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Author's Note: Hello everyone, how are you? Hope you're doing well! Today I have for you a new chapter for this story, sorry it took so long, things have been crazy at school and I have a feeling that they will only get worse as we get closer to finals but I will definitely continue to work and write this story because some days your kind words and me just being able to sit and write are the highlights of my day that keep me sane. Thank you so much for all of your incredible support! It means so very much! I'm so glad that you all are enjoying the story so much still, we're gonna start picking up some pace now so get ready! :D Once again thanks for stopping by to read, please if you can, leave a review with your thoughts—I would to hear what you think. Thanks for your wonderful support! Hope you like the chapter! This chapter does include some medical information, I tried my best to do domes research and also got a lot of info from the show itself but I apologize for any incorrect information that might be here, sorry I am not a doctor nor am I training to be one. Oh and also just a quick note, if any of you are on twitter I've started this new thing on my account with a sort of 'Reasons to RenewResurrection' pictures included and would like to invite you to join in, my screenname there is the same as here only with the added number of 704, Nannygirl704. Thanks again for everything, hope you like this update, please review if you can, and as always, please, Enjoy!

"So everything alright?" Henry asked the doctor as she entered the examining room with his chart.

Though there was a possibility that her answer would not be all positive, a smirk crawled onto Henry's lips as he waited for the reply. He couldn't help it, even though Maggie had started her practice several years ago and Henry had been one of her patients a few times since then, he could still vividly remember the little girl wearing a plastic stethoscope around her neck and one of her dad's white button down shirts as her makeshift lab coat.

Now she had a real lab coat and a degree to go right along with it. Henry was proud of his niece.

"It looks that way," confirmed Maggie, looking up from the chart that she held in her hands. "It doesn't look like you've had any contact with the virus that's affecting the Returned and your overall health looks pretty good."

Henry nodded, "Did you get your answer?"

At first Maggie was taken aback, her gaze shot up from her uncle's records to the man sitting before her. She wanted to make sure that she had heard right. After all he had seemed so against the idea of her looking into this, but Maggie figured if anyone deserved to know this information it would be her uncle.

She nodded her head solemnly, "Yeah. It was your heart that killed you."

Gradually Henry's smirk transformed into a perplexed scowl, "I don't remember having a heart attack."

Maggie gave a sort of half shrug, half head nod, "Most of the Returned don't remember dying," she reminded before asking, "Do you remember feeling any pain in your chest or your left arm?"

"No," he shook his head, his frown remaining present. "Nothing like that. I don't remember any pain."

With her medical knowledge and the responses given by her uncle—along with reading and knowing his medical and family history—Maggie was beginning to come up with some conclusions that might give them a better understanding of what happened.

"Well, it could've been more of a sudden cardiac arrest rather than a heart attack. In a sudden cardiac arrest your heart will just suddenly stop functioning, it would have killed you instantly without you ever feeling anything," Dr. Langston went on into further detail. "It's like what…"

"What killed my father," Henry finished for her.

Shifting her eyes downwards, past the medical file and down at her shoes, Maggie shook her head up and down. Meanwhile, Henry's scowl had deepened onto its place on his forehead. He seemed to be having a hard time taking in the cause of his death, but who else wouldn't?

"Are you sure it was my heart?"

"The protein particles in your blood is what tells me it must have been something to do with your heart," Maggie explained to her uncle. "There's a possibility that the cardiac arrest or heart attack, may have caused some physical damage to your heart but in order to get a better look at that we'd have to do some further testing and…"

"No, no more tests," Henry declared. Even before he'd died, Henry had hated doctor appointments; now that he was given this second chance at life he didn't want to spend the day being pricked and poked by needles, he wanted to spend it with his family.

Maggie couldn't help but smile at his refusal and stubbornness, it was just what she'd predicted, it was nice to see some of the familiar traits of her uncle once again.

Henry did not want any further tests, he did not want any tests period. And even though this was his niece's practice, he wanted nothing more than to leave it and head home to his wife and son so they could go on their family picnic down at the river; however, there was one heavy question that was stuck inside Henry's mind, weighing him down and keeping him from leaving the clinic. Henry didn't think he'd be able to leave with the question floating around in his mind, but he wasn't so sure he wanted to know the answer.

He cleared his throat nervously, "If there is some kind of damage on my heart it would just…be there, right?" he managed to voice the apprehensive question; when Henry noticed Maggie's frown, he elaborated some more. "It wouldn't affect me or cause me to have another attack or arrest, would it?"

"No," Maggie swiftly answered.

