The next day, Theresa was cooking in the kitchen, and everyone came
out of their rooms, one by one. Little Ethan was crawling around, and
giggling. Ethan looked at his new son, and he was feeling guilty for
missing out on his upbringing.
"I will win you over, Theresa, and be in your life as well as our son's life."
"Ethan. Ethan?, hey where were you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was thinking about today, we need to start with the source."
"You mean me, right?"
"Yeah, I hate to do this, but can you show me your laptop? I need to see something."
"Yeah, sure I have nothing to hide."
Theresa went and grabbed her laptop, and she ran into Chad on the way back to the kitchen.
"Are you sure you want to do this? This may be a painful process."
"I'm a different person now, if he doesn't want anything to do with me after this, well that's on him. But honestly, I have nothing to hide anymore, everything is out in the open."
Hours passed as the five of them looked for any evidence putting Theresa in the clear. Then Fox hit the jackpot.
"Look at this!"
"What? What is it!"
"Ok, look at when this was sent, and the fact it's not the original. It was sent from someone else's computer, under Theresa's name. Ethan, look at the time, Theresa where were you on this date?"
"I was with Ethan, Ivy and my mother picking out wedding plans"
"Well, then it wasn't you!, but the question is who else had access to your laptop, and they have a copy of this floating around"
The Winthrop Mansion
"Mother, we have to get Ethan back some how, Theresa is clawing herself into my husband. What else can we do?"
"I have a plan, and it just might work, come on we have to talk to Juilan"
The Crane Estate
"Father, you mean to tell me, my wife that you told me to marry, was in on embarassing me, and Ethan, just for our money?"
"Yes, you idiot, and if you weren't in to having sex with everything that breathes, you would have saw it coming. I want Theresa's company, and she knows that since you and Ethan are married to her worst enemies, she's not giving anything to us. So, with Ivy's help, you need to get rid of Rebecca and Gwen, so we can link Ethan and Theresa together, so we can have my best lawyer back, and her company."
"Ok, I don't mind getting rid of Rebecca, but me working with Ivy? She is the one who got us in this mess!"
"Yes, this is true, but by making her think she's in your good graces, if you screw up you can blame it on her."
Juilan began to laugh, and stopped as soon as he realized what this father said.
At the Crane Apartment
"I know who did it and why, I should have seen it all along?"
"Who Fox?"
"Think about it, Chad said he heard someone like Gwen on the phone asking if Ivy got the paper on the day Ethan and Theresa were to marry. She was going after Theresa with a baseball bat when she found out about Ethan and Theresa. Then, Rebecca conveintly divorced Johnathan when everything came out? It was the Hotchkiss women, it had to be."
"You're right Fox, and I want my husband back where he should be, not with you all" Gwen said.
They all looked over at her and Rebecca. They looked pretty sure of themselves.
"Get out of our house!"
"Either Ethan comes back with me, or I call child services on you, which is it Theresa?"
"What?!", Ethan and Theresa said at the same time.
"You seem not to remember when you stabbed me in the back, literally, I never pressed charges, well either you come with me, Ethan, or you're little tart, will be arrested for attepmted murder"
Theresa stepped towards Gwen, and they were eye to eye. Gwen stared at her with a nasty glare, and the feeling was returned by Theresa.
"Listen to me and listen well. I was very sick when that happened. Not to mention you would have to go all they way back to Harmony to charge me, and while we are on the subject of lies, you seemed to forget why this mess is going on in the first place. We know about you Gwen, and you too Rebecca. So if you don't mind, just get out, before I call the cops."
"This is not over, not by a long shot."
"Is it ever Gwen, give up, he doesn't want you. To be honest, if he didn't want me, at this point, I wouldn't care, but you seem to be obsessed with having Ethan, I have gotten over it, that's why he wants to be with me, I'm independent."
"So you say, but remember, my name has pull around here"
"No you think so, come here"
Theresa walked Gwen to the window
"Do you see where you are, Los Angeles, where this is my stomping ground, Ethan was coming to my office to get Crane industries to buy me out, since I run this coast, so as long as you are here, you're in my territory"
With that, Gwen and Rebecca stomped out of her house.
