A/N: Here's the next update to Hidden Hearts. Sorry its taken so long to post the updates for all the stories but I was away on vacation but am back. Hope you all will read, enjoy and reply. Thanks to all still reading for being so patient with my irratic updating.

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Part 17

Maggie had tried to just walk away so she could think about how to tell Bianca about this. It was just hard for her; she was still trying to make sense of it. She was trying desperately to grasp at the fact that her mother wouldn't be talking to her every other night, would be there to meet Miranda, wouldn't be there at her wedding, or to hold her grandchild if Maggie ever had a child. Maggie walked into the bedroom she and Bianca were sharing with tears slowly streaming down her cheeks.

Bianca had come after her, Maggie figured Bianca would and once Bianca was in the bedroom and the door was closed Maggie rushed into Bianca's arms and just cried. Bianca had been wanted answers since the night she found Maggie's apartment in shambles and no note. She knew she was going to get them, but at the rate Maggie was willing to give them and it was slowly killing her to see Maggie in pain and not know what to do to help her. Bianca loved Maggie with everything she was and she wanted to help her lover but she had no idea how. Maggie wasn't giving her much to work with and now as she held Maggie in her arms she knew this was so much more then she thought it was.

"Its okay Maggie...shh...baby its all okay." Bianca whispered into Maggie's ear as she ran her hand through Maggie's hair, trying to sooth the woman in her arms.

Maggie pulled away from Bianca and looked down at the floor. "No...It's not. It's not okay." Maggie said shaking her head. "Nothings okay, nothing!" Maggie said as she fell to her knees.

Bianca kneeled down to the floor in front of Maggie desperately trying to get Maggie to talk to her, to look at her, to just give her something to work with. Bianca felt her own heart constricting as she watched Maggie cry, saw her in so much pain. She moved forward slightly and didn't have to wait long before Maggie just placed her head in her lap as she cried. Bianca ran her hands through Maggie's hair as she spoke to her lover.

"Baby...what happened. Let me help you, Maggie. Tell me what happened." Bianca whispered.

"She died." Maggie sobbed. "She had cancer, she didn't tell me and she died. I was there I had talked to her hours before and she was okay...I woke up and she was dead. How can that happen? She was so happy now...we were finally...Bianca I don't know what to do." Maggie sobbed and wrapped her arms around Bianca's waist, her head still in Bianca's lap.

"Oh Maggie..." Bianca said and ran her hand down Maggie's back and rubbed small circles. "...baby I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry." Bianca said. The only woman that she could be talking about could be her mother; Bianca knew that for a fact. The only other woman she would have made up with and would have been getting closer to was Robin or Anna. Anna had been here last night and she hadn't been distraught so she knew it couldn't be Robin. It had to be Gwen...and what killed the most was Bianca hadn't been there for Maggie. Maggie hadn't let her be there and that hurt but she knew it didn't work like that.

"What do I do? She's gone...she's gone and she left me here to find her." Maggie said as she slowly sat up. She hated that she was crying she hated it because she knew her mother wouldn't want her to cry but she couldn't help it, it was just something that happened when someone felt like Maggie did now.

Bianca looked into Maggie's eyes and cupped her lovers face and slowly brushed away her tears as she placed several kisses along Maggie's forehead. Bianca felt Maggie relax and she was no longer shaking with her sobs, which she was great full for. Maggie was going to need her and she'd be damned if she wasn't there for her. Maggie and Miranda were her life; Maggie and she were making a life together as a family with Miranda. There was nothing that could keep them from that, nothing.

Bianca would let Maggie explain all of this in her own way, her own pace she knew that's how it'd have to go because Bianca knew what it was like to try and push a Stone and she wasn't about to do it again.

Maggie took a deep breath and closed her eyes and just fell into Bianca's embrace. Maggie knew as long as she was in Bianca's arms she was safe, she knew everything was going to be okay as long as she was in Bianca's arms. Maggie and Bianca had been through so much in life and through it all they came out with the knowledge that as long as they went in it together they'd come through it together and more in love each and every time. It was safety, love, compassion, understanding and family Maggie found with Bianca, and she knew as long as she staid where she was, in Bianca's arms, that could never be taken from her no matter what happened outside their embrace nothing could stop them from loving or being the others soul mate.

"I have a sister Bianca." Maggie whispered.

"I know you had a sister, Maggie." Bianca said smiling as she leaned back so she could look into Maggie's eyes, her smile slowly faded when she saw the look in Maggie's eyes.

"I have another sister Bianca." Maggie said as if clarifying her first statement.

"...Another sister?" Bianca asked.

"Yes."

"As in like another one that's a live?" Bianca asked trying to comprehend this.

Maggie smiled and nodded her head for emphasis. "Yes."

"You've got to be fucken kidding me." Bianca said her eyes wide and a broad smile on her face.

TBC...