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“You better call me when you get there, love. I’ll miss you.” Wiley hugged Jude tight to his chest, kissing her forehead.

Jude nodded with a slight smile, going to Chris next. The both of them came to see her off, along with her father and Aunt Delilah.

“Bye Chrissy, don’t get into too much trouble.”

“You don’t get into too much trouble with those Americans.”

Jude moved to her favorite Aunt who had become almost her mother over the years. “Bye Auntie.”

Delilah kissed her hair and passed her along to her father.

“Bye Daddy”

“Judey, darling I’m sorry. I know I haven’t handled this situation the best but know I only did it because I love you.”

Jude nodded, wiping away the tears that slid down her cheeks. “I love you too…”

After the goodbyes were said, Jude made her way through to the gate to wait from her plane to board. This was going to be a hard trip for her; being reunited with her family that she hadn’t seen since she was nine years old.

“Now boarding groups 1 through 4 for flight 953 to Newark Liberty International Airport. Thank you.” The boarding attendant announced over to loud speaker.

Jude sighed, grabbing her carry on bag. She already had her boarding pass and passport out so that would make everything go smoother.

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“Gee, wake up.” Mikey Way shook the shoulder of his older brother Gerard, who was sleeping in a chair.

They were both staying over in their mother’s hospital room, wanting to be there if anything happened.

“What… Mikey? Go away…” Gerard mumbled, closing his eyes again.

Mikey sighed, adjusting his glasses as he looked over at his mother who was still sleeping soundly. Her bronchitis had taken a turn for the worse and she ended up with bronchial pneumonia. But the steroids weren’t working and her condition regressed rapidly, landing her in the hospital.

“C’mon Gee. You’ve gotta get up. You need to go home and shower. Judith comes in sometime today.”

That woke Gerard with a start. His little sister… his sweet little sister… he missed her so much, but was very confused by her. When she moved away she didn’t stay in contact. That’s understandable for a nine-year-old who doesn’t know anything but her father… but what is she now? 22 years old!

“All right Mike. You gonna stay with Ma or do you wanna come with us?” Gerard was referring to himself and his fiancée Haley Scott.

Mikey looked on at his mother for a long time and sighed. “I’ll stay here. I want to be here when she wakes up.”

Gerard nodded, pulling his younger brother into a hug. “Call Emmy if you get too lonely.” He was referring to Emmanuelle Grey, Mikey’s best friend.

Gerard walked over and placed a kiss on his mother’s forehead and whispered, “I love you…” And then he left before Mikey could see the tears that were making their way down his face.

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“Miss, the plane has landed.”

Jude awoke to the sounds of her iPod blaring HIM into her ears. She nodded at the flight attendant, wiping her eyes. She quickly put her things away and gathered her carry on bag. She was definitely feeling the long plane ride and all she wanted was a nice long shower… but she still had customs to go through and then to find her BROTHERS. She had no clue what they looked like or anything. She was supposed to meet them at the baggage claim but that was if she could find that.

“I need a cigarette…” Jude mumbled, running a hand through her messy hair which felt disgusting to her touch. She grabbed a hair tie off of her wrist and messily but her medium length, choppy hair into a ponytail. She continued to wait in line, on the very edge of her patience.

Ten minutes later, Jude was through customs and on her way to what she hoped was her baggage claim. It wouldn’t take long to find her luggage she assumed, it was white and green and not many were those colors.

“Thank GOD, flight 953.” Jude let out a sigh of relief as she started scanning the bags that were coming through. Immediately she spotted both of her luggage pieces and made her way to front to retrieve them. “Oh bloody hell” she cursed loudly, trying to get through the other people. “Excuse ME”

She finally reached her bags and pulled them off and tried to maneuver her way back out. “Bloody Americans…”

But wasn’t she an American? Partially… but she wasn’t as thick as all of these people.

NOW to find her brothers, but she had no clue how to. It wasn’t as if they had seen each other on a regular basis and going on thirteen years apart… it wasn’t going to be easy. She remembered her father giving her Gerard’s cell phone number… it wouldn’t hurt to try, she thought.

