Waking up the next morning, Tommy was laying with his hands resting behind his head as he stared up at the ceiling. At the moment, he was thinking about Jason's arrival the other day and what Vic said to him, about not knowing who Jason was. He also remembered him saying something about having to share a room with a maniac's son.

Tommy began to wonder why Jason was here. Some kids where here because their parents were dead or because they couldn't or didn't want to take care of them anymore. Others were here like Vic, because of behavior problems.

He was here because his parents had divorced. His father left the country and his mother ended up getting busted with cocaine. She was sentenced to time in rehab and with her problem there was no telling when she was getting out. And with Trish, his older sister in college, there was no where else for him to go.

Honesty, he didn't really care why Jason was here. He was just really intrigued by the other boy. From everything to his silence to the scars he had on his face and arms. His condition, being unable to feel any pain also fascinated him.

Matthew made a good point the other night when he told him that pain was there for a reason, but he just couldn't help but still think it was cool in a way. From all the comic books he read over the years, it was like Jason had a real life superpower.

Finally deciding to get up, Tommy swung his legs over the side of the bunk bed and dropped to the floor.

"Hey Jason," he began as he looked at the lower bed but stopped when he saw that the other boy wasn't there. "Damn, where is he?"

He left the room and headed downstairs to the mess hall to look for him but as soon as he walked in a voice yelled out;

"Yo, Tommy!"

He looked over and saw Damien running over towards him.

"What is it?"

"Russell challenged us to a hockey match."

Tommy smirked. He didn't like Russell much but he got a kick out of the bad mood he and Vic would be put in after they lost.

"Fine, let me get my stick."

The two of them turned around and headed back up to Tommy's room.

"We're gonna need another guy..." Damien began. "I don't know who, since Richie isn't here anymore."

"Should we get Joey?"

"Fuck no."

Opening up the door, the two boys stepped into the room but Tommy stopped in his tracks causing Damien to run right into him. Jason was standing next to the bunk beds, looking out the window.

"Hey Jason, where were you?" Tommy asked, although not expecting to get a response, and he didn't.

"Hey, what about him?" Damien suggested. "He's pretty tall, he could be the goalie."

Smiling, Tommy walked over to the closet.

"Hey Jason, have you ever played hockey?"

Kneeling down after he opened the closet door, Tommy began going through one of the boxes until he found something.

"You know what hockey is, don't you?"

Tommy walked over and held out a hockey mask for Jason.

"You can wear this."

Jason looked down at the mask for a moment before looking back up at Tommy.

"We're playing against Vic." Tommy smiled, trying to get him to come along with them. "You'll get the chance to stomp him into the ground for messing with you the other day."

Looking back down at the mask again, Jason slowly reached out and took it into his hands.

"Alright, let's go." Damien said and led the way out of the room.

The three of them walked down to the southeast corner of the first floor where the gymnasium was. Walking through the entrance they saw two nets set up on either side of the gym as Vic, Russell, and another boy, Tito stood waiting.

"About time." Russell complained.

"We had to find another player." Tommy explained.

Vic's eyes narrowed when he saw Jason.

"He's playing?"

"That's right. You gotta problem with that?"

Tito walked over to the net of his team while Tommy led Jason over to their net and handed him a hockey stick.

"Just keep the puck out of the next." He explained. "That's all you have to do."

Jason nodded as he stood in front of the net and placed the hockey mask over his face.

The two pairs of boys slammed their sticks down as they got ready. Rachel, who had come outside with Violet to watch the boys play walked over with a small red puck in her hand.

"Ready?"

Rachel then dropped the ball and ran back to her spot as all four boys tried to get a hold of it with their sticks. Damien was able to pass the puck to Tommy who ran forward a few steps before slapping the puck with the stick down to the other team's goal.

Tito wasn't able to raise his stick in time and the puck passed by his right arm and sailed right into the net.

"Damn it." Vic cussed as he picked up the puck and placed it down in front of his stick. He then began to move with it down to the other net. Damien tried to intervene but Vic was able to pass him and nail the puck with a hard swing.

It went flying towards the net but at the last moment, Jason raised his stick and prevented it from going in.

"Yeah!" Tommy shouted after he saw that, worried at first that Jason wouldn't know what to do or would just stand there.

The game continued and over the next ten minutes it became a dirty one. Skill wise, they were evenly matched although Tommy's team had the advantage and were ahead by points. Vic and Tommy were becoming especially vicious against each other, pushing each other and using little tricks to try to keep a hold of the puck.

Tommy now had a hold of it as Vic was coming up behind him. He tried to smack the puck away with his own stick but when Tommy raised his arm, his elbow collided with Vic's jaw.

The game halted as Vic stumbled backwards, holding his jaw.

"What the hell, you dumb fuck!" Vic yelled as he spat blood out of his mouth.

"Sorry, it was an accident."

However, by this time Vic was too angry to listen to any kind of apology. He came forward and punched Tommy in the face, causing his head to whip back and his glasses to sail off.

The other boys froze after that but before anyone could say or do anything, Tommy came right back and tackled Vic, they both began struggling with each other, trying to hit any place that could get to before Vic was able to twist Tommy's arm behind his back.

Tommy yelled out in pain and finally Russell attempted to get his friend to stop.

"Hey, Vic. Come on, that's enough now." He said.

Vic glared at him for a moment before giving Tommy's arm once last tug before shoving him away. He fell to the floor just as Vic turned around to leave.

What he didn't know was that Jason was standing right behind. Just as he turned around, Jason raised the hockey stick before he could react and swung, slashing Vic right across the face.

Vic fell to the floor, holding his face as blood began to gush out of his cheek.