Dallas in the 90's

[Toni]

Thank you for the feedback Sanda. Also you're in luck the next update is also about Bobby & Pam so you'll find out more now...


Bobby just couldn’t believe his ears. In all their years together he and Pam had always dreamt of having another child and yet hearing her say it now he felt like the air had suddenly been punched out of his lungs and a sense of disbelief came over him, “She’s my...what?” Bobby asked. Because this just can’t be true, there’s just no way in hell that she’d said what I thought she said, Bobby reflected, as it got quiet between them.

Yet when she finally spoke she just said the same thing all over again. “Your daughter...” Pam repeated, more calmly this time. “Rebecca is our daughter Bobby...”

“Our daughter?” Bobby asked in disbelief. “I’m sorry I know I said that I’d understand but I really don’t...” Bobby shook his head. “I mean how can she be my daughter?”

“I know it might be hard to take in. But it’s true,” Pam insisted. “I hope you don’t mind that I named her after my mama...” Pam said with a sad smile.

“Of course not that’s what we always wanted to name our little girl,” Bobby said emotionally. “Still what I don’t get is how she can be my daughter when you’ve obviously adopted her after we got divorced and...”

“No,” Pam shook her head.

“You adopted her before you filed for a divorce?” Bobby asked. “But that doesn’t make any sense...I mean if you were really that sick, how could anyone let you adopt a little girl?”

“Bobby please listen to me,” Pam pleaded. “I know you’re probably gonna have a hard time believing this, but Rebecca’s not adopted...”

Bobby’s eyes went wide in surprise, “You mean that…”

“Yes I did give birth to Rebecca,” Pam confirmed, what he couldn’t put into words.

“But Pam, how can that be?” Bobby asked confused. “I mean...you’ve never been able to carry a baby to term before and how can she be mine?” Bobby’s mind was working overtime as he was trying to make sense of it. “I mean with the accident and everything I...”

“I know it’s hard to believe and I couldn’t believe it myself at first...but I guess it finally happened and given the circumstances of her birth I guess it’s not wrong to call her a miracle baby...” Pam said with tears in her eyes.

“I’d say so,” Bobby shook his head in disbelief. “But are you sure she’s really mine?” Bobby asked again. “I mean with the accident and your disappearance I really have a hard time seeing how...”

“Please Bobby you’ve just got to trust me on this,” Pam pleaded with him. “She’s your daughter all right. I guess it must have happened that final morning we spent together before the crash. Given how badly burnt I was it’s a wonder I didn’t miscarry her right then and there. But I guess that given the fact that she was just about being conceived at the time she somehow made it through,” Pam said and seeing how Bobby’s eyes were so full with emotions Pam could feel her own emotions running wild too. “Of course I didn’t know about her at first. I was too busy trying to recover to even notice a change. I even thought that the missing period was due to the accident. It wasn’t until they finally took off the bandages that I found out that I was four months pregnant...”

Bobby looked surprised, “I still don’t get it, you left us because you were pregnant?”

“Yes,” Pam nodded.

“But that doesn’t make any sense...that if anything should just have been another reason for you to stay...”

“No I couldn’t stay...don’t you see, if I’d stayed you’d just talked me into having an abortion and...”

“What an abortion?” Disbelief shone in his eyes. “Are you crazy?” Bobby asked. “After all we’ve been through to have a baby of our own. How could you even think that I would ever ask you that?”

“Because the doctors told me that it was either the baby’s life or mine,” Pam revealed.

“Oh Pam no…” Bobby whispered emotionally, as the pieces started to fit.

“They couldn’t be certain of course. There was a small chance we’d both live,” Pam said with tears in her eyes. “But even if I did decide to have the baby they couldn’t guarantee that I would make it long enough for it to survive...”

“You mean that you risked your own life to have this baby?”

“Yes and I knew you’d never let me do that so...”

“That’s why you left,” Bobby finished her sentence, as it finally made sense now.

“Yes so now you’ll see why I had to leave?”

“No, I mean yes, but no you shouldn’t have,” Bobby said. “I mean I know we’ve always wanted another child but…if those were the options, no I wouldn’t have let you go through with it. As no baby would be worth your life...” Bobby said emotionally. “I mean what were you thinking Pam?”

“I don’t know,” Pam said emotionally. “I just knew that I was pregnant, against all odds and with the new expertise chances were that I could make it if I stayed hospitalized during my entire pregnancy. So I had to leave both for the baby’s sake and mine...”

“Wait a minute...are you telling me that all the things you wrote about how you were ashamed about the way you looked and that you left us for our own good was just lies to cover up the real reason you left?”

“Well the part about my looks was, as mind you, I might have cared about my looks a great deal, but I’m not that vain.”

“That’s what I thought...”

“The part about leaving you for your own good wasn’t a lie though. Because I didn’t want to give up this baby, which you would have made me and even if you hadn’t I didn’t want to burden you with my pregnancy and the constant fear of losing our baby or me or maybe even both. So I figured that the best thing I could do was to leave you,” Pam cried. “Then maybe one day, if I against all odds survived I could return with our baby and well you might yell at me at first and tell me I was crazy. But I was certain that once you’ve got to see that little baby you’d forgive me...”

“So why didn’t you?”

“Return?”

“Yes I mean obviously you survived or else you wouldn’t be sitting here now.”

“True, still it wasn’t an easy pregnancy and those doctors surely weren’t kidding when they told me that it might kill me, as it almost did. I mean towards the end of the pregnancy I was so weak that when I was about 7 and a half months along the doctors told me that the only option left was to deliver the baby right now with a caesarian. Or else I would kill both my baby and me.”

“Seven and a half month?” Bobby asked. “But that’s way too premature...”

“It is and I tried to protest, but I was too weak. It was the day before our divorce was finalized and the last thing I remember was going into surgery. The baby was delivered and I slipped into a coma. The next time I woke up it was two months later. The first thing I asked for was our baby and I feared they’d tell me that she hadn’t made it. But she had. She was still in an incubator at the time, and even then, two months later she was about the tiniest baby I’ve ever seen. Even tinier than John Ross and he too was way premature.”

“I remember,” Bobby managed a weak smile. “Still I guess that tells you something about Ewing babies, they just won’t give up that easily...”

“No they won’t...the first time I saw her I was really frighten she’d die and the doctors told me I might be dying too, as I was sick.”

