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How is that even possible , one minute ago he got murdered with an axe and now he is on his bed.

Finney screamed, he panicked and started to breath heavily, just like he couldn't breath , he threw up, again and again... His sister Gwen came in shock,"Finney !? Are you ok!?" , he was immobile, he couldn't move , he was shaking and sobbing uncontrollably, His sister went downstairs, it seemed like she called someone , and came back upstairs, she hugged him tightly while tears were slightly going down her cheeks.

Suddenly, someone knocked at his window and Gwen went to open it and let the person enter quickly, Finney felt like someone was lifting him up , to put him on his bed , but his vision was too blurry to see anything...He stopped throwing up but he was still shaking, he saw a silhouette sitting next to him on his bed , and then he saw him, Robin, the last boy he talked to on the phone , his eyes began to water again as he hugged his best friend, "Shhh... It's ok...I am here..." Robin said with a comforting voice while rubbing circles on his (Finney's) back, his eyes felt heavy , he finished by passing out at one point .

His eyes opened slowly, "Hey Finn! Are you feeling better? ", He might have a good self control, cause he didn't burst into tears while hugging him , he saw him , his best friend, the one who got killed by a psycho kidnapper..."Yes..I am sorry..I don't know what happened..." , Robin looked at him, his eyes were filled with sympathy ,"Its ok Finn, I think you had a panic attack...That's quite alright!" He said , "Anyways , change yourself, we still have school." Robin laughed , and now, Finney knew how much he missed Robin's smile , laugh, talk, jokes , he even missed his fights... when he got out of his thoughts, he quickly took some random clothes an headed to the bathroom, As soon as he took his shirt off , he winced at the big and ugly scar the he had , from the middle of his throat to the end of his chest , he also had some smaller scars , to remind him of The Grabber , because even if he is in the past, he will always remember him, always remember why he is here.. for now , he had to save everyone .He quickly changed his clothes and headed out of the bathroom.

Gwen and Robin were waiting for him downstairs, " Are you ready ?" Gwen asked , he nodded and they went out of the house, "You have chance Finney , dad wasn't here last night." Gwen whispered to her brother, he cringed at his name and asked , "Please , call me Finn..", she looked at him with concern but she agreed. They arrived to school , Gwen hugged him and ran to her friends , "What class do you have now?" Robin asked , "uhmm...I think I have English!", he answered, Robin let out a small laugh,"You really don't remember?", "Yeah.." Finney laughed.

Robin walked him to class, when they arrived, Robin put his hand on Finney shoulder, the other boy flinched, he hopped that Robin didn't notice , fortunately, the boy didn't ask and left to his class.

He quietly entered the classroom and sat down at his usual spot, he took his notebook out and looked down at it, he felt someone sitting next to him , Billy Showalter, BILLY SHOWALTER....His luck was with him today, "Hey! Can I sit here ?" Billy asked , Finney eyes wided, why the hell did he suddenly wanted to sit with him, is it to make fun of him or what if- "You're here??" The boy was snapping his fingers next to Finney, he came back to his mind, "Oh sorry..uhmm yes of course you can sit !", Billy smirked "I am Billy, what about you?", Finney looked at him "Oh uh I am Finney-" He cut himself, "Finn Blake, Finn.." , Billy looked confused , "So your name is Finney and you want me to call you Finn ?" Finney nodded.

He felt really tired, he slept in the middle of the class, everything went black, No, there was a white point, his mother , Finney eyes wided , filled with tears..."Finney, sweetheart...", she hugged him tightly, "Where am I ?"He asked , sobbing on his mother chest , "I think that you know why you are here..You need to save them..And save yourself", he nodded, holding her like she was going to disappear...Of course she was ! "To help you , Griffin and Billy are best friends , Bruce and Vance are quit close and you already know Robin. Oh and Billy and Griffin are good friends to Vance" He looked at her , tears going down his cheeks "Am I going to see you ever again?" He asked , "I hope that it won't happen soon, you still need to live your life Finney...I will try to help you..Even if I am not really with you..." She answered, he started at his mother while she was slowly fading away.

"FINN !" He jumped as his name was pronounced, Billy looked at him with concerned eyes "Are you ok?? You're crying !" Finney looked at him for a little bit before his eyes wided, he quickly whipped his eyes and smiled sheepishly, Billy didn't look less concerned but he didn't want to bring back the subject if it hurts him that much, "I wanted to ask you if you want to sit with me and my friend at lunch." Billy said , trying to lighten the mood, Finney nodded, "See you at lunch!" he said before heading to his History class.

Time has passed quickly, Finney passed most of his time zonning out on his desk. When the bell went off he quickly put his stuff on his bag and left to lunch .

He saw Billy waiving at him from a table at the corner , he smiled and headed to the table , while he was walking , he saw two boys sitting there , Griffin and...VANCE HOPPER , this was going to be an awkward situation.

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As Finney sat down next to Billy , Vance spoke "Who the hell is he Billy!?", Finney Froze, he has sensitive ears, every loud noise made him flinch, he blocked his ears, Griffin looked kinda confused , Billy spoke "Stop scaring every friend that we make!" Vance rolled his eyes at him and Billy signalled to Finney to take his hands off of his ears , "Sorry." Finney mumbled, clearly embarrassed, "Its ok! This troublemaker won't let us make any friends because of his over protective instinct!" Finney let out a small laugh at Griffin's words , Vance has hit Griffin's arm jokingly, Suddenly, Finney felt someone hugging him from behind, he flinched before turning around, his sister, Gwen ,she was red, His eyes wided, she was now fully hugging him, "Hey what happened! Are you ok?!"He asked, "I don't feel so good..I think I didn't sleep well, Mrs.Henderson told me that I should go home, I already asked Suzie and she told me that I can go to her house, can I??", "Awhh my poor Gwenny! You clearly need some rest! It's fine ! But it's Better if you spend the night there! I will take you home to take some clothes! Just wait a second!", He whispered to her , he looked back at the three boys , their eyes were filled with confusion, "Uh that's my little sister and I think she is sick ! So I will just ask a teacher if I can take her home! I will be back in 15 mins !" Billy and Griffin nodded and Vance just looked at him, it was kinda scary to be honest.

Of course , the teacher accepted, he lived 10 minutes away from school and Suzie didn't live far from them, but her mom agreed to come pick Gwen up, he was now in Gwen's room,when she finished to pick her clothes , she put them in her bag, Suzie's mom came there pretty quickly, she hugged Gwen and drove away, Finney had now 2 minutes to go back to school.

"Wow! You look like you ran a marathon!" Billy said , Finney sat back down "Yeah, I kinda ran when I came back here !"He answered, Vance let out a small laugh, "You're mom might have been confused on why the hell did her kids came back home that early!"Vance said , Yeah, his mom, of course, he couldn't tell them that she killed herself some years ago, they wouldn't talk to him ever again, like all the others, "Yeah haha!" He replied, if they get mad at him, he couldn't save them..

Lunch went by pretty well, or better than what he expected, Vance was actually pretty chill, Billy and Griffin were funny, they got into an argument every five minutes, Finney liked it, His math class came quickly, as soon as he sat at his desk, he started to think about ways to save them, and he still needed to befriend Bruce Yamada, but it wasn't really a big deal , cause Amy, Bruce's sister was quit close with Gwen , her Amy and Suzie were best friends, the difficulty here is to get Vance to trust him, it was going to be a long, long year..While his teacher was explaining, He wrote all the kidnapping dates on a paper :

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| -Billy Showalter , 26 September , 6 am,

| 1977.

| -Griffin Stagg , 04 November, ?? ,1977.

| -Vance Hopper , 07 January, 5pm??,1978.

| -Bruce Yamada, 16 Mars, 6pm, 1978.

| -Robin Arellano , 08 April , 03:30pm.1978.

| -Finn Blake (me), 17 May, 03:37pm, 1978.

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Today was 16 September, he had 10 day to make a plan for Billy...He can just ask to do the paper delivery with him,no it was too weird to ask ' Hey Billy! Can I do the papers with you cause there is a weird guy who planned to kidnap you!' Yeah, definitely weird, he had one solution left, wake up earlier and pray to meet Billy, he will probably ask to do papers with him and go to school together, he will try to convince Gwen to live with Suzie and her parents, because he will be to busy trying to save the others that he wouldn't have time to take care of his little sister.

"Finney Blake!" He came back to reality, wait, Finney? Suddenly, The Grabber was in front of him , with an axe in his hand. "You are special Finney..", Finn froze, why is he back in that dirty basement, he felt someone put a hand on his shoulder, no he wasn't in that basement, he was in class and the hand on his shoulder was his math teacher hand, Mr.Evans, he quickly got up from his sit and ran out of his class, he felt someone behind him but he didn't bother to look behind him, he ran, as far as he could, he didn't feel like he was running on the floor anymore, he didn't feel anything, he knew that he was far from school, but he couldn't stop running or sobbing, he was shaking and didn't know where he was going, he fell, but he felt nothing, he was just sobbing and shaking on the ground, suddenly he felt someone shaking him, he quickly turned around and sat up, "Hey! Don't worry, are you ok ?", it was Bruce Yamada, the though made Finney burst into tears, he lifted his knees to his chest and his arms around his legs, his head was sinking in his knees. He felt the other boy sigh, "did you skip school? " , "N-no , i-i just r-r-"Finney tried to explain through his sobs, Bruce just rubbed circles on Finney back, after he calmed down, Finney spoke, "i am s-sorry.."Finney thought that his apologies were useless when the boy looked at him with a confused expression, "Why are you apologising?? You did nothing wrong! And if something triggered at the point of doing a panic attack, I don't think it was something silly.", Finney nodded, "Did you skip school or something?"The brunette teen asked, "Uhm I am not really proud of it but yeah, I know I have the 'golden boy' reputation but sometimes it feel good to just go out and stop thinking about everything , plus I was going to hang out with some friends when I saw you laying down here....When we talk about the beasts!" Bruce said as he looked behind Finney, Finn was kinda confused but when he turned around he quickly understood, his mother has told him that Bruce and Vance were close, so he wasn't really surprised to see that 'Pinball Vance Hopper' Was behind him, what confused him was that Billy was also here. "Why the hell are you here? I didn't know that 'The Finney Blake' decided to skip school." Vance was surprisingly chill when he said that, his voice wasn't loud, but Billy behind him tried to correct him "Finn."Billy was quick to understand that Finney hated to be called this way and wanted people to call him Finn, he didn't want to ask why, he was sure that it was going to make Finn uncomfortable. "Yeah whatever." Vance answered, rolling his eyes, Billy shook his head and turned his attention to Finney, "Did you skip school?", Finney smiled sheepishly "uhm kinda." Vance looked at him confused "First , get up the floor is dirty, second, how the hell can you 'kinda' skip school." Vance asked, Finney quickly got up "It was unintentional!", Vance let out a small laugh and Billy put his hand on Finney's shoulder, he did that slowly, he knew that Finney didn't really support physical contacts, "Wanna hang out with me? I kinda have enough of these two old bags." The paper boy said looking at Bruce and Vance, "Sure!" Finney answered, "Alright then! Follow me! I have a place to show you! I am sure you will love it !", they waived to Bruce and Vance and made their way to The secret place, this was going to be a long day for Finney.

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TRIGGER WARNING : Child abuse, Terrance Blake, Panic attacks, Implied/mention of throwing up, I think that's all!

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They started their walk to the special place, Finney was kinda nervous since he didn't want to make things awkward. They walked in a forest, "It's right there!"Billy said, and Finney eyes wided at where Billy was pointing, a tree house! They quickly ran and climbed on the tree before entering in the small house, Finney felt a smile growing on his face, Billy turned his head at him with a serious look on his face, "Promise me that you will never tell anybody about this place, if you do, our friendship is done." Finney nodded.

Sometime passed and Billy had a question that he left for himself for too long now, "Hey Finn...I don't mean to make you uncomfortable but, why do you hate your name...I mean it's ok if you don't want to tell me, but I think that if we want to be closer, we should now our secrets, Finney.." Finney's eyes wided, he really didn't expect this question, he took a few steps back and shook his head, but it wasn't for Billy, it didn't look like he shook his head at Billy, it looked like someone was talking to him, Billy didn't know what to do before he felt Finney fall on the floor, "Finn! Are you ok?", Billy sighed, he slowly put his hand on Finney's shoulder but he quickly removed it when Finney flinched and shook his head, "Please stop.."Billy looked confused, it didn't look like Finney was talking to him, he shook his friend , worry filled his eyes, "STOP IT PLE-PLEASE.!!", Billy took his hand, they were cold, he slightly squeezed them "It's me Finn, Billy, just follow my voice ok? " he felt the other nodding.

After he calmed down Billy spoke, "Sorry, I didn't mean to do this to you.." Finney shook his head, Billy understood that he wanted to tell him that it wasn't his fault, "I think we should get going, Griffin class end soon." Finney nodded and they both got out of the tree house.

They were waiting next to the school gate, Finney saw Griffin and waived at him, Griffin quickly ran to them, "Hey Finn! I saw you running out of the school, are you ok?"Griffin said, Finney nodded, "Don't worry, I am ok." Griffin didn't buy his excuse but he looked at Billy who gave him the 'Let it go' look, "Why don't you guys come to mine? My mom will be happy to see you again Billy and my dad wants to meet you Finn!" Griffin said, they both nodded and started their way to Griffin's.

"We are here!" Griffin shouted , His mother came from the living room and hugged him and Billy, "You're Finney right?", Finney nodded, the smile that she had grew wider, "I am Kathleen! It's really nice to meet you!", Finney smiled and he heard a door open, a blond haired man got out of what he guessed was the bedroom, "Oh Billy! It's nice to see you again! And you are?", he asked Finney, "Finney Blake sir." , Finney said, "What a polite boy we have here! No need to call me sir, just call me Sam!"Finney nodded and they quickly went to Griffin's room.

