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Chapter 46

"Miracle Rhiannon Chasez." Joey whispered as he looked down at his "niece" through the nursery window.
"God how sad, the day she is born is the day her mother dies." Chris cried as he leaned his head against the window.
"Don't talk like that!" Britney and Jamie blasted at him.
"After all she's been through, it can't end like this." Justin whimpered as he looked down at the little girl with her mother's dark blue eyes.

"Christina let's give JC and Mrs. O'Wakefield sometime to themselves." Lance said tugging at his wife gently.
"No I want to be here when they get done with Rhia." She said laying her head down on JC's shoulder.
"When they come to tell me that my wife is dead." JC said staring straight ahead at nothing.
"JC, don't talk like that, the doctors said that she probably wouldn't make it but went back and tried anyways." Heather said taking hold of her brother's hand.
"JC, maybe you should go see Miracle." Tyler suggested.
"I can't" JC choked back a sob.
"She looks so much like my Rhiannon." Lara said sinking back into her chair.
"Joshua Scott Chasez!" Roy shouted at his son.
JC looked up at him with desperation in his aqua colored eyes.
"Your wife risked her life and possibly has given it to bring that child into the world. Don't you dare do that to Rhiannon and turn your back on that child."

Chapter 47

"She's my daughter! I would never turn my back on her! But her mother is dying and I would be no good to her right now!" JC yelled facing his father.
"Who's more important to you? Your wife or Miracle?" Roy shouted.
"They are both equally important, but at the moment Rhiannon is the only thing on my mind." JC yelled.
"Roy, Joshua, stop it right now!" Karen yelled facing two of the three most important men in her life.
"My daughter's dying in there." Lara said standing up to join the Chasez's in their argument.
"All of you stop it!" Lance shouted as everyone looked at him. "Your doing no good to Rhiannon by yelling at one another and you have Christina and Heather crying." he finished. "Rhiannon would kill all of you for that." Tyler said putting an arm around his sister.
"IF she were here." Christina sobbed.

"You're so beautiful." JC whispered as he held his daughter. "I promise, I will do whatever it takes to make you happy. Your momma would hate me if I didn't. You have the best momma." JC said as tears rolled down his cheeks. "You look just like her, well, you have my smile. I can't believe your smiling already." JC manages a smile of his own through the tears. "You are a miracle. You're the proof that your mother lived, that we shared a love for each other. That we loved each other even when we couldn't see it for ourselves." JC spoke quietly as he held Miracle close to his heart. "I just pray to god that you'll get to know her."

Chapter 48

"Where did you go?" Justin asked JC as JC came back into the waiting room.
"To be with my daughter." JC answered simply as he sat down next to Lara.
"Rhiannon would be so proud of her already." Lara whispered.
"Any word yet?" Joey asked as he and Chris came around the corner with Britney.
"No." Christina answered.
"The fans found out." Chris stated.
"There are more outside then at your wedding." Britney finished.
"Everyone is outside praying for her. Her fans, our fans, Christina's fans and Britney's fans, It seems that just about everyone who has ever heard one of our songs is out there with a candle." Joey said.
"Rhiannon would have a huge smile across her face right now." Justin sighed.
"Maybe she does." Christina said as tears poured down her face as Lance held her.
"No, she's not gone." JC said sadly. "I would know if she were."
"Mr. Chasez," the doctor said coming out of the OR. "I think you better go in there."

JC walked in to find Rhiannon lying very still on the operating table. She wasn't hooked up to anything and the heart monitor was off.
"Oh god Rhia, NO!" JC said walking over to her as she remained unmoving. "I thought my heart would tell me. Because without you it's so empty." JC sobbed as he collapsed on the table next to his wife. "I love you! I always will, I will never love anyone the way I love you." He cried.
"You sure as hell better not!" Rhiannon said weakly as she opened her blue eyes and looked at the man who gave her a reason to live.

