A Bother's Sorrow
A/N: I know that the last chapter was short and may have been a little confusing because I did not go into detail on the chapter, I hope this will make up for the delay and I plan on getting the next chapter done sooner.
While Angela was in the hospital, Matthew stays with the Gages. As time passes Gage and Sydney notice that some thing is really bugging Matthew, one night they find out what that something is.
"Mommy, Daddy" came the small voice in the doorway. Gage and Sydney looked up and saw Tommy standing there with a concerned look on his face.
"Honey what's wrong you're supposed to me in bed." Syd asks wondering why he is out of bed.
"Matt's crying. And he won't talk to me."
"Ok, sport you stay here with Mommy and I'll go see what is wrong with Matt, Ok?"
"Ok"
Gage gets up and goes to the Tommy's room where Matthew was staying hoping to find out what has been bugging Matthew so much. Knocking on the door Gage calls quietly so he wouldn't wake up Megan, who was asleep in the room across the hall, getting no response Gage enters the room and sees Matthew, crying quietly on the bottom bunk of the bunk beds in the room.
"Matthew, are you ok?"
"No" came the quiet response through the tears.
"do you want to talk about it?" Gage asked, getting only a nod from the small boy.
"What's wrong?"
"I want my momma."
"I know you do sport but right now she and your Daddy are with Angie. But you'll see them tomorrow."
"I hate this, Daddy and Momma don't care about me, they are always with Angela. And I don't care what happens to Angela."
"Whoa stop right there Matthew John Walker. Your parents do care about you. You care that Angela is sick and that you can't do anything about it. You want to know something when your parents told me and Aunt Sydney and Uncle Jimmy about Angela, the first thing your momma was concern about you. And you want to know something else I believe your daddy would have done the same thing if we had given him the chance." Matthew started sobbing after he heard what Gage said. After a few minutes Matthew said what was really bugging him.
"I don't want Angie to die, why did I say I did. I don't mean it. I don't mean it." Matthew sobbed
"What do you mean Matthew?"
"When momma took us to the doctor, me and Angie had an fight and I said I hated her and I hopped she'd die."
"Now I want you to listen closely, Matthew Walker. None of this is your fault. You did not cause your sister to get cancer. Cancer is just something that comes to some people whenever its wants. Your sister would have gotten it with or without you saying what you did. Do you understand that?"
Gage waited while the four year old thought through what he had just been told, Matthew slowly nodded his head and Gage put him back in to bed. When he went back to the living room he found Tommy sound asleep on the couch, picking up a blanket he laid it over his small son and headed to the master bedroom and found Sydney already sound asleep climbing into bed with her soon he was also fast asleep.