A/N: Hello, all! I hope you're ready with your tissues, because you might need them with this one.

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Episode: Spike V. Spikette

Rating (This arc): Low T, because Chase will be sad.

Warnings: Chase sadness. Actually, basically everyone will be sad, now that I think about it, so just sad people in general.

Inspiration: What if Kate's sonic scream had messed up Chase's hearing in the last scene? After all, Chase doesn't get up from that hit... *here the story is born*


Douglas gathered everyone, and explained what had happened. Silence fell.

Bree's slightly panicked voice broke it. "But he'll be okay, right? You can give him bionic hearing, or something, can't you?"

Donald put an arm around her. "Not now, no. Douglas and I think we should wait to see if he heals naturally first."

"But you'll be able to fix him?" Bree pressed.

Chase, who'd been trying to follow the conversation with his eyes, mumbled something incoherent.

"Speak up, bro," Leo said, encouragingly.

Chase smiled, slightly bitterly. "I said, I'm not broken."

He stood, and slipped out of the room.