00:08Birchwood Cottage, the forest. Someone was there. Someone saw us.
00:15Every nightmare I ever had about being found out, none of them were this quiet.
00:20In my head there was always screaming.
00:22But the real thing? The real thing is just your phone buzzing in the dark while the whole world reads
00:28your secret.
00:33You don't have to go today.
00:37Yeah, I do.
00:39Elliot.
00:40If I hide, they win. You taught me that.
00:42Then you walk in there like you own the place. Because you do.
00:46The photo had been up for 18 hours. 412 comments last I checked.
00:49I stopped checking around midnight when someone wrote Burn in Hell with a smiling face.
00:52The Ashford Whisperboard doesn't sleep. Neither did I.
01:06We're walking you to every class today. Non-negotiable.
01:09Anyone gives you trouble, I'll handle it.
01:13You don't have to...
01:15Shut up. Yes, we do.
01:28Hey.
01:32Theo, my brother. My little brother. And you couldn't tell me?
01:37I wanted to. He wasn't ready.
01:39That's not your call! You're supposed to be my best friend!
01:41I am your best friend. Best friends don't sneak around with your family behind your back.
01:47You're right. I'm sorry.
01:49He's 17, Beck. He's my kid brother and the whole school is tearing him apart and I didn't even know
01:54he needed for protecting.
01:55Break it up! Both of you. Principal Hargreft's office. Now!
02:04Is it true?
02:07Yes.
02:08The Hale Boy.
02:10His name is Beckett.
02:14He needs time. That's all.
02:17What if time isn't enough? Then that's his loss.
02:23I don't care who you love. You're my brother. Always.
02:31My phone buzzed in my pocket.
02:33I didn't check it until midnight.
02:35One text from Rowan. I'm sorry I disappeared. Can we talk?
02:40Can I come in?
02:50I need to ask you something and I need you to be honest with me.
02:54You already know the answer.
02:56I want to hear it from you.
02:58Yeah, Dad. It's true. I'm...
03:00Beckler and I were together. Are together.
03:02I don't even know anymore.
03:06How long?
03:07Months.
03:12I don't understand it. I'm not going to pretend I do.
03:15That's not the same. It's okay.
03:16No. It's not.
03:21You're still my son. I just... I need time.
03:28You walked out of that room?
03:30You just left him sitting there?
03:32I said I needed time. That's...
03:34Time?!
03:34Told you the most terrifying truth of his life and you gave him your back.
04:08I don't know how to do this, Karth. I wasn't raised for this.
04:09He deserved it.
04:10He didn't.
04:11I was angry. Not at you.
04:13At... I don't know. At finding out from a picture on a screen instead of from my brother's mouth.
04:16I wanted to tell you.
04:17I was terrified.
04:18Of me?
04:18Of losing you?
04:20Listen to me.
04:21I don't care who you love.
04:22You're my brother. That's the only thing that's never going to change.
04:25Always, El.
04:30The world didn't end. It just... rearranged.
04:34And somewhere in the wreckage, I could almost see a shape.
04:37Something that looked like it might hold.
04:40Okay. Okay, then.
04:54Don't you dare look at me like that.
04:56Like what?
04:57Like I'm already gone!
04:59I need you to do something for me.
05:01And I need you not to fall apart while you do it.
05:08Name it.
05:11There's a razor in the top drawer, the one your father uses for his neck.
05:15I'd rather choose this than watch it happen to me.
05:25You sure you don't want Theo to...
05:27I want you.
05:29You've always been my brave one, even when you don't know it.
05:34If I mess this up, you're telling everyone Dad did it.
05:38Deal.
05:52You used to sing that when I couldn't sleep.
05:55It still works.
05:56You're still here.
05:58Well?
05:59You're beautiful, Mom.
06:00I look like a baby bird.
06:02The fiercest baby bird I've ever seen.
06:07My brave, brave boy.
06:12Thanks for meeting me.
06:14You said you wanted to talk.
06:17I disappeared on you, right when everything was falling apart.
06:20Your mom, the outing, all of it.
06:22And I just vanished.
06:24Yeah, you did.
06:26I was jealous.
