~Destiny 25~
A maid walked over and whispered something quitely to Fox. He excused himself from the table and walked out into the foyer to find Ethan and Teresa standing there. It didn't look good. He hoped that Teresa hadn't decided that her place was still with Ethan.
His fears where put to rest when Teresa walked over and hugged him and kissed him gently on the lips. "There's something Ethan and I want to talk to you about, Fox. Something I should have told you along time ago, but I just couldn't."
Ethan and Teresa broke the news of Little Ethan's paternity to Fox. He wasn't surprised, he had expected that much all along. He had caught Ethan at his gravesite many times. He had often wondered why he always seemed so upset at the mention of his name or upon seeing pictures of him. Now his assumptions has been confirmed.
"Now, that you know that, Fox, I would like to talk to you about your relationship with Teresa." Ethan said.
"Ethan, that is none of your business."
"Fox, let me finish." Fox nodded for Ethan to continue. "I wanted to be the first to congratulate you and Teresa. You two seem very happy together and I want to wish the both of you all the happiness life can possibly bring you."
Fox stood there speechless, "Well, dear step-brother, I don't know what to say."
"You don't have to say anything. Just treat her well, Fox." Ethan said patting Fox on the shoulder.
"I will. Thank you."
"Now, Fox, there's something we need your help with." Teresa smiled.
Fox strolled back into the dining area. He had a plan to set into motion.
"Fox, that was very rude of you to leave the table so abruptly. Don't you agree, Julian?"
"Shut up, Rebecca." Julian said. Rebecca's eyes widened as Julian's words hit her.
"Gwen, seems Ethan's been gone on that walk of his for sometime now. You don't think maybe he's taken a stroll down by the cottage do you?" Fox said as he took his seat back at the table. He loved to see Gwen squirm.
"Fox, who dare you make such accusations about Ethan! That little whore will never again lay a finger on my husband." Ethan spit out behind clenched teeth.
"Little whore?" Fox's face turned red with anger.
Ethan entered the room, "Fox, I would appreciate it if you didn't speak in that tone when referring to the mother of my child."
"Thank you, Ethan." Gwen shot a satisfied look across the table to Fox.
"He's not talking about you, Gwen. He's talking about me." Teresa said walking into the room with her head held high. She crossed her arms in front of her.
"What the hell are you talking about, Teresa? You're not the mother of his child, I am!"
"That's where you wrong, Gwen." Fox stated.
"I'm the mother of his child, Gwen. I gave birth to Ethan's son. You know, the one you helped deliver. You know I've often wondered if you would have been so willing to help had you known at the time that it was Ethan's child I was carrying and not Julian's."
"You're lying, Teresa. This is just another one of your little schemes to win back, Ethan." Gwen began to sweat. The truth was coming out.
"Wrong again, Gwen." Ethan said. "You see, Teresa here, stepped aside to allow me to be with you and our daughter. Little did I know that you weren't carrying my daughter, you were carrying some other man's baby that you know nothing about."
"Is that what she told you?" Gwen asked, her voice breaking.
"No, Gwen, that's what I told him." Julian said. Gwen and Rebecca shot him a hurt look.
"You see, Gwen, when Little Ethan became sick we were told that he needed a blood transfusion. Teresa learned that her and Julian were not a match. The only other logical explanation was that I was the father. We did a blood test and it was confirmed that I was Little Ethan's father. Unfortunately, it was too late for Little Ethan. He was already too sick, but I was determined to have the life that I had always wanted with Teresa. I told Teresa that I still loved her and that I wanted to be with her, not you." Tears began to roll down Gwen's face as the reality of Ethan's words sank in. "But Teresa said that it was best that I stayed with you. I needed to be with my wife and our unborn child. She had known what it was like to grow up without a father and that Little Ethan had lived his short life, not really knowing who his father was. She didn't want baby Sarah to grow up like that. Little did we know at the time, that it wasn't my child that you were carrying all along. Damn you, Gwen, how could you do this? I thought you loved me?"
"I did love you, Ethan. I still love you." She walked over and tried to hug him.
Ethan pushed her away, "You don't love me, Gwen. You only love yourself. What Teresa did was love. She unselfishly gave up the life she had always wanted with me so that Sarah could have a family. That's love Gwen."
"Yeah, and now you see how much she loves you. Running off with your step- brother, that you have always hated."
"No, Gwen, that was her reward for such a selfless act. Her and Fox are very much in love. Something you couldn't possibly understand." Julian said.
"I do understand, Ethan. You know I love you. Why do you think I went to all of this trouble? Why do you think I ruined my figure for that thing lying upstairs? Why do you think I went through all the pain of childbirth?"
