Saved and Rejoined

By Dueler312

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of OLTL.

Chapter 6

Later on that day at Llanfair, Viki was in the front room, with Clint, who was discussing with her what Matthew was doing.

"You got to be kidding me, Why is Matthew still doing drugs? I thought he was better than that," said Viki.

"I don't know," said Clint. "Bo and Nora have been trying to get him to stop, but every time they find him with more."

"Well, maybe Cole can talk to him, I mean he did use drugs once, and he may be able to get through to him," Viki suggested.

"He tried, and still is, along with Starr and the others' help," said Clint. "Oh, Jess!" he just added. Viki turned around and saw Jessica walking in to the front room.

Jess saw that she walked into something, "Um, I can come back later if you guys are busy," she said.

"Jess, honey, we are never too busy for you," said Viki.

"Your mother's right," said Clint. "Now what do you need?"

Jess took a deep breath and said, " I need you guys to help me with something."

"What do you need help with?" asked Clint.

"I need to visit the cottage again," Jess revealed.

"Why's that?" asked Viki.

Jess knew she had to tell her parents soon. "I don't know, its just that whenever I look at Chloe, I somehow get a strange feeling, like something sad."

"A sad feeling, with your daughter?" Viki asked, confused.

"Yeah, its been happening for a while now, and then sometimes at night, I keep dreaming about Tess, saying something about Chloe," she said.

"What about Chloe?" asked Clint.

"Well, she keeps saying that Chloe is not ours, even though I told her that she's mine, but I can't seem to shake it," say Jess. "And I think that maybe if I go back to the cottage to the night that my baby was born, I think I may be able to figure out why Tess is doing this to me."

Viki and Clint looked at each other, and then said, "Well, what are we waiting for?"

"Wait, you want to do it now?" Jessica asked, a little surprised.

"Well, the sooner we can find out why Tess keeps telling you these things, the quicker we can get her to integrate with you and Bess," Viki said, grabbing her coat.

Jess smiled and then said, "I'll go get my coat then," and hurried off.

"I wonder why Tess isn't letting the baby thing go," said Clint.

"Well, maybe we'll get the answers when we get there," said Viki, as she and Clint walked out with Jessica, who came downstairs with her coat, and headed to the cottage.

Meanwhile, Starr and Cole were hanging out at the diner with Langston and Markko at a booth. Markko wasn't working that day, so it was a chance that the four of them got to hang out with each other. They were also talking about the way Matthew was heading.

"I just don't believe Matthew is doing this," said Starr. "I mean he's such a good kid."

"Well, he may have been pressured to do it, just like I was with the steroids and then those pills," said Cole.

"Well, we got to try to get to see that all he's doing is hurting himself," said Langston.

"Well, we got to think of something good, because I'm running out of ideas," said Cole. "I really don't want him going down the road I went."

"Hey, don't worry, Cole," said Markko. "We're going to make sure that Matthew gets some help, and hopefully stop this." Cole looked a little down, and Starr saw it immediately, so she rubbed his arm and said, "It's going to be okay, Cole." Cole still though didn't look sure.

"Hey, is that him there," Langston said, looking out in the window. Starr, Markko, and Cole looked out and sure enough it was Matthew, hanging with Becca and another older teen, who was getting in the driver seat of a car. Sure enough the car took off with all three.

"I hope we can do something, because I'm really worried," said Starr.

"Tell you what, Why don't we go see a movie," Langston suggested.

"As long as it's not another chick flick," said Markko.

"Yeah I got to go with him," said Cole.

"Oh please, you guys had your choice last time," Starr said with a little laugh.

"Come on, I can't go through another chick flick," Markko said as they walked out of the diner. Unfortunately, their conversation got halted when they heard a loud crash.

"What was that?" Cole shouted out when they heard it.

"It sounded like it came for over there," Starr said, pointing over to the salon. All four of them went to see what made the crash. They wished they hadn't though when they saw that it was the car that Matthew left in earlier.

"Oh my god!" Starr yelled out. Langston grabbed her phone to call for help, while Cole and Markko headed over to the car to try to get Matthew and the passengers out.

Cole went to the back door and grabbed Matthew out, while Markko got Becca on the other side. Cole then tried to get to the driver, but the car door was stuck.

"I can't get it open," said Cole. Markko hurried to come help, and they tried as best as they could to get the driver out.

After Langston had called for help, she and Starr were checking to make sure that Matthew and Becca were okay.

"I can't believe this," said Starr. "This is just like with Henry."

"I know," said Langston.

Cole and Markko were still trying to get the door opened when finally it popped off of the car. Markko grabbed the driver and pulled him out, and with Cole, managed to get him away from the totaled car.

"What happened?" the driver said, but then went unconscious. Just then they heard an grunt.

"What happened?" Matthew had spoken, and was about to sit up, when Starr held down.

"Matthew, stay down, You may have injuries you don't know about," said Starr. Matthew just laid his head down. Starr looked at Cole and her friends. They knew that it was going to be a long night..

(A/N: Starr and her friends may have saved Matthew, but will Matthew learn from this. And will visiting the cottage help Jess find out about Chloe being Starr and Cole's? Stay tuned.)