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Date Posted: 14:56:57 07/25/02 Thu
Author: Zzanee
Subject: IFalse Hope Part 5

False Hope - 5


Todd paused, took a deep breathe and casually said as he applied lotion to her neck and upper chest, “No separation or anymore of that stuff. Not for us! You, Starr, the baby, and me! Just the four of us together. That was my idea. I want us to be a family, Blair.”

“Todd, I…” she cried happily, taking his hand.

“Stop and let me talk for a change, would you? I want us to be a family. Us and our kids. It’s what I have always wanted. I know I didn’t handle Max’s kid well but I can’t…couldn’t get past…the fact that it was Max’s kid…Vicki said it shouldn’t matter…but it did…a lot…to me…it was like the Poet…all over again…every time I’d look at you…I’d get so angry…look…I’m not good about saying the stuff you need to hear…Sam says I should just tell you…like him telling Nora that crap has done him any good!” Todd stumbled, hoping this did not sound as awful as he thought it did and wondering why Blair was always making him talk abut this stuff, “Anyway…you already know…when the last time I changed my mind about that stuff? Blair, there is not a lot of people who lo...like me and there is not a lot of people I ditto the feelings for but you know you’re one of them. You always have been and you know that. I’ll work on getting the words right. Promise!”

“Todd, I don’t care about the words! I stopped caring about words a long time ago. I know how you feel, Todd. I am pregnant. Not blind!” she insisted gently, loving the look on his softened face, but getting hold of her feelings, she continued more firmly, “But your caring for me is not enough anymore. I need you to treat me with respect. That matters to me! A lot! I haven’t liked the way you treated me for a while now. And I absolutely hate the way you have kept Starr from me because I decided to marry Max. I’m her mother, Todd. You would hate that, if someone did that to you!”

“Was that why you did it?” he asked with curiosity than anger for the moment.

“No, not at first. First, I thought it really was Max’s baby. When I learned the truth, I did try to tell you but you were such a mean cuss! When you got custody of Starr, I felt like I could not trust you. I hated that! I wanted you to love the baby, even if you thought it was Max’s. And you tried, I know you did! But you could never quite do it, could you? I knew you cared for me but Max’s baby was something else. So I decided that I was asking too much from you and I was going to tell you the truth but you took out that restraining order on me and then you left town with Starr…” she said with a sad candor.

“Blair, I went to the Millhouse to reason with you and to try to put us back together, in spite…but you told me that you were going to marry Max! That you loved Max! If Max hadn’t cancelled that wedding, you would have married him and given him my kid! My kid! And you lied to my face day after day!” he commented sharply, his anger raising as months of frustration and buried rage came flashing back, “You lied to me, Blair! About a baby! Our baby! How could you do that to me again? After what I nearly did to you last time? Christ Mighty, Blair! You have no idea what I almost did this time!”

“What did you do, Todd?” she asked instantly alerted as she sat up and looked him straight in the eye. Blair just hoped it was not another bomb. Why did Todd have to become the mad bomber when he did not get his own way?

“Me? I didn’t do anything! Why do you always think…ok…there is something but…you’re not a part of it anymore…” he explained awkwardly, looking everywhere but her face. It was not like he actually went through with it. That had to count for something. Blair could be such a hardass!

“Todd…” she huffed through clenched teeth and touched his hand to her stomach to make her point.

“Low blow, Blair! Fine, you wanta know? Look, first you’re out of it now! I made sure about that! I fixed it. So you are in the clear…but you were going to be a part of Asa’s revenge against Max! I set you up to be Max’s accomplice! You were going to be the one to obtain the pills so Max could kill with Asa,” he said guiltily, sneaking a glance at her hard eyes and deciding he was seeing her ‘Todd, don’t blow up crap’ look. It could be worse. It could be her ‘Todd, get the hell out of my life’ look.

“What! Todd, why?” she groaned in despair. Would he ever grow up? Damn it! They had two children and he still acted more immature than either of them! Sometimes, she wondered why she even bothered!

“I was not going to let you marry Max again! Alien baby or not! That was not happening! And you have not been in jail for too long! Look, I had your defense all worked out. I mean why would you help Max kill Asa? You gain nothing, if Asa kicks the bucket! Max is the one hot and heavy for Gabby! You don’t like short Latinas! You have a certain bias towards them…” he smirked with a smug laugh.