They watched some movies and Played some board games, Kathleen prepared some snacks, "Where's your bathroom?" Finney asked, "At the end of the hallway." Griffin answered. He looked in the bathroom mirror, he felt sick, he had absolutely no idea, how the hell was he supposed to save 5 people from a psycho kidnapper, the only though of The Grabber made him want to puke, well he did, he threw up in Griffin's bathroom, he then heard someone knock at the door, "Finn, are you ok?", This was definitely Griffin, "Yes don't worry!", he quickly got up and washed his mouth, he got out and went to Griffin's room, Billy and Griffin had a worried look on their face, "We heard you Finn..." Billy spoke, Finney looked down at the floor , he had nothing to say, they both brushed it off and continued to talk, when Billy turned his head to look at Finney, he was asleep, the thought made Billy and Griffin smile.

*Saturday 25 September, 10 am*

Finney was sitting with his sister in the TV room, they suddenly heard the door slam open, their father was home..

"FINNEY BLAKE!?" He shouted, Finney didn't wait longer before getting up and running out of the room to meet his father, "WHY IS THIS HOUSE IN A MESS!? CAN'T YOU BE USEFUL FOR ONCE??" He yelled, Finney eyes were watering, he hated loud noises, "I am s-sorry sir." He said, "FIX THIS STUTTER OF YOURS YOUNG MAN!", The 'man' shouted as Finney felt a harsh slap on his face and falling to the ground, "PLEASE DADDY YOU'RE HURTING HIM!" Gwen yelled, tears going down her cheeks.

He finished passed out on the floor, with cuts and bruises everywhere, he felt someone shaking him, it was probably Gwen but he didn't care much, he completely blacked out before waking up in his room, "I can't do this anymore!" She was sobbing on his shirt, "I know Gwenny, pack your stuff.." He said to her, Gwen looked confused, "You're living with Suzie. Ain't no way I am gonna let you with this old man." She nodded, "Can I go to Amy before?She asked me if I could spend the night with her and I was going to ask you before dad came.." Gwen said, "Of course! Just let me hide all of this mess." By mess he meant his body, but no need to say it out loud, Gwen already understood.

The sun was bright and it was really hot outside , and then you had Finney Blake, wearing a big dark blue sweater with a turtle neck and a large black sweatpants, he was melting but who could blame him? It wasn't his fault after all. They stepped next to Bruce front door, Gwen quickly knocked, usually, She would be very exited, but the thought of her seeing her brother only at school made her kinda sad, Bruce was the one who opened the door, with Amy and..Vance behind him, was he glued to Bruce? Vance sighed as soon as he made eye contact with Finney "Oh hey Gwen! And Finney?", Bruce looked kinda confused, Gwen eyes wided, "You know my brother?" She turned to her brother, "I told you that one day I won't be your only friend! Even if it doesn't count cause I am your sister." She said sticking her tongue out, he rolled his eyes at her, she hugged him tightly, Vance could swear that it looked like she wasn't going to see him ever again, what he didn't know what that it was true. She let go of the hug and turned around to hug Amy, "See you at school Finn!", he smiled and waved at her, Bruce was going to ask if he wanted to stay but the boy has already left.

Finney arrived at 6pm, his dad was going to be here soon so he needed to clean up everything, he managed to cut his hand in the process, but pain wasn't an issue anymore, he still had to stop The Grabber from taking Billy.

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The day after came a little bit too fast for Finney, he couldn't sleep all night, he quietly woke up to see the clock, 4am, he still had two hours but he decided to change himself, he grabbed a large sweater and a jean, he went downstairs to drink water, he tried to go down the stairs as quietly as possible, too bad for him he fell in the middle, he heard heavy footsteps coming from his dad bedroom, he was screwed.

He locked himself in the bathroom, he looked at himself in the mirror and noticed a big bruise on his cheek, he couldn't hide it, let's just say that he fell.

It was 6am and he just got out of the house with his bag, he tried to make the same journey as Billy usually make with his bike, "Finn !" He heard someone calling him from behind, he quickly turned around and saw Billy, "Hi Billy!"He said, trying to sound surprised, just like he didn't spend 1week planning this, "Hey man you're ok? You look like sh*t!", Billy asked, "Good morning to you too my dear friend." Finney replied, Billy looked at him, trying to keep a straight face, "What are you doing here this early?"

"I don't know to be honest.."

"Wanna deliver the papers with me?"

"Sure but I-I don't have a bike.."

"Then sit behind me, Griffin always sit here!"

"No I don't w-want to bother you! And I am heavy!"

"Sit down right now."

"Yes sir." Finney said jokingly.

They started their ride, Billy was throwing papers on the right side and Finn was doing it on the left side, until he saw it, the black van, his eyes wided, he felt sick, he suddenly had the urge to throw up, "Wait!",Billy stopped and turned around, "Is everything ok?" He watched Finney left the bike and ran to one of the nearest tree, Billy let his bike fall and ran behind Finn, Finney knelt down next to the tree to puke, Billy was behind him, rubbing circles on his back, he saw the van leave and sat up, "Are you ok? What happened!" Billy asked, noticing the van that drove past them, "Nothing, I just felt sick.We should continue! School gate open soon!" Finney tried to lighten the mood, Billy looked at him a little bit before getting up "Let's go..", they then started their way to what Finn called 'the hell hole'.

He shared the first class with Griffin, so Billy and him went to Griffin's locker, he always wait for them there, "Hi Griffin!" Finn exclaimed, "Bro you look horrible! Did you get some sleep?" Griffin said, not knowing that Finney actually had no sleep, he passed all the night thinking about Gwen, but he wasn't going to tell them, he didn't even tell them about his mom! They think that she is still alive! "Yeah don't worry!", Griffin looked at him with a disappointed look, "Let's go to class then.. " Griffin said, clearly knowing that Finney won't say anything.

Lunch came quickly, the only difference today was that Bruce was sitting at their table, he sat down with Billy and Griffin before noticing that Vance is giving him an odd look, "What?" Finney said, "Did Anyone tell you that you look like sh*t?"Vance answered, "All day." Finney replied rolling his eyes, "Gues-"

"No one cares."Griffin said, to annoy Billy.

"Well for anyone who isn't Griffin-"

"Griffin's right." Vance said entering the game. It was impossible for Bruce to hold his laugh, Finney just smiled, Suddenly he felt someone shaking him from behind, "Hey Finn! I didn't know you made friends?" Robin said as he sat down next to him, "And who are you?" Vance asked, clearly confused, "Finn best friend since kindergarten! 8 years to be more precise!" Robin answered, "Wait, you're the boy who broke Moose nose this morning!?" Griffin asked, looking exited, Vance seemed to be more concentrated, "He was talking bad." Robin said, "About who?" Billy asked, Robin stayed silent for a little bit, "Finn? Where is your plate?" Robin said, trying to change subject, "Oh, I am not really hungry!" Finney replied, Robin didn't buy his excuse at all, but Finn ready looked like a corpse so he didn't want to start anything, Finney got up, "Where are you going?" Bruce asked, "Bathroom." Finney answered, the other boy nodded and he began his way to the less known bathroom, He locked himself in the last stall, he than sat down and lifted his knees to his chest and his arms around his legs, he wanted to cry, did he really just abandoned his sister, he needed to see her now, he needed to see if she was ok right now, he couldn't wait any longer, but he would not, why? Because he could not.

He quickly got up, his legs were sore but he didn't really mind, he went back to the cafeteria to see Vance trying to strangle Billy, but everyone was laughing so he was kinda confused, as soon as he sat down he felt Robin put a hand on his shoulder, this time he didn't flinch, "You had a fight with Gwen?"Robin asked, "What! No never!" Finney replied, "Then what's wrong??" Robin looked kinda concerned, "Nothing, what's up with everyone?" Finney said, an uncomfortable silence fell on the table, "Oh and mama wanted to know if you want to spend the weekend with us since your alone the weekend.Ella odia cuando pasas tus fines de semana solo!", Robin said, "I have no idea what your friend was saying at the end but why do you spend weekends alone??" Griffin asked, "Oh uh my sister usually spend it with her friend and my dad prefer to stay out of the house."The table stayed silent.

The way to his house was long, but he saved Billy, and that's all he cared about, 1down 4 to go, it was all good until he saw the three persons he hated the most, Buzz, Matt and Matty, he ran to the opposite way, just like he was going to school, hopefully people will still be there, no one, Finney saw no one, He felt someone pushing him to the ground, kicks arrived right after, "Even you're OWN mother decided to leave you! What are you waiting to do the same? Like mother like son!" One of them yelled, he didn't care much about which one, he just knew that it was them, his eyes closed slightly, until he heard someone yelling, no two, wait three? "What the hell are you doing!?" The voice was....Vance voice, Finney might have passed out because when he woke up, he wasn't at school, where the hell is he!?, he sat up and quickly regret it, his body was sore, his head was aching and he didn't even feel his legs, "Don't move." Finney looked up at the voice, Billy was sitting on the floor, "Where am I ?" Finney asked, "Bruce house, those jerks didn't miss you." Billy answered, "I don't feel my legs..", "What about your head?.." The paper boy replied, "It hurt."

"They do that often?"

"Yeah...When they noticed that you and Griffin are always with me they waited for the perfect time."

"Fortunately Bruce was here to calm Vance down, he almost killed them!" Billy joked, Finney let out a small chuckle, "Oh and your sister is here! I didn't know she was friend with Bruce's sister!", Oh right, Finney forgot, "Can you tell her to come?" Finney asked, Billy nodded and made his way out of the room, he saw as the boy left and his little sister came, "Hey.." He said, "I had a dream, you were in a sort of basement a-and-!" She started before getting cut off by Finney, "Calm down Gwen." He said as he let out a small laugh, "Sorry..Well, you were in a place that looked like a dirty basement, there was someone with a horrible and bloody mask and he was with you! But after I woke up and...It didn't make any sense!" She said, Finney froze, how? Did she see the past or the future?..I mean Finney past of course, did The Grabber also remember, "Finn?", he snapped out of his thoughts, "Are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost!" His sister was snapping her fingers next to him, "Sorry, and do you think that this was a normal dream or?.." He asked, the girl looked down, "Same as mom's one..", Oh, "Anyways, how are you feeling?" She asked with an awkward smile on her face, "Horrible." He tried to joke, even if he knew that it was true, "You didn't tell your friends about mom, right?" She said, "No, I really don't want m-"

"Well if they do that mean that they aren't your friends Finn!" She said, it was more yelling than saying calmly, "Gwen please." He said,

"Sorry!"

"I should go, dad's gonna be mad and I don't feel like getting beat up again."

"But you can barely walk!"

He looked down, the silence was awkward, She left the room. Gwen has left the room.

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It's been almost two month and a half since what happened, the group has gone a little closer and Finney finally found his place...But his life still made no sense, he had to protect everyone but he couldn't protect himself, he had to kill a man, the only time he was finally going to live in peace was the day he got killed, but no...Finney Blake will never stay in peace, so he decided to finally be in peace after he had killed this monster, he will finally be free, who will care after all? He's friend with them just to save them, and they aren't really close plus Finney has trouble having any type of emotion toward anyone after he came back, probably because he have seen too much for his age.

"Finn!", Oh right, he forgot that they decided to hang out at the park, He asked everyone if they wanted to hang out because today was Griffin kidnapping date, Robin was calling his name, "Welcome back to the earth" Vance joked, "What do you think?" Billy asked, "Sorry, what was the question?"Finney replied, "What do you think about hanging out every Monday and Thursday!" Griffin asked, "Oh uh why not?" Finn answered, "Cool!" Billy replied, it was getting dark, so Vance decided to drive all of them to their houses, maybe he didn't show it, but Vance was really enjoying his time with them, it was the first real friends he has, and they accepted him for who he truly was, Finney leaves far from the park so he was the last one in the car, they had almost arrived to his house, the same house that he will never call a home, Vance has noticed everytime Finney winced, he also noticed the new mysterious and random bruises that he almost had everyday, so he decided to finally see what's going on in the Blake household, the air was thick, an uncomfortable silence filled the car, Finney didn't mind tho, "Can I enter inside? I am kinda thirsty." Vance asked, knowing exactly what he was doing, "Oh u-uhm su-sure!" Finney whispered, Vance thought that it was odd, but Finney has really good ears, it feel like he hears twice as much as a normal human so Vance brushed the thought off quickly, they arrived next to his house, he opened the door as quietly as possible, 'Oh hell no' Finney thought while slowly closing it, he had forgot to clean the house and the TV was on, it only means that his father was at home, they passed through a lot of empty alcohol bottles before reaching the kitchen, "Where is your mom?" The blond asked, he felt Finney fake smile drop, "Oh uh sh-she died some years ago." Finney answered with a blank expression, just like he had lost every single emotion that was in his mind, "Oh I am sorry for your loss." Vance replied, as he accidentally pushed a glass bottle with his foot, Finney eyes wided as he quickly pushed Vance in his room, "FINNEY BLAKE!?" The old man screamed, "I AM ASKING FOR FIVE MINUTE OF SILENCE! FIVE MINUTES ONLY!", Finney ears started to ring, he just looked at his father, dead in the eyes, "ANSWER ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU! AND DON'T YOU DARE TO BLOCK YOUR EARS OR STUTTER AT ME! I WISHED I HAD A REAL MAN INSTEAD OF YOU! LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON!" Finney felt his eyes water as a harsh slap fell on his cheek, he didn't stop the staring contest that he had with his father, before he heard a loud noise and liquid getting down his face his vision had gone blurry as his father left the house, he went to his room, locked the door and turned around to look at a shocked and disgusted Vance, "What the..." Finney felt as he was dragged by Vance out of his room and his house, he also felt as Vance laid him down on the car's back seats, he was empty, his ears where ringing and sore, they were bleeding for sure but he didn't mind, the car drove away, for some odd reasons, Finney knew where they where going as soon as they stopped next to a red and big and large house, Vance lifted the shaky Finney up, he was surprised about his weight, but after seeing what his father has done to him, Vance looked less confused, he knocked at the big house door, some minute after , he heard the door open to reveal a sleepy and tired Bruce, he blinked a few times before his eyes wided, he quickly let them enter, Vance laid Finn on the couch, "What happened to him!?" Bruce asked, concern present in his eyes, "Long story! Just bring you first aid kit and a tissue!" Bruce was quick to go, Vance was just looking at Finney, not wanting to trigger Finney any more, blood was going down Finney ears, probably because of all the screaming, Finney was shaking, his ears were ringing, could barely hear anything, "Here! My mom is coming!" Bruce said, he can't help but think about all the possibilities that could put him in this place, Bruce mother didn't wait longer to get down, her eyes wided as she made sigh of Finney, "Oh my god!", she quickly sat next to a half dead Finney, trying to clean him with a wet tissue.

