Five years later...

Ryan was sleeping, even though he shouldn't be. He's already behind on his work, and sleeping in class doesn't help much. He heard a smack and shot up. "Mr. Atwood! Go to the office now!" His teacher screamed. Great, he thought, what did I do now?

He went to the office and saw Marissa and Summer sitting there. "Hey Chino! Good thing you're here! We thought we were in trouble. Are we in trouble?" Summer asked, obviously nervous. Ryan shrugged. "I have no clue," he said. Just then, a woman called them. "Go in and see the headmaster," she said to them. They went in the office and saw Sandy, Kirsten and the headmaster sitting there. "Are we in trouble?" Ryan asked. "No. Should you be?" the headmaster asked. Ryan shook his head really quickly, which made the headmaster suspicious. Ryan always got in trouble. He was always playing pranks or getting into fights. The principal is clueless, Ryan thought, that I did the incident the other day. About two days ago, Ryan went into the boys' bathroom, put fake blood on the walls and wrote "FUCK THIS SCHOOL! EVERYONE WILL DIE!" The entire school went into lockdown, but nothing happened. The school has been really careful since though, so he didn't try anything else.

"The Cohens have come here to talk to you. I'll leave now, by request," the headmaster said. He got up and walked out. Ryan turned to the Cohens. "Is everything ok?" he asked. Kirsten started crying. "What happened?" Marissa asked. "Seth's awake!" Sandy said. Ryan's eyes widened. His brother's awake. "Can we see him?" Ryan asked eagerly. Sandy nodded. Sandy, Kirsten, Marissa, Summer and Ryan went into the car and drove to the hospital.

When they got there, Ryan ran out of the car. Marissa went to chase after him, but Summer held he back. "No. He should see Seth first," Summer said. Marissa nodded and Summer let her go, and the four of them slowly walked to Seth's room.

When Ryan got to Seth's door, he froze. I can't do this, he thought. Yes. Yes he can. Ryan Atwood can do anything. He walked into Seth's room and couldn't believe it. Seth really was awake. He was watching T.V. "S-S- Seth?" Ryan said. Seth looked at him. "Wow. 5 years and there is STILL nothing on T.V." he said. Ryan went over and hugged him. "I can't believe you're awake!" Ryan said. He started crying. Seth pushed him away. "No crying," Seth said. Ryan stopped. "So what's up?" Seth asked. "Well. A lot," Ryan said. Seth motioned him to sit in the chair next to him. "I got plenty of time," Seth said. Ryan sat. "I have one big question," Seth said. Ryan looked at him. "Did you catch Oliver?" He asked. Ryan nodded. "How?" Seth asked. "Well. Did you even notice that I'm wearing a cast on my leg?" Ryan asked. Seth looked at his leg. "No! What happened?" He asked. This was going to take a while.

"I did it about 8 days ago. I came to visit you like I do everyday," Ryan said. Seth smiled. "I know. I would hear you talking to me. I heard everything everyone said to me," Seth said. "Anyway. I came to visit you. I skipped a class, which I do often-"Ryan was cut off. "Where do you go?" Seth asked. "I go to the University of Phoenix," Ryan said. "Wow. That's far away," Seth said. "I know. But I don't care. Anyway, when I came into your room, Oliver was there. He was quiet and was staring at you, smiling. I went behind him and almost hit him, but he grabbed me. I hit him with the other hand, but he threw me out of the window. He fell out with me. I broke my leg, and he passed out. He broke a few ribs.

"We got some information out of him. He wasn't the leader of the attacks. The leader was Theresa. That's right. Theresa. We found her, and she was arrested," Ryan said. "Theresa? I thought she died," Seth said. "She broke out before the explosion. Actually, she broke out an hour before the explosion," Ryan said. "Wow. I remember hearing a huge crash a while ago. It must have been the window," Seth said. Ryan nodded. "So what else has been going on?" Seth asked. "Well. I'm studying to be a detective. I was able to question Oliver and Theresa. They said it went over well, considering it was my first time," Ryan said. "So are you and Marissa dating again?" He asked. Ryan shook his head. "You're dating her," Ryan said. Seth shook his head. "I broke up with her before the coma, I think," Seth said confused. "So what else?" He asked. "Well, no one else died, which was strange. But when we questioned Oliver, he said he stopped after knocking you into the coma 'cause his plan was out of order.

