A/N: I originally had this cut into 2 parts, but I changed my mind. I'm giving it to you all at once, otherwise it's WAAAAAY too short. So, this is it, it's over. Except for a bizarre alternate ending just for all of my fellow Palex fans. Yey! Palex! And um... I keep your alternate ending requests in mind DeviousDegrassi.

The End

Sean heard the gunshots. He had just cut the engine on his motorbike. His old dog Charlie was faithfully sitting in the side car. The springer spaniel let out a whine of distaste at the echo of the second shot. Sean unstrapped his helmet and put it on the right handlebar. He pulled opened up a saddle bag and pulled out a pistol. He put it in his jacket pocket He felt it was better concealed so he wouldn't be an instant target. Emma had only told him she was in trouble, that some psycho killed Spinner.

"Be good, Charlie , Stay" He told the dog. It laid down in the side car. He opened the gate and slipped in. The sky was streaked with color because the sun was rising. He closed the gate behind him.

Ellie came stumbling out of the woods at a dead run. She slammed into the fence. She gripped the chain link and shook it. Why couldn't she be at the damned gate? She could try to climb it, or look for the gate. She looked behind her fearfully, she knew Emma was stalking her. She had seen Emma shoot Manny, and Emma had seen her. She ran, and behind her another shot had rung out. Emma was trying to kill her. She hurried along the fence, her hand never leaving the chain link. She stared at the woods, obsessively. With the sun coming up she could actually see past the first line of trees, there was at least that going for her. Because she was looking the wrong direction she bumped right into Sean. Running into someone out here scared her, and she screamed.

"It's me Ellie!" Sean said, backing off and showing he wasn't armed. Ellie didn't know why Sean was here, but she was sure glad to see him. "It's okay. I'm here to help." He told her.

"Sean watch out!" Emma yelled hysterically from the woods, "She did it! She killed everyone and she shot me."

Sean backed away from Ellie, giving her a new look. Ellie didn't like that new look, it was a frightened and betrayed look. Ellie and Sean both looked at Emma. She was bleeding from her arm, and from her hand. She was dirty and covered in soot. She looked like she had been dragged through hell out here. Of course she looked more like a victim than a killer. She had the gun pointed at Ellie, it was shaking in her hands.

"She's lying Sean. She killed everyone, she's going to kill us too" Ellie told him. She hoped he could see the truth, as hard as the truth was to see. He looked from one ex-girlfriend to the other. He didn't like the idea of either of them being killers.

"You're lying!" Emma cried, "I got the gun away from you, and you didn't get to kill me. Bet you didn't expect Sean to come to my rescue, huh?" She was very convincing, Ellie thought. Emma's hysteria was such a joke, as real as it seemed "You've been caught, give up!"

"Sean, I might be a little crazy." Ellie told him sincerely, and quietly looking him in the eyes. She needed him to believe her, she didn't look at Emma. She couldn't look at Emma anymore. This was all about Sean now, and who he would believe. "But I couldn't kill anyone. Don't let her get away with this, please don't let her get away with this."

"Don't make me shoot you Ellie!" Emma threatened her, "I'll protect Sean! You aren't going to kill him too! I won't let you!"

"No Emma." Sean said sternly, yet with compassion "Don't shoot anyone, it's a terrible feeling. I know." He walked toward her, and she let him. He held his hand out to her, "Here, give me the gun. I won't let her hurt you, I won't let her hurt either of us. I promise."

Emma let Sean pull the gun from her hands. He stepped back holding the gun out at Ellie. Ellie didn't know what to do, she was staring at Sean holding a gun on her. She just stood there and looked into his eyes. They were hardened and serious. She sighed in defeat, she had lost. Sean had always been so in love with Emma. She was almost sure he wouldn't have moved to Wasega Beach if it had been Emma depending on him.

"You killed our old friends Ellie. Killed them, and what did they ever do to you? You're obviously missing some very vital screws in that head of yours. If we let the cops handle you, There's a chance you could get out and do it again. We can't let that happen, can we Em?" Sean's face was so serious, so angry. Ellie swallowed hard, she could feel fresh warm tears streaking down her already tear stained cheeks. She was about to die.

"You're completely right Sean." Emma agreed. It was the go, Ellie wanted to close her eyes. She couldn't though, she couldn't take her eyes off of the crazy look in Sean's eyes.

He flipped the safety on the gun and pulled the trigger. Emma smirked, thinking she had won, until she realized the gun hadn't fired. Then she frowned, angry. It was suppose to backfire on Sean, he was suppose to die. Sean dropped the gun on the ground and pulled out his own gun in one fluid motion. He aimed his properly working gun right at Emma.

"What are you doing?" She asked in a sudden panic, her eyes darting from the stunned Ellie to the rock hard look on Sean's face.

"You killed them." He told her, spite clear in his voice, "You killed them, and you were going to blame it all on me. That's pretty fucked up, even for you, Emma."

"I... I... I didn't..." Emma stammered. How did he know? There was no way for him to know. No one else had figured it out. Not even Liberty had it, and she was the smartest kid in school. He couldn't possibly know, this had to be some kind of test.

"Shut up." He snapped, "I know you did it, you're denial act is worthless right now." He looked disgusted that she was even trying to deny it. He somehow did know.

"Fine." She said through clenched teeth, her glare matching his. She was furious that he had seen through her perfect plan, her perfect act, "So what are you going to do?"

Ellie crossed her arms, and gave Emma a taste of her own self satisfied smirk. The tide had turned and Emma was about to drown in it. She quoted what Sean had told her, "If we let the cops handle her, she just might get out and do it again."

