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Chapter 41: Answers, Problems, and Then Some

"It's so good to have you in my arms again, looney tune."

"It's so good to be back in your arms."

Teresa and Fox had been indulging since they found each other a couple of hours earlier.

"Resa, we need to talk. You, Dylan, and I."

"I know."

"I know just about everything you know. Granddad had TV monitors everywhere like he was trying to make me sick. And you know what?"

"What?"

"It worked."

"Fox, I never meant to hurt you. We never meant to hurt you. I thought you wanted to leave me or try to hurt me. That's why Dylan stepped in, in my defense. He tried to keep us away from the "dangerous" Fox we had come to know."

"I understand that, but Teresa, we never formally broke up, nor did you at least break up with the guy who was playing to be me, and you still went on and slept with Dylan."

"Fox, I thought you didn't want anything to do with me."

"Why would I do that? And I would tell you if I didn't, but I still want you Teresa. I want you to marry me."

"What?"

"Will you marry me?"

"Fox, I don't know what to say."

Dylan had to say something so he stepped in, "She accepted my proposal."

"You proposed to her?"

"You bet."

"What the hell? Aren't you supposed to be my best friend?"

"It's not that Fox. We didn't do anything wrong to purposely hurt you, but we did it because we thought you were trying to kill us, or Teresa at least."

Fox looked at Teresa, "Did you accept his proposal?"

Teresa could see the tears welling up in Fox's eyes, "Not officially."

"But you have given him some reason to believe that you would?"

"Yes."

"Why? Damn it Teresa! Why?"

She started to cry, "Fox please! Try to understand!"

"Understand? Understand what? I drop from the scene for a bit and you go sleeping with my best friend and raise MY kids with him? What the hell is wrong with you?"

Dylan stepped in, "Don't talk to her that way!"

"I will talk to her as I please!"

"Like hell you will!"

"Would you two stop it?" Teresa shouted.

Fox looked at Teresa, "Did you accept his proposal yet?"

"No."

"Not officially?"

"Right."

"Okay, so what do I have to do to get you back then?"

Dylan stepped in again, "It may not be that easy."

"Why the hell not? She still loves me."

"She's pregnant."

"WHAT?"

Teresa burst into tears again, "NO! NO! I'm not!"

"Don't lie, Teresa. You're pregnant. With my child!"

"No! Stop it Dylan! I'm not."

"Then why did you say so earlier?"

"I think I may be. I didn't say I officially was."

Fox butted in, "What the hell is it with you and 'officially'? This is crazy! I don't know what I have come back to! This is insane!"

"Fox, please try to understand!"

"Understand? Teresa, I don't feel like hearing you or Dylan anymore. I want to spend sometime with my two daughters if you don't mind."

Fox got up from the chair he was sitting in and left the room in search of his daughters. When the door was shut completely Dylan turned to face Teresa who was sitting in the chair Fox had been in. He knelt down in front of her and she slapped him across the face.

"What the hell did you slap me for?"

"What the hell gives you the right to tell Fox all of that stuff?"

"He has the right to know what has been going on!"

"But right away? I would have told him eventually!"

"After you slept with him again?"

She slapped him again, "SHUT UP! I HATE YOU!"

She started to slap him consistently when he grabbed her arms and started to shake her. She burst into tears when he started to hell at her, "Stop it! Stop it! Look at yourself! Your ecstatic!"

"Dylan! I don't know what to do anymore! He hates me! You hate me! I have two proposals. A possible pregnancy! What am I going to do?"

"Would you calm down? I don't hate you! I love you! Damn it Teresa. I love you! Don't you get that? Nothing you do could drive me away."

"What about Fox?"

"What about him?"

"Do you think he hates me?"

"No. I think he's seriously struggling to understand the situation, but if he didn't love you, he wouldn't propose to you."

"I guess not."

"Teresa, we need to get you tested so we can decide on where to go from there."

"Do you want to go now? While Fox is with the kids?"

"Yeah. Come on, get up," he stood up and held his hand out and pulled her up, "let's go."

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"Well, Ms. Lopez-Fitzgerald, I'm sorry, but you aren't pregnant."

"Thank God!" replied Teresa as she grabbed Dylan to hug.

Dylan thought to himself, "Damn it! I'm going to lose her! I'm going to lose her!"

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"So where do we go from here?" asked Fox to Dylan and Teresa.

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NEXT CHAPTER: The answer to Fox's question to Dylan and Teresa. Fox doesn't know that Teresa isn't pregnant for Dylan nor does he know that Dylan won't give Teresa up w/o a fight (hint, hint, hint).

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