Write about a lie your parents told you.

[poisonwine]

To be fair, he didn't know it was a lie. I got kind of an oddball power, though it was kind of close to my mother's. I could read people. It wasn't terribly strong then, but I could see that there was something. . .off about my brother. He scared me, though I didn't know why. Hell, even knowing that I was so terrified of someone who loved me so dearly was painful enough. But he thought such odd things. . .I didn't exactly know they were his thoughts, since everybody thought I simply had empathy, like my mother. My power is a little more useful than that, though. Because while my brother did love me, mostly, he was sick.

It took me forever to screw up the courage to tell my father. Julien had never touched me in any manner that was unseemly, and kept himself very carefully contained. I can't blame Dad for what happened. I hardly believed it myself.

It wasn't until the wedding, when he made his last mistake that it became clear something was wrong with my brother's brain. I think that was the day that broke Dad, more than anything else. The realization that his heir, his son, had been so sick, and he'd never known, and then he was gone before he could be made well and whole.

My father didn't mean to lie, but it hurt us all in the end nonetheless.

Word count: 248
Pup: Belladonna Boudreaux
Fandom: X-men