Her Mummy had left her three days before her brother Steven's seventh birthday and she couldn't figure out why. Perhaps it was her fault. It usually was. Even at age nine, Fallon Carrington knew she was not a good girl. Steven was a little angel who never got into trouble with their nanny, which she did every other day. Her Daddy loved her nonetheless though. So she hadn't ever thought that it was necessary to become a better person until that morning when her Daddy had asked Steven and her to come to the library, where he had informed them that their mother had left them.

She would never ever forget that moment and how Steven, who had always been Alexis Carrington's favorite child, had begun to sob. It took Fallon a second or two longer to comprehend that her mother was gone from her life for good. 

"But Daddy, I don't understand. Where is Mummy? When will she be back?" she asked with the innocence of a child who believed that none of her parents would ever hurt her.

"It doesn't matter. She has left and won't be back," her father had said with a firm voice and embraced his two children. "We have to look out for each other now, Fallon."

But Fallon was not satisfied with this answer. Her grandfather seemed to know something and so did their servants, whom she once caught talking about the "poor children," but no one wanted to tell her if it had been her fault. She strongly suspected it had been. A couple of nights before her mother had left, she had had a nightmare and had believed she had shot Roger Grimes, a man who worked for her father. She hadn't been able to sleep at all ever since, and perhaps that had been the reason why her mother didn't like her anymore. Her mother and grandfather had spent hours trying to convince her that it had just been a bad dream, so maybe her mother had needed a break from her.

Fortunately, her father had been away on a business trip back then, and as he still spent a lot of time away from home, he still didn't know about her insomnia. Not that she wanted him to find out and worry. She didn't want him to find out that she was weak and was afraid of going to sleep. So what she did was to go to Steven's room and sneak into his bed. Sometimes they also met in the hallway, and then she would talk to him and wait for him to go to sleep while she stayed up, waiting for their mother to return. If she returned during the night, she would surely go to Steven's room first because she had always been with her little boy at night when it was time for him to go to bed. Therefore, Steven was pretty much the only person who knew that she couldn't sleep.

One day, Fallon decided to go looking for clues on her mother's whereabouts in her parents' bedroom. Her father had moved out of it after Alexis had left, and from what she had heard, he planned on redecorating the room. So with her father gone, this might be the last chance she could get to investigate the room, which she did. It wasn't locked after all.

It still looked like her parents' room even though it clearly hadn't been used for some time, and there was a bit of dust here and there. The only difference was that the closets were empty, especially her mother's.

But wait a second... Was this a penny? Fallon went down on her knees and took the object in her hands. It was a solid English penny.

So was this a clue that her mother had gone back to England, the country she was from? Fallon had always been aware of her mother's love for England and how she had refused to get rid of her clipped British accent. Had she been so homesick that she had felt the urge to move back to England without her children? She tried to think of relatives she could call in England, but quickly realized that the only family members her mother had stayed in contact with were her parents, and both of them were dead. Alexis had a sister named Cassandra, but the two allegedly didn't get along as well as Fallon and her brother. Therefore, Fallon had never even met her aunt. And her friend Jeff Colby would also not be able to help her any further because his own mother who was Alexis' cousin had left him with his uncle Cecil. So perhaps the selfish urge to leave your child behind and let other people raise it for you ran in the family...

On the other hand, if this penny had belonged to her mother, perhaps it was best if she kept it and returned it to her mother some day. Weren't pennies supposed to bring you good luck? If so, perhaps if she kept it, it had the power to bring back her mother and reunite her parents.

As if on cue, the phone rang - or the phone made a hollow sound that sounded as if it was ringing. In any case, that sound made Fallon jump and hide in the closet. If she picked up the phone in this bedroom, whoever was at the other end of the line would know that she had been in this room. She knew for a fact that this was Blake Carrington's personal phone. But then, a thought hit her: What if it was her mother? What if her mother was calling her father because she wanted to return to Denver?

She had to find out who the caller was, so she decided to pick up the phone.

But she was too late. Whoever had tried to call her father had given up.

But she would never give up on Mummy. Never.

Fallon had the penny in her purse on the day of her mother's return to Denver. She might have given it back to her if her mother hadn't been so nasty to her. Of course, Fallon was no longer a child by then, and her husband Jeff Colby had told her that Blake had paid Alexis $250,000 a year to stay away from her children following their divorce. That was the kind of mother she had.

Years later, Fallon was sitting with her mother on the terrace of her Malibu home when her own daughter Lauren, who was now about the same age as Fallon had had when Alexis had left her, asked her to give her money because she wanted to buy ice cream from the ice cream shop at the beach. When Fallon opened her purse, she noticed the little penny, which was still there after all these years.

So when Lauren was gone, Fallon took the penny out of her purse and presented it to Alexis. "I've wanted to give you this back for a long time."

Alexis looked at the penny with curiosity. "A penny?"

"Yes, I found it in your closet at the mansion after you left us. I thought you might have left it behind intentionally. On the day that I found it, the strangest thing happened and the phone began to ring. I thought you might have tried to call Daddy..."

"No, I've never tried to call your father after our divorce. As for the penny, it must have dropped out of my purse!" Alexis said and laughed. "But I'll gladly accept it if you want to give it back. Don't they say that pennies bring good luck?"

"They do," Fallon said and handed it back to her mother.

"Then it brought you luck because you have this nice home and great family of your own. Now let's see what this penny can do for me!"