Well, That was a pretty crazy Chapter, now, all those questions must be answered!

Kimi couldn't believe it. She was looking at her brother. Her unconscious brother. Her mangled, beaten brother. The doctors had finally been able to stabilize him and get him breathing again, although he was not yet awake. Chuckie's forehead was covered in gauze, his nose bandaged, his teeth rebraced, and his ribs in a cast. Chuckie was still in pain, asleep, but Kimi knew how to tell when Chuckie was in pain. Kira and Chad ran in, and they hugged their daughter.

"What on earth happened to him?!" asked Chas

"I told you, he was assualted, by Ally." Kimi replied

"How is he?" Kira asked, rushing to the opposite bedside of Chas.

"I can tell he's still in pain even though asleep." Kimi replied

"Oh God look at him. What kind of Father am I? Melinda would never forgive me for allowing this to happen." Chas said, clutching his son's hand "Who could do something like this, and why?"

"It was Ally,"

The parents both sighed in anger when hearing this, Kira was on the verge of tears, Chas had already descended to that.

"And she did it because according Z and Lil, everyone was harrassing Chuckie because they'd seen the video, and when she said something about his autism and... a different part of him... and Chuckie replied with something witty, and when she felt like Chuckie tried to 1-up her, she got the jocks to hold him against a locker, and she this was the end result."

"She beat him up for being a smart ass"

"They ran past me when escaping yelling 'we beat your brother's retarded ass' so I guess Chuckie's cleverness caused this, either that, or that bitch just wanted to hurt Chuckie even more."

"I can't hear this anymore!" Kira cried "I'm just completely sickened."

"When do the doctors think he'll be waking up?" Chas asked

"Dr. Carmichael can't assume anything right now, but he should be waking up in no longer than..."

Chuckie all of the sudden moaned again, opened his eyes and sat up.

"Zero seconds."

"Oh Chuckie! Thank God you're okay!" Kira said, as she hugged her son, kissing him until his face went from pale white to red.

"How are you feeling buddy." Chas asked, as he hugged his son, still slightly crying.

"I dunno. I'm in a lot of pain though, and I can't tell why."

"Chuckie do you remember anything at all?" Kimi asked

"I remember Ally beating me on camera, while two jocks held me down," Chuckie started crying, "and they called me retard and loser and stuff like that"

Chas held his son tightly. He wanted to talk with Chuckie in private though. moments after this occured, the entire gang arrived.

"How is he?" Z asked

"He looks... Broken" Dil said

"Doctor said he's gonna be fine." Kimi replied

Dr. Carmichael walked in "But he may need some rest still, so could you all please leave, I know you all wanted to see him, but he still needs some time to rest."

The group agreed and left, Kimi, upon leaving turned around and hugged her brother, Chuckie handed her a piece of paper, telling her to read it in private, Kimi turned and left, Kira went with them out, but Chas wanted to stay behind.

"I really need to talk with him." Chas said

Dr. Carmichael left the room as well.

"You are so much like your mother, more than you think." Chas said

"How?" Chuckie replied, he saw so much of himself in his father than mother

"You make sacrifices for what you believe is right no matter what the risk, you're brave when it's most needed, face it Chuckie, your freckles aren't the only thing you got from her, her personality, you got nearly all that." "And something else now apparently" Chas thought to himself.

"I guess"

"I'm sorry I yelled at your Mom the other night, and I'm sorry for getting mad over this whole autism fiasco, you'd just, never been scared of me before. What made you unsure of how I'd treat you?"

"I thought you'd be upset about the situation, and worry about the future."

"Well don't do it again. I'll always love you, and think of you with pride, no matter what."

The father and son agreed to this.

"So Kira was the only one who knew besides the psychologist?" Chas asked

"He told my school immediately, I guess all my teachers didn't care about privacy at all."

"Well what's been done is done. So is this why you and Kira all of the sudden became close over the past year?"

"Yeah, I guess, I don't know. I guess after that incident, I felt more comfortable talking with someone who had kniwledge of my problem, but didn't treat me differently. I was scared to tell anyone else after my school started treating me differently, and since she was the only person who didn't change after finding out, I came to trust her more than others."

"Well why would you think I'd react differently from Kira?"

"Well you've always been pretty protective, and I know how important I am to you so I didn't want to worry you."

"Well don't worry about me anymore, we're in this together. My son goes down, I go down with him."

"Thanks Dad."

