Thank you @CeeCee72
Yeah I thought the yellow rose was a nice touch since JR always brought Sue Ellen yellow roses.
Now here's tonight's update.
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Chapter twelve
Elena felt like she was about to burst. The baby had been kicking all night and she had barely gotten any sleep at all. So as she wobbled out of bed around noon she didn’t feel rested at all. In fact she’d probably stayed in bed all day if she didn’t have the pressing need to pee. The baby was pressing against her bladder making her go more often than usual. Her feet were swollen and she was not up for much. Yet Christopher expected them to go to a barbeque this afternoon. She really didn’t feel like it. But knowing how good Christopher had been to her she couldn’t really refuse either. So she kept going until she could feel something warm run down her legs. At first she thought that she’d peed herself, but when she looked down and saw the wet puddle on the floor she realized what was about to happen even before she felt the first contraction. “Christopher!” She called out for him.
“What’s the matter honey?” Christopher asked. “Why haven’t you finished getting dressed yet?” he enquired. “We’re gonna be late for the barbeque.”
“I don’t think we’re gonna make it to the barbeque,” Elena said.
“Why not?” He looked at her puzzled.
“Because my water just broke,” Elena informed him, as she pointed to the floor and seeing the wet puddle Christopher put two and two together.
“You mean the baby’s coming now?”
“Yes,” Elena said.
“Oh wow! I’d better go tell dad.”
“Okay but hurry up and get my mom and the car too, I need to get to the hospital,” Elena said.
“Sure thing,” Christopher said, before he ran towards the door. Halfway there he stopped and ran back to her. “It’s gonna be okay, you know?”
“I know,” Elena said.
“I love you,” he then said, before he gave her a kiss goodbye.
“I love you too,” Elena said. “Now hurry unless you want me to have the baby in the car!” She told him and realizing that she wasn’t kidding Christopher ran out of Elena’s cottage and ran towards the driveway with his emotions all over the place. He was nervous, he was excited, he was scared and he was feeling unprepared. In other words he was a father to be, who was finally about to meet his baby for the first time.
I love your story so much and it is so much better than TNT's Dallas. I hope Bobby&Pam will be able to forgive each other for their past mistakes and resolve the lawsuit for control of Ewing Energies out of court so they can reunite their family for Christopher's sake and get remarried and then they can enjoy their future grandchild together without all of the fighting due to the Barnes Ewing feud.
Thank you everyone for the feedback.
I understand why you @stevew and @CeeCee72 are both rooting for it to be Christopher's baby. It would be the best for everyone involved if that turned out to be the case.
You will find out soonish who the father is.
@Mrs Bobby James Ewing thank you. I am flattered that you prefer my story to Dallas TNT. I think the first season of Dallas TNT was actually really great. It was later on when JR died that the show lost it's focus and went into crime drama territority that it went downhill. Anyway you might get some of what you wish for since the birth of a new grandbaby is an event that will bind them closer together.
But before the baby is born let's see what Emma and Lucas are up to...
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The nightclub was already quite crowded, even though it wasn’t even midnight yet. A lot of people were enjoying their after ski, drinking beer, singing along to the loud party music and some of them were dancing too. There was also a steady supply of coke for anyone who would want it and Emma’s friends certainly did. They were already high by the time Lucas and Emma arrived at the nightclub. Emma didn’t mind though as she was happy to see her friends but Lucas was not as amused. After less than twenty minutes in her friends company he made himself scarce, “Why don’t I go and get us some drinks?” Lucas excused himself. “So what do you want?”
“Sex on the beach,” Emma smiled and all her friends giggled.
“What?” Lucas repeated, as he wasn’t familiar with that drink. “You want to...”
“No it’s a drink silly,” Emma said.
“Oh okay. I’ll be right back then,” Lucas said before he walked off towards the bar, leaving Emma all alone with her friends.
“So Emma, hot guy,” One of Emma’s best friends Veronica said. “So what’s he like in bed?”
Emma swallowed and not wanting to admit that she hadn’t slept with the guy yet she just smiled, “That’s for me to know and for you to never find out!”
