Chapter Twelve: Hayley Granger
New Orleans 19 Years Ago (Hayley's 17 and Remy is 18)
"Why are we here?" Hayley asked her boyfriend Randall Mitchel as they walked around the city
"Come on babe live a little" Randall smirked as he dragged her around "You and I have graduate next year, we got all the time in the world"
"So where here to let loose before senior year?"
"Course we are"
"Let's go then" Hayley rolled her eyes as she followed him before muttering under her "all the time in the world? All the time until I get married"
"You say something?"
"Not a word"
"You should have fun more Hayley" Randy said while Hayley rolled her eyes and followed him into a bar to the table at the back where several men were playing poker "Hey Jamie"
"Randy my man, you here to play?" the man name Jamie smirked "who's the babe?"
"My girl"
"I'm property now?" Hayley snapped, causing one of the men to chuckle.
"What's your name chere?" one the players asked as he leaned back on his chair "You got fire"
"Name's Hayley, you are?"
"Remy LeBeau"
"Back off man, she's my girlfriend and good luck charm, get your own" Randy growled
"I'm just being friendly, though the fille said it best, she's not pregnant. So mademoiselle you playing?"
"Just watching, I'm not very good"
"Remy stop teasing and let's play" Jamie said as Hayley watched the game, and Randy was losing money quickly.
"Chere, come here for a second" Remy called out to the ebony haired girl, who came and stood on the chair he offered her
"What you doing LeBeau?" one of the other players asked
"Now why don't you take this hand and test your luck?" Remy asked leaning over the girl's shoulder
"I told you I'm not very good" Hayley teased the brunette
"I don't buy that for a second"
"Why don't you quit hitting on other people's girl?" Randy snarled
"He isn't hitting on me" Hayley noted, causing Randy to mutter something about her being an idiot "He's doing it to get under your skin"
"Fille is smart" Remy smirked as Hayley won the next round of cards "And talented"
"How the hell is she able to do that?" Jamie asked after the third round
"How long you been faking a smile chere?"
"Don't think you know my girl" Randy snarled as he grabbed Hayley and pulled her outside the bar and into the alleyway "What the hell was that?"
"Nothing, he was trying to get under your skin" Hayley argued back
"You belong to me"
"We are so over. Get the hell away from me" Hayley as she walked away from him only to be grabbed and pulled back to her now ex-boyfriend.
"Don't think you can walk away from me"
"Back off mon ami" Remy said as he decked Randy, having felt the anger coming off of the man when he dragged Hayley out the room "Sorry chere"
"You have nothing to be sorry for"
"It's my fault he was angry at you"
"Not your fault, I just have a habit of falling for the wrong type of guy"
"Let's get out of here, you like coffee?"
"You have really bad timing in asking a girl out, you know that don't you?"
"Make things seem normal" Remy said "Remy LeBeau"
"Hayley Granger" Hayley said walking away from the male before pausing and looking over her shoulder "You know a good place for some food?"
…
17 Years Ago
"Remy come on" Hayley smiled as she looked up at her boyfriend
"You sure about this mon amour? You have your whole life in Washington"
"Do you not want me to move in with you or something Rem?"
"Non, I want nothing more than that, I want you to be sure"
"I am sure" Hayley told her boyfriend as she kissed him "Je t'aime"
"Je t'aime Hayley" Remy sighed as he took her bag from her and pulled her into his apartment "Welcome home"
"Je veux faire l'amour avec toi [1]"
"Your French is getting better"
"You're commenting on my French now?"
"Later. Now we spend time together as a couple" Remy smirked kissing the brown eyed girl before they went to the bedroom
16 Years Ago
Lying in a hospital bed was Hayley Granger who was holding a small pink bundle in her arms "Isn't she perfect Remy?"
"She is" Remy said as he moved his brushed the child's chubby cheek with his finger, "She's so tiny. Don't cry Hayley"
"I'm just emotional, she's beautiful"
"Have you two decided on a name yet?" the nurse asked
"Lucinda Hope LeBeau" Hayley whispered "Our angel"
…..
