Untold Truths
Disclaimer in first chapter.
"I can't believe I'm about to do this," Emily said as she pulled into the ranch that her aunt Corey was now living on. "I mean what if she doesn't know anything, what if I'm about to walk into this woman's life and turn it upside down because I don't want to let go of my dead mother?"
Layla let all of the questions settle in her brain before finally deciding on the answer. "What if she does know something and you don't go up there and ask her, you'll spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been. Emily you said it yourself there are just too many things going on here. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times is just plain weird."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Emily interrupted before she started laughing.
"It's from a story I read," Layla explained. "I mean the story was nothing like this situation, but the point is that when there are so many things happening that just seem to fit together. You should definitely find out what is going on because if you don't, it could come back to bite you in the ass later. So are we gonna do this or not?"
"Yea we're gonna do this." Then both of the girls got out of the car and walked to rest of the way up the driveway, when they got to the door Emily looked hesitantly at Layla and brought her hand up to the door to knock.
A blonde woman who seemed to be in her late thirties or early forties opened the door and looked intently at the girls in front of her. She had on jeans and a flannel t-shirt that had mud on it which made it easy to tell that she had either been working in a garden of some sort or playing in the dirt, which was unlikely.
"Oh my, you look just like her," the woman said ushering Emily in and almost completely ignoring Layla's presence, except to give her a look which asked what she thought she was doing there.
"Your Corey right?" Emily asked and when the woman shook her head almost violently in agreement she then asked: "Do you know who I am?"
"Of course I do sweetheart, your Emily Bowen-Quartermaine, my sister's precious little girl."
"Okay," Emily hesitated and didn't really know what to say next. She looked around the room and noticed pictures of two girls everywhere she assumed that one of them was Corey, but she could automatically tell which girl was her mother. Her aunt was right they did look exactly alike. There was one picture of her mother sitting on a tree that automatically reminded her of a photo she had of her, Jason and A.J. in the back yard of the house, the look on their faces was almost identical. Hell their faces were almost identical.
"So what are you doing here?" Corey asked and when Emily looked at the woman she could see something that almost resembled fear in her eyes, she knew at that point that her mother was definitely alive and it was time to find out what was going on.
"Do you know where Paige is," she asked and noticed Layla flinch at the abruptness of the question until Corey got up and started pacing.
"I knew you would figure it out one day," Corey said as she continued pacing the room. "You look like her, so why wouldn't you be as smart as she is. I'll tell you anything you want to know, but I just need you to answer one question for me first, who told you?"
"No one, I saw her one the street and when I chased, she ran so I took a chance that you would know what was going one and came here. Now that you've gotten your one question out, I have a few for you. The first of which is, do Monica and Alan know that she's alive, I mean have they known all of this time and just not told me?"
"Yes." And it was that simple, Emily felt all of her control falling away and she could feel the tears begin to run down her face. Not only was her mother alive, but also her parents had been lying to her all of this time. She wanted to yell and scream, but mostly she wanted to cry, so she did. Layla just sat there and held her until all of the tears were gone and she could deal with the rest of the story.
"Why did this happen? Why did my mother fake her death? Did she not want me, because if that were the case you would think that she would have given me up at birth and not kept me for so long? So I guess my next question is: Why?" Emily was rambling and she knew it, but she also figured that she had the right her whole world had just been turned upside down and this was her only way of dealing, without having a total and complete breakdown.
"Your mother loved-loves you with all of her heart," Corey said with so much conviction that Emily couldn't help but to believe her. "She has always loved you and always will without question. The things she did were all to protect you from situations that you wouldn't have been able to understand at the time and I need you to remember that, because this is a pretty long story and some of it isn't good."
Emily looked at the woman who had finally taken a seat on the couch in front of her and she knew that she wasn't going to like this, but like she had been telling herself since she stepped into this situation; it was time. "Can you please just tell me what happened?"
"I will, but there are things you have to know to really be able to understand so bear with me. First of all you need to know who your grandfather was; mine and your mothers father, he was a businessman who had dealings with a lot of shady people including mobsters and arms dealers. Thomas Bowen the man who you've always believed to be your father was one of his employees, actually the only person my father trusted with the exception of Paige and me."
"Wait a second," Emily interrupted. "What do you mean the man that I've believed to be my father.you mean that man who was my father, right. That's what you mean."
"No," Corey continued. "I mean the man you believed was you father now let me finish so that you can understand before you jump to conclusions. Your mother and father.well Tommy, were all set to get married and he was going to take over my dad's business when he died, but then a man started coming around who had taken a liking to you mother. He flirted and flirted with her until she couldn't help, but to notice and at that time she was still a little naïve, no one had ever given her that kind of attention except Tommy so she ate it up not realizing that she was provoking a dangerous man.
"Well, that kept up for a while until one night your mom and Tommy got into a fight about him working in the business, she was feeling a little scared because there had been a shooting the week before and he said all the wrong things. Anyway she left and went out to a bar and ran into the man that had been hanging around, she had too much to drink and they ended up sleeping together. When she woke up she told him it was a mistake and the went home and immediately told Tommy, and being the caring man that he was he understood and told her it would be okay. After a couple of months she regained his trust and then it happened.one day she got sick and then she noticed that she had missed her period.
