Summary:- For the last 50 year every couple across the earth has had their first-born child taken away from them and sold at a slave auction the following week. This is the story of how the Lynch family copes with losing their son, brother and creator of the family band. WARNING! Unwanted sex, physical abuse, gore. Rated M.

Disclaimer:- I do not in any way, shape or form own R5 or the Lynch family. I do however own the story line and any OC's featured. (This applies to every chapter if I ever forget to include it.)

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Date - November 7th 2007

Location - California, Los Angeles

I sat in class, bored as usual. You would think being a teenager in LA would be fun, meeting celebrities, planning a future with my band R5, hitting on girl left right and centre but no.

You see, I'm the oldest child born to my ma and pa. Therefore I am the oldest out of my parents children which also means that tomorrow I'm going to be taken away and next week I will be far away from my family and being forced to do goodness knows what for someone who'll use and abuse me.

The final bell of the day rings and echoes around the classroom I'm sitting in, and as every other student leave the class in a hurry I stay seated and look around the class. I see every memory in this room flash before my eyes and I slowly stand up to collect my things. Once everything is packed I walk towards the class door, looking back at Mrs O'Conner grading papers and once more looking at the room. I sigh before standing tall and walking towards the huge double doors that led away from the school, this is the last time I'll ever do this. The last time I see the school nerd being thrown in the bins, the last time I see the sprinting team run laps, the last time I see the football and rugby teams practice, the last time I hear the voices of the birds mix with laughter and the last time I will walk to my ma's car before my younger sister Rydel and brother Rocky.

I walk to the passenger side door and open it before plopping down in the seat. My ma looks over to me before speaking, like any normal day. "So, where's your school books?" I'd left all my books in my locker, well the books that I hadn't used today.

"In my locker. I won't need them again anyway." I answered in a dead tone.

"Riker, don't talk like that."

"Why, ma? I won't need them tomorrow, or the day after or the day after that! Those stupid people are taking me away tomorrow! Next week I'll be somewhere doing something I don't want to!" I talked back to her, my voice breaking towards the end and tears pooled down my face. Ma took her seat belt off and pulled my into a hug, smoothing my hair and whispering words of comfort to me.

"It'll be alright baby, ma and pa will find a way to keep you with us." She said into my hair.

"No you won't, uncle Jack tried that and it didn't work. They'll take me like they take every other first-born." I mumbled int ma's chest before taking a deep breath, inhaling the mixture a scents that makes ma my ma.

We sat like that before we heard the 2 back doors open and close. "Ma, Rike? What's wrong?" Rocky asked as he sat down to buckle his seat belt.

Ma sat back up in her seat and re-buckled the seat belt. She went to say something but I spoke up first. "Nothing's wrong Rocky, I'm just being silly. I had a A- on an exam is all." I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the puzzled look on Rocky and Rydels faces, wondering if I was telling the truth.

"That's not why your brothers upset guys. I'll explain in the house, away from here." Ma said and I glared at her. She didn't look at me for the rest of the journey home.

We got home in under 20 minutes and as soon as the car stopped I opened the car door and walked through the front door of the house, hearing Ross and Ryland playing the guitar badly and singing their little heart out. I smiled at the normality of it all.

Ma, Rydel and Rocky followed me through the door and ma lightly grabbed my arm and pulled me into the living room. "Everyone in the living room please." Ma called as we sat down on the 3 seat sofa, leaving a space for pa to sit on the other side of my and also being able to see every other chair in the room.

Pa come in and sat be me, putting his arm around my shoulders and pulling me into him. I didn't resist the action. Soon my 4 younger siblings were sitting on each chair and my pa looked at all of them before speaking.

"Tomorrow it's Riker's 16th birthday, but we're going to celebrate today." I watched my siblings faces as they turned from joy to confusion.

"Why pa?" Ross asked.

"Is it because of the slave thing that I heard from Mrs Baker today pa?" Rocky asked, I swear he is to smart for his own good sometimes.

