Chapter 9 Part 1:
After a long night on a hard bed, or if that's what you'd even call it, Fox woke up to the sound of the jail bars being banged up against. He rubbed his eyes and looked to see who was making all the noise.
"You son of a....." he was cut off.
"Now, Fox, is that any way to treat your lawyer and one of your best friends?"Teddy asked in a superior tone of voice.
"How did you find out I was here?" Fox asked.
"Pilar, called me up."
"Pilar? Why?"
"How am I suppose to know?" Teddy said as he tapped an envelope against his palm.
"What's that?" He questioned out of suspicion.
"Oh this?" Teddy looked at the envelope like he didn't know everything that was in it. "Oh it's nothing important for me." He rolled his eyes and smiled.
"For me?"
"Well, let me see whose name is on it?" Teddy read the name and said, "I shouldn't let you see this."
"Why not, Teddy?" Fox asked seriously.
"Because it's from some girl named Theresa. She a mysterious to me. Maybe he'll know who she is." He said absently.
"Who? Who will know? It's for me isn't it?" Fox asked eagerly.
"I'm not at liberty to say who it's for." Teddy was starting to get on Fox's nerves now.
Fox got up and acted casual. He approached the bars on the 6x8 jail cell where Teddy was standing before. He leaned up against the bars and continued his conversation with Teddy.
"So you're not at liberty to say who it's for?" Fox said.
"That's right."
"Well, just let me read the name on it. That way you're not doing anything wrong." Fox pulled Teddy right up against the jail bars by his suit and tried to snatch the envelope, but Teddy was already aware of what Fox had in mind. Fox let Teddy go once Teddy threw the envelope behind him.
"Honestly, Fox," Teddy said as he straightened out his suit. "that really isn't the proper manners to display in front of your lawyer and a police officer." He finished off by pointing to the police officer standing in the corner.
"Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just really upset about Theresa and then Ethan. And I know for a fact that Gwen did this to Theresa." Fox told in total confidence.
"Do you have any proof?"
"Not yet."
"What do you mean not yet?"
"Listen, Teddy, I just hired the best of the best to investigate Theresa's 'accident.' I just have a gut feeling that Gwen is behind all of this."
Teddy got the guard to open the door and they went and talked to Chief Bennett.
"Fox, you really must control your temper." Chief Bennett stated the truth.
"I know, I know." Fox replied. "I'm just going crazy worrying about Theresa."
"Still that's no reason to attack your own brother."
"Speaking of the devil," Fox said as he pointed to the door, "look who just walked in."
Ethan walked up to them in crutches. He had some bandages around his head and some cuts here and there.
"Hello my half brother!" Fox exclaimed.
"Fox, dad, I've come here to say that I'm not pressing charges." Ethan shocked them all.
"Are you sure, Ethan?" Sam asked.
"Yeah are you sure?" Fox asked. He couldn't understand Ethan's motive.
"I'm sure. Just Fox, from now on let's try to settle our differences by talking."
"Okay. Fine with me." Fox told him. "Can I go now?"
"Yeah go ahead." Sam informed him that he may leave.
Teddy offered to drive Fox to the mansions so he could change and then go visit Theresa. The whole way home Fox spoke of nothing, but Theresa.
"You must really love this girl." Teddy said in amazement.
"I do. It's funny to think that I, Fox Crane, has fallen in love."
"Are you sure it's love and not lust?" Teddy questioned Fox. After all he knew Fox better than most people.
"I'm positive, Ted. Never before have I felt all of these different kind of emotions each and every time I see her. Whenever I'm down, she's the one and only one who can change my mood in a matter of seconds." Fox said sincerely.
"I'm happy for you then, Fox." Teddy said handing him the envelope.
Fox looked up at Teddy like are you sure you want me to have this?
"Go ahead and open the mystery letter!" Teddy exclaimed.
Fox read his name on the envelope. It was in Theresa's handwriting. Fox ripped the letter opened and noticed that it was from 6-21-03. The day that Fox first proposed to her, also the day before Ethan left Gwen.
