A/N: Head trauma. Its a hell of a thing.

Chapter 26

I was awake by this point but I was worried. Something wasn't right. I was on a rugged floor, which was waaay more comfortable than the sleeping bag I was in when I went to sleep. The air was warm and comfortable, there were sounds of cars passing by and kids playing.

I'm home.

"WOOF!" Was that a dog? I opened my eyes and looked around. Sure enouh there was a dog sitting next to me. We're in my room, I'm certain. I'm the only one who has a poster of a book over my bed and I have blue everywhere in this room. On the walls, on my clothes, and in my... Someone's in my bed.

"Good morning Bowser." The young kid said as he started to yawn. The dog was a pit bull, not those low to the ground ones, the taller kind. It was wagging it's tail, happy to see it's master wake up. The kid stood from my bed and I got good look at him.

He was tall for his age which I assume was maybe 13 or 14. He was wearing a blue sweater and some grey jogging pants. His hair was a buzz cut and his eyes were... Cobalt blue. The kid looked a lot like me in some ways, but he didn't act like me.

The kid started to walk to the dog and the dog got in a play stance the kid did the same and the dog jumped onto him and started to lick his face earning a chuckle from me.

"Hahaha! Alright, alright, alright! I love you too!" The kid was able to push Bowser off and stand up. I followed as he went downstairs and into a kitchen. I could smell cooking and almost stopped dead in my tracks. The only person I know who cooks in this house is me and Rosey but she never came to my house. I ran past the kid and into the kitchen to see a woman with long black hair and aqua blue eyes humming as she cooked.

This woman was shorter than Yang, she had on a grey t-shirt and some fuzzy pants with black and grey hearts on them. The woman smiled at the kid and spoke in a quiet but loving voice.

"Goodmorning Lance, up late last nght?" Okay so now I'm freaking out. If this is a dream which I'm sure it is, how would I be able to see a woman I never met? In a dream it's like your memories being altered or replayed. Nothing is wierd about this so it hasn't been altered... So its replaying a memory?

The young me walked over to a stoll and sat down with the dog Bowser close behind, "I just had to see what happened in The Stalking Dead last night!" The woman giggled at younger me and handed the kid a plate of eggs. The kid didn't eat right away, why? The woman dropped two pieces of toast onto his plate and smiled at him, "And some taost for your eggs." Without hesitation the kid put the eggs on the toast and made an egg sandwich. Yeah this is me for sure.

"Why do you put everything on bread?" The kid chuckled and swollowed a bite of his sandwich, "Because it's simple and doesn't waste any time, and I can take it where ever I need to go. You can't do that with a plate." The woman nodded and I heard the sound of footsteps from above us. That was definitely my dad, but what will he say when he sees this mystery woman in our kitchen? I saw him round the corner and walk in.

My dad walked in and smiled at both young Lance and my supposed mom, "Goodmornig you two." My dad spoke with a tone of happiness that I hadn't heard before. Young me waved with a sandwich in his mouth and my mom walked over and kissed him on the cheek.

"Good morning Reese... Hey, Bowsers been throwing up and I think we should take him to the vet just to make sure he's not in serious trouble." I never told anyone his first name so for her to say it was a bit unsettling. I guess this really is my mom, but if she is, where is she now?

"Alright, I'll go bring him today. I-"

"Nope, I'll do it, I want to go see my sister before we get there." She has a sister too? Now I have to see who she is so I can ask her questions when I get out of the cave.

"YOUR GOING SEE AUNT ROSEY?!" I froze completely, why is everything getting so complicated today? Young me started to bouce around with excitment, until finally my dad grabbed him and held him still, my mom walked over and leanded over so her aqua eyes could look into younger me's eyes.

"You wanna tag along?" Young me smiled and nodded quickly, "Yes ma'am!" My mom patted my head and smiled at me, "Well go get dressed, we leave in thirty minutes." Young me bolted up the stairs. I stayed downstairs and observed my mom. She was beautiful to say the least. I don't remember even meeting her but she seems to be a nice person with a good heart. I love her already. could feel my throat swell and my heart heart, I was starting to cry. I don't know why but something wasn't right. If this is a memory than how come about 3 years later she's nowhere to be found and I don't have a dog?

