A/N: Sorry for taking so long to post the next chapter. Time to start diving into Ezra's past. Are you ready?

Ezra was sound asleep when he heard JD yelling in his ear, "Wake up, Ez! Time to start your day."

Shooting up in bed, he looked around for the source of the disturbance and found JD sitting at the foot of his bed with a huge grin. Ezra let out a groan and fell back down on his pillow.

"JD, is there an emergency that requires me to get up at this ungodly hour, or have you taken upon yourself to torture me this early?"

"We all figured it's time to start dealing with you seeing things. Though I don't really want to stop existing, I know it's important for you to get better. For that reason, I volunteered to go first!"

Ezra sighed and sat back up in his bed and rested his back against the headboard. "So who do we go about this, or does this require leg work?"

"I can wait until you're dressed." JD bounced off the bed and left the room before Ezra could tell him anything else.

Keeping his eyes away from looking at his clock to check the time, Ezra got dressed and used the bathroom before going into the kitchen where JD was sitting at the island. No words were said until after Ezra made himself some coffee and was sipping it.

"Vin thinks that we are somehow connected to you in some way, so Josiah thought making contact with you could start things up." JD explained, using hand gestures as he spoke.

"Doesn't sound too bad. I guess it is worth attempting. How will I know it worked?"

JD shrugged, "I guessed you'll feel a sense of closure and I disappear." The last part was said with restrained fear.

Ezra nodded and decided it was best just to get it over with. Grabbing the younger man's hand, Ezra suddenly felt chilled. Though JD was a warm bubbly person, he never expected this sense of dread.

He heard JD mumble something under his breath, "I will take you back now to your childhood. Before everything."

Ezra's eye inadvertently closed and he was flooded with images of his past.

~A young Ezra, no older than six, was studying the ground where a trail of ants were making their way to his dropped ice cream. His cheeks were streaked with tears, but he had since stopped crying and was watching with fascination at the growing clump around his chocolate mint ice cream.

"Ezra? Ezra! Come here now!" came his mother's voice and he looked up to see her standing on the steps of the house they lived in. He took one last look at the ants before running to his mother and stopped in front of her.

"What on earth happened to your clothes?" she said in disapproval. "This is why you aren't allowed to eat ice cream."

Ezra looked down at his clothes and caught sight of the drying ice cream that he had gotten on him. Around his mouth he had light green on his face.

"I'm sorry." He sniffed.

"Go inside and wash up." She ordered and he dipped passed her and to get cleaned up.

The scene changed and he was now ten years old. He was in one of his piano lessons when he heard a slamming door. Ezra flinched and hit the wrong ivory. Letting the music die, he sat on the bench and listened as his parents argued in the other room. His breathing hitched and he started to have trouble finding his breath. ~

Ezra pulled his hand away from JD and tried to steady himself. He was breathing hard as he came to as if he had been in a dream state.

"Ezra?" JD whispered.

"I don't want to do this anymore."

"But Ezra, you need to—"

"I said I'm finished for the day." Ezra pushed himself away from the island and grabbed his keys before heading out of his apartment. He went straight for the bar and stayed there till closing time. None of the others appeared during that time.

When he got back to his apartment, he had expected to see JD still there, waiting for him, but there was no sign of the young man.

Ezra went to his fridge and pulled out a bottle of water.

"Ezra." Came the raspy voice of Vin.

Ezra didn't turn around, but drank from his bottle and continued to stare at the fridge door.

"No one said this was going to be easy."

"No, not easy. Impossible." Ezra turned and threw a glared at Vin. "No one said that this was going to happen."

"Sifting through shitty experiences in life however is what you may need right now." Vin looked down at his feet, "You don't have to deal with what JD represents now, the others can go first, but you will have to before all of this is over."

Ezra sighed and ran a hand through his hair. When he looked up again, Vin was not there anymore.

"Hell, I may go insane from visiting my old memories instead."