A Happy Family - Liam and Steffy Spencer

Chapter 7

With  Liam 

Bill Spencer was driving his way to his son's house. Like everyone in town and probably the whole world, he had seen TPS start out in the world of fashion with flying colors. Well, he had seen it with a little delay but all the same, they were the talk of the city.

Bill had always known that Steffy was brilliant, since day one in fact, and that she had a great potential but what she and her brother had just done blew his mind. If he was still running Spencer Publications, he'd have given them all the pages they wanted in any of his magazines without any hesitation. But knowing who was in charge now, he was sure that Katie wouldn't see the potential in the younger Forresters and wouldn't give them the credit they deserved. That'd always been her weakness when doing business: she let personal matters affect her decisions. Bill was sure that Katie was going to give all of the company's magazines attention to her niece's line no matter what the public opinion said.

He was sad that she'd sink the empire he'd spent a life-time building but there was nothing he could do now. Katie wouldn't listen to him anyway and he had more important matters to attend to.

After parking his car in the alley, Bill made his way in his son's house without even bothering to knock. He knew Liam hated it and had asked him several times not to just burst in like that but he couldn't care less.

The son in question jumped from where he had been lounging on the couch at hearing the door being opened and slammed shut. "Dad, don't do that! I almost had a heart attack."

Sorry, but I'm not really in the mood right now.Looking far from apologetic, Bill let himself fall on the sofa across from his son.

Liam frowned at him. "And you think I am?"

Bill: So, what's going on, have you spoken to Steffy yet? And how come you didn't tell anyone that she was coming back?

He received an eye roll from his son. "Maybe because I didn't know she was?"

Bill only looked confused. "What do you mean you didn't know? She's about to give birth to your child!"

Liam's eyes shot open at that. "How do you know that?"

Bill: Well, judging by how far along she seems to be, I'd say it's pretty obvious don't you think?

"Right." Liam only dropped his head on the back of the couch.

Bill: Well, I'm waiting. How did it go?

Liam: Nowhere.

Bill: What do you mean nowhere?

Liam: I mean I didn't talk to her. Went to her current workplace but she left the word that I wasn't welcome there.

His father was really confused. Why would Steffy do that? "Why would she not want to see you, that doesn't make any sense? Did she at least tell you about the baby?"

He only received a shrug as a response. "The only thing I received is this."

Bill took the papers he was handed in even greater confusion. He took a look at them. When he read the beginning, he received the shock of his life.

Bill: Visitation rights? What the hell for?!

Liam's eyes were still lifted to the ceiling and wouldn't make eye contact with his father. "Haven't talked to her yet, remember? Your guess is as good as mine."

"Well, you can't let this happen." When he got no reaction from his son, he turned to him and whacked him on the leg. "Get a hold of yourself and find a way around this. You can't sit in here doing nothing while your child is out there without a family. What did I always tell you? Family is everything so you better act and fast!"

With that said, Bill dropped the papers on the coffee table and made his way out, hoping against hope that his words had made some sort of impact on his son's thick head. Hope was all he could do but it wasn't that much considering how his son could be.

He could never understand why the kid (really, with the way he was acting you could call him a kid) ever hesitated between Hope and Steffy. The answer was obvious for Bill. Hope was so out of Steffy's league.

No, he wasn't going down that path; it would only give him a headache. And some old feelings he couldn't let get in the mix of others.