Chapter number 22. What you mean to me.
Jack sat in his cell, his dad had come and gone five minutes ago, leaving him with a letter from Serena, he couldn't open it, he'd cheated on her and she knew nothing, well that's what he thought anyway. Then something forced his hand to unfold the piece of paper, stairing at Serena's hand writing he began to read:
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Dear Jack,
By the time you read this I'll be long gone, and if not then I'm not far away from passing. I've caught a virus, and the chemo has prevented my immune system to take control.
I love you Jack, and i can only hope that I can leave this world in total peace between us, I never ment to hurt you by not telling you about my past, I just wanted to forget about it and move on, so I blocked it out completely, and blocked it out from the people around me. I just hope that you can forgive me over time.
I want to say thank you for being with me in the last few years of my life, it's made my life full of joy, I've never felt so loved by anyone in my life, and I want to thank you for loving and respecting me.
I know that while I'm gone there will be plenty of other women that will see the amazing man you are Jack, and I want you too be happy, even if it's not with me. I know this might seem a little straight forward, but, I know you love Martha, not just as the mother of your child, but as a person. I don't want you to hold back, or feel bad about it, if your happy I will be too.
Take care of yourself.
Love from Serena
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When Jack finished reading the letter he folded it back up. His face had tears streaming down it, no matter what there would always be a place in his heart for Serena, there was no point in denying it, he just hoped that Martha could understand.
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"You ready?" Peter asked, pulling the keys out of the ignition after stopping the police car when they arrived at the crime scene in Greensville.
"Yeah" Lara sighed. Peter went to open his door, but then Lara stopped him, grabbing his arm, "listen, Peter about before, back at the station-"
"Can we talk about this later?" Peter snapped, giving Lara a moment of fright. "Look I'm sorry-".
"No Peter, it's fine, maybe it should just wait till later" Lara told him, getting out of the car quickly and out to some of the other's that were investigating the area. Peter felt like an idiot, carelessly he tossed his head back, banging it on the head rest and letting out a sigh of frustration before pulling himself back together and opening the car door to face what was in front of him.
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Back at the hospital Tony made his way down the hall and entered Serena's room where Beth, Maddie, Lucas and Martha were all surrounding Serena's bed. She lay there so still, too still. "oh my gosh" Tony let out, his eye's, like the other's in the room, began streaming with tears.
No one looked up at him, they all were lost, only half aware of what was going on around them, "you missed her by a few minutes" Martha told him, still lost in space, "she's gone".
No one knew what else to say, no one knew what to do, all that was going through their heads was the last words she'd said to each of them over the last few hours, she'd spoken to Tony before he left, and then when he was gone, she'd asked each of them to come into the room one by one.
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BETH'S MEMORY
"You know my mum died when I was to young to remember, and as I was growing up I didn't think I'd ever love anyone the same as her, but then I met you. I love you the way I would of loved my mother if I'd met her".
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MADDIE AND LUCAS' MOMORY
"Thank you for always being around for me, thank you for listening to me, for laughing with me and for crying with me. I don't think I could of ever asked for a better brother and sister in law".
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TONY'S MEMORY
"I know that when I first came to Summer bay with Jack that I was a real mess, but you still made me feel welcome, and made me feel like I was part of the family, thank you."
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MARTHA'S MEMORY
"It's no secret that we were never the best of friends when we first met Martha, but over time, you became my best friend, I know that we've both had our differences to sort out over the years, but, no matter what you'll always be like a sister to me. Thank you for accepting me for who I am and my past. Look after Jack for me".
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"Sorry to interrupt" the nurse apologized, "but were going to have to take her away now" she explained, as other nurses came in and wheeled her bed out.
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"Peter come and take a look at this" Greg, one of the officers called out.
Peter approached him, he was standing next to Lara in the shed, he'd managed to avoid her since they had arrived right up until now, he felt orquad now that he was coming close to her, even though he wasn't looking directly at her, he could feel her eye's on him, they were haunting him, and he didn't know what to do, "so what have you found then?" Peter asked trying to keep his eyes away from Lara who had now turned around and pretended to look like she was searching for something, inside she was itching to turn around and shove Greg out of the way so that they could talk, but she couldn't let this get in the way of work.
"We've found out that Loyd was hiring some one else to kill Matt after he'd killed all the other people on his hit list" Greg explained to him, "does the name look familiar?" he asked handing the file to Peter.
"No, we'll have to do a background check, see if we can track him down" Peter told him, "how about you go and run that over to one of the computer guys now?"
"Yeah, ok" he agreed leaving Peter and Lara alone in the shed.
"Lara?" Peter started, feeling a little uncomfortable.
"What?" she replied bluntly, not even turning around to look at him.
"We need to talk".
Lara turned around and looked at him for a second, waiting for him to continue.
"Look, I'm confused" he said honestly.
"Are we still talking about the case, or something else?" she asked.
Peter paused for a moment, taking in a deep breath and moving a step closer to her, "I'm talking about you and me".
Lara nodded, "Look, I know things have been weird between us lately, but right now, we've got a job in front of us".
"Lara please, it can't wait" Peter begged her, almost sounding desperate.
"Peter, would you just stop, please!" Lara exclaimed, almost feeling the need to yell, she looked angry, making Peter's spine shiver. "It can wait" she simply said before storming out the door.
Peter raised his hand to his head, hitting himself in the center of his for head, he had the charms to swept a woman off her feet, just like his brother. But unlike Dan, he had a way of really annoying the heck out of women right after he had them under his spell, driving her away, 'maybe that's why I'm still single' he thought to himself.
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"Oh my gosh" Tash exclaimed, "she's dead?" Tash could feel her heart skipping a beat with fright.
"Yeah, she caught something" Robbie explained, sitting down on the couch at Irene's next to Tash.
"She caught something?"
"Yeah, it was the flew".
"But that means-" Tash started, but then covered her mouth when she realized, "she caught my flew, I killed her" she said out loud, her eye's beginning to swell up with tears.
"No Tash, the flew killed her" Robbie comforted her, wrapping a strong arm around her.
"Yeah, a flew that I gave to her" she sobbed, "this is all my fault".
Author note: Well Serena's officially out of the picture now, so I hope everyone that hatted her with a passion is happy now. Please review and give me your opinion.