Dearest Fox,
I cannot express all the different feelings I'm feeling at this very moment. You asked me a question earlier this evening. Remember? I know I could never forget it. Let me refresh your memory in case it happened to slip your mind. You said something like, "Theresa, I never realized that coming back to Harmony would change my life for the better. I came back in hope of finding father dead so I could take his fortune and skip out on this horrible family once and for all. But since my return, I've become the richest man in the world, even though father is still alive. There was a time in my life when I thought that money could buy me happiness, but.....that all changed after I met you. Theresa, if you haven't already known you are the reason why I'm so rich. Rich in love, rich in happiness. You've made me believe again in a thing called fate. After living and being part of the Crane family, you tend to become rather deprived of those things and you're scared when you first experience them. I know I was terrified and I tend to think you were too. That's why I think you played hard to get at first. You were so cute when you tried to run from my love, but in the end you've learned to embrace my love even after going through that mess with Ethan. I could never really thank you enough for showing me the true meaning of love; showing me what it felt like being in love. I'm here standing before you, my love, wishing.....hoping.....and praying that you will accept my hand in marriage. Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, will you do me the great honor of being my wife, my lover, but most of all my best friend?" Now do you remember Foxy Baby? I must confess your proposal wasn't that much of a surprise, but the way you made it, just thinking about it now brings tears to my very eyes. Fox, I bet your wondering why I'm saying all of this. Well because my answer is.......YES! Yes, I will marry you! Now, once you get this I want you to meet me at our spot. I'll be waiting with loving arms!
Your loving fiancee,
Theresa Crane
P.S. It has a nice ring to it doesn't it?
Fox folded up the letter and wiped away the tears that were welling up in his eyes. The last thing he wanted was to have Teddy see him cry.
"You can't fool me, Nicholas Crane." Teddy began, "I can easily see those tears in your eyes."
Fox looked up at him and just broke into tears. Teddy pulled him in for a friendly hug.
"I know, man. It's killing you, but you just have to have hope that she'll make it." Teddy comforted him.
Fox pulled away from Teddy and took out some tissues he always had on hand in case Theresa ever felt like crying for some reason or the other.
He wiped away his tears, looked up at Teddy with bloodshot eyes and a red nose and said, " I don't know what I'd do if Theresa ever...." he just couldn't say the words or it would seem like a possibility, "How could I go on living if she.....?"
"Fox, just don't even think about that. It won't happen. You've told me many times before that Theresa is a fighter, and if she really is then I think....no I know she can pull through."
Fox had a quick shower and a snack before heading back to the hospital. On his way there he decided to call his people and see how the investigation was coming along.
"Have you found anything yet that will prove that it was an accident?" Fox asked them.
"Not yet, Sir, but so far it doesn't look like a regular accident that happens every other day." The man told Fox.
"Okay thanks. Once you find actually proof give me a call on my cell."
"Yes, Sir."
Fox hung up as he parked his car. No one was around when he got there so he just decided to go right on in. He walked in as Eve was going over the latest results from a test.
"Any change?" He asked hopefully.
Eve shook her head from side to side, "I'm afraid not."
"Tell me, what is her chance for survival?" Knowing the truth would be more endurable than not knowing at all.
"Not good, Fox. There has been very little change in her condition since she was brought in."
"But that can change right?"
"Anything is possible," she said as she headed out the door.
Fox sat beside Theresa, just like he had done since she was brought in on that horrible night. He took her hand and gentle kissed it.
"Theresa," he said softly. "I just read the letter you were going to send me that other night. It brought tears to my eyes just reading it. You were going to say yes, but now I'm not so sure you were. Ethan asked you to come back into his life that same night and the next night we saw you for the last time breathing on our dates. Theresa, you need to come back to me! I can't go on living without you! You know that as well as I do. Little Ethan needs his mother and he needs a father. Theresa, I can be that father he never had. I love him, I love you. You must come back to me." He put his head down on the bed and pleaded.
A week went by before Theresa and Ethan really got a chance to talk. Once day Theresa was sitting in the kitchen just trying to keep cool. The heat had been unbearable that last few weeks. Ethan came down to get a drink of water while he was taking a break from writing an article he planned on sending to a U.S. newspaper.
"You really need to rest, Theresa." He said once he noticed she was fanning herself.
"Oh I'm trying." She laughed. "I'm trying. It's rather difficult when your 8 months pregnant."
Ethan laughed. He had to. Theresa just inspired him to laugh.
"Well is there anything I can do for you?" He asked out of politeness.
"You could help me get to my room."
"No problem."
Ethan helped Theresa up to her room and onto her bed.
"Have a seat." She said. "I want you to tell me all about my husband."
"Okay. Where should I begin?"
