Forever After Pt 100/115 (Working Through Sequel)
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Chapter 100
Flash Forward 2027
“You're in trouble,” Elle mumbled as she rushed past Adam in the hallway.
“What does that mean?” Adam asked confused.
“Can't talk,” Elle whispered. “She's coming.”
“What does that...”
“What is this?”
Adam turned around to find Sophia standing holding a piece of paper in her hand. “It's paper.”
“Why do you have an email sent to me in your makeup bag?” Adam took a nervous look over his shoulder where Elle stood hiding behind the kitchen door. “Papa, I'm talking to you.”
“Why were you in my makeup bag?” Adam asked as he stood with his hands on his hips. “You shouldn't snoop through my things. Ask first,” Adam said in snappy tone before turning away from Sophia and marching towards the kitchen.
“Seriously?” Sophia called out as she followed Adam into the kitchen. “You're having the respect my stuff talk with me after I find one of my emails in your makeup bag?”
“What's going on?” Kris asked as he sat at the kitchen table drinking his coffee.
“Papa has been reading my emails,” Sophia snapped as she held up the piece of paper for Kris to see.
“Adam,” Kris scolded. “How could you.”
“Oh no you don't,” Adam laughed. “You're not laying this on me.”
“Adam,” Kris snapped through gritted teeth.
“You knew?” Sophia looked between her parents. “You're both in on this together?”
“I have no idea what you're talking about,” Kris said as he avoided his daughter's glare.
“This is unbelievable,” Sophia snapped. “You've both been spying on me.”
“Who wants breakfast?” Adam clapped his hands together as he moved towards the stove.
“I want you to answer me,” Sophia sighed. “This is wrong. You can't just spy on me.”
“It was Elle,” Kris said quickly point an accusing finger at the little girl in the corner.
“What?” Elle looked up in fear. “No it wasn't.”
“She's been doing it for weeks,” Kris said in a panic.
“Daddy,” Elle complained.
“I am shocked at all of you,” Adam said shaking his head. “You have all disappointed me. Now who wants eggs?”
“Elle,” Sophia said carefully as she stood in front of her little sister. “Start talking.” Elle looked past her big sister at her parents who stood holding their fingers over their lips. “Elle,” Sophia repeated.
“They bought me lots of toys,” Elle blurted out as she pointed an accusing finger at her parents. “They've been getting me to spy on your guys for a long time. I've been telling them secrets.”
“Elle,” Adam scolded. “I thought you were on our team.”
“Daddy started it,” Elle shrugged.
“Is this true?” Sophia asked confused. “Have you been getting Elle to spy on us?”
“No,” Adam and Kris said at the same time.
“Yes they have.”
Sophia moved to take hold of Elle's hand. “You guys are in so much trouble.”
“What does that mean?” Adam asked confused as Sophia guided Elle out of the kitchen. “Kris, what does that mean?”
“I think she's going to tell Jacob and Sebastian,” Kris sighed as he stood from the kitchen table.
“She's telling Jacob?” Adam asked in a panic.
“Yeah, I think we're in trouble.”
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Adam and Kris sat side by side on the sofa as the four kids stood in front of them. “You know, none of us have had breakfast yet,” Adam pointed out before earning a look from Jacob. “I'm just saying.”
“Is someone going to talk?” Kris asked as he clenched his hands together. “The silence is killing me.”
“We have called this family meeting for a reason,” Jacob began as he took a step forward. “I think you both know the reason why.”
“Because no one has had breakfast,” Adam said with a nervous laugh.
“Is Elle telling the truth?” Jacob took another step forward causing Kris and Adam to sink further into the sofa.
“Yes,” Elle answered. “I always tell the truth.”
“We haven't been spying on you,” Adam explained with a small smile on his face.
“That's not true,” Elle said.
“Yeah, that's not true,” Kris sighed.
“Kris,” Adam snapped.
“Give it up, Adam,” Kris sighed. “We've been caught.”
“Why would you do that to us?” Sebastian asked with a frown. “It's pretty sneaky.”
“You kids are pretty secretive,” Adam explained. “You don't tell us anything anymore.”
“If we don't spy then we get hit with all these bombshells,” Kris added. “There is too many secrets in this house.”
