JEMMA. What if instead of the shooting, Rick got his revenge from something else? What if certain girls at Degrassi had went missing? Emma Nelson being one. Two years later, Jay gets in a car accident by almost hitting someone who ran out onto the highway from the woods. It's Emma Nelson, alive but barely breathing. Ricks still out there, cops on his trail, but is Emma safe? Jays going to make sure she is.
"I pitied you, Rick." Emma said, looking down at her nice pretty little top that was now ruined with yellow paint. How could he just try to kiss her over something like that? Clearly she was only trying to make him feel better, she wasn't flirting!
If she ever had unintentionally led him on, it was by mistake. She didn't want him like that.
Rick stood with there with paint all over him from the prank, and feathers stuck to him. His lower lip almost trembled, and his heart snapped and twisted.
"Get a clue!" with that, the blonde environmentalist stormed off and his eyes burned with tears until he shut his eyes tight.
His sadness quickly turned to anger, clenching his fists. Everybody hated him, everyone wanted to see him suffer and not only was this prank the last straw but Emma Nelson humiliating him and breaking his heart was the very end of Mr Nice guy.
Rick would make them pay. Rick would make her pay.
"Wanna walk home from school together after last?" Manny asked Emma.
The 15 year old girl was still looking down at her shirt, making sure it was all off of her. She didn't want anyone to know Rick had done something. "Um, yeah." she looks up, snapping out of it and nodded, "I'll meet you at the front?"
"As always!" Manny smiled happily and then something caught her eye, "Ugh, juvenile alert."
Emma turned her head, wondering what Manny meant. Sean led them, his whole 'gang' down the halls of Degrassi. He had on his usual scowl and Emma resisted even rolling her eyes at his 'bad boy' behavior as people who were scared of him, got out of their way. Clearly they didn't really know Sean cause Emma knew he was easy to handle, even if he did have an anger issue. He walked with his new girlfriend, Ellie Nash. Emma didn't even mind it anymore, she was getting over him, focusing on herself now. When she looked to the couple behind them, they were the real juveniles. Jay Hogart and Alex Nunez. Emma wasn't stupid, she knew who pulled the prank on Rick.
"Does Jay really think he's going to get away with it?" Emma taunted, cornering her eyes at the gang til they rounded the corner out of site.
Manny looked clueless, blinking, "Get away with what?"
Emma rolled her big brown eyes, "The trivia prank! Alex is the only one with that backstage access, and is the only one cruel enough to of done it in the school counsil."
"Paige hates Rick too?" Manny guessed and Emma gave her a look. Ya. Too cruel for Paige. "Ok, it was Alex but don't give her all the credit, we know it wasn't all her idea." Manny joked half heartingly.
Emma nodded, Oh boy did we know whose idea this was. "Evil master mind Jay." she glared the way he went.
"Must be nice with him focusing on Rick though. I don't think I heard you guys go at anothers throats for weeks." Manny told Emma with a small giggle.
The blonde had to laugh, it was true. She replied as the bell rang for next class, "In fact, I noticed it was starting to get a little boring around here..." she admitted.
As much as Jay got under her skin with his unwitty remarks (as clever as he thought he was), he was still part of Emma's daily day routine. She wouldn't say she missed him, she was just so use to him. You know how much she was a control freak. Her daily routine day always consisted of waking up, showering, getting ready, watching Jack, helping Spike with breakfast, getting a ride with Snake, meeting up with friends at locker, and bumping into Jay Hogart for a small cat fight, then go to class, getting work down, writing down what's for homework and then studying her butt off til the next day! Then repeat again.
"See you out front after class, Em!" Manny hollared, waving to her best friend and her hair whipped back and forth as she walked away quickly for class.
Emma giggled and rolled her eyes a bit to the guys' eyes that followed Manny. Manny was gorgeous, that was no lie.. where Emma felt like her 'background shadow friend', but that wasn't true. Manny just 'expressed' herself more than most girls, was more 'revealing'. That didn't mean Emma wasn't pretty, infact since this year and growing up from being a child Emma was unknowingly turning guys heads left to right. Emma had always been about upright respect though and she never put herself out there like Manny did now and then. She wouldn't say she was prude, but others would. Emma just figured herself to be a girl of virtue and morals. Getting straight A's were more important than boys right now, even if she was getting googly eyes from boys. Her studies got too in the way.
"Emma Nelson to the office." came the announcements.
Emma paused and even pouted a little, looking at all the students going into their classes. If she went to the office, she'd be late for class. She huffed but went, holding her books to her chest. Her blonde hair bounced with it's loose curls each time she took a step until she stopped infront of the office.
No shock, Jay Hogart sat down in the chair that waited for Raditch to probably give him detention.
