Warnings: Character Death

Part 2

2 days ago

Maggie stood in the ICU hallway pacing back and forth. Four days ago she had gotten a call from Anna telling her that her mother had suffered from a stroke and that she was not doing good. Maggie had made it to the hospital by the next morning. She had packed her bag and left leaving her apartment trashed and almost empty. She hadn't even had time to write Bianca a note, to tell the truth Bianca had been the last thing on her mind while she packed. Maggie had needed to get to the hospital on the next flight and that flight had been only an hour away from taking off when Maggie had booked a seat on it, she had made record time through the streets of Paris and an astounding twenty minute check in through security at the airport. Thanks to Anna who had met here at the airport and had actually come with her. Anna was now at their hotel. David had come by yesterday and Maggie had refused to see her cousin. Anna had dealt with David and he had left earlier that morning and since then Anna had staid at the hospital, calling Robin and informing her on what was going on.

Maggie was grateful for Anna through this whole endeavor Anna had been here for her. Right now Maggie wasn't sure what she was doing. Her mother and her had never been close, due to her mothers drinking problems and the fact that she had abused Frankie and her for years. Gwen had gotten better in the last year but the alcohol had won in the end because it had eaten at her liver and that had caused the stroke. Maggie felt the tears falling down her face. Gwen and Maggie had come to terms with their pasts', last year and were working through their differences. They talked every day on the phone, after all Maggie had been in Paris for the past year. Gwen had even been excepting of Maggie's relationship with Bianca Montgomery. Gwen had joked about the fact that both her daughters fell for the same woman and if that happened this woman but be something special.

Maggie had almost died when she came home to find Bianca on the phone with her mother, and she had almost died for a second time when her mother informed her that Bianca and her had been talking for almost an hour before Maggie took the phone. Maggie felt her whole body shake as she just fell to the floor in sobs, her mother had just had another stroke and this time she hadn't pulled through it. Maggie hadn't been able to call anyone; she had barely been able to listen to everything the doctor was telling her.

Maggie wrapped her arms around her shoulders and cried, her mother's words from last night now haunting her.

"Mary…" Gwen called.

Maggie stopped just short of the door and looked back at her mother smiling.

"….I love you."

"I love you too mom." Maggie said her smiling growing. She walked back over to the bed and kissed her mothers forehead.

"Be happy Maggie. I'm an old woman and I've lived out my life, make sure you live your life to the fullest."

Maggie nodded; the drugs had been making her mother say these things for the past few days and fighting with her about what she was saying only got Gwen upset so Maggie just took the words as the drugs nonsense.

"You make sure you and your sister are happy. You two deserve to be happy." Gwen said, Maggie gave a small frown as she ran her hand along her mother's forehead brushing the white hair behind her mother's ear as she looked into blue/gray eyes. This wasn't the first time she had mentioned Frankie…or so she thought.

"Oh mom we are happy…" Maggie whispered and turned when she heard the nurse insisting that it was time for her to leave.

"Tell your sister I love her and I did what I knew was right for her. You will tell her that won't you Mary Margaret?"

Maggie nodded her head and wiped at the tears that were slowly starting to fall.

"I will, mother, I promise!"

"You were always a good girl Margaret…always my good little girl. So smart and kind and good." Gwen said as she turned her head to the right and looked toward the wall. "I'll tell Frankie you say hi." Gwen whispered before she fell asleep.

Maggie looked at Gwen confused but left the room after kissing her mother once again.

Maggie felt arms wrap around her from behind and at the moment didn't cares whose they were. Maggie leaned back into the strong arms and cried out her sorrow, screaming into her hands as she was rocked back and forth. Maggie heard words being whispered into her ear but she didn't understand any of them. All Maggie understood was her mother was died, and that there was someone holding onto her. Maggie wasn't sure who would be comforting her because she knew she had never called Anna but at the moment it didn't matter to her because as Maggie screamed into her hands and her tears fell someone was there to wipe them away, and someone was there to keep her from breaking into the millions of pieces she wished she could just fall into.

"It's going to be ok Maggie, everything's going to be ok." David whispered as he held Maggie as she cried. "It'll all get better soon Maggie I promise….I promise." David held Maggie until she fell asleep exhausted from what she was put through for the last few days.

