It wasn't like Lincoln was oblivious to the fact his brother didn't have the best childhood but he had no idea just how bad it had gotten for him. So that's why after hearing of Michael's foster father he was shocked. Had it really gotten that bad without him realising? Hs sighed. Lincoln knew he didn't deserve Michael, he didn't deserve someone who gave up his entire livelihood to save him. Yet Michael thought that Lincoln deserved to live whilst he didn't.
Lincoln sat on the hammock and swayed. Michael walked outside and sat next to him.
"What's wrong Linc?" he asked. Linc thought he hadn't noticed the guilty stared that Linc had shot him every so often.
"Nothing Mike" Michael scoffed.
"So the fact that you've been looking at me like you've done something bad to me is nothing." Silence ensued as both brothers stared at nothing in particular. Linc sighed.
"I've failed you man, I've failed you real bad."
"Please explain" Linc felt tears in his eyes.
"You've given up everything for me. You gave up living to just survive, even as a kid when I was high and I screamed at you for doing nothing you didn't mind. You once said that because I raised you, you would take anything I did to you because I never truly lived. You don't understand I only truly lived when looking after you because you gave me a purpose bro." Lincoln waited in anticipation but became confused when his brother burst out laughing.
"God you are so stupid you know that?, no no lemme finish. Yes I gave up everything for you but quite frankly I don't care, in the end I got you and a beautiful girlfriend whom let's be honest I gave killed for. Yes I was surviving for a while but right here, right now I am living so stop being guilty because that's my thing." Michael then walked off leaving Lincoln when the hell Michael had grown up in to the man he was today.