"That thing?" Ethan spit out. "That thing, as you call it, is a beautiful, wonderful gift that some unfortunate people will never be able to experience. There are millions of people out there unable to have children of their own. To love children of their own and you have the audacity to call it a thing?"
"No, you misunderstood me, Ethan."
"No, I understand you load and clear, Gwen. You're a monster. The monster you always accused Teresa of being, and I'm ashamed to call you my wife."
"Oh, by the way, Ethan. Here are the papers that you asked me to get together. I hope you'll find everything in order." Julian reached inside his dinner jacket and pulled out a what appeared to be some sort of legal papers. He handed them to Ethan.
Ethan quickly read over them, "Thank you, Julian. He is everything that I asked for." He pulled a pen out of his jacket and laid both the pen and papers on the table. "Gwen, here are our divorce papers. If you don't mind to sign on the dotted line."
Gwen looked at Ethan in shock, "Ethan, would you please reconsider?"
"I have also outlined in the divorce agreement that I get fully custody of Sarah. I hope you'll understand."
"No, Ethan, you can't do that. She's my child. Not yours."
"You will sign those papers, Gwen. If not you and Rebecca will be left pennyless. I've already spoke with Johnathan Hotchkiss, and he has agreed what you two have done is unthinkable. He has withdrawn your trust fund, Gwen." Julian said.
"You can't do that, Julian!" Rebecca yelled.
"I can, Rebecca, and I have." Julian smiled, "But I can make you an offer. Gwen, if you'll sign those papers I'll give you and Rebecca enough money to live on comfortably for the rest of your lives. The only other condition is that you have to leave Harmony and never come back."
"Deal!" Rebecca said. "Go on, Gwen, sign those papers."
"Never!" Gwen said. "I will not leave this mansion without my child."
"Fine." Ethan said picking up the papers. "I'll see you in court."
Julian motioned for the Crane security guards to come into the room. "Please see that these two...for lack of a better word...ladies are excorted off of the grounds immediately."
"But pookie, we have nothing." Rebecca whinned.
"So it seems, Rebecca." He said menancinly, "So it seems." He turned and walked away.
"You think you've won don't you, Teresa?" Gwen said.
"I won the day Fox came into my life, Gwen." She hugged up next to Fox. "I guess I should think you for all your help in that area. Had you not interferred in my life I would still be with Ethan today and have missed out on the true love of my life."
"This isn't over, Teresa."
"Oh, but Gwen it is." Fox waved by as the guards excorted a very irrate Gwen off of the grounds.
Fox smiled down at Teresa, "I guess we do have a lot to think her for don't we?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, we do. Her interference in my life lead me to you. You know mama always told me that something good always comes out of everything."
Julian returned and handed Ethan little Sarah. Ethan looked down at his sleeping daughter now lying in his arms, "Yes, it does, Teresa. Something good does come out of everything. Sarah, here is the perfect example."
Teresa walked over to Sarah and looked down at her smiling face, "You, baby Sarah, will have a playmate in, oh, I say, eight months."
Fox looked at Teresa in amazement as her words finally sank in, "You're...you're..."
Teresa smiled, "Yes, Fox, I'm pregnant."
He walked over and took Teresa into his arms and gave her a passionate kiss. Ethan and Julian stood watching. Julian smiled to himself, yet again thinking how something good could come out of everthing. He had his son back and now he was having his first grandchild. Life could only be sweeter if Eve was in it, and he had a feeling that wouldn't be much longer.
And it wasn't. A few weeks later, T.C had filed for divorce after he had ran off with Eve's sister. Eve came running back to Julian heartbroken. Only to find that she had ran back into the arms of the man that she really loved. They had married a short time later and they were happier than they could have ever imagined.
Ethan had gained full custody of Sarah and Julian had built them a home on the grounds of the estate. Ethan now had a very successful law practice of his own and was involved in a relationship with a partner that he had brought in to help out at his firm. She had moved in with him and Sarah a short time later and they are engaged to be married in a couple of month.
Gwen and Rebecca are now living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Harmony. Rebecca is a maid at a local motel and she does earn some extra cash on the side using the only thing that Julian had allowed her to leave the mansion with. Her customes. Gwen is a waitress at the Waffle House. She had gained close to 75 pounds because all she could afford to eat were the waffles that she was offered at a discount. She has been dating the fry cook, Bubba.
As for Fox and Teresa, they couldn't be happier. Two months after the show down with Gwen and Rebecca they were married in a quite ceremony on the grounds of the Crane estate. They were surrounded by their family and friends. The ceremony was almost interrupted when two women tried to crash the wedding, but their attempts were thwarted by Sam and Luis. Six months later, Teresa gave birth to a baby girl that they named Destiny. Because that was what she was to them. Their destiny.
