Against All Odds Part I
(This fan fiction is dedicated to an exciting and possible storyline that could be created from the developing scenes on Bold and The Beautiful. This isn’t like Mrs. Throne’s Brooke and Thorne Show, Wendy’s Control or Dot’s Changes, and Chrisitiniai’s Brooke Gets Justice---- and let’s not forget Pam’s and Maves’s stories, all which I can’t wait to read, they all have a common thread, the happiness of Brooke. Instead, this fan fiction will be a possible storyline with happy and sad moments for Brooke without the total bashing. This is my small attempt to create, I hope you like it. )

Chapter I (Kimberly’s Mirror)

Kimberly looked around at the brand new beach house that her dearly departed sister left her. Her mind went back to happier times (when she first found that Macy was her sister, when Macy, her dad and all of the Spectra’s had a family dinner, Macy’s barbecue), suddenly her mind thought of all the pain that Macy had suffered because of Brooke. " Brooke, you will pay for what you did to my sister. You will pay". Kimberly walked toward the window and gazed at Throne’s beach house. .

" Brooke, sweetie, what are you thinking about?" Brooke looked at Thorne and smiled lovingly at him. " Nothing, just thinking about all that has happened to us this last year". Thorne sighed and sat next to Brooke, kissed her on her head and pulled her against him. " I know that this has been tough for you. Mother’s stroke, the fasico in Vience, my marriage to Macy, Macy’s death and now the hatred and blame from everyone." Brooke gazed into Thorne’s eyes and ran her finger down the side of his face. " What about you, you lost your family over this?" " To hell with them!" Thorne jumped up and waved his hands in aggravation. " Mother had no right trying to guilt me into leaving you. She never would have done this to Ridge! But she had no problem " sacrificing" me; it has always been me. Ridge can do whatever he wants included trying to seduce you in Vience." Brooke walked over to Thorne and hugged him from behind while Thorne entangled his hands with her hands. Tears came to Brooke’s eyes as she rested her head on his shoulder. " You gave them up for me. All of my life, I just wanted acceptance from them, and they never gave it. All my life I’ve been looking for someone to stand by me through thick and thin, and you did Thorne, you didn’t back down." The silent tears ran down Brooke’s cheek. Thorne turned and cupped his hands on Brooke’s face looking at her intensely. " No baby, I did it for us. I did it for you and me. I was wrong to marry Macy, I should have been honest from the start, but I wasn’t. For the rest of my life, I will live with the knowledge that she suffered because of my own selfishness and inability to be honest," No, sweetie…" " Yes, Brooke, it is my fault. I wasn’t a man; I didn’t do what I needed for all three of us. . But I swear from now on, I will prove to you that I am worthy to you! I will never leave you side, you are my life and my family and I will let nothing separate us. Thorne pulled Brooke into his arms and kisses her passionately. They kiss with heated passion. He picks her up in his muscular arms and heads to the bedroom.

" Yes, Sally, I will be fine. No! I don’t want you to come over, I think that I want to be alone tonight, I have a lot of planning to do." Kimberly hangs up the phone and walks over to a picture of Thorne and Macy. " I gonna save him Macy. I’m gonna save him from that bitch in heat. He loved you and would have died for you. I know why you loved him, he is so caring." Kimberly’s mind replayed when Thorne touched her cheek. " He does care about me, I know it." Kimmy walked to the bedroom and placed the picture of Macy and Thorne on the night table. She unpacked her suitcase and placed her clothes in the closet. Lastly, she pulled out a jeweler case, which held a necklace that Macy had given her. She moved to the bathroom and looked at herself as she put it on. Kimberley then slowly removed her clothes and studied herself. " I am beautiful and young. You won’t be able to resist me. I’ll do anything to make sure she won’t have you." Kimberly’s smile slowly changed into an intense dark look. She touched her reflection in the mirror and then saw Brooke’s face. Brooke was taunting her. " You can’t have him, he’s mine. Your sister was a drunk, he didn’t want her, he only wanted me, me, me, me, me!" " No, he loved my sister" Kimberly pounded on the mirror. " No., Brooke he will be mine, he will be!" Kimberley pounded on the glass again and again until it cut her skin. She didn’t even notice. She kept pounding until the blood dripped into the sink. Suddenly, she stopped and saw the broken glass mixed with blood. She backed away from the sink looked at her bloody hands. " Look what you have done Brooke, blood like the blood of my sister. When I get through with you, you won’t have a thing. You won’t have your company, your children or Thorne! " Kimberly looked wildly into the broken mirror.

Thorne lay in the twisted sheets of his bed and slowly pulled Brooke down on top of him. Their lips met urgently kissing with absolute passion. He ran his hand down her bare back gripping her tighter. " Thorne ", Brooke moaned and he she collapsed on his muscular sweaty chest, she kissed his neck and made her way down his sweated chest. " Thorne arched his head back wondering how he ever found someone so passionate. Thorne gripped her hair tightly, brought her head back to his. Brooke looked down at Thorne and smiled both of their breathing was evident and rapid. " Tonight baby, I’m in control" Really Thorne " Brooke looked at him with mischief in her eyes. Throne quickly turned over until he was on top of Brooke. He leaned down and to kiss her eyelids, nose and neck. Slowly he kissed her mouth and the kiss deepened and became passionate. Brooke wrapped her legs around Thorne's waist . " Yes, Yes, Yes…" Thorne then made love to her again and again.

Kimberly picked up the phone and made a mysterious call. " I need to see you tomorrow, if possible. Yes, it is very important. I think that we should work together for a common goal. Yes, tomorrow at Forrester will be fine. At 9, no one will ever suspect a thing. " Kimberly hung up the phone walked toward her back porch and went outside. She walked over to Throne’s house and didn’t stop until she at the window to the bedroom. Inside she saw Thorne having urgent sex in his marriage bed to Macy with Brooke. " You will pay Brooke, she thought, I’m going to make you lose everything you made Macy lose." Kimberly continued to watch the unknowing couple inside.

Against All Odds
(Review of chapter Kimberly’s Mirror Part 1. Kimberly plots against Brooke for causing her sister’s death. Thorne and Brooke discuss his disownment from the family. Kimberly talks to herself and is distraught to see Brooke’s face in her mirror taunting her. Brooke and Thorne make love. Kimberly makes a secret meeting with someone.)


Against All Odds Part II (Regarding Bridget)

Brooke held a conference in her office with three members of the add team. " Brooke, we need to make certain changes to the add, here and here. Franco showed Brooke where his team wanted to make changes. " I agree Franco, but we need to make room for Kimberly’s Princess add said Sharon. " Seventeen Magazine wants to an entire spread on her. Brooke, Vogue has called, they want the pictures for their add and we are behind. Brooke’s mind flashed back, she could see Kimberly screaming at her and then pushing her through the glass. " Brooke, Brooke, are you okay?" " What", Brooke asked a little shaken. " No, I’m fine.". " The problem is that Kimberly hasn’t been in since you know, Macy’s death, we can’t wait any longer we need her to take those pictures." " You are right Sharon, I haven’t wanted to push her, but it must be done. Megan, I want you to call her today, tell her that she must report into work by this afternoon, if not, we will have to give her job to someone else." Brooke looked at the add team and with a determined voice she told them they would get the add done. " Get those pictures take, have Givonnie to work overtime if needed. Call KC at Vogue tell her don’t worry, she’ll have them in two days. If that’s it, get going. " The team left except Megan who noticed that Brooke’s mind seemed to be wondering the entire meeting. " Brooke, are you okay?"

Ridge looked at his lasted design on the Brooke’s Bedroom Line tore it up. " How in the hell am I supposed to come up with anything sexy and alluring with my life falling apart? Ever since mother had told him about the possibly of Morgan being pregnant, his world was falling apart. He had to do something; he didn’t’ know what game she was playing, but he wasn’t going to be played. " By god, Morgan, you had better not be caring my child, he clinched his hands in a fist. " I swear if you thought mother was your nightmare all those years ago, she will be nothing compared to me. Over my dead body or shall I say yours, will you have my child and destroy my marriage. Ridge walked over a magazine that held Morgan’s picture at the lasted party at Go’s nightclub. . He saw Morgan in his mind the night they had had sex. Saw her in her naked glory doing everything to arouse him to do his job. He saw them in the bed he had once shared with Taylor; saw her crying out his name and afterward crying in his arms. He had been her fool that night, making sure that she was okay, never knowing that she had planned to take advantage of him. He also realized that there was no way he could ever explain how this happened to Taylor, it was too late. Yes, he had attracted to Morgan, who wouldn't be, but he loved Taylor. He looked at the picture and tore it out of the magazine. If only Brooke hadn’t hired her, if only he hadn’t let Morgan back into his life. Mother had been right all along, right about Morgan.
" Damn you, Damn you to hell!" Ridge! Ridge turned to see Taylor standing in the doorway. " What is going on?"

Kimberly looked at her watch, 8:45, she had just enough time to do what she needed. She looked around the photo studio and knew that Rick would be coming soon. She thought back to the night before, seeing Brooke and Thorne together sickened and excited her at the same time. It sickened her to see that bitch using whore’s tricks to tantalize sweet Thorne, yet it also excited her in a way to find out some of the things that he liked Knowledge was power and she’d do anything and use anything to destroy Brooke’s relationship with Throne. She heard Rick’s voice in the hallway. " Marco, tell my dad that I’ll be coming soon." Kimberly ran to the door and saw Rick. " Rick, he turned around and the look of relief came to his face. Rick ran to Kimberly and took her into his arms. " God Kimberly, I’ve missed you so much." Kimberly returned Rick’s hug. He didn’t see the look of disgust that found it’s way on her face. " I’ve missed you too." " You have? I haven’t heard from you and you moved away without telling me." " Rick, she said with annoyance. " I’ve been through so much, I’ve lost my only relative, and I’ve had to deal with so much." Rick walked Kimberly over to the sofa and sat next to her. " I understand, I just thought that you blamed me." " Blamed you for what Rick, you aren’t to blame non of the Forrester are." " I’m so glad that you understand that Kimberly, I thought that you might feel the same way that CJ does and think that my mother is to blame for Macy’s accident." " Your mother, you think that I blame you mother, gasped Kimberly". " Well… Rick looked sheepish. " Of course not, of course I don’t think that your mother caused the accident…Kimberly moved away from Rick, she picked up a pencil in her hand and slowly tightened her hand around the point. " I know, I know that she killed my sister!" Kimberly whirled around toward Rick and he saw something different it her eyes.

A chill shot through Brooke’s spine, causing her to knock over a picture of her and Thorne. "Brooke are you okay." " Yes Megan, I’m fine just a little worried that all." " Megan walked to Brooke and gave her an inquisitive look. " Why are you worried." " Today’s the day Megan. The day that Bridget finds out the truth." " You are going to tell her about you and Thorne?" " Yes, I can’t wait any longer, I’m quite sure that she has heard the rumors by now. I just wanted to give it more time, to let it die down, but I can’t wait. If she finds out from some one else, she won’t like it." " What do you think she will do, how do you think that she will react?" Brooke looked at Megan and Megan could see the stress and the worry inside her heart." I don’t know, Rick took it well, but Bridget, she’s intense. I don’t always know what she is thinking. I can only hope for the best. I know she loves Thorne, but he always been like Rick a big brother to her, I don’t know what she will think. It’s important that she understands how and why this happened. I love her so much, she been wonderful, but sometimes I worry about her. She is so independent, not wanting my or anyone’s help. Ever since she found out that Ridge wasn’t her father, she had been different…hiding a little of herself from me…..she loved him." Brooke picked up a photo of her, Bridget and Rick. " She has to understand Megan, she has to."

" Ridge what’s going on? Who are you mad at?" Ridge put the torn picture on the desk and walked over to Taylor and kissed her lightly on the lips. " It’s nothing Doc." " Don’t tell me it’s nothing, I can clearly see that you are mad." " You think that she’s destroying the family and it upset because there is nothing that you can do about it?" Ridge’s heart jumped, he wondered if Taylor knew about Morgan. " Look Ridge, there is nothing that you can do about Brooke. She and Thorne have decided to stay together regardless to the pain that it cost. We did everything that we could in Venice and it didn’t work." Taylor walked toward Ridge and put her arms around is neck. " We just have to let it go, you mother has made a decision. I’m not sure that it’s the best one, but maybe all we need is time." Taylor kissed Ridge on the mouth and smiled. " Let it go, we all love Thorne, but I think that he has to make his own decision, we shouldn’t get involved in her private lives, okay". Ridge pulled Taylor into his arms and hugged her. Taylor looked over Ridge’s shoulder and saw the torn picture of Morgan. " Ridge", she whispered.
" Yes sweetie." Ridge was so glad that Taylor thought it was Brooke he was upset at. " Why is there is thorn picture of Morgan on your desk?"

