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I hope you enjoy this one. It's just a simple chap about how Vance thought of his dad when he was little.

"W-what!"

Gillian was shocked. More shocked than she had ever been in her life.

"When he stood up, there was a scar on his neck. A quiet big one too. He got that...at the night when it happened." Cal explained, putting his head inside his hand ashamed of himself.

Gillian put a comfroting hand on his arm. "Hey. It's ok. It wasn't your fault."

Cal looked up. "But it is! If I hadn't been so preoccupied with what I was doing, then maybe I would have noticed him in the back." He shook his head. "Then I see him right in front of me 13 years later. He's all grown up, and he doesn't notice me. It'd be better if he just hated me right now!"

Gillian swallowed hard before saying the next words. "Cal...when he came in to my office with a note from one of the bosses at the Pentagon, he was silent for at least a month before he started talking about how his life was. The first thing he told me was that he didn't remember who his dad was." Cal laughed humourlessly.

"Before they took him to the Pentagon, they erased his memory and filled it with lies." Cal said.

Gillian nodded and continued. "He once told me that his parents were expecting a sister though. He told me they were going to name her Emily." Cal clenched his fist. "By the time three years ended...I found out that they erased only the good memories. Not the bad expreiences he had. Like the car accident, When he was bullied at school...or the..."

"Incident at the lake

." Cal finished for her.

Gillian looked down. "Yea."

Cal saw that she was uncomfortable. "So. How does Carson know Vance?" He asked.

"Well, before I was his psychologist, Carson knew him. Actually Carson knew him right after the accident. He said he found Vance in the street. Carson was working at the Pentagon for something back then and he had to take Vance there because the boy didn't want him to leave. So Carson took Vance with him to work and Germone saw him. I don't know why but he wanted Vance to work at the Pentagon when he got older. But Vance wasn't really ready for that...mentally. So he sent Vance to see me and for three years I tried to cure Vance. I didn't know what it was for. During those three years, Carson came by my parents house when we were all having a birthday party for my mom and brought Vance with him. Our whole family knows who Vance is and what he does. Even my niece and nephew call him 'uncle'." She took a breath. "The way Carson looked at Vance, it was like a fatherly proud way. Then when Vance got an A on his report card, he'd give a tap on the back and say 'good job'. I've never seen Carson be like that before. He has a biological son. Two, actually. Of course, there much older. Graduated college and have a job already. But the way he looks at them and when he looks at Vance is so different."

Cal was silent throughout the explanation. Vance had a fatherly figure. He did look happy. Why did everyone have to be happy? Everyone except him. When he promised Vance that night, he made a promise to himself too. To get out of the mess and find his son. He did try and looked for him, but didn't here about an abandoned boy in the middle of no where. When ever someone would say Vance. he would ask right away. One of the hardest things was to tell Zoe. She cried for weeks. but when Emily was born, she had to be strong. For her. But Zoe never forgot him. Every now and then, she would look at the picture with Cal, her and Vance on there vacation to Hawaii. Cal would try to convince her to let it go...nothing worked. Emily had kind of saved her from that.

"Cal I have some tapes of the sessions Vance and I had back then. You can see it if you want." Gillian smiled warmly.

Cal smiled back, glad to have someone like that he could trust and love.

"Come sit down Vance."

Cal watched the screen carefully. On it was young Dr. Foster and his son who at the time was 7 years old.

Vance closed the door and sat on the couch in front of Dr. Foster. The first thing she noticed as she too sat down, was that his eyes were red. He looked tired and looked like he hadn't eaten for a while.

"Do you want something to eat before we began?" Gillian asked.

The boy shook his head, fixing his gaze to the floor.

"Alright." Gillian tried to sound cheerful to raise the mood. "Did you have a good day at school?"

Vance nodded. He was lying. And Gillian saw it.

"Tell me about it."

Vance swallowed hard. "I had math then English then history and i had to go with to the Dentist." he finished quietly.

"Vance. Don't call your dad by his last name." Gillian scowled softly.

Vance looked up. "He's not my dad."

Gillian sighed then nodded. "How was the Dentist?" she took notes.

"Boring. I got braces." He pointed at his teeth. Green and orange braces stuck to his teeth.

'He's a quiet boy.' Cal thought. He continued to watch the film.

"That's great!" Gillian exclaimed. "How does it feel?"

"Numb." He replied flatly.

Gillian nodded. "You know I had braces as a kid. They were kinda cool you know."

Vance didn't reply. The silence went on like that for a while. Gillian turned on some soft jazz music and pretended to take notes. She was trying to get him to talk on himself.

Vance leaned in and took the notepad and pen from the table and scribbled down something. He put it down and passed it too Gillian.

Dr. Foster looked at it and was surprised.

Cal turned to Gillian. "What did the paper say."

Gillian hesitated. "It said, 'I want to forget my dad.'"

Cal was surprised as much as Gillian was in that film. "W-wasn't he adopted back then?"

Gillian nodded. "But he meant his real dad."

Cal continued to watch the film.

"W-what do you mean?" Gillian asked, trying to not show her surprise.

"Not him." Vance said. "My real dad."

Gillian took a deep breath. "Vance...do you remember anything about your biological father?"

He was silent. "Yes. I don't want to remember it though."

"Tell me about it." She took down some notes again. "When your ready of course." she added.

There was a couple minute of silence. Vance fidgeted with his sleeve.

"You know...I've been thinking. What do you think he would say if I ever saw him again." he finally asked.

Gillian looked up. "I'm sure he'd be happy." she tried to be reassuring.

"No he won't. He'll just think that I would be in the way of his perfect life and tell me to get lost."

Cal was actually surprised that a 7 year old would say that.

Gillian leaned forward a bit and put a hand on his shoulder. "He wouldn't say that."

"I don't want to see that man again."

The tape ended. Gillian sighed and took out the DVD. Cal stayed silent. Gillian sat down next to him.

"I'm sure he was just kidding."

Cal swallowed. "You saw his face. He was dead serious."

Gillian nodded. "I hope it didn't have to be like that."

The office phone started to ring. Cal slumped back, his face full of shame. "Don't they have some sort of time machine? I mean it's 2010."

Gillian smiled at Cal. She stood up and answered the phone. She frowned, said 'Ok I'll tell him', and hung up.

Cal saw her and frown. "Cal." She said, "we have a problem."

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