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<blockquote data-quote="CeeCee72" data-source="post: 284778" data-attributes="member: 5055">I don&#039;t own any of the characters in this story and no copyright infringement is intended.This fic is an alternate timeline where the dream season wasn&#039;t a dream. It picks up after the last episode of season 9.***Life Is But a DreamPart 25:***Pam felt sick. Matt had just told her in vivid detail how Katherine had contacted JR after skipping bail and demanded that he help her get out of the country. JR had agreed, contacted Matt and used him and his connections in South America to smuggle her out of the country.&quot;I just don&#039;t understand! JR is slime, but he wanted Bobby&#039;s shooter in jail as much as the rest of us. Why on earth would he help Katherine escape justice?&quot;&quot;Who knows why JR does anything?&quot; Cliff snapped. &quot;He&#039;s pure evil. His mind is so sick none of us could understand it even if we tried.&quot;&quot;Actually,&quot; Matt broke in, &quot;he had a reason. If you ask me, it was a damn good reason.&quot;&quot;What reason?&quot; Pam demanded. &quot;What possible excuse could he possibly have for&nbsp; protecting the woman who tried to kill his brother?&quot;&quot;Pam, JR wasn&#039;t protecting Katherine. He was protecting Christopher.&quot;&quot;What?&quot; Mark spoke for the first time.&quot;What do you mean?&quot;&quot;I should start at the beginning I guess,&quot; Matt sighed. &quot;Pam, have you ever heard of a woman named Lisa Alden?&quot;&quot;No…&quot; Pam answered, &quot;I don&#039;t&nbsp; think so. Why? Who is she?&quot;&quot;She&#039;s Christopher&#039;s biological Aunt. Katherine was threatening to contact her and give her Christopher&#039;s birth certificate. She was blackmailing JR. She said if he didn&#039;t get her out of the country she would make sure the Alden woman came forward to claim her custodial rights.&quot;&quot;You can&#039;t&nbsp; possibly expect us to believe that JR actually gave a damn about Christopher.&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t care what you believe, &quot; Matt shot back,&quot;but I&#039;m telling you what happened. JR helped Katherine to protect his nephew and his brother. You can accept it or not, Pam, but that&#039;s the God&#039;s honest truth.&quot;***Richard forced himself to remain calm and pleasant as Dr. Eliis checked his vitals and drew blood.&nbsp; He smiled and nodded and made appropriate responses to the other man&#039;s small talk.In his mind,&nbsp; he was taking note of the keys Dr. Ellis carried, where he put them, how many there were, and which ones looked big enough to be to doors instead of to file cabinets.He had already started organizing an escape plan in his mind.He couldn&#039;t remember who exactly Sue Ellen and Christopher were, but he knew he loved them.And he was determined to get back to them - somehow, some way.***&quot;Honey,&quot; JR hesitated in the doorway. &quot;I need to talk to you.&quot;&quot;No.&quot; Her eyes were red and puffy and her voice was hoarse from crying. &quot;Not now. Please I just can&#039;t.&quot;JR sighed heavily and cast his eyes towards his mother who was sitting on their bed beside Sue Ellen holding the other woman&#039;s hand.&quot;Mama, give us a minute, please. I&#039;m sorry Sue Ellen, but I have to talk to you now. It can&#039;t wait, honey.&quot;Sue Ellen sucked in a ragged breath and closed her eyes. &quot;Fine. Go ahead.&quot;Ellie squeezed Sue Ellen&#039;s hand and then stood up. &quot;I&#039;ll be right outside.&quot;JR nodded and moved into the room as Miss Ellie moved out. He carefully sat down on the edge of the bed - far enough away from his wife that he wasn&#039;t touching her but close enough so she could look directly into his eyes.&quot;What I said downstairs,&quot; he began carefully,&nbsp; &quot;it was all true. Back then…&quot;&quot;What, JR?&#039; Sue Ellen pushed him, &quot;please just get this over with. Say what you need&nbsp; to say and then leave me alone.&quot;&quot;Sue Ellen, you and I were miserable together in those days. I know you can&#039;t&nbsp; remember the details, but you do remember we were unhappy. We had a nasty, ugly relationship. Cliff Barnes was my sworn enemy. I was...disgusted that you slept with him. If you hadn&#039;t been pregnant, I probably would have divorced you.&nbsp; I prayed&nbsp; every night that the baby was mine, but I didn&#039;t&nbsp; believe it. You and I had tried to have a baby for years. It seemed unbelievable that I had finally gotten you pregnant&nbsp; - especially considering Barnes was sharing your bed. I was angry. At that point in our lives, I wasn&#039;t capable of accepting Barnes&#039;s son as my own.&nbsp; I just wasn&#039;t.&quot;&quot;I understand, JR,&quot; Sue Ellen said coldly. &quot;Are you done?