“So spying on us was your answer?” Sophia asked. “That's just wrong.”
“And you have a good moral compass?” Kris asked annoyed.
“We should put them on a naughty step,” Elle announced. “I mean, once Papa builds one.”
“Oh be quiet, Elle,” Sophia snapped. “This is all your fault. You were supposed to be on our team.”
“What?” Kris and Adam asked at the same time.
“Elle has been spying on your guys for us,” Sebastian explained with a smirk. “She's been doing it for months.”
Adam looked down at his daughter with a raised eyebrow. “You're on their team?”
“No,” Elle mumbled as she looked down at her feet.
“Start talking, Elle,” Kris said.
“Yes,” Elle sighed heavily. “I've been on their team too.”
“We bought you toys,” Adam snapped. “Lots and lots of toys.”
“We let her hang out with us,” Jacob said annoyed. “We played Barbie with her.”
“So you've been playing us all off against each other?” Adam asked turning his attention to his youngest child. “We're all just puppets to you?”
“Am I not allowed to be on two teams?” Elle asked confused. “But Jacob said Daddy plays for two teams.”
“What?” Kris asked looking at Jacob.
“I said he's bisexual,” Jacob sighed. “I didn't mean he actually played for two teams.”
“Hold up,” Adam said. “Have Elle been telling you secrets about us?”
“Pretty much,” Sebastian smirked. “You guys are bad.”
“What does that mean?” Kris quizzed.
“We know your secret,” Jacob smirked moving to stand beside his brother. “We know it all.”
“What do you know?” Adam asked in a panic.
“You know what we know,” Sophia said as she took Elle's hand. “You know exactly what we're talking about.” Sophia gave Kris and Adam a look before guiding her siblings out of the living room.
“Do you know what they know?” Adam asked looking at his husband.
“I think they're bluffing,” Kris let out a nervous laugh. “We don't have secrets really. Do we?”
“What about New York,” Adam asked in a whisper. “What if they know about New York?”
“Shh,” Kris hissed. “We promised we would never talk about that again.”
“But Elle was with us,” Adam pressed. “What if she told them?”
“That was a long time ago,” Kris explained. “Elle probably doesn't remember it.”
“What if she does?” Adam whispered.
“Then we're screwed,” Kris whispered back.
End of Flash Forward 2027
Flashback 2025
Adam stretched his arms up wide as he sat back on the bench in Central park and watched Elle make her way over to the swing park. “So, did you call your Mama to see if the others are okay?”
“She said my Dad was taking them out for pizza.” Kris sat pressed up against Adam's side protecting himself from the cold. “We should take Elle for something to eat after this.”
“So do you think she's having fun being with us without the others around?” Adam asked as he watched Elle play with a little girl.
“I think it's good for her to spend some time with us without the others,” Kris shrugged. “Plus this is Elle's first time in New York.”
“Elle's been to New York before,” Adam pointed out.
“She been to New York hotels, and concert venues. I don't think we've ever actually taken her into the street.” Kris looked around the park at the crowds of people. “Maybe there was a reason for that.”
“Shut up,” Adam laughed. “New York is a great place for kids.”
“Yeah, Adam Lambert's kids,” Kris said dryly.
“There is nothing wrong with crowds of people,” Adam remarked. “It's good for kids to interact with all different kinds of people.”
“Crowds just freak me out,” Kris sighed. “I always get in a panic when I take the kids out in busy places.”
“You worry too much,” Adam said as he stood from the bench and pulled Kris up to his feet. “Crowds can be fun.”
“How?” Kris asked as he followed Adam over to the swing park.
“It's great for people watching,” Adam explained. “Checking out new fashion trends.” Adam stopped in front of the sandpit where Elle sat playing with a little girl. “Come on baby girl, lets go get something to eat.”
“How is people watching fun?” Kris asked causing Adam to turn and look at him.
“Come on,” Adam laughed looking at Kris as Elle slipped her hand into his. “You love people watching.”
Kris looked around the park again before following Adam towards the park gate. “I like watching you,” he smirked causing Adam to smirk back.
“I bet you do.”
“You know what I mean,” Kris said rolling his eyes as he took hold of Adam's other hand. “You're fun to watch, but I don't know about other people.”
