"Nine, I think," Chris replies, though he knows full well how old he was. He remembers everything about that day. He remembers everything leading up to it, he remembers wanting to leave the fuckin' hospital so badly, but not being able to. Even now, he fuckin' hates them, hospitals.

"He wasn't much older."

Peter'd been in year nine, then, and already in and out of the hospital for at least a year. Things had started to get fucked up even before it'd happened, really.