“Oh come on Emma don’t be such a bore,” Another of her friends named Susie said. “Tell us!”
“No seriously, I’d rather not talk about that,” Emma said.
“Oh I know what’s wrong,” Veronica said as she picked up some coke from her purse and handed it to Emma, “You are just cranky since you haven’t taken your medicine yet!”
“Veronica seriously,” Emma said. “You’re still doing coke?”
“Don’t tell me you’re not?” Veronica said.
“Yeah don’t be such a bore Emma, take it and then spill, we wanna know all about you and that hunk you brought to the party,” Another friends named Megan said.
“Okay,” Emma said and took the coke from Veronica, just as Lucas was returning from the bar with the drinks.
“Here you go,” Lucas handed Emma her drink.
Emma then gulped down the whole thing in one go, while her friends were cheering her on. “Drink! Bottom up!”
“Done,” Emma grinned, as she wiped her mouth. She intended to get stinking drunk tonight. It might ease her nerves. She had decided to sleep with Lucas tonight but since a part of her still wasn’t comfortable with the idea of being intimate with a guy again after being raped she thought that maybe being drunk would help her. Or better yet, drunk and doped. “So why don’t you come with me to the bathroom?” Emma put two fingers in between Lucas’ shirt and gave him her best seductive look.
“You want me to join you in the bathroom?” Lucas looked surprised at Emma.
“Yeah I promise I’ll make it worth your while if you come,” Emma smiled at Lucas before she leant forward and gave him a kiss in front of all her friends. Feeling embarrassed Lucas was left with no choice but to go with her.
“Alright let’s go,” he said before he walked with Emma into the bathroom. Once they were in there he turned to look at her, “Emma what is going on?” He asked her in a concerned voice. “Why are you in such a hurry getting drunk tonight?”
“What?” Emma pouted. “Can’t a girl enjoy a few drinks?”
“Sure but the way you gulped down that drink like a teenager is hardly attractive,” Lucas said. “I mean it will go straight to your head!”
“That’s the point,” Emma said. “I wanna get stinking drunk tonight!”
“I get that but why?”
“Because if I’m drunk I might work up the courage to sleep with you tonight,” Emma confessed. It was the alcohol talking as she hadn’t planned to reveal that much.
“I’m not gonna have sex with you in the bathroom,” Lucas told her.
“You’re not?” Emma asked.
“No. What have your friends done to you?” He asked. “You are acting no better than a school girl.”
“Are you saying I am immature?” Emma pouted.
“Frankly yes,” Lucas said.
“Bull, now just because of that I won’t share my candy with you,” Emma said. “I was gonna share it but...”
“What candy?” Lucas asked.
“This candy,” Emma said holding up the coke.
Realizing what it was Lucas eyes widened, “But Emma that’s cocaine!”
“Yeah so?” Emma asked.
“Are you out of your mind!” Lucas said. “You can’t mix drugs and alcohol it could kill you!”
“It hasn’t so far,” Emma said.
“So far?” Lucas asked. “Emma how long have you been doing drugs?”
“Since I was 16,” Emma replied and seeing the disgusted look on Lucas face she dropped her mask. “And why do I get a feeling you don’t approve?”
“Because I don’t,” Lucas said. “I don’t do drugs. It’s only for idiots!”
Hearing that knocked some sense into her and Emma sighed before she admitted, “I know, I have been clean for a year now!”
“Then why do you want to throw that away?”
“I don’t know,” Emma shrugged her shoulders. “Some habits are hard to break I guess. I mean when I hang with the girls we’ve always done drugs.”
“So it’s about peer pressure?”
“No it’s about me,” Emma said. “I need to get high tonight or I might be chicken out.”
“Chicken out?”
“Yeah of sleeping with you,” Emma clarified.
“Well sorry to burst your bubble, but we are not gonna have sex tonight.”
“Why not?” Emma asked. “Don’t you find me attractive?”
“Very but you are already drunk and I don’t want to take advantage of that.”
