Part 27

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"What...?" Maggie asked one hand moving to her chest as the other moved to cover her mouth. Maggie's eyes were wide with unshed tears as she shook her head back and forth. The look...the way Reggie said it...she knew it was true. Bianca...was...

"No..." Maggie said turning toward the wall, trying to stand but stuck to the table because of the handcuffs. "No..." Maggie screamed into her hands as she sobbed.

Derrick looked down and to the side, before turning to Reggie. This wasn't the reaction he had been expecting...though he didn't really expect her to just admit to killing her ex-wife. That would have been too easy.

Reggie looked at Derrick before he moved over to Maggie. He knew something wasn't right because of the way Maggie was reacting. "Maggie..." He said as he tried to help her stand.

Derrick walked over to the chair and placed it behind Maggie so she could sit down again.

"Uncuff me..." Maggie yelled as sobbed and yanked at the handcuffs holding her prisoner. "Uncuff me!" Maggie sobbed as she pulled at the cuffs, not even feeling the pain that shot up her wrist as her skin was cut against the metal. "My god...no.." Maggie said shaking her head before she just fell to the ground once again, not even Reggie was able to hold her up.

As Reggie helped Maggie up again, Derrick uncuffed her hands. Once Maggie was uncuffed, Reggie took Maggie into his arms as she cried.

"Maggie, you have to talk to us." Reggie said as he rubbed her back gently.

"She...please say its not true...please...please Reggie just say its not true.." Maggie begged as she sobbed into Reggie's shoulders, her heart left like it was being ripped in two. This couldn't be happening...after everything they'd been through this couldn't be how it ended...with Bianca gone and…her still being here... it couldn't happen this way.

Maggie screamed into Reggie's shoulders and grabbed onto his shirt her fists taking the material of his shirt with them as she cried. Her entire world just died on her, because there was no hope... no hope of ever being a real family again. There was none because she was gone. Maggie wanted desperately for it not to be true...but wanting it not to be true didn't make it any less true and that's what killed her. Her kids were going to grow up without their mother, and she was going to grow old without Bianca at her side.

"Where are the kids...?" Maggie asked as she pulled away from Reggie's shoulder, moving her hand to wipe her tears away. "...do they know...I need to be with them...I need to tell them...I need...they have to know."

None of this made sense, if everything they had pieced together was true and Maggie was behind Bianca's murder this behavior just didn't make sense. Derrick had known Maggie for years; Reggie knew her for years and was her brother in law, that's why he was in the room. He was the only officer here that would be able to tell if Maggie was lying...he always was able to tell when someone was lying especially his family members. When Reggie had rushed to Maggie's side he had seen in the young mans eyes, realization. Maggie hadn't known...she wasn't behind this and if she was then she was a damn good actress.

"Maggie..." Derrick said as he looked at her. "I'm sorry but the kids...the kids are missing."

"So is Anna, Kendall, Spike, JR, Adam the III, and Kate Martin." Reggie said as he held onto Maggie's hand.

Maggie stared at Reggie blankly...her tears stopped falling as she stared into Reggie's eyes not believing what she was hearing. If her heart had been ripped in two before it was now dead... withered and turning to ash inside her chest. Her kids were gone...her wife was gone...her life...was gone.

"They're not missing." A voice said from the doorway.

"Anna..." Derrick said as he looked over at the door.

"Maggie, the kids are safe." Anna said as she walked over to Maggie.

Maggie looked up at Anna and shook her head. "They said...they said that Bianca's dead..." Maggie said her eyes watering as she looked up at the woman she considered a mother.

"Maggie, there was another accident when you were in surgery." Anna said as she looked at Maggie. "Bianca is not dead, but it's bad. She was shot in the chest. I'm not going to lie to you, Maggie, we could still lose her."

Maggie stared at Anna and just breathed. "She's alive...?" Maggie asked swallowing the lump in her throat. "...where...?" Maggie looked up and down and just started to cry again, this time leaning against Anna, but pulled back when the older woman hissed. Maggie stepped back and looked down at Anna's arm and wiped her tears away. "Your arm..."

"The bullet that hit Bianca went through her chest and back and hit my arm." Anna said. "Yes, she's alive, but barely."

Maggie looked at Anna and moved from side to side, her hand up to her head. This was too much...it was all just too much. It had always been too much...and now it caught up with her. Maggie's world came crashing down, as she crashed down to the hard tile floor beneath her...Anna's worried voice fading of fin the distance as the pitch black obis took hold of her and decided not to let her go.

TBC….