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I've realized I made a few mistakes earlier in some chapters. I was three whole months late based on Jacks date of birth in when Taylor woke up and when the family dinner was. Taylor woke up in January 2008, the dinner was in April, Kimlor's conversation was also in April. Then it gets tricky. Kimebe's coffeehouse meet up was in late May and after that it's pretty much as it should be, their date was on June 27th of 2008. Anyway, let's get back to the story!

December 24th 2008

As Rick walked through the door, he walked in on Thomas on one knee holding Abby's hands saying the words "Will you marry me?" Hearing the answer brought tears to most of the women's eyes and the men started clapping their hands. "Yes, I'll marry you! I love you so so much!" Phoebe was the first one to congratulate them, Steffy was next giving Abby a great big hug. "Welcome inside the insanely crazy Clan that is The Forrester-Marone-Logan-Spencer-clan. I mean, you've been in our life for over a year now, but in time you'll actually be inside the family. Oh, I just remembered. Now we're gonna have two weddings in the family, Grandpa, are you designing both dresses?" At this place, Thomas interrupted and stated "Well, I was hoping Dad could enlist Ashley to help him design Abby's dress, since Grandpa will be designing Bridget's. I am pretty sure both dresses will be amazing." Ridge looked at Thomas in surprise and then said "I'd be honored to, we'll be starting pretty quick. I'll call her after the weekend. I'm guessing you'll be telling her this when you get there tomorrow?" Both Abby and Thomas nodded and then let everyone know they had to leave since it was getting pretty late and they were going to Genoa City early in the morning. "You will have time though, even if we want a pretty small wedding, we both know that a Forrester-wedding will never be small." "Good night everyone!" Have a nice trip!" And a nice trip the next morning they had. Announcing to her side of the family was a pure joy as most of them knew the Forresters and that Thomas was a really genuinely good guy through and through, the congratulations were coming from left and right and pretty soon most of the citizens of GC knew about the impending marriage between one of their own and the son of one of Fashions most talented designers.

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A week later Rick had finally gotten Lannie on the phone to decide on when to have their date and a week after that everything was put in motion. Two weeks after that Lannie noticed that she had been spending almost all of her free time with Rick and not a whole lot with her own family. So she decided to spend some time with her parents and siblings. Her mother greeted her at the door, her sister and brother bouncing down the stairs like a couple of elephants all giving her a hug, because that's just how her family was. They had a great time catching up on the on goings of her sisters third year of college and her brothers last year of High School, her family had moved once since she graduated from High School to be closer to the college she had gone to. She told them about Rick, showed them some pictures and they all agreed that they wanted to meet him soon. Her father walked through the door and his face lit up with a smile as he saw who was home for a visit. Her visit home had been a very good one and she relished in the time spent with her family. Family was the most important thing and it would not change.

She comes back to the place that she shares with her former college room mate Miranda March and walks through the door, gets practically jumped at by the bubbly girl that is Miranda March and has to answer the question "Who sent you those flowers? They came on Friday and I wanna know who sent them." Lannie just smiled at her and winked! "That's for me to know and you to find out eventually, I don't kiss and tell, you know that! I do think there might be future potential for us!" Miranda looked closely at Lannie and could see that she really believed it, but was a little scared to reveal everything, she let's it go and says that she hopes everything works out the way Lannie wants it and that she'll be there when she's ready to tell her everything!

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In another part of town, a young man is seen checking a phone book looking for a name that we all know very well. He just recently arrived in LA a few months ago and his search for his birth parents have so far been unsuccessful, he thought he had found his mother a while back, but she wasn't the age his mother was. In need of help, he had enlisted his adopted brother to help him and in doing so had a little success. He had now found out that the woman who had been seen modeling Forrester Creations original designs from the Brooke's Bedroom-line was his mother and he had found out that the woman on the billboards and the woman the line was named after were in fact sisters. As he came to realize this, he decided to leave his apartment and go see her, as he figured her workplace was the best way to try and find her and not scare her into thinking he was some sort of lunatic, he drove the distance to Forrester Creations and walked through the doors, as he came face to face with the security the company had, they asked him why he was there. "I have come here to meet Donna Logan, I have some things I want to talk to her about." the security guard looked him over and said "And who might you be?" "Marcus Walton is my name and the reason I'm here is not to be discussed until I've talked to her." "I'll let her know you're here and we'll see what happens." As he waited for the security guard to talk to Donna, he looked around the building that he could see and thought that "Yeah, I can see why she'd work here, it's a beautiful place to be working at." "Okey, I've just talked to Donna real quick because she's currently shooting the new campaign, but she said she'd come down here for you in about 20 minutes or so if you'd like to wait for her?" He debated it for a second or two and then said he'd wait for her and was instructed to take a seat on the couch and that there was coffee if he wanted some.