Finney was now on Bruce bed , he was still shaking so Vance took a blanket and covered him with it, the two boys laid down next to him, Bruce was hugging him from one side while Vance was just holding his hand from that other side, he slightly closed his eyes, he was still kinda cold, he felt as Bruce lifted the blanked up, but he had saved Griffin, at least there was something positive.

The next day he woke up with Vance arm being on him and Bruce still hugging him, his body felt sore but his ears were no longer ringing, even if every single noise was hurting him, "Are you feeling better?" Bruce asked softly, Finney quickly blocked his ears and nodd, Bruce turned around to face his nightstand, he took something out and turned back to Finney, "Here." Bruce whispered, he was holding some cotton, Finney took it and put it in his ears, "Th-thank yo-you.." Finney winced, his voice was hoarse, "Are you hungry?"Vance said, Finney guessed they woke him up, Finney shook his head, "Ain't no way! You ate nothing since your half lunch yesterday!" Vance whispered, they all got up, Bruce and Vance went down the stairs while Finney tip toed them, "He's not here Finn." Vance tried to reassure Finney, "He will never hurt you anymore..", Finney nodded, they helped him going down the stairs and they sat on Bruce living room couch, "You're not returning there anymore." Vance said, "Wh-why!" Finney asked, shocked and confused, "He is hurting you Finn! Look at yourself! He doesn't even take care of you and you don't take care of yourself!" Bruce tried to convince him, Finney looked down, tears finally appears, Finney didn't fight them back, he was too weak for that, he got up but accidentally fell, fortunately, Vance and Bruce were quick to hold him, "I-I HATE TH- THIS!" Finney yelled as he stated sobbing, "Its al-alway me it-it's always my f-fault!", Finney was weak and miserable, and Bruce felt his heart sink at the thought, Vance was just confused, "Shhhh... You can take some of my clothes and change yourself upstairs..." Bruce said, they helped Finn to get up and he went upstairs, he took the outfit that covered the most of his skin, he went the the bathroom and as soon as he took his shirt off, Bruce entered the room, "Sorry! I am just gonna close the door...Yeah.." Bruce said but he froze for a moment, just like he had noticed something on Finn's body, "Bruce, the door." Finney said, "Sorry..", he closed the door and Finney turned, he froze, Bruce has probably saw the bruises and scars.

He went back down but heard whispers from the kitchen, "How the f*ck could he hurt a little kid Vance! The poor boy is only thirteen and he looks like he already saw everything!" Bruce whispered-yelled, "I am gonna fricking kill him." Vance answered, "I can't help but wonder what happened to his mom.."

"He just told me that she passed away some years ago"

"I understand why Finney wants to protect and take care of his little sister, or why is he so over protective toward others..But He needs to take care of himself! He barely eat nor sleep!"Bruce stated, "He need to get out of there.." Vance has calmed down, "I don't want to..", Finney over heard the conversation, "Sorry Finn..But you have to...He did horrible things to you.." Bruce tried to convince him, "And your sist-"

"She already ran away...I helped her with that..Mom also ran..." Vance got cut by an exhausted Finney, "If they did it than you can too!" Vance whispered, "The only way out my mom found was to kill herself, and in my opinion, I will prefer to end up like her." Finney said, coldly, Vance and Bruce eyes wided, Bruce opened his mouth to say something but he quickly closed it, Finney was starting to scare them, the way he said it was..Emotionless?..Vance gulped, he didn't expect this from Finney, he was one of the sweetest and happiest boy in the group, how could he let out something like this? "You're not doing it." Vance exclaimed, Finney let out a small laugh, but his eyes started to water and suddenly all his feelings hit him, his started to breath loudly before his knees made contact with the cold ground, "I c-can't...I just want to finally rest! I just want to die! Please just let m-me-" Bruce quickly ran to him and knelt down as he hugged him."You won't do this...You're not alone and we will never give you up.." ( N/A: NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU U-), Finney sobbed in Bruce's T-shirt, What he didn't know is that tears were going down Bruce cheeks too, "Even if you want to do it we will never let you..." Vance tried to reassure Finney, but he knew that it was just a waste of time and that Finney will take every single minute alone as an opportunity, "You're living with me." Vance exclaimed, "W-what?" Finney was confused, "You're living with me, just go back to you house to pack you stuff, you're living with me." Vance explained, Finney nodded and they helped him so he can get up.

The drive was quiet, they arrived next to his house, Finney got out of the car, "I will be waiting here, if something happen just scream as loud as possible." Finney nodded and turned around, he entered the house quietly, the man was here, he got to his room and locked the door behind him, He took a backpack and put every important thing in it, he didn't forget his antidepr*ss*nts, he went down the stairs just to see his father facing him, "You're leaving like them...right?" The old man said, He was surprised that his father was sober enough not to scream at him, "You actually care?" Finney asked, already knowing the answer, "I always did...I am sorry.." Finney walked past him, he had more serious problems to deal with, he slammed the door shut as he walked to the car, "Everythings ok?" Vance asked, "Perfectly fine!" Finney answered, "My parents has already agree for you to stay."

As soon as they arrived Vance parents greeted Finney and Vance showed him his room, he was now looking at his bottle of meds, he already had one in his mouth but...Maybe..Just maybe he could add some others?...

"Don't you dare to even think about it.", right, he was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't even notice Vance entering the room, "Give it to me, I will give you one every morning lunch and dinner respecting your schedule. I am not trusting you" Vance couldn't let Finney alone knowing what's on his mind, Finney rolled his eyes, "I wasn't gonna do it, I just zonned out on it.", Vance hummed in response, even if he wanted he couldn't do it now, he still had to save the others..

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"Alright now give it to me, I don't wanna find a dead Finney on my old bed." Vance Joked as he took the small bottle from Finn's hand and left the room, "Good night." He said as he closed the door.

Some hours have passed but Vance couldn't close his eyes, he couldn't let Finney alone in a room with a closed door after what he has told 'em, so he quietly got up and silently opened his door when he heard his parents soft snore, he walked through the hallway and faced a familiar door, Finney door, he opened the door, not wanting to wake the other up, but at his surprise, Finney was sitting up, he looked completely out, "Are you ok?" Vance asked, noticing that the lamp was on, "M' he-ead hur-hu-hurt.." The boy responded, "today was exhausting for you, even if you don't feel like it you can be too overwhelmed by something and its bad for you, just get some sleep." Vance turned around to bring some water and painkillers before he felt cold hands grabbing him from the arm, he turned around just to find Finney with an opened mouth, just like he had gone mute, Finney closed his mouth again before talking, "Ple-ase d-don't lea-leave " He stuttered, Vance looked at him for a second before sitting next to him, "Just close your eyes, I am right next to you." Vance reassured him, "Are y-you going to t-tell the others?" Finney said, trying to lay down in a position that didn't hurt him, Vance looked down, "Maybe, look, it's your choice. Do you want to tell them?" Vance asked, Finney shook his head almost immediately, "Then I won't, just go to sleep." Vance said, running his fingers through his hair and crossing his arms.

Finney drifted to sleep, so did Vance, but they unfortunately got woke up by the alarm clock, Vance quickly turned it off, when he turned around, he saw Finney sitting up, his cheeks were red, "Are you sure you can go to school?" The blond asked, Finney nodded and they both got up to change themselves and eat breakfast, Finney just said that he wasn't hungry and went upstairs to brush his teeth, Vance parents already left since they both work at 5am, they started their walk to school and Finney almost fell 6 times, when they arrived next to the school gate, all the boys were waiting for them, as soon as they saw Finney they all ran to him to hug him, Robin being the first one, Bruce might have told them about his 'Father', Finney winced in pain, his body still hurt and his head is worse. They all backed up and made their way to class, Finney had Math first so he sat with Robin.

Finney felt lost, he was red and felt like passing out, his head collided on his desk, "Finn? Are you ok?" Robin asked, "I don't kn-know, I-I feel we-weird.." Finney replied, Robin touched his forehead and his eyes wided, "You're burning! Why did you even come today! You clearly have a fever! Ask if you can go to the nurse office." Robin stated, "No I-It's ok, it's not that bad.", the Mexican boy looked down, he knew he won't win and didn't want to start an argument.

The lunch bell went off and everyone headed out of the class, Finney walked in the cafeteria looking for his friends, he noticed Griffin waving his hand at him, he smiled and went to the table, "Where are Vance Billy and Robin?" Finney asked, "Vance and Robin fought some random 8th grade students and Billy didn't do his homework, result is a lunch detention for the three!" Griffin responded fondly, Griffin and Bruce noticed the empty tray, but they didn't said it out loud, they knew that Finney didn't eat much, they will probably talk about this later, "You ok? You're as red as Griffin when he tried a to open a bottle of pickles." Bruce said, receiving a punch from Griffin, "Yeah..Robin said that I probably have a feve-" Finney got cut off by Bruce putting his hand on his forehead but immediately taking it off, "You're burning! Go to the nurse now." Bruce ordered, Finney hate hospitals or nurse offices, "No than-"

"At least eat your lunch or you will definitely faint."

"Ok!" Finney replied, putting a carrot in his mouth and quickly regretting it, the urge of throwing up grew in his stomach, "Oh and also, yesterday I went to the Grab n' Go to buy some groceries for my mom, and when I came out, my bike lock disappeared!" Griffin said, Finney turned pale, will The Grabber try to kidnap other kids? Cause he doesn't care if he failed, there are hundreds of children in the town, or even worse, will he try to kidnap his friends again? It doesn't matter if the kidnapping date pass, if he tried one time he can try another time, righ-

"Finn!" Fingers snapped next to his face, "Are you ok? We called your name and you didn't answer, I think you should really go to the nurse office!" Bruce said, concern in his eyes, "Uh no I just zoned out!" Finney answered, the lunch bell went off and Finney had science with Griffin, "Come on, Mrs.Brook hate late students as much as I hate her." Griffin sighed, Finney laughed and they headed to their class.

After all their classes, Robin decided to walk Finney to his house since Vance had a second detention, they were walking, the atmosphere was tense for Finney, he started to feel dizzy, his eyelid felt heavy, "Finn? Are you ok?" Robin clearly noticed Finney, "Uh n-not really." Finney mumbled before feeling his skin on the cold ground, as soon as his head collapsed with the floor, his eyes closed, Finney Blake has fainted weakly and miserably.

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Finney was in his kitchen, he had dough all over him and he was dancing as he watched his mother singing along her favourite song, Cherry Bomb by The Runaways, the song came out only some days before Finney found her, but it didn't matter, cause his mother was alive and he was happy.

Then he woke up.

He was in a blue roo- "How are you feeling?", Bruce asked, "Better but..What am I doing at yours?"Finney asked, clearly confused, "I just got out of school when I found you laying down with Robin trying to wake you up, he left some minutes ago tho.." Finney's slowly nodded along the words, "I told you to go to the nurse office."

"I hate the nurs-"

"Well you deserved it then!" Bruce stated, sticking out his tongue, Finney just rolled his eyes, "I guess you're hungry." Finney shook his head, "Not at all"

"But you only ate one carrot."

