Part 6

Maggie looked up at the man walking into the room. Maggie saw Anna stand so she stood as well and when the man took a seat Anna sat, so Maggie sat. David was in the corner of the room getting some scotch for him, Maggie had refused to take anything from him so she stuck with a bottle of water. Maggie knew why she was here but was not sure why David was here. Maggie sighed and took a sip from the water bottle as she waited for the man to finish looking through his folder full of papers. Maggie wondered what was going on she couldn't help but feel like something was going to happen.

"We're just going to wait for the rest of the recipients." The man said looking up at her and Anna. Anna nodded while Maggie just stared and thought about what had happened today.

The funeral had been this morning and a lawyer had approached Maggie and Anna after the small reception Gwen's friends from church put together. People gave Maggie their condolences and she thanked them and found she had no idea who most of these people were. Though Maggie did know some of the women, two of them being her old elementary teachers and if seeing them almost twenty years ago was scary seeing them as an adult was even worse. Anna had been there for her though, and for some strange reason she had let David be there for her as well both standing behind her hands on her shoulders as people came up to her with tears in their eyes.

There was this one little girl that Maggie couldn't seem to forget, she had short blonde hair and these big green eyes, she had come up to Maggie with her mother and little brother, she was hysterical. Maggie couldn't get her face or her words out of her mind…she was just so familiar. This little girl had been so distraught at the funeral and the reception afterwards.

"I'm so sorry…" the girl cried as she hugged Maggie's leg. "….Mrs…Mrs. Stone was a re…really good lady!" The girl stuttered as she looked up at Maggie tears streaming down her face. "She lo…loved you v..very much!" Maggie felt her heart breaking as she looked down at this little girl. She was choking on her sobs and tears as she tried to tell Maggie something. Maggie kneeled down on the floor and hugged the little girl, she knew her from her pictures around the house. "She..she always said she wanted to make it up to you Ms. Maggie. She always wanted to make it better for you and Ms. Frankie. She said she wanted to give you the life you deserved, the family you deserved. She wanted you three to be happy. She just wanted you to be happy. She loved you three very much!" Marissa said as she cried.

"She loved you too, Marissa." Maggie whispered into the little girls ear. Maggie looked up at Marissa's mother and she almost gasped, it was Kelly…her best friend from high school. Maggie closed her eyes and hugged Marissa tighter and soothed the girl before talking to her. "She's in a better place now…she's with my sister and her parents. She's in a much better place." Maggie said to Marissa and the girl nodded as she wiped at her tears before hugging Maggie once more. Marissa stood up and walked to her mother and took hold of her hand. Maggie smiled up at Kelly and hugged her old friend when she offered her arms. It was like it had been all those years ago….but those were only memories and things that could have happened between her and Kelly had long but passed and Maggie had found Bianca after losing Kelly and she still had Bianca.

"I'm so sorry Maggie…"

"Its ok…I'm going to be ok."

Kelly nodded. "You always were the strong one."

"No…I think you've confused me with Frankie." Maggie said smiling as she looked at Kelly.

"No…Frankie had her strength, yours is just a different kind. A stronger kind." Kelly said and with a fleeting touch to Maggie's shoulder she left the house with her son and daughter at her side.

"Maybe you're right…" Maggie said as she watched Kelly leave. Maybe she did have her own strength that was different from Frankie's and her mothers but was just as strong if not stronger. "Maybe…."

Maggie stood up from her seat and walked over to the window and she just stared out at the town below. Maggie wrapped her arms around her waist and sighed. She had tried to reach Bianca before, after and during the funeral and still there was no answer at her apartment and she couldn't get her on her cell. Maggie wasn't sure what was going on but she knew she'd have to get in touch with Bianca some how…hell she even wrote a letter and about nine or ten emails. Losing Bianca on top of this…that would just make everything so much worse and it seemed nothing could get worse then that, but then again…even away from Pine Valley things just happened that Maggie would never be able to explain.

