Grown Ups: Part II

A deeper look into our classic Llanview characters continues…

Victor was waiting for his children for lunch at the Palace.

"You look lonely." Evangeline said walking over to Victor's table.

"I am at the moment, join me old friend and explain to me how you're Evangeline and Charlene."

Evangeline took a seat.

"It's a long story. Are you ready for it?"

"Yeah! I want to know."

"When I first started working as a lawyer, I was still pretty young. I was dating Shaun. He was my first love and I was his but he went to jail and his brother Greg and I were working on an appeal to get him out. We spent a lot of time together and one thing led to another. I got pregnant and Greg thought the baby was his, he didn't want her, I did, we argued, I fell and he thought I was dead but I wasn't. I woke up somewhere strange and my mother found me but I had no memory of anything in my life including having a baby and my mother didn't tell me so I went on with my life, changed my name and kept it moving. I helped Greg with a case once but I didn't remember him and he didn't say anything so I went on not knowing my past but when I went back into a coma and my mom pulled the plug, I woke up and like a miracle I remembered everything including the first life I had completely forgotten. Over the years I had remembered bits and pieces of my past but nothing triggered everything to come back until I woke up the second time. It was like my brain was on overload. I was angry, no I was pissed off! I was lied to for decades and I missed out on the life of my daughter, seeing her grow up and become this beautiful young woman."

"I always knew I liked Destiny."

Evangeline smiled.

"I don't understand why your mother or your sister didn't tell you about your life before you hit your head."

"Layla, was young and all she really remembered was that I was gone for a while, when I came back I had no memory and I changed my name. She never knew I was pregnant or had a baby and she really didn't know the Evans' that well. When I was dating Shaun I always called Layla, Ladybug and when they were seeing each other around Llanview all he knew was Ladybug and her sister, Charlene not Layla and Evangeline."

"But Greg knew?"

"Eventually, yes but he kept his mouth shut and still told the family that I died when he knew at the time he told Destiny, "the truth" or what he thought was the truth about who her parents were that I was in a coma."

"Why didn't you just tell Greg he wasn't the father in the first place?"

"Ugh. I wasn't sure until I came back to Llanview, got my life back and set things straight. There was a DNA test and we all knew for sure. My mother didn't tell me because she didn't want me to ruin my life with a child."

"Been there, done that, lived that story. I know where she's coming from there… So you're the one who killed Greg?"

"I didn't mean to. It was Destiny's wedding and he showed up. I was so angry with him but I didn't want to cause a scene so I got in my car and he tried to stop me. I ended up hitting and killing him. The first few years after I woke up from that coma were so difficult."

"I can imagine."

"Things are better now. I have my life back. I lost so much that I can never get back and that will never be ok but I'm alive. I know you understand."

"Yes I do. What's your life like now?"

"Pretty good actually, my relationship with Destiny and my grandchildren is wonderful and my career is going smoothly except Destiny takes all the good clients." She laughed. "But I'm proud of her. That ex-wife of yours taught her well before I came in the picture. I also have a little girl who I actually have been able to watch grow and be there for every step of the way."

"No kidding."

"Yeah! Her name's Eva. She's nine."

"That's great! Who's the father?"

"You're not going to like the answer." Evangeline laughed.

"Why? Who is it? Cristian Vega?" Victor laughed.

"Nooo. I have never gotten back together with Cristian Vega."

"Then who is it?" Victor laughed at his next thought. "John McBain?" Victor laughed even harder, his stomach started to hurt."

"Eva Shauna McBain."

Victor stopped laughing abruptly.

"John McBain!" Victor exclaimed.

"I told you, you wouldn't like it."

"Oh come on!" Victor shook his head but then laughed. "Wait, Shauna. You had a baby with John McBain and named her after your first love? Eva, you have some explaining to do." He said like Ricki Ricardo from 'I Love Lucy.'

"It's no big deal."

"No big deal? Ok, so if we have a baby girl together and I name her let's say, Eve Téa Lord, you'd be ok with that?"

"Vic…"

"I gotcha. You can't say it, can you? What's up with you and Shaun?"

"Nothing."

"You can tell me. We're best friends, remember?"

Evangeline laughed.

"Ok. Don't tell anyone but I still love him. We were back together for a couple years before he and Téa got together, then they got married so I had to move on. A couple years went by and John and I got back together. We dated for years and got a baby girl out of it."