He was napping, leaning back in his chair, eyes closed and his hands rested on his chest and feet on the coffee table infront of his chair. He blocked the other chair with his feet so rudely up so Emma happily kicked it off with her foot and his eyes flew open, glaring up until he saw Emma and raised an eyebrow.
"Greenpeace." he said bluntly and looked around to then yawn and stretch a little. She rolled her eyes and stepped over, taking her seat. He turned and taunted with his Hogart signature smirk, "I had a nightmare we were stuck in this office together." his grey eyes twinkled when she returned a glare.
My god he practically lived to piss her off, didn't he!? Emma folded her long tanned legs as she sat and leaned back, tapping her manicured fingers on her lap, "Not a nightmare Jay, it's true." she sighed deeply, taunting him first before he got the chance, "If you wanna pinch yourself though to 'wake up', feel free."
He rolled his eyes, sitting up and Raditch came out of his personal office, "Hogart." he nodded inside.
"That was weak, GP." Jay noted about her reply and he stood up, looking down at her almost pity like, "Maybe you're getting rusty. Gonna have to come around more to-"
"What are you doing here?" asked a voice, cutting them off and they both looked into the doorway where Sean stood.
Great.
"Awe." smiled Jay, clenching his chest like he had a heart or something and looked between Sean and Emma, "All of us, together again." he rolled his eyes, muttering off and almost went into Raditchs office til Emma spoke up again.
"Isn't Raditch waiting for your pathetic excuses on why you're failing miserably or skipping classes just to sit in your car doing nothing?" Emma taunted. She didnt know if that's what he did, but she bet it was.
He squinted his eyes at her, and had to try not to smirk, "Have you been watching me, Nelson? I'm flattered but I-"
"End it, Jay." Sean scowled, sick of the bickering and had finally got his 'late' slip from the secretary.
Jay narrowed his eyes to Sean before he snickered and entered the office, closing the door behind him. He didn't get it, Sean's little thing for Emma Nelson still. Sure, fine, she came back this year looking pretty hot for a sophomore but she wasn't the only ass and boobs in this school and there were more girls ready to put out in their grade.. junior girls! And none of them were outspoken like Emma, or so judgemental, or cute when she's mad- scratch that. Didn't mean to say that but so what? He got off on pissing her off. Wasn't much of a secret...
Meanwhile, Emma left the office after her turn and scoffed. All they wanted was to ask if she wanted to help with their new school play? She was going to be late because of THAT?!
Emma slowed down, seeing a note on her locker that wasn't there 25 minutes ago. 'Emma. Meet me out in front, now. Manny.' the letter wrote on the sticky note.
Emma looked around skeptically. Manny? Didn't she go to class? Why would she wanna go home now?
Emma looked at the clock. Only 20 more minutes of her last class left. Whatever, what more could she do? There was no point going now. Maybe Raditch could give her a pass for this absence because it was his fault she was missing it! .. there went her perfect track record.
She grabbed Mannys little sticker note on her locker and began to walk outside. Outside was a little cloudy but sun slowly coming out. Nobody was out there though but Emma just waited for Manny as she gazed at the sun in the cloudy sky almost admiringly..it was beaut-
A cloth went over Emma's mouth who screamed a little but the poison in the cloth made her choke and gasp, and her eyes flutter shut. Oxy. Rick stood behind and caught her before she fell, looking around with wide eyes through his glasses before he dragged her down a few steps to his moms car.
He put Emma in the back, and while he pushed her feet in the sticky note from 'Manny' dropped out of her hand onto the ground. SHe laid passed out in the back of the station wagon. He looked down at her, softening but still angry and slammed the door shut before going to the front and hopped into the drivers seat.
"Say goodbye to Degrassi, Emma." he snarled.
The care drove off, and the sticky note that was really from him to set Emma up, blew away.
That was the last time anybody saw Emma Nelson.
Emma's eyes were blurry, waking up now and then as Rick was dragging her through a cave like underground tunnel. He held his arm around her waist, pulling her as her feet were literally still dragging. She could barely keep her eyes open and when she opened them next, she swore she saw a prisoner like door with Paige Michealchuck behind it, screaming for Help.
Rick said it...Emma was going to pay for what she did to him.
Emma was dropped onto a prisoner like bed in another seperate cell, with only a bucket on the corner of the room to pee in if needed. Her forehead was sweating but she felt cold, and she laid there not being able to move. Wha...why was he doing this? Where was Manny? She moaned out, trying to groan and plead to Rick to stop when he started to tie her wrists to the bed.
"I know you very well, Emma. You're a fighter. Once this drug wears off, you're going to try to fight me." he said matter of factly and finished tying her up, standing up straight and let a sigh out, "I just can't have that."
"PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!" Emma could hear someone scream. Was that Paige? What was Rick going to do to them? Where were they?
