Title: Child of Love 21/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.com) if you want to email me during the week email me at (23405@sjamail.net)
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
Eve came out of Theresa's room and looked at everyone in the waiting room. Ethan had fallen asleep in the chair outside her room, Sam and Ivy were next to him also asleep, Kay was with Miguel, Simone was with Whitney and Chad, Grace and Charity were with each other, Jessica was with Reese, Sheridan was with Luis and Pilar and Hank was with Beth. Eve didn't know how she was going to lie to Ethan like she had to. How does she tell Ethan that his wife was going to die when in fact she was going to go on living another life with out him and she was going to leave him to live with his daughter. Eve walked over Ethan. "Ethan?" She asked as she moved him.
Ethan woke up with a jolt. "Is it Theresa? Did she wake up?" He asked hoping.
"No, she… she's not going to wake up Ethan, I came to get you because I thought you might want to talk to her."
"Oh." Ethan said sadly. "Would she hear me?"
"Probably not but I thought it might make you… make it easier for you to let go." Eve said sadly.
"I'm not letting go! I will never let go off her! She would never let go of me!" He screamed.
"What's going on? Ethan, are you ok?" Ivy asked waking up quick.
"She wants me to talk to her so I can let her go." Ethan said mad looking at Eve.
"Maybe you have to Ethan, it's not fair for you to hold her here when she's ready to leave." Ivy said.
"She's right, Ethan. Theresa wants to be with God now and the only reason she isn't is because of the baby." Pilar said.
"So her fate has already been decided and it doesn't matter what I say?" Ethan asked mad. "Do any of you even want her to live? Obviously not!" Ethan screamed.
Pilar started crying.
Luis came up. "I know you're upset but don't do this! Do not make us all your enemies because we are all suffering here too. We are all losing her and none of want that. But maybe you do not get it, we all want to be there for you and if you keep attacking us we won't. And whether you want to accept it or not you need us. My sister in there is pregnant and she's slipping away but that baby of hers is going to be yours to raise and there is no way in hell we're going to let your raise that baby with out us. You cannot make us. That baby needs to know it's mother and we're going to make sure of that, we're going to make sure that all of us here are there for that kid, every time it needs us we'll be there making sure that it knows how lucky it was to have a mother like it does. So don't you dare think that attacking us like this is going to keep us away because it is not going to work. Now you're wife needs you and you need her so go talk to her and be the man that she fell in love with so I can start believing she was right about you."
Ethan started walking to her door but stopped and turned around. "I'm so sorry Pilar. I'm sorry everyone, I never meant to…" He started to say.
"It's ok, just got talk to her ok? We understand." Pilar said.
"Thanks." Ethan said as he went into her room. He was shocked to see her lying there in bed hooked up to every possible machine that they had. He sat down in the chair next to her bed and started crying. "Theresa, honey you have to wake up. I need you. I do not know how to survive with out you. I do not know how I am going to raise our child with out you. I know nothing about children. Fox was taken care of by Nanny's and so were sisters so I never had to deal with them." He looked at her and she did not move. "Theresa please I'm begging you. I do not want to go on living with out you. I am not even sure I can. Please don't make me try." She still did not move. Ethan looked up at the ceiling. "Bring her back! Please! She was always doing what you wanted, can't you do this one thing for her, allow her to come back. What kind of a god are you if you get some sort of a joy out of taking the ones I love from me. I tried not to fall for her, I tried to do the right thing and stick with my girlfriend, you know the moral thing but for some reason I could not. I know that was you, you made me fall in love with her. Was I just some game piece in your big game of life? I bet that is all I am to you, just something that you can do anything to. Well this is going to far, this girl should not have to die just for you to be happy for some sick game. Did you hear me! I want her back, I'm ordering you if you're really the god that she says you are, the god she spent her life believing in then bring her back, prove to me, you're worth years and years of believing in!" Ethan screamed. Nothing happened. "I guess she spent her whole life believing in you for nothing! Just like she spent her life waiting for me to love her and then moment I do, she dies." He looked at her again. "I'm so sorry Theresa, I should have realized sooner so we could have more of a life together, so we could grow older together. I should have listened to my heart from the beginning and maybe just maybe you won't be here. You would in the mansion dancing around, singing, and acting like the annoyingly perky person that I love. I need that person right now; I want that person right now. I do not want to keep looking at the body of a person whose soul is gone. I can't!" Ethan said as the tears all started to come out. "I can't look at you like this because this isn't you. This cannot be you. I know it is not. The real you is in heaven dancing, singing and acting annoyingly perky to everyone up there. Maybe if you annoy them enough they might send you back? Try it for me please? Unless that is you're happy. Then I do not know… maybe I should not bring you back if that is the case. Maybe I am being selfish. But don't I at least deserve that? Don't I deserve something? I mean my everything was taken away today, so shouldn't I get something back?" Ethan sighed. "I'm just waiting for you to interrupt me and say something that's going to make me laugh."