13 Years Ago
"Papa" a three year old Lucy said as she hugged her father when he came back inside
"Hello petite" Remy said as he kissed her cheek and picked her up.
"Remy, you're back" Hayley sighed as she hugged the father of her daughter "How was 'work'?"
"Chere"
"No talk of illegal activities in front of Lucy, I know, I'm the one who made that rule Remy" Hayley said as Remy placed his daughter on the couch with her doll.
"I wasn't out stealing anything" Remy said "I need to ask you something"
"You can ask me anything Rem"
"Will you marry me?"
"What?"
"Marry me Hayley" Remy said as he handed her a silver engagement ring
"Yes"
"What?"
"I'll marry you Remy" Hayley smiled as her fiancée slid the ring on her finger and she kissed him
"Eww" Lucy called out.
10 Years Ago
It was the worst day of Hayley's life, she lost her fiancée and daughter in the course of twenty four hours. Masked men came into her home and knocked her out before taking the two people she loved more than anything in the world. No one had any information on where the disappeared to and she threw herself into her work after an officer came to door to inform her of their deaths.
7 Years Ago
Hayley nearly fainted at the sight standing on her doorstep, Remy holding an unconscious Lucy in his arms with a small smile saying "Hey beautiful"
"Remy" Hayley's reaction was pure reflex as she wrapped her arms around his neck and hugging him
"Hayley" Remy whispered into her hair as he broke the hug and handed Hayley their daughter before filling Hayley in on what had happened these past two years.
"They took you and experimented on the two of you?" Hayley gasped as she cleaned her fiancée's cuts and bruises while their daughter slept on the couch
"That isn't the worst of it" Remy said as he brushed a lock of brown hair behind his daughter's ear while she slept "Lucy has amnesia"
"What do you mean Remy?"
"She has no memories of what happened to her or who we are"
"…" Hayley never said anything as she ran her fingers through Lucy's hair
"Hayley?"
"You and Lucy are alive"
"Oui"
"My daughter has no idea who I am"
"Oui"
"I feel torn" Hayley whispered "I'm ecstatic you guys are alive but my own daughter doesn't know who I am"
"And I have to leave" Remy said handing her a birth certificate for Lucinda Granger to Hayley
"Leave, why Remy?"
"You two will be safer without me"
"Remy"
"Listen to me Chere" Remy said as he wiped the tears from her brown eyes "You raise Lucy as your sister and keep people from looking into her"
"Rem I don't know if I can do this?"
"Yes you can. You're strong"
"I love you Remy"
"I love you too Hayley, nothing will change that fact"
Present Day
As Lucy pulled away from her sister – no her mother, her finger's reached out to the necklace that she always wore, pulling slightly on the chain to reveal the engagement ring that Remy had given to her.
"You lied to me to protect me?" Lucy whispered as she fingered the detailing on the ring.
"I thought you'd be safer like that" Remy responded, he could barely believe that the nine year old he'd left behind had turned into a teenager "You aren't in danger anymore"
"You were behind the destruction at Trask Industries"
"Oui"
"Why didn't you do that before?"
"I tried, a corporation like that isn't easy to destroy"
"Your father worked as fast as we could" Hayley interjected "Do you know why your memories came back now?"
"I read the mind of a man who wanted to stop Trask from doing something" Lucy hypnotised "maybe the exposure to everything kick started my memories"
"Do you hate us for this?" Hayley asked
"No. I just need time to process everything" Lucy said as she went upstairs and into her room "alien abducting is actually sounding pretty plausible right now"
"Will she be okay?" Remy asked as Hayley held his hand, the reunion with his family not going the way he had wanted
"Give her time" Hayley responded "It's a lot for anyone to come to grips with, let alone a teenager"
Author's Note: Cookies to IKhandoZatman who guessed that Hayley was Lucy's mother anyone else see that coming? And now Remy's relationship with her is cleared up
And hugs to NicoleR85 who as commented on nearly every one of my chapters *hugs*
Peter will be in the next chapter I promise
[1] – Means "I want to make love to you" in French