Chapter 43:
One Step Further
A/N: Okay, I know I've been away for ever, but, I'm back for now, I find it most difficult to write when the show is God awful, also thxs, THEROX4EVER03 for the help, and I'm gonna try to throw a lot a TheRox in the chapters to come. Well ne wayz here's the next chapter plz, leave feedback : )
Sam sighed, she was more than an half an hour late and this traffic jam wasn't helping her much, she'd never seen the roads in Harmony this populated with moving vehicles. It was like everyone from here to Jamaica had came to Dylan's funeral. Sighing it didn't look like she was going to be pulling out anytime soon. She watched as car by car went by all in prostitute of there homes, then when the last car had pulled out she quickly edged to the road.bang
Someone had just hit her car, her brand new Mustang, she looked through her review mirror and saw a man approaching her. 'Hell, this can't be happening to me.' She got out of her car and began to examine her car that had been dented up pretty bad.
"Ma'am...", the man began.
"Can't you drive, didn't you see me? What kind of fool backs up and doesn't even look for traffic?", she asked.
"Well, I've been waiting for the past hour to pull out and ma'am I don't see what the big deal is, you look like you could afford another one of these...with your designer clothes, million dollar hair cut...."
"My boyfriend bought me this car and these clothes and...", she began.
"Ah, go back to your sugar daddy, he'll greatly get you another car, just as long as you give him a few blows to the head.", he scuffed.
"You son of a...", she began.
"Watch it, my mother may have two husbands, but, she always tried to be a good old fashioned lady.", he told her.
"My boyfriend is in a wheel chair.", she told him.
"Oh My God, you like em' old too, honey?", he laughed, he couldn't help but, admire the woman, she had beautiful red hair that came mid ways her back, fiery emerald green eyes and she stood about 5'6, she wasn't too short nor was she too tall.
"No, he was paralyzed.", she told him. "Now, I need..."
"Who in the hell do you think you are, I owe you not one thing, you are the one who hit me.", he told her.
"Excuse you, what the hell have you been smoking?", she asked. "It is your fought, not mine and I refuse to say it is mine...", she was interrupted by the sound of horns blowing.
"Come on move it.", the man in the car yelled. "Freaking morons."
"The man's getting pretty upset.", she told him.
"Come on you son of a bitches...", the man in the car exclaimed.
"Fuck off.", he exclaimed, turning his attention back to Sam. "I - do you know who my father is?"
"I could careless you still hit me and I plan on getting what is mine, I want you to give me money to get it fixed with.", she told him.
"Whatever baby, the only way I'm giving you money is if...well, I've been a little down lately, care to cheer it up?", he asked.
"Oh My God, I have never...", she asked.
"From the looks of it, you've done it quiet a few times...", he began, before her hand came across his face.
"You bastard...you're gonna pay for what you've done to me.", she told him.
"Really doll.", he ran his hand over her cheek bone.
"Get your hands off me.", she told him.
"Okay, I'll make you a deal...I'll write you a blank check, and trust you enough to fill in the exact amount of money.", he told her.
"Okay, but, if...", she began.
"What's your name?". he asked.
"Write it to S. Jenkins.", she told him.
"Okay.", he told her, finished filling out the check and handed it to her, she quickly grabbed the check from him. "Thank you."
"No problem, but...I'll look you up in a few weeks, make sure you didn't cheat me.", he told her.
"Come on, move it would you?", the man in the car exclaimed.
"Go fuck yourself.", she exclaimed, flipping him the bird, the man in the car who had been laying down his on his horn and hollering rude remarks to her and the dark haired guy in the pick up, who had just hit her. She watched as the man in the pick up, faded on down the road then, she herself, backed up and head on down the road.
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"Warm?", Daniel asked, pulling the covers up over her nearly naked body.
"Uh, hmm.", Kathelina replied, she had a lot on her mind and was going through the motions of the day, it seemed like the world had stopped, and left her moving without it.
"Hey...", he began, cupping her chin in his hands, lifting her head so his eyes meet hers. "You okay? Kathelina, come on you don't have to keep all your feelings to yourself. You're not alone."
"Why do you care?", she asked. "Daniel, what do you want from me? Sex? If so you're in for a rude awaiting."
"No, Kat...why you acting like this with me?", he asked.
"Are you stupid, or something? Daniel, you called me a whore, you accused me of...", she began.