"Do you think it's ok to have the baby now?" Theresa asked Eve.
"I don't know, I don't know if I can do that and then pronounce you dead." Eve said back to her.
"Well you're going to have to do that before I go into to labor because if that happens then my cover is blown."
"You do know what this would mean right?" Eve asked.
"Yeah I'll never see Ethan, mama, Luis, Miguel, Whitney, Chad or anyone ever again not even my baby." Theresa said as she started to cry.
"You sure want to do this?" Eve asked worried.
"I have to for everyone out there." Theresa said as she started to cry harder. "Eve, just make sure this child knows I love them with all my heart."
"I will, do you have any names you want me to offer Ethan?" Eve asked.
"Gabrielle Maria if it's a girl and Matthew Martin if it's boy." Theresa said.
Eve came out of the delivery room and threw her jacket away. She walked over to everyone. "Well I'm happy to say that there is a new Crane in the family, a little girl." Eve said smiling.
"A Bennett-Crane." Ethan said smiling at Sam.
"Ok a new Bennett-Crane, the first one if I'm right." Eve said confused.
"The second, I changed my name a week ago." Ethan said. "So can I see her?"
"Which one?" Eve asked.
"I want to show her to Theresa before…" Ethan started to say but he could not get the words out.
"I understand, follow me." Eve said as Ethan, Pilar, Sam and Ivy followed her to the nursery. "That's her the only girl in there." Eve went inside and brought her out. "We need a name for her."
"I don't know… I hadn't really thought about that." Ethan said shocked as Eve handed the baby to him.
"How about Gabrielle?" Eve offered.
"What made you think of that?" Ivy asked suspicious.
"She looks like a Gabrielle." Eve said defensively.
"Gabrielle Theresa Maria Bennett-Crane." Ethan said smiling.
"Maria?" Sam asked.
"Ave Maria, mother Mary. Theresa was always praying to her." Ethan said.
"That's right." Pilar said sadly.
"Oh Ethan, I'm about to take Theresa off…" She started to say.
Ethan stopped her. "Not in front of the baby, she doesn't need to hear this. Plus I want to let Theresa see her daughter before she… leaves us." Ethan said as he followed Eve into her room.
Ethan walked over to her. "They're telling me I've got to tell you bye, I don't want. You know I do not but I guess there are just some things that you have to do even though you do not want. I do not know how I am ever going to explain this to our daughter…" Ethan said looking at Gabi. "Oh, I speaking of our daughter, she's beautiful. I wish you could open up your eyes and see her. She's going to look just like you, I just know it." Ethan said as the tears started to follow. "I'll make sure she knows you, everyday I'll remind her how wonderful her mother was and how beautiful and how much I loved her mother."
Eve walked over to the life support machine. "Ethan, I have to…" She started to say.
"Theresa, Eve's going to turn of your oxygen but I know you and I know that you're already in heaven and you know that I'm allowing this not because I don't love and not because I'm giving up on you. I know you're smiling from heaven on the fact that I'm making such a big deal out of something that fate has done…." Ethan stopped for a second. "And I'm going to accept fate's work just for now, but I will never again." He put his finger to her lips. "I love you, Theresa and don't ever forget that." He said as he nodded to Eve who turned off the machine.
"Mrs. Bennett-Crane we've got to go." The man said as he tried to drag her out.
"No, I can't. I have to stay. I have to stay for Ethan and Gabi." Theresa said as she pulled against him.
"You've already agreed to this. You agreed this would be better for them, for their safety." The man said back.
"I don't care what I agreed to that's the man I love and that's the daughter I love, I deserve to be with them. I need to be with them!" She screamed.
The man put her hand over her mouth. "I hate to do this Mrs. Bennett-Crane but I have to your coming with us." He said dragging her out.
"Ethan, I love you. I'll always love you." She mumbled as the tears all came down.