David picked Maggie up and carried her to his car. Once outside he slipped her into the car and put his jacket over his cousin. Maggie hadn't spoken to him since he was outed in helping Babe keep Miranda away from Bianca. Now it seemed only this family tragedy would bring the two back together and as David looked at Maggie now he wished that if this was how they'd be put back together that they'd not be put back together at all. David sighed and pulled out his cell phone. He needed to call Anna so she could come and pick Maggie up.

"Devane…."

"Anna, its David…" David whispered into the phone as he held a now sleeping Maggie against his chest.

"David…David what are you still…"

"I was just informed that my aunt Gwen past away." David said into the phone cutting Anna off before she could go into her rant about how Maggie didn't want him here.

"Oh no…" Anna gasped as she stood up and ran to the door grabbing her coat and bag. "I'm on my way!"

David didn't have to say another word; Anna hung up and picked Maggie up fifteen minute later. Maggie woke up and had found Anna holding her and she thought Anna had been the one to hold her while she cried and she thanked Anna for that and then started to cry again realizing it hadn't been a horrible dream, her mother was truly dead.

Anna held Maggie as she cried. They hadn't been able to leave the hospital; they had to tell the doctors what they were going to do with the body. David never let Maggie see him, but he was there while she was with the doctors staying in the shadows where Maggie wanted him.

Yesterday

Maggie had after informing the doctors that her mother was going to be cremated had finally remembered the most important woman in her life, Bianca.

It may not seem so because she hadn't thought of her sooner but the thing was she had thought of Bianca it was just she didn't want Bianca to see her like this, that's why she never called until now.

Maggie sighed when she heard the answering machine answering her as she held the phone to her ear.

"Hi you've reached Bianca, Miranda and Maggie. We're not home, so leave your message and we'll try to get back to you."

Beep

"Hi…Bianca its me…(sigh) Maggie. I'm so sorry about not telling you where I was going. It was just a family emergency came up, my mother…(pause) my mother she was brought into the hospital and….(tears falling) she died. I'm here with Anna the number you can reach us at is….."

Beeeeep

Maggie sighed…. and hung up the pay phone. She'd try again later…when she wasn't hysterical.

Present day

Maggie sighed as she walked into the hotel room she was sharing with Anna. Maggie walked straight to the bed and fell onto the most comfortable surface she had touched in days. Maggie and Anna may be sharing this room but Maggie hadn't used her amount of time to make it seem as if they were actually sharing this room since the first night they had been here.

Maggie had been sleeping in waiting room chairs for the last five days and today would be the first day she actually had an actual bed to sleep in for the past week. It felt wonderful to have something so soft under her aching back. Hell everything was aching, along with her heart. Maggie knew her mother had been prepared to leave it was just the fact that Maggie hadn't been ready to let her go that was getting to her.

Maggie hadn't been ready to say goodbye to her mother, she wasn't sure how she would do without their phone calls and all the jokes and laughter they shared, before Maggie knew it tears were slowly flowing down her cheeks again onto the satin sheet beneath her. Maggie wrapped her arms around her waist and just cried, it was ok to miss her it would always be ok to miss her and Frankie it was just a sadness, a pang of sadness that she would soon learn to live with and as time went on the pang would hurt less and the tears would be fewer. It was just time wasn't on Maggie's side because She (time) just wasn't moving fast enough for Maggie.

Maggie turned onto her side and pulled a pillow up to her chest. Maggie thought about all the things her mother would miss and she felt sorry for others, not her mother, but others. Maggie felt sorry for Miranda and Bianca who would never get to meet her mother. Maggie was sorry for herself and her children who would never meet their grandmother. Maggie was sorry for them because she knew, no matter what, that her mother was in a better place then she had been for the past few months. Maggie thought about the fact her mother had been hiding her disease from her. Maggie cried for all the times she could have been there for her mother, could have helped her mother through her pain, she cried for herself more then anything. Maggie cried for herself because she knew she'd never find the love that Gwen had given her. Maggie…Maggie cried herself to sleep.

TBC…..

Hope you enjoyed this chapter.