Forget You – Chapter Sixteen – Coming to an End
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The previous day had been an eventful one, that was for sure.
First, Jackson and Emma had been in a car crash, Emma coming out worse off that Jackson. Then Danny and Teri had come down and was staying with them for the time being. Then she had been told Emma's injuries – server concussion and small amount of internal bleeding were the worst of it – but other than that, she could have been worse off. Emma had woken up a few hours later, and when asked for her name, had announced that it was none other than Stephanie Tanner.
That's how you get the world around you to stop spinning.
When the others had turned up at the hospital, they had found D.J. sitting outside Jackson's room on the floor, head in her hands. They had asked what was wrong and she had told them the news, D.J. had held eye contact with Michelle and Kimmy, knowing both they thought the same thing as her.
Danny had immediately gone into denial, "Stephanie is dead. You're nuts."
"Then why did she say herself that her name was Stephanie? I didn't make that up. This is a serious matter, Dad. You need to be open minded about it, because there is a woman in this hospital that could very well be your long-lost daughter," D.J. snapped at him.
"But the evidence, the trail, the confession…" Danny trailed off, coming to a loss for words.
"Dad, there was never a body found," Michelle backed up D.J. "I believe her when she says she Stephanie."
"There's only one way to figure this out," His eldest told him. "Do a DNA test and find out the truth."
So they had done just that. The police had been contacted, as well. If Emma was in fact Stephanie, the missing persons case would be solved and the 'murder' of Stephanie Tanner wouldn't be a murder but attempted murder instead.
The results had been rushed through to the lab, being an urgent test and were due to come back within the next day or two.
D.J. walked into the hospital the following day, signing in to go and visit Jackson and her possible sister. She was stopped, however, on her way towards Jackson's room. A doctor had asked her to follow him into the office and the only thing that she could think of was, 'Someone's taken a turn.'
"Mrs. Fuller, I'm Dr. Lawson. I'm the one taking care of Emma – or Stephanie. There's something I need to tell you," The blonde doctor told her, his hands folded on the desk in front of him.
D.J. nodded and he continued, "Last night, around four a.m. she took a turn for the worse. Her heart rate began to drop. We tried everything we could, we honestly did, but… I'm sorry."
"What, what happened to her?" She was now wide-eyed. "She, no, she's not, she can't be."
"What we thought was simply a concussion, we misjudged. In actual fact, her brain was slowly swelling. This wasn't picked up on the scans we did when she was brought in, so it went undetected. This is something that rarely happens anymore, but things still do sometimes go undetected. In this case, it did. Her brain swelled to the point where it killed her. We are terribly sorry," The doctor did look sympathetic, but D.J. wasn't listening to him anymore.
What out there hated her so much? Why did they have to take everything away from her? Couldn't someone out there let her be happy?
"This may not be the right time," Dr. Lawson began to speak again. "But we got the lab results back. Her DNA matched Mr. Tanner's. Emma was indeed Stephanie. I am so sorry for your loss," He handed her a slip of paper confirming what he had just said.
Once D.J. had left the room, she had pulled out her phone and dialled Michelle's number, "Hello? D.J.?" She had asked when her sister didn't say anything.
And with that, she broke down crying. Through sobs, she told Michelle to come down to the hospital with everyone else.
When they arrived, Michelle ran straight over to D.J., grabbing her by the shoulders, "What's wrong? Tell me what's wrong Deej." With a shaking hand, she brought her hand up to show the piece of paper which Michelle snatched. "She's…? But this is a good thing! Why are you crying?"
"S-she isn't here a-any more," She sobbed, collapsing to the floor.
Michelle frantically shook her head, "No, no, no," She muttered as she sunk to the floor next to D.J., resting her head on the elder's girl shoulder.
Quickly, it was figured out what had happened. Danny had walked away, not letting anyone seeing his true emotion and didn't return for a couple of hours, but when he did, he was drunk. Teri had gone to sit with Jackson, taking the kids with her, leaving Kimmy to try and comfort Michelle and D.J., keeping her own emotions at bay.
This was truly the end of the missing case of Stephanie Tanner.
Time crawled by slowly after that, Jackson was released from the hospital, Tommy turned two, a new year came, new people came into lives but one thing that didn't go away was the memory of Stephanie.
James Donald's had a reduced sentence, but it didn't change much because he was still in for two other murders.
The family had began to fall apart. Kimmy and Ramona had moved out of the house, back to the area in which they originally lived. And although they lived in the same house, Michelle and D.J. rarely spoke to each other anymore. Neither one knew why they had stopped talking to each other, they just had drifted apart.
It had gotten especially bad that after Michelle had moved out of the family home and in with her new husband to raise their daughter together, the two never saw each other.
When the family got together, there was an obvious awkward tension between the sisters and they avoided talking to each other the whole night unless they had to.
Their family had fallen back. And it was questionable if they would ever be able to put it back together.
Everything faded to black once more, "Is that what you really want?"
Damn me, back at it again with the cliff hangers. You hate me, don't you? I kill off Stephanie twice and now this cliff hanger? Don't actually think I'm that sorry about it though. This was another depressing chapter, wasn't it? Definitely a shorter one and a cliff hanger.I don't know how I feel about it overall, to be honest. I wasn't going to put that little ending in, so be glad that I did. Although it doesn't do much to tell you what it means, does it? You can find out on Friday, when I'll next update – wait Friday's my last day of school and Fuller House season two begins taping, oh wow, big day for me… Make sure you leave a review telling me what you thought of this chapter. Oh! And to the guest who left a review saying I forgot a question, what does that mean? Please let me know, aha, alright byeee!
(Oh, and before you all kill me, think about it, if I'm dead,by ou don't find out what happened)