"Let me pass…. yes… No I'm not family…I have a letter! No I'm not…. I'm his brother…let me pass! I'm his attorney…let me by you numskull! Yes…Mr. Chandler to be apart of Gwen …Thank you!"

Maggie snapped her head around and stared at the door and watched as Adam Chandler and Stuart Chandler walked through the now open door.

"No fu…."

"Way…." Anna said as she stared at the door moth open as she eyed Adam and Stuart Chandler.

"What the hell!" both Maggie and David said as they stared at Adam and Stuart Chandler.

"What are you two doing here?" Maggie asked looking at Adam and feeling anger start to build.

"What are we doing here…. why are you here!" Adam asked as he stared at David.

"I'm here because…" David who stepped forward toward Adam cut off Maggie.

"I'm here for my aunts Will reading!" David said staring at Adam. "Why the hell are you here?"

Maggie eyes the lawyer and saw him standing and waiting for everyone else to cool down. Maggie just couldn't believe this…. Adam was waving a piece of paper in David's face that was his invitation to this Will reading. Maggie just couldn't believed this…her mother knew the Chandler's?

Stuart looked at David and his brother before looking at Anna smiling and walking over to her and hugging her. Leaving his brother and David to argue out their differences. Stuart saw Maggie standing by the window and he smiled and clasped his hands together before moving over to Maggie and smiling at her.

"Maggie…it wonderful to see you again!" Stuart said as he hugged Maggie, Maggie hugged Stuart back smiling she liked Stuart he so different then Adam…he was actually like able.

"Hello Stuart." Maggie said as she pulled back from the hug and looked into Stuart's eyes.

"I'm sorry for your lose." Stuart said as he held Maggie's hands in his.

"Thank you…" Maggie said, after all the condolences that were given to her she still had no idea how to answer them.

The lawyer stood up and walked toward Maggie and Stuart.

"Hello Mr. Chandler I'm Edward Malloy, I'm Gwen Stone's lawyer." Edward said as he introduced himself to Stuart with a handshake.

Maggie looked at Edward and waited to see if he would clarify things for her. He didn't, not just yet anyway.

"If you will, please take a seat both of you." Edward said as he led Maggie and Stuart to the table in the middle of the room. Once seated Edward began and as if Adam and David noticed the movement in the room they stopped fighting and just stood there waiting for Edward to clarify what was going on here.

Anna sat down next to Maggie and took hold of Maggie's hand when she saw that Maggie was gripping the arm of her chair in a vice grip. David stood behind Maggie's chair and put his hand on her shoulder trying to calm her down. Stuart was also holding on to Maggie's hand, it seemed Maggie was the only one in the room that needed the comforting. Adam…well Adam was Adam and insisted on hurrying this up so he and his brother could leave.

"What's this all about? Why were Stuart and I invited to hear some…." Adam stopped what he was about to say when he saw the looks directed at him. He cleared his throat. "…why did Gwen want us here? We're not family." Adam said as he looked at Edward.

Stuart knew why…Gwen Stone…or Gwen Bennett, his high school sweet heart who he met up with after moving to Pine Valley with Adam.

"Well…Mr. Chandler Gwen asked Stuart Chandler here because there is some information she wishes him to know. You were invited as a technicality." Edward said staring at Adam, and Adam was about to protest but Maggie cut in.

"What do you mean…. information? What information?"

"Well my dear she wished Stuart Chandler to know that she gave their love child up for adoption about seventeen years ago." Edward said as he looked at Maggie and watched as she just paled and blinked.

Adam's jaw almost hit the floor. "Stuart has a child!"

"I'm a daddy!" Stuart almost exclaimed.

David just let out a short laugh and blinked a couple of times…he shared a relative by blood with another Chandler? How much worse could it get.

"I have a…a…"

"Sister…." Edward said nodding his head.

"…Sister…" Maggie said and then looked at Stuart and back at Edward. "I have a sister?"

"Yes…"

"Another sister?"

"Yes…"

"That's still alive…"

"Yes…"

Maggie looked at Edward as she stood up.

"You……'ve got to be fucken kidding me!"

TBC…..