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Author's Note: What Neal might have been thinking about in, In The Wind.
The Wind
After all these years of not having a father around he finally comes back into my life. I never really knew him when I was growing up because he was sent away. Growing up all I wanted to do was have him in my life, so that we could get to know each other better. When he came back to see me he said he was innocent and I so desperately wanted to believe him.
James was right when he said why I wanted to get the box. It was because of what's in the box might tell me who my father is and then it would lead me to know who I am. Was he right? I don't know maybe just a little bit.
I sit there at Peter and Elizabeth's house talking about the evidence when Peter talks about them. What they have been through. He says he's doing this because James is my family. I tell him that family doesn't just turn up after 30 years. Family is people that have been there when you need them. To me Peter has been a better father to me than my own father. I see Peter nod because he understands what I'm saying. He tells me to be safe like someone who cares about you should be doing.
I listen to what happened to Peter on the phone and then hang up. I tell my father to help Peter get out of the mess that he brought on. I tried to tell him that the things he's done is in the past and it doesn't matter anymore. I want him to show me that he's changed. I grab his arm to tell him Please do this for me and he yells angrily No. It wasn't me that he wanted to see it was because of what was in the box. He used me to get the box and then he would destroy the evidence, but I looked at it first and I saw what really happened. I really didn't want to believe it, but I knew that it was true.
He was right I wasn't like him because I never would have done to Peter what my father did to him.
The End