“Okay lets play a game.” Adam looked around the street they were walking down. “Okay, those two guys over there. Are they a couple or just friends.”
“Friends?”
“Baby, the blonde is totally undressing the cute one with his eyes.”
Kris looked again before pulling a face. “You think the brown haired guy is the cute one?”
“Totally,” Adam smiled as he squeezed Kris's hand. “You know I have a thing for brown haired men.”
“All brown haired men?” Kris teased.
“One brown haired man,” Adam corrected before reaching over to give Kris a quick kiss.
“Yuck,” Elle announced. “Men shouldn't kiss.”
“Excuse me?” Adam asked as he looked down at his little girl. “You shouldn't say... who the hell are you?”
“I'm Rosie,” the little girl holding Adam's hand said. “My Daddy said two men shouldn't kiss. He says it wrong. God doesn't like it.”
“She's not Elle,” Kris snapped as he looked back at the park.
“I think we took the wrong kid,” Adam whispered as he gave a side glance at the little girl.
“Oh you think?” Kris snapped again before looking down at the little girl. “Why did you come with us?”
“You were talking,” Rosie explained. “My Daddy said I shouldn't talk when adults are talking.”
“Your Daddy says too much,” Adam mumbled.
“Let's just get back to the park before the cops are called,” Kris snapped before walking quickly back to the park.
“Maybe you're right about the whole crowd thing,” Adam said as he followed Kris quickly into the park.
“Just find our little girl,” Kris said through gritted teeth. “This has to be the...”
“You just left me.”
Kris spun around to find Elle standing with a couple at the park entrance. “Oh thank god.”
“Don't you do that again,” Adam scolded as he bent down to pick his little girl up. “You shouldn't wander off like that.”
“You left me,” Elle repeated. “You just walked away without me.”
“We thought we had you,” Adam sighed.
“We're really sorry about this,” Kris said looking at the pissed off couple. “We were just a little distracted.”
“You're lucky we didn't call the cops,” the angry father said as he pulled his daughter to his side.
“Again we are really sorry,” Kris said rubbing the back of his neck. “We're not used to crowds. We're from a small town.”
“And they kiss each other,” Rosie announced causing everyone to look down at her. “They're those men Daddy doesn't like.”
“Shut up,” Elle snapped. “You can say that about my Daddy and Papa. Everybody likes them. People scream at them.”
“I'm sure they do,” the father said sarcastically.
“My Daddy said men that kiss are going to hell.”
“Rosie,” the mother said in shock. “You shouldn't say things like that.”
“But you and Daddy say it.”
Adam raised an eyebrow as he looked at the couple. “That's a nice little girl you have there.”
“Let's go, Rosie,” the father snapped as he tugged the little girl away.
“Baby we are really sorry,” Kris said as he clasped his hands over Elle's cheeks to kiss her lips. “Really, really sorry.”
“That little girl is lucky her Daddy took her away,” Elle said looking at where the couple were standing. “I was about to kick her ass.”
“Elle,” Kris scolded as he tried to hide his laugh. “You shouldn't say that.”
“I would have kicked it good too.”
“I'm sure you would,” Adam smiled as he pressed his lips against the side of Elle's head. “We should really get out of here. I don't like it here anymore.”
“Are we going home?” Elle asked.
“Soon, baby.”
“I can't wait to tell the others about this,” Elle smiled wide causing Kris and Adam's faces to fall.
“You can't do that,” Kris said carefully.
“Why?”
“You just can't,” Adam answered.
“Can I tell them about the mean girl?”
“Why don't you just tell them about the cool toy you got?” Kris asked with a wide smile.
“I didn't get a toy,” Elle frowned.
“I'm sure that's going to change very soon,” Adam said dryly.
End of Flashback 2025
Flash Forward 2027
Kris wandered into the kitchen to find Sophia sitting at the kitchen table eating. “So, Papa finally got one of you to eat breakfast?”
“Jacob's having a serious word with him in the bedroom,” Sophia smirked. “I always thought I was the bitch in this family. I think Jacob might have me beat.”
“Can we talk?” Kris asked gently as he took a seat next to Sophia.
“Does it involve saying sorry?”
“I'm sorry,” Kris said. “It was a stupid thing to do. Your Papa and I should be getting worlds worst parent award any day now.”
