Disclaimer: Disney owns WOWP, I do not

Author's Note:

Well, here it is… FINALLY! I really got to work on my time management between school work to updating my chapters because I am really not doing well. This is a really long chapter, but I decided not to break it into two chapters because you guys waited long enough for it already! Hope you enjoy the 12 page chapter! Oh yeah I changed the summary also!

Summary:

Alex is always getting into trouble with magic, but one day a fatal car accident sends her into a coma. While in the coma, she experiences life without her. Outside of her coma, everybody remembers the past, everybody imagines life without her and everybody sees a new relationship being born. jarper

A World without Alex Russo

Chapter Six: I Promise You

Justin enters the living room and sits on the couch. He closes his eyes trying to relax, but that scene just replays in his head over and over again.

"ALEX!! LOOK OUT!!" he screams at her while running as fast as he can toward her. Alex hears Justin screaming at her and wonders what's up. She turns around and sees the car coming at her.

"Uh oh…" she said slowly and couldn't move fast enough to get out of the way of the oncoming car. She tries to think of spell to get out of the way of the car, but she was like a deer caught in the headlights. She screams out as the impact sends her rolling over the car and landing behind the car on her stomach. He watches the blue Lexus car speeds off.

He punches the couch pillow hard until he couldn't anymore.

Why? Why? Why?! Why wasn't I there for her?!

He gets up from the couch and walks upstairs to his room. He walks into his room and stops to look at the family photos on his desk. He remembered the first time he saw his little sister. He was upstairs when his parents came home with her…

Little Justin was playing with his action figures when he heard his parents come home downstairs.

"Justin! Come down and see your little sister!" Theresa shouted up. He runs out of his room and downstairs. He sees his mom holding a little baby in a pink blanket.

"Look there's your little sister, Justin!" Theresa tells him excitedly. He approaches them slowly like he was scared of them.

"Oh don't be scared Justin. She can't bite you because she doesn't have any teeth!" Jerry chuckles and tells him. His dad takes Alex from Theresa and walks over to Justin. "Alex… this is your big brother Justin. He will be watching over you to make sure you don't get into trouble."

Justin looks at his little sister for a while. Then he reaches out his hand and takes Alex's little hand. He looks at her as she laughs and smiles back. A small smile starts to form on his mouth as he said, "Hi sis."

A single tear falls down his face as he remembers that moment. He picks up and looks at a picture of a 10 years old Alex who was smiling at the camera while she held onto his arm. It was a family barbecue at central park for the Fourth of July.

What is wrong with me? Why am I afraid to see Alex like that? Am I scared? Is that it? No, that can't be it.

He looks at the next photo of another Fourth of July family barbecue, but this time Alex was a lot older and had her arms crossed as Max, Dad, Mom and him poses for a photo that they asked someone to take. He chuckles to himself, knowing why he picked to display these two photos on his table. The first photo is Alex of the past and the second is Alex of the present. Then he stops chuckling and starts to think about that moment he saw Alex on the hospital bed.

Why did I run out of the hospital like that? I don't know why I did that… All I knew at that moment was that I couldn't breathe and had to get out of there. Maybe I am scared…

"Justin? Are you in here?" someone interrupts his train of thoughts. He turns and sees Harper standing nervously in the doorway.

"Harper?? How did you get in here?" he asks her wondering how she got in the house.

She walks inside the room and said, "Well Justin… that's a long story and it kind of… involves Alex."

"Oh, then I don't want to know," he tells her and puts down the photo he was holding. There is a moment of silence as Harper tries to think of what she could say to him after their last encounter.

Finally Harper breaks the silence by trying to comfort him, "Justin, it's not your fault what happened to Alex."

Justin doesn't say anything back so Harper tries again, "You couldn't have saved her-"

He turns his head furiously at her and explodes at her, "How do you know that?!"

"How do I know what, Justin?" Harper quietly asks Justin while frightened by his anger. She had seen him angry before because Alex always gets on his nerves and stuff, but never this angry.

"How do you know if I was near her, I couldn't have saved her?"

"Well… I…"

"You don't know Harper! You don't know what could have happened if I could had jumped and grabbed her before the car came at her!"

"Yeah, but…"

"But I wasn't there! I was at the front of the block out of breath because I couldn't keep up with Alex!" Justin basically is just yelling at himself now.

"Well, you can't blame yourself for that, Justin!" Harper finally got a sentence in as he pauses for a minute to breathe.

He turns to look at her again and continues his rant, "Why not?! If I actually ran every single day like I told myself, I could have saved her!"

"Now you are just being unreasonable, Justin. You can't blame Alex's accident on you being not athletic," she tells him gaining some of her courage back now that she sees that he is disillusion.

