Noises

A/N- Disclaimer: Characters belong to Kelley Armstrong! Roxy, Po and Lani belong to Bookworm1807

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Previously In 3rd Persons POV

"DEREK SOUZA!" His name was called and he walked up onto the stage looking out he saw all his friends, his family sitting there smiling at him. They snapped photo's and cheered as he moved his tassel from one end to the other and as he did he swore he saw her. Standing at the back between the two seating areas. She smiled at him her strawberry blonde hair billowing softly in the light breeze, her baby blue eyes shining with admiration. Her mouth opened and he swears he could hear her voice carried by the wind.

"Congrats babe, I love you."

And suddenly it was over and he was walking off the stage and by the time he could see where she was. She was already gone, faded into the sunlight.

There in the background if you listen close enough you can hear it. The faint buzzing noise, or was it a humming noise? No more like a bell that never stopped a soft ongoing ring or a bring like a bell on a bike. If you listened more you could hear the extremely faint sounds of footsteps hurrying down a tile hall the shoes they wore clicking softly, or loudly depending on the type and their speed.

Listening intently she could easily pinpoint the hastened footsteps of running shoes. She heard the familiar squeaking of the door being thrust open and the groan as it was shut behind.

"Hey." He spoke moving closer. As per-usual she heard the rustling of something at her bedside and the scraping of chair legs as the chair was pulled closer, "I graduated." He began to tell her about his day, about his party about everything and she listened. Not like their was anything else to do, and it was nice to have something to do to take her mind of the constant struggle of life, or was it death?

All she knew was whatever she was doing let her listen to his voice so she should just kept plowing on. Avoiding the brilliant light that was slowly catching up because whatever it was couldn't be good. Suddenly the chair squeaked as it moved away from the bed, time seemed to go faster. Was it just her or was he leaving sooner?

"I love you." The deep rumbling voice spoke and she tried to reach out. Tried to stop him, but she couldn't and possibly she would never be able to.

Derek's POV

"Congratulations Derek!" Everyone shouted as I walked into my house. Rolling my eyes I headed into my kitchen to find it crammed with supernaturals and old allies.

"Heard about your mate, hope she wakes up." Jeremiah told me squeezing my shoulder. I bowed my head and nodded,

"So do I." I whispered, "so do I." Grabbing a drink I forced a smile on my face and greeted people until I could reach the staircase, once their I quickly made my way to my room. Laying down on my bed I sighed, I didn't have long with Chloe and as much as I wanted it to be like some cheesy movie where the guy cleans up his life and the girl wakes up for her happily ever after that just wasn't what happens in real life. Every time I visited her the sight of her in the bed reminded me of how long I had left with her and I just couldn't stay there.

"Derek?" I looked up as my Dad walked in, "I thought you'd be hiding in here." He came and sat beside me as I opened my beer and he opened his own. With Dad it was always easy, I didn't have to say a word but I knew he understood. We sat there in the silence that was full of conversation at the same time.

"Dad? Derek?" We both looked up at the door before checking the time. Standing up Dad gave me a hug before going out to find and calm Simon down. Turning around I looked at the picture on my bedside table,

"I miss you." I whispered to myself before closing my eyes and take a deep breath. I'd need to be calm to walk into whatever disaster Simon has created in my house.

Walking downstairs I saw Simon cleaning my living room floor and I wasn't interested to scream at him right now. The house was starting to empty fairly quickly as everyone had to head home. Most wished me and Chloe well and others simply congratulated me. As the house emptied and I was left alone with my family we sat down and they insisted in going down memory lane for my terrible elementary school and high school years.

I guess as it all goes the party wasn't too bad but we all knew that as hard as they try they just can't replace Chloe for me.

As the lights are turned down and darkness sweeps into her vision she can't tell where the light goes. She struggles against the hold she has but it'll never break. So she'll sit there and wait, wait for the thumping of feet, the squeaking of doors, the rustling of flowers and the scraping of chair legs. She'll wait another day as she always does because that's all she has to look forward too, and if she didn't have anything to look forward to then she'd simply give up.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is short on purpose I can't continue this chapter by ending it like this. I apologize but the next one will be action packed XD.

Raksha Souza

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NOW FIGHT!