Alan's Talent

Summary: Alan's always had a talent, something that belongs to just him like his brothers had theirs. He gave it up, but when his family finds it out seven years later what happens?

A/N: Hey everyone I'm back, I hope everyone liked chapter 3. I got a few misunderstandings about why I made chapter 3 like I did. Let me tell you...I did it because it goes with the story! You'll find out why I did in this chapter now love me and review...Hahahaha.

Chapter 4: Revelation

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Alan checked his pockets for something metal. He had to get these mancles off some how. It wasn't good that he was claustrophobic, but being shackled along with it was not helping. How did this freak know about his life? Was he or she a freaking stalker or something? If so they would know the reason why he was giving...gave up the one thing he was good at. They would know what happened.

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Alan remembered when he eight and was just beginning to get the hang of singing in front of large amounts of people with Miss Daniels and Virgil's help. He even remember that day and what Virgil told him before he went on.

Flashback

" Allie... calm down." Virgil sighed, he knew it must have been at least twenty times he had said those same words today.

" But, Virge I can't calm down. What if I mess up? What if they laugh and what..." Alan ranted causing Virgil to laugh and Alan to pout towards him.

" Virge! Why are you laughing? Are you already getting started before the large amount of people." Alan mumbled sniffling slightly as if about to cry.

" Oh Allie, I'm sorry. I don't mean to. It's just you're getting worked up over nothing. You are really good and everyone will love you. I'll be up there with you so I won't let you be nervous or let them laugh either. It they do they'll have to answer to...well Scott." Virgil replied lowering himself to Alan's height. Alan looked up and smiled a bit, but then looked confused.

" But won't that mean that we'd have to tell Scott? You promised you wouldn't tell anyone!" Alan responded crossing his arms. There was no winning with his little brother and Virgil knew that.

" I know I won't tell. I did promise and you know I keep my promises unless someone is in trouble. The only time I will tell anyone our secret is if you are in trouble or you let me tell." Virgil muttered into his brothers ear while pulling him into a hug.

Alan hug him and backed away quickly confusing Virgil before he could question Alan held out his little seven year old pinky. " Pinky promise, Virge. Promise you won't even tell Johnny. "

Virgil looped his pinky with his brothers and replied, " I promise Allie. Now are you better now?"

" No... still scared. It's alot of people, I don't know if I can do this..." Alan uttered quickly starting to hyperventalate.

" Alan calm down this minute. I told you and I promise you. You will do great, you will be brillent and everyone will love you. I remember feeling the same way at my first piano recital." Virgil told Alan who looked his at his older brother in disbelief.

" You, Virge. I can't see you as being nervous, I can't. You love to play in front of people." Alan stated shaking his head.

" Yep, I was once afraid like you are now. It was my first time playing in front of everyone too. You know how I got over it?" Alan shook his head again while Virgil smiled at him.

" Mom, mom helped me. She told me, ' Baby even if you mess up. Remember you have a family who knows you are as good as the best of them.' She told me that and I still believe it to this day. You know why...because mom's are always right." Virgil explained looking at Alan who turned his eyes downward. Virgil put his fingers under his little brother chin and pull it up to look at him. " Alan?" One look in Virgil's eyes and Alan broke.

" But Virge, I don't have a mommy. I don't have a mommy to tell that to me." Alan cried tears slowly pouring out from the cerulean orbs.

" Yes you do! You may not be able to see her, you may not be able to hear her, but she is here. She is always here in your heart, she is always in your voice when you laugh, cry, even when you sing and I know she would want me to share her wisdom with you so I will." Pulling his brother into a hug, Virgil leaned down to his brothers ear and whispered softly. " Baby even if you mess up. Remember you have a family who knows you are as good as the best of them." Virgil stated lovingly as Alan hiccuped and wiped his tears from his eyes.

" Thanks Virge! Love you." Alan giggled happy again.

" Love you too, Baby."

But all of that was before the accident...

End Of FlashBack

--Space--

Alan snapped out of the memory and looked above him at the timer and panicked slightly before telling himself to calm down, to breathe.

