Back at the church, Gwen and Antonio were spouting off sickly sweet wedding
vows to each other. First Gwen was back, dressed in a pale pink Chanel
(kind of like Nicole Kidman's lol), posing as Muffy, Gwen's sorority
sister. First Ethan was now in a normal suit and next to Antonio as his
best man.
First Kay and Reese were waiting extremely patiently, hoping Miguel would just pop up. "I can't believe we're waiting for our own wedding to get called off!" First Kay said to Reese, "Oh, I don't have a problem marrying you - you're the one doing lover-boy Miguel a favour by trying to provoke him to carry you off in the middle of the ceremony in front of all these people. Personally I reckon it'd be more fun if you just embarrassed him instead!" Reese told her. "Reese!" First Kay scolded him, "hey, what are you planning to do once Miguel admits in front of everyone that he loves me and wants to marry me? Are you gonna pretend to be angry with him and attack him and get him into a dog-fight? Ooh boy wouldn't that be fun! You guys always get to see cat-fights on a soap opera cos it's usually women fighting over men, but we hardly ever get to see two men battling it out for one girl" she added. "Well, whatever happens I just hope I don't get stuck with Jessica!" said Reese. "I wish Miguel would hurry up! Our turn is coming up soon!" said First Kay.
Miguel was still wondering about Hecuba's true intentions. She was always up to something evil and Miguel wondered what she was going to demand as payback for helping him get First Kay. He hoped she wasn't going to trap his soul in a vial. "Oh you'll see," she said, mysteriously when he asked her what he was to do for her in return. "So what are we going to do?" Miguel asked Hecuba. "Well, first we have to visit one of your friends" Hecuba told him, leading him out of the bar.
[When the bar people saw Miguel talking to himself - or so it looked to them when he was talking to both the little angel girl and Hecuba - they just assumed he was a loony or one of those Harmony residents to whom weird things were always happening and turned back to their own businesses.]
"Alright, what's keeping Miguel? Don't tell me he isn't going to come?! That just can't be! Every time a couple attempts to get married in Harmony, if there is a third wheel to the relationship there is no way that third wheel doesn't appear to try and stop the wedding! That would be breaking another one of Harmony's by-laws!" said First Kay. She was really starting to get frustrated because it had been a really long break when they had stopped to get First Gwen/Muffy and First Ethan changed for their new (and temporary) roles. They had switched to Tabitha and Julian in Bermuda, enjoying their romantic escapade together first.
Then they'd moved on to Sheridan and Luis discussing which of the ways to say "I love you" they had missed, "We had better cover them all while we're still in bed - then we'll have to go practice all of them all over again in the spa and then there's the beach and then all of those other places in Harmony, Bermuda, Paris - oh my gosh we're going to be so busy!" Sheridan was saying, as Beth sat under the window. She was supposed to be glaring in at them and plotting how to get Luis, but she was so BORED that she thought filing her nails instead would probably be more worth her time. Besides, she didn't want to fertilise the flower beds there with her vomit or end up in the emergency room at the Harmony hospital from being too sick of watching them going at it.
Then they crossed to Theresa and Ethan, who were on the wharf, staring out at the water, trying to figure out how to get their hands on the Crane fortune. "I've already done my share - pretending to be drunk in Bermuda and giving Julian the night of his life so he'd reinstate you as heir. Now it's your turn!" Theresa commanded Ethan. "Oh - uh - okay," he rubbed his hands, thinking about Rebecca's generous bust, "if you say so - but I've never been with an older woman before and - " "Ethan!" Theresa's voice interrupted his fantasies, "Wha-? Didn't you mean I have to seduce Rebecca?" puzzle boxes and questions marks popped up above Ethan's head. "No, I most certainly did not! You just have to break Gwen's heart again. She's going to be next in line for the Crane fortune now that it's all signed over to Rebecca. Gwen's a sucker for your "love". She's pretending like she can stand up for herself now, but it's all temporary. She'll crack under minimal persuasion from you. So go on and seduce Gwen!" Ethan still looked clueless, "But Theresa, I don't understand. I thought you loved me and wanted me back for yourself! If I go and seduce Gwen, you'll be angry with me again and I really don't want to see that baseball bat again!" he protested. Theresa snapped. She gathered all her strength together, picked Ethan up and threw him over the wharf, into the water.
In the mean time, while all this was going on, First Ethan and First Gwen had, instead of changing, gone back to "Harmony's Heartbreaks", the fastest flying soap on air - each day went by within at least three days, which was a record for soaps and its officials were therefore among the wealthiest people at the studios and could afford equipment to film episodes at supersonic speed, allowing the actors to actually repeat their dialogues only about twice a week instead of everyday for several weeks. The two characters had finished filming their wedding sequences by the time Passions was ready to return to its own double wedding scenes.
