moving to NYC
The time that Lara had gone home was then the Hale fire happened, day after the fire that she had come back to man world looking to taka sneak peek from mate from far, when she learnt of the fire and what had occurred, it crashed her. When he needed her the most he was she was nowhere to be found, she could feel his pain through the one-sided Bond. She knew what she had to do but first she needed to find him. She never imagine in finding the pair in New York of all places, Lara mat Laura at bar close where she had Derek lived while he was sleep, and Laura informed Lara what a truthful lonely breaking road trip it had been.
They didn't talk in California stop only for gas and snacks. Laura drove, Derek Bailey had his licences and Derek, wouldn't open his eyes.
he started crying in Nevada, subset wrecked his body is so hard that Lauren had to pull over and just hold him. on the side of the road streaming with the feeling of utter loneliness. even though they had each other never alone in the world now.
Derek still wouldn't talk to her Utah, he didn't say anything about station that played awful pop music or request a bathroom break or even asked to stop for dinner. he just sat there staring at his hands in his lap. Laura's hartbrook even more.
he slept through Colorado and for that Laura was grateful. she knew he had laid awake in every Hotel they have stopped so far.
In Nebraska, he finally started to stare out the window though there wasn't much to look at. Laura tried to talk to him but he wouldn't respond. she thought he might every so often why did you just shake his head and remain quiet.
is apology to hurt can you apologise to her in Lowa, with more tears and and repeating I'm sorry over and over and over. she stopped at the hotel earlier than usual and they sat together on the floor.
When she asked, "why are you sorry Derek"
"because it's my fault" he replied after I'm back a fresh wave of tears. " if... if I hadn't let her in if... if I hadn't gone behind M... m... mum's back if I had listen to everyone that told me to stay away from her I'll be alive Laura find the reason they're all dead"
"Derek didn't set that fire you're not to blame I want to dust to suffer and they would have found a way no matter what" she told him she lifted his hand and cuddled it in her palm of her hand until he met her glaze.
"I'm the one who should be sorry play abandon you put myself before the pack I thought that school and my future and my puppy allergy but more important and if I had stopped to see you to talk to you to pay attention to you and maybe I could have stopped her when taking advantage of you I failed you I failed my baby brother"
Derek say something only to have Laura cut him off saying "no did all out here Derek we're letting it all loud and we're leaving it here on the floor of this shity motel in dumb fuked lowa, and we're letting it go. we can keep it all in and we can't let it haunt us. we're starting new you and me, we are all we got can we have to hold on to hope will it be OKay"
Derek looks so vulnerable to Laura at that moment grown up with him help him for the First Mum and Dad bought him home from the hospital and vowed even at 4-years-old that she would do everything she could to protect him and now she helped him again promising to do the same.
they told each other secrets in illusions, "I stole Ricky Allen's favourite baseball cap in third grade and buried it in the woods I think it because I thought he was cute add panicked" she told him.
" I was the one that put Mountain Ash in Peter's underwear dry you're a come with me so he wouldn't be able to tell" Derek told her.
"I ran through the boys locker room while the low cost game was changing just to see them naked" Laura told him. and then she added, " I think I might like a guy the same way I like girls"
" I love you no matter what Laura and I will take you to your first pride and Parade buy you a buy flag if you want" Derek told her. for the first time since before the fire Laura so her brother smile.
Derek finally got behind the wheel in Indiana that was the first time Derek had been behind the wheel off their dad's Camaro. In Ohio, the song along to the radio loudly, and in Pennsylvania, they talk aboout what life in New York might look like for them.
Pennsylvania, add their hopes and dreams for their future, Derek wanted to finish high school and then go on to study languages and history in college. Laura wanted to go to the police academy wanted to apartment near Central Park, somewhere where they could look out the window and see grass trees and pretend to even just for a second that they were back in home in the province.
I stay near New York City 2917 me from where they once Called Home Laura had hope that she could see the light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the suffering the road to healing going to be a long and hard, but with Derek by her side she knew they could face it. she only hoped play little brother finds some kind of peace at some point in his life.
Lara told Laura that she would not have to do it alone that, she would be here for Derek and for her too...