AN: Note that if for some reason you aren't reading all of the chapters of this it would be for your benefit to read Remember When You, the chapter before this one. That's all!

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"talking"

Flashback

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Flynn could still remember the day that Yuri's parents left Zaphias.

The day that Yuri's parents left him behind.

He couldn't help but marvel at the fact that, aside from the initial and understandable panic, Yuri stayed calm. He didn't cry and he didn't scream of the injustice of the whole incident. He just held onto the note his parents had left him, a letter that Flynn had not been given permission to read it. He reread the note a few times then his eyebrows rose a little, and in typical Yuri fashion, he walked off without a word to the exit of Zaphias.

At first, Flynn had panicked thinking that the sorrow-stricken nine year old was so depressed that he was going to end his own life via being eaten by monsters, the same fashion Flynn had tried to end his own life when his parents died. So Flynn found himself chasing after Yuri to stop him from doing something so stupid, a feeling he would never get use to.

Instead of rushing outside of the barrier and pulling Yuri inside, like how the raven haired boy had done for him a year before, he found Yuri sitting quietly just inside of the barrier. He sat just watching the monsters crawl around outside.

"Yuri?" Flynn walked up to the unmoving boy.

"They're coming back. They said that they were leaving, that I had to take care of myself." Yuri didn't dare take his eyes off of the world beyond the barrier, "They never said that they weren't coming back. So I'm going to wait until they come home." he said his voice not possessing even the slightest waver.

Flynn couldn't remember a time he had ever felt so sad that he felt sick. Flynn wanted to tell him that his parents justweren't coming back. Flynn wanted to give him the basic facts of the situation. Flynn wanted to tell his best friend that he was in denial. Flynn wanted to do so many things, no one less soul crushing then the last, he wanted to help Yuri in some fashion.

So Flynn sat down next to him.

They spent their time the next few days in silence. Various people from the lower quarter would leave food for them. Flynn would basically shove the food in Yuri's mouth as he sat there in absolute silence never once turning his attention away from the world. Flynn didn't know whether or not Yuri slept the three days they spent out there, Flynn did and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty that every morning he would wake up leaning against with a wet spot on Yuri's shoulder.

Finally the fourth day came and Flynn stayed up the whole night next to Yuri watching the sunrise. The scene was serene and Flynn couldn't help but be awed as he watched the various colors paint the sky and the earth. That must have been why he was so surprised when Yuri's voice, dry and a little weak from lack of use and lack of sleep. "Flynn?"

"Yeah Yuri?"

"They're… mom and dad aren't coming home are they?" he broke his concentration on the world and turned to look at Flynn.

"Yeah." Flynn winced wishing himself it wasn't true.

"Oh." Yuri mumbled leaning to his left. His head landed on Flynn's shoulder and Flynn let his best friend rest finally after four long days.
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