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The Sins Of The Father
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He wasn’t dating anyone currently since he was focused on his career and move to California but judging by the way women gawked at him, he wouldn’t have any problems making new connections on the west coast.
Melvin was a bastard no doubt, but he did stay in touch with the family that adopted David, so the boy grew up knowing his grand-father. They shared a special bond that was evident when Kit saw them together. At first it angered her that Melvin had known David all his life and never once considered reuniting them. However, being honest with herself, she admitted that any meeting with a drug and alcohol addicted mother would have been disastrous for her son.
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Melvin lay in bed reflecting on the past 30 years and the lives of his children and grand-son that could have been so different had he made better choices. Again, he was brought to tears for his selfishness, and narcissistic deeds. He got on his knees and prayed to God for forgiveness, strength, and courage to keep him on the path of redemption and to spare his life long enough to make amends.
It was 5:30am when he pulled his weary body into the bathroom to shower and dress for the day. He ordered room service for breakfast to be delivered at 7:30am and made several calls to the east coast while he waited.
The first was to his lawyer to make significant changes to his will. Bette, Kit and David were his beneficiaries to receive mostly property as they were already well off financially, but he’d allocated a large percentage of his cash value to set up endowments for multiple charitable foundations. Now he wanted his bequests to include Tina and the baby. The lawyer made quick notes and promised Melvin he would take care of everything. Once all the changes were made it would require Melvin meeting in his office to sign the papers and have everything notarized. Melvin agreed to fly back to Philadelphia but told the lawyer it would need to wait until after his grand-daughter was born.
The next call was to his financial advisor to arrange for an associate to contact Kit to disclose her financial portfolio and assist with managing her newfound wealth.
The third call was to his Oncologist who was pleasantly surprised to hear that Melvin wanted a referral for a specialist in Los Angeles. Other than his dearest friends Charlie and Eva Madison David was the only other person that Melvin had confided his illness to. Being a doctor, David had kept close tabs on the prognosis and felt very confident that with the right treatment his grand-father could go into remission and prolong his life. They’d had several arguments about it, but Melvin continued to refuse aggressive therapy and treatment. After hearing of Melvin’s reconciliation with Kit and learning that Bette and Tina were expecting a baby, David hoped that his grand-father now had reasons to want to live and would change his mind.
The brief meeting with his mother had gone so well that David was eager to go back to Los Angeles. In the next few weeks he’d be starting the internship at USC. He’d agreed to move in with Kit temporarily so they could spend as much time as possible together and couldn’t wait to meet his aunts and be there when his cousin was born. He could see how invigorated his grandfather appeared by reconnecting with his daughters that he’d do anything to lift the black cloud of impending death. When he received a phone call that morning from his grandfather he started to see the sun shining through.
David was overjoyed to hear Melvin say that he’d agreed to at least have a consultation with a specialist in Los Angeles and weigh the options. Not that he’d changed his mind about not compromising on his quality of life in his last days. He didn’t hold out much hope for a different outcome but now he had a reason to try.
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I am glad Melvin finally admits his faults and behaviour to his daughters and is trying to make amends with them.
Good that he will go to another oncologist to see if his cancer is treatable.
His children deserve to know a changed father who will love them.
Thanks for a great chapter and the insight of Melvin’s life and thoughts.
Bibi28 – thank you for commenting. Yes Melvin is certainly at a turning point in his life. I guess it’s never too late to make amends. Hopefully his cancer treatment will not only prolong his life but make the time he has left with his family more fulfilling with love and gratitude.
You are quite right, I don’t like him any more than I did and I hope you do not write him off before he changes his Will to include Tina and child!
Thanks for posting this BAT, like it that you have given David a nice Character.
Looking forwarded to future posts, nice to have you back, missed you!
SG
Hi SassyGran – You are one of the reasons I wanted to come back to finish this story as I really appreciate loyal readers that stick with us, even when we stay away for a while. I was thinking of you when I wrote this chapter and knew that Melvin wasn’t going to earn any points with his behavior but hopefully he will make good on his ambitions for the future.
Thank you for the new chapter!
About Melvin – i always think that although he almost all his life he was against his daugher sexual preference – he had excuse. He grew up in different times were almost everyone not tolerant homosexuality. He just was man his era. For me Bette’s behaviour against Tina when they had meetings with him was much worse. Especially at those dinner in s1.
Zhenya, thank you for commenting. I agree totally that Bette’s treatment of Tina when her father was around was much worse. I was very disappointed in that entire episode when he came to visit and they told him about the baby. I can understand some of Melvin’s societal views because of his age but there is no excuse for being an ignorant sob. His treatment of his daughters and Tina was inexcusable. I’m trying to make him accountable in this story, but also giving him a chance to make amends.
You have written a Melvin.I could begin to like now that he has come clean with both of them and Tina. Hopefully, his change of heart will go a long way in helping him have a better life for as long as you give him. Maybe he will have those treatments that will prolong his life for a time and give him some quality time with his family before his death. It would be wonderful fr him to see Angelica grown up a few years and to see how smart and lovely she would become and that And that Bette and Tina could have a wonderful life as well as Kit and David. How I wish we could have seen these revelations on the show, how wonderful that would have been. Thank you for making him a better man. Can hardly wait for the next chapter to see where you take us. Wonderful writing. Thanks again.
Hi Dainty, so nice to hear from you. Thank you for going back and reading previous chapters and commenting. I know the Melvin on the show was impossible to like, but I think he had real regrets on his death-bed. Had he lived perhaps he would have changed, at least that’s what I hope to convey in this story. Next chapter should be ready soon.