Here is the second chapter! I was a little unsure about this chapter, I was going to hold off on it, but I thought that it wasn't going to get any better than this. I was kind of making up as I went, and it makes sense to me because I know how I want it to be, so if you have any questions feel free to ask. And I am always up for constructive criticism:) but please be nice! I hope you don't get lost...

kmr04: I just want to confirm... the family never even made it out of town after having picked up the kids... is that right? -Yes, that is correct. I didn't think about having them go very far since they went to the hospital in their home town. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

Disclaimer: I don't, nor will I ever own LWD. I know, I'm sad about it too:'(

"Case?"

"Yes Derek?" I asked looking up at him.

He was sitting in a chair on the opposite side of Lizzie's bed from me. He was holding her right hand as I held her left. Redness enveloped his eyes and he looked completely exhausted, but I'm sure I don't look any better.

"Where do you think the rest of them are?" He asked his voice cracking in a few places.

"I don't know Derek." I said as tears started to leak out of my eyes.

The doctor didn't tell us about the rest of our family, he only informed us on Lizzie. I'm sure that they are all in the morgue, but I couldn't bring myself to voice it. Just then a police officer walked into Lizzie's room.

"Are you Casey McDonald?" He asked looking at me.

"Yes I'm Casey, and this is my step-brother Derek." I said as I wiped tears away from my eyes.

"I am Officer O'Brien, I called earlier."

"Oh, yes! I'm sorry I didn't call you. After I got your message we came down here as fast as we could."

"It is ok." He said with a sincere smile.

"We don't know what happened." Derek said not taking his eyes away from Lizzie, "We weren't there. Could you please leave."

"I know that son, but the hospital needs you to confirm the bodies, and I thought I should warn you a head of time. And I was making sure that you found your sister."

"Thank you." I said. I looked down at my little sister and just imagined what the rest of my family looked like. My stomach twisted and I felt dizzy.

"Ok, if you ever need anything you can call the Police Station and ask for me."

"Thank you Officer O'Brien." I said attempting a smile, but it didn't really pull across my face.

He left the room and I looked at Derek. His eyes were still glued to Lizzie. Tears slowly fell from his eyes and landed on his forearm.

I can't imagine what he is going through. He lost his whole family. He was the only Venturi left. I still had Lizzie, but he had nobody. Sure he had me and had Lizzie, but we're not his blood, we're just a substitute. He lost his dad, his brother, and his baby sister. I lost my mom. Even though I'm in unbelievable pain about losing her, I can't imagine what he is going through.

"Derek, are you ok?" I asked before even thinking.

"No Casey, I'm not ok. I lost my dad, my brother, and I lost my S-s-smarit!" The tears poured out of his eyes. I let go of Lizzie's hand and walked over to his side of the bed. I wrapped my arms around him and he turned around and pressed his face into my stomach. His hot tears seeped into my shirt, but that only made me hold him tighter.

"Shhh, shhh. We're going to make it through this Derek, we have to." I said with tears falling down my face.

How can we make it through this? Lizzie is in a coma, half of my family is gone, and Derek is slowly dying on the inside. I can't do this, I'm only 18.

"Caaaa-sey? Deee-rrr-ek?"

There was a rustling sound and I look over to Lizzie's bed to see her eyes fluttering open.

"Derek! Look! She's awake!" I said as even more tears developed in my eyes.

He turned away from me and leaned over to press the nurse button, and then he turned and looked at Lizzie.

She looked so little laying in the bed. Her eyes fully opened by the time the grey headed nurse walked in. She walked over to the bed looked at all of the machines hooked up to her and she paged the doctor. Doctor Sutton walked in shortly after moving towards Lizzie.

"Well hello miss Lizzie, it's nice of you to join us" He said with a big smile across his face.

He pulled out a flashlight, "Can you follow the light?" he asked her. He flashed it across her eyes and her eyes followed it.

"Can you tell me your name?" he asked next.

"Lizzie McDonald."

"Ok, how old are you?"

"Fifteen."

"Do you know why you are here?"

"Umm… I remember being in the car, it was raining really hard. I was talking to Edwin, and then there was a bright light… and I don't remember anything else" She said looking at me and Derek like we had grown three heads.

I was crying uncontrollably and Derek was holding me as tight as he could. She doesn't know what happened. She doesn't know that are family is no longer with us. She is the only survivor.

"What happened? Where is everyone?" she asked looking around for the rest of the family.

"Lizzie, there was an accident," Doctor Sutton started, "That bright light was a car's headlights. That car hit your van…" he let the sentence go.

"Wait, what are you saying?" she said her breathing picking up, "Casey where is Edwin?" she said with pain in her voice. Why was she asking for Edwin and not mom?

"Liz, you were the only one that made it…" Derek said deeply like he was trying to hold his emotion back. He was clutching me in his arms trying to get me to calm down for Lizzie's sake.

"What?"

"They didn't make it." Doctor Sutton said trying to help.

"No, no, no, NO!" Lizzie screamed, "Where is Edwin! I want to see Edwin!"

She started to try and get up and Doctor Sutton pushed her back down. "You must stay in bed Lizzie."

"No! I need to see Edwin!" She screamed even louder.

Doctor Sutton couldn't hold her. "Nurse call!" he yelled.

The nurse ran out of the room and came back a few moments later with a man carrying a needle full of some white liquid. I leaned into Derek for support and he moved us to the opposite side of the room from the bed. My baby sister was about to be sedated. I quickly forced my face into Derek's shirt and covered my ears. He wrapped me in his arms in a protective way, like he was shielding me from the pain, but I could still hear Lizzie screaming out for Edwin.

