Episode Theme song: "Oceanic Feelings" Lorde


Previously on One Day at a Time
- Clayton revealed to Nicholas that he filed a lawsuit that could leave Andy and Madeline broke
- Adam & Helen reunited with Dawn after Dale was killed
- Antonio got a lead on Olly in Puerta Vallarta
- Cheresa told Trenyce that she had to tell Chris the truth about her affair with Andrew. Trenyce went into labour
- Cory remembered his name while Penny continued to take care of him
- Sophie and Jacob were livid with Natasha for faking her illness
- Bryce and Eva convinced Victoria and Will that they had to tell the Robertson's what they read in Frederick's file

Robertson Enterprises

"I just got off the phone with the hospital," Abby announces as she moves into the main office of Robertson Enterprises and sees Leah and Tyler standing together looking at some files. She, surprisingly, is happy to see her stepchildren so she can give them the update on Dominick, who is still in a coma following the stroke that he had a few weeks earlier.

Leah and Tyler sigh as they look at Abby. "Has there been a change in our father's medical status?" Leah asks her quickly, hoping that Dominick is starting to show signs that he is coming out of the coma.

"I'm afraid not," Abby replies to them. "The doctor still doesn't believe that he will ever wake up from this coma."

"Why does a part of me think that you are happy about that?" Tyler asks her quickly. "After all, if our father woke up, you would lose this position of CEO and the head of this family!"

"I want nothing more than for my husband to wake up and come back to us, all of us," Abby defends herself. "I would gladly give up this position if it meant getting him back."

"Is that so?" Leah asks her in surprise. "We were just going over this updated marketing plan and it's…well, it's not good. I don't know what you did to the team, but they are not pleased."

Abby looks back at her and feels her blood start to boil. "To be honest, I wasn't happy with them. The last plan they sent me was garbage! If they aren't happy, it's because I put them in their place!"

"Well congratulations," Tyler snaps back at her. "Because we got this report, all three members of the team gave their notice. We effectively don't have a marketing team anymore, all because of now you treated them, Abby! This is exactly why you shouldn't be running this company; you have no idea how to run a company of this size!"

"I will call HR and ask them to post some positions to replace the marketing team," Abby huffs back to him. "Frankly, maybe it is time some of the deadweight this company has had leaves; we need new people, new ideas to really take the company into a new direction."

Before the siblings can respond, all three of their Iphone's chime with a new text message. Each of them walks to their phone and look at their screens in surprise.

"What is this?" Abby asks as she looks at her stepchildren. "A unknown number is asking me to meet at the townhouse?"

"Yea, weird," Tyler looks at Leah. "I just got the same message."

"So did I," Leah admits to them. "I wonder who sent this and what it is all about?"

"Well, if this is some kind of joke, I'm going to be furious," Abby sighs back to them. "I have a million things to do today and don't have time for this! But I will go, but this better be important."

Twin Peaks General Hospital

"I'm afraid I can't stay too long," Cheresa says as she moves into Dawn's hospital room and sees her fiancé sitting up in the bed while Adam and Helen hover close by. Cheresa got a text from Adam asking her to come to Dawn's room, but she knows that she needs to be with Chris while he waits for news on Trenyce, who just went into labour. She can't believe that she is about to be a sister again, since Trenyce only had BJ just over a year ago. She just hopes that everything is okay with Dawn, who was seemingly on the road to recovery, as she wasn't expecting to get a call asking her to come to her room. "Trenyce has gone into labour."

Dawn looks over at her fiancé in surprise as she gets a smile on her face. "Really? You're going to be a big sister again, congratulations."

"Thanks, how are you feeling? You're looking much better," Cheresa replies to her as she moves up to the bed and sits next to her.

"We wanted you to hear the news from us," Adam says coming up to the girls. "Dawn has been discharged from the hospital."

"What?" Cheresa gasps in surprise. "So soon?"

"She has to do some rehab but the doctors thought she was well enough to leave," Helen smiles back to her. "Isn't it the best news ever?"

Cheresa pulls Dawn into a hug. "I am so relieved. You have no idea how scared I was that you weren't going to pull through."

