Money Is No Match For Love ch. 2 When Dreams Crash and Burn (JuEve)
by lordoftheringsfan
 

      "I wonder where TC and the girls are?" Eve asked. Eve wandered down the hall. She stopped in her tracks when she heard her voice coming from Julian's offie. "Damn, Julian, I thought I told you to stop listening to that tape! If TC finds out, or God forbid Whitney and Simone, I'm afraid to think of what might happen!" Eve stomped into Julian's office, ripped the tape out of the tape player, destroyed it, and threw it into a stunned Julian's lap.
      "I thought I told you not to listen to this anymore!" Eve said furiously. "Especially tonight!"

      "I just couldn't stop thinking about the vision, of what could have been." Julian said.

      "Well, you can stop thinking about that horrid vision, because I am going to find TC and the girls and we are going to go home, now!" Eve said.

      "Eve, if there was any way we could be together, I would sacrifice every cent of the Crane money." Julian said. Eve stopped and stared at Julian in shock. Julian lovingly stared into Eve's eyes. "Every last cent Eve, right here, right now. I love you, Eve. I never stopped loving you. If only I had done one thing different, our lives would be perfect."

      Eve suddenly felt herself be overcome with emotions, and threw her arms around Julian. Eve started sobbing.

      "What is it, Eve?" Julian asked.

      "I still love you!" Eve blurted out. "All these years, I tried to deny it, but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't stop loving you! I love, you, Julian!" Eve and Julian kissed.

      "Julian!?" TC yelled. TC remembered where Julian's office was. He flung the door open, and stared in shock when he had caught Eve and Julian right in the middle of a passionate kiss.

      "Noooo!" TC yelled. Eve and Julian broke their embrace.

      "Oh my God, TC!" Eve said.

      "TC?" Julian said in horror.

      "Mommy, how could you do this?" Simone yelled.

      "Simone!?" Eve exclaimed.

      "How could you keep something like this a secret from us all these years?" Simone asked.

      "Simone, what are you talking about?" Eve asked, not sure how Simone would know.

      "I heard Julian talking about that vision the two of you shared together! You two were lovers and you had a son! A son!" Simone yelled in rage.

      "Simone, what are you talking about?" Julian asked.

      "I heard everything you said when you were talking to yourself. I heard the tape playing!"

      "Pookey, where are you?" Rebecca called. "Where can Julian be hiding?" Rebecca remembered the way Julian was acting earlier and the depressing music he was listening to. "I'm going to find Julian and bring him to his senses."

      "Oh, no you don't!" Hecuba said with a laugh as she watched the events above in her lair below the estate.

      "This is getting better by the minute!" Connie said. "Rebecca is not going to like what she's about to walk in on."

      "Serves her right for trying to one up you on your night with Julian, huh? Looks like Eve is an even bigger problem." Hecuba laughed mockingly.

      "Lucky for your sake, you're only here in hologram form." Tabitha said.

      "This fog is going to do some serious damage!" Connie said.

      "Well, duh, that's why I told you it was too dangerous to unleash! If TC kills Julian, all of my plans will go up in flames." Tabitha said.

      "Looks to me like Julian would be better off dead," Connie said.

      "But if TC kills him, then he won't be around to cause even more torment for the Russel family!" Hecuba said. "This should also do some serious damage to Sam and Grace's marraige as well!"

      "Not trying to question your evil brilliance, but what do Julian and Eve have to do with Sam and Grace?" Connie asked.

      "Well, because Ivy could use this as fuel to get Sam away from Grace when it looks like she doesn't stand a chance at being the real Mrs. Crane." Hecuba said.

      "Julian?" Rebecca called. "No man of mine gives me the silent treatment and gets away with it!" Rebecca said. Rebecca heard yelling down the hallway. "I wonder what all that yelling is? Sounds like an argument. I said I didn't want to miss a minute of this party, so I'm going to find out just what is going on."

      "How could you do this to us, mom!?" Simone yelled.

      "Simone, I never wanted to hurt you, TC, or Whitney." Eve said.

      "How could you do this to my family, Julian!?" TC yelled. "Eve, how could you keep this from me all these years!?"

      "Julian, what's going on in here?" Rebecca asked.

      "You keep this from me all of these years and I have to find out when I walk in on you kissing my wife!" TC yelled.

      "What!?" Rebecca exclaimed. "Julian, is this true? Oh, let me guess, it's best I don't know, right?" Rebecca said sarcastically, remembering when she had asked him about what had happened between him and Antonio.

      "I had to find out when Simone came to me and told me she heard Julian listeneing to a tape with your voice and talking about the life the two of you could have had together and how he still loved you if he would have stood up to Alastair!" TC yelled.

      "What!?" Rebecca yelled.

      "Rebecca, you have no idea what is going on here-" Julian said, but was interrupted when Rebecca slapped him hard across the face.

      "You were using me the whole time!" Rebecca said. "You only thought of me as a consolation prize! We're over, Julian!" Rebecca left the room.

      "Simone, we're going to find your sister and go home." TC said, glaring at Eve.

      "Eve, I thought you loved me." TC said.

      "I did- do-" Eve said, realizing that she was in trouble.

      "You kept this from me our whole marraige when you knew how much I hated Julian!" TC said.

      "She probably kept our past together a secret from you because she was afraid you would react this way!" Julian said.

      "Stay out of this, Crane." TC said. "You all make me sick. Eve, if you would have told me the truth a long time ago yourself instead of letting me find out like this we could have worked past this!"

      "How could we when you reacted this way?" Eve said.

      "I don't know what disappoints me more. Eve, I'm hurt that you didn't trust me." TC said.

      "I do trust you, TC." Eve said.

      "Not enough to tell me the truth!" TC said. "Truth is important on marraige. You have to be able to trust each other to tell the truth, Eve, and you didn't. You lied and your secret came out in the worst possible way- by our daughter walking in on Julian talking about your past!" TC said. "Eve, I don't know what else to say except for I think our marraige is over." TC said.

      "TC-" Eve said. Simone at Eve before following TC out of the office. "TC!" Eve screamed, sobbing in Julian's arms. "Simone!" Eve sobbed. "My family hates me," Eve said.

      "I want us to be together more than anything in the world, but this was not the way I wanted it to happen," Julian said.

      "Why?" Eve sobbed.

      "So your dad said that Julian Crane caused him to lose his tennis career?" Chad asked.

      "That's what dad said," Whitney said. "Which is exactly why I have to focus on tennis and not-"

      "Whitney, we are going home right now," TC said.

      "What's going on, Daddy?" Whitney asked.

      "Oh Chad!" Simone cried, throwing her arms around him in tears.

      "Coach Russell, what happened?" Chad asked.

      "I'll explain everything on the way home," TC said, his voice cracking with emotion. "I can't stay in this awful place another minute."

      "What about Mom?" Whitney asked.

      "Let Julian worry about your mother." TC said.

      "What does Julian have to do with anything?" Chad asked.

      "I'll explain everything on the way home." TC said, followed by Simone, Chad and Whitney.

      "Wow, talk about priceless family moments!" Tabitha said. "Anyone got a camera? This is definitely one for the photo album!" Tabitha said.

      "You might want to save some film in that case," Hecuba said. "There's plenty more where this came from."

      "Do you even know what you're setting in motion?" Tabitha asked.

      "Who cares as long as it destroys lives." Connie said with an evil laugh.

      "So many lives will be changed," Hecuba said. "And the mayhem wouldn't have been possible without the help of Connie. One little drop of a bottle and everyone's lives are going to crash and burn!"