Ever since that day when his house caught fire and he lost his parents, Carter Grayson has been having loads of nightmares, hallucinations, panic attacks, etc. Eventually he managed a bit of courage to tell Ryan what's been plaguing his thoughts everyday of his life. After that, Carter looks online for some information on Age Regression, Age Play, Caregivers and Littles. Ryan helps Carter through this hard time. Carter's also a Selective Mute as well.

Sweaty palms and a dry mouth was what Carter felt when he woke up this morning, while sweating in his Quarters in the Aquabase. "Oh geez. Not again. This is like the 5th or 6th time this's happened. I know I'm fine but it keeps me up at night and it's irritating as heck." His hoarse voice says as he leans over so he can turn on his bedside lamp as he gently pulls the chain as light fills his room as he pulls on his dark red slippers, grabbing his phone, walking to the bathroom, washing his face as he walks to the Galley to grab a bowl of brown sugar oatmeal and cup of milk for breakfast. After finishing up both his oatmeal and milk, Carter walks to his Quarters, brushing his teeth, combing his hair, getting dressed as he walks towards the Training Area. "Today if I can focus on training, then I can eventually come to the light with my past. I hope I can." He softly says to himself. But unbeknownst to him at the moment, there's someone standing by the door: Titanium Ranger Ryan Mitchell. He heard what Carte said except for the "My past" part. Inhaling a bit, Ryan opens the Training Room door, walking in as he goes to the treadmills, setting up his pace as he gets on, jogging while making sure to keep an eye on his heartrate. "Hey you okay there man?" He looks at Carter, who was doing push-ups with a weighted vest on. "Yea. M'fine Ryan. Thanks for asking me." Carter looks over, smiling a bit as he gets up, or rather falls over due to his legs being a bit weak. "Dang it!" "Carter!!" Ryan smacks his thumb on the Emergency Stop button, hopping off the treadmill, running to Carter, undoing the straps, helping him up. "You okay man? You smacked both of your knees pretty hard." Ryan says as the vest falls to the ground as he checks both Carter's knees and takes care of the small cuts and scrapes, bandaging them up. "I'll help you to your Quarters. Once there, you rest up for a bit okay?" "Will do Ryan. I owe you one man." Carter smiles a bit as Ryan carefully helps him up, leading Carter back to his room, helping him sit down, going to the wall unit, taking out the first aid kit as he takes out a small bottle of soap, water, two q-tips to wash with soap and water and one to wipe away any residue. Dippin one side of the q-tip into the water, he dips the other side into the soap, while calmly reassuring Carter it'll sting for a bit as he knows Carter's always been uneasy about getting wounds cleaned. "O-okay Ryan, go ahead, m'ready." He bites his lip while soft screams are heard. Ryan smiles softly as he gently cups Carter's cheek. "It's all over. It's okay now. You rest up and I'll bring you a snack when you wake up. Okay?" Carter nods, mouth parting as he lets out a soft yawn, stretching as much as his body can allow as he lays down slowly, Ryan pulls the blanket up over Carter. "Sleep well. I'll be back."

A while later, he walks back to see Carter's still sleeping. Smiling softly, he sets a container with a small cup of peach yogurt and a peach down on the bedside table. He knows that sometimes Carter usually likes eating a certain fruit in addition to yogurt. Carter's said it's been a thing he's done since he was a kid. Ryan heads back to his room to sleep a bit as Carter sleeps. "I'll check on him later." He says softly. A few minutes later after he wakes up, Ryan walks into Carter's room to see Carter awake and writing in a long and thin Black and Gold book, labeled with the word "My Past" with fresh tears softly streaming down his face. "Hey Buddy. I'm back. You okay? You're crying. Everything okay?" Carter looks up a bit as he wipes his eyes a bit. "Kinda, but not really. I want to tell you what happened but at the same time I don't since I don't want to burden ya with my problems." "Nonsense Carter, it's okay. Tell me when you're ready to and I'll help you out." (Bear with me. This part will be made up for this) "June 6, 2002, now my Dad and Mom, Harold and Zeria Grayson had just put me to bed. I was only 4 years old at the time. I had suddenly woke up in the middle of the night to something that I wasn't aware of; turns out there was a Fire in my room that wasn't there before. Thing was it seemed to be that the Fire wasn't man-made, but I was well pretty scared to move cause the Fire was also surrounding my bed. Later that night, Daddy Will came and saved me from the Fire. I am so glad that he Adopted me that day." Carter says as he collapses against Ryan, tears falling down his face, crying a bit harder. Ryan's heart breaks a bit at seeing his Leader in pain like that. Wrapping his arms around Carter, he gently rubs Carter's back as he tries his best to calm him down. "You're okay Buddy. Glad you told me about that. It must feel good to get that weight off your chest like that." Carter nods as he hides his face in Ryan's neck a bit as he slowly calms down a bit. (I'm gonna work on Chapter 2 right now)