A.N. – Thank you for the great reviews, and I'm really sorry about the wait for this next chapter. I hope it's up to standards and any ideas of how to improve my writing is greatly appreciated!

The silence is painfully deafening,

Then they realise, it's time to start questioning.

They sit around the room in complete silence; it's awkward and harsh, deafeningly painful. It takes them a while but they realise if they're going to get the answers to their questions, now is probably the best time. The sooner the questions are out the way, the sooner they can figure out how to help him, how to change things and make them right. Unfortunately, none of them know how to start or whether it's a good idea to ask the questions plaguing their minds.

Looking around at everyone else, he realises that he's going to have to ask first. Sometimes he hated having the crest of Courage, and hated being the leader.

"Why'd you do it?" He asks softly, looking at the young blond. He feels all eyes shift to him before turning back to the boy on the bed.

"I'm tired." Is the soft response the blond gives them, but, it confuses them all but two. Maybe it's because they found him that they realise the unsaid ending of that sentence, maybe it's something else, but, they seem to be the only ones who realise he never finished that answer.

"Of what?" The red haired girl asks; confusion evident in her voice.

"Life."

The responses he gives they don't like,

They feel like a powerful strike.

The one word answer shocks them all to the core; even the two that knew the answer. Hearing it out loud, it felt like a powerful punch to the stomach, a slap across the face, a knife to the chest. Tears are seen in several sets of eyes and even a few escape the damn from a couple of people.

"What happened to the hopeful kid we all knew?" Matt asked in a soft voice. His brother turned to look at him, his face blank of all emotion but the inner pain that he is experiencing.

"He died just before the divorce." The response is soft, but it terrifies all of them on the inside. It makes their blood run cold, some of them go pale, and others stumble into the wall behind them. After a long painful minute of silence, denial takes hold and they all start telling him he's wrong. Everyone, but two. The same two who had found him. The same two who knew of his breakdown day before.

Statements go back and forth,

He lets them see the pain for all it's worth.

"That's not true TK. You're lying!" Kari accused. She couldn't accept it; she wouldn't accept it. Sora, Mimi, and Yolie all agreed with the younger girl. The blond in the bed could not be telling the truth, because they know the boy in the bed. He's always been an open book...hasn't he?

The older boy boys of the group, Joe, Matt, Tai, and Izzy were equally in denial. They couldn't believe what they had heard, even voiced it. But, the four of them, as they thought over everything, began to have doubts. They thought of when Angemon sacrificed himself, and what they usually associated with hope, had merely intensified. Was the spark that they thought was hope, really an intense pain?

Cody remained silent. The young boy looked at his DNA digivolving partner, and wondered how he had missed all the pain in his friend.

The blond look to the two who remained silent and they looked right back at him. The young blue haired teen and the maroon haired teen had a great deal of sadness in their eyes, but the blond saw something else, determination.

"What happened to the angel of hope?" The pink haired girl asked.

"I'M HUMAN! NOT AN ANGEL!" The blond screamed, anger and pain in his eyes as tears start slipping down his face. Davis stands up straight from where he'd been leaning against the wall and moves to the other side of where Matt is, next to the blond.

They don't expect his questions,

They can't answer for their actions.

The others in the room watched in silent shock as Davis made it so that the blond was crying into his shoulder. "Why do you guys always say that?" It was whispered and unexpected. None of them know how to answer. "I'm not a perfect angel who can handle everything and anything. I'm human just like you."

They remain silent as they realise what's being laid in front of them. The fact that they always called him an angel, stopped them looking at him as what he is. A human. A human with thoughts and feelings just like them and they ignored that.

Their attention was turned back to the bed as they came out of their thoughts, and they all watched as Davis manoeuvred so that Matt could take his place.

Instantly, Tai saw what his younger look alike was doing and smiled slightly. Davis was helping Matt build a bridge. Get one step closer to getting his younger brother's trust so that they could overcome this.

They all find themselves upset when a nurse asks them to leave. Only Matt can stay as he's family. All of them are unhappy, their minds in turmoil as they think of what their actions has caused. None of them know how to go about fixing this.

Finally they must leave,

None of their minds have been put at ease.