He said.
"Hey, guess what we found." Zoe said coming in smiling.
"What?" Lily asked.
"Aaron." Zoe said.
"And Miriam." Jessie said coming in.
"Where are they?" Judy asked.
"Right here." Grace said coming in holding on to Aaron.
Eli was behind her holding on to Miriam.
"They were walking home from the store when we passed them, we gave them a ride." Jamie said as he came in behind them.
"Lily, Judy." Aaron said as he saw his sisters.
"Hey Aaron." Lily said smiling.
"Hey Miriam." Rick said smiling.
"Hey Rick, Jake and…" She started to say looking at Sam.
"Sam." Sam said speaking up.
Aaron turned to Grace. "I heard you." He said smiling.
"You heard me?" Grace asked confused.
"We heard at the market. Grace this, Grace that. That's all we heard." Miriam said.
"I wasn't at the market." Grace said.
"Yes you were, he talked about you." Aaron said.
"Everyone did. And Aaron kept saying, that's my niece, my niece Grace." Miriam said.
"Oh, I see." Grace said sadly.
"Grace why are you so sad?" Aaron asked.
"I'm not sad Uncle Aaron." She said trying to smile.
"So Aaron I bet you want to introduce Miriam to Mom." Lily said speaking up.
"Grace, what happened? They were saying all these horrible things." Aaron said still looking at Grace.
"You know what Aaron, Grace really is just tired." Judy said.
Aaron got closer to Grace. "Was it truth?" He asked.
Grace stepped back and ran into Eli. "Aaron, please…" She asked.
Miriam got next to Aaron and touched his arms. "Aaron, she's sacred. How about let's do something else?" She suggested.
Aaron realizing what he did and started backing away quickly. "It's the truth. It's the truth. It's the truth…" He started to repeat repeatedly and sunk to the floor.
Miriam went over to him. "Aaron, take out your list." She begged.
Barbara watched shocked. "What is she doing?" She asked Judy.
"She's taken care of him." She said back in return.
"Are you ok?" Eli asked Grace.
"Look how hurt he is. I did that to him." She said sadly.
"No you didn't. He's just… He's going to be fine, Grace." Eli said.
Miriam got up. "He's sorry, Grace. He didn't know."
"It's ok, I understand. Should we go?" She asked.
"He'll be ok but yeah." She said.
Grace walked over to Aaron. "Uncle Aaron, I'm ok. Everything's ok, I promise." She said.
"He hurt you, they said he hurt you…" Aaron started to say.
"I'm fine now, see." She said smiling. "Oh Uncle Aaron guess what?" She said smiling.
"What?" He asked.
"You're going to be an uncle again. Mom's pregnant and those kids are going to love you just as much as I do." Grace said smiling.
Aaron smiled. "Aaron love Grace." He said as he started to walk away.
"Grace love Aaron." She said as she started to leave.
Karen parked her car and headed into the studio. As she walked in she saw a place full of pandemonium. "Excuse but I'm looking for Larry Cane." She said to the person at the desk.
"You just missed him." The person said.
"Can I leave him a message?" She asked.
"He doesn't work any more." The woman said.
"What happened?" Karen asked.
"Might as well tell you, everyone knows by now. He made some legal mistake and they fired him. They said he was too much of a liability." She said.
"You mean with the rape case?" Karen asked.
"Is that why you're here?" She asked.
"I came here because I'm a lawyer with the Manning Family." She said.
"I knew this was coming." She dialed a number. "There's a lawyer here for the Manning Family." She told the phone. "Ok go down that all, make a right and it'll be the fifth door on the right."
"Thanks." She said a she headed to the office. She knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Karen walked in.
"Mrs…"
"Sammler."
"Mrs. Sammler, I'm the owner of this company and I'm asked you to come in because I think my company owes your clients a big apology." He said.
"That's not all you owe them." She said.
"I know, they're probably pretty upset. I have a daughter to and if this had happened to her then I'd have gone mad too." He said.
"How exactly did your station come to get that information?" She asked.
"We didn't. Mr. Cane happened to find this information on his own; we did not give it to him. If we'd know he was going to say that we'd have stopped him." He said.
"But you didn't and you didn't go on the record and change what he said, actually by not doing anything at all sir, you support his actions."
"Ma, we'll do what ever the Manning Family wants because we seriously don't want to have this brought to court. You've got understand."
"I do but sir he broke a law. Ms. Manning is a minor and the information you gave with out her parent's or her consent was illegal and truthfully caused Ms. Manning much pain, that she should not of had to suffer. You've got to understand that this is not going to be easy to settle."
"I never thought it would. We fired the man and if the Manning's want us to we will do another broadcast and apologize for the leak but please believe me never meant for this to happen."
Karen got up. "I will talk to her parents and an another attorney will get back to you."
"Mrs. Sammler, just please tell the Manning's that we are truly sorry and we will do what ever we can to try to make this right." He said as she left.
"How would you feel if we were to go some where's tonight?" Eli asked to Grace when they got home.
"Where exactly?" She asked.
"Well after we got to Faith's I'd like to take you out to eat." He said smiling.
"So we can talk? Right?" She asked.
"Well that and I'd like to give you some time away from all this to calm down. It will be my treat. Where ever you want to go." He said smiling.
"That's sounds nice and you're right we do need to talk. Ok, I'll go change, give me a second." She said as she started to head upstairs.
"Grace?" He said and she turned around. "You look beautiful already."
"So let me get this straight, they fired the man and they'll make a public apology?" Lily asked Rick.
"That's what Karen said and also something about they'd do what ever the Manning Family needs as long as we don't take them to court." Rick said.
"We could get rich." She said smiling.
"That's just not right though." He said. "It's a good idea but it's not right." He said smiling.
There was knock at the door. "Come in." Lily said.
Eli walked in. "I'm going to take Grace to Faith's and then out eat if that's ok with you two."
"That's fine just bring her home before we're asleep." Lily said.
"Do you need money?" Rick asked.
"No, I've got a job remember? But thanks for the offer and you two are ok with this right?" he asked.
"We're getting use to it." Lily said.