Title: Cliffnotes, June 14, 2000
Author: Chance
E-mail: chance1562@aol.com
Feedback: Yes please
Category: Family
Spoilers: none
Season/sequel/series: Cliffnotes
Rating: G
Content warnings: none
Summary: In Cliffnotes
Archive: The Wanderings, ELF Command, Avant Guard and WWOMB, anyone else please ask
Disclaimer: I don't own them, and I've made no money from it Feedback is my only payment and then worth more then money anyway
Author's notes: Thanks again to Shannon for the beta
For AT, I miss you.

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Carol Bridger looked up as a loud shout came from the front yard and was up and running before it had ended, leaving her laundry behind in a pile on the floor. She ran past the living room and was out the front door and over to where her six-year-old son was sprawled on the ground, holding his knee in both hands and screaming bloody murder.

"Lucas, what's wrong?" she asked hurriedly, heart in her throat as she skidded down next to him and pried his hands away from his knee. There was a gash on his knee that didn't look too deep and the bleeding was already slowing down, but it must have hurt a lot.

Lucas continued to sob big alligator tears as he huddled into his mother, not caring if anyone in the neighborhood saw them.

"Oh honey, what happened?" she asked, checking him over for anything else wrong and smoothing his hair.

"I...I fell out of the...the tree," he answered out of breath, trying to choke back his tears.

Carol looked up at the tree and winced in sympathy. While it wasn't an overly tall tree, it was still high enough to be quite a drop for the small boy and she suspected he was more scared than hurt. She stood and, gathering her son in her arms, made her way back to the house to clean his wound.

"It's okay honey. Its just a cut, you'll be okay, I promise. We'll use the fluorescent Band-Aids and you can tell your dad all about it when he gets home, okay?"

The little boy nodded and burrowed in closer to his mom, letting her carry him into the kitchen where they kept the first aid kit and tend to his wound. If nothing else he'd have a cool scar there when it healed.