A/N: Hey everybody, as promised, here is part two of chapter four. Also, Fox isn't on her 'hit list' nor is her on her bad side what so ever. Unlike the show, they still recognize themselves as best friends. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Chapter4: Surprise, Surprise part 2
Everyone sat in the waiting room of the Harmony Hospital impatiently waiting on the news of Alistair's health, but still trying to figure out why Theresa insisted they be here.
"Must we stay here? Theresa, why are we here?" asked Julian eager to get out of the hospital. Theresa looked from Nick to him and replied, "In do time Jules, now will you stop pestering me?"
Julian rolled his eyes at Theresa and concentrated his gaze on the white wall that stood to his left. "He's fine, he just had an anxiety attack. Something must have frightened him or shocked him at some degree." said the doctor as he walked from out of the pale blue curtain that separated him and Alistair from the others.
Everyone groaned in annoyance and exasperation. "We waited an entire hour and all he had was an anxiety attack? What kind of crap is that?" questioned a very upset Luis. Theresa laughed heartedly, "Oh, it gets better. Doctor, we'll be going in to see the old bastard, make sure there's no interruption."
The doctor answered, "Well, it'd be alright for one or two at a time to go, not all of you. I mean, to much of a shock would-" Theresa interrupted, "Thank you doctor, that'll be all.
In the emergency room…
Everyone formed a circle around Alistair's bed. Theresa on his left and Julian on his right. "Maybe I should have waited a minute for him to cool down before telling him that Rachel is still alive. What do y'all think?" she asked, springing on them that Rachel, Alistair's real true love was alive.
"WHAT!" exclaimed Sheridan. "My aunt is alive? Who else, Antonio? What the hell are you up to Theresa?" Sheridan marched up to Theresa and slapped her in the face so hard she stumbled back into the wall. "What is wrong with you?" Sheridan asked, demanding an answer.
"What the hell? My problem, you're the one with the problem. I'm trying to help you and everyone else that's been affected by Alistair and you get in my face? Maybe I should reconsider, I mean if everyone feels this way then I should just take my husband and my Children and go back to Spain." replied Theresa as she rubbed her cheek.
Luis argued, "You didn't answer Sheridan's question Theresa. What are you up to and is Antonio alive?" Gwen sniped, "I've told you all again and again. She's never up to any good!" Theresa replied, " Up yours Gwen."
Theresa said, answering Luis and Sheridan's question, "Maybe. I really don't know. But I keep asking myself why would Al want to keep Antonio alive and I've only come to one conclusion." Luis asked, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, "What's that?"
"If he is alive then he's staying away on his own terms, not Alistair's." said Theresa as she looked down at her shoes. Pilar said, "That's ridiculous, why would he do that to us?" Theresa looked into her mother's eye and countered coldly, "The question you should be asking, Pilar, is why wouldn't he."
Luis exclaimed angrily, "What the hell is wrong with you Theresa? And what possessed you to call mama by her maiden name? Why are you being so…bitter."
Theresa let her eyes fall upon Alistair. The secrets she knew would tear this town apart, but she if not anyone else knew that secrets only hurt you instead of help you.
Subconsciously she declared, "It runs in the family, bitterness that is." In a cold, monotone voice she added, "You asked me what was wrong with me. I could go on all day with what's wrong with me, so to cut the answer short, why don't you ask me what's right with me."
"That attitude of yours, doesn't run in this family mija. Lopez-Fitzgerald's are not bitter and cold. We don't seek revenge." chided Pilar. Theresa replied, eyes locked on Alistair, "What makes you think I was referring to you and Luis and Miguel? There are just some things you don't know."
The room went silent, nothing but uneven breathing sounded off the white walls. With encouragement from Nick, Theresa decided that it was time for round one to start. The trick to releasing secrets is to start with the one that hurts you the most and end with the one that rewarded you the most. She reminded herself of that daily when she had thoughts
of reconsideration burn through her mind.
