Chapter 5: Kane TV

Nightfall descended upon Pine Valley. A night that Erica never anticipated she would ever have to live though. News of Kendall's death was spreading via news reports. Soon the hoards of media would overrun the Kane Family and Erica knew that she would not find solace anywhere. She went to the one place that she knew that she would find refuge, her penthouse. Erica walked into an eerily quiet and dark home. The only light that illuminated the place was the moon filtering through the huge picture windows that lead out to the balcony. She looked around the penthouse. Everything was familiar, yet it felt so foreign. She looked at the couch, the place where two summers before, she had shared a true mother/daughter moment with Kendall. It was the morning that she gave her Mona's pearls. She recalled the night that she had helped her get through the reliving of her rape. Unbeknownst to her, that was the beginning of the healing between the two of them. She had also gone back to the day of intervention. Oh how things had changed that day.

"Oh Kendall" Erica's whisper broke the deafening silence of the room. The secrets that she kept locked up nearly destroyed Erica and her daughters. However, she had never really taken into account the impact it had on Kendall. She realized that they had never really spoken about their feelings about that day. They merely spoke around it. The Kane way of avoiding she thought. She shook her head, regretting that she didn't have the foresight to make more of an effort to share her feeling with Kendall. She made her way through the darkness and over to the table by the couch. Visible in the moonlight, there sat her trademark white roses that she loved so much and pictures of her three girls: Kendall, Bianca and now Miranda.

Maria's words echoed though her mind. 'We did everything we could. Erica she's gone… I'm so sorry … she's gone… she's gone… she's gone'

"No, Kendall, NNNooo," Erica's emotions exploded. She swept her arms across the table taking out the vase of roses, all the pictures and the items that were so perfect just seconds before. She slumped to the ground in agony and pain. She shrieked with unimaginable grief. The emotions that she had held in soon flooded the room. She looked heavenward with anger, "Why? Why" Erica continued to sob. "Why would you let her come back into my life, just to take her away from me … why, why?" Erica reached for Kendall's picture that lay on the floor. She cleared the broken grass from frame and held it tightly to her chest. Her crying was the only sound in the room.


The Man just looked at monitor with a view of Erica's penthouse. He watched her agony and smiled at what he had just witnessed. Someone was watching. In fact the monitors showed just about every location relevent in Pine Valley.

"How is she doing?" the man's voice asked the doctor taking care of the young women in the bed. The doctor turned toward the figure still watching the monitors, his identity obscured in the darkness of the room. The glare of the monitors was the only illumination in the room, along with a low light above the woman's hospital bed.

"She is doing well", the doctor informed the man.

The woman began to regain consciousness. She blinked her eyes several times, slowly becoming accustomed to the low light in the room. She looked around the room while the man wrote in her chart.

"Where am I?" She asked him a question. He merely looked at her and turned back to continue writing in her chart. "I asked you a question." She asked him with obvious pain in her voice. She tried to get up and pain instantly filled her body. "Ohhh"

"It is not wise that you move Ms. Hart." Kendall slowly lay back down on the bed. Clearly she was injured and the memory of the accident was slowly coming back to her. She closed her eyes wondering where she was. Wondering why she wasn't in a hospital. Clearly this was not PVH.

"Ah, you're awake Ms. Hart." The strange voice filled the room and she looked toward him.

"Who the hell are you, and where am I?" Kendall angrily vented toward this stranger in the room.

"Feisty, aren't we? You're definitely your mother's daughter. And yes, I can see the wheels spinning in your head about getting out of here. Don't think for one moment you can leave here. There is no escape. If you attempt to, he will make sure that your family suffers more grief, and you will be responsible for that grief."

"Grief, what have you done to them." Kendall asked with panic in her voice. She was afraid and she noticed all the monitors near the foot of her bed. The man then turned toward the monitor and turned on one monitor in particular.

"Well, let's see? Do you enjoy television Ms Hart? I think you may enjoy our version of Kane TV" the man turned the television to a local Pine Valley news cast.

"For those of you just joining, some breaking news: Kendall Hart,
the Daughter of Cosmetics Mogul Erica Kane, was tragically killed
in a hit and run thisafternoon. She succumbed to her injuries late this
evening, a hospital spokesman confirmed. You will remember that Ms. Hart
was briefly on trial last year for the murder of Michael Cambias; it was later
revealed that her sister was responsible but was eventually cleared of all charges.
There had been no comment made by the Kane family. Once again, Kendall Har.."

Kendall heard the words but, found it unbelievable. He then changed the station to the video feed from the news cast to Erica's penthouse. She looked at him confused about how they could be watching Erica's Penthouse. She thought that this must be some sick joke. Kendall's eyes re- focused on the monitor and to the figure sobbing on the floor, "You bastard, why would you do that to my mother. Mom, I'm still here, I'm not dead." She yelled at the screen becoming hysterical and trying to get up. Quickly the doctor came back in and sedated an agitated Kendall. As the sedation was quickly taking effect, Kendall kept repeating, "I'm alive, I'm still here, I'm still here!"


With Erica on the ground in a fetal position, she heard Kendall's voice echo in the room. "Mom I'm here" Erica raised herself up to a seated position from the floor and turned toward the door in the darkness. "Kendall?"

"No Mom. It's me Bianca", she emerged out of the shadows of the doorway. Erica rose from the ground as Bianca turned on a light in the room. Bianca gazed around the room, looking at the destruction on the floor. She then stared at her mother.

"Bianca, don't look at me like that. I'm not going insane, I know she gone. I was there; I was there in that room with her just like you, but …"

"What mom, what is it?" Bianca took Erica's hand to comfort her and assure her it was okay to say anything to her.

"It's just … I can still feel her, and I hear her." Erica turned and walked toward the window with tears in her eyes, she wrapped her arms around herself.

Bianca made her way toward Erica, "Mom, I wish I could make this pain go away, but I can't" Bianca's voice trembled, "This is something that we are going to have to get through together." Erica just stared out through the window at the night's sky. "Mom, I know this may not be the right time, but we need to make some sort of arrangements for Kendall." Bianca continued, "I will call the funeral home tomorrow about the arrangements and about a plot."

"No", Erica shouted back to Bianca and then said, "I'll do it, I need to be the one to do this. Half of the arrangements are already done." Bianca looked puzzled at Erica's admission.

"What do you mean?" Bianca asked.

"The location is already set. She is going to be with her grandmother. I am going to placed next to my mother." Erica made clear her intentions about Kendall's burial to Bianca. Still clutching Kendall's photo, Erica continued on, "Flowers? I see white, white roses and lilies, what do you think? " Erica walked over to pick up her planner from the floor where she had tossed it in her moment of unimaginable grief. She then placed Kendall photo carefully back on the table and took a seat on the couch. She started to make notes in her book, she wiped her tears away, pulled her dishevel hair back and continued to plan away.

Bianca followed her mother toward the couch, watching her carefully. "Uhhh, Mom, why don't you let Val handle this or I'll do it" Bianca was uneasy about the flippant way that her mother had become. She was handling Kendall's memorial service like the launching of a new Enchantment line. Bianca was frightened at this turnabout. She knelt in front of her mother.

Erica looked at her, "Do you think she mind about the white."

Bianca then grabbed Erica's hand, "Mom stop!"

She glared at Bianca, and then dropped her head down. Her hands started to shake uncontrollably. "What am I suppose to do Bianca, how am I suppose to …" She began to sob. She held her mother's hands tightly trying to help her mother. Erica finally let the emotion of the evening hit her. Unable to fight her grief she laid her head on Bianca's lap. Bianca took care of her mother until finally she cried herself to sleep.