DISCLAIMER: I do not own any characters that aren't mine.

AN: The first AN I had was written so long ago that it didn't make any sense anymore. Talking about Maya being a transgender woman is outdated in my book. She just needs to tell Rick already.

Anyways, back to the story.

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Aspen, Genvieve and Taylor were born on June 12th 2012 at midday within a timespan of less than 7 minutes. Aspen and Taylor were the twins and Genvieve just squeezed her way into the middle of her cousins. All four parents were extremely happy because the last few weeks had been excruciating. Steffy had been put on bed rest the last two months and Steffy on bed rest with her work ethic just wasn't going to make sense. So, what do they do? Well, the office in the basement had been turned into Steffy's bed rest office with a bed and everything, she needed to do some exercise and going up and down the stairs to get to the office was quite enough. Miranda and Lannie came by once in awhile and they Skyped from time to time to see where everyone was with the latest campaign for Forrester Creations. After the birth when Lannie and Miranda came by to visit, Ronya came with them to visit her cousin and her cousin's cousins.

Lillies pregnancy had gone quite smoothly, up until the last two weeks, her whole body ached and nothing made her comfortable and because of this Lannie was thinking that Lillie was getting her just deserts from when she was telling Lannie that being pregnant really couldn't be that bad. Lillie then reminded Lannie that her whole pregnancy, or at least from the fifth month onward, had been a pain, filled with discomfort, inability to function on a day to day basis and that Lillies pregnancy hadn't been that hard.

Delivery however had gone smoothly for both girls, it had only taken about six hours from when the first contraction came up until the babies had come into the world.

The whole dynamic of the family created a problem though, because through the different family units the whole family linage had gone haywire, so since there was so many children under the age of six, all six sets of parents decided that Jack, Tascha, Kayla, Jennifer, Logan, Christopher, Ronya, Aspen, Genvieve and Taylor were cousins and they would be raised as such, even though they were parts of different generations.

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July 15th 2012

The newest additions to the family had turned over the one month mark and were growing like weeds in a flower bed. Since the parents lived in the same house, one night a week, both sets of parents got a night off from childcare and got to spend time together as a family. This morning marked the end of Steffy and Liams night off.

It was Sunday and their time to cook up a storm for breakfast and dinner. Steffy went and opened the door to the staircase so that the smell of eggs, bacon, coffee and the makings of a chocolate cake in the oven lifted up towards their upstairs neighbors apartment.

Ten minutes later, the pair started hearing movements above their heads and soon enough Lillie and Wyatt came down the stairs with all three babies. As always, there was a blanket laid out on the floor of the kitchen and all three little ones had their eyes close the moment they landed on the blanket. Genvieve had her mothers fiery red hair, her fathers eyes, her mothers nose and her uncles smile, how that happened, you'd never know. Aspen sported her mothers eyes, her fathers dark blond hair and was going to be a heart breaker when she grows up. Taylor looked almost just like her grandmother, dark hair, striking blue eyes and just like her sister, she was sure to be a heart breaker.

"So, how was your night?" Wyatt looked to his brother for an answer.

"Well, since we haven't had much sleep this week, the moment after we came down here after we left the girls with you guys, we ended up sleeping on the couch until the movie we planned on seeing, however, we fell asleep about halfway through that too. We woke up again an hour and a half ago." Liam yawns to make his point even stronger, he takes Steffys hand and squeezes it. Steffy nods her head. "Yeah, we were really really tired." Steffy agrees with Liam.

After breakfast the whole group went to the store to fill up their pantries, fridges and freezers. When they came back home, after everything had been placed in it's rightful place, everyone decided that a nap was a good idea and since the girls were already sleeping, their parents placed them in their bassinets and then plopped themselves into bed for their own nap, they knew they had about forty

five minutes to an hour before the girls woke up again.

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Hope Logan had always known who her father was, but not the connection he had to the family and why she never saw him after he had taken of with her older brother, in fact, that whole part of the family history had always been held in somewhat of a mystery to her. In fact, the first 8 years of her life was a complete mystery to her.

She also know which person in her family is the one that she could get answers from because she'd never lie to her. This is why she's standing outside the Marone mansion knocking on the door to the house. She's relieved when the person she's there to see opens the door.

"Hi Hope! Come in! How can I help you?" Taylor asks gently, she's seen that look on Brooke's kids before, that look of determination to find the answers to questions they have and last time she sent said child to visit his father and there came forgiveness from it. This one she's not so sure she can just send somewhere else.

"I want you to tell me about my father and my mother and how I came to be!" Hope smiled shyly and Taylor could see tears forming in her eyes. "I mean, I know who my father is, but I don't know where he came from, why he was involved with our family or how everything ended up the way that it did."

