Author's Note: So as my high school graduation is approaching I will continue to try my hardest to keep updating as much as I can with this story for you guys! I hope you all are still enjoying this as much as I am. =]
Disclaimer: I don't own Hannah Montana or its characters.
Miley was sitting on one of the summer seats out on the porch of the beach house. She had her knees brought up to her chest and her chin resting on her knees as she watched the sun beginning to rise, turning the sky, sea and her into gold. She still had her pajamas on as she wrapped herself in a blanket. Her long brown hair was hanging down naturally, flowing over her shoulders and onto her knees. She could hear the seagulls in the distance and closed her eyes, allowing their chirping to sooth her.
Lilly walked down the stairs, out of Miley's bedroom, buttoning up the shirt she had worn the night before. Smelling freshly brewed coffee Lilly made her way into the kitchen, spotting Miley out on porch. She smiled, wondering if Miley knew how beautiful she looked at that very moment. Lilly poured herself a cup of coffee and made her way over to the sliding glass doors that led onto the porch. She slowly slid open the door leading to the balcony, as to not disturb Miley who looked as though she was in a deep thought. She stepped onto the balcony, keeping her eyes on the beautiful sunrise.
"I didn't wake you, did I?" Miley asked softly, as she her the doors open, she turned to face Lilly.
"No, I had to get up. I have to go into the station today. I promised Chief O'Brady that I would work the next two days if I could have yesterday off." She replied. "It's beautiful out here."
"Yeah, I guess it's one of the benefits of living by the coast." Miley replied. "When I first moved here frome Tennessee all those years ago, my dad and I use to come out here and watch the sunrise every morning. Since my father died, I have not done this once… watching the sunrise just didn't appeal to me anymore. It brought back too many memories of the past, good and bad about my dad, Hannah, med school, how my life should have been…"
"So what has you out here this morning?" Lilly asked, knowing that Miley had avoided mentioning their past relationship as a good or bad memory, even though they used to watch the sunrise every morning when they were dating.
"I am not sure. I couldn't sleep I guess and I couldn't fight the urge to step out here." Miley replied. "The memories are gone… at least the bad ones anyway."
"Really?" Lilly asked, hope bubbling up inside her.
"Yeah." Miley replied. "I don't know Lilly, maybe it's I am so close to finishing med school, or maybe it's my new role at Stewart's Records, but it feels like I'm heading for a new beginning. Do you know what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, I think I do." Lilly replied.
There was silence. "So um… Thank you for last night Lilly" Miley said.
"You are welcome Miley." Lilly replied with a grin.
"So Thursday night Lil, what do you have planned?" the brunetter asked.
"I get off duty at seven." Lilly replied. "Why?"
"We should make plans." Miley replied.
"Like what?" Lilly asked, her blue eyes glistening in the golden sunlight.
"Rent a movie, maybe order in some Chinese food?" Miley replied. "Just have some Miley and Lilly time."
"That sounds perfect." Lilly smiled.
"Yeah it does." Miley replied with a warm smile.
"Well I better get going." Lilly said before softly kissing Miley's forehead. "I will call you tonight." she said before leaving the porch.
"Okay." Miley replied, softly.
"Oh and Miles." Lilly said as she popped her head back out onto the porch.
"Yeah Lilly?"
"I love you." the blond smiled before finally heading off to her apartment to change and grab her stuff for the station.
Miley, Joannie and Maddy were standing in Victoria's Secret. Miley was holding Marne in her arms as Maddy looked at the different items in stock. Maddy held a sexy yet innocent purple Chiffon and lace babydoll nightie against her body. She spun around to face Miley and Joannie. "What do you think?" She asked. "Now, give me your honest opinion. Our anniversary night will be the first time Jackson and I will be making love since Marne was born and I want everything to be special. I even have my mom keeping Marne for us."
"I think it's perfectly nice." Miley said.
"Please, it's like something a virgin bride would wear on her wedding night." Joannie said. "I'm sure Jackson would rather see you in something like um…this." She handed Maddy a black Georgette halter baby doll.
"I don't think so." Miley said, disgusted at the thought of her brother having sex at all.
"Actually, that does look like something Jackson would have gotten me. " Maddy said. "I just don't know… I haven't worn something like that in a long time."
"Oh come one this is for Jackson, right?" Joanne said. "I mean, you haven't let the poor guy touch you since you were six months pregnant. I think he deserves you completing his sleazy dreams, if only for one night."
"I guess your right." Maddy said, still looking at what Joannie was holding up for her. "And it is only for one night right."
"Exactly." Joannie said.
"So Miley, what about you?"
"What about me?" Mile asked.
"Miley! Come on you are getting married soon! You are going to need something special for the first night you and Lilly are… well wife and wife." Joannie replied. "Trust me… that is the best sex you are ever going to get, and well, you are going to need "outfits" for it." Joannie winked.
"Yeah Miley. You need to make that night special." Maddy said. "I mean, how long has it been since you have gotten some anyway?" The girl asked, "Like two years?"
