L A S T P E R S O N O N E A R T H :: C H A P T E R 2

Synopsis: "I wouldn't kiss you if you were the last person on Earth!" Sonny and Chad are given a rude awakening: their homes are gone, their families are gone, and so are their jobs. They're the last people on Earth. Channy multichapter. R&R!

Rating: T for safety and/or future chapters.

Disclaimer: I don't own SWAC, only this story's plotline.

(AN): This story takes place after Chad guest-stars on So Random!. Disregard any future episodes on the show.

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previously on L A S T P E R S O N O N E A R T H :

"Well, the studio did use to be a school…" Sonny began.

Chad looked up to her in question. "Handbook," she clarified. "The plane ride to California from Wisconsin was really long."

"Maybe so, but they must have renovated the school building into a studio. This bench used to be in honor of Mr. Condor. I used to come when I was younger, say 10 or 11, and sit here. I had the plaque memorized and never did it mention anyone named Susan Fleemer." He explained, sinking back in his seat.

"Where are we?" Sonny asked in a soft voice, causing Chad to sympathize for her fear.

"I don't know, Sonny. I don't know."

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"Well you wanna know what I do know? I know that we're gonna find out what's going on, right now." She instructed, walking back through the unpainted halls to her dressing room. Chad followed close after her, still looking around the halls for some glitch in this sick joke. Maybe a chip of the red paint that was on these halls? A rubber chicken? A real chicken?

By the time he caught up with Sonny she was seated at her dark cherry wood desk, typing on her Apple laptop intently. It appeared as if the only room that remained the same was her dressing room, the room they fought in moments ago.

"Got anything yet?" He asked, pulling up a folded chair to sit next to her.

"Not yet… It says no news reports have been filed since 1985." Sonny read off the laptop.

Chad shook his head fearfully. "This must be some joke."

"And what, all of Los Angeles is in on it?" She sighed. "No, Chad. It's been 25 years without civilization. We can't just recreate them, they're gone. I don't know where they went, but they're gone."

"Look, Sonny… I know you're trying to be all mature about this, but I know you're scared. CDC isn't afraid of anything and even I admit I'm completely spooked. So if you need to talk, you can come see me in my dressing room. But as for now, I can't take anymore of this depressing news. Catch ya later." He says, walking out the door.

"Wait!" Sonny called, ushering Chad back to face her. "Okay, I admit it. I'm scared. I don't have my mom, or my house. And this is a vacant lot without any shows. So yes, I'm freaking out right now. I'm trying to make sense of this and it doesn't make any sense."

He walked back, taking a seat back on the chair next to Sonny.

"This is like Scary Saturday… They swore on a fortune cookie and their lives changed forever." Chad shivered.

"Except they went on with their lives – our lives don't even exist!" She cried, facing him.

"True. We're going to be okay, Sonny." He soothed, noticing the unshed tears from Sonny's eyes. He'd never seen her cry before and didn't intend to now.

"What should we do, Chad?" Sonny murmured, laying her head on the desk.

Chad placed his hand on her head, gently massaging it comfortingly.

"I'm not sure… Our jobs are gone, our parents are gone. Heck, all traces of our previous lives are gone. So I guess we're going to have to wing it from here. Consider this as your rebirth – there's no evidence of your previous life so now you have nothing to worry about." Chad explained.

"Nothing to worry about? Chad, what about my mom? Where is she, did she die? I'm so confused!" She asked, letting the tears spill out of her eyes and make their way down her cheeks. Chad's gaze instantly softened at her state – which almost made him want to cry.

"Oh, Sonny, come here." He responded, taking her into his arms as she cried softly into his shoulder, her body slightly shaking with each sob.

His arm was curved around her neck, the other protectively around her waist. Hers were strewn around his back, her grip tightened as if her life depended on it.

"It's going to be okay, Sonshine, you'll get your mom back. We're going to get everything back. Just trust me on this one."

