CLAIRE FISHER'S APARTMENT
"Ugh!" Claire groans, slamming the
door. "That woman!"
"I can see why you've never spoken
too fondly of her," Ryan says.
"I had forgotten what a pain in the
ass she could be!" Claire pulls her fists together tightly. "She just ...
she makes my blood boil!"
"I can tell."
Claire stares at the closed door,
as if following Diane's exit path with her eyes. "I'm not letting her have
Samantha. I'm not letting that woman raise my daughter."
Ryan is quiet for a long moment as
he ponders the situation. Brushing his anxiety aside as best he can, he
offers, "Don't worry about that. You're an excellent mother, Claire."
"But I'm not her biological mother.
And her biological father is dead."
She whips back around to Ryan, an intense
flame burning suddenly within her. "And don't start with me again! Flattery
and this--this fake sympathy -- they're not going to get you anywhere."
Ryan takes a step back, looking genuinely
hurt. But instead of responding, he moves back in Claire's direction ...
and goes around her, straight for the door. He opens it and then looks
back at her.
"I'm sorry you have to go through
all of this," he says. "And I'm sorry you can't accept me as being genuine.
I know what you're doing and I'm not going to give you the chance to keep
it up."
"Oh, you know what I'm doing, do
you? And just what is that, exactly?"
He lets a heated second pass before
he says, "You're pushing me away because you're looking for a bad guy,
for someone to blame for all of this."
He casts another sad look at her
before walking away from the apartment. With teeth gritted, Claire watches
him leave, and she gazes out into the hallway after he is gone. And then,
abruptly, she shoves the door closed again.
The moment it slams, she leans her
back against it. Her teeth relax, her fists uncurl, but the tightness inside
of her won't go away.
Tears begin to blur her vision as
she lets herself sink down to the floor.
END OF EPISODE #204
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