More scenes of Tabitha and Julian were aired. Beth brought over a digital foot spa and stood in it as she shot peas at Sheridan (then ducked to hide) using a slingshot each time Sheridan told Luis she loved him. Within minutes, there were enough peas to fill about five large jars to the brim, but the two of them didn't even look up once. "Yech!" thought Beth. Meanwhile, a frustrated Theresa considered getting a sex-change so she could seduce Gwen herself. Then she came up with an idea. She would go to Kay (she was completely unaware that the First Kay had returned and was about to marry Reese in a double wedding ceremony with Gwen and Antonio and that Miguel was in love with her). Theresa would get Kay to steal Antonio from Gwen so that Gwen would be lonely once more. Then she would get her good friend Fox to seduce Gwen and get both the Crane and the Hotchkiss millions off of her. Fox was definitely a hell of a lot more intelligent than Ethan at least. In return, Theresa would promise Kay that she would help her get Miguel and convince Kay that she had a lot of influence over her younger brother, who always turned to her for "romance-advice".
Finally, Passions was back to the double wedding scenes and First Kay and Reese were now being asked the eternal question by Father Lonigan. Their fates were about to be sealed. Not wanting to make the audience too suspicious just yet, Reese answered "yes" to taking First Kay as his wife, loving, honouring and cherishing her in sickness and in health for as long as they both shall live, etc, etc. When it was Kay's turn to answer, she scanned the hall full of guests one last time. Then she began to speak, "Y - "
"STOP!! Stop the wedding!" naturally, in typical soap opera fashion, Miguel's unmistakeable voice sounded across the church, guests gasped, heads turned, Father Lonigan called out, "who is that?" and First Kay gaped, pretending to be utterly shocked, but really feeling like doing a cartwheel. Even more shocking to everyone than seeing Miguel was seeing who was at his side.
"That is NOT the real Kay!" cried Miguel. This time First Kay really did receive a major shock. For she saw herself standing next to Miguel. "What the HECK is going on?" she demanded, "Reese, you have to believe me! That isn't me! I'M me!" she said. Reese believed her. He turned to Miguel and the girl next to her and said "I know, but I wonder what Miguel is up to? And who could that be?" When he turned back to his almost-wife, she wasn't there anymore. Everyone gasped again. For First Kay had disappeared from Reese's side and in her place stood Jessica, dressed - or rather UN-dressed like she had just stepped out of a strip-club.
"Yes, that's right. It's me, Jessica. I have always loved Reese as most of you probably know by now. So I made a deal with Hecuba - now there's no need to pretend you guys don't believe in witches or whatever. We all know she's real - she's been around to almost every Harmony resident by now, offering to make secret desires come true in exchange for souls and things. Why I'd be surprised if most of you here today aren't without souls! So anyway, Hecuba transformed me to look like Kay so I could ensnare Reese and trapped the real Kay in her lair. Miguel loves Kay so he went and rescued her and brought her back and that's caused me to change back into my true form!" Jessica explained to everyone, "And yes, I have secretly been working for a strip-club - you didn't really think I was shy, quiet and sweet now did you? It's always the invisible ones that lead the most exciting lives!" she said.
Antonio whispered to Gwen, "thank God we got married before this mess began!" She gave him a strange look, "you're not really Ethan in disguise or something are you? Although knowing how dumb he is he probably - " "GWEN!" said Antonio, "hehe sorry, just checking" said Gwen.
Sam nearly had a heart attack right there and then. A worried Ivy tried to calm him down. The audience finally broke out into babble. "Quiet everyone!" yelled Father Lonigan, "A great evil has just taken place and we need to stay calm". "Wha - ?" Reese was a little puzzled at first, then realised that it was one of those scenes where Father Lonigan had only to repeat one of his robotic dialogues and had nothing particularly meaningful to say.
Reese knew that the woman standing next to him in a wedding gown a while ago had not really been Jessica in disguise and that Jessica had really only just materialized beside him. He realised that both Jessica and Miguel were lying that the girl next to Miguel wasn't really First Kay at all. "So - uh - now that you've brought the "real" Kay back to us, Miguel, I guess we could just continue the wedding ceremony, right? I still don't love Jessica and still want to marry Kay" Reese said. "Oh but that's the beauty of it," said Jessica, "you still can't get married today". "Why-ever not?" asked Reese. "Why don't you ask First Kay herself?" said Jessica, smirking. Reese turned to the girl next to Miguel, "Well Kay?" he asked. "Um, well you see Reese, I don't wanna like hurt your feelings or anything but I actually reciprocate Miguel's feelings for me. So I can't marry you" the girl replied. "Oh, I get it. At least I think I get it" said Reese. Something Jessica had said about making a deal with Hecuba the witch had struck him and he thought he had Miguel's plan figured out. "Oh no. If that's true then Miguel, you are SOOO stupid! All you had to do was come here, tell First Kay you loved her, be publicly humiliated by her a little and then you would have gotten your girl!" thought Reese, realising that his and First Kay's little prank had backfired.
