AN:
I do not own a thing! Not the characters nor the show they are part of. Dialogue with "''" around it comes from the show and I am not taking credit for it.
Previously on Goodbye to yesterday:
Liam and Hope argued.
Bill and Liam have a conversation about Hope and Steffy.
Steffy had lunch with the Spencer-boys.
Bill and Liam has one more conversation about Hope and Steffy.
Brooke screwed herself over.
Hope's relationship with her mother is forever changed, again.
"When I asked Steffy if what Liam said last night during our fight was true, she said it was. Why would she lie if Liam has already said it's true?" This statement shocks Brooke.
"Why would Liam tell you that? There's no way it's true."
"We were having an argument, I said some things and in order to shut me up, he told me that Steffy signed the papers in the hospital because she didn't want anyone else hurt." Hope has stood up from the couch and started pacing.
"Honey, there is no way Steffy signed those papers and Liam didn't rip them up and throw them in the stream and he did not kiss her on that mountaintop. Those are all lies and I can't believe you fell for it. You know Steffy better then that!" Brooke is so wrapped up in her truth, she doesn't realize she's spilled the beans on her knowing about it and some things that Hope doesn't know.
Goodbye to yesterday
Chapter two
"You knew about it? What kiss?" Tears are slipping down Hope´s eyes.
Brooke looks like she's been slapped when she realizes that she's outed her self and gets off the couch to comfort her daughter.
"Don't touch me!" Hope pulls away from Brooke and walks straight out the door.
Brooke pulls out her phone and sees she's got a text message from Steffy so she reads it.
"Oh, that's not good. Dammit!" She rushes out through the door to try and find her daughter, but she's long gone.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
After she left her mothers house, she thought about going home and wait for Liam. But she wasn't ready to face him yet, so, she did something she never thought she would do. She went to Steffy´s condo and knocked on the door, then she realized what she was doing and started walking away.
However, Steffy opens the door just before Hope rounds the corner.
"Hey you! What's going on? Why are you here?" Hope turns around. "Oh no. What's wrong?"
"Did mom know about Aspen?"
Steffy just nods.
"Did you and Liam kiss after he threw away the papers?"
Steffy nods again.
"No, no, no, no, no, nooo. Why wouldn't she tell me about it?" Tears are once again flowing down Hope´s cheeks. "I forgave her for Oliver because I knew it wasn't intentional, but this time. No, I won't forgive her for this. I won't forgive her this time."
"She walked in on me and grandma talking about it, but before that she'd been listening in on the conversation, then she walked in all high and mighty on her high horse and started throwing accusations towards me, that I was just trying to cause trouble for you and Liam and that I was just lying about the papers. Liam and I had already decided that telling you about it wouldn't do you any good. We knew it would hurt you and you didn't need any more hurt in your life. I'm not the bad guy and neither is Liam. But neither is your mom, although I really don't see how you or Bridget even have a relationship with her after what she's done." Steffy have walked over to Hope and taken her into her apartment and sat her down on the couch while she was talking.
"What do you mean?" Hope is confused.
"You weren't supposed to find out about the annulment papers at all, ever. That's what Liam and I decided in Aspen. We decided that we'd go through with the divorce and you'd never know that he did what he did because the hurt it would cause you wasn't deserved. I'd rather have you look at me as the bad guy then Liam or your mother. It was a secret I was willing to take to the grave with me and Liam was too, I thought for sure your mother would do it as well, but apparently not."
Steffy has looked Hope straight in the eyes the whole time she's been talking.
"And if you are wondering about why I don't understand why you and Bridget still have a relationship with Brooke, when it comes to Bridget, it's the affair Brooke had with Deacon for months that resulted in you. Did you know Bridget found out over the baby monitor? Brooke sent Deacon home to Bridget´s bed after sleeping with him for him to sleep with Bridget so she wouldn't know about their affair. I really don't think I could forgive my mother if she's done that. Then Brooke did it again with Nick. The moment Brooke found out about Bridget´s feelings for Nick, she should have walked away and fought her so called feelings for the man. Because no man is ever worth more then your daughter. Not one man. I'm not denying that Nick and Deacon had any part in any of it. But Brooke is Bridget´s mother and that bond is supposed to be sacred."
"But Taylor did do it, maybe not to you, but to Phoebe." Hope objects.
"Rick and Phoebe had been broken up for months before mom fell under his spell and she wouldn't be with Rick if Phoebe objected. Phoebe didn't object. And what Rick did during his relationship with my mom was hideous and his treatment of me during our relationship was even worse."
"What do you mean his treatment of you?"
