The woman on the screen looked up, her smile widening. "Fiona, sweetheart. It's okay. Everything's going to be okay."
Fiona sat there for a long time, her heart heavy with grief. She knew that what she had seen wasn't real, that it was just a hallucination brought on by exhaustion and stress. But it had felt so real, so tangible. Shameless S01E0950:48 Min
The screen didn't go black. Instead, it started to pulse with a faint, rhythmic glow. Fiona leaned forward, her heart beginning to race. Was it a glitch? Or something else? The woman on the screen looked up, her smile widening
Fiona gasped. It was her mother, Monica. But this wasn't the Monica she knew—the woman who had abandoned her family time and time again. This was a Monica who was happy, healthy, and present. "Mom?" Fiona whispered, her voice trembling. Everything's going to be okay