A/N: Does it ever say in the show what happened to BA's dad? I couldn't remember if it did.
When the light vanished again, Hannibal found himself standing in a cemetery. He recognized it.
"This is where BA's dad is."
He looked around. Expecting to see BA. Instead he saw Mrs. Baracus. She was carrying a small bouquet of flowers.
"Hi, Mrs. Baracus!"
Mrs. Baracus stopped and glared at him. "Who are you? How do you know my name?"
Hannibal was surprised at the anger in her voice. "My name is Hannibal. I, well, I knew your son at one time."
This seemed to be a good answer. Mrs. Baracus smiled. "Then you're here to visit him?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Then you can follow me. I'm going to see him, too."
Hannibal expected her to head back out of the cemetery. Instead she kept walking down the rows of headstones. Hannibal followed, now terrified of what he would see.
Mrs. Baracus stopped in front of a small stone and laid the flowers she had brought gently on top of it. Hannibal struggled to keep from crying when he read the stone. According to what was written in it, Bosco Albert Baracus had died when he was twenty-five.
"How did you know him? Did you meet at the youth center? You must have been one of the volunteers."
"Yes, ma'am," Hannibal lied.
Mrs. Baracus smiled fondly. "He was a good boy. I just wish that he had been less weak."
Hannibal wasn't sure what she meant by that. "How did it happen? If that's too personal of a question, you don't have to answer it."
She continued to smile, but now the smile was sad. "He was always a bit of a scaredy cat."
Hannibal smiled at her, while his mind tried to imagine BA being afraid. He had never seen BA afraid. Except of flying.
"He was always helping the neighborhood children."
"Yeah, he was good with kids."
"One day, the guys who came for the protection money decided that Scooter needed to pay extra for the protection of the kids, too. He would have paid willingly, if he had the money. But the men weren't patient. When he couldn't come up with all the money in a week, they shot him."
Mrs. Baracus started crying. Hannibal held her in his arms, now crying, too. What had happened? Why had BA been pushed around like that?
Suddenly everything was gone again. Hannibal didn't even bother to wipe the tears from his eyes. "Why?!"
"Mr. Baracus was never a strong willed man. He let others tell him what to do. And his son learned to be the same way. You see, in the original history, BA only became tough and strong after his father was nearly beaten to death. That didn't happen this time. So, BA never joined the army. He never met you."
"Change it back! Change this whole damn thing back!"
"First, there's one more visit to make."
Hannibal cringed.
