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PS. I know nothing about DNA at tests... time results... stuff like that so take it all with a grain of salt... just as if it were a real soap!
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Kendall stood outside the clinic waiting for David. She had tried to call him so many times the last two days, but he hadn't returned a single call. She knew that he had seen Ryan carrying her out of the room, but what he hadn't seen was her asking him to leave...
Of course, he had tried to hover... concerned that she had almost fainted... but Kendall had reassured him that she was fine and asked him to go... Simone had shown up with a small ice pack and they had decided to leave... and that was that. Simone had told her that David and Tad were last seen fighting over Krystal...
The thought made Kendall want to cry... but she pushed it away.
Seeing David walking out of a patient's room Kendall walked over to stop him.
"David! I know you're busy... but I have been trying to call you... why have you been avoiding me?"
"Kendall... this isn't the place... I am not avoiding you... ok... just... we'll talk later ok?" David was tired and didn't want to deal with this not now.
"Ok... you're not avoiding me... then why haven't you returned my calls... busy with Krystal?" Kendall groaned... there went the green-eyed monster again.
"No... not with Krystal... come on... aren't we past this jealousy crap?" David felt stupid the minute it came out of his mouth... that was ridiculous because he was jealous as hell when ever he thought of Ryan and Kendall together.
"I thought we were... I thought we were friends... that we understood each other..." Kendall felt as if she had been slapped by David's comment.
"Look... this isn't working... I mean, Can you honestly tell me that Ryan is out of your life for good... that you don't have feelings for him?"
"No... I can't... I will always have feelings for him David, but..."
"No... Kendall... no but's, I can't do this... I can't sit here and wait for you to make up your mind... not feeling the way I do..."
"What do you mean? How do you feel David?" Kendall held her breath waiting for him to answer. "It doesn't matter... it's over... it was fun... but I don't need this complication... I don't want it... go find Ryan... go be happy..." David turned his back on Kendall and walked away.
He didn't stop to question why his eyes burned with unshed tears or why his heart felt like it was about to burst in two.
Kendall felt the tears fall down her cheeks... what had she just lost? Shaking her head she walked out of the clinic... she didn't want to go home, so she headed to the one place she knew she could feel safe... her mother's arms.
Babe was walking down the hallway with Bess in her arms... the house was finely going back to normal and she thought she couldn't have been more happy. But, she was so tired. Even with JR next to her she couldn't sleep... she would get up several times an night, not counting feedings to go and check on Bess...
"Dad... did you get the paperwork Olivia sent? Everything's in order?"
"She won't know what hit her son... you are going to have Bess... and she won't be able to stop it..."
Babe felt her heart drop... what were JR and Adam talking about?
"So how long do I have to wait before I can divorce her... a week, a month... what do you think?"
Babe didn't wait to hear the answer... she just turned and fled the hall... JR was going to divorce her and take her child from her... grabbing her car keys she headed for the one place she knew she would be safe... Bianca would help her...
"Oh sweetheart! Everything is going to be ok... you will see. If your confused maybe this is a good thing... time for you to figure out what you want... what makes you happy."
"I used to think that Ryan was the answer to everything... that he was the one that made me happy... But, compared to the way David and I are... it was nothing... He trusts me... and I trust him... I have never doubted him..." Kendall sat up and started fiddling with the digital camera in front of her.
"Maybe you are just too worried about what should or should not be. Maybe you know what you want... you just don't want to take the leap... and believe me I was scared when you and Bianca talked to me about believing in love and taking chances. But you see... you were so right..." Erica handed a tissue to her oldest daughter and took the camera from her.
"But, what if I make the wrong choice... what if I am making the safe choice just because David is a risk. Ryan says he wants another chance, and I know if I let him he would try and make things right..." Kendall blew her nose.
"Did you ever stop to think that maybe he shouldn't have to MAKE things right... that they should just be right... what is on this thing anyway?" Turning on the camera Erica stared down at a picture she didn't recognize.
"Oh... those must be the ones that Bianca took..." Kendall hiccuped and looked at the camera screen.
"Kendall... oh my... no! It can't be... oh no..." Erica went pale and dropped the camera and stood up.
