Faintly, Theresa repeated, "It's Whitney you love, isn't it?" For some reason unknown to her, the thought of Fox being in love with Whitney was a disappointment. Perhaps it was because she secretly wanted to be Fox's mystery woman or maybe it just hurt to know that he couldn't trust her enough to tell her that he loved Whitney. Either or Theresa was feeling very hurt. She lowered her head to hide her tears for him, but Fox knew better. With a gentle touch of his hand, Fox lifted her face up by lifting her chin up. He smiled as he looked deeply into her eyes trying to search for the right words. How could he explain this to her without hurting her? It seemed impossible, but then again he thought falling in love was impossible, so he tried the best that he could.

"It's true, Theresa," he said softly to her. As the words came out, Theresa let loose his clasp on her hands. She let her hands fall delicatly into her lap, where they would stayed paralized by his words.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked in a weak voice, as tears filled her eyes.

"I wasn't sure what you'd think of me," he said honestly. "I could't bare the thought of losing you," he ended with a usual smile, but Theresa didn't smiled back this time. How could she? Yet another man could not fully trust her. Ethan had reason not to, but what had she done to make Fox lose his trust in her? The room began to spin and Theresa felt her body give out. She fell off her chair straight into Fox's waiting arms. "Theresa? Theresa, wake up!" he cried out as he tried to wake her up. Eve came from across the room, where she had been with Julian, and took Theresa's vitals.

"Fox, can you please carry her into Liz's office?" She asked so that she could have some more room to check on Theresa. Fox picked Theresa's little body up in his arms and carried her to Liz's office.

[i]Please let her be okay[/i]

As Fox laid Theresa's body on a couch in Liz's office, Eve asked that she be alone with Theresa for a few minutes so that she could try to get her to come back around. Fox paced outside the room side to side praying that nothing was seriously wrong.

[i]My news was just too big of a shock for her to handle...that's all[/i]

Five minutes, which seemed an eternity to him, passed by before Eve allowed him to come back in. When he stepped in the room, Theresa was awake and sipping on a glass of water. She was calm considering what she had just gone through. Fox pulled Eve aside and asked, "Is she going to be okay?"

Eve smiled as she show the love for Theresa shinning in his eyes, "She'll be fine when everything is over."

Fox didn't quite understand what she meant. What did she mean by "when everything is over?" Was Theresa sickly? Had he caused something horrible to happen to her? Fox stared at Theresa who seemed a complete different person now. What was going on?

"Theresa, are you okay?" He asked as he sat beside her holding her hand. When she didn't move her hand he checked to make sure she didn't have a fever. When he found no fever he said, "Theresa, you're freaking me out. Is something wrong?"

Theresa turned and smiled at him, "Everything is fine. Do you think you could take me home?" Fox nodded and helped her out to his car. The whole drive to her house was very silent, rather creepy. Fox would glance at her from time to time to make sure she was okay and he would find her with a huge smile on her face as she stared out of the window. It seemed as though she was somewhere far off though, almost like she was in a world of her own. Fox wondered if the news had drove her into the deep end. Dr. Russell never said anything like that so maybe she was just daydreaming about Ethan as she had done so many times before. Fox helped Theresa up to her room. No one else was home so he decided to stay for a little while to make sure she was okay. He told himself though that this time he was only her friend, nothing more. Last time things had gotten a little out of control. He just thanked God that Theresa wasn't hurt after that night.

"So why have you had that huge smile on your face?" He finally asked her as he brought her some soup by request. Theresa continued to stare at him with that smile of her's. Fox was beginning to feel uneasy about something as Theresa's smile disappeared, now turning into tears. Fox wrapped his arms lovingly around her as he had done so many times before and waited for her to tell him everything.

"I'm so sorry," she cried into his shirt. "I never wanted this to happen, Fox." Fox gently ran his fingers through her hair trying to comfort her.

"What's wrong, Theresa? You can trust me?"

[i]Trust? I can trust you, but you can't trust me? No[/i]

"I....I'm so alone!" She cried half telling the truth, but half lying. "I have no one. You have Whitney and I have a non-existant relationship with Ethan." Fox gave a little laugh after hearing her say non-existant. He was happy that she was finally able to admit that there was nothing between her and Ethan, but still he knew she wouldn't stop chasing after him...that disappointed him.

"Don't worry, Theresa. I don't have Whitney yet. I have an idea," he said softly as his index finger traced the countours of her lips, "why don't we continue what we started in L.A.? I'll help you get Ethan and you can help me get Whitney. I think we were making actual progress there for a while. What do you say?"

[i]No, I can't[/i]

"Yeah," she said letting the final tears fall from her eyes. "Sounds great."

"Well good. I better head home now. I'll call you tomorrow to see how you are," He said as he grabbed his coat and keys. He kissed her forehead and opened the door. He paused as though something was holding him back, but he wasn't sure what it was. He just had this strange feeling that he shouldn't leave. The last time he trusted his instincts, Theresa and him landed together in bed, so this time Fox shook the feeling and left.

Theresa watched Fox get into his car from her window, and as he drove off she said to herself, "I'm pregnant."

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She stood outside of the mansion waiting anxiously and nervously for someone to answer her. It had been years since Amanda had been home, but still she could sense that it wasn't a real home. She tapped the tip of her right shoe impatiently as she waited, finally the door began to open slowly. Amanda stared at the young man who stood staring back at her.