"I have something I think you need to hear." Steffy walks over to her computer, pushes the memory stick in and finds the file. "Your mother hasn't heard this yet because she doesn't want to think that Rick could have lied to her when I broke up with him. She wants to believe that my dad manipulated him and that dad didn't like him for absolutely no reason."
She pushes play and watches Hope closely when she's listening to the recording. When it's over Hope looks Steffy directly in the eyes.
"I get it now. Your animosity towards the Logan´s and I'm sorry that I have only added to it."
"It's okay, I'm done with that. I'm all about business right now and everything else just have to step aside. But please, don't hold Liam and mine´s decision against him. You were under so much pressure at the time and you didn't need that." Steffy gives Hope a small smile. "Now, you need to go home to your husband and talk to him."
"I don't want to. He lied to me."
"Okay, tell me though. Would you have rather found out that I had signed those papers and he ripped them up or live blissfully happy hating me for not signing them? Think about the reasons why he never told you about those papers rather then focus on he lied. Don't think about the secret, think about the reasons behind keeping it." Steffy rubs Hope´s arm. "But you need to talk to your husband. You won't get over this if you don't."
Hope nods her head, gets off the couch and then she walks out through the door taking the memory stick with her.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
Brooke Logan was freaking out. She had no idea where her daughter was and she'd been on the phone calling her every five minutes, but it always went straight to her voice mail.
Right now she´s rubbing her hands together walking around the front room of the house and talking to herself.
When there's a knock on the door she races to it and swings it wide open. What she sees on the other side makes her really happy, but then she sees the look in her daughters eyes.
"I know you´re hurt right now, but Steffy should have given you those papers, not Liam."
"No, she shouldn't have, she gave those papers to her husband and her husband ripped them up. They had decided on divorce and we shouldn't have forced her to sign those papers. I also shouldn't have listened to you in regards to who Steffy really is."
"What do you mean? She's exactly who I said she is!"
"And who is that?"
"A home wrecker, she's the reason you and Oliver didn't make it. She's the reason why you and Liam didn't make it the first time. She's the reason everything that has happened these last few years happened."
"Mom. Who slept with Oliver? You or Steffy? I'm the one who put the ring on the mantle, not her. Steffy is not the reason Oliver and I didn't work out. You are!" Brooke makes a motion to defend herself and Hope stops her by raising her hand. "No, the reason Oliver and I didn't work out was because I kept picturing him having sex with you up against that wall at my graduation party and I still see it every time I walk by there. I have something you need to listen to and you need, you really need, to listen to this." Hope walks over to the computer, pushes the memory stick in, finds the file, turns up the sound and presses play.
"'Rick: Steffy is not your little girl anymore. I own her. Do you hear what I'm saying to you, Ridge? I own her. And there's not a damn thing you can do to change that. Ridge, can you believe this? The irony in this situation? That-that Steffy has fallen madly in love with me of all people? And you hate me more than anybody else in this entire world, and I have Steffy eating out of my hands. And if you keep fighting us, if you make us miserable, I will take her the hell away from here, and you will never see her again.
You know, Ridge, I want to talk to you about something. See, I'm not- I'm not really happy with the way you treat the president of this company. Like, when I walk into a room, I don't want you to say, "Oh, hey, little Ricky boy. How are you?" No, I want you to act like the president just walked into the room, 'cause you're gonna treat me with respect.
When I'm married to Steffy, I'm gonna be able to make her something that you've never been able to- a real Forrester, something that you have been pretending to be your entire life. Isn't that right, Marone? You want to punch me, don't you? Go ahead. Hit me. Hit me! What's wrong? You chicken? (Clucking) come on, Ridge, what's the matter with you? What, are you getting a little green in the gills?
You coming down with something? You better not be. You need all the strength that you can get, 'cause you've got to be able to walk your little daughter down the aisle on our wedding day. We're gonna be one, big, happy family. You know, I can't wait to put that ring on Steffy's finger, because then we can go off to the honeymoon, and that night is gonna be the greatest night of Steffy's life.
Dad. My marriage to Steffy- it's not about two people in love. It's about revenge. It's about revenge for the years of pain that you have inflicted upon my mother and me. So when I'm saying my vows in your little destiny-westiny spot on the beach, I'm not even gonna be looking at my bride. I'm gonna be looking at you, poncho, and the pain etched in your face as you say "bye-bye" to another daughter. '"
"Obviously Ridge provoked him and he cut out his own voice! You honestly cannot think I'd believe anything a secret recording tells me, especially when you don't even hear the whole thing."