“Sick?”

“Yeah, you’ll see all those burns gave me skin cancer.”

“Oh Pam,” Bobby’s eyes filled with tears. “I wish you would have told me.”

“I wanted to, but I didn’t want to come back just to die away from you. I was still weak from Rebecca’s birth and the doctors couldn’t guarantee that my body could stand the treatment. But I had to have chemo, as it was my only chance. So I began treatment. I still wasn’t out of danger when Cliff came to see me,” Pam cried. “Having to send him away broke my heart, but I really did think that I did it to protect you and Christopher...”

“Maybe so, but I still wish you would have come home then Pam. We would have welcomed you with open arms. Of course it wouldn’t have been easy but neither was your crash and we made it through that and…” Bobby’s voice broke, as he too started to cry.

“I know and I wish I could have come back. But it was just impossible. You’ll see Rebecca was not putting on weight like she should, as I couldn’t breastfeed her. So they didn’t recommend me to move her and I couldn’t leave her. I think that if I had it would have killed us both. So I had to stay,” Pam explained, with the tears rolling down her checks.

“I see, so when could you take her home?”

“Not until a lot later,” Pam replied. “You’ll see our condition was still unstable for the next couple of weeks and then it slowly started to turn. Somehow being close to each other really helped us recover and 11 months after Rebecca’s birth I had finished chemo and we were finally released from the hospital. However as Cliff had come to see me without you I knew that you must have moved on and therefore I knew that I couldn’t just return to Southfork as I had originally planned. Besides while Rebecca was out of danger at this point, I still wasn’t sure that the cancer was gone for good...”

“When did you know for sure?”

“Not until a year later,” Pam replied.

“You should have come back then.”

“Maybe I should. But as you were together with April then I didn’t wanna interfere with your life.”

“Well I appreciate the concern, but really as much as I loved April, I think that if you’d come back then, I still would have been happy to see you,” Bobby revealed.

Pam smiled at that, “Really?”

“Really,” Bobby nodded. “Besides how could you deny me my daughter?” Bobby asked in a hurt voice. “I mean if I hadn’t run into you today would you ever have told me about her then?”

“I don’t know. Maybe it was wrong of me to keep her a secret from you. But if it makes you feel any better I had made arrangements for her to be sent to you in the case of my death...” Pam was unable to go on as she was sobbing so badly now.

Seeing how upset Pam was he couldn’t help but taking her into his arms, “It’s okay. I didn’t mean to be so harsh on you. In fact why don’t you tell me what happened next?”

“Well nothing much happened really. Rebecca and I moved into a house here in Los Angeles. I hired a private nurse to look after us and also a maid and I kept going to regular checkups at the clinic where Rebecca was born and well that’s pretty much been my life during the last couple of years.”

“And Rebecca, she’s um...healthy?” Bobby asked.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean she doesn’t have any disabilities caused by the heavy medications you took during the pregnancy or from being premature?”

“Luckily no,” Pam shook her head before she smiled. “She’s like any other normal 7 year old girl. Or well she might be a bit spoiled rotten of course, but considering that I never thought I’d ever be able to have any biological kids, I guess that’s to be expected...”

“I guess so...” Bobby said thoughtfully. Everything Pam had told him really had been a lot to absorb at once and right now he wasn’t even sure how to feel about it. Should I be happy for suddenly having a daughter? Bobby pondered. Or should I be angry with Pam for making all these decisions without me and keeping my daughter away from me? Then most importantly, even if Pam had no reason to lie to him how could he know she was telling him the truth. What if she’s lying to me? Bobby looked at her suspiciously. Can I really dare to believe in what she’s told me? Bobby wondered. The whole story about Rebecca almost sounds too good to be true. He didn’t get too much time to ponder though, as Pam’s words interrupted his train of thoughts.

“So when do you wanna meet your daughter?” Pam asked. “I mean do you wanna go back to my place now or do you wanna wait until tomorrow?”

“I don’t know...” Bobby said thoughtfully, as he wasn’t sure how much more he could take for one day.

“I see. Not quite the answer I was hoping for but...”

“No I do wanna see her,” Bobby hurried to reassure Pam. “It’s just that don’t you think she’s at school?”

“No, school’s out for the year,” Pam smiled before she threw a glance at her watch, which showed at 3 in the afternoon. “So she should be at home with Nancy, that’s our maid, by now.”

“Okay, well if you say so, I guess seeing her today’s fine,” Bobby said and tried to smile to hide the confusion he still felt inside.

“Great!” Pam said in a relieved voice. “Then we’d better get going.” They got up and Bobby paid the bill with extra tip, as Pam went on. “I’ve got my car parked a couple of blocks from here and oh Bobby just wait until you’ll get to see her, she’s just the most adorable little girl and I just know that you’re gonna love her...” Pam blabbered eagerly, as they left the restaurant together. Both feeling a sense of expectation lingering in the air as they were taking a big step here and walking there next to Pam, knowing that he had a daughter he’d never met, Bobby just knew that their lives were about to change forever...

The original "Dallas" did jump the shark (by umpteenth time) when they made up that awfully lame story of mummy Pam´s running away from her family...Honestly, it´s hard to write about it and make some sense of it, I myself know that. At last, the best possible way out is slowly sweeping it under the rug as you introduce a much better plot for the present time, which is what you have done here, Karin. I especially love Bobby´s final reaction when he doubts about Pam...Was he thinking she was mentally unstable again? Anyway, you make their characterizations through dialogues better and better. I was thinking about the Bobby and Pam from the pre-Who Shot JR Season instead of the awful post-accident Season 10...and that´s a compliment.

:bravo: :10:

 

[Karin]

:thank:everyone for all your feedback. It's very much appreciated.

Ms. Southworth, I'm glad you enjoyed the part where Cliff caught the entertainment news. Also don't feel bad about laughing. I think you and I share the same type of humour. als:

Sanda, I think Mitch falling off the horse is sort of like an "America's funniest home videos" moment. It's funny because nobody got hurt. I guess it's just bad luck for him that the BBC caught it and I bet if Afton had seen Cliff laugh about it she hadn't been impressed. But yeah Cliff will be Cliff and no the stupid fued is still ongoing so there's no love lost between him and JR...

