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Til The End Ch. 14

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Chloe took out the locket hidden in her purse, and open it showing the picture of Gabriella, taken hours after her birth. She had been so sick those first few days, but she pulled through like the fighter that she was. "Everything will be okay baby." Chloe settled back on Mac's bed wishing her friend was still alive.

"Chloe?" Belle stuck her through the bedroom door, she didn't want to wake Chloe, but she wanted to know what was going on. "Are you awake?" She saw Chloe staring at something in her hand, looking lost in thought.

"Yeah, what are you doing here?" When she and Marie arrived the place had locked up tight, and Marie had to give three different passwords to get in, she couldn't even imagine what Belle had to get in.

"Brady sent us to make sure you're okay." At the word us Belle walked into the room with Marlena and Greta following close behind.

Marlena moved to sit by Chloe on the bed, stroking her hair. "Are you okay?" Marlena noticed the locket clutched in her hand, but thought it would be better to let Chloe tell them on her own.

Chloe shook her heads as the tears began to fall again. "I want my baby."

Greta moves to Chloe other side and hands her a tissue. "Everyone is out looking for her, Shawn got all his people on it."

A sudden thought occurs to Chloe. "Jason's okay isn't he, Brady didn't do anything to him?" Her face clouds with concern.

Belle notices it, and began to wonder again just what is going on." Jason's fine, Brady was a little upset, but he didn't hurt him."

Marie walks in carrying a teacup, laying it down on the bedside table the woman looks at Chloe. "Chloe, I am going leave some guards on the stairs, and do a perimeter search, okay?"

"Thanks Marie." Chloe watched the woman walk out, and then noticed the shock and stunned faces of her in-laws. "You're wondering what's going on."

"Uh Hell Yeah." Belle tries not to sound to eager, but things were getting weirder and weirder.

Taking a sip of the tea, Chloe takes a deep breathe, trying to remember all the important details. " Okay Greta do you remember how I told you Brady and I separated." At her nod she continues. "Well, all that happen except the next day, Brady called me, he said we should talk and we did."

Flashback Black Townhouse London

"What happened to us Brady?" Chloe looked at the man she married with confusion." We couldn't go hours with out hearing each other's voice, now we go weeks without knowing where the other is."

" We grew up, we have different proprieties, now." Brady couldn't look her in the eye, he could feel her pain from across the room, and he knew he had caused it.

"Your proprieties no longer include me, is that what you're saying?"

"NO," Brady stood and walked over to stand in front of her." I love you, you are always my top priority."

"You think my priorities, have changed?"

"Yes, and you know what I'm talking about." Brady backed away at the fury in her eyes.

"Why does it always come back to the baby."?

"Because you risked you life without informing me, and you had no right to risk yourself for a child."

"A CHILD?" "No, Brady our child, a baby made by you and I, that represented our love." Tears feel down her cheeks as she remembered the pregnancy, and subsequent miscarriage that had begun to tear apart her marriage.

"A child, that could of cost you your life." He didn't understand how she could simply ignore the doctors that said they she wait until she was further into her recovery before having children. " Did you hear the doctors at all?"

"Yes, I heard them say that there was a minuet chance that the cancer would return, and that pregnancy would be a risk, but I was already pregnant, and it didn't matter."

"Did you hear yourself, it didn't matter if I could have lost you."

"You did lose me, because here we are apart."

" I love you, I just don't want to risk losing you."

Chloe took Brady in her arms and began smoothing his hair. She knew what this was about, and it wasn't her, it was his mother, but Chloe wouldn't ever leave Brady not even for death. " I love you too, so much Brady, but I want more, I want a child with your blue eyes, and stubborn nature." She gives him a weak smile, and kisses his cheek.

" I'm scarred." Brady let the tears fall as the thought of Chloe assaulted him.

"I know, I am too, but I have faith that your love will get me through, an I need you to have the same faith in me."

"I do." Brady cradle Chloe face as he leaned into to kiss her lips, pleased that the simplest kiss could still leave him breathless. Stepping away he smiled at the disappointed look in her eyes at he took her hand and began leading her toward the bedroom. "Tomorrow, we go vacation, no managers, no secretaries, no phones, just you and me in paradise."

Chloe laughs as she follows him up. "Normally, I don't like your forward nature, but I let it slide this one time."

Brady turns and lifts her up into his arms and walks to the bedroom, shutting the door with his foot. "That's might big of you." Dropping on the bed as Brady proceeds let he forward nature take over.

Flashback Over

"So we went away, when we came back we Mac setting in our setting room waiting for us." Chloe stands and takes the picture on the bedside table of Mac and Gabriella at her first birthday. Chloe smiles at the joy on both of their faces." Mac had received information that Lexie was having us watched."

Chloe traced the figures in the picture with her finger, letting it linger on Gabriella. "Mac double our security, but when we found out I was pregnant we knew we had to do more." She sat back down on the bed." That's when Brady suggested we separate, he said that if we did then Lexie would only go after one of us, but Mac pointed out that as long as their was a child she could always get the both of us at the same time." " Mac revised the plan, we would separate and even an phony divorce, and when the baby was born we would give her up for adoption to some people that Mac trusted."

"Then how did your parents get involved?" Belle was n longer as confused before but she was still a little hazy.

"When it was time for me to deliver, I took a vacation in Rome where Brady met me, Mac arrived the next day with the couple that was going to adopt her, she said my parents were the only people she trusted, plus Brady and I would still get to see her, while Mac was near by for added protection." "Mom jumped at the chance to raise her, and knowing it was my mother was the only thing that made me give her up after I looked at her."

"Okay, let get this straight, you and Brady are still married right?" Greta saw the nod and continued. " So, Jason and Marie are what a cover?"

"Jason and Marie are Mac's top agents."  

Wesley House

As Brady finished a similar story the room was very quiet, until a police officer came to speak to Bo. When Captain Brady returned his expression was grim.

"Brady, we just found the guy that fit Craig's description dead in some woods behind the house." "He was one of Lexie's men."

"So what does that mean?" Lucas asked noting the Brady face paled.

Shawn steps forward. "It means, that Lexie killed him because he failed, so Lexie doesn't have Gabriella."

"So who does?" Craig had just came to and he wished he didn't Lexie was one thing, but all this added enemies was being to get really annoying.

"Good Question." Brady said as he picked up a picture of his daughter as the tears that had threatening to fall finally broke the surface.

Undisclosed Location

Gabriella wasn't happy, she didn't like this place or the food." Yuck,"

"Come on Kid, eat up." The figure tried again unsuccessfully to get the child to eat. Taking the spoon she puts it inches away for the child's mouth. " Yummy… Mash potatoes."

"No, Mac." Gabriella smacks the spoon away laughing as the food lands on her godmothers' face.