Chapter 49

"RHIANNON!" JC yelled looking down at his wife.
"Yes, who on earth do you think I am?" Rhiannon teased as he engulfed her in his loving arms.
"God baby I thought I had lost you." JC cried.
"Not as long as I've got a stubborn bone in my body." Rhiannon whispered as he kissed her tenderly.
"Rhia, you can't live forever it's impossible." JC smiled.
Rhiannon laughed, "Ow. Don't make me laugh it hurts." Rhiannon said.
"I'm sorry baby! God I was so scared." JC said as tears rolled down his cheeks.
"Don't cry. JC please don't cry." Rhiannon said as tears started to pour down her own face.
"I can't help it!" JC said looking at her with love and relief in his eyes, "I'm so happy you came back to me and Miracle."
"How is she?" Rhiannon asked as grabbed on to JC's hand.
"Perfect." JC said bringing her hand to his lips.
"Well duh! She is our baby." Rhiannon smiled.
"NEVER! NEVER! DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!" JC said grabbing her to his chest. "
"Do what? Have your baby?" Rhiannon asked slightly confused.
"NO silly, almost die on me!"
"OHHH! That! I'll try." Rhiannon smiled as he kissed her passionately.

"RHIA!" Christina cried as she walked into the room to see her best friend alive.
"Hey C, long time no see." Rhiannon laughed as she opened her arms and Christina ran into them.
"You had us all so worried." Britney said kissing Rhiannon's cheek.
"My turn." Joey said as tears streamed down his face and replaced Christina in Rhiannon's arms.
"It's okay Joe!" Rhiannon comforted him.
"We all love you so much!" Justin said kissing her cheek as Lance kissed her other cheek.
"God I thought I was going to lose my sister." Chris smiled at her giving her a playful wink.
"Huh?" Mrs. O'Wakefield and the Chasez's asked looking between him and Rhiannon.

Chapter 50

Two months later

"Rhia what's wrong?" Christina asked her best friend as she, Rhiannon,
Brit and Jamie sat outside on the patio while the guys watched football.
"JC and my mother are driving me nuts." Rhiannon said exasperated.
"What do you mean, JC is at your beck and call, you don't need to get up
to get anything." Britney said confused.
"And your mom is taking wonderful care of the baby." Jamie said just as
confused.
"MY BABY!" Rhiannon cried.
"Rhia, she's only trying to help." Christina said yet understanding why
Rhiannon was upset.
"Helping is one thing, doing everything for me is another, she is my
daughter I want to be her mother. I should be taking care of Miracle more
than she's letting me." Rhiannon complained.
"Well then do something about it!" Britney insisted.

"Rhiannon would you like some more lemonade?" Mrs. O'Wakefield asked her
daughter.
"No mom, thank you , were is Miracle?" Rhiannon asked.
"She's sleeping." Mrs. O'Wakefield answered. Then as if on cue all the
women heard Miracle cry. "I'll be back sweetie." Lara said about to go into
the house.
"Mom, no!" Rhiannon said grabbing her mother's arms. "It's time for you
to go home, I appreciate all your help but I can take care of Miracle."
Yeah Rhia.! Christina and Brit cheered silently.
"But sweetie your still recovering." Lara argued.
"Mom! It's been two months! I'm through recovering! I want to take
care of my daughter!" Rhiannon yelled.
"Baby what's wrong?" JC asked coming out of the house.
"Nothing my mother was just leaving." Rhiannon said walking into the
house and to her daughter's room.

