Thank you for the feedback on my story Shan, Sanda and Crazy about SE and JR.
Sanda, you are spot on. Cliff should have listened to his detective.
Crazy about SE and JR, don't worry JR will appear in tonight's update!
Actually tonight's update is probably what some of you have been waiting for...so showtime! *g*
JR was sitting out by the pool enjoying his afternoon drink in peace and quiet when the sound of a car engine disrupted his moment in the sun. Looking over towards the driveway he was surprised to see an unfamiliar car with a California license plate pulling up over by the garage. He was even more surprised to see his little brother getting out of it.
What the hell is he doing home this early? JR raised an eyebrow.
Didn’t he have business to take care of until Friday? JR reflected to himself, as he had a feeling that something wasn’t quite right about his little brother’s early homecoming. Seeing that Bobby wasn’t returning alone just added further to that feeling and JR’s eyes narrowed, as he suspiciously viewed the woman and little girl who also got out of the car and then started to walk up towards the house with Bobby. There was just something familiar about the woman even though he couldn’t quite put his finger on what it was. Then just as the three of them passed by the pool he got a closer look at them and it suddenly hit him like a ton of bricks who that woman was.
Oh no it can’t be! JR stuck the drink in his throat by surprise, as she was probably the last person he’d ever expected to see back at Southfork. He then rubbed his eyes and checked again hoping that he was wrong, but knowing that he wasn’t. The woman really was none other than Pamela Barnes Ewing.
“Bobby! What the hell is that Barnes woman doing here at Southfork?” JR sprung to his feet, as he hurried to approach them. “I thought that we’d seen the last of her once and for all when she abandoned you almost 8 years ago!”
“Well JR, hello to you too,” Bobby greeted his older brother with sarcasm dripping from his voice. “I see you’ve recognized Pam.”
“Yes but what the hell is she doing back here?” JR asked upset. “I thought we’d gotten rid of her for good!”
“Well you thought wrong. So be nice, she has just as much right to be here as anybody else!”
“The hell she doesn’t!”
“Yes she does, Mama left Southfork in my care when she’s away so if I’ll say she’s welcomed for a visit she is. So now where’s Christopher?”
“Oh no! I don’t believe this. You are really something else little brother, bringing that intruder back here, I mean are you even 100 % sure that’s really Pam?” JR was grasping at straws here. “‘Cause that Pam look alike surely had you wrapped around her finger for a while and...”
“Shut it JR! I am in no mood for your games. Sure that Pam look alike was a mistake,” Bobby admitted and Pam raised an eyebrow in surprise, wondering what
that was all about. But before she had a chance to say something Bobby went on, “But this time we’re not dealing with an imposter, she’s really Pam. Besides if this wasn’t Pam why would you then choke on your drink when you first saw her?”
“Okay, okay you’ll win, I know she’s Pam. Still that doesn’t explain who the kid is?”
Bobby smiled, “Oh you mean Rebecca?”
“Rebecca?” JR repeated.
“Yeah she’s Bobby’s and my daughter,” Pam said proudly, as she protectively put her hand on Rebecca’s shoulder.
“Your what?”
“You heard her, she’s our daughter,” Bobby repeated, as he put a protective arm around Pam’s shoulder so that they were standing united as a family before JR.
It was a sight that JR surely didn’t like and his eyes narrowed, as he looked from the kid to Bobby & Pam for a moment before he shook his head, “Like hell she is! I mean like it isn’t bad enough that you bring that despicable Barnes woman back to Southfork with you, now you also take her offspring and on top of that you’re dumb enough to believe that the kid is actually yours!”
“That’s because she
is mine!” Bobby defended Pam in a stern voice, as he threw a glance down at Rebecca.