"Not that it matters." Miley said her face blushing like mad as she spoke, "But it has only been like a year."
"I thought you and Lilly had been broken up for two years though?" Maddy asked confused.
"Oh they have." Joannie gave and evil wink at Miley causing the girl do want to die. "You just don't know about her little Hannah Montana escapade with a very famous Demi Lovato."
"Joannie!" Miley pleaded, "Please."
"Whoa Miles!" Maddy was shocked, "I had no idea."
"Yeah well no one was supposed to know." Miley muttered.
"Except me." Joannie smiled devilishly.
"Yeah well you would not have known either if you ever learned to knock!" Miley exclaimed as Joannie simply shrugged her shoulders.
"That's just not my style." the pregnant woman said.
"So were Hannah and Demi like an item?" Maddy asked now very curious.
"No." Miley grumbled, "It only happened a few times anyway."
"Yeah, just a few times." Joannie felt herself laugh out loud, "Just a few times on the Hannah and Demi tour bus, then a few more times in the dressing rooms backstage before and after concerts, oh and lets not mention when you two…" but the girl was cut off by Miley's hand covering her mouth.
"You best stop talking if you know what's good for ya Oken." Miley's accent really coming out strongly as she warned her friend.
"Alright, alright." Joannie laughed, "I was just saying."
"Yeah well you just shouldn't."
"Oh come on Miley, it's just me." Maddy said trying to calm the girl down.
"I know, I know." Miley stated as she began to relax, but not before glaring at Joannie one last time.
"Anyway, back to before, Miley." Maddy said, turning to face her best friend. "You really need to buy something. You don't want to disappoint Lilly, do you?"
"Fine." Miley muttered, giving into her friends requests knowing that protesting would only delay the inevitable. "But I am not wearing anything like that." She pointed to the item Maddy was holding in her hands.
"Oh no of course not Miley." Joannie said, "We will find you something much sexier." Joannie laughed.
After hours of shopping with her friends, Miley walked into the beach house, carrying her shopping bags. Going to her fridge to grab a drink, she checked her phone again. It was getting pretty late and Lilly still had not called her. After retrieving a water from her fridge she made her way to the couch. Flopping her tired body down on the couch, she grabbed the remote control and the People magazine that pictured Hannah Montana on this months editiona off the end table. Miley turned the tv on to the news and then began flipping through the pages. She had, had an amazing night with Lilly, and then a perfect day with her two best friends. Miley finally felt like everything was falling into place in her life. That was until she lifted her eyes from the page she had been reading.
What Miley saw when she looked up at the television, was an image that would be burned into her brain for the rest of her life. She saw a news reporter standing outside one of Malibu's biggest hotels. The hotel was up in flames. There were fire trucks from all the stations around Malibu trying to put this huge fire out. Closing her eyes, she listened as the news reporter stated that they could confirm that there was at least twenty civilian causalities thus far. Opening her eyes more breaking news appeared on the screen before her. Five fireman had been caught in the building when the second floor collapsed beneath them. It was being said that at least two members had survived the fall and were radioing for help. Miley's whole body began to shake as her heart began racing. "Lilly…" Suddenly she felt her phone vibrating next her. Miley's heart immediately dropped at this. Slowly she picked up her cell phone from the pillow beside her, as her body continued to shake. "Hello…" She managed to say.
"Miley… it's Chief… it's Owen." Chief O'Brady began. Miley suddenly felt her entire world collapsing once again. She knew that tone of voice… it was the same tone Jackson had used when he had told her about her fathers death. "Miley... ther's been an accident."
"Oh God Owen." She sobbed, her hand coming up to her mouth. "Please tell me Lilly is alright."
"Miley… you have no idea how badly I want to be able to tell you that right now." Owen replied as he felt his heart breaking for the girl on the other line, "This whole place is in absolute chaos." Owen took a long breath, "Miley… it was Lilly's unit that was the involved in the collapsing of the second floor."
"Oh my god... no!" Miley sobbed, fresh tears rolling down her cheeks. There had been so many nights when Lilly first joined the fire force, that Miley had found herself unable to sleep as she kept having that damn dream about the red car turning up in front of the house... the one that meant that Lilly would not come home again.
"Miley, listen to me… when the floor callapsed Lilly and Danny survived." Owen said, trying his best to reassure her. "She is one of the firefighters who were radioing for help."
Miley felt her heart feeling torn at the words that had just been spoken to her. "So what do I do?" Miley asked, through the tears as she began imagining how terrified Lilly must be.
"There is a car coming to pick you up Miley." Owen spoke slowly over the phone, "There is no guarantee we can get her out… she wants to talk to you Miley."
"What do you mean there is no guarantee?" Miley asked, as dread overtook her body again.
"Miles... the hotel is in really bad shape… if it becomes to dangerous for the other fireman to get in there and get them out it won't be worth loosing more lives." Owen replied. "Lilly knows that Miley… if there was ever a time when she needed you Miley, it would be right now." the Chief spoke carefully.