"And now?"

"Now I'm single."

"I'm glad you filled me in on everything. I was beginning to think you were off your rocker like my sister and my niece when you started talking about you had two names and what not."

"No, I'm not crazy but I am a little different than you remembered. In a way you can say I integrated. I'm Evangeline but a little piece of Charlene is back and Charlene gets what she wants. You want Téa back, right?"

"Uh."

"Yeah, you do and I want Shaun back so how about two old friends make it happen. All is fair in love and war and if they are really meant to be we won't be able to swoop in and get our true loves."

"I can dig it." Victor laughed. "Who would've thought Shaun and I would have the same taste in women? We're complete opposites."

"So are Téa and me."

"No, actually, you're not that different. You're both head strong, independent; don't take any crap from any body, sexy, intelligent, and loving to a fault, loyal lawyers. Téa's just crazier, she's not wired like most people. That's why we worked. We're both a little sick."

"I thought we worked because I made you a little saner."

"Oddly enough, you both did. You both always made me do the right thing. Téa's methods were just… different." Victor said having a flashback to when Téa tied him to a chair and gagged his mouth to make a point that he needed to leave Starr, Dani and their boyfriends alone before he drove them away. Then they had wild, crazy sex all over Vicki's cabin.

Dani, Jack, Sam and Leon walked over to the table.

"It looks like your clan is here. I will talk to you later." Evangeline said and walked away.

"Why were you talking to Destiny's mom?" Dani asked curiously as they all joined the table.

"I was in love with her once… She's a good friend. The best friend I ever had. I'm glad you're all here. Why didn't Starr come?"

"We didn't invite her." Jack said.

"What's going on? First no one told her I was alive, now this. When did Starr become the outcast of this family? I go away and this is what our family becomes."

"She's not an outcast. It's just…complicated." Dani said.

"Someone explain it to me."

"We just didn't want you to get hurt when you realized Starr wasn't your little Starr anymore. Starr and Todd are really close." Dani said.

"You know she wrote you off as soon as he came back into the picture." Jack said.

"She did not. Starr loves dad. I know she does." Dani defended.

"If that's true, then why did she turn her back on him as soon as Todd Manning walked back into our lives?" Jack asked.

"Todd and Starr were really close when she was a baby all the way until she was eight or nine or something. Bonds you make when you are baby stick with you." Dani said.

"So she should've just forgotten about our dad and all the years he spent raising us then act like he was so much worst than Todd?" Jack said.

"I know Starr calls me Uncle Victor and not dad… I can live with that." Victor said.

"Can you deal with not having the relationship you want and her always defending Todd Manning?"

"I'll admit that it will bother me but I understand. Starr always defended me too. At least Starr is honest so does anyone else here call Todd, dad?"

"He's not my dad." Sam and Leon said in unison.

"But Blair married him something like five more times."

"Ok so we're close. I called him Spiderman for the first few years after I met him but I was always reminded that he wasn't my dad in some way." Sam said.

"He's Todd to me." Jack said.

"Yeah me too." Dani said.

"Liar. Dani calls him dad too."

"Why pretend you don't?" Victor asked.

"Well… he is my dad, ok I'm sorry. I had to accept that but I only call him dad to his face. Mom always seemed so upset when she heard me call him dad. At first I always jumped on her about it but then I just decided to respect how she felt, however that was. She would never say. At first I thought it was because you died and Todd was the one who was still here but it was deeper than that. I could tell she really didn't want me to have a relationship with him and if I weren't already at 18, she probably would have kept me from him. She never let Leon anywhere near him. The only reason he has a relationship with him at all is because of us. I always thought all of that was strange because when she thought you were my father there was nothing more she wanted than for us to be close and for me to accept that you were my father." Dani explained.

"I bet Todd didn't catch all the hell I caught when you thought I was your dad."

"I'm sorry but I was over it by then." Dani said.

"Isn't that great for him and he's the one who actually did all that stuff? So Todd and Téa don't get along?"

"No. Mom tries to stay away from him." Leon said.

"Interesting… so Dani, am I Uncle Victor to you too?"

"No, like I told you before, you will always be my dad. Jack made me realize that when we thought you died. Its weird calling both of you dad and yeah, biologically, you are my uncle but that doesn't mean anything. Technically, Leon is my brother and my cousin but I don't go around saying, 'This is my brother/cousin,' because it doesn't matter. He's my brother, no matter what DNA says." Dani said.

