CHAPTER 15 - chandler

Seconds after Leemodo and kalebize walked into the room, Chandler was sitting up in his bed and reading. "Hey man, how are you feeling?" Leemodo asked. Chandler looked up and smiled. "Hey, I am doing just fine, thank you for getting us all here safely. How are the girls?" He asked them. He looked at kalebize and noticed how angry he is coming off to be. Kalebize sat in a chair silently trying to remain calm. hate and anger kept building up inside and his facial expression shows a crave to spill blood. Leemodo looked at kalebize and sighed then looked back at chandler. "Well, they both have had some terrible things happen to them." He replied before sitting down. Chandler went silent and closed his eyes. Chandler braces himself for the worse to be told and looked down. Leemodo took a deep breath and began explaining everything that they were told. Chandler listened and felt bad for sakashi and understood why kalebize looks so angry. Unfortunately, chandler started to tear up and clenched the hospital blankets hard once he was learning about Asha's condition. The more he learned the angrier he became with himself and desired to seek revenge. "Stop," Chandler told Leemodo as he suddenly stood up and walked to the bathroom.

Leemodo paused and sighed and leaned forward and placed both elbows on his knees then rubbed his hands over his face.

Chandler turned the sink water on and began splashing his face with water. He looked up and looked at himself in the mirror as he couldn't stop tears from falling. Be then began to have a flashback to his childhood.

*going years back to when he was 7 years old*

Chandler was only 7 years old when he learned how corrupt humanity can be. His father was a heavy alcoholic who beat his wife daily when he got angry. His mother was always working hard and skiddish. He had a little sister named Dora who was always scared of her father but loved her mother and big brother chandler. One day he came home after a long day of school, he had a black eye and a few scraps from the typical bully in school. He opened the door only to find his own father beating his mother over spilled milk that his younger sister accidentally knocked over. Chandler knew we wouldn't be able to talk to his father about what had happened to him nor would he be able to do anything to help his mother. He quickly ran to his room and shut the door. He began to cry and hate his life. We wished every day that his life would get better and his dad would just stop drinking. But his father would never stop and continued to drink. Chandler sat on the floor curled in a ball crying. After a while, he stopped hearing the cries from his mother and the harsh yelling from his father. He stood up and opened the door. He walked out to see if his mom is ok only to meet a horrifying reality. He stopped dead in his tracks and froze. His father had finally killed his mother. With his mother laying on the ground lifeless. His father held a kitchen knife in his left hand that dripped blood to the ground. His father soaked with blood looked at chandler and began laughing. "Chandler, come here will ya." His father demanded him. Chandler shook in fear as he couldn't contain his emotions. He began to scream and wept horrified. "I hate you!." he screamed before turning around and ran to his sister's room. He opened the door and froze again only to find his sister unconscious on her floor. She was naked and looked like she had been molested. Chandler began to hate his father more and more. He picked his sister up and turned around and got stopped by his father's best friend. "where do you think your going young man? I'm not done with her." he asked Chandler while holding onto his shoulder. Chandler realized he's the man who most likely molested his sister and yanked his shoulder away and backs up and growled. He looked at her window and ran for it. Unfortunately, he tripped on a small doll and fell face forward dropping his sister. The man laughed and grabbed Chandler by the shirt and lifted him up and threw him in the closet and closed the door and locked it. Chandler panicked because it was pitch black and Chandler was afraid of the dark. He punched the door with his fists yelling out and begging to be let out. With no response back Chandler wept worried about his sister. She wished he could actually do something but his size and strength against his father and his friend would be impossible. He sat on the ground and tried to figure out what to do. Hours passed that day before he heard several men walking through the house. "oh this poor girl." Chandler heard from a man and immediately stood up and began pounding on the closet door. "let me out! Let me out!" Chandler yelled out. A few moments after the door opened and he came to see light again. His eyes adjusted and he looked up and was greeted by four policemen. "well hi there, are you ok little man?" one of the policemen asked him. Chandler began to weep. "wheres my sister.?" he asked and noticed a black tarp over something. The policeman all looked at each other and looked down in sadness. Chandler pushed them to put the way as he ran and lifted that tarp only to find his sister's body cold and lifeless. He dropped the tarp and collapsed to his knees and screamed. The policeman all sighed. "someone needs to take him away from here."

Chandler began punching the ground sweeping rapidly and felt his body being lifted up in the arms of a policeman. "no put me down!!!" he screamed and shouted then began struggling to break free.

The policeman took Chandler to the police car and sat him in the back and quickly shut the door. Chandler pounded on the window and screamed. The policeman got into the car and turned around. "hey young man, you need to calm down." he softly told him. "I'm gonna take you somewhere safe and then we will talk ok. I need you to be a big boy and tell us everything you saw to help us out ok?"

He told Chandler. Chandler wept leaning his forehead on the window and sat down and began to shake. "ok." he replied before being taken to a new place.

*knock knock knock - snapped back into reality*

Chandler opened his eyes and quickly looked up to the door and walked over and opened the door. His eyes were bloodshot from crying for 30 minutes straight. "hey man, you ok? " leemodo asked him in concern. "you been in here for about thirty minutes." he spoke softly. "yeah I'm, I'm ok. Just had a flashback that's all. Everything I feared would happen again in my life all happened to Asha.." he replied. He walked out and looked at kalebize. He saw kalebize had been silent and weeping aswell. He walked over and sat down next to kalebize and placed his hand on his shoulder. " I understand what you're going through," Chandler told him and looked down.

