Ok my Internet's fixed again, this chapter's a bit longer than usual cos I've had more time to write it, hope you all like it.

Chapter number 13. Old idea's, old friends

"I don't know what to do" Serena spoke softly looking down at her hands that were neatly placed on her lap. The hospital room around her was fairly empty, except for Martha who was sitting in the chair next to her bed, "it was all so real, like part of my life was being replayed in front of me, everything was just like it was back then... the murder... the court case... my boyfriend lying to the police. I know Jack has a right to know, but, how am I supposed to tell him that I haven't always been completely honest with him" she continued looking up at Martha.

"Well if it's haunting you this much then you have to tell him" Martha persisted.

"I don't know if I can do that... he'll hate me" she spoke with a chill in her voice.

"Don't be silly Serena, if I can't hate your for it when at the time I found out I already hated you then why would he hate you for it?"

"I guess, but that was different, we were both in a life and death situation, tied up in a cave and being threatened by Sean and his stupid clone".

"So, think about it Serena, the fact that I excepted you for it was that at the time I could relate to you, right now he's behind bars, the exact place you got sent when that idiotic boyfriend of yours that supposedly loved you got you done for attempted Murder, right now he can related to you. And how could he hate you?" Martha encouraged her, before going on to say the words that seemed hardest to get out of her mouth, almost like she had to force her tongue to move and her mouth to open to get them out, "he loves you" the words sent a chill down her spine, almost shocking her that she'd brought herself to say them, and her mind tried to forget them, block them in the darkness, and berry them like the dead, but they stayed in her mind, like a bad dream, a night mare, 'he loves her' she said again, and again, and again, over and over in her head, like every thing else was beginning to block out and her heart sank inside her, part of her always knew this, but she'd never brought herself to put it in those words, 'he loves her'.

"Martha are you ok?" Serena's voice echoed through her head, and she looked around to realize that she'd froze, stairing at the wall with her hands clutched on to the edge of the arm rests on the chair.

"Yeah, I'm, um, I'm just a little tired" Martha stumbled.

Serena chuckled slightly, "yeah, sorry, I know I'm boring to listen to. I'm surprised you haven't fallen asleep yet".

Martha let out a quick breath that almost sounded like a laugh, and she gave an uneasy smile, "No your not boring, I was up late last night" she told her as the door opened and Dr Simpson came in".

"Hope I'm not interrupting anything" Dr Simpson said, "but I've got some good news for you". Both Martha and Serena were suddenly paying a lot more attention when she mentioned good news. "Your going home Serena" Dr Simpson told her.

"Really?" Serena asked excitedly.

"Yeap, I'm just going to get the deregestration papers and then you can go home".

"Thank you".

"Your welcome Serena" Dr Simpson said before leaving to go and fetch the deregestration papers for her.

"Oh my gosh, your coming home" Martha squealed.

"I know, I can't wait to get in my own bed, and go and see Jack again".

"Do you miss him?" Martha asked, smiling at the fact that she'd seen more of him than Serena had.

"Are you kidding, what kind of a question is that, I'm missing him like crazy".

"Well he's missing you too" Martha managed to get out.

Serena just smiled at that, stairing back down at her hands once again, and came to a sudden realization. "I'm going to have to tell him now, aren't I?"

Martha nodded, "He has a right to know, and like I said before, nows the best time" she explained, trying to sound supporting, the last few minutes had made her feel rather uncomfortable around Serena, it was her fault though, she'd been the one to mention that Jack loved Serena, it had hit her hard when the words had come out of her mouth. She loved Jack, just like Serena did, which was to problem, Serena loved him! Some one who was too nice to truly hate, even all the things she'd tried to make her out to be in the first place, she was too nice, even if she had her man, well technically he wasn't her man, he was Serena's, but as much as she tried to let go of what her and Jack had once shared, the longer she lived with out him, the harder it was. He was in her head, in her mind, in her heart, and he wasn't about to go away, her heart wouldn't let go.

Little did she know, Serena wasn't the only one Jack loved, what seemed like a life time away from summer bay in an old jail cell sat a very lost Jack, it was cold and the stone walls if the building only made things all the worse, the sun was only just shining through the metal grates in the walls, it's rays mostly blocked from the grey clouds that filled the sky. Jack held a box in his hands, his dad and Luc had given it to him a while ago, it was full of photo's and other things to try and make him feel closer to home, he'd gone through most of it now, as he made his way to the bottom of it he'd noticed that the photo's were getting older and older, putting down the one of him playing footy on the beach with Lucas, he put his hand back in the box and pulled out another one, he brought it into the light so it was visible and studied it closely, it was from about seven years ago, of him and Martha, they both looked so happy, so young, with not a care in the world except each other. "I love you Martha" he whispered, but things were more complicated now, much more complicated.

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"Welcome home sweetheart" Beth greeted Serena running to give her a hug as she walked up the drive way after getting out of Martha's car.

"Hey".

"Come on lets get you inside, Tony's cooking your favorite tonight".

"I am?" Tony asked as he caught up with them after hearing a car drive in.

"Yeah, remember" Beth hinted as she stepped behind Serena to get her bag for her, giving Tony a death stair, her eyes making it clear to him that he was now in a life or death situation.

"Oh yeah of course" Tony replied, scratching his head. "Your welcome to stay too Martha".