Chapter 51

two months later

JC walked into the house after a long day at the studio. He didn't want
to start recording again so soon but the guys and Rhiannon, who wanted to
start on her own new material talked him into it. The past few months had
been hard. He tried his best to make everything as easy as possible for
Rhia, making sure she hardly had to lift a finger, keeping some of his
feelings inside as not to upset her, and hardest of all keeping his hands off
her in the bedroom. He was scared to death of getting her pregnant again and
possibly losing her. He hated himself for giving in to the urges one night
and making love to his wife, and it showed. "Rhia?" he called out to the
empty house.
Silence
"Rhia?" JC called out again making his way to their bedroom.
No one.
He went to see if she was in the bathroom and noticed that her make-up
and stuff was gone. He quickly ran to the closet and saw that most of her
clothes and some luggage was gone. He ran to the nursery and found nothing,
barely a trace that his daughter had ever slept there. "Oh my god!" He
breathed tearing through the house trying to find trace of where his wife and
child had gone. Nothing, except a note taped to the fridge.

JC,

First and foremost, I AM NOT TAKING MIRACLE AWAY FROM YOU ! I just need
some time without you and couldn't bear to be away from her. I don't know if
I'll ever be back, well I will because as I said before I'm not going to deny
you access to our daughter, but I can't live like this anymore. Your not the
man I married, nor the man I fell in love with anymore. You've become
someone afraid to show feeling, someone who doesn't seem to know me or what I
want anymore. You were ASHAMED when you made love to me. I can't live like
that, without having you touch me, love me, starting a fight just to get me
all hot and bothered and into bed. I'm a passionate person JC, I love you,
but I don't love feeling depressed all the time. I guess we weren't meant to
be. We had a short time together, and a time that will always be brand in my
memory. I got to go.

Always in my heart,
Rhiannon

Chapter 52

Rhiannon looked at her sleeping daughter as she fought back another sob.
She got another strange look from the other first class passengers. Oh god,
she thought, please don't tell me they recognize me. "Excuse me." A soft
little voice spoke from behind her.
Rhiannon turned in her seat to see a little boy holding out a tissue.
"Here" He said handing it to her.
Rhiannon smiled through her tears, "Thank you."
"Your welcome, your pretty, like my favorite singer." The little boy
said happy he could help.
Rhiannon wiped her eyes, "Oh? Who would that be?"
The boy smiled, "Rhiannon O'Wakefield."
Rhiannon almost laughed out loud at the irony. No need to worry about
getting recognized she thought, you look to much like death warmed over.
Rhiannon smiled once again, pulled a dollar bill out of her purse and a pen
and scribbled something across it before she handed it the little boy "For
thinking I was pretty." She whispered.

Justin and Chris pounded on the front door for the hundredth time.
"JC? Come on man!" Lance yelled through the door.
"Rhiannon?" Christina shouted, having an uneasy feeling.
Britney bit her lip in apprehension, "Something's not right."
"Maybe they went out, I know they didn't know we were coming over." Joey
stated.
"His car's here." Chris said as he leaned against the door. "Maybe we
should try the back door?" Chris said breathlessly as Justin continued to
pound his fist into the wood.
"Or you could turn the knob, we haven't even tried to see if it was
unlocked." Britney almost laughed as she did just that and to everyone's
surprise the door opened.
"OH MY GOD!" The lot of them breathed loudly at the sight that greeted
them.
The livingroom was in shambles, not really a livingroom anymore. The
couch was tipped on it's side, the coffee table against the wall. Pillows
and papers all over the place.
"JC? Rhia?" Justin called out walking into the kitchen, "Oh man JC
what happened?" Justin asked as found JC sitting in front of the fridge,
paper in hand.

Chapter 53

a couple of months later

"So has anyone heard from Rhia lately?" Joey asked as they sat in Lance
and Christina's livingroom.
"She called the other day. She didn't sound happy but she didn't sound
sad either." Christina mentioned.
Britney smiled, "She sounded kind of good to me yesterday."
"You talked to her yesterday." The guys said loudly, shocked.
"Yeah, geez what's your prob.?"
"Today is her Birthday." Chris stated solemnly, god he missed her. She
was always good for a laugh.
"I know I wished her a good one."

