Summary: After the Oliver incident. Child services finds out about Ryan's trouble at school and takes him away. Sandy and Kirsten do everything they can to get him back with an unlikely source to help them.

AN: I am so sorry to all the readers and reviewers of this story that I haven't updated this in so long. I was having a hard time formulating what I wanted to say into words. It's getting a little difficult coming up with some new ideas for this. Plus I'm finding it much easier to come up with ideas for my other OC story. Ryan's Problem. But hopefully this chapter turned out all right. PLZ R&R!

Disclaimer: See earlier chapters.

Chapter 14: Revelations

Ryan shot up in bed as sweat dripped down his face. He slowly climbed out of bed and went to his bathroom to get a glass of water to drink. He took a few deep breaths to calm his nerves. He walked out of the bathroom and crept down the stairs and into the den. He turned on the TV with the volume on low and lay back against the back of the couch. He didn't want to think about the dream he was just plagued with; the facility, the guards, the 'therapy' sessions, the late-night 'bed checks'. He shook his head to try to keep the images out of his head and concentrated on the television program that was on.


Sandy made his way down to the kitchen as he looked through some papers that were important for the meetings he had that day. He found his briefcase on the kitchen counter and put his papers in it. He started to go into the den to watch the morning news when he stopped in his tracks. Ryan was passed out on the couch as some early-morning talk show played on TV.

"Ryan," he softly shook him. "Time to wake up."

"Time is it?" Ryan slowly sat up and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"I'd say you have about fifteen minutes before Kirsten comes down here."

"I should get ready for school." He started to get up.

"Why are you sleeping down here? Your own bed not comfortable?"

"I couldn't sleep. I figured the TV would put me to sleep. I guess I was right."

"Is there anything you want to talk to me about?"

"Not this early." Ryan started up the stairs. "I better get ready before I'm late."

"Ryan-"

"I'm fine, Sandy." He disappeared up the stairs.

A few minutes later, Kirsten came down with the contracts she needed for work that day. She noticed Sandy standing in front of the doors that led out onto the patio.

"Hey. What's going on?" she set her things down on the counter and poured herself a cup of coffee.

"Just thinking." He turned around and went to stand by her as they both drank out of their coffee mugs.

"What are you thinking about?"

"How we'll be able to help Ryan." He sighed deeply. "I found him sleeping on the couch in the den this morning."

"Oh."

"I take it this isn't the first time he's done that." He looked at her.

"I've caught him a few times. He said he couldn't sleep."

"Honey-"

"Of course I know there's more to the story. I just didn't think it was the time to push him."

"I think now would be an ideal time to do just that."

"I know." They both looked up as there was some commotion and Seth and Ryan rushed into the kitchen and grabbed a couple bagels to take with them.

"Hey. What's the hurry?" Sandy asked them.

"Taylor's here." Ryan told them.

"Summer just pulled in." Seth added.

"Have a good day!" Kirsten called as they rushed outside to the waiting cars. "I'll talk to Ryan when he gets home tonight."

"I'm off." He picked up his briefcase. "Rachel has some important information involving the adoption. I'll call you when I know more."

"Good luck." She smiled after him as she gathered her things for work and followed him out.


Ryan walked into the school with Taylor as she suggested that they get together sometime over the weekend. He opened his locker and found the books he needed as he glanced at her.

"Luke and I are going to the batting cages." He told her. "You can come if you want to."

"I'd love to." She smiled at him. "So what's wrong?"

"Nothing." He started down the hall, but she pulled him back. "Really, it's nothing."

"It's not nothing. I can tell."

"Sandy found me sleeping on the couch this morning."

"You had another dream?"

"Yeah."

"So did you tell him anything?"

"No. I haven't told any of them about it."

"Maybe you should. I mean, you didn't have a problem telling me."

"I'm not as emotionally involved with you as I am with them."

"I know. But if you let them in, I'm sure you won't regret it."

"Maybe." He sighed as they walked to their first classes.

Seth and Summer watched them as they parted ways down the hall. Seth sighed as he took Summer's hand.

"He was sleeping on the couch again." He told her. "He doesn't think I know. I hear him every time he wakes up from a bad dream."

"It's going to be ok." She assured him. "He'll open up to you when he's ready to talk."


Sandy had just gotten to his office when the door opened and Rachel came in with information that would help them track down Ryan's mom. She gave him an address from her last known whereabouts, as well as a thick folder.

"What's all this?" he looked up at her.

"I was able to track down Ryan's medical records." She told him. "But I think you should take a look at something first."

"What is it?" he opened the thinner file she had placed on top of the thicker one and saw a doctor's invoice.

"It's from the night that your father-in-law pulled him out of that facility." She watched as he started to read the doctor's notes on Ryan.

It wasn't until he got to the bottom of the second page that he realized just how much Ryan had gone through.

"Oh my god." He looked up at Rachel. "And you're sure this is Ryan's file?"

"Positive." She told him. "I'll leave you to look through the rest of that."