As he waited, he saw several beautiful women walk by, but one stood out among the rest. Her eyes sparkled, her hair was brown as where her eyes and she had legs for days. "Hey Dave, you got something funny to say today? You know I always love a good joke!" "Oh miss Forrester, Of course I have a funny story for you! I always do! Listen to this one!

After his return from Rome, Will couldn't find his luggage in the airport baggage area. He went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that his bags hadn't shown up on the carousel.

She smiled and told him not to worry because they were trained professionals and he was in good hands.

Then she asked Will, "Has your plane arrived yet?" "

At this the girl laughed and gave Dave the security guard a high five. "Good one! Liked that one a whole lot. Hey, who is that guy sitting in the sofa?" The guard looked over to see who she meant and told her who he was and who he was coming to see. She walked up to him and dumped herself on the couch beside him. "Hi, I'm Steffy Forrester!" He looked at her a little taken a back by the fact that she was even more beautiful up close and introduced himself. They had a nice conversation about anything and everything and as Donna came into view, he excused himself and thought that Steffy Forrester was one of the most pleasant girls he'd ever talked to and that the conversation that they had had were the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Walking down the halls to one of the offices in the building, Donna couldn't help herself and looked at the young man many times and thought to herself that he reminded her of someone she used to know but couldn't quite place him. As his first question left his mouth everything clicked.

"Did you give up a child for adoption in your late teens?" Having placed herself behind the desk, but in front of the chair, she sat herself down in a daze, thinking back to the summer the year she turned 18, the hospital room and the beautiful little boy she had held in her arms and couldn't believe that he was sitting in front of her now. "Yes, I did. You're him aren't you?" Marcus nodded and wanted to ask her more questions, but she started telling him everything that happened her senior year of High school, starting with the secret relationship with the boy who would get her pregnant, the talk she had with her mother after discovering that she was pregnant and the summer at her aunts house, the trip to the hospital when she went into labor, the labor itself and her mixed feelings about giving him up. She never mentioned the name of his father though and when he asked why, she said that it was a part of her life she wanted to stay behind her. Little did they know he was talking to the man her sister was about to get engaged to in a few months at her sisters boyfriends place of business just a few blocks away. "Could we maybe meet up for dinner or lunch someday this week or next so that we could catch up?" Marcus agreed to this and gave Donna a hug, his phone number and told her to call him whenever she knew when would be best time.

As he was walking out of the building he saw Steffy again and decided to talk to her some more. "Hey Steffy! Aren't you supposed to be working right now?" Steffy turns around a little surprised at seeing him, especially since it had been almost two hours since Donna came and got him. "Hi Marcus! Nope, lunch time now! Wanna come with? I got a full hour!" He thinks about it for a second or two and then decides that that could be fun and agrees. They decided on take out salads and some garlic bread, two bottles of water and some grapes. "So, tell me about you, Marcus! Who are you?"

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Life went on quite nicely for most of the people in the Clan the next few weeks, until Brooke started feeling light headed and her whole body ached. Every movement felt like she was about to explode and nothing was easing the pain. Since she didn't want to worry her side of the family especially since it had been revealed that there was another member of the family that many of them didn't know about, she called the one person she knew people would never think she'd confide in. She answered on the second ring "Hello!" Brooke was a little surprised that she answered so quickly and wasn't really prepared for that, she recovered fast though. "Hi Taylor, it's Brooke. Could you maybe come over? I've got something I need to talk to you about." Taylor could hear by the tone of Brooke's voice that there was something seriously wrong with her due to the fact that she could hear that Brooke was in pain. "Oh, okey, I'll come right over." She heard Brooke respond with an I'll leave the door open, just come right in. As Taylor was leaving she gave Jack a kiss on his head and Nick a kiss on his mouth saying that she'd be back in a bit, she just needed to go somewhere real quick and that she'd tell Nick about it later.

