Title: Prom Queen

Summary: A new guy comes to the OC from Australia and he's bound to rock the relationships. So who's going to end up his Prom date? Not for SethSummer lovers. Anna comes in a bit later. SummerNew Guy and a bit of SethAnna and the smallest portion of RyanMarissa.

Pairing: SummerTom, SethAnna, RyanMarissa

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the OC characters. I only own Tom and Tina.

Chapter 8: Ex and Gun Equals Bad

Tom walked into the house and opened the door further so that Summer could step in. It wasn't really a house. It was actually a townhouse. Tom looked around and was happy to find the house in the same state as when he left. Reasonable. Obviously his room wasn't reasonable but Summer didn't need to know that.

He dropped the keys on a stand near the door and said,

"There's no place like home." Summer looked at him and a ghost of a smile graced her lips before she returned her gaze to their surroundings. There were several paintings on the walls and a sculpture or two graced the shadowy corners. Summer had to admit that this house made her feel more at home than her own.

Tom took in his surroundings. Good, he didn't come off as too much of a slob. Not that he cared. Of course not. Ahem.

Summer gaze returned up to Tom's face and she looked at him. Eventually he looked back at her and they stood like that for a second. Summer looked down for a second before looking back up at him and said,

"Thankyou." Tom cocked his head to the side slightly, confused.

"For what?" He asked and looked down at Summer. The kiss they'd shared earlier kept flashing back into his memory. And what she'd said afterwards.

"For helping." That was probably the opportune moment to bend down and kiss Summer softly on the lips but Tom couldn't help but get a flashback of Summer standing there with tears in her eyes and saying, 'It was only platonic.' Tom looked away and refused to turn back to Summer.

"Your welcome." Tom said in a steely tone and Summer looked at him in confusion.

"What's wrong Tom?" Summer asked and tried to catch Tom's eye but he refused to look at her at all. All he could see was her with tears in her eyes and saying those dreaded words, 'It was only platonic.' Over and over again until Tom felt his eyes burn with potential tears. Tom couldn't speak, knowing that that would uncover the almost tears that would shake his voice. He swallowed obviously, looked at her and asked,

"You remember a little word called 'platonic'?" Summer looked at him for a second and then closed her eyes, having remembered what had happened.

"Oh my god. I didn't mean…"

"What? Didn't mean what?" Tom interrupted her. His eyes were even more intense and seemed to drill through Summer's consciousness. Summer almost flinched.

"It was complicated. I had a boyfriend at the time. It's not good to think the kind of thoughts I was thinking about you when I had a boyfriend who wasn't you." As Tom looked at her his expression softened and said,

"Had? Past tense?" Summer nodded and said,

"Past tense." Tom looked down at Summer and felt his heart swell. His chest filled with a bubbly feeling and he felt like he was about to explode with happiness. Tom's hand went down to cradle Summer's face again and she relaxed in his hand. He bent down slowly and was about to kiss her when…

The door burst open and the two burst apart. Tom looked to the doorway and saw the silhouette of a female. To tall to be his mom he was stumped. Then his eyes got used to the light that streamed in and he saw who it was. And gasped.

The girl standing in the doorway had shoulder length bleached blonde hair, tanned skin and amber eyes. She was as tall as a supermodel and her eyes glowed with an intensity that Summer didn't know existed. She felt Tom sigh next to her and his shoulders slumped. Whoever this girl was Tom knew her and she knew him.

The girl stepped out of the doorway and said,

"Hi Tom. Miss me?"

"Sarah," Tom said quietly and Summer looked at him with a puzzled expression.

"Going to introduce me?" Tom sighed and turned to Summer.

"Summer this," Tom vaguely indicated to Sarah, "This is my ex Sarah." He turned to Sarah and said,

"Sarah this is Summer." Sarah nodded at Summer and then said to Tom,

"Didn't know you went for brunettes." Tom blushed slightly and felt ashamed of himself. He didn't know why but he felt as if the clashing of his past and present was too much for him. The difference between the two was incredibly obvious. One was tall and blonde and the other was sort and brunette. Though both were outspoken one was way ruder than the other. And they both came from opposite sides of the world.

"You don't know a lot about me Sarah. That was Rachel you sent to check me out, didn't you? As a History substitute?" Summer's jaw opened as she realised that the substitute they'd just had had been planted by the psycho ex in front of her.

"Yeah, smart boy. Also this girl called Tina decided to fill me in on the little kiss you two shared." Sarah smiled at him but Tom failed to smile back. Summer felt some anger rise up but she pushed it back down because she knew that this wasn't the time to explode at Tom's ex girl-friend.

"Where's Brett?" Sarah's smile failed at the mention of Brett and she almost bared her teeth.

"You just had to bring that up didn't you?" Sarah said in a snide tone. Tom opened his arms and said,

"You know me, always bringing up the past and purposefully hurting people." Obviously this had also been a past issue with them as Sarah's expression became more hostile. Sarah reached into her purse and whipped out a hand gun. She held it at Tom and he held his arms out again, this time in surrender.

"You don't know what I was put through. What if felt like." Tom interrupted her, not able to take it anymore,

"YOU?!? What you were put through?!? I was the one who found you and Brett in the bed room. I was the one who was left for Brett. I was the one who was humiliated. I was the one who got beaten up because I tried to protect you when Brett tried to hit you. I got spat in the face by you after I was beaten up for trying to protect you…" Tom was cut off with a bang as Sarah shot him in the shin. Tom collapsed on the ground and moaned as he felt the blood leave his body and the searing pain spread through his leg. He thought he heard a scream but he could have imagined it.

"I-I…" Tom tried to talk but was hushed by someone. Summer.

The room spun and Tom saw Summer's blurry face. And then it disappeared to be replaced by Sarah's face. Then a gun and a searing pain in his left arm. Everything went numb and so cold. It went so, so cold. Then he vaguely heard another bang and more coldness near his hip. He felt as if he was freezing and he saw Summer's face again and smiled.

"Are you cold too?" He could vaguely see some tears on her face and reached up to wipe them away before giving into the blackness. The nice, welcoming darkness.

Just before he fell completely into unconsciousness he heard,

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I love…"

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(This is Summer's POV of what happened after Tom first got shot.)

"TOM!" Summer screamed and went to his side at once. She tried to cover his shin with some material but it got soaked with blood in seconds.

"I-I…" Tom tried to talk and Summer hushed him. She bent over him and felt tears sting her eyes and her throat tighten. Then she got hit aside as if she was a fly and had been swatted aside. Her head hit a table and she fell down. A stickiness was at her temple and she touched it and saw a redness cover her fingers.

She heard another bang and looked up to see Sarah standing over Tom with the gun smoking in her hand. She saw Sarah move her hand as Tom tried to move slightly and shoot him on the side of his hip.

"NO!!!!" Summer yelled and ran into Sarah who hit the wall and collapsed. She bent over Tom again and asked,

"Are you okay?" Tom looked at her but his eyes looked as if they couldn't focus on anything and they searched around for her. But his eyes just couldn't find her face. She took off her jacket and pressed it to Tom's hip injury, the one which looked the most serious.

"Are you cold too?" Tom reached up and wiped away some tears that Summer didn't know she had. Tom then slipped into unconsciousness and Summer bent down over his body and cried. She cried harder than she had in years. Even harder than when that thing with Seth happened. And that was pretty hard. She then sat next to Tom and said,

"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I love you Tom. I love you. I love you so much."

When she dialled 911 her voice was still shaky but she'd managed to pull it together after a minute of crying so hard that she was worried that she would never be able to stop crying.