" My mother, you can’t say that, she didn’t murder your sister! It was an accident, a horrible accident." Kimberly ran from Rick looking at him like she didn’t understand him. " How can you say that, she murder her, she took her husband. Your mother used her whore’s tricks on him and did everything that she could to cause my sister to drink.' Rick placed his hands on Kimberly’s shoulders trying to calm him down; she pushed his hand off of her. " Don’t you understand, they had a chance. Thorne was going to go back to Macy, they had dinner, everything was fine." "Kimberly, you know that wasn’t true." " NO! I know that he tried to save her and that he loved her and you mother ruined that!" " Yes, he did try to save he and he did care for her but he didn’t love her, the way that he loved my mother." Kimberly walked away from Rick; her thoughts rambled in her head. He’s lying, he been snowed by that tramp of mother. He lying Thorne loved Macy, Thorne loved Macy! Thorne loved Macy. If you want this to work just agree with him." Rick studied Kimberly and was worried; she was looking strangely and shaking her head. He walked to her and placed his arms around her, she didn’t move. " Look, I know we can’t see this the same way, but you have to know, deep in your heart that my mother didn’t kill your sister. Kimberly looked down at her watch, 9 am. She walked slowly toward the door and raised her voice more that usual. " Say what you want. But that doesn’t change the fact that your mother went after a married man. Your mother carried on an affair with Thorne, she caused my sister to drink and she took those divorce papers to her. If you mother hadn’t been chasing Thorne, Macy would still be alive. Look at what she has done, not only to Macy, but think about your sister."
" Bridget, what does she have to do with this." " Come on Rick! How do you think she feels about her mother sleeping with another one of her brothers, what do you think that her peers and friends are going to say? She has to be in a lot of pain because of this!" At that moment, Kimberly opened the door to leave and found Bridget at the door looking shocked. " Budge, what are you doing here?" Rick asked hoping against hope that she hadn’t heard Kimberly.
Bridget walked angrily toward Rick. " Is it true? Is it! Has mom been having an affair with Thorne!"

Kimberly walked out of the room and stood behind the door. The tears and the sadness on her face was slowly transformed it self into a sinister smile. " It worked perfectly, it worked….
She turned and saw Bridget and Rick arguing in the room. " Good thing I called you and told you to meet me here at 9 or you’d never would have walked in on me and Rick. Poor Rick, I just knew you defend that whore of a mother." " Soon, very soon, I’ll have another ally against you Brooke, your own daughter." Kimberly smiled and walked down the corridor.

Review Part II (Regarding Bridget- Brooke worries about how Bridget will react to her and Thorne and decided to tell the teen. Kimberly ‘s call was to Bridget who hears overhears an arranged argument between Kimberly and Rick. Bridget asks Rick about Brooke and Thorne. Ridge contemplates confronting Morgan about her pregnancy when Taylor interrupts him.


Against All Odds Part III (The Wrath of Bridget)

" Is it true Rick, is Kimberly telling the truth?" Bridget looked determined at her brother who was shaking his head. " Look Budge…" " Don’t Budge me, Is it true? Has mother been sleeping with Thorne? " Rick stepped in front of his sister. He didn’t know that to do. " Look, you know that Kimberly’s been upset ever since the accident." " I don’t give a damn about Kimberly at this moment, I asked you a question big brother and if you don’t answer it, I’ll find someone who will! " Bridget walked angrily toward the door. Rick ran past her, closed the door and looked at his sister. Bridget looked at Rick and her face went from anger to astonishment. " Oh MY GOD. It is true, isn’t it? She’s at it again, she done it again!"

Kimberly walked into the showroom wearing the latest dress in the Princess Line. Giovanni walked over to her with his camera. " Kimberly, I’m so glad that you have decided to let go of your sadness and come back to work. Si, It does my heart good to know that you won’t let what happened to your sister color your world." " Is he crazy?". Kimberly thought, " The only reason I’d ever come back here to work would be to destroy this company from the inside out! " Kimberly smiled at Giovanni. " I know that you are right, I can’t let my sister’s accident stand in the way. I’ve made a commitment to Forrester and I intend to keep it." Kimberly walked over to the stage and moved the way Giovanni asked her to while he took his photos.

Thorne opened the door to Brooke’s office and silently moved into the room. " Yes that’s right Franco, we need you to ship those designs air mail. I thank you so much for the extra work that you have done. Yes, yes I will. You take care." Brooke with her back to the door put the phone down. Thorne grabbed Brooke whirled her around to face him and lifted her up. " Thorne! What are you doing?" A look of astonishment covered her face. " Well, I’m on a break and I thought that I’d come and spend it with you." Thorne kissed Brooke on the mouth and carried her over to the sofa were he dropped her with a laugh. Brooke landed on her back and she looked at him with amazement. Thorne took a quick jump and landed lightly on top of her. He kissed her neck with little bites. " I break, huh," Brooked leaned her head back so Thorne could have more room to nibble her neck.

"Bridget, it isn’t the way Kimberly says it is." Bridget turned away from Rick and walked toward the sofa in the photo room. " She has done this again. I can’t believe it. She had dad, Ridge and now Throne. What in the hell his wrong with her, has she no morals at all?" " Bridget you have got to calm down." " Calm down, calm down! Our mother is turning out to be a…be a… I don’t know. Is there is word for what she is?" Bridget ran her hands thorough her hair.
" What do you call a woman who has slept with three men in the same family. My god, if that wasn’t enough, two of them are our brothers." " Bridget.." Bridget whirled around to confront Rick. " You knew about this all along didn’t you? You knew about it and you didn’t tell me." Rick stood directly in front of Bridget. " I knew, I didn’t tell you because I didn’t think it was my right too. Mom….she had to tell you herself." " I can’t believe this, have you lost your morals when you married Amber, don’t you think that this is disgusting!"

" Thorne, sweetie come one you had better stop….it " Brooke was getting turned on and she moved away from Throne whose hands had already unbuttoned part of her blouse. His kisses had traveled down her neck and were moving steadily toward her breast. " No, I’m not done, I still have about 10 minutes left on my break." He moved his hands to unbutton another button. "Thorne! " Brooke grabbed his head between her hands and kissed him slowly. " You know ten minutes is not nearly enough time.", she whispered against his lips. " Now," she moved her hands down his chest and down further close to the bulge in is pants, " If we had at least an half an hour…" she moved her hand to lightly touch the bulge, "…this would be an interesting break. But…since we don’t.." Brooke pushed Thorne off her ran across the room. " we’ll have to stop." Thorne ran after Brooke, he grabbed and tickled her. " You think that is funny don’t you." " Yes! N o" Brooke squealed with laughter and struggled against Throne. " No, it isn’t funny." Brooke laughed and squirmed and she and Thorne fell on the floor with laughter.

" You might not think that there isn’t anything wrong with a mother who flaunts her sexuality in front of the whole world. Who breaks up her own marriage so she can marry her husband’s son? Who allows a little girl to believe that this wonderful man is her father and takes it away with an " I’m sorry, we made a mistake."? Who builds her own life and her children’s lives on a dream with a man she knows will end of leaving her. And who know decides, let me guess is in "love" with her children’s brother! You think that there is nothing wrong with that?!" Bridget’s face turns red with anger as she rages. Rick looks at Bridget with astonishment and worry. " Is that what you think Bridget… you know mom has made mistakes but….she loves you and all of those things weren’t her fault!" " Oh, course all of those things are her fault because she set herself up, she keeps going after and falling for those men in ….God our own family!" " Do you think that this stuff between her and Thorne will end any differently? It will end and mom will look like a tramp and a fool. She isn’t thinking about us and how this is going to effect us or the family." " Thorne, my god, he’s our brother and you know what will happen when they break up…he won’t come around anymore …just like Ridge! It will be all over because our own mother can’t keep her legs closed!" Bridget ran to the door and opened it. " Well, I’m going to stop her, I’m not going to lose Thorne too. She is going end this thing with him today! Bridget ran from the room and Rick ran to the door. " Bridget wait, you didn’t listen mom really loves Thorne! " Rick walked wearily into the room. " Gosh Budge, do you really think those things about mom? She had made mistakes, but she has always, always loved us." Rick’s heart hurt for mother and his sister.

Kimberly was in another outfit and was taking more pictures when she spotted Thorne who had come in talking to Megan who was in the back of the room. She watched him as he talked and when he turned his attention to her, she whirled around lost her balance and " accidentally " fell.
" Kimberly" Giovannie and Thorne both screamed her ran. They both ran to her but Thorne reached her first because Giovannie had to but his camera down. " Kimmy, are you okay, did you hurt yourself?" Thorne urgent words touched her heart. Tears sprang into her eyes. " I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. I don’t know what overcame me. I just say the flashes of light and it reminded me of the ….the fire." Kimberly started to cry Thorne wrapped his arms around her and held her. " I know, I know honey it’s hard". Kimberly basked in the warmth of Thorne’s arms and shuddered. "He is wonderful", she thought. " I know why you love him Macy." Thorne looked down at the shaken girl and filled with sadness, because of his decision not to be a man, he had not only hurt himself, Macy and Brooke, he had hurt innocent Kimberly.

Brooke smiled as she thought about the look on Megan’s face when she entered the off ice and found Brooke and Thorne laughing on the floor. Megan had some proofs and had wanted to show them to Brooke. Throne decided that his "break" was over and followed Megan out after kissing Brooke. Brooke’s eyes went to the photo of herself and her children. She hadn’t told Thorne that she was going to tell Bridget that night, he’d want to be there and help her, but she thought that she should be the one to tell Bridget.

Thorne looked at Kimberly’s ankle and touch it. " Ow" " Are you sure it really hurts, it doesn’t look swollen." " Yes it hurts right there." Kimberly guided Thorne’s finger against her ankle, and it felt good. " Well, I think that this is all that she can do today Gio. I’m going to have someone her home and put some ice on it." Kimberly’s inside were screaming; she needed him to take her home. "Please don’t, Thorne I wouldn’t feel comfortable having someone else take me home. I’m feeling tired, and I can’t stop thinking about Macy." Thorne looked at the Kimberly and felt terrible. " Well, I could do some of my work at home." Thorne picked up Kimberly and carried her out of the room. Kimberly put her head on Thorne’s chest and smiled. A day with Thorne all alone. She knew Brooke wouldn’t be coming over because she was going to have her hands filled with Bridget.

Brooke heard her office door swing up. " Thorne is that you with another one of your breaks.", she said with laughter. She looked up and saw Bridget looking at her with accusing eyes. The door slammed. " No mother, it isn’t your newest lover coming to have, hot and sweaty sex with this time!" Brooke looked shocked and stood up facing her daughter.

Against All Odds Part IV
(Review of Part3-Wrath of Bridget - Bridget confronts Rick and is distraught on finding out about Brooke and Thorne. Rick worries about comments Bridget makes against his mother and is worried for both her and Brooke. Brooke and Thorne play in her office, later she decides not to tell Thorne about her telling Bridget about their relationship. Kimberly falls on purpose during a photo shoot and conjules a reluctant Thorne to take her come. Bridget runs into Brooke's office to confront her mother. )

Against All Odds (Tears)

Brooke was shocked by the words that had come from her daughter's mouth. She knew that it was going to be difficult, but she didn't expect a reaction like this. " You know, you know about me and Thorne." Bridget moved toward her mother and had a haughty look on face. " Yes, I know all about you dirty little affair, with Thorne." Brooke walked around her desk toward Bridget. "
Bridget.." " No, don't even start. I can't believe that you would do this again! I shouldn't be surprised though, it had been a while since you had a man!" Brooke looked at Bridget and she didn't like tone of Bridget's voice.
" I know that you are upset, and I understand, but don't talk to me like that. I'm your mother and you aren't going to raise your voice to me in a disrespectful t." Bridget looked at her mother with disgust. " You are worried about my tone of voice. You have some nerve; you certainly aren't acting like someone who respects herself. You aren't worried about how trampy you are looking to the world. You've been having an affair with a married man, who is not only the third man from the same family, but my brother."

Kimberly laid in her soft canopy bed with her Forrester gown on. " A whole day with Thorne, what more can I ask, besides Brooke's head on a platter." " Kimberly, I made this icepack for you and it should help." Thorne came into the bedroom and sat down at the foot of the bed, he pulled back the bottom of her dress and placed the ice on her ankle. " Look at him, so sexy and so tender." Kimberly studied Thorne as he bent his head. She studied his hands that were her steadying her ankle, she looked at his muscular chest that was outlined in his gray shirt. In a flash before her eyes, she saw them together. On her bed, his lips roughly kissing her, his hand tearing at that gown her wore, then she saw them in her bed, her naked body riding on top of
his, her head thrown back with ecstasy, the way Brooke's had been last night. Thorne was moaning her name, " Kimberly, Kimberly, Kimberly". " A hand shook her, she jumped. " Kimberly, where were you just know?" " What?"
" I was calling you, what were you thinking about?" Kimberly heart was still racing from her dream. " Oh, I was just thinking about." " Hey" Thorne grabbed her hands, he turned then so her could see that bottom parts of her hands. He used his finger to trace a healing cut. " What happened to your hands?" Kimberly looked into Thorne's questioning eyes.

