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Chapter 3
Kay clutched Shylah's hand as she weeded through the crowd of people trying to get to their planes.
"Mommy, we lost everyone." Shylah tugged on her mother's arm.
"That's ok baby. We're going to meet up later. Come on and remember stay close to me." Kay moved Shylah out of the way of oncoming traffic and they got on the elevator. It was empty to her relief and she let out a sigh, coming home was probably a huge mistake. The biggest she'd ever made quite possibly. She looked down at her daughter, she wasn't sure how she'd do it but she would do everything and anything in her power to keep her daughter. They stepped off the elevator and made their way into the streets of Harmony.
"Mommy, I'm hungry." Shylah said stopping.
Kay turned to her daughter and kneeled down, "We are going to get you some food in a few minutes. We are going to go see your grandpa, how's that sound?"
Shylah face lit up, "I have a Grandpa?"
"Uh-huh, and I bet you'll just love him. He's the best in the whole wide world." Kay smiled at the memories of her father, "Now, are we going to go or what munchkin?"
Shylah nodded enthusiastically and they were off again, about ten minutes later they arrived at the Bennett household.
"Is this where grandpa lives?" Shylah asked.
"Maybe." Kay said, unsure. She rang the doorbell and waited patiently.
A tiny red headed little girl opened the door, "Hi! Who are you?"
Kay looked at the girl and was stunned, "Um, is your mommy or daddy home?"
The little girl nodded enthusiastically and looked at Shylah, "Are you my new friend?"
Shylah hid behind her mother, and answered quietly, "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."
"Joy? Who's at the door sweetie?" A familiar and not too comforting voice came from inside the house. A cheery red headed woman came to the door and stood stunned in silence, "K-K-Kay?" She managed to spit out.
"Hey mom." Kay said smiling evilly.
"What are you---How, when. . ." Grace was speechless.
"Aren't you happy to see me mother?" Kay was glad to have this reaction.
"Grace, darling, who's at the door?" Kay's ear's perked up, that was NOT her father.
"David." Kay smiled in surprise at her new stepfather.
"Kay?" David was as shocked as Grace.
"In the flesh." Kay took Shylah's hand and walked in past her stunned mother and stepfather, she sat down on the couch in the center of the living room. Shylah sat down next to her and Joy followed.
Grace entered the room, obviously still stunned, "Kay, it's been a long time."
"Six years, I heard about you and David. Congrats, sorry I wasn't at the wedding but you know how it is when you have a child to care for. Oh, wait, maybe you don't." Kay tilted her head and gauged her mother's reaction.
Grace sighed, "Still the same brat you were when you left. I see you haven't changed a bit."
Kay rolled her eyes, "I have changed, quite a bit in fact. It's nice to know that you cared so little about me that after I left, you left daddy for David. Or should I call you daddy, David?"
"David is just fine Kay." He said as he walked into the room and stood protectively behind his wife.
"Did she ever find out the truth David?" Kay asked.
David shifted uncomfortably, "Things are different now. We decided to forget out past mistakes and start all over again. Joy gave us that."
"So, no?" Kay smiled smugly.
"Kay, what did you come here for?" Grace asked exasperated.
"Wow mom. Thanks. I'm gone for six years, I come back with a daughter who you haven't even acknowledged, and you ask me why I'm here? Well, I want to know where I can find my father." Kay growled.
Grace grabbed a pen and paper from the desk and wrote something down, "Here. Around this time he's at the station though." She handed Kay the paper, "Now get out of my house."
Kay smiled sweetly at her mother, she took Shylah's hand and walked to the door, "Bye Joy, it was great to meet my little sister!" She closed the door and wanted to start sobbing right then and there. She'd built a wall, she'd closed off everyone off because of that woman and she still had this way to make her feel like hell.
"Who was that mommy?" Shylah asked as they began walking to Harmony P.D.
"A bad woman. If you see her again, don't talk to her. She's not someone I want around you." Kay shuddered to think what would happen if Shylah was brought up around that hellish mother of hers. She looked at her daughter, so innocent, sweet, untouched and protected.
Shylah tugged on her mother's hand, "Where are we going?"