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In and Out, In and Out. In and Out. Just like John had taught him when he was little.

FlashBack

Six year old Alan had finally found a good hiding place. He was hiding from his older brothers in a game of hide and seek. Gordon was it, so that meant Alan had to find a new place to hide. Cause Gordon knew all of them.

Alan had figured that Gordon would never look in Johnny's favorite hiding place. His father storage closet. No one had found him after an hour and he was getting really bored. Usually he'd be the first one found. Maybe they had forgotten about him, he didn't want to be forgotten. So Alan stood up and put his hand on the doorknob ready to yell out olly olly oxen free when the door wouldn't open. He turned it and turned it. He pushed it and pulled it with all his might, but the door wouldn't budge. He was getting scared, it was too dark in there for him. The walls looked as if they wanted to squish him. He did the only thing he could do. He sat down in the middle of the small dark room hands over his ears and screamed...

He never noticed when the door open seconds later or that he was pulled out and into protective arms. He could only hear himself screaming, but something was breaking through.

" Allie... it's ok...it's ok. Come on you're ok now. " Alan's screams and histeria dimmed down to hiccups and a bit of troubled breathing. " Allie listen to me, you've gotta calm down. " Alan knew that voice, that safe voice. He focused on it whenever it spoke, knowing as long as he listened to it he he knew he would be fine.

" Joh...Johnny?" Alan gasped out feeling his throat closing, John's arms quickly gathered around the small boy holding him to his chest. John felt no air being taken into the small boys lungs.

" Alan? Alan come on kiddo. Breathe for me, come on kiddo breathe. It's ok now, you're safe with me I promise. Listen to my breathing, I want you to breathe with me ok. I want you to breathe with me understand? Alan?"

All John got out of the boy was a small nod. He knew at the least that Alan was listening and able to focus.

" Breathe in and out for me ok? In and Out, In and Out. Just like that, only concentrate on my voice. In and Out, In and Out. You're doing great kiddo. In and Out In and Out." John coached as he felt his little brother starting to take in his own breaths now, but that didn't stop John. " In and Out Allie, In and Out thats good. Thats better."

Alan, as soon as he felt a bit better, spun his small body around in his brothers arms and hugged him. " Johnny! Wahhhh..." Alan cried as John held him and rubbed his back looking up at the crowd that had gathered at the door. " I...I thought...you..all .l..left me!"

" What?"

" N..no one came to find me when we were playing. I waited and waited, but no one came. T...Then the door would open and i..i..it was so dark. I felt like I was gonna g..g..get squished. Wahhh!" He cried as he hugged Alan tighter.

" It's ok Alan you're safe now. I promise.

End Of FlashBack

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" Please someone help me!" Alan screamed and screamed banging his fist above him. To him it was getting smaller and smaller in the already confined space. Alan scratched at the ceiling, the sides too in panic. He screamed and scratched and banged till his hands and fingers bled. It only tired him, but he didn't give up. He kept going and going and going till he managed to crack the ceiling of the coffin... the slowly dirt falling in like an hourglass. He tried to lift his feet to help make the hole bigger, but forgot that he was restrained. The manacles were still around his feet, his waist and his wrist. He need to remove them quickly before he ran out of air just for trying to escape.

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' Stupid...Stupid... Should have gotten the manacles off first!' Alan scolded himself as he felt around with his is hurt hands feeling, looking for anything that might have been put in there with him. 'Keys, anything I could pick the locks with would be nice.' Alan thought to himself as he heard a creak above him and got a mouth full of dirt.

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--Space--

" They're playing with him." Scott screamed as they listened to the copy tape. " Torturing him for what; some dark lie. What dark lie could Alan have been living under? Alan tells us everything!" Scott ranted pacing around the room. " What does that psycho mean about having one too?"

" I don't know Scott, I really don't know." Jeff uttered watching his eldest, but looked away when he saw his middle child standing by the window muttering under his breath.

" Virgil?" Jeff asked as Virgil looked up and saw everyone looking at him.

" I do..." Virgil uttered looking into his fathers eyes.

