A third sister

After the news of the downward spiral of Jackie's health Kelly reluctantly goes to see her mother, as Silver wishes. She paces up and down the hospital corridor, uncertain whether to see her mother or not. After all these years what would she say? She couldn't forgive her, all of those things she had done to her, to Silver. But she knew she had to do this, she had to at least see her before she died. Silver had been begging Kelly for days, "Please see mom, you'll regret it if you don't" she begged. Although Silver had hardly communicated with Kelly since she had moved out, she had finally started leaning on her sister for support.

After an hour of pacing and the thoughts trailing through Kelly's mind she finally decided to see her mother.

"Kelly?" Jackie said, surprised but glad.

"Hi mom"

"I knew you'd come" Jackie replied with a smile on her face, they continued to talk. As uncomfortable as Kelly felt, there was a part of her that wanted to forgive her mother, until Jackie told her something. "Kelly, I have to tell you something"

"Go on mom" Kelly said keeping an open mind.

"It's really important that you know, I just didn't know when to tell you" Jackie admitted.

"What?" Kelly questioned impatiently.

"You have another sister" Jackie confessed.

"What?!" Kelly exclaimed.

"She, umm, she was born when Erin was eighteen months old. You were practically raising Erin and I was a mess. I didn't know what to do. I screwed raising you two up, I couldn't handle another baby"

"What did you name her?"

"Megan" Jackie answered.

"How old is she now?" Kelly continued to question.

"Fifteen, almost sixteen I suppose"

"So where is she?"

"Well I tried looking after her, I really did, but I couldn't. I was drinking again and I realised how much you hated me because of that so I thought why go through that again?"

"Mom where is she?" Kelly demanded.

"England." Jackie stated.

"England?!"

"When she was three years old I sent her away, to some boarding school in England"

"You sent her away?!"

"I had to, I wanted to give her the best chance possible"

"But you didn't have to send her away"

"Yes I did, where else was I supposed to send her?" Jackie exclaimed, "To you? You hated me enough for dumping Erin on you"

"Mom, she's my sister, I would have dealt with it"

"No, no I couldn't do that to you again. Anyway twelve years ago I sent her to England, she tried to find me, but I was so screwed up I didn't want anything to do with her, so I cut off any contact with the school and let them deal with her"

"So you abandoned her?"

"Kelly it was for her own good"

"For her own good?!" Kelly shouted, she tried to calm down, "Is she still there?"

"Yes, as far as I know" Jackie replied, "Kelly I want you to go get her, I want to spend my last few days with my girls, with all of my girls"

Kelly negotiated to go and find her sister, she found out where the boarding school was, sent Sammy to Dylan's, made sure Silver was ok and got on the first flight to England.