𝐃𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐌𝐄 • 𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐊 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍

Epilogue

"Her Not Me"

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"Pops. The one I really need isn't here." Y/n slowly walks up the hill. She needs Derek to fight. Derek needs to do what she couldn't because Derek has Savannah.

And Savannah is his endgame.

Not Y/n.

"I would hope it's me." Y/n's voice is not like the last time Derek heard it eight years ago. It's not raspy and she's not wearing the stupid hospital gown. Her voice is just as soft as it was before the case in Texas and she's wearing that badass pantsuit Derek knows she likes.

"Is this what you imagined seeing me in?" She chuckles, turning around and spinning for Derek. "I'm here babe, I'm here."

"Hi." He runs to her and picks her up like it was the first time.

"Hi." She grabs his hands. "You look amazing."

Derek is speechless.

Does this mean he's dead?

Does this mean that he could finally be with Y/n?

Is this their ending now?

"I can read your mind." She frowns. "This isn't real. I'm not real. This is what you want me to say. You aren't dead. You aren't with me. And this isn't our ending."

"But-" A confused Derek protests.

"But. Savannah is your endgame. You know. You know that you feel for her more than you ever did me. So fight. Don't be like me and leave. Don't be like me and not say goodbye."

"Why did you leave?" Derek tears up.

"Because our time was over. My time was over. I couldn't stay in a place that had less than where I was needed."

"But I needed you! I need you!"

"Just like Savannah needs you. You love her right?"

Derek doesn't answer Y/n. He loves Savannah so much but she's not Y/n. He loves being with Savannah but not like he loves being here with Y/n. He might be Savannah's endgame but he knows deep down that he wishes he was Y/n's.

"I do."

"But not like you love me." Y/n strokes Derek cheek. "And that's ok. You don't have to love her more than me. But you have to fight. Fight for her and your baby." Derek's eyes suddenly grow.

"She's- she's pregnant?!"

But before Y/n can respond once more, a burning sensation on Derek's chest as his crying on her feet.

"This is the part where you fight. Fight for her. Stay with her and when it's time, our story will continue." Y/n hold onto Derek tight.

"I don't want to leave you."

"It's never forever."

"I want to stay with you."

"Fight for her. Fight for them."

"Y/n, I don't want to leave you."

"Never a final goodbye." Y/n kisses his head one more time before she slips her hand out of Derek's and heads back the way she came.

"Derek! Derek! Can you hear me?"

It's Spencer.

"We got you man, you're safe," The team surrounds Derek as he is pulled out of the house on a stretcher.

"I fought Y/n!" He screams. "I fought!"

The team all looks around but no one says nothing and Derek is almost positive that one particular star in the night sky shinned extra hard tonight.

Almost telling him that he did the right thing.

"You fought, baby." Y/n goes back to watching her old team like she's done everyday for the last eight years.

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