All These Lives

Disclaimer: AMC, GH, and characters belong to ABC. Loosely inspired by Daughtry's "All These Lives". This is for fun, not profit.

Author's Note: The subtitle of this part is a lyric from Daughtry's "All These Lives". Thoughts are in italics.

Part 1: "Deep inside, my heart is breaking"

Maggie Stone held her son's hand as she walked down Avenue Rapp. Every morning mother and son would leave their apartment on Avenue de la Motte-Piquet and make their way to their favorite café for breakfast. Café de l'Alma was close to Leo's primary school and his father would meet them for breakfast after his shift at Clinique Saint Jean de Dieu. Once the family finished breakfast, Maggie would depart for her shift at Hôpital Necker while Leo and his father departed for Institut Prive de l'Alma, Leo's private school. Today hadn't started any different. That is until the tiny brunette stopped abruptly in the middle of the street they had been crossing. Motorists and pedestrians yelled angrily in her direction, but Maggie couldn't really hear them. A huge sense of dread had overwhelmed her suddenly and she couldn't ignore it… Something's wrong… Maggie didn't know what came over her, but she immediately lifted Leo onto her back and began running. She knew exactly where she needed to be… Oh God, please…

Leo held on tight to his mother as she crossed the river into Passy. He kept quiet as she ran, but was curious as to who they knew that lived in this wealthy part of Paris. Before he knew it, they were skidding to a stop in front of a house he had only seen once in an old photograph. Feeling his mother pat his bottom, Leo took the hint and slid off her back. His mother ran to the front door of the beautiful little house and proceeded to wake the neighborhood with her knocking… If you can call that knocking… it's more like a drum solo.

The door quickly swung open and the tall woman on the other side stared at her visitors in shock. Standing in front of her was a woman she hadn't spoken to in seven years. "Maggie?"

The older woman had already begun to panic, "Bianca! Where's Miranda?!"

Bianca tilted her head to the side confused, "She's upstairs getting ready for school… why?"

Looking into the younger woman's eyes, Maggie pushed past her ex-lover and rushed to the stairs taking two at a time.

Bianca stood incredulous for a moment and ushered the little boy into her house. Turning to her youngest daughter, she introduced the two children, "Gabrielle, could you please get this young man some breakfast?" She heard Maggie yell Miranda's name a few times while running up the stairs. She was starting to get a headache and was quite annoyed with the turn of events this morning had taken. What the hell is going on?

Leo waved his hand in front of the woman's face and smiled. "Hi! You look familiar… oh! Mama's got a picture of you in her wallet!" He noticed her frown turn into a small smile as he grabbed his mother's discarded bag and pulled out a worn photo.

Bianca's heart hurt as she remembered the moment the picture had captured. Greenlee had been by to visit briefly and took the picture of the young family in front of their home. In front of this home… It had been such a great day… Bianca, Maggie, and Miranda… She shook her head and returned the photo to the little boy and realized… Mama? Maggie has a kid? "I'm sorry, we haven't met. My name is Bianca and this is Gabrielle."

If Leo's smile could get any bigger, it would have. He loved to meet new people! "Hi! My name is Leopold James Francis Stone." He giggled, "I know it's a mouthful! My friend's call me Leo." He extended his hand to the nice woman.

Bianca smiled as she shook the small boy's hand. He looked just like Maggie, sandy-colored hair, slight smirk, shining brown eyes and all. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Leo. You are quite the gentleman. How old are you?"

Before Leo could answer, they all heard Maggie scream Bianca's name and it made the younger woman quickly turn her head to the stairs and run after the sound. The young children looked at each other confused and then followed their parents up the stairs.

"Oh God… Miranda…" Maggie continued to mutter Miranda's name as she dropped to her knees on the floor of the child's bedroom. Picking up a piece of the shattered glass that lay across the floor, the tiny brunette sobbed as she grabbed her chest where her heart should be… unfortunately, said heart was in pieces on the floor with all that glass. She had dealt with not being able to see or talk to Miranda over the years, but the thought of the beautiful little girl being gone again made Maggie's heart shatter and her stomach churn.

Bianca followed the sound of sobbing and past the point of annoyed, Bianca stomped through the hall toward her daughter's bedroom. "Maggie! What the hell is going on?! You just barge in here and…" Bianca couldn't finish her thought as she stopped in the doorway and saw the broken window. "Miranda?" Her oldest daughter was nowhere in sight. She began to realize the heaviness of the situation as she took in the glass, the blood, the crying woman on her knees with that terrified look in her eyes… Bianca collapsed to the floor.

Pulled out of her shock by the tiny scream behind her, Maggie quickly whipped her head around and saw a little girl with her hand over her mouth and tears streaming from her eyes. She then noticed Bianca had fainted and checking for injuries, she heard her son trying to calm the little girl down.

"It's okay Gabrielle, my mom's a doctor."

Smiling slightly, Maggie gestured for the two children to come closer. She pulled them both into a tight embrace and kissed both of their foreheads. Reaching in her back pocket for her cell phone, Maggie spoke to Leo, "Call your father and tell him we're at the house in Passy. He'll know what you're talking about. And tell him to get the police over here too." She watched as Leo nodded and walked to a corner to call his father. "Don't worry Gabrielle; I'm an old friend of your mother's… My name is Maggie and she'll wake up in no time." The little girl nodded, held her mother's hand, and hugged Maggie just a little tighter.

Once Leo had returned her cell phone, Maggie thought for a moment. I don't even know who's in her life anymore… I could call Kendall, but I don't know her number… Oh! Maggie quickly dialed her friend's number.

The line picked up and a voice filled with sleep and confusion answered, "Maggie?" The woman on the end of the line noticed the time, "Damn girl, I know you've been in Paris a while, but you do remember the time difference right? It's one in the morning here…"

Maggie sighed, "Greens…"

Greenlee gasped as she quickly sat up in bed, "Wait! Is everything okay?"

