"So go on and scream
Scream at me, I'm so far away (so far away)
I won't be broken again (again)
I've got to breathe - I can't keep going under." ; Evanescence - Going Under.

"You don't understand! You never do!"

"Why don't you help me understand, instead of just shouting like a petulant teenager?"

"Because you wouldn't get it!"

Her brown eyes rolled.

"You know what? I don't want to understand anymore."

"Sonny, I-

"I don't want to know, Chad."

He reached out to her, and she shut him out.

He could only see the side of her face as she spoke up again, in a hushed voice.

"I'm tired of all this."

"I'm sor-

"Don't you dare say you're sorry! Every fight, Chad. Every fight we have, you reel me back in with apologies, as if it excuses the things you've said."

"I don't mean them, I-

"You're so stupid, Sonny. You're always whinging, and it's so annoying. You're just depressed when I'm not here. I have a life; what do you have?" She recited, mimicking Chad's voice with perfection.

He was speechless.

"I remember it all." She whispered, allowing a single tear to run down her cheek.

She wiped it away quickly and busied herself with cleaning up the table.

"I.. I think we need some time to think."

"Sonny, please. I don't mean anything, they're just-

"things you say to make me back down." She finished for him. "I can't take this anymore. You can't keep breaking me so you don't get broken."

He woke up the next morning to a note and an engagement ring, an empty dresser, and one less car in the driveway.

"Sonny."

He read the note.

"You don't have to worry. I'm truly far away from you now."

His mind flashed back to another fight, another time, another place.

"You're so far away from where I am, emotionally. Sometimes I wonder why we're together at all."

"because love conquers all."

"In fairytales."

And just like that, he let her go.

He didn't put up a fight. He didn't call her. He didn't chase her down and confess undying love.

Even though he never stopped thinking about her. Never stopped loving her.

All because he knew she was right. Somehow, deep down inside, he'd always known that the way he treated Sonny just wasn't fair. He never really understood why he did it, though. Sonny was just the punching bag; the way to let his anger out when something went wrong.

Somewhere along the line, she realised this. He was drowning her with his ways.

She got out before she went under.

Chad wasn't so lucky.

"TV's Chad Dylan Cooper, self-proclaimed Greatest Actor of His Generation, was found dead in his home in Hollywood earlier today. People on the scene say he drowned in the bathtub."

"Breaking news: It was found by coroners that the late Chad Dylan Cooper killed himself. There were a wide variety of toxins and medication found in his system. Police also found a suicide note, containing a simple sentence: I drowned for trying to drown her. Police have no leads as of yet. Do you

think Chad could have tried to kill someone?"

A/N- I know, I know. It was pretty much just horrible. I can't believe I killed Chad.

Anyway, review? Let me know if this is worth continuing.