Pammy P, I'm glad you think this is better than the CC version. I take it as a compliment.
Even though if you are a fan of the original Dallas it's not hard to write a better script than Dallas TNT as the shows major flaw was that it didn't stay true to the original. It was too much crime drama and poor characterization which was not what the fans wanted to see.
Of course when we write fanfics we do have the advantage that we are not depending upon if the actors wants to reprise their roles or not but can just write whatever we want. I bet even Dallas TNT would have gotten a whole lot more interesting if VP had returned as Pam. But sadly that never happened.

Honkytonkangel, I agree with you about Cliff. He does act childish at times and so does JR when it comes to the Barnes-Ewing fued. But nah I guess you can't teach old dogs how to sit. But yeah he does manage to screw up well on his own too!
I think he really cared about Pam though. She and Christopher was like his only family for a while. Bobby too but it took him a while to consider him family.
I'm glad you loved the way Miss Ellie handled the movie incident.
Oh don't worry there will be plenty of drama coming...

Shan, thank you. :bh:

Toni, I'm thrilled that you are finally reading some more of my story and that you are enjoying it.
Yes Ray & Jenna are separated in this story. But yeah like you know I am a fan of Jenna/Priscilla. So you can count on that we are doing our best to write good storylines for Jenna too... :danc:
and yeah I'm a fan of April too...but she's dead and is going to remain dead in this story.
Great minds thinks alike since you see the Hiltons were sort of our inspiration when we developed Randy...
Thank you also for the compliment about how we write Bobby & Pam. I'm glad that you are buying the Rebecca plot. I agree with you that original Dallas did leave her storyline in an awful mess and I just couldn't buy the silly letter she wrote to Bobby. Also we wanted them to have a daughter so voila here's Rebecca. :hello:

I´m loving your "sequel" more and more, and I have a question, I don´t know if you have talked about it in this long thread. You said that you wrote it with your sister Jenny. How did you manage to do that, did you split it by characters, episodes or any other way? Or maybe one did the dialogues and the other the third-person text?

Nah this hasn't been addressed before in this thread. But well basically how Jenny and I wrote it originally was that we sat down together with a notebook, a pencil and an eraser and then we wrote, as we took turns holding the pencil. We wrote it down in Swedish originally. But a lot of the time we spoke English as we wrote and whoever was holding the pen translated it to Swedish. What was great about this was that we could take the story with us when we went somewhere and I remember some scenes were written while we were going on camper vacations around Europe or sitting outdoors in the summers.

Then we began translating the story to English. The first translation came already in 1995 and was done by me by hand. Then a couple of years later Jenny began translating the story from episode 9 and onwards by typing it straight into the computer. Then in the mid 2000s I began typing in my old translations from episode 1-8 to the computer too. While typing it into the computer we also make some changes/improvements from the original draft. From approx. 2012 we have started revising all the old episodes together and in 2014 we stopped writing new episodes.

Nowadays when we are making changes to the story we are either writing it together by sitting down in front of a computer each and both typing at the same time. Or we sometimes split it by characters. I tend to write more Bobby/Pam, JR/Sue Ellen while she writes more for Jenna, Charlie and Lucy/Mitch. Anyway the dialogue is the same in our versions but we each have our different writer's style as she writes more in presense while I do imperfect. I also write more descriptions of how the characters feel and focus on thoughts. Whereas she has more focus on actions and what the characters does rather than how they feel. So well the version you get to read is mine. But it's a collaboration all the way. :ch:

That's all for now. An update will be posted in a few days as we are now on a short break between episodes.

 

[Ms Southworth]

Oh no, no daily updates for a few days? ... ... :hair:

 

[Ms Southworth]

Yikes ... it's only been three days, but I'm already experiencing withdrawal symptoms!

Please do something, Karin! :site:Let's get on with episode 3!

 

[Karin]

Thank you for your comments Ms Southworth.
Okay since you asked so nicely I'm gonna start posting episode three now, which is a bit earlier than I had originally intended:


The sun was still shining over Southfork Ranch, when Miss Ellie’s car pulled up on the driveway. Miss Ellie, Clayton, John Ross, Christopher and Rebecca stepped out of the car. Finally we’re home, Miss Ellie reflected, as the afternoon at the multiplex hadn’t turned out like she had expected and now she was eager to get a break from her upset grandkids that were all in a bad mood. The seven year old girl, Rebecca had been complaining all the way home because she did not get to see how Pocahontas ended. The 13 year old, Christopher and 16 year old, John Ross had effectively blocked her out by listening to a CD walkman with a double set of earphones all the way home. Both boys were sour after getting caught sneaking into an R-rated movie and were not looking forward to being punished.


After stepping out of the car Miss Ellie turned to John Ross, Christopher and Rebecca and said, “Okay kids now I want you to wait outdoors while Clayton and I go in and talk to your parents and don’t think you’re getting out of this one that easily!”

“Grandma can I go with you?” Rebecca asked.

“No Rebecca this is an adult conversation. So you’ll stay put,” Miss Ellie insisted, as she and Clayton went indoors.

Rebecca walked up to the edge of the pool where she spotted her favourite doll Lily that was still floating on top of the water in the pool. "Oh no poor Lily’s still in the pool!" Rebecca exclaimed before she turned to her brother and asked, “Christopher, can you pick up my doll from the pool?”

Chris sighed and said cheekily, “Pick it up yourself!”

“No you pick it up. It’s your fault it’s in there anyway,” Rebecca complained.

“No it’s yours, if you hadn’t taken daddy’s tie this would never have happened,” Christopher replied angrily.

“I don’t care about the tie. I just want Lily. She’s scared of water so she must be terrified spending all day in the pool,” Rebecca whined.

“Lily doesn’t have feelings silly, she’s a doll,” Christopher sneered.

“No Lily has feelings. She’s not a doll, she’s my little girl,” Rebecca protested.

“Yeah right now why don’t you shut the f**k up?” John Ross yelled aggressively. “We have more important things to discuss than your doll and we don’t want to hear you whining!”

“What can be more important than rescuing Lily from the pool?” Rebecca asked.

Christopher sneered, “We got caught at the movies, remember?”

“Serves you right trying to sneak into an adult movie! I only wish you’d done it some other day since I couldn’t see the end of Pocahontas because you blew it,” Rebecca said accusingly.

This ticked the boys off as they didn’t want to be told that they were wrong by a seven year old. “I said shut up you spoiled little brat,” John Ross yelled.