Even though the woman on the other end of the call couldn't see her, Maggie shook her head, "No, nothing is okay. Greens, I need Kendall's number."

"Who is it?" The woman in Greenlee's bed quirked her brow as her partner tried to get her to be quiet.

Well this is not how I planned on telling her… Greenlee pinched the bridge of her nose at Maggie's shocked intake of breath, "Um, she's right here, Mags…"

Realization dawned on Kendall's face and she gave the shorter woman an apologetic smile as she took the phone. "Well, long time no talk Magster…"

If it had been any other circumstance, Maggie would have laughed at the absurdity of the two women back in Pine Valley tiptoeing around the fact they were sleeping together. She spoke hurriedly into the phone as she tried to wake her ex-lover, "Kendall, hi, I need you and Greenlee to get to Bianca's like yesterday."

The curly-haired woman shot out of bed and started to get dressed, "What? Why?!"

Maggie sighed and closed her eyes as tears began to slide down her cheeks again. Her voice shook as she tried to answer Kendall's questions, "This morning… I… I was walking and something happened… It felt like my h-heart was ripped out of my chest." Maggie pleaded, "Kendall, I got here as fast as I could!"

Having gotten dressed at Kendall's insistence, Greenlee watched as her partner suddenly stopped throwing clothes into her suitcase. "Kendall?"

"Maggie… Calm down! I don't care how you've come back into my sister's life right now. Just tell me what the hell is wrong!"

Maggie noticed Bianca stirring and decided she needed to get off the phone as soon as possible. "Kendall… Miranda's gone. The window is broken and there's blood… I… I think she's been kidnapped."

Kendall's grip on the phone tightened and Greenlee noticed her knuckles starting to turn white. She heard Kendall respond in a deathly calm voice, "Where's my sister?"

"She fainted. Please, just hurry. I'm not leaving, but I don't think she's going to want me here… not after everything. She needs you Kendall, please."

"I'm calling the airport right now. We'll be there in eight hours." Kendall hung up the phone and looked at Greenlee with pleading eyes. "Will you call Ryan and Zach? Let them know we have to leave for Paris immediately and we can either take Spike and Ian with us, or they need to get here ASAP and pick the kids up." At Greenlee's nod, Kendall proceeded to call the airport and finished her last minute preparations.

"Maggie? What are you doing here?" Bianca asked in confusion as she noticed the older woman sitting on the floor with two children in her arms.

The tiny brunette looked into the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen and whispered distraughtly, "Oh Bianca…" Maggie let Gabrielle and Leo get up from her lap. They ran downstairs as the doorbell rang. Standing, Maggie yelled down the hall, "Leo! Don't you dare answer that door! I'll be there in a minute!"

Bianca took the hand that Maggie offered and was gently helped to a standing position. She briefly looked around the room and shut her eyes as she remembered, "Oh God… it was real…"

Maggie pulled Bianca into a tight embrace and murmured in her ear, "Stay with me, B. It's going to be okay. We're going to find her… That should be the police at the door now. Come on…" Maggie was surprised when her old friend did not let go of her hand, so she held on just a little bit tighter as they walked down the stairs and to the front door.

Bianca sat down on the couch as Maggie opened the door to their visitors. How could this happen? My little girl…

"Dad!" Leo yelled as he ran up behind his mother. His father picked him up exuberantly in his arms and gave Maggie an apprehensive look. Noticing Bianca staring, he lowered his head and whispered in Maggie's ear, "You haven't told her yet have you?"

Maggie rolled her eyes and hissed, "Well I really haven't had the time, what with Miranda getting kidnapped and all!" She sighed at the apologetic nod she received from the younger man. "How long 'til the cops get here?"

Bianca finally gathered her voice and croaked confused, "Jamie?"

The young doctor at the door held his son closer to his chest as he turned to face Bianca. He waved half-heartedly and gently spoke, "Um, hey Bianca…"

Maggie checked outside and, seeing no police in the vicinity, shut the door. Where the hell are they? God, Paris emergency response time SUCKS! She wiped her hands on her slacks in an effort to calm her nerves and her anger. Turning to her favorite people in the whole world, Maggie watched as Gabrielle clung to her mother. "Hey Leo, why don't you and Gabrielle finish breakfast? Give the big kids a chance to talk…" She smirked as her son laughed and hopped out of his father's arms, gently pulling the little girl with him to the table. Man, I love that sound.

Maggie watched Bianca's eyes follow her youngest daughter, concern etched in all of her features. She was shocked when the taller brunette shrugged Jamie's hand from her shoulder and quickly stood. Oh no… Panicked Bianca is not good… "Bianca…" Maggie rushed to her friend's side and held her by the shoulders, trying to keep her still while looking deep into her eyes. "You running around out there won't help Miranda. She needs you here. And Gabrielle needs you here too." Feeling the younger woman's shoulders relax, Maggie continued, "Bianca, freaking out right now won't be good for any of you… Okay?" The tiny brunette sighed as she got a slight nod from her friend. With a quick look at the clock and a nod from Jamie, Maggie gently spoke again, "Okay. The police will be here any minute and Kendall and Greenlee are on their way. They should be here in about eight hours. And hey, we're not going anywhere. Okay?"

Bianca nodded as her ex-lover let go of her shoulders. Sighing, Bianca searched Maggie's eyes, "When did you become the rational one?"

A tear escaped Maggie's eye once again and she looked down. "I guess when I lost everything that meant something to me." She wiped away the quickly falling tears and excused herself, "I'm going to wait outside for the police." The older woman gently shut the door behind her and slid to the ground. This can't be happening.

tbc