Author's Note: I picture the new character to be Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr otherwise known as Michael Guerin from Roswell. Plus I have to tell you that I quoted the movie Mall Rats, and did a reenactment of a scene from the movie Nothing To Lose. I love this chapter and I hope you do too. I hope you like Mona's real name......if not........well.......there's always another TP fic to write. Hint Hint
Mona let the tears fall as the word escaped her mouth.
The person before her cried out at the sound of Mona saying the word.
The woman brought her hands up to cup around her mouth as the tears streamed down her face.
Mona couldn't move, as if to move meant that this dream would end.
She just gazed at her as tears just continued to fall.
How many years had she suffered from the ache to hear her once more?
To be able to be held by her once more.
And here she was. Right in front of her. Crying just like her.
Though the years had taken there toll on her.......Mona knew who she was immediately.
"Mom?" she said again with a voice that reflected the need for this to be real.
Catherine........her mother........slowly nodded her head and dropped her hands and she ran forward to Mona as she cried like her daughter.
Mona was enveloped by her mother's arms and squeezed tightly.
Mona returned the embrace as she let her head rest on her mother's shoulder as she continued to cry as the sadness was replaced by a joy she had never felt before.
"My baby!! Oh God how I've missed you..." Catherine cried as she kissed Mona's hair and face, anywhere she could.
"Mom......." Mona said as she cried harder and the sobs that racked her body made her tremble as Catherine held her tighter, as Mona wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and allowed herself to cry on her mother's shoulder.
They stayed like that for over ten minutes.
Catherine continued to cry out how much she loved Mona and how much she missed her.
Mona just continued to listen to her mother's voice as it rumbled through her body. She tried to memorize every little moment, every little sensation, wanting to always remember this moment.
Finally Catherine pulled back and slowly removed hair that had gotten stuck on Mona's face.
Catherine smiled teary eyed at Mona. She then pressed her forehead against Mona's and kissed her daughters lips and then nose.
"My little Marmee Jo. I'm here. I'm here now. It's going to be alright. I'm here." Catherine barely whispered out for Mona to hear for the lump in her throat restricted her.
Mona just sobbed harder against Catherine's body.
Hearing her name spoken aloud bringing the situation to reality.
No one but her mother called her by that name.
Except for one other..........................but now..............only her mother would have known her name.
Catherine slowly pulled away from her child and smiled.
"Hey Mom, how've you been?" Lyle said with a smartass smirk on his face.
Catherine's face turned to one of shock as well as Mona's.
Catherine looked up to where Lyle stood.
"Oh my God..." Catherine said in gasp, then hurtled herself at Lyle and slapped him.
Lyle grabbed his cheek and yelped out "OOWWW!!!"
Mona eye brows shot up in shock as she watched the scene.
Catherine just stared at Lyle with an angry look.
Lyle just looked at his mother with shock and anger.
"WHAT DID I DO?" Lyle yelled in hurt and humiliation.
Catherine didn't even flinch as she responded.
"I've been waiting for how many years for you to tell me that you're all safe, and here I am because Bar told me it was time. But have I heard a word from you? NO!" Catherine yelled as she slapped Lyle again.
All that looked on tried to retain the laughing fit the scene was producing.............all except Jamieson.
Jamieson tried to cover her laughing mouth with one hand as the other pointed at Lyle.
Catherine looked over and slapped Jamieson.
Jamieson stopped laughing as she grabbed her cheek as Lyle had.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Jamieson yelled out in humiliation.
"THAT'S because you're with him most of the time.....and I know you're into the same type of bad things he's into." Catherine answered angrily.
"But I..." Bobby began but was cut off by another clap from Catherine.
Bobby began to whimper about to cry.
"Why you keep on spankin me momma?" Bobby said in a whining voice as he placed his hand on the cheek she had recently slapped.
Then Catherine's eyes fell behind Bobby and she froze solid.
Mona watched as Sydney smiled at Catherine as he slowly stepped down till he was in front of her.
Then something happened that Mona never would have never dreamed happening.
Sydney and her mother enveloped each other with the most passionate kiss she had ever witnessed.
But what shocked her more was what her children yelled out at the scene.
"All right Grandpa!"
"Way to go Grandpa!"
"Good going Grandpa Jacob!" Jamieson yelled out last of all.
Mona quickly glanced to Jamieson with a shocked questioning face.
