OLTL Recap 1/16: High on Life!

Sorry I missed the beginning.

Wherever it was that Tess's baby was born: Tess sobs as she tries to remember what happened to her baby. She tells Vickie and Clint that Nicki told her that she was the one who deserved to die, not Jared or Natalie. Tess said she tried to go back and save Nat and Jared, but the contractions were so strong. She said Nikki stayed with her and was strong for her. Tess drops to the ground and says Niki placed the baby on her chest, but she didn't cry. She didn't make one sound. Viki is concerned and asks what Tess is saying. Tess turns to her and sniffles that Viki knows what she's saying. Vicki gravely says there was something wrong with the baby. Tess sniffles that she doesn't think the baby was breathing.

_ess's World. Bess has Jess locked up. Jess demands to know whatever it is that Bess has been keeping from her and then to leave her the hell alone.

St. Anne's: Gigi and that cute guy who's name I forget but was a soldier and reminds me a bit of Ryan Phillipe. He talks about how he can't stop remembering Iraq and how he shot a boy. He says it's like he has two different memories, and they both seem real. Oh, I just remembered his name is Brody.

McDreary's Bar: Wes and Marty hang out. Wes feels like he keeps getting in someone's way. Marty watches McDreary, who is drinking coffee and watching her, and she breathlessly says she knows how that feels.

High School Musical High: Cole apologizes to Dillon, who I"m sure who has another name, but GOOD LUCK getting me to ever use it. Dillon says he understands. Starr and Cole bicker that Cole is so angry and he accuses her of grinding on her teacher. She emphatically says she was consoling him about losing his mother. Then she asks if he's on something and dramatically asks if he's high.

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David is still in his robes, and he angrily leaves Dorian's living room. She's dressed in a hilarious negligee. he says he ahs to leave, and she says she didn't understand and asks if he took vows. He says he did. She apologizes again and asks him to come back in and tell her all about it. he tells her he can't sit on any of her furniture b/c it would violate ..."sic sic cooo!" This he sort of sing songs, and the "coo!" part has a bit of a click at the end. He tells her this means abstinence. She gives a hilarious "really?" and he solemnly says yes. She tells him she wants to be saved from carnal knowledge. She drops to her knees and passionately begs him to be her teacher and train her. he tells her she'd have to give up everthing: pedicures, massages, hair cuts. Dorian comically uprights herself like a feeble woman. She barks dramatically and sobfully that she beseeches him to show her. Then she repeats it over dramatically "show me! Show me the way!" David calmly picks up a vase and asks her about it. She recalls buying it at auction, and that it's so rare. He drops and breaks it, and she jumps up shrieking. Gone is the solemn sounding voice she had before and she shrieks like a harpy "what did you doooooooo?"

High School Musical High: Starr demands to know if he's on steroids again. He grits his teeth and defensively says he's not. She begs him to tell him what it is. Uh, Starr, maybe it's that his mom can't remember him, or his baby is dead, or the man who raped his mom also kidnapped his mom again? Frankly, it would be really weird if Cole weren't constantly in a bad mood.

St. Anne's: Gigi tells Brody that he didn't do this. The war did this. Brody says that after what he did to her and Rex and Shane, he can't believe she still cares. Gigi smiles and says when he's feeling better in a week or two, he'll bring Shane for a visit. He thanks her for coming. Before she leaves, she tells him he's not alone. He has her and he has Wes.

McDreary's Bar: Oh, so Wes apparently saw whatever happened with the boy in Iraq. Marty asks why she doesn't tell Brody what happened. He says he doesn't want to make him feel worse. Marty says from her experience it makes it worse when someone keeps something they know about you that you don't. he says he's going to call him. McDreary swoops in while she plays pool. Why do I find him so aggravating? Is it the way he always delivers his lines by turning his head away from the person to whom he's talking? McDreary asks if she's with Wes now. She makes a shot and asks if it matters. he shrugs that it doesn't, he guesses, but he wants to know if all this is for Wes' benefit or his.

Sad, Sad house: Vicki gently sits by Tess and says that maybe she didn't hear the baby cry before she passed out b/c she was in shock. Tess sobs up a storm. Like, I would honestly watch for thunderstorms in Llanview so powerful are her sobs, and she gasps "oh, my God. I think I know what happened."

_ess's World: Jess continues to beg Bess to tell her the truth. Bess leans forward to whisper in Jess's ear.

Sad, Sad, House: Vicki gently tells Tess that she's not alone, and they will help her, so please tell them what happened. Tess just gasps little hiccupy sobs and can't bring herself to look at anyone. Bree Williamson leaves me feeling dehydrated.

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Dorian cradles the broken pieces of the vase and laments that it was expensive and irreplaceable. David softly says "and you loved it." Dorian pulls it together and weepingly asks what is ancient Chinese art compared to enlightenment. He thanks her for the valuable lesson he learned today and they share "namaste's" and he leaves. Then she drops to the ground, with a piece of vase in each hand and does her best Scarlett and says"As God is my witness, david Viceroi, I will get you to marry me, and then when I am Mrs. David Vicerosi Buchanon, I will kick Clint and Nora out of that mansion." Then she holds the broken pieces up to the heavens and finishes "and I will take back BE!!!!!!" Love me some Dorian.