"We're going to go see grandpa now. We had to make that stop so I could find out where he was. We are almost there." They walked for a few more minutes in silence until they reached the police station, "This is our stop Shy."
Shylah looked at the building apprehensively, "Here?"
"Yes. It's not as big as it looks baby." Kay took her daughter's hand and led her into the station.
There was a constant stream of chatter, the phones were ringing, the radio was on and the TV was too, but as soon as Kay Bennett stepped into Harmony PD, it seemed to her that everything was silent. A few people stared, someone dropped their coffee mug, and no one approached her.
"Hello, is Chief Bennett in?" She smiled meekly.
Sam walked into the room, "What's going on here? This is a work environment, you people need to be doing your duties. What's causing this disturbance?"
"I think we are." Kay said.
Sam turned and saw his oldest daughter standing by the door, "Kay?" He breathed out in disbelief.
"Hi Daddy." She walked over to her father and threw her arms around him.
"Oh, my little girl, you have no idea how much I've missed you, worried about you." Sam pulled away and looked at her, "You're so grown up now."
Shylah tugged on his shirt, he looked down and surprise was evident, "Are you my grandpa?"
Sam looked up at Kay and she smiled, hoping her father wouldn't hate her forever.
"Yeah, I am your grandpa." He picked up Shylah, "What's your name?"
"Shylah." She said proudly.
Sam looked at his daughter for explanation on her choice of names.
"How about we talk after we get something to eat?" Kay suggested.
"Sounds good. Is the Book Café alright?" Sam asked.
"Fine to me." Kay nodded.
"I'll be right back then." Sam put Shylah down and went into the back. Kay saw him talking to another officer; he said a few words and the man hugged him happily. They emerged together.
"Uncle Hank?!" Kay was surprised, "You have a job?"
Hank laughed, "Thanks a lot! Yes I have a job, mooching off my brothers good will wasn't working anymore. It's great to you Kay." Hank hugged her.
"Are you coming with us?" Kay asked.
"Sam invited me but I can't. I'm working for the FBI right now on an important case. But, how about you two come by my place and we can catch up?" Hank asked Sam and Kay.
"Three. And you have a place?" Kay asked.
"Yeah, what do you mean 'three'?" Hank looked around.
Shylah waved, "Hi."
Hank looked at Shylah, to Kay, and then to Sam, back to Shylah, "Hello, who are you?"
"Shylah. Are you my grandpa too?"
Hank laughed, "No, not quite. Let's call me your uncle."
"Are you married to my aunt?" Shylah asked.
"What aunt?" Hank looked at Kay, had she already gone and seen Jess?
"My aunts Sheridan and Gwen." Shylah asked.
Sam and hank both looked at Kay for an explanation, "Kids say the darndest things. Why don't we go grab some food?"
"I'll talk to you later Hank." Sam pat his brother on the back in that manly sort of way.
The three left the station and made their way over to the Book Café in silence. Upon entering it was relatively empty. After sitting down and ordering Kay waited for her father to begin the interrogation.
"You never answered my question." He said.
"Shylah is Celtic, it means strong. I needed something like that after I left and I wanted something to keep her from getting hurt. I thought the name would be a good start." Kay answered.
"Well, that was one question. How about where you've been? Why you left? Who her father is?" Sam looked at Kay and was worried that she was in trouble.
Kay took a deep breath, "Before I left Harmony you know that mom and I were having problems. Well she found out that I was pregnant and figured that it was Miguel's. She knew that if Charity found out it would cause a huge rift in their relationship so she asked me to get rid of the child. . .
~*Flashback mode*~
"Kay I don't care how you do it, but I want this baby gone. I will not have you bringing a child into this world because you were too much of a slut not to use protection. If you come back to this house pregnant then I won't be responsible for the consequences." Grace said.
Kay clutched her stomach, "This baby is MINE. I will not give it up because you want me to. This child is the only thing that is keeping me going and you will not take it away from me because you are ignorant. Nothing, and I mean nothing will make me get rid of this baby."
"You seduced Miguel into bed with EVIL and now you are pregnant with his child. I will not have an evil child brought into this house! Especially when that child will ruin Charity and Miguel's perfect love. So here are your options Kay, you either get rid of that hell spawn or you get rid of yourself. You are not welcome into this home anymore. Get out now." Grace opened the front door.