Ross, Ryland and Rydel looked at him before looking to me, ma and pa. "Yes it is Rocky." Ma answered and Rocky's face lost all emotion while Rydels turned to horror. Ross and Ryland looked lost, they had no idea what Rocky just meant.

Pa started to explain before anyone could say something. "For the last 50 years the first-born child of every couple will be taken away from them and the child will be put into the slave auction a week after leaving his or her family. That's what happened to your cousin Richie last month." When pa finished explaining there was silence. Rocky was the first to move.

He got up and stood in front of me, waiting for me to look at him so I did. I looked up and saw his eyes glistening and I pushed away from pa and opened my arms for him. Rocky fell into my arms and cried into my shoulder. I wrapped my arms around him and finally let my tears fall. I have no idea how long we stayed like that but when our cries stopped I pushed Rocky arms length away and looked into his eyes. I smiled at him weakly before looking beyond him and at my other siblings who hadn't moved since pa spoke.

I cleared my throat before speaking. "Well, know that that's out of the way," I slowly stood up and pushed Rocky into my space. "lat one in the pool had to drink the gone of milk!" I shouted the last part before sprinting to the back door, removing my shirt and trousers while running. When I was in only my boxers I jumped into the pool and swam underwater to the other side before looking to the back door.

When I saw nobody there I sighed and began to swim laps. The first one to get by the back door was my ma. I swam to the edge closest to her before giving her a puzzled look and tilted my head to the side. She sighed and sat by the edge, dipping up to her knee's in the warm water. "They're all inside. When you went Rocky went to his room crying. Rydel walked out of the house and I assume that she's gone to Becky's to calm down. I thought she was going to lunge at you when you said to race out here. Pa's trying to calm down Ross and Ryland because they can't stop crying." I just nodded and I felt my heart plummet.

"I want them out here ma. I don't want them to be sad because of me." I said before looking downwards.

Ma put her hand under my chin and made me look up at her. "I know you do honey. But they are going to be sad, you're their big brother. You've always been at everything for them and now they know they'll lose you tomorrow. It's hard for them to handle that." I pulled my head away from her and nodded.

We stayed in silence for a bit before I saw a shadow fly over me and water splashed onto the back of my head. I turned around to see Rocky half under the water with a smile on his face. It wasn't a big and bright as usual but it was still a smile. I smiled in return and pushed of the pool wall and towards him. He swan away from me and soon we were both full on laughing as I chased him around the pool, tomorrow out of our minds for a half an hour I started to get hungry. "Hey Rock, wanna get something to eat quick? I'm starting to get hungry." Rocky nodded and we both got out of the water, dripping wet. We both looked at the lone towel, then each other and finally back to the towel. The same thought ran through our heads and we ran to the towel at the same time. I got to the towel first because I'm faster and taller, size matters when it comes to towel catching. Rocky huffed as he waited for the towel but he still had a smile plastered on his face. I deliberately took longer than necessary to dry myself of and when I finished I threw the towel at Rocky and made a mad dash to the kitchen where I found ma setting things onto separate plates, with 7 pizza bases on 7 plates.

She looked me and I could tell she'd been crying. I smiled at her and took the cooked sausages of the grill and began cutting them into slices. I heard ma carry on doing what she'd been doing and after 5 minutes everything was set on the counter. "Guys, food's halfway ready! Come and choose your toppings!" Ma screamed up the steps and pa was the first to walk through the kitchen doors. He smiled at me before grabbing his base-plate and putting on the toppings he always had, cheese, ham and peppers.

I'd just finished doing my pizza when Rocky, Ross and Ryland walked in. I gave them all a wide grin and they smiled back. I looked out of the door when I noticed that Rydel wasn't in the kitchen yet. "Has she come home yet?" I asked looking at ma and she nodded. I sighed. "I'll go get her now." Before ma or pa could say anything I was out of the kitchen and walking up the stairs.

I stopped outside her room and before I knocked the door I heard crying on the other side. I knocked the door lightly before opening it. She was lying flat on her bed with her stomach on the bed and her face hiding in her pillow. I walked to the bed, sat down and started moving my hand up and down her back.

