Note: It's confession time at this weekly Minxaholic meeting, my name is Ela Roy and I'm so addicted to all things Minx that I couldn't stop at just one chapter. Before you read on there are a couple of things I need to point out, firstly this story got started over 10 months ago so I'd forgotten it had one major similarity to my current story ie; a sick child. Now don't go thinking I like making the miniature peoples sick, I really don't it's just that it works as a great plot device. Second I sorta deviated big time from what we had on the show (no sh1t Ela! Dammit Muse get back to Impact you promised you'd help sort Maggie out….emm… right…well….never mind).There's also a jump around in POV because….well truth is I can't remember what I was thinking….that happens when I write….ya know just forget you read that! Anyhows enjoy.
Dedication: This is to all you reviewers out there who have a wonderful ability to make me smile with your words, especially you faithful ladies who are willing to follow me down familiar and unfamiliar roads. Thank you.
Chapter Two
Bianca's head was swimming, her body too felt like it was sinking beneath the surface of a vast ocean. Marissa's lips felt so good against hers, the redhead's body pressed against places that hadn't felt alive in so long. The hungry rush of desire made it hard for the brunette to focus on reality. But reality decided it needed focusing on when a scream rang out somewhere in the house. Bianca's heart threatened to still in her chest as she pulled away from Marissa and began to run.
"Gabby!"
She would know her daughter's cry anywhere; she was fine-tuned to its pitch and frequency and could tell from that one blast that her baby was in pain.
"Gabrielle? Miranda?"
"Mommy, Mommy! Gabby's fallen."
Bianca took the stairs two at a time following her oldest into the room Miranda shared with her little sister. Gabrielle lay on the floor her eyes glazed and unfocused. Bianca dropped to her knees as Miranda's choked voice tried to explain what had happened.
"Gabby baby talk to me, are you okay?"
Little brown eyes closed and Bianca's heart staggered in its beat, she made to cradle her daughter to her but a hand on her shoulder stopped her. Marissa stood with her cell fixed to her ear.
"Don't move her Bianca. Yes I need an ambulance, Wildwind Mansion, 3900 Glenview Road, Pine Valley. A little girl, two and half years old, she's fallen from a bed, hit her head pretty bad. No she's fading in and out. Her eyes look unfocused, she isn't responding to her mother's voice."
Bianca caressed her baby girl's cheek and began to pray. Miranda's sobs got louder as Gabrielle's eyes remained closed.
"Is she breathing okay?"
Bianca lowered her ear to Gabrielle's mouth and felt the steady puffs of air hit her cheek. She nodded at Marissa and pulled her eldest to her, one arm around Miranda as her other hand continued its stroke.
"Shush Mimo it's okay, Gabby's just resting. The fall took a lot out of her. You might wake her up if she hears you crying."
Miranda sniffled into her mother's neck.
"I want her to wake up Mommy cause then we'll know she's really okay. What if she doesn't wake up?"
Bianca couldn't think about that, couldn't bare to imagine how she'd ever survive that happening. A hand squeezed her shoulder again and she glanced up to see Marissa looking at her.
"Eight minutes, they said to keep talking to her. Reassure her you're here."
Bianca turned back to her baby; soothing hair from Gabrielle's paling face.
"Of course I'm here Gabby, I'm always going to be here for my babies. Right Mimo?"
Miranda sniffled again and pulled away to look at her mother.
"Right Mommy, always until the sky falls onto the ground and noise never makes a sound."
Bianca kissed Miranda's cheek.
"Because I love my little girls and there isn't anywhere in the world I would rather be that right here with you both."
She turned back to gaze down at the unmoving girl on the floor.
"And you promised me last night you'd love me to the moon and back Gabby and I'm keeping you to that. You hear me Gabrielle Amelia Williams Montgomery you're coming back to me, the moon's too bright and cold so come on back here where I can warm you up baby."
Bianca ignored the sound of Marissa's breath hitching, she couldn't focus on anything but the two girls who needed her. Miranda slid to her knees taking her baby sister's small hand in hers.
"Come back Gabby, I need my sister to play with. And feed the horses. You said you'd help me feed Gigi tonight after supper."
Bianca nodded in encouragement.
"Gigi needs his Gabbycubes, no sweeter sugar that yours baby."
