>> Hope: We overcame so much to be together.
Everyone's objections, everything that has happened
in the past, and Thomas, it's been worth it, right?
>> Thomas: I thought so. >> Hope: Don't do that.
Not past tense. Thomas, we share something
special. You make me feel a way that I've never felt with
anyone else before. >> Thomas: But you won't
marry me. >> Hope: Ugh!
Because I need more time! Do I really have to explain
this, Thomas? You know my history with Liam.
You know I just got divorced, and, God, I just wanted
a moment to breathe, to discover who I am.
And I-- I thought we were on that same journey together.
I-- I really thought you understood.
Thomas, please. Do not let Steffy get in your
head. Don't let her destroy what we share. I-- I can't lose you.
>> Steffy: Hope had her way with Thomas for way too long.
That's about to end. She's in for a rude awakening.
>> Brooke: That's my daughter you're talking about.
>> Steffy: Oh, I know. Hope's more and more like you
every day. >> Ridge: All right, why don't--
>> Brooke: Obviously you think that's a bad thing.
>> Steffy: Look, this wouldn't bother me if Thomas's heart
wasn't at risk. It's not like back in the day when you were
running around, targeting my family, and you said that
you were doing it-- that you were acting out of love.
Like, Hope doesn't even wanna pretend that she loves Thomas.
>> Brooke: She does love him. >> Ridge: All right,
let's just all take a breath, take a step back.
>> Steffy: No, I'm not gonna do that. Hope's continuing the
Logan tradition. It's obvious, and I'm not gonna stand by
and let her hurt him. ♪♪♪
>> Brooke: I am trying very hard not to be offended. But I can't
take all the Hope bashing. >> Steffy: It's not bashing if
it's the truth. Hope is just turning into you,
Brooke. I mean, the way she is seducing my brother,
targeting him? Thomas is completely devastated,
because she is using him. >> Brooke: That's not true.
She has real feelings for Thomas.
>> Steffy: How many times is he gonna propose to her?
How many times is she gonna turn him down while she's
wearing his engagement ring on a chain around her neck?
That is totally unacceptable, and it needs to end.
I think it's happening right now.
>> Hope: Steffy is working against us. She's in your ear.
She's trying to break us up. She's making assumptions.
She's saying things about me that are just not true, Thomas.
Just because I can't accept your proposal doesn't mean that
I don't wanna be with you. I love what we have together.
>> Thomas: What do we have together, exactly?
Is-- is there commitment? Is this a relationship?
Are we just, like, going steady?
Are we building a foundation for the future, or is this...
you taking out some revenge against your mom, or your ex,
or my sister, or my family, whatever?
>> Hope: What? >> Thomas: Maybe it's not
that emotional. Maybe it's just you taking a walk on
the wild side with the bad boy. [ Hope scoffs ]
>> Hope: Thomas, you know that is not true.
>> Thomas: I don't know anything, Hope. That's why
I'm asking the question. How long do I have to wait? Huh?
Will you ever love me the way that I love you?
♪♪♪
>> Brooke: Why are you so invested in Hope and Thomas
getting married? Why can't they just be together?
>> Steffy: I'm not the one who's invested. That would be Thomas,
who's getting jerked around by Hope. He deserves better.
Like, Dad, I thought you would agree with me on this.
>> Ridge: I do agree. Honestly, I just want Thomas to do
whatever makes him happy. >> Brooke: Exactly. Well, I want
the same thing for Hope, and you need to stay out of this.
You need to let them figure out their own relationship.
>> Steffy: Look, I'm not gonna apologize for defending
my brother. >> Ridge: And you shouldn't.
And that's all she's doing. She's not going after Hope
at all. >> Steffy: Oh, yes, I am.
I want Hope out of Thomas's life for good. I'm done with her
leading him on, toying with his emotions. She's not gonna
break his heart anymore. The only person that's gonna
have a broken heart will be Hope, not Thomas.
>> Thomas: See, I've been asking myself that question since
you turned me down. Will you ever be able to love me
the way that I love you? No reservations, no conditions.
>> Hope: Please don't doubt my feelings for you, Thomas.