"Are you absolutely sure you want to hear this? Because it might change how you look at certain people in your life. Sometimes it's better not to know the truth." Hope sits down on the couch.

"Yeah, I want to know, I'm tired of being lied to." Taylor nods. "I was just about to make some tea, you want some? Maybe some hot chocolate?" Hope shakes her head no and watches Taylor walk towards the kitchen and hears her patter about and then she hears the bubbles from the boiling water and then Taylor emerges from the kitchen with a cup in her hand.

"Are you ready for this?" Hope nods and urges her to continue. "Okay, now, do not interrupt me and I'll tell you everything that I know of this, you know, since I was 'dead' for a portion of it. Anyway. It started about three years before you were born after Rick married Amber and Amber tried to pass of her cousins son as Rick and her son. Anyway, Becky, as Ambers cousins name was, found out about Ambers scheme and wanted custody of her son back, she found love with CJ and then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she died and CJ got custody of the child. Then the babys father came around demanding custody and he got it after much fighting back and forth. Deacon Sharpe then meets your sister, romances her and marries her because the woman he really want, you know, Amber, didn't want him.

On their wedding night your mother, Eric and Rick are shown Deacons vicious ways when he calls them and then proceeds to take Bridgets virginity over the phone with them listening to it. Bridget believed he was happy with her, but he kept sniffing around Amber for a few months after that, then about a year and half before you were born, he and your mother began an affair, where he'd spend the day in your mothers bed and then she'd send him home to Bridget at night so that Bridget wouldn't suspect anything. Anyway, Brooke ended up pregnant with you by a man she's claimed to hate on more then one occasion. How Brooke and Deacons affair was exposed I don't exactly know, you'd have to talk to Stephanie about that, but it hurt Bridget so bad she left the country because of it.

I think that you know that Bridget and Nick and Brooke and Nick have been married? When I came back 'from the dead' the last time, I revealed myself at Bridget and Nicks first wedding, then a whole bunch of stuff happened and Ridge chose me over Brooke, Brooke chose to attach herself to another one of Bridgets husbands after that and from what I can tell, Brooke wanted Nick while he and Bridget was planning their wedding. In the middle of all this, you almost drowned in the pool and Bridget saw a connection between Brooke and Nick while you were in the hospital. Bridget went up to Big Bear to clear her head and Stephanie met her up there, apparently Bridget found out she was pregnant and she went back to town to tell her fiance and she and Brooke had sort of a falling out. It ended with Bridget pissed off at Brooke because she just doesn't see the lines she shouldn't cross and Bridget letting Brooke and Nick believe she'd aborted the baby. Sure, Bridget shouldn't have done what she did, but I still blame Brooke and Nick for what happened. Nick never should have taken Bridget back after that, because what it did to Bridget was so hurtful.

What happened after that was really low on Brookes part. She actually told Eric that it was better for all of them that Bridget aborted the baby and from what Eric told me it sounds like Brooke was actually happy that Bridget had aborted the baby because then there was nothing keeping her and Nick apart. I don't know exactly what she said, you'd have to ask Eric about that. Turns out thought that Bridget hadn't aborted the baby and then when Bridget lost Nicole and Nick walked out on her to stop Brooke from marrying Ridge, although Bridget said it was okay, you could see in her eyes that she was deeply hurt, once again. Then for Brooke to ask Bridget to stand up for Brooke and Nick on their wedding day as her maid of honor, that was just tacky.

But I can tell you this. Your mother have ruined two of your sisters marriages, she just could not help herself, I think she saw Bridget as competition, actually every woman is competition to her or at least was competition. After she's fought cancer and found Logan, I don't think she's that bad anymore. But after what she did to Bridget, I find it amazing that Bridget forgave her for it, both times.

After everything is said and done, I think we're all better of as it is right now. Bridget has a man that will never hurt her and will definitely not betray her with her mother, if he does, I'll break one of his fingers, Nick finally has the children that he wanted and I have a man that only wants me, Ridge has found a woman that is truly his and Brooke has finally found a man that is hers and no one elses, well, if you don't count his daughters. Anyway, the people involved has moved on and are happy where they ended up.

There are some more things that happened, but you'd have to talk to your mother about all that. Ask her about Eric, Jackie and Whip.

Are you still with me? You okay?"

Hope silently nods her head slowly. "Yeah, I think I am. I don't know if I'm okay. I need to go see my sister." She scrambles together all her stuff from the table in front of the couch and then rushes out the door. Nick comes walking down the stairs with Kayla and Tascha in his arms and Jack is walking beside him.