"Has he been hurt at all?"
"Not seriously, but once he accidentally cut himself with his scalpel."
Theresa chuckled, "That's Fox for you."
"Yeah."
"How did you both meet?" She asked next.
"Well I was overseas helping educate some of the inexperienced medical staff."
"Which my husband was?" Theresa asked.
"Yes." He laughed. "We both hit it off really well. And although the U.S. isn't fighting any battles yet, we have some of our medical staff over there, such as myself."
"Have you two worked side by side since you first met?"
"Pretty much. Up until now at least."
"Has Fox mentioned anything to you about starting a family?" Theresa just asked out of curiosity.
"He has. He told me the minute he comes home that's what he wants to do."
Theresa smiled happily.
Ethan went on telling Theresa all about Fox and what he was up to. Some of the tales he told her made her laugh until she cried, and others just made her cry and long for him to be next to her.
"So tell me, what happened to you out there?" She asked now that she knew a lot about Fox's whereabouts.
"I was loading patients onto a truck because we were being bombed and we had to move on to another location. I was done loading and I just had to go run back in the tent and get something and while I was there a bomb dropped right on the tent."
"Oh my!" Theresa exclaimed.
"I'm lucky to be living. I just know that I'm here for a purpose. I may not know it yet, but I will one day."
They went on and on telling one another more about them and before they knew it, it was time for Theresa to start making dinner. By the end of their chat, they were very close friends. Ethan helped Theresa get up. They stood before each other. She could feel his breath against her neck. He could just imagine kissing her right there, but before he could even make a move Theresa complained that she felt dizzy.
"Here let me help you sit down."
"No, I'm fine." She said.
"I'll go make something for us to eat while you get some rest." He said.
"No, I'll go."
"No, I won't hear of it." Ethan said decidedly as he left the room.
While Ethan was trying to find a recipe he could possible make he heard Theresa scream.
"Help me Ethan!" She yelled.
Ethan ran up to her room.
"Ethan, I think I'm having the baby now."
Spoilers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Does Theresa and Fox's baby survive?
Ethan tells Theresa that he will deliver her baby!
Pilar finds the note that Theresa was going to send to Fox!
Much feedback is appreciated!!!
~Mandi~
After a long night on a hard bed, or if that's what you'd even call it, Fox woke up to the sound of the jail bars being banged up against. He rubbed his eyes and looked to see who was making all the noise.
"You son of a....." he was cut off.
"Now, Fox, is that any way to treat your lawyer and one of your best friends?"Teddy asked in a superior tone of voice.
"How did you find out I was here?" Fox asked.
"Pilar, called me up."
"Pilar? Why?"
"How am I suppose to know?" Teddy said as he tapped an envelope against his palm.
"What's that?" He questioned out of suspicion.
"Oh this?" Teddy looked at the envelope like he didn't know everything that was in it. "Oh it's nothing important for me." He rolled his eyes and smiled.
"For me?"
"Well, let me see whose name is on it?" Teddy read the name and said, "I shouldn't let you see this."
"Why not, Teddy?" Fox asked seriously.
"Because it's from some girl named Theresa. She a mysterious to me. Maybe he'll know who she is." He said absently.
"Who? Who will know? It's for me isn't it?" Fox asked eagerly.
"I'm not at liberty to say who it's for." Teddy was starting to get on Fox's nerves now.
Fox got up and acted casual. He approached the bars on the 6x8 jail cell where Teddy was standing before. He leaned up against the bars and continued his conversation with Teddy.
"So you're not at liberty to say who it's for?" Fox said.
"That's right."
"Well, just let me read the name on it. That way you're not doing anything wrong." Fox pulled Teddy right up against the jail bars by his suit and tried to snatch the envelope, but Teddy was already aware of what Fox had in mind. Fox let Teddy go once Teddy threw the envelope behind him.
"Honestly, Fox," Teddy said as he straightened out his suit. "that really isn't the proper manners to display in front of your lawyer and a police officer." He finished off by pointing to the police officer standing in the corner.
"Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just really upset about Theresa and then Ethan. And I know for a fact that Gwen did this to Theresa." Fox told in total confidence.
"Do you have any proof?"
"Not yet."
"What do you mean not yet?"
"Listen, Teddy, I just hired the best of the best to investigate Theresa's 'accident.' I just have a gut feeling that Gwen is behind all of this."
