"Ethan!" Gwen quipped as she was shocked to see him standing by their bedroom door.
Did he hear me? Think quick Gwen.
Ethan approached her, "Gwen, what did you mean the pain you're feeling right now? Are you sick? Hurt?"
Yes, he only caught the tail end of my conversation.
"Umm yeah, my stomach has been hurting a bit. I think it may be intagestion. Dr. Culver said it may occur after the fertility pills he gave me." Gwen quickly covered.
Ethan wrapped his arms around her waist, "So, it's a green light then?"
Gwen placed her hands on his smiling. " Yes, sweetheart. Dr. Culver gave us the go ahead to start having a family. I wasn't sure it was possible after my car accident, but now that Dr. Culver says it's all right... Ethan I'm just so anxious." Gwen said turning around facing him.
"Well, Mrs. Winthrop, no time like the present." Ethan said as he started to peel Gwen's clothes off and take her to the bed.
I got the green light Ethan, the green light to make Theresa's life a living hell.
"Oh Ethan." Gwen gasped.
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Eve was panicking."This can't be happening." She screamed against the hospital walls pounding her fists.
Whitney was taken into emergency. Eve was so worried her baby girl was going to die. She didn't even know what happened. All Chad told her, was Whitney was being rushed to the emergency.
Dear God, please let her be okay. Please let my baby be okay.
"Eve?" Julian said across from her.
"Oh Julian." Eve said crying into his arms.
He patted her head as he soothed her.
"Shhh, now tell me, what's going on?" Julian said worried at Eve's mental state.
She had been through so much this past year with Liz, Ivy, and Rebecca blackmailing her. He didn't know if she could take anymore. She had tried to keep their past a secret for so long, but now so many evil people knew about it and were lording it over her head. Eve was sure to crack. Julian vowed he would never abandon her again, not like he did all those years ago. He loved her way too much for that.
"Oh Julian. Chad called me and told me that Whitney was rushed to the emergency." Eve said sobbing.
"Wh-what? Why on earth for? Is she all right?"
"I don't know. That's all he could say before he locked the phone. Oh Julian, what if she's terribly hurt, or De-"
"Don't even say it. Whitney is a strong young woman with a leveled head on her shoulders. She will come through whatever has happened fine. You'll see." Julian reassured her as he wiped her tears.
"Dr. Russell?" Dr. Stevenson said coming out accompanied by Chad.
Eve rushed to him.
"What's wrong with Whitney? What happened?"
"Well, she had an overdose."
"An overdose on what?" Eve said stunned.
"Drugs."
"Mmmm." Theresa said as she rubbed her hands along Fox's arms back and forth as her back laid on his chest on the Lopez- Fitzgerald couch wrapped in just a white bed sheet."Can this get any better?" Fox said completely content kissing the top of her head and smelling the sweet scent of her hair.
"I know what you mean. Just when I think we can't fit together more perfectly, you keep surprising me." Theresa giggled.
"Me? Surprise you? You're the one that keeps me on my toes Tiger. I won't have to work out for a whole two weeks!"
"Fox stop!" Theresa slapped him playfully as she giggled. "Well, you gave me a workout running around after my diary Mister."
"I wasn't really going to read that Theresa. I just like to see you jump up and down as everything jiggles." Fox flirted as Theresa gasped.
"You are naughty. But I want to show you something." Theresa smiled, got up and went to retrieve her diary.
"Hey...where are you going?" Fox said not liking that her warm body left his side. "Oh no wait, I take that back. I like you in that position." Fox pointed and stared as he propped his elbow against the sofa watching her body bend to get her diary.
She looked...sexy.
Really sexy.
Theresa turned around, giggled and joined him back in the bed sheet. She was about to read the paper when Fox stopped her.
"Theresa, you don't have to read me your private thoughts. I was just playing before."
"No." She said, "I want to Fox. I love how we have no secrets from each other. I'm not hiding how I feel about you and I want you to know."
Fox felt a pain of guilt shoot right through his heart.
Secrets.
Lies.
Whitney.
Theresa can never find out about that. She doesn't need to know. It will only hurt her and I won't hurt her for something that means nothing.
Theresa began reading.
