A/n I almost forgot to update. Even though I was thinking on the story all day. Weird. Anyway, I'm not really sure about this chapter, it feels like I'm pushing the characters a bit, so if it seems weird, sorry. Also, I forgot to say this, other than the original character's names of the Harvest moon series, meaning they existed before I cam across them, all the names in this story were carefully selected to give a little background knowledge on the character/animal. For example, Gaberial is a messenger of God , Maris means 'of the sea', and so on, so when ever a new name pops up and it wasn't some other character in Harvest Moon, I recommend looking it up. Except Max. Max was just the name of one of my dogs' who is dead. He was a great dog so he just got put in here with out too much thought. Anyway, today, I can't easily pull out any characters without them spoiling anything so I'm sorry for that. Next week will be fine though. Anyway, I wish you the best as you read "past"

Mark

When I felt Chelsea's body get heavier against mine I knew it was safe to move.

I picked her up, laid her in bed and tucked her in.

"What was that?" The cowboy asked. I still couldn't remember his name. Chelsea's going to get pissed if I don't make even what seems to be an effort to remember his name.

When I felt Chelsea's body get heavier against mine I knew it was safe to move.

I picked her up, laid her in bed and tucked her in.

"What was that?" The cowboy asked. I still couldn't remember his name. Chelsea's going to get pissed if I don't make even what seems to be an effort to remember his name.

"Hey, where's her dog?" I asked fearing the worst.

He shrugged, "Don't know."

I growled a bit under my breath. "That was what happens when Chelsea doesn't have Gabe. She becomes emotionally unstable."

His eyebrow twitched, "Seriously?"

I nodded my head. He and I stared each other down.

"What are the chances of him still being alive?" I asked tentatively.

"In my opinion, higher than the chances of him being dead."

I let out a huge sigh I didn't even know I was holding.

"Why does her dog have such a huge effect on her?" Vaughn asks.

I look at him solemnly and stare into his eyes. They were the type of eyes that at first glance seemed uncaring, but if you actually looked into them were laced with so many different emotions that they reminded me a little of Chelsea. So, for that reason, despite all evidence of him proving otherwise to me, I trusted him.

"To tell you that I'd have to tell you about her mom's death." I stared hard at him daring him to back off. "You sure you want to know?"

He nodded his head without hesitation.

I sigh, "We should probably go somewhere else then, in case Chelsea wakes up."

I leave Chelsea's farm and head to the hotel. I nodded to the desk man and his wife as I passed them and went into my room motioning for Vaughn to come in.

He does.

I kick off my shoes and fall onto the coach. "What's your name again?"

He pulls out a wooden chair and sits himself. "Vaughn."

"Right. Vaughn. Aunt Renee, Chelsea's mom, was as you can tell, big on animals. She worked as an animal trainer and was known as the world's best, having trained animals that even now had never been able to be trained. She also loved taking educational hikes with different people and teaching them all she knew. It was on one of these hikes that she died."

"What happened?" Vaughn asks.
I shift my position on the couch. "Chelsea saw some animal and followed it. After a while she got lost ,slipped down a hill and into a river that took her to a cliff right at it's bend. It effectively broke 2 of her ribs and her ankle and made it impossible to go anywhere. Of course when we figured out Chelsea was missing all hell broke loose."
"Everyone searched for her. Of course the only one who managed to find her was Aunt Renee. No one else really understood her other than her mom. From what I heard, Aunt Renee backtracked a couple of miles and her dogs were able to pick up the scent. Only problem was there wasn't any safe way to get to Chelsea, of course you couldn't tell her that. Aunt Renee lived for impossible. She sent the dogs away to get help and climbed down to help. What happened after that, no one really knew exactly. The only thing we knew was from what Chelsea told us and that wasn't much.
When we found them, there was a gaping hole in Aunt Renee's chest that somehow didn't really have much blood around it and a Chelsea who looked like she had a bucket of blood dropped on her. The policemen said it was caused by a jagged rock that Aunt Renee managed to fall on when she slipped off the cliff, but there were no scrapes on her hands nor were there rocks at the bottom. It was just clay. The cliff itself wasn't exceptionally hard to climb down it was just the getting back up that would have been the impossible issue. The weird thing of it all was that Chelsea and her mom were found just at the top of the cliff, but the blood stains surrounded the bottom and there was no blood trail leading up to where they were."
"Aunt Renee was heavily depended on in our family. She brought together everyone and garnered success for everyone wherever she went. So when she died it went nothing but downhill fast. A fourth of the people in our family's situation got so bad they decided to commit suicide."

