So here it is, the last chapter, this is actually the longest chapter I've ever written, I really hope that you'll like it.
I push every other thought away and focus only on the song and my mother's warm arms that I remember holding me, when I was safe and everything was okay.
'I remember you said,
Don't leave me here alone,
But all that's dead, and gone and passed tonight'
The sound of a gunshot rings across the room and everything goes silent.
Chapter 15: Maybe it's not so gone after all
Sam's POV:
For a couple of seconds that feel like hours everything's still, it feels like the whole world suddenly froze and I'm scared that if I'll open my eyes or do anything time will start going again and all hell will break lose. I don't feel pain, I just feel scared. Is this what it's like to die? After God knows how long I feel Missy's grip on me loosen, the cold gun leaves my head and Missy falls to the ground. I finally take a deep breath and open my eyes.
Freddie's POV:
She opens her eyes but they seem a little unfocused, I look behind her and see three police officers, one of them puts away the gun he used to shoot Missy and takes her wrist looking for a pulse.
"We're from the police, my name is Adam Evans and I've been working on your case for the past 4 months." The other cop says and I nod at him.
"She has a pulse." The officer that's checking over Missy says.
"We're going to need paramedics here!" The third officer shouts into the hallway. I slowly walk over to Sam who's still standing there.
"Are you okay?" I ask her softly. She remembered my name, but I'm not sure how much she remembers so I don't want to startle her. She slowly nods but doesn't say anything. I notice that she's shaking. Two paramedics run inside and carry Missy out of the room.
"Sam?" I whisper. The next thing I know her arms are around me, I instantly hug her back.
"It's okay, we're safe now." I whisper to her. A paramedic walks up to us and we let go of our hug.
"Are you two okay?" He asks.
"I'm fine." I answer. I notice that there's a pretty deep cut on Sam's arm and a few smaller cuts on her wrists, also she's still shaking.
"We have to get you checked out." He says and leads Sam out of the room.
"You too, come with me." He says so I follow them. We walk outside and Sam and I are brought into different ambulances to be checked out.
Sam's POV:
I sit down on a bed in the ambulance and the doctor puts a bandage on my arm, then he takes care of my wrists, but doesn't put a bandage on them.
"Those cuts aren't deep, they don't need a bandage." He explains. His tone is light and friendly, like he wouldn't be taking to a girl that just almost got shot in the head and I kind of like that.
"Are there any other wounds?" He asks. I shake my head no.
"You're in emotional shock right now, if you want I can give you something that would put you to sleep, getting some rest would help." He says. Again I shake my head no. I can almost feel the hold gun pressed against my head, the crazy look in her eyes when she looked at me, the agonizing pain I was in when he was shocking me with electricity.
"Then there's nothing more I can do for you right now." The doctor the first time I actually look at him, he's pretty young, maybe 5 or 6 years older than me, he looks... nice, like someone you can trust. He says something about having to go help the other doctors with Missy and walks away. I slowly walk out of the ambulance, sit down on a bench that's right beside it and look at the house. It's pretty, three flours, yellow walls, a garden with flowers around it.
"It's hard to believe that such a beautiful house is the same place where we just were." Freddie says sitting down next to me. I don't say anything.
"...How much do you remember?" He asks after a moment of silence and I know exactly what he's talking about. I look at him and see fear in his eyes, he's scared that I don't remember him, I know the feeling.
"Everything that I remembered before I woke up in this house and a few other random memories." I say and then realize that this is the first time I said a word since Missy was shot. He sighs in relief and looks back at the house.
"I was worried that you wouldn't remember." He says.
"I know." I answer. There's more silence.
"Did you remember anything new?" I ask.
"Yeah, I half remembered and half heard it from Missy." He says. Officer Adam Evans walks up to us.
"Okay, so I want to know who called 911." He says.
"That was me." Freddie says. He was the one who called the cops?... I'd be dead right now if he wouldn't have done that.
"And on the phone you said that your name is Freddie Benson?" He asks.
"Yes." Freddie answers.
"And can you tell me your full name?" The officer asks looking at me.
"Samantha Puckett." I say. I'm surprised by how natural it sounds, now that I think about it Samantha Mason felt weird and wrong.
"According to my records Samantha Puckett has been missing for 6 months and Freddie Benson for 4 months." He says. Freddie and I look at each other but neither of us say anything.
"Well we'll talk about everything that happened here later, but for now, we contacted Marissa Benson, Pam Puckett, Spencer Shay and Carly Shay. They are on there way here and should be here in a few hours" He says. I remember that Carly's my best Friend, but even though the other names sound familiar I don't remember them.