"And it's enough for me!" Finney smiled at Bruce as a sigh came out of the raven haired boy mouth, "Mom's making dinner anyways so you'ill have to eat, plus you're sick what am I even saying!" Bruce knelt down next to his bed, "I don't want to stay at Vance's house..I mean- he's parents are really nice and he is too but...I can't leave my house..I grew up there! I have all my good memories there even if I have some bad too.. " Finney didn't have the time to blink before he felt an arm on him, "I understand Finn...You have to get out of there and all but he is still your father....And it's still you're house." Finney made all that was in his possible to hold the tears that was threatening to fall, "How was you're mother?.." Bruce asked through a sniffle, Finney eyes softened, his brain directly went to the day he found her, but he pushed it off and tried his best to remember all.The good things about her, "She was...Happy.. And she loved him, no matter all the things he did to Her.." Bruce nodded to him as a sign to continue, "She taught to me how to bake and we used to dance and sing along her favourite songs! The last one was cherry bomb..it came out some weeks before her death, but I still listened to her as she sang it hundreds of times!" A lump was growing in his throat but he continued, "Everything started to go down when she started to hear and talk to people that didn't exist, dad started to get abusive over her, Everyone thought that she was crazy, and the psychologists told her that she was probably schizophrenic..After that, she slowly started to live in her own bubble." His voice started to crack, he felt as Bruce took his free hand to whip the tears off his face, Bruce was too sensitive, "One day, I came back from school, I never saw so much empty bottles in the house, Gwen was at school, father wasn't here either..there was a lot of shattered glass on the floor.." Bruce knew what was going to happen next, but he stayed silent, encouraging Finney to continue, he took his hand and wrapped their fingers together, Bruce's thumb was on top of Finney's one, he squeezed the sick boy hand slightly as Finney fingers went back and forth, his free hand made it's way to Finney's curl, he started running his finger through Finney hair, but this moment is quickly interrupted by the sound of a metallic object knocking on the kitchen floor, probably a fork or a spoon, Finney flinched so bad Bruce had to let go of him and hold his hands afterward, after a small time, Finney felt like continuing, "My head shot up to my parents bedroom, I still don't know why, the shattered glass seemed to multiply every time I blinked, Everything started to feel unreal, then I noticed blood on the entry of the room, I felt a knot in my stomach, I slowly made my way to it, and then I saw her..." Finney hesitated, he felt unsure if he wanted to continue, his eyes started to shuffle through every little corner of the room, he couldn't stop, panic started to shot through his veins, "Finney look at me.." The boy head quickly faced Bruce who was giving him a reassuring smile and started to rub circles on his hand, "You don't have to continue if you don't want to..", Finney shook his head, "She was still beautiful, even tho she was covered in blood, her arms were wide opened, laying on the not so white sheets, just like she was welcoming the death with open arms... " Finney looked down, he felt as Bruce started to shake, "Are you ok?" Finney asked, "This isn't about me Finney, are You ok?" Bruce insisted on the 'you', Finney thought for a moment, he had everything, but he still felt empty, he had no reasons to not be ok, so why was he so confused? "Yes I am, I am ok." No, Finney wasn't ok.."I am sorry." Bruce said, still looking down, "You were too young to see thi-" Bruce got cut off by the sound of a soft knock on the door, he got up to open the door, his mother, she seemed to whisper something to her son who nodded and went out of the room, she looked at Finney with a soft smile on her face, she approached him and sat on the edge of the bed, "Are you feeling better sweetie?" She asked, hE nodded, she slowly approached him and sat on the edge of the bed, "How is your head doing?" Finney looked at her, she had black straight short hair, her eyes were dark and her cheeks were pink, she wore a pale red lipstick and black eyeshadow, her smile was soft.

, "Kinda.." She looked at him with a sympathetic look, "Take! I am gonna bring you a glass of water." She gave him the pain killer before getting out of the room and coming back with a glass of water, he quickly gulped the medicine and water, "Thank you miss." Her smile wided, "No need to call me miss! Just call me Olivia!", Olivia left the room and Finney was now left alone.

Some minutes later Bruce came back, "Sorry! Mama ran out of flour!" Bruce quickly sat knelt down again, "It smells good!" Finney said, "I know! Mom always make a special dinner every friday! It's was my grandpa's favourite meal! So mama do it as a tribute!", Finney nodded, "I am sorry for your loss." Bruce smiled, "Its ok!".

Sometime later, Finney and Bruce were babbling about almost everything, "Boys dinner is ready!" Alicia called, Bruce helped Finney getting up before answering.

"Coming mom!"

"Take a seat!" A man was sitting there, Finney assumed that it was Bruce's father, Since it was friday, Amy wasn't here, her and Gwen usually have a sleepover every friday at Suzie, every time Gwen came back she talked about every funny things they did and how amazing Suzie's mom was, but Gwen lived there now, so he hoped that she was always happy now.

He sat next to Bruce, Olivia came back with 6 plates, she gave one to her husband, Jake, who thanked her, one to Bruce who did the same, she put two on two empty places and another next to her, she gave one to Finney who thanked her almost immediately.

Suddenly, someone knocked at the door, Olivia smiled and made her way to it. Vance entered followed by Veronica, Vance' mother, "Sorry if we're late! I had something to fix!" Veronica quickly apologized as she went in the bathroom to wash her hand and sat down at one of the empty places, Bruce sat next to here, he was meditating between Bruce and Vance, "Finney, are you feeling better? Vance told me that you were sick." Veronica asked, Finney nodded and she smiled brightly, tasting the delicious meal that was next to her, the diner was spent with laughing and questions.

When the dinner end, Finney followed everyone in the kitchen with his plate, when was out he did the dishes and placed them next to the sink to dry, when he was was going out of the kitchen when he found himself facing someone, the person looked old, him and Bruce had almost the same face, "Holy sh!t.." Finney muttered, the older seemed to be surprised, he was wearing a why button up with classic black pants, he looked kinda blurry and Finney could see through him, and it scared the sh!t out of him, Finnely, Finney's and Gwen's mother, was the only one that could see ghosts.

"You can see me?" The older started, Finney stand there, eyes wided, and he made one of the smallest nodd he'd ever done, "Y-yes..", The man looked at him for a bit, "You're one of my grandson friends right?", Finney nodded and the man had a bright smile on his face, "I am Mr.Yamada, Bruce's grandpa!"

"Aren't you supposed to be in the-... Other side?"

"I can't...I still need to find i-"

"Finney!" Bruce called him as Mr.Yamada fainted away, "I am coming!" Finney replied, coming back in the living room.

Some games later, Olivia came back from the kitchen with a confused look on her face, "who did the dishes?", everyone shook their heads, not everyone, everyone eyes were on the only person who didn't shook his head, "Finney, sweetie, did you do them?" Olivia had one of the softest look he ever seen, Finney tried not to wince at his name, and Bruce seemed to notice it since he put his hand on Finney's shoulder, "Eu-eum yes, d-did I do something wro-" "You're an absolute sweetheart!" And everyone started to laugh, Finney did not quit catch why but he didn't bother to ask, they were all happy and that's the only thing that mattered for the moment.

Bruce parents were the sweetest persons that ever existed, Finney wished to be in his shoes, but he couldn't, because he is and will always be Finney Blake, and if it wasn't from his parents, Finney doesn't think that Bruce will turn out the same, he would not be the sweetest and kindest person alive, so he was glad, jealousy wasn't a problem with Finney, he never had this feeling of wanting to change places with someone, he was the most selfless person anyone knew.

Finney decided to spend the night there, Vance also stayed, Finney explained that he still wanted how to his house Vance understood and told him that he could stay when his father wasn't there, and thankfully, his father was there only two or three days a week. "Hey guys, since it's Saturday tomorrow, wanna invite the others and hang out? I heard there's a new coffee shop in Ellsworth Avenue! We can take the bus since it's too far." Bruce suggested, "Why not?" Vance replied, opening a book from Bruce library before throwing it away, "Sure!" Finney answered fidgeting with his hand and glancing at Vance, the blond boy seemed to understand since he sat up and took his bag to get the bottle of medicines out before hanging it to him, Finney opened the bottle and swallowed the pill, "You can take it without water?" Bruce asked, confusion visible in his eyes, "Yeah, it's difficult at first but you get used to it easily after sometime." Finney gave the bottle back to Vance who istead of putting it back in his bag, he put them on the table that was behind them and watched as Bruce stood up to call Robin, Billy and Griffin to ask them, when he came back, a smile appeared on his face, "They have nothing to do so they agreed!", Finney smiled brightly, a yawn escaped his mouth, "I think we should sleep, it's getting late!" Bruce took a pillow before hugging it and collapsing dramatically one of the three matress that laid down on the living room ground, Vance rolled his eyes, and Finney just tried to find a comfortable position to lay down, and the painkillers effect might have died because Finney felt every single pain in his body every time he moved.

When he woke up, Bruce arms was on him and Vance wasn't there, he felt like there was dried tears in his eyes and he was shaking a little bit, when he turned around to face Bruce, the Asian boy was already looking at him with a wide smile, "morning!" Bruce took his hand off and answered, "Good morning Finney!", suddenly, the phone rang, "The phone is ringing." Finney stated, Bruce looked kinda confused, he tried to hear something but nothing,"Are you hearing the phone ringing?" Bruce asked, "Y-yeah.." Finney heard the phone ring, and it reminded him of the basement, it was the same ringing, the one of the missing kids, he turned to look at the phone, as soon as his eyes met it a strange person appeared next to it, a man, between 40 and 50 years old, he had a....mask?, "You really think you can kill me?" The man asked, even if his face was covered, Finney could see that he was smiling, he screamed, yes he will kill him, and he was going to do it again, and again, and againandagainandAGAINANDAGAINANDAGAINAN-

He blocked his ears to mute all the thoughts that seemed to get louder, his legs were pressed on his chest and he had buried his face in his knees, he squeezed his eyes, when he opened them the man was still here, he shook his head. "Finn! Hey I am here!" Bruce was trying to calm Finney down, "Yo-you ca-can s-see him-him ri-right!?" Finney asked, Bruce looked at where Finney was looking and again, nothing, Bruce panicked too, Vance was out to buy something, and he took his bag with him, so Finney medicines weren't here either, wait-

Vance did not put them in his bag, he put it on the table!

Bruce quickly turned around to face the table, the medicines were in a small orange bottle, so it wasn't easy to miss.

Bruce smiled proudly and felt relieved when he found it, he turned his head at Finney who was starting at someone that Bruce didn't quit catch, he opened the bottle to take one and give it to Finney, well he didn't really gave it.

He opened his mouth and put the medicine inside it before closing it again.

10 minutes later, Finney seemed to be calmed, but his eyes were still glued to the floor.."I am cr-crazy right?" He asked and felt Bruce getting closer to him, "You're not, ok", Finney nodded, the door opened and they were both met with Vance eyes, he had a confused look, but when he glanced at Bruce, he understood that he needed to brush it off, Bruce was probably going to tell him later anyways, "Get up its almost 12pm! We gotta meet up with the others at one." Finney and Bruce looked at each other before quickly standing up to go prepare themselves.

One hour seem to pass like nothing since now all the boys were in the bus station waiting for the bus to come, this was going to be a very good day..

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"It's here!" Griffin excitedly said, Billy quickly ran to be the first one in it, the others followed behind him, "the mall is not too far so we can maybe separate and-" "I will take Finn!" Billy grabbed Finney arm with a bright smile on his face, "Never mind I will explain there." Bruce sighed, "l never went to a mall before, I am exited!" Finney explained, "You never!?" Griffin was shocked, "Then today will be your lucky day since I always go there with my parents!/so I am a professional!"Billy stated with a proud look on his face, Finney just smiled and looked out, he only heard about the mall when Gwen came back from Suzie, she said that her friend's mom took them there and that it was big and shiny, and that there's everything you can dream about, it looked fun and Finney always felt happy to see that his sister was enjoying her life.

The bus stopped and they all went out, "Okay so I will go with Vance, Robin you can go with Griffin and as you can see Billy already reserved Finn, we meet up at 4pm next to the entrance!" Bruce explained, quit exited even if it was the 100th time he came here, Billy nodded, he took Finney arm and they didn't have the time to blink before the duo disappeared.

"So! What do you want to do?" Billy asked, holding Finney hand, "I don't kno-"."Let's go to the clothes side!" Billy excitedly said, dragging Finney with him as he ran, everyone gave them odd looks but Finney couldn't hide the smile that appeared on his face, he was surprised, he didn't wait for it to be that big, he thought that his sister was exaggerating and overreacting, but she definitely wasn't.

Finney looked as Billy showed him sweaters and shorts that will fit him, Finney shook his head, the scars from The Grabber were showing too much, and maybe Bruce knew about them (He only told Vance about the bruises.) But he didn't want other people find out about them, and Finney was so fricking thankful to Bruce, the fact that he decided to stay silent and let it as a secret only both of them knew was one of the most kind thing someone did to Finney. Billy didn't insist much, but then he saw it, a black and oversized sweatshirt with a moon on the top right, everything that Finney love, "Look at this!" Finney looked at Billy and took the sweater, "Go try it on!" Billy took Finney arm once again before rushing to one of the fitting room and getting out of it, letting Finney alone, and he (Finney) hated it, the fact that he need to take off his shirt not knowing if someone is looking at him or not, but he did it anyways.

"Oh my god! It fits you SO well!!!!" Billy excitedly said, "I don't know, it's expensi-"

"I am getting it for you!"

"Bu-"

"Nonsense!"

Finney stayed silent, but he smiled at him as a 'thank you', Billy winked at him and let Finney go change back in the fitting room.

"Finn!" Finney turned around, his eyes wided as he felt two arms around his waist, "Hey Gwen, what got you here?", his little sister had tears in her eyes, they haven't seen each other in a while now, "Suzie and her mom like al-always.." She let out a quiet sob. Billy was looking from behind, with a sad smile on his face, "And you, what brought you here?" She was confused, ",I came here with my friends-"

"You have friends!?"

"Yes I do!", she chuckled, "I thought that ne and Robin were your only friend!" She still couldn't wrap her head on the fact that Finney has friends, he rolled his eyes and let go of the hug, "Hello Finney!" A tall woman with brown and long hair appeared from behind, "Hello Mrs.Smith!" She smiled, "How many time am I supposed to tell you, just call me Cassandra!", Cassandra was Suzie's mother, a real angel, she was kind, sweet and pretty, her eyes were blue and her skin was a little bit darker than Suzie's, "I am sorry Finney but we have to go!" Finney nodded and hugged Gwen one last time before he saw them leave.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned his hand to be met with Billy comforting smile. They went to the check out and find out that they have spent one hour and a half there and that they needed to join the others.

"Wow, you bought all the store!" Bruce asked, "No! I only bought a short two T-shirts and a sweatshirt for Finn!"

"That's a lot!" Griffin stated, Billy stuck out his tongue at Griffin and everyone laughed.