"But mom, what could Ridge have possibly said that would make Rick cluck like a chicken, do you even hear the tone of his voice? Or say that he was going to take Steffy away from them? Did you not hear Rick say that him asking Steffy to marry him wasn't about two people being in love, it was about revenge. You just don't see it do you? Your son and my brother used her to get back at her father and you just sat there and gave him your permission to do so." Hope is getting frustrated. "Why didn't you just do what Ridge told you to and stopped that relationship. Do you realize that Steffy is the way she is right now because you allowed your son to use her love against her father? It's never Rick that's to blame is it? It's always someone else that's to blame. I wonder who he got that from."
Hope moves back towards the computer, takes the memory stick out.
"You really can't help yourself can you?" Hope walks over to the door, places her hand on the handle and then she leaves after glaring at her mother one more time.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
Liam was sitting on the couch waiting for his wife and he'd been there for two hours now. When he'd gotten the text from Steffy saying that Hope now knew about everything that happened in Aspen, he'd started freaking out a little, but then he realized that he wouldn't have to carry that around with him anymore. He had decided though that Hope would never find out about the kiss he and Steffy shared after the divorce was final, because that was their good bye to each other.
Hope had been standing outside the door looking in on her husband for the last twenty minutes before she had built up the courage to walk through the door. She places the key in the lock, unlocks the door and walks through it.
"I'm sorry. I've been acting like a jealous insecure girlfriend. I've listened to my mothers wishes and lived in her world far to long and it ends now. I don't want her in our life as more then a future grandmother, but her influences on my life is going to stop." Hope closes the door while she looks Liam straight in the eyes to prove that she actually means what she says.
"I'm glad you said that and I forgive you." Now he gets off the couch and goes to the kitchen to cook dinner.
Hope just looks after him and then she walks into the room she chose last night.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
Monday, July 16th 2012
Quinn Fuller walks through the door of the building her company resides in and scurries up to the second floor where she has her office. She starts looking through one of the filing cabinets where she has old designs that hasn't been put in production yet to search for a design sheet from a few years ago. She didn't really know why she was on the prowl for that particular design, but she knew it was important.
She had woken up completely aware of her surroundings and the design in her head after a dream that she wasn't entirely clear on if she remembered it or not. It isn't where she thought it would be and that makes her confused, so she looks through the entire cabinet.
When Wyatt comes by to talk to her when he's gotten to work about two hours later she had just gotten to the bottom drawer and there were design sheets all over her office. He decides to watch her for a while and twenty minutes later he starts quietly chuckling.
"Good morning mom! What are you looking for?" Quinn looks up from the floor with a frown on her face.
"Morning Wyatt! Do you remember a sketch from three years ago with the tinted glass diamond shaped pendant?"
"Yes, I do. Is that what you're looking for?" Wyatt raises his eye brows and tilts his head.
"Yes. I wouldn't have asked you if you remembered it otherwise. Do you know where it is?" Quinn is still looking through the designs laying on the floor.
"I do know where it is and if you think about it for a while, you'll also remember where it is." Wyatt starts sorting through the designs all over the office to start the clean up process that his mother will most likely tell him to start when she remembers where the design is. Or rather not tell him at all, just expect him to do it.
"Hey, you wanna go with me to meet up with Steffy for lunch today?" Wyatt perks up at the question. "I'm supposed to meet her over at Il Gardino for a quick lunch around 1pm and I feel like that design is something that she needs to see."
Quinn starts scratching her cheek in confusion while looking around the room and then it clicks and she's out the door.
"Well, she figured it out it seems and I do have to eat. I'll meet them at the restaurant." He finishes putting away the designs and then goes to his own office to get some job done.
~Goodbye to yesterday~
1:05 pm, Il Gardino
Steffy was exhausted. Completely exhausted. She'd woken up at 4:30 am and gone to the gym to wake herself up and give her some energy since she was feeling so down at the moment. It hadn't worked at all and at the moment she just wanted to go home and go to bed and sleep the day away. But she had work that couldn't wait. So that's why she wasn't tucked into her bed and waiting for Quinn to make her appearance.
She feels a hand on her shoulder and turns around to a surprise.
"Hey Wyatt! What are you doing here? Are you joining your mom and I for lunch?" The smile on Steffy´s face genuine.
"Mom invited me this morning during another of her Hurricane Quinn moments. She tore up the whole Cold Design Case-cabinet. Design sheets all over the office." Wyatt gives her one of his signature smiles and his eyes sparkle.
"Sounds like fun. Where is your mother?" Steffy tilts her head a little to get a better view of the man standing in front of her.
"I thought she'd be here by now, she's always been good with keeping track of the time. I'll go call her real quick to find out where she is." Steffy nods her head at the suggestion and watches him walk away from her a little bit.
Just as the first ring is about to go through, Steffy sees Quinn come running down the side walk.
