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>> Steffy: There! Hows it look?

>> Taylor: [ Gasps ] Very festive!

Where do you want this mistletoe?

>> Steffy: Uh, I dont know, under the doorway.

Its not like theres gonna be any kissing over Christmas.

♪♪ >> Taylor: You never know.

One thing I dont want to see is Hope and Liam making out under

it.

>> Steffy: Hope wont be here.

>> Taylor: What do you mean?

Liam isnt gonna want to miss his daughters first Christmas.

>> Steffy: No, he wont.

Hes just not coming with Hope.

>> Taylor: What are you talking about?

What happened to this big, happy family?

Did Hope change her mind?

Because of...me?

Because Im living here now?

>> Hope: Would she be willing to complete a course of anger

management classes?

>> Liam: Im not gonna propose that.

>> Hope: Well, why not?

>> Brooke: No, Taylor would just fake her way through it.

If theres one thing she knows, its what counseling is supposed

to look like.

>> Liam: Guys, I mean, shes already in therapy multiple

times a week.

You cant say shes not trying.

>> Hope: Yeah, but she still seems 30 seconds away from

hysterics every time she comes in a room.

And now that shes living with Steffy...

I just -- I dont see a way around separate holidays.

>> Liam: But...

That means separate from me, too.

>> Reese: Hey.

Is my daughter bothering you again, Tiffany?

>> Zoe: Oh, well, shes much too nice to say.

>> Tiffany: You are good with names, Dr. Buckingham.

Youve only met me once.

>> Reese: Reese, please.

Dr. Buckingham is my father.

Or he would have been, if he would have gone to medical

school.

>> Zoe: [ Clears throat ] Shouldnt you be at the

hospital?

>> Reese: Is it wrong to want to start the day off with a visit

to my beautiful baby girl, hmm?

Huh, so, uh, whats Steffy got you up to today?

>> >> Tiffany: Shes not in yet, now, I dont think.

>> Zoe: [ Clears throat ] And neither is her mother.

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♪♪ >> Tiffany: Steffys mom works

here?

I know her father does.

>> Reese: No, shes a physician.

>> Tiffany: Like you.

>> Zoe: Mm, theres nobody like Dad.

You know, hell tell you so himself.

[ Cellphone chimes ] >> Tiffany: Excuse me.

>> Reese: Hey, do you give your father a hard time like Zoe

gives me?

>> Tiffany: Never. Im an angel.

They need me upstairs.

>> Reese: That is a fine young lady.

Her dad must be proud.

>> Zoe: Mm-hmm.

You know what, do you remember when I used to ask you to drop

me off a block from school?

>> Reese: So I wouldnt embarrass you.

>> Zoe: Mm-hmm.

>> Reese: I wont.

>> Zoe: Okay, excuse me, but where else can your fascination

with my bosss mother lead?

>> Reese: Hey.

Youre the one that chased Xander 5,000 miles to his place

of work.

I get lonely, too.

Have you heard if, uh, Steffys mothers left town?

>> Zoe: I doubt that Id be the first to know...

but, no, I havent.

>> Liam: I mean, I -- Im not missing my daughters first

Christmas.

Okay, granted, I dont know Taylor as well as you two, but

everything I do know of her, both personally and from her

daughter, suggests that what she did to my dad, it was a one-time

aberration in an otherwise pretty blameless life.

>> Brooke: I take it the term "vehicular manslaughter" never

came up with Steffy?

>> Hope: Okay, look, babies are difficult.

Theyre demanding, they try your patience, and I dont want my

child or any child around someone that expresses their

anger the way she does.

And if Steffy feels otherwise, I just -- Im afraid that our

daughter wont be seeing much of Kelly.

>> Liam: Come on! I -- Steffys offering her mom a

place to live while she gets back up on her feet.

I mean, I -- Im not gonna punish her for that by issuing

ultimatums.

>> Brooke: So youll take a hard line with your wife but not with

your ex.

>> Taylor: Honey, you wanted to raise your daughter and Hopes

as sisters.

You wanted them to have each other and be there for each

other the way you were with Phoebe.

>> Steffy: When Hope calms down about this, well make it work.

>> Taylor: And what if she doesnt?

Her mothers been nothing but antagonistic to me for years.

[ Sighs ] No, obviously, theres only one solution.

>> Steffy: Mom, youre not moving out.

>> Taylor: Los Angeles used to be my home, and I loved it.

[ Sighs ] But maybe now it can be to me as the scene of the

crime.

>> Reese: No. No, no, no.

No, listen, I dont want a pre-owned car.

I want the car that we drew the paperwork up for.

[ Scoffs ] No, your financial office is confused.

I have excellent credit.

Now, as Ive told you before, I was living in the UK, and due

to conflicting bank regulations and rates, money can make a slow

ocean crossing.

Yes.

[ Scoffs ] A few thousand down?

Then whats the point of financing?

