In those weeks that Charles was away Molly would be at work herself and when she wasn't she was with Adam and of course whenever they could Molly and Charles would talk to each other on the phone but she had gone most days without talking to him than she did with.
Molly had explained as best as she could to her son just who Charles was and she thinks that he understood because whenever she showed the small boy a picture he would point at it and say "Da" and honestly it made her heart skip a beat because the two of them had been away from each other long enough. Molly didn't want to put any distance between them anymore.
But it was one afternoon when she had arrived home from work and with Adam at her mother's for a couple of days, who would've known that Dave would dote on his Grandson, and she found that Charles' mother had been waiting for her that she knew it would be a bad day because with these two women coming face to face things weren't exactly neutral.
"What do you want?" Molly asked her ex mother in law.
"I just wanted to talk and apologise for what I have done" Pam responded.
Molly scoffed at her and then looked around where they were standing for a moment before she put her eyes back on Pam "Which time? The time you tried to put another woman between me and Charles? The time you tried to embarrass me in front of all your dinner guests? Or was it the time you tried to have my son taken away from me so that you could push the knife in that much more because I'm not really sure which one it is myself"
Pam took a deep breath "Okay, I deserve that" she admitted with a nod and watched Molly "But I think you'll find that you said it yourself in those questions, that I tried to do all of that to you and Charles wouldn't let me get away with it" She knew that that made her sound even more worse but she really did try all of that and failed.
"You are so unbelievable, you stand there and say that you want to talk but when I have just brought up most of the stuff that you have done your answer to it was I tried" Molly shook her head once more and then scoffed once more. She really didn't want to get into all of this especially when she was having some sort of a nice day.
"Can we talk about this inside? We're not on EastEnders" Pam said and looked around and Molly's neighbours, the last thing she wanted was for all of this to be talked about through the place where Molly lived.
Molly wanted to say no and slam the door in her face but she found herself grabbing her keys out of her pocket and walking up to the door of her flat which thankfully was on the ground floor and not on the top but she would like to see that bitch walk up the flights of stairs in her no doubt expensive shoes. She walked in and left the door open for the wicked witch to fly in on her broomstick and found herself feeling disappointed when she actually did come in and shut the door behind her.
"No Adam?" Pam asked as she looked around; noticing how quiet it really was.
"I felt a disturbance in the Force and decided to get him out of here before Darth Vader turned up" Molly said and looked straight at Pam.
"You do know that Vader was actually Luke's father, right?"
Molly gave her the best I really don't care look, she was Vader whether she liked it or not. "What do you want, Pam?"
Pam cleared her throat and took a seat at the small table that Molly had in her kitchen and put her handbag on the floor next to the chair "I wanted to ask you whether you would talk to Charles for me, to make him see that what he has done is wrong and that I am his mother"
Molly raised an eyebrow at the cheek of what she was asking of her, Pam had to be out of her mind if she thought that Molly would sit there and talk to Charles when he got back about how he had done the wrong thing when it came to his mother. No mother should act the way that she did and go behind their son's back. She was starting to think that her Nan was right about wanting to throw Shazzer off of the motorway bridge; Molly found herself wanting to do it to Charles' mother but then she would lose everything if the woman was found with Molly's DNA on her. "No" she finally said after a moment of watching the other woman.
"No? What do you mean no?" Pam spoke her words calmly but she really didn't feel calm right now; she was in the middle of losing her son for good and with him being an only child she didn't want to lose him.
"What it means, no," she muttered and then chewed on her lip for a moment before she finally decided to just spill everything and let the woman have it. "You seem to think that I have this hold over Charles where he does everything I tell him, he doesn't; he made the decision to leave you on his own, he made that decision because you had pushed him too far" Molly finally said and knew that it would probably hurt her but she needed to know the truth of the matter that her actions have consequences because it was clear that Pam didn't understand any of this; or just simply didn't care.
Pam went to say something but Molly spoke instead "I mean for Christ sake you tried to have his son taken away; you need to own up to what you have done because if you can't then you will lose him for good, if you haven't already done that of course"
Pam sat there in silence for a long moment and knew that she probably would sound stupid for even asking this but she wanted the answer honest and truthful and from Molly she knew that she would get it. "Do you think I've lost Charles?"
"I honestly don't know, that is something for the two of you to work out but who knows maybe he will have a clearer head when he gets back from Syria but you don't want to hassle him with all the questions because he always needs a moment when he comes back from tours and deployments"
Pam had wondered how the hell she could be really stupid and do all the things that she has done to make her son decide that he had had enough of her and that her scheming ways were too much for him. With him being their only child Pam had wanted the best for him but then he decides that he wants to join the Army so that plan had gone out of the window and then he went on to marry Rebecca and have Sam and Pam thought that he would be settled for good; only that didn't work out as well as she had hoped. They had tried to stay together for as long as they could but in the end they just weren't happy and had to split up.
Then he had met Molly and Pam was deeply disappointed that he had met a girl from a London Estate. Molly wouldn't have been the girl that Pam would've choosen for Charles and she had proved that many times by trying to set him up with someone else but in the end Charles' mind had been made up and he had wanted to be with Molly; only the poor girl had had enough of Pam interferring and she had walked away and taking, unknown to them at that point, Adam with them.
Molly watched Pam trying to work everything out in her mind and she sighed before then asking "Do you want a cuppa? Things might look a bit better after that" she saw Pam nod and she turned and put the kettle on before grabbing two cups out of the cupboard.
