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Remington Steele Investigation
9.25 p.m.
"Harry" a soft voice beckoned him back to reality.
Remington turn from the window and looked at Daniel.
"What do you want?" Remington tried to be angry, but
failed.
"I'm worried about..."
"About who? Maybe about me?" he said harshly.
Harry wasn't prepared for this talk. Not yet.
"Yes, about you." Daniel answered softly "because
you're my son."
"Now you remember." Remington replied sarcastically.
"After all these years of searching for my father, to find
him, my family, my roots." Harry croaked in anguish. "Can
you imagine how that feels?"
"Yes, I know something about it." came Daniel's sad
reply.
"Oh really?" Harry couldn't keep the disbelief out of
his voice.
"Yes, I should tell you the whole story now." Daniel
looked a little pale. "About you, Megan, and our relationship."
"What for, eh?" Harry said stiffly. "She's dead,
and you...you never wanted me!" Harry accused. .
"That's not true." Daniel whispered. "I searched
for you for 14 years, I..."
"You what?" Harry cut him off. "You wanted to wait
until I'd grown up? I guess a baby didn't fit into your plans?"
he spat.
"No, I wanted to find you t after I'd been relished from
a jail." Daniel's face looked older and racked with guilt.
"OK, you wanted to tell me the whole story, you have your
chance ." Harry replied and took a seat.
"I was your age when I went to Ireland." Daniel sat
down on a couch and looked at the table as he tried to recall
his past. "I had been working for the World Museum of Art
in London." Daniel saw smirk on Harry's face "Not that
you think I was an expert of old masterpieces."
When he saw Remington's hint of a smile he continued.
" My boss sent me there to look at Monet's Camille, currently
owned by the Earl of Wexford. He also has a fabulous collection
of Celtic Art. John Lavery's St. Anna portrait, Paul Henry's landscape
of the west coast of Ireland and most of all a few paintings of
Jack Butler Yeats"
"Yeats?" Harry forgot about his anger and listened with
growing interest. " Like W.B Yeats, the writer?"
"Yes, he was his brother, anyway I was there because Sir
Leonard O'Corr wanted to sell his wonderful collection. I went
to his 'Land of Barlow' to catalogue his art. I was there for
three weeks when his only daughter came back home from vacationing
in France. She was a tall, blue-eyed beauty with long, black hair.
She was just 20 years old but I fell in love with her the first
day I met her. She had the most beautiful smile I ever saw."
Daniel said sadly.
Harry saw pain in Daniel eyes when he spoke about his mother.
He felt something too; something painful, that burning deep inside
his heart . He wasn't content knowing a few things about his mother.
He wanted to know everything! Who she was, what she looked like,
why she was alone, pregnant with no friends and no family. Thousands
of questions ran through his mind. God, it was scary opening up
his deep, dark past. Harry thought .
"Daniel…please tell me everything." Remington implored.
Daniel nodded, took a deep breath and began.
"Megan O'Corr charmed her way into my heart the first minute
she spoke to me." Daniel smiled remembering how lovely she
was.
"What did she said to you?" Harry asked.
"That I was too old for her." Daniel laughed and remembered
how vivid Megan's eyes were. Like the stormy sea and Remington
had those eyes, his mother's eyes. Daniel felt his heart tighten
in his chest. "Did she really say that to you?" Harry
laughed. His mother obviously had a sense of humor.
"Indeed she did," Daniel looked at the window as he
recalled days long gone. "The next time I saw her she was
with her ladyfriend Kathy."
"Kathy?! Kathy Jassen? The same Kathy that took me from the
awful family I was with and cared for me?" Remington said
in disbelief.
"Yes, she loved Meg and was only person who was happy about
our marriage." Daniel replied chewing on his thumb like Remington
did when he was deep in thought. "Marriage?!" You and
my mother were..."Harry didn't finish because Daniel was
nodding
"Yes, but I want tell you this story in order." Daniel
took a breath and continued. " She was with Kathy, they were
embroidering and talking; I was standing behind them so they didn't
know I was there. I come closer and heard what they were talking
about."
What were they saying?" Harry asked.
"About me." Daniel turned his head away but Harry could
swear that he was blushing.
"What about you?"
"Actually I don't remember." Daniel said clearing his
throat.
"Oh come on Daniel, I'm grown up remember?!"
"Well your mother was a sassy thing." Daniel gave up
when he met his son's curious gaze. "She said that I had
a cute bottom."
