Everyone seems to be doing fluffy Emma/Will fics, at least to do with Sectionals and thereafter. However, I love angst. And I decided to do something a bit different with the mid-season finale. To be honest, I'm not completely sure what mysteries lie in the past of this story (You'll know what I mean when you read the prologue :D). But I just started writing, and this is what came out. It's really short, but it's just the beginning of what could be. If you're interested in me continuing, leave a review. Even if you hate it, I'd love to hear why. So, here goes -

Prologue

Sometimes he wonders what his life would've been like if he'd waited for her.

Better he thinks, a sadistic smile gracing his wrinkled lips.

It feels like yesterday that those kids handed him the trophy for winning Sectionals. His chest had swelled with pride.

They had gone on to sing an arrangement of a Kelly Clarkson song, something they had prepared just for him. It was then, when the lyrics poured out before his eyes that he realized…

Forever united here somehow
You got a piece of me
And honestly,
My life would suck without you

As the kids sung their hearts out to him, smiling faces and soaring voices, all he could think of was Emma. The thought of her leaving had plagued his mind since she had told him.

He knew how she felt. And as the song came to an end, he realized he felt the same for her, maybe even more.

Straight after practice he ran to her office. He had to find her, tell her how he felt. Seeing her office empty roused in him a sense of panic. All the colour and life had been sucked out of that little room, left only with a hard grey desk and white desk lamp. The thought of losing her was becoming more real by the second.

He ran around the hallways of the school, searching any and every classroom.

Believing he was too late, he walked dejectedly back to his room. He felt a few tears edging their way to the corner of his eyes and quickly wiped them away before they had a chance to fall. Walking past the junction in the corridor, Will heard something. Suddenly his heart began beating, fast and nervous.

He didn't even have to look up. He knew it was her.

***

That kiss had been the best and worst moment of his life.

Best because he was able to show her the feelings he had kept unrealized and suppressed for so long. And of course, because of the simple fact that he was kissing Emma Pillsbury, finally.

And it was the worst because inevitably, it had taken her away from him.

That kiss they had shared – that first, beautifully blissful kiss, was also their last.