McDreary's Bar Exterior: Gigi and Wes run into each other. She gossips that Brody is still seeing the little boy, but now sometimes he remembers that the boy had a gun and other times the kid didn't, and he can't tell what's real. Wes winces at this. Gigi doesn't know how to help Brody.

McDreary's Bar Interior: Marty and McDreary oddly flirt. She offers to play pool. He suggests darts. She says b/c she's bad at darts. She says he should have never hooked up with her and then she leaves him to scowl miserably.

High School Musical High: Starr lectures Cole about drugs. he asks not to be lectured. She says she knows how he's hurting. he says she doesn't. She says they've both lost a daughter and a aparent. She wishes there was a pill that would fix it, but she knows there's not. Cole looks heavenward as his eyes fill with tears. She softly asks what he took and where he got it. He grits his teeth again and said he didn't take anything. She angrily reaches to his coat pocket and pulls out a baggie of pills. He whisperingly asks her what she wants him to say, but she looks up at him not in anger, but in utter heart break and sadness, not knowing how to help him and feeling very betrayed by the one person left she feels she can count on. (Also, in the middle of this, Dillon took something out of his desk and looked angry, guilty, sullen, remorseful about it)

_ess's World: Bess pulls away after telling Jess something. Jess stares off for a moment, with her mouth agape, not breathing. She turns to Bess finally and pleadinging says "No."

Sad, Sad House: Tess gasps "the baby!" She covers her forehead with her hands and leans on her hands, she sobs a bit as Clint gently tells her they are here and to talk to them. Vicki gently says "Tess?" But Jess looks up and says "no, it's me." She asks what Tess said about the baby.

_ess's World: Tess is back in the jail, in her floral dress. She walks slowly towards Bess and says sadly but without tears, "my baby's dead."

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High School Musical High: Cole pathetically says it's a prescription. Unless he went to Dr. Ghetto Crack, I highly doubt it. Even Starr knows this is an insulting claim. He keeps gritting his teeth and says he just needed something. Star insists this will make it works and reminds him of that last time. Unfortunately Principal Sort of Sandy Duncan walks up at this moment and asks to see what's in Starr's hand. Oh, whoops!

McDreary's Bar: Wes comes back in to take off. Marty says it's just her and McDeary. he says he doesn't know if he has enough insurance. She angrily throws darts. She goes to retrieve them, and he stands way too close and asks what she's doing: driving Nora away and hanging out with this Wes fellow. (um, because Nora is annoying and Wes is kind of cute?) Marty says she doesn't know, but good Marty only led her to Todd Manning.

_ess's World: Bess gently asks Tess not to do this. With tears streaming down her face, Tess angrily and firmly asks "was my baby born dead?"

Sad, sad house: Vicki asks Jess if she's alright. Jess snaps that she's fine and just wants to know what Tess said. Clint reassuringly says Tess didn't say anything that made sense. Tears begin to fall down Jess's face as she nods and asks, so she doesn't know the truth. She says Bess told her the truth about what happened.

_ess's World: Tess rattles her own cage and yells at Bess to tell her what happened, if her baby died. Bess succinctly answers "yes" Tess lets out howling sobs and pressed her palms against her eyes, and then lets out one of those long, silent sobs that can only send out a sob until her lungs are absolutely empty, and she needs another breath, but there is so much grief left to leave, she can only stand there and endure the sob, and brace herself on the cage until finally her brain remembers to tell her brain to inhale, so she again makes audible sobs as she fills her lungs with air again, only to start the process again.

Monastery: David sits and meditates. Dorian sits down in a turban type thing and robes, and she begins to chant as well.

High School Musical School: Cole says those aren't Starr's drugs, but Starr says Cole is lying to protect her.

McDreary's bar: Marty and John keep standing very close. She says she's selfish and self destructive. She says to herself "what the heck, go for it." then she plants a big kiss on him. I love that Party Marty still only says "heck" heh

St. Anne's: Wes visits Brody and says he should have said so sooner, but the boy in Iraq was indeed unarmed. Brody blinks at this, confused by his conflicting memories.

_ess's World: Tess has both hands gripping the cage and sniffle sobs "so, it's true, the baby died?" Bess robotically says yes, and she tried to fix it, but Tess wouldn't leave it alone. Tess asks how it happened. Bess asks if it matters. Tess swats at the cage like an enraged lioness and roars that of course it matters. Bess says it was Tess's fault.

Sad, sad house: Vicki kneels and peers into Jess's face. Jess tearfully says that Bess told her what happened that night. She says it's all her fault. Vicki lets out a little sad gasp, and holds her daughter's face to her breast and stares morosely forward.

The End