Just before you read, i would like to say a BIG thankyou to Elle. She sorta gave me the confidence to post this, and she edited it and the ending was her idea, so the fic is dedicated to her. Thanks, Mate. You're a champ.
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The past, the present, and in between.
Joanna Parrish drove back into Mt Thomas with a heavy heart. It hadn't been her choice to come back to her old hometown, but as her father still called the area home, she had decided to come visit him occasionally.
It wasn't as though life had been bad for her in Mt. Thomas. Quite the opposite in fact, but all good things come to an end, as she had discovered almost a year ago. Nine and a half months to be exact.
She glanced back at the sleeping baby in the back seat of the car. PJ had never wanted kids. Well, no, that wasn't quite true. He hadn't wanted them with her. He'd wanted them with Maggie.
Jo sighed as she pulled into her father's driveway. Helena, her daughter, had been born three months before, and Jo just thanked the gods that she wasn't a fussy baby. She slept most of the day and only cried when she was hungry, so she managed to do the single mum thing with out too many hassles. Still, she wished that she could give Lena a chance to know her father. PJ's name wasn't even on her birth certificate, as Jo hadn't been able to face telling her parents who Lena's father was.
Glancing around, she got out of the car and stretched. She'd just got off a 4½ hour flight from Darwin, to spend two nights with her father for his birthday. Her brother, Cameron, was already there, and he came out of her dad's house, smiling, to greet her.
Cameron had been a lifesaver for Jo. When the universe had transpired to turn her world upside down, he'd supported her all the way through, and she knew that she would've burnt out long before now if he hadn't gone out on a limb to help her. Looking back, she couldn't say that she regretted anything. She wished that things had turned out differently, but she had no regrets. So she smiled back at her brother, handed him her sleeping daughter, and followed him inside.