" Bridget it wasn't an affair." " Mother what do you call sleeping with a married man? How could you let this happen after all you went through with Ridge?" " Bridget.look, Thorne and I have always been close, we spent a lot of time together and one night.." Bridget backed away from her mother. " I get it, one night he was feeling lonely, you were there and you two had
sex!" " That's not what happened, if you'd only listen, you might understand." " Understand what? There is no excuse for you to be sleeping with Thorne especially when he was married to Macy. My god mother, I thought that you liked Macy!" " Of course, I liked her..you don't understand."
Brooke walked to Bridget and put her hand on her shoulders. " Honey .."
Bridget jerked away and looked at her mother as if she never wanted her to touch her again. Tears filled Brooke's eyes and she sighed. " First of all, I never slept with Thorne while he was married to Macy." Bridget looked at her mother like she didn't believe her. " Sweetheart, Thorne and I, we were together before he married Macy. We spent time together and our relationship changed, we....we started to explore how we felt and we realized that in all the years that we had know each other, we cared deeply for each other. From that, something wonderful happened." Brooke looked at Bridget with a small smile and tears in her eyes. " We fell in love, we didn't mean for it to happened. We knew the pain it would cause. Thorne tried to deny his feeling but he couldn't do it and I ..I fell in love." Bridget looked at her mother as if she was crazy. " You fell in love and do you know what he fell for mother? He fell for a nice experienced body, in the middle of the night. Do you really think that he loves you? Yeah, he loved you so much, he kept it a secert, he loved you so much , he married another woman, just like Ridge!"

" Kimberly, what happened? Kimberly snatched her hands back. " Nothing , nothing happened, it just.." Kimberly hid her head in shame. Thorne moved closer and used his fingers to pull Kimberly's head up so he could see her eyes. " Just what Kimberly, tell me." " Dreams", she whispered. " Dreams?" " Yes, I've been having bad ones since the .accident. I have them all the time. I see Macy and she's calling out to me. She's calling out for me to help her, I'm trying to get to her, to help her,but.but I can't." Pain leaped into Thorn's heart, he had been spending so much time worrying about his own pain that he hadn't given time to Kimberly like she needed. " In my dream, I'm at the car and I'm banging on the car window. I woke up last night and I was banging on the mirror in my bathroom, there was blood and I had cut myself." Kimberly started to weep harder covering eyes with her hands. Thorne took her into his arms and held her as she cried.

" Rick" Rick looked up at his father. " Yes dad?" " You haven't heard anything that I've said to you, are you okay? " Yes, I was just thinking." " Thinking about what?" " Nothing important dad.just little Eric." Eric walked over to his son and put his hands on his shoulders. " I know that this is hard for you son, not seeing Eric. I think that if you give it time, CJ will come around. He knows that you love Eric and this mess with Macy..well son, you had nothing to do with it. Eric's face changed into a menacing leer.
Rick watched his father's face and wondered what he was thinking. Did it have to do with little Eric or his mother? He had been wondering what his dad really thought about Thorne and Brooke, he knew that Stephanie didn't like it but what did his dad think? He hadn't been thinking about little Eric even though he missed him a great deal, he had been thinking about his sister. " You might not think that there isn't anything wrong with a mother who flaunts her sexuality in front of the whole world. Who breaks up her own marriage so she can marry her husband's son? Who allows a little girl to believe that this wonderful man is her father and takes it away with an " I'm sorry, we made a mistake."? Who builds her own life and her children's lives on a dream with a man she knows will end of leaving her. And who know decides, let me guess is in "love" with her children's brother! You think that there is nothing wrong with that?" His sister's words echoed in his head. He didn't know what to do, if Bridget felt like this, then it meant that she and mom would be having a lot of problems in the future. Maybe he had better move back home, his mom was going to need some support. If he moved back home, that might mean having to give up in little Eric. There was no way CJ would ever allow him to see him if he lived with his mom.

" Bridget, there is a long story about why Thorne married Macy, but I'm not going to get into that with you." " Why not, I want to know the entire sordid story." " I'm not going to get into it with you, lets just say that Thorne was deceived into thinking I betrayed him, and I didn't. He married Macy because he thought I didn't love him." " Mom, he was always going to marry Macy." NO! He had asked me to marry him, we were engaged." Bridget turned toward her mother with shock in her eyes. " What! You were engaged to him, you were going to get married again and not tell me, just like with Grant." " No, we were going to tell you, we had to keep our relationship a secret because of Stephanie, she was sick and had a stroke. Listen baby, I
know that I made a terrible mistake marrying Grant without letting you know.
I wouldn't do that to you again." Bridget looked at her mother and softens a bit. She moved toward her and took her hands. " Mom, don't you see. You were doing fine, you always are, until a man comes into your life. That's when you start not believing in yourself, you believe all the lies that they say.
Thorne is good man, but he wasn't ever going to really marry you. Yeah, he cares but he was probably feeling lonely and I know you were too and maybe you were there for each other." Bridget shuddered and looked at Brookes with sympathy. " But that's all it was mom. You can't help yourself; you want to be accepted so much that you become a walking mat. Your love for Ridge, its been a part of you forever and you were so sad that he left that you..you transferred it to Thorne. I know that you think that you really love Thorne, but you don't. It's wrong. Mom, you have to end it. You have to end it today!" Bridget looked at her mother with concern and tears.

Kimberly eased out of Thorne's arms. "I got to get out of this dress or I'm going to ruin it. I need come help, could you help me?" Thorne helped her up and she limped to the closet and took out a robe. Thorne went to leave the room. " Don't go, I may need your help because of my ankle and all. Thorne turned around and Kimberly maneuvered her and turned around facing Thorne's back, she dropped the dress, her bra and panties. She put the robe on but took her time and didn't close it.. " Okay Thorne" Thorne looked up and directly in front him was a mirror in the mirror he saw Kimberly's naked body on display. He quickly closed his eyes. Kimberly smiled and tied a knot around her waist. She felt a thrill shoot down her breast and lower between her legs." "Kimberly, I'd had better go." Thorne slowly opened his eyes and saw through the mirror that she was covered. " If you need anything just call me." " But Thorne, aren't you going to stay for a while?" Thorne looked at Kimberly strangely. " No, I'd better go, I still have some work to do. I'll come by tomorrow so we can talk okay. Thorne walked over to Kimberly and cupped her face in his hands. " You'll be fine, I promise that I will help you." Thorne went to his house, he was very concerned about Kimberly, and she needed professional help. He was also a bit disturbed about seeing a naked Kimberly; it really wasn't because she was naked but because it was almost as if she had intended him to see her. " Thorne, what are you talking about? Kimberly is just a kid, Macy's sister, she didn't know what she was doing." Thorne let the thought go and made a call to James Warick.

" Bridget if you would listen." A tear ran down Brooke cheek. " I know that it's strange and I have mad a lot of mistakes. You're right, for a long time all I ever wanted was to be accepted and to be loved by Ridge. I don't anymore. I don't love Ridge anymore.." " How can you stand there and lie to me mom! Bridget was becoming angry again. " I know. IKNOW! I know how you loved him, how he hurt you when he left us. I heard the tears that you cried, I heard you pacing late at night. I also know that all of his words were lies, when he said that he'd still come around and he didn't. I know that he makes broken promises." Brooke saw the pain etched in her daughter's face. "It doesn't matter, none of this does. It doesn't matter how this thing with Thorne stated, all I know is that you are going to end it mother. " Bridget, you aren't listening.." " I've listened enough.." " Bridget, if you'd give a chance you'll see how happy Thorne makes me and we love each other. I know you'd understand if you tried, after all you love Thorne too."
" I can't believe this! Do you hear yourself " I know he loves me!" " God mother, you don't get it!" " I don't give a damn about what you think Thorne feels!" You don't even care how I feel about this.you are going to do whatever you want no matter how it looks, how I feel! " You are just going to stand there or should I say lay there with your legs open being nothing but the family whore!" Brooke slapped Bridget hard. Bridget rocked to the side, looked at her mother in shock and anger while she touched her face.
Brooke looked shaken but that looked turned to anger. " Don't you ever talk to me like that again. I've taken it from Stephanie, Sally, Macy and even Kimberly. The buck stops here, I will not allow MY OWN DAUGTHER to talk to me in that manner! I'm sorry that you don't like Thorne and me and I'm sorry if you think that I don't care about you and your wants. I've always been a good mother and yes, I've made mistakes but I don't deserve to you talk to me that way!" Bridget looked at her mother, she felt remorse for the things that she said but when she thought about her mother and Thorne, the remorse disappeared. Bridget looked at her mother with contempt and slammed out of the room.
" Bridget.." Brooke's voice cracked as she touched the door with her hands.
" Baby, I'm so sorry. I didn't want it to be like this!" She turned and she broke down with huge racking sobs from deep inside of her and cried.

Kimberly walked over to the standing mirror in her bedroom. She slowly touched her reflection and it came to life. " You let him go!" " No, he had some work to do," "What are you stupid, he couldn't wait to get out of here, you ruined everything." No I didn't, didn't you see he cupped my face.
Kimberly closed her eyes and remembered his touch, she continued to talk to her mirror self. " Didn't you see the way be looked at my body, its young and untried, men like that?" " No, all I saw was a man who felt uncomfortable. You had better do better next time, he won't hold off from marrying that bitch for long." " Don't worry about Brooke. I took care of
it, she'll be to busy with Bridget to spend time with Thorne. " You had better be right, we don't have much time." " Thorne will be ours, I promise you." Kimberly touched the mirror and the reflection changed into a shirtless Thorne. " I love you Kimberly." said mirror Thorne. Kimberly smiled a demented smile.

Against All Odds ( Part 4 Review ( Tears ) Bridget and Brooke come to odds about Brooke’s involvement with Thorne. Brooke slaps an angry Bridget when things get heated. Rick considers moving back him with his mom to help and Bridget, but wonders how it will effect his relationship with little Eric. Kimberly " accidentally " allows Thorne to see her naked. Thorne calls James Warick. Kimberly has a conversation with a mirrored self.)

Against All Odds Part 5 (Ideas)
(2 Days Later)

Brooke stood as on patio over looking the mountains and the city below. She drank heavily from a mug of hot tea. Weariness and worry are etched in her face. The last two days had been pure hell for her. Even Stephanie’s and Kimberly’s attacks were nothing compared to the emotional attack that was waging inside of her. Her daughter had yet to come home. The first night had been hell; she called all of Bridget’s friends waited by the phone all night. It wasn’t until Rick called her and told her where Bridget was that she finally relaxed, she decided to let Bridget stay where she was. Yesterday Bridget had stayed at Rick’s and she wanted desperately to go over there but Thorne had talked her out of it. It told her to give her some time to think. Thorne had been so wonderful about this, he held her when she cried yesterday and told her that they would get through it. He had offered to spend the night, she declined thinking that it would be better for him to go home just in case Bridget decided to come home. She’d give Bridget one more day and if she didn’t come home, she’d get her. She was sorry about the way things had turned out. Her heart hurt, she couldn’t lose Bridget. She loved her too much.

Bridget played with her eggs on her plate. She looked at her brother who smiled and took her hand. " Budge, I know that you were and probably still mad at me, but neverless, I’m glad that you came here." She did love her brother and even though she was upset that he knew about mom and Thorne, she just couldn’t stay mad at him forever. " It wasn’t your fault." " It wasn’t mom’s fault either." " There you go again!" Bridget got up so hard from the table; she knocked over the vase holding flowers. " I told you, I don’t want to talk about HER!" Rick sighed; he looked at his sister and hugged her. " This is going to be much harder than I thought." He thought.

Taylor felt little kisses on the side of her neck. " Umm. I just love waking up with you in them mornings. You are so entertaining Mr. Forrester." " I try to aim to please, Doc." Ridge continued with his kisses. He quickly found the hem to the bottom to her nightgown and slowly tugged it up. Taylor leaned toward loving the feel of his hands on her body. Ridge quickly divested himself of pajama bottoms and was more than ready to fulfill the dream that he had the following night. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. " Mom and Dad?" Taylor turned toward the door hearing the call of her son. " Sorry Ridge, but duty calls." Taylor got up from the bed and put on her robe. " I don’t know what has gotten into you, ever since I came back from dad’s you’ve been more than armarous. Taylor winked at Ridge and answered the door. Ridge’s good mood changed instantly when Taylor mentioned her trip. Damn you Morgan, he thought. He’d better have that little talk with her today, mother was wrong, it was a mistake, there was no way that she was going to have his baby.


Thorne looked at a picture of Brooke. He ran his finger down the picture and thought of his ladylove. He saw her in his mind, the way she had looked in Venice, full of joy and happiness. He then though of the way she had looked yesterday. She looked weak, her eyes red with tears fatigue from a sleepless night and worry. The thought about how she told him of her argument with Bridget and how badly it had gone. He wanted to take away her pain, she had gone through enough with his own family, and she didn’t need it from Bridget. He knew that he couldn’t blame it on Bridget, she had gone through so much as a child. He just didn’t want Brooke to hurt; she deserved to be happy. " Some way I am going to do it Brooke. I will make you happy, I’m going to help Bridget along with this…I will make it work. He was dying to go to Brooke’s to be there for her, but she had asked him not too, and it was killing him. He had held her when she cried and his own tears had flown to see her in such pain because of him and their love.

Kimberly paced back and forth in her house in a manic fashion. She was so angry that she didn’t go to school, she called her professor told him she was sick. She looked at the remains of what would have been a romantic dinner. The candles had burned out, the chicken had dried out. She picked up a plate of fresh vegetable, now soggy and threw them across the room. " I told you that he messed up! said a voice in her head. " No, I didn’t. He said that he’d be by." " What he said and what he did are two different things. You know where he was last night don’t you. He was in that bitch’s bed!" " Shut UP! You think that I don’t know that. He should have been here with me, he said that he would come over!" Kimberly went to the table and threw all of the food off of it. In a rage and hit the table and grabbed a bat, she hit the table again and again.
" Kimberly!" She turned around and saw Brooke.