"Mom? What is it? Are you ok?" Kendall picked up the camera looked at the picture that was showing now. It was one of little Bess staring up the camera... she was so beautiful.
"Kendall... wait don't... don't push anything..." Erica ran to her bedroom.
What was going on here?
"Look... look at this..." Erica came back holding a small photo. "Where did you get this picture of Bess? Did Bianca leave it? I don't understand..." But, suddenly a feeling started growing deep in her stomach and she knew what her mother was about to say.
"That is not Bess... that is Bianca.... The day I brought her home from the hospital..."
"Mother... we have to go... we have to go and get Bianca right now... because if what we are feeling is right..." Kendall grabbed her purse and headed for the door.
"Bess... is really Miranda...oh please God... please let us be right..." Erica grabbed her purse and rushed after Kendall.
"I am so sorry Bianca... I didn't know where else to go..." Babe sobbed on her best friend's shoulder.
"Babe, surely you miss understood. JR loves you... he would never..." Bianca sat holding Babe's hand trying to comfort her.
"I think I knew this was going to happen... remember that day I told you... I told you about Paul... JR was acting so weird... and ever since the wedding he has been so busy... and I thought it was because of work... but now... what if he was just avoiding me?" Babe blew her nose.
"You know what? I am going to make us some tea and we are going to figure something out ok... I promise... everything will be ok!" Bianca stood up and walked to the kitchen.
"Hayward you have a minute?" Tad couldn't believe he was doing this.
"God! What now? What in the hell do you want Tad?" David just felt like his day had gone from bad to worse...
"Tell me what you know about DNA tests... how easy are they to mess with?"
"Well... if we are thinking about the same DNA test... I would say probably pretty easy... your father doesn't run the most secure facility, why?"
"I don't know... I just have this feeling the Krystal may have done something to the test... look... I know we are not friends but we have common ground here and that is Bianca..."
"You know that might be the first thing you have ever said that I agree with... but, how can we prove this theory?"
"Well... I had to be sneaky... but I was able to get a strand of the baby's hair last night... and I also have a lock of Babe's hair from her hairbrush... sneaky I know... but will it work?"
"Pretty underhanded... you know if I do this... and we are right... what it will do to JR?" David had to admire Tad's thinking though.
"Yeah... and it's just a risk I have to take... I mean we have all been wanting answers... and Bianca doesn't deserve this... not in a million years..."
"Well, let's go and run ourselves a test shall we..." David took the two separate envelopes and headed toward the lab.
Tad said a silent prayer to Dixie, "God forgive me and you too... if Bess isn't JR's and Babe's this is going to really hurt him..."
Not even an hour later David stared down at the results in his hands, "Well... I hate to say it but you have some damn good instincts... take a look..."
Tad was staring at the results in his hands when David's cell phone rang.
"Kendall? What's wrong? No I am glad you called... where's Bianca? What? Well... I can do better than a photograph!" David hung up the phone.
"Tad? We have to go... I think Bianca needs to know this and from what Kendall says Babe is over with her and the baby right now... we have to do this... without Adam around... he would crucify Babe..."
"Let's go... I just hope we can forgive ourselves for this..."
Bess started crying and Bianca hoped that Babe would hurry up in the restroom, so she wouldn't have to hold her. It wasn't that she didn't want to hold Bess. It was that she just didn't want to let Bess go.
"Can you get her for me... I just want to wash my face..." Babe called from the bathroom.
Bianca closed her eyes and prayed for strength. Walking over she picked up the crying baby and held her to her chest.
"It's ok... everything's ok little one... oh look! It Kendall and my mom... they are going to be so surprised to see you... shhhh." Bianca patted Bess' tiny back.
Just as Kendall and Erica walked in the door Babe came out of the bathroom.
Staring at Bianca holding Bess, Babe felt a tight feeling in her chest and a ringing in her head... her mind flashed back to the cabin... to the moment she had handed Miranda to her mother... and before she could shake it out of her head she fainted.
"Oh no! Kendall... help her! Babe? Babe? Mom? What is wrong with her?" Bianca sat the baby in her carrier and rushed over to where her sister and mother were trying to revive Babe.
