Hey guys, I've not don a HC fanfic for a while. I never really liked how they ended things with Jac and her family, so here goes...Enjoy :)

"Please, make her go, I don't want to know her..." Jac told Michael in a reserved tone, she turned her face away just so she didn't have to see the disappointment in the teenagers eyes.

Michael nodded, knowing she wouldn't be swayed he stood and left the room. There was silence for a moment- she couldn't even make out the voices just outside her bay,then her friend re-entered cautiously.

"She gave you her number, said she'd really like to meet you." he explained, dropping a scrap of paper onto the bed. Jac looked up and out of the bay window, the girl had gone-probably upset at her new

found sisters bitterness towards this time she ad felt alone in the world, like there was no-one who would even begin to understand what she had gone through.

For 20 years she desperately wanted someone-anyone to ask her 'whats wrong?' or 'do you want to talk about it?'...yet now there is there is this girl- her own sister and all she wanted was to be by herself.

"I don't need that" she commented, avoiding Michaels caring gaze. She pretended she didn't see him pick it up and slip it into her handbag.

"Sure" was all he said before turning slowly on his heel and leaving the room once she was absolutely sure he had gone, Jac reached her hand into he bag and pulled out the paper. She let out a deep sigh,

what was it that she wanted? A family? Someone who would listen to her and give her advice...or stay how she is, what she knows? Stay in the 'safe zone'?

"Later"she whispered to herself and folded the scrap up before slipping it back where it had been back in the bed, Jac thought back on the days events...she had woken up believing her mother had actually

thought about her for once in 20 years...that she might get that relationship that she had yearned for since being a little girl. But it wasn't to be.

She cast her mind back to the second that realisation kicked in, the moment she found out it was all lies and that she had been used by her own mother-the woman who brought her into the thought about

the look on her granddads face when she started crying, how he had gone along with the tricks and dismissed the chance of being there for her all those years ago...but then she thought about Michael, he

caught her when she was too weak to carry herself, he stood by her when she needed him, even though he should've been somewhere else. That's what a family is! She had her family, her brothers and

sisters, her mum and her dad, uncle aunts, cousins- all inside Holby City.

Her mind finally drifted to her sister, that poor girl that just minutes ago she had turned away, and all because sh was too selfish to alter her life at life wouldn't be so bad if she would just acknowledge

what she could have...so she would call her...tomorrow...

Hope you liked it so far, let me know what you think x C