06:28And hurt.
06:29And I told my...
06:30That made it okay to bail on my best friend.
06:31It didn't.
06:35I can't give you what you want, Rowan.
06:37That hasn't changed.
06:39I know.
06:40I'm not asking for that anymore.
06:41I'm asking if there's still room for me.
06:43As your friend.
06:44Just that.
06:48You're buying next time?
06:52Yeah.
06:53Okay.
06:53Yeah.
06:55Some days break you open so wide, you're sure nothing will ever fit back together.
07:00But then someone shaves her head and calls you brave.
07:04Someone says, I'm sorry, and means it.
07:06Someone leaves flowers and asks for nothing.
07:12After everything, the outing, the fallout, dad's silence, mom's fight, I told myself the kindest thing I did do was
07:20cut the wire.
07:21For both of us.
07:22I wasn't being brave.
07:24I was being a coward dressed up as a martyr.
07:27But I couldn't tell the difference anymore.
07:39You texted.
07:40Yeah.
07:42I wasn't sure you would again.
07:44Ever.
07:45I need to say something, and I need you to let me finish.
07:47Okay.
07:48This.
07:48Us.
07:49It's destroying everything it touches.
07:51You lost your birthday to a scene.
07:52I got outed.
07:53Theo punched you.
07:54My dad can barely look at me.
07:55Your mom's not your problem.
07:56She's right, though.
07:58Everyone around us gets hurt.
07:59So what are you saying?
08:00I'm saying we stop.
08:02For real this time.
08:03No more sneaking around.
08:04No more pretending we can just...
08:06No.
08:07Beckett.
08:07No.
08:08You don't get to decide this alone.
08:10Not after everything.
08:12I'm trying to protect you.
08:14I don't want your protection.
08:16I want you.
08:19I can't be the reason something else goes wrong.
08:22Then stop running and let something go right.
08:26Elliot.
08:27Elliot.
08:28Go home.
08:30Look at me.
08:31Look at me.
08:33Look at me.
08:43No.
08:44No.
08:45No.
08:46No.
08:46No.
08:46No.
08:47No.
08:47Stay with me.
08:47Beckett.
08:48With me.
08:48Stay with me.
08:49Don't you dare.
08:50Somebody help, please!
08:54You idiot.
08:56You stupid, beautiful idiot.
08:58I'm here.
08:59I'm right here.
09:01No.
09:02No!
09:03No!
09:03No!
09:03No!
09:03No!
09:03No!
09:04No!
09:06No!
09:07So he gave me his instead.
09:12They won't tell me anything.
09:13He's not my family.
09:15He's not my anything.
09:16According to the paperwork.
09:18I'm just the boy covered in his blood.
09:22Hey!
09:22Look at me!
09:24He's in surgery.
09:25That's good.
09:25That means there's their fighting for him.
09:26He pushed me.
09:27He just...
09:27I was walking away and he pushed me out of the road.
09:29I know.
09:30I was leaving him, Theo.
09:31That's why we were in the street.
09:32I was ending it and he...
09:39Where is my son?
09:40Where is he?
09:45Beckett...
09:45Beckett Hale.
09:46He was brought in.
09:47A car hit him.
09:48Where is he?
09:49You.
09:50What happened?
09:51What did you do?
09:52Mrs. Hale, I...
09:52My son is in surgery because of you.
09:54Whatever this thing is between you.
09:55Whatever you dragged him into...
09:56That's not fair.
09:57Beckett pushed Elliot out of the way of a car.
09:59He saved his life and they lose his.
10:01I want him away from my son.
10:02Do you understand?
10:03Away.
10:07He's out of surgery.
10:08There's significant swelling.
10:10Traumatic brain injury.
10:11The next 72 hours are critical.
10:14Is he conscious?
10:15No.
10:17He's in a coma.
10:19We won't know the extent of the damage and...
10:2772 hours.
10:28He's strong.
10:30You know he is.
10:31He's strong.
10:49You absolute idiot.
10:52You stupid, reckless, beautiful idiot.
10:54You don't get to leave me.
10:56You hear me?
10:57You don't get to say I love you for the first time and then die.