"Seven months later the most perfect creature that any of us had ever seen was born and your mother and Tommy got married a day later, but of course we should have known that the man she slept with could do math. One day he showed up at our door and wanted to see his daughter. At first we told him that you weren't his, but before that we had made a horrible mistake, we all agreed that it was a good idea to get a blood test just to be sure and he found out and got a hold of it. He kept trying and trying to see you and when we wouldn't allow it, when we blocked him at every legal turn he took and illegal one and killed my father and Tommy. That left just Paige and I and we didn't know what to do so we went to a man that worked with my father and he helped you two disappear while I stayed behind to keep things under control."
"I don't understand," Layla interrupted this time. "If everything was under control then what happened?"
"My mother got sick," Emily responded and then looked over at Corey and told her to continue.
"Exactly," she said. "When you mother got sick she was so sure that she would eventually die and there was nothing I could do to convince her otherwise. I stayed away for as long as I could, but one day I had to go and see her and I was followed. So we got all of our money together and put it in and off shore account for you to have when you needed it and it's still there today. I kept one of the more discrete businesses going and I've been living off of that. Anyway, your mother met Monica and everything just clicked so one day we sat her down and told her what was going on and she agreed that the only way for you to be safe was for Paige to be dead because no one would expect you to a Quartermaine of all things and luckily your father, Alan, agreed, I'm not sure if the rest of your family knows or not. Looking back now, that probably wouldn't have really stopped him from looking for you, but your mother's death did. After that he just dropped off the face of the earth and we didn't want to jinx it so I stayed away from Paige and she stayed away from you. That was all working out very well until a couple of weeks ago, I assume that your mother saw the same television report I did and wanted to check on you?"
"What television report?" Emily asked anxious to figure out who her father was.
"The one that said Luis Alcazar had not only resurfaced, but was in Port Charles."
Emily and Layla were both frozen, just that name made it all fall into place and Emily realized that Paige probably hadn't seen the television report and if she had it wasn't what got her attention. It was that fact that Alcazar had kidnapped Monica to fix him when he was shot; she probably called Paige as soon as it happened. It was almost funny to her that he had been so close to something he wanted for years and didn't even know it. She could see it now, she could completely understand why he had obsessed over Brenda and why he held her against her will. It was because that was what he did, he went after women who couldn't possibly ever truly love him and when they didn't he tried to kill the men he believed they did love, but he had made a horrible mistake in going to Port Charles and she was going to make he paid for it.
Disclaimer in first chapter.
"I can't believe I'm about to do this," Emily said as she pulled into the ranch that her aunt Corey was now living on. "I mean what if she doesn't know anything, what if I'm about to walk into this woman's life and turn it upside down because I don't want to let go of my dead mother?"
Layla let all of the questions settle in her brain before finally deciding on the answer. "What if she does know something and you don't go up there and ask her, you'll spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been. Emily you said it yourself there are just too many things going on here. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times is just plain weird."
"What the hell are you talking about?" Emily interrupted before she started laughing.
"It's from a story I read," Layla explained. "I mean the story was nothing like this situation, but the point is that when there are so many things happening that just seem to fit together. You should definitely find out what is going on because if you don't, it could come back to bite you in the ass later. So are we gonna do this or not?"
"Yea we're gonna do this." Then both of the girls got out of the car and walked to rest of the way up the driveway, when they got to the door Emily looked hesitantly at Layla and brought her hand up to the door to knock.
A blonde woman who seemed to be in her late thirties or early forties opened the door and looked intently at the girls in front of her. She had on jeans and a flannel t-shirt that had mud on it which made it easy to tell that she had either been working in a garden of some sort or playing in the dirt, which was unlikely.
"Oh my, you look just like her," the woman said ushering Emily in and almost completely ignoring Layla's presence, except to give her a look which asked what she thought she was doing there.
"Your Corey right?" Emily asked and when the woman shook her head almost violently in agreement she then asked: "Do you know who I am?"
"Of course I do sweetheart, your Emily Bowen-Quartermaine, my sister's precious little girl."
"Okay," Emily hesitated and didn't really know what to say next. She looked around the room and noticed pictures of two girls everywhere she assumed that one of them was Corey, but she could automatically tell which girl was her mother. Her aunt was right they did look exactly alike. There was one picture of her mother sitting on a tree that automatically reminded her of a photo she had of her, Jason and A.J. in the back yard of the house, the look on their faces was almost identical. Hell their faces were almost identical.
"So what are you doing here?" Corey asked and when Emily looked at the woman she could see something that almost resembled fear in her eyes, she knew at that point that her mother was definitely alive and it was time to find out what was going on.
"Do you know where Paige is," she asked and noticed Layla flinch at the abruptness of the question until Corey got up and started pacing.
"I knew you would figure it out one day," Corey said as she continued pacing the room. "You look like her, so why wouldn't you be as smart as she is. I'll tell you anything you want to know, but I just need you to answer one question for me first, who told you?"