"I love you so much," Dawn tells her as they exit their embrace. "And don't worry, I'm not planning to leave you any time soon. You're stuck with me."

Cheresa chuckles back to her. "That's something I can definitely deal with."

***

Chris paces back and forth in one of the waiting rooms of the hospital as he waits for news on Trenyce. He recalls how Cheresa called him a short time ago and advised that his wife had gone into labour, so he raced to the hospital so he could be there for her. However, when he arrived, he was told that he would get an update on her soon. He had hoped to be with her in the delivery room, however, no one has come to find him just yet.

"We got here as soon as we could," Daisy says to him as she and Andrew move into he waiting room and move up to hug the soon to be father. "Any word on Trenyce yet?"

"None," Chris sighs back to her as they exit their embrace. "Thanks for coming, by the way."

"My niece is about to have a baby, of course I am here," Daisy smiles back to him. "And, I just happened to be with Andrew, and he wanted to come."

Andrew gulps as he thinks about how he and Trenyce made love at the Roboto gala all those months ago; no one knows about that, thankfully, because he knows that Trenyce and Chris' marriage could be ruined if they learned the truth.

"You must be thrilled that the day has finally arrived; you're about to be a father," Andrew chuckles back to him.

"You have no idea," Chris smirks back to him. "I just wish that there was something I could do to help Trenyce."

"It does seem odd that you aren't with her," Daisy tells him. "I wonder what is happening."

Before anyone can respond, a young nurse walks into waiting room and clears her throat to get everyone's attention.

"How is Trenyce? Can I see her?" Chris asks the nurse.

"She is fine," the nurses forces a smile on her face. "She's not dilating at the speed that we need her too."

"What does that mean?" Andrew asks her.

"It means that we have to perform an emergency c-section," the nurse explains. "Please, try not to worry, these things happen all the time. But because this is a surgery, Mr. Michaels, you will have to wait here. I'll be back as soon as I can."

"Please keep my wife and baby safe," Chris pleads with her before she leaves the waiting room and he sighs heavily.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine," Daisy tries to comfort him, even though she can tell that he is worried about his wife and unborn child.

The Calimo Mansion

Sophie moves into the living room of the Calimo mansion and breathes a sigh of relief when she doesn't see Natasha; the last thing she wants is to see her mother as they had a fight earlier in the morning because Sophie admitted that Cassie was able to piece together the fact that Natasha was faking her fatal illness in order to keep Jacob away from her. Natasha was furious but Sophie told her mother that she thought she was dying and that put her through emotional trauma.

Sophie looks at the large Christmas tree that has been placed in the living room before she sees Jacob making himself a rum and eggnog at the bar.

"Hey Soph," Jacob says to his sister. "How are you holding up with this revelation about Mom?"

Sophie sighs back to him. "Honestly, I can't believe it," she tells him. "She really thought that pretending to be dying was a good idea, regardless of the fact that she put you and I through hell while doing it."

"I know and all because she didn't want me with Cassie Nova," Jacob shakes his head back to her. "Now I am married to a beautiful girl and another woman is the mother of my child."

"What are you going to do?"

Jacob shrugs back to her. "I have no idea," he admits. "I was with Cassie earlier and she wants us to get back together. But it doesn't change the fact that I am married, you know? This is a mess and it all could have been avoided."

"I know," Sophie tells him quickly.

"What else is going on? You seem…down?"

Sophie looks over her shoulder and sees the large Christmas tree, with it's sparkling lights. "It's just," she bites her lip as she gets tears in her eyes. "This holiday season is going to be so hard because it's the first…."

"Without Cory," Jacob finishes her thought. "I am so sorry Sophie. Here I am going on about my life and you are dealing with the loss of your Dad."

"You don't have to apologize," Sophie tells him as a tear falls down her cheek. "It's just between my Dad dying and Mom's lying to us, it doesn't feel like it's going to be a very merry Christmas this year."

Jacob walks up to her and pulls her into a hug. "You talk to me whenever you need too, Soph. I am here for you, no matter what you need, okay?"

