The Players:
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Prologue:
In Rome after bringing down a drug smuggling ring, Billie and Bo shared a night of passion. Billie asked Bo to make love to her before he left, so he did. Hope saw them, but secretly kept this fact to herself. When Bo went back to Salem, Hope was trying to distance herself from him, knowing that he slept with Billie. But eventually, it was finally discovered that Hope had seen them in Rome. Meanwhile, in Rome, Billie was kidnapped by a thug named Max, who was working for a drug lord named J.L. King. Max tied Billie to a bed and shot her up with drugs, hoping to get Billie addicted again, as she had been in the past. Billie was rescued, but suffered the effects of drug addiction for months after the ordeal. Afterwards, she found out that she was pregnant. She told Bo, but Bo told her he didn't want to be with her. He said he'd support the baby, but he would be with Hope.
Meanwhile, Billie had a budding relationship with Roman, her ex-brother-in-law. Billie worried that her baby might be affected by the drugs that Max gave her, but Roman soon soothed her fears. A few months later, Billie heard news that Bo and Hope were in a Louisiana bayou searching around Maison Blanche for clues to Hope's past. Billie rushed to Louisiana's bayou, trying to be nosey and keep them apart. While in the bayou, Bo and Hope left behind a compact which was important to Hope's past. A mysterious "swamp girl" took the compact after noticing it and buried it in the dirt. The compact was soon washed down stream by a terrible storm and its rainwater. This was the start of an interesting turn of events...for everyone.
The Birth:
After searching in the bayou for days for clues to Hope's past, Bo and Hope decided to come back to Salem, leaving Billie alone in Louisiana. But soon after Bo and Hope's departure from the bayou, Billie began feeling birth pains. She ended up at a southern family's house. Two men named Wayne and Earl carried Billie inside their home. Inside, Wayne and Earl handed Billie over to their mother who just happened to be a midwife. Billie pushed and sweated and pushed some more, and eventually, the baby was born. But as Billie went to hold the baby, they realized that the baby wasn't breathing. The baby was unfortunately stillborn. Billie cried and mourned the loss of her baby. Billie, with Wayne, Earl, and their mother, had a small burial for the baby, whom she had named Georgia, after hearing Wayne and Earl sing "Georgia on my Mind" after the baby was born. During the burial, Billie found the compact that the "Swamp Girl" had buried a few days before. Billie noticed an engraved "G" on the compact, and thought it stood for "Georgia." This "G" actually stood for the name "Gina," the woman who's life Hope was investigating in the bayou. Billie took this compact as a means to always remember her baby girl, "Georgia."
The Lie Begins:
Billie makes her way, sorely, back to Salem. Before she gets the chance to tell anyone about the baby's death, she runs into Hope, who has a vicious argument with Billie. Hope assumed that Billie was still pregnant, and Billie never admitted that she wasn't. Meanwhile, Billie thought of a sick lie in her cruel head. She figured that if she could act angry enough, she could say that she didn't have the baby until she was in Salem. From that, she also came up with the lie of saying that her argument with Hope caused her to have a miscarriage. Billie hired a fake doctor to go along with this theory. When Bo approached Billie about the miscarriage, she told him the whole lie. She said that she got into a terrible argument with Hope, which in turn caused her stress to be high, resulting in a terrible miscarriage. Of course this was completely untrue, because Billie had had a stillborn baby days before in the Louisiana bayou. After she told this lie, she had a fake burial for the baby, with a closed casket. Bo thought that his baby was actually inside. In fact, it was just a box with rocks in it. The real baby was in Louisiana, having been buried in the Bayou. Meanwhile, Billie learned through conversation with Hope that the compact with the engraved "G" was actually what Hope had been looking for as a clue to Gina's past! She couldn't let Hope see the compact, or else Hope would realize that Billie got it from the bayou and probably figure out the baby scam. The timing of taking the compact and actually having the stillborn baby were too awkward to let Hope find out about the compact, or else there would be a huge gap of time unaccounted for in between, which Hope could piece together and realize that Billie actually had the baby in the bayou. Hope came close to seeing Billie with the compact a few times, but never close enough.
Then, one day a huge tornado ravaged the bayou. Wayne and Earl sent the baby, in it's casket, home to Salem, because the graveyard was destroyed. When the casket arrived, Hope was arguing with Billie. When Billie got the box, she didn't know what it was. She opened it, and saw her baby Georgia's casket inside. Billie had to think quick, or else Hope would see the casket, and knowing the box came from Louisiana, she'd know that the baby was buried in the bayou and had therefore been born there. But Billie threw the car keys at Hope and pushed her out the door, screaming for Hope to leave. Hope left, but was still curious as to what was in the box. Meanwhile, Billie crumpled at the door, seeing that she had gotten herself into a huge mess. Billie bawled in tears. Then, a few days later, on Halloween Night, Wayne and Earl made their way up to Salem to tell Billie sorry about having to give her the baby and the casket back. They were telling Billie this in the middle of a huge rainstorm, but little did Billie know, Hope was behind the bushes listening to every word! Hope then realized that the baby was stillborn in the Louisiana bayou, not in Salem, so Hope didn't cause the baby's death after all! After Wayne and Earl left, Hope approached Billie. Billie got scared, but Hope just grew stronger, and more angry by the second. As Billie blew up at Hope, Hope raised her fist and drew it across Billie's face! Hope just walked off and told her, "THAT is what you deserve!!!." Billie crumpled to the ground in the pouring rain, crying, telling herself that she had lost everything.....Bo, Georgia, Respect. That night, Hope told Bo the truth, as Bo was furious. The following morning, Bo approached Billie, and he had a nasty confrontation with her. He told her he never wanted to be with her, or see her again. Since that night, both Hope and Bo have forgiven Billie, but the pain can never be forgotten.....
Thanks to DAYSisBEST@aol.com for writing this story