Sonny suddenly pulled away, causing his brow to crease with worry.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" She sniffled, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Because maybe I…" He began, quickly shaking the thought from his head. "You're scared, I'm scared. You lost everything, I lost everything. For the first time we're actually on the same boat." He stammered, nervous of her reaction.

Sonny smiled, hugging him once again. The tears weren't present in her eyes anymore as her body swayed with his in the hug.

To his dismay, she pulled back moments later. Her signature happy grin was plastered all over her face, screaming 'Hey look at me, I'm all happy'.

"Thanks. Y'know, I could get used to this Chad. I like him."

"I'm the same Chad, Sonny. You just never gave me a change to surprise you because you've always expected me to be the jerk I'm made out to be."

"You're not a jerk. Clearly you're not a jerk," she assured him, taking his hand in hers comfortingly. "You're far from it, Chad. If you were a jerk you wouldn't care about how I felt, and here you are hugging me. I've never met a jerk who hugs. Jerks just don't hug."

"I suppose not. I'm sure they hug their mothers, though." He insisted with a laugh, marveling at the smile that broke out on Sonny's face.

Sonny laughed, "What's your reasoning for that?"

"Well, you'd have to be pretty heartless to refuse hugs from those who conceived you." Chad laughed.

"Ha ha, awkward." Sonny mumbled, fumbling with a button on her dress. She smiled at a thought.

"Do you hug your mom, Chad?" She asked carefully.

"I used to." He breathed out, regretting his choice of words every second that passed.

Sonny's brow creased. "Wait… Why don't you anymore?"

"She's not here to hug." He murmured, averting his gaze from Sonny's eyes to his newly interesting shoes.

Sonny's eyes widened and she squeezed his hand sympathetically.

"What happened?"

"She had a terminal cancer. Pancreatic cancer. There was nothing the doctors could do… she only had five months." He explained, biting his lip to conceal his feelings as much as he could.

"I'm so sorry, Chad." She said, rubbing his shoulder.

"It's not your fault, Sonny."

"You're right, it's not my fault. But I still could've been more considerate of you. Here I was engaging in our classic arguing and I never stopped to think that maybe you were a human too. So I'm sorry." Sonny apologized, looking down at the floor ashamedly.

"I accept your apology, Monroe. Really, it's no big deal. I haven't been very considerate of you, either." Chad reasoned, his eyes piercing into his to show the true meaning of his last statement.

"Well none of my parents have died."

"How about your dad? You never talk about him much." He felt her stiffen immediately, her eyes turning from milk chocolate to dark, burning coal in an instant.

"He left me and my mom before we left for Los Angeles."

"How could he leave you?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Sonny demanded, yanking her hand away from his.

"Sonny, you're the nicest person I've ever met. What was his reasoning?" Chad admitted, biting his lip as if he was refraining from beating her father to shreds even though he wasn't in the room.

She sighed, "He didn't have any. He fed off of my mom's money and support. He needed it to fuel his alcoholism and drug abuse."

Chad's gaze softened, "Oh, Sonny…"

"So when we shared the news with him, he went crazy. His beatings were twenty times worse and he almost even killed my mom. He aimed an empty wine bottle at her head, but thank goodness his missed. I might not be alive if he didn't. I might've been… next." She shivered, taking his hand once again.

"He beat you?" Chad asked, flabbergasted.

"That's what I said, isn't it?" She retorted, covering her emotion with a rock-hard wall.

Chad stared at her blankly, no emotion present in his facial features. At once, his brow creased and he took her other hand in his.

"That's why I liked fighting with you so much… I've never been able to fight back." She revealed as he traced circles on the palm of her hand.

"What a monster," Chad shook his head, scooping Sonny into another friendly, assuring hug that was far overdue.

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G'day, folks. So that's the new updated chapter.

I'm not sure what I think of it, but it's sort of a filler. I really want them to form a strong friendship built off of trust before they decide to date. So this was them learning about each other's past. More action is coming in the next few chapters.

If you have any ideas or things they could talk/research about, put it in your review, por favor, because I'm trying not to put you to sleep! Haha(:

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