I pushed my hands harder into my ears, and I could still hear. Then it got quieter to the point where I couldn't hear anything. Derek loosened his grip on me and slowly rubbing my back as a sign that it was over. I pulled my hands away from my ears and pulled away a little from Derek, but he still held on to me. I looked at my sister lying asleep in her bed. Her face was a little red and she didn't look peaceful in her slumber. Then I looked towards Doctor Sutton. His hair was in disarray and he was smoothing out his shirt.

"The sedative should keep her asleep for a couple of hours. Maybe since we told her she might wake up and not have the same reaction. Then again… I will be in here in a couple of hours to check on her." and with that he walked out of the room with the rest of the people that had came to assist.

I turned to Derek and he looked like he had aged ten years since what just happened.

"Derek… I'm scared."

"I am too Casey." He said as he led us back to the bedside. This time instead of us each taking a side of the bed he sat down in the chair and placed me on his lap. He securely wrapped his arm around my waist and held Lizzie's hand with the other. I wrapped one arm around his neck and place my other hand on top of his and Lizzie's. We sat there for a long while just looking between each other and Lizzie until Derek broke the silence.

"Why do you think she wanted to see Ed so bad?"

"I don't know." I said as I looked down at my baby sister.

"Do you think...?" he didn't finish his sentence, but I knew what he was thinking.

"Do you think that too?" I said looking into his chocolate brown eyes.

"Maybe they thought it was weird and thought that we would judge them?" he said questionably.

"But if they were together they would have told us, wouldn't they?"

"I don't know, but that's what I pieced out of this incident." He said looking back down at Lizzie. "Do you think they loved each other?"

"If they were together, I'm sure they did." I said as tears bubbled out of my eyes.

What if Lizzie and Ed were together? What if they loved each other? Now he is gone and has left my sister hurt with me and his brother trying to hold ourselves together even though we are slowly slipping. I hope we can just make it through the night.

I could feel my eyes slowly drooping, but I had to stay awake incase Lizzie woke up again. Derek apparently took notice that I was swaying back and forth on his lap trying to stay awake.

"Case."

"Hmmm?" I said trying to wake myself up.

"Why don't you go lay on the couch over there?" he said pointing to the little mint green couch on the other side of the room.

"But what if-f-f Liz-z-z-ie wakes up?" I said slurring my words.

"I will wake you up at the first sign of her waking up. Please go sleep. For me?" He said holding my gaze.

"Ok" But I didn't move.

Derek shifted me in his arms and picked me up. He walked me over to the little couch and carefully put me down. He picked up one of the extra blankets laying on the end of Lizzie's bed and threw it over me. Then he leaned down, and right as he pressed his lips to my forehead, I fell into unconsciousness.

The whole family was sitting outside in the backyard with happy, smiling faces. George was cooking on the grill, mom was helping him put out the fire he caused, Derek was holding Marti in the air swinging her around above his head, and Edwin and Lizzie were sitting in the grass holding hands. 'Everything is perfect'I thought to myself, but I thought to soon.

I look over at my mom and George and saw that scratches and blood bloom across their skin, then they faded way in the wind. I look over at Lizzie and Ed and see that the same thing is happening to them, except Lizzie was left sitting by herself covered in scars, tears rolling down her face mixing with the blood. As I went over to comfort her I looked over at Derek and Marti. She slowly evaporated out of Derek's cradled arms and he fell to the ground, sobs shaking his whole frame.

Lizzie soon faded out of my arms and I started to run towards Derek, but I wasn't moving. Rain started to pummel me when I saw a bright light out of the corner of my eye. It was a car headed right for Derek.

"DEREK!"

"Casey, wake up."

I woke up to Derek shaking my shoulders telling me to wake up.

My eyes focused on his face and tears welled up in my eyes. I threw my arms around him and sobbed into his shoulder. He automatically wound his arms around me and rubbed circles into my back.

"What's wrong?"

"I dreamt that everyone d-d-died. And I w-w-was running towards y-y-you. Th-then a c-c-c-car ran o-over you! Oh Derek!" I sobbed not making any sense at all.

"Shhhh Case, it's ok. I'm right here. I'm not going anywhere, I promise." He said trying to calm me.

He sat down on the couch and pulled me into his lap and rocked me back and forth until I stopped crying. Once I had finally stopped he pulled back and looked into my eyes.

"Are you ok?" he asked as he pushed some of my hair away from my face.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said practically lying through my teeth. He took notice and gave me a weird look but dismissed it just a fast.

"Lizzie is awake." He said looking over to the bed.

I looked at her and almost broke down again. Lizzie was curled up in a ball on the bed crying her eyes out. I got up and walked over to her with Derek's hand holding mine. I put my hand on her shoulder and she flinched away from me.

"Lizzie?" she didn't reply. "Lizzie, please look at me."

She turned her head towards me and stared me straight in the eyes. Her eyes were red and puffy, I couldn't take it.

"What do you want Casey?" she asked.

"Tell me what happened. What happened between you and Edwin?"

Ok, I know this chapter was totally weird. Now don't start throwing rotten food my way before I can explain myself!

I know what you are thinking:
Lizzie woke up too alert for just coming out of a coma. -I had to make Lizzie more alert to actually move along with the storey
Derek doesn't seem too upset. -I haven't gotten into Derek's feelings really. Do you think I should do some of the story in his POV?
Casey is crying over stupid stuff. -I can't think of anything else for her to be doing... Her family just died
Casey really isn't upset at the begining when she thinks about ther mom. -She is upset but she's thinking more about how Derek feels
This chapter is terrible. -I know, I know...

I have no idea how to explain the whole Lizzie/Edwin thing, so I would be very apreciative if you had any ideas to PM me:)) I will credit you for your ideas of course!
If you didn't totally give up on me for this chapter I would really love to hear what you think:))) Thanks for listening to me drone on...