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3 hours ago, Keri said:

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@sb34  I'm not really into the fan fic stuff but with Eden I alternate between thinking it is both ironic and fitting that she would abandon her family much like Sophia did, and being really pissed off bc Eden would never have abandoned her family BC of what Sophia did. 

So for me it is less about Cruz and more about what her leaving/ the way she left means in the context of the Capwell family and their history. 

I mercifully never watched much after MW left. 

That doesn't answer any of my questions though. I want to hear everyone's ideas of how Cruz and Eden might have stumbled across each other again, how they rekindled their love, what Eden's disappearance and later reappearance must have affected the kids, if Eden would get arrested for shooting Sophia, etc.!

I apologize if this topic has previously been brought up in this thread. I’m afraid I don’t have the time or patience to wade through 200+ pages of posts.
 

Thanks in part to the “Return to Santa Barbara” (RTSB) fan fiction that another member had previously posted (but which sadly hasn’t been updated in years), I was able to rekindle my interest in Santa Barbara and see what it would have (hopefully) been like had it continued into the 2000s. In it, Cruz and Eden are back together and have been for some time (while not hiding the fact that Eden had abandoned Cruz and their kids for some time). But when and how they reunited was never addressed.
 

So now I want to hear ideas from others:
 

What are your ideas for how Eden would find her way back to Santa Barbara, and when (considering that she left in 1991)? And how about Cruz finding his way back there (having left in 1992)? Or would they reunite first and THEN come back to Santa Barbara? For that matter, how would they first encounter each other again? I imagine if Cruz suddenly found himself in Eden’s presence after all that time, his first feelings would be hurt and anger at being abandoned, so a true reunion might take some time. When might you see that happening, and what might you envision as the scenario surrounding their “true” reunion? 
 

And the kids — I also wonder how it would affect them to suddenly have their mother back in their lives after such a long absence and how long it would be before they finally accepted her. In RTSB there’s a scene when Adriana (by then in her late teens) says Eden has been previously been gone and didn’t return for many years, adding she felt at the time that her mother didn’t want her. Do you think they would’ve been pre-teens or early teens at the time of Eden’s return? 
 

Also, while RTSB all but completely ignored most of the events that happened on the show from 1992-1993, I feel it wouldn’t do to just ignore the fact that Cruz had dated Kelly for a while. So I wonder if Eden would have ever found out about that and how, not to mention what the ensuing fallout would entail. 

 

One more thing — eventually it would come out that Eden had shot Sophia, so how might you see that happening? Surely she’d get arrested, but do you think maybe her sentence would be light (comparable to Sophia’s after it was revealed she had shot Channing)? How would all that affect Eden and Cruz’s relationship, not to mention the kids? 
 

I know I’ve posed A LOT of hypothetical questions, but I’d love to hear everyone else’s “fantasies” regarding how it would all happen! 

ETA: RTSB pretended like the Walkers didn’t exist, but there again, that wouldn’t do if it were truly Santa Barbara on TV. Even so, I like to think it somehow comes to light that Jodie had been mistaken and that BJ was Reese’s all along, not Cruz’s. And so Eden wouldn’t have to deal with the knowledge of Cruz having a previously-unknown child at all.