Baby brother
By: MysticFantasy
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Disclaimer: (I own no part of this movie or the characters in it.)
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Angel
"Only a few days ago, I was the third of four sons. I had two older brothers and one little brother. Now...I don't have a little brother anymore. He was taken away from us. Taken away from his brothers, taken away from his family. In the Marines I see things like this all the time but it doesn't really stick with me. I wouldn't remember it, it would easily be forgotten. But seeing it happen to Jack and seeing him die right in front of me...It's going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
"Jack was always the best behaved of us. He always made friends easier, seemed to know everyone when we went somewhere together...A lot of the time it was hard to believe that he'd gone through the things he'd gone through as a kid. He didn't deserve any of that. He didn't do anything to deserve that. The stuff that happened to him, it made him real quiet and scared. Made it hard for him to trust anyone.
"He'd always cover his eyes if the rest of us started to play around because he thought that we were fighting. What was normal to us was the opposite for Jack because of what other people had done to him. They completly turned his world upside down. He couldn't tell the difference between real or fake so he never knew if we were just playing around or not.
"When he finally came to us and stayed with us, I knew that things would turn out better for him. Our mom showed Jack that he didn't have to be afraid anymore. He didn't have to worry about whether or not he was going to eat that day, he didn't have to worry about having something nice to wear, he didn't have to worry about being cold at night...
"He starved in those foster homes, wasn't given anything good to wear and they left him to freeze at night. They never cared. With us he always had something to eat, he gained the weight he needed, he had nice clothes to wear everyday, he had a warm bed to sleep in every night and he had a family that loved him.
"We looked after him, took care of him, showed him the ropes. We made sure no bully would go within twenty feet of him, helped him with whatever he needed help with, took him to the doctor when he was sick...We loved him and we always will."
Tears ran down Angel's cheeks as he finished his speech.
"Jack will always be our baby brother. We're gonna miss him everyday of our lives. Bye Jackie. We'll see you again someday."