"Who are they? I remember Carly, but not the other people you mentioned." I say.
"Missy somehow erased our memories, we managed to remember some things, but not all of them." Freddie explains.
"I see, well I think that right now you two should go to a hospital to make sure that you're really okay and then we'll continue this conversation." He says.
"Wait." Freddie says before the officer can walk away. "There's a girl that was helping us, she's a friend of mine and the last time we saw her she was with Missy's guards. Her name's Anna Jennings." Freddie says.
"We'll find your friend." The officer says and Freddie nods.
"This whole things is so messed up." I say.
"Yeah, you're telling me." Freddie agrees. We're in the hospital now and have been for the past hour. At first they separately checked us over, I was actually a little disappointed that it wasn't the same doctor from the house, not because I was interested in him as more than a possible friend, I just liked that he didn't look at me like I'm a glass doll that can break at any second unlike the other doctors here. Now Freddie and I are sitting on a bed in my private room, we were both admitted here for the night just in case and now we're waiting for the police to come back to talk to us. After they checked us over Freddie told me everything he found out from Missy.
"I can't believe that it's really over." I say.
"Me neither." He says. He takes my hand into his and I look at him, then we slowly lean in and the next thing I know we're kissing. I wonder if we were together before this whole thing started. The door opens and Adam Evans walks inside our room so quickly pull away.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." He says.
"No." Freddie and I say at the same time.
"Okay then... well I thought you should know that we found your friend Anna Jennings, she's okay and she's in the waiting room waiting until she'll be able to see you two. Also your friends and family are on their way here right now and they should be here in about twenty minutes. But first we have to talk." He says.
"Okay." Freddie says.
"So let's start from the beginning, I need to know everything that you two know." He says.
We told him everything, from how we accidentally met by almost getting into a car accident to how they showed up in Missy's house.
"That's some story." He finally says.
"Missy Robinson got out of surgery and she's going to be okay." He says.
"Are you going to send her to jail?" I ask.
"Probably, but first she'll get a mental examination." He says.
"Can we see our friends now?" Freddie asks.
"Yes, I'll warn them that you might not remember them." He says, stands up and walks out of the room.
Carly's POV:
"Do you think they're okay?" I ask nervously looking at the clock.
"I'm sure that they're both fine." Spencer says, but the look in his eyes says otherwise. When Sam went Missing 6 months ago, I thought that I'd ever see her again, I was so sure that she was murdered and buried somewhere, but no matter how hard it was at least I had Freddie, but when he went missing 2 months lather... there are no words that can express how I felt. But also I figured that their disappearances are probably connected. Ever since then me and Gibby have been showing old videos and pictures of Sam and Freddie and asking our fans to help us find them. The past 6 months felt like 6 years. Every since Mrs. Benson ran into our apartment crying and told us that they found Freddie and Sam I've been in a bit of a shock. No one really told us everything, except that this morning the police got a call from a boy who claimed to be Freddie Benson, they also said something about Missy being involved in this. When we finally got to the hospital the doctors said that we'll have to wait, but that's all that we know and now it's been almost a hour since we got here.
"Did you find anything out?" Spencer asks Mrs. Benson when she angrily walks back to us and sits down in one of the chairs.
"No, they said that we have to wait." She says. Mrs. Puckett's just sitting there not saying anything, but I know that she's worried, maybe her and Sam aren't all that close, but it's obvious that they love each other.
"Oh my God you're Carly and Gibby, from iCarly!" A girl that looks to be around our age yells excitedly. Just great, a crazy fan girl is the last ting that I need right now. The woman at the desk give the girl a warning look for yelling.
"Sorry." She whispers.
"Are you here to see Sam and Freddie?" She asks us.
"How do you know that they're here?" I ask confused.
"The police told me, my name's Anna and I go, or maybe I should say used to go to the same school as Freddie. We're friends and I met Sam when they both came to my house." She says and sits down next to me. So she's not a fan girl like I though, maybe we'll finally get some answers.
"Is Freddie okay?" Mrs. Benson asks before I can even open my mouth.
"I don't know, they didn't tell me anything and I spent the past hour waiting in the cafeteria" She says.
"Do you know what happened to them?" I ask hopefully.
"Not really, I always just thought that Freddie looked a lot like the tech producer of iCarly, the thought that he may actually be him didn't even cross my mind until I saw Sam" She says.
"And he didn't tell you who he is?" I ask.
"He didn't know." She says.