"How am I being unreasonable Harper?? I could have saved her! If only I was more fit!" he said to her with his voice breaking a little.

Harper starts to say something back, but Justin falls on his knees and starts pounding the table with his fist.

"If! Only! I! Was! More! Fit!" for each word he said, he pounds the table with his fist. "I could have… saved her…" he leaves his fist on the table and puts his head down sobbing quietly.

Harper without thinking goes over to him and holds him. He turns and looks at her. Then he hugs her tightly as the tears really came down hard.

"There, there Justin. I am here for you," she tells him and pats her back softly. She couldn't believe that she was actually doing this, but Justin really needed someone and Alex usually comforts him so he has to settle with her for now.

While comforting him, she spots a photo sticking out of a drawer. She reaches for it and pulls it out. She examines it closely. It was a recent picture of Justin and Alex at the beach. It was taken at the summer time when Harper was invited to participate on a Russo family vacation. Alex had her arms linked around his neck with her left eye closed and her tongue out. Justin turns his head to look at her with a little smirk on his face. Harper remembers Alex telling her what he told her that day.

"Come on Harper! The water isn't that cold!" Alex shouted at her best friend as she splashed around in the water wearing only a white bikini.

"Yeah, Harper! Come in! The water is fine!" Justin told her as he was also in his swim trucks splashing around in the water. Suddenly, he got splashed by Alex. "Hey! Watch it! You almost drown me!"

Alex giggled and told him, "Oh suck it up Justin! It's just water!"

Harper nervously stood on the sand in her one piece swimsuit and watched Justin splashed Alex back. Max ran pass Harper and jumped into the water. Harper stuck the tip of her toe in the water and immediately pulled it out when she felt the cold water. Alex stopped splashing at Justin and Max and saw that Harper still wasn't in the water. Alex swam over to Justin and whispers something in his ear. Justin chuckled and nodded his head in agreement. Meanwhile, Harper is still trying to get in the water, but every attempt she did resulted in her running back on the sand.

"Hey Harper, you having trouble getting in the water?" someone next to her asked her.

She turned and saw Justin smiling at her, "Yeah, I am really afraid of cold water and no matter how much I try I can't go in the water!"

"Well, I know of… a way to get you in the water," he told her.

She looked at him and asked him excitedly, "Really?? How?!" He glanced over at Alex in the water, who grinned and nodded her head slowly. He looked back at Harper and smirks evilly. Before Harper can even move, Justin picked her up and carried her toward the water. "AHH!! Noo!! Put me down Justin! Please put me down!!!" she pleaded with him and waved her hands wildly. The next thing she knew Justin dropped her in the ice cold water. Harper immediately popped out of the water screaming and frantically trying to stay on top of the water. Alex was dying laughing when she saw her best friend jumped out of the water like that.

Harper stopped when she saw her best friend laughing at her and screamed at her, "That wasn't funny Alex! I could had froze or drown to death!" Alex swam to her still laughing at what just happened.

"Ohh! You should have… seen your face! Priceless!" Alex sighed and told her. Harper frowned with her arms crossed at Alex. "Oh come on Harper, aren't you finally glad to be in the water though!"

"Yes, but I am still mad at you Alex," Harper told her angrily. Alex stopped laughing, but then Harper smirked and splashed her best friend in the face.

"Pfft! Pfft! Harper!" Alex spit out some water and shouted at her shocked by what she just did.

"Now… I am feeling better," she told Alex with a smirk. Alex stared at her for a while then a evil grin slowly appear on her face as Harper knew that face very well. Harper screamed out and swam away really fast as Alex waved her hand in the air. Harper swam over to Justin and Max. Justin saw her coming over in a hurry.

"Hey Harper, sorry about dunking you in the cold water before, it was Alex's idea," Justin apologized to her.

"Yeah, okay whatever, I forgive you, but I got to go!" she told them really fast and swam away really fast.

They both watched her swim away really quickly wondering what was up as Max said, "What's wrong with Harper?"

"I don't know, looks like she was running away from something," Justin told his little brother.

"What do you think she was running away from?" Max asks him. Suddenly, they got their answer as something huge blocked out the sunlight. Both of them turned around slowly and screamed as a huge wave came crashing down upon them. Justin came out of the water and wiped the water from his eyes and saw Alex laughing at him.

Alex guffawed and shouted, "That wasn't what I wanted to do, but that was so much funnier than what I wanted to do!"

"ALEX!!!" Justin screamed angrily at her.

Alex stops laughing and said, "Uh oh…" She swam away as Justin chased after her with Harper and Max behind him. Alex screamed off-screen.