As she walked through the doors of Brooke's house she thought the place was awfully quiet and just as she closed the door, she could hear something tumble to the floor with a big thud and glass breaking in the kitchen and so she made her way to the kitchen as fast as she could considering she was almost 5 months pregnant with twins. "Brooke! Are you in the kitchen? Brooke!? Brooke?!" What she saw when she came into the kitchen was something she'd never thought she'd see ever. Brooke was lying on the floor, cuts all over her arms and feet from falling into the shattered glass after loosing her balance trying to get the glass of the shelf to get herself some water to help with swallow the painkillers she was planning on taking. Taylor stopped dead in her tracks and started to panic a little, but then remembered her training and took charge of the situation going straight for the phone to call 911. "Hi, my name is Taylor Marone and my husbands ex wife have fallen and cut herself badly on some glass, possibly from a drinking glass, there's a bottle of painkillers on the counter so I'm thinking she's in some sort of pain from the beginning and might have fainted." She then stated the address and hung up. Then she called Ridge and told him to get to Brooke's house to be there when the kids came back home from school.

As he was driving to get to Brooke's house he wasn't really sure what to expect, he never thought he'd hear Taylor tell him to get to Brooke's house as soon as he could. What he saw however when he reached Brooke's driveway was not one of the reasons he had pictured to be behind it. There was an ambulance in the driveway and Brooke was being wheeled out on a stretcher and Taylor was walking out right behind the paramedics, she was absolutely stunning when she walked out in her purple maternity maxidress and limegreen flats(Not really something you'd see on Taylor normally, but this is my story, I can dress her anyway I like!). As she walked out and saw that Ridge was there she walked up to him and started talking about pill bottles, broken glass and could he please clean it up, he nodded his head and watched her go into the ambulance to go to the hospital with Brooke.

Since Brooke had lost consciousness for a few minutes while waiting for the paramedics and the bottle of painkillers the hospital staff wanted to take some of her blood to check why she had fainted and why she was in so much pain. What they found wasn't really what they thought and the news came as a chock to everyone. Brooke Logan had cancer, leukemia to be exact and the only way for her to survive would be a bone marrow transplant. All three of her siblings got themselves tested to see if they were a match, unfortunately neither of them were, neither were her parents and that came as quite the shock to everyone, for some reason her kids weren't a match either and when they did the tests on the rest of the clan, the only ones that were a match were Steffy, Phoebe, Thomas, Taylor and Stephanie, which one of them were the biggest surprise?, you couldn't really tell, everyone was in shock. Since Taylor was pregnant, she needed every ounce of blood she could produce and so she wasn't really a candidate. During the testing it was discovered that Phoebe was fighting a minor infection and therefore she wasn't a candidate either. Thomas and Abby were planning a get away for a few weeks and weren't in town when the transplant would take place, leaving only Steffy to donate the bone marrow.

Brooke started the chemo in late February and the transplant took place in the middle of March. Brooke started loosing her hair in April, Taylor was put on bed rest for the rest of her pregnancy and helping Brooke through her illness had helped Taylor and Brooke mend fences and getting along. They were constantly talking on the phone about the pregnancy, how Brooke was feeling and doing and about three weeks before Taylor's due date came, she felt the first signs of contractions. It was early June and the sun was shining brightly in through the window of the hospital room where Taylor was recovering after giving birth to two beautiful baby girls, names were still not decided even though Nick and Taylor knew they'd name at least one of the girls after Nicks mother. She was sitting with her legs crossed and looked at the girl that had been called Baby A while in the womb and let out a gasp and then said "Natascha Jaqueline" Nick looked at Taylor curiously and then looked at the baby. "She does look like a Natascha doesn't she? What about our other princess?" Taylor smiled brightly and nodded. "That's settled then. I don't know about baby number two though. What do you think?" At that moment, Jackie walked through the doors and she had a surprise with her. Jack had just turned 20 months and was starting to babble and his latest word obsession was flowers, he was well aware that something big was going to happen and when his grandmother helped him walk into the room and saw his mother sitting on a bed with a little toy like thing in her arms and his father in a similar position but with his legs outside of the bed he waddled up to his father and pulled his grandmother with him, asked to be picked up took a look at the thing in his fathers arms and said "Rose" pointing at the little bundle and looking really proud, Taylor and Nick looked at each other and decided then and there that that would be one of Baby B's names and that it would be the second name. They were still struggling with the first one though when Jackie chimed in with a suggestion. "What about Mikaela? Mikaela Rose Marone? Has a nice ring to it I think." Taylor agreed, Nick was a little hesitant, but when he said it out loud while looking at the baby, he knew it was the right one. Jackie stayed a little while longer and then she took Jack home with her because she was planning a big welcome home party and it was going to surprise a few people.

