Part 21

------Next Morning-----

Maggie awoke to the sound of commotion outside the bedroom. Maggie pushed herself up toward the head board, not sitting up because she knew if she did she would wake the sleeping brunette that was using her as a human pillow. Maggie was content to just stay in bed until she heard the voices and the commotion outside get louder and fiercer. It was time to wake Bianca up.

"Bianca..." Maggie whispered into Bianca's ear. "...Bianca...baby wake up." Maggie gently said into Bianca's ear as she brushed strands of brown locks behind said ear.

Bianca stirred and moaned lightly, not wanting to get up just yet. She was having a wonderful dream...one where Maggie had come back and was lying right next to her.

"Dreaming..." Bianca whispered as she turned and burrowed further into Maggie's body.

Maggie smiled as she looked down at Bianca, but her smile faded when the yelling from outside got louder and it seemed even Bianca could now here what was going on outside. Bianca groaned really realizing what was going outside the sanctuary of her warm bed. Bianca slowly moved to get out of bed but when she moved her leg to swing it over the edge of the bed her knee met with something soft and then her ears were graced with the sound of profanity.

"God...that hurt." Maggie groaned and rolled away from Bianca only to roll off the bed and hit the ground rather hard. "Oww...mother f..."

Bianca's eyes shot open and she crawled to the edge of the bed, her eyes widening when she saw Maggie on the floor. "Maggie?"

Maggie looked up at Bianca, now glaring at her lover. "You are so dead." Maggie said fiercely as she rushed off the ground and pinned Bianca to the bed, the brunette's 'fearful' screams turning to laughter when her girlfriend sat on her torso pinning her arms down.

"You're really here." Bianca said smiling as she looked up at Maggie.

"I'm really here." Maggie said as she rolled off Bianca, kissed her lightly before getting off the bed and throwing on a pair of sweat pants and replaced her night gown with a T-shirt. "...and someone REALLY is outside causing a lot of noise." Maggie said as she ran her hands through her hair and stood at the end of the bed looking at Bianca.

Bianca just continued to lay where she was staring at Maggie with a beautiful smile. Bianca sat up and continued to stare at Maggie until she heard the raised voices herself and rushed to put on something a little more presentable.

"You don't understand mother she's gone!" Kendall said as she sat down on the couch tears streaming down her cheeks.

Greenlee stood in front of Kendall, her hand on the taller woman's shoulder; she turned her upper body toward Erica.

"Last night Dixie, JR and Tad barged into the apartment and started making accusations that Kathleen was Kate." Greenlee said as she looked at the older woman.

"Because Kathleen is Kate!" David interjected as he stepped forward.

"That doesn't give you the right to come into Greenlee's home and make accusations like that on a six year old child!" Kendall yelled as she looked at David.

Erica looked back and forth at the four adults that had just walked into her home, two being her daughters and one of them breaking down because her adopted sister had run away with her younger adopted sister, and turned out said younger adopted sister was actually Kate Martin. Erica brought her hand to her head, this was going to be one very long day.

"So...where are they?" Erica asked as she looked at Greenlee and then Kendall, ignoring David who she didn't even invite into her home.

"Kathleen didn't want to go with them and Melissa wasn't going to let them take her so she took Kathleen and ran away." Greenlee said as she looked at Erica and was about to sit down when she heard Anna's cries.

Anna was holding baby Anna in her arms and had been doing a great job at remaining quiet and calm as she held the young child but it seemed the infant had picked up on all the tension and heard all the yelling and decided she didn't like it. Anna soon handed baby Anna over to Greenlee when the younger woman came to take the infant from her. Kendall stood from the couch and went to take Anna from Greenlee but Greenlee wouldn't hand her over.

"I got her..." Greenlee said soothingly as she sat down, making Kendall sit next to her as she did.

"She ran away?" Jack asked as he placed his hand on Erica's shoulder.

"Yes..and she took Kate with her!" David said letting his frustration out. "She has no right..."

"She has every right David!" Anna said as she looked at her ex husband.

"Melissa has grown up with Kathleen! She's helped raise Kathleen for almost half her life! To say she has no right to protect her or want to keep her is ridiculous! She has every right!" Kendall said as she looked at David furious. "They've grown up together...just like Melissa and I did, to say our bond is any less then the bond between Kathleen and Melissa is saying that Lily and Reggie have no right to protect each other! Just because we're all not blood related doesn't take away the fact that we're family!" Kendall said as she stood up and glared at David. David was lucky there was a couch between the two because if there hadn't been then Kendall was sure she would have killed the man.

David fell silent. He had nothing to say to that because he knew she was right. Anna looked at Kendall and knew well enough to stay silent.

"What's going on in here?" Bianca asked as she walked into the living room holding a sobbing Miranda in her arms, with Maggie standing behind her trying to comfort Miranda.

Everyone turned toward the hallway and looked at Bianca, Miranda and Maggie. The look Bianca had on her face left no room for argument, it told them the noise level in this room was unacceptable and was unnecessary and that she was going to get answers from one of them that instant. Reggie and Lily had left when David and Anna had showed up. Jack informing them he'd call when it was 'safe' to come back home. It was a good thing that they had left because the yelling would have caused a bigger problem for Lily is she had stayed.

"What's happened?" Maggie asked as she stepped around Bianca and Miranda. Maggie saw David and Anna here and she saw the looks on everyone's faces and knew something had gone down while they weren't present. It was scary to think about because they were back in Pine Valley and in Pine Valley ANYTHING could happen.

"Melissa and Kathleen had run away." Erica said as she turned to Bianca and Maggie.

"Ya see mom...ya see." Miranda sobbed into her mother's shoulder. "Kafween gone!"