Kay glared at her defiantly, she walked up the stairs and Grace followed. Kay walked into her room; she grabbed a duffle bag and began throwing things into it. After filling it she turned to her mother, "This is the last time you will see me mother. Next time we meet it will be on my terms and you had better watch your back because I don't like when people push me around." Kay walked downstairs and slammed the front door.
~*End Flashback*~
Sam sat dumbstruck, Shylah was happily eating ice cream and Kay looked upset, "She said that to you?"
Kay nodded, "Among other things, but we won't go into that. I'm sorry that you had to hear it this way but you already knew what kind of person she was."
Sam sat silent listening to his daughter recount all the things she had gone through and the real reasons why she had left. It wasn't because Miguel wouldn't leave charity for her, it wasn't because she was scared, it was because she was run out of town by the woman who he thought loved him and who he could at least trust with his children. It was too much, "Kay, I don't need you to worry about this anymore. I know what your mother did was wrong and I'm glad that you told me. She's no longer a part of my life, so you don't have to worry. Now, tell me, what have you been up to these past few years? And what do Sheridan and Gwen have to do with it?"
Kay smiled; her father always had this way of making her feel at peace, "Well, Shy and I have been well, not living, per say, more like. . . um, it's sort of complicated."
"Honey, you can trust me with anything." Sam said reassuringly.
"I've been living with Sheridan and Gwen." Kay breathed out.
"What?" Sam and Kay turned, "You've been living with Sheridan and Gwen?"
Kay cringed, this was not good.
Thank you everyone so much for all the feedback you've given. I'm glad that you are all enjoying this story. I'm working on two other's right now so if it takes some time before the next chapter will come out, bear with me. But, since you're reading this chapter now, I'd love it if you'd let me know what you think. And, help me out. I don't really have a beef with Ivy, I mean sometimes she annoys me, but usually she's ok. Most of the characters are like that for me. But, I want to know if you think Ivy and Sam should be together. So, email me and tell me, my address wizard_of_oz2k@hotmail.com and please, please only email me about fanfiction. Thank you!
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Chapter 3
Kay clutched Shylah's hand as she weeded through the crowd of people trying to get to their planes.
"Mommy, we lost everyone." Shylah tugged on her mother's arm.
"That's ok baby. We're going to meet up later. Come on and remember stay close to me." Kay moved Shylah out of the way of oncoming traffic and they got on the elevator. It was empty to her relief and she let out a sigh, coming home was probably a huge mistake. The biggest she'd ever made quite possibly. She looked down at her daughter, she wasn't sure how she'd do it but she would do everything and anything in her power to keep her daughter. They stepped off the elevator and made their way into the streets of Harmony.
"Mommy, I'm hungry." Shylah said stopping.
Kay turned to her daughter and kneeled down, "We are going to get you some food in a few minutes. We are going to go see your grandpa, how's that sound?"
Shylah face lit up, "I have a Grandpa?"
"Uh-huh, and I bet you'll just love him. He's the best in the whole wide world." Kay smiled at the memories of her father, "Now, are we going to go or what munchkin?"
Shylah nodded enthusiastically and they were off again, about ten minutes later they arrived at the Bennett household.
"Is this where grandpa lives?" Shylah asked.
"Maybe." Kay said, unsure. She rang the doorbell and waited patiently.
A tiny red headed little girl opened the door, "Hi! Who are you?"
Kay looked at the girl and was stunned, "Um, is your mommy or daddy home?"
The little girl nodded enthusiastically and looked at Shylah, "Are you my new friend?"
Shylah hid behind her mother, and answered quietly, "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."
"Joy? Who's at the door sweetie?" A familiar and not too comforting voice came from inside the house. A cheery red headed woman came to the door and stood stunned in silence, "K-K-Kay?" She managed to spit out.
"Hey mom." Kay said smiling evilly.
"What are you---How, when. . ." Grace was speechless.
"Aren't you happy to see me mother?" Kay was glad to have this reaction.
"Grace, darling, who's at the door?" Kay's ear's perked up, that was NOT her father.
"David." Kay smiled in surprise at her new stepfather.
"Kay?" David was as shocked as Grace.
