The birth mother parked a block from the PCPD. She was muddy from climbing onto and off of the bridge. The leg of her jean was torn, her hair a mess.
She walked up to the front doors of the police station and inside. Her instincts urged her to turn and flee. But she ignored them and kept putting one foot in front of the other, walking toward a fate she put in motion long ago.
She thought, I have to do this! I have to say the words...
Lucky watched her walk in, looking a wreck. He saw Mac come out of his office and spot her.
Brenda sat with Isabella on her lap on the sofa in Brenda's suite. Jax sat next to her.
"Hey, Bella." she said, taking the baby's hand. "I will be the one who teaches you all about fashion. You will be the best dressed kid in kindergarten, I promise."
Knock. Knock.
"Who knows you're here? Robin?" Jax asked
Pound. Pound.
"No." answered Brenda "I was planning on stopping by and surprising her tonight. She thinks I'm coming on Sunday for the Christening."
Pound. Pound. Pound. "Let me in!"
"Crap." said Brenda
"Be nice." Jax warned Brenda rose to answer the door. "I mean it."
"You better be dressed because I am using my key to come in!" yelled the woman in the hall
Jax opened the door and Carly shook her head at him.
"My God! She already has her clutches back in you." Carly said storming into the room past him.
"Carly," Jax started
Brenda cut him off. She glare Carly an icy glare. "How did you know I was here?"
"When a Mrs. Morgan checks into my hotel I take notice! I thought it might be Sam. She wishes she was Jason's wife bad enough to fake that she was. But when I checked the security tape, LO and BEHOLD, I see it's worse. You."
"Missed you too, Carly babes." Brenda said
Jax came over and took Isabella from Brenda. "Now, now, ladies. Lets not upset the little one. Okay?"
Carly's eyes were locked with Brenda. "You had better not still be Jason's wife."
"I'm not." Brenda said "So retract the claws. I came to see Isabella."
"Just great!" Carly threw her hands up " I have to share a baby with Saint Robin, doctor and all around holy one, and now I have to share her with you too. God must be playing a bad joke on me."
"Well," Brenda said, standing up "I get how Robin and Jax are adopting Bella but where do you fit it?"
"Um," Jax said "I should have mentioned..."
Carly cut him off. "Jax and I are engaged." she lied
Brenda's eye bugged out. Jax hid surprise by looking down.
"Good for you." Brenda said through clenched teeth.
Carly folded her arms over her chest. "When are you leaving?"
Brenda smirked, "Maybe I should stay in town to be near my goddaughter, Jax, Sonny and ...Jason, of course."
Carly gave her a look of death.
Mac crossed the room at the police station and said, "Maxie! You're here? God, we've missed you, sweetie." Mac hugged her.
Maxie said, "Listen, Mac, there's something I have to tell you."
The color drained from Mac's face. Knowing that the Chief had previously suffered a heart attack, Lucky crossed the room to them to check on him.
Mac said "My office. Now."
Maxie took a step back. "No, don't try and protect me. I want to confess."
Her eyes connected with Lucky and she said "But I will only make a statement to Officer Spencer."
Lucky said, "What's going on?"
Maxie blurted out, "I left that baby in the park."
The words hit lucky like a slap. He flashed back to sleeping with her the year before. He said, "Come with me."
Mac had tears in his eyes as he watched his daughter led into the interrogation room. Before the door swung shut he heard, "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law..."
Lucky finished reading her the Miranda rights and then cuffed her to the table. He sat across from her.
He asked, "Is the baby mine?"
Dillon dialed his cell phone. He had just boarded the ELQ jet. Grandfather had flatly refused to let him borrow it but Tracy over ruled him. Surprising Dillon she had said, "Go bring Lulu home. She belongs here."
But before he could face Lulu, Dillon wanted to talk to Georgie. He needed to go to Lulu as a free man, with his heart fully available to give to her. If Lulu would have it.
Dillon checked Georgie's home, the hospital, and Kelly's. But when he couldn't find her, he headed for the airport.
This was the tenth time he tried calling her. Unlike the other times, Georgie answered.
"Hello," she said.
"It's me. Where have you been all day?"
"On the train to Cambridge."
"Why? Classes can't start for months still."
Georgie sighed. "I...wanted to tell you some different way, Dillon. When I was at Harvard I..." her words trailed off. A moment passed.
"What?"
"Today some really crazy stuff went down with my family and I needed to be with someone who I could talk to. I wanted to see..."
The truth became clear to Dillon.
Georgie said, "I fell in love with someone else when I was away at school. His name is..."
"No, don't tell me. We can talk about it. But not today. Just know that I understand. Things haven't been right between us for a long time."
"You don't hate me?" Her voice was small, like she expected him to despise her now.
Dillon knew how much everyone's feeling meant to Georgie. She made them her own and tried to make the world happy. When she couldn't, she suffered. He tried to ease her mind by saying, "I could never hate you. You are stuck with me, as a friend, for life."
"You're taking this well. Too well." Georgie paused "It happened, didn't it"
Her words were soft now. "You fell in love with her finally? You love Lulu, now."
"I think I should talk to her about that before you."
They said good bye and Dillon hung up. The pilot stuck his head out of the cockpit.
"Ready to go, Mr. Quatermaine?"
"More than ready. Get me to Miami, man." Silently Dillon added, half of my heart is there.
The image of Lulu, smiling as her blond hair whipped in the wind while they rode across the lake on the speed boat, came to his mind.
Dillon prayed it was not too late to win her love.