Saved and Rejoined
By Dueler312
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of OLTL.
Chapter 2
Cole saw Starr walk to him, with the drugs in his hands still. "Cole, you don't want to do this," said Starr.
"Why not?" asked Cole. "At least it'll make the pain go away." He then proceeds to put the pills in his mouth, but Starr grabbed his hand and took the pills and threw them in the water.
"Starr, why did you do that?" Cole asked, nearly yelling at her.
"Because Cole, the only thing those things are doing is causing more pain, and you need to wake up and see that. Remember what happened last time when you took those steroids?" Starr said, hoping that she would trigger his memory of that.
"Starr, that is completely different," said Cole.
"How so?" said Starr. "Because right now, not only are you're hurting yourself, you're hurting me as well." Starr was nearly about to go into tears.
"Starr, that stuff is the only thing that doesn't make it HURT!" Cole said, yelling out the last word. Unfortunately, that made Starr jump, and she slipped, nearly falling in the water. Starr screamed, but then heard Cole yell her name, and stopped, with her foot just a couple of millimeters from the water. Cole had grabbed her, and was trying to pull her up, while holding onto a wooden pole. He didn't have a good grip on it though, and his fingers were slipping, because of the drugs he was using. But Cole was determined to not let Starr fall in.
"Hang on, Starr," said Cole, but Starr saw that he wouldn't be able to hold on much longer, and hope that either he would pull them up together, or someone would help them.
Over at Llanfair, Natalie and Jared were getting ready for Jessica's return. They were making sure that everything was I order, when they smelled something stinky.
"Oh boy, Chloe had to do that now," said Natalie, as she picked up the little girl and went to go change her diaper.
Just then, the doorbell rang, and Jared went to answer it. Jared then said as he opened the door, "Welcome home." Jessica was at the front door, with Clint right behind her with some of her stuff.
"Thanks, Jared," said Jessica and she walked right in to her home. Jared took some of the stuff from Clint and set it down near the steps, while Jessica walked in to the living room.
"Mommy," someone said. Bree came coming from the kitchen, and hugged her mother on the legs.
"Hey Bree," Jessica said to her daughter. She went down and hugged her as well, as soon as Bree let loose of her legs.
"Hey there, Jess," said Natalie, walking in with Viki, and holding Chloe.
"Hey, Natalie, and hello to you too," Jessica said, as she took Chloe in her arms. Just then, as she looked at the face of the newborn, she felt that sad feeling again, only it felt stronger.
"Jessica, are you all right?" asked Viki, who noticed her daughter looking a little down. Jessica shook her head a little, and said, "Um, yeah. I'm just a little tired. Can you take Chloe for me, Dad?"
"Sure honey," said Clint, as he took Chloe in his arms, and Jessica walked up the stairs to her bed.
"Wonder what that was about?" asked Natalie.
"Well, she's just probably tired, Natalie," said Clint, as he bounced little Chloe in his arms. Natalie though wasn't certain.
Back at the pier, Cole was starting to lose his grip while trying to hold to Starr and pull her back up. Cole knew that he had one shot, and with he quickly let go of the pole, only to grab it again with his full hand, and pull Starr up, with the result of both of them landing on the floor of the dock. Both of them were breathing hard, and then Starr look at Cole, and said, "Thanks." Cole didn't say anything, but he had a fearful look in his eye, and then got up and ran away from the pier. Starr called him to come back, but Cole either ignored her, or didn't hear her.
"Oh, Cole," Starr said, really worried.
"Everything okay, here?" someone called from behind Starr. It was a worker from the pier.
"Um, yeah, everything is fine," said Starr, and she walked off, to find Cole and dig the man she fell in love with out of him.
Cole kept running and running until he could run no more. He ended up stopping at the park, exhausted and out of breath. He just couldn't believe what had happened, He nearly hurt someone he deeply cared for, all because of drugs. Cole then fell to his knees, and began to cry in his hands.
"Why is this happening to me?" said Cole. "I nearly hurt one of my closet friends, and all because of some drugs?" Cole remember why he started to take them, because of what was happening in his life, his mom, not remembering who she was, acting as someone he didn't know, and the loss of his baby. He just couldn't believe that it came down to nearly hurting a young woman he cared about more than anything in the world. Hr then took whatever drugs he had and threw them on the ground, and then started stomping down on them, until he collapsed onto the ground.
He laid there for two minutes, until the touch that he loved came to him. Starr had found him, and was worried. "Cole," she said. Cole then wrapped his arms around Starr really tight and held on to her, with Starr doing the same, rubbing his back, telling him that it's going to be okay. Starr lifted him up real carefully, and directed him towards a bench.
"Cole," said Starr. "It's okay."
"No its not," said Cole. "I nearly did the same thing when I was taking those steroids. I never wanted to do that to you again, but I did."
"Cole, I admit, I was angry when you were on drugs again, but I also knew what was going on that you were trying to avoid," said Starr. "You can't just bottle them, Cole. You need to talk to someone, anyone; either, John, Markko, Langston, Nora, or," she hesitated a little before saying, "me."
Cole just took a deep breath and then said, "Can you just hold and be with me right now. Starr just nodded, and wrapped Cole in her arms. She was really wanting to help him get his life back together, after all that has happened. And she was going to make sure that nothing or no one would harm Cole again.
(A/N: Can Starr help Cole get his life back together? Stay tuned.)