When the Returned came back and got a checkup with Maggie, they usually had a clean bill of health. Injuries were recovered, cancers were gone, some did have signs of their cause of death like Caleb Richards…Abruptly, the thought of her best friend's father made Maggie rethink and rephrase her initial answer.

"I don't think so."

Henry knew Maggie her whole life, he and his wife had practically helped his brother raise her, Henry could read the young woman as well as he could his own son. As soon as he noticed her face crumble with confusion, accompanied by her sudden answer change, he knew she'd had a new thought that must have been troublesome.

His eyes stayed on her but his head titled in a curious manner, "What are you thinking, Mags?"

Maggie stared back at her uncle. The worst part of her job was telling a patient bad news, she hated it, but it was part of her job. This was different though, this was dealing with the Returned and not just any Returned but her Uncle Henry. The only thing she hated more than telling bad news to patients, was lying to her family.

She took a deep breath before starting, "Caleb Richards died of a heart attack. He was also one of the first of the Returned to disappear."

While Henry listened, he wore a frown, he couldn't understand why his niece was telling him this information—he already knew all this.

"Marty was there when Caleb disappeared and it didn't sound like it was very peaceful or like it had been his choice to disappear," Maggie went on to explain some more. "He was in some kind of pain, coughing, and asking for water…"

It didn't take much time for Henry to connect the dots, "You think the heart attack that killed Caleb Richards made him disappear?"

"Maybe," replied Maggie in a clearly uncertain tone. "Caleb's disappearance is just as much of mystery as his reappearance."

"And you think that same thing could happen to me?" Henry asked the million dollar question.

"I don't know," confessed Maggie in a small voice, "Maybe."

She wished she could give him a different answer; even if it was the answer that neither one of them hoped would be true. It wouldn't be good but it would still be a solid answer and Henry wouldn't have to walk around constantly wondering 'what if?' Her uncle however, seemed to be more understanding with this ambiguous answer.

He slowly nodded his head before stopping and catching Maggie's eyes with his own, "I don't want you telling your aunt about this."

"But Uncle Henry," Maggie immediately began to protest, stunned that he'd want to keep something so important from his wife.

"I mean it, Maggie," he sternly told her. "Your Aunt Lucille's already been through enough these past few days. I've put her through enough already…I just want to give her a break. So for now, let's just keep this between us, okay?"

Maggie looked at the man in front of her who was waiting to hear her 'okay,' but she was having trouble with the two syllable word. She was torn. While she didn't like the idea of keeping such serious information from her aunt, her uncle did have some valid points. Lucile had been through a lot these past few days. And they weren't even sure if what they were thinking was true—they had no real evidence—why worry her with something that might very well be nothing? Plus there was the patient-doctor confidentiality.

"Fine," Maggie relented but not without coming up with something to make this promise work in her favor. "But if I keep this from Aunt Lucille, you have to answer one question for me."

Henry thought the tradeoff sounded fair so he nodded in agreement.

"What was it like to Return?" she instantly asked.

The question made Henry's face fall, "Fine, tell Lu."

"Uncle Henry," Maggie started.

By now Henry's frown had turned into a deeper, angrier scowl, "I'm not talking to you about this, Maggie," his tone was an affirmative one that his niece knew not to argue with.

"You don't have to," she told him but it didn't sound like she was giving up. "You can talk to Marty or Aunt Lucille. Just talk to someone about it."

"I don't want to talk to about it period."

"Then don't. You can write it out instead. You could write it in a diary," Maggie heard a scoff and corrected herself, "Or a journal, whatever you want to call it. Just write it all out so you don't have to keep it to yourself. And whenever you think the time is right you could give it to us to read and you wouldn't have to relieve and retell it all," she reasoned, his resistance was telling her that his return was not exactly easy or happy and it didn't sound like something he should keep to himself; then Maggie added, "But it's better if you do it soon, before you forget."

Henry arched up an eyebrow, "Are you calling me old?"

"I'm just saying if you decide to write about it, you should do it while everything's still fresh in your mind," explained Maggie, wearing a gentle smile. She could see that her uncle was still hesitant so she continued.

"Uncle Henry, right now you're the only Returned who remembers actually returning. Anything that you could share with us about that experience could help us better understand the Returned. It could help us figure out how they got here, maybe even why they're here. It might even help us help them in the future."

Staring straight ahead at his niece, Henry held her gaze for several moments before he finally spoke up, "I'll think about it."

It wasn't a no.

"Okay," she nodded.

