3X07 “Don’t Doubt Me”
Written by: Chris Coleman, Kristi Clark, Ashley Stoddard and Kelly Zollo
Warning: Episodes may contain violence, language and graphic sex.
Theme Song: Blackstreet- Before I Let You Go

“It has been my dream to save the world. Who doesn’t want their children to grow up in a world that is better. Right now energy conservatorship is and has to be a priority. Today I make a vow to not just Atlas Falls underprivileged community Scottwood but to the world. DGI is beginning a new transition from the old to a new brand to become a company to push technology, innovate weaponry for the military, and innovate how we use energy in this day and age to make the… God do I sound pollyanna? I mean I don’t want to keep saying make the world a better place. We are capitalists and people will see through it if it feels inauthentic. I believe in what I’m doing. I just don’t like speeches. Can you do it?”  Jackson stumbled as he flopped on the couch looking at his wife and best friend. He didn’t know how to give a speech. Hell Chauncey exemplified this shit, he schmoozed with the best of them. He was good at business, not so much at giving speeches.  As he stared at Dani he walked up to her and wrapped his hands around her waist. “We haven’t had much daddy and mommy time and I miss mommy you know that?”

He picked up his glass of water and took a drink. “My dad is dying. My mom called me yesterday and he visited her and I feel like shit keeping the twins away from him. He’s dying and I need them to have a picture with him. Or something you know? How would they deal with knowing I kept them from the great Lowell Devonshire. I can’t believe I’m saying that.” He lowered his head as Jackson exhaled. He wasn’t ready to cry but the feeling was overwhelming. He was about to lose his father and that was a crushing feeling. “I miss him, you know? His crabby ass attitude and his laugh. I haven’t heard my dad laugh in a long time. Anyway we aren’t here to mope. I don’t want to talk about this. I want to talk about my wife doing this speech because she’s used to talking to people. She’s used to making everyone fall in love with her. I just think my wife needs um to do this speech for her husband. What do you think?” He held her in his arms. “We have to take time for ourselves. Donovan and Jolene will be okay, you know? We have mom, Bliss, Hunter, Walter, your mom, and so many others come on we have to take care of mom and dad too. DGI and babies be damned.”

Dani wasn’t sure how things got so off was a good word. She was working so much trying to juggle the charity event on top of making sure everything was ready for the summit and their next acquisition in Montana with Grant Johnson. Maybe she had taken too much on at once when it came to trying to help Jackson but she didn’t want him to worry about it or her she could handle it. When he started to read his speech she watched him as he spoke. She could tell that he was nervous about it and mentally made a note that on top of everything else on her schedule she’d look over the speech and adjust it. She knew that speeches were not his cup of tea and she’d written some of the best for Charles when she worked for him, she could do the same to help him. “No I don’t think it sounds pollyanna, it shows that you are passionate about what we are doing here. It just needs some refining before the summit, that is all.” She almost snorted when he asked if she would do it, it had to be him not her to show the entire world and his siblings he was ready to take over. “I’ll tell you what I’ll be on stage with you when you read it, I want this to be your moment. It needs to be your moment, not mine.”

They hadn’t talked a lot about Lowell or his entire relationship with his father but she had taken his side over Jackie’s when it came to the twins. He didn’t want Lowell near them and as her husband she respected his wishes. She hadn’t pushed or prodded about it but deep down she wanted Jackson to change his mind but on his terms not hers, life was far too short her family knew that better than anyone especially after her sister died. She saw him tearing up and placed her hands on the back of his neck, leaning her head in to comfort him about Lowell and wondered if now was the best time to speak up on it. “I think maybe you and your dad should talk if you’re ready, I haven’t been pressuring you about it and you know I have your back either way but Jackson he is dying. I don’t want you to regret anything down the line when it comes to your dad. If you want him around and to see the twins I’m okay with it.” She said looking at him she’d still respect his wishes either way but it was his choice one she wouldn’t stand in the way of. She felt his hands on her waist and relaxed. They really hadn’t focused on that in what seemed like forever, not that it happened intentionally from either of them she supposed. They both were working non stop and with Dru around they were careful after the time she walked in on them. “I know we need to be better at time for us.”