But JR just snorted, “Of course she is, right Pam?” JR gave Pam a stern look. “Or isn’t that what you want him to believe?” JR questioned Pam but before she even had a chance to answer he went on, “Bob, can’t you see that she’s just trying to fool you?” JR tried to talk some sense into his little brother. “I bet she’s had second thoughts about leaving you and then she came up with a good enough excuse to make you take her back. So wham, she has a kid, and that kid just happens to be yours. Wake up and smell the roses Bobby. It’s all a scam!” JR said provocative.
Pam could feel her blood start to boil with anger. It was funny she hadn’t seen this man in 8 years and all it took was less than five minutes talking to him to piss her off big time, “It’s not,” she insisted. “And look who’s talking?” Pam snapped back. “I mean that sounds very convincing coming from a man who didn’t even know if you were the father of your own son!”
“And why am I not surprised that you’ve come here to cause trouble?” JR argued. “You just had to bring it up even though it’s all ancient history and you know it. It belongs in the past and so do you!”
“Now hold it for a minute JR...”
“No Bob, you’ll stay out of this as you obviously don’t know what’s best for you. I mean that woman disappeared from your life without an explanation 8 years ago and now you just want to forgive and forget?” JR put Bobby on the hot seat.
Bobby frowned as he considered his words, “And what if I do?” He asked. “I mean you don’t know half of what happened...Pam’s been through a lot and...”
“Spare me the sob stories,” JR cut him off before turning to Pam. “And you, I want you right off this ranch. You really have no right to be here after the way you took off. I mean do you even have any idea of the hell you’ve put them through?” JR said angrily. “Little Christopher sitting sad as a puppy dog at the dinner table, wondering why his mama doesn’t love him anymore. Bobby out drinking and fighting at clubs, neglecting his work and...”
“Watch it JR you’re getting out of line here!” Bobby warned JR.
“Okay fine!
You believe her then, but just because you’re blind enough to take her word for that the kid is yours I certainly won’t believe a word
that tramp has to say and...” JR came to a sudden stop, as Bobby broke free from Pam and took a threatening step forward.
“JR this time you’ve gone
too far. No one insults Pam like that and gets away with it...” Bobby rushed towards JR, intending to fight him like so many times before. Only this time JR realized in time what was about to happen and dodged out of Bobby’s way in the last second and Bobby who was unable to stop in time, ran straight into the pool!
“Oh you!” Pam yelled angrily at JR. “You’re a disgusting man this is all
your fault!”
“My fault?” JR shook his head. “Oh no honey, Bobby got himself into this mess. Because you didn’t see me come running after him, he’s damn hot tempered that boy. He always has been and you can’t just expect me to stand around and wait for him to punch the shit out of me!” JR defended himself.
His comments made Pam roll her eyes, “Yeah right, how nice to see that you haven’t changed a bit. No wonder Sue Ellen left you...”
“Hey wait a minute now, you’ll leave Sue Ellen out of this...” JR got upset at the mentioning of his ex-wife who he was still carrying a torch for.
“Fine as long as you’ll leave me and Bobby alone. Because like it or not I am back to stay and Bobby and I won’t have any more of you sending Bobby out on your dirty business trips and we’ve definitely had it with your fighting with everybody that comes in your way...”
“I’m not fighting. Bobby is and as for you...” JR paused a second as he grabbed a hold of Pam’s wrist and delivered the threat. “You have no right to be here! Get the hell out of the state or I’ll find someone who will escort you out!”
“How dare you threatening me?” Pam asked angrily. “Haven’t you learnt anything?” She asked him. “I mean you might have been able to scare off poor Valene but I’m not afraid of you!” Pam told him seriously, as she broke free from his grip. Then she went on in an upset voice, “Besides I’ve got to have the right to see Christopher!”
“Of course you’re little adopted kid! I’m touched you still remember him. Although I don’t think you should see him because you clearly don’t care a damn about him. Because which mother in her sane state of mind would just abandon a 6 year old kid here at Southfork?” JR told Pam in a provocative voice, as he found her weak spot. “No it just proves what I’ve always known. You’re an unfit mother Pamela and the best thing you can do for that boy now is to leave him alone. Let him forget he ever had a mother!” JR twisted the knife in a little bit deeper.