"And you won't tell Lu about any of this heart stuff, right?" he asked, wanting to make sure Maggie kept her end of the bargain.

A smile crept onto Maggie's lips as she teasingly said, "I'll think about it."

Henry chuckled, sensing her playfulness in her response. He scooted off the examining table while Dr. Maggie made a few new notes in his medical file.

"You're going down to the river with us, right?" Henry double checked.

As her lips stretched out, Maggie turned to find her uncle now standing in front of her. "Yeah, Marty and Jenny are gonna pick me up here and after I let everyone here know I'm leaving, we'll meet you over there."

"Great," he grinned then moved his hands under Maggie's ears before placing a quick kiss on the top of Maggie's head. "We'll see you then."

Maggie smiled in return and watched Henry exit the exam room.

0o0o0o

A little while after Henry left, Maggie found herself in her office putting away any files and papers that were for whatever reason, were still out. Her uncle had been her last patient for the day—unless there was an emergency or something that the on call doctor couldn't handle. She was really looking forward to just spending the day outside with her family, Marty and Jenny included, but she couldn't seem to get the appointment with her uncle out of her mind.

"Hey."

Maggie looked up and saw Marty standing at the doorway of her office.

The sight of him made the corners of Maggie's mouth tug upwards, "Hey."

"I just saw Henry leaving, everything okay?" he asked, he was just as concerned about Maggie as he was about her uncle; there was something about her that seemed a bit off.

"Yeah, for the most part," answered Maggie before she stopped her actions of clearing her desk and looked up at Marty. "It was his heart."

Marty's face softened as he right away recalled the guilt she had felt and expressed to him the night Henry died, "There was nothing you could've done to prevent that…"

"I know, I know. That's not what's got me so upset," she admitted.

"Then what is it?"

Maggie stared back at Marty taking less than a split second to decide on telling him what she now knew, "Before he Returned, Caleb Richards died of a heart attack."

The words caused a frown to fold itself onto Marty's forehead but as he gave it some thought that same frown unfolded and disappeared, "And he disappeared on his own."

"Exactly," Maggie said, she liked how Marty could quickly jump onto her train of thought without her having to give too much of an explanation.

"You think Caleb's disappearance was related to the heart attack that initially killed him?" questioned Marty, his brows slowly starting to crease together again.

She sighed making her shoulders droop, "I don't know, maybe."

Marty nodded in agreement. She was right, she didn't know and he didn't know. This was becoming another reminder of how much they still didn't know about the Returned.

"Did you tell Henry about all this?" came the agent's second question.

"Yeah," nodded Maggie before a look of frustration emerged on her face. "He doesn't want me to tell Aunt Lucille."

"So then don't tell her," he replied with a slight shoulder shrug.

His calmness clearly aggravated Maggie. "She's his wife," she said as if he needed reminding, "You don't think she deserves to know about this?"

"Yeah, I do but I also don't think you should tell Lucille any of this right now."

When the words left Marty's mouth he could see how much they had upset Maggie but he didn't regret them—he had his reasons and decided to share them.

"Look they invited us to spend the day with them, something that means a lot to Jenny and me. It's pretty obvious they want this day to be about family and appreciating the fact that they have another day together. So let's try to give them that, a day about family. No talk about Returns or disappearing, at least for today, okay?"

It took a good few moments to pass before Maggie finally gave in and bowed her head in a nod, "Okay."

"Great," Marty smiled, "You ready to go?"

"Yeah, I've just got to let them know up front that I'm leaving."

Both Marty and Maggie then exited from her office and walked over to the front desk so that Maggie could sign out and say goodbye. It was while she was signing off on a few things that she suddenly noticed that Marty was alone.

"Did you already drop Jenny off with Jacob?" she guessed out loud.

"No, she said she wanted to wait in the car," replied Marty before informing, "By the way, she already called shotgun."

Maggie looked at Marty with enlarged eyes, "She can't call shotgun if the other person isn't even there," she pointed the tip of her pen at him. "You need to teach that kid the rules of shotgun."

"Didn't think there were rules for shotgun."

With a miniature smile on her face and a little twinkle in her eye Maggie declared, "Guess I'll have to teach you both."

Author's Note: So what did you think? Yay? Nay? A little of each? Be sure to let me know in a review!

Once again, please excuse any medical errors that I may have made in this chapter—I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV.

Next chapter we will see some family moments by the river and will find out if Fred will be joining the group as well. And a character who we have not yet seen in this story could be making his/her first appearance next chapter. Any guesses who that might be?

Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care, and have a nice day!