Standing off to the side, she searched for her cell phone and soon was waiting for Gerard to pick up.

“Um… hello?” A somewhat deep voice answered, causing Jude’s heart to squeeze slightly. This was her brother’s voice!

“Is this… Gerard?” Jude’s English accent was a little more apparent because of her nervous state.

“Judey?” He sounded so surprised and shocked that tears came instantly to her eyes.

Jude nodded because she couldn’t speak but soon realized he couldn’t see her. “Yes, it’s me. I’m ready to leave…” her voice trembled with emotion.

“A-All right, where are you?”

“The baggage claim, but I’m on the wall. It is so bloody crowded in here.” Jude laughed, despite herself. “I’ll wave my arms.”

The two soon hung up and Jude threw her arms up into the air, waving them a tad.

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“Let’s go Hayes, she’s gotta be around here somewhere.” Gerard took the hand of his fiancée and started looking for Jude.

His eye caught arms waving in a bright yellow t-shirt and focused more on it. It was a young woman, about 21 and she looked a total mess, like she had been on a plane for at least 12 hours, coming from somewhere like England.

“That’s her, I bet.”

The two approached the young girl who was still waving her arms.

“Judey…?” Gerard’s voice was a little louder than a whisper.

Jude froze and slowly turned her head towards Gerard. “G-Gerard?”

He nodded his head and rushed over to her, arms open and Jude wasn’t too far behind him. She slammed herself into his chest and buried her head in his neck.

“I missed you so much Judey… so much.” he mumbled as he held her even tighter.

Jude couldn’t say anything because if she did, the dam would break and she would drown them all with all the tears welling up inside of her. After a few minutes of their reunion, Gerard pulled away and motioned for Haley to come over.

“Jude, this is my fiancée Haley Scott. Hay, this is my little sister Jude.”

Jude smiled a watery smile and opened her arms and Haley laughed slightly, hugging her tightly for a few seconds.

“It’s nice to meet you Jude.”

“Yes, it’s nice to meet you as well. Sorry about the hug, I’m so knackered and emotional.”

Gerard and Haley looked at each other for a second and then back at Jude.

“Knackered…”

“OH, it means I’m worn out.”

They nodded but a little warily. Everyone was going to have to get used to her English slang.

“Let’s get you to my house and you can shower and rest.” Gerard went for one of Jude’s bags.

“NO!” Jude exclaimed. “I want to go right away. I need to see Mum.”

Gerard started to protest but Haley but a hand on his shoulder. “Just let her go.”

“I can shower at the hospital and then take a kip—um, a nap.”

“All right, let’s get moving. Mikey is dying to see you. And hopefully Ma will be awake.”

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Jude grabbed the things she would need for her shower and a change of clothes. She didn’t want to have to worry about it later when she was already in the hospital.

Keeping a conversation going with her brother was difficult. There was an almost awkward air between the two, and it didn’t help that Jude’s mind kept wandering.

“So Jude, do you have a boyfriend?” Haley turned around to face her, a smile adorning her lips.

She had only known Haley maybe 20 minutes and she could already see why Gerard loved her as much as he did. You could see it in the looks he constantly sent her way.

“No, I date around a little but I’m single.” Jude finally replied, but you could tell she was distracted. Her mind was other places.

Haley nodded but continued to smile. “Well maybe you’ll find someone while you’re here. There’s always Fra—”

“Hayes.” Gerard interrupted with a warning tone. “Well here we are. Are you ready?” He looked back at Jude through the rearview mirror.

She nodded slightly, adjusting the sunglasses that covered her eyes.

Everyone was silent on their way to the room and when they finally reached it, Jude stayed outside for a few extra seconds.

“Where is she?” A quiet voice asked.

Jude took a deep breath and walked into the doorway. Directly in her view was a man of no more than 25 years old, with shaggy dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes that were covered with thick-framed glasses.