Pam knew that part of what he’d told her was true, as she’d really been feeling guilty about leaving Christopher behind and it hurt to hear him say that. Still JR’s words really pissed her off. So in the next second Pam decided to unleash her anger on JR and before he had a chance to move away, Pam pushed him into the pool. JR fell into the pool with a scream, and a huge splash.
“Way to go mama!” Rebecca laughed delightedly. “He so deserved it. He really is as mean as you’ve been telling me!”
Bobby, who had now gotten out of the pool, dripping wet, smiled, “I see you’ve filled our daughter in all the things she needs to know to live at Southfork already!”
“Well I might have told her a thing or two,” Pam grinned. But then her grin turned into a grimace as she realized that Rebecca was far more talkative than expected. She hadn’t counted on that their daughter would tell Bobby the things she’d told her and that made her nervous,
because what will happen if he finds out about the other things I’ve told her? Pam reflected, as she glanced over at Bobby. It surely felt good to be here with him again and although she knew that she’d never stopped loving him, she just wasn’t ready for the truth to come out just yet.
However she didn’t get that much more time to think it over, as suddenly the porch door opened and a teenage boy and Ray came out from the house. “Dad, what’s happened, we heard a scream and...why are you all wet?” The teenage boy asked Bobby.
In that second Pam realized that this young boy must be her son Christopher. Pam got teary eyed, as she saw her son and her heart poured over with joy and love.
Christopher! My son! My baby and he’s almost all grown up... Pam reflected as the world seemed to stop and she barely even heard what was said around her, as all her attention was suddenly focused on the young boy, her son - the son who she had never expected to see again.
“It’s alright Christopher. JR and I just had a little fight that’s all,” Bobby reassured Christopher, who then looked over towards the pool where JR was just getting out of the pool, also dripping wet.
“Yeah I can see that,” Christopher tried to hide a smile, as his dad and uncle JR both looked ridiculous.
“Anyway never mind that. You see son I have two very important persons with me who I fetched in LA that I’d really like for you to meet...”
“Cool. Who are they?” Christopher asked, as he looked at the woman, who looked strangely familiar and the little girl.
However before his dad had a chance to explain who they were the woman suddenly walked up to him. “Oh Christopher, don’t tell me you don’t recognize me...” she said in a soft voice.
Looking into her teary brown eyes it suddenly hits him like a ton of bricks just why she looked so familiar, “Mom?” Christopher asked in disbelief. “Is it really you?”
“Oh yes it’s really me Christopher and I’m back to stay now!” Pam finally lost it and threw her arms around Christopher, in a long hug, as she couldn’t hold back her longing to hold her son in her arms anymore. She needed to touch him to know that he was really there. Mother and son then embraced for a while, as they were both fighting with their own emotions because it surely wasn’t easy to be reunited after spending almost 8 years apart.
“Oh Mom,” Christopher said emotionally, as he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, since for so many years he’d been without a mom. During the first weeks he’d cried himself to sleep, he’d been confused and hurt as to why she’d left them and yet he’d kept thinking that she would return to them. Then as time passed by he’d slowly come to terms with her leaving and after two years he’d known that she wasn’t coming back to them and he’d started taking a liking to April, who had become his step-mom. But then she’d been murdered and he’d started hoping against hope that somehow his real mom would hear about it and realize how much they still needed her and come back. But she hadn’t and still a part of him couldn’t help but wishing for it and now the moment that he’d wished for was finally here. His dad didn’t know it, but at almost every one of his birthday parties when he blew out the candles he’d wished for his mama to return to him and now when she finally had it felt unreal. More than that he didn’t know quite what to feel as his emotions was all over the place and he was confused, hurt, angry and happy all at once. Christopher felt like he was on the verge of tears. But since he was a big boy now and surely didn’t want others to see him cry he just tried his best to swallow down the lump in his throat.
