Very well my faithful readers, here is another chapter. For those of you who are not as faithful ingratiate yourselves with me and review! Just kidding, I value you all, but I do want you to review.

This chapter goes out to the gorgeous, wonderful, brilliant, beautiful Shadowmayne. You're the best big sister ever.

Disclaimer: Geez, I still don't own them, wonder why that is? Maybe if I stopped torturing them.......nah.

Tyler soon found himself seated in the living room. A fire burned merrily to offset the heavy clouds massing outside. His mother sat opposite him, hands tightly clutching her handbag as she peered nervously around. He could hear Reid moving around upstairs and a slight cough in the next room reminded him of his fathers presence. He started to get out of his chair, looking anywhere but his mother.

"I'll go get Father." She jumped slightly and when he could finally bring himself to look at her she was staring at him with piercing blue eyes which mirrored his own.

"Please don't." Her voice was soft and gentle "I didn't come back to see him Tyler."

"Then why did you come back." It came out harsher than he had intended and he saw her flinch. She dropped her gaze, studying the carpet.

"I...I wanted to see if you wanted to come and live with me. I wanted to be a family again."

"With me but not with him?" Tyler wasn't sure what was happening. All his life he had dreamed she would come back for him and suddenly all he could find for her was anger.

"I got married again." Now her voice was stronger, he noticed the gold wedding ring on her finger, not the one from the happy, smiling photos of her that adorned the walls of his fathers room. A new one. Shinier and with more diamonds. He felt a strange loathing build up for the inanimate object. He had to concentrate to stop himself from melting it off her hand.

"To who." His voice kept getting harsher and his sentences shorter. How dare she come back like he'd wanted her to all those years? Only in all his dreams she didn't want him to go away with her, she had come back to live with them and his father was okay and everything turned out alright. How dare she come back and ruin that for him?

"A...A lawyer." This obviously wasn't going the way she has planned either. She stood up and moved towards him, arms outstretched and tears in her eyes. Tyler stepped aside abruptly and moved to the window. He stood, arms locked behind his back, staring out as the promised rain began to lash the grass. Once he had regained control of himself he turned around to find her still standing in the middle of the room, looking somewhat hopeless and lost.

"I think you should go." He said, his voice incredibly clipped and precise.

"But Tyler...My baby boy...why?" Her voice was almost a sob and Tyler turned back to the window as he answered. In truth a part of him wanted to go with her. To just let all his problems fall away and run away with her.

"Because Mother, some of us have responsibilities. I have a responsibility here. To my Father, to the Covenant and to my friends. I cannot leave with you because that would mean betraying their trust and I cannot do that." He turned around once again to find her much closer to him this time. "Goodbye Mother."

"Tyler, baby, won't you reconsider." He shook his head, ignoring the smell of her perfume as she moved closer to him, his eyes fixed somewhere above her head.

"I find myself unable to leave with you Mother." She turned and slowly made her way back across the room. Tyler could feel himself relaxing as she moved further away. She collected her bag and moved to the door, his eyes on her all the way. Though he didn't want to admit it he wasn't simply angry with her, he was also desperately curious.

"Don't worry," She announced in a somewhat trembling voice as she reached the hall, "I'll see myself out."

He watched he go and it took him only a few minutes to make his decision.

"Mother." He called, racing after her. He caught her just as she was opening the door,

"Why?" He asked, stopping slightly out of breath beside her, "Why did you leave?"

She looked at him, her eyes full of tears.

"Because I didn't want to lose you." And with that she was gone.

Tyler returned to the room and went back to the window. He watched as her car pulled away and disappeared into the rain. Even long after she had vanished from sight he remained there, staring out through the glass at the pouring rain. Eventually Reid came in.

"Tyler?" His voice was hesitant and scared but none of that got through to Tyler, too many thoughts were still running around in his head. Had he made the right choice? Had she really meant what she had said? Should he tell his father?

"Not now Reid," he snapped, not turning round. Consequently he did not see the look of sadness overtake his friends features. Didn't hear the quiet reply or the quietly shut door. All Tyler could see was a pair of brilliant blue eyes, so like his own, filled to the brim with tears.

Ok, well there you go. What do you think? I quite liked writing this chapter, so I hope you guys enjoyed reading it. Did you? Only one way to let me know, well, there is telepathy but it's somewhat unreliable. So review and then you can be sure I'll receive your answer. Next chapter brings Reid back into the story, just thought I'd give you guys a bit of Tyler angst first.

Until Next Time

Sammy