"I discovered Rachel hiding in a deserted Cabin just outside of Spain when I had been digging through Alistair's…skeleton closet. I decided to pay her a visit and when I found her, when she first saw me…the woman nearly pasted out in my arms. We talked and we talked. She told me some things and well…lets just say I know a lot more than I attended to know." began Theresa. She paused momentarily and looked around the room studying each face as she had down previously.
With the comforting hand of her husband's rested on her shoulder, she continued. "It turns out 'Papa' was playing hero with more than one Barrett. Before escaping to the hidden cabin outside of Spain, Rachel had retreated to Boston…after having her death faked with the help of the oh so giving Martin Lopez-Fitzgerald. One night he went up there to make sure she got there safely and to give her the tickets to Spain, where she would take a buggy to the cabin, well…things got out of hand."
Luis asked, "What do you mean 'things got out of hand'?" Maybe part of him knew what Theresa was going to say, but he definitely didn't want it to be what he may have already known. If what he thought she was saying was what she was really saying…he couldn't even complete the thought.
"They had…intimate relations. Or in other words he fucked her and possibly got her pregnant…with me. You knew Pilar, and you weren't going to say anything. Maybe you didn't know Rachel was my birth mother…my real mother, but you knew I wasn't your biological child. You knew Martin slept with another woman while still married to you, but you were too worried about what the town would think." shouted Theresa.
Pilar gasped in utter shock. She hadn't seen this coming, Theresa finding out the truth, and she definitely hadn't expected Rachel Barrett Crane to be Theresa's real mother. "Theresita, I ….Just let me explain." begged Pilar. She began walking over towards Theresa, but was stop by Luis. "Don't mama. If I were you, I'd wait until she cools off."
Theresa laughed bitterly, "That's not all Pilar, Luis. You see there was something Rachel neglected to tell the young naïve Martin Lopez-Fitzgerald. You see, just before her departure from Harmony, she had one last tryst with the old bastard who lies in this bed. Now, what exactly does this mean? It means that I could be Alistair Crane and Rachel Barrett Crane's lovechild."
Alistair's eyes shot open so quickly its amazing his eyelids didn't fly off. Theresa looked into his eyes and smiled. She knew he was listening to every single word they had said, and had been since they had walked into the room. "I guess you couldn't play sleep anymore huh Big Daddy? Had to get in on the drama, eh?" asked Theresa rhetorically.
"You're my cousin and my half sister? Oh, this is just all too weird." exclaimed Julian. Sheridan squinted her eyes at Alistair and said, "I agree with Julian." The silence in the room could be marked deadly with everyone's eyes burning into Alistair's and Theresa's.
Alistair asked, his voice sounding weak but forceful, "What the hell are you talking about Theresa? I don't know where you get these lies, but you better stop playing around before you get hurt!" The two possibly related human beings stared at each other, hatred and anger bouncing back and forth between there eyes.
Theresa laughed, "Lies I think not. You see, in about five minutes a nurse will come in to this emergency room carrying a yellow manila folder that contains the DNA results. She will read them and the truth will be revealed. I'm either your child or Martin's. Either way I'm pretty much screwed in the parental department."
Sure enough a short blonde haired nurse came in barring a yellow manila folder. "Mrs. Bosman, I have the DNA results you asked for." replied the blonde haired nurse. Theresa looked around the room and silently drew the picture of their anxious yet frightened faces mentally in her brain. 'Hell is near, its about to break loose. What has become of me?' thought Theresa. For a moment, her masquerade of hate and bitterness was replaced with sadness and pain. This not going unnoticed by her husband who squeezed her hand tighter.
Before anyone else could pick up what Nick had notice, Theresa's face quickly resumed its emotionless yet hatred filled state. "Go on, read them aloud. Tell us all what they say." she said simply. The nurse removed a sheet of paper from the folder.
She silently read them to herself and then read aloud, voice filled with shock, "Mrs. Theresa Carmen- Louisa Lopez-Fitzgerald Bosman is the biological child of …."
A/N: Hey, here's part two of Surprise, Surprise. Yet another cliffhanger which I hope you all enjoyed. Please review and tell me what you think. (Louisa- Fav. Character from Strong Medicine. I do not own the names nor do I own Passions, Strong Medicine.)