Saved and Rejoined

By Dueler312

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of OLTL.

Chapter 5

Jess was fixing herself a snack in the kitchen when she heard something. "Someone there?" she asked. She looked around, and saw that it was only Bree, playing with Chloe. Jess just smiled, and continued with making a sandwich for herself. Then she heard the noise again.

"Okay, who's here?" asked Jess. She looked around, but still saw only her two daughters.

"Jess, that isn't our baby. You have to believe me." Jess looked around, thinking that she heard Tess's voice. She really wanted to get this ended, and think she knew how, but she wanted to talk her parents to get their opinion first.

Starr and Langston arrived home and headed for Starr's room. While they were putting their stuff, Starr took a deep breath, with a grin that Langston noticed right away.

"You know, if you don't stop smiling soon, your face is going to stay that way," joked Langston.

"Well, maybe I want to keep it on me," said Starr, giggling a little.

Just then there was a knock on the door. "Hey, can you girls keep it down a little; I just got Jack and Sam to sleep."

"Sorry, Mom," said Starr. Blair then noticed the smile and asked, "Okay, what's going on?"

"I think I better leave you two alone," said Langston, and she grabbed her purse and headed off for her room. Once the door was shut, Blair asked, "Okay what happened?"

Starr took a deep breath and started to speak. "Let's just say, your daughter got her love back." Blair looked a little confused at first, but then caught on. "Hold on," she said as she moved closer to Starr. "You're not saying-"

Starr nodded and said, "Cole and I got back together."

"But how, I thought that you weren't close to being back to that stage yet," said Blair. "Plus, I thought that he was so out of it, because he got hooked on those drugs." Starr nodded to her bed and sat down, with her mother sitting on the other side.

"Well, here's the thing," Starr began to say. "I just couldn't take it seeing him go down like that anymore, and I knew I had to do something."

"Well, you know you could have gotten in danger yourself, Starr," said Blair.

"I know, Mom," Starr admitted, "but you know I would do anything possible for the people I care about. And then I confronted Cole at the pier, saying that he needed help, and that's when things got a little scary."

"Hold it, he didn't push you off, did he?" asked Blair, her voice rising,

"No, mom he didn't. He did scream a little, which spooked me, and I nearly fell in the water, but Cole quickly caught me, and he pulled me up with some difficulty."

Blair was taking time to process all that happened. "Okay, then what happened?" she asked, wanting to hear the whole story.

"Well, Cole was surprised at what had happened, and then he threw the drugs in the water, and ran off, and I followed him to the park, where he was talking about how he nearly hurt me, and didn't want to do that again, and I went to Cole and comforted and talked to him, and just then, a while ago, we were talking about it, and one thing led to another." Starr stopped and waited to hear what her mom said, and then Blair said with a smile, "You know, it's a good thing, that Cole has you to look after him." Starr smiled and hugged her mother. Unfortunately, their hug was interrupted when they heard a video game system in the next room.

"I'll leave you to your thoughts, while I go punish your brother for playing games when its bedtime," said Blair. Starr shook her head as she watched her mom leave, calling out Jack for playing video games when he was supposed to be sleeping. Starr got ready for bed and was about to go to sleep when she her cell phone vibrated. Starr knew there was only one person who would call her at night, and sure enough, she was right, as she saw Cole calling her.

"Calling to say good night?" she asked as she answered.

"Yeah, and to thank you," said Cole.

"What for?" asked Starr.

"For never giving up on me," said Cole.

"Well, I wasn't afraid to stop, and you said that's what you love about me," Starr said. And even though she couldn't see it, she knew her man was smiling.

"Well, I going to get to bed," said Cole. "I love you."

"I love you, too, Cole," said Starr. "Night." She hanged up, and after putting her phone on the charger, lay down to went to sleep, with having good dreams of Cole.

Next day over at Llanfair, Natalie was fixing breakfast along with Lois, when Jessica walked down the stairs, though looking really tired.

"Are you okay, Jess?" asked Natalie.

"I didn't get enough sleep last night," Jessica answered. "For some reason I keep seeing Tess in my mind, trying to tell me something about Chloe."

"If you ask me," said Natalie, "I think that's her way of trying to get out again."

"I don't know," Jess said, thinking about the conversation she wanted to have with her mom and dad later today. Just then there was a knock on the door.

"I'll get it," said Lois, and she went to answer it. "Oh hey, Starr."

Natalie and Jessica turned around to see their cousin walk in.

"Starr! What are you doing here?" asked Natalie. "Although it is good to see you."

"Well, I haven't visited in a while, plus I heard you finally got out of St. Ann's, Jess," said Starr, going over to hugging her.

"I am, but I'm still a little fragile, okay," Jess warned her. Starr nodded.

"Hey, you want join to join us for breakfast?" asked Natalie.

"Sure, I can stay for a while," said Starr. Jess noticed that Starr had a really big smile.

"So, anything big happen to you?" asked Jessica.

"Actually, something big did happen," said Starr.

"Well, what is it," asked Natalie, who was cracking some more eggs for Starr.

Starr took a deep breath before saying, "Cole and I got back together."

"Aww. You two just can't seem to stay away from each other," Jessica teased.

"Ha, Ha, very funny, Jessica," said Starr, laughing as she sat down, right next to Chloe in her high chair. "Hey there, little Chloe," she said to her. Chloe laughed a bunch at Starr.

"She really loves you, Starr," said Jess.

"Yeah, she does," said Starr. "You know, not that I'm saying that she will, but she almost looks like me a little. "

"Well, how would you know, Starr?" asked Natalie, setting the eggs and biscuits down in front of them.

"Well, I have looked at my baby pictures, Natalie," said Starr.

"Hey, whoever she looks like, she's definitely going to be my little girl," Jessica said, mostly to Chloe. Chloe looked at her, and laughed, but Jessica felt that strange feeling and looked at her. She nearly did look like Starr, Jessica thought, but threw it aside, knowing that wasn't going to change their relationship, as she, Natalie, Starr, and Chloe, along with Bree who ran down stairs for it, starting eating.

(A/N: Stay tuned to find out what happens next.)