Jamieson turned to look at her mother with a wide smile on her face.
Jacob????!!!!
Mona then saw Jamieson motion with her head to turn around.
There before her stood another Sydney.
Mona quickly turned back to still see her mother enveloped in a kiss from Sydney.
She swiftly turned around again to see Sydney with Michelle and Nicholas, all smiling with sad smiles at her.
Mona's head began to shake back and forth as if to clear her head. Then as realization came to her....................she slowly.......turned back to the scene of her mother kissing.
As she gazed at the two who had stopped kissing but that now were just touching forehead's together with there arms around each other..............she whispered out the word that she had given a madman. A word that meant soo much.
"Daddy?"
Jacob raised his eyes to Mona at the word. To his daughter's eyes.
How many times had he restrained the reaction as she had called Mr. Parker Daddy?
Knowing that it was he who should have been had the title.
"Daddy?" Mona whispered again.
Slowly Jacob disentangled himself from Catherine.......and made his way down to his daughter.
He stopped just short and stared at her.
"Dad?" again Mona whispered.
Jacob smiled and nodded slowly.
Mona launched herself at Jacob, as Jacob enveloped her into his arms, squeezing her soo tight she could hardly breathe. But Mona didn't care.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and held on just as tight as she cried once more.
But this time it was pure joy.
"I always wanted..." she choked out.
Jacob nodded his head and pulled away slightly to look her in the eyes.
"I know..........but it wasn't always me." Jacob said.
Mona just stared at him for a while before she understood.
"You would switch places...." Mona began.
Jacob nodded and just looked at her for a while before he kissed her forehead.
"Grandma?" came a voice from behind Sydney, Michelle, and Nicholas.
At the voice Catherine's eyes widened.
"Oh God how could I have HERE!!"
Jacob and Mona disentangled themselves from each other and turned to see who Catherine was calling.
Sydney, Michelle, and Nicholas quickly sidestepped to let the person through.
The second Mona's eyes fell on the person...........she knew who it was.
Her heart began to beat fast as she gazed at the stranger's face.
The boy's face froze as well as he saw her.......and as though mimicking her reaction to Catherine the boy whispered out as the sight of her.
"Mom?"
Catherine was beside Mona, even though Mona hadn't noticed her beside her.
"Honey..." she whispered out "I'd like you to meet Barry."
Mona's eyes began to stream out tears as she expected the next words to come out of her mother's mouth.
Catherine glanced at Barry and then back at Mona.
"He's you son." Catherine said as Mona nodded her head up and down.
"I know." Mona said.
She slowly walked down to Barry.
Barry resembled Jarod in many ways......but he had certain attributes that were hers.
She just gazed at him.
She then slowly wrapped her arms around him.
Barry almost crushed her with the intensity of his hug. But again she didn't care.
She kissed his hair, his forehead, his cheek......anything close as she held her son.
Barry let a few tears out as relief flooded his system.
As if he had anticipated the moment forever, and now the journey to it was finally over.
"Holy Shit...." Jamieson said in an amused voice from Dar's side on top of the stairs.
Mona and Barry broke apart as Barry look with wide eyes up to who had spoken.
Jamieson elbowed Dar and then nodded her head in Barry's direction.
Jamieson and Dar both had huge smiles on their faces.
Jamieson then looked directly at Barry.
"...If it isn't mon frère!" Jamieson exclaimed again with amusement.
Mona was shocked to find Barry where Jamieson and Dar stood with in a blink of an eye.
Barry had enveloped Jamieson and Dar in a huge group hug.
Barry was crying out right now against Jamieson neck.
"I can't believe your both here." Barry whispered against Jamieson's neck.
Jamieson's eyebrows knotted together.
"And where exactly did you believe we'd be?" Jamieson asked.
Barry smiled against Jamieson's neck as he began to pull back to look Jamieson in the face.
"Oh I don't know.....probably crawling around in the vent system at the Centre on another one of your Centre adventures." Barry smarted off.
Jamieson smacked him with the back of her hand against Barry chest. Barry fake cried as put his arms up to his chest to try and ward off any further attempts.
Jamieson and Dar laughed at Barry's antics.
Then all three sibling slowly huddled together and enlaced arms as the touched each other's forehead to the others.
Mona just stared at the reunion of the triplets.
Mona smiled teary eyes as Barry began to sob against Jamieson and Dar, as Jamieson murmured.... "Welcome Home."