Kendall came back to Bianca's hospital cubical with two coffees in her hand just as Jesse was leaving.

"Bianca, thank you for your time." he said. He gave Kendall a nod as he went.

Kendall walked in to find her sister looking a little annoyed.

"What's wrong?" she asked as she handed over one of the drinks.

Bianca sighed.

"JR accused me of kidnapping AJ."

Kendall was appalled.

"That rat bastard! How dare he accuse you of something like that!"

"He was JR being JR, lashing out rather than accept his own responsibilities." said Bianca. Kendall found her sisters calmness irritating.

"Well Jesse should know better than to give a suggestion like that the time of day!"

"He was doing his job. He just needed me to explain about how I found AJ. Curiously he seemed be more interested in JR's behaviour."

"Well I'm glad you explained it to someone!" said Kendall. she was still hadn't had the full story and it would be nice to know how she came to be sitting by her sister's hospital bedside so early in the morning.

"Well I guess it just seems so silly." explained Bianca. "I had a dream."

"A dream?" said Kendall incredulously.

"I know… but I'd been working on stuff for the Miranda Centre Fundraiser all day; going through all the get-better pictures that the artists had selected for inspiration. I guess my subconscious put two and two together and then decided to give me a nudge. I'd forgotten about the tree house in the grounds and AJ had drawn it half a dozen times in his paintings."

"And he was in the tree house the whole time?" asked Kendall. The whole town had turned Pine Valley upside down looking for that little boy and he had been hiding up a tree.

"It's so frustrating" said Bianca with a sigh, "Because I had the house checked on the first day AJ went missing - I thought it might be somewhere he would run to but I had forgotten all about the tree house."

"Until the middle of the night." muttered Kendall, still angry at her sister for scaring her so much.

"I said I'm sorry. I didn't want to disturb you so early, not if it turned out just to be a dream."

"No," said Kendall, her voice dripping with sarcasm, "It was so much better for me to get a call at four o'clock in the morning telling me my sister has been admitted to hospital!"

"I'm sorry, I really am! But I'm fine now!"

"Frankie didn't say that." said Kendall.

When she had hurried to see her sister, she was still being treated. Kendall tried very hard not to look at Bianca's leg. When she arrived Frankie had been treating the two large open sores on either side of her sister's knee. It looked painful, but then she had to remind herself that Bianca couldn't feel any of it.

"There is a reason Frankie told you not to wear that brace. You should have learnt this lesson the first time, when you tried to search the whole park for AJ on your own. Why didn't you just call the police or, I don't know, wake me up!"

"Because it was just a dream and I wasn't sure if it would end up a wild goose chase."

Kendall shook her head and looked down at her sister's leg, now swathed in bandages.

"I don't even know how you managed to mangle your leg so much in the first place. Why the hell did you decide to walk a lap of the park when you know you have to take it easy?"

"Umm… I was there with Marissa when she got the call from JR to say AJ had run away. She went straight back to the Mansion and I thought I'd make sure AJ wasn't there, hiding in the play park or something."

Bianca's long pause gave Kendall the feeling something else had happened in the park with Marissa. Had Bianca finally found the courage to tell her the truth?

"But what were you and Marissa actually doing in the park when she got the call?" asked Kendall fishing for more details

Bianca's face turned bright red.

"Um… we were kissing."

Kendall perked up. This was good news. Shame that the timing sucked, but still…

"Kissing?" Kendall asked grinning playfully, "So was it a big kiss or a little kiss?"

Bianca laughed at her sister's eagerness. She considered for a moment.

"More medium sized."

"That's wonderful! Why didn't you say anything?" asked Kendall, keenly grasping her sister's hand

"Because, it wasn't as important as finding AJ."

Kendall couldn't stop her delighted smile.

"So what now? You have to go and talk to her again!"

"I don't think I'm going anywhere for the moment!" said Bianca despondently, slapping an irritated hand against her injured leg.

"Well I'll go talk to her!"

"No, I think we need to give her time. She's just got her little boy back. I think she needs a couple of days to enjoy that."

"Bianca, please don't be a martyr."

"Kendall I'm not. But I don't think there is any need to rush." said Bianca, a new smile dancing on her lips. "She kissed me and right now that is enough."

Frankie chose that moment to poke his head back inside the cubical.

"Are you still here?" he asked.

"We were waiting to be admitted." explained Kendall.

"Well there's no need." said Frankie warmly.

As Kendall watched he turned to stare intently at her younger sister, putting both hands on the foot of the hospital bed as if for emphasis.

"Bianca, I want you to listen very carefully to my next words and don't make me regret this. When I say full bed rest, I mean it! I'm going to keep your brace, to avoid any temptation and I shall be visiting first thing tomorrow morning for a check-up. When I do that I want Kendall to be able to report to me that as soon as you got home you went straight to bed and didn't leave it!"

"Your letting me go home?" asked Bianca. Kendall knew she was dreading the idea of having to spend even one night in hospital.

"I am."

Bianca smiled, relieved, but then her face dropped again.

"How long will I have to stay in bed?"

"That sounds like you are making me regret it already." said Frankie light-heartedly.

"It's just that the Miranda Centre Fundraiser is in a couple of weeks, is there any chance that by then..?"

Frankie sighed.

Kendall tried not to smirk; Bianca was giving him her very best puppy dog eyes.

"This is not a promise mind, but if there is no sign of infection and if you don't get out of bed until then, then I might consider it?"

Bianca grin lit the whole room.

"Thank you!"

She looked across at her sister; there was a touch of nervousness around her eyes.

"Now all I need to do is ask Marissa to be my date."

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