Thank you everyone for the feedback and ratings.
@CeeCee72 yes Bobby and Ann are sort of in the same boat since they both still have feelings for their ex. But what they do about it differs.
@superman fan thank you for weighing in. So I take it you don't want Bobby to be with Pam then?
I agree with you that Bobby has been a better husband to Ann than Harris was. So I can see why you like them more together. Yet it was established in the final season of Dallas TNT that Harris still had feelings for Ann. So I am just building on that.
Okay so I think some of you have been waiting for tonight's update...
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Bobby had been out driving around for hours, trying to make some sense of what he’d just learnt about Harris Ryland’s involvement in Pam’s accident. But no matter how hard he tried he just couldn’t find a way to solve the puzzle. He had always assumed that his wife’s accident had been just that, an accident. But to find out that it had all been planned by someone else was enough to make his head hurt. His heart was aching really badly too when he thought of all the wasted years he could have been married to Pam but that someone had deliberately stolen from them. After driving around for hours he finally found himself outside of the house where Pam was staying. He hesitated for a moment as it was already quite late and he didn’t want to disturb her if she’d already gone to bed. But knowing that she had the right to know what they had just found out he decided to go see her anyway.
So he got out of the car and walked up to the door, ringing the doorbell. As he was waiting for someone to open the door he silently prayed for it to be Pam that answered the door, as he had no time for Afton or Josephine. Luckily his prayers were answers as it was Pam, who opened the door. She was dressed in a blue nightgown with a matching robe, as she had already changed for bed. “Bobby!” She exclaimed in a surprised voice, as she hadn’t expected it to be him. She had thought that it was her daughter who had locked herself out. Not for it to be her former husband. “What are you doing here this late?” She asked in an alarmed tone of voice, as this visitor was making her feel worried. “Has something happened to Christopher?”
“No, Christopher’s fine,” Bobby hurried to reassure her, as he hated for her to worry about their son.
“Then what on earth are you doing here?”
“I came to see you,” he simply said. “See Christopher and I found out something today that I think you should know about. But it’s not the kind of thing that you can talk about over the phone.”
“I see,” Pam nodded.
“So can I come in?” He asked her. “I think we could both use that nightcap now.”
“Sure,” Pam said and took a step back letting him into the house. She then closed the front door behind him and made sure to lock it. They then walked into the living room in silence before Pam walked over to the liquor cabinet, “Brandy, okay?”
“Sure brandy’s fine,” Bobby said before he sat down in the sofa and Pam poured up their drinks and walked up to him, handing him one of the glasses.
She then sat down next to him on the sofa, crossing her legs and turning her body in his direction, as she was leaning her head against one of her hands, “So what was it you wanted to talk to me about?”
“Um...” Bobby looked down, as he found it hard to tell her this. He knew that what he was about to tell her would hurt her and he didn’t want to see the light in her eyes dim when she found out the truth about her accident. So he took a sip from his drink, gathering up his strength, “It’s about your accident.”
“My accident?” Pam looked surprised at him, before a thought occurred to her, “Oh My God, don’t tell me that Katherine’s still alive!”
“What?” Bobby looked shocked. “No, I thought she was dead. Isn’t she?”
“I think so,” Pam said. “But they never found her body so technically...”
“Oh just great,” Bobby sighed, as the news that Katherine Wentworth might still be alive did nothing to make him feel better about things. So he took another sip of his drink to steady his nerves.
“But if it’s not about Katherine then what is it?”
“It’s about your car crash,” Bobby clarified for her.
“Oh,” Pam bit her lip, “and here I thought it was about the boating accident when I got amnesia.”
“Well it’s not,” Bobby said and Pam took a sip from her drink before putting the glass away on the table.
“Okay so what about my car crash?”
“I don’t quite know how to tell you this but...” Bobby sighed heavily, as he also put his glass away on the coffee table. “Christopher asked a guy we know to look into your accident and well today we found out that Ryland’s Transportation was behind it.”
“I don’t understand,” Pam looked confused at Bobby.
“It wasn’t an accident Pam,” Bobby elaborated. “That truck drove out in front of you on purpose.”
Pam felt positively nauseous when she heard that, as all the memories from that horrible car crash came flooding back to her. The fear for her life, the loud explosion and the burns all over her body. She had been so sure that she was going to die and her last thought before she’d lost consciousness had been that of her son and her husband. It had been the worst moment of her life. So to hear that someone deliberately had caused her that kind of pain was more than she could handle. The tears welled up in her brown eyes, and she said in an unsteady voice, “But why would anyone do that?”
