AN: Sup guys? So I realize I haven't updated this story in like literally forever but I going to try to start updating again so which I'm even sure will even work because, well, I'm back in school, but for some reason, I do better when I have barely any free time versus all the free time, so fingers crossed! Also, this is the longest chapter to date that I've ever written so I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 4: Gifted Save

Well, it took about three days work just to get this all together but,

"It's all done" Leo said at the sheets of music in front of him. He was sitting in front of the well worn out piano with only a dim light shining in the room. Leo sighed and realized how tired he was. The only reason it took so long in the first place was because he really only had the few hours in the middle of the night to get time to work in front of the piano without all the children around him.

The piece, he decided to call it "State of Mind". Although it wasn't Leo's first intent, the piece came out a little dark but could better be described as an organized chaos of notes. Leo decided to play one more mostly just so he could admire his work.

I wonder if he'll even like it Leo thought as his finished the last note.

"You finally finished it huh?" Will said coming out of nowhere. Leo was use to it by now and learned to just ignore most of what she said. And maybe give the occasional short answer to keep her satisfied enough to stop asking questions.

Leo yawned.

"Your welcome for time traveling back." Will said possibly looking for a response from Leo. "It's really difficult magic, going back in time. Much more so than going forward because-"

"I believe you. Thanks" Leo wasn't really in the mood to listen to Will's rambling. He really needed to just go to sleep.

"I'm going to bed, and you have my permission to do your speeding up time stuff again.". He started heading to bed and heard Will in the background, mumbling about something. Probably about the fact he cut her off Leo thought.

The next morning Leo tried his best to hid his excitement for Elliot's arrival.

"You're really excited to see Elliot again aren't you" Will said appearing next to Leo who was quietly reading a book.

Apparently Leo wasn't good at hiding his feelings. Leo couldn't think of anything good to say so he just ignored her and kept reading. But he heard Will giggle quietly in response.

When Elliot entered in library he seemed a little stressed out, so Leo thought he better let Elliot indulge in telling Leo how he was feeling today. Especially because Elliot was a lot less shy with things like that.

"Is something not to satisfaction my lord?" Leo asked refusing to look up from his book.

"Ugh" Leo heard Elliot slouch down in front of him.

"I'm just tired of my family is all" Elliot explained. "They just keep putting on all this extra pressure on me for no reason. It's not good enough that I have good grades, I have to get great grades. And I can't skip piano practice for one week because god forbid I miss a chance for character development". As Elliot rambled, he sounded more frustrated as he went on. "What does playing the piano have to do with character development anyway? And all on top of that they keep asking me about if I've chosen a servant yet. I mean I have what? Three more summers to be a normal kid and have fun? And instead, I have to run away to the bad side of town to hangout with the closest person I have to a real friend to do so." Elliot sighed. "No offense"

"Wow, didn't know a rich kid could have so many problems" Leo said edged with a sarcasm.

Leo looked up from his book for a moment. Elliot looked pretty annoyed at Leo.

"But seriously, I understand. Well, not really, I don't have any of that pressure stuff but you're a nice thorn in my side" Leo started thinking about a time before Elliot chose him to be his servant.

Leo was certain when he turned eighteen he'd just end up sitting on the side of a street somewhere to until the day he died.

"Three summers from now, I don't even know where I'll be" Leo explained. He looked up from his book again. Elliot seemed a little guilty for his problems that must of have seem to be sized down from Leo's.

"Oh, well, if you want I-"

"Wait" Leo interrupted Elliot. "Before you start using your rich boy powers, I want to show you something" Leo said getting up to put the book away.

"Well, actually I want to give you something, but that really doesn't matter right now. Just come with me" Leo said walking ahead.

This whole thing seemed all too familiar to that night that seemed so long ago. It was too eerie. Making their way to the piano, a few of the children ran down the hall and grabbed on to Leo.

"Leo! Leo! Leo!" they exclaimed at the same time. Leo assumed they were probably fighting over a toy.

"What is it?"

"It's Margret"
"We were playing by the hole over by the old church"

"And she fell in!"

The kids said all at the same time.

"Go tell one of the sister's" Leo explained to the children calmly even though he was pretty freaked out inside. He waited to make sure the children understood what he said before moving on.

"Come on" Leo said to Elliot and they started running. For the first time since Will came along, Leo was actually worried. Because in all of Leo's memories, Margret falling didn't happen before.

Why is this happening now! Leo thought as he ran.

