I have been hiding out but thanks to a good e-buddy I have feeling the pull once again. Sorry if these aren't as good as previous chapters... let me know what you think!

It takes awhile to get up to full steam... and I have been AMC free for 3 weeks now so I am flying blind here! And I am only a AMC fan in the last few years so if I mess up on history please forgive me. Serendipity

Chapter Twenty-nine

"So... what can I do exactly to help you?" Blair sat patiently waiting for the information to start flowing.

"Well, we were hoping that we could find out where exactly Paul Kramer was hiding out. I mean we heard that the mob was after him or something like that... It's just. Well, how much do you know about a helicopter accident that occurred a few months ago?' Bianca leaned forward and picked up a pacifier for Miranda and rocked the baby gently in her arms.

"Near Pine Valley? Not a lot, just the details... and some things I would rather not think about..." Blair's thoughts were whirling around in her head. If only she could connect them.

"Mam', Paul Kramer wasn't there by accident. I know the story he told everyone... but the truth is... the truth is that I called him... We aren't friends... more like enemies I guess you could say... But, I was desperate..." Struggling for a breath Babe broke off her attempt to explain with a pleading look towards Bianca.

"We think that he knows more about the crash then he is claiming... and we need to find out what happened to the other child... Babe's little boy..."

"WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE?" Kelly came slamming into the room...

"Why Kelly were just discussing your lovely brother... and I asked these two ladies to join me..." Blair gnashed her teeth in frustration... things were coming together now... and all she needed was some tiny proof.

"Well, YOU don't live here... and I want them GONE! They are just snooping after Paul... like all the other bimbos he hangs out with... Perfect company for you I guess..." Kelly laughed crazily at her implication that Blair was a bimbo.

"Me? Oh... that's right that only applies to you in Texas I guess... and in some dillusional place in your head..." Blair stood up and got in Kelly's face.

Kendall sat soaking in the bath tub... her hands lightly caressing her stomach. It was hard to imagine that she now had a life growing beneath her hands...

Closing her eyes she allowed herself to picture a little boy with dark black curls and sparkling brown eyes. He would be tall and slender like his parents... and smart like his dad and...

What could she pass on to her child? She didn't have a degree yet... only two and half semesters shy of a Public Relations degree that she had been going to a community college for before she had headed back to Pine Valley. She did have an imagination... you had to when you were your own best friend. Even growing up she had never been good with other people. She was always suspicious of everything...

With a sigh she toyed with the idea of going to PVU to finish up her degree... may be even go to grad school one day. She didn't want her son to be ashamed of his mother...

Funny how she kept picturing a boy in her mind...

Reaching for a towel she stood up and wiped the bubbles from her glistening body, and was stepping out of the tub when she heard a knock on the front door.

GREAT! She thought rushing to open it... Maybe it was David... Annoyed she pushed the thought from her head.

She threw up the door and was greeted with a bright bouquet of flowers.

"A peace offering?" Ryan grinned boyishly around his bundle.

Reaching for it with one hand and holding her towel up with the other she let him in the door.

"These are lovely... thank you. Did you need something?" Kendall flushed at the thought of standing in front of Ryan in nothing but a towel.

With a very masculine look Ryan appraised Kendall's attire with a purely sexual look.

"Not a thing... I can go to heaven a happy man now..." Ryan clutched his heart in exaggeration.

"What the little woman doesn't run around the house in a towel?" Kendall couldn't resist throwing a tiny barb at him.

"I moved out... yesterday..." Ryan let his declaration hang in the air unfinished.

"What? You did what?" Kendall felt her heart start thudding in her chest.

"I told you it was over... I meant it. I want you Kendall... only you." Ryan reached for her and pulled her into his arms.

Kendall wanted to resist. But, this is what she wanted, wasn't it? She let Ryan hold her, waiting to see how it would make her feel.

As Ryan leaned down to press his lips to hers, she knew that this was wrong. She didn't want this to happen... not like this.

Pushing away with a moan Kendall put some space between herself and the man that had once filled her with desire.

"What? Don't tell me you don't want me..."

Babe and Bianca sat in the car in silence. What in the hell had just happened in there? One minute they had been talking with Blair Manning and then the next minute all hell had broken loose.

"Can you believe those two are related? Oh my god!" Bianca let out a bewildered chuckle.

"They make Adam and Tad look like amateurs... Bianca... when we were leaving... did you hear a baby crying?" Babe sat close to tears... maybe she was losing her mind.

"What? A baby... no... well, I was trying to get out of there as fast as I could... You heard a baby crying?" Bianca looked at her friend in concern remembering when she had thought she was hearing Miranda cry...