"Kat, I didn't mean to hurt you, it's just...I never wanted you to know about Ashley and my offal marriage, nor did I want you to meet my father.", he told her.
"Why? Daniel, I am a grown woman, not a child.", she told him.
"I know that and Kat, I have never treated you like it.", he told her.
"Then, why do you want to keep things from me, and your excuse is always, you want to protect me, Daniel, I don't need no one to protect me.", she told him.
"Oh really, Kat, if you didn't have someone looking out for you, you'd already been raped or worse dead.", he told her.
"If you're talking about earlier, then you are wrong, I had complete control.", she told him.
"Is that so? Kat, he tore your clothes off, he'd bruised you up pretty bad, and if he'd found you after you stabbed him, Kat, he could have possibly killed you, honey...", his tone changed lightly, but, he refused to let his emotions over take him, to let Kathelina know that he cared more for her than he let on. "honey...you can't go trusting everybody, they're people out there who wouldn't think twice about hurting you, and I may not always be here to protect you."
"Does that mean, you're leaving?", she asked, fear rose in her. "You can't leave, please...stay with me tonight."
He smiled down at her. "I - I'm flattered, but, Kat..."
"Daniel, is it me? If so then I am sorry...I know that I haven't...", she began, he let out a laugh. "What's so funny, are you laughing at me, do you get a kick out of making people beg to you?"
"No beauty.", he stated simply. "Kathelina, what makes you think that I am leaving? All I said was I may not always be here, which is true, I could be killed tomorrow."
"Don't say that.", she replied. "Don't talk about dying, it scares me. I can't lose you, not now. It wouldn't be fair I just lost one person I love, I can't bare to lose another.", he could tell she was freaking out, he slowly put his arms around her, and she rested her head on his chest.
"You want to talk to me, you know you don't have to keep all your emotions bottled up, you can tell me anything, or if you just want to cry on my shoulder then you can.", he told her, he tucked a small strand of hair behind her ear.
"Daniel, I feel like the world has stopped spinning, but, I haven't...no one knows what I'm going through, I can't get the images of your father and what he nearly did to me out of my head and on top of that...I - Daniel, I blame myself for Dylan...if I had prayed harder or stayed with him more or...", she began to sob.
"Shh...it's gonna be okay.", he told her, she looked up at him.
"Thank you, thank you so much for taking care of me, for always being there for me every time I fall, because, this time I feel like I've hit rock bottom.", she told him.
"Kat...I...", he began.
"I love you more then you'll ever realize.", she told him, resting her head on his chest.
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"Nicholas...Nicholas...I need to talk to you !!!!", Rachel exclaimed running up to him.
"Rachel, what a pleasant surprise.", Fox replied, turning to his younger sister.
"Fox, I need your help.", she told him. "I need a job, and I need it ASAP."
Fox chuckled. "What's the catch?"
"Nick, must you always doubt me?", she asked.
"Uhhhh...yeah, when it comes to you and responsibility, you have none.", he told her.
"Fox, please... Kathelina has had a job for almost 2 years now and I - Fox I want to be took serious for a change.", she told him.
"Okay...let's pretend for a moment I think that you are serious...how long is this job gonna be for you?", he asked.
"What do you mean?", she asked.
"Is this a long term job or is this some hair brained scheme to get somebody's attention as to say 'look at me'.", he asked.
"I don't have no clue how long this job will be. Nicholas, I want to live my life like a normal person, not like a spoiled little rich brat.", she told him.
"Okay, let me ask you this? What is the main reason besides proving yourself to all of Harmony do you want this job? It wouldn't have nothing to do with, err...let's say a guy?", he asked.
"Nicholas...", she began.
"It does...Rachel, I will not let you risk my job and my companies time to impress some guy.", he told her.
"Fox, I didn't say that and I told you the truth I want to be normal, I want to have my own job and make my own money to live on...it's nice to be from a family of wealth, but...this is something I want to do, something I gotta do...I want prove to myself that I can have my own job and provide myself with my own income.", she told him. "Nicholas, didn't you ever want to prove yourself worthy?"
"Yeah.", he admitted. "Rachel, I... Okay."
"You're going to give me the job? Fox are you serious?", she exclaimed.
"Yes, but, don't make me regret it.", he told her.