Eight minutes never felt so long to Bianca who gallantly kept her oldest talking to her youngest as they waited on the paramedics to arrive. And then pandemonium broke lose as two men rushed in with a stretcher scaring Miranda.
"Shush sweetie they're here to help your sister, they're going to take Gabby to the hospital and try to help her wake up."
Marissa's voice sounded surprisingly gentle in the midst of crackling radios and staccato conversation going on between the two men attending to Gabrielle.
"How long has she been out Mame?"
Bianca's eyes were wide with shock so Marissa answered the question.
"Ten minutes max, she fell about twelve minutes ago. When we got to her her eyes were open but glazed, then she closed them and hasn't responded since."
"Was the fall the only impact she took?"
Large hands covered the expanse of Gabrielle's immobile body checking for injuries. Marissa turned to Miranda.
"Miranda sweetie did Gabby hurt herself before she jumped off the bed?"
Miranda shook her head.
"No but she jumped funny and her head hit first. And then she screamed but she wouldn't talk to me or move and I called Mommy."
The paramedic looked at his colleague before turning back to the little girl.
"Did you try to move her yourself?"
Miranda shook her head.
"I can't lift her anymore, not since she turned two and got too heavy for me."
Bianca smiled at her daughter.
"You did really good Miranda, you helped your sister the best way you could by getting me. I'm really proud of you sweetie."
Miranda grabbed for her mother's hand as the paramedics lifted Gabrielle onto the stretcher. Bianca got to her feet following them downstairs and outside to the waiting ambulance.
"Mame it would probably be best if we don't take the little one with us."
Bianca looked at the man in confusion as Miranda grabbed tighter to her hand.
"I can't leave Gabby Mommy it's my job to protect her."
Marissa stepped closer offering another squeeze to Bianca's shoulder.
"I can take Miranda back to the mansion."
Bianca shook her head.
"No I promised I wouldn't leave either of them again."
"Then I'll take her to the hospital in my car, we'll meet you there. Go Bianca, Miranda and I will be right behind you. I promise."
Miranda didn't want to let go of her mother's hand but Marissa got down on her knees to gently talk to her.
"Miranda sweetie there isn't enough room for you all in the ambulance. My car is right over there, we can follow them the whole way to PVH."
Bianca dropped a kiss onto her oldest head.
"Five minutes Miranda, I'll see you in five minutes. Go with Marissa for me please."
Miranda finally let go of her mother's hand and reached for Marissa's as Bianca disappeared into the ambulance.
/
Dr Frankie Hubbard was waiting in the ambulance bay as Gabrielle's stretcher was lifted from the bus with a pale Bianca Montgomery following behind.
"Bianca?"
"Frankie help my baby please."
The paramedics spoke in that staccato beat again as the stretcher was wheeled through to a bay. More hands felt along Gabrielle's supine form making her look so small and fragile. Bianca watched in a daze as Frankie and the nurses worked on her baby before wheeling her out to Radiology.
"Bianca? Bianca?"
Marissa and Miranda came running towards the bay as Gabrielle was being wheeled away.
"They're taking her for an MRI."
Hazel eyes searched Bianca's face.
"Was there any change?"
Bianca's eyes glistened as she shook her head.
"Don't cry Mommy, Gabby's strong like me right. And I got better remember?"
Bianca pulled Miranda to her stopping the little girl from seeing the tears that rolled down her face at those innocent words. My God how could this be happening again? Marissa stepped closer, her hand reaching to offer comfort and bringing more tears to the brunette's eyes.
"Let's wait for the doctor to tell us something before we jump to all the wrong conclusions."
Bianca nodded unable to form words. Marissa guided them to a seating area before disappearing to find someone who could talk to them. Miranda climbed onto her mother's lap wrapping her in a hug.
"Please don't cry Mommy."
"I'm trying sweetie, really I am but it's hard. You're both so precious to me that I want to take all your pain away so it's hard to watch while you hurt."
"But sometimes we've got to get hurt to make us learn what we can and can't do."
Bianca wondered at the wisdom in her daughter's words.
"Who told you that Miranda?"
"Mommy Reese."
Oh God Reese. Marissa came back with a bag of chips for Miranda and a coffee for Bianca.
"They should know more in a bit."
"I need to call Reese."
Marissa bit her lip and Bianca looked at her in question.
