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Beloved Father And Husband Part 1



Theresa had had that nightmare again. That nightmare that Ethan would find out that she knew that he wasn't a Crane and had scanned the evidence on her laptop. The nightmare that Ethan dumped her when he found out.

"I can't take it!" she yelled when she woke up and realized it was a dream. "Mama's right. I have to tell Ethan the truth. Maybe then he won't be as angry with me." She called him and he came over.

"Hi, honey," he said when he got there. They kissed, a kiss Theresa was afraid would be the last one.

"Ethan, I have to tell you something. Mama's been saying that I should tell you and I've been saying no, but now I think I think I should."

"Okay, what is it?"

"Ethan, before I tell you, I want you to understand that I did it for you own good and I never meant to hurt you. Ethan, I knew you weren't a Crane."

Ethan didn't say anything, too shocked and feeling betrayed. He sat down and looked away. "How long have you known?"

Theresa sat down next to him. "Since the night of your's and Gwen's engagement party. I was taking up Mrs. Hotchkiss's offer of a airplane ticket to anywhere in the world and I started packing a suitcase and found your mother's documents when I opened it up." Neither of them said anything for a few seconds. "I wanted to tell you but Mama kept telling me not to. I listened to her because I was afraid you would hate me for revealing the truth."

He looked back at her. "What did you do with the documents?"

This time it was Theresa who looked away. "You'd hate me if I tell you."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

She looked back at him. "That night, Mrs. Hotchkiss told me that you had been using me and I wanted revenge." she said in a voice full of emotion. "I wanted revenge, so I scanned them on to my computer. And I planned on using them." She was crying now, afraid of Ethan's anger.

Ethan jumped up. "You did what?! You were going to use them to get revenge on me?"

"Yes!" She couldn't look up at him.

"You know, I could have dealt with the fact that you lied to me. But not that you wanted revenge on me so much that you scanned my mother's documents onto your computer."

"I didn't e-mail them to the tabloid."

"But someone had to have gotten them from your computer. You left it alone for enough time that someone could have gotten it. How could you have been so careless?"

"The only times when I didn't have my laptop with me was when it was at home and in your mother's room." She cried still.

"I don't believe you. Why should I believe you ever again?" he yelled, indifferent to Theresa's tears.

"I'm sorry."

"That's not good enough. I don't ever want to see you again." With that, he ran out, leaving Theresa sobbing.



Little did they know that Rebecca and Gwen were outside listening. They hid as soon as Ethan came out.

"We did it, Gwen!"

"Your plan worked, mother. It was so smart of you to hack into Theresa's laptop and e-mail that letter to the tabloid. Now Theresa's out of the picture, and I can have Ethan."

"And I'll make sure that Ethan is made part of the Crane family yet again. That way you will have Ethan, and the Crane fortune."

"Oh everything's going to be perfect."

Ethan came up from behind them. "What?!"

They both gasped. "Why, Ethan, I didn't know you were there." Rebecca said, startled."

"I heard everything. Everything."

Gwen moved closer to him. "Ethan, let me explain."

"You've done enough explaining. Just get away from me." He pushed her away. "I thought you both were good people. At least Theresa lied to me because she cared about me and wanted to protect me."

"Ethan I care about you."

"Yea, you care about me enough to go behind my back to hurt the woman that I love. And that plan wasn't going to work anyway. Alistair is never going to let me back into the family no matter what you do. That plan had too many holes in it, and too many people got hurt. You both can go to hell for all I care." He turned back around and went back into Theresa's house.



When he got back inside Theresa wasn't there. But he could her crying all the way from her room. He went over there and stood in the open doorway.

Theresa was sitting on her bed crying her eyes out. She wasn't facing him. Ethan hated seeing her in such pain, in pain he had caused. "Ethan, I don't know how I can live without you," she said through her tears.

Ethan entered her room. "I don't know how I can live without you either, Theresa."

Theresa turned around. "Ethan," she said started, standing up. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to beg your forgiveness." He then recanted the whole story, how he overheard Gwen and Rebecca discuss their plan about e-mailing the tabloid the letter. "At least you lied to protect me. Can you ever forgive me?"

"You already know my answer." She flew into his arms and started crying again this time out of happiness. "I love you."

"I love you too. I always will." He hugged her back and they kissed.

"Oh my gosh," she said. She stopped hugging him and looked him in the eye. "It's my fault. It's all my fault. If I hadn't scanned your mother's papers onto my computer, none of this would have ever happened."

"Don't blame yourself. If I was in your position and wanted revenge I may have done it too."

"But so many people got hurt. I mean, Mrs. Bennett lost her baby because I had scanned the papers onto my computer."

"Shhh." He wrapped his arms around her. "We all make mistakes."

They stayed and just cuddled.



Gwen went back to her house and grabbed a gun. "She's not going to get Ethan. I'll see to that."



Sam went over to Pilar's house thinking about the past few days. Charity had been found and he had now started to believe that she had been trapped in hell. He and Grace had told the children everything about his secret and Ethan being his son and they had been mad at him for a while but then got over it. But Grace still hadn't forgiven him, and he didn't know if she ever would.

He had also began to really think about Ethan during the past few days. Ethan was his son. He wanted a relationship with him. He hated Ivy but he knew she was right in saying that he needed to make the first move. So he called Pilar at the Crane Mansion and she told him that Ethan was at her house with Theresa. He was on his way now to talk to him.

When he got there Theresa and Ethan were outside and very engrossed in each other that they didn't notice him. He also saw Gwen there standing a fair distance away from them. They didn't see her either. He also saw that Gwen had a gun in her hand and was raising it and aiming it.

"Die Theresa," she said, ready to fire. Only then did Ethan and Theresa see Gwen.

In a split-second Sam saw that if Gwen was indeed aiming for Theresa, she wasn't very good at aiming. She was aiming at Ethan.

"Ethan!" he yelled as he ran toward him and pushed him out of the way as Gwen pulled the trigger. The bullet that would have otherwise hit Ethan hit Sam in the chest and he yelled out in pain as he went down.