(A.N.) Hey, so the penultimate chapter is here and let me warn you, its not that nice. But dont stop reading becuase all will be resolved next chapter! I'm gonna be nasty and leave you all with another nasty cliffhanger. Summer and Ava face off! It was quite hard to explain what I imagined for this chapter so if you have any questions or are confused then feel free to ask anything, just PM me or say it in your reviews.

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Shockwave

Seth clung onto a wall, exhaustion gradually overwhelming his body. His breath ripped out of his throbbing lungs and his hands shook. He was so out of his element here but the main driving force was the sheer determination that overwhelmed his mind. He'd come too far to give up. Seth stared up at the dark sky and the few stars which glistened through the inky black. He and Ryan had been dashing around the streets of Newport for only ten minutes but they'd been running faster than ever before, Summer's house was quite far away and they were only half way there.

"Come on Ryan, we have to keep going…" Seth spluttered as his lungs yearned for more oxygen. Ryan nodded and both took a deep gulp of air and headed off down the road, getting closer and closer to the house and the three girls who needed them more now than ever before.

Summer cowered as she watched Ava get closer and closer towards her. She tried not to look at the limp figure of Marissa slumped in the corner of the room as it made her want to do nothing but scream and cry. She couldn't do that. She mustn't snap, she had to stay strong. If it came to it, Summer Roberts would die with dignity. But she didn't want that to happen, she had to do something. For the sake of Marissa, April and herself.

"Look at yourself Ava… Look at what you're doing," Summer whispered at the girl.

"I'm this way for a reason," Ava replied, her voice shaking.

"Okay, maybe you are. But what is it? The reason?" Summer asked.

"You! You're the reason why I am this way. Can't you see it? You and your stupid friends, you made my life hell!"

"To the point where you feel that you need to take lives? What gives you that right?" Summer cried. Ava looked stunned at Summers question, it had hit a nerve.

"So your life sucked, my life isn't that great!"

"Oh don't make me laugh!"

"Ava, you know nothing about me. You never have and have and you never will," Summer said, staring at Ava's bemused expression.

"I don't care," Ava said fiercely.

"I know you don't. Your life sucks so you destroy and just steal someone else's. I only feel one emotion for you and that's pity. You obviously have no emotion, nothing inside you that cares." Ava shrugged and looked into Summers unflinching gaze.

"I don't need you to pity me and you're not gonna stop me Summer. I have to do this okay? I have no choice!"

"Yes you do! You can walk away. Put down your gun and leave this house. If you're going to take one life tonight, make it your own because you have that choice. Don't make mine for me."

April's ears strained for a sound. It had been quiet for a while now and she remembered Summer's instructions. She didn't understand why it had to be quiet but April had been sat in this dark closet for what seemed like hours and she'd had enough. She was calling Seth. April flipped open the cell phone which was on Seth's number. She only had to press the dial button. She bit her lip and did it.

She heard the ringing noise and seconds later, Seth's voice.

"Seth its April. Where are you? You need to get here now!" April sobbed into the phone.

"Where are you? Where's Summer and Marissa?" Seth asked hurriedly.

"I don't know, I'm in the closet. Summer locked me in and told me to call you when it was quiet because then it would be safe…" April gushed.

Seth stopped dead in his tracks. When it was quiet. This was it, it was over. Ava had killed Summer. At that precise moment, Seth Cohen's heart snapped into two pieces and his world caved in.

"Seth? Seth? Are you there?" April asked.

"Yeah, we'll be there soon, hang on," Seth said with no emotion in his voice. He hung up the phone and dropped to his knees, his head falling into his hands, disbelieving what he'd just heard.

Ryan tried to shake Seth out of his stupor but failed as he swatted him away. Ryan grabbed Seth's cell and dialled 911, he knew as well as Seth that the two of them wouldn't get there in time to do anything in terms of saving the girls. They had to bow down and call the cops. As Ryan summoned the police, Seth just held his head in his shaking hands, thinking that it would fall apart, should he let go. He hadn't come though, he failed and because of him, Summer was gone.

Summer waited for a reaction from Ava who had stood there, motionless since Summer had finished her little speech.

"Please Ava," Summer whispered. Ava glanced up, her bottom lip trembling.

"I'm sorry, I can't do that," Ava snarled. Summer's limbs went numb and she clambered off of the bed, racing towards the door as Ava hurtled after her. Summer ran for her life as she thrust open the bedroom door and sprinted down the hallway. But Ava was too fast and she leapt forward, knocking Summer to the hard floor. The gun that had been clutched in Ava's hand slipped out and skidded across the marble floor.

Pain went shooting up Summers back and she tried to wrestle with Ava to get her off of her. Ava's cold, thin fingers closed around Summers neck and she gasped for the air that her lungs desperately needed. Summer glanced over to her side and saw the silver gun. She could reach it, she had to try. She could already feel her life ebbing away and she had to stop it, stop this. Ava wasn't going to win.

Summer stuck out her arm, straining for the weapon. Ava saw what was happening and reached for it too with her free hand. Summer mustered enough strength to roll over so Ava was underneath her. But Summer hadn't seen the gun go under Ava's body as they rolled over and Summer wrestled with the intruder, trying desperately to find the gun. Ava's eyes widened and she felt the object poking her under her back. She twisted her arm and tried to reach it, her finger felt the cold metal, she felt the trigger. Summer didn't realise what she was doing. Ava pulled it from underneath her and Summer tried to take it from her. The two girls fought for the gun and their hands swept over the shiny metal. Ava's finger found the trigger and Summer tried to knock it out of her hand when there was a loud bang.

Ava's finger had caught the trigger and it had had gone off and one girl slumped slightly, her eye's widening in shock. Summer jumped back and stood up, staring at Ava who's shirt had a shiny wet, red stain that was growing in size. Summer backed away as, with her last bit of strength, Ava hoisted herself up and charged towards Summer who was cowering by the banister. Ava grabbed Summer and pushed her against the banister, trying to ignore the pain that was flooding her body. She had to do this one last thing, then she could die.

Ava grabbed Summer and pushed her further into the banister so she was bent over it and with one last push, using her last ounce of strength, Ava pushed Summer over the banister. Summer's scream rang through the house and she fell down onto the ground floor with a loud bang. Ava threw her head back and laughed before taking her last breath and collapsing on the upper floor. Shockwaves rang through Summer's bruised body as she lay on the cold marble floor. Her body ached and she felt blood on her face from a gash on her forehead. This was it. She felt dizzy and seconds later the room faded out and she was gone.

Ryan dragged Seth up Summer's driveway and they heard sirens in the distance. They'd gotten here before the cops but were scared at what they were going to find. Seth's mind was in pieces and he didn't know what he was doing. Ryan raced up to the front door and shoved it open urgently. He rushed into the house and froze as he saw Summer's lifeless figure on the floor in the hallway. He glanced up at the upper floor and the low banister. She fallen, or been pushed.

Shortly after Seth appeared in the doorway, his face a pale shade and he went even paler as she saw his beloved girlfriends figure. He pelted over to her and held her limp body in his arms, praying for her to wake up. He rocked her head softly and let the tears forming in his eyes fall, they streamed down his cheeks and he knew that the end was here.

Stay tuned for chapter 16 and the conclusion to this shockingcliffhanger!