“Oh a gentleman at last,” Emma purred.
“Now give me the drugs Emma,” Lucas reached for her hand.
“What for?”
“So I can flush them in the toilet,” Lucas clarified.
“You can’t do that,” Emma said. “Don’t you know how valuable this stuff is!”
“Yeah but so is your health Emma,” Lucas pointed out. “Now give me the drugs before you’ll end up using again. You know you will regret it in the morning if you do!”
“Who made you my baby sitter?” Emma asked sarcastically.
“There no need to be rude,” Lucas said, “I am only trying to help you.”
“I know,” Emma said before she capitulated and gave Lucas the drugs. Lucas then proceeded with throwing them into the toilet.
“You do know that you are flushing down thousands of dollars right?”
“Yeah but it’s better to get rid of this than to get caught with it on us,” Lucas said. “I don’t feel like going to jail and I bet you don’t either.”
“True,” Emma said.
Lucas then flushed the last of the drugs and then when he was done he took Emma’s hand and said. “Now let’s go!”
“Go where?”
“Home,” Lucas replied.
“But we can’t leave now,” Emma objected. “The party is just starting to get good.”
“Well all the more reason to go,” Lucas said. “Now are you coming or do you want me to leave without you?”
“Alright, I’m coming,” Emma said with a sigh. “But I wanna say goodbye to my friends first.”
“Fine,” Lucas said before he put his arms around her shoulders and they walked back to her friends, exchanged a few words and then left the nightclub together.
Thank you for the feedback @stevew
I am glad that you loved the latest update. I don't think Lucas is a spoiled brat who doesn't care about money. But yeah he knew that Emma was in trouble and stopped her before she fell off the deep end again. But of course her parents doesn't know that...
I really enjoy reading all the suggestions how you think my story should go and the constructive feedback. But you won't influence this story since I had already written the final page before I started posting it.
Still it's an intersting idea that John Ross could have given Lucas a call. You are right that it could have been a set up. The only flaw is that the cousins are not close in this story.
So I guess I believe in something called fate.
On to the next update.
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Harris was sitting in his limousine talking on his cell phone. He looked concerned when he heard that it was the detective he had hired to keep an eye on Emma. He listened to something the other man said before he said in a grim voice, “I see, thanks for calling. No I don’t want you to beat him up for me. Just keep tracking her until I get there,” Harris then hung up the phone and buzzed his chauffeur. “How long until we can get to the airport?”
“With this traffic, about 40 minutes sir,” his chauffeur replied.
“Okay then call the airport for me and tell them to have my jet ready in an hour,” Harris said before he picked up the phone and called a number he had on speed dial.
“Hi Annie it’s me,” Harris said into the phone. “I just want you to know that I’ll be going to Switzerland tonight.”
“Is it Emma?”
“Yes the detective called. Apparently she’s been out partying with some of her friends. There was drugs at the party.”
Ann could feel her heart drop when she heard that. “You think she’s had a relapse?”
“I don’t know but one of her friends was taken to the hospital after an overdose,” Harris said in an alarmed tone of voice. “She’s brain dead.”
“Oh My God!” Ann exclaimed, as she was seriously scared now. “And Emma?”
“I don’t know she left the party together with some guy she’s been seeing. The detective couldn’t tell if she was high or just drunk.”
“Who is he?”
“I don’t know,” Harris said. “But I figured I’d better get there before things spiral out of control. I mean when Emma hears about her friend...”
“She might fall off the deep end if she hasn’t already,” Ann concluded.
“Exactly,” Harris said.
“Okay so when are we leaving?”
“You’re coming with me?” Harris asked surprised.
“Yes Emma needs us both,” Ann insisted.
“Alright, I am on my way to the airport now, can you meet me there in an hour?”
“I’ll try,” Ann said. “I am at the hospital now.”
“The hospital?”
“Yes Elena’s in labor,” Ann said. “She’s gonna have the baby any minute now.”
“Are you sure you want to leave then?” Harris asked. “I mean won’t Bobby get upset when he hears you’re going to Switzerland with me?”