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A few months before in March, Rick and Lannie had come to the point where it was time to meet the others parents. They took the car and made a roadtrip out of the whole thing, the ride was calm, nothing much happened and they made it safely. They shared a kiss, got out of the car and then walked up the driveway. Rick suddenly got a little nervous, then out the door comes a younger redheaded version of Lannie, she jumps into the arms of Lannie, almost knocking her over, Lannie hugs her tightly and then introduces her to Rick. "Rick, honey, this is my sister Lilian, she's known as Lillie though, but I think it's safe to say that you can call her what ever you want out of the two!" She looked up on the porch and saw the three remaining people in her family and smiled. "Mom, dad, Peter, this is Rick Forrester. He could possibly be the love of my life!" Rick was shocked at this admission by his girlfriend of two months, like really, they had known each other for 4 months, dated for three and had been exclusive for two, he then turned really happy though, because he felt the same way and finding that out in front of her parents made his life so much easier. The entire visit went smoothly, Rick got accepted by the rest of Lannie's family and she was very happy about that. Rick knew though that he needed to take this relationship slowly and really make sure that it lasted. They even went to see Lannie's grandparents and then brought them to Lannie's parents and had a family dinner.

Getting to meet Rick's family was a whole different story, Rick decided it was better to do it slowly and that it would probably be best if he went with the 'not so close' close family, meaning the older children of his siblings, since that would be the twins and Thomas, he knew they could do something fun, so he asked Ridge if they maybe could use the pool at his house since the twins still lived there. When they got there, it seemed like there were a few more people there than Rick had been expecting. He could see his cousin Marcus talking with a guy that looked a little younger than him, Abby was there and Kimberly was also there.

As Lannie watched the group an idea popped into her head. "Hey Rick, who are those two guys over there?" Rick looked at Lannie, looked over to the two guys and said that it's his cousin Marcus and that the other guy might be Marcus's adopted brother Carter, but he wasn't entirely sure. He could see the light in his girlfriends eyes and had a feeling that she was up to something. "Do you think I should call Miranda and ask her if she wants to come to this? I mean, there are already a bunch of people here that we didn't know where coming." Rick looked at her and then he caught on to what she was saying, she was trying to fix her best friend and roommate up with one of the guys. "Yeah, you do that. I hope your little scheme works! Cause we both know she could definitely use some romance in her life." Lannie looked at Rick and sort of got lost in his eyes for a moment and it wasn't until Carter decided to jump into the pool that the spell broke. "I'll go do that then!"

Five minutes later Lannie comes back out and winks at Rick letting him know that Miranda was coming. It took about an hour before Miranda came, but when she did, Lannie took the opportunity to look at the two guys to see who had the best 'first sight'-moment with Miranda. Unfortunately it was way to close to decide, so it would be an experience to find out. Miranda had been greeted at the door by an older handsome man and he had directed her out to the patio on the back of the house and as she was looking at the people there she saw this dark handsome man with the most amazing abs she'd ever seen and as she was looking at him, he felt that someone was looking at him and looked up at the patio and saw a gorgeous girl with the curliest hair he'd ever seen. The gaze between them was broken when the adventurous Steffy Forrester decided to show off her amazing diving skills, applause broke out and as it did, another man caught the attention of Miranda March, the arms that connected to this man she knew would be able to hold her through the worst times of her life, pick her up if she'd fallen and see her through raging thunderstorms, he didn't actually sense that someone was looking at him, he looked up at the patio just at the right time to see a woman with the most mesmerizing lips he'd ever seen. The moment between them got interrupted though when a brown haired man announced that the food was done! One of the girls with blond hair walked up to him, gave him a kiss and a lightning flash flickered on her finger showing off the ring telling her that he was most definitely taken.