"What happened?" David came rushing in.
"I don't know... David, she just fainted... please you have to help her..." Bianca rushed over and grabbed his arm.
Kendall and David's eyes met over her head.
"What? What is going on?"
"I think she just realized the truth..." For the first time Bianca realized Tad was right behind David... what in the hell was going on?
"She's waking up...." Erica shouted at the group standing there staring at each other.
"Oh no... Miranda... My baby... my baby..." Babe began to sob.
"No... no Babe! Bess is right here... she's fine... I promise..." Bianca tried to reassure her friend.
Why was everyone just standing there?
"No!...No... oh god! My baby..." Was all Babe could say.
"Bianca..." Kendall didn't know how to tell her so she just looked helplessly at her mother.
Erica stood up and walked over to the baby and turned and looked back at Bianca.
Picking her up she carried her over to her daughter and tried to smile, but how could she be happy when giving her daughter her child back meant taking her away from another.
"Bianca... I want you to look at this baby... really look... what does your heart keep telling you..."
"Mother? Why are you doing this?" Bianca began to cry, she was really getting scared.
Babe pulled herself together and took Bess from Erica's eyes with a nod. Turning to her friend with tears streaming down her face Babe managed to say what her heart and eyes were telling her.
"I put her in your arms... in the cabin... I handed you this sweet little baby... I should have known... I am so sorry... Bianca, I swear I didn't know... here... please... I am putting her in your arms again... where she belongs."
It was slowly registering what everyone was trying to tell her. Bianca stared down at the tiny little face looking back at her.
"This is my baby... she really is Miranda... I am not crazy..."
Kendall walked over to Babe and held her to her, she knew what it had taken for Babe to do what she had just done.
Erica wiped her tears from her face and took one of Babe's hands and willed some of her strength to this heart broken woman.
"Yes... Bianca... you are holding Miranda..." David nodded and put his hand on her shoulder.
One heart was broken that afternoon... but another was made whole...
Staring at her friend Bianca made a vow. She would see Paul Kramer rot in jail for the pain he had caused her, Babe, and the people she loved.
PS. I know nothing about DNA at tests... time results... stuff like that so take it all with a grain of salt... just as if it were a real soap!
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Kendall stood outside the clinic waiting for David. She had tried to call him so many times the last two days, but he hadn't returned a single call. She knew that he had seen Ryan carrying her out of the room, but what he hadn't seen was her asking him to leave...
Of course, he had tried to hover... concerned that she had almost fainted... but Kendall had reassured him that she was fine and asked him to go... Simone had shown up with a small ice pack and they had decided to leave... and that was that. Simone had told her that David and Tad were last seen fighting over Krystal...
The thought made Kendall want to cry... but she pushed it away.
Seeing David walking out of a patient's room Kendall walked over to stop him.
"David! I know you're busy... but I have been trying to call you... why have you been avoiding me?"
"Kendall... this isn't the place... I am not avoiding you... ok... just... we'll talk later ok?" David was tired and didn't want to deal with this not now.
"Ok... you're not avoiding me... then why haven't you returned my calls... busy with Krystal?" Kendall groaned... there went the green-eyed monster again.
"No... not with Krystal... come on... aren't we past this jealousy crap?" David felt stupid the minute it came out of his mouth... that was ridiculous because he was jealous as hell when ever he thought of Ryan and Kendall together.
"I thought we were... I thought we were friends... that we understood each other..." Kendall felt as if she had been slapped by David's comment.
"Look... this isn't working... I mean, Can you honestly tell me that Ryan is out of your life for good... that you don't have feelings for him?"
"No... I can't... I will always have feelings for him David, but..."
"No... Kendall... no but's, I can't do this... I can't sit here and wait for you to make up your mind... not feeling the way I do..."
"What do you mean? How do you feel David?" Kendall held her breath waiting for him to answer. "It doesn't matter... it's over... it was fun... but I don't need this complication... I don't want it... go find Ryan... go be happy..." David turned his back on Kendall and walked away.
He didn't stop to question why his eyes burned with unshed tears or why his heart felt like it was about to burst in two.