My mom went upstairs to change so I decieded it might be best if I didn't go up there. I just sat with my dad as he read a newspaper. I read with him for a while just to see what was happening in the world. Well isn't that fitting, the Vytal Festival is happening again, or at least it did happen.

I heard footsteps from behind me so I turned around to see young me in a blue hoodie that had a white lines going down both the arms, he was wearing black pants and had on some normal blue shoes. I guess I really haven't changed too much.

I heard another set of footsteps and soon my mother came down the steps. She was in a blue sweater and some blue skinny jeans, she had on one of those jean jackets over that. My mom was kinda stylish, now I see where I get my fashion sense from. BLUE IS LIFE.

My mom walked over to my dad and kissed his lips causing my young self to make a disgusted noise, "Don't you like your teacher's daughter?" My mom asked with a bit of sas. My jaw dropped, the only girl I knew that had a teacher as a parent was Yang, and I don't remember any time with Yang especially at this age.

Young me had to turn his head and cross his arms, "Nooo!" That was an obvious lie, my mom and dad snikered and kissed again. My mom called for the dog and we all left. I was sitting in the seat next to the dog and young me and my mom were in the front. I really like this dog, he seems very sweet.

"So I have a question." My mom never took her eyes of the road, "Shoot." I said back as I was messing with my seat belt. "Do I know the father to the daughter?" Young me started to shake my head rapidly, "No but dad might. He went to Beacon with him. Mr. Xiao Long." My dad did go to Beacon, but he got into an accident and his back wouldn't allow him to do huntsman things so he settled on being a detective for the VPD.

"Ohh, so your father has been keeping secrets ehh?" Young me started to panic but soon he overcame his fear and did something funny to lighten the mood, "It's bro code mom. If a bro ask about a girl you like you got to tell'em." My mom started to giggle, I smled at her, not the dream me but real me. I'm happy that I get to at least see my mom once. I saw the diner and got a little anxious, how is it that Rosey and my mom are sisters? And why didn't Rosey tell me? Hell why didn't anyone tell me?

The car stopped and we got out leaving Bowser in the car. When we walked in I saw Rosey who looked just like she did when I saw a week or so ago. Rosey made eye contact with my mom and started to smile, she took of her apron and went over to hug my mom.

"Ohh Marina its good to see you!" Rosey took my mom into a hug and held her tight, I think little me got jelous because he crossed his arms, "And don't think I forgot about you my little knight." Rosey scopped young me into a hug and started to bear hug him. When introductions were out of the way they all went sit down at a table I of course followed them.

"So what's up, why the surprise visit?" Rosey asked curiously, I just noticed how similar these two were. Give Rosey my moms eyes and turn her hair black and the two would be identical. Maybe thats why I always gravitated towards Rosey when I was in school.

My mom smirked, "No reason, I can't come see my sister without there being a reason?"

"Sis I know you... You have a reason for everything." My mom sighed and looked over to me, "Lance cover your ears." Young me nodded and did as asked, when he did that my mom got serious.

"I want you to be his god parent." Rosey almost fell out of her seat from shock and even I was lost for a minute. Rosey gathered herself and looked into my mom's eyes, "W-Why?! I love Lance like a son but your in good health. Why would you need-" My mom raised her hand a lot like I do when I want someone to stop talking.

"It's a horrible world we live in, and all I want his for my child to be safe whether it be with me or someone else." Rosey crossed her arms and smiled at my mom, "You are truly paranoid."

"If paranoid means realistic than yeah, I'm paranoid." My mom commented back. I'm on her side with that one, the world is a messed up place especially with the Grimm everywhere.

"Okay fine but why me?" My mom giggled as she looked down to younger me, "Children need trust to grow, and if they trust you then they love you. Lance doesn't love that many people but you are on that list of people he does love, so he trusts you. And if he trusts you than so do I." I smiled at young me, I guess even though I'm older me and him still think the same.

"Aww, sis you got me tearing up." Rosey said as she started to wipe a tear from her eye, I looked down to my mom and wanted to hug her so bad. I wanted to tell her I love her and that she is amazing but I need to see what happened to her.

"Alright Lance..." My mom poked me in the arm and started to tickle me, "Mom, cut it out! Now Aunt Rosey is gonna start trying that!" Fight them back little me! Don't let them tickle you! Yeah I don't like when people tickle me especially in public places.