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3×06 “Glad To See You”
Written by: Chris Coleman, Kristi Clark, Kelly Zollo
Warning: Episode contains language, graphic sex and adult content
Theme Song: Nice To Meet You- Nail Horan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jeYJA9bgY

Belle flounced into DGI. This office was nice and all but she hated the decor and paint. Whenever she had her own business pink, blacks, purples, and lots of neutrals. She couldn’t wait to have her own office and do something? Like owning a luxurious art gallery or building a Devonshire princess brand. Paris Hilton and Kim Kardasian West had built brands off being rich and she was ready to follow in their footsteps. Being an influencer could be another way of rebranding the family image after her father’s disastrous mistakes. She knew exactly who to talk to about this but first she had to call a truce. No more games and tricks so her big brother Rory was her first step. He’d stepped out of the shadow and short of a reality show she wanted to figure out how to do that. Turning her jetset lifestyle and wealth into even more wealth. As she walked into DGI’s electronic division. She walked past his secretary not even paying attention to the girl or whatever she was saying.

Opening his door she saw him shooting a miniature basketball into the hoop. She turned her head at the girl who looked shocked at Belle. “Oh go on.” Belle shooed her away exhausted and exasperated with her. “You wouldn’t even question if Max, Chauncey, Zerick or any of the others came in here. So go on. I’m talking to my big brother.” She saw him ending his call. Looking down in her skin tight Calvin Klien white A-line couture gown she was wearing as a summer dress. “Now I don’t do this easily Rory but you and I are around the same age and I hate we are so distant. I do know that it’s my fault and partially yours.” She saw his face and he looked like he wasn’t getting it. “Rory can you all say honestly your hearts were open to another sibling. I was the final nail in your parents marriage. Do I agree with my mummy and daddy marrying so soon after he divorced Jackie? No, I don’t it all feels strange and living with him is even more strange. He’s ice cold to her and I shouldn’t be putting you in this. I just wanted to say sorry and I really want to start over. Not for any games but because I’m here and I want what Bliss has. You all love her and I love her and I want to have my family also. He loves me so much and I want you all to remember why you love our father. He’s dying Rory and I’m so scared and alone and I have no one to talk to about this because I don’t trust my mummy and my sisters hate me. You all hate me.” Belle covered her mouth unsure where all the emotions were coming from. Tears soaked her hand as she turned around.

Belle couldn’t believe she exploded like this as she turned away from her brother. She wasn’t able to love David openly and he just seemed ashamed of her. And she just couldn’t take it anymore. Nothing was going right and she just hated how Connor dismissed her at the wedding. Shaking her head she felt a hand on her shoulder and a tissue in her face. “Thank-you but you truly don’t have to be nice. I deserve it. I was a little abrasive when I arrived. Slightly confrontational and I don’t know if I’m done with that but Rory I don’t want to fight with you. I need someone my age to talk about being a damn Devonshire. Isabelle Devonshire now he legally changed my name without my permission.”

Rory had went into work early that morning, he had skirted around Aspen the night before after seeing Aspen with Jayden Bradshaw he and pretended to work on the living room. Aspen had went to bed where he Googled for the bastard that was with Yasmine and became even more discouraged. Jayden was everything that someone like Yasmine deserved even if he thought he had a little too much of an ego at the hospital, rumor was he was gunning for David’s job. An investor in Berlin had called about his next idea RePlay was going well but he wanted to maybe dip his hands into crypto currency and trading. DGI had sold shares in their own company before but if they started their own crypto currency that meant they could be regulated, he wasn’t sure that was what he wanted to have done at the company. It was also something that he would have to discuss with his siblings to make sure they were all in agreement. They would have to become a bank or at least part of the company would have to be. He had been shooting hoops into the small basketball hoop in his office when his doors were swung open and his secretary was frantically trying to get his annoying younger sister out. He looked at his secretary letting her know that she could go. He let George know he would have to get back to him and thank him for his time as he listened to Belle ramble on before he handed her a tissue and sat down beside her.

“We don’t hate you Belle, or at least I don’t it’s just the way you were conceived the deception around it all. He told everyone that he was done with Tess and lied about it to have you. Granted he didn’t know about you thanks to your mother but the way it all looked. Yeah Bliss came to town but we knew about her, the papers constantly talked about her, we knew she was out there. You hurt worse because we thought it was done that him hurting our mother was done. I know that’s not fair to you, worst of all was father covering for that monster.” Rory finished looking at her and trying to be sympathetic even though he felt stuck between his loyalties to his dying father and the mother that raised him. Honestly he remembered when the news had broke the look of disgust on Jackson’s face and Bliss’s. Chauncey and Max seemed to have shrug it off and he was just numb to it all. “I didn’t know that he legally changed your name that sucks you should have had a say in it. He does shit like that so you should just enjoy it while you can. I can listen as your big brother but I’m never going to be on her side if that is what you want. Not only did she do some horrible shit to my mother, she seduced me. I don’t have the warm fuzzies for her Belle. I don’t have beef with you, you were just snotty and entitled, reminds me a bit of some of us when we were younger.”

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