Kendall felt the tears fall down her cheeks... what had she just lost? Shaking her head she walked out of the clinic... she didn't want to go home, so she headed to the one place she knew she could feel safe... her mother's arms.
Babe was walking down the hallway with Bess in her arms... the house was finely going back to normal and she thought she couldn't have been more happy. But, she was so tired. Even with JR next to her she couldn't sleep... she would get up several times an night, not counting feedings to go and check on Bess...
"Dad... did you get the paperwork Olivia sent? Everything's in order?"
"She won't know what hit her son... you are going to have Bess... and she won't be able to stop it..."
Babe felt her heart drop... what were JR and Adam talking about?
"So how long do I have to wait before I can divorce her... a week, a month... what do you think?"
Babe didn't wait to hear the answer... she just turned and fled the hall... JR was going to divorce her and take her child from her... grabbing her car keys she headed for the one place she knew she would be safe... Bianca would help her...
"Oh sweetheart! Everything is going to be ok... you will see. If your confused maybe this is a good thing... time for you to figure out what you want... what makes you happy."
"I used to think that Ryan was the answer to everything... that he was the one that made me happy... But, compared to the way David and I are... it was nothing... He trusts me... and I trust him... I have never doubted him..." Kendall sat up and started fiddling with the digital camera in front of her.
"Maybe you are just too worried about what should or should not be. Maybe you know what you want... you just don't want to take the leap... and believe me I was scared when you and Bianca talked to me about believing in love and taking chances. But you see... you were so right..." Erica handed a tissue to her oldest daughter and took the camera from her.
"But, what if I make the wrong choice... what if I am making the safe choice just because David is a risk. Ryan says he wants another chance, and I know if I let him he would try and make things right..." Kendall blew her nose.
"Did you ever stop to think that maybe he shouldn't have to MAKE things right... that they should just be right... what is on this thing anyway?" Turning on the camera Erica stared down at a picture she didn't recognize.
"Oh... those must be the ones that Bianca took..." Kendall hiccuped and looked at the camera screen.
"Kendall... oh my... no! It can't be... oh no..." Erica went pale and dropped the camera and stood up.
"Mom? What is it? Are you ok?" Kendall picked up the camera looked at the picture that was showing now. It was one of little Bess staring up the camera... she was so beautiful.
"Kendall... wait don't... don't push anything..." Erica ran to her bedroom.
What was going on here?
"Look... look at this..." Erica came back holding a small photo. "Where did you get this picture of Bess? Did Bianca leave it? I don't understand..." But, suddenly a feeling started growing deep in her stomach and she knew what her mother was about to say.
"That is not Bess... that is Bianca.... The day I brought her home from the hospital..."
"Mother... we have to go... we have to go and get Bianca right now... because if what we are feeling is right..." Kendall grabbed her purse and headed for the door.
"Bess... is really Miranda...oh please God... please let us be right..." Erica grabbed her purse and rushed after Kendall.
"I am so sorry Bianca... I didn't know where else to go..." Babe sobbed on her best friend's shoulder.
"Babe, surely you miss understood. JR loves you... he would never..." Bianca sat holding Babe's hand trying to comfort her.
"I think I knew this was going to happen... remember that day I told you... I told you about Paul... JR was acting so weird... and ever since the wedding he has been so busy... and I thought it was because of work... but now... what if he was just avoiding me?" Babe blew her nose.
"You know what? I am going to make us some tea and we are going to figure something out ok... I promise... everything will be ok!" Bianca stood up and walked to the kitchen.
"Hayward you have a minute?" Tad couldn't believe he was doing this.
"God! What now? What in the hell do you want Tad?" David just felt like his day had gone from bad to worse...
"Tell me what you know about DNA tests... how easy are they to mess with?"
"Well... if we are thinking about the same DNA test... I would say probably pretty easy... your father doesn't run the most secure facility, why?"
"I don't know... I just have this feeling the Krystal may have done something to the test... look... I know we are not friends but we have common ground here and that is Bianca..."
"You know that might be the first thing you have ever said that I agree with... but, how can we prove this theory?"
"Well... I had to be sneaky... but I was able to get a strand of the baby's hair last night... and I also have a lock of Babe's hair from her hairbrush... sneaky I know... but will it work?"
