Sorry it's been such a long time, hopefully you'll bare with me, there should be another update this week...and then one the next week and that'll be the end of this fic :D Thanks to as1999 and Emma for reviewing and as always to Emzii for her kind words, proofreading and excitement about things that I feel aren't working any more. Such an ace mate, dunno what I'd do without you hun xxx (enjoy!)

Will sighed as he wandered around the outside of Canley shopping centre, thoroughly bored by the day's work so far. It was hardly as though returning a six year old to her mother in the shops was in his line of work and as for directing some foreign students, he was wasting his time as they barely understood English and moved on to ask the next passer by as soon as he'd walked off. Turning down into one of the back streets he heard his radio crackle into life and automatically pressed down on the button so he could speak back.

"All available units from Sierra Oscar, reports of a woman acting suspiciously on top of the Miller Street Multi-storey Car Park. Can anyone deal?"

"Sierra Oscar from 543 show me dealing." Will said as he began to run along the road towards the sign to the car park. He felt the ground tearing away beneath his feet and before long he was running up the stairs, his footsteps echoing as he went. His heart was beating so quickly in his chest, he swore that it was about to burst as he reached the top step and flew through the outside door a blast of cold wind hitting him in the face.

A small lone figure was standing by the edge, holding on tightly to the railings and sobbing so hard she was in danger of falling over without meaning to. Although he hadn't seen her in nearly fifteen years Will still knew it was Emma. She hadn't changed a bit. "Sierra Oscar from 543 I require assistance at the top of the Miller Street Car Park, it looks like Emma Keane…I think she may jump." He whispered into his radio and then pulled out his mobile phone at the same time, dialling in Annie's number.

"Annie sweetheart, I think I've found your Mum. I need you to come help me. I'm at the Miller Street Car Park can you get here fast, I need you to talk her down because I don't think she'll want to hear anything from me." He said softly and then proceeded to soothe Annie as she ran out of class, disturbing her teachers and pelted down the high street towards where Emma and Will were.

Annie could feel her heart beating in her ears, her stomach in her throat, nothing where it was supposed to be. Stopping briefly by a large refuse bin she threw up and then continued running much to the confusion of the shoppers. Tearing across the road Annie narrowly avoided a large truck that swung round the corner and she dodged in between people on the street. There was only enough space in Annie's mind to register some of the comments she was getting from passers by, as the rest of it was taken up with all the moments in her life when she'd needed Emma most.

She could imagine Emma's fingers closing around her own as she lay in the hospital bed waiting to have her appendix removed at four years old, her first nativity play at five where she'd had a few lines that Emma had painstakingly taken the time to teach her so she knew them off by heart when it came to performance time. So many other defining moments whizzed by but she couldn't help but marvel at how much she really did need her Mum and how she'd gone all these years without noticing it.

Will took a few steps forwards and the door to the car park slammed closed behind him causing Emma to jump around terror contorting her pretty face. "Emma…Emma it's me Will. I just want to talk to you Emma, I won't hurt you." He said as he approached and Emma backed herself further into the wall.

"I can't trust you, you don't love me, and you didn't even try to find me." Emma sobbed as she hoisted one leg up over the wall. "I've got nothing to live for now…my baby…my Annie's gone. She left a note on the table saying she was staying with you. She won't love me any more…she'll just want you because I can't give her anything she wants." Emma continued as she swung the other leg over the edge, standing on the very thin piece of metal that protruded from the wall of the car park. Her fingers tightened around the railings and he could see that they were already blue with cold.

Will felt a hand on his elbow and he turned to see Annie standing beside him with tears pouring off her cheeks thick and fast. "How could you think that Mum. I love you both but it's always been you that's been there for me, raised me, loved me like you should. I don't care that you can't give me all the new things that I want, I don't need them, I just need you." She said in a choked up whisper as she joined Emma at the railings.

"I'm sorry Annie but I can't…I just can't go back to the way we were." Emma cried, unable to look her daughter in the eyes as watching her in so much pain was twice as bad as what she herself was feeling inside.

"Well if you're going to end your life then I have nothing to live for either. If you go then I go because I can't live without you Mum." Annie sobbed and she quickly jumped over the railings to join Emma on the precarious edge.

"Oh Annie don't make this harder than it has to be. You have your whole life to live sweetheart, you don't need me, you've got your Dad now." Emma sighed, taking a hold of Annie's limp hand so her own hold on the railings became very dangerous indeed.

"I've got a life ahead of me…and one below me. Neither of them are worth anything unless you're with me. I might have all these things to do but none of them will mean anything unless you're right by my side cheering me on, picking me up and helping me through it all. I love you Mum, I don't want to live without you." Annie replied, her vision becoming blurred as tears clouded her eyes.

Emma sniffed loudly and pulled one of her legs back over the wall, still hanging on tightly to Annie's hand. The other one followed and Annie too returned back to the safety of the car park much to Will's relief. He swooped in to embrace Annie who at the same moment had reached out to hold Emma close and they ended up mashed together, all three of them hugging, all three of them crying.

Annie ducked under Will's arm and stood back watching for the first time in her life, her parents hugging each other. They were each sobbing so hard that they could no longer support themselves or each other and they sank to the floor in a heap, Emma's head buried in Will's chest, his hands entangled in her hair. Annie's own tears trickled down her face, tears mixing with her make up, mixed tears of happiness and sadness.

You should never fight your feelings,
When your very bones believe them,
If you let them show, you'll keep them
I know you hurt, but soon you'll rise again, again, again...