Carter in Orange County chap10

Author's note: I don't know who you are jenny, but it seems you could have used a signed review, then I could have explained my reasoning to you privately. Anyway, the way I see it, Seth and Ryan are in Colorado now, so why would they go all the way back just to get Caleb, especially as they don't actually want him to know that they have kind of gone proding into his background and taken it on themselves to find Sam.Plus it is a story you know, and not real life, so them driving back to get a sample, and bringing it to Colorado would take much longer than my method, and we don't want to hang around for ages on this part of the story do we?

Okay, so that's that sorted, (hopefully) and on with the story…


Once she got back into the main room, Carter turned to the boys,
"Look, we'll sort all of this out in the morning. Do you two have somewhere to stay?"

Seth and Ryan stood up simultaneously.
"Ummm, yeah? Well no, but we are going to check into a motel" Seth sounded hopeful and he had done it on purpose, Ryan realised when Samantha looked them over and said,
"No you aren't, you can stay here tonight."

And she walked off in the direction of the stairs, obviously expecting them to follow her.
Seth looked over his shoulder at Ryan and winked,
"I think she might believe us man" he said, and rushed after Sam.


Kirsten and Sandy had been waiting for half an hour now, and they were fast getting bored.
"Where are they?" Kirsten asked Sandy, "They aren't normally this irresponsible."
"Calm down honey, I'm sure they aren't far away, its only eleven. We'll give them another 15 minutes and they all hell will be let loose. I promise you that."

15 minutes later they still hadn't heard anything from the boys,
"You know, I haven't seen the boys all day Sandy. Seth came in at breakfast and said 'bye' then he went off to get Ryan. They don't come home for lunch, so I didn't see them then, and they haven't showed up yet even though it's been hours since school let out!"
"They're probably out with some girls, phone Lindsay and see if she is with Ryan"

Kirsten was gone for a few minutes, and when she came back she looked worried,
"Sandy, Lindsay isn't with them, and she says she hasn't seen them all day."
"Phone Seth again, they can't be far, they're good kids and they can take care of themselves"
"That's what I'm worried about Sandy, you know how good they are at getting into fights!"
"Kirsten just phone Seth!"

'Ring Ring'
'Ring Ring'

Ryan looked up,
"Is that your phone?"
"Yeah"
"Who is it?"
"My mom"
"Oh, I thought you'd already rung her?"
"I may have just said that to get you to leave straight away"
'Seth had every right to look sheepish' Ryan thought, 'Kirsten and Sandy had probably been worried for hours now'
"Seth, answer it!"
"Okay, okay. Hello"
"Oh my god Seth, you're okay! Where are you?"
"It's okay mom, I'm on an errand, Ryan's with me"

Suddenly Kirsten's voice took on icy tones. She was mad.
"What kind of errand could have you away from home at 11:15 at night?"
"Well, it's a long story but I'm going to need your help so I'll explain now if you want?"
"Yes Seth, I want! Now explain it to me"
"Uh mom? You might want to sit down for this"

Tentatively Kirsten took a seat.
"Go ahead, I'm prepared"
"Well I went to see Ms. Gardner today…"
"Who? Lindsay's mom?"
"Yeah, anyway I asked her about Grandpa. It turns out he cheated on Nana one other time. It was with a woman whose husband was in the Air Force. She had a daughter and her name is Samantha Carter."
"Seth, that is a lot of information to take in in 10 seconds, give me a minute"
Seth could hear muttering on the other end of the phone. And then his mom came back on,
"Where are you now?"
"We went to find her mom, we're in Colorado."
"What? How the hell did you get to Colorado?"
"We drove"
"Really Seth? Don't answer that"
"Mom, can you put dad on the phone?"
"Okay, but don't think he's going to go easy on you just because he likes to play good cop"
"Yes mom"

The phone was shaken slightly at the other end as whoever held it passed it on.
"Seth"
"Dad, I need your help"
"What have you done, your mom said something about your grandfather?"
"Yeah, well grandpa isn't the saint everyone seems to think he is"
"Seth, no one thinks your grandfather is a saint, in fact, far from it. Come to mention it, he and Julie Cooper are probably the most unholy of alliances ever."
"Good, because it turns out that grandpa had another affair, before Ms. Gardner. We found his other illegitimate daughter"
"Another one? Caleb better not be making a habit out of this"
"Don't worry dad, from what we know she is the only other one there could possibly be"
"Well that's a relief anyway, what did you need help with though Seth?"
"Well the woman we've found won't believe it without proof, so we need someone to break it to grandpa that he has to come to Colorado. Its hardly fair to make this woman put her life on hold, right?"
"Yes Seth, but you know what your grandfather is like. I'll get your mother to send him, and we'll call you when he gets on the plane okay?"
"That's great dad! Thank you. Now can I get to sleep? Ryan is already out cold"

There was more muttering down the phone line,
"Sure thing Honey" It was his mom again. "Take care and we love you. Oh and Seth?"
"Yeah mom?"
"This isn't over."
And Kirsten hung up.

'Great' thought Seth. "Another problem to add to my growing list'


Okay, so I'm sorry I took so long. I didn't write all of this in one go either so it might not flow as well as it should but things have been very busy round me the past few days.

Review if you can, thanx in advance. Luv frankie xxx