Ever since her fall from a bridge into ice waters below, Ava Jerome (Maura West) has been presumed dead-but she is truly anything but on General Hospital.

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The police quickly called off the search for her and no body has been found-but after she has not turned up over the course of several weeks, the time has apparently come for her family members to be prepared to say their goodbyes-something her daughter Kiki (Hayley Erin) is getting ready to do by preparing a memorial service.

However, she will need to convince her uncle, Julian (Michal DeVry) that it is the right thing for them to do first.

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"My mom's gone and she's never coming back," she says to him in a preview clip for the Friday, Feb. 27 episode.

However, as they potentially team up to give Ava the memorial service she deserves, Silas (Michael Easton) is keeping a huge secret from everyone about the missing mom and mobstress. She is actually very much alive-and only he knows where she is now.

It is unclear how he was able to find her and sweep her off and away to some secret hideaway-and it's unclear what his intentions and motives concerning his former mistress are. But after encouraging Kiki to go ahead with the memorial service, he made up a reason for himself to skip town-and went to her mother.

"I'm here now," he says to Ava in the clip.

General Hospital airs Monday-Friday at 3 p.m. on ABC.