The Prodigal Brother

Thaddeus licked his chops and stood as his brother started his story. It was like a bad dream, Rogue was taken back to those days, after everything went to shit. There home was destroyed and there mother and older sister taken. The last of them felt alone, oh so alone. He had left on his journey soon after, trying to make everything better, but he had found nothing of his siblings or his mother, and he had soon found his feet in the Blood Pack lands, and that is when he had found a part of himself.

It was as his brother was talking about losing them all and a prat of himself when his own words came back to him. Rogue looked in his brothers face, saw the shadows of his pain and anger swirling in there depth. "I am sorry brother my words where insensitive, neither of us had it easy, and yes I see your scars, not just your physical ones but your emotional ones as well. I am glad you found your place in this world again and yourself." Thaddeus looked at his brother and shock his head, it seemed that even though Rogue had more time to fine his place and reason for life, he had yet to, unlike the strong male that he was lucky enough to call family.

But it seemed his brother wanted to know how Rogue almost found the love that he once looked for but let it fall from his paws, let it get taken from him. "Ah, brother, I do not have much of a story. I began by looking for you, and mom, and Crusade, but for one reason or another I failed, that weighed heavily on my soul, still does. So I traveled, crossed forests, planes, and even a desert, until I came upon a land ran by one large pack with smaller underling packs. They called them self the Blood Packs."

Thaddeus Rogue looked to the sky, his eyes gaining a faraway look. "I soon found myself in one of those lesser packs, trying my best to give them a little more, I spent most of my time hunting and found myself still starving. But I did not mind, hell I welcomed the hunger pains, it meant I was doing something right, giving everything I kill over to those that needed it more then I."

He looked his brother in the eye, his own pain clouding with his pain and failures. "It was not long after I arrived my meet someone I felt like I needed to protect, she was a little thing, a young pup, and she was little more then skin and bones, she was like a sister to me, and I wanted to save her from the poor life she was living. It was some weeks after I arrived that things escalated, I had heard talk to of a revolution, the lesser blood wolves where banding together to take down the ruling pack, the Major blood wolves. The pack I lived was neutral, taking neither side and it seemed to work for them until one day the Major wolves payed a visit to the packs elders and demanded obedience, but they had no time to give the rulers an answer for the rebellion ambushed the major wolves and started a bloody battle. The pack I was looking after was stuck in the middle of it, getting attacked by both sides. I protected as many as I could but one by one many of the wolves that I cared about fell, near the end of the battle one of the leaders of the Major Blood wolves turned to a small figure that must have found her way out of the corner I was protecting, it was 'little sister'. I rushed forward without another thought and placed myself in front of her as the large wolf lashed out at her."

Thaddeus rogue sank to his belly a haunted look in his eyes. "I do not remember much after that, I was out of for a week and when I woke up I was told I had to leave. I was weak, and my neck still hurt from where it was ripped apart, but they told me I had to leave, for my life was still in danger, the Major Blood wolves had it out for my blood for some reason or another. They called me Thaddeus Rogue as they said goodbye, and it sounded like a title of honer."

Rogue looked at his brothers face. "It was a month after I left that I learned that the pack I lived with died soon after my leaving, killed by the Major Blood wolves. In my sadness I traveled again, and then found my way to the land that housed the remnants of Glaciem, and it was there Raven found me. He asked me to step in his place and look after his family, he left before I answered him." Thaddeus laughed a sad sound. "Her intrusted ME with the wolves he cared for most, I who failed everyone I loved most when it mattered most, and he still set me up for more failure. But you know the rest, Crusade found herself to the pack and I gave her the lead and then found myself on the move again, there is nothing more to say, I never stayed in one place long, and kept moving, I was only passing though when I thought I should stop by before crusade found me again and yelled at me for not visiting her." Thaddeus Rogue looked away from his brother, "I failed everyone I ever loved, I do not know if I could stand failing anyone else. I know you want me to stay, Crusade did too. But I do not know if my soul can handle anymore death of the ones I care for most, it was your first, and then 'little sister' and her pack, I should have been there for all of them and for you, to protect you. I should have been able to smell you, find you, but I could not, I was useless, the snow had washed away your scent." Rogue's words where full of pain, full of anger at himself and the world, he felt that it was all his fault that 'little sister' and his brother had both lost there childhood.