&quot;&quot;No, Sue Ellen, &quot; JR struggled to keep the annoyance out of his voice, &quot;I&#039;m not done.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t manipulate the paternity test and I very well might have divorced you if Cliff had been the father. But that was then. You and I are both different people now. And if you had all your memories you would know beyond any shadow of a doubt that I wouldn&#039;t put you aside now no matter what. Even if there was another man and even if there was a child that wasn&#039;t mine.&quot;&quot;Why…&quot; she hesitated and took a deep breath, &quot;how would I know that, JR? Was...was there another baby? A baby that wasn&#039;t yours?&quot;&quot;All I am saying is that if there were I would fight like hell to keep you. I love you. You&#039;re my wife. No matter what, I won&#039;t ever leave you. I tried living without you honey. It didn&#039;t work.&quot;&quot;JR...you…&quot; her voice trailed off as a faint memory teased the corners of her mind. She was in a hospital bed. JR was there. He had brought her flowers. There was someone else in the room...a young, blond man…Her eyes widened and she suddenly felt sick to her stomach. Peter. His name was Peter. And there had been a miscarriage. &quot;Oh, my God…&quot;&quot;Sue Ellen, we both made terrible mistakes. But we worked it all out. What you heard me say downstairs is how I felt then. It&#039;s not how I feel now. I love you. Nothing,&nbsp; NOTHING will ever change that.&quot;Sue Ellen lost complete control of her emotions and crumpled into a sobbing heap. &quot;What are we going to do JR? Can Cliff really make us give him John Ross&#039;s DNA?&quot;JR moved next to her and pulled her into his arms. &quot;I&#039;ll take care of Barnes,&quot; he promised her. &quot;John Ross is MY son - yours and mine. Don&#039;t you doubt that honey, no matter what Barnes got some judge to believe.&quot;Sue Ellen wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him with all her strength. &quot;I&#039;m so scared, JR.&quot;&quot;Don&#039;t be scared,&quot; he whispered softly. &quot;I am going to take care of everything.&quot;&quot;Excuse me,&quot; Clayton interrupted from the doorway. &quot;JR, Harry McSween is here to see you. He says it&#039;s an emergency.&quot;JR nodded and kissed Sue Ellen&#039;s forehead gently. &quot;I need to talk to him, honey.&nbsp; Stay here with Mama and I&#039;ll be back as soon as I can.&quot;Sue Ellen Ellen nodded and wiped her tears from her cheek. &quot;Alright, JR.&quot;JR got up and moved to the door. &quot;McSween better have some answers for me,&quot; he growled as he followed Clayton down the hallway towards the stairs. &quot;Or I will personally break his neck.&quot;***&quot;I should kill you where you stand.&quot;Matt couldn&#039;t help himself. He burst out laughing and shook his head. &quot;Give it a go, Barnes, if you&#039;re feeling particularly brave and stupid.&quot;&quot;Why would you want to make JR out to be a hero in front of Pam?&quot; Cliff snapped angrily.&quot;I didn&#039;t make him out to be a hero, Cliff. I just told the truth. What I want to know is how you found out about any of this in the first place.&quot;&quot;Doesn&#039;t matter how I found out, the point is that I did.&nbsp; And I know a lot more about JR and his schemes and misdeeds. I know everything.&nbsp; And I&#039;m going to use what I know to put JR Ewing down once and for all, like the dog he is.&quot;Cliff paused and took a long drink of&nbsp; whiskey. &quot;And let me tell you something, Cantrell, if you get it my way, I&#039;ll put you down too. That goes for anyone who gets in my way; including my wishy-washy sister.&quot;***&quot;What are you going to do?&quot;Pam turned away from the window and shrugged at her husband. &quot;I don&#039;t know. I&#039;m not sure if I totally believe Matt, but I have got to know if this Lisa Alden woman exists and if she does if she&#039;s really a threat to me and Christopher.&quot;&quot;How are you going to find that out?&quot; Mark asked quietly.&quot;I guess, I have no choice,&quot; Pam answered, her face twisted into a nasty grimace. &quot;I have to go talk to JR.&quot;***JR choked back a gulp of bourbon and slammed glass down onto the bar. &quot;JR, I&#039;m sorry.. &quot;&quot;Save the apology, Harry,&quot; JR growled. &quot;I understand why you did what you did. What I can&#039;t understand is why, in all our years together, you never told me.&quot;&quot;I didn&#039;t want to tarnish Jock&#039;s legacy.&quot;JR turned to face the other man, his eyes narrowed to dangerous slits. &quot;I know damned well who my Daddy was. The only thing keeping this from me tarnished is my trust of you.&quot;Harry grimaced and sank back further into his chair. &quot;What now?