Zac wheeled himself into the bathroom. He noticed his clothes sitting on top of the laundry hamper, obviously laid out by either his mother or father. He smiled to himself, before closing the door. Using his arms, he managed to get into the shower and onto the chair. He paused, turned on the hot water, flinching at the unexpected coldness of the jet of water. He closed the shower door and slid off the chair slowly, moving himself so he was sitting in the corner of the shower.
* * *
"Walker, can you please go check on Zac, he's been in there for ages." Diana barely raised her eyes from the vegetables she was chopping.
"Honey, I don't want to annoy him. I'll go up when the water stops, running, ok?"
"Alright. I just think we should explain some things to him later."
"I know… and we will. Don't worry about it."
* * *
How long he sat under the water he didn't know. It had started off like ice but now it was like a rain of fire. All Zac really knew was that he'd stopped feeling the pain a little while ago, and that was really all the mattered. He looked around the shower walls, staring at the steam rising from where he was sitting. His whole body was numb now, and he could barely raise his arms to help himself get up. In the back of his mind he could see how pointless this was, but it didn't seem to matter now. He stared down at his arms, the parts that were unclothed and watched as his skin turned red before his eyes. As the steam continued to fill the bathroom, it became harder for him to breathe, and in a last attempt to be heard, he let out a strangled cry.
* * *
Walker froze when he heard the cry from the bathroom. He and Diana raced up the stairs, hearts pounding in fear. They reached the bathroom and could see the steam trying to escape from under the door.
"Zac?" Diana called.
There was no answer, so Walker opened the door, and they both stepped forward in fear of what they might see. Diana let out a blood curdling scream when she saw Zac, slumped over in the shower, skin burnt.
"Oh please God, no," she whispered.
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