Warning suicidal themes up ahead

Esme looked at the teenager who looked so determined clutching the bulky bag. He was grimm but thought he knew what to do. He thought it was his time to die. To everyone else he was just a moody teenager wanting to be alone. But she could hear eveything inside his mind.  She knew chains he brought with him he planned to use to help drown himself when he  jumped off the dock. 

Esme usually didn't care about humans but she couldn't let this fourteen year old kill himself.  But she couldn't just force him to live or tell him to go home. Who knows when he would try this again and she couldn't just make him feel happy. 

She needed to know about him and talk to him. She dug deeper into his mind and knew his name and what drove him to do this. Andy Strucker eas friendless,  harassed,  ignored,  tormented,  bullied and just felt so alone. His parents didn't understand what was wrong and his sister had distanced herself from him. He barely saw her around in school and he was doing horribly academically as well. 

Why exactly was did Esme stop her car and learn about him? Why whould she try to save his life? She told herself to prevent the waste of potential but even if she never consciously acknowledged it it was to help him out of the kindness in her heart.

She opened the car  doors and made him hesitate for a few minutes before she snatched the bag. " I know what your planning to do kid. And I know your family cares even if they're a little dense or self absorbed.  There are people worse off then you. Your a victim but this isn't the way to stop it."

Andy froze not expecting anyone to figure it out. Especially a total stranger.  He had snuck out of the house leaving behind a note and going as far as he could from his house.  " You can't let them just break you. To drive you into doing this."

She grabbed his arm and he barely hid the pain.  She saw under his sleeve a recent burn definitely from having scalding water poured in him.  " You can't just do this. You need to talk to your parents and your sister.  You need to be strong and to go home."

" I know what your thinking because I'm a mutant.  And I'm experienced in suffering but do you want to inflict it on your family?  To just end it?" She looked at him.

" Or do you want to go home?  Meet your family and get more help." He nodded hesitantly. 

She shared a few minor bits about her past and practically forced him into the car.

She insisted on driving him home where his parents were waiting with a distraught Lauren. Esme made a quick stop to dispose of the bag. But she made sure he actually entered his house and was confronted by his family.

Apparently one of them had found the note and woken everyone up. They were devastated at the mere thought of him killing himself.

" Someone driving by stopped me and saved my life. She told me I couldn't do this and she drove me home. She reached out and stopped me. She was a mutant and just knew what to tell me. Because of her I didn't die."