“I’m not a brat. Now pick up Lily for me!” Rebecca demanded and her whole attitude seriously got on Christopher and John Ross’ nerves. They were both fed up with her and when their eyes met, they suddenly knew exactly what to do.

John Ross raised an eyebrow at Christopher who nodded. The guys smiled teasingly as they grabbed hold of Rebecca’s arms and John Ross said, “No you’ll pick her up yourself!”

“Yeah we don’t have time for your silly doll,” Christopher said.

“Exactly and you’re not really a Ewing until after you’ve taken a swim in the pool so have a nice swim,” John Ross said.

“No! You can’t throw me into the pool!” Rebecca screamed terrified before she started to cry and fight for her life. But the guys didn’t let her go and despite all her kicking and screaming they managed to throw her into the pool. Rebecca’s small body hit the surface of the pool with a splash as she gesticulated wildly around her.

Christopher and John Ross laughed at her and John Ross said, “Now that ought to teach her not to mess with us!”

“Yeah but where is she?” Christopher frowned as his little sister was still under water. “I mean shouldn’t she have surfaced by now?”

“Oops, looks like she sank,” John Ross said in a shrill voice.

“Maybe she’s just playing with us?” Christopher said hesitatingly.

“I hope so man or we’re gonna be in so much trouble…” John Ross said, when their dads, who had heard all the commotion, came running out of the house.

“What the hell’s going on?” JR yelled.

“Nothing, we just had a little fight with Rebecca that’s all,” John Ross said.

“Where is she?” Bobby asked, as he surveyed the area without seeing his daughter anywhere.

“Oh we just threw her into the pool,” Christopher said casually.

Upon hearing that everyone turned their attention to the pool and when JR spotted the little girls lifeless body laying at the bottom of the pool he could feel his blood chill. Sure he had wanted to get rid of the girl and her Mama but not like this.

“Oh my God what have you done?” JR yelled, as an image of another lifeless body in the pool flashed before his eyes. Just like Kristin, JR closed his eyes as the memories of that awful night when he’d found his sister in laws lifeless body in the pool, almost 13 years ago, came back to haunt him.

Meanwhile Bobby just stood there for a split second as he was paralyzed with fear. Oh My God! What if she dies? Bobby felt like his heart was about to break when he realized that he might lose his daughter. Then after an agonizing moment he sprung into action. “NO! REBECCA!” Bobby yelled, as he ran up to the pool and dove into it with his clothes and boots still on him. He easily reached the little girl and pulled her up to the surface.

Seeing that Rebecca’s face had started to turn blue scared the shit out of Christopher and John Ross, who exclaimed, “Shit! That doesn’t look good!”

“No it doesn’t. Somebody better get Mitch,” JR commented, before he turned back to his brother just as Bobby pulled Rebecca out of the pool and with trembling hands he turned her over so that the water came out of her mouth, leaving her airways free. But it didn’t help. “Will she be okay, Bob?” JR asked worriedly.

“I don’t know. She’s not breathing,” Bobby replied as he tried his best not to panic.

His words made Christopher break down in tears as he realized the seriousness of the situation, Oh My God I killed my little sister!

“Shit!” JR cursed, before he ran off to get Mitch.

Christopher then started rambling hysterically, “I’m so sorry dad! We didn’t mean to kill her. I’m so sorry dad, we didn’t mean it, we didn’t mean it, we didn’t mean it…”

But Bobby hardly heard a word of what his son was saying as he was busy giving Rebecca CPR. “Please Rebecca breath for daddy,” Bobby pleaded with the little girl, as he pressed against her chest. In that moment all his previous doubts about the paternity of the child were like gone with the wind, as looking at her face he just knew instinctively that she was his daughter and that he couldn’t let her die. He then bended down and blew more air into her mouth as he covered her nose. He repeated the action a couple of times while he prayed silently. Please God don’t take my daughter, please God! He was not a religious man, as going to church had never been a priority in the Ewing family. Yet he used to believe there was a God when he was younger but after April had been brutally murdered he’d stopped believing. Despite that fact he now found himself praying to the same God he no longer believed in. If you’ll let her live I’ll never doubt you again. You have to let her live, please God, if not for me, so for her mother. It’ll kill Pam if Rebecca dies…’ Bobby reflected, as he kept doing CPR on his little daughter. For each second that passed by he got more and more desperate since he knew that it was a matter of life and death.

John Ross was also terrified that she might die, not so much because he cared about her, but because he knew that if she would die there would be hell to pay for him. Hell I might even end up in jail for manslaughter like Jenna did, John Ross was terrified by the thought.

Christopher too was frightened, but not for the same reasons as John Ross since he knew that if his sister died his mother would hate him. Besides having a sister might be fun after all, Christopher reflected, as he watched his dad doing CPR on his sister.

About thirty seconds passed by and it seemed like the longest seconds in their lives. Then Rebecca suddenly started coughing and crying. Bobby could feel tears of joy spill over in his eyes, as he took his crying daughter into his arms.

“Christopher and John Ross…threw me…into the pool…and I can’t swim,” Rebecca sobbed when she finally regained the ability to speak.

“Hush Rebecca, I know, but you’re alright…calm down, everything’s going to be okay, you’re here with me now, daddy is here and I love you…” Bobby gave Rebecca a kiss on the top of her head as he cradled her in his arms.

“I love you too daddy, but I was so scared I would drown…why didn’t I drown?” Rebecca looked up at Bobby with her big brown eyes.

“Because I rescued you…and as long as I’m alive I’m never gonna let anybody hurt you ever again…” Bobby vowed, as he hugged his little daughter tightly.

 

[Ms Southworth]

THANK YOU :bh:

Excellent start to episode 3. :10::10::10::10::10:

Scary how disaster can strike close to home! I'm so happy for EVERYONE that Rebecca made it! (And I'll look forward to Bobby giving his little princess swimming lessons).

Also, I noticed the episode title, which really put my hopes for happier days (and nights?) up on cloud # 9! :fondle:

 

[Honkytonkangel]

Now the spoiled little shits REALLY need their arses kicked. That poor little girl. As someone who can't swim, doesn't float and has been knocked under water that really upset me.
But I LOVED Bobby going into superdad mode here, that was VERY cool (though for a minute with that thought about Kristen I was expecting JR to be the hero).
Plus side the shock DOES seem to have knocked some sense into Christopher.
Can't wait to see what happens next.

