Kendall hated to be alone in her condominium. The eeriness of the silence gave her chills but she liked the silence after the chaos of the last few months. She sauntered from the bedroom where she had fallen asleep to the kitchen, her blue silk dress swishing at her knees. The baby kicked and she grabbed her stomach.

"Hey there, son. Don't kick mommy, ok? Can you hold your big debut for later? Huh? Ok…" She said, rubbing her stomach gently, as if to soothe the child.

Kendall stopped as she realized what she was doing. She was beginning to become attached to her son. She shook her head quickly and removed her hand off her protruding stomach.

"You know… Your daddy, he wants to keep you. I'm not so sure if I'm ready to be a mom. I—I don't want you to hate me for saying this but… I still see you as the baby meant for Greenlee… not my son. I thought that I'd never have children of my own… I thought that I'd never even want children of my own, but here you are. Karma is something, huh?" she said, "But now… I just feel like no decision that I make would be the right thing for you. You might hate me someday for giving you up for adoption, you might hate me for leaving you with your dad, or you might hate me for being a screw-up mother…" Kendall forced a laugh as one tear rolled down her face.

She wiped her face quickly and smoothed her hair. Yogurt, she thought, perhaps all of this baby/self-pitying/reflection crap was just hunger in disguise. She continued to her refrigerator and took out a cup of strawberry-banana yogurt. She sighed as she peeled the foil off the top, her mind still submerged in so many questions and doubts. She licked the yogurt covered foil and reached for the spoon. She began to walk over to her couch but stopped to look at her caller ID. She saw that not only Zach called but also Ryan had called, repeatedly. Kendall wondered where protectiveness ended and where insanity began when it came to Ryan. He means well, she thought, but enough is enough. The fact that she could never seem to escape Pine Valley men irritated her. JR had left to go back to Babe and Little Adam and she was glad that he was gone. She had grown tired of his come-ons mixed with his musing about how wonderful Babe was. Frankly, if she had to listen to JR gush about his precious Babe for another minute more on a Sunday and then face her the next morning, she would strangle somebody, probably and preferably Babe.

She erased Ryan's multiple messages after listening once but Zach's one message she played over and over, just to listen to the sound of his deep and raspy voice that made her toes curl. She dismissed her "feminine weakness" and picked up the issue of Cosmopolitan that she had been reading before she had been interrupted by JR. She looked at the newest ad for Fusion. Danielle, Simone and Babe were on the ad and Kendall was absent from the photo due to the creative direction that Fusion was going in, and it didn't include pregnant women, obviously. Kendall grumbled to herself and flipped through the magazine furiously. Suddenly, a knock came to the door and she became so startled that her magazine went flying. Who the hell is at my door at this hour of the night, Kendall thought.

"The door is open!" She shouted, thinking that it was perhaps JR, wanting another round of unrequited flirtatious sparring, Ryan, wanting to tell Kendall for the 15th time that he was going to raise their child with or without her, or her mother convincing her to get back with Ryan and raise the baby with him. She heard the door open and slam shut.

"Geez, are you trying to wake up the whole neighborhood?" Kendall asked, not even bothering to turn around. She didn't really care who it was. Still the person did not respond. For a second, she thought that it was Zach. That would explain the silence. He did have a knack for entering and staring at her for a moment before saying anything. She whipped around but Zach's shape wasn't the one presented before her.

"Josh…" She exhaled.

Josh Madden stood, hands in his pockets. He was dressed in a black suit and his hair was gelled, just as it usually was. There was some intensity in his eyes that Kendall couldn't put her finger on. He just stared at her intently, like he knew something that she didn't. She had barely spent more than an hour with him since he moved to Pine Valley. She just knew that he worked at the hospital and had been a producer on her mother's show before he was fired for supposedly drugging Erica and causing her to stab Zach, which had to have been one of the most frightening moments of Kendall's life. Someone that had been suspected of drugging anyone, not just her mother, was not immediately welcome in Kendall's condominium.

"Hello, Kendall… You'll never believe what I just found out." he said, with his traditional smirk on his face. Kendall's brow furrowed into a confused expression. Something wasn't right with this situation.

"And what would that be?" She said, setting down her yogurt on her coffee table. Josh laughed slightly, walked around her couch, and stood in front of Kendall. Something about his demeanor made Kendall afraid.

"About your dear mommy… Oh, excuse me… Our dear mommy." He said.

"Our?" She said, standing up slowly.

"Yeah… Didn't you hear the news? You're not the only child of Erica Kane's that was abandoned but hey, at least she gave you a chance to live! Look at me… I was supposed to be aborted!" Josh said, anger clearly taking over his voice but he tried to make this matter a comical one.

"Excuse me?" Kendall asked.

"Oh… I guess mom forgot to clue you in. She got pregnant with me but decided, 'eh… I don't want this baby.' So she tosses me away… well not technically… she just arranged to have me terminated but being the good 'Samaritan' that my dad—oh wait, that's a lie, Dr. Madden was, he implanted me, in my mom's—oh wait, that's a lie too… his own wife. Now… if that doesn't make your head spin I don't know what will." He said, with a malicious smile on his face.

"I—I don't believe that… Josh… is that even possible? You can't just… take a woman's embryo and put… that can't be true, Josh… No, get out of my house now!" Kendall said, backing away from Josh. His smile didn't waver and he reached into his pocket. He pulled out a syringe filled with clear liquid. Kendall didn't even bother to ask what the liquid was. She immediately pushed the coffee table in front of him, causing him to stumble, and ran for the door. He cut her off and blocked the door.

"You see, Kendall. Your mother… my father… my mother… basically everyone lied to me. My entire life is a lie. This… this has stripped me of everything." Josh said, his anger mixing in with his usual cockiness.

"Yeah… including your sanity!" Kendall screamed.

"Oh, no… I'm quite sane. It's just all of these people who think that they can play god and manipulate any situation so they can either get what they want and you see, Kendall… I'm going to follow in that example." He said, inching closer to Kendall's face, "And what I want… is to make Erica feel this pain and this loss that I feel and I will do anything to do it."

He grabbed her arm and Kendall fought him. She struggled to get away, kicking, screaming, hitting but Josh had already administered the drug into her arm. The more she fought, the heavier her legs felt until she couldn't support herself anymore and collapsed into Josh's arms.

"There, there, sis…" he said, stroking Kendall's cheek and he moved his attention to her pregnant stomach, "And you, little man. You, me, and mommy are going to give Grandma quite the shock."