"Unbelievable." Sandy sighed as he scanned the rest of Ryan's medical history and decided that he needed to inform Kirsten about all of it.


Kirsten had just gotten out of a meeting when the receptionist informed her that Sandy was waiting for her in her office. She walked in and saw him sitting before her desk with a couple of folders in his hands.

"Hey." She smiled at him. "This is a surprise. What's going on?"

"When I got to the office this morning, Rachel gave me these." He placed the folders on her desk.

"What are they?"

"The thicker one is Ryan's full medical record. The other one is the invoice from the emergency room the night that Ryan got out of the facility."

"When my father took him." She opened up the thinner folder and scanned the doctor invoice. "Oh my god."

"I know." Sandy said softly.

"My father had to have known about this."

"You think so?"

"He got him out of that place, he took him to the hospital, and he stayed with him the entire time. He had to have known something." Kirsten got up from the desk and started out of the room.

"Where are you going?"

"To my dad's office." She stated and he quickly got up to follow her.


Ryan slowly followed behind Luke after they got their lunch and tried to find a vacant table. Ryan started feeling run-down halfway through second period. His teacher noticed and wanted to send him down to the nurse, but Ryan refused to go thinking he'd be able to stick it out for the rest of the day.

"There's Seth." Luke spotted him at a vacant table and they went to join him.

"Hey, man." Seth spotted Ryan. "You're not looking that great."

"Thank you very much." Ryan mumbled. "Where's Summer?"

"She'll be here in a minute. Marissa had an 'emergency' that she needed Summer's help with."

"Some emergency." Summer mumbled as she came and joined them.

"So what did she need?" Seth asked her.

"Don't even ask." She sighed as she glanced at Ryan. "You're not looking so hot, Chino."

"Again thank you." Ryan mumbled. "I forgot my water. I'll be right back."

"Is he ok?" Luke looked at Seth.

"He was fine this morning." Seth told them.

"He was all right in first period too."

"He's been having some trouble sleeping the last couple of days." Seth told them. "He probably just needs to catch up on his sleep."

"Seth," Ryan came back to them.

"You're looking worse than you did when you left."

"I know."

"Let's get you to the nurse." Seth stood up and started to walk with him to the nurse's office. "We'll call mom and dad."

"Thanks." Ryan told him as they started back inside the school.

"No problem." Seth told him as they slowly walked down the hall.

They were almost to the nurse's office when Seth felt Ryan fall against him. He looked and saw his eyes closed as he started to fall to the ground. Seth practically dragged him to the nurse's office, where he explained to her what had happened. They both managed to get Ryan lying down on the cot and she immediately called for an ambulance while Seth tried to get through to his parents.


Caleb was sitting at his desk doing some paper work when he saw Kirsten headed towards his office. The look she had on her face told him that it wasn't going to be a pleasant conversation.

"Kiki," Caleb greeted her as she stepped into his office and he noticed Sandy hurrying to catch up to her. "Sanford, what are you doing here?"

"Tell me you didn't know." Kirsten placed a folder down in front of him.

"What?" he opened the folder and looked back up at them once he realized what it was.

"That is the invoice from the ER doctor when you got Ryan out of that facility." She told him. "You knew didn't you?"

"Kiki-"

"Did you know, yes or no?"

"Yes." Caleb sighed.

"Why the hell didn't you tell us?" Sandy demanded.

"Ryan knew that I knew what happened before he even left the hospital that day. I-"

"You should've told us." Kirsten stated firmly.

"He made me promise not to. He knew you guys would get all worked up, file charges, and that he'd possibly have to testify in court. He wanted to forget about it."

"He hasn't forgotten about it, Cal. He's been having nightmares, and they're most likely about what happened to him in there." Sandy told him.

"Look-"

"Dad, he was assaulted in that place." Kirsten stated. "Did you see the doctor's notes at the bottom? It says that it's not the first time it's happened to him. We knew he had a rough childhood-"

"Look, I admit I haven't given the boy a fair chance," Caleb started. "I thought if I did this for him, we'd at least start to be ok."

"That's not how it works with my family."

"I'm sorry to interrupt," the receptionist knocked on the door before entering the office. "Mrs. Cohen, your son Seth is on the line. He says it's an emergency. Says it's about Ryan."

"Seth?" Kirsten snatched the phone off her father's desk. "Is everything all right? What's going on with Ryan?"

Sandy and Caleb watched as Kirsten talked to Seth for the next several minutes.

"Is he ok? Where are they taking him? Yes, go with him. We'll meet you there in a little bit."

"What's going on?" Sandy asked once she had hung up the phone.

"Ryan collapsed at school during lunch. The nurse called for an ambulance. I told Seth to ride with him to the hospital."

"Let's go." The three of them rushed out of the office and took the elevator down.

AN: Cliffhanger! So what'd you all think? A few of you predicted right about what had happened to Ryan in the facility. What do you think happened to Ryan? The next chapter or two will deal with Sandy and Kirsten starting to help Ryan deal with everything. PLZ R&R!