The Struggle

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Chloe: Brady…Brady, I need to talk to you.

Brady: I have something to say to you.

C: Please Brady, what I have to say is important…

B: Since when has anything you said not been important? Whatever it is, it can wait. Where is your shadow?

As Chloe searched Brady's face, Phillip approached Chloe, with urgency.

B: Okay, the assemblage is here. I have something to say to the both of you.

Phillip rolled his eyes and grabbed Chloe's arm.

Phillip: We have to finish our talk.

C: I have said all I needed to say.

Chloe freed Phillip's grip with an angry jerk.

B: People, please. Have some decorum. What I have to say won't take very long and it will make both of your lives easier, and maybe, happier.

P: There is nothing you can say that will make my life easier, unless it involves you going back to college in New England.

B: No, the news don't involve me leaving Salem, but you're getting warmer.

Chloe looked into Brady's eyes. She was struck with a pang of fear.

C:(to herself) Brady's eyes are intense, but there is a coldness that wasn't there before, even when he was angry with Marlena.

C: Brady… What is the matter with you?

B: What is the matter with me? Oh, I don't know. Maybe the fact that I told you how much I loved you and the first thing out of your mouth was that you needed to talk to Phillip. That news was as welcomed as a belch in the face!

C: Brady…You don't understand… Please let me explain…

B: Explain what? I know that you have feelings for Phillip. I know you see me as a best friend or worse yet, a big brother. But did it ever occur to you that what I was saying to you was independent of any issues involving Phillip? Do you honestly think that the reason why I love you was because of the 'transformation' Phillip brought out in you? Now that you shed the baggy, black clothes that is the sole reason any man wants to be with you? I never gave a damn about the aesthetics, Chloe. I gave a damn about you!

P:(smirking) Yeah sure, Brady. Her looks never registered with you.

C: Shut up, Phillip! Brady, I didn't mean to hurt you, but I had to…

B: You had to what, Chloe? Free yourself from Phillip's spell? I've been listening to that party line for months. I've listened to your concept of love for months and was a witness to it for over a year. I've watched you and Phillip 'fight and make-up'. Fight and make-up. Fights happen, but what are you two fighting for? Nothing. For some reason, unknown to me, you think that love should be a constant struggle. That if you and Phillip fight for it, it means that your love was genuine. A struggle occurs between a mother and the baby, emerging from the womb. This isn't a real struggle. A struggle is when a dying person does anything within her power to breathe for another moment. Everything else, between those moments, are contrivances. And what you and Phillip have is a manufactured drama, a show that should have closed months ago!

P: Wait a minute, Brady! You have no clue about what me and Chloe have.

C: You mean had!

P: Chloe and I had love. I loved her and she loved me. She was my salvation, my passion, my reason for being. You have no idea what we've been through to stay together. And then, you interfered; you conspired with my father to break us up. Then, you spent last summer, ingratiating yourself into Chloe's life, using my mistakes and her love of music as bait. And now, you are using 'your love' for Chloe as a deathblow to Chloe and me. But Chloe and I are not over and I will be damned if 'your love' will destroy us!

C: Us? There is no 'us', Phillip. There hasn't been an 'us' since Last Blast! 'Us' became 'me'. You made damn sure that 'us' was annihilated. There is nothing you can do to get what we had back!

B: Except remind you of all of the special times you had together. That is the only trump card you have, Phillip. It is awfully flimsy, but effective.

P: And all you have is a recap of all the mistakes Chloe and I have made! You may have your 'friendship', but I think that your interest will wane, once Chloe and I are back together.

B: Is that all I have with you, Chloe, friendship? Honestly, I want to know. I told you that I loved you. How do you feel about that?

P: What do you think she will say, Brady? I was with her for over a year. She didn't tell me that she loved me and now, you expect her to say that to you, after a few months of 'hanging out'? Chloe and I nearly made love and she still didn't say it.

Brady looked at Chloe.

B: Is this true? Did you and Phillip almost make love?

-End of The Struggle-