"No one, I saw her one the street and when I chased, she ran so I took a chance that you would know what was going one and came here. Now that you've gotten your one question out, I have a few for you. The first of which is, do Monica and Alan know that she's alive, I mean have they known all of this time and just not told me?"
"Yes." And it was that simple, Emily felt all of her control falling away and she could feel the tears begin to run down her face. Not only was her mother alive, but also her parents had been lying to her all of this time. She wanted to yell and scream, but mostly she wanted to cry, so she did. Layla just sat there and held her until all of the tears were gone and she could deal with the rest of the story.
"Why did this happen? Why did my mother fake her death? Did she not want me, because if that were the case you would think that she would have given me up at birth and not kept me for so long? So I guess my next question is: Why?" Emily was rambling and she knew it, but she also figured that she had the right her whole world had just been turned upside down and this was her only way of dealing, without having a total and complete breakdown.
"Your mother loved-loves you with all of her heart," Corey said with so much conviction that Emily couldn't help but to believe her. "She has always loved you and always will without question. The things she did were all to protect you from situations that you wouldn't have been able to understand at the time and I need you to remember that, because this is a pretty long story and some of it isn't good."
Emily looked at the woman who had finally taken a seat on the couch in front of her and she knew that she wasn't going to like this, but like she had been telling herself since she stepped into this situation; it was time. "Can you please just tell me what happened?"
"I will, but there are things you have to know to really be able to understand so bear with me. First of all you need to know who your grandfather was; mine and your mothers father, he was a businessman who had dealings with a lot of shady people including mobsters and arms dealers. Thomas Bowen the man who you've always believed to be your father was one of his employees, actually the only person my father trusted with the exception of Paige and me."
"Wait a second," Emily interrupted. "What do you mean the man that I've believed to be my father.you mean that man who was my father, right. That's what you mean."
"No," Corey continued. "I mean the man you believed was you father now let me finish so that you can understand before you jump to conclusions. Your mother and father.well Tommy, were all set to get married and he was going to take over my dad's business when he died, but then a man started coming around who had taken a liking to you mother. He flirted and flirted with her until she couldn't help, but to notice and at that time she was still a little naïve, no one had ever given her that kind of attention except Tommy so she ate it up not realizing that she was provoking a dangerous man.
"Well, that kept up for a while until one night your mom and Tommy got into a fight about him working in the business, she was feeling a little scared because there had been a shooting the week before and he said all the wrong things. Anyway she left and went out to a bar and ran into the man that had been hanging around, she had too much to drink and they ended up sleeping together. When she woke up she told him it was a mistake and the went home and immediately told Tommy, and being the caring man that he was he understood and told her it would be okay. After a couple of months she regained his trust and then it happened.one day she got sick and then she noticed that she had missed her period.
"Seven months later the most perfect creature that any of us had ever seen was born and your mother and Tommy got married a day later, but of course we should have known that the man she slept with could do math. One day he showed up at our door and wanted to see his daughter. At first we told him that you weren't his, but before that we had made a horrible mistake, we all agreed that it was a good idea to get a blood test just to be sure and he found out and got a hold of it. He kept trying and trying to see you and when we wouldn't allow it, when we blocked him at every legal turn he took and illegal one and killed my father and Tommy. That left just Paige and I and we didn't know what to do so we went to a man that worked with my father and he helped you two disappear while I stayed behind to keep things under control."
"I don't understand," Layla interrupted this time. "If everything was under control then what happened?"
"My mother got sick," Emily responded and then looked over at Corey and told her to continue.
"Exactly," she said. "When you mother got sick she was so sure that she would eventually die and there was nothing I could do to convince her otherwise. I stayed away for as long as I could, but one day I had to go and see her and I was followed. So we got all of our money together and put it in and off shore account for you to have when you needed it and it's still there today. I kept one of the more discrete businesses going and I've been living off of that. Anyway, your mother met Monica and everything just clicked so one day we sat her down and told her what was going on and she agreed that the only way for you to be safe was for Paige to be dead because no one would expect you to a Quartermaine of all things and luckily your father, Alan, agreed, I'm not sure if the rest of your family knows or not. Looking back now, that probably wouldn't have really stopped him from looking for you, but your mother's death did. After that he just dropped off the face of the earth and we didn't want to jinx it so I stayed away from Paige and she stayed away from you. That was all working out very well until a couple of weeks ago, I assume that your mother saw the same television report I did and wanted to check on you?"
"What television report?" Emily asked anxious to figure out who her father was.
"The one that said Luis Alcazar had not only resurfaced, but was in Port Charles."
Emily and Layla were both frozen, just that name made it all fall into place and Emily realized that Paige probably hadn't seen the television report and if she had it wasn't what got her attention. It was that fact that Alcazar had kidnapped Monica to fix him when he was shot; she probably called Paige as soon as it happened. It was almost funny to her that he had been so close to something he wanted for years and didn't even know it. She could see it now, she could completely understand why he had obsessed over Brenda and why he held her against her will. It was because that was what he did, he went after women who couldn't possibly ever truly love him and when they didn't he tried to kill the men he believed they did love, but he had made a horrible mistake in going to Port Charles and she was going to make he paid for it.