" What do you mean you know?" Gordon questioned outraged.

" The dark lie... well it's not really a lie. It's a secret between me and Alan." Virgil admitted looking down as his father got up and went over to him. Jeff pulled his pale son to where he was sitting and made him sit down.

" Explain." Jeff stated crouching down infront of his son, caressing his face.

" When I was thirteen I was asked to help with something musical at Alan's school along with a few others from the middle school and a few from Scott and John's school. We were told to go to the music room once we got to Alan's school. We all walked in and the first thing I notice in the room is Alan. He was talking to the teacher about something when we all walked in. I called him over and I guess he was surprized to se me. Before I could ask Alan why he was there we were told to sit down, him next to me happy as can be. His teacher was now in front of the room having us promise not to tell anyone about what was going on. I was a bit hesitant, but one look from Alan and I said I wouldn't. "

" So basically promised not to tell why you are there and what does this have to do with right now?" John asked calmly as Virgil rolled his eyes.

" I'm getting there now stop butting in. She called Alan up to the front of the classroom and introduced us to him that he was the one we were helping that day." Virgil stated as Scott butted in this time.

" With what? "

Virgil gave Scott an annoyed look and continued, " Alan had found something he was good at. We were helping him record a song. The teacher told us she had discovered Alan had a great talent and we were going to help him bring it to life so to speak. He was singing a song he wrote called, 'Tell Me Why.' "

" Are you sure thats what it's called?" Jeff asked as Virgil turned to look at him with a confused face.

" Yeah I'm sure dad why?"

" That's what he told me to tell you the day I brought him here. I can't believe I had forgotten." Jeff replied running his fingers through his hair. " Do you know why he wanted me to tell you?"

" He always tells me those words before he leaves home, so I don't forget about him. I listen to the CD when I miss him to the most. " Virgil told them.

" Why did it have to be a secret?" John asked him.

" I promised and I wasn't about to bring it up after the accident." Virgil whispered shuddering a bit.

" What accident? " Gordon questioned turning Virgil towards him slightly.

" After his first grand performance in the school's talent show which all of the schools were hosting, he won of course. He wanted to go show his music teacher his medal he recieved so we went to catch up to her as she exited the auditoruim and she was shot right in front of him. I grabbed him and pulled him away quickly and ran to get some body not letting Alan see anymore. Lets just say he's never been the same after that. He left his talent with her that day." Virgil concluded as he looked up at the everyone. They all had tears in their eyes.

Virgil ignored them and got up to go back to the window. " I was thinking about the message in Dad's message and Alan's. What goes down six feet, but never comes back up. Then the dark lie and about how Alan was now having one..." He trailed off thinking.

" And?" John asked moving over to his little brother.

" A coffin, six feet under and you're laying down in the dark. He told Alan to find which way was up if he want to survive. Alan's claustrophobic." Virgil revealed finally. " He's going to find a way out no matter what."

" Those sick bastards want him to dig himself out!" The Lieutenant cried in outrage as everyone looked to him, they had forgotten he was even here. Virgil played Alan's tape once more turning the sound as loud as it could go.

" But, for years now you have lived under a dark lie. Now you are having one. You might have guessed what you are in by now and you know the only way out. 'Hey Waverly, pass the ball you'll never put it in the goal like that.' Now you only have less than two hours Alan, find which way is up if you want to survive."

" Hey Virg. What's that in the backround? " Gordon asked, turning quickly to the Lieutenant. " Who's Waverly?"

" Christopher Waverly, junior this year. Has a great soccor career ahead of him when he gets his record cleared." The Lieutenant answered the inquiry.

" If this was taped here than Alan must still be on these grounds. Lets go find him we're almost out of time. " Jeff declared as he rushed out the door with his four sons and the Lieutenant behind him.

Note: Hey everyone hoped you liked this chapter. It's one of my longest to date. I can't wait to see everyones reactions to this. I'm going to be writing a Tracy family fic. Childrens fic. Since everyone thinks I'm better at writing the Tracy kids when they're children. Stay tuned and I hope this chapter is to your liking. Love you all,

-Fiona12690