Chapter 1

Adam fixes his tie as he stares blankly at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. Today was a day of sadness as he got ready for a funeral. An innocent person had been killed and he thought it was his fault. He felt guilty. Guilty that his ex decided to take a gun and shot two innocent people just to prove how much she "loved" him.

He still had nightmares. It had only been a week since the shooting, but he still could not get the images of two helpless bodies bleeding in front of him as he saw the person responsible just simple leave. The way Eli and Clare's faces look when all of them heard the bad news. How people around him cry as he felt complete numbness. Every night, it was the same dream. Angie would be holding a gun and staring at him, only difference was in the dreams, he stopped her from running or even sometimes got there before the shooting occurred, but it all ended the same. Him covered in blood.

A knock suddenly wakes him from his transit thoughts. "Uhhh…bro. are you ready to go?" he hears Drew ask him from the other side of the door. Drew knew that his brother needed him there and this was one of those occasions were he would step up. "I'll be out in a bit" is all Adam says as he goes back to staring at the hollow person in front of him. He looked terrible. He hadn't slept well in a while and had dark bags under his eyes. He opens the faucet and splashes some more water in his face, wishing it would help. "Bro?"

"I SAID I'D BE OUT IN A BIT, DAMN IT" He yelled at Drew. Drew sense him getting angry so decided just to wait downstairs with Eli and Clare.

"Is he coming?" Eli asks Drew as he came down the stairs. Drew nodded and made his way to the kitchen for a bottle of water. Clare could not help but wonder how Eli had been holding up. This has to be rough on him she thought. He had suffered a lot with death in the past and now this all happening. Clare felt angry that they still had not caught Angie. It didn't make any sense to Clare now if they caught her or not. One person lay dead in a casket while the other was wounded in the hospital. As she thought about this, she got closer to her boyfriend and gave him a quick kiss.

Eli seemed taken back by Clare's sudden affection but knew why she was doing it. He stares into her eyes for a bit till he hears footsteps coming down the stairs. He looks and sees Adam. He looked like he had been having a rough time with this. Well anyone would if they knew their ex had killed someone" he thought

"Ready to go?" Eli asks Adam, but Adam, instead of answering, just pulls Eli in for a hug. Eli picks his hands from each side of his body and embraces his friend's hug.

Drew steps back in to the living room to see the two friends hugging and knew that this might be the only sign of humanity his brother had shown all week "We better get going, guys" he says as Eli and Adam pull apart. "Yeah" Clare says as she opens the door and walks out, trying to hide some tears escaping her eyes from seeing the boys bonding.

Drew locks the front door and puts the keys in his blazer pocket when he hears something that make him freak a bit- Adam laughing. Drew looks on to his brother as if he has really gone off the deep end.

Adam sees Morty and can't control it. It feels as though someone is tickling him to death as he lets out cackle after cackle. His is nearly out of breath when he stops and looks at the surprised faces surround him.

"Are you ok, Adam?" Clare is the first to ask as Drew and Eli come closer to him. He nods and tries to go back to being serious. "You know what is funny?" he says to no one in particular

"We are going to a funeral in a hearse."

Adam lets out a quick laugh as Drew and Eli smirk at his comment. The only one smiling at him is Clare, who might have been the only one who noticed him relaxing a bit more.

They all got into Morty and drive off, only thinking of what had just happened and how the time to laugh and relax was past them.

The monitors at the hospital woke her up from her sleep. Fiona rubbed her eyes with her right hand open to see Adam sleeping in his usual seat next to her, leaning on his hand that rested on the arm chair, wearing a black tux with the tie undone. She stretched her right arm as she looked back at her left shoulder. Her gown was undone around the area where the doctors had removed the bullet. She looked at the bandage around her shoulder and couldn't help but feel lucky. Lucky that she had survived, but at the same time sad that Josh had not. Adam had told her a day after her surgery that Josh had died from internal bleeding and that the paramedics and doctors did the best they could to bring him back but it was all effortless.

Fiona wiped away a tear from her eye as she thought about the boy who had saved her life. He was not at all the person she saw save her on that day. He had an affair with Angie and wanted nothing but to humiliate Adam, but on that day he made a sacrifice and saved her from a bullet that was aimed at her heart.

She heard yawning coming from the chair and looked back to see Adam stretching out. He looked horrible and had blood shut eyes from all his late nights keeping her company. Keeping vigilant is more like it she thought. Adam had been by her side every chance he got. He had taken a week off work to be with her night and day. He had even tried to convince his mom that he should take the next week, the first week of the new semester, off so that he could be with her.

"Hey" She said softly as he came over and gave her a peck on her forehead. "Hey Princess. How'd you sleep?"

"Fine…how…how was the funeral?" she asks, not trying to make her voice crack.

"It was as normal as a funeral can get. His parents where there, crying and Eli was mostly just trying to keep an eye on me for some reason. It all seemed like a nice farewell" Adam says as he zones out. Fiona recognized that look. He had been getting it often while talking about anything to do with the shooting.

"Adam" Fiona says as she grabs his cheek with her hand. He looks back at her eyes and smiles. She gives him a toothy smile before leaning in and planting a soft kiss on his lips.

She didn't know how long it would take, but she will get her old Adam back.

End of Chapter 1

Author's Note- I can never stop laughing at this chapter because I think it was a good 6 months or more before they shot Adam that I wrote about Fiona getting shot. Even Sara when she sent me this made a joke that I shot one part of Fadam and Degrassi shot the other half XD She found the chapters so I should be posting soon more of the story. Please Review it.