Chapter 3:

Fox sighed, he knew this couldn't be real, every fiber in his being told him so. "Theresa?", he finally was able to manage to speak.

"Yes, Fox, it's me…I'm here.", she told him

"How, Theresa how is this possible? You're - you're dead, I saw you buried…there's no way for you to be here?", Fox told her.

"Fox, I - not even death can keep us apart.", Theresa told him, cupping his face in her hands.

"Theresa, no, you're dead and it's all because of me, because I was selfish and looking out only for myself…Theresa, I should have came to you, I should have - Oh God, I would have done so many things different…but, I can't…you're gone from me forever. Your son will never see his mother again, you're…", he began.

"Fox, what's done is done.", she told him. "So, let's not talk about the past or the future. Let's concentrate on the here and now.", Theresa told him.

"But, Theresa if I had only…", Fox began.

"Fox, you can't undo what has happened. So, don't beat yourself up over it…now, Fox I need to ask you a favor…", she began.

"Ok, but first…Theresa, I - I need to tell you something, something that I should have told you along time ago…", he breathed, then continued. "Theresa, I love you I guess I always have, since the moment I climb into your bed that night, and you let out that God awful scream."

"I know, I knew you did. Fox, I love you too…I guess I was too caught up in my fantasy world that I had created, that I didn't see what I had right in front of me and I let my one and only true love go, it's too late now, but, Fox. You can do one thing for me.", she stop and drew in a deep breath. "Take good care of my son, I have a feeling that someone is out to bring him harm and…"

"Theresa, I won't let nothing happen to your son.", Fox told her.

"Thank you.", she smiled up at him. "I know I can count on you."

"Yea.", he replied. "But, I let you down when you needed me the most. I killed you, I killed the woman I love."

"Fox, what about Whitney? Don't you love her, isn't she your mystery woman, your soul mate?", she asked.

"No, I told you once, we're kindred spirits you and I. We were meant for each other.", he told her.

"Fox…I - I have to go.", she told him simply, then he watched as she began to fade into the darkness.

"Theresa, don't go. Don't leave me, Theresa! I love you don't leave me.", he screamed, trying desperately to hold on to her. "God, please don't take her, I swear I'll do right by her, I'll never abandon her like I did that night. She'll never….", she was gone.

"I'll be back.", he heard a little whisper in his ear, then he felt his eyes snap open.

It was a dream, she had came to him in a dream. She had came to say good-bye.

'Good-bye?'

Something that he'd never been to good at, but then he remembered her last words I'll be back. What did she mean by that? Was she going to come back to him, or would she only come back to him in a dream? "Theresa, I promise you nothing or no one will hurt your son.", it was then he heard a big commotion in the hall way.

"Damn it Rebecca, the boy's been through enough as it is. Is it really necessary for him to be sent off amongst strangers?", Julian asked.

Rebecca's eyes narrowed. "Yes, all he is annoy me memory of that money grubbing Taco-sita. And, it would in my Gwennie's best interest as well as a great benefit to her marriage, if the little brat was gone out of all our lives.

"What's going on out here? Would you two keep it down, you're going to wake Ethan Martin.", Fox told them, he looked from Julian to Rebecca and back again.

"Fox, what are your thoughts on boarding school?", Rebecca finally spoke up.

"What do you mean?", Fox asked, then as if someone had hit him clear across the head it dawned on him, Rebecca was going to send Ethan Martin away to boarding school, and there was no way in hell he was going to let her. He wouldn't have his brother, Theresa's son suffer what he had. But, most importantly he wouldn't break his promise to Theresa. "Oh, no you don't. Ethan Martin stays put, do you hear me?"

"But…Julian, is his father and he has all say, not you and if you get in my way I'll…", Rebecca began.

"Rebecca, how do you think judge Riley will react to Julian trying to kill Sheridan and Luis numerous times, or the fact that you blackmailed him into marrying you or the fact that you and Gwen sent the letter to the tabloid or…", Fox began.

"I've heard enough…", Julian began.

"That's only the beginning, I have enough on the both of you to make it where you'll never see the light of day again so…", he was cut of by Rebecca.

"Why don't you just have the little bastard?"

"What do you mean?", Fox asked.

"I'll give you custody of Ethan Martin, but in exchange you must…", Julian began, but stopped with hesitation.

"Take him and neither of you ever return.", Rebecca told him.

"With pleasure, this town and this family has caused me and the people I love enough heart ache and Ethan Martin will be blessed to have never know how screwed up his family is. I guess, you're abandoning Ethan Martin, just like you did me. But, guess what he's got a father, he's got me as his father. And, unlike myself, he'll never have to look at his father - me, as a failure.", Fox told him.

"Get out of my house, from this day forward you are dead to me.", Julian told him.

"I always have been, you abandoned me when I was a kid, for what? So, you could live the high life? So, you could screw women, and care on like some common cad? And, mother, she did every bit as much as you did. All, I ever was, was the spare.", Fox told him, with that he was gone.

A/N : What do you, think? I'm gonna try something totally different with this story, this is more a Fox story then a TheRox one, even though I'm gonna through in some TheRox, but mostly it's gonna be about Fox and EM.