Rick sighed almost sadly, his eyes tearing up to see Emma this way..numb and helpless tied to a bed. "It didn't have to be this way." he went to turn to leave.
He stopped at the door where Emma's eyes watched him with big bugged eyes. Her heart pounded, scared. "Rick." she pleaded, whisper like since could barely even move a muscel. What did he drug her with?
He stopped, but couldn't turn. "I'm sorry but you deserve this." with that, he slammed the door closed and locked it.
Meanwhile, Manny stood awfully confused on Degrassis steps. When Liberty and Jt passed, laughing, Manny stopped them. "Have you guys seen Em?"
"Nope, not since Lunch." Liberty told her.
Manny shook her head confused, "She didn't go to last?"
Liberty shrugged but shook her head no, looking to Jt who wondered what was up. Manny just, didn't feel right about this. Emma was never late, and told her she'd meet her.
In the parking lot, Jay lit a cigerette as he waited for Sean and Towerz. He sat in his orange civic as the wind blew a little. He had his legs hanging out the side of his drivers door and he looked down when he felt something hit his boot. He exhaled his cigerette slowly, squinting his eyes to get a better look and knelt down, picking up the little note.
'Emma, meet me outside, now. Manny.'
Clearly a note from Greenpeaces friend. Jays eyes scanned Degrassi, noticing Emma's friend waiting on the stairs but no Emma. He took another smoke of his cigerette before eyeing around the students passing and finding no Emma. That didn't seem like her to be late or nowhere to be seen...
TWO WEEKS LATER..
"PLEASE RICK, LET ME OUT! PleASEeee!" Emma begged, crying and tears streaming down her face. She looked scared. Even worse, she looked broken, tortured. She had been through enough, more than enough. Rick left her at night in this cave like tunnel and she had to hear other screaming from other missing girls and then during the day when he came back, he paid more attention to her than the others. He raped her, abused her, and her clothes were ripped and dirty.
She received a black eye for fighting the first time, when he took her virginity and then he received a bitten hand when he tried to stop her screaming when he put a hand over her mouth. He didn't rape the other girl(s), only her. She cried every night, just wanting to go home and didn't know why he was doing this to her.
"If you keep screaming, there will be consquences." he was nowhere in site, but Emma heard him and gasped.
She couldn't help but snap though. Being in here for days was getting to her, and she screamed for help if anybody could here her.
Her door opened, and Emma jumped back. She tilted her head confused when Rick stood there, but another person infront of him stood there too and sat on their knees with ducktape over their mouths.. it was Mr Orlander. Rick glared hatefully at Emma and held a knife to Mr O's throat, "You made me do it." he told her.
"no, no, no, NO!" EMma shouted, falling back against the wall as Rick slit Mr Os neck and then pushed him forward.
Dead. Blood everywhere.
Emma was put into shock for two days straight, not moving and staring at a blank wall.
TWO DAYS LATER...
She sat on the bed, shaking and sobbing and tried to calm down as she heard another persons sobbing. Emma ran her trembling fingers through her dirty hair, and hissed a bit in pain when she got up. Her legs hurt, everywhere hurt, and even after her 'first' time, it still hurt. Everything hurt.
"Rick." she said, standing at the door again and sniffed, waiting for a reply. Nothing. "Rick please just let me go home. I won't tell, I promise, I promise I won't. I-" she stopped, and shut her eyes, clenching her teeth shut as she continued to cry and just gave up, sliding down the door and onto her butt.. She craddled her legs and cried harder.
She didn't think she was going to see her friends or family any time soon. Maybe not ever.
Meanwhile at Degrassi..
"I didn't give her that note!" Manny cried, tears in her eyes as she looked up at Raditch and another cop.
Snake and Spike sat across from her and Spike looked like a wreck, Snake believed Manny and nodded, putting a hand on her shoulder as the girl put her head into her hands, sobbing.
Emma was missing and now the latest evidence they had was the note Jay Hogart brought in. Why did he hold onto it? He didn't know himself.. he just had a wierd feeling about it.
The one and only sat in the room next to the office, listening to Manny cry to the cops that that letter wasn't from her. He swallowed and tightened his jaw.. if it wasn't from her, than that wasn't a good sign.
Greenpea- Emma, was really missing. It wasn't like her to not tell anyone where she was, even Jay knew that. Christ, it wasn't even like Emma to miss one day of school. Paige Michealchuck also had been missing, but some were thinking it might of had to do with her forbidden relationship with Mr O, who also was missing. So her and Emma might of not been connected.
Emma's picture was on tons of posters with the words in bold letters writing MISSING. It was taped all over the city and school.
Jay exited the school and yet again is was not a sunny day. Could it of been ironic that the sun was gone since Emma had been missing? It just didn't feel quite the same. It was quieter...sadder.