" Bridget..Look I know that we don’t see eye to eye about this thing with mom and Thorne."" You’re damn right we don’t. I listened to you all last night, with your defense about mom and Thorne’s love. Nothing has changed, I don’t like it and I think that it is immoral." " Bridget there is also the things that you said about Ridge, I think that you still have some issues.."
Bridget backed away from Rick; the mere mention of Ridge caused her to flinch. " Don’t bring him up, making the problem be about him or me isn’t going to work! The problem is mom, something has to be done.." Bridget sat on Rick’s bed. She was tired off all the arguing nothing was going to change her mind, nothing. She had to stop her mother and Thorne; she had too for her sake, the family’s and most importantly her mother’s sake.

" Megan, I think that I’m going to work at home again today. What! Well tell Stephanie that I just don’t have time to talk to her and Megan don’t tell her where I am." Brooke hung up the phone, the last thing she needed was see that old battle-ax. " I should have pressed charges against you when I had the chance. There is no way that you and Eric can find out that Bridget has run away again, it would only make matters worse." Brooke took out her photo album and looked at pictures of Bridget when she was a new-born, when she walked her first steps she went on looking at various photo’s of her daughter. She finally looked at one of her Bridget and Ridge. " I wish that I knew how much having Ridge in our lives has effected you. I’m sorry that you feel that way you do." Tears formed in her eyes when she thought about the pain that she had inadvertently caused her child. She would make it up to her; she would make her understand. She’d prove to her daughter that she and Thorne would never let her down.

" Bridget, if you’d just give mom and Thorne a chance, they would prove to you that they love each other." " Rick, you aren’t paying attention. What Thorne and mom have won’t last, he’ll get pressured from the family and she’ll just realize that she was using him as a substitute from Ridge. In the mean time, I’ll have to deal with all the ridicule at school about my trampy mother." Rick was speechless, he too had had problems when he was in school, and in time he had learned to ignore others. No matter what, his mother had loved him but it took him time to realize that " Besides when the word get out them, people are going to think that mom had something to do with Macy’s death." "You know that she didn’t, she made a mistake, and she didn’t want anything bad to happen to her. Bridget sighed, in her heart she knew no matter what, her mother didn’t mean to cause the accident. " I know this, but the press isn’t going to tell it like that, mom shouldn’t have never taken those papers to Macy. No one is going to forget about that and we all know who they are going to blame, mother. " Like you are Bridget. Like the way you are blaming mom for what happened with Ridge all those years ago." Bridget jumped from the bed. " I told you I don’t want to talk about RIDGE! He’s not the issue, mom is. Don’t you know that Thorne is going to leave too as soon as things get heavy for him? Bridget knew she had to stop her mother and Thorne before it was too late, but how? " You are wrong about Thorne, I found out last night that Stephanie and the rest of the family have disowned him because of mother. He had to make a choice and he chose our mother." Bridget’s eyes lit up with interest. Rick’s phone rang and he didn’t see the interested look in Bridget’s eyes. Thorne was disownment had given her an idea.

Brooke’s image appeared to Kimberly in her beach house. " Did you really think that this little dinner was going to entice Thorne. Come on sweetie, you’re playing with the big girls now." Brooke’s image was clad in a black teddy with matching garters. She sneered at Kimberly when she talked. " I’ve taken Stephanie’s, Taylor’s and Macy’s husbands without blinking, and did you think that your little attempt at seduction was going to work?" Brooke’s image laughed at Kimberly. " You are going to have to do better to complete with me, you don’t even know how to satisfy a man like Thorne. Brooke’s image walked toward Kimberly and whispered in her ear. " You wouldn’t even sleep with my son, what makes you think that you can satisfy a man like Thorne with a veracious appetite for sex?" Kimberly looked at Brooke’s image and it disappeared. " Rick, Rick will be the key." Kimberly looked around, saw the mess and started to clean; Brooke’s image had just given her another idea.

Rick hung the phone up and turned toward his sister. " Bridget.." " Rick, I’m ready to go home now." Rick looked at his sister in a skeptical gaze. " You are?" " Yes, only if you are willing to come home." " Bridget, I’d love to but.." Bridget ran across the room and hugged Rick. " Please, you don’t have to stay forever, only for a couple of days to help me out. Please Rick, I’m going to need you." Rick looked into his sister’s pleading eyes and knew that she was right. Just because she’d decided to go home didn’t mean that anything had changed. His mother had been distraught yesterday and he didn’t know how long she could keep it together. " Okay, okay Budge, I’ll come home." " Thank you Rick!" " Budge, it’s only going to be for a few days, okay." Bridget smiled.

Thorne finished calling Rome to order the materials that he needed for Morgan’s design. He noticed the piece of paper lying next to his phone. Dr. Staten had been recommended to him by James Warick for a doctor for Kimberly. He knew that he had to help Kimberly and James had said that he was one of the best. Maybe he’d stop by Kimberly’s and talk to her, but first he’d call Brooke because he needed just to hear her voice.

Kimberly had cleaned up the house. She knew exactly what two things that she had to do next. Both involved Brooke’s children Rick and Bridget. Brooke had given her a wonderful idea. She picked up the phone and called Rick. The phone rang and the answer machine picked up. " Rick, its Kimberly, I need to see you, it’s important, please call me." She’d have to get things straight with Rick, she’d have to start their relationship again and this time she’d take it to the next step. She made another call, this time to Bridget’s phone and she left another important message.

Brooke hung up the phone. Thorne’s call was healing but she really needed her daughter. The door opened and she turned to see Rick and Bridget. " Mom" Rick came and hugged his mother. She smiled and then turned to Bridget went to hug her. Bridget backed up and Brooke stopped.
Brooke looked disappointed. " It’s not going to be easy mother." Brooke looked at her son knowing that he was right. " Mom, I’m home to stay. " Brooke looked relived at her daughter.
" But there are going to be some changes. I don’t like the idea about you and Thorne, but there is nothing that I can do about it. I don’t think that I was wrong about the things that I said yesterday, it’s a mistake. I just don’t want to witness your immoral behavior. I will be willingly to stay at home but only it I don’t have to see you and Thorne together. I don’t want him coming around here, I don’t want to see him ever!" Brooke didn’t know what to say, she wasn’t sure if she should give in to the demands of a teenager, but she wanted her daughter. " If you can’t agree to that then I’ll have to live with dad and Stephanie." Rick and Brooke were shocked by Bridget’s demand. " Bridget, you don’t mean that." said a surprised Rick. Brooke studied her daughter’s serious face and thought for a moment." No Rick, it’s okay. Bridget, I’ll agree to your demands, for now. You won’t have to see Thorne and I together, I’ll ask him not to come over, if that means that you are willing to come home." Brooke looked wearily at her daughter, tired of all the fighting and thankful to god that she had come home.

Bridget walked up the stairs to her room and smiled. Her mother had agreed she had been scared at first that she wouldn't. She didn’t want to live with her father and had not intention to but her mother didn’t know that ; she’d won a small battle. It was just the beginning of the end for her mom and Thorne, just the beginning. Thorne wasn’t going to be coming over and she was going to make sure that her mom stayed busy with her. Soon he’d get tired of not having his family; he’d give up on her mother. Forrester men never stayed committed long; she was counting on that. Bridget played the messages on her answering machine heard Kimberly’s voice and it reminded of the meeting she had missed days ago. She had forgotten in all the mess that she’d told Kimberly she’d meet her. " What do you want Kimberly?" Bridget was going to find out. Most importantly she was going to do everything in her power to end her mother’s relationship even if that meant playing dirty. She’s spent her life watching the members of her family play dirty one way or another. No one could play dirty like the Forrester’s and her name wasn’t Bridget Forrester for nothing….well maybe the Newmans played dirtier but that was a different story.

Against All Odds ( Review Part 5 Brooke worries about Bridget who didn’t come home. Kimberly is enraged that Thorne didn’t visit her but has an idea that involved Rick and Bridget. Rick decides to live at Brooke’s for a few days to help Bridget adjust. Bridget finds out about Thorne’s disownment and gives Brooke and ultimation about Thorne. Ridge decided to confront Morgan about the baby.)

Against All Odds Chapter6 (Partners/Lovers/Enemies)

Bridget knocked on the door to Kimberly’s house. " Whatever you want Kimberly, it had better be important." Kimberly opened the door. " This had better be important, I’ve got a lot of things to do." Bridget walked into Kimberly’s home with attitude. " Bridget I wouldn’t have called you if it wasn’t." Bridget looked around the room. " Don’t tell me, you want advice about my brother?" Kimberly had no idea what Bridget was talking about. " No, it has nothing to do with you brother. I want to talk about your mother." Bridget’s face went from annoyance to anger. " My mother, why would you want to talk about her?"

Morgan ran up to her porch on her beach house. Running was an excellent way to stay into shape. " We are going to be healthly, my little one." She patted her tummy as she spoke. She opened the front door, she started to strip off her clothes, and by the time she reached her bedroom she was only in her bra and pair of panties. She came into her bedroom. " Oh my god, what are you doing here?" Ridge was sitting in the chair next to the bassinet. Ridge stood up and looked menacing at Morgan. " What in the hell is this?" he said pointing to the bassinet. He walked over to Morgan and pulled her roughly toward the bassinet. " Who in the hell is this for! Answer me, damn you!"

(In Italy)
A man lay in his bed sleeping while tossing and turning, suddenly he woke with a start with perspiration beaded on his forehead. He reached over toward the nightstand and cut on the lights which filled the darkened with brightness. He was in his mid 30’s, with a muscular body and dark hair that reached just above his shoulders. His large bedroom was powerful and decorated in a rich masculine style. He got up from the bed and walked sublimely naked to the sofa where an open photo album lay. Pain etched his face as he studied photo after photo of a beautiful blond woman. Voices from past memories flooded his brain. " You can’t leave me, I won’t allow it." " Won’t allow it, do you here yourself, you don’t own me!" A woman’s enraged voice echoed. " You’re mine, you gave yourself to me and I will never let you go." " I gave myself to you because I loved you but you aren’t same man I loved, you’re a monster." The man closed the photo and his eyes. The pain was still there; every night was the same. He who was most powerful was tormented by the woman who was part of his soul. " I leaving and never coming back!" The woman’s voice echoed again in his head. (The woman’s voice was Brooke’s.)

Brooke felt wonderful in Thorne’s strong arms. Thorne kissed the top of her head and continued to stroke her back. Tears fell from Brooke’s eyes as she stepped out of his embrace. " It’s okay, sweetie, we have to give her time." Throne pulled Brooke’s tear-stained face toward his and kissed her gently. " I love you." Brooke took her fingers and traced his lips. " I love you too."
They put their head together staring intensely at each other.

" If you are going to stand there and defend my mother and Thorne, then I don’t want to hear about it. I’ve heard enough from Rick." Kimberly walked out to the deck and observed Brooke’s car in Thorne’s driveway. " I not going to defend your mother. Have you forgotten that because of her, my sister’s dead?" Bridget was more than surprised by the sound of venom in Kimberly’s voice. She walked to the deck and saw her mother’s car. She closed her eyes in disgust. " She couldn’t wait for a few minutes before she can running over to see him, could she?" Kimberly heard the anger in Bridget’s voice and smiled. She turned around and studied Bridget’s face. " You don’t like the idea of them do you?" " No, I don’t, I think that my mother is making a mistake. She and Thorne shouldn’t be together." " I agree with you Bridget, Thorne and your mother shouldn’t be allowed to be happy, not after what happened to Macy. That’s’ my I invited you here, if you feel the same way I do, maybe we could work together to make sure that they won’t be? I have an idea that I’d love to run by you."

" Ridge, get your hands off of me!" Ridge only pulled her tighter on her arms and Morgan knew that she was going to have bruises because of him. " I’m hurting you, you have no idea of what I’m capable of!" Morgan struggled as Ridge pulled her across the room. " Tell me, who is for?"
" What…what are you talking about?" Morgan was scared; she had never seemed Ridge like this." Don’t lie to me, who in the hell is this for?" Morgan wasn’t about to be bullied in her own home. " You want to know who this is for, alright, I’ll tell you, it’s for me! It’s for our child. The one that you laid in that bed and gave it to me." Ridge looked at Morgan with murder in his eyes. He backed away because if he didn’t, he’d do something that he’d never done before in his life, strike a woman. Morgan saw the strange look in his eyes but decided her bullying days was over. " I’m sorry that you had to find out this way, but you couldn’t leave well enough alone."
" What are you talking about, I couldn’t leave things alone, you are the one who tricked me into your bed!" " Did I really have to trick you Ridge, it didn’t take much at all. You were more than a willing participant." " Morgan, you are crazy, I didn’t want to sleep with you and you know it!" " Really, well I think that I have something that might just dispute that fact." Ridge watched her as she headed over to the nightstand and pulled out a video tape." " What in the hell is that Morgan?" Morgan looked at Ridge and smiled. " Ridge it’s a tape of that night. It a tape that I made of you and me making love in this bed." Ridge stood back stunned. " You can’t possibly be that sick? You wouldn’t make a video of that." Morgan advanced toward Ridge, all of the fear was gone, she had an Ace and she intended to play it. " It is a video and I made it, you were so busy helping me that you didn’t even notice it. Do you really think that your wife is going to believe that you weren’t an active participant once she sees this video? She’s going to know all about how much you had to " fight " poor Morgan." Ridge’s face turned red in anger. " Tell me Ridge, how long had it been since you had it like that? I mean Taylor is wonderful and all, but I don’t think that she’d be willing to do some of the things that we did that night. You’ve been lying to yourself because you know that you really liked it and this video shows that. I don’t think that you’ve had it so good since me…..well I don’t know, I heard that Brooke was spectacular in the bed." Ridge went toward Morgan and grabbed the tape. " Take it Ridge, I have copies. Just think about that little tape when you decided to threaten me, that’s what you were going to do weren’t you threaten me. Ridge nostrils flared with anger, he stalked out the room and Morgan heard the front door slam. Morgan sat down on the bed. " Sorry Ridge, but I’ll do anything to protect our child from even you."