“Don’t you even go there, Todd Manning! I could not care less that Gabrielle is from South America! Anymore than I care that your Chiquita Banana was from Puerto Rico! Both Gabrielle and Tea are as about as Latin as I am! Actually, I am very fond of certain Latinos. Christian Vega for instant! He’s a sweet boy with…” Blair said sweetly, loving the way Todd’s smugness gave way to jealousy.

“Vega’s lucky that he has his teeth!” he growled at her through narrow eyes as he remembered how Blair chose to spend New Year’s. Making out in a storage room with that rugrat! She was lucky that he was such a forgiving guy or she and Flan-boy would be crispy fries!

“So you arranged for me to arrested as Max’s accomplice in some scheme of Asa’s? Thanks, Todd! Thanks a lot! With my luck, I would have been in jail for Christmas again!” she surmised, shaking her head in displeasure as the thought occurred to her. Blair was determined to never spend another day in jail ever again. And certainly, never another Christmas. This Christmas she would spend with her new baby and Starr! And just maybe this big oaf, if he would just stop being…well…such an oaf!

“Another fine Manning family tradition! It’s much cooler than other families’! Nothing says Yuletide cheer like Mom in jail! I’ll bring the kids, we’ll chip in for a new jumpsuit for you and we’ll sing carols! Another Manning Christmas!” he teased, seeing her earnest seriousness. Had the baby hormones suppressed her sense of humor?

“Shut up, Todd! It’s not funny! It was not funny last year and it’s not funny now! You’re the career criminal but I am the only one who ever spends any time in jail! Mostly for crimes I did not commit!” she cried unamused with his joke. Todd was the one who should be in jail! Big Oaf!

“How quickly they forget! In case, you’ve forgotten, I’m the one who got you off for the one you did commit and in return for that huge favor, you lied your butt out for months about my kid! That evens things out nicely, Annie Oakley!” he reasoned good-humoredly, deciding that her baby lie was equivalent to a fake murder charge. Todd decided it was best to forget and forgive. They needed to focus on the important things. They were having another baby and they were both naked in Mexican bed.

“Hardly!” she commented sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. Her lie about the baby was not the equivalent of him trying to send her to jail for attempted murder, even if he did get her off for shooting Max!

“Well, you’re damn lucky that I was able to make sense of your letter after Addie re-taped it back together!” he countered irritated with her focus on minor details that no longer mattered.

“You saw my letter?” she asked surprised, her eyes widening at his words. Her letter? Todd had seen her your letter? What had Momma done? Why? Why was that he were here now? For the baby?

“Duh! How did you think I knew about the baby and stuff?” he snorted impatiently, concluding from the return of her doe eyes that Blair had not intended him to find her stupid letter and she had not intended him to find her after all.

No, it was her perpetual bad luck that he found the letter and tracked her down. That was not as good as his fantasy of Blair cleverly laying out a trail of crumbs for him to follow back to her bed. Still, a guy had to work with what he had. Todd told himself that he really did not care, if Blair, her bad luck, or fate had brought him here. What mattered was that he was and he knew the truth. The rest they would work out between them, once she answered his original question of whether she was coming back to Llanview with him.

“Then, you read my letter?” she asked tentatively, trying to rein in her growing hope. But if Todd had read her letter, then he also knew that she still loved him. Could that be the reason that he had been so sweet to her? Was he trying to tell her how he felt? That his feelings were more than caring for her and the baby?

“Yeah!” he agreed reluctantly, seeing her face light up. It was not really a lie. He had read Addie’s jumbled version of the letter. And he knew the most important part. He knew about the baby. The rest seemed to be more of that flowery crap about regrets and other such nonsense.

“Was that why you came, Todd? It just was not about the baby?” she exclaimed with a joyous laugh, falling on top of him with a hug. She loved him so much, even if he was a mean cuss and a big, old sourpuss sometimes.

“Easy, Blair! Will you watch what you are doing? You didn’t want to hurt the baby! You should not be flopping about like a beached whale!” he grumbled, unhappy that he had obviously missed something important in the stupid letter.