"Maybe you might want to wait until the doctors tell you what's happening."
"She needs to know."
Marissa nodded.
"I know she does and you need to tell her but she's all the way in France Bianca and that's a long distance to be travelling with fear in her heart."
Bianca's eyes softened, Marissa was right, she didn't want to scare Reese. The flight from Paris when Kendal had been sick was the worst kind of torture Bianca had known. Dr Hubbard approached, his face showing no emotion.
"We got the result back from her MRI."
Frankie's eyes dropped to Miranda and Bianca's heart felt like it was bleeding, it was bad news and he didn't want Miranda to hear. Marissa read the silence in the same way and grabbed for Miranda's hand.
"Miranda your Mommy needs to talk to the doctor for a bit so why don't you and I go see if we can find some juice to go with those chips."
Miranda slid from Bianca's knee her eyes never straying from her mother's as she trailed after Marissa up the corridor.
"Binks? Is she okay? My God tell me she's okay?"
Kendall came hurtling through the department like a bat out of hell sliding to a stop beside Frankie Hubbard.
"What's happening? Where is she?"
"Kendall please."
The sisters stared at each other, a silent conversation taking place as Frankie cleared his throat.
"The MRI shows some swelling in the brain. It's what's caused the unconsciousness. We need to determine if it will come down on its own or whether we need to relieve it."
"Relieve it how?"
"A hole in her skull cap."
Bianca turned a shade paler.
"How long will it be before you know? Is it safe to wait for it to come down? Will she wake up when it does?"
Frankie's eyes didn't offer any reassurances.
"We'll take another scan in an hour to reassess the swelling. Bianca I'm sorry I don't have any conclusive answers to your questions right now. Waiting is as risky as surgery but it would be the less invasive course. The unconsciousness is hard to determine, it's a safety mechanism that the brain adopts when it has suffered a trauma."
"So what you're saying is you don't have the first clue about what is going on in there?"
Kendall's voice was pitched and Bianca recognised the hysteria that was about to set in. She got to her feet taking her sister's hand.
"Kendall I need you to be strong for me right now, please just hold it together because I'm not sure I'm strong enough to do this alone."
The older woman wrapped her arms around her sister.
"You're not alone Binks, you're never alone."
Frankie shuffled his feet wanting to give them some privacy.
"We're keeping Gabrielle up in Radiology you can go see her."
/
Bianca left Kendall to wait for Miranda and Marissa as she rushed upstairs to the radiology department and to her baby's bedside. Gabrielle looked like she was sleeping, her dark thick eyelashes hiding those lovely eyes from her mother's gaze. Bianca caressed the small face placing a kiss upon a cool brow before sinking into the chair by the bed. Two and a half years of precious memories swam behind glistening eyes; Gabrielle's birth and the chaos that had surrounded them; the first time her baby had put two syllables together and called for her mama, that stumbling step from Bianca's arms to Reese's as their baby took her first step.
"Oh Reese."
Tears trickled down pale cheeks as Bianca thought of her ex-wife and the call she needed to make.
"Hi."
Kendall stood at the foot of the bed her eyes glistening at the sight of her sister and niece. Bianca got to her feet.
"Can you stay with her? I need to make a call."
The older Kane nodded.
"Of course."
"Where's Miranda?"
Kendall stepped closer to her crying sister, her arms reaching and receiving the broken woman.
"Shush. Miranda's fine, she's snacking in the playroom with Marissa. Binks I can call Reese for you, you don't need to do that."
Bianca pulled away wiping again at her eyes as she turned to look down at the immobile form on the bed.
"No she needs to hear it from me. It wouldn't be right coming from anyone else."
Kendall nodded as her sister turned back to her.
"But thanks."
"Go and let me spend some quality time with one of my favourite nieces."
Bianca gave a weak smile and bent to kiss her daughter's cheek again.
"Mommy will be right back baby, aunt Kendall's here to see you and you know how much she loves to look into your gorgeous brown eyes."
Gabrielle lay unmoving bringing the tears back to her mother's cheeks.
/
Marissa stepped outside the playroom door to take a call on her cell. JR's voice grinded in her ear wanting to know when she'd be home and whether he should have a place set for dinner.
"No JR I'm at the hospital, Gabby had an accident."
JR asked after the little girl and then in the same breath told her AJ was asking for her.
