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"It's too late." Rick said shakenly, holding the gun in his hand and aiming at Emma.
Sean couldn't believe this was happening. He couldn't believe he was here at the right time, the right place. Yeah, the actually sounds messed. He never wished to have a gun pointed at him, but he was glad he was here to protect Emma. He couldn't imagine her alone in this, it made him sick to his stomach thinking about it.
Sean shook his head at Rick, standing in front of Emma protectively, "No it's not" Sean tried to get through to Rick.
"I already shot somebody." Rick pulled the trigger and Sean dove at him as Emma jumped from the loud bullet noise.
It's funny how much you learn about yourself when your life is on the line in a matter of seconds. Sean had one flash, not of something, just someone. Emma. It wasn't a certain moment, or a favourite moment of his of them together... it was just her, smiling, and it was like it was in slow motion. It was after they broke up, a few months later. Sean guessed it just meant a lot to see her smile after everything he did to her. She was beautiful. Always had been.
If this was Ellie here, would he of stood up to Rick?
"No!" screamed Toby, watching everything go down in horror.
Sean was on top of Rick and opened his eyes he didn't know he had close so tightly. He was pinning Rick down to the floor with all he had. He looked around frantically when seeing no gun in Ricks hand anymore, it laid to the side of the wall with no bullets left.
Sean breathed hard. The bullet, where'd it go? WHERE did it go? He checked himself and then Rick, who seemed fine but was breathing madly and glaring up at him.
"Sean." Came a tiny fragile voice.
Sean whipped his head around to see Emma standing behind them. The green sweater he couldn't help but admire this morning on her, was now ruined by this ugly...red... thing.
Suddenly Rick was let go and Sean scrambled up to his feet as quick as he could to get to Emma.
She was shot in the stomach. His Emma, was shot.
Sean caught her in time before she fell and cradled her in his arms as he bent down a bit to the floor.
"Em, Emma?" he choked raising his hand over her bullet wound, but decided not to touch it. He didn't know what to do.
Emma watched as Sean looked bewildered, and he couldn't breath right. He held her tight with his one arm and started yanking off his sweater with the other.
Emma laughed effortlessly, that stupid hoody. She knew she'd go down with it... with him.
"You'll be okay, you'll be okay." Sean repeated for Emma, or for himself? He pressured his sweater on her wound and Emma's mouth dropped in pain.
Her voice cracked, "Sean it hurts so much. I didn't know something could be so painful." Her big brown eyes stared up into his blues. All the hate she had for him just, fell away. It was hard to tell yourself to hate him after you loved him so much, and you had no effort in you at the time to do so anymore.
Sean started forming tears into his eyes, her blood was leaking through his sweater and onto his hands.
"Emma, I'm so sorry." Came Toby's voice.
Sean looked up at him like he was the biggest idiot he's ever seen in the world.
"GO GET HELP!" Sean screamed, pulling Emma close, "GO!" Toby ran as fast as he could away as Rick, who was on the ground, pulled himself up on the wall.
Sean gently put Emma's hair behind her ear and looked down at her, "Remember, remember the time with our first kiss?" he asked, his voice cracking, "You had that, stupid, stupid hair." He was laughing, but tears were streaming down his face "come on, can't be more painful then that."
Emma was going pale. And she could barely keep her eyes open. With all the strength she had she opened her mouth.
"I wish..." she drifted off, and slowly closed her eyes. Sean's mouth dropped.
"Emma." He shook her gently but firmly. You can't go, you can't go, you can't leave, you can't leave me here.
Emma fluttered her eyes open and coughed a bit, "I wish I did things better, with everything... with you."
"You did nothing wrong." Sean cried and leaned down kissing her forehead, "You were perfect."
Silence.
Sean looked down at her again, her eyes were closed.
"Em?" he whispered "Em please." He shook her again, nothing. "Emma come on! Wake up!" he yelled, "Please don't do this. I love you. I love you, baby." He started shaking back and forth with her in his arms, "Don't leave me."
He could hear the swat team and cops running through the halls, calling for somebody. But he couldn't answer. His mouth opened but he choked.
He then looked at Rick who stood by a door and gave him a deadly look. "Look what you did! LOOK WHAT YOU DID YOU FUCKING! Fucking..." Sean was going into shock or something. Rick didn't matter anymore, help didn't matter, only Emma did. He turned his face back towards Emma.