" It’s okay honey, I understand why you told her that you’d be willing to go along with her demands. She’s going through a rough patch and this is hard for her, you did the right thing." Thorne kissed Brooke gently, it hurt him to know that Bridget was so dead set against them, but he’d expected something like this. " Just give her time and she will come around." Brooke walked away from Thorne’s arms feeling like she was torn in two, she wanted them both, Thorne and Bridget. " Do you really think that, your family didn’t?" " Thorne sighed and he followed Brooke, he turned her around in his arms. " My family is different, they are using their own want and needs as a reason for us not to be together. This is a totally different matter. Bridget is truly concerned, she loves you and it is strange that you have been with dad and Ridge." Brooke gave Thorne an annoyed look. " We knew this was going to happened, but I think in time she will change her mind. She will see how happy you are and then she will realize that I am not like Ridge and I won’t leave you." " She loves you, you do know that, She doesn’t blame you for this Thorne, she blames me, they all do." " Brooke that the unfair thing about all of this. Everyone keeps acting like I’m some teenager who has gotten caught in some siren’s call." Thorne enclosed Brooke in his arms and rubbed the top of her head with his chin. " Believe me, you have cast a spell over me, but I know exactly what I’m doing. I love you and nothing and no one will ever change that." He kissed Brooke slowly with passion. " We just have to give her some time Thorne.’ " I know honey, I know."

" You want me to do what!" Bridget thought that Kimberly’s plan was totally crazy. " It won’t work." " Yes it will, if you do it the way that I’ve planned it, it will work. Brooke and Thorne will be over" Bridget paced and turned before Kimberly. " What about my brother, I don’t want him hurt over this, he’d been through enough with Amber." " Don’t worry about Rick, you know that I love him and I’d never to anything to hurt him." " But you just said that you’d…." "I know that I said, but Rick won’t find out about it." Bridget looked at Kimberly in a suspicious manner. " Why are you doing this? I can’t believe that you’d come up with a plan like this." " What, did you think that I was stupid or something?" " No…well, I just thought you were really innocent. I could see Amber coming up with something like this but not you." Kimberly stood directly in front of Bridget and looked at her seriously. " What about you, can YOU go through with this. It’s really going to hurt your mother." Bridget knew that Kimberly was right, it was going to really hurt her mother badly. She walked outside on the deck, through Thorne’s window she could see her mother being held by Thorne. It had to end, she thought. " Yes, I can do it. I’ll hurt her for a while but in the end she will see that it would have ended anyway." Kimberly and Bridget both observed Brooke and Thorne. Kimberly’s eyes moved to Bridget. What a fool she thought, she’s making this so easy.

(In Italy)

A large male dressed in all black walks into a fancy office where a beautiful woman in her mid 30’s with dark red hair and a black suit is talking. " I don’t care what he said. You tell him that if the shipment isn’t there on time then our family will be very disappointed and he doesn’t want that." The woman looked up at the man and continued her conversation. The man put a magazine in front of her. The woman, who was always in total control looked at the photo, glanced at the man and continued to talk. " Have it done, send the message. If the shipment isn’t there, you know what to do." The woman hung up the phone and looked at the man. " You may leave, thank you." The man left the room. The woman picked up the magazine, in it was a photo of Ridge, Eric, and Thorne who all surrounded Brooke. The woman touched Brooke’s face on the picture. " Brooke Logan , I’ve found you. What am I going to do now?" The woman opened the drawer to her desk and laid the magazine down next to a 9 milimeter with an attached silencer. She closed the drawer and sat back in her chair.


* I’ve decided to be more like Dot’s and other by adding new characters. I might be changing the direction of the story a little. Even though this was supposed to be like a spin off on what Bell might do, the idea of Kimberly and Thorne for real is getting to me. If Thorne on the show can’t be faithful to Brooke this story will probably change. Even if he is the addition of the two new characters will still be interesting. By the way, I haven’t named them yet, even though I have some ideas. Let me know your suggestions. One male name and female name please. By the way, these two characters will be aggressive and important to the development of Brooke’s character, but they won’t be crazy.

Against All Odds

(Chapter 6 Bridget and Kimberly team up to destroy Brooke and Thorne. Thorne agrees to Bridget’s demand that he doesn’t come to Brooke’s house. Ridge finds that Morgan has made a sex tape of them together. A mystery man replays an argument that he had with a woman who may be Brooke. A mystery woman sees Brooke’s picture and puts it next to a gun.)

Against All Odds ( Kimberly’s Machinations)

Rick looked at Kimberly sunning herself on the beach. God he though to himself, she was absolutely beautiful. He couldn’t stop looking at her. Thank god she had come to her senses and their relationship seemed to be back on track. Even though he thought that she still might harbor some resentment toward his mother, she seemed to be doing better. " Rick, could you help me with this lotion?" Kimberly lay down on the towel and untied the back of her bikini top. Rick rubbed the oil on her back. " Ohhh! Rick, that feels so good." Rick knew that it felt good on his end, he loved the feel of her soft back. Kimberly smiled and suddenly turned around. Rick’s hands suddenly made contact with her bared breast. Rick stunned eyes took in Kimberly’s breasts which we beautiful in the sun. He was aroused and wanted her, it had been a long time since he had made love. He looked into her eyes and was surprised to see the passion there.
" Kimberly?" Kimberly lowered his head toward her breast and moaned with pleasure as he captured her nipple with his mouth. Kimberly looked at Rick as his mouth made love to her breast, she felt nothing. Rick was only a boy to her now, she couldn’t believe that she had once been so upset that he was married to Amber. He was nice enough she supposed, but he wasn’t Thorne. She thought about Thorne and how he smiled at her. She thought about what it would feel like to have his mouth on her breast. She opened her eyes and when she looked the mouth on her it wasn’t was it was Thorne’s. Rick cupped her breast and saw all of the passion in her eyes. He wanted her; he wanted to make love to her. He slipped her bikini bottoms off of her and after finding no resistance, he found her with his fingers. He moved to kiss her passionately and Kimberly felt his fingers invading her and she wanted more. " Yes, please don’t stop" she moaned in an urgent voice. He was wonderful, he played with her body, his mouth licking and tasting her tongue and moving down toward her breast. His fingers moved in and out of her body until she screamed.

" Mr. Forrester, I got your message and I talked to James Warrick." " Yes, I’d like it if you would come to talk with Kimberly’s tonight, I’m worried about her." " I don’t usually make house calls but I will make an exception for you, but you must understand that she has to want help herself." " I know that you are right, but she just needs some coaxing. I think that I can convince her." " Well, with a friend like you, I’m sure that she will be doing better."
Thorne thought of Kimberly, when he saw her at work that morning she told him that Rick would be coming over to spend time with her. She had been to work and had finished her photo shoot. It seemed that in the last week she had been doing better, but she still needed to additional help.

Bridget listened to the answer machine. " Brooke honey, I called Dr. Staten and he said that he would be willing to help Kimberly. I want to move our dinner back an hour or so, call me if there is a problem. I love you." Bridget erased the message from the answering machine and called her mother’s cell phone. Her mother was so trusting that she had no problem to finding the code, she erased the messages there given by Thorne. Bridget picked up phone and called Dawn. " Dawn you remember that club Carlos that you told me about, well I want to go tonight. I’ve got an ID and it says I’m 21. Yeah, don’t worry, my mom won’t find out."Bridget hung up the phone glanced at the shopping bags on the bed. She took out her outfit for that night. Her mother was going to find out where she was and she was going to flip when she saw it. Tonight was just the beginning; she had been and planned to continue to display a rebellious attitude. She and Kimberly had started things already with the little things like tonight and Bridget’s new " attitude " in school. It was just the beginning, by the time they were finished with the big plan, her mother and Thorne would be over. Bridget made two more phone calls, one to Mary Andrew, who had the biggest mouth and the other was to Kimberly.

Rick walked into his mom’s house. It was close to 8 and he had spent most of the evening driving around and letting go of his sexual tension. Kimberly had really changed, she was more sensual and she had almost let him make love to her. He had been so close to having her but in the end she changed her mind stating that she needed more time. Rick poured himself a drink and thought about her body, which was beautiful. He had thought that she didn’t want to see him again, but she had changed her mind in the last week she had acted like she loved him. She hadn’t come to his mom’s house because she still had issues with his mom, but he’d help her get over it. Thorne had been a good deal of help with her, she had told him and he was grateful. Too bad that wasn’t helping mom and Bridget’s relationship, things were strained. Bridget was hardly speaking to mom and she’d cut class twice this week. He had kept it from his mother thinking that she was going through enough, but he didn’t know what to do. Thorne had been calling and that caused a big blow out between the two of them. Bridget was so angry that she had told mom not to come to the mother daughter luchenoun at school because she didn’t want her friends’ mom’s to laugh at her whorish mother. Rick had seen the look of pain in his mother’s face, he confronted Bridget about her horrid remark but she had stayed strangely quiet. Rick noticed the note on the coffee table.

" Kimberly, this is Doctor Dr. Staten." Kimberly shook the hands of the doctor and smiled. Oh great she thought, just what I need a quack. Kimberly sat down on Thorne’s deck and studied him quickly before her attention to the doctor." " I really appreciate you coming to see me, Thorne knew that I was so nervous. I’m lucky to have a friend like him." Thorne sat next to Kimberly and took her hand in his. " She’s a wonderful girl, and I want to help her." Kimberly grasped tighter at Thorne’s hand and gazed at him. Dr. Staten noticed the look and concern swept through his face." " Well, young lady, lets begin."


Rick continued to read his economic book for class. His mother had called an hour ago and told him that she’d be at Thorne’s. She hadn’t been able to spend much time with him this last week. He told her that Bridget was at Dawn’s house and that he’d had sure that she got in time for her curfew.

" Thank you so much, I really appreciate you talking to her." Dr. Staten was worried by what he had seen in young Kimberly. " Thorne we can’t talk right now, but tomorrow, I need to see you, it’s important." " What’s wrong?" " Thorne….I’ll I can tell you is that she really needs help and I think that she’s depending on you to much." Thorne was worried. " I know, it’s just that I think that I’m the closest thing to family to her. She needs my help, but don’t worry, I’ll see you tomorrow." " Thorne…." Thorne looked toward the deck and saw Kimberly smiling at him. " I’ll see you tomorrow." Dr. Staten walked out of Thorne’s house. " That girl needs help and fast.". Thorne walked over to Kimberly and saw that she was upset. " Hey, what’s wrong." Tears formed in her eyes. " I don’t know, it just that Dr. Staten he was nice but I don’t think that he liked me."" What are you saying?" " I don’t know. I don’t think I like having a stranger picking my brain, telling him about Macy. I don’t want to talk with him, all I need is someone who can understand me." Kimberly turned toward Thorne. " Thorne I need someone like you especially after what happened with Rick today."

Brooke was running late, an hour. After dealing with Eric and his demands, she had a problem with Giovionne. The recent photo’s taken last week of Kimberly for Vogue and the others for Cosmo were ruined. Someone has taken some sort of liquid and acciendly poured it into the bottles containing Givionnie's solutions for the photos and they were all ruined. If that wasn’t enough, the negatives had disappeared. The magazines had to go on without the Forrester pictures, which were the main feature in Vogue. She was mad as hell and Forrester had looked bad. This mistake had cost Forrester some of money. The stress was getting to her, Bridget’s behavior, and Eric’s snide remarks, not seeing Thorne and then there was Kimberly.


A beautiful woman with fiery red hair sat conformably in her private plane; she had a meeting scheduled in New York. There was a legitimate business meeting with some company shareholders who were about to find that there business had been taken over. " Isabelle, would you like a drink." She looked up from the folder in front of her. " Yes Christo" The well-muscled man in black gave her a drink and sat across from her. He took off his jacket and she saw the gun that was nestled in its holster. " Are you still reading about her?" Isabelle gave Christo a cold stare, he knew better than to ask her questions. After a few minutes she answered him, letting him know that she only did because she wanted to. " Brooke Logan Forrester has become an interesting woman. She came from nothing an ordinary family, at least that what she remembers. She has married or been involved with three members from the same family. Each man different but at some point madly in love with her" Isabelle looked at photo after photo of Brooke at different stages of her life. " She has taken over their company and from what I understand done an excellent job of it She is powerful yet loving, sexy and sensual yet a mother. Either people love her or hate her. There is a rumor that she was involved in the accident that caused her lover’s wife’s death." Christo looked at one of the photos and the beautiful woman and a dark haired man. He then glanced at one of herself and he could see how she could cause a man to loss his senses. Christo now understood why HE was so enamored with HER She was the one, the one who could possibly end all the years of quite suffering. " What are you going to do about her? " Isabelle chose to ignore the question, she never discussed her motives with anyone expect her brother.