"Hey baby." he heard and looked up to Alex walking up the steps to him and stopped, putting her arms up and resting them on his shoulders.
He looked away and swallowed hard, "Gonna skip the rest of the day."
"Want some company?" she asked with a seductive smirk, titling her head at him.
"nah." he shook his head no, and grabbed his keys from his pocket. "Going to just head home."
Alex dropped her arms and eyed him wierdly. He had been acting strange for a while, "Are you going to dump me or something? I've been getting cold shoulders from you. What did I do? Tell me what-"
"not everything is fucking about you, Lex!" he yelled, glaring at her now viciously.
Alex jumped, and then swallowed hard. He was right. It wasn't about her right now. Even if Alex wasn't friends with Nelson or Michealchuck that didn't mean she was happy they were missing. Nobody knew what had happened and she did hope deep down they were fine.. But.. that couldn't be the reason Jay was upset could it be? He didn't care about either of them...
She watched him scoff and storm around her, walking off and she eyed him and tried to shake it off.
They were fine. He'd be alright. Everyone was just on the edge. Everything in Degrassi would be normal again soon.
...but it wouldn't be. Emma's absence really made an impact at school. Even Ellie was having trouble talking to Sean about it. I mean, Emma had always been around even if they were ex's, Sean still cared about her. She meant alot to him, knew her since he was 13. But it was Manny who really suffered through the weeks and it showed. She was losing it, trying to find Emma, never giving up and looked restless. There was search partys, and flyers everywhere but you could only look for someone for so long until it was un healthy and you had to let the person go.
That's what happened when it hit the year point. Chances of finding a missing person after a year were slim to one.
She was probably dead.
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When another year went by, Manny had to stop obsessing over it. It took lots of therapy, and Spike went through it too. They had to accept Emma was gone. They had to move on with their lives.
This would of been Emma's senior year now.
Manny was back with Craig. For some reason, it gave her comfort to be with someone who knew a lot about her past. Who knew Emma. Who knew why she was the way she was now.
Sean had stopped dating Ellie this year when she went onto college since he was held back but so was Jay. The two were single and in senior year. Yup, Jay was single, he was since Alex and him had broken up but long before this year. Jay cheated on her, even with her own best friend Amy. Last year she finally called it quits. She knew he wanted it, but just couldn't say it. She ended up being a lesbian anyways. She still talked to Ellie, even if Sean still acted heartbroken over the break up. Ellie had reason though, Sean never got over Emma being missing and Ellie always misunderstood his worry and depression for being inlove with Emma. It wasn't like that, she was just an important person too him but it was the reason he and Ellie lost their spark.
Spike was a home mother now, and took care of Jack. It took a year for her to want to move away from the place that reminded her of Emma everywhere she went. Snake stayed, and she left.
It was like everyone was leading completely different lives now and acting 'okay' about it. Things weren't the same anymore, and they accepted it..
Emma was gone.
...
... a blonde girl went running through the woods, it was cold and foggy, and she had no shoes. She stepped over rocks, glass, anything you could think of in the woods but she didn't care. She kept on running. She wore a white short summer dress (he liked to put her in these clothes like she was still 15 years old). Her hair was almost to her elbows now, and from being in a tunnel for quite some time, she had milky white skin and the sun that peaked out a little hurt her eyes.
She had a scratch on her arm, like someone had tried to grab her. There was blood on the side of her forehead, a little in her hair. There was some blood on her dress but that blood wasn't her own. It was Ricks.. She couldn't breath, but just kept running. She was out. She was out.
She panted and stopped, sobbed and saw light. Cars. Those were cars. She ran toward the light and found she stood on a highway. She turned and her eyes widened, a car coming right for her and she was stricken with so much fear as it began to screech and try to stop from hitting her, that she fainted.
Emma Nelson laid on the road, her hair sprawled in an S and dirt and blood all over her. Her arm laid around her waist, the other one against the solid ground and her eyes were shut, head turned from fainting.
The car had stopped, and the guy got out, jogging a little and leaving the door open to go check on the person he almost hit. His mouth started to hang open until he stopped infront of her and peered down at the girl. He did a double take, noticing she looked familiar. His breath then stopped, and he almost went into shock himself, his eyes popping out and looking around as he put his hand on the back of his neck and backed up, almost afraid. He got the courage to race back forward and eye the girl again
Holy shit.
It... no, it couldn't be her. This looked like a young woman. Blonde, very toned, maybe around 18. He bent down, and extended his hand to move some hair out of her face but he stopped himself for a second.
...this couldn't be her. Come on, don't be stupid.
Jay couldn't help but speak up, and he swallowed hard before he whispered roughly, "Emma?"
The girl whimpered