LadyJadePerendhil- Yes you would be wrong in saying that Alex would blame Will. She was tore up about her brother's disappearance, but I wouldn't say she was the most torn up.

I loved the Lyle threat myself. And he is a bit angry that the boys were taken. Lyle isn't really a sociopath, he is capable of feeling. He is also protective of his children's family.

Pretender Fanatic- I kinda wanted Will to beat Ford up but it would slightly be out of character. Will still feels extremely responsible about killing Brandon and the other three men when he was younger. He wouldn't want to risk taking out his rage on Ford and inadvertently killing him as well.

As for Will finding the Centre to be a safe place: Will it isn't the Centre its self Will finds safe but his father's old room.

Loveroffanfic- You're right there is no reason for anyone to be hard on Will, but someone is going to be not including Will himself. I can tell you now it won't be his parents or Alley or Alex.

Benny on the other hand is doing okay, we'll meet back up with him in five chapters. It would be sooner but things need to be settled with Will, and then Keegan is going to inadvertently shed some light on a long secret kept hidden from everyone but Sydney.

CHAPTER 27

DEMONS OF THE PAST

November 21, 2010

3:17am

Blue Cove, Delaware

Jamieson Foundation

"How did you know that Ford helped Mr. Parker?" Alley asked Will as the two walked out to the parking lot.

"His mind was practically shouting it to me," Will said softly. "When will the demons of our past stop hurting our family," Will spoke as he looked down at his feet, he was too ashamed to meet his sister's eyes.

"Look at me William," Alley commanded. "You know that you are not to blame for any of this."

"Really. I don't know what you heard, but me, I heard Ford admit that he helped Mr. Parker keep our baby brothers hidden. All because he wanted revenge on me for killing his brother! Jason, Jack, and Pete spent twenty three days in pure hell, paying for my sins!" Will shouted.

"How can I face our brothers, our parents, our family, knowing that I am the one to blame? Christ do you really want to know the main reason I didn't leave after you died? I couldn't bare to see the faces of our parents when they learned that I was a killer. I didn't tell them about you because I didn't want for them to know that I couldn't save you. I couldn't bare the thought of them rejecting me after they learned what I had done."

"But they didn't reject you Will. If anything they loved you even more knowing that you survive the hell that the Centre put you through. How can you even think that they would blame you for Jace, Jack, and Pete's abduction? You didn't take them and keep them hidden on SL-27. Pete was taken because he is the legal heir to the Centre throne. Jace and Jack were taken because they, like us are pretenders. None of this in any way, shape, or form is your fault." Alley told Will.

Will returned his gaze back to his feet.

"God you and Daddy are so much alike. Both of you blame yourselves for things that were never in your control. I swear Will, you and Daddy would blame yourselves tomorrow if for some reason the sun didn't rise in the next few hours."

"That's not true," Will muttered.

"Yes it is, and you and Daddy both know it. Not only do you two blame yourselves for everything, both of you are still lost, lonely, little boys trapped inside the shell of an adult. You are so afraid to disappoint Momma and Daddy, so afraid that they will reject you, you try your hardest to be the perfect son. And Daddy's guilty of the same thing when it comes to Grams and Grampa Charles," Alley said.

"Stop it Alley," Will begged closing his eyes.

"Will it's like you told me earlier tonight, we can't do this. We can't dwell on what we should of done. Look come back home with me Will, Momma and Daddy have enough to worry about when it comes to the boys, don't make them worry about you as well," Alley said. She knew that she was playing dirty by pulling out the guilt card but it was all she had left.

"Okay," Will sighed. "I'll come home."

"Good," Alley replied and the two of them entered their vehicles and zoomed back to the summer house.

Will and Alley entered the house as quietly as they could as to not disturb any of the houses sleeping occupants. But there was one person already awake and waiting for the twins to return.

"You found him," Jarod stated softly.

"Always," Alley said as she closed the door behind her and Will.

"I'm going to bed," Will said hanging his coat up in the closet and kicking off his shoes, as he made his way up to the attic, he didn't feel like going into the studio and waking the others.

"William sit down," Jarod said.

"Dad I'm tired," Will sighed.

"Sit. Down," Jarod commanded. Will sunk down into the armchair across from his father.

"That's my cue to leave," Alley said hanging up her coat. "Goodnight Daddy. Night Will."

"Goodnight Alyssa," Jaord said. Alley returned to the studio. She carefully crossed the room and returned to her spot on the window seat, in hopes not to wake her sleeping brothers, sister, and cousins.

