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Lost And Found ch4

Abandoned in recovery

"I would never do that to Ben!" Rook defended himself, throwing an arm in front of his body and glaring eye to eye with his accuser. Kevin just glared back at Rook wishing he'd had longer to pound his fist to the ravonnahgander's face. Gwen stood as a barracade to keep the two from beating each other senseless, that and Gwen knew if things went from bad to worse Rook would be sent to the medical lab.

"What?!" Max shouted, earning everyone's eyes. "The people know?"

Kevin nodded to the elderly man. "Everyone knows now," he grunted as he turned his attention back to the ravonnahgander at fault. "Bet they paid you a lot for the juicy story," Kevin glared. Rook scoffed and crossed his arms. "What could your American dollar do for me? In case you have not noticed I am an alien," he hissed.

"Stop!" Gwen suddenly interrupted and pushed both of them further away from each other. "Both of you!" she called. "Stop, this isn't going to fix anything."

"Gwen's right," Max confirmed stepping forward into the small rounded circle. "Fighting isn't going to change the fact that the public knows."

Rook looked down for a moment and instead of scoffing at Kevin's wrong accusation just frowned. He knew that now everyone knew Ben was back and unfortunately it was his fault. He should have been more careful. Perhaps if he had protected Ben better no one would have found out.

Rook was only pulled from his thoughts when Max placed a hand on his shoulder.

"And if I know Rook like I do then I know he's a loyal plumber and he would not tell the public of any investigation unless I ordered him to and because I haven't I don't believe he has done so," Max nodded at his theory. He smiled at Rook briefly only to be returned by the guilt filled stare of the Ravvonahgander.

"Kevin how did you find this?" Max asked. Kevin gave the majester an almost justified smirk as he passed a newspaper to the man. "It's in the paper," he commented as Max began to read the print. His eyes instantly fell on the title which read in bold letters OUR HERO BACK FROM THE DEAD!

From sources that have asked not to be mentioned the world's hero Ben Tennyson although believed to be dead is ALIVE! This information is not certain as of yet, but some rumours have become reality and Ben Tennyson is being held at the plumber's HQ. Unfortunately because the head quarters are strictly hidden away from the public and no one is to be sure if he really is there.

No one can forget the horrid day that the news had broken that Ben Tennyson had been declared missing after a tragic battle against an evil mastermind. It was only a month later that he had been declared dead on live television and with sorrow in all our hearts we waited for something to happen.

Our prayers have been answered now, and Ben Tennyson has returned to his people.

The only question is when will he make his come back?

Max looked up from the paper after reading enough. He shook his head and sighed. "I'm not sure who told the paper, but that doesn't matter right now, what matters is that we keep Ben here and don't let the public know anything else."

Kevin chuckled, "Yeah, imagine if the newspaper found out about Ben's little secret."

"Quiet," Max almost snapped, but then straightened up. "We can't trust anyone right now and if the spy is in here then we don't want him finding out."

"Gwen, Kevin," Max began, "I'd like you to look more into this and Rook... you can go home if you want."

Rook just nodded, gave another short glare in Kevin's direction and then left.

It never took him long to get home, but on his way there he could see that there were in fact a lot of newspapers flowing through the town. Everyone had on in their hands, reading, watching the news through the windows of the television warehouse and all of them were gossiping.

Rook almost felt disgusted at the way everyone was treating the news. If they knew what state Ben was in at this moment then they would not be saying such horrid things. Rook had even heard when he was waiting at the lights with the window down an angry blonde woman shout "Ben Tennyson's a traitor! How could he desert us?!"

Of course after Rook had gotten home he wasn't in the mood for doing his usually activities such as study or work out. He just went straight to bed and didn't speak a word once.

Rook lived in a large house outside of Bellwood. It was hidden within a bundle of trees and had a hidden road to it. The only way Rook could even get to his house was if he went by ship and that he did. The house looked quite normal from the outside, but on the inside were guns laid out on tables, paper's all sitting in tall, but neat piles. The walls were all blue and there was no carpet, Rook HATED carpet. He just couldn't explain why, but he couldn't stand the way it felt under his bare feet. Not that it would matter anyway, Rook wore shoes in his house almost all the time he spent inside his house.

He fell to sleep after about an hour of staring angrily at the wall opposite his bed and once asleep couldn't help but dream of something absolutely horrible happening when he got the plumber HQ the next day.

When he'd made it to work the next day he felt that something was off apart from his lack of sleep. Everyone looked scared for some odd reason. As he grew closer to Ben's rook he felt the air growing more intense. This worried him beyond all belief and he began to quicken his pace up the hall. When he'd made it around the corner he was met with a strange sight.