"Yes...no... I don't know... Can we go home? I need to go home..." Babe let out a sigh as tears fell from her eyes. She would never find out what had happened to her son...

"Ryan... it doesn't matter if I want you or not... We can't be together..." Kendall tried patiently to explain.

"Why? I love you and you love me... I am getting a divorce... What more do you want?" Ryan felt anger creep up his body.

"I want to be a good mother... and I can't think about myself right now..." Kendall felt fatigue rushing through her.

"I don't care if Hayward is the father of this child... You can't tell me that he would be a better father than I would... that you haven't dreamed of having this child with me..." Ryan reached for her hands and pulled her towards him.

"David is the father... why can't you except that... Why can't you just let it rest..." Kendall tried to pull away, but Ryan's hand tightened painfully on her wrists.

"You are mine Kendall.... You wanted me away from Greenlee and you got it... you won... I am not going to let you go... You love me..." Ryan said stubbornly.

"Oh...Ryan just go... please..." Kendall felt tears of frustration building up in her eyes.

"You heard my daughter Lavery... she wants you to go..." Jackson Montgomery stood unnoticed in the doorway. He had overheard Kendall's plea and recognized the weariness in her eyes.

"Jack..." Kendall broke free as Ryan released her and rushed into his open arms.

"Jackson... I was just leaving... Kendall, we'll talk later ok... I love you." Ryan said as he brushed past the embracing couple in anger.

"Don't worry I am here Kendall..." Jackson held her tightly in her arms as she gave in and just let her body relax into his.

"Thanks for coming by... you sounded good... just like a protective dad..." Kendall sighed and leaned into him.

"Well... I was trying it out... I wanted to wait to get you and Bianca together... but, I think you might need this right now..." Jackson led Kendall over to the couch and gently picked her feet up and set them on the couch so Kendall could lie down. Taking a blanket and covering her he sat down on the coffee table and looked awkwardly at his feet.

"What? Did Erica not like the house?" Kendall felt a twinge of nervousness rush through her.

"No... nothing like that. I have been talking to your mother... and well... we... I was wondering if you would like to be my daughter... A Montgomery... just like us..."

"You mean take your name? Oh...oh my... that's wow..." Kendall felt tears building up in her eyes.

"Actually I was thinking about in every way... I want to adopt you and Bianca officially... I want you two to be my daughters... what do you think?" Jackson was embarrassed, but looked shyly up at the young girl he loved as if she were his own.

"Hmmm that would make Greenlee my sister...." Kendall frowned and pretended to consider the idea.

"Well... Now that might not seem like incentive right now... but maybe one day..." Jackson didn't know how to argue that point. He knew that the girls didn't care for one another and giving the scene he had just witnessed he knew that it would probably get worse before it got better...

"You know what... I don't care... I would love to be your daughter... in name... you have already been more of a father to me than anyone in my life could have been. You have believed in me... supported me... I love you... Daddy..." Kendall laughed as tears fell freely from both of her and Jackson's cheeks....

"What happened? Kendall? Are you ok? Uncle Jack?" Bianca stood in the door way looking wind blown and tired with Miranda in one arm and a diaper bag in the other.

Jackson and Kendall looked at each other and burst out in laughter.

Kendall stood up and wrapped the blanket around herself... with everything that had happened she had completely forgotten that she was in a towel.

"I am going to get dressed... I am fine...WE are fine, Binks... There's my girl... Come with Auntie Kendall... we are going to get dressed for dinner... I think tonight we should all go out... What do you think Dad?"

Bianca was so absorbed in handing Miranda over to Kendall that it took a moment for the words Kendall had said to sink in...

"Dad? Oh MY... Is mom pregnant?" Bianca felt her jaw drop in shock.

Kendall's laughter came from the hallway as she retreated to the back of the house.

"Nope... don't worry I may be a miracle worker ,but there are some things even I can't change... Bianca sit down for a minute... I want to ask you something..."

Bianca came and sat down beside her uncle with a questioning look.

"You know that I would never try and replace your father... don't you?" Jack asked casually.

"Uncle Jack... I know that... what's going on?" Bianca felt totally lost in space. What was going on.

"How would you feel about being my daughter... you and Kendall... All legal... all Montgomerys ?" Jackson smiled at his niece.

"Are you serious?" Bianca threw herself into Jackson's arms, "Do you even have to ask!!!"

And in that moment an unspoken bond was recognized and a little girl who had once adored her uncle and wished upon every star that he could have been her father was granted something her heart had always desired.

And a man who had once had very little in his life gained more than he had ever imagined.