"We put him in jail about six days ago. When the guard went to check on him four days ago, he was dead. He stabbed himself with a knife. No one knows how it got there, but it did," Ryan said. "Wow. That sucks. Is Summer dating anyone?" Seth asked. Ryan shook his head. "She misses you to much," he said.

Sandy, Kirsten, Marissa and Summer walked in. "Oh sweetie!" Kirsten said. She and Sandy ran over to Seth. "Hi guys," he said. They were in tears. "No crying in my room!" Seth said. Marissa went over and hugged him. "Hi Marissa," he said. She nodded. Summer went over and gave him a hug. "Thank God you're awake Cohen," she said. "Thanks Summer," Seth said. He looked around. "Where's Luke?" Seth asked. "Luke went to NYU. We called him. He's coming back as soon as he can," Kirsten said. Seth started crying. "What's wrong?" Sandy asked. "I miss Anna. When I was in the coma, I talked to her. We were together. We were talking about what was going on. I still feel her. She's inside of me. I can feel it," he said. Ryan went over to him. "No crying in your room remember?" Ryan said. Seth smiled. "Of course you feel her. We all feel her. When we feel a breeze on a windless day, we know its her. We know that she's watching over us, protecting us. Like she protected you," Ryan said. Seth smiled.

The nurse came in. "Mr. and Mrs. Cohen?" she said. "Yes?" Sandy said. "Come with me for a minute," she said. Sandy, Kirsten and Ryan went outside. "What is it?" Ryan asked. "I have excellent news. You can take him home today. We tested him and he's fine," the nurse said. "I'll go tell him. You guys fill out the papers," Ryan said.

He went back inside. "Is everything ok?" Marissa said. Ryan looked at Seth and smiled. "You're going home," he said. Seth smiled. Ryan was so happy. His brother was coming back home.

Seth was in shock at how much Newport changed. New stores, new people, new buildings and new attitudes. He had learned about Ryan's tricks. "When did you become such a prankster?" Seth asked. "Since you went into a coma," Ryan said.

When they got back to the house, Seth learned that not much changed. Ryan's poolhouse was almost the same. There was a picture of him and Seth that he remembered not being there. It was the two of them on Ryan's bike. Ryan was sitting down and Seth was standing behind on the pegs.

Seth went back into his old room and saw that two things were different. One, that the picture in the poolhouse of him and Ryan was also in his room and so was a picture of him in the coma. Also, there was a picture of Oliver. Seth flinched. Ryan put his hand on his shoulder. "Calm down. We put it here as sort of a memorial. He might have done horrible things, but he's still a person. We thought it was the perfect place to put it," Ryan said. Seth nodded. "I'm hungry," Seth said. "Let's play PS2 and eat," Ryan said. Seth nodded and ran downstairs to the PS2. He'll never change, Ryan thought.

When they went inside, Seth saw someone sitting there. "Who are you?" Seth asked. She looked at him. "Seth?" she asked. "Erika?" Seth asked. "Oh my God. You're awake!" She ran over and hugged him. "How tall are you?" Seth asked. "5ft 10!" she said. "You've obviously changed," he said. "Yeah well. After you went into a coma, everyone became depressed. I had to become cheery to make everyone happy, so I did. I got people to laugh. They said that I reminded them of you. That made me feel good," Erika said. "So when did you graduate?" Seth asked. "I graduated from Harbor in 2004 and I graduated from Yale in 2006," Erika said. "You went to YALE?" Seth said. Erika nodded. "I got a scholarship. I was doing so well, that I graduated in less than 2 years. You wanna see my diploma?" Erika asked. She got up and went upstairs. "She went to YALE?" Seth asked, still in shock. Ryan nodded. "She was offered two scholarships. One for her grades, and one for sports," Ryan said. "Wow," Seth said. Erika came back down and gave her diploma to Seth. "You really did graduate," Seth said. Erika smiled. "So what was your major?" Seth asked. "Can't you read?" Erika said. Seth looked at the diploma. "No. I can't really read to well yet," he said. "Oh! I'm sorry! I'm a lawyer," Erika said. "Jesus Christ. I'm gonna be the fat guy who has no wife or job and sits around all day drinking beer," Seth said. "No. You can major in one of my least favorite things," Erika said. "What's that?" Seth asked. "Foreign Affairs and Economics," she said.

A/N: I'm sorry it ended like that. But I'm writing a few more if you want to read those! Thanx for reading! I might even write a sequel. And in case your wondering, when I said that Seth could major in Foreign Affairs and Economics, its sort of an inside joke cause Ben McKenzie majored in that at the University of Virginia.