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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 26259">So today it's four years since Larry passed away. When my sister and I began writing this story he, BBG and Howard Keel were still with us. After each of their passing we've found it momentarily difficult to write for their characters and yet we've somehow found a way to go on writing. Today I find it oddly comforting that even after the actors are long gone their Dallas characters can still live on in our hearts and stories and imagination. Writing new scenes for them almost makes it feel like they are still here.  Just a little sidenote before I'll post today's update and yes it's a JR one... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />The same afternoon at the Ewing Oil building in Dallas, JR was sitting behind his desk. He was tied up on the phone with an oil executive in California and he was receiving some disturbing news. Listening to what the other man had to tell him JR frowned before he said, “I see, thank you for explaining. Yeah it is too bad. But at least now we know, thank you, you too, bye!” JR looked angry when he hung up the phone. Then he buzzed his secretary, “Sly?”“Yes JR?”“Ask Phyllis to send Bobby in here, ok?”“Sure JR,” Sly agreed.JR then went back to studying some papers on his desk until the door opened and Bobby walked into his office. “JR, you wanted to see me?”“Yes, Bobby I just had a phone call from Mr. Johnson at Pedro Group in California, what were you thinking blowing off that meeting?” Bobby sighed as he had been dreading this conversation, “JR I’ve already told you I met Pam!”“I see,” JR’s eyes narrowed. “So do you know that your rendezvous with that woman just cost us their company?”“No,” Bobby sighed. “I’m sorry to hear that.”“Yeah they couldn’t wait so they sold the company to someone else!”“Well I figured they might but you got to understand that Pam’s more important than…”“Save it, we both know what I think about that woman. She’s no good for you.”“Look JR I am just as sorry as you are that we lost that company but that’s no…”“Never mind its water under the bridges,” JR interrupted Bobby.“Then why did you call me in here?”“Because I wanted to talk to you about something,” JR motioned at Bobby to have a seat in one of the chair on the other side of his desk. Bobby reluctantly sat down, “Okay what’s up?”“It’s about Christopher…”Bobby looked surprised, “Christopher?”“Yes, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the poor thing has been miserable ever since his mother and that child of hers arrived here…”Bobby sighed, “I know but that’s just because he’s having a hard time to adapt to having to share me with his sister…” “And you’re blind little brother,” JR said. “It goes way deeper than that. He doesn’t trust his mother after she left him and quite frankly who can blame him?” JR paused for a moment giving his brother time to take in what he had just said before he went on, “Hell I’m surprised that you trust that woman after everything she’s put you through…”Bobby looked annoyed as he said, “And your point being?” “The child,” JR spelled it out for him. “How can you be so sure she really is your daughter?”“Cut it out JR, Pam told me she is my daughter and she has no reason to lie about something like that…”“Oh really?” JR questioned, “Because if you ask me, she has plenty of reason to do exactly that. I mean the woman disappears for eight years and then realizes she’s made a mistake. So what better way to weasel her way back into your life again than to use the child?”Bobby stood up, “Stop it JR, I won’t listen to this…” he made a motion to walk away.But JR stopped him, “Well I don’t want to be the one to tell you this. But I’m doing it because you’re my brother and I love you and someone’s got to watch out for you. I just don’t want to see you and Christopher get hurt again…”“I appreciate that,” Bobby said. “But I've had enough of your ways.""What's that supposed to mean?""It means that I know you JR and soon you're gonna tell me that you’re only doing what’s best for me…”“No I won’t,” JR shook his head. “I’m just saying that if I were you I’d want some kind of proof of paternity, because lord knows you can never take a woman’s word for anything these days. Hell do you remember when John Ross first was born?” JR asked. “I wouldn’t even touch my own son since I wasn’t sure he was really mine…”“I remember,” Bobby sighed. “That paternity test sure gave you peace of mind, huh?”“It sure did, and that’s what I want for you too,” JR explained.“Well I don’t need it, since it’s different with me and Pam, unlike you and Sue Ellen we never cheated on each other…”“Well if you’ll say so, still it can’t hurt to ask for some proof. I mean if the child’s really yours Pam won’t mind sharing her birth certificate now, would she?”Bobby closed his eyes, as JR had hit a nerve. “Well maybe she wouldn’t but that quite frankly is none of your business…”“Well that’s where you’re wrong baby brother. Because when your personal life makes Ewing Oil bleed it is my business!” JR disagreed.  “Now why don’t you pull yourself together and do whatever it takes to sort out your personal life before it cost us any more deals, okay?”“JR you’re unbelievable…” Bobby snorted. “Here you had me half convinced that you actually care about Christopher and me, but when it comes right down to it, all you care about is this precious company!”“Nope that’s where you’re wrong little brother. I do care about you and well this isn’t just any company. It’s the company our daddy built and the company our sons will take over some day and I don’t know about you but I sure as hell want to leave my boy one hell of a legacy.”“Well don’t you think I want that too?”“Good then we’re on the same page about this,” JR put his hand around Bobby’s shoulder and grinned. “Now let’s work together to make Ewing Oil even bigger than it was before…” JR gave Bobby’s shoulder a little pat. “I was thinking maybe we don’t have to go all the way out to California for our next business venture. There’s still a lot of little oil companies left here in Texas for us to buy out it’s just a matter of finding out where and…” JR went on talking business and listening to him Bobby could feel his anger fade away. Because even though some of JR’s methods were questionable he knew that when it came to the company, JR was ready to do whatever it took to succeed and that made him a pretty darn good business partner to have...</blockquote>

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