Re-evaluating Life

After arguing with Theresa over the fate of the babies, Ethan walks out of her room and goes for a walk through the hospital, only to find himself at the maternity ward.

"God, these babies are so beautiful. How can you be able to give them life, yet not give my own children the chance to both survive? What am I doing with my life here? I thought by marrying Gwen I was doing the right thing. Theresa has always been in my life, and now I don't even know what to do anymore. It's like this is the decision day all over again."

Flashback 1

"Theresa, I'm sorry, but I can't marry you. I have to do right by Gwen."

"Ethan, don't do this. Stay with me. We can work this out."

"I'm sorry, Theresa, but I have to do this. Please understand."

End Flashback 1

"God, what was I doing? I was acting upon the right thing, I know that. But was standing by Gwen knowing that I was hurting the one love of my life the right thing to do?"

Flashback 2

"I know we slept together, Theresa. Those babies could very well be ours."

"Well, if they are, then it's fate's plan."

"God, Theresa, get off the fate notion. Fate was never in our cards! Don't you realize that by now? Fate didn't want us to be married, fate didn't want us together!"

"Then explain how fate wanted us to make love the night before our wedding, explain how fate wanted us to be in this situation right now!"

"You're crazy, Theresa."

"No, Ethan, for once, I'm sane."

End Flashback 2

"God, how can this be happening? How can I be still in love with Theresa? I'm in love with Gwen...aren't I?"

As Ethan walks back to Theresa's room, he thinks again of the twins. "God, I can't loose Theresa, it's just not possible. I'd rather have her alive than loose her!"

Coming near Theresa's room, Ethan hears Gwen's voice on the phone, and is about to approach her, when her words stop him.

"Mother, I know. Theresa is using my babies to her advantage, as usual. Does she really think that she can get Ethan back? Ethan is MINE. I married him just like you told me to do all for the sake of keeping him to myself so she would loose."

"Ahem!" Ethan clears his throat as Gwen faces him, caught red-handed.

"Ethan, honey. What did you hear?"

"Enough, Gwen. Enough to know that my marriage to you has been nothing but a lie from the beginning. How could you, Gwen? How could you do this to me? To us?"

"I didn't want her to win, Ethan."

"Listen to yourself! I'm not some damn prize to be won. I'm a human being! God, Gwen, I thought you were the best thing to come into my life. I was wrong! Theresa is the best thing to have happened to me. I'm divorcing you, Gwen. I refuse to live the rest of my life with a liar."

As Ethan is about to walk away, Gwen stops him, "Haven't you forgotten that Theresa has lied to you, too?"

"She did it with good intentions. She was protecting me."

"God, Ethan, that sounds so lame!"

"Maybe to you, it would. To me, it sounds like love."

"What about our twins, Ethan?"

Turning around, Ethan goes to Gwen, and removes her wedding band from her finger. "There is a great chance that the babies aren't even yours, Gwen. Theresa and I slept together. There is a high chance that those babies are hers and mine. Likewise, there is a great chance that Little Ethan could be ours too, now that I think of it. So, Gwen, I'm leaving you, and I'm taking little Ethan with me. Good luck finding some poor sucker to live with you, because my days of doing that are over!"

"You don't know what you're doing, Ethan?"

"That's where you're wrong, Gwen. I know EXACTLY what I'm doing."

After leaving his wife and marriage, Ethan breathes a sigh of relief at the calm he feels inside. "I'm doing the right thing. Theresa and I can finally be reunited."

Coming up

Ethan and Theresa reunite

Will the babies be okay?

Please R/R