&quot;JR shook his head and moved to the couch. He needed to think.Harry had told him the whole story. He&#039;d been a young detective back in those days and he&#039;d done a lot of side work for a Dallas based PI firm that Jock frequently employed.&nbsp; Jock had never believed JR and Sue Ellen&#039;s denials about her affair with Cliff. He&#039;d been convinced John Ross belonged to Barnes. He was terrified of how Miss Ellie would react to the scandal if the affair and the true paternity became public knowledge. He&#039;d paid the PI firm to switch the blood samples for the paternity test and McSweeen himself had done the deed. But Harry had messed up. He&#039;d contaminated the samples, and that&#039;s why the first test had come back inconclusive. &quot;You&#039;re sure the second test wasn&#039;t tampered with?&quot; JR asked lowly.&quot;Damn sure,&quot; Harry nodded. &quot;They ran the blood work before I had a chance to get into the lab and switch the samples. John Ross is your son, JR.&quot;&quot;I never doubted that,&quot; JR shot back at him.&nbsp; &quot;I need you to go see Cliff&#039;s judge and tell him what you told me. Get him to rescind the court order for the DNA. I don&#039;t want Sue Ellen embarrassed by a scandal.&quot;&quot;If that&#039;s what you want, JR, that&#039;s what I&#039;ll do. But we have a much bigger problem to deal with.&quot;&quot;What?&quot; JR snapped. &quot;What could possibly be a bigger problem than a paternity suit splashed all over the Dallas news?&quot;&quot;Barry Smith.&quot;&quot;Why does that name sound familiar to me?&quot;&quot;He&#039;s the inmate who killed Captain Lowell in jail.&quot;&quot;So?&quot;&quot;So they ran his DNA for the autopsy. His real name wasn&#039;t Barry Smith. It&#039;s Jason Maxton.&quot;&quot;Is that supposed to mean something to me?&quot;Harry shifted uncomfortably in his chair and dropped his gaze to the ground. &quot;He&#039;s former Dallas PD. Kicked off the force because of one too many brutality complaints. I thought he was a good cop getting a bad rap, so I occasionally threw some PI work his way. And sometimes I used him on my jobs - including jobs for you.&quot;&quot;And?&quot; JR snarled. &quot;Get to the point, Harry.&quot;&quot;And two years ago he just disappeared. Into thin air. I looked for him for a long time before giving up. JR…&quot;Harry paused and took a deep breath. &quot;JR, he took some of my files with him.&quot;&quot;I don&#039;t understand what you&#039;re trying to tell me, Harry.&quot;&quot;He knew everything. Every plot and scheme and blackmail and set-up. If Barnes knows about the paternity sample switch…&quot;&quot;Jesus,&quot; JR muttered as understanding finally dawned on him. &quot;If he sold the information about the blood test to Barnes,&quot; Harry muttered, &quot;there&#039;s a good chance…&quot;JR covered his face in his hands. He didn&#039;t need Harry to finish the sentence.If Barnes had somehow found Maxton and knew about the blood samples, he probably knew about every other evil scheme Harry and JR had ever pulled off together. This was a nightmare.And JR knew there was no waking up from it.***</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CeeCee72, post: 284778, member: 5055"] I don't own any of the characters in this story and no copyright infringement is intended. This fic is an alternate timeline where the dream season wasn't a dream. It picks up after the last episode of season 9. *** Life Is But a Dream Part 25: *** Pam felt sick. Matt had just told her in vivid detail how Katherine had contacted JR after skipping bail and demanded that he help her get out of the country. JR had agreed, contacted Matt and used him and his connections in South America to smuggle her out of the country. "I just don't understand! JR is slime, but he wanted Bobby's shooter in jail as much as the rest of us. Why on earth would he help Katherine escape justice?" "Who knows why JR does anything?" Cliff snapped. "He's pure evil. His mind is so sick none of us could understand it even if we tried." "Actually," Matt broke in, "he had a reason. If you ask me, it was a damn good reason." "What reason?" Pam demanded. "What possible excuse could he possibly have for protecting the woman who tried to kill his brother?" "Pam, JR wasn't protecting Katherine. He was protecting Christopher." "What?" Mark spoke for the first time."What do you mean?" "I should start at the beginning I guess," Matt sighed. "Pam, have you ever heard of a woman named Lisa Alden?" "No…" Pam answered, "I don't think so. Why? Who is she?" "She's Christopher's biological Aunt. Katherine was threatening to contact her and give her Christopher's birth certificate. She was blackmailing JR. She said if he didn't get her out of the country she would make sure the Alden woman came forward to claim her custodial rights." "You