"I can accept that. Did Téa not tell Starr for the same reasons you all didn't?"

"Starr and mom's relationship haven't been the same since you were gone because you know Starr always defends Todd and it's obvious my mom wants nothing to do with him but they try to put their differences aside but basically, yes that's why she didn't tell Starr and Blair too though she and Blair are still best friends." Dani said.

"That's crazy. Starr and Téa were close before any of you were born. My family has fallen apart without me. There were times you all may have hated me but I kept you all together… Enough of that, I want to spend some time with you all and all of your kids soon, Starr too. Let's see, Starr has three, Jack has one and Dani has one. Let me try to remember all their names, Hope of course, then there's Harvey, Uttara, Vida and Bel. There are still a lot of girls."

"Maybe you'll get another boy in this family soon." Dani said.

"Are you pregnant again?" Victor asked.

"No, not me, grandpa." Dani said.

"Sam? I hope you didn't get that high school chick knocked up."

"No, not me and she's not in high school anymore. She just graduated."

"That doesn't make it better and I still need to hear the story with you and this girl. So somebody stop making me guess."

Dani elbowed Leon in the arm.

"Ow!" Leon exclaimed.

"Leon, not you."

"Tell him!" Dani commanded.

"Miracle's pregnant, three months."

"Oh come on! What the hell were you thinking?"

Leon just shrugged his shoulders, not knowing what to say.

"Don't you have anything to say?" Victor said, angrily.

"Are you angry?" Leon asked.

"No, he looks ecstatic to me." Jack said sarcastically.

"Shut up, Jack." Sam said.

"I'm pissed off. How could Téa and Shaun let this happen?"

"Did you let Starr get pregnant?" Dani asked to make Victor think.

"Point taken but ugh, this is frustrating! Now we're linked to the damn Buchanans' like the Thornharts' weren't enough." Victor took deep breath trying to stay calm. "But it could be worst, the other side of this baby's family is good and Evangeline and I will share a grandchild."

"You're ok with this?" Leon asked.

"Hell no! But what choice do I have besides deal with it? Sam, you're next. What's up with you and this teenaged girl?"

"This should be good." Jack said.

"Her name is Sierra Rose. She's GiGi Balsom's niece." Sam said.

"Are you kidding me?" Todd exclaimed.

After they actually had lunch, Victor and Jack had a moment alone.

"Dad, I'm going to get The Sun back for you. I just wanted to take it from Todd but now it's even better because I can give it to you." Jack said.

"That's a nice gesture and I don't know how you were planning to pull it off but don't worry about it. Téa's going to get me half of everything that Todd owns and that's even better because it'll be legit, he won't be able to do anything about it and he'll be forced to deal with me and I know he will hate that." Victor replied.

-v-

Blair spent a little time with Brendan at La Boulé in the living room. It was silent then Brendan suddenly decided to talk.

"I know you were told that I haven't had contact with many people and that's true but I have had two women in my life that were really good to me. One was like a mother to me. She took care of me my entire life and she genuinely loved me. I think there were times she was supposed to hurt me but she never did and she taught me how to read and do everything I needed to know. She had a daughter who was my age and she would teach us together. The older she got the more she would sneak into my room and spend time with me… Then she eventually went to college, got married and had kids and she didn't come around so much but every once in a rare while she would pop in and spend some time with me. I know they couldn't have been the best people working for that organization but they were always good to me. I know what love is despite what they tell you. I'm definitely not your typical person and I'm not at all normal. I don't know how to navigate in this world and all of this is hard to adjust to but I'm ready to try and I'm ready to meet more of my family." Brendan said.

"I've never heard you say so much but I'm glad you did. I'm glad you're opening up. Now that this organization has been shut down your father can come back to Llanview. We've made contact with him and he'll be here in a few weeks along with his wife. You had a brother, his name was Cole but he died 16 years ago. I don't want to put too much pressure on you so if it ever becomes too much just let me know. I would like for you to meet everyone at once. Would you be ok with that?"

"Yeah. I can handle it. I've already met everyone who lives here and Starr and her family. That was already a lot. How big is this family?"

"Pretty big but you don't have to meet them today. How about today I introduce you to some fun things in life you haven't gotten to experience?"

"Can my niece, nephew and James come?"