As she was walking down the stairs she looked at the rest of the people there and saw another blond girl holding hands with a dark haired woman smiling at her with such love that there was no mistaken what they meant to each other. She saw the dark haired girl that had interrupted the first gaze she'd had planting herself next to the other man she'd had a moment with and offering him the salad bowl after she'd taken a few spoonfuls with the content. The first guy introduced himself to her as she had come over to the table and said that she could sit next to him. As they greeted each other by a handshake she suddenly felt like her knees turned to jello and the need to sit down was consuming all her thoughts other than "He is gorgeous! Why haven't we been introduced before?" She then looked at Lannie who sent her a look that said she'd explain later.

When the clock struck 12:30 am everyone decided that it was getting late and that it was time to go home, Kimberly and Phoebe were the first to leave, Carter and Marcus were next, Rick, Lannie and Miranda were the last to leave as it was late and Thomas still had his childhood bedroom at his fathers house, he and Abby decided to spend the night. Steffy went upstairs, knocked on her fathers door, said goodnight and went to bed. The dreams she'd have that night was the beginning of the rest of her life. There was a guy, a red headed girl and another guy and the four of them were placed so that she and the redhead looked at each other but could still see the guys and the guys faced each other in the same fashion so that they could see each other and the girls, forming a quadrangle and it then splitting, coming together and then splitting again, ending with the redhead in a hug with the brown haired man and Steffy with the dark blond guy, both girls pregnant.

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Bridget Forrester had been right in the middle of planning her wedding to Zach Hamilton when the news of her mothers illness came, she and Zach had visited her mother many times during the time she was ill and when Bridget said she wanted to postpone the wedding until Brooke was better, Brooke yelled at her that she should start her happily ever after before time runs out and demanded that they keep on track with the planning. She went to her father to talk about the dress and they arrived at a beautiful creation of satin, lace, silk and crystals. The date had been set to July 24th 2009 and as she walked into the house of her ex husband to welcome his new daughters and wife home from the hospital and the name reveal of the girls, she was really excited, she was happy, in love with the most amazing man and most of all her mother was recovering quite nicely due to the generous act of Bridget's niece and soon to be step niece Steffy Forrester. Bridget had always adored Steffy and her siblings because they had been such cute babies and the fact that she was a few years older than them and seeing them work through loosing their mother, getting her back and then loosing the security of having their family together because of her mothers obsession with Ridge.

"Hi Jackie! How's it going?" Jackie looked up from what she was doing and smiled when she saw who it was. "Hello Bridget! It's going really well, the minister is coming and everything is going according to plan." Bridget was a little bit baffled by the minister comment, but brushed it off as a potential christening for the kids, seeing as most of the people were going to be there and it would be easier than to plan a christening a few months from now when everyone was already there for the homecoming! And as an added surprise Rick had decided to invite Lannie and her family, the six of them arrived shortly and it sent shock waves through the younger generation starting with Phoebe, as she had come face to face with her former crush as Lillie Jaks walked through the door, Steffy almost fainted when she saw Lillie again and remembered that she looked exactly as the girl in her dream had, Hope felt a tingle in her belly when she watched Peter Jaks appear in the doorway, Kimberly felt a little jealous that Phoebe had the reaction to Lillie that she had and Thomas was having a blast, since he had known that this would happen ever since he heard Rick's new loves last name. He however walked up to Kimberly and reassured her that Phoebe had moved on from Lillie and was just surprised to see her.

About ten minutes after the Jaks's had arrived, Taylor, Nick and the girls arrived and as they were standing in the doorway looking at the people gathered at their house and saw the welcome home sign they got the picture. Taylor cleared her throat and said. "May I introduce to you all Natascha Jaqueline Marone and Mikaela Rose Marone, they will be known as Tascha and Kaela." Everyone turned to the doorway and gasped at the two adorable little girls in front of them.