"My Diary, by Theresa Lopez- Fitzgerald. Dear Diary, today I saw Little Ethan and he was as beautiful as ever. I got the chance to play Lego with him and have lunch with him and it felt so good. I miss him so much and I want so badly to cry right now, but I'm not going to. I have to stay strong for his sake. I will get him back. I will remain strong because I have the most amazing man beside me in Fox. He helps return me to my son. He's been everything to me. I can't live without him. He's my strength, my rock, the love of my life. One day I will get my baby back and Fox, Little Ethan, and I will be a family the way I feel in my heart we are meant to be.
Theresa."
Fox's heart melted.
He felt so loved by her. He had never felt that kind of love in his entire life. When Theresa loved you, she gave 110% to you and Fox could feel it all. It was the most incredible feeling ever and he wasn't about to let it go.
"You are amazing, do you know that? Thank you for that." Fox kissed her.
It was an aching kiss, the kind that make your knees weak and last for days. It left them both dazed and confused. Their tongues sparred as the heat from their mouths made them so... feverish.
They both pulled away and Theresa rested her head on his powerful chest as he rubbed his knuckles back and forth along her shoulders. They were so cozy together.
"I hope this feeling never ends." She said more seriously with a hint of sadness.
Fox brushed his finger across her cheek and motioned her to turn to face him.
"Theresa? What's the matter? " Fox said worried.
She looked so sad all of a sudden.
"I don't know...it's nothing really." Theresa said bending her head down, but Fox lifted her chin up as her hair was loosely falling in front of her face.
"Theresa Lopez- Fitzgerald, I know you way better than that. Something is wrong and I want you to tell me what it is." Fox said so concerned.
"I just feel like...like..." She tried to explain. "Like this is all going to end somehow. Like anytime I'm so happy, something or someone comes along and it all comes crashing down around me until I end up miserable again." Theresa moved away from Fox, sat up on the couch holding the bed sheet to her chest with her head bent down in sadness.
Fox moved closer to her.
"Theresa..." He started, but she winced away as the tears starting to spill, not wanting Fox to see her.
"I'm acting silly, I know. Forget what I said." Theresa said quickly wiping her tears away.
Fox moved even closer.
"Baby... I want you to listen to me." He said as he cupped her beautiful, vulnerable face into both of his masculine, strong hands.
She stared back at him.
"Nothing and nobody will ever tear us apart. I promise you that. You are my life. I'm so in love with you Theresa."
Theresa's eyes lit up.
He really did love her. She could see it in his eyes and she could always tell when they lied.
"Besides, I've never loved and felt this loved before and I'm way too selfish to want to give that up." Fox said.
Theresa burst out laughing.
"It's all about you isn't it?" She kept laughing.
Fox smiled and brushed the stray hairs away from her face.
"It's all about you too. That's why we're so good together." Fox said as Theresa smiled. "Ahhh, now there's that gorgeous smile I was looking for."
Theresa jumped into his arms and held him tight.
He held her so tightly.
"I just feel so safe when I'm in your arms." She said as her eyes fluttered closed.
"I love you so much." She pulled away. "I can never loose you Fox. I don't know what I would do if I ever lost you." She stared at him.
"You will never loose me. I'm a fool for you Tiger. I've learned to accept my fate." He smiled.
"Ohhh, you said the F word." Theresa warned.
"Well, looks like I need to be punished then huh?" Fox said as he wrapped his arms around her tiny waist as the bed sheet slipped off.
"Yes you do." She kissed him passionately.
Their mouths meshing into one as they fell back on the sofa making love again.
"Drugs? Not my Whitney. There has to be some mistake Dr. Stevenson." Eve said trying to make sense of this all.
"It's no mistake Dr. Russell. Someone drugged Whitney." Chad insisted. " I keep trying to tell Dr. Stevenson that Whitney would never do drugs. She's not like that." Chad protested.
"I don't know what the family problems are, all I know is the drugs went through the nose, so obviously Whitney herself was taking them." Dr. Stevenson explained.
"I told you, Whitney does not do drugs you bastard!" Chad said ready to attack the doctor until Julian held him back.
"Chad, stop it! Stop it!" Julian said as he held an enraged Chad back. "Cool off son, please."
"Don't call me son! I'm not your son." Chad said disgusted.
"It was just a figure of speech Chad I-"
"I don't care what it was. You disgust me, especially after everything you have done to Theresa. Don't lay your hands on me again got it?" Chad said trying to control himself.
"Got it." Julian said defeated.
"When can I see Whitney?" Eve said anxious.
"You can see her now, but I have to warn you, she's not very coherent. The amount of cocaine and LSD she took, could have killed her. You may see her, but only you." Dr. Stevenson said as he shot Chad a look of disdain.0
Eve rushed into the hospital room frantically.
