Hey there, I'm C.R. Richardson, your authour for this fic :D

Thank you everyone who Story Alerted and Favourited etc, you guys are amazing and I just want to hug you all! :)

This one is rather short in comparrison to the first one, so I'm sorry about that! But OMG it has a disney song in it! Does that make up for it? I think it should, maybe I'm a little bit biased because I like disney but...

So yeah, this is a couple of days after Hell Night where everyone is on the road to recovery! I haven't really looked much into the other characters of Dalton but I definitely want to (of course, from the perspective of Derek or Casey).

Enough of my rambling, here have the story.

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Enjoy,

C.R. Richardson xx

(Disclaimer: It all belongs to CP Coulter – I don't own anything :/)

The art hall had been burnt to a crisp three days ago. Nobody could believe how lucky everyone had been to survive the ordeal. Obviously there were injuries but at least no one had died. Derek had been hit on the head pretty hard and that didn't come without consequences. He was suffering some severe headaches, which were to be expected, but that didn't make them any easier. He had been allowed to leave the hospital, but where could he go?

The school was closed for the next couple of days while they tried to work through everything. A lot of important people had been hurt and the parents were not happy. So instead, Derek went back to the hotel with his parents. He hadn't wanted to leave his fellow students at the hospital, but what could he do? They needed the beds.

"What pills are you taking?" Derek held a small container in his hand. Trying to read the label but due to the name in latin he didn't understand what it meant.

He shrugged. "They're to help me deal." Julian smiled as he spoke the words like they were some joke. He let out a small giggle, he was acting like a drunk person. "The doctor gave them to me!" He said, as if that made them ok.

He threw a stern look towards his superstar friend. "You can't take pills to deal with this – you have to feel it! You can't stop feeling the pain, you'll only prolong it." Derek placed the container out of Julians reacg angrily. He would have thrown them in the bin of he thought he could have gotten away with it.

Julians face watched the pills with longing. They made him numb. With them, he didn't have to feel anything. No pain, no sadness, nothing. It was all gone and that was what he had wanted.

"I don't want to feel it." He said, his emotions precariously close to the surface. Julian was a good actor, had to be for his profession, but acting like he was fine was a lot easier before Adam.

"Tough." Derek said harshly. "I think you need to see someone."

"What?"

"Like a therapist. Someone who can help you."

"Oh sure, I'll just get Logan to hook me up, shall I?" The diva said sarcastically. He sat up in his hospital bed. "I'm fine, Derek."

"No, you're not. Julian, you need help."

"You don't know shit. If I go to a therapist the press will have a field day and I'll be called a fucking madman! I'm not going to be called a madman!" Julian's voice rose to a shout, as he insisted that the media don't get involved.

"They're not going to call you a madman! And since when did you care what the press said? It's never bothered you before." Derek took a calmer approach this time.

Julian was sick of the subject – usually he enjoyed being the centre of attention but not this time. "How's everybody else? Is anyone hurt?" He had been pretty isolated in his room. Only nurses and doctors came through to check on him. This was the first time a friend had been allowed in. The nurses were nice and chatted to him a little but whenever he approached the subject of other students they claimed ignorance and couldn't tell him any useful information.

"They were in a burning building, Mate. They're all hurt." Derek said even though he didn't want it to be true.

He swallowed feeling guilty for the pain that was all his fault. "Seriosuly hurt?" He asked.

"Danny – he's pretty bad, still in ICU but stable. Adam – well, Logan sure got him good." At the mention of Adam's name Julian tensed. "Reed's quiet banged up too, but it's nothing he hasn't seen before!" Derek tried to make a joke. But no one was smiling.

After about ten minutes of silence Derek finally broke it. "Casey came to see me..."

"And...?" Julian asked.

"And she told me she still loved me." His eyes were cast down at the floor.

Julian's eyes widened. "What'd you say?"

"I told her to go away." Derek said quietly.

"What?" The actor was stunned. "But you're crazy about her!"

"I couldn't remember her, and I feel like a dick about it already. I would have gone after her straight away but I wasn't allowed to leave the hospital. So I tried calling her but she's not answering!" Derek rambled on, listing everything that had gone wrong.

"...And now that you're out of hospital you haven't gone to see her, why?" He shot Derek a questioning look – eyebrows raised in confusion.

Music filled the hallway of Dobry, just outside the music room. It was the first day that Casey had come to classes and her friends were worried for her. After the big explosion at Dalton it was the only thing the girls had been talking about. Hope and the few others that had left after curfew had been forgiven and no punishment was to be enforced.

Casey, however had come home at five in the morning and crawled into bed. Only a couple of Prima girls had been up early enough to see her shuffling in looking bedraggled. The dark bags under her eyes made her cheeks look sunken. She had suddenly aged ten years over night. It was clear that she had had no sleep and was shivering from the cold because her clothes weren't satisfactory for that weather.

The first few days she had claimed that she was ill and had stayed locked in her bedroom. Friends had come and knocked on her door, begging to be allowed in but ultimately being denyed access. When she had finally emerged this morning and flown into the kitchen with a smile on her face a stunned silence and a dozen pairs of eyes had followed her every move.

"What?" She asked, still smiling brightly at the girls who were staring at her.

"You look..." Andrea Brightman started, searching for a word and then looking towards her twin.