It was Carl, Ben's father talking to Grandpa Max. They looked to be arguing about something. As Rook drew closer the conversation grew clearer and he could hear what they were saying.

"How could you say that?" Max asked completely shocked by his son's statement.

"You saw him dad! You saw what he did! That's not Ben, that's not my son, it's some sort of monster!" Carl grunted.

"He's an alien Carl, so is Gwen," Max glared down to his son. Carl shook his head and looked away. "At least Gwen can control it, Ben doesn't know what he's doing, It doesn't know because what ever happened to him messed up his brain and now he can't even remember his mother's name!"

"Carl please, Ben needs you, he needs both of you-"

"He needs help, but not from me... he's not my son any more."

Carl pushed passed Max and walked in an angry pace up the hall. He passed Rook before leaving and Rook stared at Max in horror. "Majester," he said.

Max looked down, "I'm sorry you had to see that Rook."

Rook frowned down to the man and shook his head, "Don't be."

"What was Ben's father talking about?"

Max let out a low sigh and turned on his heal. "Something strange happened last night, we found it on the security cameras, we've been asking Ben about it, but once again he won't talk to anyone but you."

Rook nodded as he took the new information and followed Max into the large room. Inside he saw Ben's mother, she looked as though as she were crying earlier. She had a hand over her chest and was still sniffling. Gwen was comforting her and Kevin was no where to be seen. Rook imagined after yesterday's accident Gwen wouldn't let him in for a while, at least until after Kevin cooled off. Rook didn't blame Kevin as much though, he imagined that Kevin was just being protective over Ben. The two of them shared a brotherly bond when they and Gwen were in a team.

He just didn't think that Kevin would go so far to get Ben revenge.

He tried not to pay as much attention to the crying woman and Gwen and just waited for Max to tell him what was happening. The man walked passed Rook and pointed up to a large screen with a remote in his hand. The screen flickered on and showed a picture of Ben laying down on top of a neatly made bed.

"Ben did something when he was sleeping and none of us can explain it, not even Gwen knows what happened," Max explained. Rook nodded and Max played the movie. Rook saw that Ben was just sleeping normally when the screen went black. Max paused the movie. "The camera for some reason turned itself off and then turned back on two hours later," he said and then pressed play again. He fast forwarded two hours later when the camera turned back on and Rook was shocked to see that Ben had not only changed position, but he wasn't on the bed any more. He was floating above it. Max looked at Rook with a frown. "I don't know why he's doing that, Gwen isn't even sure how he's hovering in human form."

He fast forwarded ten minutes later and the light in the room began to flicker. Before long of the light flickering it burst and Ben woke up. He fell back down on the bed and sat up, completely shocked and confused at what happened. He curled up after that and didn't go back to sleep.

Rook thought it was strange that Ben had reacted like this and asked Max if Ben was alright. Max nodded in response. "He's fine Rook," the old man said.

"You want me to talk to him?" Rook asked. Max only nodded and Rook walked out. He walked into where he expected Ben to be and not to his surprise at all Ben was staring at him from the other side of the room. Though, he wasn't sitting in a chair. He was curled up in a corner of the room.

Rook frowned at him and tilted his head slightly at Ben.

"Ben?" he whispered, "Ben are you alright?"

There was no answer. He approached Ben, but stopped when he saw Ben flinch.

"Ben, are you hurt?" he whispered. Ben looked up at Rook and then instantly looked away. Rook saw that Ben's eyes were wet and he looked sad.

"Ben... are you crying?" he asked the boy. Ben looked back at Rook and wiped his eye with one arm. "Why? Is it noticeable?" Ben sniffled.

Rook's ears lowered a bit, this was a characteristic that Ravvonahganders had when they were sad. "Why are you crying Ben?" he whispered. Ben didn't want to look at Rook and turned to face the wall. Rook frowned and took a step closer, but stopped himself from taking another when Ben shivered. He stepped back and then walked away from Ben.

He sat down on the chair that was pulled out for him and watched Ben's empty chair. "Are you going to sit down Ben?" he questioned. Ben didn't answer him and Rook frowned. He wasn't sure what was wrong with Ben, but what ever it was it was-

Rook stopped mid-thought when he had an idea. "I'm not going to yell at you Ben, I just want to talk to you."

Ben looked at him that time and then to the ground. "I'm scared," Ben admitted silently. Rook tilted his head to the side.

"What are you scared of Ben?" he asked. Ben didn't seem to want to answer that either and looked back to the wall. "You can tell me Ben, I won't say anything," Rook said. Ben didn't answer or look at Rook. Rook sighed. He decided to do what he thought was right and instead of ask Ben questions just comfort him.

Cheesy ending. This chapter was boring! D: but don't worry, I'll have more excitement later.

Expect long updates :(