He could hear nothing anymore, or see anything. That was until a cop was trying to rip Emma from his arms. He wanted to hold her to him forever, but with being in shock, you couldn't move or speak as much as you wanted to.
"Sean let go, we have to see if we can save her." A cop had bent in front of him, picking up the girl whose ever made Sean really, truly, feel. Sean stared as he put her on a stretcher.
He said to another paramedic, "She doesn't have a pulse."
"Get her in the ambulance." The other guy said and they rushed her out.
Time stood still for Sean.
Mr Raditch came out of nowhere, "Is he ok?" he directed toward Sean to a cop. The cop walked towards him and bent down infront of him again, flashing a flashlight into his eyes.
Sean's blood shot eyes didn't move.
The flashlight moved from side to side.
7 YEARS LATER
Another flashlight shined into Sean's eyes.
Sean squinted his eyes and tried to cover the light, "Put the light down, idiot." He called to his partner.
There was a laugh and someone finally shined it off. Sean's partner was Lucas Vaughn. The guy actually went to Degrassi High years back too, but Sean had never known him until he signed into his police station.
Yeah, Sean was a cop now. He was also almost 23 now. He looked the same in the face, maybe a bit more manlier. He was defiantly more taller and built. His hair had grown out a bit too in a charming yet mysterious looking way. He grew some facial hair too, but only left it at his chin.
Sean Cameron has and always be the looker.
"Another killing?" Lucas asked Sean, stepping over evidence to him.
There was other cops standing around, people taking pictures, a man putting caution tape around the crime scene.
Sean nodded at him and then nodded down to the floor.
"Jesus Christ." Lucas turned in digustment. The girl was stabbed right the chest and lying dead on the ground with a blood bath. There was signs of struggle shown on her neck where she must of been strangled.
Sean examined the scene and muttered, "Fifth girl killed in the past few months."
"How do you stand looking at this shit for so long?" Lucas asked, putting his hands on his hips and looking up at the ceiling to take a deep breath.
Another voice came in and said, "If you puke on my crime scene I'll murder your ass too, Vaughn"
This was their boss, the cheif of police, Old man John. He was a bigger man, but oldish, kindish... if you didn't work with him that is. He treated his 'boys' like...well, boys.
"Nice, boss." Taunts Lucas to his bosses sensitivity of the murder tonight.
John cursed under his breath standing next to Sean, "We have ourselves a serial killer." He said and Sean nodded.
A scrunny tall boy scampered over to them. He looked abit geeky, but hey! That was JT. Yeah, he worked within the business too as a profiler. He was really smart too, good at examining people and situations. Thankfully, he was the only Degrassi student Sean had to work with. He couldn't deal with anymore.
"Young girls, in their teens, all blondes." JT told them.
Sean bit the end of his tongue and nodded, "What do you think he's aiming for?" he asked.
"Could want to be killing someone who looks like someone he knows." JT confirms and explains, "Killers usually base things off their past. So maybe its family? His mother?"
"Teen mother?" John asked Jt, nodding to the young dead girl, she looked around 15 years old.
"Maybe she didn't raise him right." Jt confirms with a shrug, "Could be a long shot."
"Or girl friend?" Lucas offered and JT nodded.
That's when the stretcher and body bag came in to clean this mess up. Sean took a step back and let them through. Before they zipped the bag, Sean tilted his head curiously at the girl. Her eyes were still open, big and brown. He swallowed hard when they finally put her away and he took this as his cue to leave. The guys followed in after.
A reporter from outside the house shoved a microphone into Johns face, "Sir! Sir has there been another killing?" she yelled.
Tons of camera flashes were shooting and Sean clenched his jaw, it was getting late. He should go home. Get away from this.
"No comments." Lucas answered when his annoyed boss just shoved his way through the crowd over to his car. "Fucking reporters." He told Sean as they went to their cop car.
Another reporter followed them, "Did the Framing Killer strike again?" they ignored her until she stopped walking and questioned, "Sean? Sean!"
Hearing his name, and wondering why, Sean turned around confused and Lucas stopped behind him.
"Ellie."
The redhead, who still looked the same, just shorter hair, smiled widely. "Oh my god. It's... It's been..." she frowned remembering the last time they saw another and gave a weak smile, "It's been awhile."
