Just Like That...

A connection to family is something everybody cherishes but when it is broken and unknown answers is all we want. In this case Will's family is still wondering about the mother that walked out on his dad, the famed congressmen, is she alive? Does she want to reconnect?
Although Beth had told Hanna he grandmother was dead and there was no use looking Hanna couldn't help herself. She walked the 17A area a couple times a week looking for that mysterious woman she had seen so many times at Mark's congregational meetings. It came as a shock one day when she had finally found her. Hanna had just stopped in the Zip's Kwik Trip for Altoids and a lottery ticket when she saw her. She fallowed the women and her friend back into the store. She had thought of what to say so she approached cautiously. As she stumbled for words she told the women she was an art student and was drawing portraits of people at different stages of life. They had quickly recognized her. They had seen her at the meetings before and they didn't buy it when she told them she volunteered to serve food there. She had offered the women $10 an hour so she could draw them and they agreed and they went to the coffee shop.
As Hanna set up the scene she sat adjacent to the women and after two hours their picture done in crayola crayon was finished. Nan wasn't impressed and said she had somewhere to be and Hanna payed her, the other lady however was astonished at Hanna's talent and as Hanna drove her home she offered a copy and said she would bring it by later. A week later Hanna had redone the crayola portrait in pastels, put the two pictures in a frame for the women, and delivered them to Sue's house. Although Nan acted as if she wasn't impressed, Sue said she would be. Nan was gone at the time but they went and put the picture up in her apartment anyway. As they did so Hanna noticed a picture on the table next to Nan's chair, it was Mark.
Hanna e-mailed Will that day and after two days of suspension he finally replied. She went to his house and Aerin answered the door. Both his parents were out of town and she was "babysitting" As Will and Hanna were about to leave Aerin decided to tag along. They watched as Nana walked into her apartment and they fallowed suit. As Aerin knocked on the door Nan was expecting them. She had heard about Hanna's findings and had news to tell. Jill, their grandmother was a good friend of Nan's, a good friend considering Jill was batting for both teams, if you know what I mean. Jill and her were in love but just like Jill ran out on Mark she too had ran out on Nan. It wasn't until 5 years ago she had found out she was dead. As a bartender Jill had to defend herself one night and was put into Tennessee lockup. Two weeks in her apendix burst, she didn't die though the jail gave her a bad blood transfussion and she was left with Hepititus, slowly it killed her liver.
Nan had heard about Aerins car accident and how she had killed her three band mates, she brought it up and irritated Will called Nan a bitch, but not before they could see something they never have before, a picture of their father as a kid. Aerin was hurt and Hanna drove them both back to their grandparents house. Aerin planned on going to stay with some family friends and Will feared she might not return one day...