"I will win you over, Theresa, and be in your life as well as our son's life."
"Ethan. Ethan?, hey where were you?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was thinking about today, we need to start with the source."
"You mean me, right?"
"Yeah, I hate to do this, but can you show me your laptop? I need to see something."
"Yeah, sure I have nothing to hide."
Theresa went and grabbed her laptop, and she ran into Chad on the way back to the kitchen.
"Are you sure you want to do this? This may be a painful process."
"I'm a different person now, if he doesn't want anything to do with me after this, well that's on him. But honestly, I have nothing to hide anymore, everything is out in the open."
Hours passed as the five of them looked for any evidence putting Theresa in the clear. Then Fox hit the jackpot.
"Look at this!"
"What? What is it!"
"Ok, look at when this was sent, and the fact it's not the original. It was sent from someone else's computer, under Theresa's name. Ethan, look at the time, Theresa where were you on this date?"
"I was with Ethan, Ivy and my mother picking out wedding plans"
"Well, then it wasn't you!, but the question is who else had access to your laptop, and they have a copy of this floating around"
The Winthrop Mansion
"Mother, we have to get Ethan back some how, Theresa is clawing herself into my husband. What else can we do?"
"I have a plan, and it just might work, come on we have to talk to Juilan"
The Crane Estate
"Father, you mean to tell me, my wife that you told me to marry, was in on embarassing me, and Ethan, just for our money?"
"Yes, you idiot, and if you weren't in to having sex with everything that breathes, you would have saw it coming. I want Theresa's company, and she knows that since you and Ethan are married to her worst enemies, she's not giving anything to us. So, with Ivy's help, you need to get rid of Rebecca and Gwen, so we can link Ethan and Theresa together, so we can have my best lawyer back, and her company."
"Ok, I don't mind getting rid of Rebecca, but me working with Ivy? She is the one who got us in this mess!"
"Yes, this is true, but by making her think she's in your good graces, if you screw up you can blame it on her."
Juilan began to laugh, and stopped as soon as he realized what this father said.
At the Crane Apartment
"I know who did it and why, I should have seen it all along?"
"Who Fox?"
"Think about it, Chad said he heard someone like Gwen on the phone asking if Ivy got the paper on the day Ethan and Theresa were to marry. She was going after Theresa with a baseball bat when she found out about Ethan and Theresa. Then, Rebecca conveintly divorced Johnathan when everything came out? It was the Hotchkiss women, it had to be."
"You're right Fox, and I want my husband back where he should be, not with you all" Gwen said.
They all looked over at her and Rebecca. They looked pretty sure of themselves.
"Get out of our house!"
"Either Ethan comes back with me, or I call child services on you, which is it Theresa?"
"What?!", Ethan and Theresa said at the same time.
"You seem not to remember when you stabbed me in the back, literally, I never pressed charges, well either you come with me, Ethan, or you're little tart, will be arrested for attepmted murder"
Theresa stepped towards Gwen, and they were eye to eye. Gwen stared at her with a nasty glare, and the feeling was returned by Theresa.
"Listen to me and listen well. I was very sick when that happened. Not to mention you would have to go all they way back to Harmony to charge me, and while we are on the subject of lies, you seemed to forget why this mess is going on in the first place. We know about you Gwen, and you too Rebecca. So if you don't mind, just get out, before I call the cops."
"This is not over, not by a long shot."
"Is it ever Gwen, give up, he doesn't want you. To be honest, if he didn't want me, at this point, I wouldn't care, but you seem to be obsessed with having Ethan, I have gotten over it, that's why he wants to be with me, I'm independent."
"So you say, but remember, my name has pull around here"
"No you think so, come here"
Theresa walked Gwen to the window
"Do you see where you are, Los Angeles, where this is my stomping ground, Ethan was coming to my office to get Crane industries to buy me out, since I run this coast, so as long as you are here, you're in my territory"
With that, Gwen and Rebecca stomped out of her house.