So, LWD isn't mine, but some of the story line is. Thanks again for all your reviews, but I want more! Don't hesitate to tell me what you think!

Luv, Summer K.

Derek started to panic. "What? Where are you, Casey? Casey, don't leave me."

"I'm in Woodlawn Park. Besides this shooting range." she breathed faintly.

Woodlawn Park? How'd she get so far? "Where are you hit?" he asked. He was pulling on shoes and he was finding a shirt to put on.

"In my stomach." she breathed again. He heard her cough and groan. "I'm coughing up blood, Derek."

"Ok, I'm on my way."

He ran downstairs to find an adult, but the house was empty. There was a note on the refrigerator.

Derek, we went out for brunch. We will be out all day. DON'T THROW ANY PARTIES IN OUR ABSENCE. Love, Dad & Nora.

"Shit!" Derek yelled.

"What's wrong?" she breathed.

"Nothing, I'm coming. Hang on, ok?" and he hung up. He couldn't drive so he would have to go by foot. He called 9-1-1 from his phone on the way.

"Hello, 9-1-1 operator. How may I help you." a calm male voice answered.

"Hi, my name's Derek, and my sister has just been shot by a stray bullet."

"OK, Derek. Where are you?"

"She said she was in Woodlawn Park, by that Shooting Range."

"So you're not with her, Derek?"

"No, I'm with her." he lied.

"Ok, we're sending someone over, ok?"

"OK, thanks, man."

"No problem." and he hung up.

Derek hung up, and speeded through the neighborhood. He only had a slight idea of where that park was, but he knew it as soon as he saw it. He looked around franticly

"Casey! Casey!" he yelled. "Where are you? Can you hear me?"

He heard something coming from deep inside the park, and stopped running. He strained to hear it again, but the blood pounding in his ears was deafening. He headed in the general direction of where he heard the sound. He heard it again. It was a moan. Not an animal's moan, it was too...girlish. "Casey?" he yelled desperately. "Wait, I think I can hear you!"

He stumbled over something and almost fell; it was Casey's duffle bag. He looked around and to his right, Casey wassitting on a picnic table. He whooped with joy as he headed towards her.

Casey moaned and tried to stop the blood that was pouring out her stomach.

"Casey? Wait, I think I can hear you!" It was Derek. She heard a whoop.

He ran over to her with her duffle bag in his hand.

She saw his face pale at the blood drenching her abdomen.

"Hey..." he trailed off. "Here you go," he put her to lie down on the table, and he felt for her pulse.

"What are you doing?" she said faintly.

"A couple of summers ago, I took this life-saving course. Half the stuff they taught me I forgot, but don't worry, I know what I'm doing, ok?" he gave her a small smile. Then he looked in her bag for a scarf or something to bandage the wound. He blushed slightly when he saw some of her underwear, but he kept on moving. He couldn't find anything, so he tied two shirts together.

"Ok, I need to tie this around you to slow the blood loss, ok?" he paused slightly. "I'll need to raise your shirt, do you mind?"

She shook her head slowly. He rolled her shirt up until it was above the wound. Besides seeing the scarlet liquid oozing out her stomach, she had an amazing body. The thought almost escaped his lips. The wound was just above her belly button. It was small, so it couldn't be that bad. He slid the make-shift bandage under her back, and wrapped it around her torso area as many times as it would go. She winced only once, but she didn't make a sound. He tied it in a knot that he had learned in the class, and sat down next to her on the table, waiting for the ambulance. His hands were covered in blood, so he wiped it off in his pajama bottoms.

"Thanks" Casey said, trying to sit up.

"No," he said, gently forcing her back down. "Keep the pressure off that area. And you're welcome."

He heard a siren coming closer. "That must be them." he said.

He tok her duffle bag and slipped it onto his back and picked up Casey, and carried her to the entrance of the park. "It's going to be ok." he whispered to her. "I got you."

The ambulance was pulling in, and saw Derek carrying Casey. The truck stopped right in front of him. Some guys jumped out, and carefully loaded Casey into the ambulance.

"Can I come?" Derek asked, determined to not let Casey go by herslef.

"Sure." a guy said. Derek hopped into the back of the truck where Casey was being taken care of until they reached the communtiy hospital. The whole thing was covered with instruments. Casey looked scared. Her eyes were jumping around with fright. He took her hand in his, and held it until they reached the hospital. She seemed to calm down considiberably. They reached to the hospital, and Casey was rushed off to the ER. He was led into the waiting room where they allowed him to call his parents. He got in touch, but it would be another thirty minutes before they got there. He leaned back in hs chair, and tried to relax his tense body. She could've died. And I saved her. His stomach started growling. He chuckled to himslef. All before breakfast.

So, Derek savesher life, will he win her heart in the process? Stay tuned to find out.