They walked through the street, and something caught Finney eyes, a dog clinic, but it wasn't the clinic that caught Finney attention, but the showcase, there was a paper on it to it, he read it and read, 'Hiring workers.', it was perfect, he wouldn't say no to some extra cash, plus needed money if he didn't want to starve in his house, "Wait a minute!" He said to his friends before entering the clinic, behind the counter was a middle aged man, between 45 and 50 years old, "Good morning!" Finney greeted him politely, "Hello dear! Can I help you?" The man looked sweet, he smiled almost as soon as the door bell went off, "Oh u-uhm actually, I am here because of the paper outside!"He cringed at the stutter and hoped that the older didn't notice it, "Aren't you too young for this? How old are you?" He asked, "13 sir but I already have experience with customers! And I already made odd jobs in the past." Finney almost begged, "Alright kid, I only said yes because I am desperate and I can't stand working here alone." Finney smiled at him, "Come back here in...3 days? Is that ok with you?" Finney did his best to hide his excitement, "Yes, I am always free! Thank you sir.", the owner nodded and he went out of the clinic.

"Why did you enter?" Robin asked walking closer to him, "I never said no to some extra cash and this was the perfect occasion!"

"And what did they say?"

"He told me to come back in three days!"

Robin nodded and they joined the others. The walk was loud, I mean, 6 teenagers alone in a city, Griffin and Billy were arguing on which milkshake flavour was the best, Robin was explaining how and why he hated Moose with Vance and the Blond boy agreed on everything, and Bruce was lecturing them on why is it bad to fight others and that they will be in a lot troubles, Finney was just watching them, that's how they were supposed to stay, alive, and Finney will make sure of that, even if he looses his life, "What are you thinking about Finn?", Finney didn't even notice that Bruce has left the others to stay by his side, "Nothing much." He smiled at Bruce who smiled in return. They arrived to the coffee shop and sat down at a table, it was big inside, the tables were white with blue points and the wall was from a petty blue sky, there were round windows with butterflies and flours next to them, Vance fake gagged, "What's up this time?" Bruce sighed, "This place make me want to puke butterflies." Vance complained, they all rolled their eyes.

Time passed quickly, they paid and went out. They were all walking back to the bus station, but something made Billy feel uncomfortable, and then he saw it, a black van with a big green 'Abracadabra' sticker, "Hey guys, uhh..Don't you think that this van thing is suspicious?", they all looked at where Billy was looking, and Finney felt sick, he still doesn't know how he didn't throw up yet, he felt dirty and dizzy, his vision was getting kinda blurry and the more he looked at the van the more he felt ill, "Finn you ok?" Finney vision got better, he got pushed out of his thoughts by Griffin, "Yeah.. I-I just zoned out!", Griffin was sceptical and he shot one last suspicious glance at him before nodding. "Its probably some random magician, those are creeps." Vance said, They all nodded and continued their way. Finney didn't talk during all the rest of the walk, he just got more paranoid, how did he find them? Was he stalking one of them? Did it mean that he needed to go to the Grabber himself to protect his friends? Who knows?

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It was never that bad, usually the only nightmares that he had were just about his past experience with the Grabber, but this night it was new, it was like he kidnapped all of them, on different dates, and they all died, and it happened all over again, he was the only survivor because the Grabber wanted to see him suffer. He saw all his friends getting kidnapped, one after one.

He woke up sweating, it looked like someone just poured a buck of water on him, but then he felt like someone was watching him when he turned around to face his window he froze, it was opened, the curtains were wide open as well, and without knowing why, his eyes made their way to the opposite side of the road, a man with a black suit and black hat, with what looked like a red turned and classic black pants with normal black shoes.

Finney felt the man looking at him, he quickly closed his window loudly since no one was at home, he pushed his curtains to the middle to make sure that no one could look through it.

He couldn't close his eyes, he hardly blinked, he was shaking, how did he find him? He should tell someone and even if groupthink that he is crazy at least he is safe, he opened the door and tip toed down the stairs, he took the phone to call someone, someone who be will always be grateful for, "If this is some kind of sic-" "Robin." Finney cut Robin off, "Finn? Is everything ok? Are you hurt?", Finney looked at the wall, he didn't know how to explain, but he went for a simple and not worked explanation, "Someone is watching me." ,"What? Ho-"

"Robin someone is fricking watching me and I don't know if I am getting paranoid or anything but I can clearly see him looking at me through his sunglasses, I don't know I-I am sure I closed the window and the curtains last but when I woke up it was open an- "

"Finn, Breath! I am coming, give me 2 minutes!"

Finney hung up, he stood still, was the Grabbed looking at him like that before his kidnapping? Probably.

He heard a soft knock on the door, when he opened it he met the worried and tired eyes of Robin, "Are you ok!?" Robin asked and Finney nodded, he pointed his finger at the door upstairs, Robin went first before been followed by Finney, he opened the door and headed to the window to slowly push the curtains, his eyes wided when he saw nothing, no van, no shadow, no one, no creepy eyes looking at you, nothing.

"H-he was here I swear! I am not crazy, I really saw him he was standing ther-" Finney tried to convince him but Robin just shushed him, "It's ok Finn.. I believe you, and I will stay here all the night if you feel more safe.. " Finney nodded and laid back on his bed.

Finney was sleeping, and Robin was looking at him, with sad and worried eyes, Finney was never like that, he never had a breakdown next to him or anyone else, he never told anyone when he was sick and tired, but now he would easily cry, even if he tries not to do so, and he is getting more weird, he would scream alone or start shaking for no reason, he doesn't want anyone to touch him or call him Finney and stopped wearing T-Shirts and shorts, Robin also discovered that Finney has been skipping meals but s decided to stay silent, but what freaked Robin the most was the fact that he was slowly becoming like his mother, her last few months started like that, and Robin will never forget the worried face that Finney held everyday, but the day Finney found her traumatized him the most, imaging finding your mother dead on her bed, he also looked paranoid, always watching behind his shoulder or freezing when an engine is too loud, Robin sighed.

Finney was going to visit his mother today, he needed to, but something else bothered him, Robin, he had being ignoring him all day, he didn't say with him in math and avoided him in the hallways, so as soon as he saw him, he grabbed his arm and headed to an empty classroom

"What?" Robin asked

"Why are you like.. Ignoring me! Since last night.." Finney already regretted opening his mouth, but he couldn't stop.

"I am no-"

"Th-then what!? You're avoiding me! Am I going crazy!?"

"No Finn it's not tha-"

"Then it's what!?"

"Can you shut up for a moment!? I am worried ok?! You're like feeling and looking bad! And freaks me out because I don't know what to do to make you feel better and I hate it! And I am afraid you will slowly getting worse and maybe like your moth-" Robin stopped, noticing the tears in Finney's eyes, "Finney... I didn't mean to I am sorry!" Robin tried to hug Finn who just to pull away, the only persons who told him to shut up was his father or the Grabbed, but never Robin, and he was the last person Finney wanted to loose after Gwen, and he didn't know why is he trying to pull away from Robin hug, "Let me explain ok?" Robin pleaded, "G-go ahead."

"With the help of Griffin and Bruce, I learned and saw with my eyes that you have been skipping meals, that you scream sometimes and start to sob alone! You were never like this! What happened to my Finn!?"

Finney looked down, not knowing what to say, his eyes were kinda puffy and red, "If you don't trust me enough to tell me what's going on then talk to me when you feel ready." Robin said, passing next to the boy, touching his shoulder.

Wow, Finney really screwed up this time, he lost his best friend while trying to save him. As soon as the boy left the door, Finney wiped his eyes with one of his Shirt's sleeves.

He went out and headed to his next class, unfortunately, a student had the amazing idea of putting his foot next to Finney, the poor boy tripped on it, noticing everyone laughing and calling him names, now Finney definitely wanted to die. He ran from that hell toward the school gates, not really giving attention to any teacher calling his name, all he did was get out of the school and sprinting toward his house, great, he has lost his best friend, he got embarrassed next to everyone and now he has a bruise on the cheek. Wonderful.

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Finney knelt down next to his closed door, his dad wasn't here today, and the two whole week after as well. Finney remembered when his dad talked about a work trip he had to do for his work.
He felt like throwing up, tears slid down his face like a river, his eyes were wide open and he was holding his mouth, trying to slow his breath, he was now sitting with his back at the door and and his legs were stucked to his chest.
He never had a real fight with Robin, not a serious one, Robin never walked past him like that, he never yelled at him, but after all, who would blame him? Finney was just a coward, he always ran away from his problems and he was selfish, Finney was never meant to be a man, he was never meant to be loved by his friends or his family, Gwen didn't ran away because of their father, but more because because of him, he was too self confident and couldn't take care of her and him at the same time , so he took s better care of himself.

But , what Finney didn't know is that he never took care of himself, as Robin said, he barely eat, he has a bad, a very bad self care problem, but Finney always hide, the only persons who didn't saw him cry were Billy and Griffin, and if he ever cries next to them that means that he really needs help.

He didn't go to school the whole week, he drank water but he couldn't eat anything, he didn't even sat on his bed, he spent the whole days on the ground, back facing his average door, he still hold it inside him, even though he wanted to puke so bad all the week, he looked like utter sh!t, he felt dirty, his hair was greasy and messy, his eyes were red and puffy, it was worse than usual.
A soft knock on his window got his attention, he got up, with shaky legs, he could fall at any moments, he pushed the curtains away just to be met with Griffin's face, he had a soft smile that soon fainted when he met Finney's eyes, Finney opened the window and quickly sat on his bed trying not too fall backward, his legs were too shaky.
"Finney!? Hey..What happened?" Griffin asked , worry filling his voice.

"I- Nothing. Wh-what are y-you eve-even doing he-here?.." Finney voice was hoarse and barely understandable.
"The others were worried about you.. Robin already told us about the fight." Finney chuckled.
"Ri-right...i am sorry for bein-being that self-selfish, id-idiotic and path-pathetic pers-person that I a-am.."
Griffin just stood there, dumbfounded by the statement.
"No Finn, you are not.. And he has no right to be mad at you!" Griffin tried to reassure him.
Finney tried to get up but he quickly collapsed back on the bed, Griffin was going to help him but Finney signaled to him not to touch him, this time he couldn't hold it anymore, he ran to the bathroom locking the door behind him, he fell on the floor, barely able to move his head, he was alone alone alone alonealonealonealoenealonealoenealonealone ALONEALONEALONEALONEALONEALONEALONE.
He heard fainted knocks on the door, but it wasn't like normal knocks, but more like someone chasing him and trying to open the door, Finney just laid down, he threw up on the floor and closed his eyes, Robin being his last thought.

When he woke up he was no longer in the bathroom but in his room, he recognized the stairs stickers on the ceiling, next to him was Griffin but also another person, oh... Vance? What is he doing here?
"I suggest you not move." Right, Vance probably saw him looking, "Wha-what are you do-doing here?"
"What do you think I am doing here, you locked your damm bathroom door. Griffin called me to break it." Vance answered, he was clearly upset, Finney just nodded, not finding his words. He was too much of a burden to his friends, and he hasn't even saved Vance yet.
And that's what he couldn't tell Robin, that he was in this state because of all the kidnapping sh!t, but he couldn't tell him, but it doesn't matter cause now Robin will never talk to him ever again because of his stupid behavior, and that it's the worst thing that could ever happen to him was to loose him.

"Here, take it!" Griffin handed him an apple, Finney took it, knowing well that he hadn't put anything in his mouth the whole week.
"I think you should talk to him, he was a total jerk to you, but he is worried..and we all are." Griffin stated "Why are you guys worried about me! I am fine!" Finney smiled, but Vance just shook his head, "I don't think that locking yourself in the bathroom, not eating for a week or even taking antidepressants at your young age is fine or even healthy." Finney just looked down at his apple, before throwing it on the wall like a baseball, it almost broke the wall, Vance who was sitting with crossed arms was now in a sitting position, looking at Finney with wide eyes, "just fking leave me alone.. " Finney muttered, he doesn't usually swear, he never did next to his friends, Griffin just held Finney arm, rubbing it with his fingers, "Hey Finn.. It's ok! You just need to eat.. Don't throw it like that!" Griffin was anxious, he never saw Finney like that, the only people that could really help Finney calm down were Billy, Bruce, Robin and mostly Gwen, his three friends helped when he was getting anxious, when he had panic attacks or when he was sick or fainted, what oddly happened a lot, but Gwen would help with the food, the mood or even his mental health, he would calm down just by seeing her coming.
"LET ME ALONE!" Finney didn't stutter this time, Griffin tried to hold him from one side and Vance was getting concerned, Finney started to cry as he pulled his hair, Vance couldn't hold himself anymore, he just took Finney arms making the poor boy fall backward, he held his arms even if Finney protested, and hold them behind Finney's back, the other started to scream and cry and Griffin was shaking, he never saw Finney like that, and he hated it, now he understand why they always stay by his side.
"Finne-"
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"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!" Finney shook his head trying to hit it with anything near him, but Vance was too strong for him, "Shh.." Vance never sounded like that before, his voice never sounded that soft, Griffin stopped shaking, he was trying to hug Finney to calm the boy down, and that didn't seem to change a big thing, "Look at me. " Griffin tried to reassure the boy, but he gave up and went down to Grab Finney's home phone

Robin home phone started to ring, his mother was busy cooking and his uncle was sleeping, he walked toward it,
"Arellano residence, do you need som-"
"Robin , it's Griff-Griffin"
"Hey, is everything ok?"
"n-no nothing's ok! Please come to Finney's house! I think he i-is like doing an outburst or something- please come fast!"

Robin immediately hung up and started running, as fast as possible.

When he arrived there, he heard fainted cries and screams of pain, and his heart sank when he heard that, the fact that it was his fault, that if he didn't walk away last time Finney would have been fine, but no, he always needed to make the others feel bad.

