Jesse stood at the door to the Chandler living room. It had been three days since they had all gathered here to celebrate. Memories flashed in his mind of Tad giving that beautiful toast. Celebrating the return of Angie's eye sight and the log awaited return of Stuart Chandler. They had learned of Randi's pregnancy and watched as Adam and Brooke finally got it right. Life in Pine Valley was always full of the highest highs and the lowest lows and that night was no different.

Maybe they should have known things would turn sour, maybe they should have expected some sort of tragedy. But, they stood their raising their glasses celebrating life in Pine Valley. No one expecting for everything to be interrupted with the sounds of bullets flying and the echo's of women screaming.

Now three days removed from that terrible night standing in the door way of the Chandler's he could still hear the echo's of their screams. In his mind's eye he could see the bullets hitting person after person.

He was the Chief of Police and was left helpless like everyone else. He regretted more than anything else that JR was left on the streets to terrorize them. Jesse had let his friendship with Tad blind him when it came to JR's erratic behavior over the last few months.

He turned as the front door opened. Scott and Madison walked into the mansion laughing.

"Hi guys." Jesse was surprised to see them there.

"Hi Jesse!" Scott leaned against his crutches and stretched his hand out towards the Chief.

Jesse reached his own hand out. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Uncle Adam said he got a call from the station that you were here and were going to release the house back to us. Uncle Adam didn't want to leave Brooke so since your wife kindly decided to release me so I offered to meet you here and...well Madison and I agreed to help the staff clean up." Scott's own eyes tried to look past Jesse towards the room.

"You guys don't have to do that." Jesse shook his head, "I only needed Adam here to sign the house back over to. I can all a cleaning crew out here to take care of the clean up."

Madison who had remained silent spoke up, "Thanks Jesse but I think it's important to Scott and the Chandler's to clean this up. What happened the other night was a tragedy for all of us and we need to find a way to move past what JR did and start to heal. Cleaning up this place is just the start of that."

"I couldn't have said this better myself." Scott leaned in and kissed Madison.

"As driven as you two are, I think it will be hard to clean this up on your own. It's a mess in there."

"Who said it was just us?" Madison smiled as the door opened again.

In walked Tad and Dixie followed by Jake and Amanda. Randi and Frankie carried in cleaning supplies. Opal walked in next with her best gal pal. Everyone was surprised not just that Erica was there to do the messy clean up but was wearing a pair of blue jeans, a t-shirt, and sneakers. No one had ever seen the great Erica Kane dressed down so much. After Erica walked in Jackson followed a few moments later.

Jesse was surprised to see them all there.

"It's like Madison said Dad," Frankie put a hand on Jesse's shoulder, "We all need to get past that night and what better way for this town to move on then for everyone to pitch in and clean up."

Over the next few hours they worked together to clean the room up. There were moments where the work moved quickly and there were others when it moved slowly as people had to stop what they were doing and take a moment to remember what had happened there that night.

The picture that Stuart had painted that hung over the mantel needed a new picture frame. Blood soaked towels had to be thrown away. Finger print dust covered the furniture and needed to be cleaned off. One of the seat cushions had a gun power covering its ivory cover and needed to be replaced. The carpet where Greenlee had been shot was rolled up and thrown away a new one laid in its place. Lastly the police tape was torn down. The visible scars were removed now it was time to start healing the one's that no one could see.

With the room cleaned up they began to return to their normal lives trying to move on from those awful events. Only Jackson and Erica remained in the living room.

Erica stood in the middle of the room in the same spot she had been when the shooting first started. The scene from that night playing over and over again through her head. She cried out for Jackson as he walked away from her. Greenlee stopping her from going after them. Looking to Bianca for comfort. The hand upon her shoulder. The gun shot. Turning and seeing the horror in Greenlee's eyes when the first bullet pierced her body. The shout of the second bullet. Being pulled down to the ground. The one thing she had been unable to get out of her mind since that fateful night was the look on Greenlee's face.

Jackson stood back and watched her. They had been in each other's lives for 24 years and the love he felt for this woman never wavered. It was so hard for him to walk out on her that night. If he had stayed and fought for her maybe his daughter wouldn't be lying in a hospital bed and she wouldn't be standing there blaming herself like he blamed himself.

He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Are you ok baby?" his voice breaking the silence.

She leaned back into him closing her eyes as she was wrapped up in his warm embrace. "How did we get here Jackson?"

"I don't know…priorities changed…life changed…we both want different things from each other."

"Things were so easy before that Erica clone took over. I knew what I wanted and then I was kidnapped and I don't know I changed I wanted people to know the real me. I wanted to grab life by reigns and do everything no matter what the cost was. I never expected the cost to be so high. When you walked out on me and then Greenlee….I never thought it would cost us so much Jackson…I'm so sorry."

She turned around to face him and buried her face in his chest.

"Erica I'm sorry to. I love you so much that I want to know we'll be together forever. You telling me you didn't want go get married hurt so much but I should have stayed with you and figured all this out instead of storming out."

He lifted her chin so that she was looking into your eyes, "Erica I know you blame yourself for everything that happened but you have to know none of this was your fault. I know because I've spent the last three days blaming myself for Greenlee being in that hospital and everyone else being hurt. We know JR was probably going after Marissa maybe if Greenlee hadn't stepped in front of the bullet he would have only shot once. If I had stayed maybe things would have been different but here's the thing Erica we can't play the what if game because we'll never know what would have happened if we had done something different. Maybe JR would have only pulled the trigger once or maybe he planned on empting the gun from the beginning. We'll never get past this and get our family back together if we live in the past and not move forward."

