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There You'll Be Part 4



"Oh, my gosh," Ethan said, going over to the baby and picking it up.

"Okay, where did that come from?" Sam asked, stunned.

"There's actually a note on it," Ethan said, sitting down. He began to read it. "Ethan, you're not going to believe this. I had gotten pregnant when we made love, even with the birth control. This is our baby. You're allowed to have her back. You name her. Never forget, I'll always be watching over you, and our baby." Ethan looked over at Sam in shock. "Love always, Theresa."

"Oh my gosh," Sam said. "Wow." They both just stared at the sleeping baby in Ethan's arms.

After a little while, the baby woke up and cooed. Then she wrapped her tiny hand around Ethan's finger and squeezed it. Sam looked from the baby over to Ethan, who had tears in his eyes. "Yes, baby," Ethan said. "Daddy's here."

"You know, when Noah first did that to me after he was born, it was the first time I felt like a father too."

"It's weird, Dad. I've only known her for less than five minutes and already I love her so much."

"That's parenthood."

"Oh, man. How am I going to do this single parenting thing?" Ethan worried, rocking the baby.

"It'll be okay. You've got Jessica and me to help you."

"Three people and a baby." They both laughed. "So, do you feel like a grandfather yet?"

Sam sighed. "Yeah, I think I do."

Just then Jessica, Reese, Miguel, and Charity came in. "Oh my gosh, it's true," Jessica said in shock. All of them walked over to the baby. "Kay said Mom and Theresa came to visit you guys and they brought back Theresa and Ethan's baby. Oh my gosh, this is unbelievable."

"Welcome back, Ethan," Miguel said. "I see you got a wonderful surprise. So did the rest of us."

"Yeah. Thanks."

"You're not going to believe what Kay told us," Charity said sitting down.

"Well, Grace told Ethan and me that we all had a past life together, something like that."

"We've had a bunch of past lives," Reese said. "We can talk about those later. The one that Mrs. Bennett was talking about, was around the time of the Civil War."

Jessica continued. "Simon Bennett, that's you Dad, had married Ida Winthrop, Ivy. Ida died giving birth to Emmett, Ethan. Four years later, Simon married Gail Standish, Mom. They had four children. Nathan (Noah), Katherine (Kay), Christine (Charity), and Jane (me)."

"My mother didn't have a past life in that time period," Charity explained. "In that past life I was Kay's twin sister."

"Wow," Ethan said.

"That's basically how we all reacted," Miguel replied.

"I wish I had been raised by Grace," Ethan admitted. "I didn't know her too well, but I know she was a better mother than mine had been."

"Don't worry, if we get reincarnated again, Ivy won't be your mother, mine will be," Jessica blurted out.

"What? How come?"

Jessica groaned. Why didn't she think before she said anything? "Because, souls that aren't in Heaven don't get reincarnated."

Ethan didn't say anything. He still hated his mother, but it was hard for him to imagine her burning in the fires of hell where he had been so close to being trapped there as well.

"It's not because she killed Theresa because she was sorry for that," Jessica continued. "It's because she didn't feel regret or remorse for trying to break up two soulmates."

"Yeah, Sam, even if you had married Ivy, it wouldn't have worked out because she isn't the one you're meant to be with," Charity put in.

"Trying to break up soulmates is a terrible sin," Miguel said. The reason why Kay hadn't gone to hell is because she was sorry for trying to break up Miguel and Charity and for all the other bad things she had done. But Sam and Ethan didn't need to know that right now.

The teens also talked about the Standish women, how they had tremendous powers of goodness, and everything related to them.

Sam and Ethan were just stunned when they finished. "Unbelievable," Ethan said.

"Yeah, this is...I don't know, awesome," said Sam.

"That's exactly how we reacted, completely."

"Ethan, can I hold my niece?" Jessica asked.

"Sure." He handed her the baby. "Careful, careful, her head." The baby continued to coo.

"I've got her," she replied. "Hi, I'm your Aunt Jessica. If you have any questions, talk to me."

"Can I hold her too?" Miguel asked. Everyone eventually got to hold the baby.

"So what are you going to name her?" Charity asked.

"I've only had her for barely ten minutes, I haven't had the usual nine months that most people have to decide. I really don't know yet."

"Well, we can decide later. Let's go show her to Mama, Luis, and Sheridan," Miguel said. "They're going to be so happy."

"Not as happy as me," Ethan said, rocking his baby girl.