PART FOUR

Sunlight was streaming through the house known as Seaview Manor. William Collins lay in bed as the morning ended and started up tiredly at the ceiling. He was tired and sleepy and his mind was shifting in and out of consciousness as he barely fell unconscious again and then felt his wife's hands over him once more. She kissed the tip of his neck under his left ear and began nuzzling his ear again.

"Ally…" He gasped tiredly. "For the love of god… I'm tired and exhausted. If you did something wrong and you're trying to break it too me, please just tell me. Every time I finally started to drift off to sleep last night, you were on top of me again!" He felt her affectionately nibbling at his earlobe.

"Ally," He gasped tiredly. "When we got married, I promised I'd never hurt you, but for just an hour of rest, I swear I'll toss you out the window!"

"Did you forget I can kick box?' She whispered seductively in his ear while her tongue and her lips tugged and tasted his earlobe.

"No," William forced a grin as her hand glided up against his chest. "It's very evident what you can do with your body when we're having sex."

"I did not need to hear that!" Maddie screamed through the closed bedroom door. Out in the hall, she pounded her head trying to purge her mind of the image of her parents having sex. "Get out of my head! Get out of my head!" She struck at her temples as she tried to change the subject. "Look," She yelled through the door. "I gave Lainey and Georgia breakfast, but it's now going on eleven o'clock and I'm not making them lunch. I've got a life too you know! If you want me, I'm going with Cousin Carrie to hang out at the Blue Whale to look at boys."

"Have a nice time." Ally opened the bedroom door in front of her shining with a big satisfied grin on her face. A giggle in her heart, she pulled her robe a bit tighter as Maddie stared at her with a mixture of confusion and worry. Her mother was acting just a bit weirder than usual and she knew it. Maddie just turned away and Ally gazed on her maternally and then turned around a bit less love-starved than usual. She gazed on William sitting on the edge of the bed in his underwear briefs and gazed intently upon him like an infatuated teen with all the love in her heart. Her faced beamed with unbridled love for him.

"Don't look at me like that." William scratched his tired head and yawned. "I'm taking a shower and then I'm taking a nap locked up in the guest room."

"Can I join you in that shower?" Ally made a funny embarrassed grin.

"Not this time." William responded with a warning as the phone by the bed rang on the nightstand. He reached and picked it up as he yawned again. "Hello, what? Yeah, just a minute, Ally?" He handed the phone to his wife as he sat up and walked around the bed to the bathroom. Sitting in his spot, Ally tugged at her robe as she lifted the receiver to her ear.

"Hello?"

"Ally, it's me, Billy," Her first love sat in a Boston law office looking over three case files on the desk before him.

"Billy??" Ally froze where she was as felt a cold shiver up her spine. The last time she heard his voice, he was standing in court giving arguments in a case and confusing her with his wife. A few seconds later, he was laying on the floor dying. His death was probably the worst event that had ever happened to her and now, he was calling her up as if he was just a few miles away. It felt so good to hear his voice again! Unfortunately, she now found herself married to William and as much as she loved him, she wanted to be near Billy again to tell him she still loved him too. This strange fantasy was pulling all her heartstrings at once.

"You're alive!!!?" She choked on the realization.

"Barely," Billy rolled his eyes toward a file Elaine just dumped on him. "Richard and Liza are on vacation again, John's having another nervous breakdown and Georgia's trying to get pregnant again. I'm stretched so thin around here I'm going nuts." He exhaled deeply a second. "Look, Ally, you know I would never drag you to Boston for nothing, but as the junior law partner I really need some help around here!"

"Partner? Boston?" This new reality was too confusing. Not only was Billy alive, but she was also partner? How did that happen? She was still trying to get over the reality of him just being alive for her.

"Billy," Ally could hear the anxiety in her own voice. "I just want to say how…." She looked up as William entered her peripheral vision to get underwear and a t-shirt from the bureau. She now had two of her true loves back to her and she was torn between them. How was she going to handle being married to one while the other turned out to be alive again? She had handled losing both of them and now she had them both. What was she going to do?

"I'll have to call you back." She replied with a distracted tone as William started for the bathroom again. Hanging up the phone, Ally stood and reached out for him. Catching his arm, she pulled him closer and then looked up into his eyes once more. She never thought she'd be able to do this again after he had married Paula, but she was somehow his wife this time, wasn't she?

"What's going on in that mind of yours?" He looked into her eyes and saw the tortured waif she once was had returned. His thumb stroked her chin and lifted it up as his lips closed over hers. Ally's breath gasped as their lips parted as so many things went to war in her subconscious.

"You don't want to know." She gasped again as she kissed him back.