"Tell him I'll be home to read his bedtime story."
Her ex launched into something else about family and time together and Marissa saw red.
"JR Gabby is lying in a bed unconscious, Miranda is scared out of her wits and their Mom is trying to hold it all together on her own. I'm not leaving her to do that, Bianca needs me."
JR's response was cut off and the call ended as Marissa's patience finally wore out. How could he be so God damn selfish all of the time? She slipped the cell back into her hip pocket and turned to watch Miranda. The little girl was truly an inspiration, she sat reading a story to the only other child in the room, a little boy whose leg and arm were bound in a thick white plaster preventing him from playing with any of the toys that littered the floor.
"Marissa?"
Bianca looked pale and scared and it broke Marissa's heart to see her like that.
"Is she okay? Did something happen?"
"No no change."
Bianca stepped closer, her eyes scanning the room until she found her daughter.
"How's Miranda doing?"
Marissa smiled.
"She's a real trouper, I know she's scared, we all are but she's hiding it by reading to that little boy in there."
Bianca smiled too, tears finding their way back to her eyes.
"She loves to read to Gabby."
The brunette's voice broke and Marissa couldn't not reach for her. Bianca leaned into the hug, resting her cheek on the redhead's shoulder as the tears continued to fall.
"I'm so scared Marissa."
Marissa soothed her friend's back.
"I know you are, I'm scared for you but we've got to have faith Bianca."
Bianca took a shaky breath.
"What if she doesn't wake up?"
Marissa pulled away to look into stormy brown eyes.
"And what if she does?"
Bianca blinked rapidly.
"But…"
Marissa shook her head.
"Don't Bianca, don't do this to yourself. You've got to be positive, you've got to believe Gabrielle's going to be okay, that you all are. Because thinking anything else will paralyse you."
Bianca took another shaky breath and nodded.
"You're right."
Marissa smiled.
"It happens sometimes."
The brunette nodded again a small smile turning the corner of her lips.
"Thank you."
Marissa made to respond but Miranda's voice stopped her.
"Mommy? Is Gabby awake now?"
Bianca dropped to her knees to take her little girl in her arms.
"No sweetie, not yet. Aunt Kendall's with her. I thought you might want to come up and read to her."
Miranda pulled away from the hug nodding enthusiastically before stopping with a worried frown.
"My reading always makes her sleep, maybe I should sing instead that might wake her."
Bianca chuckled softly.
"Let's wait and see what the doctor thinks about that, you might wake the entire hospital with your beautiful voice."
Marissa watched as mother and daughter began to walk away hand in hand, Bianca stopped and turned to look at her.
"Are you coming?"
Was it wrong for the redhead to feel such a rush of happiness at that tentative question?
/
Frankie Hubbard entered the room to find Bianca sitting on the side of the bed with Miranda on her lap reading to the still unconscious Gabrielle. Kendall and Marissa who'd been sitting on the seats by the bed got to their feet as Frankie approached Bianca. Miranda's voice spluttered to a stop when she sensed the charged atmosphere in the room. Bianca searched the doctor's face. They'd returned Gabrielle from her second visit to the MRI suite twenty minutes ago and were now waiting to hear the results. Frank didn't look to Miranda and that alone give the brunette a sense of hope.
"It's coming down, the swelling is coming down Bianca."
There was a chorus of relieved sighs as Bianca hugged her oldest to her before letting Miranda slip from her knees so that she could kiss her little sister. Kendal stepped to the doctor, her voice low but still reaching Bianca's ears.
"When will she wake up Frankie?"
The doctor shook his head.
"I can't answer that Kendall, the brain is a complicated organ, you know that already."
Bianca caught her sister's eye both remembering times when all they could do was wait. They ought to be used to it but they weren't, they never would be.
"Is there anything we can do that might help speed up the process?"
All eyes turned to Marissa who began to bite the inside of her mouth.
"I mean something that might trigger a response, you know a song or a voice or something."
Frankie smiled at the embarrassed look on the redhead's face.
"I know what you mean Ms Tasker. And yes you're right audio stimuli might help. It certainly wouldn't do any harm to try."
Miranda reached for her mother's hand, bringing Bianca's attention down to her.
"Gabby loves Mommy Reese singing to her."
Bianca smiled.
"And she will sweetie, Mommy Reese will sing to her as soon as she gets here."