Tears starts falling from Harper's eyes as she wonders if she will ever see her best friend again, she shakes her head trying to shakes out that thought.

Stay Strong Harper! Alex will be okay! I know she will be.

She looks at the photo again.

If this photo doesn't help him snap out of it, I don't know what will!

"Hey Justin, remember that day at the beach?" she asks him and shows him the photo.

He wipes away his tears with his arms and takes the photo from Harper.

"Oh yeah that was when I picked you up and dropped you in the ocean water," he tells Harper with a chuckle. He turns and sees Harper looking at him. "Again, sorry about that, it was Alex's idea."

"Yeah whatever, remember what you told Alex that day?" she asks him. He looks at the photo as he remembers that day.

Alex and Justin were by themselves chilling on the sand as the others went to help pack the beach stuff in the car. They both were wearing something over their bathing suits. There was silence as they watched the sun set into the water.

Finally Justin broke the silence, "So that was… a fun day huh?"

"Yeah, it was hilarious how you picked up Harper and then just dropped her in the water," she told him with a chuckle.

"Yeah, it was… She wasn't too mad about that right?"

"Nah… She was madder at me than you."

"Okay good, because I don't want her to be mad at me."

She turned to look at him with a big smile and teased her big brother, "You like her don't you Justin?"

Justin looked at her surprised by the question, "No! Uhh No! What makes you think that?!"

Alex smiled evilly and poked him in the shoulder, "Ohh, just admit it Justin! You are starting to like Harper!"

Justin got up from the sand as Alex followed and said, "What?! You're crazy Alex! I don't like Harper!"

"Yeah, whatever you say Justin, whatever you say," she told him and started to walk away. Justin followed after her.

Justin grabbed her little sister arm. Alex turned to him wondering what's up.

"Umm… Alex," Justin started to say, but was trying to find the words.

Alex could tell by Justin's face, that he wanted to tell her something important, "What is it Justin?"

"Alex, you know… that I will always be by your side no matter what happens right?" Justin told her. There was a pause as they look at each other.

Alex laughed and joked, "Yeah right, if I ever was in a coma, you would just celebrate and host a party with all your friends!"

"Yeah… you're right; I will have an Alex-is-in-a-coma party! I will invite everyone even Mr. Laritate!" he told her playing along with her joke.

"Justin!!" Alex is shocked by what he just says.

Justin laughed and told her, "I'm just kidding Alex!"

Alex playfully punched him on the shoulder as they continued to walk to the car.

As they got to the parking lot, Alex looked at him and smiled, "So you would reeally be… by my side if something happened to me?"

Justin turned to look at her and smiled, "Yeah, I promise you, Alex." Alex smiled back as they hugged each other.

Harper came over with the camera and told them, "One more picture before we go back!" They looked at each other. Alex linked her arms around his neck with her left eye closed and stuck her tongue out. Justin turned his head to look at her with a little smirk on his face.

Harper takes their picture as she said, "Perfect, now we can leave."

Alex and Justin freezes still as it becomes a photo as Justin looks at it.

I promise you… I promised her…

All of sudden, Justin snaps out his self-blame and becomes a whole different person. Harper smiles as she sees that Justin is coming back to reality.

What the heck am I doing here blaming myself? Alex needs me! My little sister needs me right now!

He turns to Harper and said, "Come on Harper! A promise is a promise. Let's go see Alex!" Harper nods eagerly in agreement and follows Justin out the door. Justin puts the photo in his jacket pocket as him and Harper walks downstairs.

Justin stop at the door and turns to her, "Thanks Harper."

Harper smiles and said, "Your welcome Justin."

He smiles back as they run out of the substation toward the hospital. They are in such a rush that they didn't notice a Lexus blue car start to follow them. They turn into a one way street because it was a shortcut to the hospital. Suddenly, he stops Harper by putting his hand in front of her because he heard a humming noise, but it didn't sound like a person humming.

"Hey Harper… Do you… hear that?"

"No… What do you hear Justin?"

"I don't know, but it sounds a lot like a car engine."

"Wait, now I hear it! It's that humming noise right?"

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Well, whatever it is, it sounds like it is coming from behind us."

"Wait a minute…"

He turns around quickly and sees a familiar looking car looking his direction.

Where have I seen this car before? I swear I seen this car before…

Then suddenly he remembers where he seen the car before.

"Harper-"however, before he could tell Harper, the car engine roars to life as the car comes at them fast.

Yeah, I left you guys in a cliffhanger and hopefully the next chapter doesn't take too long like this one. Although, I did write a lot so I hope it was worth the wait. Next chapter we will see how life is without Alex.