“I don’t know,” Bobby said tormented, as it pained him to see her this upset. So he reached out for her, pulling her into his arms to comfort her and she let him. “I’m sorry Pam. I was just as shocked to hear about this as you are.”
She relaxed in his arms for a moment, sobbing against his chest. “Oh Bobby it was so horrible. I thought I was going to die when that truck drove out in front of me,” Pam confided in him. “So to know that someone actually did that on purpose...” Pam’s voice faltered. “I mean someone tried to kill me!”
“You don’t know that,” he denied it.
“Yes I do and you know what this means?” She said in an upset voice as she pulled back from him, sitting up again, “It means that I can’t stay in Dallas after all. I mean if that lunatic is still out there...”
“He’s not,” Bobby said, looking straight into her eyes. “It’s been almost 30 years so whoever was behind that accident is probably dead by now. Besides you’ve been here for weeks already so if someone was really out to get you they would have tried already.”
“Maybe you’re right,” Pam said, drying the tears from her cheeks, “I have been here for weeks so I guess I’m safe here. But it’s still scary to know that someone tried to kill me.”
“Well maybe it wasn’t like that,” Bobby said. “Maybe they were just supposed to scare you.”
“But why would they wanna do that?”
“I don’t know,” Bobby sighed. “All I know is that Harris Ryland is responsible for the accident that took you away from me.”
Pam’s eyes went wide when she heard that, as realization dawned on her, “You know him?”
“Well I do now but I didn’t back then,” Bobby sighed before he leveled with her. “He’s Ann’s ex-husband.”
“I see,” Pam nodded, as she digested that piece of information. “So why would this Harris Ryland wanna hurt me?”
“That’s what I can’t figure out either. My guess is that he was paid by someone to do so.”
“You think Katherine was behind it?”
“Bum insists that she wasn’t,” Bobby said. “What do you think?”
“Katherine always insisted she had nothing to do with my crash,” Pam said. “So I’m inclined to believe her.”
“Well maybe Ryland can remember who it was that hired him,” Bobby said. “I will make sure to talk to him when he gets back to see if I can get it out of him.”
“When he gets back?”
“Harris Ryland is in Switzerland right now,” Bobby informed Pam. Then he shifted uncomfortably before adding after a beat. “With Ann.”
“I’m sorry,” Pam said, as she gently reached out her hand and took his into her own.
“Don’t be,” he said. “Our marriage has been on the rocks for quite some time now.”
“I see,” she nodded, as she took that in. “But aren’t you upset that she’s having an affair?”
“I’m pissed,” he said. “But with the way things are going I’m hardly surprised. We are having problems and Harris is a part of that and so are you.”
“Me?”
“Yes Ann is convinced that I’m not over you.”
“Oh,” Pam looked down. “So are you?”
“Not really,” Bobby sighed. “I mean we never got a chance to say goodbye.”
“And that’s all there is to it?”
“No.”
“Good because I still love you Bobby,” she finally told him.
“Pam don’t...”
“I’m sorry Bobby, I know it’s not fair to say that to you, but it’s the truth and I can’t help the way I feel. I’ve tried hating you for what you did to Cliff. But I just couldn’t. I love you Bobby. I always have and I always will.”
“I love you too Pam,” he finally confessed and seeing the love in her eyes, looking at him with hope, he had to close his eyes. “But...”
“I know and I don’t care,” Pam said and he opened his eyes again to look at her, “We’ve lost too many years that we could have been together as it is.”
“We really have,” he agreed. “I wish things could have been different for us.”
“So do I,” Pam nodded. “But we can’t change the past. We can only carpe diem and you are here now.”
“Yeah,” he said huskily before he leant forward and kissed her. The kiss felt so familiar and it unleashed all the longing and passion that had been bottled up inside of them for so long. So they wrapped their arms around each other and then they did something that he had wanted to do ever since that fateful day when he’d heard that his wife had been in an accident. They made love and it was bittersweet, tender, passionate and so emotional that it brought them to tears. She might not be his wife anymore in the eyes of the law but when they were together it felt like nothing had changed between them. They still loved each other and in their hearts they both knew that they still belonged together.
but I don't like Harris and Ann she needs to be with Bobby ! But I'm sure digging the story all the same!