"You know Kay, I just want you to be happy and I'm glad you were honest with me," said Reese, an idea forming in his head, "but I don't see why there still can't be a wedding here today" he said. "Oh Reese!" Jessica flung her arms around his neck, "I knew it! I knew you'd soon realise we were mean to be toge - " "Jessica! What are you talking about? I was referring to First Kay and Miguel!" said Reese, quickly throwing her arms off him and stepping away, to where Miguel and "First Kay" stood. "Well buddy, we're in a church, there's a priest here, guests, your mother and oldest brother. What say you and Kay get married right here right now?" said Reese. Miguel looked terribly uncomfortable, "uh - I think I should call Luis, Theresa, Hank, the other Ethan first. That'll take too much time. The guests will get annoyed and - " "We'll just send the guests to eat while you make the phone calls," said Reese. "Oh it's not necessary for us to get married right now,' Miguel protested, "Luis was saying that he's now very close to finding Papa. I would like to get married when he is found - then he can be at the wedding" he said. "He's right" agreed the girl posing as First Kay. "Miguel, I don't understand. It sounds almost as though you're making excuses not to get married today!" said Reese. "Reese!" Miguel whispered, "Alright, I'll explain it all to you once we're out of here!" Reese agreed to talk later.
Some time later, Gwen and Antonio rode out to an expensive reception lounge on a chariot drawn by cute white horses (borrowed from the set of Harmony's Heartbreaks - the same one that had been used for First Gwen and First Ethan's wedding - after all, Passions was only just starting its climb further up the corporate ladder) where a lavish party had been organised for them by Rebecca.
Towards the end of the reception, when Gwen and Antonio were getting themselves into the chariot drawn by white horses and getting ready to take off, Theresa arrived, hoping to find Fox there. He was there, coincidentally with the other person she wanted to see - Kay Bennet (the third Kay, that is Deanna Wright's Kay). She pulled them aside to talk.
As soon as Gwen and Antonio rode off in the chariot, Reese, Miguel, Jessica and the girl Jessica had claimed was the real First Kay made their way to the kitchen of the reception lounge, where they were explaining to Reese what was really going on, "Yes, Reese, you are right. She isn't really Kay," Miguel told Reese. Reese looked at the girl who looked just like First Kay, who waved her hands around in the air and disappeared. In her place stood Hecuba, whom Reese recognised from somewhere along the teens' previous dealings with evil. "Miguel are you crazy? You enlisted HER help?!" Reese exclaimed. Hecuba smirked, "yes, that's how much he loves Kay," she said, an extremely evil smile playing on her lips, "YOU on the other hand have too much of a problem with witches, eh Rice?" she said. "It's ROSS!! ROSS!! What is it with you witches and my name?" said an aggravated Reese. Miguel laughed, "It's what, REESE?" he asked. Reese blushed, "See what you guys are doing to me? So anyway, where's the real Kay?" he asked. "She's at my home right now. Let's go get her" said Miguel. He and Reese got up, "NOT SO FAST!" said Hecuba, "I've helped you enough. Now it's your turn to pay up!" She waved her hands and Miguel found himself and Reese in slightly familiar looking surroundings. Not only that, but he saw First Kay next to him, still in her wedding dress. The three of them were tied to a thick pole, with a cauldron bubbling away beneath them, giving off the foulest kind of stench. They were facing Hecuba's magic mirror. Jessica was there too, but she was standing next to Hecuba, grinning evilly at them.
"Jessica, what do you think you're doing? Miguel asked her. Reese rolled his eyes, "what did you expect of her? You didn't really think she was being a good friend, helping you out and all now did you?" he said. "I did! That little traitor!" said Miguel. "Well, it wasn't as if I was going to get Reese!" said Jessica. "What do you think you're going to achieve by this?" Miguel asked her. "This IS my achievement," said Jessica, smugly, "I sold my soul to Hecuba in return for her getting me my revenge on you guys!" she told them, happily. "Revenge? What are you talking about?" asked Miguel, while First Kay and Reese rolled their eyes. "Well, as you all know, I've always liked Reese, but he only has eyes for my sister dearest. Besides the fact that Kay has everything I ever wanted - she's the pretty, popular one and she's outgoing, so she could be involved in all kinds of school activities whereas I've always been shy and stupid! I haven't got any friends of my own - my few "friends" are all borrowed from Kay! I'm the "invisible girl" - I've heard people calling me that! Why do you think I always supported Charity and tried to make life hell for Kay? Why do you think I always revelled in her heartache whenever Miguel and Charity looked tighter than ever and it looked even more impossible for her to be with Miguel? My suddenly falling for Reese while he was in love with HER was the last straw!" Jessica explained.