Holdenville, Oklahoma

"Now I gotta tell you somethin' Gordy, and I don't want you to be upset with me," Penny looks over at her fiancé as they sit across from each other at the small kitchen table at her farmhouse with a pot of coffee on the table. Penny knows that she has been avoiding telling Gordon that she saved a man from a plane crash and has been nursing him back to health, but with Cory slowly getting better, she knows that she must tell him, so he isn't taken aback when she moves Cory into the house.

Gordy arches his eyebrow before he takes a sip of his coffee. "I'm listening Penny, what are you hiding for me? A new tractor for Christmas?"

"Now you know I don't have that kind of money," Penny giggles back to him. "No, this is more serious. Remember a few weeks back, there was that plane crash?"

"How could I forget?" Gordy replies to her quickly. "It was all over the news; sad that no one survived."

"That's where you and everyone else is wrong," Penny looks back at him with intent. "I…I went to the crash site and I found a man, he was alive, barely, but alive."

Gordy looks back at her in shock. "You gotta be kidding me? Did you take him to the hospital?"

"No," she reveals to him. "There was no time; I took him to my barn and helped him recover."

"Wait just a dang minute," Gordy looks over at her quickly. "You took a strange man and have been keeping him in your barn? Are you outta your mind, Penny?"

"No, I did what I thought was right," Penny informs him quickly. "And Cory, he is slowly getting better. I want you to meet him. He might be good around here; help out with some of the yard word, especially with the winter coming."

"I don't like this Penny, not one bit," Gordy admits to her.

"Well get used to it," Penny tells him sternly. "Cause Cory is a good man, he is trying to get his memory back and I ain't about to abandon him now; he's gonna stay here until he is recovered and that's final, so get used to it, okay? In fact, why don't you put your coat on and I'll take you to the barn to meet him?"

Gordy sighs heavily back to her. "Fine, you win, alright? But I still don't have to be happy about this Penny."

The Young Mansion; Nicholas & Clayton's Home

"I don't believe this," Andy sighs heavily to Nicholas as they stand facing one another in the living room of the mansion where Nicholas lives with Clayton. Andy looks around the room and can't help but feel awkward being back in the mansion where Melissa gaslight him into believing Reese was haunting him. Now, Nicholas has revealed that Clayton is suing him and Madeline for every penny that they got from Olivia and Preston's estate; apparently, Clayton has a clause in the will that states if he ever returned, he would get all of the Wilkins money. "Clayton is going to sue me and Madeline for all of our money? How can he do this?"

"He has a clause in the will of Olivia and Preston," Nicholas explains to him. "But don't worry, I have a plan to stop this."

Clayton laughs as he enters the room and looks at the lovers. "You two have a plan to stop me? I'd like to see you try!"

"My mother told me everything," Nicholas turns and glares at his husband. "I know that you're a fraud."

Clayton turns and looks at him with shock on his face. "A fraud?" Andy asks him in surprise. "What are you talking about?"

"My mother told me that Clayton isn't really a Wilkins at all," Nicholas explains to the room.

"Your mother is a liar," Clayton spits back to him. "There is no evidence to support her claim."

"I know there isn't," Nicholas looks back at him with intent. "And that's why, the other day, when you left, I went to your room and stole your toothbrush. I'm running another DNA test as we speak…so, you may think that you are going to win, but you won't Clayton. I will stop you!"

"I…I don't believe any of this," Andy admits to everyone. "Why did you marry him if you wanted me still? What is really going on here?"

"He married me because he likes my ass," Clayton grins over to him, trying to rub salt in Andy's wound, even though he is trying to figure out a way to stop this DNA test from taking place.

"He blackmailed me," Nicholas turns to Andy. "He told me if I didn't marry him, he would take all of your money away. That's why I went to my mother; I needed the truth. And when I got it, it's why I went to you and we … we made love."

"You to make me sick!" Clayton spits back to him.

"You will get what's coming to you," Andy glares over at him, stunned by all the information that Nicholas told him about today. "And then Nicholas and I, we will finally be happy together! And there's nothing you can do about it."

"We will see about that," Clayton winks back over to them. "This isn't over, not by a long shot."

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