The window was already open, and the screams were getting louder, when he saw through the window he saw Vance, he was holding Finney, in a quite painful way, and next to him was Griffin, he entered by the window and closed it, he rushed next to Vance, "Hey buddy everything is ok!" Robin said, smiling at him, Vance let go of Finney who hugged Robin, "I am sorry Rob-Robin... I am so sorry.. " his screams were getting too loud, that even Finney himself let go of Robin to block his ears with his arms, still trying to pull his hair, Robin just hugged him, putting his hand on Finney's mouth, he never did this before, god.. What happened to his Finney.
"Shhhh... Stop pulling your hair! I am here ok.. I am here.." Finney kept kicking everywhere he could.

Griffin decided that he could be useful for one time, His mother worked with kids from his age, and some patients were autistic, and what Finney was doing looked like an outburst, and usually it was because they were overwhelmed, and Griffin knew that Finney was.

Griffin pushed Robin and Vance, he dragged them out of the room, he locked the door and opened the window, "Is that better?" Griffin asked, Finney started to calm down, the right thing to do is to stay at least 5 feet away from the person, letting space for them to breath.

Finney fell asleep for the first time in four days.

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He went out of the bathroom, he took a cold shower to try to wake himself up even tho Vance broke the lock, but it didn't bother him that much, everyone left, well not everyone, Griffin was still here.

"Hey Finn! Uh I just tried to find some random food in your kitchen and made you this! " Griffin said with a shy voice, Finney looked down at the boy before looking at a not too bad looking sandwich. "Thank you." He mumbled, "Your welcome! Eat it before it gets cold!"

They sat in silence and Finney eventually ate, but then something hits him, he completely forgot about the interview he had with the guy from the dog shelter, "Hey Griffin, remember about last week, when we went to the city?" Finn asked and nodded, half confused "Well I entered to that dog shop to actually try to get the job, but I completely forgot about it and know I am probably never gonna ge-" Before Finney could continue Griffin already grabbed him by the hand and started running out of the house, "I think that there's a bus in ten minutes! I read it when we came here last week, if we run fast, we can reach it in time!" Griffin said, and Finney nodded, trying to run as fast as possible.

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"I thought that I would never see your face again kid." The owner of the store teased.

"Sorry sir, I had a kinda hard week, even tho I know that you don't really care- Sorry I am too annoying- Oh god I should just shut up." Finney was awkward, too awkward.

"Its ok, uh what is your name again?"

"Finney Blake sir." Finney felt nauseous at the mention of his own name.

"Well Finney, I don't really think I have the choice, I will let you this day to prove yourself"

The owner gave him an apron with the logo of the shop, explained to him most of the things and went to the back of the store, Finney stood behind the counter, waiting for someone to come.

RING

RING

Someone entered, followed by a dog, an old and scary looking black dog, a familiar one When Finney looked up he felt his stomach drop, his eyes widen and he froze, he felt like he couldn't move, nor talk, this feeling was familiar, he felt like this whenever his dad gets angry or when he have to speak up in a class. But he wasn't at school, and he wasn't at his house, the person wasn't a teacher nor his dad, black mask (The same mask that we wore in 2019- 2020- 2021- 2022), long gray hair, sunglasses, and eyes that will forever make him want to throw up, the person next next to him was the only one who really made his life a living hell, The Grabber.

"Hello young man!" The creep greeted him.

"Hel-Hello sir can i-i help you with anything?" Finney wanted to slap himself, he sounded weak and pathetic, and he was probably was. "Yes, I was wondering if I can let my dog here for one week? I will be to busy to take care of him." The older laughed, and Finney found that disgusting, how can he look like this, like someone normal, and it was horrible, your friend can be a psycho, your neighbour can be a psycho, you're teacher, you're bully, you're father, you're mother, you're sibling everyone! They are just hidden somewhere, and logically The Grabber isn't The Grabber since the the kidnapping thing didn't happen yet. "Yes sir, you'll just need to tell when you'll go and come back and some extra informations about your dog." Finney sounded more professional than scared this time, he was more able to control his emotions.

"Great! I will come back in maybe one week to make sure everything's perfect!" That's when it hits Finney, Vance is supposed to be missing in one week, so The Grabber won't really be in holidays, he was probably just planning something to get Vance, and trust me, Finney will never, and I say never give one of his friends up and just admit that he lost against the Grabber, he will kill him one day or another, and his guilt of killing an innocent man (not so innocent, but the kidnappings aren't supposed to happen, so Finney is sure that people will find him crazy or even schizophrenic, like the time he saw 'Bruce's Grandpa' or even all the kidnapping thing!) And he will probably take his own life, But he had to save his friends first.

The man turned around to leave, but as soon as he reached the door, he turned his head toward Finney, eyeing him up and down before nodding to himself and even if he wore a mask, Finney will never un see the disgusting smile that he (Albert) made.

Some hours passed and he had to bath three dogs and feed the rest. He had a little bit of soap in his hair and the bottom of his shirt was soaked, but he loved animals, especially dogs.

He was leaning against the counter top, clearly exhausted, "Tired?" Finney flinched so bad he almost fell, the owner, who appeared from the back door, didn't mean to scare the younger boy, "Oh sorry, You did an amazing job kiddo! You can have a thirty minutes break, no one usually comes at 5pm."

"Yes sir'"

"Just call me Mark, I am not that old!" Mark laughed and Finney chuckled.

Finney went to the back of the store, and it was pretty big, there was a small garden behind a door that was open, a white couch and a black and round table, there was a lot of papers on it, a packet of cigarettes and a picture of Mark that most likely was his wedding day, he was in a black suit with a white flower on it, he had short curly black hair, his eyes were blue and his smile was soft and happy, it reminded him of his mom, her smile was always true, well..not always, but most of the time, it was soft and she liked to show her white teeth.

The other person in the picture that Finney guessed as his wife, had blond straight hair, her eyes were hazel, her smile was shy, and she wore a white puffy and long dress, she was chubby and her cheeks were pink.

Finney smiled at the picture, he was happy as soon as someone else is happy, he can be on one of the worse days he ever had, just seeing someone smile can lift his mood up.

"You like it? Well maybe I am old after some reflections!" Mark was leaning on the door frame, Finney didn't realise how much time he stood there, watching the picture, "Is that your wife?" He asked, "Yeah..She was, one of the most wonderful and kindest woman I've ever met.." Finney noticed the use of 'was', "Yeah, she had a car accident.."

"I am sorry for your loss.."

"That's ok, you know, people come and go, that's how life works.."

Unfortunately, Finney knows Damn well that people came and went without a good bye, Finney sat on the couch, looked down at the table, the owner took a cigarette put of the packet on the table, he took a lighter and Finney knew the rest, his dad used to smoke in the house next to Gwen and him.

His first day was actually pretty good, the owner was proud of him, he gave him his phone number to give him his schedule. Finney decided to walk back to his home, it was far but he liked to walk.

Finney felt nauseous, he felt just like he couldn't move, his knees felt weak, and his head was pounding, his vision became blurry.

His eyes were wide open and they started to water, screams of pain filled his ears, next to him, was his house, the place he grew up in, where he had his best and worse memorises, becoming ash in less than a second, his house was on fire, apparently his dad came back earlier, he was screaming for someone to help him, Finney started to scream to the neighbourhood to help him, some seconds later, Mr.Lusiaka, an old man, came running to Finney, calling the 911, the younger boy fell on his knees.

After that, everything happened to fast, the 911 came, two fire fighters lifted him up, taking him to the back of their fire truck, they asked what happened but Finney stayed silent, they told him if he had family near and he just gave Vance's phone number since he was the only adult in the group with Bruce behind.

"Hey that ok...Everything's ok buddy.." Finney was sobbing in Bruce shoulder, Vance tried to reassure him, neither of them knew what happened, they just saw Finney house falling apart and fire fighters, "H-he wa-was in th-the ho-hou-se! An-and I couldn't he-elp him!" Vance and Bruce looked at each other, "Let's go home.. I think you need some rest..." Vance said, lifting the crying boy up before putting him down and putting an arm on his left shoulder and between his right arm and chest to help him walk, Bruce just held his hand, he put him on the passenger seat and sat at the back, Vance entered last, he was talking to one of the fire fighters, "Do you think there's a chance for his dad to...You know?" He asked, even if he already knew the answer, "I am sorry sir, but I think that the chances are really low, I will let you know if anything happens." Vance nodded before turning around and entering the car.

When they arrived to Vance's house, They helped Finney get out of the car and going up the stairs to his room, he laid on the bed, covering himself, he was shaking, and his look was blank, he regretted everything, he regretted when he made his dad angry and upset, when he didn't listen to him, and he hated how he walked past him when he tried to apologize, but he will never forgive himself for letting him alone in his mess and addiction and running away, not trying to help him nor talk to him, and he always loved him even if he had beaten the sh!t out of him for making one single noise, he was still his dad, how was he supposed to tell Gwen, is she going to hate him? For not taking care of their father? The thought made him wants to cry harder, he felt a comforting hand on his back, rubbing circles on it, the smaller boy closed his eyes slowly, letting himself being carried far from all this mess.

Vance made sure Finney was sleeping before smiling and leaving the room, closing the door.

The screams of his father were turning around in his head, the sound of his house burning, and all the pictures and money flying away, when woke up, he heard someone talking, he went out of his bed and slowly went down the stairs, just to hear Vance talking on the phone, Bruce wasn't here, so he just guessed that he left.

"Yeah...Right, I will tell him.. Thank you.." Vance hung up, "He didn't m-make it..hm?" Finney asked, the Blond sighed and shook his head, "I am sorry.." Vance whispered, some seconds later, the door opened, to reveal Cassandra, Vance's mother, "Awhh sweetie.." She hugged him tightly, "I saw what happened on the news...I am so sorry!.." She let go of the hug, glancing at Vance and at the kitchen, he nodded and followed her.

"I think all of your friends saw what happened on the news like I did, do you think it's gonna be more comforting for him if they came?" She asked.

"I don't know, maybe? Or is it gonna be more overwhelming for him? Let's just try and hope for the best, I am sure there's someone he probably want to see right now." His mother nodded, he headed to the phone.

Finney glanced at the clock, it was already 11 pm, he sat on the couch, his eyes were red and puffy, his lips were dry and his vision was still a little blurry, he had nothing left, the things he cared the more about were gone.

Some minutes later, Finney heard knocks on the door, and lots of foot steps coming toward him, when he looked up, he saw all his friends, but he also saw Robin, maybe he forgave him? Who knows.

Finney just stood up, he looked at his friends who all moved their head toward Robin, so the smaller boy just hugged him, and Robin did the same, "I am sorry..." The Mexican boy apologized, Finney shook his head.

They all went upstairs, they talked about everything they could talk about, well not really everything, there was no way they would talk about Finney house and what happened to it. They just tried to have a nice time even when the worst was happening.

"I am not following you, there is no way people can hate cheese!" Billy complained and Bruce rolled his eyes, "But I don't like cheese." Griffin said, smiling at himself, "I am talking about human beings not trash." Griffin made a look of face offence and Billy mimicked the action.

They all ended up asleep, Robin was laying down next to Finney, Griffin and Billy slept next to the window, Vance and Bruce were next to the door.

Terrance Blake got buried next to his wife, Finley Garcia/Blake. 1926-1978.

Finney got déjà vue, he was holding Gwen's hand, she was crying and he was just staring at the grave, this time tho, he wasn't alone, all his friends and their parents came to help him.

White flowers were put on the two graves, Finney swallowed hard as he backed up, he sat on the grass, tears threatening to fall from his eyes, He felt a hand on his shoulder, when he looked up he saw Robin smiling at him, it was a sad smile but Finney's tears disappeared, "Come on Finn..get up.." Robin helped him get up and they all hopped on the mini Van that Sam (N/A : Griffin's dad if y'all forgot) have.

They all went to Bruce's house, they were in his room, talking and messing around with books, "Hey Vance, can I talk to you in private?" Vance looked confused but nodded and got up, they left the room and Bruce closed the door behind them.

"Finney looks lost..Did he eat anything in the three previous days?" Bruce asked, concern in his voice, "Look I tried ok-"

"Vance he is starving himself! The first thing I told you to do if you wanted him to stay at yours is to watch after him! How many times he eat and make sure that he doesn't throw up!" Bruce whispered-yell, "I am sorry but i don't know what to do!"

"And everything that happened with his house and his dad did everything even worst! Now he's an orphan and he would soon be given away to another family and maybe it won't even be-!"

"Calm down Bruce, let's just focus on the first problem."

"Yeah right.... You know what? I am gonna call him."

Vance didn't even have time to reply before Bruce was gone.

He came back with Finney, looking confused, "You wanted to to talk to me?"He asked.

"Are you ok?" Bruce demanded.

"Yea-"

"Finn, we're serious."

"But Bruce I am o-"

"Look Finn... I think you need some serious help, I don't think you processed everything that happened yet.."

"I don't need help! I am perfectly fine!"

"Finney you are starving yourself!" Bruce snapped, without thinking, he quickly regretted it tho, "Finn..", tears started to show up in Finney's eyes and his lips started to shake, "I can't..I can't do it..." Finney felt on his knees, tears slid down his cheeks, they sat down next to him, Finney buried his face in Bruce's chest, "Shh.. You're not going through this alone...." Bruce Rubbed circles on his back, the rest of the group came out of the room, "Why are you guys taking so lon-" Giffin cut himself off when he saw the three boys, "Oh.." Billy ran you hug Finney, they all joined the hug, the stayed like this for some minutes that felt like an eternity, "Finn, you gotta eat something ok?" Robin asked, knowing that Finney won't refuse if he is the one to ask.

Bruce took some bread out of the cupboard and some cheese from the fridge, he decided that it was a good thing to start with.