"Happy Birthday to me." Rhiannon said as she sat in the cottage. She
didn't know what propelled her to come here but when she got to the airport
the words, "First flight to Dublin please" just came out. So now here she
was in Glenroe, which she found out still belonged to her family. "God when
is this gonna get easier?" She asked as started to rock a fussing Miracle.
She thought that staying in the cottage instead of the main house would be
painful for her, but it somehow made her feel close to JC, at least the JC
she fell in love with.

JC sat in Miracle's room, a picture of her and Rhiannon in his hand.
"Happy Birthday to you, happy Birthday to you, happy birthday dear,
beautiful, funny, STUBBORN Rhiannon, happy birthday to you." He sang.

Chapter 54

"So has anyone at Jive found out where she is?" Justin asked JC and
Jamie and him sat in the livingroom that had taken forever to put back
together.
"No, all they could tell me was that she was recording. I hope where
ever she is she's happy" JC sighed.
"She's probably not." Jamie answered.
"Not entirely at least, she can't be without you." Justin said, he knew
Rhia to well to believe that she had stopped loving JC.
"She was unhappy with me." JC said as tears threatened to pour forth
once again.
"No, she was unhappy with the man who took your place after she got out
of the hospital. JC, this is Rhia we are talking about." Jamie scolded him,
he should know better.
"What do you mean?"
"JC, man, you waited on her hand and foot then didn't touch her in the
bedroom except once then you freaked out because you did." Justin start to
explain, man why didn't he get it, he's her husband, everyone can see why.
"The ones in the middle are always the last to see." Jamie said reading
Justin's mind.
Justin smiled at her then turned back to JC, " Rhia is not the type of
person who likes to be coddled, and who loves for you, meaning you JC, to
touch her. Sex wasn't just sex for you to, nor was it what you always did
after a fight. I wasn't there, but the rest of us just know, that when you
two made love you were showing your love."

"Lance!!" Christina yelled from the den of there home.
"Just a minute, I'm hanging another "Cat in the Hat" picture." Lance
replied as he got down from the stool and walked to his wife.
"You gotta call the guys, and get them over here." She said placing the
phone on it's receiver before picking back up and handing it to him
"Why?"
"I just got off the phone with Lara...I know where Rhia is."

Chapter 55

"Where are we going?" JC asked as they boarded one of Jive's plane's.
Britney and the guys looked at each other.
"JC how bad do you miss Rhia?" Britney asked.
JC got a dark look on his face.
"Okay so it's a lot." Britney stated reading the look. "How much do you
love Rhia?"
"Brit you know I love her more than anything in the world." JC whispered
taking a seat. God why are they doing this to me he thought.

Rhiannon took a deep breath. Trying to will the wave of nausea away.
God what is wrong with me, she thought. All I've done for the past week is
feel like crap. I must be making myself over JC.
Rhiannon pulled out her cell phone and called the doctor's office in
Dublin.

JC looked at the group of people on the plane that called themselves
friends. "You still haven't told me where we are going."
"We'll get to that later." Justin said.
"Should we really be doing this without Christina?" Joey asked.
"No, but she can't fly since Lance over hear got her pregnant." Chris
grinned at his friend as a twinkle appeared in the blonde man's eye.
"JC if you could see Rhia again what would you say to her?" Justin asked.
JC looked at him, then spoke quietly, "I would tell her that I love her.
That I will always love her. That I'm sorry I hurt her, that I'm sorry I let
my fears get in the way of our life together, that I'm sorry I made her feel
helpless. Most of all I'm sorry that I made her feel that she wasn't loved."
"I still can't believe you only slept with her once since she had the
baby, what were you crazy, oh wait pretty much." Chris laughed.
"No really HOW did you keep your hands off of her?" Joey asked, " I mean
she is RHIA!"
"It wasn't easy." JC sighed, "So are you guys gonna tell me where you're
taking me or not?"
"We're taking you home, JC!" Justin smiled.

CONTINUE

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