"Why are you being so nice and not telling me to get out after everything that I have done?" Pam asked and looked over at the dark haired younger woman, who definitely wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in.
"I don't know," Molly admitted and put the teabags in the cup before adding the sugar "maybe trying to be the bigger person and not stoop down to your level could be one of the reasons or there could be something else" she shrugged up a shoulder and once the kettle boiled she added the water and let the teabag settle for a moment in the water before she walked over to the fridge and grabbed the milk then took the bag out and added the milk in before giving it a good stir. She walked over to the table with the two cups of teas and put one down in front of Pam and sat down herself at the other side of the table.
"Why have I been so stupid?" Pam asked and looked over at Molly.
"Mothers are when it comes to their children, they feel the need to protect them at any age and I will probably be the same with Adam but you need to understand that Charles doesn't want to be babied, he wants to be able to live the life he wants"
"He even ran to another country to prove that" Pam muttered.
Molly wanted to feel bad for Pam but in the end this was all of her own making, she had pushed Charles too far and now he snaps back and tells her that he doesn't want that anymore and that if she can't be nice to the woman that he loves then Pam had no place in their lives.
"Are you and Charles going to get back together?" Pam asked.
It was something that Molly had been thinking about but if she's being honest his mother really had a big hand in the reason why she didn't want to get back together but it clearly shows that Pam could get to her even if she wasn't with Charles and honestly it was making her feel miserable not being with him. Sure she had been with Bones for a while but he wasn't Charles and in the end he knew that. Molly found it easier to speak to Bones about things like that and knew that she would have another friend no matter what. "I don't know" she spoke after a moment and put her hands around her hot cup.
"If I may say something, he loves you Molly and he has proven that time and time again, he wants to be with his family; you and Adam, that is all he wants"
Over the time that Charles has been gone she had envisioned a life where Charles was living with them and how Christmases would be, and Father's day and birthdays and summer holidays; even though they were both in the Army and knew that stuff like that was hard she still dreamed about it, all of it. Molly found that there was a question that she wanted to ask and the more that she tried to keep it down the more she wanted to say it until she finally spoke her mind and asked the question that she had been wanting to ask for years. "Why don't you like me for Charles?" Molly kept her eyes on her ex mother in law.
Pam sat there for a moment in silence and there was only one explanation that she could really give. "Because I was a snob and a complete bitch, I wanted better for Charles and if that meant marrying a girl whose mother I have known for a long time then that was what I was going to push for, and then when you left I was glad because I thought that then I could get around to Charles and get him to see that he was supposed to be with someone else but it has always been you Molly, you are his guiding light and to now find out that he has a son with you, in his mind that has cemented you two being together"
"I tried everything to get you to like me but in the end I just decided that it wasn't worth it and I stopped trying but that didn't mean that you weren't in every thought that I had, even after leaving Charles it was like you were always there and I didn't like it" Molly admitted and looked down at the table for a moment, she might as well be honest about how badly this woman had affected her even when she wasn't married to Charles. Even now sitting here there were thoughts that maybe she was doing things wrong but this was Molly's place and no one was going to tell her what she should do in her own place.
Pam didn't realise just how badly she had affected the poor woman and if she could go back and do it differently then she really would but unfortunately her actions were what led her son to decide that he didn't want to be part of her life anymore. She moved her hands from her cup and then put them on Molly's, the younger woman then looked up at her, and she said "I truly am sorry for everything I have done to you, you didn't deserve any of that"
Molly watched her and wondered if she was only playing a game in which this would get back to Charles and once he was back in her life would she change back to how she was? She wanted to believe that she had changed but at the moment she wasn't sure what she truly believed. If she wanted to be a part of her son's life then she was going to have to change dramatically for Charles to even consider changing his mind but at the moment he had seemed a lot happier, even though he had been in Syria when they had spoken but it was like this weight had been lifted off his shoulders and he could walk better. She squeezed Pam's hands back and watched as the woman gave her a soft smile to which Molly had smiled back.
Could they ever really get on or where they just too different to the fact that they truly wouldn't see eye to eye no matter what each woman wanted?
Molly wasn't sure but maybe this was the first honest conversation that they had ever had and while that might not be enough for some people that could be a start in which things might be a bit easier in the long run. She then felt Pam's hands move from hers and in the end Molly got up from the chair and walked into the front room and took a picture down from a cupboard and then walked back into the kitchen. She put it down in front of Pam and sat back down in her own chair.
"That's your Grandson" Molly said with a proud smile, that little boy while unplanned had brought so much light to her life and she was more than thankful for him.
"Oh he looks like his father when he was younger, I remember this one time where Charles had wanted paints and against our better judgement we had allowed him to have some and he decided that he wanted to paint his arms and the walls for that matter" Pam said and picked up the picture to get a better look at the grandson that she had never met but if she didn't change her ways then she wouldn't meet him at all.
"Charles was actually a rebel child?" Molly asked around a soft laugh, she found that a little hard to imagine.
"Oh he definitely was and there are loads of stories I could tell you about Charles" Pam smiled and looked up at Molly.
Maybe things might be a little bit more easier and maybe Pam will be able to get to speak to her son once he got back from Syria but for now she was too busy sharing those stories with Molly, if she could work up a relationship with Molly then she might be able to get her son back but for now she knew that she had a long way to go and sharing baby stories with Molly while looking at her grandson's picture was enough.