A/N As 'Q' would say in Impractical Jokers... "BOOM!" two chapters in one day! again, i applaud myself for being on task for once in my life. enjoy~


"Smile Soul!" the seven year old boy turned towards the camera in his mothers hands and smile a toothy grin. It was Christmas and his family came in to visit him. Not like they do that every day but today was special. His father handed him a wrapped box and stepped back to watch him open the present. His brother Wes stopped him from opening it when he shot him in the forehead with a sticky dart from his new nerf gun.

"Wes! That hurts!" Soul shouted and stood up with the present in his hands.

"Sorry." Wes sat down next to Souls feet and pulled Soul down to the ground, "open your present Soul! I wanna see what you got!" the ten year old brother shook Souls arm up and down.

Soul tore the paper wrapping the box and threw it down by his feet. He held the box in front of his face and eyed the toy inside. It was what he wanted for years and they finally gave it to him. A remote control helicopter. Soul shot up faster than his brother could even say 'cool' and ran towards his parents hugging their legs tightly.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Soul yelled over and over. His father picked him up and set him on the hospital bed, kissing his forehead.

"It's what you wanted right? And you've been asking for it for quite awhile…" Soul smiled.

"Hey, mom? How come Soul gets better things than I do?" Wes asked as he walked up to her.

"Can we talk about this later Wes? We came here for you brother, the least you can do is be happy for him." he sighed an okay and sat down next to Soul and wrapped an arm around his brothers shoulder.

"Merry Christmas!" the nurse Abby came through the door with a teddy bear with a bow on the top of its head behind her back. Soul turned around and got out of his brothers head lock of a hug.

"Abby! Look what I got!" Soul jumped off the bed and grabbed his present holding it high in the air. She hid the bear behind her back as best as she could and Soul tilted his head and walked up closer to her.

"What's that?" he set down the helicopter and reached behind her back. She stepped back and held it out in front of her to show him.

"Here, merry Christmas Soul." He grabbed it and leaned back to support its weight. It was almost twice the size of Soul and weighed more than him.

"It's… so heavy!" Soul dramatically fell to the floor and the teddy covered his body. Wes moved the bear and helped him up off the floor.

"That's a big bear…" Wes pointed a small finger at its nose and kept a straight face.

"It's my bear!" Soul smacked his hand away and ran behind his father legs before Wes did something back.

"Boys. Today's not the day to-," Soul interrupted his father lecture.

"Mom! Look it's snowing!" Souls face was pressed up against the window and his hands were flat against the glass by his face. Wes ran up to the window and did the same as his brother.

"Jamie…" Abby grabbed Souls mothers arm gentle and nodded her head towards the door while the kids were distracted. They walked out into the hallway followed by Souls father and closed the door.

"Souls… conditions I should say have been getting worse and the doctors wanted to tell you… that those every other nights going home for Soul have to stop just in case."

"What, are you saying he can't come home for Christmas?" Abby shook her head sadly and handed them Soul files.

"All his records are in there. Feel free to take a look, but there's nothing I can do to let him come home with you guys. Docs orders." Abby nervously twiddled her thumbs and walked back into the room, closing the door behind her, leaving Souls parents in shock in the hall.

"Wes?" Soul looked up from the helicopter he was putting together on the floor.

"Yeah?" Wes asked at the window kind of distracted by the weather outside.

"How come you don't tell your friends about me? I've never met them…" Soul dropped his arms and let them rest on his legs. Wes turned from the window and leaned against the wall with his hands behind his back.

"I-I do… they think I'm lying though."

"Well why don't you bring them here so I can meet them?" their parents walked back into the room. They stopped as the brothers talked. Wes stayed silent as he looked his father in the eyes.

"Cause they'll think I'm weird… that I actually have a brother that lives in a hospital like some kind of freak…"

"Wes! That's enough! Come on, I want to talk to you outside." His father knew that was coming. They walked back out into the hall and left Abby and Soul alone in the room. Soul stared at the disassembled toy in his hands and clenched his jaw.

"Soul, your brother didn't mean that. He was-," Soul stood up and set the toy on the counter in pieces calmly.

"I know. People think I'm weird, but… I'm not. I'm just special and need extra attention than others do. Can you go? I want to be alone. And can you tell my parents that to?" Soul walked over to his bed and laid his hand on the sheets looking over to Abby.

"O-okay. Soul are you sure you don't want me to stay? It's Christmas." Abby gestured her hand outside the window.

"No. I want to be alone!" he threw the pillow at the door. Abby picked the pillow up and set it back on the bed.

"Okay… just call if you need anything okay?" with that, she left. As soon as he saw the shadows on the other side of the door leave, he let his head fall in his arms on the bed and started crying.

When he was done crying he dragged the pillow on the floor in front of the window and sat down on it watching people pass by pretending that was his family… happy and NOT broken by disease or fights. This is show he would spend his Christmas and holidays now. In front of the window watching other families is happy. Some would even stop and wave at him, like some sort of puppy in the pet shop…


A/N As you can probably tell... this is in the past. since Souls in his surgery and all, i think i should have gone through some of his memories and shared them with you. this would be his last Christmas with his family AS a family. since that little fight with Wes that was the last time he's seen him. and his Mom and Dad got divorced soon afterwards... i love torchering people i love sadly. hoped you enjoyed it! leave comments in your reveiws if you want a request for the next chapter!