Simply Complicated:

"What," Sean whipped around. "Who, who is it?" The sun was blinding him. He could only see the outline of a figure wearing a sweat jacket and had a short hair style . . .

"Jimmy?"

"Hey man!" Jimmy extended his hand and Sean grabbed it. They hadn't seen each other since the year before, when Rick had shot Emma. They hugged and Sean felt his eyes watering.

"What are you doing here?" Sean managed to mumble out.

"Helping my bro!" Jimmy laughed. "What happened to Ellie? You didn't . . . ?"

"No, we're still tight . . ." Sean tried to sound as casual as he could. "Well . . . how's Hazel?"

"Aw, she's good. She's visiting her gramps down in the USA. Why are you here in this . . . mess?" Jimmy pointed to the alley way Sean had been hiding in.

"Jimmy," Sean felt himself sliding down to the pavement again. "I can't deal with this. When Emma . . . when she died . . . . I felt like I should've been there. Instead of her."

"Sean, let go of yourself first." Jimmy's smile disappeared and was replaced by a serious look. "When I got shot, all I had in my mind was getting better. And look where I am now!" The smile returned as Sean grinned a little.

"I don't know why, but I miss her." Sean looked down at the ground. "I mean, I dated her once. Even though it never worked out, she's still a good friend."

"Just remember, it ain't your fault."

Ellie didn't have anywhere to go. She had explored all of downtown. She had even stopped by at Sean's favorite Chinese food store, where she had no luck. She didn't need to go to the apartment to know he wouldn't be there. There was only one place that they shared.

Ellie turned around and walked towards a school that had been haunted by so many events it was now taking a two year long break of school. Students were told to take a break with them or transfer to other schools. Degrassi held onto some particular students who stayed out of school in order to wait for its reopening.

She placed herself underneath the sign of Degrassi on the concrete steps. She waited.

Rick started packing up his things, a shirt or two, a couple pair of pants, some of this, some of that, his old pair of glasses. He grabbed a wad of money his mother had convinced to save up for an "emergency". This was bad enough. In total it was about a hundred a twenty dollars. He pushed the window up with a thrust and pushed his suitcase out. He then jumped out himself.

"What are you doing?" Rick asked himself as he walked down the quiet street. The leaves billowed around in twirls. A cat appeared with its bushy tail swinging in rhythm to its movement.

"I'm going to finish what I began." He answered to himself.

"Why didn't he go to jail?" Sean asked Jimmy, who had been more up to date with the news than he had bothered to listen to.

"He fled the scene and his mother moved him uptown to a rich neighborhood. They paid off the case." Jimmy sighed.

"How could they do that? Someone died!" Sean exploded.

"Yes, I know!" Jimmy struggled to keep Sean from jumping out into the street. "That's why we have to find him." He held a brave, strong expression on his face.

"What?"

"We're going after him. We'll bring Ellie. We'll wait for Hazel. We'll gather up our old gang, I don't know." Jimmy looked a little disappointed at the last three words. "But we'll muster up something, I just know it."

"Where do we go first?" Sean looked to his friend.

"Where it all started."

A/N: Somewhere I this story the plot begins to form. Oo LOL. I guess you'll have to wait. I love you guys. Thanks for reviewing! We're all assuming Jimmy has healed from his gun shot wound. Just in case you didn't quite get that. Hee hee. Well, have a good time!