Reunion

He woke up with one mighty headache and tried to take in his surroundings. The last thing he could remember was searching an old, abandoned house for their suspect in the latest string of murders and abductions they'd been called in to investigate. The next thing he knew he woke up here.

He saw he was in some big, dark room with a mirror right across one wall. He couldn't feel the floor beneath his feet but could feel something heavy around both of his wrists. Also his chest felt bare. He looked in the mirror to see he was hanging from the ceiling with shackles around his wrists and he was in fact topless.

He also saw he wasn't alone. He looked over to see a woman looking at him in shocked disbelief. She looked familiar but he couldn't remember why. She seemed to be a number of years older than him and even looked a little like him which was a bit disturbing.

Oh boy, his head hurt! He saw in the mirror there was a bit of blood and tears in the woman's eyes who kept looking at him like a concerned parent. He wasn't sure why. She wasn't his mother. Oh god, she couldn't be, could she?

Before he could ask if his suspicions were true he heard footsteps and looked up in the mirror to see their suspect, Daniel Lewis, come down the stairs carrying a whip. He hoped to God he didn't use it on her. He'd protect her with everything in him. He'd been trained to protect innocents and that's what he'd do. Everything she'd done to him as a child was in the past long forgotten. After all it was part of what had made him the man and father he was today.

"I see sleeping beauty's awake," Daniel smiled.

"Don't touch him," she shouted angrily with tears in her voice.

"How are you going to stop me?" he shouted cracking the whip down on his bare back.

"Please, please just leave him alone," she cried in anguish as Aaron tried to hide the pain. "He's innocent."

"He's FBI he'll never be innocent," he roared whipping him yet again.

"I can take it," Aaron answered gently. "I've had worse."

"I doubt it," Daniel replied whipping him again and again until his body finally gave in.

He smiled and put away the whip going over to the woman. He took her head in his hands and answered, "I'll be back for you later..."

"You'll pay for what you just did to my son," she shouted kicking him as hard as she could.

"My, my," he smiled broadly at Aaron then back at the woman. "I didn't realise transsexuals could have children."

She just glared back at him while he walked out laughing.

Once he'd gone Aaron raised his head and vowed he'd get the both of them out of here. He'd protect her with all his might no matter what their past had held. She'd more than made up for it and just wanted her back in his life. His deepest regret had been turning her away just like the rest of them had when she'd come out as transgender.

He was fifteen and had just followed the crowd when he now knew he should have stood up for her no matter what he'd done to him as a child. It couldn't have been worse than being forced to live a lie when all he'd wanted was to be the woman he was today. Aaron just wished he could make it up to her and be accepted back into her life.

She was relieved to see him raise his head and wished they could get out of here as soon as possible. She feared what he'd do now she'd revealed Aaron was her son. She couldn't lose him now they'd been reunited. Losing her sons when she'd decided and started her sex change transition had been the most painful thing she'd ever been through but she knew she had to be herself. She'd felt like she'd abandoned him but their mother had cut off all access to them after she'd begun becoming a woman and as they'd only been fifteen and ten they'd been under her influence.