Whitney?
Drugs?
This can't be. She can't be repeating my past. This all has to be some misunderstanding, it has to be. Whitney isn't like this. Eve tried to reassure herself.
She walked into the hospital cubicle as Whitney looked weak.0
"Whitney, honey, can you hear me? It's your mother." Eve said trying taking her pulse by her bedside.
Mother.
Lying.
Slut.
Whore.
Hypocrite.
That's my mother all right.
Whitney quickly flashed to seeing her mother and Julian Crane kissing at the Crane Estate. The pain of that night still stayed with Whitney.
Where I am?
Hospital?
What happened?
Whitney flashed back.
"Come on sweetiepie. Just take a little. It will make you feel real good." The man said as he rubbed his hands on her neck.
All Whitney could think about was her mother and Julian together and the thought made her sick.
So sick.
She needed that pain to go away.
She needed it to.
Whitney proceeded to bend down and follow the man who snorted cocaine into his left nostril with a razor. She took a bit and sniffed just like the man.
It felt good.
Real good.
Whitney looked around her.
Many people were snorting and the music was loud. Men kissing women, women kissing men, women kissing women, men kissing men. It was one big orgy of sex and drugs.
"Give me more. I need more." Whitney said wanting the pain to go away.
"Whitney can you hear me?" Eve said worried.
"Get out mama." Whitney said stoically.
"What?" Eve was stunned.
She knew Whitney saw her and Julian together, but they had never had a chance to talk about it. Eve never had the chance to explain.
Whitney started to giggle.
"Get out, get out get out." She sang.
Oh My God.
My worst fears have come true. Whitney is high as a kite.
"I need something to make me feel good." Whitney said mumbling. "Get me something to make me feel good mama, please." Whitney started to move her head back and forth giggling.
Eve was stunned.
Did Whitney do this herself? Or did someone else do this for her?
Who did this to Whitney?
Alistair Crane was sitting comfortably in his leather chair at his desk with a Cuban cigar in one hand and his secretary's thigh in the other.
"I warned you Dr. Russell, that trying to get involved in my business by trying to find your and Julian's bastard child would cost you." He laughed. "Looks like Whitney is her mother's daughter." Alistair laughed uncontrollably.
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Gwen was sleeping soundly as Ethan watched her.
He smiled.
Gwen was a good woman who had been through a lot these past few years. She didn't deserve loosing baby Sarah. She deserved a good husband and a good life and Ethan was determined to provide that to her. But his thoughts couldn't help but be turned by the mere mention of Theresa.
Theresa.
She hates me. Ethan thought to himself.
She thinks I don't care about her or Little Ethan.
It pained Ethan to think that all this time Theresa spent loving him and having faith in him, he never had it in her and he knew it. He was a coward, weak and he knew it.
I'm no different than Julian.
Julian was always weak, never being able to stand up for what he wanted or what he loved and even though Ethan was Sam Bennett's son, he still inherited those cowardly traits from Julian.
It's better that Theresa hates me. I need to stay away from her for the sake of Gwen and our marriage. I need to be a good husband. I have to be.
That was easier said than done for Ethan.
The moment he found out Fox and Theresa were together he went crazy. It infuriated him because he knew Fox didn't love her. It was Whitney he always loved and he even admitted it to him.
But Theresa didn't believe him.
No matter how many times he tried to tell her she couldn't trust Fox, that he was using her, she didn't believe him. And it was all because she hated him for abandoning her and Little Ethan. She didn't trust him anymore, she couldn't. He let her down.
If she only knew I didn't abandon her. I tried to help her. Ethan thought to himself.
He had burned one too many bridges with Theresa. She wasn't about to believe him now. She had lost all faith in him and it was his own damn fault.
You can't have it both ways Ethan.
He was determined to be a good husband to Gwen, she deserved that. But it was so hard to stand by and watch Fox crush Theresa as he used her just to get close to Whitney. Ethan didn't know what he could do about it without getting Gwen suspicious.
He still loved Theresa.
God help me, I still love her.
But he needed to be the husband he promised Gwen he would be. He made vows in church and he would stick to them. Besides, he loved Gwen. She was a wonderful woman. He needed to let Theresa be happy and he was content with her being happy, just not with Fox. He couldn't stand the thought of Theresa being hurt after everything that has happened to her.
Fox will hurt you Theresa. I know he will.