Look, man -- Yeah.

Hello? Hello?

Dang.

You should have warned me about the cell service.

>> Zoe: Mm, Ive never had any problem.

>> Reese: Yeah.

Ill call him back later.

>> Zoe: Mm.

Didnt sound like you were getting what you wanted anyway.

>> Reese: Theyre just suspicious of outsiders.

>> Zoe: Especially outsiders whose money is always in

transit.

Be honest, Dad.

Are you overextended again?

>> Reese: Of course not!

Overexcited, maybe.

>> Zoe: Okay, tell me, please, not about Steffys mother.

>> Reese: Shes part of it.

>> Zoe: Oh, God.

I have a bad feeling about this.

>> Reese: Taylor didnt after we kissed.

>> Liam: [ Scoffs ] Brooke.

I get your concern, I really do, but...

Do you ever think that youre a little -- a little too involved

in our marriage?

>> Hope: Liam...

>> Brooke: [ Scoffs ] Im only supporting my daughters

decision.

>> Liam: No, it kind of feels like more than that.

>> Brooke: Even your father thinks that Taylor could be a

threat.

>> Liam: You -- You did not bring him into this.

Okay, you did. Wow.

>> Brooke: One word, one phone call from him, and everything

could change.

>> Liam: And what, you -- you want that phone call to be made

to Detective Sanchez?

>> Brooke: No, thats not what Im saying.

I just dont think that Taylor should be left alone in that

house with her grandbaby.

I dont think she should be put behind bars.

I think that would just cause a rift with the family.

>> Liam: Yes, it would.

>> Brooke: But, right now, I am sensing a little rift between

you and Hope and your little family, and she is not being

unreasonable.

You are just not hearing her.

>> Taylor: [ Sighs ] >> Steffy: Where are you going?

>> Taylor: It wont take me very long.

>> Steffy: Mom...

>> Taylor: I just have to get a few things together.

>> Steffy: Mom! Stop.

>> Taylor: Wheres the redial on this?

>> Steffy: Who are you calling?

>> Taylor: Yeah, hi!

This is Dr. Hayes.

I spoke with you a little while ago about having my things out

of storage shipped here...

>> Steffy: Okay, okay, thats enough.

Thats enough.

Youre not leaving.

This is ridiculous.

>> Taylor: Honey.

Parents make sacrifices.

>> Steffy: What does that mean?

>> Taylor: Im a mother, and one of the greatest joys in my life

was the closeness between you and your sister.

I saw what it did to you when you lost Phoebe.

>> Steffy: I grieved, Mom.

Yeah, I still miss her, but I made it through, Im fine.

>> Taylor: Youre a mother now, and you want Kelly and her

sister to have that same kind of special bond that you had with

Phoebe, and I dont see how that can happen with me living here.

>> Steffy: Thats exactly what Hope said.

>> Taylor: And what if that never changes?

I dont know, maybe this is the punishment that Ive been able

to escape so far.

>> Steffy: No, Mom, I need you.

Kelly needs you.

>> Taylor: What if it takes 12 years, 15 years?

Children cannot form that same kind of bond when theyre in

their teenage years.

>> Steffy: Then -- Then Ill give Kelly a sister myself.

Ill adopt!

And you will be here, and you will watch them grow because

there is no way youre leaving.

I wont let you.

♪♪ >> Taylor: Adopt?

You would do that?

>> Steffy: Yeah, of course.

>> Taylor: Alone?

>> Steffy: I wouldnt be if youre here.

Why not share the advantages Ive been given with a child who

has no one and give Kelly a sister in the process?

>> Taylor: [ Sighs ] Thats a beautiful thought.

>> Steffy: Its not what I planned, but...

I could make it work.

Especially with you helping me.

>> Taylor: Honey...

Its not that I want to leave you.

>> Steffy: Mom...

Hope already took my family away.

She took Liam.

I dont want her to take you, too.

Please tell me youll stay.

Please.

>> Taylor: You know I dont want to leave you.

Im not going anywhere.

I love you so much.

>> Steffy: I love you.

I love you.

>> Taylor: Ill just be...

a little while.

>> Steffy: What are you doing?

Where are you going?

>> Taylor: I, uh, have to go see someone.

Unfortunate, but necessary.

[ Door opens, closes ] >> Steffy: [ Sighs ]

>> Hope: Taylor picked up a gun and shot a man.

That makes her dangerous.

>> Liam: Yeah, well, Ridge threw my father off a second-story

balcony, and none of us are complaining about how hes too

dangerous to be around children.

>> Brooke: Liam!

That was an accident.

>> Liam: Yeah, an accident that required both hands and

considerable force.

Whatever, thats not -- All Im saying is...

Is one mistake, however severe, enough to rewrite the story of

someones life?

Think about what youre asking me to do here.

Youre asking me to bar Kellys grandmother not just from her

life, but from Steffys, and, what, if I dont do that,

then you get to accuse me of endangering my daughters?

