Subj:	Fanfic
Date:	97-02-21 22:35:58 EST
From:	one@starnet.com.au (The Pritchards)
To:	RoxanneP@aol.com

Hi, my name is Claire. This is my story:

	Caleb's Informative Day


	"Lucas, I think I'll go see Tina in the hospital. 
I still feel really guilty about that trick I pulled on her 
and how it broke her hand", Caleb said to Lucas Buck. 
	"Caleb, I told ya, boy, remorse is for babies. 
Now get in the car", Lucas caringly answered. 
	"No! Lucas, I told you! I'm goin' to see Tina", 
Caleb repeated. 
	"Weyal, alright, but I hope you're not going to
apologise." 
	"I already have. Can you take me there?"
	Lucas sighs. "Oh, Caleb, boy, you have so much 
to learn. OK, get in the car."
	Caleb makes that cute little face that he makes 
when he's distressed, and steps into the beautiful blue 
Crown Victoria. The two gorgeous Bucks arrive at the 
hospital. Buck walks in with Caleb. Buck spots Billy 
Peele, and heads over to have a word with him about 
Selena. "Caleb, meet me here in 15 minutes." 
	"OK, Lucas" Caleb answers and walks into 
Tina's room. Ben is there too. 
	"Hey, Caleb, what's up?" Ben asks. 
	"Nothin', I just came to see Tina" 
	"Oh, well, I betta be of now. I'll come in later, 
OK, Tina?" 
	"Yeah, thanks, Ben. For everythang" Ben 
smiles and walks out. 
	Caleb takes a seat next to the bed. "How ya' 
feelin', Tina?" he asks.
	"Gettin' better, Caleb. I've been thinking about 
this, and I've decided that you shouldn't feel guilty 
about what you did. I guess I kinda deserved it. I 
shouldn't have said the things I said to you, and I 
shouldn't have made Boon get me my stupid sodas." 
	Caleb smiles that sweet little smile of his. 
"Truce?" They shake hands. Buck walks in. Tina and 
Caleb's smiles fade. 
	"Tina, how are ya' darlin'?", he asks. 
	"Fine, thanks, sheriff, I'm heaps better." 
	"That's good, sweetheart. Billy Boy says 
you're gonna be just fine."
	Buck leaves the room. "Caleb, why do you 
spend so much time with him? He's....... so weird," 
Tina states. "You know. Heaps of folks swear he is 
responsible for almost every death in Trinity." 
	Caleb remembers his sister, his mama, his 
father. "Nah, they are just rumours" he says unconvincingly. 
	Tina shrugs. "He still scares me" she says. 
	"Don't worry, he won't hurt you" Caleb says. 
"Well, I betta go now, I guess. I hope you're out of here 
soon, Tina." 
	"Thanks, Caleb, thanks for coming." 
	Caleb leaves the room, smiling. Buck bumps into 
him as he is leaving the room and gives him a suspicious 
look. "Uh, we were just....." 
	Lucas smiles. "Yes, son, what were you talking 
about?" he asks very interested, knowing all too well. 
	Caleb looks nervous, then composes himself. 
"Look, Lucas, I know that you have killed a hell of a 
lot of people in this town. I know, but it's got nothin' to 
do with me, and I'm not goin' to tell no-one, OK?" 
	Lucas laughs. (I melt. Sorry, beside the point...) 
"Kill? Son, I haven't killed a soul in my life!"
	Caleb looks at him. "Lucas, don't. Mah sister 
told me." 
	"Caleb, you're sister's dead. Your father killed 
her, remember?" Lucas says with a strange look on his 
face. 
	"Yeah" Caleb replies. "I do remember. And my 
father did kill her. But you're mah father, Lucas. Not 
Gage. You killed mah sister!" 
	"Caleb, keep your voice down! We need to talk, 
son. Come on, let's go." 
	"I ain't goin' with you! I'll walk!" Caleb shouts. 
	"Caleb, I'm warning you, boy. Come with me" 
Lucas grabs Calebs jacket and pulls him out the door to 
the car. Lucas shoves him in the car and gets in the other
side and starts the engine. 
	Caleb looks at him angrily. "Whah did you do 
that?!" 
	"Son, we need to talk" Lucas says calmly. 
	"No we don't. You killed mah mama, mah 
father and mah sister, and everyone else who is dead 
who used to live in this town!"  
	Lucas sighs as he pulls up outside his mansion. He 
drags Caleb inside. Caleb tries to run back out the door, 
but the door suddenly slams shut and locks, after a brief 
look at it from Lucas' eyes. Caleb walks back to where
Lucas is sitting calmly on the couch. "OK, son. I'll give it 
to ya straight. I have killed a lot of people in this town, but 
only cause they deserved it. I am your father. Your mother 
jumped out of the window the day you were born. I think 
it was because she didn't like me much. She didn't want 
to have to put up with me around you, somethang like that. 
She was pretty messed up. I didn't kill your sister. She was 
gonna die anyway. Gage hit her over the head, she was 
sufferin' badly. I put her out of her misery the only way I 
knew how. And as for your father, I mean, Gage. He was 
so guilt ridden after he realised what he'd done to your 
sister, that he killed himself in the jail cell. Now, son, you 
know as well as I do, that none of that was mah fault." 
	Caleb shouted, " I don't believe you, Lucas! How 
could you do this?! How can you just kill people like 
they're flies, or somethin'?!" 
	Lucas smiled.  "Caleb, you are mah son, 
and one day, you will be just like me. The day I 
die, you will take over from me. Killing people is 
what Bucks feed on. It's been in the family for 
centuries. You are a Buck. You have to accept that. 
Now run on home, son, and don't tell anyone about 
this conversation, or your cousin will pay for it. You 
know she's pregnant don't ya? Do you know what 
that means? You'll figure it out." 
	Caleb turned and ran out the door, he tripped 
and fell on the step...............and woke up sweating. It 
was all a dream. None of that could be true, could it?

......TO BE CONTINUED, IF YOU WANT IT......