Newborn Eyes

Family Reunion

My brother and I had a very standard childhood. He had the athletics covered and I was the smart one. He was one of those rare people that did not have the same powers as his family. Although he was born into Proserpina, he gained the powers of a Xena. He had the power to control and read thoughts. Over the years I have blocked him out of my mind because of what he had done to our family. You see my brother, Leon, was a rebel at heart. He hung out with those groups under the bleachers who smoked and did drugs. 

Now the drugs led to many issues in our family because he never had a job. He would always take money from our parents before he even had his powers. So when he suddenly found out he could control people, he controlled our parents and made them give him money. It was a sickness. Every week he would take their money for his own drug abuse. I got a job as a waitress in order to keep food on our table because our parents couldn't. But that was just the start for my brother. He used his powers to rob banks, get out of jail, and bankrupt my parents. He always thought I was on his side because I never did anything about it, so he never stole my money. 

The day my mother died was the day that I stepped up. He had just come back from robbing yet another bank and my mother started yelling at him. Leon got pissed and used his powers to make her stand on the edge of the window upstairs, as if she was going to jump. I screamed at him to stop and he laughed, saying it was only a joke. The joke ended shortly after when my father came into the room with a gun. My father said he was going to shoot Leon if he didn't release my mother. Leon agreed and released his control on my mother's brain. 

When my mother came back to reality, she was still on the edge of the window. She tried to get inside the house when she slipped on the curtain that was bundled up on the wood. I can still hear her screams inside my head as she fell to her death. I was so mad at my brother that I grabbed a knife and threatened that if he didn't leave our house I would stab him. He laughed at me and tried to take control of my brain. But not before I threw the knife and it grazed his cheek, leaving a scar. 

I never knew where he went after that because he didn't release me from his control until he had left the house. I didn't know why he had taken Ty. Was it revenge for what I had done to him all those years ago? Or was he working for a group that actually did want Ty? Either way, this time I wouldn't let him control me. This time, seeing as my new powers entailed controlling death, I would kill him.