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My Only Love Part 2

The four of them told how Charity and Sheridan came back to life. Theresa was amazed by the story, but she believed them anyway. She got up and hugged Charity and Sheridan when they finished. Pilar was too stunned to move. As soon as they had mentioned "angel," she remembered something.

"Mama, what is it?" asked Luis, concerned.

"A few days ago Grace told me that she saw an angel who was telling her something very bad might happen to her. Was that the same angel?"

"Yes," Charity answered. She knew everything, and so did Sheridan.

"Then she wasn't imagining things. She really did see an angel. I am all shocked," replied Pilar.

Miguel and Luis looked at each other with confused looks, but they decided not to ask anything. They figured it would all be explained eventually.

"There's something we have to do," Charity said suddenly, looking at Sheridan.

"What?" Miguel asked.

"We have to go back up to the mine."

"You're kidding!" Luis exclaimed. "After what happened..."

Sheridan cut him off. "Trust us. If we want to purge this world of evil we have to go back there." Everyone except for Charity was confused. "I'll explain on the way," she continued. "Call Ethan, Gwen, The Bennetts', The Russells', Chad, Reese and Tabitha and tell them to meet us up there. Don't tell them anything about me and Charity. Like I said, I'll explain on the way."

Everyone showed up at the mine. Charity and Sheridan hid behind some trees because they didn't want anybody to see them yet. Once everyone arrived, Luis finally spoke.

"To tell you the truth, I don't know why we came up here."

Ethan had a look of annoyance on his face. "Then why the hell did you bring us up here?"

"They can answer all your questions," Luis said, extending his arm out to the trees. Out of them came Charity, (wearing one of Theresa's outfits), and Sheridan, (wearing one of Pilar's outfits.)

Everyone had a look of shock on their faces. A few of them even gasped. Ethan was the first one to talk. "What...Sheridan?" He said, walking toward her.

"Charity?" Jessica said, unable to move.

"Yea, we're alive," Charity answered both of them. Ethan opened his mouth to speak.

"No, Ethan. It was not a plan," Sheridan answered the question she knew he was going to ask. "We were really dead and we came back to life."

Everybody was confused and shocked. But finally they moved from their still, lifeless positions, to embracing Charity and Sheridan. "How?" Sam asked.

Charity walked over the her Aunt Grace. "Do you remember when you saw the angel?" she asked loudly.

"Yes. Why..." and the look on her face told Charity that she understood. Sheridan and Eve understood too.

"What is it?" Sam asked. Then Charity and Sheridan told their story. Everyone didn't know what to think. The story itself didn't seem believable, but how else could they have come back to life if it wasn't a plan?

Ethan didn't believe it. "This was all a plan. All a plan of the stupid, no good, God-Damned police department." Sam started walking toward him angrily, so did Luis. "Wasn't once enough for you people?"

"I'm telling you it wasn't a plan," Sheridan said. "I have proof." Everyone didn't move. Even the ones who did believe them were surprised that there was proof.

"Everything that happened in the mine shaft was true," Charity continued. "There was a big box that would purge that when opened, would destroy evil. If we open the box, evil will be destroyed."

Tabitha froze with fear. If the box was opened she and Timmy would be killed. "But even if this box does exist," she began, still nervous. "How can we get to it? I mean, it's at the bottom of a collapsed mine shaft."

Charity walked over to her, crossing her arms. "Simple, Tabitha," she said, giving her a look that said "I know all that you've done." She walked away.

"Timmy's scared, princess," Timmy said.

"Don't worry. The box is at the bottom of a mine shaft. They can never get to it." Although she wasn't so sure.

Just then, Charity started speaking. She spoke about all that Tabitha did. The fire that killed her mother; the pendant she gave her that would make her evil and sink the prom boat and try to kill Miguel; her killing the taxman; everything. Tabitha, of course, would try to interrupt, but Charity would only talk louder. Everyone else was too shocked and in disbelief to say anything.

"Charity, dear, I'm afraid that you dying and coming back to life has brought on crazy delusions," Tabitha gave a nervous laugh.

"It's not crazy delusions, Tabitha," Charity said. "It's real. It's what happened."

Sheridan continued. "It's now time for evil to be destroyed." She was standing next to the box from the mine.

"But how?" Tabitha almost yelled, a big look of fear on her face.

"Our angel helped us out," Sheridan answered. She opened the box.

"NO!!!!!" Tabitha and Timmy screamed. A big bright light appeared. It filled the entire mine. It went past the mine. Tabitha went screaming to her death. Timmy disappeared. In another part of the mine, Hecuba went screaming to her death. Beyond that, the friends in Tabitha's basement were destroyed. All evil was destroyed.

Everybody couldn't move for a few seconds. To think that someone they knew and trusted was really a witch and was working against them and trying to kill them. Grace was especially stunned. "Faith," she finally said. Sam wrapped his arms around her.

It was then that Charity told them that what Kay said was true. There was a witch called Hecuba and Kay had sold her soul to her. She added that there was no Tiffany at all that had gotten pregnant, Kay had sold her soul to Hecuba to get her out of the messy situation she was in. Chad wasn't surprised. He was angry, but he already knew that there was no Tiffany. Sam just shook his head.

