My Daddy

John Black sat at his lap top an pondered things. There were a great many things running though his mind an John didn't quite know how to make them stop. A great many things had happened in the span of two days time.

I was supposed to be the rock
You could stand on
Stronger than an old oak tree


Lexie had vanished with Theo an Abe, the note left behind had been cryptic at best. It didn't give many details only a vague a count of wanting to start a new somewhere else. Not only that but Rex, Cassie an Mimi had vanished off the face of the earth. Cassie had been staying with her grandpa Shawn only to vanish.

But all you ever wanted
Was the one thing
I never let you see


Shawn wasn't able to remember anything about that night. It seemed as if his mind had been wiped clean. He hadn't been able to give John or Roman any clues. Except for the fact his mind had been wiped in some way. That meant who ever had taken Rex, Mimi, Cassie, an perhaps the Caver family. Was in some way connected to the DiMeras, or someone else who had access to mind altering drugs.

The tender side of me
I tried to be a mountain
Solid and strong
All it took was your leavin'
To know I was wrong


John felt a shiver go up his back, the thought was not comforting. The DiMeras were insane, deadly an capable of everything an anything under the sun. But John knew how they thought an how they operated, he understood their thinking. If it was someone else who had grabbed them all.

A man ain't made of stone
A man ain't made of steel


He didn't even want to think about it, John couldn't think of any reason for anyone else wanting them. Well he could.....but if it was revenge against the DiMeras that was driving them. Then why leave Shawn Sir alive, an why grab Cassie, Mimi an Rex. They were Roman an Kate's children or at least that's what they all thought.

A man ain't made of stone
A man ain't made of steel


John had been looking at the hospital records of both tests. Including all dna tests that had been done with in the last month. There was something off about it all. John had the feeling that if he ran the records information in the right way. He would be able to find a clue as to who had grabbed Rex, Cassie an Mimi at the least.

And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone
In this world of mine


John had been brought in by the Roman who was by default now the new commander. Roman had been a wreck for the last few days. Kate was helping him deal with it, but she was also a wreck. John couldn't help but feel pity for the two of them. God knew how he'd feel if Brady an IzzyB had been snatched.

Sometimes all it takes
Is facing the night alone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone

Somehow he felt that Rex, an Cassie were somehow perhaps happier now. He knew it was a strange feeling that was border line insane. After all how could they be happy being locked up again. Or god knew what was happening to them all at the moment. Somehow John felt that Rex, Cassie an Mimi were all happy, at peace. The twins had never excepted Roman or Kate. The twins had been distant an cold with them both, ever since the truth had first come out.

Sometimes all it takes
Is facing the night alone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone

Cassie especially had been cold if not do right mean to some extent. She had a daddy already, an she did not want to give him up for anything. To Cassie daddy was now an forever Tony. John had to admit in private that Tony had been the first person to treat them. As if they were normal children in need of love.

The way I feel right now
I thought I'd never feel

Tony had been the only person to treat them with consistency. He loved the twins unconditionally; an had done everything in his power. To try an make up all of his lost time with them. John sighed, Tony really had been their dependable rock. A foundation on which they could build upon, knowing they were safe.

In this world of mine
There was no room for weakness
I covered every crack in the wall
But there ain't no way
That I can keep this secret
'Cause when you go
Like Jericho I fall


It had not been surprising that once Sami had blurted out the truth. That both Rex an Cassie had flat out said, Tony was their father an they were staying loyal to him. Well it hadn't been surprising to John, he could see the bond all three had. Rex an Cassie had been jerked around by life an Stefano one too many times.

I tried to be a mountain
Solid and strong

An that was something that John knew only too well. For them to want to hang on to the first real person to enter their lives, was more than normal. It was a matter of survival an self preservation. They were not going to have anything else taken form them. Tony was their father an to hell with everyone else an the so called truth.

A man ain't made of stone
A man ain't made of steel
The way I feel right now
I thought I'd never feel
Sometimes all it takes
Is facing the night alone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone

John could understand that line of thinking, he had felt similar things. Once he had learned he was not in fact Roman Brady. John hadn't wanted to give up the family that he had claimed as his own. John had wanted nothing more than to keep them. He had never wanted to leave Sami or Eric, they were his children.


But there's more to what I'm made of
Than this broken heart can bear

John never said anything, but if he could do it over. John knew he would have never felt them. He would have taken them an fled the country, John would have taken his children an never been seen form again.

That's when you know
A man ain't made of stone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone


At the time he had been trying to make things easier for the twins, but in the end. That hadn't been the right answer at all, Eric had become with drawn an quite. He still hide behind his camera even now, an he never came near Salem for any reason not even to see Sami.

A man ain't made of stone
A man ain't made of steel

Sami had never gotten over having been left for the billionth time. She would forever hold a grudge against John an the world because of it. Sami had been jerked around by both fate, Stefano, an her own bad choices which sprang form fate an Stefano. She had for the most part shut off her heart to all but her son, an Lucas.

A man ain't made of stone
A man ain't made of steel

John rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, he had been going over the records for over 12 hours. John shut down his lap top an lay down upon his bed. A nap would do him so good, he wasn't as young as he once had been. God, when had he gotten old, he was younger than Tony by about five years.

That's when you know
A man ain't made of stone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone


If he was old an had two children, then what did that make poor Tony? Who had no children to hug him an just stop in an say I love you. John sighed he got back up into a sitting position an started to pray. After about a half an hour of praying, an begging his god, an any other ones that mite care. John fell back into his pillows an let sleep claim him.

That's when you know
A man ain't made of stone
And that's when you know
A man ain't made of stone