Heros and Villans

Can someone technically be a hero if he was the villain in the first place? I mean if you think back to the melodramas that they used to have on TV and in plays- picture the evil man with the thick black moustache that ties the pretty lady to the train track. What if he had a change of heart and decided to save her instead. Does that make him a hero? If someone is given the opportunity to have a change of heart (for the better) or a change in circumstances, do they then deserve accolades?

Ty is our hero/villain of the hour.

Let me set the scene for you. Shaun is out of town and I had the two boys in the tub this evening. I washed them and got them out and took Ryan into his room to put him in his jammies. Once he was dressed, we went into Ty's room to do the same for him. After I walked in, I set Ryan on the bed and turned to get Ty's PJ's out of his dresser. His bedroom door slams shut. I turned around and asked him to open it back up. He told me he couldn't because it was shut. I tried the knob. It was locked. From the outside.

Initially I didn't panic. I pulled a bobby pin from my hair and attempted to pick the lock- after all it was something I used to do daily when I lived at home. I had to lock my bedroom door because my little sister liked to sneak in and thug things when I was out. It's all good- it gave me the practice to free my sons from Ty's bedroom. I tried for twenty minutes to get that thing unlocked and it just wouldn't click.

So I went over to his window to pop the screen out (my mother in law had to do this when she got locked in Ty's room two years ago). But when we had our windows washed, the screen got put in backwards- so the little pop-out handles were on the outside. Lovely.

When I finally figured out how to get the window to fold out and I figured out a way to yank the screen up a little, I realized that I would NEVER be able to fit through the tiny opening at the bottom of the window. Then I realized that I was locked in a room with a little monkey.

Up and out the window went Ty. I felt bad- the drop from the window to the ground was a little more than either Ty or I had anticipated. So I had Ty hanging out the window- totally stretched out and he still wasn't on the ground. I told him I was going to drop him and he got all wide-eyed. But like a good little trooper- he said okay. I dropped him into the bushes and he climbed out and went running for our next door neighbor (we had already talked about what he needed to do once he was free- I'm just glad for once that he listened!!). He ran over there yelling at the top of his lungs, "WE NEED HELP! HELP US! HELP US!" Joyce, my cute 65 year old neighbor comes flying out of her house in her pajamas, remote in hand and starts asking Ty what the matter is. I have my head stuck out the window and I'm trying to yell over to her that we're fine- we just need a little help. She was worried that there was a fire or something. I told her that I just needed her to go to the side of the house, put in the code to the garage, climb through the mess that's in the garage to the back door. Then she needed to come into my house and come and unlock the door. I thought she was going to pee her pants laughing.

Thankfully Joyce did get us out. But Ty got all the credit for being the hero that saved us. So, I ask again... can the villian become the hero? Or do you think he's just masqureding until the next time?