Title: Un-forgiven Tears (Second part of the "All In Her Namesake" series)
By: Jade Unicorn
E-Mail: tenryu@excite.com
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/tigerwolf
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, ABC does.
Summary: Adam and Liza figure out that Colby's missing. Leo and David find out about Vanessa.
Rating: Light R for this chapter.
Note: I'm putting some of the other characters in because, well because I wanted to. It might screw up my story but I'm going to try it because I haven't seen it done before. And keep in mind that this story was created a long time ago. Back before Leo died and Anna became pregnant. Back before Maria and everything. This was like forever and a day ago when I started this I've just never had enough time and the muse just never hit me until now.
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The maid opened the door to find the young Chandler for dinner. She saw the room in the chaos that Colby had left it. Her heart started to pick up its pace as she looked but couldn't find Colby. Worrying, she flipped over every item in that room hoping she would uncover the girl. But she didn't.
Running down the stairs, she waited on telling the others because she wasn't sure if Colby was missing yet. After searching through every room of the house, she yelled out, "Mr. Chandler! Mrs. Chandler!"
"What?" Adam looked at her with slight anger for being interrupted.
"It's Miss Colby she's gone. I can't find her."
"Are you sure?" Liza came running up the stairs to check for herself.
The three of them searched the house completely. Fear struck inside of Liza as she worried that something bad had happened to her baby girl.
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"Leo." David's voice spike into the phone.
"Yeah, what's up?" His unsuspecting voice said back.
"It's Vanessa she's..."
Leo did wait for the rest. "I don't care what that lunatic has done now. The less I know the better."
"Leo, she's missing."
There was a silence that spoke more than words. Leo was worried that Vanessa might try to come after him and his bride. It wouldn't be the first time she tried to kill Greenlee. "W-When-when did she pull her disappearing act?"
"They think that she escaped this morning. She could be anywhere by now. Nobody came in to check on her in hours so she could be in another state by now." David sighed. "Look, I know that you don't want to hear this but I think you and Greenlee should get out of Pine Valley until she's found. She might be after Greenlee or you."
"No I refuse to go into hiding just because of her. If she's comes here then I'll deal with her. But they had better find her because if I get to her first...well let's say that she might not come back at all." Leo hung up the phone in frustration.
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"This is all your fault!" Adam accused his wife while waiting on the police to pick up on the other end.
"My fault? If anyone's to blame its you!" Liza shot back. She was pacing back and forth. "Where could she have gone? Where is JR?" She questioned her husband.
He stood there trying to think. "He was going to see a friend. He has his cell phone with him."
Liza quickly took out her cell and dialed his number. In the background she could hear Adam speaking with the police.
"Yes, her name is Colby Chandler. She's missing. No she hasn't left with a friend; she's only five! She doesn't have that many friends!"
"JR? Have you seen Colby today?" Liza asked.
"Uh...not today. Why?" He slurred into the phone.
"She's missing. Have you seen Mia?"
"Yeah, earlier. She said she was going to the hospital to see Jake."
"Okay. Bye." Liza hung up on him and dialed her sister's number. Silently she thanked whoever came up with the idea of cell phones because otherwise it would have taken them longer to find people. "Mia, its Liza. Do you have Colby with you?"
"No I don't. Why is something wrong?" Mia turned away to make her conversation a little more private.
"She's missing and we don't know where she went. We need help finding her."
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Mia paced around the room in a circular motion. Her mind was racing with a thousand thoughts about her niece. Who could have possibly taken Colby and why? Adam and Liza were stricken with grief; they knew the statistics about missing children. Most of the time their kidnappers killed them and that was something that they didn't want to think about.
Liza entered the room; tears still stained her face. "No luck. Nobody has seen her." She threw herself down into a chair.
"Nobody has?" She sat down herself. Liza shook her head. "Who would have wanted to take her?" Mia wondered out loud as tears started slowly running down her face. "You think that someone might have kidnapped her for ransom?"
"We have to wait and see. I just hope that she's safe and happy." Liza started crying again. "Why did this have to happen to me?"
Mia held her sister in her arms as they both cried.
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"What do you mean she's loose?" Greenlee yelled into the phone.
On the other end, David shook his head to rid himself of his temporary deafness. "Greenlee calm down..."
"Calm down? Calm down he says!" She said to her husband. Leo knew exactly what was going on but the look in his wife's eyes. "How the hell am I suppose to calm down when Vanessa the killer is loose to reek havoc on Pine Valley? Huh? Do you have an answer for that doctor boy?"
"Look Greenlee, don't bite my head off. It's not my fault that she got out." He held his temper in tact even though he wanted to yell at the girl.
Anna stood beside her agitated husband. She took the phone from his hands before he could say the wrong thing. "Greenlee, look, it doesn't look like Vanessa is in Pennsylvania. She could be in another state by now or she could be hiding but we're still trying to find her."
