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Friday, December 23, 2016
Intense, emotional, heartrending scenes between Chad & Abby, interspersed with some light hearted interplay within the Johnson family, some reminiscing by one couple, & ...well, a bit of drama elsewhere. Chad stares in disbelief at the silent Abby, "you're alive", he is near tears, are you real, can I touch you? He holds her face between his hands, embraces her, is in tears, as is Abby, who has put Thomas back in the crib. Now come his questions, but she is still not saying a word. What happened, where have you been. He finally takes her to the bedroom (yes, the one where he was just with Gabi). He notes he has not changed anything. It is like pulling teeth, but she finally manages to talk of how she was seeing Ben everywhere, the pills they gave her there were making him even more real, so she had to leave. She tried to think like Ben would have, tricked them, and escaped. She came to DiMansion, gave Andre the letter, he helped her. Made her realize it would be best if she seemed to be dead. Got her to her gramma's, who got her off the pills, onto the right meds, therapy, and she got better and better.
Chad is beside himself, is angry at Andre, more angry at her, at what she did, leaving him and their son. He is holding back his sorrow, disappointment, his joy at having her back as he asks more questions, tries to take this all in.
At the Pub, Steve, Roman, Kayla & Joey have had dinner, are kibbitzing, Jade arrives, feels she is probably intruding. No, they want her there, she is family now. Everyone is really very nice to her. There ends up being 2 separate table, where they all change places at times. Joey sits with Jade, gifts her with a pair of crystal earrings, joking that he wanted to get her something crystal not stolen. She is commenting with a smile about how weird his family is, (all mostly due to Patch, lol) Roman calls him over to give him his gift, Kayla joins Jade, is very kind to her.
Later, Steve & Kayla are alone, he gives her a gift, lol, it is one of those jackknives with a hundred different things, including a nail file, so she could do her nails. She is laughing, and now her gift to him. She brings out a harmonica, has been practicing, they can do duets together. (so fun). She does a rather poor first line of Jingle Bells. They have to get going to the hospital shindig, she is babbling about having practiced in secret, and now can do it all the time when he is around, even in the car. LOL
Adrienne is with Justin & Sonny at the Kmansion, talking with the other boys on the computer via Skype. Tis over, Sonny & his brothers made a bet on the Super Bowl, he leaves. Justin & Adrienne laugh about the boys and their bets on football games, she has to go throw up. She returns, he offers ginger ale, she is going to return to her hotel room, check on Lucas, he talks her into staying. They joke and laugh over Christmases when the boys were little, putting together bikes, which fell apart, sending Sonny to ER. More of the same. How they went from bikes and trains to video games and computers. And now Justin just sends them a gift card, but a note. She teases him about finally getting sentimental, then says how when she signed her card, she wrote Mom & Dad. Justin says next year she will probably write Mom & Lucas. She warns him not to do that, he apologizes.
At the hospital, Gabi is talking to Dario, Sonny is there glaring at Dario, who is making snide remarks. She warns Dario to cool it, tis Christmas. And there is Paul, all dressed up in a silly, but cute, red elf outfit, donned for the kids. Dario starts in on him spying on the sick kids. Again Gabi orders him to zip it, it is Christmas. Later, Dario apologizes to Gabi, was out of line, and gifts her with the original of the knockoff purse he gave her. She protests, he claims she deserves the real thing. So she accepts. transfers all her stuff into the purse. Sonny asks her if he can take Ari to the square, to show her the tree. Gabi thinks Will would like that, so, of course. He comments on her new purse, figures she will let Ari play with the old one. Yep, it's around here somewhere.
Sonny passes by a door, darkened room, sees Dario, watches from the doorway, as Dario fishes the microchip out of the old purse, pockets it, leaving the old purse there.
Santa & Mrs. Claus arrive to the delight of the kids. Ari comments she did not know Santa was a pirate! lol. (Steve is Santa, wearing a red patch). Kayla reads the Christmas story of the birth of Christ to the enthralled kids, Joey tells Jade that next year their child will be sitting there listening to this same story.
Sonny is in the square with Ari, Paul comes along. they exchange Merry Christmases, Sonny talks of eventually going to the Horton tree party, Paul says it sounds like fun, leaves, Sonny appears to be looking wistfully after him.
Chad & Abby are still having their explanation discussion. She figures she should leave. He stops her, she cannot leave NOW, She tells him she has caused too much trouble, knows he has moved on. Chad gets extremely emotional....moved on? She saw him take off his ring, put it in the dirt, saw him with Gabi. He explodes in tears, how hard it was, how he was grieving for so long, people saying he has to move on. He hates that expression, it tore his heart to take off that ring. She confesses that she did not come back for him, or Thomas, but for her mom, when JJ was shot, to be sure they were o.k. Chad cries out ..that was months ago. Where were you, how could you not let us know? He is crying, begging her to not let Ben win. She says he already has. She is no longer the woman he married.
The baby monitor has Thomas crying. Chad points to it, can you no longer be the mother he needs? They go to the nursery, she picks up Thomas, holding, rocking, kissing him. Chad has a half smile.
Dario catches up with Gabi in the park, next to the Abby angel statue. He is telling her she cannot be with Chad, it won't work. She protests, telling him to butt out, and that she knows how much Chad loved Abby. She looks at the statue, but she is dead. He has moved on. Dario tells her to listen to him......Abby is not dead. He has seen her. She is alive!
At the Kmansion, Adrienne is curled up on the sofa, asleep, her head in Justin's lap. In the background Christmas music plays. Silent Night. He strokes her head. The music softly and slowly plays ........sleep in heavenly peace....sleep in heavenly peace.