As Erica and Jack sat in the middle of the Chandler's home finding their way back to each other Leo drove his car around Pine Valley.

He stopped in front of an unfamiliar home and knocked on the door.

"Hi Leo!" Kendall opened the door surprised to see him.

"Hi Kendall. I heard Bianca was here."

"Yes she is. Come on in. She's putting the girls down for their nap. I'll let her know you're here." Kendall showed him into the Slater home telling him to make himself at home while he waited for Bianca.

Zach was lounging on the brown leather couch that was a staple of the Slater home. He stood up to greet Leo.

Leo offered his hand to the unfamiliar man, "Hi, I'm Leo…"

"Leo du Pres" Zach finished for him.

"Yeah. How did you know?" Leo was confused he didn't know who this man was or how he knew him.

"Kendall told me who you were. Besides a few years back Greenlee and I were stuck in a bomb shelter for a few weeks she told me all about you. It's nice to meet the man behind the legend. Do you like hockey?"

"Hockey? As in puck, ice skates, sports?"

"Uh yeah. You know a real man's sport."

"I've never really been in to sports. I used to catch a Phillies game every once and awhile." Leo noticed the red sweater Zach was wearing with the Red Wings logo on it.

"Too bad. Can I offer you a beer?" Zach picked up the extra beer bottle offering it to Leo.

"No thanks. So I take it you're a Red Flyers fan?" Leo tried engaging this man in conversation. If this guy was friends of Greenlee's he may be seeing a lot of him.

Zach laughed, "Red Wings. Guess I can't fault a Male Model with not knowing anything about good hockey teams." Zach joked knowing some of Leo's history from Greenlee and Kendall.

Leo shook his head thinking this guy wasn't half bad, "Hey Erica Kane's your mother-in-law you should know better than anyone else you can't tell that woman no."

Zach held his beer up, "I'll drink to that."

Bianca entered the room, "Hi Leol"

He turned around and saw her for the first time in years. Sure they had seen each other at the hospital but they had been so focused on everything else they really hadn't had time to talk.

"Hey BInx" he pulled her into a hug, "Wow look at you all grown up."

She slapped his shoulder, "That's what happens when someone disappears for nine years."

The sat down together in the Slater kitchen talking about her life in the last nine years.

When she told him about Michael Cambias she saw his knuckles whiten. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here with you Binx. He's lucky he's already dead or I'd kill him myself. That S.O.B."

"As bad as it was Leo something good came out of the rape." She pulled out the pictures of Miranda.

"You're daughter?" he noticed how much the little girl looked like her.

"Yup Miranda Mona Montgomery. And this is Gabriella." She showed him the other picture.

"They're beautiful Binx. Any great love in your life?"

"Well your niece, David's daughter, Marissa and I have something pretty special." She smiled at the thought of Marissa.

"Marissa? Was she the girl you were with at the Chandler's?" he thought back to the night of the party.

"Yup. That's her."

"That's my niece? Leo knew he had so much to catch up on.

"I'll let David tell you all about that Leo. Why don't you tell me about you?" she hoped to get him to talk about where he had been all this time.

He laughed, "Nice try BInx. I promise I'll explain everything just as soon as I can. But I think Greenlee deserves to hear the truth first."

"How is Greenlee? I heard Ryan asked you to stay away until she was better. I was surprised to hear you agreed."

"Yeah Ryan asked me to step aside and not cause her anymore stress. As hard as it was…is I have to respect her life with him. I can't just expect to walk in and have her jump into my arms and go back in time with me." Leo showed a maturity that surprised even him.

"Yeah but Leo you love her to. It's not fair that you can't be with her." Bianca would be pissed if anyone kept her from Marissa.

Leo looked down at the table avoiding contact with her eyes.

"What did you do Leo?" Bianca knew that mischievous look on his face.

"I haven't exactly stayed away. I don't go around when Ryan's there but a perk to having your brother be the owner of the hospital is he can get me in after visiting hours. I spend a few hours with her every night. I don't say much I just have to be next to her."

"Good for you Leo."

"So I hear you and Greenlee are cousins now?" Leo changed the subject.

"Yeah it was a surprise to everyone." She laughed.

"I was surprised to hear Jackson was her father. How is it being family?"

"You know Greenlee's not so bad. She saved my life that night your mother kidnapped her. And after Miranda was born we thought she died in a helicopter crash Greenlee was there for me. She even gave me the necklace you gave her in Paris. It helped thinking that you were taking care of my daughter. Little did either of us know you and Miranda were just fine." She placed her hand on top of his.

"Leo having you back is amazing." A single tear streaked down her face.

"Binx are you alright?" he was worried about her.

"It's just been so tough the last few days. My mom blames herself. Jackson won't talk to her. JR tried to kill the woman I love." she felt the anger build up within her.

"BInx you've survived so much in your life this is just another hurdle. I'll be here to help you overcome this." Leo pulled her next to him.

"We shouldn't have to survive this though Leo. JR caused all this pain. He hurt so many people he can't get away with it. I swear if the law doesn't take care of him I will."

Leo had never seen her so angry. "Binx you can't let this anger consume you. Marissa's going to be ok. Brooke's on the mend. Greenlee's going to be off the vent soon and out of the ICU. Kendall and Scott are fine. You have to get past the anger and focus on the good."

"I don't know if I can do that this time Leo." She dug her finger nails into the palms of her hand.