Part 26

---------July 28, 2019------------

------4 days later------

Maggie sat in her hospital room going stir crazy. She hadn't been able to see her family, her kids...or even talk to them over the phone and she had no idea why. She was being treated like a criminal. The only person she had been allowed to see was Greenlee and Greenlee only told her that she was in protective custody because they thought that the guy that mugged her was going to come back, but Maggie knew that was bullshit. Maggie sighed and stood from her bed, she was being discharged today, and Greenlee was late.

Maggie looked down at her watch and sighed as she started to pace the room. She just wanted to see her kids... hear they're voices and know they were okay. Greenlee had insisted that they were okay but she hadn't been able to see them not once in the last four days and it was killing her. Maggie smiled when she heard the door open and the light from the hallway filter through the room. She turned to the door smiling but her smile faded when she saw who was coming in.

"Hello Derrick." Maggie said rolling her eyes as she turned from the officer and walked back to her bed and sat down.

"Hello Maggie." Derrick said as he walked over to her with two officers behind him.

Maggie looked at Derrick and raised an eye brow. "Are you here to take my statement again?" Maggie asked, her voice still raspy and her chest sore.

"Not exactly." Derrick said as he looked at Maggie. "I am here for another reason."

"Oh and what's that...? To harass me more, or to let me know I'm never going to see my kids again because you're 'protecting' me?" Maggie asked air quotes on the word protecting.

"I am here to place you under arrest." Derrick said looking into Maggie's eyes.

Maggie had been looking at the ground but her head shot up when she heard Derricks statement and knowing Derrick as well as she did she knew he never kid about these things. What made it all the more real was one of the officers behind Derrick was Reggie.

"You've got to be kidding..." Maggie stated as she stood up. "...for what!?" Maggie asked completely confused. "For getting my ass kicked? Lung punctured by a mugger? Oh don't tell me Erica's pressing some kind of charge against me for being a bad mother, is that it? Because if it is then you can just walk right out that door because nothing that bitch says is true."

"I am placing you under arrest for murder." Derrick said.

Maggie looked at Derrick shocked and as Reggie was pulling her arms behind her back she continued to stare at Derrick, turning between him and Reggie as he read to her her rights.

"You have the right to remain silent."

"Derrick I didn't do anything..." Maggie objected. "I didn't kill anybody...I was here in the hospital for the last four days I couldn't have!"

'You have a right to an attorney...if by some chance you can't afford one, one will be appointed to you." Derrick continued as he walked out of the hospital room behind Maggie and Reggie.

The doctors and nurses were objecting to Maggie being arrested, they knew Maggie and they knew she couldn't have done what they were accusing her of. They had been saying so for the past three days, but their voices had been unheard and now Maggie was being taken to the police station, while they watched.

When they arrived at the police station, as Maggie was helped out she was blinded by the flashing lights of cameras and was deafened by the loud roar of reporters asking all sorts of questions. Within seconds her sight returned and her hearing came back, but her chest screamed at her. Her ribs killed and the way her hands were behind her back like this with still healing ribs was not good...and she was having some trouble breathing. Reggie saw this and actually looked the other way and let another officer undo her cuffs. Once they were off Maggie was escorted to an interrogation room where she was left alone in the dark metaphorically and physically speaking.

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"Derrick..." Erica said as she stormed into his office with Jackson right behind her. "I want Maggie's head. Bianca is dead and it's all because of her. The kids are missing and we haven't heard from Kendall and Spike since Bianca's..." She started to choke on her words. "...Body was found at Maggie's house." Erica was an emotional mess. She definitely didn't look like herself. Her hair and make up weren't done. She just didn't look like the same glamorous Erica Kane.

"Maggie's been arrested for the murder of your daughter, Erica. That's all I can say." Derrick said as he stood up from his desk and rubbed his temples.

This was the last case he was every going to run he swore it. Not only was Bianca Montgomery dead, but her kids were missing so were Kendall and Spike and one of the best officers, agents he had ever met was missing as well. Erica wasn't the first one to come storming into his office, just a few moments ago Adam Chandler had stormed into the office with his lawyers and his wife along with his granddaughter Molly. JR and Adam Chandler III were missing as well and right now they had no leads on where any of them were or who had them. Yes...after this case he was retiring.

"That's not good enough." Erica said as tears were running down her face.

"Erica..." Derrick said as he slowly stood, Jack stepping a little closer to his wife as if telling Derrick to back off and not come any closer. So he didn't he just stood behind his desk and looked at Jack and Erica. "If you take Maggie's head now...we'll never know where the kids are. I'm holding Greenlee in a cell downstairs..."

