Who You Really Are Chpt 17
by lilbugg
 

Gwen began shaking as she watched Theresa holding Ethan's waist in her vice like grip. Ethan's face was a picture of shock. He looked from Gwen to Theresa, a look of horror in his eyes. He didn't know what to say. Gwen slowly backed towards the door.
"I'll leave you two alone to talk," she said quietly as she left the room. Ethan's eyes pleaded with her to stay, but she needed to get out of there. She had to Give Ethan the chance to prove himself alone with Theresa and knowing he had another child.
Ethan tried unsuccessfully to pry Theresa off of him. She was babbling like crazy.
"Ethan! This means we can be together and we can have everything we ever dreamed! We love each other and our baby so much! You never have to see Gwen again once the divorce is final! You love me! I had your first baby!"
Ethan finally wrenched himself from her grasp.
"This changed nothing Theresa."
"What are you saying? This changes everything. This is the way it is supposed to be."
"No it isn't Theresa. There was never a 'supposed to be' with us." If there had been, you wouldn't have had to lie straight to my face in order to keep me around. I was a fool to even think I loved you, because it was never you. What you showed me was a lie, inside and out. I now know who you really are and I don't love you one bit."
Theresa shook her head. "You are trying to talk yourself out of your feelings because you are afriad Gwen will get sick again if you leave her. She'll be fine, Ethan. She has her mother she can lean on. Heaven knows Rebecca's heavy enough to be able to supposrt the extra weight. Our son and our marriage are the only thing that matters. It's all we need. You and I can live forever with our love."
"Theresa I don't love you! Why won't you understand that! I am not leaving Gwen or my daughter. I am filing for sole custody of Ethan Martin as well. Maybe then you'll get it through your thick skull that things are over between us forever."
"No they aren't Ethan, they've just started. We can have the life we've always dreamed of! We can live together with lil Ethan in that beautiful house you found and have lots of babies. You are a wonderful father! Our love is endless! Just us and our children."
"What about Andrea?"
"We will have other daughters. You will forget about her."
Ethan felt his face grow hot. He could not believe Theresa. There had to be some way to get through to her. Some way to make her see he was done with her. He just didn't know how. She turned all of his words around to help her argument. She only heard what she wanted to hear. And now that they shared a child, she was going to use every excuse to be near him all the time. He took her arms in his hands and looked her straight in the eye, trying hard to control his rage.
"I will never forget about my daughter, Theresa, nor will any child ever replace her. She and my wife are my life. I will never leave them for anything, especially for you. You have shown me time and time again that you are not to be trusted. You are a dangert to yourself and to those around you. I will fight to gain custody of Ethan Martin because I feel you are an unfit mother and that Lil Ethan will be in danger under your care. Gwen has shown to be a better caregiver to him since day one."
Theresa's eyes narrowed.
"Gwen knows nothing. She can't be near our son anymore, I won't allow it! Lil Ethan is the most important thing to me."
"Most important thing? You see him as a possession. Now that you have found out that he is my son, he means something to you again. He didn't mean a thing to you until then."
"That's not true, Ethan. He has always meant something to me."
"Yeah, a way of holding me to you. And unfortunately it worked for a long time. It will never work again."
"Well then you won't see him until you leave Gwen and come back to me," Theresa said, tearing out of his grasp and heading for Lil Ethan's bedroom door. Just then Alistair walked in.
"Stop right there, Theresa! That child is not going anywhere!"
"Then neither am I! I will not leave mine and Ethan's son here without me!"
Alistair glared at her, then shrugged his shoulders.
"Whatever you say Theresa. You can stay here until the custody battle is decided. But I'm warning you, you have a lot of enemies that are more than happy to speak out about how unfit of a mother you are."
Theresa glared back.
"No jury in the world would take a child away from his mother."
We'll just see about that, won't we Theresa?" Alistair said, as he left the room.
Theresa turned back to Ethan with a smile on her face. "Isn't it wonderful Ethan! We're living together under the same roof again with our son. Just like we will be forever."
Ethan stared at her in disbelief.
"Get out of here right now Theresa. The only time I want to see you is in the courtroom."
"But Ethan..."
"Out! Now!" Ethan yelled and Theresa walked quickly from the room. She smiled to herself as she skipped down the hallway. Ethan would be hers again. It was only a matter of time.
 

Gwen sat at the table, trying unsuccessfully to drink a glass of water. Her hands were shaking too badly for it to be working. Fox walked through the door and saw Gwen sitting there.
"It seems we always meet in the same place, huh Gwen?" he said smiling, but his smile quickly faded when he saw the look on Gwen's face. "What happened?"
"Theresa just burst into our room and announced that Lil Ethan is Ethan's son."
Fox drew his breath in quickly. "So what now?"
"I don't know. I left Ethan and Theresa to talk about it."
"You left those two alone together?" Fox asked in shock.
"I have to know if Ethan has any feeling for Theresa still. I will know depending on what happens from here on out."
"No offense to my brother, but he was easily turned by her young face before, what makes you think this is any different?"
"That's what I have to find out. Plus, I can't bear to lose Lil Ethan. I love him like he was my own son."
"You're in a tough spot Gwen. You have a lot of trust in Ethan for leaving him alone with her."
"I hope he shows me that things are trully over between him and Theresa. DO you think it is?"
Just then, Theresa walked down the stairs, turned and glared at Gwen and Fox, then stormed out teh door.
Fox turned with a smile to Gwen. "I think you just got your answer."