[i]Could it be?[/i]

"Amanda?" He finally spoke up. Amanda nodded her head and jumped straight into her brother's welcoming arms. Fox was rather surprised to see her there. He had asked her to come home, never expecting in a million years to see her. He smiled as he stepped back to take a good look at his sister who had grown into beautiful young lady. "You certainly have grown," he smiled.

"Look whose talking!" She laughed. Fox sighed, it was so good to hear his sister's voice again. Home wasn't home without at least one of his sister's around.

Julian and Ivy walked in to see the biggest shock of their lives waiting before their eyes. Rebecca followed them, not knowing who this young girl was. Somehow Rebecca sensed trouble for her and told Gwen so right away.

"Amanda?" Ivy said a little speechless.

"Mother," she said bitterly as she kissed her father's cheek, walking right past Ivy without a hug or kiss.

"What are you doing home?" Julian asked rather surprised to see another one of his children home unexpectedly.

"I was kicked out of school again," she said slowly. Ivy rolled her eyes as Julian looked on with disappointment. He always had high expectations for his youngest child, even though he never told them to a soul.

"What did you do now?" Ivy asked as she poured herself a drink.

"I was in a talent contest and they couldn't handle my talent," she laughed as Fox joined her. Amanda remembered exactly why she had been kicked out. She had decided to do a song and dance from Cabaret, which had been approved, but her costume wasn't. She was told that she had disgraced the school with such an outfit and performance and so she had been given the boot.

"What happened to you?" Julian asked finally noticing the cuts and bruises upon her face. "Did someone hurt you?" He said ready to hurt whoever had hurt his daughter.

"No, daddy," she said, "I was in a car accident. I'm fine though. Honestly I am."

Ivy pulled Julian aside to say, "She's out of control, Julian. We need to do something about this." Ivy was always quick to send one of her children away to boarding school just as long as that one child wasn't Ethan.

Julian looked at his daughter and saw that she would be better off at home with her family. "No, Ivy. She'll stay here with me and Fox."

"You want her to stay here?" She asked in disbelief. Julian nodded his head and left to go to his study where he could be alone.

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"Are you going to tell them?" Fox asked as he noticed that his sister had put on more weight.

She nodded her head, "That's all I can do. I mean, I can't hide it from them."

"Hide what?" Ivy asked creeping up behind them. Fox and Amanda stared at each other not knowing what to say.

Finally Amanda was going to tell the truth, "That I'm...."

"That she's going to stay home and not go back to another boarding school," Fox said jumping to stop Amanda from making a big mistake right then.

"I see," Ivy said suspiciously. "Well, I have to get back home. It's good to see you both again."

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"I'll get it!" Amanda shouted as she headed for the door. She opened to see a beautiful spanish woman standing before her. "Hello!" She smiled.

"Hi! Is Fox in?" Theresa asked as she wondered who this woman before her was.

"Theresa, I didn't expect to see you here now," he said as he came down the stairs. "I see you've met Amanda, my youngest sister," he said as he crept behind her and started tickling her. Theresa laughed as she watched Fox, she knew he's make a wonderful father someday. She just wasn't sure that 6 months from now was the time.

"So you are the infamous Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald," Amanda smiled. "I've heard so much about you," she said shaking Theresa's hand.

"I'm sure you have," she laughed.

"You know," Amanda began as she moved closer to Theresa, "I've heard many stories about you being a gold digger and a baby killer and so many other things, but I have to tell you I can't picture you any of those."

"Thank you," Theresa smiled. "It's good to see another Crane that has a heart unlike some," she said staring at Julian.

"Oh don't mine, daddy. He's an old dog that hasn't been taught any new tricks, "Amanda said as they all laughed.

"Well if you'll excuse us," Fox said helping Theresa up the stairs.

[i]Fox, I know you told me you love Whitney, but Theresa is the one for you. I'm going to bring you two together if it's the last thing I do[/i]

As Amanda headed upstairs to her room, she noticed Ethan's wife standing downstairs looking at her with curious eyes. Amanda decided that it was just about time for her fun and games to begin.

"Hi Gwen," she said sweetly as she came back downstairs.

"Hi Amanda! It's great to finally meet you."

"Likewise," she said as she stared her brother's wife up and down.

[i]He gave Theresa up for this!?[/i]

"I must say that when I meet people I barely know and I don't like, I try to keep myself from looking like a major bitch, but I think in this case I can make an acception," she smiled. "See, Gwen, I have reliable sources and from what they gather, you're a bitch." She said very simple like as though she was stating a well known common fact. "As we speak my sources are trying to find all the dirt they can on you and your mother. It's no secret that you wanted to keep Theresa away from Ethan, but what is a secret is just how far you'd go to keep her away from your childhood crush. Once my information is confirmed, I'm going to make your life a living hell. I guarantee you that all of your dirty secrets will be revealed. And I mean [i]all[/i] of them. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm tired and I need my rest." Amanda started to walk away, but turned around having forgotten one small detail. "Just one more tiny important thing. I may not love Ethan as much as I love Fox, but still he's my brother. If you hurt him you'll be answering to me and the results won't be pretty. Trust me, I don't play with the minor leagues. I play with the big boys," she said as she walked away leaving Gwen with a guilty conscience. From the top of the stairs she said with a huge smile in her face, "Oh yeah, have a nice day!"