"What do you mean he didn't know? How could he not know?" Spencer asks.
"I'm not sure, all I know is that neither of them knew who they were." She explains. A police officer who I recognize as Adam Evans walks into the waiting room and starts talking with a doctor, then both him and the doctor walk up to us.
"Marissa Benson, Pam Puckett, Spencer Shay, Carly Shay and Anna Jennings right?" Mr. Evans asks.
"Yes." Spencer nods.
"I'm doctor Steven Carter." The doctor introduces himself.
"Are they okay?" I ask.
"A couple of cuts and bruises but they're both fine." Doctor carter answers.
"Thank God." Spencer says relieved.
"Can we see them?" Mrs. Benson asks.
"Of course, but first there are a few things you should know." Doctor Carter says.
"They were kidnapped by Missy Robinson and their memories were somehow erased." Officer Evans says.
"We don't know how Miss Robinson did it." Doctor Cater fills in.
"So they don't remember anything?" I ask shocked. This can't be happening, just as I thought that I got them back I'm loosing them again.
"They remembered some things, that's how they figured out who they really are." Officer Evans says.
"Well can we see them now?" Mrs. Benson asks.
"Actually they both had a really long day and it's only natural that they're in a bit of a shock, they already had to take in so much in one day as a doctor I think that it would be better to not overwhelm them with a bunch of new faces or names right now." Doctor Carter says.
"Are you saying that we can't see them?" Mrs. Benson asks shocked.
"You can and Mrs. Puckett can too, I can't stop you but you have to understand that the best you can do for them right now is wait until tomorrow, there's a better chance that they'll remember you if you'll wait because that way they won't be too overwhelmed when they'll first see you." Doctor Carter explains.
"Are you sure about this?" Mrs. Benson asks.
"Yes." He says nodding.
"Okay." Mrs. Benson says.
"Fine." Mrs. Puckett agrees.
"Actually from what they told me they do remember Miss Shay a little bit and they obliviously remember Miss Jennings." Officer Evans says. They remember me?
"Well in that case if they saw them today it wouldn't do any harm, of course if Mrs. Benson and Mrs. Puckett are okay with that." Doctor Carter says and I look at Mrs. Benson hopefully, already knowing what Mrs. Puckett's answer will be.
"Okay." Mrs. Puckett says.
"...Just, tell him that I love him, okay?" Mrs. Benson finally asks.
"I will." I say.
"Okay, then follow me." Doctor Carter says. Spencer squeezes my hand in reassurance and I give him a small smile. Anna and I stand up and follow doctor Carter.
Sam's POV:
"Are you as nervous about seeing them as I am?" I ask Freddie.
"Oh yeah I am." He says. We're still sitting on my bed and waiting for our family that we don't remember. The door opens and two girls walk inside. I look at the first girl and see that it's Anna and even thought I've only met her once seeing her makes me feel a little less nervous.
"Anna." Freddie says excitedly. She runs up to him and hugs him when they let go she looks at me and hugs me too, even thought i'm surprised by this I hug her back. She lets go of me and that's when I notice the brown eyes girl standing in the doorway. It feels weird to actually see her after dreaming her so many times. I look at Freddie and see that there's no recognition in his eyes, he knows her name and who she is to us,but he doesn't recognize her face, it's like she's a complete stranger to him. I look back at her and see that she's looking at Freddie, the pain in her eyes tells me that she sees no recognition in Freddie's eyes either and the dark circles around her eyes tell me that she hasn't slept through a night for awhile now. Her unsure eyes meet mine and for a moment I wonder what she sees in them. After spending so much time trying to remember her face form my dreams I can't help but stare at her now that she's actually standing in front of me.
"Carls?" I finally ask. A smile comes across her face and she runs up to me and hugs me, I instantly hug her back. I look at Freddie and see that after hearing her name he finally realized who she is.
"I'm sorry." She says pulling away from me.
"I should have hugged you, you probably don't even know who I am." She says so I hug her again.
"I know exactly who you are." I whisper to her and then let go.
"You're Carly Shay aren't you?" Freddie asks.
"Yeah." She says.
"Where are the others?" I ask.
"Your doctor told them to wait until tomorrow to see you so that you wouldn't be too overwhelmed. They only let me and Anna in because you remember us." She says.
"So, tell us what happened to you guys." Anna says. Freddie and I look at each other and nods at me to stat.
"Well, it was a complete coincidence, we met by an accident and realized that we have more in common then two strangers should have, then weird things started happening around us." I say.
"We realized that something's wrong and started looking into it." Freddie continues.