"Alley?" Alex said softly in the dark.

"Sorry Katie-girl I didn't mean to wake you," Alley whispered.

"It's okay," Alex yawned as she climbed next to Alley in the window seat. Alex laid her head in her older sister's lap, and Alley ran her fingers through Alex's dark tresses. "Alley what's going on between Will and Daddy," Alex asked a moment later after hearing the voices of Jarod and Will coming from the other room.

"They're just talking baby girl, go back to sleep." Alley replied.

"Daddy and Will don't normally 'talk' in raised voices," Alex said looking up as her sister. "Really, Alley, what's going on?"

Alley sighed. "It's not my place to tell you sweetie it's Will's."

"I worry about him, a lot. There's so much he keeps inside, so much he never tells us, not even you, because he feels as though he has to be the strong one," Alex spoke.

"It's all he knows. He spent the first seven years of his life protecting me. After we were separated, he was so lost, until he learned about you, Air, and Andy. Though the three of you never knew he was there he watched over you three from the shadows. Will has always believed that it is his purpose in life to shield us from the evils that exist. And when something happens to us, something he has no way controlling, Will places the blame upon himself," Alley told her sister.

"He blames himself to what happened to Jace, Jack, and Pete? God he can be so stupid sometimes," Alex grumbled.

"Yes well, he is a male," Alley replied, and Alex snickered.

"Alley did you watch over me, like Will?" Alex asked sometime later, the younger girl had been so quite, Alley thought that her sister had drifted hack off to sleep.

"Of course I did. And I loved you and the boys from the moment I first saw you," Alley said.

"When? When did you first see me?"

"It was a week or two shy of your third birthday. You managed to raid the vending machines and in the process you rigged the security system so that the alarms would go off," Alley answered. "I remember thinking that I couldn't wait to meet you. I knew that we would get along," Alley said a grin touching her lips.

"Yeah, you know after I got me, Air, and Andy kidnaped, and almost killed," Alex drawled. "I sensed you, that day. I thought you were Will. A few months before I caught him watching my group. I didn't know who he was then, but I did know I didn't want for him leave."

Alley smiled "Get some sleep Katie-girl," Alley said placing a kiss on he sister's forehead.

"William you and I need to talk."

"About what?" Will whispered studying his hands. Jarod sighed.

"I swear sometimes you are so much like your mother it scares me. You go and hold everything inside and refuse to allow anyone see you have a moment of weakness," Jaord said.

"Alley was just telling me how much I was like you."

"You are," Jarod stated. "But right now you are your mother's son. You don't want to have this conversation with me and you're trying to piss me off. Which is too bad because we're going to have it. For seven years now I've put it off, hoping that you would outgrow this. William I don't understand why you feel you must remain strong in front of everyone. No one here will think any less of you if you let your facade fall."

"I spent the first thirteen years of my life trying not to appear weak. If you were weak you couldn't survive what the Centre threw your way."

"You aren't at the Centre any more William. You haven't been for almost seven years,"

"Why did it take so long for you to find me and the others?" Will asked out of the blue.

"What?" Jarod asked confused by the sudden change of topic.

"I waited so long Dad. I waited for you to find me, to get me out. Do you know how much harder it got each day you didn't come? How much harder it became to hold on to that little bit of hope. I wanted so badly to give in.

"Will..."

"No Dad you wanted to talk," Will interrupted. Jarod got off of the couch and crouched in front of Will.

"You're right I wanted to talk, so listen to me," Jarod said his hand on Will's shoulder. "You have no idea how much I hate myself, how much I blame myself, for not finding you, your brothers, and your sisters. I never, never wanted for any of my children to go through the hell that I did. I hate that you never had a proper childhood, that you were forced to grow up so fast, that you had to make choices that most people never have to make in their entire lives."

"But what I hate the most is that you are so afraid that I'll reject you, if you show that you have emotions. Will I know everything, that you've ever done, and I love you. There is nothing that could ever change that." Jaord told his son. Will let out a bitter laugh.

"You might want to rethink that last statement Dad," Will said.

"What do you mean?" Jarod asked.

"When I left here I went to the Centre, to your old room. Anyway Ford was on duty...""He didn't say anything to you did he?" Jarod knew all too well of Ford's disdain towards Will. Which was why Ford normally worked the night shift, to keep he and Will from coming in contact with one another.

"Actually I did most of the talking. Dad...the boys... they, Ford helped Mr. Parker keep them hidden," Will stuttered.