can't possibly expect us to believe that JR actually gave a damn about Christopher." "I don't care what you believe, " Matt shot back,"but I'm telling you what happened. JR helped Katherine to protect his nephew and his brother. You can accept it or not, Pam, but that's the God's honest truth." *** Richard forced himself to remain calm and pleasant as Dr. Eliis checked his vitals and drew blood. He smiled and nodded and made appropriate responses to the other man's small talk. In his mind, he was taking note of the keys Dr. Ellis carried, where he put them, how many there were, and which ones looked big enough to be to doors instead of to file cabinets. He had already started organizing an escape plan in his mind. He couldn't remember who exactly Sue Ellen and Christopher were, but he knew he loved them. And he was determined to get back to them - somehow, some way. *** "Honey," JR hesitated in the doorway. "I need to talk to you." "No." Her eyes were red and puffy and her voice was hoarse from crying. "Not now. Please I just can't." JR sighed heavily and cast his eyes towards his mother who was sitting on their bed beside Sue Ellen holding the other woman's hand."Mama, give us a minute, please. I'm sorry Sue Ellen, but I have to talk to you now. It can't wait, honey." Sue Ellen sucked in a ragged breath and closed her eyes. "Fine. Go ahead." Ellie squeezed Sue Ellen's hand and then stood up. "I'll be right outside." JR nodded and moved into the room as Miss Ellie moved out. He carefully sat down on the edge of the bed - far enough away from his wife that he wasn't touching her but close enough so she could look directly into his eyes. "What I said downstairs," he began carefully, "it was all true. Back then…" "What, JR?' Sue Ellen pushed him, "please just get this over with. Say what you need to say and then leave me alone." "Sue Ellen, you and I were miserable together in those days. I know you can't remember the details, but you do remember we were unhappy. We had a nasty, ugly relationship. Cliff Barnes was my sworn enemy. I was...disgusted that you slept with him. If you hadn't been pregnant, I probably would have divorced you. I prayed every night that the baby was mine, but I didn't believe it. You and I had tried to have a baby for years. It seemed unbelievable that I had finally gotten you pregnant - especially considering Barnes was sharing your bed. I was angry. At that point in our lives, I wasn't capable of accepting Barnes's son as my own. I just wasn't." "I understand, JR," Sue Ellen said coldly. "Are you done?" "No, Sue Ellen, " JR struggled to keep the annoyance out of his voice, "I'm not done. I didn't manipulate the paternity test and I very well might have divorced you if Cliff had been the father. But that was then. You and I are both different people now. And if you had all your memories you would know beyond any shadow of a doubt that I wouldn't put you aside now no matter what. Even if there was another man and even if there was a child that wasn't mine." "Why…" she hesitated and took a deep breath, "how would I know that, JR? Was...was there another baby? A baby that wasn't yours?" "All I am saying is that if there were I would fight like hell to keep you. I love you. You're my wife. No matter what, I won't ever leave you. I tried living without you honey. It didn't work." "JR...you…" her voice trailed off as a faint memory teased the corners of her mind. She was in a hospital bed. JR was there. He had brought her flowers. There was someone else in the room...a young, blond man… Her eyes widened and she suddenly felt sick to her stomach. Peter. His name was Peter. And there had been a miscarriage. "Oh, my God…" "Sue Ellen, we both made terrible mistakes. But we worked it all out. What you heard me say downstairs is how I felt then. It's not how I feel now. I love you. Nothing, NOTHING will ever change that." Sue Ellen lost complete control of her emotions and crumpled into a sobbing heap. "What are we going to do JR? Can Cliff really make us give him John Ross's DNA?" JR moved next to her and pulled her into his arms. "I'll take care of Barnes," he promised her. "John Ross is MY son - yours and mine. Don't you doubt that honey, no matter what Barnes got some judge to believe." Sue Ellen wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him with all her strength. "I'm so scared, JR." "Don't be scared," he whispered softly. "I am going to take care of everything." "Excuse me," Clayton interrupted from the doorway. "JR, Harry McSween is here to see you. He says it's an emergency." JR nodded and kissed Sue Ellen's forehead gently. "I need to talk to him, honey. Stay here with Mama and I'll be back as soon as I can." Sue Ellen Ellen nodded and wiped her tears from her cheek. "Alright, JR." JR got up and moved to the door. "McSween better