 

[Mrs Bobby James Ewing]

Great update Karin. I am so happy that Rebecca didn't drown in the swimming pool and I am lookong forward to Bobby giving his daughter Rebecca swimming lessons in your story. I really dislike John Ross and Christopher right now in your story. Their behavior isn't funny and it isn't cute. Bobby and JR need to step up and deal with Christopher and John Ross like grown ups. Christopher and John Ross should be be ashamed of themselves for throwing Rebecca into the pool because she could have died.

 

[Presea]

Why are all of the kids in this story so dang annoying? At this point, I would like them all to drown in the pool!

 

[Ms Southworth]

Now the spoiled little shits REALLY need their arses kicked. That poor little girl. As someone who can't swim, doesn't float and has been knocked under water that really upset me.
But I LOVED Bobby going into superdad mode here, that was VERY cool (though for a minute with that thought about Kristen I was expecting JR to be the hero).
Plus side the shock DOES seem to have knocked some sense into Christopher.
Can't wait to see what happens next.

Reading Karin's description of Rebecca's near-drowning accident made me re-live a situation with my son 5 years ago. Afterwards I couldn't explain nor understand how I managed to keep calm during the whole thing, but I guess that I just switched my autopilot on! Really scary situation! My children are excellent swimmers today, so I never worry anymore when they go on fieldtrips with their school, etc. If they should happen to lose their balance and fall in a lake or the harbour, I know that they can swim!

In terms of the fanfic, I can't help wondering why Rebecca has never learned to swim! Why is she so scared of the water? Hopefully, we'll learn the reason later on!

Why are all of the kids in this story so dang annoying? At this point, I would like them all to drown in the pool!

That's not very nice, IMO (unless you're being sarcastic, Presea)! The three children are just acting like typical kids, who don't always think about the consequences of their actions! Hopefully, the boys will learn TWO big lessons today! I'm looking forward to their parents' lecturing them about right and wrong!

 

[Karin]

Thank you everyone for the feedback.

Ms Southworth, I'm glad to hear that your son is ok. It can be very scary when a child gets under water, both for the child and the responsible adult and it can happen very quickly. I don't think there's a reason Rebecca can't swim yet. I didn't learn to swim properly until I was like 7 either although I began training when I was about four or five. Also I know of older children who still has to go to swimming school when they are in Middle School since they haven't learnt to swim earlier on. So it's very individual when you learn how to swim. But yeah it's of course possible Pam took Rebecca to the beach when she was a child and a big wave washed over her and maybe that's why she's afraid of water...

Honkytonkangel, I'm glad you loved Bobby turning on superdad mood and well at least JR did something constructive as he ran to get Mitch. I know what you mean about ending up under water. It happened to me once when I was maybe a year younger than Rebecca. I got up pretty fast and never lost conscience but I did swallow a bunch of water. Later I went back into the pool and realized that if I stood on my tiptoes I could get my nose above water at the place I went under. So it didn't make me frighten of water but I remember feeling panicked.

Sanda, don't worry John Ross and Christopher regret what they did.

Presea, thank you for joining us and commenting on my story. Well I guess the kids acts annoying because they act like kids. I think you forget how kids can act as you get older, unless you have kids of your own to remind you. Anyway the first draft of this story is very old and we were about Chris age when we began writing. So I think the kids in the story acts realistic for their ages. As an adult you can find that annoying. Just like teenagers sometimes finds grown ups annoying.

Anyway new update will follow in the next post...

 

[Karin]

At that moment Pam’s car pulled up on the Southfork driveway and Pam and Sue Ellen stepped out of it with all their shopping bags. As they started walking towards the house they soon realized that something was not right, as they could hear the sound of a child crying. It was Rebecca who had started crying again from the shock. “Look Pam!” Sue Ellen pointed towards the pool. “It looks like something’s wrong!” She exclaimed, as they spotted their children standing over by the pool.

Pam could feel her heart ache when she recognized her daughter’s crying. “Oh My God it’s Rebecca!” Pam exclaimed before she dropped the shopping bags and started running towards the pool, closely followed by Sue Ellen. “Rebecca!” Pam called out as she approached the pool.

“Mommy!” Rebecca exclaimed, as she broke free from Bobby’s arms and ran over to her mother who took her into her arms and tried to soothe her.

Watching them Christopher had to look away, since it hurt too much to see his mother with Rebecca.

Feeling her daughter’s wet body pressed against her own Pam felt alarmed, “Rebecca what’s happened to you?” Pam looked worriedly at her daughter, “You’re all wet!”

“I…oh mommy it was…so awful…” Rebecca cried, as she was too shocked to give her mother a coherent answer.

Sue Ellen, who had spotted Bobby sitting on the ground all wet, asked him, “Bobby what’s happened to you?”

“Oh you’d better ask Christopher and John Ross,” Bobby said before he stood up.

Sue Ellen turned her attention to her son, “John Ross! What have you’ve done?” But John Ross only looked down and refused to answer her. Sue Ellen then looked at Christopher and realizing that he had tears on his cheeks she asked him, “Christopher, what’s the matter?” But her nephew just looked away.

Pam, who was still cradling her wet daughter in her arms, saw Bobby approaching them and said, “Bobby, what’s happened to Rebecca?” Pam looked questioningly at him. “I come home and she’s so upset that she can’t even speak. That’s not like her.”

Looking into Pam’s brown eyes Bobby felt like a deer caught in headlights as the last thing he felt like was trying to explain to his ex-wife how their son had tried to kill their daughter. But knowing that there was no way around it he took a deep breath before he started explaining, “Um…I’m sorry Pam…but…”

At that moment JR, Mitch and Lucy came running out of the house carrying blankets, Mitch called out, “Okay so the important thing is to get her temperature back to normal!”

“Got it,” Lucy replied, as she ran over to Pam and Rebecca and wrapped a blanket around the shaking girl’s shoulders.

“What’s going on?” Pam asked worriedly.

“Haven’t anybody told you, Rebecca’s almost drowned!” Lucy replied.

“What?” Pam dropped her chin.

“Yeah the poor kid came up all blue and everything,” JR confirmed.

“Oh My God, Rebecca are you ok?” Pam asked, as she cradled her daughter tighter to her, trying to warm her up.

“Yes mom but I was so scared …” Rebecca started sobbing again.