Kalebize looked at Chandler and blurted out unintentionally. "do you know? I highly doubt it!." he replied from anger. Leemodo suddenly slapped kalebize. "snap out of it kalebize, don't ever assume you have it worse when you don't know someone's past. For all you know Chandler might have a past of his own." kalebize looked at leemodo and then immediately at Chandler. "yeah he's right, I'm sorry. " he replied then went silent.

Chandler kept looking at the ground and closed his eyes. "my mother and sister were beaten, molested and killed when I was only seven years old.." he told them. Kalebize kept silent and looked at Chandler. Leemodo sat down and listened. Chandler spent forty-five minutes explaining everything that happened that night.

*going back and continuing the past*

Chandler was placed in a foster care facility and became an orphan. After he reported everything he saw and heard to the police. He lived in that orphanage for 10 years before he found someone to take him in. Chandler became quiet and anti-social. He couldn't make any friends because he ran off or yelled at anyone who tried to approach him. Chandler felt like a failure because he was too weak to save his sister.

One day, just four days after his 17th birthday he met his new adopted father and mother. His guardian had called Chandler into her office. "ah Chandler, come in, these two lovely people would like to adopt you today! Their names are lucy and Sasuke." the guardian spoke as Chandler entered. Chandler looked at them and kept silent. "Hello, it's very nice too." lucy told Chandler with a smile before getting interrupted. " I don't care," Chandler replied before he walked out and went to his room.

The guardian had to inform the couple of his past before they wanted to make anything official. But the couple chose to follow through and complete the adoption.

A week into having a new home with his new adopted parents. Chandler hasn't changed his attitude. Making it difficult to deal with him. He only came around to eat but the rest of the time stayed in his room. His new parents became worried about him and tried to figure out how to help him.

Then one night he began to have a nightmare, he began to toss and turn and relive his past with his mother and sister. Lucy and Sasuke had enough from keeping distant from him and busted through the door. Sasuke grabbed Chandler's shoulders and shook him till he awoke. "wake up my boy!" Sasuke yelled to him until Chandler jolted awake. Chandler's eyes filled with tears and pushed Sasuke away from him. "leave me alone." Chandler yelled shutting his eyes. Moments later Chandler reopened his eyes and widened them to find himself tightly hugged by both Lucy and Sasuke. Chandler shut his eyes keeping silent and just wept.

Unfortunately, seconds before he began to make an effort to open himself up to the couple and accept as parents. his father's best friend, he had broken into the house and ran through the door. The man ran directly towards Chandler to finish him off due to the fact he causes his father to be caught and sent to prison. the couple pushed Chandler back and tried to stop the man with their lives but the man overpowered them and smashed Sasuke's head with a metal bat And then stabbed him directly in the chest killing him immediately. Lucy screamed and jumped on the man trying to disarm him only to be stabbed in the chest and kicked into the wall. Chandler sat and leaned against the wall frightened and couldn't move. He began to breathe heavily unable to know how to even react. The man approached lucy and grabbed her hair and lifted her up and placed his knife to her throat. Chandler began to cry and scream. "stoop." he yelled out. Lucy looked at Chandler and smiled. "run my son. I love you." She weakly told him. Chandler shook his head. "no, mom I want to live with you." he replied. Lucy began to cry and smiled bigger. "I'm glad." She replied before her throat was slit. The man dropped her body and ran towards Chandler. "you! Come here you little brat!." the man yelled.

Chandler panicked and backed up then raised both arms to block him the opened his eyes only to realize he has awake a power. A power he never knew he had. His arms had stretched and had the man in a restraint. The man tried to move to stab him but physically couldn't move. Chandler then glared and released all his hate and anger. His right arm stretched and wrapped around the man's neck and pulled his neck back slowly until he heard a snap. Once the man's body went limp Chandlers' arms went back to the normal size and dropped the man's body. He looked at the bodies of the two people who took him in and wept. He ran out of the house and that's when he began to live outside on the street for a year.

*back to reality*

"you see kalebize, my life has always been hell, everyone I care about will eventually cause me more pain. I have never had a happy ending. And I don't think I ever will have one, because everything after that night I was fighting for survival. When I was 19 I got a job here at the hospital and worked my way up to management. When I met Asha I liked her ever since but never said anything because I was afraid something will happen to her. Sure enough, I approached her the wrong way and now this happened to her. I'm too weak to even protect people I care about." he told them while weeping. Kalebize kept silent and immediately hugged him. "your pain will end, I promise because now you have me to fight alongside you." kalebize whispered. Chandler slowly hugged him back but kept silent. Leemodo closed his eyes and kept silent. He began to feel sorrow for Chandler. "you have us now. Your days of fighting this alone are over." leemodo spoke out before he stood up and walked over to Chandler. Chandler pulled away and sat there. "thank you, but now I wanna know your stories. Not to compare who has it worse. Just I wanna know your lives too. I want to know I'm not the only one who had a dark past. That's if you even have a dark past. Please don't feel bad if you don't." Chandler told them looking down.

Kalebize sighed and closed his eyes. "Mine isn't as dark but..." he began to share.