What would have happened if?
Chapter 1
Looking at her granddaughter asleep Catherine couldn't help but smile, Sara Willow Hopkirk was perfect in every way possible. Catherine smiled again as her eldest daughter walked into the room looking tired after working a long shift at the hospital where she was doing her residency.
"How's she been?" Charlie asked giving her mother a hug before gently kissing her daughter on her head. The little girl was clearly unaware that her mother was home from work.
"Perfect, how was work?" Catherine asked as the pair made their way downstairs into the lounge.
"Usual upset and trauma, people's lives turned upside down in a second and they're left asking what would have happened if…" Charlie replied sitting down with a sigh and moving the teddy that belonged to her daughter which she'd just sat on.
"Do you ever wonder what if?" Catherine asked watching her eldest daughter carefully; Charlie threw her a questioning look. Catherine gave her the example of wondering what would have happened if her boyfriend from years ago Blake hadn't died whilst she was serving in the air force, back in a time when Catherine and Charlie hadn't met one another again.
"I think we'd have been happy for a while but then maybe have drifted apart with our careers, back then I was all set on continuing in the air force, Afghanistan put a stop to that and changed my plans after he'd died, plus he let me get my own way all the time, I need challenging, I always need someone to push me otherwise I'd give up." Charlie replied and Catherine knew exactly what she meant, Ethan and Charlie always seemed to bring out the best in one another. Then Charlie asked the question to Catherine.
"Quite a lot, more so when you weren't in my life, less so now I suppose." Catherine replied. "Before you came back into my life I questioned so many decisions I'd made, and I suspect several people I know had done the same thing too." Catherine looked at her daughter. "I once caught myself wondering what would have happened had Lindsey and I not moved out here and I thought about not being able to see my granddaughter growing up or spending time with both my daughters. I knew moving here was the best decision I could have made."
She'd said goodbye to her daughter saying she'd see her for lunch the next day, getting home she put some laundry on before going to bed, as it was Friday Lindsey was out at one of her friends. In bed she lay thinking about her conversation with Charlie, whilst she'd spoken to her daughter about how she imagined life to be had she not come to New York she wondered so many things. What would have happened if? Several questions that really made her wonder. There were many things that had shaped her life, what if they'd have been different?
Catherine heard someone calling her name, thinking it was Ethan and worried that there was something up she hurried downstairs. She had to sit down on the bottom step when she spotted who had called her name; she was face to face with a ghost, a ghost from Las Vegas.
Warrick Brown was stood in her hallway smiling at her.
"Give me a hug girl." He smiled and Catherine followed the instruction hugging him, before suddenly worrying about what was happening. She was worried she was having a mental breakdown and hurriedly took a step back.
"Don't worry, everything's fine, I said I'd always have your back." He smiled before explaining that he knew she'd been thinking about how her life could have been different, and how Charlie's life would have changed. He was going to show it to her so that she wouldn't have any regrets. He told her that he would show her how life would have been if:
1: she hadn't run away to Seattle.
2: She hadn't given Charlie up.
3: She hadn't married Eddie.
4: Sara's neighbour hadn't called the police that night.
5: She'd died in the accident.