"She said what?!" Harry laughed.
" It's true my boy. She also how I'd be between the sheets."
Harry looked shocked. "She hadn't known you a day yet and
she wanted to know that?"
"As I said, she was brazen.".
"We started seeing each other but her father didn't know
it at the time. One day her father found us in one of the pubs
in Loch Garman near Wexford. He yelled that he would kill me if
I didn't leave his only child alone. Meg told him that she loved
me and she would never leave me. Then her father told her that
he didn't have a daughter anymore and he didn't want to see her
again. I remember her mother crying and Meg packing her bags.
We went to Dublin and got married. I immediately started looking
for a flat. We found a two room flat and moved in two weeks later.
I found a job at a local bank but it wasn't enough to live on.
It's then I became a thief and con man. Megan didn't know about
my "other job". She worked at a café and I knew
she was exhausted when she came home, but she would always smile
and never complained. Sometime later she told me that we were
going to have a baby." Daniel sighed. "She was so happy
and so was I."
Harry looked at Daniel with doubt.
" It's true Harry and believe me, I loved her more that anything
in this world."
"I know what you mean," Harry confessed. "I feel
the same about Laura."
"Yes, Megan was like your Laura. Strong, independent and
beautiful." Daniel saw Harry's surprise.
"I know what I told her. I wanted you for myself and told
her you'd never love her. She told me she wouldn't give up and
that she'd fight for you."
"When was that?" Harry said with surprise "Neither
of you ever mentioned it."
"At the beginning, when you came to L.A. and became Remington
Steele." When Remington remained silent Daniel continued
his story.
"I knew Meg was raised in luxury, I wanted to give her something
more than 10 hours work days in a cafe and myself. I knew that
she missed her mother and friends and though she denied it, her
lifestyle. When my buddy told me about this job, I thought it
would be easy with a detailed plan and maps. I was wrong, everything
went wrong that night and when dawn came, I was in jail. Meg had
been coming to visit me, but sometime later her visits stopped.
Than Kathy came to visit and told me that I had a beautiful baby
boy and that Megan was dead. She lived only two hours after you
were born. She took you in her arms and sang to you, she knew
she was dying so she made Kathy promise her that she'd take care
of you till I was released." Harry saw the same pain he had
seen before. The pain of losing someone you loved. "But again
it went all wrong. Meg didn't sign the papers and Kathy couldn't
take you with her. You had been given back to your grandparents.
But that son of..." Daniel calmed down before he spoke again.
"He didn't want you, so he gave you to an adoption agency..
When Kathy came to me after Meg's death she gave me a letter from
Megan telling me you'd be with Kathy. Kathy didn't know you'd
been given to your grandparents when she visited me. When they
released me I came back to her looking for you but she told me
you were adopted and she looked everyone but couldn't find you."
"You mean, I went through hell and back because my maternal
grandfather didn't want me?" Harry tried to sound like he
didn't care but his voice broke and gave him away.
"And what about his wife?"
"She begged him not to do it, that she would take care of
you but he didn't listen." Daniel turned his face to window.
" I was searching for you almost 14 years until a little
pickpocket tried but wasn't successful in stealing my wallet."
Daniel concluded.
"I knew that I had finally found my son when I look into
your eyes and saw Megan in them." Daniel turned around and
looked at his son lovingly.
"Why you didn't tell me? Harry whispered
"Would you have believe me? Would you have stayed if I told
you?" Daniel asked
"No, probably not." Harry admitted."
*********************
Laura's Loft
10.45 p.m.
"Where are they?" Laura said nervously. She was still
dressed in her robe and pacing around her loft. "What's taking
them so long?"
"Calm down Laura." Abigail soothed. "They have
to talk, they've finally found each other after all these years.
Give them time."
Laura nodded in understanding. "Thanks mom."
"No problem darling." Abigail smile back to her. "
What about your wedding Laura?"
" I don't know mother. Thanks to Felecia, I don't even have
wedding gown." Laura replied. "I guess we'll have to
set another date."
After a few more minutes Laura stood up. "I can't take all
this waiting around. I have to find Remington." Laura said
impatiently and went to get dressed. Shortly after she was driving
her Rabbit to her office.
*********************
Remington Steele Investigations
11.20 p.m.
"Hello, anybody here?" Laura saw a hint of light under
Remington's office door and felt immediate relief. She had already
gone to his apartment and the beach where he went when he was
sad.