"Uttara and Harvey sure but James?"

"Yeah, I've talked to him a few times recently. He made feel comfortable and he was really nice."

"I'll ask him."

-v-

A door opened. A heated, intense kiss took place as soon as the door shut between the man and woman, who continued to make out all the way to the bedroom, clothes were being pulled off on the way there. It was a cool summer night but the two were heating it back up. The bedroom door closed behind them and he lifted her up, sat her on the dresser and continued what he had started. Temperatures rose from 80 degrees to 102 getting fever all through the night.

Birds chirped in the morning and the sun shined through, waking the woman from her sleep. She quickly sat up and looked around, gathering her thoughts and then looked at the man next to her.

"No! What have I done?" She thought. "Matthew, wake up!" She yelled out.

Matthew slowly woke up. He slept like bear in hibernation. He then turned to the woman next to him.

"Good morning, Dani." He looked at his alarm clock next to his bed. It read 8:00 am. "I was kind of hoping I could sleep a little while longer."

"How can you be so calm? We had sex!"

"I remember."

Dani was growing frustrated with Matthew's nonchalant attitude about the situation.

"I have to get home! I'm married. I have a daughter. Oh my gosh." Dani said, panicked and began to get dressed.

"I thought you said your marriage was on the rocks."

"I said it was hard right now. That doesn't mean I should jump into bed with you. How could you? I was drunk. You totally took advantage of me."

"I did not. We were already headed in this direction before you got drunk. I think you got drunk just so you could blame it on the alcohol."

"Don't you care? What about Destiny?"

"What about Destiny? She doesn't want me."

"Still, you're her ex-boyfriend and the father of her child. She's my best friend, my sister. She won't be ok with this."

"She'll get over it. Besides, you were my girlfriend first and she dated me."

"I was not your girlfriend, we were just going out and it doesn't matter anyway. We were teenagers, we're adults now. I have to go home. Don't you dare tell anyone about this." Dani left.

-v-

A couple days later, Destiny and Dani went to lunch at the Buena's Dias. They hadn't talked since Dani slept with Matthew and she was now being very quiet.

"What's wrong?" Destiny asked.

"Nothing." Dani said softly.

"I know when there's something wrong with you so tell me."

Matthew then slid into the booth and sat next to Dani.

"You realize people are supposed to invite you to join them, right?" Destiny asked.

"Yeah. I'm not invited?" Matthew asked.

"Never mind." Destiny said.

Dani was becoming more and more uncomfortable and was leaning against the wall next to her, away from Matthew. Destiny noticed Dani's change in demeanor.

"Hey Dani!" Matthew said then stroked her hair.

Destiny raised her eye brows like she does thinking that that was a strange sight.

"What are you doing here?" Destiny asked.

"I was starving so I wanted to grab something on my lunch break." Matthew moved closer to Dani. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah. I'd be even better if you got out of my bubble." Dani said wanting Matthew to move away from her.

Destiny watched everything that was going on and everything began to click.

"Oh my gosh. Did you two have sex?"

"What? No!" Dani said.

"Look, who's off mute. I know when you're lying." Destiny said.

"We didn't!"

"You're going to continue to lie to me. I just said I can tell when you're lying. Matthew, did you or didn't you?"

"You know when I'm lying too so I might as well tell the truth." Matthew said.

"Matthew." Dani said.

"We had sex." Matthew said.

Destiny laughed and shook her head.

"Wow. You couldn't have me so you slept with my sister. I can expect this from you, Matthew but Dani and you lied to me?"

"I'm sorry, ok. I was drunk."

"Mm hm. Matthew were you drunk too?"

"No, I'm in recovery."

"I can't believe you two. I hope you two used protection because you know he's fertile. He just couldn't wait for baby mama and baby number five. Hey, maybe there's more. Is Billy Jean around here somewhere Matthew?"

Darren and Jason walked over. Darren sat next to Destiny and gave her a kiss.

"Can I sit next to my wife, brother? You're mighty close to her. Can she breath?" Jason asked.

Matthew got up and let Jason sit next to Dani but then he sat next to Jason.

"It's so nice for our husbands to join us. Isn't that right, Dani?"

Dani just nodded her head.

"Matthew, what are you doing here?" Darren asked.

"Lunch." Matthew said.

"Mm, right. Where's the food?" Darren asked.