"It's okay Will, Sam told me," Jarod said.

"Dad, I'm so sorry," Will said lowering his face. Jarod lifted his son's chin so that Will was meeting Jarod's eyes.

"Don't for a second believe that this is your fault." Jarod said.

"But Brandon?"

"Your father is right William. What happened to the boys is not your fault," Morgan said entering the room dressed in a pair of dark blue silk pajamas. "Ford is the one who helped keep your brothers hidden, not you baby."

"But I still fell responsible. I killed Brandon. Which led to Ford helping Mr. Parker. Why don't you blame me for what I did? What makes me so mighty that I get away with killing people?" Will yelled.

"William keep your voice down you'll wake the others," Morgan chided gently. "Now listen to me, maybe I can get through that thick head of yours. As I have heard you say so many times; You were seven, you were grieving, and you were angry. You didn't mean to kill those men..."

"Not those men but I still wanted Raines and old man Parker dead. I was out for blood. And as it turns out those men died meaningless deaths because Alley wasn't really dead." Will said and Jarod was shocked at what he saw in his son's eyes. Will was practically pleading for his parents to hate him for what he had done as a child.

"No," Jarod said.

"No what?" Will whispered.

"We won't hate you. And we won't let you hate yourself. It would appear that your mother and I have made a few mistakes when it came to raising you, Alley, and the triplets. We've let the five of you raise each other. We didn't pursue certain issues, we let them go because we thought that it was easiest thing for the five of you. In the past week it's become apparent just how wrong we were.'

"When things quite down, I want you to start talking to your grandfather Sydney. Maybe it will be easier for you to talk to him than to your mother or me." Jarod said.

"I'd rather talk to you," Will mumbled.

"Okay then. You and I will start having weekly talks," Jarod said smiling reassuringly.

"And maybe you and Alley should slow down a little. You two have the restaurant, school, helping out around the house, the clinic, and the foundation. Not to mention you two have been training the other children with their abilities and doing pretends." Morgan said.

"Why don't you two just focus on school for just a while? You have a good team at the restaurant who can run things with out you and Alley for a few weeks. The clinic and the foundation will run fine, lay off of the pretends, and the house can pretty much run its self. Besides I'm taking a month or so off of work, to help the boys adjust."

"I still want to help with the kids," Will said.

"Of course baby. They need you, just as much as you need them I'm betting." Morgan replied.

"Speaking of the kids how's Adam?" Jarod asked.

"He's...good. Look don't tell Uncle Ethan, or anyone else for that matter, but Adam's got himself a little power. He developed electrokinesis earlier today."

"How's he taking it?" Morgan asked.

"He's a little freaked, but other than that he's taking it as well as can be expected," Will said.

"That's good to hear. Not that he's freaked -as you put it- but that he's okay," Jarod commented.

"You two aren't going to tell Uncle Ethan and Aunt Sara are you?" Will asked. "Because I promised Ad I'd keep it secret."

"Your father and I will keep Adam's secret," Morgan promised.

"Good," Will commented as he stated off in to space lost in thought.

"Will the morning is for thinking, night time is for sleeping. Now go put your mind at ease and check on your baby brothers, and then go and get some rest."

"Yes Momma," Will said getting up from his chair, he got half way out of the room before her turned around to face his parents. "Mom, Dad...thanks," Will whispered, Jarod nodded his head.

"You're welcome Baby," Morgan said. Will then walked to Jarod and Morgan's bedroom where Jason and Jack were sleeping. He leaned against the doorframe arms crossed over his chest as he stood just watching the twins sleep. He then entered the room stooping down next to his brothers.

"I love you both, so much," Will whispered kissing each of the boys on the crown of their heads. Will left the room and returned to the studio.

Will opened the door, and narrow shaft of light revealed Alex asleep her head resting in Alley's lap. Will shook his head, at the thought of having to lift Alex up and place her back on her pallet. Will opened the door a bit further hoping that the light wouldn't disturb anyone from their sleep. Luckily the light did not wake anyone. But there was someone in the room that was still awake. Sitting crossed-legged on his air mattress was Pete.

"Hey Tiger what are you still doing up?" Will asked closing the door behind him.

"It was you. You're the reason they took us," Pete said in disbelief.

"Pete..." Will began walking over to his brother.

"No, Don't touch me! You're the reason they did those things to me Jasa, and Jack. It was because of you!" Pete yelled "I hate you!"

Up next: Will tries to cope with Pete's words. And confesses his past to Jamie

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