Thanks again for all of the reviews. I've changed a couple of minor points thanks to reading them, so please do keep them coming! Coming up – will Ronnie and Roxy find out what really happened to Danielle in time? Will Danielle and Ronnie finally get the chance to talk properly? What has happened to Andy?

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"You haven't lost her Ron. She's still out there, isn't she?" Roxy was getting slightly impatient with Ronnie now; she was still confused, she had no idea what had happened, but she also knew it was her place to calm Ronnie, not to get her even more wound up.

Nodding a little, unable to look Roxy in the eye, her tone completely absent, Ronnie replied finally, reverently, "She has gone, Roxy. She's dead".

Roxy gasped, open mouthed, completely taken aback, "She's what? What happened?"

For a moment Roxy thought Ronnie had finally lost it. She's gone mad, she thought. Why wasn't I here, why did I tell her to phone Danielle? What a stupid suggestion, she sighed.

But maybe it hadn't been Danielle on the phone, her line of thought suddenly changed. Maybe it had been someone else, someone from the hospital, her father, a friend from home?

Now Roxy understood why Ronnie was broken, why she seemed so lost. Throwing her arms around Ronnie's neck, she allowed her to nestle her face into her shoulder, and the tears falling from Ronnie's eyes were now mirrored by Roxy's. She had, after all, lost someone as well. She was my niece, Roxy thought to herself, suddenly realising the real seriousness of the situation.

Neither moved from their embracement for at least five minutes, but it was Ronnie who pulled away first. Her hand shook as she took her phone from Roxy's hand, gripping it tightly within hers and beginning to shake, before throwing it violently across the room.

"It's my fault, Rox. Why did I call her, why did I do it?" She had begun to shout now.

"Of course it isn't you fault Ronnie" Confused again, Roxy's eyes pierced Ronnie's, pleading with her to provide some kind of explanation.

"I heard her scream Rox. It was so horrible" Ronnie's eyes were wide as she began to rant.

"She answered the phone, she was going to speak to me. I was so happy. But I didn't know what to say, I started to babble I suppose" For a moment, as she spoke about her daughter, Roxy thought she saw Ronnie's eyes light up; but only for a fleeting moment, and then it was gone and the fear, and the anger, and the worry, had returned.

"She couldn't finish her sentence. I heard her scream. She screamed – it sounded like she was screaming at me; at everyone; at the world" Ronnie took in a deep breath; the speech had left her breathless once again.

"Then that noise, a horrible crunch, the car….it…. It was so loud", Ronnie's voice began to waver, "She's so small, Roxy".

Roxy had no idea what to say in reply to her sister, but she had no time, as Ronnie continued to speak.

"Then there was just silence. I said her name over and over. But nothing, there was just nothing"