A mischievous grin formed on Rosey's face as she spoke, "Don't worry Lance.. I won't do it... Often." Me and young me both stared at Rosey who had a reasonably preditory grin. The table started to laugh, myself included. We all stood up and waved bye to Rosey, when we got in the car Bowser started to lick young me on the ear. "I know dogs have good hearing but how did you hear that!" Young me said as he smiled and looked back at Bowser who was just happily wagging his tail. We started to drive again, I don't know how far the vet is but maybe it's not much farther. I looked to my left and saw the dog asleep on the door and snoring quietly. Young me was also asleep, probably trying to catch up from the previous night. My mom how ever was wide awake, watching the road.

I saw a mac truck a ways away but something was off. The truck was swurving side to side slightly. My mom noticed this and cursed under her breath. I noticed the truck getting more and more out of control, before hand it was just swerving a little bit but know it was going into both lanes. My mom was definintly not happy with that guy. I could see her sething in anger. I saw my mom switch from anger to worry, and I knew why, that truck was starting to fish tail in the back. I wanted to get out of the car and stop the truck by shooting its tires out but I knew that my rifle wouldn't work. This is a memory and a dream, this is the past. My mom looked to the sleeping me and sighed it was as if seeing me peacefully asleep calmed her down.

I heard the engine of the truck rev up and it got faster. I think the truck drivers drunk. The truck stated to slowly get into the same lane as my mom and know we were heading for each other. My mom immediatly got into the other lane to get away from the truck, but it followed. This guy was actively trying to play chicken with us.

My mom was crying by this point, I think she knew what was about to happen. She drifted the car to where her side was closer to the truck and I saw the grill of the truck right outside her window and everything froze, just before our car would make impact with the truck. I knew she would die, she's just a normal human being, whos aura isn't as strong as even her son whos training to be a huntsman. She knew she was going to die. I started to cry. The first time I actually got to see my mom was going to be my last. I reached a hand out to at least try and hold her hand but just like my nightmare a while back, my hand just fazed trough hers.

"Mom I want you in my life... I want you to meet Yang and Arthur... I want you to see the person I've become... I want you to say you love me... I don't want you to go." I let my true feelings out, that's all I've ever wanted her to see, and now she never will.

My dream faded black and I appered in a hospital room. I was sitting in a chair next to my dad, he was sobbing quietly and holding his head in his hands. I can't imagine what he's going through. He just lost his wife, dog, and as far as he knows, his son. A doctor approached us and my dad shot up to greet the man.

"Uhh, Reese Kobolt." My dad nodded, I had never seen my dad cry like this, it was hurting me to look, "Your son is alive, but... Your wife... She died on impact." My heart shattered and I started to cry instantly, my dad did the same. My dad sat back down and cried some more, I started to pace the room. I was contemplating whether or not I should wage war against anyone with an alcholic beverage in hand.

I heard the door open and some more people came in. Rosey and two of my teachers. Qrow Branwen and Taiyang Xiao Long. All of them seemed sad, Rosey deffinitly more than others. I'm still not sure why my teachers are here though.

"What happened to Marina?!" Rosey asked as she grabbed my dad's shoulders, He could barely speak, the doctor had to break the news to them, "There was a drunk driver and he swurved into them, Killing her and the dog on impact... Lance however survived but he has serious head trauma and a lot of broken bones. The little aura he has is working its hardest to heal up whatever it can but... It's not looking good."

Qrow stepped up and walked over to the doctor, "I think I speak for all of us when I say get in there and make sure he makes it." Qrow let the doctor go and the doctor ran into the room that I guess I was in. Taiyang grabbed Qrow by his collar and pulled him back, "You need to calm down. Don't you think they're trying their best?"

Qrow scoffed and sat down away from everyone else, "You can't trust doctors." Qrow mumbled under his breath. I followed Taiyang as he walked outside and to his car that he must have came here in. In the front seat was a young Yang who was happy and in the back was an even younger Ruby, she was asleep.

"Daddy can I go play with Lance?" Yang was blisfully unaware of what had happened and Tai planned to keep it that way, "Sorry sweetie, Lance won't be able to play for a while he's sleeping.

"Why is he still sleeping?" Yang asked as she stepped out of the car, "Because he's really tired." Yang tilted her head.

