Until Then

Chapter #1: Introductions

(This chapters a little sloppy. I'm not great at first chapters.)

Tw; Hospitals, guns, Gaslighting

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The small 6 year old boy sat by the creek swaying his legs in the water his pants rolled up to his knees. He hummed softly to himself until he heard his name get called getting shook out of his little fantasy he jumped to his feet.

"Ross!"

"Yes dad?" He replied starting to walk over to his dad and his brother while unrolling his pants.

"Come play ball with Scott and I." Chris, Ross' dad, ushers Ross to come over.

"I- You know I don't like playing ball dad." Ross mutters still walking over to play knowing he'd anger his dad by not doing so.

"Well you have tah learn sometime." His older brother replied, Scott was 12, 6 years older than Ross.

"What if I don't want to.." Ross mutters rubbing his arm anxiously, glancing at the ground and not really paying attention to the things around.

"Heads up!" Chris calls, Ross looks up seeing the ball come flying at him he flinches and instantly looks away, before he could cover himself the fast ball hit him directly in the ear causing him to yelp loudly.

"O-Ow..!" Ross whines holding his ears from pain "D-Daaaad!" he complained, he already had a hard time hearing but now he could barely hear at all, pulling his hand away from his ear he saw blood on his hand. Obviously the young boy began to panic, putting his hand back up to his bleeding ear to see if it was actually bleeding confirming his ear was actually bleeding he started to cry.

"Oh god. Here comes the water works." Their dad scoffed making his way over with large lumbering steps.

"Dad!" Scott elbowed his dad slightly, running over to Ross panickedly "Are you ok Rossy?"

"M-My e-ear i-i-its be-bleeding" Ross said between anxious sniffles "I-I can-can't he-hear"

"Dad we need to bring him to the hospital." Scott said urgently, Chris growled than sighed.

"Lets go boys." He ushers heading back down the path.

"Here Ross, let me carry you." Scott wraps Ross' arm around his shoulder and scoops him up carrying his little brother like a baby as the three walked back to the car.

Ross didn't like it in the hospital, it was boring and too clean looking. He wanted to be back at home.

"When can we go home?" Ross mumbles into Scotts ear, gripping his older brothers arm.

"Once we figure out if they can help your ear. Ok?"

"But they can't" Ross mumbles in reply "Daddy broke it.. Ears can't be fixed."

"I know.. I know Rossy, but maybe they can do something so you won't completely lose your hearing.." Ross gave up arguing and waited. The family of three was there for hours waiting than getting diagnosed they were given antibiotics and treatment for it, then got sent home.

Over a span of a month the treatment did basically nothing to help him keep his hearing it only stopped things from getting infected. Ross laid in his bed, headphones over his ears so he could ignore his calls, angered by the fact that he had lost basically all his hearing in the left ear.

"Ross! Hey! Stop ignoring me!" Scott scowls at his brother ripping the blasting headphones off of Ross' head "Stop moping and being angry, you're just going to get into shit by dad. Do you want that?" Scott hissed angrily at how Ross had started to act.