Disclaimer: If I haven't owned Ghost Whisperer for the last three chapters, do you think I own it now?

"Not right now. But she's shown me things. She was in the bathroom with you after she died. After she was shot, and the two boys were in there, she was there too. I think she might have left when they left. I didn't see anything past that…"

"I left too. After I was sure they'd gone, I left…

…I came out of the bathroom… and I stepped over the dead bodies of the girls who had been shot! I rounded a corner, and I was trying to be really quiet. As soon as I turned the corner, they were there. I think Avery was the one who saw me first. Josh ran around and put his hand over my mouth and his gun to my neck. Avery told him not to shoot.

'There's a janitor's closet in the next hallway.' He said.

So they dragged me around the hall and threw me into the closet. The last thing I heard was 'she was it, wasn't she?'

I fell down on my knees and started to cry. I heard sirens. I tried banging on the door and screaming for help, but no one heard me.

It felt like hours passed, but it was really only about 45 minutes. Then, Jim came and had to knock down the door because it was locked…

… I thought I'd never see daylight again," Laura finished. "How did Jim know to find me?"

"He didn't," answered Melinda. "I showed up around then, and I saw Emily. She told me that you were in there. I got Jim to go back in the school and get you out."

"Emily saved me? Emily saved me when… when I abandoned her?" she buried her face in her hands.

"You didn't abandon her, Laura. Don't think that for a minute." Melinda said firmly. "You were scared, and you did the thing you thought you had to do to survive."

"Tell her I don't want her to feel guilty." Emily said, appearing behind Laura.

"She doesn't want you to feel guilty." Melinda said. "She's here now."

Laura lifted her tear stained face.

Melinda nodded.

"Emily… I'm sorry I left you. We… we should have died together. I left you to die alone…"

"Tell her she doesn't need to feel guilty. Melinda… I can't leave her."

"Laura, is there something you want to say to Emily?" Melinda asked. "Anything at all?"

"I… I want to tell her I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave her to die alone… and then to find that you saved me… and that you were in the stall with me the entire time… Emily… I abandoned you… why?"

"Tell her because that's what friends do. And friends don't leave friends out to dry- even in death."

"She said because that's what friends do. Death wasn't going to be able to make her leave you."

"I abandoned you. I left you."

"Tell her it doesn't matter."

"She says it doesn't matter," Melinda said.

"It does though…" Laura insisted.

"I don't think Emily cares. She just wanted to know that you were going to be okay. She didn't want you to die too." Melinda said.

"Tell her that if she says 'I abandoned you' one more time, I'll kill her myself," Emily said with traces of a smile.

"She really does want you to stop," Melinda said.

"How can I?"

"Move past it all," Melinda said. "Don't dwell on what could have been… just live now. You'd think a second chance at life would make that clear."

"I will… if Emily says it's okay."

"Tell her I give her my permission to move on. To live her life. Just… to remember that I always loved her."

"She says yes. To live your life… and to remember that she always loved you."

"I loved you too… Emily."

"Is… is that mine?" Emily asked, staring out the window.

"Is it a light?"

Emily nodded.

"Then yes."

Emily walked toward the window, turned around and said "Tell her that I figured out who wrote the notes. It was Avery." She left and there was a breeze that rustled with the curtains.

"She's gone… isn't she…?"

"She's gone to a better place… so your life can become a better place. She wanted me to tell you something."

"What?"

"That day, in the bathroom, I think she was going to tell you who notes were from."

"She figured it out?"

"She said they were from Avery. That name sounds familiar… who is it?"

Laura looked as though someone had punched her in the stomach. "One of the shooters."

A/N: Well, that's all folks! I know, I left it on such a miserable ending, but isn't that how a lot of episodes end? Reviews please!