Jackie decided that this would be the perfect time to talk to Thomas and Abby about something very important. She'd already talked to Ridge and Ashley and everything was ready. As she was talking to Abby and Thomas, the three of them saw Ashley standing in the doorway hiding from everyone else in case what Jackie was planning wasn't going to happen, she was also holding two clothing bags. Abby felt tears coming down her cheeks and said "Let's do it". Thomas looked at her and said "Yes, now would be the perfect time!" Jackie took this as her cue to get everyone out on the lawn and seated in the chairs. Whispers were going around the group and no one really knew what was happening until everyone noticed that Ridge, Abby and Thomas were missing. Thomas then appeared at the end on the aisle dressed in a tux and walked up the aisle, standing at the altar looking down the aisle. Ridge came after that and sat down next to Taylor and Nick. A few minutes later music started playing, Abby arrives at the end of the aisle dressed in a beautiful lace gown with off the shoulder straps and a long lace train. As she was looking around the people who had gathered, she noticed that her father was there, as was his wife and her adoptive father. How her mother had managed to get everyone there was a miracle since they don't normally talk to each other. Her mother appeared next to her and they started to walk down the aisle. "Thank you mom for getting them to come here!" Ashley looked at her with tears in her eyes. "Of course, you're our little girl and your getting married, of course they'd come for that!" As if on cue one of the little girls cooed as if she agreed with what Ashley had said and everyone awed at that! Ashley and Abby reached the altar and Ashley walked down and took a seat in between Victor and Brad, who everyone had gaped at seeing as he looked a lot like Bill.

The wows were beautiful, the cake was lovely, the food was some of the best the group had ever tasted and the honeymoon was amazing. Although as they were coming home to pretty much the same thing as they had left when they'd gone, neither of them cared much, they were husband and wife and their life was about to start.

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Oh my goodness this was a long chapter, but I got a lot out of it. Next chapter will reveal who Guy #1 and #2 are, Zacget will probably marry, someones future spouse will make their appearance and we'll hear what Brooke learned from her illness now that she's recovered. Also, Zacget might have another surprise for all of us. Who knows. As always, I own my own characters, storylines and none of the shows characters are mine, nor is the show itself mine all of that belongs to Mr Bradley Bell!

The funny story has been taken from a site full of them, if you want the site, please leave a review saying so! And YES, Texas Battle is my Marcus, the shows Carter is Marcus's adoptive brother in this fic and I loved Starcus when they happened on the show! I am not a doctor, nor do I have a medical degree of any sort, if the timeline is of in regards to Brooke's cancer, please forgive me any mistakes!

I got a review for my last chapter that I was hoping to address, but the reviewer was a guest and since you can't respond to reviews by guests, I can't do that. Therefore I will say this. If you ask me a bunch of questions that I wanna answer, but have no way of doing so since I don't wanna expose to much of my story, please do so as a review posted by a username on this site.

I will say this though. This is the way I wanted the show. Steffy will come into play later on, she's just not that big a part of this story right now. She's got a big SL coming up involving the boy, his friend, a sister of a loved ones future fiancé, Bill and Katie. None of what happens in my story would ever happen on the show because BBell doesn't have an incling on what to do with the Tridge-family, nor does he have any idea what to do with the Steric-kids. This is a FANFICTION, meaning I can do what ever the F I want with it. We never actually found out if Phoebe was straight or not, she had two crushes on the show, neither of which led that far also, you might have noticed, Abby isn't 12 in this fic as she was in 2008 on the show either. Thorne doesn't have a significant other, neither does Brooke, Donna or Felicia. Marcus doesn't have a significant other. I've always felt like ONE of the Tridge-kids were gay and making Thomas gay would've been too obvious since he is a male in the fashion industry. However, I do have Ally, Dino and RJ left. I'm not gonna force someone to read my story. But I'm writing this story for ME, no one else. I didn't even think I was gonna be getting any kind of reviews at all.

This is what I want the show to be like, because the show as it is STINKS! I didn't want Phoebe to die and by making Jack Taylor's biological son, I prevented that since Phoebe died as a result of Brooke being the biological mom of Jack. I do not want Bridge together because Bbell DESTROYED Tridge in order to get there and by having Ridge dump Brooke because he has realized that Brooke is what Staylor has been saying she is for years, Tridge as a couple has survived. Jacks birth was the perfect event to go back to. Steffy at this point is perfectly happy being on her own, she just got back from London for Pete's sake. Not everyone will be in every chapter. That's just how it is.