"In the flesh." Kay took Shylah's hand and walked in past her stunned mother and stepfather, she sat down on the couch in the center of the living room. Shylah sat down next to her and Joy followed.
Grace entered the room, obviously still stunned, "Kay, it's been a long time."
"Six years, I heard about you and David. Congrats, sorry I wasn't at the wedding but you know how it is when you have a child to care for. Oh, wait, maybe you don't." Kay tilted her head and gauged her mother's reaction.
Grace sighed, "Still the same brat you were when you left. I see you haven't changed a bit."
Kay rolled her eyes, "I have changed, quite a bit in fact. It's nice to know that you cared so little about me that after I left, you left daddy for David. Or should I call you daddy, David?"
"David is just fine Kay." He said as he walked into the room and stood protectively behind his wife.
"Did she ever find out the truth David?" Kay asked.
David shifted uncomfortably, "Things are different now. We decided to forget out past mistakes and start all over again. Joy gave us that."
"So, no?" Kay smiled smugly.
"Kay, what did you come here for?" Grace asked exasperated.
"Wow mom. Thanks. I'm gone for six years, I come back with a daughter who you haven't even acknowledged, and you ask me why I'm here? Well, I want to know where I can find my father." Kay growled.
Grace grabbed a pen and paper from the desk and wrote something down, "Here. Around this time he's at the station though." She handed Kay the paper, "Now get out of my house."
Kay smiled sweetly at her mother, she took Shylah's hand and walked to the door, "Bye Joy, it was great to meet my little sister!" She closed the door and wanted to start sobbing right then and there. She'd built a wall, she'd closed off everyone off because of that woman and she still had this way to make her feel like hell.
"Who was that mommy?" Shylah asked as they began walking to Harmony P.D.
"A bad woman. If you see her again, don't talk to her. She's not someone I want around you." Kay shuddered to think what would happen if Shylah was brought up around that hellish mother of hers. She looked at her daughter, so innocent, sweet, untouched and protected.
Shylah tugged on her mother's hand, "Where are we going?"
"We're going to go see grandpa now. We had to make that stop so I could find out where he was. We are almost there." They walked for a few more minutes in silence until they reached the police station, "This is our stop Shy."
Shylah looked at the building apprehensively, "Here?"
"Yes. It's not as big as it looks baby." Kay took her daughter's hand and led her into the station.
There was a constant stream of chatter, the phones were ringing, the radio was on and the TV was too, but as soon as Kay Bennett stepped into Harmony PD, it seemed to her that everything was silent. A few people stared, someone dropped their coffee mug, and no one approached her.
"Hello, is Chief Bennett in?" She smiled meekly.
Sam walked into the room, "What's going on here? This is a work environment, you people need to be doing your duties. What's causing this disturbance?"
"I think we are." Kay said.
Sam turned and saw his oldest daughter standing by the door, "Kay?" He breathed out in disbelief.
"Hi Daddy." She walked over to her father and threw her arms around him.
"Oh, my little girl, you have no idea how much I've missed you, worried about you." Sam pulled away and looked at her, "You're so grown up now."
Shylah tugged on his shirt, he looked down and surprise was evident, "Are you my grandpa?"
Sam looked up at Kay and she smiled, hoping her father wouldn't hate her forever.
"Yeah, I am your grandpa." He picked up Shylah, "What's your name?"
"Shylah." She said proudly.
Sam looked at his daughter for explanation on her choice of names.
"How about we talk after we get something to eat?" Kay suggested.
"Sounds good. Is the Book Café alright?" Sam asked.
"Fine to me." Kay nodded.
"I'll be right back then." Sam put Shylah down and went into the back. Kay saw him talking to another officer; he said a few words and the man hugged him happily. They emerged together.
"Uncle Hank?!" Kay was surprised, "You have a job?"
Hank laughed, "Thanks a lot! Yes I have a job, mooching off my brothers good will wasn't working anymore. It's great to you Kay." Hank hugged her.
"Are you coming with us?" Kay asked.
"Sam invited me but I can't. I'm working for the FBI right now on an important case. But, how about you two come by my place and we can catch up?" Hank asked Sam and Kay.
"Three. And you have a place?" Kay asked.
