Chapter One: Flashback, Sweet Home and New Stories

"Wait a second." Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald said to Kay, "We aren't all pregnant?"

"Not according to what you all said - I mean someone might of lied but I really doubt it." Kay replied, looking at everyone suspiciously, but they giggled out of joke.

"Well I goddamn well am not pregnant with any child of Julian's, so I am not pregnant period." Ivy said, obviously leaving someone out.

"And what about Samuel Bennett, my FATHER, Ivy? You might be pregnant with his-" Kay started but was cut off by her sister.

"Hey! No fighting, us six our on this together! Now we don't forget that pack we did after our meeting with Alistar Crane right?" Jessica said.

Flashback

Theresa, Kay, Jessica, Phoebe, Ivy and Simone came out of Crane Grounds.

They went to the nearby airport and almost were going to go on the plane when.

"Wait a second here." Simone said, "We need to pack to never turn on each other, because we have committed a BIG crime here."

"Maybe we have, but I don't see why any of us would turn on each other!" Phoebe said, obviously not knowing about Ivy and Theresa's feud, or Kay and Jessica's sisterly feud.

"Oh we do." The five other women replied.

"Okay, everyone put hands in middle." Jessica said.

"We hereby promise to not turn on each other-To not turn on Simone Russell
The Pregnant Kay Bennett
The Pregnant Jessica Bennett
The Non-Pregnant Ivy Winthrop
The Pregnant Phoebe Fledger
The Non-Pregnant but infanted Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald" The Six chorused.

End Flashback

"Hmm okay, let's call it truce, Miss Winthrop." Kay said, as they shook hands.

"Now let's think of new names. What about Wallace? I mean none of us are related to Beth and Edna, so it would be fine." Theresa said.

"I think it's great!" Jessica said.

"Good idea!" Kay said.

"They'll never catch on!" Simone Said.

"Aren't they crazy?" Phoebe said.

"She has a point." They all puffed under breath.

"What about Yvi? Its Ivy spelled backwards." Ivy said.

"You really like yourself, don't you?" Phoebe joked.

They later agreed on the name Merced, since it was almost the name of a car.

They fell asleep on the plane, and a maid took care of Little Ethan while they slept.

* * * When the six woke up, they were landed on the Big Apple's floor. Theresa got little Ethan from the maid, she patted her stomach where her next one was, and got off the plane, Jessica, Kay, Ivy, Phoebe and Simone not too far behind. It was still daytime, they figured around six o'clock at night.

They went to the fanciest hotel they could think of, just because they wanted to spend as much of Alistar's Money as possible, but something went wrong.

"Ma'am, I am sorry, but there is absolutely no money in this bank card." The brunette receptionist said to Ivy, who was taking care of getting the rooms. The other five over heard what the brunette had said.

"No money? Whatsoever?"

"None. Zip. Nada, nothing."

"That backstabbing son of a bee-yatch!" Theresa said, not really liking the Cranes at this moment, "I bet we gave him the wrong tape."

"But that's impossible, I gave him the tape." Phoebe stepped in. She didn't like to be insulted.

"He would of given us the money if we gave him the tape of him and Sharon!" Jessica yelled.

"Wait a second. Didn't we have two tapes originally?" Kay asked the group.

No one liked to speak of the second tape, because it wasn't a black mailing tape, it was a "job application" tape.

"That video where we strip, you know, like lap dancers at those bars-" Kay said but was rudely interrupted by Simone.

"We know what you mean Kay, the tape we had in case Alistar Crane gave us no money and we could become strippers for a while until we got on our feet." She said, not liking that she was speaking of that subject.

"Excuse me, but what are we supposed to do now? We are six women, four of which are pregnant, and one toddler! We can't possibly survive without jobs!" Ivy exclaimed, "But first we should take this somewhere else."

At that moment, the six realized they were making a scene, and that everyone was watching them in disgust. They all looked rich and stuck up, Kay and Simone and Phoebe thought. Ivy, Theresa and Jessica thought of them as normal. Either way, the six left the hotel lobby and went outside in the streets of sunny New York City.

"Well I now know what we did wrong." Phoebe said as she looked at the other tape, the one they hadn't given to Alistar.

"What went wrong?" The others said to her, obviously mad.

"I gave him the "job application" instead of "the love with Sharon". So we have the blackmailing tape"- Phoebe said, but was cut off by Kay.

"And he has the strip tape. Just great!"

"So what do we do now?" Ivy asked quietly. She was already missing him.

