| UNEXPECTED TRAGEDIES |
| Will Jack And Jen Be able To Save Their Baby? |
| It's a problem that parents never want to face: the serious illness of their child. But during the week of May 24, it's a problem that DAYS OF OUR LIVES' Jack and Jennifer Deveraux must face head on. While attending a party, the couple receive the frantic news that Abigail's temperature has spiked. The nervous parents race Abby to University Hospital, the first of several trips during the infant's serious illness. "It's going to be a very realistic story, a very personal story that's going to cause strain and be a time of bonding for Jack and Jennifer," promises headwriter Jim Reilly. "Abby will seem to be well for awhile and then sick again, back at the hospital for a few more days. It's going to be like a rollercoaster." Reilly adds that the storyline will delve into each of the characters and how they respond to the crisis. Jack and Jennifer have both been fighting to get their careers on track the past few months, but their efforts may have to be put on hold because of Abby's ilness. "I think that we have to examine where they came from in thei past lives," say Reilly. "Jennifer is someone who was brought up in a warm Horton family. She has a very strong family that she could always rely on. Jack was the adopted son of a powerful man, he lost his brother Patch, both his fathers and his sister left town. Basically he's a man alone, and I think the way that Jack deals with a crisis and fear that he's going to lose Abby is to almost go into denial. When he's faced with something that he can't control, he denies that it's going to happen. In order for him not to be hurt, he withdraws and builds layers of protection over him." Actor Matthew Ashford perhaps knows Jack inside and out, and says denial is really the chaacter's modus operandi. " the idea of losing something and not being able to control the situation is very frightening to him. We never really played through the thing of him losing Patch. So here's the chance of another blood relation that could just go away like everyone else. I think that this will bring out in Jack something other than protecting and making sure that someone has something. Finally there's the chance of losing something that you can't buy or put a doller sign on." While Jack has been Known to run from his problems, Jennifer is the exact opposite and chooses to delve into the problem. "I think that she will stop the career and everything else to help Abby," surmises Melissa Reeves (Jennifer). "She's been able to work and have a career and because she knows that Abby is heathy and being taken care of by good people. But once a tragedy like this happens, I think that the career will just stop. Having a baby makes you a mother bear and the baby will come first." |
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