/
Marissa drove home at 8.30 in time to read AJ his bedtime story. She ignored JR's pout as she passed him in their son's bedroom doorway. AJ grinned at his mother.
"I knew you'd come."
Marissa dropped a kiss upon a warm blonde head and tucked him into bed.
"Only for you AJ, can't let my little man go to sleep without a goodnight story now can I?"
"Can we have the one about the speedboat again Mom?"
Marissa reached to the bookshelf above her son's bed.
"Speedboat Bobby coming right up."
Big hazel eyes were closing before she'd finished the second page; soon AJ was fast asleep the first chapter not even finished. Marissa placed the book back in its place and bestowed another kiss upon blonde hair.
"I love you AJ. Sweet dreams."
JR was on the landing when Marissa left the room.
"How's Gabby?"
"Still unconscious but the swelling is coming down so the doctors are hopeful."
"Good good. Would you like a glass of wine? The cook kept you some dinner."
Marissa shook her head and walked towards her room.
"Thanks but I'm not hungry. I'm just going to grab some things and head back to the hospital."
JR walked after her.
"But why? You said they're hopeful."
Hazel eyes glinted angrily as Marissa turned to look at her ex.
"Imagine it were AJ JR, imagine how it would feel if it was our son in there lying unconscious in a bed. How lonely it would be, how scared it would feel to know there was nothing either of us could do to make him better. Now think of Bianca having to do that on her own with no-one there to tell her it will be ok."
"She has family Marissa, Kendall, Erica. They'll be there smothering her like they always do."
"Kendall's taken Miranda home, Bianca doesn't trust anyone else to be there for her daughter. And Erica, God only knows where Erica is. Why are we discussing this JR? You don't have a say on where I go or who I spend my time with remember? We're not together I don't owe you anything."
JR's eyes hardened.
"And what about our son? Don't you owe him your time?"
It was the wrong thing to say.
"Quit while you still can JR because this isn't a conversation I'm going to let you brow beat me with anymore. I love our son, he knows that and that's all that matters. He fell asleep knowing I was there for him, that I'll always be there for him no matter what. That won't change even when my address does."
JR's mouth fell open.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
Marissa sighed.
"This isn't working, I moved back so that Tad and Cara could have more space and I could spend time with AJ but I don't need to be here for that. I can't take this anymore. We're divorced JR and that isn't going to change, not now not ever just like you won't."
"I said I'd try."
Marissa looked at him in disbelief.
"You think this is trying? My friend is going through hell right now and you're here trying to guilt me into staying with AJ even though he's fast asleep and oblivious to my presence."
"Then go to the hospital but don't move out, come on Marissa we could have something, you know we could."
Marissa held up her hand to halt the repetitive conversation.
"JR just don't please, just don't."
She opened her bedroom door and disappeared inside without waiting for a response.
/
"You should go home and get some sleep Bianca, you look exhausted."
Jake Martin had come on shift to find the brunette sitting by her daughter's bedside speaking softly to the unconscious form.
"I'm okay Jake."
The doctor glanced through Gabrielle's notes before hanging them back on the bedrail and looking at her mother.
"You don't look okay, have you eaten?"
Bianca frowned.
"I'm not hungry."
"That's not what I asked you."
Jake waited.
"I have dinner right here for her."
Marissa entered laden with bags.
"Did you buy the entire menu?"
The redhead smirked at the teasing doctor.
"You wish, no I got Bianca her favourite and me mine. Sorry if I'd known you were on I'd have bought extra."
Jake chuckled.
"Sure you would. Enjoy your dinner ladies."
Bianca marvelled at the smiling redhead.
"How do you know my favourite?"
Marissa winked.
"You'd be very surprised at what I do and don't know about you Ms Montgomery."
The brunette let the comment go unsure she was ready to deal with the implications of what they had shared earlier. Marissa served out their food and they ate in semi silence, the noise of the hospital playing like a bad opera in the background. Bianca didn't eat much, her stomach tight with nerves but she gladly drank down the thick carton of chocolate flavoured soya milk.
"Thank you Marissa you didn't need to do that, I really appreciate it."
Marissa cleared away the remnants of their meal placing them back in the ConFusion bag before grabbing another and proffering it to her friend.
"You're welcome. I needed to do something to let you know you're not alone."
