Stop Running and Stay Here
Disclaimer: No rights to the Death Cab lyrics, The OC, or any of its characters.
A/N: What can I say, Death Cab inspires me. Just a short ficlet, Seth/Summer fluff. The usual. You know. Word.
"But you don't know what now to do
Cause the chase is all you know
And she stopped running months ago"
- Death Cab for Cutie, "Your Heart Is an Empty Room"
Summer once told Seth he only wanted the chase. For a while, he even believed her. It was what he'd been doing ever since he saw her in the second grade for the first time. He'd been chasing after her, and she'd been running away. Or more, walking away or not even noticing, but running nonetheless.
Now he has her. Really, really has her. There's no time for love triangles and bickering about exes from former love triangles because their best friends are in a crisis. And for once they have to be the stable ones, and Seth doesn't know if he can do that. He doesn't know if he can focus and just be with Summer. It's always what he's wanted, but he went to Anna, than to Portland, and now he's staying put.
Because Summer is too. And he's done with the chase. And, he likes to think, the entire time she was running away, she was just trying to find him. Seth smiles and hugs his girlfriend. That's what he was doing too.
And they aren't going anywhere.