"W-what do y-you w-want R-R-Rike?" I looked at the back of her head and she slowly rolled onto her back to look up at me. "Y-you're the only p-person that knocks b-before walking in here." She said through tears. Instead of replying I pulled her into a hug. She put her head on my shoulder before wrapping her arms around my waist. We sat like that until her tears dries up and her breathing evened out.

"Ma's making her special pizza's tonight, thought you'd be hungry." I said quietly, remembering her earlier question.

She laughed a little. "Trust you to remember that." I smiled and kissed the top of her head. "Why do you have to go? It's not fair!"

"I know Ry-Ry. I don't want to go either but it's the law and when you obey the law goodness will fall over your family until the day they die." I repeated what I'd been told since I was 5. She just nodded her head and stood up.

"Well, are we going to eat or not? Or do you want Rocky to take all the toppings?" I looked at her before I shot up and ran down the hallway, stairs and nearly into the kitchen but a bog banner caught my eyes in the living room. I walked there and froze at what I saw.

I stopped in the doorway to see my family staring at me, and I mean everyone. All my uncles and Aunts were there, my cousins were there. My grandparents were there and so were all my great aunts and uncles. "SURPRISE!" They all shouted together and I felt tears build up in my eyes. Ma pulled me into a hug and I was pulled around everyone in the room and gave each of them a tight hug.

Music was playing and there was take-away food on every table, and on some chairs. Rocky walked up behind me and tapped my shoulder because I still didn't have a shirt on. I looked down at him and he held my bass up to me. I smiled, took the bass of him and pulled him into a hug. I took his hand and walked over to the amp in the corner of the room, where his guitar stood. He polled his hand from mine and picked up his guitar and plugged it into his amp. He strummed a little tune and the room went quiet. I plugged my bass in and played back up to him.

Before he could start up a song I played the intro to "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne. He laughed and we played the song together. Rydel walked to the mike by us and sang the lyrics loud and clear. Ross joined in with his guitar and Ryland just stood there and watched us. We finished playing the song and everyone cheered. The cheering was stopped by the large grandfather clock on the other side of the room ringing through the house.

12AM on the 8th November, my 16th birthday. The mood instantly dampened and ma looked close to tears. "Guys, go sit down for a bit." I told my siblings and they all went and sat in front of me. My family followed their lead so I was the only one standing up. I put my bass down and picked up Rocky's guitar.

I sat on the amp and looked at each person alone. One expression was dominant on everyone's face, sadness. They also all had tears in their eyes.

I played a part of a song that I'd been planing to sing to them anyway. I started at the first chorus.

I hope you know,

I hope you know,

That this has nothing to do with you.

It's personal, myself and I.

We got some straightening out to do.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,

But I gotta get a move on with this life.

It's time to be a big boy now,

And big boys don't cry.

I looked at everyone while I sang and changed the words to match myself.

The path that I'm walking,

I must go alone.

I must take the baby steps till I'm full grown,

Full grown.

Fairytales don't always have a happy ending do they?

And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay.

I hope you know,

I hope you know,

That this has nothing to do with you.

It's personal, myself and I.

We got some straightening out to do.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,

But I gotta get a move on with this life.

It's time to be a big boy now,

And big boys don't cry.

I looked around the room and everyone had tears streaming down their faces. I knew I couldn't make it through the next verse so I skipped to the part I really wanted to get out.

But it's time for me to go home

It's getting late, dark outside

I need to be with myself and center, clarity

Peace, Serenity.

I looked into my ma's eyes as I sang the last part of the song.

I hope you know,

I hope you know,

That this has nothing to do with you.

And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket,

But I gotta get a move on with this life.

It's time to be a big boy now,

And big boys don't cry.

As I finished I felt my tears leave my eyes and I looked down at the floor. I felt myself being pulled into yet another hug, and I didn't have to look up to know it was my ma. Slowly I heard my family get up and leave but I was pulled away from my ma's arms and into my uncle Jacks arms. "We'll get you back kid. Don't worry. We'll get you back." I nodded and hoped beyond hope that this promise would be kept.


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