Thats -- I dont agree with that.

>> Hope: Okay, were talking in circles.

>> Liam: What -- Where are you going?

>> Hope: To take it up with someone who actually can do

something about it.

[ Door closes ] >> Zoe: Okay, you do understand

that Im highly dispensable here, right?

>> Reese: Baby, I know your self-esteem took a shot when

Xander left.

>> Zoe: Okay, and it will again when Steffy finds out that

youve been making plays for her mother and fires me.

>> Reese: Hey, hey, hey.

That is such a horrible expression, "making a play for

her."

It wasnt like that.

It was gentle.

It was like a door opening.

Granted, I opened it, but Taylor didnt mind.

Wait, wait, wait.

You dont think that I know when a woman isnt into me?

>> Zoe: You need to go on a dating diet.

Not to mention a spending diet.

>> Reese: Okay.

What can you tell me about Brooke Logan?

>> Zoe: No!

Thats the last thing I need, is for you to be wandering these

halls making passes at every female you see.

>> Reese: Oh, no, no, no.

No, no.

I just want to find out why shes so hateful towards Taylor.

At least, thats what Ive heard.

>> Zoe: And what are you going to do about it?

Be Dr. Hayes champion?

[ Scoffs ] >> Hope: Taylor went to his

house, saw his gun, picked itup...

>> Brooke: And pulled thetrigger.

>> Taylor: If you really believe Im a killer, you might

want to make a run for it right now.

>> Brooke: Im not afraid of you, Taylor.

>> Taylor: I didnt think so.

It just serves your purpose to propagate your smear campaign

against me.

♪♪ [ Knocks on door ]

>> Steffy: Its open!

Hope!

>> Hope: Hi!

[ Laughs ] Wow!

Everything looks so festive.

>> Steffy: Yeah, Kelly probably just sees some blurry bells and

colors, but its her first Christmas.

Can I get you something?

I have, uh, egg nog.

>> Hope: Oh, no, thanks.

I wont keep you long.

>> Steffy: You can relax.

My mother went out.

>> Hope: All right, um...

Look, I just -- We need to find another way.

>> Steffy: Yeah.

Can we just pretend that last conversation between us never

happened?

>> Hope: I mean, seeing how hard its been on Liam and the

strain its causing with his relationship with my mom and the

two of us...

I mean, the three of us!

The way it ended, I dont -- I dont think any of us were

happy with that.

>> Steffy: Yeah, exactly.

And I appreciate you saying that.

It takes a strong person to change their mind.

>> Hope: You know, I saw this cute place for rent in

Santa Monica.

Its about two blocks from the beach, tiled roof...

White picket fence.

Its just a beautiful little country cottage.

>> Steffy: Oh, you and Liam are thinking of moving?

>> Hope: Uh, no, I -- I mean, Taylor can afford a

place of her own, right?

She doesnt necessarily have to live here, does she?

>> Steffy: She hasnt been doing well on her own.

I thought we already established that.

>> Hope: Yeah, but shed still be close.

And then that way, our daughters can spend as much time together

as we want, whether its here or at my place, and...

whenever you want to see your mom, shes just a car ride away.

>> Steffy: In other words, youre not budging.

>> Hope: Knowing that Taylor is capable of violence has changed

the way I think about her, and, Steffy, I think if you were

honest with yourself, youd say the same thing.

I want our daughters to grow up together and to love each other

like sisters and to share everything.

>> Steffy: Thats what I want.

Thats been my vision all along.

>> Hope: Okay!

Then do the right thing, Steffy.

Put our daughters first.

>> Taylor: So you and Hope want to force Steffy to choose

between her daughter and me?

>> Brooke: Is that how she presented it?

>> Taylor: I didnt even think you could be that cold.

I love my granddaughter, and I will lover her half-sister.

>> Brooke: [ Scoffs ] Okay.

Thats fine, Taylor.

You can love her from afar.

>> Taylor: You dont know how transparent you are, do you?

You want to keep Liam away from Steffy.

You want to keep them apart because you dont trust in this

rebound marriage hes in.

So you think going around telling everyone that Im this

little gremlin in their daughters house, that will keep

Liam from coming over there all the time.

He might even sue for custody.

>> Brooke: To be quite honest with you, Taylor, I havent even

thought that far.

>> Taylor: [ Scoffs ] Oh, well, that might even be true.

Just tell Hope to back off.

Shes already won.

Shes holding all of the cards.

I dont remember Hope being very gracious in defeat, but maybe

she can learn how in victory.

>> Brooke: Oh, my God.

You dont even grasp how strange your behavior is, do you?

No, I do not want you anywhere near my granddaughter!

And if it were up to me, Id have you barred from seeing your

own.

[ Door opens ] >> Reese: Excuse me.

How dare you talk to Dr. Hayes like that?

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