Chapter 2

He opened his eyes and noticed that he was now standing instead of laying down. The wound that had caused the man immense pain just a few seconds ago was no longer existent. Upon further inspection the boy realized that he was not alone. His mother sat on the bed with tears flowing down her face while breathing heavily as Leo knelt down in front of her. Immediately the boy saw that the woman was no longer pregnant, which caused him to panic.

"Mom, what's wrong?" he asked in a soft tone as he approached the bed, but there was no response.

It was as if they didn't hear or see him. Then the painful truth hit him like a ton of bricks as he looked down at his faded form.

"NO" he whispered. Looking at his father the boy pleaded "Dad please don't tell her. Mom doesn't need to know, please Dad, STOP!" He screamed at the man, but again there was no answer. Chris watched with saddened eyes as his father broke the news of his death to his mother.

The woman instantly grabbed the sheet on her bed, holding on to them for dear life as if they were the boy that she had lost. She now spoke almost inaudibly through her cries

"This can't be happening. No, my baby can't be dead, he just can't. No, this is all some sick joke and he's really back in his future or he's trying to find a potion that will take him back home. Right Leo?"

After a slight pause she spoke up again

"Damn it answer me! Look me in the eye right now and tell me that you're lying!"

Her husband was only able to let out a muffled "I'm so sorry honey" before his body jerked violently as he allowed his own tears to fall.

"Fine, if you won't tell me what's going on then I'll call Chris and he can tell me."

The boy wanted so badly to hold his mother and tell her that he was ok, but fate was a cruel foe that wouldn't cooperate. Looking up the woman called out for her child

"CHRIS! CHRIS! I know you can hear me, you get your ass down here right now!" A few seconds past and the woman wouldn't give up even though her head told her too, her heart simply wouldn't comply.

"CHRIS!" she now said in a pleading voice. "Honey please come to me. Please sweetie, Mommy needs you, please Chris" but again the mother's cries for her son went unanswered.

At that point she buried her face in her hands and let out one more cry for her baby boy "Please honey, come back home"

Leo couldn't stand it any longer.

"Piper, I tried to bring him back to us, but there was nothing I could do. I'm so sorry honey. I would give anything to have the older version here with us, but it's impossible. The only thing we can do for him right now is let that baby sleeping in that crib know how much we love him."

"It's not the same Leo; I want my little boy back."

"Me too sweetheart, me too" the man said as he once again laid his head in his wife's lap and cried.

The scene ripped Chris's heart into pieces. He wanted so badly to tell his parents that he loved them and to let his father know that his death wasn't his fault. He suffered in silence as he watched the two peopled that he loved more than anything in the world cry until they no longer had the energy. It overwhelmed him to the point where the only thing he could do was sink down to the ground next to his father. He then took the man's hand into his own and laid his head on that small space that was left on his mother's lap. He only wished that the two could feel their little boy's presences.

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