Chapter Five-Forget Fate
 

"Theresa, how are you." He asked staring into her angered eyes.
"How do I look?" She said bitterly.
"I’m so sorry." He said holding her arms.
"Let go of me." She insisted moving away from him.
"Resa, don’t be this way." He told her.
"My name is Theresa, now please go." She said looking over at Kendra.
"But I want to talk to you." His eyes showed pain.
"I don’t want to talk to you, ever again, now I’m going over to Kendra and I think it would be best if you just left." She said quickly walking over to Kendra.
Ethan followed and looked down at the little girl, "She looks just like Luis." He sighed.
Theresa looked up at him, "Why are you still here?" She questioned.
"I need to talk to you, Resa please." He begged.
"Ethan, will you leave me alone? Just go."
Kendra looked up at him, "Mommy used to cry cause of him." She said sadly after hearing his name.
"I’m sorry I made you mommy cry." Ethan said hanging his head.
"Kendra doesn’t need this Ethan." Theresa said hugging her.
"Then tonight can we talk tonight?" Ethan asked.
"No! I don’t want anything to do with you. "
Miguel came out of the bathroom with Matthew and froze. "That low life." He muttered stomping over to his sister and niece.
"What are you doing here?" He growled at Ethan.
"Miguel." Ethan spoke as his eyes went to Matthew, "He looks just like her, He is his mother’s child." He sadly spoke.
"Yeah, he is, and he doesn’t need people like you in his life." Miguel informed him.
"I just need to speak with Resa."
"And I just want you out of here now." Miguel glared at him.
"I know you are both angry with me." Ethan began.
Theresa looked up at Miguel, "Why don’t you take the kids outside, I’ll be there soon."
Miguel gave her a strange look, "But Resa," He started.
"Miguel, please." She insisted standing up.
Miguel looked over at Kendra, "Kenji wanta go outside?" He asked.
"OK." She said taking Miguel’s hand.
Miguel looked up at Ethan his eyes fixed on Ethan’s, "Don’t you dare upset my sister." He said walking out the door.
Theresa looked up at Ethan at bite her lip, ‘be strong’ she told herself.
"Talk." She stated sitting back down.
"I’m so sorry I missed the funeral, I came as soon as I could." Ethan explained.
"You came too late." Theresa said looking away. Staring into his eyes was too much for her, the memories flooding back hurt to bad.
He nodded, " I realize that now."
"So did you find yourself?" She asked looking back up at him.
"No, I belong here, here in Harmony." He told her his eyes shifting nervously.
Theresa gasped, "Your moving back?" She questioned.
"Yes, This is home."
Theresa glared at him for a moment then spoke softly, "How are you doing?"
"It hurts, hurts bad." He said choking back tears.
"I keep thinking they’ll come back." She whispered.
"Yeah, it seems so unreal."
"Sheridan always said you’d come back, you’d never stay gone too long, guess she was right." Theresa said.
"I’m sorry it took this to bring me back." Ethan admitted.
Theresa suddenly felt her anger raging again, " You should have never left. Sheridan cried for weeks, almost as much as I did." She fumed. "She thought of you as family, the one with a heart." She told him taking a deep breath. "But you just walked away from both of us, without a good reason Ethan, and now your back? Sheridan’s gone Ethan, and she’s not coming back, so why don’t you just go travel the world again, just leave here." She insisted tears forming in her eyes.
"No! I won’t run again. I can’t do that." He said staring at her.
"Fine. Its your life, I can’t make you leave, if I could I would. But do me a favor, just stay away from my family, I won’t allow you to hurt me again." Theresa said as she jumped up and ran out the door.
 

Miguel looked at her, "You OK?" He questioned.
She weakly nodded, "Yeah, listen, there’s a ice cream stand over there, why don’t you take Kenji over their and get her some ice cream. I need a second to get my breath." She told him.
He nodded, "OK, you come over there soon though." He whispered squeezing her hand.
Theresa smiled "I will."
She watched as Miguel walked off with the kids and let out a sigh, remembering the good times with Ethan hurt, but they were still apart of her.
 

Flashback

"Ethan how many kids do you want?" Theresa asked with a huge smile.
"Three or four." He laughed.
Luis shook his head, "Man don’t get her started on kids. " He cautioned.
"I love kids Luis, Besides I’m sure you and Sheridan will have a house full."
Sheridan laughed, "Yeah of course we will."
Luis gave her a funny look, "We will?"
"Yeah I mean at least four."
"I was thinking two." He admitted.
"Kenji need’s lots of brother’s and sister’s to play with." Sheridan reasoned.
"But if Resa and Ethan have four kids she’ll have lots of cousins." He countered.
Theresa giggled, "We’ll all have a house full, I just know it." She said putting her head on Ethan’s shoulder.
"Oh really, so is it FATE?" Luis laughed.
She nodded, "Yeah it is! You’ll see, Fate is totally real its what brought me and Ethan together and you and Sheridan, and it’s on all our sides." She gushed.
"Someone’s been reading to many fairy tales." Luis teased.
Ethan laughed, "Please don’t get her started man, you know she can go on and on, "
Theresa gave Ethan a slight nudge. "Hey you just hush Mister, Fate is real."
Sheridan smiled, "You two stop picking on Theresa, she’s got a point something did bring us together, maybe not Fate but something."
Theresa nodded, "See!" She said smiling her eyes shining bright.
They all laughed together, "Don’t worry Resa, something tells me things are only going to get better." Ethan said kissing her.
 

Theresa rolled her eyes, "Fate? What was I thinking? I was so young and dumb back then. " She muttered.
"Fate isn’t real, Luis was right I did read to many fairy tales." She gripped her fist together and shook her head, "I will not be hurt again. I have the kids to think about, its time to grow up Resa." She whispered to herself as she headed toward Miguel and the kids.