AN: You can thank Lulu M, Nauticalmass, solareclipses, smexy4smarties, and SqueakyZorro for this outtake and the one to follow that will be posted tomorrow. They created both prompts.

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I know it's been a while, so for context, this drabble belongs between Chapter 4 and 5 on the AMoFW time line.

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He can't recognize me anymore. Some days I'm his childhood friend and others he thinks I'm a travelling salesman.

Mom finally agreed to move to the home after he went missing. He was near the creek. I can't help but think he was having a lucid moment then. He wouldn't have wanted this.

No one would.

Renee didn't. One of the reasons why she left was because it was too real. My life—my responsibility—is too real.

Mom wants them to visit. She wants to see her only grandchild.

I want to hold them so much my bones ache.