When the two arrived by a construction site by abandoned church, they both started shouting Margret's name as they looked down the pitch dark abyss looking hole. Leo didn't hear anything and looked over to Elliot to confirm he didn't hear anything either.

"I'm going down" Leo stated.

"Well, then I'm coming with you"

Leo really didn't want Elliot to put himself in unnecessary danger but he knew the time that he wasted in pointless arguing would keep them from finding Margret that much sooner.

"Fine, just please don't hurt yourself" Leo said showing the most amount of concern for Elliot since he'd know Leo.

Elliot nodded in response. "That goes for you too".

"Yeah, yeah".

The hole wasn't exactly a straight drop to the the bottom. The edges were angled like a funnel so one could theoretically walk down to the bottom, if they didn't slip and fall that is.

As the light from the top of the hole became further from their sight. Leo found himself with a few close calls and slid short distances on the slanted ground.

"Are you okay" Elliot asked who was nearly next to him.

"Yeah, are you?" Leo asked back.

"Yeah"

Right after Elliot's response Leo heard Elliot's feet sliding down the ground.

"Ah!" Elliot yelled as Leo tried to grab a hold of him but just ended up being pulled down with Elliot until they were both fallen off their feet, sliding down to the bottom of the hole.

Next thing Leo knew he was in the almost-pitched dark on his back. It was almost because Leo could see a slight glow from the corner of his eye. Leo got up with a groan. He must of passed out, but where was he anyway.

"Oh, thank god you're okay Leo" Elliot said. He was maybe about a foot away from Leo with a glowing cellphone in his hand.

"What happened?"

"Well" Elliot started sheepishly "I started to slip down. You grabbed me and we were both sliding until I sort of landed on you and you passed out. I tried calling for help but there's no reception down here so..." Elliot said sounding embarrassed. "Sorry"

"I feel fine so there's no real need to feel sorry" Leo explained. But the calling for help started to get Leo thinking. Will. Could she possibly get them out of this situation? "Could you just put your hands over your ears and close your eyes for a second?"

From what Leo could see from the glow Elliot looked pretty annoyed by the request.

"Why"

"Just do it. Pretty please?"

Elliot huffed. "Fine". Elliot complied and closed his eyes placed his hands on his ears. And at a voice a little higher than a whisper Leo said in the angriest tone he could "Will, get over here right now!"

"What?" Will said appearing behind him.

"Can I be done now Leo?" Elliot shouted

"No" Leo said making sure he could hear him. "Thirty more seconds"

"But you said a second"

"Elliot!"

This time he just huffed again in response. Leo then turned his attention back to Will. "Get us out here and Margret too"

"Um" Will's first response wasn't a yes which made Leo think this can't be good. "I can't do that"

"And why not?" Leo asked in a demanding tone.

"Because of my orders"

"You have orders? From who?"

"I'm not allowed to tell you that. Anyway, the emergency services have already be contacted so they should be here soon."

"Yeah, well we need to get out now"

"Well then your going to have to do that yourself because I can't"

"Your just going to let some random tell you what to do when a little girl's life is in danger!"

"Uh, yeah my life would be in danger too!"

"Unbelievable. Elliot come on we gotta go find Margret" Leo said pulling him up. When they started walking, Leo thought he heard Will say something, but he didn't care. He really didn't want to hear anything from Will ever again.

As they walked with the glow of the cellphone lighting their way Elliot finally spoke up. "So are you going to tell me what you did or..."

"Nope" Leo tried his best to hide how angry he was.

They kept walking what seemed to be some sort of underground tunnel system. Leo assumed that's why the hole was here in the first place.

"Are you angry at me?" Apparently Leo hadn't done the best job of hiding his angry.

"Nope"

As the two continued to walk, they would occasionally call out Margret's name but still no response was given back. After some minutes, the glow sudden shorted out and the two were left in total darkness.

"Shit" Leo heard Elliot's voice behind him. "Battery's dead"

Oh great. Leo thought. Maybe Will has the decency to at least give them a light source Leo thought. As he was preparing to set aside his pride to call Will again. Leo saw some movement in front of him. Which had to be impossible, because he couldn't even see his hand in front of his face.

"Margret?" Leo called out.

"What? Did you see something Leo?" Elliot asked

"I don't know. I-" Leo saw the movement again. It gave of a chilling but familiar feel. Leo felt instantly drawn to it and started to move ahead.

"Hey wait Leo I can't see where you're going!" Elliot yelled.

Leo kept following the movement until he could hear someone crying in the distance.

"Margret?" Leo said with a much softer tone than he was using before.

"Leo?" Margret sounded like she was fighting through tears.

