I hope you guys liked the last chapter, there was a lot in it! From Bob & Amy meeting, to what really happened to Amy that awful night! Don't worry though, things will get better, but remember: things get worse, before they get better! P.S. I know that Gabe (and bradley in that matter) were born in November, but for the sake of the story, Gabe was premature and was born in September!


February 20, 2015

8:15 a.m. Mountain Time

Amy sat at the kitchen table, dreading the very day she was currently living on.

She didn't know why she hated it, it was the day Gabe became a thing, that rung in her mind, but she hated the event that happened that day. Ever since then, Amy had never seen Bob Diddlebock again, and she was glad.

She was also glad that Gabe and Bob knew, the pit in her stomach was disappearing and she started to smile again, really, smile.

Gabe walked in on that very thought, ever since he found out he had treated his mother like a goddess, but to everyone in the Duncan family she was a goddess.

He sat down across from her, knowing what this day was. He didn't say anything, she was the one who should talk first.

He didn't see the pain in her eyes he saw a month ago, and he noticed she started to laugh again and have a true smile, something that he, Gabriel Benjamin Duncan, had never truly seen before.

"I love you, Gabe" Amy popped out of her thinking, and looked at her son, whom looked to much like the monster she despised.

"I love you too, mom" he smiled at her, and instantly the awful memory of that awful man started to disappear.

She smiled back at him. "No matter what you do, or how horrible your father is, I will always love you." she smiled at him

Gabe got up and hugged his mother, he was almost a foot taller than her, and honestly he could pick her up, she was tiny, but was not to be messed with.

He pulled away and looked into her eyes that resembled his favorite stone, which was the stone for his birthday month, a sapphire.

He was born two months early, instead of in November, he was born in September. He gave Bob and Amy quite a freakout, and they really thought they were going to lose him.

Amy looked at the one child she had, that she was closest to losing.

She brushed a strand of brown hair out of his eyes.

"You know you will always be my little boy?" she asked smiling

"Of course, mom" he hugged her tightly, loving her so much for always being there for him, no matter how much pain it gave her.

That showed how much she loved him.


September 23, 1998

5:45 p.m. Mountain Time

Amy sat on the couch in the basement with Teddy, smiling down at her daughter, she was seven months pregnant and they already found out the gender.

Bob and Amy already agreed to name him Gabriel Benjamin.

"Mommy, when Gabe is born, when do I take him back to the hospital?" Teddy asked, her brown eyes full of wonder.

Amy giggled, she was going to be happy now, because once Gabe came, memories would come back to his horrible father.

Bob had taken P.J. out to the movies so the girls and boys could have a day before the baby came, and Amy and Bob would be busy with him.

Amy looked at her beautiful daughter, she was always told that Teddy looked like her, and she would always except them, hey, why not?

Just at that moment Amy felt a sharp pain in her stomach, a pain she had only felt twice before, but this time, it was ten times worse.

"Oh, no." Amy's hand flew to her stomach as she got up, then her water broke.

"Mommy? Mommy? Did you wet yourself?" Teddy asked in a motherly way.

Amy knew she wouldn't be able to drive to the hospital the pain was horrible! Just at that moment she couldn't stand it, the pain was unbearable her knees buckled and she ended up laying up against the front of the couch.

"Mommy!" Teddy screamed. The four year old thought what her parents told her if her mother went into labor, first call 911, then call her father.

Amy felt sick, she couldn't move, every time she took a breath pain would stab her in the stomach, for being an emergency room nurse, she knew something was very wrong.

Amy saw out of the corner of her eye he daughter picking up the phone on the wall, almost too short to reach it. She was sure her daughter knew what to do, she was just worried if they would get there in time.

"My mommy! She's on the floor and she has a baby in her stomach! Ya! She's on the ground and it looks like she wet herself! I'm four! I live at 358 Edgewood Drive!"

Amy smiled, she and Bob had gone over it a million times with Teddy and P.J where they lived and what phone number to call, at that moment, she couldn't be more proud of her daughter. Then came another pain. She knew they weren't going to get there in time.

After Teddy finished calling Bob, Amy called her over.

"Sweetheart, you are doing great, now can you go upstairs, get the blanket and those shoelaces in the living room?" Teddy knew exactly what to do.

Bob and Amy were told that they might have a premature baby on the way, so they always planned ahead by leaving a pair of scissors in each room and leaving a small blanket and shoelaces on the end table by the couch.

Teddy ran upstairs, as soon as she reached the couch, she heard he mother scream from the basement.

"I'm coming mommy!" Teddy's little heart started to beat faster, what if her mommy and the new baby died? That thought made her run faster, but then her heart stopped when she reached the bottom of the stairs and saw her mother on the ground.


Teddy's voice was slurred over the phone, she was talking so fast, he could barely understand her, all he did understand is that Amy had gone into labor, and he could hear her yelling in the back ground.

He immediately grabbed P.J. and ran out of the movie theater, they jumped into the car and drove the ten minute drive through downtown Denver and all the way across town to get to his wife, he knew she wouldn't make it to the hospital in time, so unless he saw an ambulance drive by, he was headed to the house.

Ten minutes later Bob walked in and raced down the steps, but stopped dead in his tracks.


Teddy speed walked to her mother, who was now staring unbelievably at a baby boy looking up at her, his eyes were open, he wasn't crying, he was just staring at her.

"Mommy," Teddy whispered more scared by the blood, than by the baby.

Amy looked at her and smiled, "It's okay sweetie"

She grabbed the shoelaces and tied it tightly an inch up on the umbilical cord, then used the scissors to cut the rest off.

She heard the sirens outside and looked up to see her husband and son looking down at the baby in disbelief. Behind him the paramedics stood with the same look on their faces.

She wrapped him in the light blue blanket and handed him off to Bob as they put her on a stretcher.


Amy smiled at her son, who was still hugging her. She knew this day was a bad memory, but she would never regret Gabe himself.

She loved her kids so much, she could never ask for better kids, just as she thought that, the doorbell rang.

Gabe and Amy both walked up to the front door, to see a man, standing there. With a sorry look on his face.

Then Amy's nightmare flooded all back


Now that is a true cliffhanger, I know you guys hate me now, sooo, DON'T HATE THE PLAYA, HATE THE GAME! Lol, just joking but don't worry, I'm alreading typing out chapter five, so, don't rip your hair out yet! Don't forget to REVIEW either!