Todd decided he would take care of that later. Right now, the only thing he really cared was that the beautiful, naked woman pregnant with his kid was draping herself all over him again. With a smirk, he decided he kinda dug that.

What guy would not? Or the fact that Blair was kissing his neck and rubbing those nice baby breasts of her up against him in a passionate display of affection? Promising himself that he would definitely have to read the stupid letter in full once they got back to Llanview, Todd cupped her face and kissed her eager mouth.

Making jumbled happy sounds, Blair kissed him back. No more false hope! This was real thing! And she really did love him. She had never loved anyone else the way she loved him. It defied logic and good sense. T

Todd Manning was a mean, surly sourpuss who stole her baby and broke her heart. He made her so mad she could not see straight. Half the time she wanted to kill herself for her stupidity and the other half she just wanted to kill him. It made no sense at this! She never wanted to love him but here she was again…

Jeez, it hurt he wanted her so much, Todd thought mindlessly, twisting his tongue around hers. But how could they do this without hurting her or the baby? Blair did have that big baby belly, so they really could not do this face to face so to say? But he had kinda liked what they were doing before when they were a little less naked.

“Woe, Blair! You’re such an octopus! A pregnant octopus! We need to watch the little squid!” he coaxed gently, moving around the bed, so he was behind her again. Rising up on his heels, Todd hoisted her up onto his lap, so her butt was centered between his legs and her hips rested on his.

With a throaty laugh as she realized what he wanted to do, Blair pulled herself up on her knees, using his chest to support her weight. Deciding she liked this much better than fighting, she wiggled back and forth against him encouragingly while she raised his hands to her breasts.

Thinking there was nothing no big turn on than this woman when she wanted him, Todd bit down onto her neck as he slid his hands down from her breasts and past his abdomen. Blair surged back against him, squeezing her buttocks tight together when his fingers nudged their way inside her. She moaned his name as he moved forward slightly to get closer to her. He continued pressing forward with his hips and back with his fingers until her long neck arched back against his shoulder. Her hands shook wildly, clinging to his forearms as a violent, sudden jolt shuttered through her body.

More than pleased with himself, Todd held the position until her shuttering stopped. Relaxing his hold on her, he waited for her breathing and pulse to drop below a bionic level. Thinking that the mother-to-be had had enough excitement for one night and ignoring his own violent need for her, he began to ease her off him.

“What are you doing, Todd?” she asked between short, shallow breaths, putting her hands down to stop him. Nope! This might be her last chance at active sex for the next few months! Todd was not quitting now! He was not stopping until he finished the job properly. So sue her for being a selfish, needy bitch!

She knew this man and what he was capable of. This baby proved that all those pathetic ‘I was hurt in Ireland’ excuses were what she always suspected they were! A big pile of crap! Intimacy issues her ass! Todd had just been peeved because he walked in on her and Patrick. But if the big oaf had just gotten his sorry butt home a little earlier or simply let her know he was still alive, they would have been together all this time! Todd owed her for all the crap she put up with then and now!

“The baby, Blair, you need to…” he cautioned, locking his hands on top of her. Only Blair would be pissed at him for trying to show her some consideration. She tells him that he should not act like a selfish jerk! And when he tries to do that, she yells at him. The woman did it on purpose to make him crazy!

“Oh for pity’s sake! How many times do we have to have this talk, Todd?” she grumbled in annoyed dissatisfaction, reaching down to stroke him, “Pay attention this time, will you? Sex will not hurt the baby! Anything that makes his mommy happy is good for the baby! Do you understand, you big dumbie?”

“I make you happy?” he asked incredulously, turning her head to face him.

Laughing, Blair nodded and licked awkwardly his chin when she could not reach his lips. Not quite a kiss but he got the point. And it would appear that she finally was finally his! She thought with satisfaction as he stroked her hair and finally pushed inside her. Now, the fun began!

Todd swore he meant to be as gentle as possible with her. But all that went out the window when Blair bent down on all fours, pulling him in her wake. He decided that he was not dealing with a normal pregnant lady! Blair was a wild, untamed creature who just told him that he made her happy! With a rough growl, he yanked her hips back his and thrust up into her hard.

This wild, untamed creature was his! He could not help but love her. Of all the people in this world, she was the most like him and yet completely unlike him. The feminine half of his equation! Todd thought possessively as he pounded

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