Confessions (4 Canyon Way- Josephine)

Christian sighs. "I'm trying. It's been so long I really don't know what all this will do to him," he whispers to Violet. He smiles at Luke and Phoebe. "Hey guys. I missed you."

Gosh, when did he get so emotional over all this? Christian always knew he was more sensitive than a lot of guys, but this is beyond him. Then again, maybe no one would know how to deal with everything he's had to deal with knowing lately.

Amy squeezes Spencer's hand. "Yeah, more than ready."

"Hey guys. Lunch is ready," Kai says. "Come sit down and eat. Long time no..." Kai stops. "Phoebe? Luke? Violet?" His three missing children. He'd missed them so much. "I thought I'd never see you guys again." He loves being a dad, but is now unsure what to do here because he doesn't know if the twins remember him.

Christian sighs and manages a shaky smile for Violet.

|"I missed you guys too," he says to Luke and Phoebe.

Amy smiles back at Spencer as Kai hugs the kids. "It's good to see all of you. Who are these two cuties?" He means Madison and little Victoria. "I don't think I've seen them."

He's a bit confused. "I should have realized...why isn't...? What happened? Is she angry at me? Is that why she's not with you? But then it doesn't seem like Victoria would ever leave her kids. This doesn't make sense."

He gulps. "They do look like her."

"Kai..." Amy turns her brother's face to hers. "There's no easy way to say any of this. After they left, Spencer and Victoria got together."
He could have expected that. "Okay. But is she angry with me?"

Amy doesn't know how to answer that. Had Victoria and Spencer been angry at Amy and Kai? She looks at Spencer. "I'll let you answer that one." she says to Spencer with a sigh.

"Oh my God..." It's clear he never expected any of this, but especially not that she would die. "Um...what happened?" He needs to know that much. "It's so rare... well, in the States, that is...to die of complications from childbirth." It actually happens more often than he knows, but even so.

"Oh my God. I can't imagine how scary that must have been." Losing Christian's bio mom, Emily, had been hard. But Emily hadn't had to suffer anything like that, though the brain symptoms had been scary enough.

Christian winces. He can't ever remember being told this, and he goes a little pale. "Um... wow." Nobody has any other words. He takes Violet's hand. "And the little ones... how are they? I mean...do they know, Uncle Spencer? That she died shortly after having them?" he whispers.

Kai had had that question, too. He looks at Christian gratefully for having the words when he didn't.

Amy is still a little floored by the dying from childbirth complications herself. She gives them both a sympathetic smile.

"Where is she buried?" Kai asks. "I mean, Christian and Violet would probably like to visit. I would, too. We could even get a monument here, if that's OK."

Christian nods. "I'd like to go, someday, to her real grave, but this is for us- and the kids- as well as for the community, to remember that she was a citizen of Berkshire Glen. What would you like it to say?"

"What would you like it to say?" Christian asks. He really has no idea.

Christian can tell his dad isn't any more sure than he is. But after a minute or so, Kai finally says,

"Victoria Isabel Townsend Andrieux, Loving Wife, Mother, and Friend." and her birth and death dates. I think that covers it all, right?"

"Maybe a little extra to indicate that it isn't exactly a grave, then? Something like: This Monument is Dedicated To and then the rest?" Christian suggests.

"Yeah, and it will honor that she was a citizen here in BG," Kai agrees.

"Okay, hopefully we will be able to put in the order soon and get it built," Christian says. "In the meantime, tomorrow is Memorial Day, so were you guys planning on doing anything?" he asks Spencer.

"We usually visit Dawn's grave, too," Kai adds. "I wonder if Preston ever found another relationship after she died."

(OOC: That would be interesting, regardless of if I have anyone free. Especially when/if they find out who hired the murderer who killed Dawn. I'll think about who I have of the families I never got to play with.)

Kai sighs. "That's really sad. I know he was going to ask Dawn to marry him. Where in the Army did he go? Was he in Iraq with you? If yes, were you in the same platoon?"

"Do you think he ever would find someone, or at least consider moving back here? I know he's your brother. The kids must miss him, too." Kai says.