To the outside world The Mitchell family seemed to be the average American family. Two happily married parents and 2 children yet Karen and Scott had always favored there youngest son Gray. He was intelligent and was seen as the perfect child but, Zach didn't mind he would rather keep himself to himself. Although he tried so hard to keep away from his family Gray always bugged him and he was often the reason why his parents argued so much.

"You good for nothing waste of time" Scott shouted at his half beaten son
Karen was about to contribute but she gasped at what she just heard.
"Fine see if I care what you do" Zach said as he tried to walk away. Scott grabbed his son's arm pushed him to the floor and started to kick him in the stomach "Remember this the next time you try to be smart, you do not have the brain cells, you a waste of space and effort. The only thing that stopped Zach from being beaten to a pulp was the fact that the doorbell rang. "Go to your room immediately, we need to save people the embarrassment that you are".

The bell rang again and again. Karen answered the door and greeted her sister "Hey Claire" she said soothingly
Zach thought how could my own mother be so calm in a hell hole like this.
"Hey are you doing?" Karen asked
"Fine, ow are the boys they are great" Karen replied (It was obviously a lie)
"Ready to go?" Karen asked "Gray come on we are leaving"
"Scott isn't coming?"the younger sister asked
Scott walked in and answered "No, I have work to do" He said relentlessly
"We will see you later, bye honey" Karen said to her husband as she left the house.

Zach tried to leave his room but his father was standing in the doorway "Where do you think you're going?" Scott asked his son
"I was just...uh...going to...uh take a bath" Zach replied (wishing he hadn't).
"I don't think so" his dad said. All at once Zach found himself being shoved against his bedroom wall and being punched across the face
"Please dad don..." Scott grabbed his son by the throat and choke slammed him to the floor and began to kick him vigorously.
Zach began to throw up blood which stained the carpet, he tried to run away but he was pushed down and waked over the head with a bat.
"Boy""Don't try and cross me again otherwise you get hurt, understand me?"

As soon as his dad left his bedroom,Zach sneaked out and began to run himself a bath, too wash away the blood his father left behind when he was hit, however Scott was waiting behind the door. He waited until Zach was at his most vulnerable state. In the bath. Zach sat down and closed the curtains. His dad entered and locked the door his figure didn't show through the curtains (They were black). Scott revealed himself to his son and Zach knew exactly what was about to happen
"Did I see you could run yourself a bath?" he said with an angry tone. Zach was speechless
"Yeah I thought so you were always the weak and pathetic one" he said.

Zach tried to run out of the bath he didn't care that he was naked he just needed to get out however his father was too fast for him he grabbed his son's head and submerged under the water, every so often giving him 5 seconds of air and then back into the water after several minutes Zach was wandering why his dad won't just let him die, "I'd rather that happen" Zach thought to himself
"Boy" his father said "This is for all your sins"
"You almost killed your brother at the park, that is all your fault and for that you will be punished he grabbed a knife and was about to stab his son but then...

Scott heard the doorbell ring and thought that he should make it look like a suicide attempt by spilling water over the bath and making it look like he struggled, finally he submerged Zach completely to make it seem that he is trying to drown himself. He left the bathroom and locked the door and the bell rang again he was expecting it to be his wife and child but it was Owen Grady
"Hey Mr Grady" Scott said
"Oh please call me Owen" he replied "Is Claire here?
"No she has left to go to town with Karen and Grey, but you can wait inside for her"
"Okay thanks" Owen walked in and sat on the couch "Hey Scott how is Zach?"
"OH...um...He's...fine..." he responded
"Can I have a drink please" Owen asked
"Sure, we have coffee, tea, milk etc. what would you like?"
"I will take a cup of coffee"
While Owen knew that Scott was distracted he went upstairs to check on Zach as he had a bad feeling about Scott, but he did not know what.

"Zach are you alright?" but he didn't here a reply "Zach"... "Zachary Jay Christopher Mitchell!, open this door right now"
after an eerie silence Owen felt that something was wrong so he decided to kick the door in "Okay 1,2,3" Owen booted the door and saw that Zach was submerged under water "ZACH!" without hesitation Owen grabbed Zach's body and he dragged his body out of the bath and attempted to give him CPR to no success almost immediately after Owen called for an ambulance
"Hey I need an ambulance and hurry, the address is 134 Madison Lane" He waited for an ambulance and held Zach close to his body so that he is warm as he was freezing and he had to tell Karen.
"Come on Karen pick up"
"Hi this is Karen, I am busy right no please leave a message after the beep"
"Hi Karen this is Owen, if you could please pick up as soon as possible that would be great thanks"
after he called Karen he noticed that Zach had bruisers all over his body and down his neck and wondered how they get there.

"What do you think you're doing?"Scott asked angrily "What did you do to him?"
"Trying to save your son and we both know that I didn't do this and it wasn't the dinosaurs either" he answered
"It doesn't matter is is a wasteful piece of crap anyway"
"WHAT, he is your son"
"He's a punch bag"
"He's twice the man that you will ever be you are just a scared little boy and you were victimized as a child so you take out on your son so you feel better about yourself don't you?"
"So what if I did you have no proof"
"Maybe not but I'll ensure that Zach is safe and will never have to see you again"
"How exactly are you going to do that?" Scott argued
"I have ways of making you confess..."