Finney looked at his food, a little bit sceptical, but he took one bit anyways, it wasn't that bad, he did want to throw up but it wasn't as bad as usual, maybe he was really hungry, what stressed him out was everyone looking at him, it was uncomfortable, but he knew that his friends just wanted him to stay safe, he couldn't blame them since it was what he was actually doing, that's why he travelled back in time after all, it was for them to stay safe.

Thinking about that, Vance's kidnapping was two days away, and he needed to go to school the day after, and he wanted to stop thinking and just let it go, but he couldn't.

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Everything was too much for Finney, maybe he said that he was fine and he truly believed that he was, but deep down he knew that something inside him was broken, and that could never be fixed.. But at least he tried, did he?

BEEP
BEEP
BEEP

Finney sighed, everyone left the night before, and today was the day, he needed to go back to school, he sat up, looking around, he still wasn't in his room, he heard a knock on the door, Cassandra appeared from behind, she worked later today, "Oh you are awake? Good morning! I will let you prepare yourself." Cassandra smiled brightly before closing the door once again, Finney jumped out of the bed, at least he managed to save some sweatshirts and pants.

He went downstairs, putting his shoes on, he noticed that Vance's mom already left. He put his school bag on, waiting for Vance to get out of his room.

Vance finally came out and Finney sighed in relief, "What took you so long?" He asked, the Blond rolled his eyes, "I am not used to go to class in time." Vance replied, taking his bag from the ground and putting his shoes on, "Let's finish with this day already." Finney said as he got up from the couch.

As soon on as Finney entered the school everyone started to look at him, and that made him extremely uncomfortable, even tho Vance was giving them death stares.
"Hey Finn!" Griffin rushed toward them, followed by Billy and Robin, "Hi guys!" Finney responded, they started their walk to class, he (Finney) had English with Billy.

They entered the classroom and sat at their tables, a student passed next to Finney whispering 'Orphan' loud enough for him to hear it, Finney looked down, Billy, who saw and heard everything, frowned his eyebrows and got up, "Wanna repeat that dumba**?" He snapped, and Finney couldn't hide his smile, smile that soon turned into a laugh after seeing the bully reaction to Billy that was looking at him up and down clearly confused by the sudden mood change, but he decided to turn around and join his seat, he would look like an idiot if he responded, and he already was one.
The teacher entered and soon noticed Finney, she gave him a pity look, the same look that people threw at him when his mom died, some seconds later she blinked and the lesson finally started.

Soon after he found himself walking with Robin toward the cafeteria, "Hey uh, you think you can come to my house tomorrow?" Robin said awkwardly, Finney smiled, "Just ask me to tutor you no need to make it look like a big deal", Robin rolled his eyes, "What are you guys talking about?" Griffin appeared from behind, making Finney flinch, "Damn how can I scare you this bad? Robin didn't even open his eyes!" Griffin asked confused, Finney.

Everyone sat at the table, "God I hate Ms.Henderson!" Billy complained, "I know right! She's such a Bi-" Finney got cut off by Bruce, "Finn No!" It was the first time Bruce heard Finney swear, or going to, "What? I was gonna say Big dumb old lady!" Billy, Robin and Griffin couldn't hold the laugh that escaped there mouths, and it wasn't a small laugh since they literally started crying, Vance on the other hand, almost choke on his sandwich before laughing and Bruce smacked his forehead, Finney was dumbfounded, but then he noticed the three boys crying and his confused look changed to be a concerned one, Robin noticed that and he rubbed the other boy's arm, "Don't worry Finn, it's happy tears!" Finney nodded, did people really cry when they were happy, and what made them so happy?, "What you said was funny, that's why they started to laugh hysterically." Bruce explained, "Oh." (STOP BEING OBVIOUS FINNEY😭😭, alright I decide to make Finney like abvious as heck cuz I found the idea of an autistic and not so lonely teenager with no real sense of humour funny-).

School passed quickly and Finney decided that it could be good if he went to work because it's his job of course but also to give him his new number, Vance accepted to take him and told him to call the house as soon as he ends.

"Hello sir!" Finney greeted Mark who was behind the counter, "Welcome back kid." The owner smiled at Finney who returned it. The afternoon went smoothly and Finney found himself in the break room, Mark entered the room, he sat next to Finney, he opened and closed his mouth awkwardly, just like he wanted to say something to Finn but he didn't find the right words.

"Hey uh, I saw the news last time and I am sorry for loss.." Mark really felt bad for that kid. Before adding, "Do you have family in town? Like your mother or an older sibling?"

Finney looked down, "No actually I am living with a friend, his parents aren't always home but he's eighteen so I can stay at his until they find a foster family or parent, they said that it would take a week." He explained, Mark nodded before smiling, "You're a strong kid, I didn't think that you will come back at all or at least that quickly." Finney chuckled, "I like to work with dogs, they are...Comforting." He replied, Mark patted Finney's head before getting up, "You have twenty minutes left." He said before turning around and leaving the room, closing the door behind him.

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Vance took Finney to his work and went back home, everything felt so..Strange, when you think about it, the friendship he had with the young was.. well special, at least for Vance, usually he would break every single bone of anyone who dared to come near him or his friends, but Finney was different, when Billy came to their table with a new boy, Vance was angry, and he screamed at the boy, but after eating lunch with him and getting to know him a little bit more, Vance was still upset but not as much as the first minute. But after one month spent with the boy, he started to feel a little bit more concerned and protective over the boy, he had not so clear mental issues that won't be noticeable if you weren't close to him, he will also do weird things like freeze for a moment, walk away, stop talking for a long time, like he lost his tongue, pull his hair or grab to fidget with the first thing he sees every time he was anxious, he never find the words to explain something, he stuttered or talked too fast, he never tells anyone when they annoy him even if his body language can warn everyone around, he also frequently had meltdowns or panic attacks, and after they found out about his house it has been worse, so now Vance was worried that it would get even worse after his dad's death, he is already stressed because he will be in a new house in less than one week, and all the group was scared, maybe his new family will be mean or abusive even if the CPS (Child protection services) are supposed to verify, but it was still terrifying for the younger boy, and for his sister too, she already almost never saw her brother, so imagine if they took him away from her, from all of them, it was horrible to only think about it, the thought would be enough for you to feel bad and sick.

Finney was exhausted all he could think about was sleep, but Cassandra asked him if he could wash the dishes since she had a night shift and Vance and his step dad were out.

He finally laid on his bed, he doesn't even remember what happened after, he drifted to sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

"Wake up dipsh!t."

Finney groaned at what he supposed was Vance's voice, "You overslept, it's seven forty."

Finney eyes snapped open, he jumped out of bed took some random clothes and headed to the bathroom, Vance rolled his eyes as he sat on the couch.

"Finn!" Bruce called from behind when he noticed Finney walking alone in the hallways, "Oh hey Bru- You're ok?" Finney tone switched to concern when he noticed that Bruce on the ground, "Yeah...I ran behind you man, you're fast!" Bruce chuckled, Finney smiled before asking "What did you want to tell me?"

"Oh right! You know that my parents managed to talk to the principal for him to let me in my old school baseball team right?"

Finney nodded, "Well I have a match in two months and guess against which team!"

Finney thought for a bit, "I don't know tell me!"

" We're playing against Your team silly!"

Finney eyes wided, "Oh right! I almost forgot!" He whispered the last part, "What did you say?" Bruce asked, "Nothing important!"

"I swear I am seeing numbers right now.." Robin mumbled lazily, the feeling of the cold floor on his back, "Come on, it wasn't even that hard!" Finney complained, Robin sat up on his elbows, looking at Finney with shock, the younger boy rolled his eyes, before laying back down, Robin mimicked the action, "Hey uh... When are the CPS coming back?" Robin asked, not knowing if it was a good thing to ask, "Five days." Finney looked down before adding, "I am...Scared.."

Robin sighed, "Don't worry, I am sure that you're gonna be fine! You're stressing for nothing." Robin tried to reassure him, but in reality he had no idea, he was as scared as Finney, he didn't want his best friend to go through it again, "Well..to be honest, I am scared too, and I am sure the others are as well, but the C.P.S are called this way for a reason right?" Finney nodded

"¡Niños! ¡La cena está lista!"

Finney spent too much time at the Arellano household to understand what it means, he remember how Robin's mother reacted to her son's not coming back, she was devastated, she had heavy eye bags and her Haier was always tied on a messy bun.

Ricky, Robin's uncle, was optimistic, he always comforted her and told her that everything would be alright and that they will fine him hopefully soon.

But when the police called a and told her that her son, the one she gave birth to, the one she raised, the one who always lifted her mood whenever she was feeling at the lowest, the one who brought sun to her rainy days, was dead. Forever gone, like his father, the way she sobbed with Finney at her son's funerals, his uncle, looked as devastated as Isabella (Robin's mother), his hopes fainted away in one call.

"Finn!" Robin snapped his fingers at Finney to get him out of whatever daydream he was in, "Come on, mama's waiting for us." Finney nodded and they joined Isabella and Ricky in the kitchen.

Robin called Vance to tell him that Finney was spending the night at his, of course the Blond boy agreed so Robin went back upstairs to join Finney in the room.

(The day after) 4:47pm

"Finn! Mom needs something from the Grab n' Go, I will come back as soon as possible!" Vance shouted to Finney from the living room, but the brunette teen froze, he rushed downstairs to be met with the confused look of Vance, "C-can I come with you? I mean..." "What about your homeworks?" Vance asked 'Come on Finney find a good excuse!'

"Sure."

"Wha-"

"I said sure, homework can wait a little bit longer."

Wow, better than how Finney thought it would turn out, maybe he could really fix everything after? No, Finney is just a little kid, he's 13 years old boy who looked after all his friends to make sure they don't end up in and psychos basement, dying, feeling things he didn't want his worst enemies, nobody deserve this, being so desperate that dying would be better than any single thing, but he can't tell anyone, they will think of him as crazy, unhinged, psychotic, and his friends were already really worried, when he started to have hallucinations, someone that they couldn't identify, because Finney was the only one able to see them, of course they couldn't identify the Grabber since logically, he doesn't exist yet, since Finney was able to stop the first abductions, nobody in town knew that there was a dangerous person, a kidnapper, a murderer, a killer, and.... The word already made Finney wants to cry.

"Come on, you need to stop thinking." Vance took Finney by his arm and they headed outside, the was to the Grab n' Go was quit peaceful, it was quiet, "You will be fine." Finney looked at Vance confused , "What?" He asked, "You know exactly what I am talking about."

Finney sighed, "When does the Grab N' Go close? If you know of course" Finney asked, "I got kicked out too many times not to know, it closes at 12 pm and at 10 pm on Saturdays." Vance answered, "And what time is it now?" Finney demanded, "5:34pm" Vance answered, confused by the sudden questions.

When they arrived there, Vance was searching for the flour while Finney was searching for the butter, they found them and went to the checkout, but when Finney turned around, Vance wasn't there, he wasn't next to to him, Vance was gone.

Finney sighed in relief when he saw him play at the pinball machine, two boys entered in the Grab N' Go, and Finney remember those faces, the two boys who got beat up by the one and only Vance Hopper, so, he took a deep breath and approached Vance, he took him by the arm and dragged him out of the store, "Let me go!" Vance Whispered-yelled, Finney let go of his hand, and the blond boy shook it in pain and confusion, "Damn, you have a strong grip." Finney chuckled at the statement, he looked up from Vance, he couldn't move, he became paler than he already was and his mouth dried out almost immediately, next to the pathway in front of them was parked a black van, with the same design Finney wanted to forget forever, like a long lost memory, but he couldn't, but know he understand, The Grabber was probably waiting next to the Grab N' Go where no one would notice him, and wait for the perfect opportunity to come, so when the accident happened, when Vance beat the crap out of those poor boys, the police gave one of the best chance of the kidnapper's life, so he probably followed them all the way to Vance house and waited for them to go so he could easily drug him from behind, but, maybe he didn't wait next to the Grab N' Go, but most likely followed him to his house, does it mean that Vance wasn't even safe at home? The thought terrified Finney.

"Hey, you're ok?" Vance asked, "Yeah, let's just go home, I think I am too tired to even think."

And that's it, Finney saved Vance's life, 3 down, 2 to go.

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I AM SORRY, OK? LIKE ..IDK BRO I JUST HAD A LOT GOING ON...I really hope I can post the next chapter soon though cuz it's half way done- I know that maybe I got many people excited because they saw that this fic was updated but like..Naaahhhh, anyways, the next chapter should be posted in some weeks.

Kirax's out.🙌🙌

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4 months.

Only 4 months of hell left, but for now, he was in a house he didn't know, with a man he didn't know, apparently, he was his guardian.

Finney was a little bit anxious, he was standing next to the door, as the social worker was talking with that man, he looked quite nice and caring, but Finney was rocking on his heels, fidgeting with his fingers.

"Hi there! You're Finney right?"The man said, his voice was confident but sweet, he had a British accent."I am Ethan! From now on, I am the one who will be taking care of you." Ethan said, smiling gently at him and crouching down to his level, giving Finney his hand for a hand shake, Finney looked at it for a bit before deciding to shake it and quickly backed up, trying to hide behind the social worker, she chuckled a bit before ruffling his hair.

"Don't worry honey, this kind man here won't hurt you, he will take a god care of you!" She said excitedly, the woman was really kind and cheerful, she smiled a lot and never got upset, Finney liked and trusted her.

After some hours the social worker left and Ethan was showing him around, the house was bigger than the one he used to live in before it burnt down, the wall were white, the floor wasn't littered in empty bottles and old packages, when Ethan showed him his room, his eyes widen, the room's walls were painted in a light blue (which was Finney's favourite color), there was some plushies on the bed, there was a desk, and the bed was two places sized, the room was big, Ethan was a bit worried Finney wouldn't like it since he was a teenager, and maybe he'll find that the room is too childish for him, but as soon as he saw the expression on the younger's face, all his worries faded away, Finn had a wide smile drawn on his face.