"Thank you, thank you...thank you...Nicholas you won't regret this. I promise you, I'll...Foxworth, I'll make you proud of me, I will.", she told him.
"I hope because, I can not afford to let you mess up my career, it is the only thing I have left that I haven't screwed up.", he told her.
"Nicholas...", she began. "You want to talk? I know, that - Dylan was like a brother to you and it's hurting you that he's -that he's no longer with us..."
"Rachel, say it. He's dead, they're not sense in sugar coating it.", Fox told her.
"Yeah, he is and I know that whether you want to admit it or not, you some how blame yourself, because, that is how you are.", she told him. "You blame yourself and then go and push those closest to you away."
"Rachel, I am to blame.", he told her. "If I hadn't been so stubborn and tried to upstaged Resa then I ... what I'm trying to say is that it is my fought that Dylan was at the court house when the shots where fired. I not only endanger Dylan, but, everyone I care about, do you realize that because of me, Ethan is paralyzed, Dylan is dead, Kathelina has lost the love of her life and how easy could one of those bullets hit Theresa?"
"Fox, you can't blame yourself, like this... Fox you are not responsible for what happened. You didn't pull the trigger that paralyzed Ethan, nor pull the trigger that killed Dylan. Yeah, you are the reason they were in the court house but, you didn't cause the shooting to happen. Samantha did. Sam, is to blame, she's the one who lied to you for months, about what she was and who she was...she used you for her own purposes and how you can still speak to her knowing what she did is fools me.", she told him.
"Rachel, Sam has had a rough life okay, and she happens to have took a likening to me, I can't let her down.", he told her.
"Fox, it isn't your job to play her hero or feel like you need to protect her for the remaining days of her life.", she told him.
"I understand that but...", he told her.
"Nicholas, you're doing to have to decided is it Theresa and your kids you want or Sam?", she asked.
"Rach, I've made that....", he began.
"It don't look to me like you have, if so you'd drop all connections to the little wench.", she told him. "Because, as long as she is in your life, it's going make things between you and Theresa complicated."
"When did you become such an expert in love and marriage?", he asked.
"Expert? Are you feeling okay?", she joked. "I probably don't know the slightest thing about neither, but, I talking from sheer observation, you remember, how daddy keep those tapes of that Jazz singer?", she asked.
"Yeah.", he replied. "Which turned out to be Doctor Russell?"
"Yep, well that is one of the many reasons they could never let their feelings for each other come to the surface, because, they weren't ready to come to terms with their past and say screw it, this is what's now, there's no sense on thinking about what might have been, same goes for Alistair he never could except that he had married grandmother and not her sister.", she told him.
"I hear you, but, that was before, Julian married Ivy and Alistair married Katherine, how does that relate to what Resa and I are going through?", he asked.
"Simple, Fox you got to let go in order to move on, if not then, you're going to whine up like father and grandfather alone and bitter.", she told him.
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"Mr., Banning...", Alistair began.
"Mr. Crane.", Daniel Sir. witch. "You didn't tell me that she was lethal."
"I take Katherine, stabbed you?", Alistair remarked, examined the man's blood stained shirt.
"Damn right she stabbed me. She is crazy, she tried to kill me.", he replied. "Alistair, I thought you said that this plan was as easy as 1-2-3?"
"It should have been, but, you are a moron, you screwed up my plan, do you see what you have done, do you know that you could have pushed Daniel and Katherine together, do you know what could happen if that happens?", Alistair asked.
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Daniel sighed, Kathelina had fallen asleep. He lifted her up in his arms, and lay her on the bed. He couldn't help but, smile, she fit into his arms so perfectly.
He looked down at her, she looked so peaceful. "Beauty, I wish it could always be like this, that you could always be this full of peace and innocents."
He slowly got to his feet, making sure he did not wake her, he slowly made his way to the window sill. "God, is she for me? Did you bring me here because, you knew she'd be needing someone?"
He got no answer just the sound of the wind blowing. "I'm starting to trust her, to like her, to love - to love her."
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"Ethan...", Noah began, getting his older half brother's attention.
"Noah?", Ethan asked. "It's quiet a surprise to see you here?"
"It's - Ethan we're brothers and no matter what I said in the past...", Noah began.
"First off we're half brothers, secondly you called me "My father's bastard son.", and said, "He will never be my brother, because in my eyes he is not my brother.", so if you feel like that then, I - show yourself to the door.", Ethan told him.