Hecuba sat down on her rocking chair in front of the magic mirror, "And now you are all going to be my slaves!" she proclaimed with glee. "Never!" said Miguel. "In your dreams, Hecuba!" said Reese. First Kay was busy thinking out a plan of escape. "Well, you'll have no choice!" said Hecuba, "If you refuse to obey me, I'll throw you into the fires of hell! You are trapped here and I can hurt you with one of my electrifying zaps!" First Kay was thinking about her lineage and how all Standish women had powers. She was trying to figure out how to tap into them. She had once heard Charity babble on about how her powers were sometimes unleashed when she was in some kind of danger, but she just hadn't known how to control them and then she used to faint and then not remember anything. She said her powers were stronger if it happened to be a full moon. "What a pity there isn't a full moon today," thought First Kay.
"Three days from now, I will be able to cast a spell to turn you into zombies! I'll be able to snatch your souls without your consent!" Hecuba told them, gleefully. "Uh, why do you have to wait till the full moon?" Jessica asked, "why not right now?" Hecuba's eyes shone with delight, "the spell will be stronger than. Whenever witches are doing a spell to gain something, the best time to do it is during the waxing moon and the night of full moon is obviously when the spell will be at its strongest" she explained. Kay smiled to herself. Hecuba turned towards her magic mirror, "Now let's see what the rest of the pitiful residents of Harmony are up to. Let's see how we can cause some misery for them" she said. Jessica smiled and sat down on the chair opposite Hecuba's and turned her attention to Hecuba's mirror.
They saw the guests at the reception centre, where Gwen and Antonio's reception had just taken place. Some guests were starting to leave. The two bridesmaids were dancing with the two best men. Other people on the dance floor included Second Chad and Whitney, Sam and Ivy and some of Gwen and Antonio's best friends. Simone and Deanna's Kay were standing off to the side with Fox and Theresa. Theresa was busily explaining something to Fox, something that Kay was much more interested in than Simone's babble about Chad being the best boyfriend she ever had, "can you believe it Kay? He's being so sweet to me, dancing with my sister so she doesn't feel left out or lonely! And I didn't even have to ask him to. Isn't he just such a darling?" she rambled on and on in the same manner. "Yeah yeah whatever" Kay would reply, without looking at her.
Theresa was telling Fox about her plan to win back the fortune that was rightfully hers, that Rebecca had tricked Julian into signing over to her. "I don't care if Gwen gets hurt in the process, she's caused me enough distress for me not to feel bad about a little payback" Theresa was saying. Fox was quite happy to oblige - anything for his "stepmommy". Kay decided to help Theresa just because of their friendship since Miguel was now with the other Kay anyway. "So what did you do with Ethan anyway?" she asked Theresa. A devilish smile appeared on Theresa's face, "you wanna take a wild guess?" she said, remembering how she had thrown him into the water.
Two fishermen found Ethan trying to stay afloat, "Hey, isn't that the former heir of Crane industries?" one of them asked the other, "yes it is!" said the other. They rushed forward to help him out. When Ethan saw them, he started calling out to them, "Help! Help!" They threw in a life belt to him, "WHAT is THIS?" demanded Ethan, "I scream for help and you throw this funny looking thing in to me?" The two fishermen looked at each other and shrugged, "It's a life belt" they told him. "Well it must be faulty because it's NOT saving my life!" Ethan yelled at them. They rolled their eyes and went out in a little boat to get him, "isn't he supposed to be a law graduate from one of those flash colleges for rich snobs?" one of the fishermen asked the other, who replied, "well, I've heard they were paid to pass him and let him graduate". The fisherman who had asked the question said, "so that explains it!" They sniggered while Ethan sat in their boat, looking confused, "Are you guys talking about me?" he asked, looking annoyed.
Beth called Sheridan's cottage on her cell phone. An annoyed Luis picked up, "who the hell is this?" he demanded, "we were just about to reach a simultaneous multiple orgasm!" Outside the window, Beth rolled her eyes, "This is Marie from Kama Sutra For Beginners" she said. "who from the what for who?" asked Luis, perking up. Beth repeated her previous line. "We're an institution that teaches people all the different exciting ways to express passion. Our special passion tracking devices just picked up the strongest signals being transmitted from your residence so we thought we'd offer you a special discount if you shared some of your secrets on a spicy sex life with some of our clients" said Beth. "Well, that sounds very interesting," said Luis. "Well, when do you want to come over?" asked Beth. "Well, I'm afraid there's a slight problem," said Luis. "What's that?" asked Beth. "We can't control our addiction to sex - we can't put a hold on it. We couldn't even do it when my brother and his girlfriend and best friend were trapped in hell, we couldn't stop when Sheridan's brother-like nephew found out he had just lost his identity because his father wasn't the man he had been raised by all the years of his life, and - " "And you won't be able to stop even if one of you dies!" Beth said. "Yeah probably" said Luis. Beth hung up, shaking her head...