"Hey, Wyatt! She's here!" Steffy points in the direction Quinn is running towards them from.
"Hey! What are you doing here?" Quinn looks quizzically towards her son.
"You invited me mom." Quinn frowns and scratches her scalp.
"Really? When?"
"This morning?"
"I did?"
"Can we go eat? I'm hungry and if I don't eat soon, I'll become hangry and you don't want to see me at that point in time." Steffy interrupts the conversation.
So they walk into the restaurant and eat lunch. Which is quite a joyous affair, all three of them have a really good time.
A few moments before they are about to leave, Quinn pulls out the design sheet she'd been searching for this morning.
"Ah, you found it!" Wyatt exclaims.
"Yes, I did, right where you said it would be!"
"That is beautiful! I know just the dress. I have a request though. Can you make the chain longer and attach it to a choker with three rows of small Swarovski crystals? The dress has a neckline that goes up into a turtleneck and then flows down the back with a completely bare back ending in a V-shaped dip at the small of the back. It's a dark burgundy color and that pendant would fit perfectly a few inches above the V. You know, like a little surprise when the wearer turns around?" Steffy inquires.
"Yeah, sure, if you have the dress already made so I can get the measurements I can get on that right now."
"You want to come to the office and check it out?"
"Yes, I do!"
"Let's go then. You want to come with?" Steffy addresses Wyatt with her question.
"Yeah, sure!"
And so they go to Forrester Creations. It takes Steffy forty five minutes in the stockroom to find the dress in question and sign it out, then it takes her five minutes to go to her office, put it on and then let Quinn and Wyatt in the room. Quinn instantly knows exactly what Steffy meant. And so she borrows a design sheet and gets to work.
Fifteen minutes later she shows Steffy the design.
"Exactly! That's what I wanted." Steffy gives a huge smile.
"I have one more idea for that dress though. Wait a minute or two and we'll see what you say about it." She then goes to work again
It takes her three minutes to put together a gorgeous piece that can either be added to the dress or taken away using hooks and clasps placed on the back of the piece and a half inch inside the back of the dress laying the piece so that it covers the fabric making it look like a piece of the dress of links of silver and dark green, dark blue, clear and a deeper red color then the dress stones that made it look like a water painting that sparkle. On the front it goes like a band under the bust making the dress look like it's an empire cut dress.
Steffy is speechless as she watches the design sheet. Then she walks over to her desk and find her phone sending a text to her father and grandfather telling them to come to her office, after that she puts the phone back into the handbag, then she sits down in the chair next to her with her jaw dropped.
"I think you broke her, mom. What did you do?"
"I drew a little?" She hands the design sheet over to her son.
"Oh. I really think you broke her though!" Wyatt looks it over and then turns his eyes back to Steffy. She hasn't moved an inch. Quinn watches Steffy closely.
She doesn't even react when there's a knock on the door or when the two men on the other side is led in through the door by Wyatt. Ridge takes a close look at his daughter.
"Uhm, what have you done to my daughter?" He's totally confused.
"I drew a picture?" Quinn states in confusion.
"Can I see the picture?"
"This is the original one!" She shows him the design sheet she brought to lunch. "The one the other two are based off of. This is the one I drew with her requests." She hands it over to him. "Wyatt has the third one that I came up with after seeing the dress on Steffy with the second design in my mind."
Wyatt hands it over to Ridge and he's got a similar reaction to the design. He gives the design sheet to his father.
"I told you there was something missing on that dress and now you've found it!" Eric tells his son.
"Yeah, but we won't be able to reduce the cost on it. The velvet is expensive enough, now we'll have to increase the price even more because we won't be able to do the dress without the jeweled back piece."
"So we make it a 'once in a life time'-piece. A special occasion dress. An Oscar worthy dress. We'll send a picture out to all of the stylists working with celebrities for like the Oscars or something and see if anyone wants it. How long do you need to make the back piece?" Eric inquires.
"About three days, if I start right when I get to the office I should have it done by Thursday."
"That will give us enough time to get it out there."
And with that said, Eric has made a final decision and that's that.
"Okay, I'll just go do that then. I'll put the hooks on and then you can put the clasps on the dress when I'm done."
"We need to get Steffy working again though. Could you do something?" Eric is a little bit baffled that Steffy hasn't gotten out of her daze yet.
Wyatt does the only thing he knows to do to get the attention of a girl. He walks over there, pulls her out of the chair and kisses her.
For some reason, he's not expecting the reaction he gets.
AN:
Oh no! What will Steffy do? Kiss him back? Slap him? Faint? Vomit? Gaaaaah, I want to know right now, tell me, do you?
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