"Yeah, what do you mean 'three'?" Hank looked around.
Shylah waved, "Hi."
Hank looked at Shylah, to Kay, and then to Sam, back to Shylah, "Hello, who are you?"
"Shylah. Are you my grandpa too?"
Hank laughed, "No, not quite. Let's call me your uncle."
"Are you married to my aunt?" Shylah asked.
"What aunt?" Hank looked at Kay, had she already gone and seen Jess?
"My aunts Sheridan and Gwen." Shylah asked.
Sam and hank both looked at Kay for an explanation, "Kids say the darndest things. Why don't we go grab some food?"
"I'll talk to you later Hank." Sam pat his brother on the back in that manly sort of way.
The three left the station and made their way over to the Book Café in silence. Upon entering it was relatively empty. After sitting down and ordering Kay waited for her father to begin the interrogation.
"You never answered my question." He said.
"Shylah is Celtic, it means strong. I needed something like that after I left and I wanted something to keep her from getting hurt. I thought the name would be a good start." Kay answered.
"Well, that was one question. How about where you've been? Why you left? Who her father is?" Sam looked at Kay and was worried that she was in trouble.
Kay took a deep breath, "Before I left Harmony you know that mom and I were having problems. Well she found out that I was pregnant and figured that it was Miguel's. She knew that if Charity found out it would cause a huge rift in their relationship so she asked me to get rid of the child. . .
~*Flashback mode*~
"Kay I don't care how you do it, but I want this baby gone. I will not have you bringing a child into this world because you were too much of a slut not to use protection. If you come back to this house pregnant then I won't be responsible for the consequences." Grace said.
Kay clutched her stomach, "This baby is MINE. I will not give it up because you want me to. This child is the only thing that is keeping me going and you will not take it away from me because you are ignorant. Nothing, and I mean nothing will make me get rid of this baby."
"You seduced Miguel into bed with EVIL and now you are pregnant with his child. I will not have an evil child brought into this house! Especially when that child will ruin Charity and Miguel's perfect love. So here are your options Kay, you either get rid of that hell spawn or you get rid of yourself. You are not welcome into this home anymore. Get out now." Grace opened the front door.
Kay glared at her defiantly, she walked up the stairs and Grace followed. Kay walked into her room; she grabbed a duffle bag and began throwing things into it. After filling it she turned to her mother, "This is the last time you will see me mother. Next time we meet it will be on my terms and you had better watch your back because I don't like when people push me around." Kay walked downstairs and slammed the front door.
~*End Flashback*~
Sam sat dumbstruck, Shylah was happily eating ice cream and Kay looked upset, "She said that to you?"
Kay nodded, "Among other things, but we won't go into that. I'm sorry that you had to hear it this way but you already knew what kind of person she was."
Sam sat silent listening to his daughter recount all the things she had gone through and the real reasons why she had left. It wasn't because Miguel wouldn't leave charity for her, it wasn't because she was scared, it was because she was run out of town by the woman who he thought loved him and who he could at least trust with his children. It was too much, "Kay, I don't need you to worry about this anymore. I know what your mother did was wrong and I'm glad that you told me. She's no longer a part of my life, so you don't have to worry. Now, tell me, what have you been up to these past few years? And what do Sheridan and Gwen have to do with it?"
Kay smiled; her father always had this way of making her feel at peace, "Well, Shy and I have been well, not living, per say, more like. . . um, it's sort of complicated."
"Honey, you can trust me with anything." Sam said reassuringly.
"I've been living with Sheridan and Gwen." Kay breathed out.
"What?" Sam and Kay turned, "You've been living with Sheridan and Gwen?"
Kay cringed, this was not good.
Thank you everyone so much for all the feedback you've given. I'm glad that you are all enjoying this story. I'm working on two other's right now so if it takes some time before the next chapter will come out, bear with me. But, since you're reading this chapter now, I'd love it if you'd let me know what you think. And, help me out. I don't really have a beef with Ivy, I mean sometimes she annoys me, but usually she's ok. Most of the characters are like that for me. But, I want to know if you think Ivy and Sam should be together. So, email me and tell me, my address wizard_of_oz2k@hotmail.com and please, please only email me about fanfiction. Thank you!