"No problem. And promise me you'll never contemplate how much you're worth, because to me, you'll always be the most important thing in my life, and I could never bear to live life without you. To me, both your Moms, Kimi, and all your friends, always remember Chuckie, to us you're more than 1 in a Million"

Chuckie and his Dad high fived to that, except the clutziness of them caused them to instead miss their hands and hit each other's foreheads.

"Can you ask Dr. Carmichael if I can get out of bed now, I'm not really tired at all and the gown is uncomfortable to wear?"

The father and son laughed at this. Chas got up and asked the doctor, after some tests, Chuckie and Chas left the room, and went to meet everyone else.

But before he did, Chuckie asked his father for something.

"I know that you already told about the whole tooth fairy thing, but can you still give me the dollar?" Chuckie asked, pointing at the empty whole his last baby tooth once sat.

They had a good laugh over this, a joke that would hopefully be a good memory between them for years to come.

Meanwhile, Kimi had to sit her friends down again. Kimi had been instructed on the piece of paper Chuckie gave her to tell their friends everything, and how he didn't want to hide anymore. Chuckie wanted to tell them himself, but was afraid of the kind of response coming from his friends that he feared would come from his father. So he had Kimi tell them, thinking they would react differently.

"Guys, I'm really sorry about what I did. Look, I need to tell you all something important. Chuckie's been kind of hiding with this for a while, and until Saturday, our mom was the only one besides him and our school who knew." Kimi said. Kira knew what she was about to tell, so she was ready for this, and knew what was coming. "Our Chuckie, he... he..." Kimi couldn't say it, she was just too emotional, but she knew she had to tell. "He's got autism okay, that's why I called him retarded at school, I was angry with him and it just came out, but Chuckie is autistic."

The whole group gasped.

"Wait, retardation and autism are meant to denote different things. Retardation denotes low intelligence and autism is a mental disability" Phil said, clearly missing the big picture of things

"Thank you Phil, finally someone who can tell the difference." Kira said

"Focus please!" Kimi begged

"There are 3 kinds of autism though Kimi." Harold said

"Yeah what kind was his diagnosis" Z asked

"High functioning Asperger Syndrome" Kimi replied

"How long has he been hiding this, and why?" Tommy asked. His facial expression gave the indication that he was furious with Chuckie, how could he hide this! Chuckie was definitely coming off as a hypocrite right now to him.

Kimi broke into tears, and could no longer speak, so Kira took over.

"About a week after Nicole's death, when Chuckie was at the psychologist's office." she said. "I know you're angry Tommy, but the problem was that the school was already treating him differently, kids were treating him differently, and even the teachers were treating him special because of this. Chuckie didn't want the special treatment, he was being treated different, just like how he had always been by nearly every student. Chuckie was becoming more estranged from the rest of his peers by the teachers. He didn't know if you would all change as well and got scared. He didn't even tell his father, or Kimi"

"Then why did he tell you?" Tommy asked. This was an offensive question to some extent, but everyone knew this was not the real Tommy speaking.

"I just got lucky and so happened to be at the office when the news was given." Kira said in defense "And don't think I was happy to know this, do you think it's easy to hear your own son say that his life is not worth living, that he believes he'll never have a career, have children or find love? he was contemplating his own worth, and I had to hear it." This was hard for her to come out with.

Tommy all of the sudden went from angry to sad. His own friend was suicidal at one point?

Lil was sitting at a seperate table, crying already. She thought to herself. "Chuckie thinks he'll never find love?" Lil thought. After the experience at school, she knew she was feeling emotions for Chuckie that only an adult could feel for their soulmate. "I don't care if you're autistic, you're still Chuckie, you're no different, I still like you a lot."

Kira wanted to add one last bit of information to finally help Tommy get the full picture. "And a few weeks later, Chuckie's anxiety worsened, and he developed depression"

Tommy knew about that, and he now knew what had caused it. "I am such a dirtbag" Tommy thought to himself.

"Tommy, it's okay." Kimi said "I made the same mistake too."

Tommy wrapped his arms around her, and she kissed him, he decided that when he saw Chuckie, he would go up to him, and ensure him, that he was still Chuckie.

Chuckie and Chas joined everyone downstairs. Everyone ran straight to Chuckie.