First Kay and Reese were waiting extremely patiently, hoping Miguel would just pop up. "I can't believe we're waiting for our own wedding to get called off!" First Kay said to Reese, "Oh, I don't have a problem marrying you - you're the one doing lover-boy Miguel a favour by trying to provoke him to carry you off in the middle of the ceremony in front of all these people. Personally I reckon it'd be more fun if you just embarrassed him instead!" Reese told her. "Reese!" First Kay scolded him, "hey, what are you planning to do once Miguel admits in front of everyone that he loves me and wants to marry me? Are you gonna pretend to be angry with him and attack him and get him into a dog-fight? Ooh boy wouldn't that be fun! You guys always get to see cat-fights on a soap opera cos it's usually women fighting over men, but we hardly ever get to see two men battling it out for one girl" she added. "Well, whatever happens I just hope I don't get stuck with Jessica!" said Reese. "I wish Miguel would hurry up! Our turn is coming up soon!" said First Kay.
Miguel was still wondering about Hecuba's true intentions. She was always up to something evil and Miguel wondered what she was going to demand as payback for helping him get First Kay. He hoped she wasn't going to trap his soul in a vial. "Oh you'll see," she said, mysteriously when he asked her what he was to do for her in return. "So what are we going to do?" Miguel asked Hecuba. "Well, first we have to visit one of your friends" Hecuba told him, leading him out of the bar.
[When the bar people saw Miguel talking to himself - or so it looked to them when he was talking to both the little angel girl and Hecuba - they just assumed he was a loony or one of those Harmony residents to whom weird things were always happening and turned back to their own businesses.]
"Alright, what's keeping Miguel? Don't tell me he isn't going to come?! That just can't be! Every time a couple attempts to get married in Harmony, if there is a third wheel to the relationship there is no way that third wheel doesn't appear to try and stop the wedding! That would be breaking another one of Harmony's by-laws!" said First Kay. She was really starting to get frustrated because it had been a really long break when they had stopped to get First Gwen/Muffy and First Ethan changed for their new (and temporary) roles. They had switched to Tabitha and Julian in Bermuda, enjoying their romantic escapade together first.
Then they'd moved on to Sheridan and Luis discussing which of the ways to say "I love you" they had missed, "We had better cover them all while we're still in bed - then we'll have to go practice all of them all over again in the spa and then there's the beach and then all of those other places in Harmony, Bermuda, Paris - oh my gosh we're going to be so busy!" Sheridan was saying, as Beth sat under the window. She was supposed to be glaring in at them and plotting how to get Luis, but she was so BORED that she thought filing her nails instead would probably be more worth her time. Besides, she didn't want to fertilise the flower beds there with her vomit or end up in the emergency room at the Harmony hospital from being too sick of watching them going at it.
Then they crossed to Theresa and Ethan, who were on the wharf, staring out at the water, trying to figure out how to get their hands on the Crane fortune. "I've already done my share - pretending to be drunk in Bermuda and giving Julian the night of his life so he'd reinstate you as heir. Now it's your turn!" Theresa commanded Ethan. "Oh - uh - okay," he rubbed his hands, thinking about Rebecca's generous bust, "if you say so - but I've never been with an older woman before and - " "Ethan!" Theresa's voice interrupted his fantasies, "Wha-? Didn't you mean I have to seduce Rebecca?" puzzle boxes and questions marks popped up above Ethan's head. "No, I most certainly did not! You just have to break Gwen's heart again. She's going to be next in line for the Crane fortune now that it's all signed over to Rebecca. Gwen's a sucker for your "love". She's pretending like she can stand up for herself now, but it's all temporary. She'll crack under minimal persuasion from you. So go on and seduce Gwen!" Ethan still looked clueless, "But Theresa, I don't understand. I thought you loved me and wanted me back for yourself! If I go and seduce Gwen, you'll be angry with me again and I really don't want to see that baseball bat again!" he protested. Theresa snapped. She gathered all her strength together, picked Ethan up and threw him over the wharf, into the water.
In the mean time, while all this was going on, First Ethan and First Gwen had, instead of changing, gone back to "Harmony's Heartbreaks", the fastest flying soap on air - each day went by within at least three days, which was a record for soaps and its officials were therefore among the wealthiest people at the studios and could afford equipment to film episodes at supersonic speed, allowing the actors to actually repeat their dialogues only about twice a week instead of everyday for several weeks. The two characters had finished filming their wedding sequences by the time Passions was ready to return to its own double wedding scenes.