"Oh, no." Emma's anger flashed away instantly, she shook her head and pleaded with them, "I'm pretty sure they'll keep me locked up, I killed way too many people to get away with it. There's no reason to kill me, I mean, life would be far worse lived in some rusty old jail, right?"

Sean left it up to Ellie, "Your call Ellie, you had to suffer through her psychotic rampage."

"Shoot the bitch." Ellie said coldly. She knew Emma would have killed both of them mercilessly. She had Craig burned alive. She didn't deserve to live, not even in a rusty old jail.

Sean pulled the trigger, twice. Emma hit the ground hard. He walked over to her and she snatched his pant legs in her hand, she sneered up at him. He felt sorry for Emma, he knew there was good in her, down under all that surface hate. There was an lost little girl in there, that he had once very much been completely in love with. He shot her one more time, and she fell back, finally dead. He gazed down at her lifeless body for a long time, wondering if it had been the right thing to do.

"You did the right thing." Ellie answered his thought, as if reading his mind. He hadn't witness what she had done to everyone, she knew beyond a doubt it was the right thing. "Are you going to be okay?" She asked.

He looked up and gave Ellie a warm and ironic little smile, "Yeah, we're both going to be okay." He walked over to her and put his arm around her. They started to walk toward the gate. "Let's get out of here, you hungry?"

"I don't know if I'll ever be hungry again." She chuckled nervously, "If you had seen what she did to people, you'd understand." She shook her head, trying to force the images of her dead friends out, "Thank goodness you saved the day. Sean Cameron, my handsome Knight in shining armor."

Sean was opening the gate when there was the familiar sound of a gun cocking. Emma was behind them again. She was standing there, bleeding from four different gun shot wounds, and looking as evil as anyone could ever look. She had Jay's gun pointed at Sean. There was no way any person should still be standing, moving, or aiming a gun so steadily with that many bullets in them.

"How are you still standing?" Ellie asked the question that both of them were baffled by. It just didn't seem possible.

"I'm a soldier of mother earth," Emma said proudly, her insanity showing on a whole new level, "maybe she wasn't ready for me to die just yet."

Sirens sounded off in the distance. Someone was probably responding to the fire, at last.

"Now, you two fucking love birds- go to hell." She pulled the trigger. She had undone the rig, not stupid enough have the gun back-fire on her. Still, her aim was thrown off horrifically as she was hit from behind. The clunk of metal on her skull knocked the wits out of her, she tumbled to the ground and lost the gun completely. Standing over her, Alex was breathing heavily and glaring down at her. The left side of Alex's head was covered in blood, as was her lower torso where the harpoon had gone through her. She looked almost as much like a Zombie as Emma did.

"But you were dead." Emma whimpered up at the she-demon. She knew there was nothing she could say to keep Alex from killing her, all she could hope was that Alex was just a figment of her imagination.

"I'm a soldier of vengeance" Alex mimicked what Emma had just told Ellie, "Maybe you shouldn't have killed my girlfriend bitch."

With that Alex thrust the shovel down on Emma's throat. She put her foot down on the shovel head and pushed violently. Emma's head parted from her body with a sickening pop.

"I guess mother earth is ready for you now, eh?" Alex told the headless body. She stumbled backwards, and barely caught herself. She got the bitch, and there was no way that she would be getting back up in this reality. Ellie rushed over to steady Alex before she fell. Sean took up Alex's other side.

"She's hurt bad, we need to get her to a hospital." He told Ellie, as they walked Alex out of the gate.

"It's nothing but a flesh wound." Alex scoffed, lighted-headed and about to pass out. She had avenged Paige, if she died now it would be just fine by her. It didn't look like that was gonna happen though, because a stream of dirt was flying into the air above the approaching emergency vehicles.

Ellie and Sean smiled at each other as they helped Alex stay standing, this was something that was going to bind the three of them like they had never been before. A fire truck, an Ambulance and several cop cars pulled up in front of them. Paramedics rushed up to the teenagers, quickly assessing Alex's condition. They had her put on a gurney and an oxygen tank immediately. Sean and Ellie watched helplessly as they loaded her up into the back of the Ambulance.

The sheriff stepped around the ambulance and walked right up to them. He pulled his sunglasses dramatically and asked, "What happened here, kids?"

Sean looked at Ellie, who laughed and took his hand. "That's not an easy answer at all," she told the cop, "I could write a whole scary novel on what happened here last night, Sheriff."

She would write the novel too, and it would become a best seller. Someday even a movie would be made based on the events that happened that one dark wretched night at Lake Halidora where sixteen kids went in and only three came back out.

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Credits

Written by

Imaj Inaya

Also known As

Rikki of TR ( )

Special Thanks

Micheal Graham

Also Known As

Skud of TR ( of TR)

For all of his suffering as I pestered him for motives and murder weapons to use.

And Thanks to Degrassi: The Next Generation

For creating all these wonderful characters. It's an awesome show, I love it to death.

Thanks Degrassi!

And to all the people who read along as I wrote this, you guys made me finish it. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I will be drawing up a fan art piece to illustrate Emma as the killer, when I do I'll post up the link on my "about me" thing. I'd love to get a last review from all of you on how you liked the original ending. Thanks again guys, you rock.

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Toby was tired and thirsty. He looked every which way, but all the trees looked the same. He was completely lost.

"Hey guys!" He yelled to the woods around him. He had run as long as his legs would let him run. He hoped someone could hear him, "Is anybody out there? Is anybody still alive?"

The morning song of the birds was all the answer he got. In the far distance he could hear sirens. He wished he could run, but his legs felt like rubber. He numbly trudged in the direction of the sirens. At least he knew that way would be civilization.

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Fin