Bianca gave Maggie a look that told her to stay here while she left. Maggie nodded and stepped down the two stairs that would bring her to the threshold of the living room, turned and watched Bianca take Miranda aback to her room. Maggie sighed...she she should be the one taking Miranda away, so Bianca could stay and find out what was going on, only problem was Miranda wouldn't' let go of Bianca. Maggie cleared her throat and turned back to the group.

"That's not the only thing that happened..." Maggie said matter of factly, and left the statement open so someone could fill in the rest of the blank.

"No...its not." Anna answered as she looked at Maggie.

"What happened?" Maggie asked after no one came forth to say anything further.

"We found Greg's files on Kate and Melinda." David said as he looked at his cousin.

Maggie looked at David confused. "Am I supposed to know who Melinda is?" Maggie asked as she stepped into the room.

"She's your sister." David said slowly.

Maggie's expression flattened and she just stared blankly at David. "My sister...?"

"Your sister." Anna and David said as they nodded their heads once.

"You found her already?" Erica asked as she looked at Anna and David. "Funny how you can find Maggie's sister in two days but its taken you almost a year to find Kate." Erica said flat toned.

"We found her because we were looking for Kate." Anna said as she looked at Erica. "Greg Madden, was very smart and was able to hide files within files and it just so happens when we pulled Kate's file we got Melinda's and when we pulled Melinda's we got Kate's and when we pulled Melissa's we got Kendall's and, when we pulled Kendall's we were lead to the rest of Madden's secrets." Anna said as she looked at Erica.

"Kendall's?" Erica and Greenlee asked as they looked at Anna.

"Yes, Kendall's." Anna said.

"Wait..." Maggie said as she stepped up to the middle of the living room, her hand raised up to her head as she looked toward the corner of the room thinking. "...let me get this straight you found Kate." Anna and David nodded. "You found my sister." Again the duo nodded. "But you found Melissa's and Kendall's as well?" For a third time they nodded. "Now I'm just going out on a limb here because well I can." Maggie stated as she looked down at the floor. "Why would Greg be responsible for Kendall's adoption? Or how...he wasn't that old!" Maggie said as she looked over at Anna and David.

"He wasn't." Anna and David said as they looked at Maggie.

Jack took interest in this. Jack happened to know a lot about adoption one because he had adopted both Lily and Reggie but also he was a lawyer and had been taught the basics and he knew for a fact if Greg wasn't in charge of Kendall's adoption there was only one reason he would be handed the case file. That only reason was because...Jack stopped his train of thought. 'No' Jack thought as he looked over at Kendall then turned to Erica before locking onto Anna and realized for the second time she wouldn't look directly into his eyes. 'No..!" Jack thought once again. The only reason Greg Madden would have been given Kendall's case file was because he was responsible for a blood relative of Kendall's being placed alongside her

"Kathleen's, Kate." Maggie said as she looked down at the floor.

"Yes." Anna answered knowing that Maggie needed some time to absorb this all.

"Melinda's my sister...where is she?" Maggie asked as she looked up at Anna.

Anna looked down at this. "Maggie..." Anna sighed this wasn't going to be easy.

"What?" Maggie asked her heart sinking when she saw the look gracing Anna's face, that face told her heartbreak was about to come.

Maggie felt arms wrap around her from behind and didn't have to look around to know Bianca was the one holding her. Maggie shook her head...she knew that look that was the look a friend held when they had really bad news...news of a family member's death. Maggie had seen that face only five days ago and she knew that this time she was just as unprepared for it as she was the last two times she'd seen it.

Bianca tightened her arms around Maggie when she felt the blonde slowly moving down. Bianca had been listening from the doorway and had been overjoyed to hear Anna had found both Kate and Melinda, Melinda Maggie's sister. She was going to run over to Maggie and hug the blonde when she heard this but had stopped and waited for her to finish asking her questions but when she saw Anna's face fall she knew there was no good news about Melinda. The news Maggie was about to be given would be heartbreaking and Bianca needed to be with Maggie through this heartbreak now more then ever because now she wasn't facing one she was facing two.

"I'm so sorry Maggie..." Anna said looking down. David looked at Anna confused he hadn't been told anything about Melinda except she was in New York, and that they had found her...this news was going to be new to him as well.

"Oh god..." Maggie said as she covered her mouth and shook her head.

Kendall and Greenlee both looked at Maggie and opened their mouths to say something but when they saw Maggie's tears already falling they knew there was nothing to say. Maggie didn't need to hear what had happened to her sister, all she had to know was the look on Anna's face, the look that told her she wasn't going to be meeting her sister after all. Erica grabbed onto Jack's hand and held it tightly as she watched a young woman go through another lose.

"What...what happened?" Maggie asked almost choking on her tears.

Anna looked down before looking back up at the woman she considered a daughter, Maggie deserved to hear that happened, and she deserved the chance to look into someone's eyes as they were saying it. "She was kidnapped a week ago..." Anna slowly said and looked down. "They found the..." Anna looked down.

Maggie screamed into her hands and fell to her knees she tried to push Bianca's hands away but stopped when she knew she was about to scream once again and covered her mouth and screamed into her hands once again. Anna knew Bianca could take care of Maggie so she turned and watched as David's face filled with anger and confusion before he finally let loose and rushed to the door and left the house leaving the door wide open. Anna followed him and watched him pace feverishly back and forth along the sidewalk before he stopped by a pole and threw his fist into it before collapsing to the ground in tears.

One lose he could handle...he might have been able to get through his aunts death in a few weeks but to know that he had lost a family member he could have, or might have been able to save by being there killed him. Frankie was dead because of his mother, now this young teenager...young woman was gone as well and he never got the chance to help.

Greenlee looked over at Maggie and then down at the floor two tears falling in sympathy for the young woman. As if it weren't enough to lose your mother but to lose your sister in the same month.

TBC...