"Well... When he wakes up, me, him, and Ruby are gonna play tag!" Yang's mood seemed to brighten at the prospect of us playing tag, probably because she knew she would win. Tai chuckled nervously and put Yang back in the car.

"Tai something happened!" Qrow shouted from the hospital doors. Tai shut the door on Yang and left her there. I followed him back inside to see that the doctor was brining everyone to a room with me hooked up to a bunch of machines and I looked almost as bad as I did after I killed the Hydralisk.

Rosey cupped her mouth with her hands and started to cry, "Oh my God..." My blue aura was active and pulsating all over my body. I was healing right before there eyes, it was slow but it was working. Slowly bruises started to fade away and a cut on my head disappeared.

"He's lucky to be alive. When paramedics got to the scene we found the car had been hit from the side, but there were no roads that intrsected with the one they were on. What we think happened was the driver realized what was going to happen and before they collided, made the car spin and her door was the closest thing to the truck. Marina put herself in between the truck and your son." Rosey and my dad started to cry out of sadness for my moms death and out of joy because I was alive. I looked over to Qrow who had a slight smile and Tai who was holding back tears himself.

"He's strong... He'll pull through.." Qrow siad quitely as he patted my dad on the back. My dad was hysterical, he couldn't even form a sentance. The scene started to fade to black and I appeared in a class room.

"Hey Lance I'm glad to see you back in school, what's it been, like 3 weeks?" Yang said as she sat next to young me who looked like he was scared senseless, Tai must have noticed this and walked over to us.

"Yang I need you to go back to your seat... Now." Yang begrudigly did as he father/teacher asked and went to her seat. Tai sat next to me and started to talk.

"Hello Lance... How do you feel today?" I looked down at the young me and saw first hand that I looked terrible. I looked like I had just seen the great war take place and I was the only survivor.

"Scared." Young me answered feebily, this was definitly how was when I was in Signal, "Of what?" Tai asked as he placed a hand on my shoulder. Young me looked up at him and moved away from his touch, "Everything." I spoke queitly and walked away. Yang reached her hand out to stop me but I moved past her and walked out of the class. Tai sighed and spoke to himself.

"Marina we need you know more than ever." I left the class room and followed me to the bathroom, where I was cornered by some kids.

"Hey you're Lance right?" Young me nodded and stepped away from them, "So tell us about yourself... What do you like doing?" "Reading." I was sure of how I felt, I was scared of the presence of these kids and they knew it.

"How old are you?" One of them chimed in from the side. I didn't speak for a moment, I was thinking, "Ummm, 14?"

"Who's your favorite in your family?" Another asked. Young me paused and didn't say anything for a moment.

"Umm my dad.. I don't have anyone else.." I spoke as if that was fact, what happened to me? The kids looked at each other and smiled, "No mom?" One of them asked as they edged closer.

"No, she left when I was born." I'm senesing foul play was involved somewhere. That's complete bullshit, my mom died.

The room went silent and the kids started to laugh, "Hahah. I can see why, you look like a wuss." That was just disrespectful, If this was me... Well it is me, but if it was my mind set in this kids head, someone would have had their head knocked off.

"She probably didn't want you." One of the others tagged in. They started to take turns brutalizing me with words and I couldn't take it.

Young me shoved past them and ran out of the bath room with tears streaming down his face. I walked out of the bathroom and saw Tai run after me and Yang tearing up too. I guess Yang has always been there for me. the scene faded to black and I was back in the classroom. this time everyone was focusing on there work except for one kid.

He had brown hair and blonde highlights, his hair was left out in a messy way. He wore a grey jacket with red stripes on the sides and going down the middle was a gold stripe. He had on blue jeans and some red converse sneakers.

"Hey, Lance right?" He edged closer to young me and tapped my younger self's shoulder. Young me turned to face him and was clearly worried but the other kid seemed cool.

"Mhm." Young me slowly moved away from the kid as he scooted closer, "Cool 'cause I need your help." I could see myself wince a little, I might have been preparing for a rude comment.

"Can you help me with this math problem?" Younger me looked at him with skeptisicm. No one tries to talk to young me other than that loud girl. Young me nodded and looked at his paper.

The kid pointed out a question on his paper, "Number four... I've never been good at division." Young me looked at the paper and sighed, "Ahh, You tried to divide two negative numbers and then you kept the sign." The kid looked at me with wide eyes and shrugged. "I don't know what you told me."