***That's it guys. I hope you like it. Please tell me what you think!***
A maid walked over and whispered something quitely to Fox. He excused himself from the table and walked out into the foyer to find Ethan and Teresa standing there. It didn't look good. He hoped that Teresa hadn't decided that her place was still with Ethan.
His fears where put to rest when Teresa walked over and hugged him and kissed him gently on the lips. "There's something Ethan and I want to talk to you about, Fox. Something I should have told you along time ago, but I just couldn't."
Ethan and Teresa broke the news of Little Ethan's paternity to Fox. He wasn't surprised, he had expected that much all along. He had caught Ethan at his gravesite many times. He had often wondered why he always seemed so upset at the mention of his name or upon seeing pictures of him. Now his assumptions has been confirmed.
"Now, that you know that, Fox, I would like to talk to you about your relationship with Teresa." Ethan said.
"Ethan, that is none of your business."
"Fox, let me finish." Fox nodded for Ethan to continue. "I wanted to be the first to congratulate you and Teresa. You two seem very happy together and I want to wish the both of you all the happiness life can possibly bring you."
Fox stood there speechless, "Well, dear step-brother, I don't know what to say."
"You don't have to say anything. Just treat her well, Fox." Ethan said patting Fox on the shoulder.
"I will. Thank you."
"Now, Fox, there's something we need your help with." Teresa smiled.
Fox strolled back into the dining area. He had a plan to set into motion.
"Fox, that was very rude of you to leave the table so abruptly. Don't you agree, Julian?"
"Shut up, Rebecca." Julian said. Rebecca's eyes widened as Julian's words hit her.
"Gwen, seems Ethan's been gone on that walk of his for sometime now. You don't think maybe he's taken a stroll down by the cottage do you?" Fox said as he took his seat back at the table. He loved to see Gwen squirm.
"Fox, who dare you make such accusations about Ethan! That little whore will never again lay a finger on my husband." Ethan spit out behind clenched teeth.
"Little whore?" Fox's face turned red with anger.
Ethan entered the room, "Fox, I would appreciate it if you didn't speak in that tone when referring to the mother of my child."
"Thank you, Ethan." Gwen shot a satisfied look across the table to Fox.
"He's not talking about you, Gwen. He's talking about me." Teresa said walking into the room with her head held high. She crossed her arms in front of her.
"What the hell are you talking about, Teresa? You're not the mother of his child, I am!"
"That's where you wrong, Gwen." Fox stated.
"I'm the mother of his child, Gwen. I gave birth to Ethan's son. You know, the one you helped deliver. You know I've often wondered if you would have been so willing to help had you known at the time that it was Ethan's child I was carrying and not Julian's."
"You're lying, Teresa. This is just another one of your little schemes to win back, Ethan." Gwen began to sweat. The truth was coming out.
"Wrong again, Gwen." Ethan said. "You see, Teresa here, stepped aside to allow me to be with you and our daughter. Little did I know that you weren't carrying my daughter, you were carrying some other man's baby that you know nothing about."
"Is that what she told you?" Gwen asked, her voice breaking.
"No, Gwen, that's what I told him." Julian said. Gwen and Rebecca shot him a hurt look.
"You see, Gwen, when Little Ethan became sick we were told that he needed a blood transfusion. Teresa learned that her and Julian were not a match. The only other logical explanation was that I was the father. We did a blood test and it was confirmed that I was Little Ethan's father. Unfortunately, it was too late for Little Ethan. He was already too sick, but I was determined to have the life that I had always wanted with Teresa. I told Teresa that I still loved her and that I wanted to be with her, not you." Tears began to roll down Gwen's face as the reality of Ethan's words sank in. "But Teresa said that it was best that I stayed with you. I needed to be with my wife and our unborn child. She had known what it was like to grow up without a father and that Little Ethan had lived his short life, not really knowing who his father was. She didn't want baby Sarah to grow up like that. Little did we know at the time, that it wasn't my child that you were carrying all along. Damn you, Gwen, how could you do this? I thought you loved me?"
"I did love you, Ethan. I still love you." She walked over and tried to hug him.
Ethan pushed her away, "You don't love me, Gwen. You only love yourself. What Teresa did was love. She unselfishly gave up the life she had always wanted with me so that Sarah could have a family. That's love Gwen."
"Yeah, and now you see how much she loves you. Running off with your step- brother, that you have always hated."
"No, Gwen, that was her reward for such a selfless act. Her and Fox are very much in love. Something you couldn't possibly understand." Julian said.
"I do understand, Ethan. You know I love you. Why do you think I went to all of this trouble? Why do you think I ruined my figure for that thing lying upstairs? Why do you think I went through all the pain of childbirth?"
