Forgiveness, Trust & Forever

Titan

I knew this was all going to go wrong, keeping all of this a secret from Hero was always going to be difficult and if I'm perfectly honest when things first happened between him and Emily and their breakup I was so angry by his actions I didn't care about keeping stuff from him because I had no intention on spending any time with him but here I am now having watched him go from raging bull to a sobbing mess in the last week and I am now left with this ache in my chest at the betrayal I am actively a part of.

"H stop, don't walk away like this" I call out to him as I reach the pavement that runs around three sides of the call our square in front of each of the houses, his lanky body racing across the road towards that all too familiar spot of the gardens. This has always been his go to spot when things went to shit when he was a kid, and it looks like nothing has changed even after all these years.

I race across behind him, crashing through the gate I find him sat on one of the benches his head buried into his hands and the shaking of his shoulders giving away that under that dipped head is an ocean of tears "go away Ti" he groans out between his hands" I want to be on my own" he chokes out between his silent sobs.

"Bro I can't just walk away when you're in this state" I try to console him as I sit next to him my hand on his back, letting the vibrations of his body movements flow through my own.

The smirk on his face hits me as he lifts his head, his wet bloodshot eyes meeting mine "you're kidding right, you have sided with them this whole time as they all ganged up against me, you went to their wedding and you repeatedly make secret calls and meet up with them leaving me home alone and I'm expected to believe you give a shit about me?"

I sigh, he is right I have done all of those things to him and until these last few days I really didn't care how it made him feel, that was until I saw how heartbroken he really appears to be "Hero talk to me, honestly answer my questions" I plead with him "I know things haven't been great between us but I need the truth from you, I need you to be open with me about everything"

All I can do now is sit and hope that he will finally be willing to open up with me so I can at least attempt some damage control before it all blows up in all our faces when he finds out that we have all lied to him.

The silence feels like a lifetime as he regains some control over his tears and as he lifts the hem of his T-shirt up wiping his face with the white cotton material, I brace myself for whatever it is he is going to throw at me "ok how about if I answer your questions you can answer mine?" I gulp can I do that? Is what he asks me going to have me betraying him even more? I cannot even begin to imagine how I would deal with being put on the spot, but I know that I have no choice in the matter if I want him to be open, I must be willing to do the same.

I nod my head agreeing to his demand "ok ten questions each, agreed" I tell him hoping that if I limit the questions, we will be able to avoid the ones I really do not want him to ask me.

"Yeah, ok I reckon I could handle what I need to know in those questions" he tells me just as my phone starts ringing in my pocket "take that, I need to make a quick call anyway" he nods his head towards my phone.

I decide to head away when I spot that the caller is Freddie, I answer quickly once I have climbed to my feet and I notice hero is on his own phone not paying the blind bit of attention to what I am doing "Hey Fred is everything ok?" I ask him concerned that the kick-off between Hero and Brandon may have caused more stress for Brandon that he really does not need now that he is getting so much weaker.

"Yeah, it's all good, listen I have told Brandon that we can't go on like this we at least need to make H aware that they aren't married and then maybe leave him to work out the rest in his own way, for now at least" I get exactly what he means, he knows that if my little brother finds out the truth, he will go looking for answers back in Winchester which will hopefully lead him to the truth.