"Your a reporter. Seems so obvious." Sean joked but didn't seem to have a lot of humor in his voice as she walked up to him.
She laughed, "Same ol' me right? Cop. That um, I wasn't expecting that but it's great!" she insisted.
Sean nodded and glanced at Lucas who gave him a look, "Yeah um. I got to go though, a lot of files to go do now." He said with a slight awkward cough.
"So he did strike again?" Ellie said, frowning deeply.
Sean couldn't tell her that, couldn't tell anyone that. They wanted to keep this under wrap so they can deal with it as best as they could without frantic citizens.
"Bye Ellie." He said, giving her back a weak smile and left.
Ellie watched him out of site and let their last moment together come back to her...
FLASHBACK.
"WHY! WHY DID YOU DO IT!" Ellie screamed on top of her lungs at Sean, tears streaming down her eyes, "Why would you ever put your life on the line for her!"
"Ellie?" Paige questioned her friends attitude towards Sean.
They were all in the hospital, waiting for results on their friends. Sean was slowly coming out of his shock as he sat on a chair, Ellie standing in front of him, yelling.
Seems Emma wasn't the only victim, Jimmy was shot in the back by Rick when he tried to run.
Spinner was here, with Paige and waiting for Hazel. Jay came along as well. Spinner was looking really twitchy though, and Jay just looked the usual.
"It's not what I meant... it's just..." Ellie drifted on, taking a deep shakey breath and asked him, "Why didn't you run!" she bent in front of him. Sean couldn't even look at her, he couldn't look at anyone.
He wanted the news on Emma. They saved her, they had to of. Doctors do that, they saved people. She didn't loose that much blood, Emma would be okay.
"Jimmy's okay guys! Jimmy's okay!" Hazel exclaimed with happy tears and a big smile as she ran back into the waiting room.
Paige stood up and hugged her friend tightly.
"Thank the lord." Jay said with a croggily voice, almost as if he didn't really care that much. Jay was an ass, but Sean thought he'd have more respect in a situation like this.
"Why are you even here?" Spinner snapped at Jay. Sean thought that was wierd. Lately they were BFFs. What was the sudden change?
Jay slapped the back of Sean's back, "Buddy ol pal needs me. I mean... he's not hurt or anything, but his wittle ol greenpeace was shot so I'm here for moral support. But you know Eminem, you shouldn't be so concerned when your ACTUAL girl friend is right there seeing how whimpy your getting."
"Shut. Up." Ellie said to Jay through gritted teeth. Jay just snickered at her and then looked up when Emma's parents came over.
Sean quickly stood, pushing both Ellie and Jay and their problems aside.
"Everyone." Spike said, cradled in Snake's arms, "Thank you..." her voice cracked, "For being here, I-" she choked up and Snake rubbed her back.
"It's okay, it's okay." He promised quietly, and Spike broke down into his arms.
Sean stood in horror until the best friend of Emma tried to run past, covering her mouth "Manny!"
Sean grabbed her a bit roughly, he couldn't help it. He needed to know.
Manny ran a hand through her hair and bursted into even more tears, "She's dead. They said she was dead. I was suppose to say sorry to her. I never got to say sorry, Sean!" she fell into his arms.
But Sean couldn't hold her. He emotionlessly handed Manny over to Spinner who held her up.
Paige covered her mouth as her tears formed as well. Hazel looked at Sean and couldn't imagine the situation he was in since Jimmy had survived.
"Well." Jay said leaning back, "Wasn't expecting that one!" he declared and stood up. He showed no sign of sadness, or even a bit a guilt for what he did.
"SEAN!" Ellie screamed as her boyfriend tackled Jay. Jay hit his head on the wall and landed on the floor. Sean kicked his stomach twice and then bent down to punch him himself.
Cops ran over and Ellie begged Sean to get off of Jay.
Jay couldn't even see anymore, he could feel the swelling as Sean continuously beat him senseless until he was pushed off.
Ellie shook her head from the memories. Sean had spent a few nights in jail that night, luckily, specially since he turned out to be a cop, Jay had dropped the charges. That was the last night Ellie saw Sean, he was still shaken up by Emma and the fight and when Ellie tried to calm him down when he was getting arrested, he snapped at her to go to hell and leave him alone. So she left.
She wondered if Sean was still the same... or probably, different.