"That thing?" Ethan spit out. "That thing, as you call it, is a beautiful, wonderful gift that some unfortunate people will never be able to experience. There are millions of people out there unable to have children of their own. To love children of their own and you have the audacity to call it a thing?"
"No, you misunderstood me, Ethan."
"No, I understand you load and clear, Gwen. You're a monster. The monster you always accused Teresa of being, and I'm ashamed to call you my wife."
"Oh, by the way, Ethan. Here are the papers that you asked me to get together. I hope you'll find everything in order." Julian reached inside his dinner jacket and pulled out a what appeared to be some sort of legal papers. He handed them to Ethan.
Ethan quickly read over them, "Thank you, Julian. He is everything that I asked for." He pulled a pen out of his jacket and laid both the pen and papers on the table. "Gwen, here are our divorce papers. If you don't mind to sign on the dotted line."
Gwen looked at Ethan in shock, "Ethan, would you please reconsider?"
"I have also outlined in the divorce agreement that I get fully custody of Sarah. I hope you'll understand."
"No, Ethan, you can't do that. She's my child. Not yours."
"You will sign those papers, Gwen. If not you and Rebecca will be left pennyless. I've already spoke with Johnathan Hotchkiss, and he has agreed what you two have done is unthinkable. He has withdrawn your trust fund, Gwen." Julian said.
"You can't do that, Julian!" Rebecca yelled.
"I can, Rebecca, and I have." Julian smiled, "But I can make you an offer. Gwen, if you'll sign those papers I'll give you and Rebecca enough money to live on comfortably for the rest of your lives. The only other condition is that you have to leave Harmony and never come back."
"Deal!" Rebecca said. "Go on, Gwen, sign those papers."
"Never!" Gwen said. "I will not leave this mansion without my child."
"Fine." Ethan said picking up the papers. "I'll see you in court."
Julian motioned for the Crane security guards to come into the room. "Please see that these two...for lack of a better word...ladies are excorted off of the grounds immediately."
"But pookie, we have nothing." Rebecca whinned.
"So it seems, Rebecca." He said menancinly, "So it seems." He turned and walked away.
"You think you've won don't you, Teresa?" Gwen said.
"I won the day Fox came into my life, Gwen." She hugged up next to Fox. "I guess I should think you for all your help in that area. Had you not interferred in my life I would still be with Ethan today and have missed out on the true love of my life."
"This isn't over, Teresa."
"Oh, but Gwen it is." Fox waved by as the guards excorted a very irrate Gwen off of the grounds.
Fox smiled down at Teresa, "I guess we do have a lot to think her for don't we?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, we do. Her interference in my life lead me to you. You know mama always told me that something good always comes out of everything."
Julian returned and handed Ethan little Sarah. Ethan looked down at his sleeping daughter now lying in his arms, "Yes, it does, Teresa. Something good does come out of everything. Sarah, here is the perfect example."
Teresa walked over to Sarah and looked down at her smiling face, "You, baby Sarah, will have a playmate in, oh, I say, eight months."
Fox looked at Teresa in amazement as her words finally sank in, "You're...you're..."
Teresa smiled, "Yes, Fox, I'm pregnant."
He walked over and took Teresa into his arms and gave her a passionate kiss. Ethan and Julian stood watching. Julian smiled to himself, yet again thinking how something good could come out of everthing. He had his son back and now he was having his first grandchild. Life could only be sweeter if Eve was in it, and he had a feeling that wouldn't be much longer.
And it wasn't. A few weeks later, T.C had filed for divorce after he had ran off with Eve's sister. Eve came running back to Julian heartbroken. Only to find that she had ran back into the arms of the man that she really loved. They had married a short time later and they were happier than they could have ever imagined.
Ethan had gained full custody of Sarah and Julian had built them a home on the grounds of the estate. Ethan now had a very successful law practice of his own and was involved in a relationship with a partner that he had brought in to help out at his firm. She had moved in with him and Sarah a short time later and they are engaged to be married in a couple of month.
Gwen and Rebecca are now living in a trailer park on the outskirts of Harmony. Rebecca is a maid at a local motel and she does earn some extra cash on the side using the only thing that Julian had allowed her to leave the mansion with. Her customes. Gwen is a waitress at the Waffle House. She had gained close to 75 pounds because all she could afford to eat were the waffles that she was offered at a discount. She has been dating the fry cook, Bubba.
As for Fox and Teresa, they couldn't be happier. Two months after the show down with Gwen and Rebecca they were married in a quite ceremony on the grounds of the Crane estate. They were surrounded by their family and friends. The ceremony was almost interrupted when two women tried to crash the wedding, but their attempts were thwarted by Sam and Luis. Six months later, Teresa gave birth to a baby girl that they named Destiny. Because that was what she was to them. Their destiny.
***That's it guys. I hope you like it. Please tell me what you think!***