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This was his father and he loved hioddamn much and his father had abandoned him when he’d needed him the most He’d turned his back on hi worthless and a failure and like his fuck up couldn’t be fixed That was bad enough, but when he’d joined the Marines he’d waited for word from his father, waited for his father to call hi hi would be okay, anything, but there had been nothing

The h crystal clear His father had washed his hands of hi could have been clearer than thein his dooratching him with a detached expression Then his father had turned his back on hi bed struggling not to screa moment of his life and now…

He couldn’t stop

He just couldn’t and God, hoanted to stop swinging his arms, but he couldn’t There was just too much pain and he couldn’t stop So, when he felt his brothers grab hirateful But as they pulled hiratitude turned to pure agony

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"Breathe, Danny," he said, trying not to lose it as he watched Danny struggle to breathe through the pain

"Dad?" Darrin said, putting everything into that one word as he looked up fro with hinized all too well

"He’s going to be fine," he said fir down his chin on the back of his arm as he looked his son over

"Hold still,his brother’s hand in his "Just hold still"

"Call for an arabbed Danny’s shirt and pulled it up Ethan pushed his son’s hands away and exaersand loud, he tried not to panic

Please watch over my son, he chanted in his head, the same prayer he’d said every day for the past eleven years Please watch over my son, Please watch over o get Jodi andto re and swelling spread around Danny’s scar, a clear sign that his son was going to need one h

Oh, God……

"Someone call Moaze

"What’s wrong with hi Danny’s other hand in his The fact that Danny didn’t try to pull his hands away and tell his brothers that he was fine told the that they needed to know

"It was an accident," Reese said, staring down at his brother, shaking his head in disbelief "God, it was an accident"

"It’s okay," he told his sons in his htened parents that were forced to stand around helplessly while their kids suffered

"He shouldn’t have hit you," Darrin bit out evenly, sounding pissed even as he gave Danny’s hand a reassuring squeeze