"Um, u, no thanks" Martha answered, trying to think of an excuse, "Dylan's still at home and I promised Rose that I'd look after Izzy for her tonight" she explained.

"Well why don't you bring them here then?" Serena asked, obviously wanting Martha to stay.

"Nah, that's probably not such a good idea, Izzy's got a few teeth coming through, she's in no mood for going anywhere".

"Oh well maybe some other time then".

"Yeah, anyway I better get going, I'll see you later" Martha told them opening the car door and getting in the car.

"Yeah, see you later" Serena called back.

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"Lara" Peter called out to Lara who was down the hall way of the police station.

"Yeah" she called back, making her way towards him.

"What happened to that file that I was looking at on my desk the other day?"

"Um, I put it aside on your desk. That's the last I saw of it" she explained. "Look I'm sure it will turn up".

"Well I hope it does cause I think I've figured it out" Peter told her opening another filling cabinet to look for the missing file.

"Really, what do you think it is then?"

"Well considering the document wasn't on record, I think some one's put it here, like some kind of mind game".

"You think some one planted it here to mess with your head?" Lara sounded unconvinced, "Peter, it was in a file, it wasn't some letter that came in the mail".

"Which is exactly why we need to at least take a proper look at the thing, if it didn't come in the mail and is mixed in with our reports, then how exactly did it get here? There's something more to this Lara, I can just tell".

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Martha sat in a both at the dinner when all of a sudden a familiar voice called out to her from the door "Martha?"

Martha looked up to see none other than an old friend, "Tash!" she squealed getting up and giving her a hug, "oh my gosh what are you doing here?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing, last time I saw you was before you took off, we all thought we were never going to see you again".

"Well you were all wrong then".

"So what did you get up too while you were gone then?" Tash asked.

"It's a long story".

"Well looks like we'll need coffee then".

"Ok, sound good".

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"Good morning, nice to see some familiar faces around here for a change" Jack greeted Serena as she came and sat down on the chair in front of the bars of his cell.

"Good to see you too babe" Serena answered leaning forward to give him a kiss. Inside she was frightened, he had to know, he needed to know.

"So how does it feel to be out of hospital, you sounded pretty down last time I talked to you on the phone" Jack asked trying to make conversation.

"Well I'm getting used to things again, I never thought home cooked food would taste so good".

Jack laughed, "yeah I know what you mean, the food in here is dreadful too". Serena just smiled weakly, she couldn't help noticing how happy he seemed, she could see him laugh, she could see him smile, and what haunted her most was that angry look on his face that she pictured in her mind of him after he knew that she'd once been in a place just like this too, and she'd never told him. Jack continued to talk, and Serena just sat and listened, throwing in a smile or two to make it look like everything was fine, but he didn't buy it.

"What's wrong?" Jack asked, "you've hardly said a word since just after you got here, have I done something?".

"No, you've been great".

"Then what is it?"

"Jack there's something I need to tell you", she paused for a moment, "something you don't know about me" she started looking down at her hands, she'd planned to tell him about her past one day, but after the last few days events she'd come to realize that time was something she didn't have much of.

Seeing the look on Jack's face, he expected the worst, "Am I going to like it?"

She sighed, "probably not" there was no turning back now, he had to know.

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"wait so your saying after everything you went through, this chick just waltzes in and stole Jack from you?" Tash exclaimed, with her jaw dropped, over the last hour she'd learned about everything Martha had to go through since she ran away, living on the streets, the slavery, being sold, watching Jack run away from her, the whole thing with Sean, finding out who she was switched with, Dylan coming into the picture, finding out that Dylan was Jack's, Jack being married to someone else, Jack going to jail and now she was reeling.

"Well technically she didn't steal him" she sighed, "I stuffed things up and he moved on, quite simple really" Martha explained stairing down at her coffee that had already gone cold.

"So, she stole your man, your man! And now your telling me it's the only thing you can hold against her because she's too damn nice?"

"Yeap, you'd have to meet her to know what I'm talking about".

"Look Martha whether she's nice or not, that doesn't mean you have to like her, I don't like her already just hearing about her" Tash told her.

"Tash, she's really nice, maybe you should just meet her first before you judge her, and anyway I'd rather try and get along with Dylan's step mum".

"Well, if you play your cards right then you wouldn't need to see her as Dylan's step mum".

"Tash" Martha grizzled.

"Look at thing from the way I see it for a minute, please. From where I'm sitting you'd like nothing more than to be Mrs Holden and the only thing standing in your way is that blond bimbo, who might I add, Jack would not really love in his right mind".

"Yeah... but-"

"No buts Martha, it's really simple, all you have to do is convince him that your the woman for him".

"Look Tash-" Martha got cut off again.

"No Martha, I don't care how nice she might be, and you shouldn't ether, she's standing directly between you and Mr right, all we have to do is get her out of the way long enough for him to open his eyes" Tash told her, rambling on like a kid in a lolly shop, "anyway how about I go get you a coffee that's not cold" she said getting up before Martha could even raise a finger and taking her coffee to the counter.

"Tash, you don't see-" Martha started, but Tash couldn't hear her, Martha sighed, "you don't see how complicated that could be to get her out of the way" she said to herself, Tash was determined, and ready to do some Serena bashing, and all Martha could do was try and get a word in to try and stop it, not that she was listening.

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