"And the rest you probably already know, it turned out that Missy kidnapped us." I say. There's a moment of silence.
"Do you remember anyone else?" Carly asks me.
"Well I did sort of remember my mom, but not very clearly." I say.
"It's something." She says.
"Maybe you guys should watch iCarly, maybe it would help you remember." Anna suggests.
"That's a great idea, I brought my laptop with me, it's in the waiting room, I could go get it for you." Carly says excitedly.
"Actually now that I'm thinking about it, the doctor did say to not overwhelm them, maybe that should wait until tomorrow." Anna says.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Carly agrees. The door opens and a nurse walks inside.
"I'm sorry, but visiting hours are over." She says.
"Okay, so we'll see you tomorrow okay?" Anna asks.
"Okay." Freddie answers.
"Oh, by the way, Freddie your mom asked me to tell you that she loves you." Carly says.
"...Tell her that I love her too... even though I don't remember her." Freddie says.
"I will." She says. She hugs me and I of course hug her back. The nurse and Anna walk out but Carly hesitates by the door. It looks like she wants to say something but she's not sure if she should
"...Stay blond." She finally says looking at me hopefully and I feel Freddie's confused eyes look at Carly, then at me. After a moment of silences she turns around to walk out, obviously regretting saying that.
"Stay brunet." I say after her, I'm not really sure why I said that or if it's what she wanted for me to say, it just felt... natural. She smiles and then walks out of the room.
"What was that all about?" Freddie asks as soon as she's gone.
"I'm not sure." I answer smiling.
Freddie and I spent about an hour talking and kissing, then we decided that it was getting late so he went back into his room. Now I'm laying here alone. The door slowly opens and to my surprise I see the same doctor from the house standing in the doorway.
"Hey, I hope I didn't wake you up." He says.
"No, you didn't" I say sitting up.
"I just wanted to see how you were doing, you seemed pretty shaken up back there." He says.
"Yeah, well that's what happens when someone tries to kill you." I say, he chuckles.
"The whole hospital's talking about you and your friend." He says.
"Why?" I ask confused.
"Cause you're from iCarly and you've been missing for the past 6 months." He explains.
"Right." I say.
"Don't be surprised if tomorrow you'll see reporters surrounding the hospital." He says.
"I'll keep that in mind." I say.
"...Well, I guess I should go." He says.
"Wait, you haven't even told me your name." I say.
"Right, sorry, it's Jason Mills." He says.
"...Did you see the other people that were here today to see me and Freddie?" I ask.
"Well I didn't talk to them, but I did see them." He says.
"What are they like?" I ask.
"They looked worried. They must really care about you." He says, that makes me smile.
"Too bad I don't remember them." I say.
"You will, if you remembered half of your life, you'll remember the rest of it too." He says.
"...Thanks... I needed to hear that." I say.
"Good luck." He says.
"Thanks." I say and he walks out of the room.
***5 months later***
Freddie's POV:
That next morning when Sam and I saw our mothers and Spencer again at first they seemed familiar, but we didn't remember them straight away, but after watching every episode of our web show iCarly it came back to us. Missy was sent to a mental hospital and Sam and I finally came home. After about a week the police found and arrested Missy's guards and our fake mothers and the police even found Missy's little sister. A few months after we came home Carly met a guy in a cafe and started dating him, later it turned out that the guy is Jason Mills, a doctor that examined Sam after the Missy incident, they've been dating since then and Sam seemed pretty happy about that, she kept on telling me that she was glad Carly finally found a caring and honest guy, even if he was a little older than her. Anna got her biggest dream come true - she was on iCarly. Right now I'm in Sam's house waiting for her to come home, she spends most of her weekends recording her new album, but we manage to find time for ourselves. The door opens and Sam walks inside, she walks up to me and we kiss.
"How long have you been waiting?" She asks after we pull away.
"For you I'd wait a hundred years." I say.
"Don't get all sappy on me Benson." She says warningly, but there's a smile on her lips and we kiss again. Sure we both still have nightmares of the things that happened to us, but we'll get through it, together.
I'm actually a little sad that this story is over, out of all the stories I've ever written this was my favorite one. I do have an idea for a sequel, but I'm not going to write it right now, maybe some day, but definitely not any time soon, actually I don't think that I'll be writing any stories for this site any time soon, I have a few ideas for a completely original story or a story for a different TV show, but at least for now this is goodbye. So thank you everyone who ever reviewed this story and please review. Also you can follow me on twitter _McCurdian4ever
Goodbye iCarly and all of it's amazing fans :)