Please don't start that now. I love the man that
you've become. This man. Kind, compassionate, talented,
funny, an amazing father. Thomas, I don't even have the
words to describe how I feel, how you make me feel.
It's something I've-- I've never experienced with
anyone else before, and... it's exhilarating
being with you, and I-- I don't want that to change.
>> Thomas: See, but that's the thing. Everything changes.
Things progress.
>> Hope: Thomas, there is not just one set timeline in order
for us to be a couple that we have to follow.
>> Thomas: Okay, so you-- What, do you want this to always just
be some breezy thing? Just never worrying about
the future, always living right now in this moment?
>> Hope: Gosh, you are making this sound so much more casual
than it is, and you know that. There is no one else for me,
Thomas. I adore you.
And I'm sorry, I am sorry that I disappointed you.
I am sorry that I couldn't say yes. I am just not ready
to be married again. >> Thomas: When will you
be ready? >> Hope: You know I can't
answer that. >> Thomas: Months?
Years? Will you ever really be ready?
[ Hope scoffs ] See, the thing is, is...
I don't know if you really can answer that question.
I don't know if you believe that you ever could be ready,
and that's why I'm leaving.
>> Hope: You're leaving? >> Thomas: Yeah.
This is too painful for me, Hope. And maybe Steffy's right.
>> Hope: Steffy? No! >> Thomas: Look, I know that
this-- this is not your fault. You're not doing this on
purpose, but when you wore that ring in front of me on
the necklace, it just-- it was too hard.
It hurts too much. I can't do it anymore.
And I love you too much to put myself through that.
♪♪♪
>> Brooke: Did you seriously just say that? You don't care
if you see Hope hurt? >> Steffy: I warned Hope, do not
play with Thomas's emotions. And we all know why.
Everything that Thomas went through.
He's vulnerable to her, so either she's all in
or she's all out. But she doesn't really care,
'cause she's a Logan, and all you guys care about
is your needs and your wants and you, you, you.
>> Brooke: Seriously? Are you gonna let her
talk to me like that? >> Steffy: My dad doesn't have
to tell me to do anything. >> Ridge: All right, I would ask
you to maybe step back a little, because I know you're worried
about your brother, I know you're concerned about him,
but attacking Brooke and Hope is not helping us.
>> Steffy: I'm not attacking Brooke, I'm just telling
the truth. All Brooke's history.
>> Brooke: Oh, my God. Here we go, dredging that up.
>> Ridge: What are you trying to accomplish with this now?
>> Steffy: I am just saying that all the chaos and the pain that
Brooke brought into your life, Hope is doing the exact same
thing to Thomas. Hope is following in her mother's
footsteps, and I'm not going to allow it! It is unacceptable.
It needs to end.
>> Hope: You cannot possibly
believe that I wore your ring to be cruel.
Thomas, cruelty would've been me accepting the proposal,
knowing that I wasn't ready for marriage.
>> Thomas: Why did you take the ring and wear it
on your necklace? >> Hope: Because I thought it
was a nice gesture to have it close to my heart
as I was deciding! >> Thomas: Yeah, but you never
really had any intention of marrying me from the start.
See, when you put it on, I saw hope for our future.
>> Hope: Thomas, you asked me to wear your ring
on my necklace. You were the one who put it there.
>> Thomas: Yes, because I expected you at some point
to take it off and actually wear it on your finger. But,
if you really wanted that from the start,
you would've accepted it when I gave it to you.
>> Hope: Yeah, you're really starting to sound like Steffy.
>> Thomas: Maybe she's right. >> Hope: Oh, God. Can we just
stop already, please? I love you.
>> Thomas: Yeah. You love me. Just not enough to marry me.
And I can't keep doing it, Hope. It hurts too much to-- to be
built up and encouraged to having it all fall apart, okay?
At some point, I have to take care of myself.
>> Hope: You don't have to protect your heart from me,
Thomas. I didn't get into this to hurt you.
Or-- or to feed my ego, or whatever other lies that
Steffy has been telling you. Thomas, I am just trying to
think about us. About the kids.