“Oh god, Mikey…” Jude whispered, running to him and threw her arms around his thin frame. “I missed you so much!”

Mikey was in so much shock but held onto his sister as tightly as he could. “You’ve grown up.” He smoothed down her hair and chuckled slightly.

Jude nodded, smiling through the tears that were rushing down her cheeks. She pulled Gerard over by the hand and put an arm around him and hugged him close also.

“I-I cannot believe this…”

“Gerard, Mikey… what’s going on?” A soft rasp was heard from behind the hugging siblings.

Jude’s breath caught and she turned and saw her mother’s face.

“Mummy…” Sobs racked her body as she went to her mother’s side and took her hand into her own.

“Judith? Judith Avery… my baby! Is that really you?” Donna’s face was soon swamped with tears as she touched the face of her youngest child. “You’ve grown up so much… you’re such a beautiful woman.”

“Mummy—I’m so sorry, so sorry.”

The door slid open “Hello Mikey, is Donna awa—” Jude turned her head to look at the intruder but found it was only a doctor. “I’m sorry, I’ll come back later.”

“Oh no, I’m terribly sorry. I’ll get out of your way.” Jude got up and walked to the corner of the room to compose herself. She wiped at her tears and looked out the window.

Haley walked over and placed an arm around her shoulders. “It’s okay…”

“Doctor Johnson, this is my daughter.” Donna’s voice brought more tears to Jude’s eyes. It was the same voice that soothed her fears… the same voice that sang her to sleep every night… the same voice she dreamt about…

“It’s nice to meet you…”

“Jude.” She finished, finally looking at the doctor.

He looked to be about 26 years old, which was very young for a doctor. His dark blue eyes softened his very sharp features which accented his dark hair beautifully. Everything was topped off with his charming crooked smile that lit up his face. It was safe to say that Jude found him very handsome.

“It’s nice to meet you as well, Doctor.”

Again he smiled “So you’re the daughter from England.”

Jude nodded and half smiled in return.

“I just came in to check on Donna and see if she was awake. And now that I DO see she’s awake, I can ask her how she’s feeling.” Doctor Johnson turned to Donna and gave her a questioning glance.

“Pretty much the same… hard to breathe, weak… You know the drill.”

“No improvement?”

“My heart feels better…” Donna grinned at her daughter who was still clinging to Haley against the wall.

The check-up continued and soon Haley had to leave for work, so Gerard went to drive her home.

“So Jude… what do you do?” Mikey asked, pulling his chair over to where she was sitting.

Jude was focused on what Donna was saying to the Doctor but soon replied to Mikey “Oh, I’m a master photographer at a studio back in England.”

“Really? That’s cool. Artsy”

“What do you do?” she finally turned her full attention to her brother.

Mikey sighed “Well… I’m in a band.”

“Oh? As a job?”

He nodded, but continued. “I play bass and Gerard is the lead singer. We actually have one record out right now, and our second is to be released in 2 weeks.”

Jude’s eyes grew 2 sizes larger. “Really? Wow… what’s your name?”

“My Chemical Romance.”

“I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard of you, but I would love to here you play.”

Mikey nodded with a smiling face. “You’ll meet the rest of the band later; they’ll be coming to see Ma.”

“If you don’t mind, I would like to take a fag break and call Father.” Jude thought for a minute and changed her mind. “Actually I would love a shower first.”

“Go ahead, I might take a nap if Ma goes back to sleep.”

Both looked over to Donna who was starting to nod off and Doctor Johnson starting to make him way out of the room.

“It was nice meeting you Jude. I think you being here will help Donna a lot.”

“I hope so, thank you very much for taking care of her.”

“My pleasure” He threw in one more charming smile before walking out of the room.

Mikey was laughing from where he sat and Jude shot him a glare. “What?” he asked still chuckling.

Jude rolled her eyes, grabbing her things. She walked to her mother’s bed and kissed her on the forehead.

“I’m here now Mummy, I don’t plan on leaving anytime soon.”