Title: Child of Love 22/?

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

"Where is everyone?" Ethan asked as he and Theresa walked over to Jessica, Reese and Grace.
"Ethan, Theresa. You're here thank God!" Jessica said as she hugged them and whispered in Ethan's ears. "Save us from this horrible women."
"She's your mother, Jess." Ethan whispered. 
"Mrs. Bennett, it's been a long time since I've seen you." Theresa said as she went over to Grace.
"Well when you fake your death what did you expect? Us to come visit you?" Grace asked.
"What did you say?" Theresa asked shocked.
"She's mad at for faking your death basically." Reese said annoyed as he got up.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Theresa said trying not to laugh.
"The funny thing is she's not. She really is mad at you for faking your death." Jessica said getting up.
"Is this true, Mrs. Bennett?" Theresa asked.
"Of course it is. What do you expect? If it wasn't for you his mother." She said pointing towards Ethan. "Wouldn't have been able to get so close to Sam."
"Explain that for me please?" Theresa asked confused.
"After you died, or let me change that after you faked like you were dead, Ivy kept needing Sam to comfort Ethan, to help Ethan move on because she couldn't do it by herself or so she said. Before you went away, we didn't even know Ethan was Sam's son." Grace explained.
"You can't possibly be serious! None of that is my fault and personally I think you'd be happy for your husband because he finally found out that he had a son, a son that needed him." Theresa said getting mad.
"A son that puts his mother closer to my husband." 
"Is that all your thinking about is how Ethan being Sam's son made Ivy a part of his life or because it made you a not such an important part of his life?" Theresa screamed.
"What's going on in here?" Sam asked as him and Ivy came in.
"We're looking at a cat fight, between your wife and my wife to be." Ethan told Sam.
"About what?" He asked confused.
"About Theresa faking her death just to get my parents to become a couple." Ethan said sarcastically.
"I'm still an important part of his life, Ethan is just an obstacle to over come but Ivy's not winning this, never." Grace said. "Not even you can do anything."
"Excuse me? My son is not just an obstacle to over come." Sam said mad.
"You misunderstood me, Sam. That's not what I meant." Grace started to say after seeing Sam was in the room.
"No I think I got it pretty clear and how dare you blame her for tearing us apart. She didn't do anything, if anyone's to blame it's you." 
"What?" Grace asked shocked.
"Maybe you want to have this conversation in a not so public place." Jessica suggested.
"No, it's about time we had this out. Grace, if you want to blame some body, take a long look in the mirror and maybe you'd see how much you've changed. You're not the same person I married. You've gotten so obsessed with Charity that you stopped caring about our kids all together. And then every time you've decided to look at our marriage and realize it was falling apart, you decided it had to be some bodies fault. You've blamed everyone but who really is to blame: you. I can't do this anymore, Grace. I can't keep pretending like we have a marriage because we don't." Sam said taking off his ring.
"You can't…"
"Yes I can and while I'm at it I might want to inform you that attacking the guests of honor at party is not a way to insure that you stay. Actually it pretty much insures that you will be asked to leave."
"But my family is here." Grace said.
"A family that until today you've cared nothing about so why don't you leave, that this and leave." Sam said giving her his ring. "Ethan will send you divorcee papers in the mail."
"Ethan, Theresa?" She asked. 
They didn't even look at her. 
"Jessica? Noah?" She pleaded.
"Fine, I'll go." She said as she started to leave but she passed Kay and Miguel. "I bet you're happy. You've been wanting this all along." She told Kay.
"Wanted what? We just came in." Kay asked confused.
"Wanted to get rid of me, well you finally succeed, I'm gone!" Grace screamed as she left.
"What is she talking about?" Kay asked.
 
 
"Ok, a toast." Gabi said as everyone raised his or her glasses. "To my mom and dad getting a second chance, to my grandfather's freedom." Everyone laughed. "Also to love that seems to survive even death…"
Theresa and Ethan looked at each other smiling.
"And to some great tasting fake wine." Gabi said laughing as they all clicked glasses.
"So when is this wedding going to take place?" Luis asked.
"Soon, I'm not waiting for something else to go wrong. We're getting this done quickly." Theresa said.
"Well could you at least wait for Paloma and Aunt Maria to come into town? You haven't seem them since, she was a baby." Pilar asked.
"Sure, but that's where you are wrong, I saw her at my funeral." Theresa said. "She's really grown up."
"You were there?" Ethan asked shocked.
"Yeah, and it was a lovely service I may add." Theresa said.
"Glad to know you liked it, you know though if we knew we had an audience we have done more of a production." Miguel said smiling.
Theresa laughed. "You know I never thanked all of you for everything you did to help Ethan out after I was gone. It meant a lot."
"Well we're all either your family or your in-laws so what did you expect?" Kay asked.
"I'm just glad Ethan didn't have to go through this alone."
"Ok a change of topic, that's just depressing." Sheridan said. "Gabi how about your introduce your date." 
"Thanks Aunt Sheridan. That's really want I wanted to do." Gabi said sarcastically.
Ethan looked at her. "Gabi, don't speak to your Aunt that way."
"I knew that one was coming." Gabi said sadly. "Sorry Aunt Sheridan."
"They weren't joking when they said you were strict I see." Theresa said to Ethan.
"With her, you have to be, she's just a little too much like her mother." Ethan said smiling.
"What are you implying?" Theresa asked.
"Ok well everyone this is Travis Schultz, he goes to school with me, Travis this is my very big family." Gabi said.
"Well it's nice to see you do something other than making out my granddaughter." Sam said warningly.
"Grandfather!" Gabi said shocked.
"Sam, lay off the poor boy, you're going to scare him away." Ivy said.
"I think that's the point." Noah said. "Or at least I hoped that was the point."
"Travis, it's nice to meet you and ignore the men in our family. They are just a little overprotected of Gabi but they won't…" Simone said looking at Noah. "Ever lay a hand on you. We will all make sure of that."
"Thanks for the reassurance I was a little worried." Travis said.
 
 
"So where did Gabi go?" Ethan asked Theresa.
"She went home with Luis and Sheridan." Theresa said as she sat down next to him.
"And Travis?"
"He's in the car with her."
"You know I don't trust him."
"I know but she does and that's all the matters."
"It does?"
"Yes and if you and everyone else keep trying to threaten him, she'll just get in to this relationship a lot faster then she should."
"What are you talking about?'
"Look at me and you."
"I still don't get it."
"Remember how much Luis used to protested me being with you?"
"Well of course."
"And the more he protested the more I felt the need to get closer to you."
"So I can thank Luis for us being together?" Ethan asked confused.
"No, that's not what I'm saying this to try a make a point, that's all."
"That I should be nicer to Travis?"
"Well yes that would be nice, you think you could do that?"
"I could try."
"That's not what I asked."
"Ok, I'll be nicer but only for you."
"Well in that case then thank you and I think I should tell you, he's going to be staying at the mansion this weekend." Theresa said as she started to walk off.
"Wait what?" Ethan asked mad.