"So I can talk to her once I arrive?" Miley asked, fighting back the tears forming in her throat. What would she do if she lost Lilly again.
"The car should be there any second now Miley." Owen replied. "Miley, Lilly is one of the finest firefighters I've ever known… she is truly a very special girl."
"I know she is Owen." Miley choked out as she heard a car pull up outside of her house.
"She's one tough girl you know." Owen said, "If anyone can get through this… it's her."
"Yeah…" Miley said in barely a whisper, "The car is here."
"I will see you soon then Miley." Owen said as he turned back to the burning hotel watching as hundreds of firefighters fought at the flames. "She is going to be alright Miley."
Miley just hit the end button on her phone as fresh tears poured from her eyes.
When Miley arrived at the site, she was given a fireman's helmet to wear for safety as she made her way towards the fire truck that Chief O'Brady was standing behind holding a radio in his hand.
"Miley." the Chief said as he handed Miley the radio.
"Lilly?" Miley cried into the reciever.
"Hey Miles." Lilly said as she winced in pain.
"Are you okay?" Miley asked now even more worried.
"I'm fine." Lilly lied as looked down at her leg. "Danny and I are both fine."
"Lilly…" Miley found herself at a loss for words in that moment. "Are you scared?" Miley spoke.
"I'm terrified." Lilly answered before yelping as she tried to remove her leg from under the support beam that had landed on her.
"It's going to be alright Lilly." Miley said, "They are sending people in to get you out of there baby."
Lilly closed her eyes as she tried to forget where she was for a moment. "You know, Joe asked me earlier tonight if I loved the job like I did before. Miley, the answer has always been the same, I love what I do. But when I felt myself fall through that floor tonight… for the first time in my life, I didn't know what to think… he was going to retire next month Miles..." Lilly said looking at the blood surrounding her leg as she felt her heart breaking for the man she had worked with all these years... "and his family... oh god his family Miley."
"How could you tell me that it's not dangerous?" Miley cried as she listened to Lilly's sad voice on the other end of the radio.
"I never said it wasn't dangerous Miles." Lilly tried.
"When we talked about this when you first started this job, we talked about this... and you said... you said it wasn't dangerous Lilly!"
"Miley… I said it wasn't anymore dangerous then anything else… I never said it wasn't dangerous." Lilly felt her heart breaking as she listened to the woman she loved so much on the other line. "Everything you do in life is dangerous Miley... sometimes you just have to weigh the risks."
"What about me Lilly… what about our wedding Lilly!? You promised you would not give up on me. Have you thought about that?" Miley felt herself loosing control.
"Of course I have Miley." Lilly answered over her radio, "That's all I have been thinking about down here Miles."
"Don't… Don't you dare leave me again Lilly." Miley pleaded.
"I'm sorry Miley." Lilly said as things began falling around her, "You know that is the last thing I want to do Miles."
"I'm scared Lilly."
"I know you are Miley." Lilly said trying to stay calm as the flames got higher around her and Danny. "Look Miley… if I don't… if I don't get out of this…"
"Don't talk like that Lilly!" Miley yelled cutting her off, "I won't let you talk like that."
"Miles…"
"No Lilly, whatever you have to say… it can wait until you are home safe with me."
"Alright." Lilly said not wanting to upset Miley anymore. After some silence Lilly finally spoke again. "You have no idea how much I wish I had made love to you last night." Lilly said as she closed her eyes remembering how beautiful Miley had looked the night before.
"Lilly…"
"I'm never going to have another chance to do that for you again." Lilly felt herself giving up.
"You will have everyday for the rest of your life to make love to me Lilly." Miley said through her sobs, "I promise you Lilly."
"You're so beautiful Miley." Lilly said through the line.
"So are you Lilly." Miley said swallowing the lump in her throat, "You are such an amazing person Lilly Alexis Truscott."
"So are you Miley Ray Stewart. Never forget that okay." Lilly felt her head starting to spin, "Can you hand the radio back to the Chief?" Lilly asked trying to keep herself from falling over.
"Lilly?" Chief O'Brady said over the radio. "How are you feeling."
"Like I just fell through a floor." she replied with a small laugh.
"Lilly…"
"Why do we do this?" Lilly asked, "I mean we risk our lives day in and day out by running into burning buildings."
"People are always asking me how is it that firefighters run into a burning building when everyone else is running out." the Chief spoke softly over the line, "Lilly, to answer your question… it takes courage. Lilly what you do every time you put that helmet on takes courage, saving lives takes courage."
"They're not coming anymore are they?" Lilly more stated than asked the question.
"They're just having some trouble... that's all Lilly." the Chief felt his chest tighten at the defeat in Lilly's voice. This girl had become like a daughter to him and right now, he just felt helpless. "Just hang in there Lilly."
"Chief? Can you do something for me?" Lilly asked as she felt tears start to form in her eyes.
"What you want Truscott." the Chief answered.
"Tell Miley that I am sorry. That I am sorry for everything... and that I love her…" she could feel herself slipping into a darkness, "That I've loved her from the second I saw her."
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. - Lillian Dickson
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