Charity then turned her head to Chad and Whitney. "You two are meant for each other," she said. "Please, don't hide your feelings from each other anymore." Chad and Whitney just looked at each other. They didn't know what to say. Simone looked down. She thought she might cry. It hurt her to hear what Charity was saying. She was in love with Chad too.

"I'm sorry, Simone," Sheridan said to her softly. Simone looked up at her and smiled her thanks. But even Sheridan knew that it would take time for her to heal. She then walked over to Eve. "Whitney was hiding her feelings from Chad because you didn't like him all because he didn't come from a good family. You kept your daughter from being happy." She turned and walked away.

"What did Sheridan say, honey?" TC asked walking to her.

"She said that it was wrong of us to not like Chad because he didn't come from a well family. And that since we didn't like him, Whitney was hiding the fact that she loves him because she didn't want to disappoint us."

"Well, I actually liked Chad," he said watching Whitney and Chad embrace each other. "But she's right about the fact that I didn't want him to date Whitney. I'm sorry I ever felt that way. I better go apologize to both of them." He left. Eve sighed. She left to apologize to Chad and Whitney too.

After a short while Sheridan brought up a new subject. "There's one more thing we have to discuss here. Well, actually two things. One, Chief Bennett and Ethan." Ethan and Sam looked at her, and then at each other. "You two are not meant to be enemies."Ethan and Sam shot a look of distaste at each other anyway. "Ethan," she said walking over to him, "It's not Chief Bennett's fault about anything that happened to me; or that the prom boat sank." Ethan looked away. "And Chief Bennett," she said walking toward him now, "Ethan is a great guy. Really. Believe me, I've seen and know everything, if he wasn't a great guy I'd tell you now. Ethan looked up in shock. "You two are not meant to be enemies. Believe me. Please. I know."

Ethan and Sam didn't know what to do. They still didn't like each other, but after what Sheridan just said was making them change their minds. Ethan now believed that she and Charity really did die and come back to life, he got the proof after Tabitha was destroyed; since that happened, Sheridan would know that real Sam Bennett, maybe he wasn't such a bad guy after all.

Likewise, Sam was thinking the same thing about Ethan. And although the message wasn't directed to Luis, he was thinking that too, he was beginning to see the man Theresa fell in love with. It wasn't long before Sam and Ethan shook hands; and a second later, Luis and Ethan shook hands.

Theresa thought she might faint at that moment. Now that Luis liked Ethan, he wouldn't object to her marrying Ethan if Ethan picked her over Gwen. Gwen was, of course, fearing that that exact thing might happen. She was in shock when Luis and Ethan shook hands. "So Sheridan," she said as calmly as she could. "Do you know who Ethan is going to marry?"

"I was going to get to that. And the answer is yes." Everyone stared at her.

"So who is it?" Theresa asked.

"Well, Ethan. You take it from here." Sheridan stepped away.

Ethan was surprised at how sudden he had to make his statement. He made his decision, but he wasn't quite sure how to say it. He hated hurting anybody. It took him awhile to actually say it. He walked over to Gwen. Theresa began to feel crushed. Gwen started to light up. Ethan took hold of her hands. He looked upset. "I'm sorry, Gwen..."

Gwen screamed and pushed Ethan away. Theresa was shocked. Ethan had chosen her. She was so happy. But then Gwen lunged at her. Luis stepped in front of her to protect Theresa. Gwen turned to Sheridan. "It's not true. Tell me it's not true!!"

"I'm sorry. It is."

"But you're will, everything you said in there."

"That was before Ethan and Theresa."

Gwen turned toward Theresa. "You Bitch! You slut! Mother was right about you from the start, you gold-digging, conniving..." Gwen went on and on screaming at Theresa. Ethan tried to make her stop but she would just push him away. If Luis and everyone else hadn't been there to protect Theresa, she would have killed her. Finally, Gwen ran off, still screaming nasty things at Theresa.

It was awhile before anybody could say anything. "Are you alright, Theresa?" Ethan asked her, putting his hands on her shoulders."

"Yea." She hugged him.

TC gave a humorless laugh. "Wow. When Gwen gets angry, she makes my outbursts look like pathetic growls." Eve hit him in his side that meant "Shut up." Ethan shot him a look. "Sorry," TC replied.

"I never meant to hurt Gwen. I never meant to hurt anybody," Ethan said.

"We know," Sam said. He now liked and understood Ethan. Just minutes ago, if Ethan had done that, Sam would have completely hated him.

Ethan walked over to Luis. "So, are you okay with this?"

Luis just shrugged. Then he looked up and smiled. "Yea, sure. Why not?" They both laughed and hugged. Theresa sighed with happiness, that day was her day.

"When are you going to tell your family?" Miguel asked.

"Now. Though Gwen's probably beat me too it. Something I'm looking forward to." He sighed. Everyone knew that what was going to happen next was going to be ugly, Sheridan and Charity too, but they knew in a different way. "Can you all come down there with me? I know I'm going to need some support there, big time." Theresa wrapped her arm around his shoulders. He hugged her back.

"Come on, lets go," Sheridan said. She looked at Charity. "We've got an empire to bring down." Everyone looked at her.