Slipped Away

Summary: This is years later after they graduated from Degrassi. Sean and Emma are completely over and done with each other. He is getting married and packing to move away with his fiancee. But will somethings from the years before cause him to re-arrange his priorities? Emma and Sean fans hold onto your hats it's gonna be an intense ride.

Rating: T (PG-13) For mild language and some sexual content.

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi: The Next Generation or any of its characters. I do not own the song "Slipped Away", either. I, myself, own nothing. This is merely for fun and the cause too much time on my behalf.

I miss you, miss you so bad
I don't forget you, oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh

Nah nah la la la nah nah

I didn't get around to kiss you
Goodbye on the hand
I wish that I could see you again
I know that I can't

Oooooh
I hope you can hear me cause I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh

I had my wake up
Won't you wake up
I keep asking why
And I can't take it
It wasn't fake
It happened, you passed by

Now your gone, now your gone
There you go, there you go
Somewhere I can't bring you back
Now your gone, now your gone
There you go, there you go,
Somewhere your not coming back

The day you slipped away
Was the day i found it won't be the same noo..
The say you slipped away
Was the day that i found it won't be the same oooh...

Nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah
I miss you

Chapter One: Bag Of Memories

It has been over four years since Sean graduated from Degrassi Community School. During half of his Junior year and his full Senior year of High School he once again dated Emma Nelson, but ended things weeks before graduating because he felt she was to involved and dedicated to a relationship when he wasn't. So, one-quarter into his freshman year at college he came across Dawn and developed a close friendship, soon turning a relationship. The night after they graduated he surprised her and proposed, she happily accepted his proposal. Now that he is getting married he has decided to move to Washington so his fiancee can be closer to her family. This would be more convenient for them both, Dawn, as said, closer to her family and friends, and Sean able to get a fresh start away from Degrassi and any problems. Now in the present time, Sean and Dawn are in Sean's living room packing things in boxes for their move.

Sean leans over, kisses his fiancee's forehead and tapes up another box. "This one is done."

Dawn took her hand to run through Sean's blonde tinted unkempt hair resting her hand on the back of is neck. "Well, I have to get to work, be home later okay..."

"Okay, hopefully I will get some more work done here."

"I know you will." She pulls him into a small sweet kiss.

He pulls away from her smiling. "I love you."

"I love you too." She kisses him again this time quicker, stands and takes her bag off the coffee table. "I'll try to be home before five."

"Okay, don't be too late." He said readjusting himself on the couch.

"I won't, bye." She walks out the door closing it on her way out.

Sean picks himself off the couch, makes his way into his room and starts going through his closet. After a little while of scanning through his closet, seeming unsatisfied, he kneels down in front of it. Digging through some clothes he comes across an old box with some noticeable tears in it. He pulls back the flaps noticing things from past years. He fumbles through the box seeing papers, his old high school graduations cap, and some useless things, nothing really to his satisfaction. He then reaches the bottom of the box seeing a small, thick, crinkled golden envelope. He reaches the box, pulls out the envelope pushing the box aside. he plops on to his bed and opens up the crumpled envelope pulling out quite a large stack of cards and letters. He starts going through the stack seeing few holiday cards, old letters and even some letters from his parents. He started skimming over the old letters he used to get from Ellie Nash.

When Ellie's mother started going through rehab Mrs. Nash decided that when she came out her and Ellie would move I with Ellie's Aunt to ensure that Mrs. Nash would stay off her alcohol. So, Ellie soon moved to New Jersey in the middle of tenth grade. Her and Sean decided not to continue their relationship, but did write one another on a friendly basis. She was finding everything hard to cope with at first, but soon she made new friends and even found a new boyfriend. Sean knew she was moving on and wouldn't feel the need to write him anymore. His thoughts turned out to be truth and after some time the two lost touch completely.

He took those letters and put them off to the side. He opened the next few letters which were from his older brother Tracker.

Tracker had moved to Alberta when Sean was in ninth grade because of a job offer. Although the two brothers no longer lived close to one another they always made time to write a letter every now and then. Over the years Tracker had met his now wife of three years.

Sean smiled while reading, remembering seeing his brother only weeks earlier at his graduation.

After he finished off his brother's letters he put them off to the side in the pile with Ellie's. Then he looked over the two letters he received from his parents.

They don't usually even make any type of contact with him whatsoever, but there were a couple of times in his life where they made an effort to be "involved". One time back in tenth grade Rick Murray brought a gun to school. Now most of the Degrassi School thought he was a psycho, but no one truly would think he would go around shooting people. He had tried to shoot Emma Nelson because she had started a ribbon campaign at one point and helped destroy any chance of starting over at Degrassi, at least that's what he thought anyway. Sean would have felt completely horrible if anything was to happen to her so instead he got in the way of Rick's raging bullet shot to protect Emma. Well, once his parents had heard this they had to make a small effort to act like they were his "parents" by writing him and soon followed by one or two phone calls.
Then he found quite a few letters unopened. This seemed odd to him, he usually read his mail. He soon realized why he hadn't opened the letters, the return address had read Emma Nelson.

He had broken up with her only months before the letters were sent to him, he was starting school and truly didn't want to hear what Emma had to complain to him about. Whenever he had taken a break or just tried to end things with Emma, it was like he joined a debate team, she didn't take rejection well. Since time had gotten to him he actually never got around to reading Emma's letters. thinking it wasn't to much of importance, considering he had started seeing Dawn, he stuffed those letters along with others into the, once flat, golden envelope.

Now, years later he looks a those same letters debating whether to open then for his own amusement or just throw them into the trash. Well, his curiosity for the amusement of his ex-girlfriend Emma's most likely lecturing letter got the best of him and he ripped open the first letter from her. he unfolded the paper gently and read over Emma's hand written letter carefully.