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Mac was lying in the Presidential bed, she had fallen straight to sleep, but could hear the phone at her side ringing "Oh what now" Mac thought. She sleepily picked up the phone and heard Jim on the other end "Jim this had better be important it is 3am" Mac said with her eyes still closed. "Ma'am, I don't know how to say this, but Kelly has been in an accident, she is in the ER, I thought you would want to know". Mac was devastated, "Is She OK Jim, what happened" "She was in a car crash Ma'am the hospital called her parents and they called to let us know". "OK Jim, I want to go and see her now, how bad is she". Mac was so scared in case she was going to die. "I don't know Ma'am, I just know that she is unconscious". Mac hung the phone up and called to get her Motorcade ready, she never woke Rod, just left him a note and headed to the hospital to see Kelly.
Mac arrived at the hospital and luckily the press never found out, she asked the doctors to see Kelly and they kindly said that she could sit with her for a while. Mac walked into the hospital room and was devistated, she could not beieve what she saw in front of her. Kelly was lying on the bed looking very pale, she had a tube in her throat and was connected to a machine measuring her heart beat. Mac sat on the seat next to Kelly's bed and took her hand in her, she sat for a while and talked to the woman in front of her, she was so scared in case she lost her daughter.
Mac looked at Kellys neck and could see that she was wearing the locket that Mac gave her. She felt like her heart was about to break, she had just found her daughter, what if she lost her again, she thought she would not be able to cope.
There was a knock at the door to Kelly's room and Mac could see Vince at the door, she wiped the tears from her eyes and signed for Vince to come in. Mac could tell that he was upset too. "Ma'am I'm really sorry, Kelly told me, she told me that she is your daughter" Vince said. "Yes, Vince please don't tell anyone, I don't know if Kelly wanted anyone to know". "Ma'am I won't tell anyone, I just hope she is OK". Suddenly the machine Kelly was on started to beep, some doctors came running in. Mac felt her heart skip a beat, all these thoughts were running through her head, she had never felt so scared in all her life. The doctors pressed a switch on Kelly's machine and smiled at the President and Vince, "everything is fine" she said. The machine started to beat as normal.
Rod woke up and found the note from his wife. He could not believe that she never woke him, he would have went with her to her hospital. Rod went to the family room and found Amy watching the cartoons and eating cereal,only she was only eating the lucky charms and not the actual cereal, she was going to be on a sugar high. "HI DADDY" Amy shouted excitedly "CAN WE GO AND PLAY OUTSIDE". "Amy have you just ate the charms from the cereal?" Rod asked his youngest daughter. "YES DADDY" now Amy was running around the room. "All right Amy you are going to eat some cereal, and then go to bed for an hour before school". "BUT I WANT TO PLAY"Amy shouted, still hyper. "Young lady, you will do as I tell you, now eat some cereal, no lucky charms".
Amy ate her cereal and then went to her bed for an hour before school, so she wouldn't fall asleep in class. Rebecca came downstairs to see her father, she knew he was going to be angry about the night before. "Good morning sunshine" Rod kissed his oldest daughter. "Hi Dad, where is Mom?" Rebecca asked. "She has went to visit Kelly, she had a car accident last night" Rebecca looked at her Dad worried "Dad, is she OK" "I don't know honey, I havent heard from Mom". Finally Horace came down the stairs with his unfinished homework, he sat down at the Breakfast table and started to do it. Kate came down with a still hyper Amy. Rod expalined to Kate about Kelly, he could see how worried the woman looked, she like Mac had just found a part of her life which had been missing for 28 years.
Horace didn't want to go to school, he had not finished his homework yet, "Dad, I really don't feel to good, is it OK if I stay home." Kate looked worriedly at her Grandson. "What is wrong honey?" Kate asked. "I just feel sick" Horace added, "No he has a hangover Kate" Rod said. Kate looked at Horace and raised an eyebrow at him "In that case mister, I have absolutely no sympathy for you" Kate said sternly.
Rod walked the kids to the motorcade, he took Horace to the side away from his sister's "Young man, your behaviour last night was shocking, you and I are going to have a chat about it later, now go to school, I will see you at 4pm". Horace got into the limo and went to school with his sisters.
Mac was sitting in the hospital with Kelly, and Vince "Ma'am should we head back to the Whitehouse, you have a meeting with the national security advisor in half an hour". "Tell Jim to take over for me, I can't leave Kelly".
Mac sat a while longer talking to Kelly, she suddenly she started to move, she started coughing, a nurse came in, "It look's like Miss Ludlow is waking up." She took out the tube that was helping Kelly to breath. Kelly spoke quietly and groggily "Where am I?". " You are in hospital Kelly, can you remember what happened?" Mac asked. Kelly slowly turned around and could see the President. "I think I was in a car crash Ma'am" "Yes you were," the doctor replied "Kelly can you tell me the date?" the doctor added " December 18th 2014". "Who is the President?" she then asked. Kelly slowly turned to Mac "President Mackenzie Allen". The doctor looked at Mac, "those are the questions we always ask to determine if someone had amensia". The doctor done some tests on Kelly while Mac and Vince went out. Finally Mac got some time with Kelly alone "Honey how are you feeling?" Mac asked her daughter "I feel strange, my arm hurts, and it is hard to breath". "I am just glad you are OK baby". Mac had never called Kelly baby, before, it just slipped out. Kelly felt strange getting called baby by the President, she had heard her calling her kids that many times, and she just remembered the news that she had heard, the President was her mother. "Ma'am have you told the press yet, about my accident". "Kelly, you don't have to call me Ma'am when we are alone, I haven't been to the house all day" Mac said. " I want everyone to know that you are my mother, I don't want to hide it" Kelly said. Mac was shocked, she thought Kelly would want to keep it a secret for as long as possible "Are you sure, maybe we should wait until you are out of hospital". The 2 woman spent awhile talking to each other before Mac went back to the Whitehouse.
They had a Press conference to talk about Kelly's accident. Mac went to work in the Whitehouse and the whole time she thought about Kelly. The kids came home from school, they had all heard about Kelly, so Mac went to talk to them, she told them about her accident, Amy seemed very upset, but when Mac explained that she was awake now and just needed some time to rest, she felt a lot better.
Horace had come home from School in a bad mood, he had been taken off the Swim team, and had been given a letter to be signed by his parents, he did not want to ask them now, so he signed it himself, but it looked nothing like his mothers signature.
The next few days passed and Mac went to the hosptial everday or called her everyday, the 2 of them really were getting very close. Kelly was getting home, but she had broken her arm and she was going to find it difficult living herself. Mac had asked Kelly to move into the Whitehouse until after Christmas and spend it with her new family, she had of course said yes, this would be a perfect time to get to know her new siblings.