“Hush Rebecca, mommy’s here,” Pam said soothingly.

“But I thought they were going to kill me…” Rebecca sobbed.

This comment puzzled Pam but before she had a chance to ask Rebecca what she meant by that, Mitch sat down next to them and asked, “Can I have a look at her?”

“Mitch is a doctor you know?” Lucy said.

“Sure,” Pam said and as Mitch started to check Rebecca’s vital signs Pam turned to Bobby and said, “I still don’t understand what she was doing in the pool?”

“Christopher and John Ross…um…” Bobby looked away as he couldn’t stand looking into Pam’s eyes. “They um…threw Rebecca into the pool,” he finally got it all out.

Pam felt sick to her stomach when she heard that and a part of her just couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Then she could feel the rage grow inside of her until it boiled over and she unleashed her anger on her son. “Christopher! What the hell were you thinking?” Pam asked. “Are you out of your mind?”

“No Mama, I’m sorry but she was bugging us about the doll and we thought she could swim and…” Christopher broke down crying.

For a split second Pam felt torn between her love for her daughter and her son. A part of her wanted to hug him and tell him that everything was going to be okay, like she had done when he was a little boy. But she didn’t dare to as the teenager who stood before her was not the same boy that she had left. Since the Christopher I knew would never try to kill his sister. I can’t believe this is what’s become of him!

Pam closed her eyes to gather her strength before she went on, “That still doesn’t forgive what you’ve done. I mean God Christopher I can’t believe how you could do this to Rebecca. I mean she could have been killed and after everything I went through to give her life…”

“I said I’m sorry and I don’t want her to die, I…” Christopher interrupted her.

“I hope you mean that, still I thought we had taught you more sense than to throw your sister into the pool!”

“But Mama that’s just it, you haven’t been around to teach me anything since I was six. You left me remember!” Christopher yelled.

His words made Pam feel a little guilty. What if he is right? What if this is my fault for leaving? Pam bit her lip, as she could see Bobby walking up to their son and putting a comforting hand around his shoulder.

“It’s alright Christopher, I know this is hard on you but don’t cry. Everything’s going to be alright and we know you didn’t mean to hurt Rebecca, right Pam?”

“Right,” Pam reluctantly agreed. Before they all went silent. None of them could think of anything else to say so they just stood there looking at each other, their position locked as an awkward silence appeared. In the silence they could hear Sue Ellen and John Ross argue in the background.

“But mom I’ve told you that she was very annoying and we thought she could swim!”

“Still that’s not an excuse for throwing her into the pool. I’m ashamed of you John Ross!”

“But why Mama?” John Ross asked. “I mean dad and Uncle Bobby fights in the pool all the time that’s what we do in our family.”

Sue Ellen threw JR a chilly glance but he just said, “Don’t look at me.”

“Okay John Ross, you may have a point,” Sue Ellen sighed. “Now go to your room. We’ll talk about this later.”

“Okay mama,” John Ross sighed, before he walked towards his room.

Sue Ellen then walked up to Bobby and Pam and said, “Bobby, Pam, I’m so sorry for what John Ross did. He should have known better.”

“Well that’s to be expected from John Ross, I mean he’s just like his father,” Pam snapped.

“Hey wait a minute now. I never had anybody killed and I never wanted anything to happen to your little girl!” JR objected. “Tell her Bob!”

Bobby sighed before he said, “JR’s right Pam. He does care about Rebecca!”

“Like hell he does!” Pam argued.

Sue Ellen who didn’t want to be in the middle of an argument tugged at JR's arm, “Come on JR. Let’s go inside so we can talk.”

“Good idea Sue Ellen, here’s so much tension that you can’t hear what you think,” JR replied and the two of them disappeared into the house leaving Christopher and Rebecca in the middle of an argument between their parents.

“What do you mean you don’t believe him?” Bobby argued. “JR is not all that bad Pam!”

“Oh so you honestly believe that uncle JR actually cares about our kids?”

“Well he cares about me,” Christopher spoke up.

Pam sighed, “Oh this is just great. Now you’re ganging up on me, father and son team huh?”

“Yes and what’s wrong with that?” Bobby argued. “I mean for so many years it was just Christopher and me…”

“That’s true but I’m back now and I really think that…”

“But what if we don’t want you back?” Christopher yelled at Pam.

“Christopher,” Pam said shocked, as his words felt like a kick in the stomach.

Bobby looked troubled from his son to his ex-wife and said, “I think you two needs to talk, but this is not the time or place. So Christopher why don’t you go to your room and I’ll be with you in a minute?”

“Okay dad,” Christopher nodded before he walked away.

After he had gone Bobby turned his attention back to Pam and said, “I’m sorry Pam, but you had it coming.”

“I had it coming?”

“Yes you were the one who left us and do you have any idea what that’s done to Christopher?”

“No not really,” Pam felt the guilt trip coming on. But then she decided to push it away and put the blame elsewhere, “But I can see it hasn’t done him any good and it looks to me like you haven’t done such a good job at raising him!”

Bobby felt like he’d just gotten a cold shower. I can’t believe the nerve of that woman. She leaves me alone to raise our son and then she comes back and blames me for not doing a good enough job. How dare she?

“I can’t believe you just said that!” Bobby said in disbelief. “That you have the guts to tell me how I should raise my son after everything that you put us through…”

“Yeah but you know why I did it and I still think that what the boys did today was totally irresponsible. Rebecca can’t swim and…”

“But they didn’t know that.”

“Figures that you’d side with the boys, after all you Ewing men are all the same and…”

“Stop it!” Rebecca screamed. Her voice caught her parents off guard but she did get their attention so she went on, “I don’t like it when you argue.”

“But Rebecca honey I was only trying to explain to your dad why I think that your brother was out of line when he threw you into the pool…”

“I know that mommy, but please don’t yell at daddy. It’s not his fault they threw me in and if it hadn’t been for daddy I’d be dead.”

“What do you mean you’d be dead?” Pam asked confused.

“Daddy was the one who saved me,” Rebecca spelled it out for her and in that moment Pam felt like an ass.

“You did?” Pam asked, as she searched for the truth in Bobby’s eyes.

“Yeah of course I saved her,” Bobby nodded.

“Oh…that explains why you’re soaking wet, you went into the pool after her?”