"Hey buddy, how you feeling." Tommy said high fiving him

"A lot better, the cast is a little uncomfortable, but the doctor said I should only need it for 12 hours, then come bnack tomorrow, my ribs might not have really broken at all, but they might be in a delicate state after the beating I took." Chuckie replied

Kira hugged her son tightly. "Well I know one thing is for sure. Somebody assaulted you and that means this was not bullying, but crime." Kira replied

"Yeah, check out the medical bill." Kimi said

"Money is no issue with Chuckie, Kimi." Chas said "But I do plan on taking legal action towards this."

"I'm there, we can all be the witnesses and once they see how badly injured Chuckie is, this will be an easy court case." Phil said

"Definitely!" Tommy said.

"So we take them to court. When? this is a crime, we're not suing." Chuckie asked

"Technically, we can sue for Physical harassment." Angelica answered

"Yeah, you're right. I'll fill that in." Chuckie replied.

"As for the crime part, Pangborn already called the cops on them on your behalf." Dil said

"I guess that means I owe Pangborn a favor huh." Chuckie said

"Just bring him that sushi you make, he loves that stuff, remember that time you gave it as an apology for one of your idiot pranks and he lifted your detention." Kimi replied

Everyone laughed about this, even the parents.

"All right then, that's settled." Chas said. "How about we all call your parents and have them come get you all."

Later that night Chuckie was sitting in his room, looking at the form he'd picked up from the court. His father was woirking a late shift at the Java lava with Kimi and Kira was at a yoga class. She'd invited Chuckie, as she'd done so before, but Chuckie denied the offer. The idea of doing yoga with his Mom was possibly the most weirdest thing ever, and it would be quite embarrassing if anyone he knew were to see that. "I don't think I've ever seen a guy do yoga without religious involvement ever" Chuckie thought.

Chuckie was almost finished filling the form when he heard a knock on the door, he left his room, and went downstairs to answer the door, where a 2 police0 officers stood. "Hello young man, are you Charles Finster Jr.?" said the male officer

"Yes I am, I'm better known as Chuckie." he replied

"Were you by any chance the victim of an assault today committed by Allison Manson at 3:30 PM at La Cañada High School." the female officer asked

"Yeah.." Chuckie said. He was a little embarrassed, being that this was a girl who had beaten him up. But the officers didn't seem to ridicule him.

"I'm assuming she had some guys hold you down huh?" the female officer asked

Chuckie nodded.

"Well that makes sense eh Cirie" the male officer joked elbowing his partner, who gave him a glare. "It was just a joke."

Cirie sighed, and looked at Chuckie. We have some bad new Chuckie, you see, Ally escaped from the police car, we've been searching for hours, and wondering if she's shown up here.

Chuckie nearly fainted at hearing this. "No, I haven't, are you saying she's on the loose?"

"Unfortunately yes." Cirie's partner said. "We want you to know we are looking for her, and we want you to lock all doors, and windows, while your at it, call your folks, if your parents are home she'll be less likely to come back, so we recommend you staying with them or a group of friends more often and not alone."

"Alright officers, thank you, also, how long should it be thast I'll be awaiting my court case?" Chuckie asked

"About a month from now if she is captured by then." Cirie replied.

"Alright, thank you, and if something comes up, I'll let the department know." Chuckie replied

"Thank you" the 2 officers said. They asked for some directions to a coffee shop and so Chuckie told them about his father's place, hoping that with a whole police department being regular customers for the Java Lava, at least one good thing could come from this.

Chuckie ran to his room, and began dialing Tommy's number, not wanting to send his family into a frenzy, although right when he was about to dial the last number, Chuckie opened his bedroom door to find the last thing he wanted to see. Ally manson, sitting on his bed. Chuckie saw Ally and immediatley chanbged the number he was dialing to 911, but before he could answer, Ally took the phone, and smashed it on his head.

"Hello love." Ally said, pinning Chuckie to the ground.

"What do you want from me!" Chuckie yelled, noticng his open bedroom window.

"You took my boyfriend, my chance for head cheerleader, now you're trying to take away my freedom,m and now, I will take something you deem important." Ally replied.

She took out what looked like a pebble, and choked Chuckie, the boy opened his mouth gasping for air, but instead, Ally threw the pebble inside. Chuckie was forced to swallow the pebble, which he did. Seconds later, Chuckie realized he hadn't swallowed a pebble, that was a pill, a sleeping pill. Chuckie was getting drowsy fast, and it had just entered his system.

Ally was ready, and without thinking, she did the unthinkable.

Well, hope you guys enjoyed that Chapter, feel free to give a review! What has Ally done? What happens to Chuckie? How will the Finster's and their friends cope with the events that await them, find out in Chapter 15!