More scenes of Tabitha and Julian were aired. Beth brought over a digital foot spa and stood in it as she shot peas at Sheridan (then ducked to hide) using a slingshot each time Sheridan told Luis she loved him. Within minutes, there were enough peas to fill about five large jars to the brim, but the two of them didn't even look up once. "Yech!" thought Beth. Meanwhile, a frustrated Theresa considered getting a sex-change so she could seduce Gwen herself. Then she came up with an idea. She would go to Kay (she was completely unaware that the First Kay had returned and was about to marry Reese in a double wedding ceremony with Gwen and Antonio and that Miguel was in love with her). Theresa would get Kay to steal Antonio from Gwen so that Gwen would be lonely once more. Then she would get her good friend Fox to seduce Gwen and get both the Crane and the Hotchkiss millions off of her. Fox was definitely a hell of a lot more intelligent than Ethan at least. In return, Theresa would promise Kay that she would help her get Miguel and convince Kay that she had a lot of influence over her younger brother, who always turned to her for "romance-advice".
Finally, Passions was back to the double wedding scenes and First Kay and Reese were now being asked the eternal question by Father Lonigan. Their fates were about to be sealed. Not wanting to make the audience too suspicious just yet, Reese answered "yes" to taking First Kay as his wife, loving, honouring and cherishing her in sickness and in health for as long as they both shall live, etc, etc. When it was Kay's turn to answer, she scanned the hall full of guests one last time. Then she began to speak, "Y - "
"STOP!! Stop the wedding!" naturally, in typical soap opera fashion, Miguel's unmistakeable voice sounded across the church, guests gasped, heads turned, Father Lonigan called out, "who is that?" and First Kay gaped, pretending to be utterly shocked, but really feeling like doing a cartwheel. Even more shocking to everyone than seeing Miguel was seeing who was at his side.
"That is NOT the real Kay!" cried Miguel. This time First Kay really did receive a major shock. For she saw herself standing next to Miguel. "What the HECK is going on?" she demanded, "Reese, you have to believe me! That isn't me! I'M me!" she said. Reese believed her. He turned to Miguel and the girl next to her and said "I know, but I wonder what Miguel is up to? And who could that be?" When he turned back to his almost-wife, she wasn't there anymore. Everyone gasped again. For First Kay had disappeared from Reese's side and in her place stood Jessica, dressed - or rather UN-dressed like she had just stepped out of a strip-club.
"Yes, that's right. It's me, Jessica. I have always loved Reese as most of you probably know by now. So I made a deal with Hecuba - now there's no need to pretend you guys don't believe in witches or whatever. We all know she's real - she's been around to almost every Harmony resident by now, offering to make secret desires come true in exchange for souls and things. Why I'd be surprised if most of you here today aren't without souls! So anyway, Hecuba transformed me to look like Kay so I could ensnare Reese and trapped the real Kay in her lair. Miguel loves Kay so he went and rescued her and brought her back and that's caused me to change back into my true form!" Jessica explained to everyone, "And yes, I have secretly been working for a strip-club - you didn't really think I was shy, quiet and sweet now did you? It's always the invisible ones that lead the most exciting lives!" she said.
Antonio whispered to Gwen, "thank God we got married before this mess began!" She gave him a strange look, "you're not really Ethan in disguise or something are you? Although knowing how dumb he is he probably - " "GWEN!" said Antonio, "hehe sorry, just checking" said Gwen.
Sam nearly had a heart attack right there and then. A worried Ivy tried to calm him down. The audience finally broke out into babble. "Quiet everyone!" yelled Father Lonigan, "A great evil has just taken place and we need to stay calm". "Wha - ?" Reese was a little puzzled at first, then realised that it was one of those scenes where Father Lonigan had only to repeat one of his robotic dialogues and had nothing particularly meaningful to say.
Reese knew that the woman standing next to him in a wedding gown a while ago had not really been Jessica in disguise and that Jessica had really only just materialized beside him. He realised that both Jessica and Miguel were lying that the girl next to Miguel wasn't really First Kay at all. "So - uh - now that you've brought the "real" Kay back to us, Miguel, I guess we could just continue the wedding ceremony, right? I still don't love Jessica and still want to marry Kay" Reese said. "Oh but that's the beauty of it," said Jessica, "you still can't get married today". "Why-ever not?" asked Reese. "Why don't you ask First Kay herself?" said Jessica, smirking. Reese turned to the girl next to Miguel, "Well Kay?" he asked. "Um, well you see Reese, I don't wanna like hurt your feelings or anything but I actually reciprocate Miguel's feelings for me. So I can't marry you" the girl replied. "Oh, I get it. At least I think I get it" said Reese. Something Jessica had said about making a deal with Hecuba the witch had struck him and he thought he had Miguel's plan figured out. "Oh no. If that's true then Miguel, you are SOOO stupid! All you had to do was come here, tell First Kay you loved her, be publicly humiliated by her a little and then you would have gotten your girl!" thought Reese, realising that his and First Kay's little prank had backfired.