Bridget was dancing in a sensuous manner on the dance floor as the music blasted in her ears. . The man behind her was about 10 years older than her, he had his hands on her and his body was to close to her that she could feel his arousal. Men are so stupid she thought. She continued to move her body and tuned to face him, she knew that she looked good in the black leather pants and leather backless shirt she wore. The high heels, the makeup and the wild hair were all a part of the act. She had been pretending to drink and had been dancing in a manner in which everyone would see her. Mary would soon do the thing that she was best known for; telling and her mother would be upset an on her way. She’d picked the most perfect place for this showdown. Hanging on a wall 10 feet above the dancers was a picture of her mother from Brooke’s bedroom and Brooke was clothed only in one of her teddies and garters.

" What happened between you and Rick?" Kimberly smiled and changed her look into one of despair. " We were on the beach and I though that he was connecting with me. He took me into his arms to kiss me and then he started to touch me all over me body and he wanted to make love to me." " What? Kimberly, I’ve talked to Rick, are you sure that’s what he wanted?" " Yes, he made it clear and it was obvious, if you know what I mean that he wanted more. He took off my top and then he put his hands on other parts of he and then he…. I don’t know, maybe I should give into him, if I don’t I might lose him." Thorne was surprised to hear this, he thought that Rick wanted to give Kimberly some time. " Kimberly, you shouldn’t make love until you are ready. Rick will understand, if he loves you he’ll wait. I’ll talk to him if you want. He’ll wait for you, I know that if I were him I’d wait." Kimberly rushed into Thorne’s arms. Thorne hugged her. " Thank you so much, you always make me feel better." Thorne laughed as Kimberly hugged him tighter. She spied Brooke’s figure opening the door and smiled to herself, Bridget was always a help. She ran her hands down toward his waist and hugged him tighter and closed her eyes. " You always make me feel better. Any time of the day and even in the middle of the night." " Middle of the night?" Thorne turned to see Brooke’s stern face looking at Kimberly. " How has he helped you in the middle of the night Kimberly?"

The ringing of the phone pulled Rick out of his thoughts. " Rick, of my god, what is your mother’s phone number?" " Who is this? " It’s me Mary, Bridget’s friend Rick, what’s your mother’s phone number?" " Why, do you need it?" " Oh, god, she’s going to kill me!" " Who, Mary, who going to kill you?" " Bridget, of course, aren’t you listening to me?" " Bridget, what about Bridget." " Well, Bridget she decided that she wouldn’t listen to me. I told her not to do, it but she went there anyway." Rick was suddenly getting worried. " Mary! What about Bridget, where is she!" " She’s at Carlo’s." Rick hung up the phone and raced toward the door. What in the world was she doing? Had the whole world gone crazy!

Kimberly glared at Brooke and noticed that her eyes drooped to her hands that were still on Thorne. "Well Brooke, Thorne has been so helpful listening to me. Sometimes the time flies when we spent time together." Brooke’s eyes narrowed and she glared at Kimberly. Thorne walked over to Brooke and kissed her on the lips. " Kimberly was out on the beach one night when I was walking and we started to talk, she had been having some nightmare." " Nightmares. Right. Well Kimberly I hope that you had been sleeping better." Brooke wasn’t comfortable around Kimberly and she didn’t like the way that the teen had been holding on to Thorne. She was going to have to talk to Thorne about her and she was going to have a long conversation with Kimberly, she had to clear the air. " Well, I know that Thorne has been helpful to you, after all he thinks of you as a little sister." Thorne smiled at Brooke not noticing the tension between the two women. " Thorne, I had better get going, Rick might be calling me and I’ll think about what you said." Brooke watched Kimberly leave. She knew that the teen still blamed her for Macy’s death, but she didn’t like the way she was starting to depend on Thorne and she wasn’t sure if she was the right person for her son. She hadn’t told Rick of Kimberly’s attack, but she didn’t get professional help, she would have to.

The plane touched down in New York. Isabelle stood and wrapped the coat around her. She walked from the airport to the waiting limousine. She picked up the phone. " Maria, have the plan ready tomorrow night. No, I’m not going there. I want to take a side trip to Los Angeles. I have someone to see." Isabelle hung up the phone and started at Christo. He cracked a smile.
" So, Isabelle you are going to see her after all?" Isabelle put on her shades and looked out of the window. Christo shook his head; she was a tuff nut to crack. The only one who every told Isabelle what to do was her brother. It was amazing that for two so powerful, they were now both obsessed with one blond woman.

Brooke walked into Thorne’s bedroom; he was laying blissfully naked on top of the covers waiting for her. She smiled sinfully at him and she started to strip slowly for him. She started with her blouse, which she slowly unbuttoned and dropped to the floor. Thorne smiled as she threw the blouse toward him. Next came her shirt, which she wiggled out of slowly and dropped on the floor. She stood in front of him wearing the latest piece in the Brooke’s bedroom line. She peeled out of the two piece, sipping the top open until her beautiful breasts were bared in the moonlight. She danced form him and then slowly slid her panties off. She walked over to him wearing only a pair of high-heeled shoes. She stood naked in front of Thorne and she ran her finger down his chest circling his nipple. She slowly kissed him and ran her tongue down his neck and ran it down his muscular chest until it reached his nipple and licked it. Thorne cupped her buttocks in his hands and pulled her astride him. He lowered her slowly over him until he entered her. Brooke sighed. " I need you to help me in the middle of the night." Thorne moaned, all he needed was her. Thorne kissed Brooke roughly and all the thoughts of Kimberly and her strange comments and conversation went out of her head.

Kimberly sat on the beach thinking the damage that she had caused at work today. There was no way that the photos would be saved and Forrester would lose their add. It was a funny thing; no one would ever suspect her. Rick had played into her hands; she’d soon convince him to move out of his mother’s house. Thorne had been so protective when he had heard about Rick’s advances that she had almost danced with glee. Her mind then turned to Brooke’s superior attitude toward her. She slowly grinded the sands in her hands. She replayed how Brooke came into Thorne’s house and asked her what she had meant. Kimberly noticed that Brooke looked at her the entire time he had talked and had studied her hands and where they were on his body. Was she wondering if he was telling the truth? She hoped so, because she was just starting to plan the seeds of suspicion in her head. Kimberly looked at her watch, what was taking her so long. "You little friend had better be calling Brooke soon. I don’t want her with Thorne any longer than she has to be."

Rick barged into Carlos and the music was almost deafing to his ears. Maybe Mary had been wrong, after all Bridget wasn’t even 21. Rick glanced around the room until his eyes stopped on a girl, who looked like his sister but couldn’t be. Dancing on top of a table between too men with their hands on her body that was encased in leather was his baby sister. Rick stormed over to the table and pulled his sister down. " What in the hell do you think that you are doing!"

Against All Odds Part 7 Review ( Kimberly meets Dr. Staten and his is worried about her dependency on Thorne. Bridget cuts class and makes arrangements for her mother to find her at a club. Rick is confused by  Kimberly's new sexual side and gets an urgent call meant for Brooke. Brooke and Thorne make love, she is unaware of her daughter's actions. Isabelle is in New York and decides to go to LA to watch Brooke. Christo, Isabelle's henchman wonders what Isabelle is going to do about Brooke.)

Against All Odds Part 8

" What in the hell do you think that you are doing! What are you doing in a place like this?" Bridget looked around for her mother. " What are you doing Rick? Why are you here?" Rick grabbed his sister." Get off  of me!"
One of the men on the table jumped down and grabbed Bridget's other arm. "
Hey, the little lady said to get off of her." Rick turned to the man and got into his face." This little lady as you put it is my sister." " So, she doesn't want go, leave her alone man." " I'm not going to leave her alone, and by the way, she is only 16 years old, do you plan on going to jail!"
The man looked shocked and turned to Bridget." I'm sorry sweetie, but I can't afford to go to jail, look me up when you are legal." The man walked away. Rick pulled Bridget toward him. " Let's go." Bridget pulled herself out of his arms. " I'm not going anywhere with you!  You're not my father or my mother so I don't have to listen. " Bridget what are you thinking, this isn't a place for you, you're too young. Don't you know what could happen in a place like this?" " You have some nerve Rick, remember you where the one to get Amber pregnant when you were only 16." Rick stormed after his sister and that's when he noticed the picture of his mother hanging on the wall.

Thorne ran his tongue down Brooke's spine as she lay completely sated her stomach. " That feels so good', she murmured. He rained kisses on her back and slowly bit her shoulders. She closed her eyes and just felt his hands.
She had missed this, just being with him and locking the whole world out.
Thorne watched Brooke and loved the feel of her in his arms. He sat back on his hunches and took her foot and slowly massaged her foot. He kissed her foot, get some hot oil and massaged her back, legs and buttocks. Brooke just drifted away. Just when she was almost lulled into sleep, she felt him move behind her. He kissed her starting at her feet and continued his
journey until her reached her neck. She felt his hands move under her to cup her breast, she tried to turn toward him because she wanted him again, and he stopped her. He whispered something naughty in her ear, moved her legs to suit him and entered her while she laid on her stomach.
" Yes, Thorne just like that.." She didn't say anything else, her words were cut off with a moan.

Kimberly sat in her house looking at Brooke's car in Thorne's driveway. Why hadn't she moved yet, she had to of heard about Bridget now. " You messed up again." the voice in her head said.
" No  I didn't, Bridget said that she would take care of her end." " Do you really trust her, she is her daughter?" " Just shut up! She doesn't like them together something might must  of happened."Kimberly walked toward the deck of her house. " Maybe you don't even care about your daughter Brooke.
You are such a bitch, you rather stay with Thorne than to find your own daughter. I should have known." Kimberly walked back to into her house, she didn't know what to do, she felt the anger and the rage building inside of her. She took out the latest magazine in Vogue which had on article about Brooke. "I see that they said nothing about how you killed my sister! " She
looked at the picture of Brooke and cut it out  the magazine. She went to a photo album and opened it, inside were pictures of Brooke, each mutilated in some way. The words DIE, DIE, DIE were written in bold letters.  She added the new picture.




( In Italy )

A mystery man gets off the phone and looks that the financial reports that were left by his assistant. He was tired of business right now, but he had a funeral to go to, a business associate of his had just met death with an " accident". He wondered if Isabelle had anything to do with it, she was dangerous when provoked. There was a knock on the door to his office. " Come in." A man in a tailored suit  came   in. " I thought that you would like to know that Isabelle won't be back tomorrow as planned." " Where will she be?" " She is taking a trip to Los Angeles." " You may go now, thank you for the information." " Would you like her to be followed?" The man thought for a moment, " No, she'd spot it. She'll tell me what she is doing there when she returns." The man in the suit  left the room. " What are you doing Isabelle, we don't have any business in Los Angles, at the moment. " 
Was she keeping secrets from him, she never did that, only once in her life did she do that. It cost him dearly and she knew that he'd never forgotten nor forgiven her for that. He remembered that conversation like it was yesterday. " Where is she?" " She isn't here, maybe you should let her go."
"Never, you are just jealous, you don't want me to be happy." She had turned those cold eyes on him. " You know that isn't true, I found her for you. I wanted you to be happy, but she isn't the right kind of wife for you. I know that now. She doesn't suit you and she's making you weak." He had become angry, he wouldn't allow anyone to talk badly about HER, even
Isabelle.  He grabbed her by the arms and shook her. " Tell me where she is! Damn you, I won't think twice about killing you if you had something to happen to her."  Isabelle laughed coldly at him. " She means that much to her that you'd kill the only person who ever loved you." " She loves me!"
Isabelle pulled herself away from him and walked toward the windows over looking the mountains view. " You did all of this for her. Created this illusion of a world just for her. The house in the mountains, the horses and changed yourself to suit her. It still wasn't enough, she still betrayed you!  Once she found out who your really were, she wanted to leave. She doesn't really love you, you have to accept it." He was filled with rage that her words not wanting them to be true." I'm going to ask you
one more time, where is she? Isabelle turned toward him and for the moment they studied each other. " She's dead." He knew at that moment that she lied, he would have know it if she was dead.  He took out a gun and aimed it toward Isabelle chest. " You have to the count of three to tell he where she is, or I'll kill you."
The man's mind came back to the present. He opened a draw and took out a picture, he touched it, he loved her so much. The picture was one of a woman who was around 19 years old, it was old and worn, the woman was petting a horse, the woman image was Brooke's.

" How did you find out where I was?" Bridget spit the words toward Rick. "
Mary called looking for mom and I answered the phone. Now we are going home." " We aren't going anywhere, I came here to dance and have a good time and I'm going to have it! " Bridget, what has come over you, you shouldn't be here dressed like that! " Dressed like what? Isn't something that mom would wear for her newest lover, our brother!  Look at the picture of her, she doesn't even have clothes on."   Rick looked at the picture and groaned, he knew his mother would flip if she knew that a club had a picture like that of her hanging on the wall. He watched his sister go back to the dance floor. He didn't know what to do, if he carried her out of the club then it might be a chance that reporters would find out and it would be in the papers. He knew that he couldn't call his father because he would blame his mother, he didn't have a choice, he'd have to call his mom.