Destiny noticed Nathanial Salinger at the counter.

"Nate!" Destiny called.

Nate walked over with his food.

"Hey!" Nate said.

"Join us." Destiny said.

Dani and Matthew looked at Destiny and couldn't believe she just invited Nate to eat with them.

"I think you know everyone accept Jason, Dani's husband." Destiny said.

"Hi, nice to meet you. You're a lucky guy." Nate said.

"What are you doing in town?" Darren asked.

"I'm starring in my brother, Bobbie's new movie and apparently so is David Vickers-Buchanan. My nephew, Ryder is doing everything to try to talk his way in this movie."

"Cool. I've seen all of your movies." Jason said.

"Really? Did you see the porno he did with his brother's ex-girlfriend when he was with Dani?" Matthew asked.

"Nooo." Jason asked confused. "You two used to date?" Jason asked Dani.

"He was my first boyfriend." Dani said.

'Why didn't you tell me? He's my favorite actor, you know that!" Jason exclaimed.

Matthew got annoyed at how excited Jason got.

"You two are on good terms, right?"

"Yeah, I guess. I haven't seen Nate in years." Dani said.

"How's Miracle?" Nate asked.

"She' 16 now, all grown up." Destiny said.

"And knocked up, thanks to them." Matthew said referring to Destiny and Darren.

"Shut up, Matthew! I don't want to be a 34 year old grandparent anymore than you do, asshole."

"Awkward." Jason said.

"Destiny, let's go." Darren said.

"Glad to." Destiny said. "Goodbye everyone." She walked behind Dani's chair. "Now you have three men to choose from. You already stabbed your husband in the back once, what's another, oh yeah and who else? Me." Destiny said in Dani's ear then smacked Matthew upside the head before she walked out.

"Damn, she gave you the mom smack. What did you do?" Jason joked.

"Your wife." Matthew said and got up to walk away.

Jason stopped laughing and got very serious but he was speechless and stuck in his seat.

-v-

Destiny and Darren walked in the house and Destiny kissed him passionately but he pulled away.

"What's up?" Destiny asked.

"What was all of that about at the Buena's Dias?"

"All of what?"

"You know what you were doing and I was watching you."

"Dani and Matthew slept together."

Darren paused because he was caught off guard by the statement.

"Why do you care?"

"It's wrong. Dani is married."

"That's none of your business."

"So? You know me."

"Destiny, do you have feelings for Matthew?"

"No! I love you and I want to be with you."

"That's why you kissed him… and didn't tell me."

"How do you kn-"

"He told me. He couldn't wait to throw it in my face."

"I didn't kiss him. He kissed me and I didn't kiss him back. I stopped it. Darren, you have to believe me."

"I want to but you're always running to his rescue."

"That is not true. For years, my relationship with Matthew consisted of us raising our daughter together and me being his lawyer when he needed one and that's it. There was no friendship or anything. I had to be there for him when I learned he was an alcoholic. He was a disaster and I couldn't let anything happen to Miracle's father. Listen to me, I do not want Matthew."

"But there's something there. I know it is and I really want you to forget it." He walked over to her and kissed her passionately then went up to their room.

-v-

Chad was performing at the youth center so the family was there to support him. Shane and Neela sat next to each other with Bel in Neela's arms.

"My divorce is final today!" Neela said.

"That's great." Shane said.

"I am no longer Mrs. Neela Manning. Thank God. I will never make that mistake again. Now I just need to win this custody case. I hate putting Bel through this. I don't want her to spend her life going through custody battles."

"Aren't you glad you don't have that problem with me? Do you want to go out tonight?"

"I would love to." Neela turned to Rama. "Could you baby-sit, Bel and Chad for me tonight?"

"Sure." Rama replied.

"Thanks. I have a hot date." Neela said then looked back at Shane.

"How has Jack been treating you since you've been back?"

"It's Jack. What do you think? He's been giving me the Jack-ass special." Neela said as she covered Bel's ears.

"If you want I could point a gun at him. He'll pee his pants and be too embarrassed to be a jerk to you." Shane laughed.

"Shane, that's not funny."

"Yes it is. You want to laugh too."

-v-

A couple days later Matthew took all his kids out to dinner at the Palace.

"Hey waiter!" Matthew called and waited for him to walk over. "This is not what I ordered. Fix it! My grandmother owns this place, I can have you fired."

