OK, so I write this fic ages, ages ago. I wrote it before Christmas last year.

I want you all to know I am nearly a whole year older, and my writing style has changed, for the better of course.

Actually, it is funny how much it has changed in nearly a year.

It was my first ever fic that I wrote, actually my first ever story not for an assignment. I think.

And I am (was) not too sure of some of the characters, so if any details are wrong, well, please don't flame me! Please be kind! LOL.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, except for Katie, who I do own.

And I claim copyright.

All the other characters are owned by Southern Star Productions and Channel Seven. Please don't sue me!

And now for the story, please R & R!

Shattered Memories

Katie walked off the mini plane in which she had been a prisoner in for the last six hours and stepped onto the hot tarmac. She felt like royalty, there was so many people with sad pitying looks on their faces there to welcome her. But her Mum and Dad were the only people that she had eyes for though. Katie just walked up to them and stood in complete silence, tears flowing out of her eyes and down her cheeks. She didn't even have the heart to wipe them off, or taste the salty trail that the tears left on her face. No one could understand the trip to hell and back that she had just taken, everyone just stood there and watched the awkwardness that was the Parrish family gathering, except that there was one thing missing. Katie's beautiful older sister, Joanna wasn't there.

She was overseas when she got the news. It was the day of her friend's party, she was on foreign soil, and all of a sudden her phone rang.

It was Susie.

"Hi Susie, how are you?" she asked.

When Susie didn't reply, she knew something was wrong, all she could hear was the sound of Susie crying.

"Suse, what's wrong? Why are you crying? What's going on?"

Then Susie told her, everything. She sounded so small. Suse told Katie that her Mum and dad had asked her to, that they noticed that they were so close when they were last together. Susie didn't hold anything back, told her all of the details. Then Katie came back straightaway.
People in New York think that they have seen everything, but they saw a new sight when they saw Katie running through the subway in her pyjamas, holding bags in both hands, and crying like there was no tomorrow.

And that is what it felt like for Katie, like there was no tomorrow.

She stayed in Susie's room that night, she didn't want to go back to her parents, and couldn't bear to go to PJ's, where Jo's spirit was so strong. There was too many memories there. She slept on the floor, but halfway through the night, she woke up screaming and in a sweat. She had just dreamt that she was Jo, on the fateful day that she opened the backpack.

Katie woke up Susie, but all Katie could do was cry, and they sat on Susie's bed the whole night, with Suse just hugging her and stroking her hair, just like Jo used to do.

When the first light shone through the window, she slipped out of Susie's sleeping grasp and snuck out of the room. She was crying again, but she sprinted to the site of the old station, where Jo was last alive, and sat down in the mess and rubble, crying, shaking and holding her legs up to her chest.

Her mind was racing with all the memories, but she just sat there, not wanting to ever move again, as if she had lost all the will to live.
She was fairly well hidden, but PJ managed to find her, as if he could just read her mind, it must have come from spending so much time with Jo, because they were alike in so many ways. Katie just wanted to escape, run away from everything, but there were things she had to attend to. PJ lifted her up, and she just collapsed onto him, but he held her up with all of his power.
"This is how it will be Kate, I'll always hold you up" he blurted out.

"I miss her PJ, I just want Jo back" Katie sobbed.

PJ forced Katie to look at him, and wiped the tears out of her eyes and off her face, and said

"I do too, but she would have wanted us to be happy, and remember all the good times we had with her"

Katie stared at him disbelievingly, as if saying, how could you say that? She was my sister, I knew her better than anyone, she thought.

"That's a load of crap" she yelled right in PJ's face, and ran away.