have some answers for me," he growled as he followed Clayton down the hallway towards the stairs. "Or I will personally break his neck." *** "I should kill you where you stand." Matt couldn't help himself. He burst out laughing and shook his head. "Give it a go, Barnes, if you're feeling particularly brave and stupid." "Why would you want to make JR out to be a hero in front of Pam?" Cliff snapped angrily. "I didn't make him out to be a hero, Cliff. I just told the truth. What I want to know is how you found out about any of this in the first place." "Doesn't matter how I found out, the point is that I did. And I know a lot more about JR and his schemes and misdeeds. I know everything. And I'm going to use what I know to put JR Ewing down once and for all, like the dog he is." Cliff paused and took a long drink of whiskey. "And let me tell you something, Cantrell, if you get it my way, I'll put you down too. That goes for anyone who gets in my way; including my wishy-washy sister." *** "What are you going to do?" Pam turned away from the window and shrugged at her husband. "I don't know. I'm not sure if I totally believe Matt, but I have got to know if this Lisa Alden woman exists and if she does if she's really a threat to me and Christopher." "How are you going to find that out?" Mark asked quietly. "I guess, I have no choice," Pam answered, her face twisted into a nasty grimace. "I have to go talk to JR." *** JR choked back a gulp of bourbon and slammed glass down onto the bar. "JR, I'm sorry.. " "Save the apology, Harry," JR growled. "I understand why you did what you did. What I can't understand is why, in all our years together, you never told me." "I didn't want to tarnish Jock's legacy." JR turned to face the other man, his eyes narrowed to dangerous slits. "I know damned well who my Daddy was. The only thing keeping this from me tarnished is my trust of you." Harry grimaced and sank back further into his chair. "What now?" JR shook his head and moved to the couch. He needed to think. Harry had told him the whole story. He'd been a young detective back in those days and he'd done a lot of side work for a Dallas based PI firm that Jock frequently employed. Jock had never believed JR and Sue Ellen's denials about her affair with Cliff. He'd been convinced John Ross belonged to Barnes. He was terrified of how Miss Ellie would react to the scandal if the affair and the true paternity became public knowledge. He'd paid the PI firm to switch the blood samples for the paternity test and McSweeen himself had done the deed. But Harry had messed up. He'd contaminated the samples, and that's why the first test had come back inconclusive. "You're sure the second test wasn't tampered with?" JR asked lowly. "Damn sure," Harry nodded. "They ran the blood work before I had a chance to get into the lab and switch the samples. John Ross is your son, JR." "I never doubted that," JR shot back at him. "I need you to go see Cliff's judge and tell him what you told me. Get him to rescind the court order for the DNA. I don't want Sue Ellen embarrassed by a scandal." "If that's what you want, JR, that's what I'll do. But we have a much bigger problem to deal with." "What?" JR snapped. "What could possibly be a bigger problem than a paternity suit splashed all over the Dallas news?" "Barry Smith." "Why does that name sound familiar to me?" "He's the inmate who killed Captain Lowell in jail." "So?" "So they ran his DNA for the autopsy. His real name wasn't Barry Smith. It's Jason Maxton." "Is that supposed to mean something to me?" Harry shifted uncomfortably in his chair and dropped his gaze to the ground. "He's former Dallas PD. Kicked off the force because of one too many brutality complaints. I thought he was a good cop getting a bad rap, so I occasionally threw some PI work his way. And sometimes I used him on my jobs - including jobs for you." "And?" JR snarled. "Get to the point, Harry." "And two years ago he just disappeared. Into thin air. I looked for him for a long time before giving up. JR…" Harry paused and took a deep breath. "JR, he took some of my files with him." "I don't understand what you're trying to tell me, Harry." "He knew everything. Every plot and scheme and blackmail and set-up. If Barnes knows about the paternity sample switch…" "Jesus," JR muttered as understanding finally dawned on him. "If he sold the information about the blood test to Barnes," Harry muttered, "there's a good chance…" JR covered his face in his hands. He didn't need Harry to finish the sentence. If Barnes had somehow found Maxton and knew about the blood samples, he probably knew about every other evil scheme Harry and JR had ever pulled off together. This was a nightmare. And JR knew there was no waking up from it. *** [/QUOTE]

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