“Well, thanks for saying that, but I was actually talking about me saying sorry,” Sophia sighed. “I know you find it hard to trust me now, but you really shouldn't make the others suffer because of my mistakes.”
“The spying stops now,” Kris sighed. “I was hoping you and I could be honest with each other.”
“What do you want to talk about?”
“The email from Kelly would be a good start,” Kris said softly. “Can we talk about the email?”
“She got in contact with me first,” Sophia said. “I didn't even know she knew who I was.”
“She's probably been watching you grow up from a distance,” Kris explained. “Every time a picture of you gets into a magazine, she probably sees it.”
“Maybe she just wanted to know more about me,” Sophia said looking down at her plate.
“That's understandable,” Kris nodded. “I know if I had gave you up I would be wanting to know everything.”
“But you wouldn't give me away,” Sophia sighed.
“Yeah,” Kris smiled sadly. “I'll never understand how she could have let you go, but I am so thankful that she did.”
Sophia looked up from her plate to see Kris looking at her. “I know you love me Daddy.”
“More than I can ever describe.”
“And I know you read what I wrote back to her.”
“And that's what I want to talk about,” Kris said reaching over the take Sophia's hand in his own. “I want to talk to you about the words biological and adoptive. You seem to think there's a difference.”
“There is.”
“Not to me,” Kris said squeezing Sophia's hand. “And not to your Papa.”
“There has to be,” Sophia sighed. “Every time you look at Elle you must see how much she looks like you. She does that thing of rubbing the back of her neck, just like you do.”
“I've noticed that.”
“And every time someone new meets Jacob, the first thing they say is how much he looks like Papa,” Sophia added. “No one can ever say that about me.”
“You might not look like your Papa or me, but I like to think that you have inherited some of our little habits,” Kris said. “Like when something doesn't go your way. Your Grandma says you strut out a room just as well as your Papa did at your age. You've got your Papa's sarcastic tone when you don't like something, and you have my dopey nature when you're tired.”
“I don't have your blood running through me,” Sophia said quietly. “And you know what they say. Blood is thicker than water.”
“Your Papa doesn't have my blood flowing through him, but that doesn't stop him being my family,” Kris said. “I don't have Jacob's blood, but that doesn't stop me being his Daddy. If you want to think about it like that, then the only one I'm related to is Elle. So that means that Papa isn't Elle's and Jacob isn't mine, and you and Sebastian belong to each other. Do you think that's how it is?”
“I don't understand,” Sophia admitted quietly.
“Well, do you think that you're closer to Sebastian than you are to Jacob?”
“No,” Sophia frowned. “I would say that I'm closer to Jacob.”
“Because he's your friend?”
“Because he's my brother.”
“And you love him just as much as you love Sebastian?”
Sophia smiled softly as she looked at Kris. “Yes. I love him just as much, but don't tell them that.”
“And do you love me and your Papa even though you don't have our blood running through you?”
“Yes, I love you and Papa.”
“I am going to tell you something that if you repeat I will deny,” Kris whispered. “Can you keep a secret?”
Sophia let out a soft laugh as she shook her head. “Who knows in this family?”
“My secret is that you hold a very special place in my heart,” Kris whispered. “You were my first baby, and for a long time it was just you and me. You were the one that taught me how to be a Daddy, and that's something very special to me. We're always going to have a special bond. Something different from the others.”
“That's sweet,” Sophia smiled, “but you have a special bond with all of us.”
“Exactly,” Kris smiled. “You're always going to be my first, and Elle's always going to be the baby. Two different bonds, but neither of them are more special than the other. Baby you have to believe me that I never think of you as being adopted. You're just mine. You've been mine since the moment I first held you in my arms, and nothing will ever change that.”
“Thank you,” Sophia smiled squeezing Kris's hand. “I knew all that already, but it's nice to hear.”
“That's something you get from me,” Kris smiled as he reached over to kiss Sophia's cheek. “I always have to hear the words I love you.”
“I love you,” Sophia said rolling her eyes.
“I love you too,” Kris smiled.
“Good to hear,” Sophia laughed as she wrapped her arms around Kris's neck to hug him.
“You really do have your Papa's sarcastic nature,” Kris sighed as he wrapped his arms around Sophia's waist.
End of Flash Forward 2027