AN: Pain! This chapter is all angst! Grab your tissues now. You have been warned!

It had been a long day in Arcadia Oaks and night was finally falling by the time Otto and Toby made it home. Otto shuffled along, groceries in one hand, son in the other. He settled Toby in the playpen.

"Okay Bärchen, du spielst mit Gunn Robot und Papa macht das Abendessen."

"Okay, Papa!"

Otto smiled and went into the kitchen to put away the groceries and make dinner. It was only a few minutes later when he heard Toby giggling and talking to someone in the living room.

"Bärchen? Who are you talking to?"

"I'm talkin' to the kitty!"

'VVe don't have a Käse!' Otto thought in panic, 'Oh no! Zat better not be vvhat I zink it is!'

He ran into the living room and found Toby cuddling a goblin around the neck, the goblin struggling to escape.

"Fragwa! VVhat are you doing here? You are supposed to be under cover!"

Fragwa didn't get a chance to answer before Otto smelled exactly what he had feared was coming. Goblins began spilling out of the windows, broken glass scattered over the carpet. Otto stood between them and Toby and transformed into his troll form. Toby began screaming as more and more goblins poured in.

Otto slashed and tore at the offending creatures. Green goo splattered over the walls and stained the carpet. Otto tried to block out his son's screams in order to focus on fending off the goblins. He couldn't help wondering about how quickly his beloved goblins had turned on him.

As the fight wore on, Otto started to tire out and goblins started to get good hits in. They hit his head, they tore at his long ears. Violet blood mixed with the green on the floor. Then, without ever noticing when, the blood that began to fall was red. Otto was to exhausted to maintain his troll form and now the goblins were tearing at his human flesh.

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Walt saw the goblins pouring out of his brother's broken windows as soon as they pulled in the driveway. He could hear Toby screaming as soon as he opened his car door.

"Barbara, take Jim inside and call the hospital. I think Otto's hurt. Bad!"

He sprinted over and kicked down the front door. Toby was still in the playpen, Fragwa trying to calm him down. Otto lay in a pool of his own blood on the ground in front of them, what clothes that hadn't torn away by the goblins was covered in bright green goblin slime.

"Otto!"

Walt dropped to his knees by his brother's side and began to check for a pulse. He felt nothing.

"No! NoNoNo! Damn it all!"

He quickly began chest compressions. Hoping, begging that his little brother would be alright.

"Walt? Wha- OTTO!"

"Barbara! Take Toby back to the house! Let Fragwa go with you but I think he's seen enough."

It wasn't long before the ambulance arrived and Otto was loaded up. Walt followed and made sure to hold his brother's free hand while to paramedics hooked him up to machines with his other arm. Walt stayed at the hospital all night leaving Otto's room only to answer a call from Barbara.

"Walt, Toby's not talking again. He won't even talk to Fragwa. How's Otto?"

"They...they got him stable. But...um...he," Walt couldn't fight the tears falling down his face, "He's in a coma."

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"Walter?" Lenora asked a week later, "I didn't want to bother you but, if you don't mind me asking, where is Otto?"

Walt sat heavily into his desk chair, now able to keep himself from crying, "He's at Arcadia Oaks Hospital. He...he's in a coma."

"C-Coma! But w-where is Toby?"

"Toby has been staying with me and Barbara. He-*sigh*- he's stopped talking again."

Lenora gasped and sat on one of the stools in Walt's office, "That poor boy. Poor Otto. Wha- What will happen if- No. Never mind. Um, do the Doctors have any guess when he'll wake up?"

Walt buried his face in his hands and shook his head sadly.

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Otto was in a coma for a month before Walt and Barbara got the courage to bring Toby in to visit him. They ignored any phone calls and texts in order to focus on the two boys they had with them. Even the ones from Nana.

They were interrupted by a nurse just as they arrived.

"You're just in time!"

"Why?" Panic seized Walt's heart, "What happened?!"

The nurse didn't rely. She just lead them down the hall and into Otto's room. The polymorph was propped up in his bed, a tray of supe in his lap. When the door opened, he tilted his head over to see who had entered. A small tired smile spread over his face.

"Hallo, Bärchen."

"PAPA!"

Toby wiggled out of Walt's arms and ran across the room. He climbed up onto the bed and nuzzled Otto threw the hospital gown. Otto shakily wrapped his arms around his son, tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Es ist in Ordnung. Ich werde dich nie wieder verlassen. Das verspreche ich."

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German Translations

Okay Bärchen, du spielst mit Gunn Robot und Papa macht das Abendessen: Alright, Little Bear, you play with Gunn Robot and Papa will make dinner.

Es ist in Ordnung. Ich werde dich nie wieder verlassen. Das verspreche ich: It's alright. I'm never leaving you again. I promise.