11:01That's not how this works.
11:08Excuse me.
11:10You can't be in here.
11:11Sir?
11:12Sir?
11:15Sir?
11:15You can't be in here.
11:16Sir?
11:22Please, just let me stay.
11:25They told me to go home.
11:27But home was in that room, unconscious.
11:29With a machine breathing for him.
11:38Three months.
11:4092 days since the intersection.
11:42Since the rain.
11:44Since his blood on my hands.
11:46People say time heals.
11:48People are liars.
11:51Time just teaches you how to function while broken.
12:05Breakfast?
12:06Had some.
12:07Liar.
12:08Liar.
12:09Sit.
12:17Your color's coming back.
12:19I should know.
12:20I've been monitoring my own like a paint swab.
12:23How was yesterday's blood work?
12:24Dr. Reeves used the word animative.
12:27I told him I'd accept nothing less than miraculous.
12:31You're carrying too much, sweetheart.
12:32You know that, right?
12:33I'm fine.
12:35You're 17.
12:36Fine isn't supposed to look like this.
12:46You eat today?
12:48Why does everyone keep asking me that?
12:50Because you look like a Victorian ghost, and I care about you.
12:53Quiz me on calculator?
12:56Hey.
12:57Hey.
12:57Any updates?
12:58Same.
12:59Stable.
13:00Lorraine won't return my calls.
13:02Theo?
13:02He visits.
13:03Beckard's awake more now, apparently.
13:05Physical therapy started last week.
13:07But the restraining order's still active, so I get everything secondhand.
13:10That's not fair.
13:11None of this is fair.
13:13Elliot.
13:15Sit down a minute.
13:18I went to that meeting again.
13:20The one at the community.
13:22The P. Blake meeting?
13:23There was a father there.
13:24His son's about your age.
13:25He said something that stuck with me.
13:28He said he spent two years mourning a version of his kid that never existed.
13:32And by the time he stopped, he'd almost lost the real one.
13:36I don't want to be that father, Elliot.
13:38I'm not good at this.
13:39But I'm trying.
13:41I know, Dad.
13:44Elliot.
13:46He's awake.
13:47Like, really awake.
13:48Talking.
13:49Sitting up.
13:50You said that last week.
13:51No.
13:52Listen to me.
13:52He grabbed my arm today and said exact words.
13:55Where's Elliot?
13:55Tell him to come.
13:57The restraining order.
13:59Screw the restraining order.
14:00Theo.
14:01He asked for you.
14:02He's been asking for you.
14:03Lorraine can file whatever she wants.
14:05You need to be there.
14:06Then let them arrest me.
14:1092 days of being good.
14:12Of following rules.
14:14Of dying quietly.
14:16Enough.
14:24There.
14:25Almost presentable.
14:27Hey.
14:27You okay?
14:29Yeah.
14:30I'm okay.
14:30I'm sorry I made you wait so long.
14:33Don't be.
14:34I'd wait forever.
14:36He was the last person I ever wanted to fall for.
14:38The arrogant, insufferable, beautiful Elliot.
14:41Who moved in next door and ruined my entire summer.
14:44He made me furious.
14:46He made me brave.
14:47He loved me even when I couldn't love myself.
14:58The person I hated more than anyone in the world, became the one I couldn't live without.
15:02He lost me.
15:03He would.
15:16Birchwood cottage.
15:17The forest.
15:18Someone was there.
15:20Someone saw us.
15:24every nightmare i ever had about being found out none of them were this quiet in my head there
15:29was always screaming but the real thing the real thing is just your phone buzzing in the dark while
15:35the whole world reads your secret you don't have to go today yeah i do elliot if i hide they
15:49win
15:49you taught me that then you walk in there like you own the place because you do the photo had
15:54been up for 18 hours 412 comments last i checked i stopped checking around midnight when someone
15:58wrote burn in hell with a smiling face the ashford whisper board doesn't sleep neither did i
16:14we're walking you to every class today non-negotiable anyone gives you trouble
16:19i'll handle it you don't have to shut up yes we do
16:25you
16:28you
16:29you
16:30you
16:30you
16:32you
