First and Last Chance

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Summary: Major AU. Saturday detention always sucks. But when weird stuff starts to happen, it is anything but boring. Seth/Summer, Marissa/Oliver, Zack.

A/n: Once again I apologize that it took so long; I still have 5 books, 2 essays and a Chem II assignment to do before school starts! AHHHH!

And since this is AU, Jimmy and Julie are still together!

Disclaimer: The OC belongs to Fox… and this is written for pleasure only, no money is being made off of it. The plot belongs loosely to the Breakfast Club, but not really after the first chapter.

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"Cascading Tears"

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Kirsten Cohen awoke early that morning. She normally didn't get up early, but today was a different day. Her son. Her perfect son in nearly every way imaginable had his first detention. Ever.

She felt kinda bad for reaming him out the previous night, but she wanted him to understand how disappointed she was in him. She had always thought that she had raised him to be the best kid ever, and everyone agreed with her until now.

Everyone agreed that Seth Cohen was the perfect son, even her some times. Some times. He had his own little problems, but he never let them show.

That was the bad thing. He'd always let them simmer inside of him until they came to a boil and he just exploded. Kirsten hated it when her son exploded. It was just heartbreaking to watch, every time. Although it hadn't happened that often recently, when he was younger he'd breakdown a lot.

Kirsten pushed the memories out of her mind. She didn't want to think about the bad times her son had had, even if sometimes they seemed to outnumber the good times. In some ways, the woman wondered if Ryan would have stayed for more than that weekend, if things would have been different. That kid had an effect on Seth, and as much as Kirsten didn't want to admit it, it was a good effect.

Ryan was Seth's friend for that little bit. A real friend, unlike that Oliver kid. If he had time for Seth, he'd spend time with him, but other than that, he treated Seth like everyone else, and Kirsten often found herself wanting to wring his neck!

But back to Kirsten, she walked up the steps to wake her son. She felt horrible for the way she had treated him before, and wanted to make it up to him. She loved him, more than anything else in the world, and seeing him broken like he had been last night really got to her. She barely got any sleep over it.

She knocked gently on the familiar front of Seth's door. She didn't get an answer, but she could hear music playing from inside. It took her aback a bit that Seth would already be awake, Seth never woke up on his own.

She literally had to drag him out of his bed some mornings.

"Seth?" Kirsten asked quietly opening the door a little bit. The music got louder, but she got no response.

"Seth?" she repeated, walking further into his room. She saw his sleeping form on his bed, the covers an utter mess, but everything else was pretty orderly.

She sat down on the edge of his bed and shook him slightly. "C'mon Seth, time to get up."

Seth didn't respond to her shaking. Kirsten chuckled. It was about to begin. This became the norm in the morning, every morning, and it never lost it's little bit of funniness.

Kirsten could hear the rain pounding on the window outside. Oh Seth was just going to be ecstatic when he woke up. See, Seth never liked the rain that much. Even if he would normally stay inside, that would mean that it wouldn't be his choice to stay outside. Kirsten never really understood what he meant, but she always nodded and smiled when he'd explain it.

She shook Seth again, "Let's go Seth. You have to go to school today!" she said a bit louder and firmer than she normally did.

Once again, Seth didn't respond, he didn't even move now that Kirsten realized it.

But he was breathing. So he wasn't dead. Why would he be dead? She couldn't believe that she had thought that he was dead. What in the world would have made her think some crazy thing like that?

"Sethela Ezekiel Cohen," she said, trying to use his full name into scaring him to wake up. Still nothing.

So she decided to just cut to the chase and grabbed both his arms and pulled him until he was practically all the way off of the bed. Still nothing, and she was terrified.

"KIRSTEN!" she heard her husband shout from the bathroom. "DID YOU USE THE LAST OF MY AMBIEN? THE LAST TIME I CHECKED I HAD A FULL BOTTLE!"

It hit Kirsten like a train. Holy shit! And she didn't curse that much.

"SANDY!" she shouted, panic laden in her voice as her breathing quickened.

Thunder sounded as Sandy rushed into Seth's room.

"What is it?" he asked, walking over to his wife.

"I think… I think… I think Seth… Seth…" but at that the normally strong woman broke down and Sandy realized exactly what had happened as he ran out of the room and called 911. Why? Why would Seth do something like this?

Back in Seth's bedroom, Kirsten was now shaking Seth to get him up. She couldn't understand why Seth would do something like that? Could it have been the fact that she had been so harsh on him last night? They both had been, but she was worse on him than Sandy. Sandy was disappointed, but Kirsten literally reamed him out.

This was her fault.

Sandy came back in the room, panic in his eyes, but he couldn't let it show. He had to be strong for Kirsten. Seth was her baby. Everyone knew it. He just didn't understand.

He pulled his wife into a quick hug and picked up Seth as if he was nothing. The boy was limp in his father's arm, only causing Kirsten to cry even harder.

Neither of them said anything as they heard sirens coming up the street. Kirsten didn't want to move. She couldn't'. This was her fault. It was her fault that Seth had… she didn't even want to think about it because thinking about it made it seem even more real.

They heard breaks screech in the rain right outside their door. Sandy was already downstairs, Kirsten knew it. But she couldn't move.

She heard the doors slam once more and Seth's room lit up with light from lightning. Everything was happening so quickly, but to Kirsten, everything felt like an eternity.

She heard the sirens getting softer and softer as Sandy walked back in his room. He helped Kirsten up. Kirsten knew that he was saying something to her. He could see his lips moving, but nothing he was saying was making any sense at all.

Her world was folding in. She knew she had raised Seth better than to just give up whenever things got hard, but obviously she was wrong.

Sandy led the broken woman down the steps of the house and into the black Range Rover. Jimmy and Julie Cooper were out when they got to the end of the driveway, but nothing was even sent between them as Sandy sped off towards the hospital.

