A/N: By the way, I haven't mentioned this yet, but I actually have a heft goal for "Leap Before You Look"--100 chapters! So I hope to see more encouragement coming from you all!

Sam glanced at around. He was in a long hallway that was covered in lockers all the way up and down both sides. Nearby were stairs to the second floor. The floor looked almost like a checkerboard, except it was black and white squares instead of black and red.

Sam looked down. He wore blue jeans and a football jersey. Not one of those t-shirts that are made to look like football jerseys, but a honest-to-goodness serious high school football jersey. He remembered this from his own high school days. On the day of the games, the football players would wear their jerseys to school.

"Loser," one of the boys said. "No one likes you!"

Sam broke from his wandering thoughts and looked around to find where the insults were coming from. As it turned out, it wasn't directed towards him.

Perhaps almost expectedly, three guys were ganging up on an obviously more weaker member of the species, so to speak. The boy being bullied was much shorter than the three guys and held several textbooks in his hands.

That was when another of the three boys knocked the books out of his hands and scattered them. The remaining one grabbed the boy by his shirt's collar and was about to punch him when Sam intervened.

"Hey, leave him alone," Sam ordered the three boys.

"What's it to you?" one of the three bullies asked.

"Everything," Sam responded, trying his best to sound tough. "You better leave him alone if you know what's good for you."

They obviously looked angry. Most likely over the fact someone didn't want them to carry out there more basic instincts. However, the bully grasping the boy's collar let go as a man approached as well as Al stepped through the Chamber's door, almost appearing like he was walking through the lockers.

"Excuse me," a man wearing a light brown suit said. "Is there a problem here?"

"No sir," the three bullies replied.

"Actually, it seemed that way to me," the man replied in an unforgiving tone. "Why don't you three come down to my office and have a little chat with me?"

"So, what am I here for?" Sam asked Al as the principal escorted the three boys off.

"Actually, that was what you were here for," Al replied.

Sam looked puzzled. "What was?"

Al pointed towards the boy Sam had just defended as he ran off.

"He was," Al repeated. "Ziggy said that in the original history, that kid was bullied endlessly by others. He was the typical "loser" labeled kid and didn't really have any friends."

Al pressed another button on the link.

"So what was the point of stopping one single bullying event?" Sam asked. "From the sound of it, it'll just happen again."

"Actually, tonight he was going to kill himself."

"What?" Sam asked almost as if he hadn't heard right.

"That's right," Al said. "Originally, today was the straw that broke the camel's back and the kid apparently couldn't handle it anymore. So tonight he was going to kill himself. But since you defended him, that never happens. In fact, feeling so good about what happened, he and the guy you leaped into eventually become close friends."

Without warning, Sam leaped.