Disclaimer: I do NOT own LWD. But I do have this awesome yellow rubber duckie my mom bought for Sterling. But since Sterling won't be here until December I can play with it. :D
A/N: Yeah, this one I cried while writing. Please enjoy.
It was the phone call every parent hopes never comes. It's the one thing that should never happen. But it did. Nora didn't believe the words. There was no way Casey was gone. She was always a safe driver, she always wore her seatbelt and followed all the speed limits. How did she get in a car crash?
Derek was the one to find Nora crumpled into tears on the floor. The phone was off the hook, Nora was sobbing so much she had the hiccups in the middle of them. Derek was instantly on alert. Something was wrong, but with who? He rushed over to her and just wrapped his arms around her, giving the best comfort he could. It was a bit awkward for him, but he had to do something.
"What happened?" he asked, after she had calmed down some. She still had tears running down her face, and the hiccups hadn't subsided, but she tried to answer him at least.
"C-casey, she-she's," she couldn't finish the sentence, but Derek got that something was majorly wrong with Casey. His Casey. He grabbed the dangling phone and put it to his ear, the line was dead.
"Nora, please tell me what happened to Casey," he begged. He was starting to freak out. Nothing could happen to her. She was the one thing that was always there, nothing could happen to her.
"She's gone!" Nora burst out in even heavier tears. Derek couldn't hold his tears back any longer either. She couldn't be gone. It was impossible.
The two sat on the floor crying together for a long while before anyone else came in. George had taken the three youngest kids out for ice cream, and when they got back they were in shock with what they saw. Derek, wanting to be strong for his step-mom, told them what had happened at least to his knowledge. All he got out of Nora was a car wreck.
George managed to get the rest of the information out of Nora, Derek tried to keep the younger kids calm as their parnets went to identify the body. Derek asked to go, but they said it would be best if he stayed with Lizzie, Edwin, and Marti. It was a few hours before they got back.
"Was it her?" Lizzie asked as they walked through the door. Nora was once again in tears, and George just nodded. Lizzie joined her mother in tears and soon enough everyone but Derek was crying. He wanted to be strong. He decided all his crying had been done with Nora earlier. He had to be strong for his family, it's what Casey would have wanted.
The next day George made phone calls to the family. It was hard. Then they sent Marti over to Emily's while the rest of the family made funeral arangements. Nora was trying to keep herself together and get everything done for her daughter, just the way she would have wanted her to.
It was clear that everyone in the family missed Casey and all her crazy ways. Derek was the worst. He was acting more grown up, trying to help with whatever he could. It worried George a bit, but he knew that his son was just trying to do what he thought Casey would want him to do. It seemed like the whole family was just trying to do what they thought Casey would want. But did anybody really know what she would want?
A/N: Okay, I know this is all sad and stuff. And it'll be that way the entire way through. But I hope you like it. Up next is the funeral and shit gets crazy. What did you think though?
~Domi~