Just when Leo started to move again, he saw Elliot waving he miraculously revived cellphone around as he returned next to Leo's side.

"Thanks for leaving me Leo. But guess what, I don't know what happened but it just started working again"

Ignoring Elliot, Leo said "Margret if you can see the light follow it, okay?"

"Okay" Margret responded sniffling.

Leo heard something get up and move cautiously over until the glow of the phone shined on her little tear stained face and she ran up to Leo grabbed his side and started crying into it.

"It's okay, we're going to get out of here just fine" Leo said patting her head.

"I know this isn't the best time" Elliot whispered as best he could. "But do you have any idea which way we came from"

Leo almost felt like punching Elliot for saying something like that around a terrified child but seeing Will suddenly appear behind Elliot kept him from doing so.

Will started talking. "Look, I know you hate me right now but just listen. I was trying to tell you I couldn't just teleport you out but I can still help you." She explained.

Elliot's face still looked like he was waiting for a response from Leo.

"I also tried to tell you the girl was fine but you weren't listening. So I had to be all sneaky and guide you there"

So Will was the shadow that lead him to Margret. How annoying Leo thought.

"I also gave Elliot cellphone power" Will explained further. "The point is, I know you don't think it, but I'm on your side. Not just because of our little deal, it's because I still have a conscience you know"

But it sure didn't seem like it Leo thought. There were countless things Will could have done to help the situation better and instead she just pulled bullshit magic tricks when she should have just fixed the situation all together.

"I think I know the way to go" Leo said looking away from Will. Luckily, she was at least quick on the uptake and lead the three to their original spot. At this point Emergency Services were already there, starting the search.

From there, it was just a nightmare of constant variations of the questions "Are you okay", "Why didn't you wait for EMS", and "Are you sure you're okay?". Luckily, EMS seemed to more interested in Elliot and Margret than the weird kid who didn't want his hair cut.

And by the end of the night, Leo was convinced by the reaction of Elliot's brothers, that he was never going to be allowed to visit Leo again. And what sucked even more, was that Leo didn't even get to play his stupid song for Elliot.

Back at the orphanage, Elliot said his goodbyes and make sure to give Margret one last hug before the nuns forced them all to bed. And now it was just Elliot and Leo.

"So..." Elliot started.

Great, this might possibly be the most awkward conversation we've had up to date Leo thought.

"So what?"

"There was something you wanted to show me?" Elliot remembered.

"You really remembered that?"

"Yeah, I mean don't get confused, it just sort of resurfaced in my head"

"Right, well, I think it's a little to late for that now"

"Really?" Elliot said looking disappointed.

Leo sighed. "It wasn't really that exciting. I was just going to play a song that I wrote" he said pulled the folded up sheet music in his pocket.

"Wait, did you have that in your pocket the who day?"

"Well, yeah. I didn't really have time to put it someplace else with the whole Margret fiasco playing out" Leo explained.

"Oh, right" Elliot said looking down. "Well, you could always play it at my house"

"I'm pretty sure after this whole mess you'll be lucky if your family let you come over here again let alone me coming to visit"

"Well, I'm pretty sure they won't be able to refuse if your my new valet"

Leo changed the look on his face to a smirk.

"Elliot Nightray, are you asking me to be your servant?"

Elliot still refused to look Leo in the eye. He was only shy on rare occasions. He definitely like this second version of Elliot's proposal better. The first time, it was just out right and clear cut. But nothing was better than seeing Elliot squirm a bit, especially when Leo was to blame.

"Well, I've been trying to ask you for a while now. But yeah"

"So that's what you where trying to ask in the library before and the last time you were here?"

"Yes, I'm asking so could you just please answer so we can go"

"Ah, your so confident in me saying yes?"

"Yeah"

"And why is that?"

"Because you like me" Elliot explained

Leo had to keep himself from showing a look of surprise on his face.

He knows?

"I mean, it's pretty obvious with that song you wrote and all. Which I have a bit of a problem with because you definitely would have called me out for being cheesy if I did something like that"

"Wait, so you like me too?"

"Of course, we're friends right? Wow, out of context, this conversation sounded kind of gay"

Oh, of course he didn't mean that way Leo thought.

"Yes"

"Huh?"

"The answer is yes. I accept your offer"

"Let's shake on it then?"

So the two shook hands and Elliot gave a big smile to Leo, which was something he hadn't seen in a long time.

AN: Also, if you're interested, I'm looking for someone to beta for me because I feel like that would force me to work more so if you're interested PM me!