"I thought I heard Hope down here, where did she go?" Taylor stands up from the couch and takes Kayla from her father. "Yeah, she was, apparently she'd asked her mother about her father once again and Brooke kept her mouth shut about it again and then she'd stormed out and came over here to find out the truth. She knows I can't lie to her. So I told her what I know about Brooke and Deacon and Brooke and you. Which isn't much might I add. She's on her way to Bridget now."

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When Bridget opened the door to reveal her sister 30 minutes later she could see straight away that something had happened so she reaches out to Hope and pulls her into a hug.

"Hi! What's wrong?" Hope looks up at her sister with tears in her eyes. "I was just at Taylor's house and I found out some stuff. Bridget, HOW do you forgive someone when they've done stuff like that to you?"

Bridget looks perplexed and searches Hopes eyes for some answers. "What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about you being my stepmother when I was born, as well as my sister. I'm talking about how mom was screwing your husband behind your back for over a year before it came out. She makes me sick. I get that you all were trying to protect me, but I believe I have a right to know my father and to know who he is."

"Oh Hope! Parents are going to disappoint you at some point in your life and our mother has a way of disappoint you more then anyone should ever have to endure, that's just the way she is and the whole Brooke and Deacon and Brooke and Nick business is over and done with, it made me aware that I have people in my life that will be on my side and always have my back and you are lucky to have those people in your life too. Also, if mom hadn't done what she did with Deacon, I'd probably still be married to him and that would probably not have been the best situation for me. Meeting Zach was the best thing that could have happened to me. I let go of so much baggage those first weeks in London and have been so much happier since. So you just need to let it sink in and then look at the fall out. I mean, it happened almost 20 years ago, marrying Deacon when I was only just barely 18 was a mistake, but I'm not sorry I did it, having regrets just aren't worth it! I forgave her and from what I have heard from Taylor in regards to what happened in her coma, so have you, although that particular incident probably won't happen, since you've already graduated and all. So, college soon or what?"

"If I said that I want to find Deacon and see if there is any potential for us to create a relationship, would you stop me?" Bridget shakes her head. "No, he's your father, the fact that mom has fought so hard for you to not have him in your life is something I'll never understand. Maybe you should try to find out where your brother is too, you know, Little Deacon, who probably isn't so little anymore."

Hope nods and feels like it's the start of an adventure and since she knows she'd probably not have that much luck in talking to her mother about where Deacon might be, she goes to the person she thinks might be the only one willing to help help her find him.

The next day!

She's standing outside his office and she's feeling a little shaken up, knocks on the door and notices that her hand is shaking. She hears him shout for her to come in and as she opens the door and walks in, he looks up and is a little puzzled.

"Hi Hope! What are you doing here?" Hope gives one of her small apologetic smiles . "Hi Bill! I've got a request that I can't talk to my mother about. I've talked to Bridget and Taylor and what they had to say made me feel like I want to find out what was so bad with the man that is my father and that's why I'm here, nobody seems to know where he is and I think that you might have a way for me to find out where he is. Do you think that you can help me find my father? Oh, and my older brother, it's not every day you find out that you've got a brother out there that your family have kept a secret and never told you about."

Two weeks later.

She'd gotten a text message from Bill the day before with the address for her brothers apartment and right now she was writing him a letter telling him that they are siblings and that she'd like to meet him some day and also asking if he knows where their father is. When she feels like she's happy with the letter she leaves her home to find a mailbox. She stands in front of it for a while and then she lets the letter fall down into the mailbox.

Having left her e-mail in the letter, the rest of the week goes by so slowly. Then, four days after she sent the letter, there is a letter in her in box from a Derric Sharpe and he lets her know that he'd like to see her too, but that he hasn't seen their father since he left Genoa City five years ago. He wonders if she'd like to meet him the next Friday for a cup of coffee somewhere, he had just moved to LA and felt like he needs someone he knows there. Derric tells her some things about himself and his father and for the next few days they talk back and forth. When it's time for them to meet, Hope asks if she can bring someone with her that their father has a history with, he says yes.

When Hope and Bridget walks into the coffee house and meets Derric, Bridget has a minor shock. He looks just like Deacon did when she first met him, the only thing that's different is that he has his mothers eyes and is thinner than his father was.

"Well, you clearly is Deacons son. Hi! I'm Bridget, Deacons ex-wife and this is Hope, your sister and mine too."

After having coffee, a little bit of cake and an apple just to be a little bit healthy, all three of them felt like this would be the start of a beautiful relationship between siblings. Hope and Derric also feel like something has been taken from them, because Hope is Derrics only sibling as far as he knows and Hope feels like she fits more with Derric than she has with any of her other siblings.

AN:

If Derric hadn't been Hope's brother, I'd pair them up. Deacon is coming, don't you worry, Brooke made a mistake keeping that father/daughter duo apart all these years and Deacon is going to show her how wrong she was.