Newest Ben 10 fic. Not even sure how I came up with this. This entire story is from Kevin’s P.O.V. Sorry if it seems out of character, but this takes place after the AF storyline, and in this story Kevin is eighteen and Ben is seventeen. Their ages progress with the storyline.

Healing

Chapter One

You’re completely mechanical now.

Everything you do, every response you give, is more a force of habit than anything else.

It hurts me, and scares me, to see you this way, but I never say anything to you; nothing I could ever say would make any difference.

I wish I knew what happened to you, I wish you would tell me, then maybe I could help you. Gwen doesn’t know anything either. She said this is just something you’re going through, you’ll be fine; I think she’s more worried about me, since I’m worrying over you so much.

I don’t believe her; compared to how lively and spirited you were before, you might as well be dead.

Your eyes are blank; once a bright, acid green so full of life and energy, are now so insipid and dead, clouded to look more like a dull, flawed emerald. There’s also dark lines forming under them, making them look sunken.

Your hair has lost its shine, and it’s grown out a lot; you don’t bother to take care of it anymore.

Your skin has lost a lot of it’s color; it’s getting so pale, you look sick.

You’ve lost a lot of weight; I took you to the doctors once, because your mom and dad couldn’t, and I saw you with your shirt off. You were skinny before, but now I can see your ribs, and you’ve lost most of what little muscle you had.

It’s sad, really; I wanted to cry, but I didn’t. You’re dying right before my eyes, destroying yourself little by little; and no one knows why. No one can tell me why this is happening, or how I can help you.

You dumped Julie suddenly, and you’ve all but quit school. I’ve talked to your parents; they’re even more worried than I am, but they don’t know any more than me. They don’t know how to help, but they want to so badly. To see you like this, it hurts everyone who cares about you.

You’ve stopped talking, and you’ve seemed to stop listening.

Is it because this fighting stopped, because you’re not needed anymore? Is it because you no longer have the omnitrix? Do you feel vulnerable, scared, weak?

Ben, please, what’s going on with you? Please let us help you.

I want to hear your voice again so badly. Why?

Because it’ll let me know you’re still here. I want to know you’re still with us, that you’re not just some walking corpse.

I want you back Ben, I love you.

TBC...

That was the first chapter of healing. It turned out better than I expected.