Teddy got the guard to open the door and they went and talked to Chief Bennett.
"Fox, you really must control your temper." Chief Bennett stated the truth.
"I know, I know." Fox replied. "I'm just going crazy worrying about Theresa."
"Still that's no reason to attack your own brother."
"Speaking of the devil," Fox said as he pointed to the door, "look who just walked in."
Ethan walked up to them in crutches. He had some bandages around his head and some cuts here and there.
"Hello my half brother!" Fox exclaimed.
"Fox, dad, I've come here to say that I'm not pressing charges." Ethan shocked them all.
"Are you sure, Ethan?" Sam asked.
"Yeah are you sure?" Fox asked. He couldn't understand Ethan's motive.
"I'm sure. Just Fox, from now on let's try to settle our differences by talking."
"Okay. Fine with me." Fox told him. "Can I go now?"
"Yeah go ahead." Sam informed him that he may leave.
Teddy offered to drive Fox to the mansions so he could change and then go visit Theresa. The whole way home Fox spoke of nothing, but Theresa.
"You must really love this girl." Teddy said in amazement.
"I do. It's funny to think that I, Fox Crane, has fallen in love."
"Are you sure it's love and not lust?" Teddy questioned Fox. After all he knew Fox better than most people.
"I'm positive, Ted. Never before have I felt all of these different kind of emotions each and every time I see her. Whenever I'm down, she's the one and only one who can change my mood in a matter of seconds." Fox said sincerely.
"I'm happy for you then, Fox." Teddy said handing him the envelope.
Fox looked up at Teddy like are you sure you want me to have this?
"Go ahead and open the mystery letter!" Teddy exclaimed.
Fox read his name on the envelope. It was in Theresa's handwriting. Fox ripped the letter opened and noticed that it was from 6-21-03. The day that Fox first proposed to her, also the day before Ethan left Gwen.
Dearest Fox,
I cannot express all the different feelings I'm feeling at this very moment. You asked me a question earlier this evening. Remember? I know I could never forget it. Let me refresh your memory in case it happened to slip your mind. You said something like, "Theresa, I never realized that coming back to Harmony would change my life for the better. I came back in hope of finding father dead so I could take his fortune and skip out on this horrible family once and for all. But since my return, I've become the richest man in the world, even though father is still alive. There was a time in my life when I thought that money could buy me happiness, but.....that all changed after I met you. Theresa, if you haven't already known you are the reason why I'm so rich. Rich in love, rich in happiness. You've made me believe again in a thing called fate. After living and being part of the Crane family, you tend to become rather deprived of those things and you're scared when you first experience them. I know I was terrified and I tend to think you were too. That's why I think you played hard to get at first. You were so cute when you tried to run from my love, but in the end you've learned to embrace my love even after going through that mess with Ethan. I could never really thank you enough for showing me the true meaning of love; showing me what it felt like being in love. I'm here standing before you, my love, wishing.....hoping.....and praying that you will accept my hand in marriage. Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, will you do me the great honor of being my wife, my lover, but most of all my best friend?" Now do you remember Foxy Baby? I must confess your proposal wasn't that much of a surprise, but the way you made it, just thinking about it now brings tears to my very eyes. Fox, I bet your wondering why I'm saying all of this. Well because my answer is.......YES! Yes, I will marry you! Now, once you get this I want you to meet me at our spot. I'll be waiting with loving arms!
Your loving fiancee,
Theresa Crane
P.S. It has a nice ring to it doesn't it?
Fox folded up the letter and wiped away the tears that were welling up in his eyes. The last thing he wanted was to have Teddy see him cry.
"You can't fool me, Nicholas Crane." Teddy began, "I can easily see those tears in your eyes."
Fox looked up at him and just broke into tears. Teddy pulled him in for a friendly hug.
"I know, man. It's killing you, but you just have to have hope that she'll make it." Teddy comforted him.
Fox pulled away from Teddy and took out some tissues he always had on hand in case Theresa ever felt like crying for some reason or the other.
He wiped away his tears, looked up at Teddy with bloodshot eyes and a red nose and said, " I don't know what I'd do if Theresa ever...." he just couldn't say the words or it would seem like a possibility, "How could I go on living if she.....?"
"Fox, just don't even think about that. It won't happen. You've told me many times before that Theresa is a fighter, and if she really is then I think....no I know she can pull through."
