Eventually we settled on what we thought the characters would have done: "Emmy stays with Dean and Lauren goes with Sam." and this lead to another problem. Who was going to write the chapter? Since Emmy belonged to Robyn and Lauren to I it was going to be difficult for someone to write the whole thing, in fear of messing up the "alone moments". Thus we settled on writing the bits that had our character in them. Now the reason I'm posting this is 'cause Junie asked for some Sam and Lauren moments and these were the best ones I could think of so here we go:
Lauren was still half asleep when she had heard Sam on the phone to Dean. Judging from the topic of conversation he and Emmy had found whatever it was that had taken the couples. Lauren sighed, keeping her eyes closed. She wanted to see Emmy again, she missed her friend. She had intended to call her before now but she had left her phone in the backseat of the Impala all that time ago. Her eyes flicked open, she stirred and stretched her arms out, a night sleeping on the floor had made her stiff. Sam noticed that she was awake.
“You okay?” He asked, turning his head to look at her.
“Yeah, the floor is real comfy.” She yawned. Sam smiled apologetically.
“Sorry.” He said apologetically. She shrugged in response.
“S’not your fault.” She crawled on her hands and knees along the dirty floor until she reached his large frame and snuggled herself in beside him, glad for the warmth he provided. Sam smiled at the gesture and draped an arm around her miniature shoulders. She glared across the room to Meg’s sleeping form.
“You really trust that girl?” She asked, looking up into Sam’s honest eyes. He shrugged.
“She’s in the same situation that we’re in.”
Lauren sighed.
“Well congratulations on finding the biggest lesbian in the continental U.S. You see her hair?” Lauren joked her voice indicating she didn’t mean real harm, Sam cracked a smile at Meg’s expense.
“You don’t like her.” He concluded.
“How can I?” Lauren looked up at Sam’s face again and grinned, she leaned in closer to him. “I think she has a thing for me.” She whispered into Sam’s ear. He smiled again and punched her lightly on the arm. They fell into a comfortable silence.
“It’s nice to have some time without Mr. Asshole getting on everyone’s nerves.” Lauren said eventually.
“Yeah,” Sam agreed, “like the old days, huh?”
“Except in the old days we weren’t holed up at some dingy old bus station.” Lauren pointed out. Sam smiled and nodded. From the corner of her eye Lauren saw Meg stir. She was on her feet in an instant and walking toward the two.
“Who was on the phone?” She asked. Lauren felt a small wave of shock emanate from her. Meg had been listening the whole time? Although, if she had heard Lauren’s comments, she didn’t seem to act any differently.
“My brother.” Sam answered, now slightly warily, he must have come to the Sam conclusion Lauren had.
“What did he say?” Meg asked, rummaging in her rucksack.
“Goodbye.” Sam said simply. Lauren nestled her head on his shoulder. Meg looked between the two, her expression unchanging. Lauren gave her the smallest of smug smiles before closing her eyes and attempting to go back to sleep.