“Nah, he’s too preoccupied with his ex to even notice I’m gone,” Ann said.
“Are you sure you want to leave them alone then?” Harris asked.
“No but Emma’s more important,” Ann insisted.
“Alright then,” Harris said. “I tell my pilot to wait for you.”
“Good I’m on my way,” Ann said, before she hung up the phone and hurried to run back to the waiting room where Bobby, Sue Ellen and Pamela Rebecca were waiting for her. “So any news?”
“No she’s still in labor,” Bobby said. “I’m starting to think that something’s wrong.”
“I’m sure she’ll be alright,” Sue Ellen said. “Lots of women have babies every day.”
“You’re right,” Bobby said before turning to his wife. “So who was that on the phone?”
“Emma,” Ann lied. “I have to go to Switzerland right now!”
“What?” Bobby dropped his chin in surprise.
“She’s in trouble,” Ann explained.
“That girl is trouble,” Pamela Rebecca muttered.
But Ann and Bobby ignored her comment, as Bobby asked, “What kind of trouble?”
“One of her friends is in the hospital after a drug overdose!” Ann explained.
“Oh no, is she gonna make it?” Bobby asked in a concerned voice.
“I don’t think so,” Ann sighed, looking really troubled. “I’ll know more when I get there. But Emma really needs me.”
“Of course,” Bobby said. “So want me to come with you?”
His question made Ann shift uncomfortably, as she was already having company on this trip. But since she didn’t feel like arguing with him about Harris right now she just said, “No it’s okay. You’ll stay here. I know how anxious you are to meet your first grandchild.”
“Alright then,” Bobby said before he leant forward and gave Ann a kiss goodbye, “I love you.”
“I love you too. I’ll be back as soon as I can,” Ann promised.
“Good,” Bobby said. “Bye Ann.”
“Bye Bobby,” Ann said.
“Call me when you get to Switzerland I wanna know how Emma’s doing,” Sue Ellen said.
“Thank you Sue Ellen, I will,” Ann smiled gratefully before she hurried off. She hated keeping secrets from her family but considering the circumstances she knew it was for the best. Since if Bobby and Sue Ellen knew that she was going to Switzerland with Harris they would just try to stop her from going and she had to go. Her daughter needed her and right now Emma was more important to her than her marriage.
Thank you for the feedback @stevew
I am glad that you like that Lucas is a part of my story and that you found the set up with Lucas and Emma interesting.
Okay so tonight it's time to find out if Elena is having a boy or a girl...
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Inside of a room at the maternity ward were Christopher, John Ross and Carmen gathered around Elena’s hospital bed. Elena was putting on a brave face and was trying to endure the pain she was feeling, as she was busy giving birth.
“Come on mi hija, you can do it,” Carmen couched her daughter, as she was sitting on her side, holding one of her hands.
“Push Elena!” Christopher encouraged his fiancée, as he squeezed her other hand tightly.
“No you push Christopher. I can’t take anymore of this!” Elena replied angrily.
“Yes you can,” Carmen said. “You are strong.”
“I can see the baby’s head now!” John Ross informed the others.
“Good, now push Elena,” Carmen said.
“Here he comes,” a midwife told them and John Ross looked on in amazement as the baby boy came out of Elena’s belly. He had never experienced anything like this before and it rendered him completely speechless. The baby started screaming as the midwife spanked it’s bottom and everyone in the room broke out in huge grins.
“Congratulations Elena you have a son,” The midwife told her.
“Mi nieto,” Carmen said emotionally, as she dried off Elena’s face with a wet cloth.
“So does the proud father wants to cut the umbilical cord?” The midwife asked and John Ross and Christopher exchanged a look.
“You want to do it or should I?” Christopher asked.
“I don’t know,” John Ross looked at the crying baby that was still covered in fluids. “I can’t tell if he looks like me or you!”
“Right you were the ones who needed a paternity test,” the midwife sighed, as she remembered it now.
“Do you mind if I do it?” Christopher asked.
