To my reviewers, svata and PrincessBethy, thank you for the reviews! And yes, Bethy, I am going to bring back Laura to kick some butt. Its planned for a few chapters from now!
And without further delay, here is chapter eight
Chapter Eight
Ethan Martin's homecoming
One month later.
Lucky and Theresa walked around the penthouse, trying to get Lily and Laurel to go to sleep. The twins had proven to be stubborn when their parents tried to get them to fall asleep.
Lucky sat down in the rocking chair in the living room and began to rock Lily, hopefully, to sleep. Within minutes, Lily's eyes had closed, but quickly opened up when her father had stopped rocking. Lucky had no choice but to keep on rocking until Lily was truly asleep.
Theresa looked out the balcony doors and hummed quietly as Laurel fell asleep in her arms. Theresa loved her little girls dearly and couldn't wait to bring their big brother home.
Ethan and Gwen walked down the hall toward a familiar penthouse in Harborview Towers with Ric right in front of them, little Ethan walking between the three of them.
Ethan Martin was happy to be in Port Charles and couldn't wait to see his mother, stepfather, and his little sisters.
Ric knocked softly on the door, which was opened a second later by Theresa. "Hey cous!" Theresa whispered, trying not to wake Laurel.
"Hi Res! Just got Lauri to fall asleep?" Ric asked in a whisper.
"Yeah. I don't want to wake her or Lily. Lucky's got her in the rocking chair," Theresa said.
"Well, I have a surprise for you right behind me and I don't know fi he wants to whisper," Ric said. He stepped back to reveal the three behind him, but Theresa's eyes were riveted on her son.
"Hi mommy!" Ethan Martin whispered a greeting to his mother.
"Hi sweetheart, welcome home!" Theresa whispered back. She crouched down and embraced her son, holding Laurel the best she could.
As they parted, Ethan Martin noticed the sleeping little girl in his mother's arms. "Mommy, is this my new baby sister?"
"One of them, sweetie. This is Laurel. Your other sister is in the rocking chair with your new stepfather. Her name is Lily," Theresa told him.
"Can I hold her?" he asked.
"Yes. Come inside and sit down, all of you," Theresa said, walking back into the penthouse.
Ric, Ethan Martin, Gwen, and Ethan followed her into the penthouse as Lucky rose from the chair and turned to face them. "Ethan Martin, welcome home!" he quietly exclaimed, not wanting to wake Lily, who had finally fallen asleep.
"Hi Lucky!" Ethan Martin said before running into his stepfather's arms. Lucky embraced him tightly after handing Lily off to Ric. As they parted, Ethan Martin demanded quietly, "I want to hold Lily!"
Lucky smiled at his stepson. "Of course. Do you want to sit with her in the rocking chair?"
"Yeah," EM quickly said as he sat down in the chair. Lucky took Lily from Ric and showed EM how to hold a baby, then set Lily in her big brother's arms. The two began to rock slowly.
It didn't take long for EM to fall asleep as well. Lucky couldn't resist picking up the camera and taking a picture of the two sleeping siblings.
He smiled as she set down the camera before he, Theresa, and Ric took the three siblings to their rooms.
After putting all three children to bed, they headed back out into the living room where Ethan and Gwen were waiting for them.
"You two didn't need to bring him home. We could've come to get him," Lucky said.
"We wanted to make sure he was ok for the trip and we didn't want you know who to see you," Gwen said.
"Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Gwen. I'm glad that you have seen the truth about what has been going on," Theresa said as she sat down in a chair.
"Yes, I have. My mother, not you, is to blame for everything that has happened. She played on every one of my insecurities and used it to her advantage. Sarah's death is entirely on her hands. You are not at fault in the least for her death," Gwen said.
Theresa smiled at Gwen's words. "Back then, things were so different. There was just Ethan Martin for me to care about. And now I've got the girls and Lucky and I are together," she said.
"Are you two planning on getting married?" Ethan asked.
"We already are. We've been married for a month and a half already," Lucky said.
"What?" Ethan and Gwen both asked. Then Gwen remembered the night they were told by Luis that the two of them had gotten married. "Oh, that's right. Luis told us, but I guess it slipped my mind."
"Mine as well," Ethan said. "I guess the one thing we remember about that time was that the twins were not our children, but yours and Fox's."
"I hope that no one has told him that the twins are biologically his," Theresa said.
"Don't worry. We aren't telling him and we made sure that Eve won't tell him either. Julian isn't going to tell him at all, because he says he wants him to feel the same kind of pain he felt for years, the pain of not being with Eve and believing that he had lost a child," Ethan said.
"Mama said she was going to tell him, but Luis convinced her to keep her mouth shut. She understood that he would hurt more by not knowing where I am and the fact that the twins are his biological children," Theresa said.
"Fox deserves all the pain he is feeling right now," Lucky said. "He broke Resa's heart by going after Whitney after the truth about Chad came out."
"And Whitney doesn't seem to care about it either. She's pursuing Fox with a vengeance it seems," Gwen said.
Theresa sighed. "Well, I guess I can say that my friendship with her is over. She wouldn't have gone after him after I broke it off with him if she was a true friend. A true friend doesn't immediately go after her friend's ex-boyfriend after they broke up."
"No kidding. You don't even do that to your own family members," Lucky said.
"Yeah. You didn't do that with Emily when you believed that Nikolas was dead because you held onto the hope that he was still alive," Theresa said.
"How did that happen?" Ethan asked.
"It's a long story," Lucky said.