Disclaimer- See chapter 1.

Bringing Up Memories

Chapter 6- A Red Flag for Mark

"Jesse!" Annie said, excited to see her old friend.

"Hi, Annie," Jesse greeted her, bending down to hug her. "How are you?"

"Tired," she smiled. "But so happy."

"That's what Nick said. Annie, look, I have to apologize for the way that I behaved after the murders."

"No. No you don't, Jesse," Annie said, "We understand."

"Well look at what I missed while I was being so stubborn. A romance, a wedding, a baby," he countered.

"You haven't completely lost out, Jesse. I hear that you've married Nurse Hilliard. And you befriended Dr. Sloan. I keep seeing your name in the paper. 'Dr. Mark Sloan and his team solve another mystery!' And then, of course, there are the hospital gossip-hounds. You don't want to know what they all have to say about you," Annie said. Jesse pulled a chair beside the bed and sat down.

"I don't think Ian did it anymore," Jesse whispered.

"Why not?"

"Because of Paige's disorder. I used to catch her sometimes, staring at me, like a teenager with a crush. I never understood it until now. It was another personality. I think that one of the 'By-Paige-es' killed Maggie, and Carley, out of jealousy."

"I don't know, Jess. Where's your evidence?" Annie asked skeptically.

"I don't know yet, but if it's even probable, Mark Sloan is already on it, and that's good enough for me." Jesse said confidently. He stood up and patted Annie's arm. "Now you rest. It's almost ten-thirty. I'll come back in the morning to meet little Maggie Murphy."

.....

Mark was upset. Ever since Jesse had told him of Paige Sullivan's Dissociative Identity Disorder, different scenarios had been playing in his head. Steve also agreed that Paige was looking more and more guilty.

"I told Detective Van Sickle what Jesse told me, and she searched Paige's house earlier. She found a diary kept by Paige, and in it she would change personalities. I got a look at it. Each personality has a different tone, and different handwriting. They all contradict each other. Something like one is happy about the little girl she adopted, and one knows a secret she won't share. The most disturbing part is that one personality still goes on about Jesse. She wrote pages of fantasies about him."

"So one personality, say Simone, the one with the crush, goes in, kills Maggie and Carley, and the she reverts back to Paige, who either didn't know what happened or was terrified to death," Mark said, playing through it. "What did you say about adoption?"

"Oh, Paige adopted a little girl, Grace, a few days after the murders."

"Alright, well, how did Paige get in and out of the apartment without anyone seeing?"

"Well, she was there for a birthday party," Steve said. "I doubt that Maggie would have turned her away."

"Okay, but none of the neighbors saw anyone come in or out," Mark said.

"This is getting us nowhere," Steve said. "Why don't you sleep on it?"

"No, I think I've got it," Mark said. He turned and left Steve standing in the hospital lobby by himself. His dad always took a sickening amount of pleasure from keeping him completely lost. Instead of following Mark, Steve just turned and went to his car. I'm going to bed, he thought, coasting out of the parking garage.