“No you go ahead,” John Ross said, as he took a step back so that Christopher could cut the umbilical cord.
“That’s good,” the midwife than said, as the cord had been severed and she helped Christopher bathe the baby before they wrapped him in a clean towel and handed him to the new mother.
“Here’s your baby Elena,” the midwife smiled, as she gave the baby to the new mother and everyone gathered around the bed. “So have you decided on a name yet?”
“Yes we figured if it was a boy we’ll name him after my brother,” Elena said. “Drew Ramos!”
“Mi hijo!” Carmen said emotionally before she started crying and kissing the baby's forehead.
“Ewing!” Christopher added. “His last name will be Ewing.”
“But what if he’s not yours or mine?” John Ross asked.
“He will be,” Christopher said in a certain voice, since when he looked at his son he just couldn’t stand the thought of that the baby could be anyone’s but his. Because he loved that baby already.
Thank you for the ratings and feedback everyone.
@superman fan I'm glad that you gave the latest updates such good ratings.
@stevew you make a very good point why Drew's name might actually be Andres or Andrew. I didn't realize that. I just asummed that Drew was his name.
Then as for whether there'll be a John Ross Ewing IV or not, you will see what will happen later on...
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Meanwhile a little further down the corridor in the waiting room were Bobby, Sue Ellen and Pamela Rebecca still waiting for news when Pam suddenly arrived at the hospital. “Hi Bobby, I came as fast as I could.”
“Pam what are you doing here?” Bobby asked, as he was surprised to see her.
“Yes after everything that you’ve put this family through, you are certainly not welcome here,” Sue Ellen said sassily.
However Pam just ignored her, as she turned to Bobby with the explanation, “Christopher called me. So where is my grandchild?” Pam asked in such an excited voice that Bobby could feel something tug at this heart, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
“We don’t know yet,” Bobby said, just as John Ross came walking into the waiting room, with a tired look on his face.
“It’s a boy!” John Ross announced.
“Is he yours?” Sue Ellen asked excitedly.
“I doubt it, he has brown eyes,” John Ross said.
“So then he’s Christopher’s,” Bobby said with a smile.
“Probably,” John Ross said. “The doctor has asked me to leave a DNA sample anyway just to make sure he’s not mine!”
“But I thought you said that he was Christopher’s,” Pamela Rebecca said.
“No I said he had brown eyes,” John Ross said. “But since Elena’s got brown eyes too...”
“You could still be the father,” Sue Ellen pieced it together.
“Yep,” John Ross said.
“Wait a minute now,” Pam looked confused from John Ross to Bobby. “Are you telling me that we don’t know who’s the father of Elena’s baby?”
“Yeah,” Bobby said before he looked at Sue Ellen, “Brings back memories doesn’t it?”
“Don’t tell me this family has been in this situation before,” Pamela Rebecca groaned and Bobby, Pam and Sue Ellen exchanged a look, since they were well aware of that John Ross could in fact have been Pamela Rebecca’s brother instead of husband. But since neither one of them wanted to explain that to them they just shut up about it.
“Well that’s ancient history now,” Sue Ellen said, looking embarrassed. She shot Bobby an annoyed look that he'd brougth it up and Pamela Rebecca picked up on it.
“John Ross?” Pamela looked surprised at Sue Ellen. “You didn’t know if JR was his father?”
“Of course JR was John Ross father,” Sue Ellen said and John Ross gave his mother a strange look.
“But there was someone else too around that time, wasn’t there?”
“Yes but it doesn’t matter since they are both gone now and you are JR’s son,” Sue Ellen insisted.
“Yeah that paternity test was conclusive,” Bobby said.
“Speaking of, I’d better go take mine,” John Ross sighed. “Wish me luck!”
“You know I can’t do that,” Pamela said.
“You’re hoping he’s not mine?” John Ross saw right through her.
“I’m sorry but yes,” Pamela said. “I mean our lives are complicated enough as it is.”
Seeing how upset her daughter in law looked Sue Ellen put her arm around her shoulder saying, “Come on Pamela, you look like you could use a cup of fresh coffee.”