"You know Kay, I just want you to be happy and I'm glad you were honest with me," said Reese, an idea forming in his head, "but I don't see why there still can't be a wedding here today" he said. "Oh Reese!" Jessica flung her arms around his neck, "I knew it! I knew you'd soon realise we were mean to be toge - " "Jessica! What are you talking about? I was referring to First Kay and Miguel!" said Reese, quickly throwing her arms off him and stepping away, to where Miguel and "First Kay" stood. "Well buddy, we're in a church, there's a priest here, guests, your mother and oldest brother. What say you and Kay get married right here right now?" said Reese. Miguel looked terribly uncomfortable, "uh - I think I should call Luis, Theresa, Hank, the other Ethan first. That'll take too much time. The guests will get annoyed and - " "We'll just send the guests to eat while you make the phone calls," said Reese. "Oh it's not necessary for us to get married right now,' Miguel protested, "Luis was saying that he's now very close to finding Papa. I would like to get married when he is found - then he can be at the wedding" he said. "He's right" agreed the girl posing as First Kay. "Miguel, I don't understand. It sounds almost as though you're making excuses not to get married today!" said Reese. "Reese!" Miguel whispered, "Alright, I'll explain it all to you once we're out of here!" Reese agreed to talk later.
Some time later, Gwen and Antonio rode out to an expensive reception lounge on a chariot drawn by cute white horses (borrowed from the set of Harmony's Heartbreaks - the same one that had been used for First Gwen and First Ethan's wedding - after all, Passions was only just starting its climb further up the corporate ladder) where a lavish party had been organised for them by Rebecca.
Towards the end of the reception, when Gwen and Antonio were getting themselves into the chariot drawn by white horses and getting ready to take off, Theresa arrived, hoping to find Fox there. He was there, coincidentally with the other person she wanted to see - Kay Bennet (the third Kay, that is Deanna Wright's Kay). She pulled them aside to talk.
As soon as Gwen and Antonio rode off in the chariot, Reese, Miguel, Jessica and the girl Jessica had claimed was the real First Kay made their way to the kitchen of the reception lounge, where they were explaining to Reese what was really going on, "Yes, Reese, you are right. She isn't really Kay," Miguel told Reese. Reese looked at the girl who looked just like First Kay, who waved her hands around in the air and disappeared. In her place stood Hecuba, whom Reese recognised from somewhere along the teens' previous dealings with evil. "Miguel are you crazy? You enlisted HER help?!" Reese exclaimed. Hecuba smirked, "yes, that's how much he loves Kay," she said, an extremely evil smile playing on her lips, "YOU on the other hand have too much of a problem with witches, eh Rice?" she said. "It's ROSS!! ROSS!! What is it with you witches and my name?" said an aggravated Reese. Miguel laughed, "It's what, REESE?" he asked. Reese blushed, "See what you guys are doing to me? So anyway, where's the real Kay?" he asked. "She's at my home right now. Let's go get her" said Miguel. He and Reese got up, "NOT SO FAST!" said Hecuba, "I've helped you enough. Now it's your turn to pay up!" She waved her hands and Miguel found himself and Reese in slightly familiar looking surroundings. Not only that, but he saw First Kay next to him, still in her wedding dress. The three of them were tied to a thick pole, with a cauldron bubbling away beneath them, giving off the foulest kind of stench. They were facing Hecuba's magic mirror. Jessica was there too, but she was standing next to Hecuba, grinning evilly at them.
"Jessica, what do you think you're doing? Miguel asked her. Reese rolled his eyes, "what did you expect of her? You didn't really think she was being a good friend, helping you out and all now did you?" he said. "I did! That little traitor!" said Miguel. "Well, it wasn't as if I was going to get Reese!" said Jessica. "What do you think you're going to achieve by this?" Miguel asked her. "This IS my achievement," said Jessica, smugly, "I sold my soul to Hecuba in return for her getting me my revenge on you guys!" she told them, happily. "Revenge? What are you talking about?" asked Miguel, while First Kay and Reese rolled their eyes. "Well, as you all know, I've always liked Reese, but he only has eyes for my sister dearest. Besides the fact that Kay has everything I ever wanted - she's the pretty, popular one and she's outgoing, so she could be involved in all kinds of school activities whereas I've always been shy and stupid! I haven't got any friends of my own - my few "friends" are all borrowed from Kay! I'm the "invisible girl" - I've heard people calling me that! Why do you think I always supported Charity and tried to make life hell for Kay? Why do you think I always revelled in her heartache whenever Miguel and Charity looked tighter than ever and it looked even more impossible for her to be with Miguel? My suddenly falling for Reese while he was in love with HER was the last straw!" Jessica explained.