Adriana finished for her sister. "Happy..." The way she said the word was suspecious, like Casey shouldn't have been happy.

"And what's wrong with that?" She asked the younger girls as she looked through the fridge searching for something edible.

"Nothing... It's just..."

"Odd..." Andrea finished the sentence this time. The girls still looking at her through squinted eyes.

"I'm fine!" Casey insisted, but all the girls could see her blood-shot eyes from sleepless nights and many hours spent crying. She shut the fridge when she found nothing appetizing in there to see all the girls still staring at her. "I'm going to class now..." She turned her back and heard the screeching of chairs as someone scrambled to follow her.

"Casey, are you ok?" Leslie whispered as they walked out of Prima. She was Casey's closest friend at this school and slept in the room next to hers.

Casey shot her friend another dazzling smile. "I'm fine! Stop worrying!"

"You've been holed up in your room for days because of Derek. I don't even understand why – he cheated on you and then you go and all but beg for him to take you back, then he tells you he doesn't like you! Why are you wasting your time on him?"

"Because not all of us can date the brilliant Charlie." Casey was starting to get annoyed with Leslie's constant judging.

"We're not together anymore and you know that." She said, sticking her nose in the air.

Casey allowed Leslie to start whining about Charlie leaving her to her own thoughts.

That first day back at school was hard. Keeping up the calm facade was tiring for her. All she wanted to do was curl up in her bed again but then she didn't want Derek to have that kind of power over her so she forced herself to go to the classes. To sit through the mundane lectures, take the necessary notes and pretend that all the information was going in.

During lunchtime she finally managed to excuse herself from Leslie's constant jabbering and had made her way over to the music room. Just sitting at the piano was calming. She took in a few deep breaths before placing her hands gently over the black and white keys.

She tested a couple of the notes, pushing down some of the keys. She didn't know what she wanted to sing but she had known that she wanted to sing. Singing was her release – it helped her let out every emotion that she couldn't put into words. This was just one of the reasons why she had joined the Terpsichords.

The first song that had come into her head was the one she started playing. After playing the opening bars she started to sing along.

If there's a prize for rotten judgement,

I guess I've already won that.

No man is worth the aggravation,

That's acient history, been there, done that.

Casey had been watching disney movie after disney movie while she was lying in bed feeling sorry for herself. Out of the hundred disney songs there was this song had stuck with her, she knew the reasons why even if she pretended that she didn't. Casey didn't often watch disney movies, they generally weren't her style, but she had made the exception over the past couple of days.

She had needed some cheering up. Everything in her life seemed bleak, all she wanted was to feel good. She had heard both Adriana and Andrea talking about their love for disney and how it made everything better, deciding she had nothing to loose she watched them. The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Aladdin – it didn't matter, she watched them all.

But the cheering up she needed hadn't really come. Sure all the movies had happy endings but they were still sad. Simba lost his Dad and was forced to leave the pride. Ariel had to disobey her Father in order to follow her true love, who didn't like her because she had no voice. Hercules fell in love with a girl, Meg, who was actually in league with Hades and was trying to destroy him. She had gone through two boxes of tissues and was blaming it on the movies.

I thought my heart had learnt its lesson,

It feels so good when you start out,

My head is screaming get a grip girl,

Unless you're dying to cry your heart out.

Of course she couldn't stay in there singing without being interrupted. The meddling twins had rushed in when the recognised the disney song, just in time to join in.

Who'd'ya think you're kidding,

He's the Earth and heaven to you,

Try to keep it hidden,

Honey, we can see right through you,

Girl, you can't conceal it,

We know how you're feeling and who you're thinking of.

They danced around the piano with identical mischievous grins covering the lower halves of their faces. Casey just rolled her eyes and continued playing to amuse them. She listened to the lyrics and hoped they weren't true. She hoped that the girls in Prima couldn't tell how she was really feeling, how upset she truly was. She had thought she had done a good job at hiding it. Apparently it wasn't good enough.

No chance, no way,

I won't say it, no, no.

This scene won't play,

I won't say I'm in love.

She argued back, trying to deny the feelings that they were insisting she had. They raced to either side of her and plopped down on the piano seat.

Give up, give in,

Check the grin, you're in love!

You're doing flips,

read our lips you're in love.

They nodded in a knowing way. They had lived in Prima for a long time now. They had seen Casey with all her boyfriends. They had been on the sidelines when Casey made her first mistake and agreed to go out with Derek. They were there when he cheated on her, but she forgave him. They were there when she caught him cheating on her. And they were there throughout the days after where Casey was heartbroken.

You're way off base,

I won't say it.

Casey used her shoulders to push the girls off the seat as she pushed out the lyrics. She then continued singing, only this time a lot softer, as she got lost in her emotions.

Oh, at least out loud,

I won't say I'm in love.

Unconciously she allowed a small smile to creep over her lips. The twins looked at each other with smirks forming. Pretending to wipe their hands they linked arms and walked out of the doors now that their job was done.

Casey was left alone at the piano realising that no matter what Derek did she was unfortunately still in love with him. She didn't want to be. She just wanted to forget him. But if she hadn't been able to do that after all this time then she didn't know why she thought she could do it now.

She decided that it was better to admit to her feelings. To admit that she is still in love with Derek. She realised that she didn't have to act on that, just knowing it made everything seem slightly easier.