“Exactly and I can’t believe that you’d even have to ask me that. I mean she’s our daughter and I love her so of course I’d jump into the pool after her, I mean what else could I do?”

“Oh Bobby, I don’t know what to say…I…” Pam looked down for a moment before she managed to find her tongue. “I’m so sorry for yelling at you. It’s just that when I think about what could have happened to Rebecca I kind of lost my mind…”

“You don’t have to explain anything to me, I know…”

“You do?”

“Yeah, I don’t want to lose her anymore than you do.”

“And you’re not going to lose her,” Pam promised. “Whatever happens between us, I won’t take your child away from you.”

“Thanks,” Bobby replied before a tense silence lingered between them as they both wondered just what their future had in store for them.

Maybe he doesn’t want me back after all. He says he’s forgiven me for leaving, but yet he doesn’t act like he really has, Pam realized sadly.

I can’t believe that woman. She’s impossible and yet I love her. Why do I love her when she does nothing to deserve it? Bobby sighed.

Rebecca looked from one parent to the other, “So does this mean that you’re not going to get back together?”

Rebecca’s innocent question really threw them since none of them could answer it, as they simply didn’t know what would happen next. So eventually Pam dodged the question by asking another question, “Rebecca honey, are you sure that you are alright?”

“Yeah maybe we ought to take you to the hospital or something?” Bobby suggested.

“No I don’t wanna go to the hospital,” Rebecca objected. “I am fine!”

“Are you sure?” Pam asked.

“Yes, really mom, I am fine,” Rebecca insisted.

Bobby then turned to Mitch and said, “Mitch, what do you think?”

“Well she seems to be doing okay, given the circumstances,” Mitch said, as he had finished examining Rebecca. “Still I would recommend you to take her to the hospital for a more throughout check up.”

“Okay, thanks Mitch we’ll do that,” Bobby said.

“Yeah but first you need to get out of those wet clothes, Pam said.

For a moment Bobby thought she was talking to him, but then he realized that she was talking to Rebecca. So he just said, “Yeah I need to change too before we go to the hospital.”

“You’re coming with us to the hospital?” Pam asked.

“Well of course, she’s my daughter too!” Bobby insisted and Pam smiled a little at that, before they hurried inside the house.

Mitch shook his head as he looked after them and Lucy quipped, “Well there's never a dull moment here at Southfork!”

 

[Honkytonkangel]

Aww I'm happy Rebecca seems to be doing ok. Sue Ellen and Pam picked a hell of a day to go shopping.
I REALLY wanna give Pam a pass here because of what happened to Rebecca, but I just can't. I know the boys were VERY wrong. But she was way out of line here too (no matter how frightened she might have been).
So YAY for Bobby and Christopher for FINALLY letting her have it. She DID have it coming.
Loved that Bobby defended JR too LOL.
Had to laugh at Lucy's comment at the end too. She is totally right, but they must be due some peace soon

 

[Mrs Bobby James Ewing]

Great update Karin. I am so happy that Rebecca is going to be ok. Pam and Sue Ellen really picked a bad day to go shopping. I am glad that they are back home to parent their sons with JR and Bobby's help. I hope things work out between Bobby, Pam, Christopher, and Rebecca and that they are able to become a family after Bobby, Pam, and Christopher work out their issues since Bobby and Christopher just let Pam have it for walking out on them which she deserved and unfortunately she had coming.

 

[Ms Southworth]

Absolutely LOVE these lengthy updates :bravo: :thank:

In the heat of the moment, things were said that shouldn't have been. We've all been there, I'm sure! :forgive:

There's no doubt that Pam said things that she wish she could take back! Too much yelling and accusing going on, but that's what happens when you're pushed to the edge! As a parent, I can totally put myself in her shoes! I'd be worried sick and out of my mind too, if I'd come home and found my daughter under these circumstances. BTW, isn't it kind of weird that Pam hasn't told anybody that Rebecca can't swim? I mean ... they've been at Southfork for over a week now! And growing up in LA where everybody has a pool in the backyard? I'm just puzzled!

Anyway ... Bobby came across as kind of a wimp, IMO. Why didn't he just say what happened? Why didn't he spill his guts? He didn't even agree that what John Ross and Christopher did was irresponsible! However, I'm happy that Bobby wants to go to the hospital with Pam! But I guess that this means that he won't be able to keep his word to Christopher!

I hope that Bobby and Pam will talk things out soon and just get on with it! Especially after witnessing the kind of effect that their behavior is having on Rebecca! It's just not right to continue living under the same roof, if they can't control themselves!

Loved how Rebecca took "charge" of the situation! Hopefully, her parents will talk things out now! :danc:

Personally, I could do without all the foul language. :mo: And, yes, I'm serious! There were only a few characters on Dallas who could "get away" with that kind of profanity, IMO!

I'm looking so much forward to the next update! :hats:I wonder if Bobby and JR even know about the incident at the movies yet! And where was Miss Ellie during all the commotion at the Southfork pool? Didn't she hear all the crying and yelling?

Don't let us wait too long :10::10::10::10:

 

[pd fan]

Great updates again Karin ; Im hapy that Rebecca is safe ; but there's a great tension between bobby pam and cristopher ; i hope finally Pam and Christopher will have a talk and he will accept better his little sister and all of them will become a great family together again , anyway great continuation of story again ; keep on doing it we want more !!

 

[Karin]

Thank you everyone for the feedback.

Honkytonkangel, you are right things will calm down a little after all the tension between Bobby, Pam and Christopher has been resolved.
But yeah considering the circumstances I can pretty much understand everyone's reaction...

Sanda, I think you can guess that things are going to work out between them sort of soonish if you look at the episode title and cover...

Ms. Southworth, my guess was that Miss Ellie was upstairs recovering from the incident at the movies. Then as for the foul language they did use bad language on the original Dallas too. Heck I learnt some of my first English curse words like Damn, hell and dammit, from watching Dallas!
I guess Rebecca hasn't bathed in the Southfork pool since she arrived and hence her lack of swimming abilities hasn't come up. She will learn how to swim this summer though...

Silvie, I'm glad you think the last updates were great and still wants to read more.
It's gonna take some time for Chris & Rebecca to get used to each other. Especially for Christopher who didn't know Rebecca existed before she arrived at Southfork.