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By the time they got to the hospital, Kirsten was pretty well calmed down. She was still upset, but she didn't show it as much.

She had convinced her self pretty well that Seth trying to… kill himself was her fault. It was all her fault. Everything about it was her fault. She was very good at blaming herself.

They walked into the ER waiting room and Sandy went up to talk to the people at the desk. Kirsten just sat down, looking around. She didn't like it in here. Not that much.

Not too long later, Sandy returned to Kirsten's side and pulled her closer.

"Seth is going to be fine, I promise," he whispered in her ear, causing fresh tears to plummet down her face. She didn't want to think of what happened, but that was all that was in her mind. Playing on repeat over and over and over again.

She hated it.

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Not too long later, Jimmy and Julie found themselves with Sandy and Kirsten. Jimmy (at least) was worried about what was going on. He was always so nice to both of them, and sometimes Kirsten and Sandy couldn't even think of what life would be like without them.

Jimmy was doing his best to comfort Kirsten. They were still best friends, and now even neighbors. He wanted to do anything he possibly could to make Kirsten feel better.

Sandy had explained everything that had happened to the Seth to them. Well Jimmy at least. Julie was still clueless because the three of them knew that if they told Julie Cooper, all of Newport would know by noon. No, telling Julie was out of the question.

Kirsten was still oddly silent. She was just staring off into space, praying. Praying that Seth would make it through this. If he did, she'd be the happiest person alive, and if he didn't, she never forgive him, or herself.

She couldn't get the thought of it out of her head.

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"What do you mean you got a detention?" Kirsten asked Seth, looking at him, anger in her eyes.

"I got a detention, big whoop!" Seth said a bit angrily.

"Why?" Sandy asked, more calm and relaxed than his wife.

"Well, Mr. Reiger failed me on my Chem II lab and Marissa and I did the same exact thing and she got an A, so I called him a fucking asshole," Seth said, not even bothering to have any emotion in his voice.

"And what in the world would cause you to even THINK about doing that?" Kirsten snapped at him.

"I don't know, maybe just because that asshole hates me, why can't you see that?" Seth snapped back.

"That is still no reason to talk to him like that!" Kirsten snapped again. She couldn't believe that her son would do that. She didn't want to believe that her perfect son would do that.

"Yeah, well he deserved it!" he said angrily.

"I highly doubt that," Kirsten said angrily.

Seth didn't say anything, he just glared at his mother for the longest time. "You're grounded, indefinitely," Kirsten said.

Sandy was about to say something, but the glare that Kristen gave him shut him up right away..

"Whatever," Seth said angrily, a bit sad that his parents didn't understand. It wasn't anything that bad!

So he simply stormed up to his room.

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It was probably after that that he overdosed. Fresh tears came her face.

"It's my fault," she said, while still being hugged by Sandy.

"No baby, it's not your fault. This is no one's fault," he said, rubbing her back.

"You're wrong."

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What seemed like hours passed. Kirsten just stayed still. She hadn't said a word since she openly blamed herself for Seth's overdose.

There was no need for her to talk. Jimmy and Julie left. Therefore there was no need to talk.

No need at all.

Kirsten was about to get up, her joints were sore, her face tracked with tears. It was then that a doctor walked over to them.

"Kirsten and Sandy?" the doctor asked. The two of them nodded.

"I'm Dr. Feeny. Your son, Seth. I don't exactly know how to say this."

Kirsten was sure that the doctor was just about to tell them that Seth had died, and then Kirsten was going to die. She just knew it.

"Your son should be fine, he got here just in time. It seems that he overdosed on sleeping medications not that long ago. He'll be on suicide watch for the next 72 hours, as soon as he wakes up…"

Kirsten was sure that the man had said more, but she was just so overjoyed that Seth hadn't died. He wanted to, but he was never ever going to, ever again. She wouldn't let him.

"Can we, can we see him?" Sandy asked, still tired. He himself hadn't gotten too much sleep either.

"Sure, but he's out of it right now, he should be up shortly. He just may be a bit woozy.

Kirsten nodded.

"Take this hallway all the way down, turn right, eighth room on the left," Dr. Feeny said. Kirsten did her best not to hug the man. He had saved her son's life. She owed him everything.

Sandy and Kirsten walked hand-in-hand down the hallway. Kirsten felt much better now that she knew that her baby was going to be okay.

They entered the eighth room on the left and saw him. He looked tired, he looked weak, but he was awake.

Kirsten ran over, and ignored the tubes and wires running out of his arm and hugged him tightly. She felt tears falling, but now, they were tears of joy.

"I'm sorry," Seth said almost silently.

"Me too," Kirsten said, not letting go of her son.

"Can't breathe mom," Seth choked out.

Kirsten just chuckled. "Consider this your punishment, part one."

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Fin.

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A/n: Ze end! I may write a sequel, but right now I am just trying to finish this and "Guiding Light" so I can put all my attention on my work. Blah! 55 days, till Lost that is, and this story has nothing to do with Lost...

JenJenxx - This is the end… he was never meant to be unmasked..

KC-Chick - Feeny! OMG! I fit Feeny into the story! I'm so proud of myself…

Ansy Pansy aka Panz - Haha, it was meant to be confusing.

Garfield - No, that is too much like Boy Meets World, I like it better that there never was a detention in the first place…

emogeek1 - FEENY!

Laugh-a-Lot Bear - blink blink Ooooo-kay…

adambrody10 - xD… Summer didn't kill him. Seth killed him… wait… I'm so lost…

hawaiiansurfergirl - This was the last chapter, because this was planned since before I even wrote the first chapter. There may be a sequel, there may not be a sequel, I don't know.

Mrs.AdamBrody - Seth didn't die! xD!