“Alright,” Pamela said.
“John Ross you can find us in the cafeteria downstairs when you are done,” Sue Ellen informed her son.
“You don’t wanna have a look at the baby first?” John Ross asked.
“Nah I’ll see him later,” Sue Ellen said before she, Pamela and John Ross walked off, leaving Bobby and Pam all alone together.
An uncomfortable silence came between them, as they exchanged a look. The tension was so thick that it could be cut with a knife and not being able to take it anymore Pam tried to break the ice, “You know this is crazy.”
“What is?” Bobby asked.
“More than 30 years has passed and it’s like nothing’s changed in this family,” Pam said.
“Well some things sure has changed,” Bobby pointed out.
“You mean you and me?” Pam said.
“Yeah,” Bobby nodded sadly. “We didn’t use to be at each other’s throats.”
“You know Christopher’s asked me to drop the lawsuit,” Pamela said.
“So are you?”
“I might,” Pam said before letting him know her terms. “If you give Josephine her due.”
Bobby dropped his chin, “What?”
“You know it’s the right thing to do. After all Katherine had a stake in the company too and Josephine never got her inheritance when she died.”
“Yes but I thought Josephine was legally your daughter now?”
“She is,” Pam confirmed. “But she was Katherine’s daughter until she died.”
“I see,” Bobby said.
“So it is only fair,” Pam said.
“Nothing in life is fair,” Bobby sighed. “I think we both know that better than most people.”
“I can’t believe you’ve changed this much,” Pam said. “The Bobby Ewing I knew was an honest man, whatever happened to him?”
“He grew older,” Bobby said solemnly before he sighed heavily. “You’ll really give up your stake in the company if we’ll give Josephine what’s hers?”
“Yes,” Pam nodded. “I only joined their lawsuit because I was hurt about what you did to Cliff.”
“You know, I’ve gotten a lot of time to think about that after we talked and you were right,” Bobby admitted. “I shouldn’t have sent Cliff to jail for a crime he didn’t commit.”
She turned to look at him and their eyes locked. “You really mean that?”
“Yes,” Bobby nodded. “I let Cliff down and he didn’t deserve that. Especially not considering that he had my back when JR and I was in trouble after that tanker accident.”
Pam nodded since she could see in his eyes that he meant it. “I’m glad you can see that now. So what made you realize it?”
“You did,” Bobby sighed. “You’ve always been my conscience when I’ve stepped out of line before. So I guess with you gone I let myself become more like JR than I’m comfortable with. I loved my brother but he could really get down and dirty. I guess my grief made me want to follow in his footsteps. He asked me to send Cliff to jail and I was so eager to carry out his dying wish that he’d entrusted me with that I didn’t stop to think about what was right.”
“Now you sound more like the Bobby Ewing I know,” Pam smiled. “I guess grief can make you do crazy things.”
“Yeah it’s just like the contest for Ewing Oil that daddy put me and JR up to all those years ago,” Bobby reminisced. “I was grieving then too and I desperately wanted to prove myself that I was worthy to follow in daddy’s footsteps.”
“I remember,” Pam said sadly, as that had been what lead to their separation and divorce the first time, “It’s just that I don’t get why you’d ever want to follow in JR’s footsteps. I mean you’ve always been a better man than he was.”
“I know,” Bobby said. “So do you think you’ll ever be able to forgive me?”
“Probably in time yeah,” Pam nodded. “I mean as much as I loved my brother I know he did some horrible things too. So the feud wasn’t all one sided.”
“I’m glad you can see that,” Bobby said.
“Besides JR and Cliff are both gone now so it makes no sense in carrying on their feud when we should look to the future,” Pam said before she nudged his arm, “After all we do have a grandson to think of now!”
“That’s true,” Bobby said. “So how about going to see the baby now?”
“Sure, there’s nothing I’d like more!” Pam smiled as his hand gently brushed against her waist, as they began walking, before he stopped the impulse to slip his arm around her waist, since she wasn’t his to hold anymore.
