This is a prequel to the Get In story I'm hoping to upload in the few days. I don't own When I'm Gone and as always be honest but polite with your reviews.
When I'm Gone
Derek took another sip from his beer and steadied himself on the bar stool. Breathing in deep, he started to sing.
There's another world inside of me
That you may never see
Three years ago, he didn't even know this song existed. Hell, three years ago he didn't think he would know love. His opponent being so jealous that anyone even looking at him was in danger. Then Casey had walked into his life.
There are secrets in this life
That I can't hide
Somewhere in this darkness
There's a light that I can't find
Maybe it's too far away...
Or maybe I'm just blind...
The instant that he had seen her, he knew that he was in trouble. That she was in danger. He had tried to push her away, to insult her, enrage her, and he did. But she countered with insults of her own.
Or maybe I'm just blind...
And so the deadly game with his opponent became increasingly more dangerous with Casey life as the prize.
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
Hold me when I'm scared
If he didn't play Casey would die, another victim of his opponent. But if he played along long enough, she might just spend the rest of her life thinking he was the world's biggest jerk. He could live with that.
And love me when I'm gone
Everything I am
And everything in me
Wants to be the one
You wanted me to be
So every Wednesday since he had discovered this song he has gone to the closest karaoke bar and sang it. And he would continue to sing it until, either his opponent was defeat or he died protecting Casey.
I'll never let you down
Even if I could
I'd give up everything
If only for your good
Because it gave him strength. There wasn't a day that he didn't wish that he could tell Casey everything, but the truth could kill her. If she found out that every prank that he has ever pulled on her was to cover attemps on her life by... by someone so close to her.
So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
You can hold me when I'm scared
You won't always be there
So love me when I'm gone
He can never let her discover that most of her life, since moving to London, had been orchestrated by him and his opponent to both train her to survive and sabotage that training so that she would be easier to kill.
Love me when I'm gone...
When your education X-Ray
Cannot see under my skin
I won't tell you a damn thing
That I could not tell my friends
Roaming through this darkness
He had manged to arrange a temporary ceasefire just before the prom, but it had cost him. Derek had been forced to set Casey back up with Truman and his opponent had manged to destroy some of, if not most, of the respect that had built between him and Casey.
I'm alive but I'm alone
Part of me is fighting this
But part of me is gone
Or maybe I'm just blind...
His opponent had arranged things so that he looked like even more of a pig than he pretended to be. If he hadn't been for some fast thinking on his part Casey would have be living in Kingston by herself. Or worse with one of his opponent's plants.
Love me when I'm gone...
Love me when I'm gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone
Finishing his drink, Derek walked off the stage and over to the bartender. He was about to pay off his tab when his phone rang. He quickly answered it after he saw who it was. The person on the other end spoke quickly but clearly; and whatever they had said sent Derek into a cursing fit. Quickly composing himself, Derek slapped a hundred on the counter, grabbed his coat and headed for the door. He may not know what's going to happen next, only that, after tomorrow, his relationship with Casey is going to change.