"Pretty underhanded... you know if I do this... and we are right... what it will do to JR?" David had to admire Tad's thinking though.
"Yeah... and it's just a risk I have to take... I mean we have all been wanting answers... and Bianca doesn't deserve this... not in a million years..."
"Well, let's go and run ourselves a test shall we..." David took the two separate envelopes and headed toward the lab.
Tad said a silent prayer to Dixie, "God forgive me and you too... if Bess isn't JR's and Babe's this is going to really hurt him..."
Not even an hour later David stared down at the results in his hands, "Well... I hate to say it but you have some damn good instincts... take a look..."
Tad was staring at the results in his hands when David's cell phone rang.
"Kendall? What's wrong? No I am glad you called... where's Bianca? What? Well... I can do better than a photograph!" David hung up the phone.
"Tad? We have to go... I think Bianca needs to know this and from what Kendall says Babe is over with her and the baby right now... we have to do this... without Adam around... he would crucify Babe..."
"Let's go... I just hope we can forgive ourselves for this..."
Bess started crying and Bianca hoped that Babe would hurry up in the restroom, so she wouldn't have to hold her. It wasn't that she didn't want to hold Bess. It was that she just didn't want to let Bess go.
"Can you get her for me... I just want to wash my face..." Babe called from the bathroom.
Bianca closed her eyes and prayed for strength. Walking over she picked up the crying baby and held her to her chest.
"It's ok... everything's ok little one... oh look! It Kendall and my mom... they are going to be so surprised to see you... shhhh." Bianca patted Bess' tiny back.
Just as Kendall and Erica walked in the door Babe came out of the bathroom.
Staring at Bianca holding Bess, Babe felt a tight feeling in her chest and a ringing in her head... her mind flashed back to the cabin... to the moment she had handed Miranda to her mother... and before she could shake it out of her head she fainted.
"Oh no! Kendall... help her! Babe? Babe? Mom? What is wrong with her?" Bianca sat the baby in her carrier and rushed over to where her sister and mother were trying to revive Babe.
"What happened?" David came rushing in.
"I don't know... David, she just fainted... please you have to help her..." Bianca rushed over and grabbed his arm.
Kendall and David's eyes met over her head.
"What? What is going on?"
"I think she just realized the truth..." For the first time Bianca realized Tad was right behind David... what in the hell was going on?
"She's waking up...." Erica shouted at the group standing there staring at each other.
"Oh no... Miranda... My baby... my baby..." Babe began to sob.
"No... no Babe! Bess is right here... she's fine... I promise..." Bianca tried to reassure her friend.
Why was everyone just standing there?
"No!...No... oh god! My baby..." Was all Babe could say.
"Bianca..." Kendall didn't know how to tell her so she just looked helplessly at her mother.
Erica stood up and walked over to the baby and turned and looked back at Bianca.
Picking her up she carried her over to her daughter and tried to smile, but how could she be happy when giving her daughter her child back meant taking her away from another.
"Bianca... I want you to look at this baby... really look... what does your heart keep telling you..."
"Mother? Why are you doing this?" Bianca began to cry, she was really getting scared.
Babe pulled herself together and took Bess from Erica's eyes with a nod. Turning to her friend with tears streaming down her face Babe managed to say what her heart and eyes were telling her.
"I put her in your arms... in the cabin... I handed you this sweet little baby... I should have known... I am so sorry... Bianca, I swear I didn't know... here... please... I am putting her in your arms again... where she belongs."
It was slowly registering what everyone was trying to tell her. Bianca stared down at the tiny little face looking back at her.
"This is my baby... she really is Miranda... I am not crazy..."
Kendall walked over to Babe and held her to her, she knew what it had taken for Babe to do what she had just done.
Erica wiped her tears from her face and took one of Babe's hands and willed some of her strength to this heart broken woman.
"Yes... Bianca... you are holding Miranda..." David nodded and put his hand on her shoulder.
One heart was broken that afternoon... but another was made whole...
Staring at her friend Bianca made a vow. She would see Paul Kramer rot in jail for the pain he had caused her, Babe, and the people she loved.