"Then find her quicker!" Greenlee slung the phone to her husband.
"H-hello?" He said hoping that they hadn't hung up.
"Leo, I was telling Greenlee that Vanessa might not be in Pennsylvania anymore. There is an APB out for her but so far we've had no luck."
"As long as she stays far away from Greenlee and me, I don't care where she's at. Now I have to go find my wife."
"Good bye." Anna hung up and turned to her husband. "I'm going to call the station to see if there have been any changes."
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Opal looked around the small park and caught sight of her son. Fortunately for her he didn't see her. Kendall sat on a bench occasionally glancing up to see if he was okay. Opal made her way over to the new nanny and sat down.
"What do you want?" Kendall said with a sneer.
"What are you hoping to get out of Palmer?" She looked straight ahead as she spoke. Looking at Kendall might make her sick or start getting violent.
"Excuse me?" She sat her newspaper down into her lap.
"Do you think you can just ride along on his money until he realizes that you're scamming him?"
"Look I don't know what your problem is. All I'm doing is babysitting Pete because I need the money."
"I want you to leave Petey and Palmer alone. Just go back to the cave that you crawled out of."
"Whatever, I need the money."
"If you do anything to hurt my son or turn him against me I'll have your head mounted on my wall." Her accent shone through as she finally looked at Kendall with anger in her eyes.
Kendall looked unaffected by it, as always. "Why would I turn him against you? You do that yourself. And I would never hurt him."
"Mom! What are you doing here?" Pete came running up to the two women. "Nanny Kendall and me are having a great time, aren't we?" He questioned of her.
"Loads of fun." She commented back.
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"So what do you say?" Aidan asked with his smile on his face.
Bianca was nervous and flattered all at the same time. She looked at him before nodding. "Yes I'll have dinner with you. But just as friends, nothing more." She pointed a warning finger at him.
He threw up his hands. "Friends, that's all. I'll pick you up around eight then?"
She nodded again as he walked off.
"Did I just hear Miss Montgomery getting asked out by a guy?" The familiar soft voice said behind her.
Bianca turned to meet the face that she fell in love with long ago. "What about it Maggie?" Her hands playfully rested on her hips. A grin slid on her face as she looked at her friend/crush.
"Just a shock, that's all. I didn't think that there was a guy on this earth that you would go out with." Though she was joking, Maggie's face held a serious look. It wasn't long before she started laughing and Bianca joined her.
"None of them meet my standards." She pretended to polish her nails on her shirt earning a laugh from Maggie.
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Inside Maggie was dying. She lay on her bed crying tears of pain as she thought of what Aidan was getting that she wasn't Bianca. Maybe she should tell Bianca how she felt; maybe that would clear things up between them. But she was afraid. Afraid that she'd never be to Bianca what Frankie was.
When Bianca spoke of Frankie, her eyes held a small glow that had dimmed as time went on. But nonetheless, the glow told Maggie that Bianca had adored Frankie. How could she compete with her dead sister?
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"So tell her." Aidan looked over his glass at the troubled girl.
"I can't, that's the problem." Bianca sighed and pushed away her salad. Suddenly she didn't feel very hungry.
"Why not?" His voice questioned her, and his eyes dug a hole into her skin because they both knew that she didn't have an answer. "How do you know that the feelings are mutual until you say something?"
Maggie hung around at the door wondering if she had the guts to go in or not. She saw the two eating dinner and she felt anger rise in her. Bianca's back was to her so the girl didn't see Maggie pacing around like a maniac.
Something caught Aidan's eye as a figure approached their table. He recognized the girl as Maggie. The girl stopped at their table never taking notice of Aidan but keeping her focus on Bianca.
"Bianca..." She took a deep breath before spitting out the rest of her sentence without caring that Aidan was sitting there listening to them. "I think that I'm in love with you."
Disbelief and hopefulness crashed through Bianca. Could she have heard that right? No, it's not possible that Maggie had just came up and confessed a love statement like Bianca had always dreamed of. Maybe that's what this was, a dream. A big dream made up by herself and that in any moment she'd wake up in her bed wishing that it was all real. But it was all real.
And now Maggie worried that she shouldn't have said anything because Bianca had been sitting really still and quietly for too long now.
"Bianca?" Aidan prodded of her.
The girl snapped out of her daze and looked at Maggie with a curious eye. "Maggie..."
"Look, Bianca, I know that this came out of left field for you but it's how I feel. I can't help how I feel and I'm sorry if I've freaked you out. It was killing me to not tell you, I had to say something." She continued to ramble on while Bianca stood in front of her. "You probably want to run away now and scream and be grossed out and everything and I totally understand that, I do. But..."
Bianca kissed her. It was simple; it was done so that the shorter girl would stop talking and let Bianca speak. It worked. When Bianca pulled back, a grin was on her face. This was probably the happiest that she had been in a long time.
