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Kay was lost in her memories when she heard the door and looked up to see Tyler coming into her room but stayed still. Tyler sat down next to her unsure of what to say. If he heard Reid or any of the other guys died he would be a mess. He didn't like Chase at all. He would have killed Chase himself, if he were strong enough. Definitely. But knowing Kay was hurting because of it, which hurt him. How anyone so full of life after all she's been through could have been friends with Chase, confused him. Maybe it was because Tyler didn't think of Chase as person, merely a cancer spreading across his friends.

Kay was at a stand still. There no tears, no sobs, or dry heaves. Something inside of her wouldn't believe Chase was dead. She would know it, she would feel it. They always knew when something was wrong with the other. To her he wasn't dead, he couldn't be.

"Kay," Tyler said hoping to get her attention.

"I don't want to talk about it." Her voice was flat and lifeless. Her mind, he could see, was a million miles away.

"Kay, we have to talk about it. You can't just keep it bottled up like this."

Her eyes travelled toward him knowing it was him but not really seeing him. She stared at her drawer with her non-blinking eyes. She felt as if she couldn't breathe. She stood up abruptly and jumped toward her dresser. She threw everything out searching for something, Tyler didn't know what. The next thing he knows is she's under the bed dragging her suitcase out from under it. She dug her hand into one of the smaller compartments and took out a wooden box. He watched as she opened it to reveal photos, folded notes, and other trinkets he couldn't decipher. She unfolded a picture so slowly as if it would turn to dust if pulled on too hard. She stared at the picture of her and Chase with his parents in the background. Her hand was holding Chases' and his dad was ruffling her hair. She could feel the dull beat of her heart in her ears.

"Chase's family, they were my family too." She started out slow. "How many parents you know would, besides the parents in Dawson's Creek," she said chuckling. "Let a girl stay in the same room with there teenage boy anytime. It could have been the middle of the night that I would sneak in Chase's room and in the morning they would see me and offer me breakfast like they didn't notice." She remembered with a smile. "Before this whole Spencer Academy thing Chase was all I needed, you know" she looked up at Tyler. "I don't want to believe what Caleb said because then I'll hate him.

The beating of her heart was getting louder to her. "I can't hate Caleb, Tyler. He's the only family I have left. If I hate him I'll have nothing. I'll have nothing."

"You'll have me."

She turned sharply towards Tyler, looking like a deer in headlights "Thanks. Um, I'm going to go take a shower. Are you going to be here when I get back?"

"If you want me to be,"

"Yea, I want you to be." she said with a small smile.

Kay wiped the steam away from the mirror. She stared at her self, still wet from her shower she could feel the sobs building up in her throat but yet she couldn't find it in her self to release them.

Two years, its been two years since she cried and it was over the same person that was running through her mind right now.

Kay came out of the shower with Tyler's hoodie, sleeves rolled up, and a pair of short shorts. Tyler already knew the look on her face. She was going to try and brush this off and keep it in.

"You feel better?"

"Yea, but can we not talk about it anymore for tonight." She said sitting next to him on the bed.

Tyler nodded. She needed to do this on her own time. He couldn't keep forcing her to let him in. She was just starting to, just a little everyday and he wasn't going to push her. He looked down at her wrist seeing that this is the first time he saw her without her wristbands.

"What's that?" he asked noticing that there was something there.

"Nothing," she said putting her arm behind her back. "Let's watch a movie or something."

She moved to get up but he grabbed her wrist and turned it around. "Come on, let me see." he said smiling that she had a tattoo. "What is this?"

"Nothing, it's stupid." she replied embarrassed.

"I won't laugh, promise." He looked at her with his piercing blue eyes and she couldn't help but relent.

She sighed and turned her wrist around and showed him her tattoo. It was a drawing of two stars. One had two circles around it and lines that trailed to it, when you looked up there was a small miniature compass at the corner of it, and NL written next to it.

"It's a map."

"A map to what," Tyler said with a smile on his face.

"To… Never Land" she mumbled under her breath. "When I was younger I used to want to run away all the time. Somewhere where I would be happy and content anywhere but where I was."

"So, you pick Never Land?"

"Did you ever hear about any of the lost boys trying to run away from Never Land?" She said a little defensively and when he didn't answer a small smile appeared, happy to know she proved her point. "Exactly."

"So if Never Land is your runaway place and you call me Peter Pan what's my role in all of this?"

Kay took a deep breath. Was she ready to tell him that he was the only thing that kept her sane since she's been here? That when he touched her, he set a heat trail down her skin that nobody since Chase has been able to leave? "Peter Pan takes care of me even when I don't realize it. He keeps me safe and grounded." She keeps Tyler's focus. "You're my safe haven, Tyler Simms so if I were you I wouldn't take that for granted."

When Tyler heard her say those words he felt something he wasn't familiar with. He didn't know what it was but he felt like he wanted to do whatever it took to protect the girl sitting in front of him. Shield her, hold her …love her.

He bent down his head and raised her wrist to his lips. Kay's heart caught in her throat. "Tyler, what are you doing?" she asked softly but he said nothing as he kissed the stars on her wrist. He continued up her arm, her neck, and jaw line. He paused centimeters from her lips as if the tension in the room wasn't enough. He grabbed her face and crashed his lips on her. He trailed his tongue across her bottom lip begging for entrance. She opened her mouth eagerly and Tyler tasted each area of her mouth. Their clothes disappeared rapidly off their bodies and Kay took a sharp intake of breath when she felt Tyler's bear chest against hers. They fit each other perfectly.

That night Kay and Tyler didn't just have sex. It was something deeper. The look in his eyes was enough for Kay to know that this was not just casual sex and it scared her but for right now at that moment she didn't care. But after the beautiful act was done she laid in bed with Tyler's arms wrapped around her feeling numb once again.

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