"I admit, that what I said was a bit cruel and all, but, I'm sure if all at ones your father was revealed to have a long lost son, a long lost son who was raised by the Cranes, a family who has always ran over everyone in this town, Julian and his buddy beat up my father and left him on the other side of the road, just because he knew he could, The Crane ancestors took land from all of those they could during the Great Depression, hell even Raven Hill they probably stole from someone, and I figured, you being raised by were just as cold hearted as Julian and Alistair and those before them, plus, Ivy - Ivy lied to my father and Julian Crane for years, and caused my mother and father to lose their child. I guess what I'm trying to say is Ethan I'm sorry, I misjudged you and I had no right, so if you'll have me I want to start over to be brothers.", Noah told him.
"Umm...Noah, you were always a good kid growing up, Grace and Sam raised you right, they instilled in you great values of family and old fashioned values about how a man is suppose to live. And, I - it's an honor to be your brother, your father's son.", Ethan told him.
Noah nodded. "Alright, brother."
Ethan gave him a small smile. "Yeah."
"Hey, am I interrupting some...",Samantha began.
"Sam, this is...", Ethan began.
"You? Oh My God, you're ... do you have a freaking problem, following me or something?", Samantha asked.
"No, ma'am actually, you followed me, I was here first technically.", Noah told her, a cocky smiled plastered on his face.
"Okay, Sam? Noah? Can I ask, how you know each other?", Ethan asked.
"Yeah, Ethan he's the jerk I was telling you about the arrogate asshole who backed his hump-a-junk pick up into my Mustang.", Sam told him.
"Correction, miss, you hit me, I was backing up and you came like a bat out of hell and hit my poor old truck.", he told her.
"Yeah, right...Ethan, who is he? Why is he here? I swear I ain't paying a dime on that hump-a-junk, you take pride in riding around in.", she told him.
"Miss, Ethan is my brother.", Noah told her. "The name's Noah Bennett."
"Ethan's a Winthrop? How?", she asked.
"His father and my father is Sam Bennett, the chief of police of the Harmony PD.", he told her.
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier?", she asked.
"You didn't give me the chance, you just keep screaming at me that you weren't paying a dime and that I had been the one in the blame.", he told her.
"Well I ain't paying a dime to you, because you are the one to blame.", she told him.
"Ethan, how do you put up with this?", he asked.
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"Janet, you seem really cocky, are you forgetting, that I hold your life in my hands.", James Hartford smirked.
"James, what is it?", she asked, turning to him.
"Lover boy, is oblivious to you and if you want to keep it that way, my precious pet, then I'd suggest that you keep me in your good graces.", he told her.
"Hartford, I am not afraid of you...", she began.
"DRAKE!!!", he bellowed.
"What in the hell do you think you are doing?", she hissed.
"Telling Drake, or should I say Dylan the truth, that you are a lying manipulative bitch, who kidnapped him, took advantage of his amnesia.", he told her.
"No, you can't James, please...I've...baby, I'm sure we can work something out.", she told him, pressing her body against his.
"Hartford, you rang?", Drake asked, his eyes fell on Janet. "What in the hell?"
"Drake...how long - long have you been standing there?", she asked.
"Long enough.", he told her.
"Drake...", she began.
"I can't believe you, I can't believe you keep this from me.", he exclaimed.
"Drake I can explain...", she began.
"Janet, you should have told me, I have the right to know if you're trying to get me fired.", he told her.
"Drake, I was - I want to protect you.", she told him.
"Honey, I know you do but, I am a grown man, and yeah, I may have been shot and I've lost my memory as a result, but, I'm sure that it's only a temporary situation.", he told her, kissing the top of her head.
"Drake, I just love you and can not bare losing you.", she told him.
"Honey, I know.", he told her.
"ENOUGH!!!", James exclaimed. "Drake, I need to speak to you...alone.", he darted his graze out Janet, who gave him a pleading look.
"Fine, I know you have business that the two of you need to take care of.". Janet replied, she kissed Drake's lips quickly before exiting the room.
Spoilers for Chapter 44:
Drake has a flashback of some sort.
Fox and Theresa bond.
Kathelina is convinced that Dylan is still alive, after he comes to her in a dream.
Daniel makes plans to celebrate Valentine's Day with Kathelina, then vows to make her love him.
Rachel and Noah face off , over what?