Brooke fell exhausted in the bed. " That was nice." Thorne kissed Brooke lightly on the nose and laughed. " Well anytime my lady, I'm always happy to oblige you". He smiled and pulled her closer in his arms. He stroked her hair while Brooke listened to the beat of his heart. " I've missed you this week." " I know Thorne, but dealing with Bridget and all the problems have been overwhelming for me. " " Don't worry honey, we'll get through this together. With you I can do anything. I'm going to talk to Bridget in a couple of days. " Brooke turned toward Thorne and ran her fingers through his hair. " You don't have to.." " No Brooke I want to. I feel that need to help her  and Kimberly." Brooke's eyes narrowed at the mention of Kimberly's name, she needed to talk with Thorne about her. " Thorne about Kimberly.." Brooke's cell phone rang. She sighed and decided to just let it ring, then she though again, it might be important. She got up and walked to her purse and answered the phone while Thorne studied her beautiful body. " Hello, Rick.. What! Where are you? She did what! Don't worry I'll be there!" Thorne left the bed the moment he heard panic in her voice. "
What's wrong?" Brooke grabbed her clothes and started to get dressed."

There was a knock on Kimberly's door. She put the album down and answered it. " Sally, what are you doing here?  Sally looked at Kimberly with concern in her eyes. " Can I come in?" " Of course you can" Kimberly I've been so worried about you, I haven't heard from you and you seem to spending too much time alone." Kimberly hugged Sally. " I know, it just been hard for me after Macy's death, I'm sorry that I haven't helped you. " I'm fine Sally, I am really am trying. "
" I don't know Kimberly, after that doctor called, he really concerned me."
  Panic began to settle in Kimberly's stomach. " Doctor, what doctor? " " You know, Dr. Staten, he called me."  Kimberly walked away from Sally.   That meddling doctor, you know you are going to have to take care of him don't you said the voice in her head. " Sally what did the doctor say? " " He called me and said that he saw you today and he was worried about you.
He wants to see me tomorrow, and he said that he wants to see Thorne too.
Why would he want to see Thorne?" " I don't know Sally, Thorne recommended him to me." " Thorne, what do you have to do with Thorne?" " It's nothing, Thorne has been spending time with me, he feels guilty about what happened to Macy."
Fire raged in Sally's eyes. " As well as he should, if it hadn't been for him, this wouldn't have happened. " No Sally. It's Brooke's fault, if it hadn't been for her, this wouldn't have happened, Macy would still be alive.  I don't want to talk about her anymore, would  you like some tea."
" Sure that would be nice." Kimberly went to heat up the water when Sally noticed the photo album on the table. " What's this? Is it pictures of Macy?" Kimberly turned around. " NO!"

Music was booming in Brooke's ears as she and Thorne walked into the crowded club. He had insisted on going with her to confront Bridget. " What is she thinking, how did she even get into a place like this." Brooke found Rick and then she noticed what looked like her daughter on a dance floor in an outfit that made her head spin. She stormed over to Bridget. " Get your
butt off this floor now! Bridget turned to study her mother's angry face.
Well, here goes, she thought.
" Look who's here, my mother! At least that's what she calls herself. Why aren't you with you lover right now, don't you have a date or something? "
Brooke yanked her daughter off the floor and stormed over to a group of tables. " What do you think that you are doing? " Bridget thrust her hands in her hair. " I'm having a grand time.  All the men seem to love me, I thought that you would understand something like that." " I had it with that tone. " Brooke got into Bridget's face. " You don't talk to me like that. I understand that you are upset, but you don't belong in a place like this. You don't know how to handle yourself. " Mother, I' grown.." " No your aren't. You aren't mature enough with dealing with men, who would look at your ripe little body and would want to take you home? " You have some nerve, I've seen you've dressed. Just look at that picture of you standing on the wall! " Brooke looked up and saw her picture, she was shocked and she would take care of the owner of the club later.  " I've made some mistakes and that picture was one of them, but that doesn't mean that I am going to allow you to dress like this. How did you get in this place? " " I haven an ID. " " Give it to me." " I'm not giving you anything.." " I'm going to say it one more time, and then I'm going to take it from you. You won't like the way I take it Bridget and I don't have any problems embarrassing you.  Give it to me." Bridget looked at her mother and gave her the ID. " You never worry about me being embarrassed." Brooke looked at her daughter and felt scared, she didn't want things to continue like this.
" Let's go, we'll talk at home! " Bridget turned toward her mother when she saw Thorne. " I can't believe this, you brought him here! "

" What's wrong Kimberly? " Kimberly took that album out of Sally's hands. " Nothing, it's just my private photos I like to keep them." Sally looked at Kimberly and raised her eyebrow but said nothing. Kimberly made the tea and she told Sally all about her newest class. She glanced out the window and noticed that both Brooke and Thorne's cars were gone. " Oh no, where did he go, she was the only one supposed to leave." " What are you saying Kimberly? " " Oh nothing, I was just talking to myself, do you want anymore tea?"

Thorne walked toward Bridget. " Look, I know that you don't want to see me right now, but I came with you mother because she was worried. Bridget looked at Thorne and saw the worry in his eyes. She didn't hate him or her mother but she had to do this to stop them, they were making fools of themselves. "You're right, I don't want to see you and my mother together! I most certainly don't want or need your help." Thorne reached out to Bridget and she backed away.
" Bridget I'm your brother and I care a great deal about you." Bridget turned her accusing eyes on Thorne. " You're right, you are my brother so you should act like it. You shouldn't be sleeping with my mother." Brooke shook her head. " This isn't the time or the place for this, we will most certainly discuss this at home." "You can discuss it all you want mother, it won't change a thing. " Bridget looked at her mother, Rick and Thorne. " I will never except you too together, never. " This isn't about us Bridget, it is about you and your actions." " No mother, this is about you, you and MY BROTHER! "   Brooke was worried, she had the feeling that this was only the beginning. If Eric or Stephanie ever got wind of this, they would blame it on her. She was going to have to spend more time with Bridget and less time at work and with Thorne. " Mom, I think that I'll ride home with Bridget." Brooke looked at her son. " Yes  Rick, I think that both she and I need time to cool off." Brooke gave Bridget a stern eye. " Rest assured Bridget, we will talk about this at home and their will be consequences for your actions tonight."

Isabelle finished her meeting. It went well for her at least, to bad it didn't go well for the others. They were surprised to find that they no longer were the major shareholders in their company. She laughed at the look on Mr. Fieldman's face, she thought that he was going to fall out right there.  Her attentions turned to what she had planned tomorrow.
Tomorrow she would go to Los Angels and find the woman who could change her life for better or worse. Tomorrow she'd study her life and decide if she should be allowed to keep the life that had been given to her. She was taking a chance she knew that HE would find out where she was going, but she'd take that chance. HE was the only thing that she had ever loved, and
she had no choice to do what she did in the past, but maybe this time things would be different. Brooke Logan Forrester had become a formidable woman and she just might be able to handle things, if she wasn't then Isabelle would have to erase the ghost from the past permentantely this time.

Against All Odds Review Part 8(Brooke and Bridget have it out at the club. Kimberly’s obsession and hatred of Brooke continued as Sally visited. Thorne bares the brunt of Bridget’s anger. A mystery man recalls a conversation with Isabelle about the woman he loves. Isabelle makes plans to observe Brooke.)

Against All Odds Part 9: Kimberly’s Firing

Brooke signed the forms that Megan had left in for her while Megan reminded her that she had a meeting with Morgan and Kimberly. " Megan, I want you to tell Morgan that I’ll talk to her later this afternoon." She had plans for Morgan, but she wasn’t sure that she could trust her anymore. She however had decided after her meeting this morning with Eric that she had enough with their additive and their would be changes in the company. The first one dealt with Kimberly.

Kimberly swept into her office. " You wanted to see me Brooke?" Brooke smiled at Kimberly; she had no idea that I am not going to take that shitty attitude from her anymore. " Kimberly you need to sit down, we have a great deal to talk about." " I don’t need to sit down. I don’t want to spend anymore time in your company that I have too." Kimberly crossed her arms and stood by the chair. " I don’t understand, what could we have to talk about? If this is about me and Thorne…well" Brooke sat down in her chair and looked menacing at Kimberly. " This has nothing at all to do with Thorne, in fact Kimberly, this is all about you. You and me and your tentative job at Forrester.

Bridget sulked around the house. She was grounded until her mother cooled down. She didn’t think that she has ever seen her mother as mad as she was when they came home last night. They had another fight. She rubbed the bridge of her nose. All of the fighting was truly getting on her nerves, it was really stressful. She knew that she had to keep things up and her mother had planned to come home early all week so she could watch her. Bridget knew that her mother didn’t want Eric to know about this, but if need be, she’d tell her father if that meant her mother and Thorne couldn’t be together. It wouldn’t come to that, by the time she and Kimberly finished setting Thorne up, her mother wouldn’t want anything to do with him. Bridget walked to a photo of Thorne on the mantel. " I’m sorry that I have to do this to you, but neither one of you would listen."

 

" My job at Forrester, I didn’t think that there was a problem." " That’s right Kimberly you didn’t think when you came into my office and starting smashing things." Brooke handed Kimberly a piece of paper." Kimberly looked down and was startled to see that number written down." That is the bill, by the way. I’m not quite sure how you plan to pay for that, I do know that I pay you well, but we might have to create some sort of payment plan for you." Brooke leaned forward and studied Kimberly’s shocked face. " Kimberly dear, you didn’t think that you weren’t going to pay that bill, did you. At first, I wasn’t going to make you pay for it, but after some thought and seeing you yesterday, I thought that it would be a good lesson for you to learn that you have to pay for your mistakes." " Pay for MY mistakes. You wouldn’t know anything about that would your Brooke?" " That’s another thing Kimberly, your tone." " What about it?"

" Well dear, I DON"T like it and you will refrain to talking to me in such a manner." Kimberly jumped up and Brooke stood. " You have some nerve telling ME what to do, I will talk to you anyway that I please. " Brooke squinted her eyes at Kimberly. " No you won’t Kimberly, I’ve taken all that I’m going to take from you. You forget that I’m your boss and IF you plan to keep your job here at Forrester, you will keep a civil tone." " What do you mean keep my job. I have a job here and I haven’t done anything to cause my contract to be broken. If you think that you can fire me because you are jealous…" Brooke laughed, which caused more rage to build up inside of Kimberly. " Jealous of you, little girl, now what would I be jealous about?" Brooke handed another piece of paper to Kimberly. " You need to look at this before you start talking about things you don’t know. " What is this?" It’s your contract, notice the date, a year ago you signed this and guess what, your contract it up!"

Thorne walked into Dr. Staten’s office and was surprised to find Sally there. " Sally what are you doing here?" Sally looked at Thorne with contempt. " I can ask you the same question. Why are you here Thorne?" " Sally, I’m here to talk to the doctor about Kimberly." " Kimberly! What do you have to do with her." " I’ve been trying to help her through her depression.." Sally jumped up from her seat. " You have some nerve, you and that slut Brooke Logan caused this situation. Kimberly and Macy would have been just fine if you hadn’t married my daughter. How dare you even talk to Kimberly let alone her doctor? " If you would just listen, I’m worried about her."

" I don’t give a rat’s ass who you are worried about. You weren’t interested in Kimberly before all of this. All you want to do is ease your own guilt. YOU STAY AWAY! You stay away from that sweet girl; she had gone through enough. I won’t have you in her life. You have your own problems to deal with. I can’t believe you Thorne; you aren’t the man you used to be. You gave it all up, your family, and sweet Macy for that whore! I certainly hope that sex is all that it’s rumored to be because that all you and that mantrap have! Sally marched out of the office.

" I won’t have it Thorne, I won’t have you and that bitch Brooke hurt Kimberly. I’ve got to talk to Stephanie, if she won’t do anything, I will!"

" What do you mean that my contract is up!" " You heard me Kimberly, your contract is up. It’s been a year and I’ve decided that we don’t need your services anymore." Kimberly felt her self-become angry, she would love to hit that bitch right now. " You can’t do this to me, I haven’t done anything to get fired! I’ve made your Princess Line a hit and you can’t replace me!" Brooke walked toward Kimberly. " That’s were you are wrong, I can replace anyone even YOU. Let’s think about your year here at Forrester. FIRST you quit a photo shoot in Viennese. SECOND you changed your hair to that awful color without consulting us. THIRD you have been disrespectful to me on more than one occasion. FOURTH you attacked me in MY OWN OFFICE. Brooke circled the desk as she talked to Kimberly watching the panic in her eyes. Brooke sat back down. " I was willing to let this go because you were grieving for your sister, but you come in here with an attitude. You haven’t gotten any help for your anger. So, I have decided not to renew your contract. I have liked your work but I still decline to renew your contract." Brooke sat back down and started to read some more papers on her desk. "That BITCH, how dare she sit there and fire me! After all that she had done to this family, sleeping with Eric, Ridge and Thorne. Killing my sister! She wants me to leave, she should be the one to leave," Kimberly thought. Kimberly’s eyes narrowed as she stared at the sharp letter opener on Brooke’s desk.

