Title: Child of Love 18/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.com)
Disclaimer: this is a fanfic about Passions
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: please send me all you comments. Please! This story is the sequel to CAN DREAMS BE MORE THAN JUST DREAM
"Gabi?" Theresa asked as she cracked open the door. She saw Gabi sitting on her bed crying. She walked over to her. "Can we talk?"
Gabi got up. "I'm too mad at you to talk to you."
"That's understandable, I guess. I mean I cannot make you be ok with this. I wish I could but I can't." Theresa said sadly.
"I wish you could too. I want to be ok with this. But… I don't know how to be."
"Me either, you know I've dreamed of always being here with you and your father but… I always thought it would be sooner."
"I wish it was, I wish you could have been here for everything, I wish I really knew you."
"I'm here now, you can get to know me now."
"It's not that easy! I have had to accept since the day I have said the word mommy that you were dead. That I was never going to have a mother. That mother's day was not a celebration but a memorial to remember you, to mourn you."
"I'm sorry for that."
"You should be. You have been alive all this time and never once did you contact me, not once! How could you do that!"
"I wanted to contact you I really did but they wouldn't let me."
"Excuses! That is all that is, is an excuse. If you really wanted to be with me then you would have found a way. You would have been here for me, but you weren't."
"I did fight for you, every day I fought, I never won and I hate my self that I couldn't beat it, that I couldn't win. Gabi, I would give anything to get back that time I missed with you, all that time when you were growing up."
"But you can't, you can't go back and redo history. You can't make all my bad memories go away."
"I know that but at least I can make new good ones to try to replace the old ones."
"And how am I suppose to do that?"
"We're suppose to try every day to try to get use to this, to try to enjoy this family that we now have again. I can't promise you this is going to be easy for either one of us, but what I can promise you is that I'm going to work so hard to make sure that you are happy. I have waited forever to be able to be your mother, to be able to tell you I love you, to hug you and to not let you go. Can you let me do that?" Theresa begged.
Gabi just stood there for a minute not really believing what was happen. "I'll let you do this if you can promise me that you will not leave me again, that's this is real and I won't wake up in a second and find out this was all a terrible dream."
"I can promise you this is real and I'm not going any where's any time soon." Theresa said as she hugged her daughter for the first time in a long time.
"Maybe I should go check on them." Ethan said worried to his parents.
"Don't, take it from someone who knows long lost parents may take some time getting back with their kids, but it does happen." Sam said.
"I guess your right, I'm just worried about how Gabi is going to take this." Ethan said.
"We're more worried about how you're taking this." Ivy said.
"That's nice and all but I fine, I'm very happy, and I'm fine." Ethan said.
"You're fine and happy? That is all? I'm shocked, if the love of my life came back from the dead I would be a lot more emotional." Sam said.
"Well I'm trying to take it all in, one minute at a time. I'm not really sure it's even hit me yet and when it does, I don't know how I'm going to feel." Ethan said truthfully
"That's reasonable I guess, so about this wedding…. You two do realize you weren't ever not married to begin with?" Sam said.
"I guess we weren't but we never really had a real ceremony and we both need one I think for this to be official and all." Ethan said.
"Well I would love to see us celebrate something for once that goes right." Ivy said.
"I second that, I just hope nothing goes wrong." Ethan said worried.
"I'm not letting anything ruin my son's wedding this time, I'll get all the police force I can find on it." Sam said.
"Thanks Dad that means a lot." Ethan said.
"I thought Aunt Theresa was dead?" Maria asked Kay.
"Um… she was playing dead I guess." Kay said not sure how to answer her daughter's question.
"Why would anyone play dead?" Maria asked confused.
"Someone else take that one please?" Kay begged
"Well you see Maria, your Aunt Theresa's life was in danger, she had to hide, and the only way she could hide was if people thought she was dead." Miguel said.
"Why was her life in danger?" Maria asked still confused.
Miguel looked at Luis.
"Well some people who really didn't like me decided that they would go after my sister, your aunt Theresa and when they didn't get her, they decided to go find her." Luis said.
"But why don't they like you?" Maria asked.
Luis looked at Pilar.
"Well you see your Uncle Luis is a police officer and some people don't like people who are police officers." Pilar said.
"So they don't like Uncle Noah and grandpa either?" Maria asked.
"You know that's a lot of questions for a little girl to ask." Theresa said as she came down with Gabi.
"Is everything ok?" Ethan asked.
"Things are better than ok." Theresa said smiling.
Ethan looked at Gabi.
"Listen to mom, she knows what she talking about." Gabi said smiling.
"Can I make an announcement really quick?" Ivy asked.
"Depends on what it is." Ethan said.
"I wanted to invite everyone to a party at the Lobster Shack tonight for my son and future daughter-in-law." Ivy said. "We're doing this to celebrate their engagement once again to each other and if it's ok with Pilar I'd like for her to co-host it with Sam and I." Ivy said looking at Pilar.
"I'd be happy to." Pilar said.
"Then it's settled, everyone be there for seven, so we can finally give this family something wonderful to celebrate." Ivy said.
"We need it." Luis said.
"And it'll give me a chance to meet all my nephews, nieces and in laws." Theresa said looking around the room. "I thought this was a big family when I left, I was defiantly wrong." She said smiling.
"Yeah well sis, we've been busy while you were gone." Miguel said.
"Yes, I see that." She said looking at Miguel and Kay. "When did you two? Where is Charity?" She asked confused. "And when did you get back?" She asked pointing to Noah. "You two are married?" She asked Simone. "And where is your wife?" She asked looking at Sam. "You two get along now?" She asked Luis and Sheridan. "When did you start liking her?" She asked Hank. "And when did you get over Kay?" She asked Reese. "Oh and you two, finally." She said to Chad and Whitney. "But when did that happen?"
"Now you're the one with a lot questions, that I already know the answers to. Can we trade answers?" Maria asked.
"Yeah I think we will have to do that. Miguel, Kay is this little one of yours?" Theresa asked.
"One of our many ones." Kay said.
"Yeah I see that there or a lot of little Lopiz-Fitgerald's running around." Theresa said.
"Yeah well we're not responsible for all of them." Miguel said looking at Luis and Sheridan.
Theresa put her hands up. "This is going to take a me a little while so one family at a time please." She begged.