Hecuba sat down on her rocking chair in front of the magic mirror, "And now you are all going to be my slaves!" she proclaimed with glee. "Never!" said Miguel. "In your dreams, Hecuba!" said Reese. First Kay was busy thinking out a plan of escape. "Well, you'll have no choice!" said Hecuba, "If you refuse to obey me, I'll throw you into the fires of hell! You are trapped here and I can hurt you with one of my electrifying zaps!" First Kay was thinking about her lineage and how all Standish women had powers. She was trying to figure out how to tap into them. She had once heard Charity babble on about how her powers were sometimes unleashed when she was in some kind of danger, but she just hadn't known how to control them and then she used to faint and then not remember anything. She said her powers were stronger if it happened to be a full moon. "What a pity there isn't a full moon today," thought First Kay.
"Three days from now, I will be able to cast a spell to turn you into zombies! I'll be able to snatch your souls without your consent!" Hecuba told them, gleefully. "Uh, why do you have to wait till the full moon?" Jessica asked, "why not right now?" Hecuba's eyes shone with delight, "the spell will be stronger than. Whenever witches are doing a spell to gain something, the best time to do it is during the waxing moon and the night of full moon is obviously when the spell will be at its strongest" she explained. Kay smiled to herself. Hecuba turned towards her magic mirror, "Now let's see what the rest of the pitiful residents of Harmony are up to. Let's see how we can cause some misery for them" she said. Jessica smiled and sat down on the chair opposite Hecuba's and turned her attention to Hecuba's mirror.
They saw the guests at the reception centre, where Gwen and Antonio's reception had just taken place. Some guests were starting to leave. The two bridesmaids were dancing with the two best men. Other people on the dance floor included Second Chad and Whitney, Sam and Ivy and some of Gwen and Antonio's best friends. Simone and Deanna's Kay were standing off to the side with Fox and Theresa. Theresa was busily explaining something to Fox, something that Kay was much more interested in than Simone's babble about Chad being the best boyfriend she ever had, "can you believe it Kay? He's being so sweet to me, dancing with my sister so she doesn't feel left out or lonely! And I didn't even have to ask him to. Isn't he just such a darling?" she rambled on and on in the same manner. "Yeah yeah whatever" Kay would reply, without looking at her.
Theresa was telling Fox about her plan to win back the fortune that was rightfully hers, that Rebecca had tricked Julian into signing over to her. "I don't care if Gwen gets hurt in the process, she's caused me enough distress for me not to feel bad about a little payback" Theresa was saying. Fox was quite happy to oblige - anything for his "stepmommy". Kay decided to help Theresa just because of their friendship since Miguel was now with the other Kay anyway. "So what did you do with Ethan anyway?" she asked Theresa. A devilish smile appeared on Theresa's face, "you wanna take a wild guess?" she said, remembering how she had thrown him into the water.
Two fishermen found Ethan trying to stay afloat, "Hey, isn't that the former heir of Crane industries?" one of them asked the other, "yes it is!" said the other. They rushed forward to help him out. When Ethan saw them, he started calling out to them, "Help! Help!" They threw in a life belt to him, "WHAT is THIS?" demanded Ethan, "I scream for help and you throw this funny looking thing in to me?" The two fishermen looked at each other and shrugged, "It's a life belt" they told him. "Well it must be faulty because it's NOT saving my life!" Ethan yelled at them. They rolled their eyes and went out in a little boat to get him, "isn't he supposed to be a law graduate from one of those flash colleges for rich snobs?" one of the fishermen asked the other, who replied, "well, I've heard they were paid to pass him and let him graduate". The fisherman who had asked the question said, "so that explains it!" They sniggered while Ethan sat in their boat, looking confused, "Are you guys talking about me?" he asked, looking annoyed.
Beth called Sheridan's cottage on her cell phone. An annoyed Luis picked up, "who the hell is this?" he demanded, "we were just about to reach a simultaneous multiple orgasm!" Outside the window, Beth rolled her eyes, "This is Marie from Kama Sutra For Beginners" she said. "who from the what for who?" asked Luis, perking up. Beth repeated her previous line. "We're an institution that teaches people all the different exciting ways to express passion. Our special passion tracking devices just picked up the strongest signals being transmitted from your residence so we thought we'd offer you a special discount if you shared some of your secrets on a spicy sex life with some of our clients" said Beth. "Well, that sounds very interesting," said Luis. "Well, when do you want to come over?" asked Beth. "Well, I'm afraid there's a slight problem," said Luis. "What's that?" asked Beth. "We can't control our addiction to sex - we can't put a hold on it. We couldn't even do it when my brother and his girlfriend and best friend were trapped in hell, we couldn't stop when Sheridan's brother-like nephew found out he had just lost his identity because his father wasn't the man he had been raised by all the years of his life, and - " "And you won't be able to stop even if one of you dies!" Beth said. "Yeah probably" said Luis. Beth hung up, shaking her head...