Friday, December 23, 2016
Intense, emotional, heartrending scenes between Chad & Abby, interspersed with some light hearted interplay within the Johnson family, some reminiscing by one couple, & ...well, a bit of drama elsewhere. Chad stares in disbelief at the silent Abby, "you're alive", he is near tears, are you real, can I touch you? He holds her face between his hands, embraces her, is in tears, as is Abby, who has put Thomas back in the crib. Now come his questions, but she is still not saying a word. What happened, where have you been. He finally takes her to the bedroom (yes, the one where he was just with Gabi). He notes he has not changed anything. It is like pulling teeth, but she finally manages to talk of how she was seeing Ben everywhere, the pills they gave her there were making him even more real, so she had to leave. She tried to think like Ben would have, tricked them, and escaped. She came to DiMansion, gave Andre the letter, he helped her. Made her realize it would be best if she seemed to be dead. Got her to her gramma's, who got her off the pills, onto the right meds, therapy, and she got better and better.
Chad is beside himself, is angry at Andre, more angry at her, at what she did, leaving him and their son. He is holding back his sorrow, disappointment, his joy at having her back as he asks more questions, tries to take this all in.
At the Pub, Steve, Roman, Kayla & Joey have had dinner, are kibbitzing, Jade arrives, feels she is probably intruding. No, they want her there, she is family now. Everyone is really very nice to her. There ends up being 2 separate table, where they all change places at times. Joey sits with Jade, gifts her with a pair of crystal earrings, joking that he wanted to get her something crystal not stolen. She is commenting with a smile about how weird his family is, (all mostly due to Patch, lol) Roman calls him over to give him his gift, Kayla joins Jade, is very kind to her.
Later, Steve & Kayla are alone, he gives her a gift, lol, it is one of those jackknives with a hundred different things, including a nail file, so she could do her nails. She is laughing, and now her gift to him. She brings out a harmonica, has been practicing, they can do duets together. (so fun). She does a rather poor first line of Jingle Bells. They have to get going to the hospital shindig, she is babbling about having practiced in secret, and now can do it all the time when he is around, even in the car. LOL
Adrienne is with Justin & Sonny at the Kmansion, talking with the other boys on the computer via Skype. Tis over, Sonny & his brothers made a bet on the Super Bowl, he leaves. Justin & Adrienne laugh about the boys and their bets on football games, she has to go throw up. She returns, he offers ginger ale, she is going to return to her hotel room, check on Lucas, he talks her into staying. They joke and laugh over Christmases when the boys were little, putting together bikes, which fell apart, sending Sonny to ER. More of the same. How they went from bikes and trains to video games and computers. And now Justin just sends them a gift card, but a note. She teases him about finally getting sentimental, then says how when she signed her card, she wrote Mom & Dad. Justin says next year she will probably write Mom & Lucas. She warns him not to do that, he apologizes.
At the hospital, Gabi is talking to Dario, Sonny is there glaring at Dario, who is making snide remarks. She warns Dario to cool it, tis Christmas. And there is Paul, all dressed up in a silly, but cute, red elf outfit, donned for the kids. Dario starts in on him spying on the sick kids. Again Gabi orders him to zip it, it is Christmas. Later, Dario apologizes to Gabi, was out of line, and gifts her with the original of the knockoff purse he gave her. She protests, he claims she deserves the real thing. So she accepts. transfers all her stuff into the purse. Sonny asks her if he can take Ari to the square, to show her the tree. Gabi thinks Will would like that, so, of course. He comments on her new purse, figures she will let Ari play with the old one. Yep, it's around here somewhere.
Sonny passes by a door, darkened room, sees Dario, watches from the doorway, as Dario fishes the microchip out of the old purse, pockets it, leaving the old purse there.
Santa & Mrs. Claus arrive to the delight of the kids. Ari comments she did not know Santa was a pirate! lol. (Steve is Santa, wearing a red patch). Kayla reads the Christmas story of the birth of Christ to the enthralled kids, Joey tells Jade that next year their child will be sitting there listening to this same story.
Sonny is in the square with Ari, Paul comes along. they exchange Merry Christmases, Sonny talks of eventually going to the Horton tree party, Paul says it sounds like fun, leaves, Sonny appears to be looking wistfully after him.
Chad & Abby are still having their explanation discussion. She figures she should leave. He stops her, she cannot leave NOW, She tells him she has caused too much trouble, knows he has moved on. Chad gets extremely emotional....moved on? She saw him take off his ring, put it in the dirt, saw him with Gabi. He explodes in tears, how hard it was, how he was grieving for so long, people saying he has to move on. He hates that expression, it tore his heart to take off that ring. She confesses that she did not come back for him, or Thomas, but for her mom, when JJ was shot, to be sure they were o.k. Chad cries out ..that was months ago. Where were you, how could you not let us know? He is crying, begging her to not let Ben win. She says he already has. She is no longer the woman he married.
The baby monitor has Thomas crying. Chad points to it, can you no longer be the mother he needs? They go to the nursery, she picks up Thomas, holding, rocking, kissing him. Chad has a half smile.
Dario catches up with Gabi in the park, next to the Abby angel statue. He is telling her she cannot be with Chad, it won't work. She protests, telling him to butt out, and that she knows how much Chad loved Abby. She looks at the statue, but she is dead. He has moved on. Dario tells her to listen to him......Abby is not dead. He has seen her. She is alive!
At the Kmansion, Adrienne is curled up on the sofa, asleep, her head in Justin's lap. In the background Christmas music plays. Silent Night. He strokes her head. The music softly and slowly plays ........sleep in heavenly peace....sleep in heavenly peace.
