The family was gathered in Sandy's room. They were waiting. Waiting for Kelly to wake up

Kirsten noticed that Seth was almost falling asleep.

"Boys, why don't you go home and have some sleep" she said and Ryan and Seth looked up at her.

"What about you?" Ryan asked, though he already knew her answer.

"I'll stay here, with your father and sister. I call you if anything happens." Kirsten promised and Sandy looked at her.

"You should go home, take a shower, get some sleep." He mumbled. Kirsten shook her head.

"No, I'm staying here. I'm worried about Kelly, I wanna be here when she wakes up. Besides I think a need some painkillers for my stomach" she smiled and got out of her chair and walked the boys to the door. Ryan turned around to face her.

"You sure you don't need any company?" he asked and she smiled at his concern.

"I'll be fine, I have Sandy. Take your girls and go home." She replied and closed the door after them. She went back to Sandy's side.

"Thank you" he whispered. She smiled sadly and stroke his hair.

"You're welcome" she said, she knew he didn't want her to leave him there.

Out in the waiting room Marissa, Summer and Anna was still there. Jimmy had stopped by briefly but had already left. Marissa stood up when Ryan and Seth came.

"I'm glad she'll be ok" Summer said and Anna nodded.

"We're gonna head home, so you can come by again tomorrow if you want" Seth said and the girls started to walk towards the door and Seth turned around to Ryan who was hugging Marissa.

"You guys coming?"

"Yeah, we're coming" Ryan replied and let go of Marissa. He took her hand and signed that they should be going, but Marissa didn't move.

"I- - I think I'll stay here. Kelly is after all one of my best friends, I wanna make sure she's ok" Marissa said and let go of Ryan's hand. He looked at her.

"Ok…if that's what you want. Maybe I should stay too" he started but she shook her head.

"No, you look exhausted. You need to go home and sleep, I see you tomorrow"

"Fine. Kirsten is in Sandy's room, she's staying too. Bye" he said and kissed her before he walked towards the doors. Marissa sighed and sat down again. She fell asleep and was waked by a nurse the next morning.

"Are you Kelly Cohen's friend?" she asked and Marissa nodded "Well, she's awake, you can see her if you want. Can you do me a favour and tell her parents? I'm so busy and…"

"Sure thing" Marissa said and walked off towards Sandy's room. She stood in the doorway for a few minutes and taking in what she saw. Sandy was asleep in his bed and there was a bed arranged for Kirsten in the opposite side of the room, but she had chosen to sleep on the chair next to her husband, her head was resting on his legs that were unharmed.

They looked so cute that Marissa almost didn't want to wake them up, but they had to know. She slowly walked towards Kirsten and carefully shook her awake. Kirsten stirred.

"Marissa? What are you doing here?" she said in a rather raspy voice.

"Kelly's awake" Marissa said and Kirsten smiled.

"That's great news, sweetie. Can we see her?" she asked and Marissa nodded. Kirsten looked at her sleeping husband.

"I don't want to wake him, he need some sleep. Did you just come or..?"

"I stayed here last night. I slept in the waiting room" Marissa explained "I was worried about Kelly"

"Yeah, I understand. Shall we go see her?" Kirsten asked and wrapped her arm around Marissa's shoulders.

Kelly was staring into the ceiling. Her throat hurt and she felt a heart-shaped pain on her back. She remembered. Her plan hadn't gone the way she would have wanted. Or, she actually was relived that it backfired. She closed her eyes and heard the door open. Voices were whispering around her. She opened her eyes and looked up into a pair of blue eyes, her mother's eyes.

"Hello sweetie." Kirsten whispered and touched her daughter's face.

"Hey mom" Kelly said, her voice low. She swallowed and her throat hurt even more.

"I'm so glad you're ok" Kirsten smiled and kissed her forehead.

"How is everyone?"

"The boys are fine and your dad is going to be ok, a few broken ribs and some bruises.

"He's a murderer, he cut me, he…" Kelly said and sounded so frightened.

"He's dead, everything's going to be fine" Kirsten assured her. The police had already informed her about Logan's history.

"This is all my fault" Kelly whispered suddenly, she couldn't speak louder than that. Kirsten frowned

"No it's not. It's Logan's fault and he's dead" Kelly heard Marissa's voice say. She glanced to her left and saw her friend.

"Marissa…"

A week later Sandy was feeling much better, Kelly too, but she was still in the hospital.

Seth, Ryan, Kirsten and Sandy were visiting Kelly.

"How are you feeling, sweetie?" her dad asked her.

"I'm better" she answered, her voice much stronger now. Kirsten had been with her everyday since she woke up.

"Hey sis. I bought you something" Seth said and handed her a bag. She smiled and took out its contents. It was a book.

"'Angels and demons' by Dan Brown" Kelly read and then she laughed. "Thanks, Seth"

They all fell silent. Kelly knew she eventually had to tell her family the truth.

"There's something I have to say" she started, now sounding serious. Sandy looked at his wife and then at his daughter.

"Okay, does this has something to do with Logan?" he said, he didn't like her tone; it was cold and full of fear.

"Yes."

"What is it?" Kirsten asked worried.

"I had a plan, but it backfired. Nothing went the way I had expected." She just said.

Sandy frowned. "But I thought your plan was to kill him, and you did.." Kelly shook her head.

"Don't you see? There's a reason why a told you and Ryan to stay outside and wait for Seth to come out. When I walked through those doors, I was not supposed to come back."

"Then, what was your plan?" Seth asked quietly. Kelly swallowed; this was something a brother never should have to hear from his sister, or something no parent should hear.

"I was going to let you leave, tell you to secure the door from the outside…then" she took a deep breath, but before she could continue, Ryan said quietly "Then you were going to kill yourself"

Sandy looked from Kelly to Ryan.

"Yes" Kelly said and Kirsten started to cry.

"Mom…" Kelly said, but Kirsten put her hand over her face and continued to cry silently.

Sandy was in shock. "But…why? Why couldn't you just kill him and then come back to us?" he asked and took Kirsten's hand, as trying to comfort her.

"I…I guess I wanted him to suffer. Be locked in with my body and starve to death. But I guess he would have used my body anyway. I just wanted him to suffer." Kelly had now started to cry and Kirsten let go of her husband's hand and hugged her daughter instead. Her only daughter. Who had been so close to kill herself. And who had been so close to being killed.

Sandy and the boys watched in silence when the two women clung onto each other and cried.

Mother and daughter.

Kelly kept whispering she was sorry, Kirsten whispered that it was ok, that everything was going to be ok. Kirsten's hand slid down Kelly's back, and she cried out in pain. The cut, the heart-shaped cut. She had to carry it with her for the rest of her life.

"Honey, I'm sorry" Kirsten said, had forgotten about the cut on her back.

Kelly closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Sandy looked at her, knew exactly what it looked like, the cut. He remembered Logan standing with the knife against her back, pressing it harder, until blood started to run.

"She was cut, by Logan" he said "Right in front of my eyes" his voice shook.

"I know she was cut." Kirsten said, and then she frowned "Wait, you saw when it happened?"

Sandy nodded. "And it's heart-shaped"