“Yeah…I’m here and I won’t ever leave you again,” Pam promised, before she finally broke the hug. “Now let me look at you,” she said emotionally, as she took a good look at her son. His hair was a little darker than she remembered, but his blue eyes were the same and he was still a little shorter than her, but not by much. “Wow! You’re really grown when I’ve been away. You’re quite the young man now!”
“Well I’ll be 14 in August,” Christopher smiled, before he realized how stupid that had sounded. “But I guess you already knew that...”
“Yeah of course I do. I’ve never forgotten about your birthday. It used to be the hardest day of the year for me, as I’d always be wondering what you were doing and...”
“Mom, is this my big brother that you’ve been telling me about?” A little girl’s voice suddenly interrupted the bittersweet reunion between mother and son.
Hearing the girl call Pam mom too, just about broke Christopher’s heart, as this just proved to him that he’d been right all along.
Mom really left me because I’m adopted and now she has another real kid that she must love more than me! A part of him knew it was a childish thought and yet he couldn’t help but feeling that way.
“Oh yes he sure is...” Pam turned her attention to the little girl. “And I’m sorry Rebecca I completely forgot to introduce you,” Pam then glanced from her daughter to her son. “Rebecca this is your big brother Christopher and Christopher this is your little sister Rebecca,” Pam said happily, as she was delighted to have her two children meet at last.
Rebecca too was delighted to finally meet her big brother and she hurried to take Christopher’s hand, “Hi Christopher. I’m your sister Rebecca and I’m seven years old!”
Christopher however said nothing. Instead he tried his best to ignore her, as this was all just getting a bit too much for him.
“Oh I’ll be damned. I could never imagine that Pam had a daughter,” Ray finally spoke up.
“Well it’s nice to see you too Ray,” Pam smiled, at the man who used to be her boyfriend a good twenty years ago.
“Yeah I know. I never could have imagined we’d have Rebecca either but...” Bobby started saying but was interrupted by Ray.
“We?”
“Yeah Rebecca’s my daughter too,” Bobby explained.
This piece of news was finally too much for Christopher to handle and he hurried to turn around and run back into the house, obviously in the need of being alone some, to sort out his conflicting emotions.
The others barely even noticed that he left though, as JR was getting back into the game, “Oh you’re so gullible, little brother. I mean how can anyone be so foolish that you fall for that old trick?”
“JR don’t start with me again, I mean it, I’ve had enough of your crap,” Bobby said warningly. “Besides I’m not the first one in this house to have a kid pop up. Because I don’t remember seeing you doubting Vanessa when James showed up...”
“No but that was different and...” JR tried to protest.
“Right it was,” Ray shook his head amused at how the time seemed to have stood still here at Southfork, as today everything was really just the way it used to be back in the 80s.
Well you can say one thing about Southfork, it sure ain’t getting boring around here!
The brothers could probably have kept on arguing for a good long while if Pam hadn’t weighed in, “Bobby where’s Christopher?”
Bobby looked around and noticed that his son was no longer outdoors he made a mental note to go check on Christopher a bit later. Noticing Pam’s sad eyes looking at him for an explanation he chuckled nervously, “Oh I bet he’s just so excited to have his mom back that he ran off trying to find you a guest room.”
“Maybe,” Pam said unconvinced.
Bobby then put his arms around her saying, “So now why don’t we go indoors and get you and Rebecca installed in one of the guest rooms?”
“Okay,” Pam nodded.
Then just as they were about to go Bobby suddenly turned to JR again and said, “And I don’t expect we’ll be getting any more trouble from you, right?”
“Right, I swear I’ll be good,” JR promised and showed off his shit eating grin. Because Bobby and Pam would surely hear more about this later regardless of what he’d just said.