"Do you like it..?" The older asked as he was carefully patting his hair, Finney turned his head to face him. "I love it!" The younger exclaimed.

"I am glad you do!" Ethan replied with a thick British accent.

After some more time spent in the house, Ethan finally finished to show him around. Everything was feeling different, even the street, the neighbourhood looked smilar to his old one, but so different at the same time, it was odd, so, so, odd, maybe it was because he was feeling happier, more alive, maybe his life was ginally getting a little better..? He needed to talk to Gwen about it.

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It has been some days now, and Finney was making his way to the leaving room, ready to ask the question he wanted to ask Ethan for a few days now.

"Ethan...Is it okay if I invite some friends over while you will be at work..? I promise we won't make a mess!" Finn was starting to beg as the older eyes widen, he was sitting on the couch, his hand gently placed on the armchair.

"Hey, of course you can, I know you won't make a mess, and I would be glad to meet your friends and know a little bit more about you!" Ethan reassured him which made the younger release a sigh of relief.

He was feeling more comfortable around the young adult, like he would have never been next to his actual father, the one that used to beat him up and blaming him for everything, the one who ended up burning and joining his wife in a house fire that he started, just because he was too drunk to think about turning off the gas, for the first time since the day before his mother's attempt, before she took her own life.

"What's their name?" Ethan asked, snapping Finn out of his thoughts.

"Oh, the oldest is Vance Hopper, then there's Bruce Yamada, Robin Arellano, Billy Showalter and Griffin Stagg.." Finney said and the older was kind of taken aback.

Finney looked like a shy, lonely and introverted teenager, he had quite a lot of friends, but what shocked him the most was that one of his friends is Vance Hopper, the town's worst fear, and on the other hand, he had Bruce Yamada, the town's golden boy, how could the two possibly get along?

Don't get him wrong, of course they can, but they are the exact opposit, Bruce Yamada is a hard working, and polite boy, his family was famous around the whole country because of his father's business, while the infamous Vance Hopper has one of the worst reputation, also known as pinball Vance Hopper is considered as the town's punk and edgy teenager, the trouble maker, even though his father is the sweetest and the most polite man you could ever see, but his mother is a sassy and strong, independent woman, she swears a lot, but she was still kind and respectful toward the right person's.

"I know it sounds weird, but I promise they do get along." Finney chuckled, answering Ethan's question as if he could read his mind, and maybe he could, Ethan started to laugh along with Finney.

After some hours, Ethan was off to work, and Finn called every single one of his friends, fortunately, none of them had plans as they all agreed to come, Griffin and Billy especially, were both extremely excited to see his new house, or maybe, home.

Bruce was happy that Finney was feeling comfortable enough to invite them, the older was worried sick about Finn, knowing his reactions to new places and environment and how it affected his behaviour, But the younger sounded happier in the phone, and he wasn't scared to raise his voice or wake someone up, which made Bruce feel relieved.

Vance on the other hand, didn't want Finney to be left alone with a random man he barely knows, he didn't trust the guy enough, he needed to meet him, he was worried about his younger friend and didn't want him to be hurt.

And then Robin, the boy was glad his best friend was feeling better after everything that happened, and it sounded like Finney was becoming talktive again, which made the Hispanic boy proud, even though he didn't trust Ethan too much, he never met the man in question, but he heard a lot about him and he sounded like a good man, but he had a bad feeling about him, and his guts told him to not let Finn alone with that man, but Robin pushed the feeling down, wanting his best friend to finally be happy.

After some minutes of waiting, Finney opened the door to all of his five friends, he figured out that maybe, Vance picked all of them up, Griffin and Billy threw themselves at Finney with open arms which startled him but quickly calmed down and leaned against the touch, they soon all formed into a group hug.

Bruce was ruffling Finney's hair, Griffin was tightly hugging his arm while the others sat on the couch, the trio quickly joined.

"Are you...Feeling alright here..?" Vance asked, he knew when Finney was lying or telling truth, the younger was so bad at making up lies and stories as he panicked too much.

"Ethan is actually really cool and sweet! I like him a lot.. Maybe you guys can meet him! He doesn't usually stay late to work and comes home before the sun sets." Finney replied and the others hummed.

Bruce was trying to lighten the mood as he noticed how Robin and Vance looked tense and menacing, they really didn't trust that Ethan guy, but Bruce made sure Finney was alright, checking on him daily, calling him and asking him on how he was feeling and how were things going on for him, and from what he heard, Finney was doing better, and it was all that mattered, the Asian boy did his best to try and convince Vance and Robin but nothing worked,guess the two were just too over protective over the younger to actually let a stranger take care of him.

Vance was against the idea of a foster home for Finn, he had been doing great with him and his parents, even if most of the times Vance went to check on the younger in the middle of the night, he heard muffled sobs and sniffles, but Vance didn't interrupt him and left him alone instead, he knew that trying to comfort Finn will lead nowhere.

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Finney never felt so peaceful and free before, he was hanging out with his friends, they were laughing and messing around, Vance ringed at the bell of an old lady and they all ran away, only stopping to catch their breath, receiving a lecture from Bruce who was getting teased by Griffin about being a father.

Finney has never done that before, he was always the respectful and shy boy that was too ashamed to even play with the other kids his age.

He knew his little friend group wasn't perfect, but he had never felt this way with no one before, not even his own little sister, which he was extremely close to, he always felt bad for hanging out with her, she was the opposite of Finney, always smiling, friendly, and the most important;

She knew how to defend herself, not letting the others' words get inside of her, not letting them push her to the edge, not hurting and beating herself up because of others actions and mistakes.

But then it hits him, a black van, with a bright green text written on it, the design seemed so awfully familiar to Finney, for almost a month, he was so happy that he even forgot why he was here in the first place, he was supposed to save them, but he just enjoyed himself instead, tried to fix his life instead of his friends' one, his friends who had family, loving and caring parents.

But instead, Finney was acting selfish, completely forgetting about The Grabber and all the kidnappings, only caring about himself.

The next one on the list was Bruce, it was February 16th so he still had exactly one month only to set up a plan.

He remembered that Bruce has been taken away by the van on his way home from the baseball match he had against Finney's team, he was the winner and yet he never got to celebrate it with his family.

Finney remembers how devastated his family looked at his funeral, his mother was sobbing, hugging her son's picture tightly in her arms, his father was standing next to his grave, tears on his cheeks, but his face stayed blank.

Amy on the other hand looked broken, she refused to go out of her room and she didn't even assist to his funeral, she stayed in the car instead, some graves away from her brother's, looking at other people crying, but it was for a different person, and she felt mad and sad but she also felt somehow empty, but it wasn't really surprising, she had just lost the most precious personp she had in her life, even if they argued and dought a lot, they were really dond of each other and protect one another, Bruce always helped her with her work or when her 'friends' dropped tge hang out they had planned at the last minute and he hung out with her instead, talked about his day to try and distract her, he let her sleep with him when she had nightmares insomnia or just wanted to annoy and bother hi-

"Earth to Finn."

Finney eyes widened, he got startled by the fingers snapping in front of his face, Bruce's fingers.

"Did you guys say something..?" He asked quietly and Billy nodded.

"We wanted to know if Ethan would let you have a sleepover at mine, my mom misses you a lot!"

Finney raised his eyebrows. "Oh, I don't know..I never asked it, I don't think that he would mind, he's out most of the day anyways."

Robin frowned his eyebrows.

"Why would he refuse after all.."

Finney nodded.

"Mhm! He is definitely going to accept it!" The curly haired boy said cheerfully and billy giggled.

"Alright! So mine it is... Does anyone have something to do this Saturday?"

They all shook their head, and Bruce decided to speak up.

"Oh, Finn, don't forget that we have a match this Saturday morning, you'll be playing against my team."

As soon as the words left his mouth, Finney wanted to slap himself, he has completely forgot about this.

"Oh- right..I have an idea, you guys can just, come see the match then we'll go together? I think it's a good idea."

"Wait, you're right!" Billy replied, "So we can all go back to my house together instead of arriving separately!" He continued.

"I will bring snacks!" Said Griffin, "And I can tell my step dad to bring me movie's DVDs as he works in a DVD's shop." Vance added, hopefully, everything will be going on just fine.

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The day of the match arrived quicker than what Finney expected, the air was thick, full of every player's stress, Finney was feeling anxious even though it didn't really matter if he won or lost, if he happened to win, Bruce would be happy for him and proud, and if the older won, Finney would be happy for him as well, they would still spend the rest of the day having fun with their friends and celebrating.

The teams were warming up, it was quite hot outside and the sun was bright, Vance, Robin, Billy and Griffin were sitting on the bleachers, none of them knew anythig about baseball, the rules and places weren't exceptions, Robin only knew one post and it was the 'pitcher', because he knew that Finney was one, the younger spent hours talking about his beloved sport, and as much as Robin wanted to understand, he always ended up getting lost after ten minutes, anything about sport, space and maths were Robin's weak spots, his brain seemed to shut down at the simple mention of Algebra despite Finney's efforts to make him understand.

  Gwen and Amy were present to the match they were sitting at the front row, it has been so long since Gwen saw her older brother, so she thought that going to see one of his match was a good idea, contrary to her brother's friends, she knew everything about baseball since she used to help him practice when they were younger, Amy in the other hand, just like her brother's friends, she didn't understand anything, not eally intrested in sportb anyways, she just came because Gwen wanted to, and Suzy had a dotor's appointment, she never really enjoyed watching her brother play, she always felt a bit jealous that he was alays the center of the attention, their parents are always proud of him, don't get her wrong, she loves her parents, they care about and love both of them, they were never fond of favouritism, but she always felt like Bruce is so much better than her, he is popular, a straight A's student and his teachers love him, he has a lot of friends, he is always smiling and never making others feel bad, and Amy feels so jealous, his perfection annoys her.

She didn't know that in another universe she would be mourning his death regretting every single bad thought she had about her older brother.

The match soon began, everyone got into their positions, since it was just a simple school game it would last for about two hours, if it was a profesionnal league game like Finney and Bruce would like to play one day, it wouldlast for more than three hours. Finney adjusted his cap, the players of the home team took their defensive positions, the first batter of the visiting team got into the batter's box, the umpire-in-chief called "play" and the match began.

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    Two hours and nine minutes later, the match ended, unsurprisingly, Bruce's team won, all the players went to their respective lockers room, Gwen legs were bouncing up and down impatiently, it has been months since she last saw Finney, she wanted to ask him about Ethan, she was worried but happy for him, when she finally saw him getting out along with Bruce she ran to him, Amy following behind. "Finn!" She called out before hugging him tightly, he got taken aback at first, but quickly hugged back, after some seconds which felt like forever, they pulled away. "What are you doing here?" he asked, it felt ike it have been years since he last talked to her, Bruce was some meters away with his sister, he decided to give them some privacy. "Amy told me that Bruce was going to have a match against your team...I was a 100% confident that you'll be here.." "You were right! you're always right, it's nothing new!" he chuckled, she ended up laughing along with him, they spent half an hour talking and laughing together.

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Finn and Bruce ended up joining their friends after saying goodbye to Gwen and Amy. "Congratulations to both of our profesionnal players!" Griffin annouced cheerfully, Billy wrapped his arms around both of their shoulders, Finney let out a small laugh, "You sould congratulate Bruce not me, I lost.." he mumbled, Billy smacked the back of his head. "No favouritism, I thought you played better anyways." 

"Hey! That's favouritism!" Bruce said in fake offence, billy rolled his eyes, Vance and Robin soon joined them, their walk to Billy's house began, they laughed and messed around, Griffin and Billy spending most of the time teasing each other, Finney laughed and even joked, but his laughs quickly died down when a familiar black van, with the same green writing that scared him so much passed by, the colours drained from his face and he froze, his friends quickly noticed, their playful expression turned into concern, Robin was the first who approached him, wrapping an arm around his shoulders, making the younger flinch.

"Finn..? What's up?" He asked, but curly head shook his head, the words seemed to get him out of his thoughts, "Nothing, w should continue walking.." He laughed it off, but they seemed unsure, not wanting to overwhelm him, they dropped it and decuided to change subject, but Robin couldn't help but wonder what happened to his bestfriend, he changed so luch and so suddenly, one day he was fine, and the other, everything scared him, he couldn't handle touch, and he became as white as a sheeteverytime that damn black van passed by, hell he couldn't even handle being called his own name, something was wrong with his best friend, and he was going to figure it out.

They continued their walk, but this time, none of them dared to say a word Vance and Bruce were walking together in front, Billy and Griffin in the middle while Robin was still walking with Finney behind, they stopped by the Grab N' Go to buy some snacks while Vance went to his step father's shop, after gathering everything they needed, they continued their walk, when they arrived at Billy,s house, the paperboy took his keys out andopened the door.

"My parents are sleeping at their friend's house so we have the whole house, and don't forget to take your shoes off before stepping into the living room." he said, stepping aside to let the other in, when everyone got inside he closed the door they all took off their shoes, they put everythingthey bought on the kitchen table and sat on the living room's couch, the house wasn't huge but it wasn't small, much more on the biggest side, it was lovely, they spent most of their sleepovers at Billy's house, so they were familiar with the rules, especially the 'no stepping inside the house with your shoes on' rule.

Finney was feeling strange, he just saved Bruce, which meant e only had one left to save, Robin, but he didn't feel happy or at ease, he felt worse, but he had to cheer up, for his friends sake, he didn't want to ruin the sleepover with his bad mood.

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You know what guys this fic is discointiued JUST KIDDINGGGG Anyways, I thought about rewriting it, so this one is discountinued but I will be rewriting it!! Just for it to be like more logic because the first ten chapters of this fic were awful, anyways see y'all in the second fic!!