Fox had a quick shower and a snack before heading back to the hospital. On his way there he decided to call his people and see how the investigation was coming along.
"Have you found anything yet that will prove that it was an accident?" Fox asked them.
"Not yet, Sir, but so far it doesn't look like a regular accident that happens every other day." The man told Fox.
"Okay thanks. Once you find actually proof give me a call on my cell."
"Yes, Sir."
Fox hung up as he parked his car. No one was around when he got there so he just decided to go right on in. He walked in as Eve was going over the latest results from a test.
"Any change?" He asked hopefully.
Eve shook her head from side to side, "I'm afraid not."
"Tell me, what is her chance for survival?" Knowing the truth would be more endurable than not knowing at all.
"Not good, Fox. There has been very little change in her condition since she was brought in."
"But that can change right?"
"Anything is possible," she said as she headed out the door.
Fox sat beside Theresa, just like he had done since she was brought in on that horrible night. He took her hand and gentle kissed it.
"Theresa," he said softly. "I just read the letter you were going to send me that other night. It brought tears to my eyes just reading it. You were going to say yes, but now I'm not so sure you were. Ethan asked you to come back into his life that same night and the next night we saw you for the last time breathing on our dates. Theresa, you need to come back to me! I can't go on living without you! You know that as well as I do. Little Ethan needs his mother and he needs a father. Theresa, I can be that father he never had. I love him, I love you. You must come back to me." He put his head down on the bed and pleaded.
A week went by before Theresa and Ethan really got a chance to talk. Once day Theresa was sitting in the kitchen just trying to keep cool. The heat had been unbearable that last few weeks. Ethan came down to get a drink of water while he was taking a break from writing an article he planned on sending to a U.S. newspaper.
"You really need to rest, Theresa." He said once he noticed she was fanning herself.
"Oh I'm trying." She laughed. "I'm trying. It's rather difficult when your 8 months pregnant."
Ethan laughed. He had to. Theresa just inspired him to laugh.
"Well is there anything I can do for you?" He asked out of politeness.
"You could help me get to my room."
"No problem."
Ethan helped Theresa up to her room and onto her bed.
"Have a seat." She said. "I want you to tell me all about my husband."
"Okay. Where should I begin?"
"Has he been hurt at all?"
"Not seriously, but once he accidentally cut himself with his scalpel."
Theresa chuckled, "That's Fox for you."
"Yeah."
"How did you both meet?" She asked next.
"Well I was overseas helping educate some of the inexperienced medical staff."
"Which my husband was?" Theresa asked.
"Yes." He laughed. "We both hit it off really well. And although the U.S. isn't fighting any battles yet, we have some of our medical staff over there, such as myself."
"Have you two worked side by side since you first met?"
"Pretty much. Up until now at least."
"Has Fox mentioned anything to you about starting a family?" Theresa just asked out of curiosity.
"He has. He told me the minute he comes home that's what he wants to do."
Theresa smiled happily.
Ethan went on telling Theresa all about Fox and what he was up to. Some of the tales he told her made her laugh until she cried, and others just made her cry and long for him to be next to her.
"So tell me, what happened to you out there?" She asked now that she knew a lot about Fox's whereabouts.
"I was loading patients onto a truck because we were being bombed and we had to move on to another location. I was done loading and I just had to go run back in the tent and get something and while I was there a bomb dropped right on the tent."
"Oh my!" Theresa exclaimed.
"I'm lucky to be living. I just know that I'm here for a purpose. I may not know it yet, but I will one day."
They went on and on telling one another more about them and before they knew it, it was time for Theresa to start making dinner. By the end of their chat, they were very close friends. Ethan helped Theresa get up. They stood before each other. She could feel his breath against her neck. He could just imagine kissing her right there, but before he could even make a move Theresa complained that she felt dizzy.
"Here let me help you sit down."
"No, I'm fine." She said.
"I'll go make something for us to eat while you get some rest." He said.
"No, I'll go."
"No, I won't hear of it." Ethan said decidedly as he left the room.
While Ethan was trying to find a recipe he could possible make he heard Theresa scream.
"Help me Ethan!" She yelled.
Ethan ran up to her room.
"Ethan, I think I'm having the baby now."
Spoilers*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Does Theresa and Fox's baby survive?
Ethan tells Theresa that he will deliver her baby!
Pilar finds the note that Theresa was going to send to Fox!
Much feedback is appreciated!!!
~Mandi~