"I don't know." Jessica, Kay and Simone pouted, Kay missing him, Jessica missing him, and Simone missing him.

"Neither do I" Theresa and Phoebe said at the same time, both missing their special someone's, even thought Theresa's was married.

"Well I think I know what we can do." Ivy said, as she whispered her plan to her friends.

(Moments later)

"Then it's settled! The Merced 'Family' is going to be staying at the Java Club!" Theresa said, as the six laughed at their plan.

It could have been considered stupid, heck they considered it stupid, but it was their only hope.

(Back in Sweet Home Harmony) Matthew, having nowhere to go after the town reunion with everyone introducing themselves to him, went to stay at Grace's B&B.

He left the B&B to go and see a shop of Harmony, to see if they were similar to his Sweet Home, Vancouver. He found a place called "The Book Café" and he entered with a smile on his face.

He saw that no one in the building was happy, they were all sad, and Matt understood why. He went to sit with the people who looked most close to his age to see what they thought of the whole thing.

"Hey, guys, mind if I sit down and ask a few questions?" Matt asked the group.

"Questions in regards to what?" Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald asked him.

"In regards to the six disappearances." He said firmly.

"That's weird, Sam never said you were a cop." A brown haired man asked Matt.

"And you would be?"

"Noah Bennett. I came back from college after I heard my two sisters went missing just like that." He replied to Matt.

"To answer your question, no I am not a Harmony - is it? - cop. But I am a cop back home in Vancouver. And I am not doing this for anyone but myself - I want to get Phoebe back home A.S.A.P."

"Well looky here, it's the 'friendly' stranger again." Fox said from another table a little bit away where he was eating with Gwen and Ethan, "What are you doing?"

"What do you mean what am I doing? Aren't you eavesdropping on our," Matt said, showing Noah, Miguel, Luis, Antonio, Whitney and Chad, "Conversation?"

"Yes, but you said you would bring back my love to Vancouver."

"Mr. Crane, she might love you a tad, but you do NOT love her, you said so yourself when you broke up with her."

"So? I might love her, I might love Kay," Miguel shot Fox a dirty look as Fox said this, "I might love Theresa," Luis, Antonio and Ethan joined in on the dirty looks at those words, "But I do know that she liked Harmony, and if you bring her back to Vancouver she will be miserable with that Brian person."

"You make a good point, Fox, but Phoebe is the only person to answer your questions. All of our questions in fact. But I have a question to ask one of you." Matt said, looking back at the party sitting at the table, "Where is this Charity Standish I met yesterday?"

"Charity." Miguel said, this close to tears.

"Well, umm, she committed suicide last night, she was blaming herself for all the pain in Harmony." Luis answered for his crying brother.

"Oh, I am sorry to hear that if she was involved with anyone here." Matt said, offering his most sincere apologies.

"But wasn't she that girl who saw the future?" Matt continued on.

"Well in a way - yes. But there is something more to them, even the smallest kids in Harmony know that. Everyone knows about them." Whitney answered.

"The real question is, how did you know about them?" Chad asked.

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"Oh look at that twenty year old, causing pain to 'poor little confused Miguel', as Kay would say if she were here." Tabitha said, observing the group of people not too far away from her, "That boy has no idea how much pain he is causing - I definitely like him, if he continues causing this havoc!"

She then heard Chad say what he had said (above).

"Hmm maybe he is actually a demon or a warlock. That boy definitely has secrets - ones that good old Tabby will have to find out!" She said.

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Beth was in her living room with her mother Edna.

"Darn it! Luis is so into this whole disappearance act, as is the rest of this town, that he isn't even noticing me, Beth Wallace, 'mother' of his 'unborn' child!" Beth said, kicking the couch.

"Wait a second - I can kill Sheridan now and no one, not anyone, will even suspect I did it, because of all the weird happenings right now! They will blame it on someone else, I am sure, so now I shall kill Sheridan! And that Charlie can't do anything to me now, in her current state." She continued, as she laughed sinisterly.

"You are evil, Beth! Very Evil! And the Angels will stop you!" Mrs. Edna Wallace said, as she drank some tea Precious, her nurse, who just 'happened' to be a monkey, had prepared.

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Author's Note: I am trying to involve as many people in this story, keeping in mind that the six ladies are main characters and the rest is side- stepping the story, but they might all intertwine in the end.

I am trying to make everyone happy by putting all characters too, except some I hate more (CHARITY! LOL) won't be in this story.

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