Disclaimer: I do not own Summerland.

This is my first Summerland fic!

A/N: This is sort of what I expected to happen in the first episode. (Most of it though just comes to me when I write & I obviously changed some stuff to accommodate the story line.)

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Derrick sat up in the tree listening to his friend talk. All he could think of was getting that gift to his mother. All the words of his friend were muffled together creating a long annoying slur. The noise began to irritate the young boy who was then covering his ears as not to hear it.

"Derrick?" the other boy asked. "Derrick?" he yelled. The boy looked up at his friend in the tree. "Derrick!" he yelled again shaking Derrick who seemed to be in a trance.

The boy looked around fearfully. "Help! Help!" he yelled. "Somebody help!" he continued to yell, louder and louder every time.

Inside the house, Jay walked through the kitchen with his headphones on his ears looking for an afternoon snack. Every one but him and Derrick had left to do a "family thing".

The previous day

"How could you not come?" Ava asked Jay for the fiftieth time that day. Jay was sitting on a stool beside Susahnna, rolling his eyes.

"I'm just not going." Jay stated annoyed in his cute Australian accent as he stood up and walked over to Ava. Bending over, Jay brought his hands over his head, grimacing in pain. He had been getting those blinding headaches more and more often, but he chose to think nothing of it, or pretend he did.

"Jay are you okay?" Bradin asked as the whole family looked down at him.

Closing his eyes tightly, he forced himself to stand up straight. "I'm fine." He said quickly, arousing suspicion in his friends. "I'll be outside if anyone needs me."

Ava looked at him, deep into his eyes. She saw the pain and struggle in the way his eyebrows leaned their tops toward his hairline. She could see in his face how much he wanted to stay behind and be alone. How could she look at him and tell him to go? "Don't come." She mouthed. Jay forced a smile and made his way to collapse in the lawn chair on the deck.

The look on Jay's face was printed in Ava's mind. She felt so horrible for bothering him the entire day. "If he's not going neither am I!" Derrick protested.

"Then can I stay too?" Bradin asked hopefully, seeing a light peek through on his 'worst weekend ever'.

"Fine! No one come!" Ava yelled with tears flooding her eyes as she escaped to her bedroom.

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Jay thought back on that day, as the words of his discman echoed through his ears. Opening the fridge, he heard a scream. "Probably just the song." He told himself and back to the fridge.

"Help!" he heard the voice yell again. It wasn't the music.

Jay yanked the headphones from his ears and dropped the Discman on the floor, letting Ava's CD plunge through the dirt on the floor. Feeling that aching pain in his head, he watched as the house turned into a blur. Moaning in pain, the Australian forced his eyes to look straight. Jay ran around the island and tripped over Bradin's bag that the thoughtless teen had left on the floor.

"What happened?" Jay yelled as he stumbled down the stairs.

"I don't know." The kid said scared. "I was just talking to him and he went into a trance or something and now he's... frozen."

Jay looked down at the kid. "It'll be okay. Go inside and get a cloth, then it wet it." Jay instructed as he tried to stay calm and ignore the pounding in his head. He watched as the kid nodded his head, then Jay added, "stay inside and I'll meet you there.

The kid ran up the stairs and into the house. Jay sighed deeply and went to the tree. "Why didn't we go with them?" Jay asked Derrick as he reached his arms under his friend's nephew. Pulling the boy out of tree, Jay realized how stiff Derrick actually was.

In the house, Jay set Derrick down on the couch and the worried kid put the wet cloth on his friend's forehead. The two sat in an awkward silence together as they waited for Derrick to wake up. Jay could still feel the pain surrounding his fearful mind. But he had to stay strong, at least until he knew Derrick was okay.

A dozen minutes later, Derrick's eyes flickered open and his now limp body turned over. The young boy who had been rocking back and forth in the chair leaped to his friend's side.

"So how do you feel Derrick?" Jay asked trying to keep his eyes open.

"Okay, I guess." He said looking up at Jay.

Derrick looked up thankfully at Jay, whose eyelids were becoming heavy. Fighting a vain battle Jay felt his head pound along with the beat of his heart. Jay began to feel his body falling into darkness. His eyes rolled back into his head and his body fell against the hardwood floor.

Derrick jumped up. "Jay!"

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Will Jay be Okay?

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It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes.

--Proverb