"Yes sir, Mr. Buchanan." The waiter said.

"And there wasn't the right amount of shrimp on this plate! Take it- Ow!" Asa screamed because Miracle stabbed his thigh with the fork.

"I'm sorry for my brother, sir. His dinner is perfectly fine. Thank you." Miracle said to the waiter and then he walked away. "If you start acting like dad, you're going to have to deal with me at the end of the night. Understand?" Miracle whispered to Asa.

"What's going on?" Matthew asked.

"Nothing." Miracle said with an attitude.

A few minutes later the waiter came back with Matthew's plate.

"Refill my glass." Matthew demanded.

The waiter took the glass and walked away. Matthew picked up his fork.

"I wouldn't eat that if I were you." Nicole said.

"Why?" Matthew asked.

"The way you were talking to him, he probably spit in it." Drew said.

"We even know better than to talk to people handling our food that way." Nicole said.

"He wouldn't dare." Matthew said.

"Why because you're better than him?" Miracle asked with an attitude. "You think because he has to work hard for what he has that he's not as good as you are." Miracle said.

"I didn't say that." Matthew said.

"That's how you act. Every year you become more and more of an asshole and you were worst when you were drinking. I don't want anything to do with you until you fix your stink ass attitude. That's probably why Uncle Jason blacked your eye." Miracle said.

"Who are you talking to?" Matthew asked.

"You. Did I stutter? You are an embarrassment to be seen with in public."

"You're the one-" Matthew stopped himself.

"I'm the one, what? An embarrassment because I'm 16 and pregnant? Thanks dad." Miracle got up from the table. "I don't see how you think you're better than me when you weren't much older than I am when I was born. Drew, Nicole, Asa, let's go."

"You can't tell us what to do." Drew said with her face frowned and a bad attitude.

"Really?" She walked over between Drew and Nicole. "Do you two want me to tell dad what you two have been up to?"

"Sorry dad, we've got to go. We missed you. Don't eat that food." Drew said.

The four of them walked away but Miracle had tears in her eyes and bumped into Darren on the way out.

"What's the matter, Babygirl?" Darren asked.

"My dad is embarrassing. He's being rude to the waiters and he basically said I was an embarrassment because I was pregnant."

"I am sick and tired of Matthew Buchanan." Darren started walking toward Matthew.

"Oh no. What did I do?" Miracle asked herself.

Matthew looked like he was choking. Darren saved his life and then kicked his ass.

Matthew and Darren ended the night behind bars in separate cells across from each other because no one was sure who started the fight except, Miracle, Drew, Nicole and Asa but Miracle wouldn't admit Darren started it and she wouldn't let her siblings say either.

"I'm not glad I'm here but I am so glad I beat your ass." Darren said.

Destiny entered.

"In front of the kids? Really, you two?" Destiny asked.

"He started it." Matthew said.

"Yep and I'd do it again." Darren said.

"Darren…" Destiny sighed. "I'll get you out of here."

"What about me?" Matthew asked.

"You better call your lawyer." Destiny said.

"You are my lawyer." Matthew said.

"Not anymore." Destiny said and walked away.

Darren was out about an hour later. Matthew had someone call Dani; she wouldn't help, Evangeline; she heard what happened so she wouldn't help, Téa; she wasn't taking any cases besides Victor's so he had to call his mom, she was retired but he needed her help and you know when Matthew needs help, Nora comes running.

-v-

Téa was hanging out in her living room with her brothers, Tomas and Del and that's cool because they haven't hung out together since they were teens but on the other hand they bicker when they're together.

"You two do realize, I'm a grown woman and I don't need either of you to protect me, especially not from each other and my husband's a bodyguard, remember? Another thing, both of you has had huge chunks of time where you haven't been there for me so your arguing is really stupid."

"At least I called." Del said.

"Here's a thought, argue about not being there for each other and leave me out of it. Then we can play a game so go ahead, argue, and get it all out.

The door bell rung, she answered and it was Victor.

"I have a question." Victor said.

"Ok." Téa said and they sat on the stairs.

"The kids told me you and Todd don't get along and you want nothing to do with him. Why is that?"

"Long story short, he was the one who 'killed you.' Todd shot Walker Laurence."

ALL of the main characters of "Llanview Lives" return in the next chapter. Hope you've enjoyed the deeper look into the lives of some of the classic characters.