About our future. And I-- [ sobs ]
I haven't always done that in the past,
and that has caused a lot of pain, and I am just trying
not to make that same mistake again. That is all.
>> Thomas: I have loved you. Wanted you.
I would've loved you for the rest of my life
and given you everything. But it's too painful, Hope.
The back and forth is too painful.
I still love you. I love you so much.
But I can't do it anymore. And that's why I'm leaving
today. ♪♪♪
>> Brooke: Your whole take on Hope and Thomas? It's wrong,
in this scenario that you've created in your head about how
Hope is a tramp and how she chews up men and spits 'em out,
just like her mother. >> Steffy: Where's the lie?
[ Brooke sighs ] >> Brooke: Hope's reluctance
to marry Thomas doesn't mean she doesn't love him.
But you know what? That's not even the issue.
>> Steffy: Then what is it? >> Brooke: How about all
the things that Thomas did to Hope in the past?
How about that? >> Ridge: Wait, don't do that.
He's not that man anymore. >> Steffy: Even Hope claims
to believe that. >> Brooke: Yes, she does
believe it. She doesn't lie. And she's a kind person,
and she doesn't toy with people's emotions.
>> Steffy: Okay. Yeah, I get it. You just think she's perfect.
But the irony in all this? You think that Hope is too good
for Thomas? It's actually the other way around.
Thomas is too good for Hope. I really hope I got through
to him, and he'll end it with her today.
>> Hope: Leaving? Today?
But Thomas, you can't. What about Douglas?
We're a family. >> Thomas: Yeah.
Douglas, we've-- we've led him down a path, and he-- [ sighs ]
he's happy. He wants his parents to be
married, but that's not gonna happen.
And so I have to find some way to break his fall.
>> Hope: Thomas, we can work through this together.
What about Hope for the Future? >> Thomas: I can't work with you
any longer, Hope. >> Hope: What?
>> Thomas: Like I said, I'm leaving.
I think-- I think I'm going to Paris.
[ Hope scoffs ] >> Hope: Paris? Uh...
okay, um... well, if you-- if you need
to take some time and take a break,
uh, you can go to Paris. You can work at International.
You can email me your sketches, Thomas. You can't just
walk away. I know how much you love Hope for the Future.
>> Thomas: That's not how this works, Hope.
I can't be around you any longer. I can't work
for you. I can't be near you. It hurts too much.
I have to leave. You know, hopefully, maybe,
there's someone out there who can love me and actually
love me as much as I love them. [ Hope chuckles ]
>> Hope: Do you hear yourself talking right now?
'Cause this is not you talking, Thomas. I mean,
someone else? You just proposed to me.
>> Thomas: And you turned me down, Hope! Twice.
>> Hope: Because I still need time.
[ Thomas sighs ] >> Thomas: You're out of time,
Hope. >> Hope: I thought we were
a team. >> Thomas: Not anymore.
Steffy was right. >> Hope: My God! I don't
wanna hear her name anymore! Thomas, how do you not get that
she is the one behind all this? >> Thomas: Steffy is not some
puppet master controlling me. She pointed out something
that is true. I need to be a man,
have dignity and self-respect. The type of man that his son
can follow and not be humiliated all the time.
>> Hope: I would never try to do that to you.
>> Thomas: I know. I know it's not in your nature.
I don't-- I don't think you're doing it on purpose. I think
it's-- it's just how it happens. I don't know the reason for it.
Maybe-- maybe we just have too much to overcome.
It's just a losing battle. I don't know what the reason is,
but... I have to go, Hope. And I want Douglas with me.
>> Hope: Douglas? No.
Thomas, you can't. You can't do that. I love you.
You can't just leave like this. >> Thomas: You know...
the most painful part of this whole thing has been...
I love you.
And I knew that you loved me the whole time.
But you wouldn't say it. And the first time that you
actually told me you loved me is when you were rejecting me.
Goodbye. >> Hope: No. No, Thomas,
you can't leave like this. Please. Please.
Please. Look at me. Look at me, look at me.
Hey, don't do this to us. Please don't to this to us.
>> Thomas: I love you, Hope. I will always love you.
>> Hope: No. Thomas!
♪♪♪
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