Chapter Eleven: A Home
Author's Note: This is just a flashback scene because the episode "The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree" is giving me some writers block! This is when Emma and Wills about 16 and a half :) Also I've been having some family issues so that's also been delaying the chapters! Also I've got to do some fundraising stuff for my over school trip in the next few weeks, so just don't expect a lot of chapters! And feels overload :)
Short chapter (very short actually)
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Wills looked behind him as Emma caught up with him. He grabbed her shirt and ran with her. They couldn't be caught by the police. Not again. He had spent two and a half years trying to find her again and he wasn't about to lose her again. He ran a few blocks and pulled her into the abandoned apartment and Emma collapsed on the bed. Wills sighed and locked the door, taking his backpack off and he looked at his sister. She had bags under her eyes and she looked smaller than he had last seen her. Then again that was two and a half year earlier.
'How?' Emma asked and Wills sat down next to her.
'It took me two years to get out of the group home,' Wills started, 'and then I escaped. I found you but as I was about to talk to you, someone noticed me and I had to run off. But I found you again Emma. It took six months and working with a- rather unfriendly employer to be able to steal you away.'
'I'm glad you did,' Emma said, 'I was about to be moved to Maine.'
'Why Maine?' Wills asked.
'I don't know,' Emma said, 'but who cares about that now? We're together again!'
Emma hugged him tightly and Wills hugged her back. It had been so long since he had heard from Emma. Had even seen her. He only had pictures and his memories to remember her but it wasn't the same. Now he got to talk to her.
If only they hadn't tried to run away when Ingrid had done that stupid thing! If they just went to the mixed group home they wouldn't be like this. More broken, more wary of the adults in the world. Of anyone really. Running had been so stupid! It took the cops four days to catch him and they had decided to put them in a girls and boys home. For weeks Wills acted out at them. He wanted his sister back. His family! Emma was his family and they had taken her away from him, so of course he was going to be angry.
'I've missed you Ems.' Wills said quietly. 'I'm so sorry I convinced you to run away. If we hadn't-'
'Perhaps we could still be together,' Emma said, 'but now we are. We need a home, Wills. And we're not going back to the system. Never again.'
'Luckily, I've been earning money, Emma,' Wills said, taking the wallet out and showing her almost eight hundred dollars in cash. He showed her the clothes and the food he had packed and then he gave Emma her blanket from her backpack.
'Use it to keep you warm Emma,' Wills said and Emma took it and fell asleep. Wills, however stayed awake, and he took out the box of memories they had collected. Pictures that they had when younger and little things like their mood rings when they were nine and his stuffed dinosaur from when he was with the Swans.
Wills just smiled at his sister. They were a family. A family that always found each other. Emma rolled around in her sleep and Wills grabbed her backpack and looked through it. Lady supplies, a hair brush, a few trinkets here and there and a purse. He then looked at a photograph she had. It was him and her, a picture their old friend had taken of them. They had been so happy with their best friend Lily, that it had been horrible when she had been taken away from them.
But they didn't have to worry anymore. Life had taken a turn for the best. They were a family once again, and now all they had to do was find their parents. If they still wanted to know them. Why had they given them up? Had it been easy? Or hard? Why on the side of the road?
Wills sighed and stood up quickly when he heard a knock at the door. He zipped the bags up and woke Emma up as the voices got louder. Emma stood up and they quickly ran to the back door and jumped over the fence as they heard the men yell angrily. They ran for at least a mile before stopping at the gas station.
'Food and water,' Emma puffed, and Wills nodded. Perhaps they also needed someone to work so they could get a job since he had quit he last one. He just sighed and looked at Emma and walked inside of the gas station.
He grabbed two large bottles of water and some tinned food and bread and chips. They would have to go to a supermarket in a few days to get good food.
He went to pay for it and sighed as it came to fifteen dollars. This was going to be harder than expected.
'Are you two run away?' The person who served them asked. 'Because I need to hire some new kids.'
Wills didn't like the look the person was giving Emma and he shook his head.
'Sorry our parents went to the supermarket up the road and they asked us to buy some stuff from here. Weird I know but they do like gas station chips.' Wills lied and the man sighed and Wills grabbed Emma's forearm and they walked out of there.
'What do we do now?' Emma asked as they walked to nowhere.
'We find a place to sleep.' Wills sighed. This was harder than he thought! If only they could stay at that apartment but if it put Emma in danger, it was a no deal. He wouldn't lose her again.
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Author's Note: It's a short chapter but it's been a while since I last updated so I wanted to give you something. Emma is played by Abbey Ross (like the show) and Wills is played by Nathan Kress. Here they're in this in-between stage from their teenage actors to their adult actors. {Wills is played by Darren Criss with short hair in case you forgot :)}
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