A pretty young nurse came toward Thorne." Mr. Forrester?" " Yes?" " I’m sorry but I tried to call you at home but you weren’t there. I didn’t want you to drive all the way over here today for no reason." " No reason, I’ve got an appointment to see Dr. Staten." " Yes, I know but he had been called away, he won’t be back in at least a month." Thorne was shocked. " A month, that’s a long time. Is there anywhere I can reach him?" " I’m sorry but no, I do know that he said that he would be calling you about your matter, but he had to go there was a family emergency. It happened at Ms. Fairchild left this morning." " Kimberly was here?" A phone rang in the distance. " Yes, I’m sorry Mr. Forrester but I have to go and answer the phone." Thorne walked put to his car. " Why did you see Dr. Staten, if you didn’t like him Kimberly?"

Kimberly moved toward Brooke’s desk and toward the letter opener. Brooke looked up and sighed. " I’m really sorry Kimberly, but I do think that it’s best this way. You need help and you have a great deal of anger that you won’t deal with. I think that you should spend some time getting yourself together." " What do you think that Rick is going to say about this?" " I know that Rick might be upset, but if I told him about the incident in this office he’d understand."

" You’d do that, you would do something that would anger him, I thought that you would be trying to be a better mother, after all your own daughter is pissed." " Just what in the world do YOU know about my relationship with Bridget?" Kimberly sauntered toward Brooke. " I know enough, I also know that Thorne won’t let you do this to me! " Brooke stood to face Kimberly.

" Thorne doesn’t run this company, I DO! I make all the decisions around here, I’m the CEO."

" Do you really think that Thorne is going to let you do this, he is my friend." " That’s right Kimberly, your FRIEND. He might not like it, but when I explain why I’m letting you go he will accept it. HE LOVES ME. If he let go of his family for me, do you really think that YOU are going to be an issue." " Now, you still have a week here, and if I am correct, you do have a photo shoot planned." Brooke turned her back to placed a file in her cabinet. Kimberly picked up the letter opener and moved closer to Brooke. Suddenly Megan came in. " Brooke you need to look at these.." Brooke turned and noticed that Kimberly had become closer to her. " Kimberly, I think that it is time for you to leave." Kimberly gave Brooke a menacing look and left the room in a rage. " What was that all about?" " Nothing, I’m just cleaning house. Megan we have got to look at some pictures of girls for the princess line. " What! Kimberly quit?" " No, I fired her."

Thorne faxed off the order forms to Paris. He needed to re-order the material that Morgan wanted along with Ridge. He sighed; his family had not given in an inch. They acted like he wasn’t there. Although he acted like he didn’t care, he did, but Brooke was his life and he was never going to let her go. He wanted to move in and marry her as soon as possible, but there was Bridget. He saw how angry she was and how she had acted out to hurt Brooke last night. If only he could reach her and show her that he wasn’t like his brother, that he loved her mother. Rick and he had a long conversation and he had found about the comments that she had made about Ridge. " Ridge damn you. You not only hurt Brooke, but Bridget, she is so afraid that I’m going to hurt her mother."

Kimberly gripped the letter opener in her hands, it would have been so easy to just slash that pretty face of hers. " NO, you can’t do that you have to think," said the voice in her head. " You can go to Thorne, he’ll get your job back." " Didn’t you just here what she said, she’s going to fire me! " Calm down, I know what to do, just listen and everything will work out."

Brooke re-entered her office. The meeting to find a new face for the Princess Line had to be done soon and there was also the new deal for a project that she had in mind. Brooke looked down and saw that her lunch had arrived. She was starving; she hadn’t eaten since yesterday. Brooke put a sugar in her iced-tea and sat to eat her turkey salad on whole-wheat. Her thoughts turned to Kimberly. " You did what was best." Brooke ate her sandwich and went back to work. Suddenly a sharp pain hit her in her stomach. Brooke dropped her work and grabbed her stomach. The pain continued and it was excruciating. Brooke stood up wobbly and tried to walk to the door; suddenly a pain hit her so hard that she fell to the floor. Sweat broke on her face and she felt the hot bile start to rise. " Of god, please, please.." Pain shot through her again while her arm reached for the door.

Kimberly slowly opened the back door to Brooke’s office, she watched, as she lay writhing on the floor helpless with pain. A smile crept on her face. " Good Brooke, I’m glad that you are feeling some of the pain that you have caused others." Kimberly’s eyes went to the half-eaten sandwich and she patted her pocket. ' It worked perfectly." She crept into the room and took the sandwich and slowly crept out. She glanced at the woman who never saw her on the floor and smiled.

Eric looked at the latest design. He wasn’t very happy with it, he wasn’t happy about the things that were going on. Stephanie seemed occupied with something, Ridge was acting strange, Rick had moved back to Brooke’s, Bridget hadn’t visited for a while and Thorne. Eric’s face changed. He missed his son, he never thought that he would choose Brooke over the family. " Brooke you have caused so much pain in my family. You don’t love Thorne; all you ever loved was Ridge. You will treat him no better than you treated me. You will ensnarled him with your charms until he is totally devoted to you and then you will drop Thorne. She won’t ever love you and she will hold a piece of your heart forever, just like she held mine." There was knock on the door. " Mr. Forrester, may I talk to you." Eric turned " Kimberly, what is it?"

Isabelle walked out of the plan into the sunlight. " Los Angles, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here." Isabelle got into the waiting limo where a man in a tailored suite sat. " Where is she now?" " She’s at Forrester Creations." " Do you want us to go there?" " No, wait for her to leave."

Against All Odds Review Part 9 – Kimberly’s Firing ( Brooke decides not to renew Kimberly’s contract when her attitude doesn’t change. Kimberly is angered by her firing and picks up a letter opener with intent to do harm to Brooke but is interrupted my Megan. Sally rails at Thorne and demands he stay away from Kimberly. Thorne is shocked that Dr. Staten had left town. Thorne worries about Bridget while Bridget thinks about the set up she has planned for Thorne. Brooke becomes ill and falls to the floor after Kimberly poisons her lunch. Eric worries about his children and is interrupted by Kimberly. Isabelle arrives in Los Angles. )

Against All Odds Part 10 (Bridget’s Father)

" Kimberly, what is it? Are you alright?" Eric was concerned that Kimberly had tears in her eyes. He walked over to the crying girl and held her. " What ever the problem is, don’t worry, I’ll fix it, I owe it to your sister." Kimberly smiled behind Eric’s back. Eric led her to a chair where she sat. " Mr. Forrester, I don’t know what to do. I don’t understand why you all are mad at me. I thought that I did a good job here at Forrester and I don’t understand why you would fire me." Eric looked at the weeping girl in confusion. " Fire you, what are you talking about!" "Mr. Forrester, don’t you know? Brooke said that I was fired and that you all weren’t going to renew my contract." Eric faced turned with horror. " She said what! What in the hell does that woman think that she is doing!" Eric stormed toward the door. "I’m going to talk with now, I won’t her allow her to do something like this, after all the pain that she has caused this family and your family. " Kimberly thought of Brooke on the floor in her office. " No, Mr. Forrester, don’t!"

Stephanie was in a quandary about what to do about Morgan. " That bitch, I can’t believe that she tricked Ridge the way she did. If only he had come to her sooner about this manner, now that woman has that videotape. She had to get rid of her. Brooke and Morgan weren’t going to destroy her family. Stephanie’s face contoured with anger. " This is your fault Brooke, you brought Morgan into our lives, you have done everything to destroy my family. First Ridge, then Eric, and now Thorne. My god, I should have killed you when I had the chance. Every time I think that I have gotten rid of you, you come back!" Stephanie thought about Rick and Bridget and how their mother was ruining their lives. Bridget, she had been acting strange lately. When she thought about Bridget she was saddened when she thought about her. She did what had to do, that meant she had to sacrifice her own granddaughter in order to save Ridge from Brooke. She didn’t like it when Bridget spent time with Ridge, she was always afraid that they would somehow feel the connection. She had thought back then that once the "truth" hadcome out and Ridge found that he wasn’t Bridget’s father that Brooke would be out of there lives. She and Eric would raise Bridget and Rick and there would be no harm done, Bridget would have a family and it wouldn’t matter that her real father wouldn’t raise her. Stephanie pulled out a checkbook and wrote a check as she did every month to the only living person who knew the truth. That god she had the sense to go to that hospital and look at those results before the rest of the family. She thought that she had done the right thing, she never knew how that letter got into Brooke and Ridge’s house. It had been so easy to get those test changed, they would never ask for another paternity test and no one would ever know the real truth. She just knew that Brooke was at the end of her rope and that no one would ever believe her that she didn’t pay the doctor off. Eric and Ridge would wash Brooke away forever and she would be out of their lives, but it did work out that way. " At least she didn’t get you Ridge, but she is now destroying Thorne. She had to do something, but right now her mind was on Morgan, Ridge would always come first.

Bridget was looking though a group of photo albums. She smiled with tears in her eyes as she looked at pictures of her mother and Ridge. She slowly touched the photo. " You were happy with him mother and then things went wrong." She slammed the photo album down. " Ridge, once you left things were never the same. You never came back to her or me!" The tears welled up in her eyes and the pain that was always there resurfaced. Then she thought of her mother and Thorne and her stomach turned. " It won’t be any different with him. He’ll make all those promises and then he’ll bail." Bridget thought about school and some of the snickering that she found was going on about her mom and Thorne. Why couldn’t her mom be a normal mom? Why did she have to be so outlandish and sexy? Bridget though about her teacher Mr. French, he was nice but she had noticed that way that he had been looking at her mother’s legs last year during a conference. Her mother needed to act like one and stop having affairs with men especially form HER family.

Brooke was in pain. She couldn’t reach the door and no one could hear her calling. She had thrown up twice and she could hardly move to keep her head out of her own bile. Why was this happening? What was wrong with her? She felt another contraction of pain slice through her. She couldn’t hold on much longer. " Please, someone help me." Tears of pain flowed down her eyes as she tried to get up and she fell again.

Thorne was walking down the hall toward the conference room when he ran into Ridge. Ridge looked at Thorne and kept moving. " Ridge, don’t you think that you have gone to far with this****?" Ridge did want to stop; he had his own problems and didn’t even want to deal with Thorne. Thorne grabbed Ridge on his arms. " What in the hell, Thorne. Get off of me!"

No, Ridge not until we have it out." " Have it out about what? You made your decision, you had a choice. The family or Brooke and you choice Brooke." Thorne was tired of Ridge’s attitude.
" I’m sick of your attitude. I did the one thing that you never could do, stand up to mother. I made a promise to Brooke and I kept it. I didn’t bail out because mother didn’t like it. It was easy though, because I never had her love they way that you did." Ridge got into Thorne’s face. " I’m tired of all your complaining. I don’t want to hear anything that you have to say. You choose Brooke and it won’t last. She doesn’t really love you, you know. You know it and I do. I’ll tell you another thing, when you making love her and you are thrusting into her, she’ll be thinking of me!" Ridge went to turn but he was caught off guard by his brother’s first. Ridge fell to the ground. " Don’t you ever talk about my future wife like that again, or so help I’ll beat the**** out of you!" Thorne turned to walk about and Ridge got up to quickly follow him.

Brooke heard voices in the hall. " Thorne, please …"

" Kimberly why don’t you want me to talk to Brooke?" " Mr. Forrester, if you do that now, she’ll know that I came straight to you she’ll start in on me again. You should have heard the things that she said about me. She doesn’t even care that I didn’t do anything wrong. She’s blaming me for an argument that we had. I was really upset the day of Macy’s funeral and I went to confront Brooke, I was so upset and I smashed the phone on her desk, then I accidentally fell into her cabinet and all her things fell off. She things that I did it on purpose, I apologized even though I didn’t want to. I have tried to put my feeling in the past, because I love Rick so much, but Brooke won’t listen. And now she is mad at me because Thorne and I are friends. She killed my sister and ruined her marriage and is jealous because Thorne had helped me. After all that she has done and even the pain that she is causing her own daughter." Eric turned around when her heard the mention of his daughter. " Bridget? What does she have to do with this?" " Didn’t you know? Oh god, I shouldn’t have come here." Kimberly got up. " I’m sorry Mr. Forrester, I’d better go, I don’t want to cause anymore trouble." Kimberly ran out the office and closed the door. She smiled; Brooke’s firing had given her another great deal. She was going to get her job back and Eric would demand to know about Bridget.

" Thorne you come back here! " Ridge ran after Thorne. Thorne turned toward him. " Ridge what do you want, a fight, because I’m more that willingly to give you one!" Ridge grabbed Thorne by his shirt collar and threw him against the wall. Thorne punched Ridge in the stomach and then suddenly turned away. " Brooke?" Thorne opened the office door and saw Brooke lying on the floor next to vomit. " Baby…My God!" Thorne ran to Brooke and pulled her into his arms. He turned her face toward him and rubbed the side of it. " Brooke.." Pain racked through Brooke’s body and Thorne felt her jump. " Ridge! Ridge get in here NOW!" Ridge who was the hallway ran into Brooke’s office. " My God, Logan." Ridge looked down at Brooke, her face etched in pain, her hair wet with sweat. What had happened? He ran to the phone. " This is Ridge, get me an ambulance as quickly as possible to Ms. Logan’s office, hurry." Ridge turned and saw the tears in Thorne eyes. " Baby, you going to be okay." Ridge saw how weak she was, she could hardly move. " Thorne…." Brooke whispered weakly. Brooke body jumped as if she was hit with an electric shock. Ridge looked at the couple on the floor. He felt his heart soften as he looked at Brooke, a woman he had loved and treated so wrong. " Please god, don’t let anything happened to her" he thought.

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