"Why?" Jack asked stepping forward.

"As an accomplice." Derrick answered.

"Maggie couldn't have taken the kids and there was a point while Maggie was in surgery that Greenlee couldn't be found at the hospital...and the probable cause points to Greenlee being the shooter and the kidnapper. If it went down the way we believe it did...it was planned it was all planned except for the part with Maggie being brought to the hospital and being in surgery."

"I want to see her." Erica said. "I want to see Maggie and for her to tell me she had my daughter killed."

"You know what...alright." Derrick said as he stepped around his desk. "You want to talk to Maggie... then you can. But only after I've had a few words with her. While I'm in with Maggie why don't you and Jack go down and visit Greenlee. See if you can't get her to talk." Derrick said as he stepped up to the couple.

Erica and Jack both nodded and watched as Derrick left the room.

As Derrick left his office and walked to the interrogation room where Maggie was being held he had to walk through a crowd of Kanes and Montgomery's. Lily stood with Jonathan and their kids, and Josh stood with Amanda and their kids all standing around waiting for answers...all eyes red with shed tears. Derrick looked down as he walked to the doors and took a deep breath before entering, leaving it open for Reggie to walk in and watched as he closed the door and then turned on the lights. Once his eyes adjusted to the light he looked at Maggie and saw her head down on the table.

"Sorry about the lights." Derrick said as he sat down across from Maggie.

"No your not...neither is who ever locked me in here and left the lights off and hand cuffed me to the table so I couldn't turn them on." Maggie said her head still on top of her arm that lay across the table.

Maggie looked up when Derrick didn't speak and eyed the man she had known for a long time. "Now tell me why the hell I'm in here. For real...because you both know I didn't kill anybody! What's happened?" Maggie asked eyeing Derrick and turned to Reggie and eyed her old friend when she couldn't get any answers from him.

"Bianca's been killed." Reggie stated as he glared at Maggie.

Part 26B

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Greenlee was in the corner of her jail cell, her knees drawn up to her chest, her chin resting on her knees as she cried. Her arms covering her face as she just cried. She had been told why she was arrested. She was under arrest for murdering Bianca, which would mean Bianca was dead. She was also under arrest for the kidnapping of Emily, Chris, Melissa, Miranda, Kate Martin, JR and Adam Chandler, and Kendall and Spike. She hadn't killed or kidnapped anybody and to know that she was being arrested for crimes against her own family hurt, but what hurt the most, was knowing that there had been crimes against her family.

"Greenlee..." Jackson said as he and Erica walked up to her cell.

Greenlee looked up...tears streaming down her cheeks, her eyes blood shot red. She looked at her father and Erica and then placed her head back down against her knees and cried, shaking her head before taking a deep breath and standing up and slowly walking over to the prison bars that kept her held prisoner for crimes she didn't commit.

"Dad..." Greenlee whispered as she stood at the bars and looked at her father.

"Greenlee." Jackson said as he took hold of his daughter's hands. "What on earth is going on?"

"Bianca is dead, Jack." Erica said looking at her husband. "That is what is going on."

"And I had NOTHING...to do with it!" Greenlee said firmly as she looked at Erica. "I swear it! All I know is I can't tell Maggie that Bianca's dead and I'm not supposed to leave the hospital only to be arrested yesterday for murdering Bianca and kidnapping the kids, Kendall, JR and Anna." Greenlee said shaking her head. "I would never hurt her! Or the children!"

"Why weren't you supposed to leave the hospital?" Jack asked as he wiped some of Greenlee's tears away. "That doesn't make any sense."

"I wasn't going to leave Maggie alone at the hospital, and they told us that the guy would be coming after her so I wasn't going anywhere and that the kids were going to be with Kendall and Anna. They also said I couldn't go home because it was a crime scene so I staid in Maggie's office."

"Is that all that you were told?" Jackson asked.

Greenlee nodded. "They said that's all I needed to know. And then they go and arrest me.." Greenlee said shaking her head tears falling. "I would never hurt any of them... never! I just wouldn't they're my family...I love them!"

"It's okay, sweetie." Jackson said to his daughter.

"Greenlee..." Erica said. "Do you know anything else? If you do, please tell us. Bianca is...de...dead. My baby is dead." She cried. She then looked at Jackson. "Who would want to kill her? Why is this happening to our family?"

Greenlee looked down and closed her eyes. "Its been happening, Erica." Greenlee said and shook her head. "I...it was a secret...Bianca's secret. A secret that kept her and Maggie apart." Greenlee whispered.

"What secret?" Erica asked eyeing Greenlee.

"The one that..." Greenlee shook her head as more tears fell. "...that got her killed."

TBC….