Hey, all, I don't know if this is gonna be any good, but I decided to give it a shot. I've always wanted Ryan and Summer together, so I'm going back to the end of Season 2 to make it happen. This picks up right after Marissa shoots Trey, and I know it's short, but it's just the prologue! So enjoy and please let me know if I should continue!
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
The gun goes off and the world stops.
Ryan watches his brother's eyes go wide, feels Trey's fingers spasm and loosen on his neck. Funny, but even once his air supply is restored, he can't breathe. He struggles to roll Trey onto his back, struggles to save a lost cause because that is what he does.
Marissa lowers the gun. From her stance by the door, she can't tell who is injured, but there is blood on the floor, tangible proof that she has done something beyond imagination. She backs out of the room slowly, her body shaking in shock, her head shaking in denial.
Seth scrambles forward to help and then freezes. It strikes him as ironic that he's been waiting all his life to play the hero and, now that the time is upon him, he is ill prepared to handle it. He has dealt with blood and gore before, but there is a world of difference between his video games and reality.
Summer is the one who finally steps forward to take control. She dials 911 (a call her pink, rhinestone-studded cell phone has never made) and orders Seth to wait outside for the ambulance and stay close to Marissa. She drags a panicking Ryan off of Trey's immobile body and applies pressure to the wound.
"Stay back, Ryan. Stay back!" she barks when he doesn't listen the first time and glares at him until he recoils. "Just calm down and try to breathe, okay? He's going to be alright."
"You don't know that," he rasps out, his blue eyes clouded with fear. It is the first time she has ever seen big, bad Ryan Atwood scared. Usually, it is him fixing the problems and facing the demons for everyone else. "You can't say that."
"Calm down," she repeats firmly and thanks God when the paramedics arrive.
The team works to lift Trey onto a stretcher and into the ambulance as a crowd begins to gather outside the motel room. A small scuffle breaks out between a distraught Ryan and the unwise EMT who objects to him riding along.
"They're brothers," Summer informs him and Ryan is allowed to scramble in.
Once seated, he clasps his brother's hand and swings his head around to thank Summer, their eyes locking over Trey's limp form.
"We'll follow you in Seth's car. Everything is going to be fine," she tells him again, with absolute certainty in her voice.
The doors slam shut and the world starts again.