Here's another update:


JR & Sue Ellen were standing in the living room, over by the mantel piece of the fireplace, as they were having a heated conversation about everything that had happened since this morning. “And then my horse threw of Mitch and…”

“It threw off Mitch?” Sue Ellen asked.

“Yeah,” JR nodded.

“Well maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t take him out riding this morning then,” Sue Ellen said in a concerned voice.

“Thanks but it wasn’t the horse’s fault. He was just spooked by a rattle snake.”

“Ah I see.”

“Anyway after the horse threw off Mitch, the BBC people called an ambulance and it was just about to arrive when Bobby and I got back outdoors and told the BBC crew to get lost.”

“Not a moment too soon if you ask me,” Sue Ellen said. “I don’t get why you even invited them back here in the first place!”

“Well we invited them here so that you could talk to them. I mean it’s your fault we’re in this mess to start with since if you hadn’t made that damn movie…”

“I know and I’ve said I’m sorry so what else do you want me to do?”

“Call that Lockwood fellow and make damn sure that movie never opens in the US.”

“You want me to call Don?” Sue Ellen couldn’t believe what she was hearing.

“Yes,” JR nodded.

“But I just talked to him yesterday.”

“What’s the matter don’t you want to talk to your own husband?” JR said tauntingly.

“Of course I do, it’s just that…”

“No buts Sue Ellen, that movie is a disaster waiting to happen and you need to nip it in the bud before it does,” JR told her seriously. “Come on you heard what it did to me today and if it can cause us that much trouble just from being shown overseas can you imagine the reaction if it’s ever released in the USA?”

Sue Ellen sighed since deep down she knew that he was right. It’s just that I don’t feel like talking to Don. Yet Sue Ellen knew that she had to take the bull by its horn so she reluctantly agreed, “Alright I’ll talk to Don again!”

“Good, then we need to discuss John Ross.”

“Okay,” Sue Ellen nodded.

“Since you’re the one who’s been raising him in the last couple of years I demand an explanation of a couple of things. First of all there’s his clothes, then there’s his manners and I don’t know how much influence that Lockwood fellow has had on my boy but the way he behaves right now is not acceptable and…” JR went on and standing there listening to him Sue Ellen couldn’t help but sigh. Sure she’d often wished to have someone to co-parent John Ross with, as Don really wasn’t much of a help and with JR living on the other side of the world his influence on their son had been limited. Yet now when he was taking an active interest she couldn’t help but feeling a little like he was tap dancing all over her feet as he had nothing but criticism of the way she’d raised John Ross…

 

[Ms Southworth]

:rlol: JR is so funny! I really like how he "discussed" John Ross's clothes and manners with Sue Ellen!

Great update :10::10::10::10: :thank:

PS. If my guess is right, the moments that we've been waiting for are just around the corner: reconciliation of not only mother and son but also man and woman!

Karin ... don't let us waiting for too long!

 

[Presea]

Reading Karin's description of Rebecca's near-drowning accident made me re-live a situation with my son 5 years ago. Afterwards I couldn't explain nor understand how I managed to keep calm during the whole thing, but I guess that I just switched my autopilot on! Really scary situation! My children are excellent swimmers today, so I never worry anymore when they go on fieldtrips with their school, etc. If they should happen to lose their balance and fall in a lake or the harbour, I know that they can swim!

In terms of the fanfic, I can't help wondering why Rebecca has never learned to swim! Why is she so scared of the water? Hopefully, we'll learn the reason later on!

That's not very nice, IMO (unless you're being sarcastic, Presea)! The three children are just acting like typical kids, who don't always think about the consequences of their actions! Hopefully, the boys will learn TWO big lessons today! I'm looking forward to their parents' lecturing them about right and wrong!

Well, I wasn't being sarcastic so much as I was being...humorous. But I still think the kids are pretty bratty. Rebecca just expects Christopher and John Ross to obey her orders without question, and can't seem to handle not getting her own way. Christopher and John Ross don't seem to realize that they should just ignore her instead of making things worse. And bullying a little kid into jumping into a pool is just cruel. While you would kind of expect Christopher to be like this since he is sort of jealous of Rebecca, I would at least expect John Ross, who is 16 years old, to be a little more tactful and mature with a seven year old kid. And this is why I never want to have kids! Because I think you're probably right about this being normal! lol!

 

[Presea]

Thank you everyone for the feedback.

Ms Southworth, I'm glad to hear that your son is ok. It can be very scary when a child gets under water, both for the child and the responsible adult and it can happen very quickly. I don't think there's a reason Rebecca can't swim yet. I didn't learn to swim properly until I was like 7 either although I began training when I was about four or five. Also I know of older children who still has to go to swimming school when they are in Middle School since they haven't learnt to swim earlier on. So it's very individual when you learn how to swim. But yeah it's of course possible Pam took Rebecca to the beach when she was a child and a big wave washed over her and maybe that's why she's afraid of water...

Honkytonkangel, I'm glad you loved Bobby turning on superdad mood and well at least JR did something constructive as he ran to get Mitch. I know what you mean about ending up under water. It happened to me once when I was maybe a year younger than Rebecca. I got up pretty fast and never lost conscience but I did swallow a bunch of water. Later I went back into the pool and realized that if I stood on my tiptoes I could get my nose above water at the place I went under. So it didn't make me frighten of water but I remember feeling panicked.

Sanda, don't worry John Ross and Christopher regret what they did.

Presea, thank you for joining us and commenting on my story. Well I guess the kids acts annoying because they act like kids. I think you forget how kids can act as you get older, unless you have kids of your own to remind you. Anyway the first draft of this story is very old and we were about Chris age when we began writing. So I think the kids in the story acts realistic for their ages. As an adult you can find that annoying. Just like teenagers sometimes finds grown ups annoying.

Anyway new update will follow in the next post...

The fact that I try to avoid kids does play a big part in how I viewed John Ross, Christopher, and Rebecca. This is like the TV show when it comes to how the Ewing parents usually seemed way too absorbed in their own little dramas to spend more time with their kids! lol! Although I think that is changing in this story. Rebecca's accident gave them the wake-up call they needed. Especially Pam, who will hopefully really talk to Christoper now. I hope that this will also make JR warm up to Rebecca a bit more now. I just can't see him completely ignoring any kid at Southfork. I couldn't help laughing when the kids said they thought being in the pool was completely normal because of Bobby and JR's fights! The pool is a very important part of life at Southfork!