As tension continued to build between Celeste and Heather, Scott became a millionaire when the Capwell case was resolved. A party was held, but Scott, having lost his father, felt like the money was an empty victory. Celeste convinced him to use the money to help others. She had rented a dress for the party and became desperate for money herself when a drink was spilled on the dress during an argument with Heather. The next day, she found a bonus in her pay envelope. She wrongly assumed that Scott had come through for her, but it was Heather. Around the same time, Celeste was called to the police station to bail out her father, who had been arrested for drunk driving. It was then that she was reunited with her two younger sisters, Lisa and Emily, who were back in Santa Barbara. Although Lisa resented Celeste for deserting them nine years earlier, Celeste invited her sisters to stay with her. Not much later, Lisa encouraged Celeste to face the fact that she still loved Scott.

Celeste with Scott and Heather at the clinic.

Seeing Celeste as a threat, Heather arranged for her to be offered a better-paying job. Celeste told Scott about the job interview, but eventually decided to stay at the clinic. Scott found out about Heather's deception and so did Celeste when she overheard them. She came face to face with Heather and left Scott a letter of resignation. Although Scott stopped by Celeste's place to apologize, she was distraught when he didn't ask her to return to work. Without a job, Celeste decided to turn herself into Crystal again. She went to a motel with a guy named Carter Sindon, but resisted this temptation to return to her old life. She ran into Scott at the graveyard and took this opportunity to tell him how she really felt and that she wanted him. Not knowing where to go from here, Scott went away for a while. Celeste had an honest talk with Michael about Scott and when Heather overheard, she and Celeste got into a bitter argument that ended with them slapping each other. Celeste headed for a motel up the coast to be alone for a while, which didn't sit too well with Michael. Worried that she would return to prostitution, he found her and made her realize that she didn't have to run away.

New complications
Back in Santa Barbara, Celeste passed out and was found by Michael. When she woke up at the hospital, he told her that she had pneumonia. Heather made a classy move by taking care of the hospital bill, but this only made Celeste even more anxious to leave the hospital as soon as possible. Before long, Scott returned to town and dumped Heather to be with Celeste. Celeste's fever was now gone, so Scott took her home and it didn't take them long to grow closer. He surprised her with a picnic at his house and old slides from when they were first together. Although they tried to take things slowly, they got close to making love several times. Due to her past, however, Celeste found it hard to let her defenses down. The situation was further complicated when a prostitute named Winona arrived at the clinic because she was having cramps. She recognized Celeste, but kept quiet. When the woman needed surgery, Celeste waited for Scott at the hospital and saw Michael there. She went after him when he forgot his magazine, which was when she found him with Heather in a hospital room. Celeste told Scott the news, and it turned out that Heather was pregnant with Scott's child and planning to have an abortion! As Scott mourned Heather's decision, Celeste stunned him by revealing that she had once had an abortion. Since Scott wanted to have kids real bad, Celeste had tests done in secret to find out if she could get pregnant. Unfortunately, it turned out there was a chance she wouldn't be able to conceive.

Soon after Scott and Celeste made love for the first time, Heather got into a car accident and ended up at the clinic. When Celeste got Heather's lab results, she discovered that she was still pregnant. Although Celeste believed that Scott had the right to know, Heather asked her for more time and provided her with an altered lab report so that Scott wouldn't find out. When Scott was about to get new lab results, however, Celeste warned Heather and wanted to tell him the truth. Upon his return home, she wrongly assumed that he already knew and made a comment that gave her away. Although Scott was shocked that Celeste had kept him in the dark, she didn't lose him. But since Heather didn't want Scott anywhere near the baby, they got embroiled in a costudy battle, which of course also effected Celeste. She thought about the future, fearing that Heather's child wound end up hating her, but Scott reassured her. A few weeks later, he invited her to move in with him. She initially refused, feeling like the house belonged to Scott and Heather, but eventually changed her mind and gave him a piano as a housewarming gift. She was upset, however, when he was offered a job in New York and didn't accept it because of Heather's baby.

Celeste under hypnosis to clear Michael's name.

Meanwhile, tired of feeling like a cheat, Celeste almost told Scott about her past as a hooker. Ironically, he tried to make her confession easier for her by revealing that his mother had been a prostitute. This caused Celeste to only tell him that she may not be able to have children. She did tell her sister Lisa about her past, and Lisa didn't condemn her. Around this time, a drug dealer named Leo Mitchell came to town to kill Michael. Scott and Celeste caught Mitchell at the clinic when he was looking for pain killers, but he disappeared before they could call the police. Celeste and Heather soon became aware of the fact that Michael was in danger and looked for him on the beach. It was a foggy night, and they decided to split up to cover more ground. Leo Mitchell was then shot and killed. By the time Celeste was found by Scott, she was truly terrified of something. She remembered hearing a gunshot but since the rest of it was a blank, Scott convinced her to allow Heather to hypnotize her. This first attempt at uncovering the truth was interrupted when Laura Asher stopped Celeste just as she remembered seeing a gun. Later, Celeste confided to Lisa that Leo Mitchell had been one of her johns, a secret she didn't share with anyone else.

The breakup
Still afraid that Scott would learn the truth, Celeste was apprehensive about being hypnotized again and claimed that she had met Leo at some party in L.A. When Scott and Heather tried to get further with her, Celeste told them to leave it alone and ran out. Later, she confessed to a shocked Heather that she used to be a prostitute. That same day, Michael was arrested for Leo's murder and Celeste tried to help by finally allowing Heather to hypnotize her again. Although she confirmed under hypnosis that Michael didn't pull the trigger, it wasn't evidence enough to get him out of jail. After a heart-to-heart with Cruz, however, Celeste finally got the courage to tell Scott about her past. Unable to deal with this revelation, he broke up with her. She made several attempts to talk to him and even Heather acted as a go-between, but it was to no avail.

After the breakup, Celeste moved back into her old apartment and told her sister Emily about her past. She also offered to protect Michael by confessing to Leo's murder, but he wouldn't hear of it. The charges against Michael were dropped and when he decided to leave town, Celeste encouraged the people in his life, including Scott, to get him to stay. Soon after, Michael decided to open a community center and asked Celeste to become the assistant director. At the casino party for this project, Celeste observed Scott trying to work things out with Heather and promptly agreed to dance with lawyer Brian Jeffries. A few days later, while they were helping out at the community center, Celeste had a confrontation with Heather and accused her of not appreciating that she had everything.

Celeste was left without much of life after Scott and Heather left town. She started working at a bar with Cruz's brother, Ric Castillo, and set up Michael on a date with ex-nun Greta MacAdams. She was worried when Emily's relationship with Greg Hughes progressed, especially when Emily turned down a modeling job for him and became engaged. Nevertheless, she was last seen at Greg and Emily's wedding.

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