"Maggie, I'm falling in love with you too." She whispered softly. A tear formed in the corner of Maggie's eye, but she dare not let it fall.
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Two Weeks Later:
Anna hung her head low as she put the phone back no the receiver, another dead end. Vanessa was gone, Colby was gone, and there was a connection between the two. The tape was still in her VCR as she pressed play to watch it again for the hundredth time. By now she could repeat the words spoken by both people.
The tape was a security tape that Liza brought to Anna when she found it. She watched as the events unfolded, giving her some information that she needed but not all of it.
"Colby Chandler?" The woman whispered. The light flicked on showing the stranger the destruction of the room. "Oh goodness. Colby?"
"What do you want?" Colby stuck her head out from the corner to see who it was that was invading her room.
"Hi, Colby, remember me?" It was Vanessa.
"What do you want?" She asked more fiercely.
"I'm here to take you away." Colby stood up, watching Vanessa take a seat on the bed. "You said that you didn't want to be the cause of your parents fighting anymore. So I thought that we could go away together. There are not many people in this town that's willing to speak to me but you did."
"Where would we go?" She kept things hypothetical for now until she had been giving her decision.
"Somewhere out of the country. I know that you're parents wouldn't let me take you so they would send the police after me and you would just be back here again."
Colby seemed to have made up her mind. She searched through the closet and found a suitcase. She picked up some clothes and stuck them inside. A teddy bear that was a gift from her parents on her last birthday was lying in the middle of the floor. Grabbing it, she put it inside the case also.
"We'll by you some more things when we get to where we're going." Vanessa stroked her hair.
"Let's go before they find out." Colby took one last look around the room that she had spent her life so far in.
Vanessa took her hand and they walked out of the room.
"Damn it." Anna whispered to herself as the tape ended. Not wanting to give up the case, but knowing that there was nothing more to be done, Anna called Liza and Adam Chandler hoping to speak to them about their daughter.
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"No." Liza shook her head with confidence. "She's not gone; she's here still, somewhere. You're not giving up until you find her."
"Liza..." The police chief gave a sympathetic sigh, Liza was not giving up hope. "There's nothing more that we can do. We've explored all the possibilities and did all the research that was possible; Vanessa's not in the United States anymore. She's gone and so is Colby. We can only pray that Vanessa will bring her back or at least take care of her."
Liza stood up, leaving Anna wondering if the woman was about to throw something or yell. "I refuse to give up on my daughter like you have. I made a promise to Colby, that I would always be there to protect her and to love her. What kind of mother would I be if I broke my promise?"
"Liza, I haven't given up on you or your daughter. I'm just being realistic. She's gone, I'm sorry."
"Get out." Liza's voice was stern. The woman obeyed the wishes of Liza and left.
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Bianca woke up slowly. In the back of her mind she knew that she should be up by now but it was much more important to stay still right now. Maggie lay curled up in her arms sleeping peacefully. Her arms were wrapped around Bianca's waist, keeping them close together throughout the night.
After dinner that night with Aidan, Bianca and Maggie left to discuss everything that had been unsaid between them. It shocked them both to learn the feelings they had for each other were mutual. But they were glad that things had worked out in their favor. Especially Bianca at this moment. Maggie looked like a perfect angel with her lips slowly turning up into a smile as a dream went on in her head.
Bianca leaned in slowly to capture those perfect lips in a kiss. She knew that it might wake Maggie up, but she didn't care...
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Liza mourned the loss of her daughter, as did Adam. She knew that the odds of Colby being alive now were getting slimmer by the day. And as each day pasted, she and Adam saw the things that made their daughter come up missing. They saw the error of their ways and vowed to not make the same mistakes twice.
Each day's passing brought them closer together than they had been in years. Why hadn't Colby been able to do this to them while she was still there?
Though they never lost hope, they began to become more realistic. Colby was gone and it was time to move on to a new life. But her presence would never been ignored.
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To Be Continue....
forgive me if there are any errors or if words are missing out of it.
here's a teaser for the next part that I'm working on for this series. It's called: Run Away Strays Must Come Home
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Anna hurriedly dialed the number and prayed that someone would answer.
"Hello, Chandler residence." Liza Chandler spoke into the phone.
"Yes, Liza, it's Anna. We have reason to suspect that Vanessa is in the country again. And we believe that she has Colby."
"What?" Had she heard right? Was that even possible? Could her daughter still be alive.
Running footsteps came through the living room and into her office. "Hi mama, wanna go with me and Daddy to the park?" The boy said to Liza.
"Liza, do you want to come with us?" Her husband, Adam, picked up the child who was now bordering on the age of seven. He held his son tightly in his arms, just like he use to do Colby.
Liza stared at them. She had a new life now. She had a son and a husband. But did she want to risk it all just to save the daughter that she lost so many years ago?...............
stay tuned.........