"When you divide two negative numbers you have to change the sign to positive otherwise it's wrong." The kid nodded his head and started to erase things off his paper and then showed it to me again.

"So like that?" Young me looked at the paper and smiled, "Exactly like that." The boy smiled and scooted away, but almost immediatly scooted back with his hand out. "Names Arthur by the way." I looked at his hand an then back at him and smiled, "Nice to meet you Arthur. If you ever need help, just ask me." Arthur chuckled and patted younger me's back.

"Thanks bro, you're a real life saver." The real me smiled when I looked up to see that both Yang and Tai were smiling at my new friend. At this point I know that this is were I start to remember things. This is were I start to live life like I was intended to. The room faded black but this time it didn't fade back in.

I looked around the pitch blackness and saw my mom standing alone in the darkness. I quickly ran to her.

"Who are you?" The woman asked with a hint of worry, "It's me mom... It's Lance." My mom started to tear up at the sight of me. I don't know what type of dream this is anymore but if it means I get to talk to my mom I will gladly stay in this forever.

"Lance your sooo tall!" I smiled and hugged her, "I miss you so much." I started to cry into her shoulder. I could feel her there, I could see and hug my mom who died years ago.

"Lance... I'll always be here for you... I promise." I felt my sadness grow, "I don't want you in spirit I want you in person... So I can show you all the friends I've made. So I can show you what type of person I've become. I want you to be proud and it hurts because... Because I know you'll never...You'll never get to see me... I'll trade everything back just so I can have you."

"Lance you have to calm down... I know this sucks... I know...But never forget... You always have someone there for you."

"I only want you! I'll go to the ends of the UNIVERSE if that means you will come home with me! Mom I love you and I don't want to leave you." I wrapped my hands around her waist tight so I could remember how she felt.

"Ohh Lance... I love you so much and I'm sorry I left you, but I did it so you could live on. I knew from the first moment I laid eyes on you that you would grow up to be a great person. You haven't let me down yet. Now I need you to wake up okay?"

"NO! I'M NOT LEAVING YOU!" I held onto her like my life depended on it, but she still overpowered me.

"It's time for you to wake up now... I love you."

"NO! MOM!" I came crashing back to reality. I opened my eyes and saw that Arthur, Amara and Neo were all sitting beside me. I couldn't say anything to them, I just cried right there. Nothing felt the same anymore, that wasn't a dream that was my life and how it led up to now. How I lost my mom.. I hated every second of it. I laid back down and sobbed into my sleeping bag. I wanted to be back I my moms arms again. I was starting to forget her face all ready and that was the only other memory I had of her. I want to remember her.

"I saw her... I saw her..." Arthur placed a hand on my shoulder, "Who...Yang?" I hoenslty didn't care about Yang at that moment, I only wanted my mom to hold me in her arms and tell me she loved me over and over again, until the world ended.

"I... Remember." Arthur took his hands off of me when he saw my aura pulsating. I was getting mad.

How long had everyone lied to me? They kept the truth from me. They didn't tell me my mom died, they told me she left when I was born. I know now, and I'm pissed with everyone.

"Our dad... Reese... He lied, and I'm gonna kill him for it." Everyone's eyes got about as big as the sun when I said that, "Lance you can't just kill our father over a dream-"

"IT WASN'T A DREAM! IT WAS A MEMORY!" I stood and tried to leave the room Arthur and Amara grabbed onto me, "Lance calm down... Even if we weren't in ths cave I won't let you kill my dad too." I could barely stand, everything ached, even my head.

"I.. I just want her back..." I turned my body to the only other girl that I could cry on and let my tears fall, "It'll be okay Lance... We're here for you." Amara said as she rubbed her hand on my back.

"WHO IS HER?" Arthur must have been tired of listening to me ramble. I looked up from Amara's shoulders and spoke quietly.

"My mom..." Amara and Arthur looked at each other with disbelief. Neo didn't know what was going on so she was confused. As far as my teammates knew, my mom had ran out on me when I was born and she never came back. When in reality that didn't happen, and now I know that.

"She didn't leave... She died."

A/N: Damn. I felt bad killing Lance's mom, but hell. I have to follow the unlucky mother quota like everyone else. Either way, I hope this gives everyone some insight into the memory issue Lance has. See ya later!