Disclaimer: Borrowing another song, this time it is "In My Life" by the Beatles. Again, I own nothing, the song belongs to the Beatles, the show belongs to MGM and others. I just borrow them and then return them slightly used.

Author's Note: Please Please review. Reviews make me happy. No flames please, constructive criticism is welcome. Also if anyone has suggestions for where this should go, I have up to chapter 9 written, but after that I'm stuck.

Chapter 6

Thoughts in the Night (Part 2)

Charlie O'Neill lay, much as his father did, except he was lying on the ground on the top of the mountain. After the events of the day, he needed to get away and think. Like his dad, he thought better when stargazing. He had borrowed a radio from Sam Carter's lab and it was picking up an oldies station that he wasn't really listening too as he watched the stars. He started to listen though when he heard the sounds of a piano, and piano and the Beatles.

There are places I remember all my life,

Though some have changed,

Some forever, not for better,

Some have gone and some remain.

Well that's true, he thought. The old house, I'll remember that forever and ever, no mater what. And things have changed, what happened to Mom and Dad, though looking back the split was evitable. The Dad I knew is gone and the man he is now is different, I don't know if he's better. They say that people have to change, to cope, maybe change was the only way he could survive my stupid mistake. Annie said that maybe he didn't change though, that I just never saw him in a work environment before, she might not be wrong, but I know I'm right. The Dad I knew was the most confident person in the world, that Dad would have found a way to change his situation with Sam Carter, found a way to ask her out. But Mom now, she the same, checking in on her earlier, she's better now, happy with her new family.

All these places have their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall.

Some are dead and some are living.

In my life I've loved them all.

Some of my old friends are dead. Grew up and joined up, went to Iraq and Afghanistan, and didn't come home. They died young, like me. I wonder if they got something like the chance I got though. Being Ascended isn't all that bad, course; I don't have to follow all the rules. Most of my old friends are starting college now, practically adults, and even though I remember them, do they remember me? I'm probably just an old faded memory, the childhood friend who was stupid to think that breaking the rules about guns was going to show him as brave. God, I am so incredibly stupid for hurting Mom and Dad like that, just because Jimmy Smith said I was a coward for never trying to touch Dad's gun.

Annie, does the part about lovers apply to her or is she just a friend? She's married, but she hates him, almost as much, no more than I do. I certainly love her though.

But of all these friends and lovers,

There is no one compares with you,

And these mem'ries lost their meaning

When I think of love as something new.

No, this is Annie's part. My memories of being alive have nothing on the memories I have of her. Jacob calls me her guardian angel, but she's really my guardian angel.

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before,

I know I'll often stop and think about them,

In my life I'll love you more.

God, I could never stop loving Mom and Dad, especially Dad, he went through, still goes through so much because of me. And I'm always thinking about them and talking to Annie about them. Trying to make up for Apophis and Ammounet being her parents, I guess. But Annie is my life, I don't think I could love anything, or anyone, more than her.

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that came before,

I know I'll often stop and think about them,

In my life I'll love you more.

In my life I'll love you more.

As the song faded into the background, Charlie's thoughts were on Annie, and how impossible their situation was. He was dead, she was married, and neither of them had hit twenty yet! They were like a wacky Romeo and Juliet, he thought, though our parental units aren't feuding, in fact their practically best friends.

Charlie didn't hear the station play Yesterday, by the Beatles, and neither did he see the shooting star. But like his father, he too made a silent wish, that one day he and Annie could be together, or at least have a chance.