The Love Story of Carly and Jack
1997
- Molly Conlan was desperate for a reunion with her childhood
sweetheart, Holden Snyder, and arranged a job for him in Montana to
train horses. Jack Snyder accompanied Holden on the trip and Molly
secretly stowed away in the truck that took them to the job in Montana
and to Molly's cousin Carly Tenney. Jack had a crush on Molly but
his attraction to Carly was undeniable and the sparks flew! Their words
said they
couldn't stand each other but the electric looks exchanged
said something quite different. Once they were back in Oakdale
they started growing closer as Carly told Jack about the miscarriage she
had suffered but she soon pulled away. She took a job working for
Hal at the OPD and hoped for a relationship with Hal that was much more
than professional. She had a time limit to become pregnant if she
was to meet Rosanna's deadline to have a child by 1999 with anyone other
than Mike and to get $50 million. Jack started to question her
motives and despite spending more time together during a sting
operation, Carly continued to pursue Hal.
1998
- Holden was falsely accused of setting the church on fire and beating
up Molly. Carly worked with Jack to prove that a dirty cop, Joe
Teague, was actually the one that had committed the crimes.
Searching for evidence, they wound up trapped in the cold in a shed at
Teague's cabin and fought to survive. Jack told Carly she was
wrong in settling for security instead of love. As Carly became
delirious from the cold, she told Jack of her past mistakes and why she
felt she didn't deserve to be loved. After disagreeing with her,
Jack revealed his true feelings for her. No sooner did they escape
than Teague returned. After stabbing Jack he turned to Carly, but
Ben and Lucinda arrived just in time. Jack's injuries were life
threatening. Despite their strong attraction the clock was ticking
for Carly. Since Jack could not make love due to his injuries, she
agreed to marry Hal. Despite an intense argument on her wedding
day with Jack, and then being overcome by fumes during the ceremony, she
still eventually went through with the wedding.
The
clock was ticking and Carly was still not pregnant, so Dr. John Dixon
suggested artificial insemination. At the same time a
heartbroken Jack met Julia Lindsey on a train and befriended her as she
was trying to escape from her family and her fiancée Prince Xavier.
When a pregnant Carly learned that Jack and been injured in Chicago, she
secretly went to see Jack, who confessed his love for Carly, something
he would forget telling her. As Carly became more jealous of the
growing relationship between Jack and Julia, she came up with the idea
of marrying Jack and having John falsify the records, showing Jack to be
the father of her unborn baby. Jack got wind of the plan and
refused to go along with it.
Hal started having some doubts about Carly and wondered if he
could trust her. After Hal decided to leave Carly, she pleaded
with Rosanna to let her divorce Hal but keep the trust fund anyhow.
Rosanna refused the request. A fight with Rosanna caused her to
put Carly in a psych ward, but John got her freed. After some
investigating, Hal learned of the trust fund and Carly's plan, and
turned to Barbara once again for comfort. Carly realized that if
Hal was not the father, if she still married the real father, she could
still claim the trust fund. A shocked Carly soon learned that John
had been the sperm donor. John agreed to marry Carly with the
condition that he be given custody of the child. Carly agreed but
had no intention of keeping the promise. After a failed attempt to
setup John and Lisa to make it appear John was cheating on her, Carly
asked for Jack's help in getting out of town and away from John.
Instead she was stranded by a storm and with the help of Julia, Jack
delivered Carly's son, Parker Joseph at 11:59 PM just in time to meet
Rosanna's demand.
1999
- A paternity test, which Molly had secretly switched, proved
that John was the father of Parker. Carly got the trust fund and
her first purchase was a new home, Fairwinds. Carly also
befriended Brad Snyder, Jack's brother, in the hopes that he could help
her find some information that would help her win custody over John.
The fact that it made Jack jealous was just an added bonus. When John
tried to get sole custody of Parker, Jack came through for Carly and
helped her to retain custody by proving that John was lying. In
the meantime, Brad tried to get Carly to give up on Jack. Brad was
very attracted to Carly, but she did not return the feeling, Jack had
been growing closer to Julia, and finally asked her to marry him,
unaware that she was addicted to pain pills. The relationship wouldn't
last after Jack learned Julia had lied about killing David Stenbeck and
with a little help from Carly.
Brad
learned from Molly that she had switched the paternity tests. Brad
then blackmailed Carly into marrying him with the fear that she would
lose Parker if the truth came out. Brad's motive was the money and
although he was attracted to Carly, her heart was still with Jack and
the marriage was in name only and not
consummated.
One night Carly got trapped in a wine cellar with Jack. Carly and
Jack couldn't deny their feelings for each other and were on the verge
of making love when Hal and Barbara came to get some wine. Jack and
Carly secretly met at a boathouse where Jack was restoring a boat he had
named True Love. They finally gave into their feelings and made loved
and declared they love for each other. So that Carly would always
find her way back to him, Jack gave her a compass, a symbol that would
last forever for them. As time went on, Jack was getting closer to
the truth of what the hold was that Brad had over Carly and Carly feared
they would never be together. Carly even agreed to have sex with
Brad
in
order to get him to give her a divorce, when she felt when would never
be with Jack. Carly decided to leave town and secretly met Jack at the
boathouse to say goodbye. Jack begged her not to leave and swore
he would find her. Unable to deny their feelings, they made love.
Unbeknownst to them, Brad saw them but quietly snuck away. Brad
finally agreed to give Carly a divorce but he had a plan. When
Jack and Carly showed up together at the engagement party for Hal and
Barbara, Brad also arrived and shared the news that Parker was really
Hal's child, along with letting Jack know he and Carly had slept
together. Totally disgusted, Jack left in anger and swore this
time he was really done with Carly for good.
Carly immediately lost everything and have to start all over again
with nothing, not even a place to live. She got a job at Al's
Diner and slept there after it closed. Eventually Jack took pity
on her but at the same time was impressed by how she was trying to turn
her life around. He talked is aunt Emma into letting Carly stay at
the Snyder farm. He also wanted to give their relationship another
chance. He insisted though there would be no more secrets between
them. He made a bet with Carly that she could not go three months
without lying. Carly gladly accepted the challenge
and with Jack's support, she won the bet. Jack surprised her on
Christmas Eve by taking her to some land on a hilltop that he had just
purchased for their future dream home and called it Carly's Prize,
putting her name on the deed. He then proposed to Carly who
happily accepted.
