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Emily and Nolan were sitting in her living room, after Aiden's death many things had occurred like Daniel's arrest or the discovery of Conrad's body on the road outside of the prison. How he got out was mystery to everyone, the police didn't expand that much into finding his killer because after the discovery that he was a terrorist there were too many people who had the motive to kill him so in the end they never found the killer. Nolan had been concerned about Emily for a while but he was relieved when she called him, she seemed better than the last time they saw each other.
''Hey Ems, can i ask you something?''
''Yeah sure.''
''Does the name Catherine Wilson ring a bell?'' Emily froze for a second, she couldn't understand why he would know of her.
''Yeah of course, aunt Cathy.''
''Was she related to your father?''
''No she was our neighbour , but she was very close so i always considered her family.''
flashback
It was shortly after Amanda regained consciousness at the hospital, after hearing that her mother was gone she felt really lonely even with her father. One day she was sitting on her porch and she saw someone she hadn't seen in a long time, it was aunt Cathy, the last time she saw her was before she went to visit her mother at the hospital.
''Aunt Cathy, what are you doing here?''
''I heard about what happened to your mother and i thought that you could use some cheering up.''
''What do you have in mind?''
''Well i cooked a bunch of blue berry pancakes and wondered if you wanted to eat them with me.'' She became sad when she remembered eating pancakes with her mother.
''What's wrong Amanda?''
''I feel lonely without her.''
''Amanda i'm sure that she feels the same, but do you think that she would be happy knowing that your moping so much? If you spend the rest of your life feeling sad about your mother you'll never be able to enjoy it, but if you do feel sad you don't need to be alone, you can come to me whenever you want even if it is just for blueberrry pancakes.'' Amanda smiled at her.
''Thank you, can i come over and have those blue berry pancakes?''
''Of course.'' Cathy held her hand and they walked top her house.
''Oh so that's why you're in contact with her?'' Emily was shocked.
''How did you find out?''
''Because i'm good at what i do.''
''How long have you known?''
''Quite a while now but why did you keep this from me?'' Emily felt guilty that she didn't tell him before.
''I'm sorry that i hid this from you but i will tell you soon.'' Nolan could see that she was sincere so he nodded even though he was really curious.
Later at the cemetery
Emily was walking with 3 roses in her hand, she put one on her father's grave, one on Amanda's and at last she put the final rose on Aiden's grave. She kneeled down and brushed off some dead leafs, the pain inside was still unbearable and part of her still didn't want to believe that he was gone, she just wanted this to be a nightmare so that when she woke up she would find Aiden by her side. Every time she looked at his grave her mind would go back to that day...
flash back
9 years earlier.
Amanda was in the toilet holding her pregnancy test staring at that pink plus sign, maybe hoping that if she stared at it enough it would disappear but obviously it didn't. There were so many things she was fearing at that moment like the way Aiden would react to these news, how she was going to continue her path of revenge or what she was going to do with it. After at least an hour of panicking she realised that she was going nowhere so she called Aiden and he arrived soon after.
''Amanda what's wrong? You sounded weird on the phone.'' She looked at him and for no reason she started crying so he hugged her trying to calm her down.
''I don't know what to do anymore Aiden.'' She sobbed.
''Hey, hey calm down. Just tell me what happened.''
''I-I'm pregnant.'' Amanda took a step back and saw the the look of shock on his face.
''Well what do you want to do?'' They both stayed silent for a while realising that they could never continue their revenge journeys while being parents.
''I will go to the doctor's and then i'll get an abortion.'' He nodded.
end of flash back
She wiped off a tear from her cheek then she got up, walked to her car and went home. By the time she got to her house it was late, she cooked something to eat and had a quick shower, when she got out of the shower she went to her bed and opened a drawer, inside she found old pictures of her and Aiden when they were younger, she stopped when she stumbled unto a picture she forgot she still had. It was a picture of her with an evident baby bump with Aiden's arms wrapped around her, it was one of those rare moments of happiness that she wished would never end but as always it did.
flash back
She was at the doctor's to make sure if she was pregnant, even though she was pretty sure since she had been sick for a while now, she had decided to check in as Amanda Mathis so that there wouldn't have been any trouble. The doctor came in, she was in her mid thirties and had this calm aura around her, but Amanda was still nervous.
''So how can i help you Amanda.''
''I took a pregnancy test and it came out positive but i wanted to make sure it wasn't a false positive.''
''Okay then please lie down.'' Every second that passed felt like an eternity for her.
''There do you see the big dot, that is your baby congratulations.'' Amanda looked at the screen staring at it, she couldn't believe how small it was but she knew that if she had to abort it she couldn't get attatched to it.
''Thank you doctor.''
Aiden was in his room thinking about Amanda, he knew that he should have gone with her but he couldn't stand the thought of seeing the baby because if he did he would never kill it. He actually always wanted to be a father someday as long as Amanda would be the mother, but it felt too soon they had just started training, if there was a chance to find Coleen he had to try and he knew that this revenge meant everything to Amanda. Suddenly she came rushing in, Aiden worriedly went over to her to check if she was hurt but Amanda hugged him and started crying on his shoulder, he wrapped his arms around her and tryed to reassure her.
''Aiden i couldn't...''
''What happened?''
''I saw it... our baby. It was really small but when i went to the abortion clinic i couldn't do it so i ran back here.''
''It's okay we'll find a way.'' His voice reassured her.
''You should have seen it, it was so small and i couldn't hurt it.'' He chuckled at the thought that the mighty Amanda Clarke would be difenseless against a baby but he liked this gentle side of her.
''How big is it?''
''It's the size of a pea.''
''From now on i'll help you protect it then.'' It wouldn't be easy but they would at least try,
end of flash back
Emily smiled recalling that wonderful moment, during that time she seriously considered giving up her revenge for the chance of having a family but as usual she just wasn't able to let it go so she had to give it up and now this revenge cost her Aiden. She felt bad that she never told Nolan about any of this but she knew that it was just too dangerous for her to do before but since he already found out about aunt Cathy it wouldn't take long for him to find out about that too.