Ok so i don't really have any wise cracks, I just want to save HG and fanfiction for that matter!! Anyway I hope you enjoy this and such, I'll probably have another chapter out soon because this ones so short!! Hope ya like let me know what you think good and bad!!

BC's also @ The HG Journal ~ www.princessbitch.com/thehgjournal/index.htm

((Right, like that wasn't a wise crack??))

Kay
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For Dear Life

Chapter 11

Troy walked into the infirmary where Stephanie was laying on a bed, he handed her a cup. "Here it's chicken noodle soup." Stephanie took it smiling slightly "Thanks." She said drinking some of the broth.
"Are you okay?" he wondered. She nodded a bit.
"For now I think."
He ran a hand through his hair "What was all that talk about not being alive in group? Do you like want to die or something? Not to be nosy or anything but it just freaked me out and I was wondering."
She nodded answering him but not bringing out the truth just yet "I'm just really tired the way life is going and I wanted a way out. Was everybody really that scared after I said that?"
He nodded "Yeah, it was the first time I saw Clyde and Rebecca scared ever."
"How long have you been here?" she asked.
"Longer than anyone else, like two years. It's helped me a lot." He leaned on his elbow.
She laid her head back on the pillow "That's what my parents say, about this place helping them a lot. How Peter saved them, my mom even brought me here for a reunion years ago."
Troy smiled "Your parents seem nice."
"Yeah." She then sat up "So what's everyone like here? You so far seem to be the only nice one I've met."
They became fast friends and talked awhile mostly about the other cliffhangers, he was basically giving her a brief description of what their like.

Stephanie had fallen asleep when she was talking to Troy he was tired too. She woke up looking around spotting her mother looking down on her stroking her hair out of her face.
Stephanie groggily spoke "Mom?" Shelby nodded her head "Yeah hun it's me."
She opened her eyes a bit more "Where's Troy?" she asked.
"He had to go to his dorm, it was passed lights out. Are you feeling better?"
"A little…I saw him mom. I saw Billy and he told me not to do it!" She was on the verge of tears.
Shelby smiled "I'm so happy he told you that then, I don't know what I'd do without you or your dad or brother. You guys mean more to me than anything in the world." She stroked her daughter's cheek.
"I was so happy with him mom, how do I keep going without him though? He…he was my life, everything in me since we were little." She was sobbing Shelby sat on her daughter's bed taking her in her arms holding her letting her cry. She was crying too not knowing what to say or do. "You just have to go on I guess sweetie."
"But I don't think I can mommy!" she sounded like a little girl.
Shelby sighed "But you will, and you have lots of help from everyone here."

Scott watched them from the screen door he didn't want to interrupt them. He felt a hand on his shoulder turning around seeing David.
"Think she'll be alright?" Scott asked whispering.
"I think she can pull threw, I'll make sure she gets help." He stated.
Scott nodded still watching them "Thanks…She's so much like Shelby it's not funny ya know?"
David chuckled leaning back on a rail "I see a lot of you in her, she looks like Shelby. You guys did a hell of a job in raising her, I'll give you that."
Scott shook his head turning around "Yeah and it ended her up here. Like father and mother, like daughter right?"
"It's not your fault Scott you didn't know what else to do and you did the right thing by coming here where she can get help." David finished finally thinking he got through to him.
Scott ran his hand through his hair eyeing him "What're you doing back here anyway David? Last I heard was that you couldn't come to the reunion because of school."
David shrugged sighing "I uh…I had financial troubles, and my girlfriend of 4 years had been cheating on me the whole time with one of my professors. I was getting hell from my father, who was trying to push me around to be in the army and not go to school to major in law. My mom was the only one who stood by me. But with everything happening to me, I then turned to drugs and booze and got kicked out of school, I was hitting rock bottom when Juliette called and told me about the reunion. I lied to her totally wasted but I don't think she noticed and told her I couldn't make it. Well I ended up in the hospital after my mom found me passed out. Then she found Peter's number and called him up and I came back and Peter helped me through it, I then decided that I couldn't handle anything else anymore and I asked him for a job here. At first I was just a guard. Chasing after people who ran, but then Peter asked me if I could handle a group and gave me the cliffhangers since Sophie was taking a break and taking care of their son Ben they adopted, and Peter owned the place and they were just helping each other out with that." He had explained the whole thing to him. Scott was speechless,
"That's some story man, but you survived right?" Scott wondered.
David nodded "Yep I survived…I think no matter how much we hated this place. It still saves everyone."
Scott shook his head "No it's not just the place, it's the people here. Which comforts me to know that you're one of those people and you're gonna help Stephanie."
David smiled "I'll do what I can." Scott nodded and looked into through the door again to find Shelby and Stephanie fast asleep.

~*~On the next 'For Dear Life'~*~

Stephanie sighed "Can I go home please?" she pleaded.

She needs wide open spaces

Shelby gave Sophie and Peter a hug at the same time "You guy are still so incredibly warm."

Room to make her big mistakes

Stephanie then blew up after their hug broke. "No! I need to be home with you please daddy! I wanna come home!"

She needs new faces

Shelby sat in the car crying softly, Scott reached his hand over taking hers glancing at her. "She'll be fine."

She knows the high stakes

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

REVIEWS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!