"Of course humans are unreasonable creatures. When something goes wrong usually something or someone has to be blamed. A lot of the blame went to Chelsea, some people like my parents blamed themselves for not keeping a better eye on Chelsea, but Uncle Toby's reaction, Chelsea's dad, was the weirdest of all. He blamed everything. He immediately began rejecting anything that reminded him of Aunt Renee, animals, nature, family, even Chelsea he barely put up with. Right now he's a bitter man focused on nothing but his can guess what that would do to a 14 year old girl who'd just lost her Mom."

"Chelsea began to reject reality more and more as the situation kept getting worse. When Uncle Toby married Selena she got so bad the family who still cared for her even began to think she should be instituted. Then one day out of nowhere, she got better. I confronted her on it. Turns out she found a stray beagle out on the streets when she was wandering aimlessly. On impulse, she took it in. She said as the dog began to trust her and depend on her more and more she started seeing that her mom was dead, not her. She named the dog Gabriel, a fitting name to be honest but she calls him Gabe for short. Gabe reinstated her love for animals and eventually as the situation around her turned worse, she started going out on the street collecting stray animals. She would train the animals and force different family members who were suffering to come visit them. Gradually, everyone started getting better. Everyone except her dad that is.

"Whatever the reason, the more Chelsea gets better the more Uncle Toby rejects her as a person. At one point, Selena started jumping in making Chelsea's life living hell. At that point, Chelsea kind of gave up on humans. You can't immediately tell it from how she acts but when you put her in a room with animals you can see the difference."

"How?" Vaughn asks.

"You can notice that she'll acknowledge animals as something as equals sometimes she'll even show an amount of respect reserved for royalty for certain animals as well. But when you compare how she treats a random animal to how she is with people she's close to, it can be compared to a destructive,fickle child's favorite toy to a loyal,loving child's favorite younger sibling. With humans as the near breaking toy."

Vaughn nods his head. "Explains why I got tackled from a roof the first day I met her."

I gag on my laughter. Vaughn looks at me with his eyebrows raised.

"Sorry. That just reminded me of the time when she forced me to go bungy jumping. Right before I jumped she said this, 'I hope I got the length right' then when it settled in and I was about to back out, she pushed me. She's just like that at first."

"At first?" Vaughn asks.

"When she first meets someone she finds interesting she'll do something extreme to catch their attention. She'll usually mellow out when you get to know her."

"Like a child?"

"Very much like a child." I say grinning.

Vaughn shakes his head.

"You know you kind of remind me of her."

He jerks his head up. "How so?"

I laugh, "Easy there. It's not your actions just your eyes. You have eyes so similar to her's that it kind of makes me think you might be able to help her."

He glares. "I'm not going to be her freakin' therapist."

I laugh again. "Don't worry. Just be yourself. If I'm right that alone will help, if I'm wrong, good luck dude."

Vaughn growls and leaves. I laugh as he goes.

First off I'd like to apologize. I didn't really realize that people were going out of character and I should have been more careful with that, at the same time if you see me doing it again please warn me because I don't really write everything with the same mindset or reviewed at the same time. So it's fairly easy for me to acidently to get the character wrong because of that. Sorry. Truthfully what I need is a beta but I'm really picky so finding one is a little more difficult than it should be...

Anyway moving on. I did decide to do a Easter special which, if everything goes well, should be out on late Sunday as a chapter from way back in the past when Chelsea's mom was still alive meaning I will post it onto "Try". It's kind of filler but shows a few characters in a somewhat newer light so I'd recommend reading it if you want something to pass the time.

Okay now to my thank to the readers and reviewers.

Horsegirl10: OMG THANK YOU! You didn't have to review on earlier chapters but you did so thanks for putting in the effort. You seriously made this author happy. C:

Mryhh: Like I said, I am SO sorry. I didn't even realize I did that ,even though it should have been obvious. TT-TT But I'm really glad you didn't stop reading, oh and no worries, even if it kills me, I will not drop a story. If it catches up to itself the time between uploads may be longer but that's about it.

Fairy-san: Hi, again! Thanks for reading the next chapter. :)

Also, Thanks for all my silent readers who, for whatever your reasons may be, don't favorite ,follow, or review, but always come back to read the next chapter. All of you guys are awesome!

Alright, see you next week. Promise I won't forget like I almost did today!