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Chapter Eight

A single forgotten lily

Jack for an instant thought he was in heaven, the lights flashed a dull neon and the voices far off and symphonic could only be those of angels. If it weren't for the urgent hammering of his heart throwing itself against the shell of his ribs then Jack would have had no doubts as to where he was.

"Jackie..Jack wake up man!" his brothers voice wasn't the first he would have liked to hear.

Jack opened his eyes and surveyed the room at hand, it was completely unfamiliar to him "where are we?"

Bobby sat up "In a hotel a few blocks down the hospital…Audrey's there she got beaten up pretty bad man…Jack what did you do?" Bobby whispered.

The question, so simple and broken left Jack feeling like he had been punched in the gut "what, you can't honestly think I did that to Ka-Audrey, can you…Bobby I didn't lay a finger on that girl, I could never not some one who looked so much like her" Jack eased himself to his feet, only to be subdued by Bobby.

"Wooh, wooh man, I know I just had to ask." Bobby gripped his shoulders and sat him down again.

"I need to see her Bobby, you owe me that much."

These words that had just been uttered left a resound impression on Bobby; indeed he owed Jack a hell of a lot, just how much Jack could never comprehend.

Katie stumbled into the room, her body stinking of cheap perfume and alcohol. Bobby looked up from the t.v "And where the fuck have you been, y'know you got Jack and Jerry out looking for your white ass."

Her amber eyes hidden by her over exposed pupils looked back methodically "Fuck Jack and fuck you..You Mercer boys give me nothing but heart ache and sorrow" she whimpered, collapsing onto her knees by the sofa.

Bobby sighed, wasn't his life complicated enough without dealing with 'Melrose Place' inside his own home.

"What did Jack and you have a fight about this time, Katie?" he asked, setting himself down beside her.

She hung her head and began to hiccup with the sobs which shook her whole form "I saw him Bobby, he was kissing her the way he used to kiss me, when he loved me." She whispered.

Bobby's stomach dropped, his brother couldn't possible be that stupid, could he? To through away Katie was like throwing away the life vest that was keeping you afloat. Bobby pulled her onto his lap and began to rock her. After a moment of this Katie lifted her head and looked directly into his eyes "Do you love me Bobby?" she asked, her voice completely devoid of hope.

If Bobby knew what would happen next he would never have said to her the words he was about to say "with all my heart."

He felt the world stop spinning; time itself stood still and all there was, was her lips partially parted and waiting. He knew as he stroked her cheek and eased himself on to her that what ever opportunity that there was to stop and completely forgot about this madness, had passed.

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Jack stumbled down the road at 11:30 pm and hailed a taxi.

"To General Hospital, thanks mate."

By 12:00 he was walking with a single lily into Audrey's room, her eyes a periwinkle blue shone in the moonlight. "Hey" he croaked.

"Jack…I'm so sorry…" she sobbed, tears unseen before caught like innocent stars in the expansive sky. Jack dropped the flower on the chair and fell to his knees beside her "hey, hey what could you possibly be sorry for?"

Audrey blinked and gripped his hand "I'm sorry that I'm alive and she isn't……."

And there it was, the thought which had been playing on Jack's mind had finally been uttered like a silent prayer never allowed to be spoken.

"Oh Audrey, don't think like that, do you think she would have wanted her little sister to be taken before her time- Jack broke but she was taken before her time too.

"Do you think I look like her Jack?" Audrey smiled.

"So much so, I die every time I look at you and what ever healing my heart has done is just plain ripped away when I look upon your face."

That was the god honest truth; would she ever know the effort it took to look at her like a separate entity.

"Tell me you loved her."

"I love her and will carry on doing so for the rest of my days."