Brown eyes shimmered in the soft light above Gabrielle's bed as Bianca accepted the bag without looking at it.
"It was very sweet of you, thank you. But whatever else you've brought it is already too much."
Marissa smirked.
"I'd suggest opening the bag then."
Bianca pulled open the bag to see a pair of her own sweats and a warm up top folded neatly within.
"You went to Wildwind?"
Marissa nodded.
"I have this practical side that always kicks in when I least expect it. Caleb says he'll be by in the morning and call if you need him to bring anything. He's had a few drinks and didn't think it was wise to come now."
Bianca smiled and pulled out the sweats slipping them on over her shorts.
"He's really an old softy you know."
"I know. Did Jack and Erica come by yet?"
Bianca turned away looking back at the little girl in the bed.
"Yes."
Marissa knew instantly that something more than Gabrielle's condition was playing on her friend's mind.
"Talk to me Bianca, don't keep bottling things up, it isn't good for you."
Bianca closed her eyes, tears leaking from them.
"It's just me being silly."
Marissa doubted the brunette knew how to be silly, she reached out and gently settled her hand upon Bianca's. The touch resonated within her making her smile softly.
"Then be silly with me, tell me."
Bianca blinked away tears.
"Mom's always been my refuge when things are bad she's the first in here with the right words and the right advice."
Marissa frowned.
"And she wasn't this time?"
Bianca took a shaky breath.
"Or the last time, after that business with Ricky she could barely touch me Marissa. Not even a hug. I needed a hug from my Mom, no matter how old I get I will always need a hug from my Mom. You know?"
The redhead nodded, she more than knew; when Lydia Tasker had died Marissa had forever lost those comforting hugs and caring words. She still wasn't sure if Krystal's would ever be the same.
"But she offered me food Marissa, food! Mom knows it's the last thing I'll want during a crisis, I'm a recovering anorexic for God's sake food is very low down in my list of things to take when my world is falling apart."
Marissa wasn't sure if she should feel bad for bringing dinner, Bianca turned her hand over lacing their fingers and squeezing gently.
"I should eat, I mean I have to keep eating right? And I'm glad you brought dinner because I would have lapsed into bad habits. But it's not Mom's way, it's not how she's programmed, sure she'll get me to eat but not until she's smothered me with love and affection. Since her kidnap she hasn't initiated a single hug between us. That's not like her. Something is wrong Marissa, something is really wrong because she doesn't feel like my Mom."
The brunette began to cry again and Marissa slid closer wrapping her arm around Bianca tenderly.
"Bianca things are crazy right now, you've been through hell and back in the last few weeks and so has your Mom. It could be delayed shock for her."
Bianca lay her head on Marissa's shoulder inhaling the comforting scent that the redhead always seemed to exude.
"I know, that's what I tell myself when I'm trying to sleep at night."
"Trying? Guess I'm not that only one having trouble in that department huh?"
Bianca snorted softly, her breath warming Marissa's neck.
"No definitely not. I have this continuous loop of memories playing out behind my closed eyelids so I force myself to think about other things. Like my mom and Kendall and."
Bianca stopped abruptly and Marissa felt her stiffen.
"And me?"
The brunette didn't say anything so Marissa's soft voice filled the silence.
"I don't have the playback, well not all of it just you. How you looked and sounded. How much I wanted to hold you and make things better. And then it fades and all I have is this image of you smiling. That playful smile, the one that lights up your eyes when you're teasing the girls or mocking me. You have a beautiful smile Bianca."
"Marissa…"
Marissa ignored the worried tone.
"I'm just saying what I see when I close my eyes and finally fall to sleep. It's the only thing that gets me there these nights. Bianca what happened earlier isn't something you need to think or worry about. When Gabby is better and things have settled down for you, we can talk about it but right now just let me be your friend. Let me be the person you lean on because none of us can be strong all the time not even you."
Bianca didn't respond straight away but her body eased a little closer relaxing against Marissa.
"Can I ask you to do something for me, something big?"
Marissa nodded.
"You can ask me anything, anything at all."
Bianca pulled away to make eye contact.
"Reese's flight gets here in an hour, I don't want her driving over here scared and upset…"
"I'll go pick her up, that won't be a problem."
Brown eyes glistened again as Bianca placed a tender kiss upon Marissa's cheek.
"Thank you."