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A/N: Characters internal thoughts are in bold and flash backs, either conversations or full descriptional flashbacks will be in italics.

Part 2

Bianca woke up early in the morning to the sound of a soft voice speaking into her ear and a small hand shaking her shoulder. Bianca hadn't known exactly what she was planning to do this Thanksgiving. Part of her wanted to jump on a plane and rush to see Maggie, it had almost been a month since she had seen Maggie, and almost a week since she had last spoken to the blonde. Bianca had sworn she had seen Maggie in Pine Valley this last week but each time she had followed the woman that looked like her lover and found it was never her.

Bianca groaned and opened her eyes to the bright sun shine that filtered through the open window and directly into her eyes. Bianca closed her eyes and squinted, trying her best to keep the sun light from her eyes and soon found her daughter's face right above her own; she was smiling and had something in her mouth.

"Mom...hurries ups...its breakfast time...and papa made waffles!" Miranda said smiling as she jumped up and down on the bed and shook her mother's shoulder a little more trying to get her to open her eyes more.

"Okay. I'm up?" Bianca said smiling at her daughter. She sat up and watched as Miranda made her way off the bed and ran out of the room. "Happy Thanksgiving, Maggie." She said to herself.

Miranda ran into the hallway and then down the hallway to where her grandmother and grandpa were eating breakfast, her uncle Reggie had eaten and then gone to do something or other and her aunt Lily was sitting in the living room talking to her uncle Sean. Miranda smiled and ran over to her grandmother and jumped into the seat next to her grandmother, the last bit of her waffle now taken into her mouth after dipping it into the syrup that was on her plate.

"My...my...I've never seen anyone eat waffles that way." Jack said watching as Miranda took another waffle folded it and then dipped it into the syrup before eating it.

Miranda smiled as she took another bite after another, as if she hadn't eaten in weeks, which was hard to believe since Jack had been forced to make Miranda anything she wanted, if only because he wanted to spoil her.

"Maggie does..." Miranda said and smiled when her mother kissed the top of her head and she looked up at her with a large smile before turning back to her grandpa.

"Well that doesn't surprise me..." Erica said laughing lightly as she took a sip from her cup of tea.

Jack looked at Erica and then up to Bianca for clarification that Maggie actually ate her waffles like that. Jack knew from Miranda's stories that Maggie made breakfast every morning and Fridays were waffles, Saturdays were pancakes and Sunday was eggs, bacon, hash browns and a bagel and the rest of the days of the week were cereal or a muffin or if they had the frozen waffle dunk'ems that came with its own syrup from the freezer.

"Yes, Maggie eats waffles that way." Bianca said to Jack as she sat down next to her daughter.

Jack's eyes widened. "Really...?" Jack asked still not believing Maggie would eat waffles like that.

Erica just smirked it amazed her how Jack couldn't understand that when Bianca said something about Maggie it was never not true. Erica smiled at her husband and waited for Bianca to go into detail. Erica wondered now that she was thinking about it, if Jack just made Bianca go into detail to just see the smile that played across her face, and the light in her eyes when she spoke about Maggie, just for the second longer.

Miranda choice to answer. "Yep...we eat the dunk'ems like this..." Miranda said nodding her head as she took another bite out of the waffle.

"You mean those artificial waffles, you made me buy?" Jack asked looking at Miranda.

"Uh...hmmm..." Miranda said as she chewed.

"Those are like a necessary item to have." Bianca said as she smiled at her daughter. "Isn't that right Miranda? Maggie always makes sure we have them in the freezer." She wondered what Maggie was doing at that moment.

Erica smiled, Maggie was taking good care of her daughter and she had hoped that if anyone were to be with her daughter that Maggie would be that person. Now all she really had to worry about was finding someone for Kendall. Kendall was in her own depression about Zach and she refused Ryan's comfort and spent her days working and taking care of her son...and once Bianca had come she had finally started to open up but mostly only to Bianca and even though that bothered Erica that Kendall wouldn't talk to her it made her happy to know that Bianca and Kendall were able to talk about everything.

"How is Maggie doing dear?" Erica asked taking a sip from her mug. Erica hadn't heard Bianca on the phone at night with Maggie in a while and wondered if she was just missing the calls or if they weren't coming anymore. The first two weeks they came every day, then every other day for the next two weeks and now this last week she hadn't heard anything about them .

"As far as I know, she's doing fine." Bianca said as she looked at her mother. "I haven't talked to her for a few days." She missed not being able to talk to Maggie. She missed her desperately and wanted Maggie to come back to PV with her but understood why Maggie decided not to. "She is probably spending time with Anna and Robin."

Jack looked at Bianca oddly for a moment. "Anna and Robin?" Jack asked curious...Jack had gotten a call from Anna last week telling him she was back in the states up in New York with Robin.

"IS there something wrong with your hearing today uncle J?" Sean asked as he walked up to the table and sat down next to Bianca.

"My hearing is fine." Jack stated looking at his nephew.

"Then what's with all the repeating what B says?" Sean asked.

"It's just I had spoken with Anna last week." Jack said. "She told me she and Robin are in New York."

Sean nodded his head and nudged Bianca's shoulder slightly and wiggled his eye brows. "Maybe she having some med student fun..."

"Oh please..." Bianca said as she slapped Sean's arm playfully but not enough to hurt him. "Maggie wouldn't do that." She said about what Sean was suggesting.

Sean laughed. "Why not...she's..." Sean waited a few seconds before pointing to the picture on the mantel above the fireplace. "...a babe...in the city of lights with no one there and nothing to do after work...I mean...who wouldn't go out and party?" Sean asked. "I envy her right now!"

"I'm sure she's just studying." Bianca said. She then thought about what Sean had said and thoughts starting running in her mind. 'She wouldn't do that. She would have told me. But...nah, the only reason she isn't answering her phone is, she's busy studying. But why hasn't she answered the phone?' She was so deep in thought, that she didn't hear her mother talking to her, or saw the looks she was getting.

"Well what ever it is Maggie is doing she certainly isn't doing it here." Erica said and looked at Sean for a moment glaring slightly at the young man. "I hope we are all ready for a nice quiet Thanksgiving." Erica said smiling.

"I, ready gran-ma!" Miranda said smiling as she looked up at her grandmother.

Jack, Sean and Lily smiled.

"This year the table arraignments won't be changed, will they? Because I have everything set up just the way it should be and...there is no room for extra people at the table..." Lily said looking at Erica.

"Everything is going to stay the way you set it up, dear." Erica said smiling. 'I hope!'

Erica was sure this was just another Thanksgiving to go to hell but she and Jack were dead set on this one working out the way they planned it. They were so set on it that they had bought almost the entire room and made sure that only the people on the list would be allowed at the table. Though Erica could already feel the calm before the storm she wished that the storm would wait 24 hours before hitting town...at least just for today. But being Erica Kane meant knowing what she was up against and she knew this year was just another disaster about to happen.

TBC...