Slipped Away

Summary: This is years later after they graduated from Degrassi. Sean and Emma are completely over and done with each other. He is getting married and packing to move away with his fiancee. But will somethings from the years before cause him to re-arrange his priorities? Emma and Sean fans hold onto your hats it's gonna be an intense ride.

Rating: T (PG-13) For mild language and some sexual content.

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi: The Next Generation or any of its characters. I do not own the song "Slipped Away", either. I, myself, own nothing. This is merely for fun and the cause too much time on my behalf.

I miss you, miss you so bad
I don't forget you, oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh

Nah nah la la la nah nah

I didn't get around to kiss you
Goodbye on the hand
I wish that I could see you again
I know that I can't

Oooooh
I hope you can hear me cause I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh

I had my wake up
Won't you wake up
I keep asking why
And I can't take it
It wasn't fake
It happened, you passed by

Now your gone, now your gone
There you go, there you go
Somewhere I can't bring you back
Now your gone, now your gone
There you go, there you go,
Somewhere your not coming back

The day you slipped away
Was the day i found it won't be the same noo..
The say you slipped away
Was the day that i found it won't be the same oooh...

Nah nah, nah nah nah, nah nah
I miss you

Chapter Two: The Secret Truth Unfolds

Sean read the letter Emma had sent him from years back, intently.

Dear Sean,

I have finally gotten up the courage to write you. I don't expect anything from you and that's not what I am looking for in this letter. There are just some things I have to get off my chest and I knew that if I wrote it out you would have to listen to me without interrupting with a response or something to that effect. I was more than slightly hurt when you broke up with me just a few months ago, before our graduation, but I can't say I wasn't one-hundred percent unprepared. Also, you have to know I wasn't completely honest with you when we were dating. I was planning the day of our graduation to tell you my secret I had keep locked away from you for some time, but since two weeks before then you left me my plan wouldn't have went like I planned. I know this isn't something you want to hear from me since we no longer even speak with one another, but Sean I am pregnant with your baby. I knew that might be a surprise to you, but truthfully I didn't know how else to tell you this. Like I said I don't expect anything from you, but I thought you might want to know I am going to keep the child. I don't know where you are in your life and I don't even know if you have met another girl already. I just needed to tell you because I wouldn't be able to look at my child everyday and not be feeling guilty. I don't want this to affect your life and I am sorry if it does. All I know is if I was in your position I would want to know if I had conceived a child. Don't feel obligated to do anything for ay reason, please.

Love Always,

Emma.

Sean leaned back, mouth opened a bit from shock. Emma had been carrying his only child years ago. He folded the letter back up putting it in a pile of its own. Then he looked down seeing more of Emma's letter and he decided to himself to read the remaining letters.

Your in to deep to stop now Cameron.

Dear Sean,

I'm a little over seven months pregnant with a baby girl. Reconsidering all the possibilities I will become a single mother. You might want to know I have decided to name her Shane Elizabeth Cameron, yes Cameron. My mother didn't have me take my father's name, I felt fine with the concept and worked through not having my father's background, but I don't want my daughter to have to deal or cope with anything. I have decided to go to the Degrassi Community College, my mother will watch her the few hours I am at school. You probably are close to or did start your school. You have always had so much potential Sean, I seen it in you. I hope you have a good life and everything works well for you, considering you fins someone you can be just as dedicated to as she is to you. Again, I don't expect anything from you, I just know if I would want to know occasionally about the progress of my child. Live your life to the fullest, Sean.

Love Always,

Emma.

Sean slowly folded that letter back into the long rectangular shape it once was, placing it aside with her other letter. He would have never thought that life altering truths were packed in an old box in the back of his closet for year, and he never had the slightest clue. He guided his fingers over the words Emma wrote on the third letter, then once again began to read it carefully.

Dear Sean,

Its been almost a month since my last 'update' with you. So, you might be interested to hear that days before this exact moment I am writing you I gave birth to a healthy, although a few weeks premature, baby girl. She has you eyes and smile Sean, and she is the most beautiful baby. September third, she's a fall baby just like her father. I hope everything is going well with school and you are happy with your life. For your own closure I have enclosed a picture of baby Shane inside the envelope. I hope your life takes you places, and make sure to enjoy every minute of it.

Love Always,

Emma.

Sean reached inside the white envelope pulling out a hospital taken picture of his daughter. Printed on the photograph in clear black letters says "Shane Elizabeth Cameron." He thought hard about Shane and Emma and questions seemed to flood his head, 'How are they living?', 'What does my baby look like now', 'Would things have been different if in some way I had been involved with them?' He tried to block out his thoughts as he pulled back the tab to another one of Emma's hand written letters.

Dear Sean,

Life is going good for me and baby Shane. Jack surprisingly loves to spend immense amounts of time with her, which is just such a wonderful thing for me. I have gotten an apartment and had a smooth college start. Baby Shane is an adorable, bouncy child who seems to be perfectly fine and i am finally living my life to the fullest, truly enjoying every issue life throws my way. I have decided to discard all of the negative and un-progressive things in my life in order to move on. For this to actually happen I must take all issue of my past and no longer allow myself to bother with them. Which brings me to the main reason for this letter, my last letter. Sean I loved you and I will truly always love you deep in my heart, but now that I have told you everything that you are needed to know I must say good-bye. Things were never normal for us, since I first asked you to dance at the Welcome Back School Party in seventh grade, to when things came to a halt because of your friends and your 'reputation' you had to with hold, to when we broke up for the last time in Twelfth grade. So, it isn't so different for my good-bye to you to be not so normal. Like I have said to you Sean enjoy life, cause you never know when it might throw a curve ball your way. I needed to say this for quite sometime but never truly would allow you to slip away form me completely. So, now I must say my final good-bye to you, Sean Cameron, once and for all, leaving no strings attached to our past. May you live your life happily and wonderfully.

Love Always and Forever,

Emma.

P.S. Never fall short of your dreams, you have potential, i see it in you.

Sean looked over the letter quickly once more, then noticed to his dismay there were no return addresses on not just that one, but all of her letters. He had forgotten about everything involving Emma and him once he had met Dawn, but now it was as if he wanted to remember it all and never forget again. His life had changed cause of the contents of just one letter, even though Emma had intended not to have it change on her account. He had a beautiful daughter for years and he never knew it. This was building up inside of him like lava inside a volcano before its about to erupt. Without much thought he took the four letters from Emma, folded them into halves, stuck them into his back pocket and rushed out the door. He started his truck giving it gas as he backed out of his old drive way and down the street. He wasn't sure of what her would say once he found her, he just knew he had to find her somehow it had been too long now to put it off for another second more.

A/N- I really wasn't sure about Sean's Birthday on the show, I really couldn't remember so I just wrote it how I had planned to. :)