A/N This is my first OC fanfic, but I own all the dvd box sets so I hope it's accurate in case on settings blah blah. Don't own characters, just plot. Think of it as season 5... you know you wanted one.
Imagine if the end of series 3 had been so different? Who's dead? Who's alive?
"Ryan, pull over!" Marissa cried as Volchok rammed into Ryan's jeep again.
"Where?" Ryan replied, struggling to keep control of the car. Marissa looked around in a panic, only to realise that there was no where to pull over- they were driving right on the edge of the hill. She knew Volchok didn't want to kill her... or so she hoped, but the state he was in- who knew what he'd do?
Oh my God, she thought, trying to figure out how they'd escape this alive. She was heading out of her old life finally, and she didn't want it to end with her death. This couldn't be happening! She felt like crying- but there wasn't time to panic or stress, she had to stay calm for Ryan's sake. It was her fault they were in this situation- her stupid fault, if she hadn't gone with Volchok and done what she's done after Jonny's death then he wouldn't be trying to kill them right now. Oh, God, if I lose Ryan...
"Hold on!" Ryan yelled. Before she even reacted she was thrown back as the car crashed over the edge of the road. Spinning. Flashes. Black.
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Nothing had changed.
In the whole year she'd been gone for, nothing seemed to have changed. The mansion still looked as amazing as ever, it's huge curving stairway leading up to the two tall glass doors- she may as well have never left.
She pulled up the smooth driveway, making sure to park her father's convertible beneath the shade of the over hanging trees. She slipped off her large sunglasses and slipped them into her shoulder bag, and slipped it onto her shoulder. She sighed, and reminisced for a second of her travels, but right now she was back in Orange County... where she'd believed she'd belonged since she'd been born- but a year of travelling did loads to a girl, a lot more than giving her the tan she'd never dreamed of getting here.
"Welcome to the OC..." She muttered, slowly opening the car door and slipping out of the low seat. She straightened, adjusting her top and baggy trousers, not because they were supposed to look neat, but rather because that was what the old her would've done and now she did it just by habit, despite the fact she basically had lived in her sweats for the last year. How shocked would her friends, the people she'd grown up with, be when they saw her?
She smiled, she loved surprising people. She started towards the steps, a bounce in her step now she thought of how she didn't actually need to change to please them anymore. She was the new, improved, a lot more eco-friendly Summer Roberts.
"SUMMER!"
Summer was nearly knocked flying as she was grabbed in a huge hug.
"Can't... breath!" She struggled to mutter as the attacker backed off. Then it was her turn to scream.
"MARISSA!"
She squealed, grabbed her best friend in a similar manner in which she'd been attacked.
"Oh, my GOD! I can't believe it..." Summer screamed unable to contain her excitement.
"Oh, my God- I missed you so..." Marissa interrupted, eager to get across her own happiness.
"Oh, my God, your tan!"
"Oh my God, you look amazing!"
"Oh, my God-"
"Oh, my God, can we please go inside?" Kaitlin moaned from behind her older sister, not that there looked like there was much of an age gap anymore, Kaitlin already matched Marissa in the looks department and their height matched perfectly- they looked more like twins now instead of sisters.
Summer and Marissa looked at her blankly, and then almost feel about laughing. They were still heaving with laughter as they tripped up the steps, not even making it to the front doors before they just collapsed with giggles.
"Oh, God, you guys really need to work out," Kaitlin muttered sarcastically, rolling her eyes and continuing on her way inside.
"Kaitlin, where's your sister?" Julie called from the kitchen. Kaitlin followed the sound of her mother's voice and pushed open the door, confronting her mother who was leaning against the counter as she flipped through the latest Vogue.
"Summer's just arrived," She stated, hopping onto the high stool beside her. Julie rolled her eyes, and continued to read.
"Well, there won't be any peace here for a while," She smiled.
"I know, they couldn't even make it to the door before the collapsed laughing..." Kaitlin moaned, pouring herself some cereal.
Julie chuckled, "Just wait till those two get gossiping, I thought they were bad when they both lived in the same place..." Julie died off knowingly.
Kaitlin just shook her head and reached for the milk.
"A year... and they could've called..."
"Oh, Kaitlin, Summer was travelling and Marissa was mostly on the sea... they didn't have much contact. And don't forget, Marissa was in a coma when Summer left, she probably didn't even know for ages that Marissa had even woken up..." Julie explained, closing the magazine and straightening her low cut, red top.
Kaitlin looked up and noticed her mother's outfit.
"Bit early for clubbing isn't it?" She stated, glancing at the digital clock that blinked 9:00.
"Bullet's invited me to some sort of dinner, but it's in New York so we're flying," Julie explained, not sounding very excited.
"Mum, I know you turned down his proposal... left him at the alter and everything, but aren't you sending out the wrong message- Hang on, when are you leaving?"
"This morning, he's sent a car for me at 10," Julie explained, knowing what was coming.
"And when are you back?" Kaitlin asked, her voice low.
"Well... you may be babysitting..."
"MUM! You can't leave me with those two and Jack for a week!" Kaitlin complained, referring to her little half brother, the son of Ryan's father. Every other fortnight he spend with the Cohen's in Berkeley, and the rest with Julie in Orange County... and now her mother expected her to babysit with her older sister acting like a babbling 12 year old?
"YOU'RE ENGAGED?!"
"Uh oh," Kaitlin and Julie muttered in unison, quickly busying themselves.
Please R&R Help me out here!!!