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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 23583">Thank you for the feedback. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Sanda, I wanted Afton and little Pamela to stick around the first time I saw the show. I hadn't seen their backstory then but I liked Afton better than Cliff's other girlfriends. I also hate what the Dallas TNT writers did to Cliff. But well this story was written long before then so I can promise you that the Cliff you'll read about here is the same character we recognize from the show. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Honkytonkangel, I'm glad you think we nailed JR's reaction to Pamela coming back! lolI agree that Cliff and Afton deserves each other. You'll find out more about how Christopher is feeling in the next update. Time for a father-son talk. It was just before dinnertime when Bobby finally got a chance to check on his son. Popping in his head through Christopher’s door he found his son sitting alone in the dark, staring ahead of him, cradling something in his arms. Stepping a bit closer he noticed that it was the teddy bear Pam gave to Christopher when he was little. Bobby frowned as that bear spoke louder than words. Ah so he kept it after all, Bobby reflected to himself, as he’d been half convinced that Christopher had thrown in out after Pam had divorced them the second time.“Hey pal, think we can have a little talk?” Bobby asked carefully, as he sat down on Christopher’s bedside.“About what?”“You know what,” Bobby gave him a look. The silence lingered between father and son for a moment before Christopher finally started to open up to his father, “Why did she have to come back?” Christopher asked. “I mean we were doing fine on our own…”“So you’re not happy that your mom’s back huh?” Bobby said, as he looked from the bear to Christopher. “You know could have fooled me…” Bobby stole the bear from Christopher.“Hey what are you doing?” Christopher asked. “That’s the bear that…”“Your mom gave you when you were little, I know son,” Bobby finished Christopher’s sentence.“Yeah,” Christopher admitted, before he took the bear back from Bobby.“I’m surprised you’d kept it, I thought you had thrown it out years ago…”“Well it’s not something that’s so easy to throw away you know?” Christopher looked at Bobby with sad eyes. “Since if she’d come back she’d be wondering and…”“Ah so you’ve always wanted her to come back, haven’t you?” Bobby wondered and Christopher nodded, as he tried to hold back his tears. “And now when she’s back it’s not like you imagined it to be?” Bobby saw right through his son.“No it’s not…I mean I used to wish so badly for mom to return but that was before I knew about her…”“So it’s Rebecca who’s really bothering you…” Bobby sighed.“Yeah I never expected her to have other kids…”“Neither did I to be honest…I mean we talked about giving you a sibling but then there was the car crash and…” Bobby’s voice trailed off, as he noticed that his son was crying now. “I guess this is all kinda tough on you son, aren’t it?” Bobby put a comforting hand on his son’s shoulder.“It really is,” Christopher sighed. “I know that I should be happy to have a sister, but I just can’t help but feeling like…mom replaced me with her…” Christopher finally let it all out.“Oh son…don’t!” Bobby said emotionally. “Don’t you even think that, because it’s not true. Your mother might have had Rebecca all this time but that doesn’t mean that she hasn’t missed you. Because I’m sure she has.”“Well if she missed me so much, why didn’t she call me?”“Good question and I wish I had a good answer. But I don’t…in fact I think she’s the one you should be asking all these questions not I.”“Oh yeah because she’s so easy to talk to,” Christopher said angrily. “I mean she left us and then she just waltz in here like nothing’s changed and dumps a sister on me!”“Hey that’s not really how it is…” Bobby tried to defend Pam before realizing that their son was right. “Or maybe that’s exactly how it is,” Bobby sighed, as he tried to collect his thoughts. “Okay so I know this isn’t easy on you. You obviously have a lot of questions that needs to be answered. Hell I still have a lot of things that I need to work out with your mom, as we can’t really pick up right where we left off. So I’m not saying that it will be easy but then again most things worthwhile ain’t…I’m just saying that now when she’s back it would be a shame if we let her leave without even trying to sort things out, don’t you think?”“I guess,” Christopher nodded.“Good. I know that you’re pissed with her for leaving us and I was pissed with her too.”“But you’re not pissed anymore?”“Not really. I think I understand why she left now.”“Oh and why did she leave?” Christopher asked. “Was it because of me?”“No Christopher. It wasn’t because of you. I can’t explain it as good as she can. But I can tell you this and that is that your mother didn’t leave because you were adopted, or because she stopped loving you. She left because she got sick…”“I know that but she’s not still sick is she?” Christopher’s eyes widened with fear.“No she’s not,” Bobby replied truthfully. “But she’s had a long way to go before she got well again and now when she is…”“She’s come back to us,” Christopher finished his father’s sentence.“Something like that yeah. So are you still upset with her for coming back?”“No, I’m upset with her for leaving. I mean she said she loved me and yet she left so who is to say she won’t do that again?”“Well I can’t tell you what’s gonna happen, since obviously your mom and Rebecca have a life in Los Angeles…”“That’s where she’s been all these years?”“Yeah,” Bobby nodded. “So I don’t know what’s gonna happen now, as they live there, while you and I have our lives here. But I do know that you kids deserves to have both of your parents and your mother and I would be damned if we can’t work out some sort of arrangement.”“So now I have to share you with Rebecca?” Christopher was none too thrilled with the idea.“I think so yeah, but it works both ways as now she has to share your mom with you,” Bobby reminded him.“I guess so…” Christopher thought it over for a moment before he smiled. “But I still think she’s got the better deal.”“Thanks son and you know even if Rebecca will be a part of my life from now on it doesn’t mean that I’ll love you any less. Since you’re my son and nothing and no one can ever change that…I want you to always remember that.”“Thanks dad. I do love you,” Christopher replied, as he threw his arms around his father in a big hug. “And I love you,” Bobby replied, glad that they’d gotten this out in the open, “so now what do you say about some dinner?” Bobby suggested. “Since I don’t know about you but I’m starving…”“Dinner’s good,” Christopher smiled and father and son left the room together, talking and joking, as they left all the memories from the past behind, for the moment at least…</blockquote>

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