How do you tell someone you were wrong? Someone who believes without a doubt that you are always right, that you can do no wrong? How do you break it to them that you aren't indestructible? That you aren't always right? How can you let someone like that down? How do you take away that innocence? That trust?
At this moment, faced with this impossible task, I choke. My family, my brothers, could die because of my mistake. How do I face them? Biting my lip, I look up. My brothers hang around me, chained to the wall in the same fashion I am. Immobilized, my brothers haven't given up. Don is trying to figure something out; I can see it in his eyes. Raph is trying to rip his way through the chains; his bulging muscles and muted swears revealing it to be hopeless. Mikey, eyes wide, blabbering away about something; always trying to lighten the mood… or bore the tears out of our captors to get them to release us. And then there's me… useless.
I grind my teeth together, bowing my head as tears well up. Screwing my eyes closed, I can feel my heart breaking. It was my fault. All my fault. I should have known it was a trap. Should have moved faster. Guilt rips through my gut, making my breath hitch. I have to tell them… have to apologize for what I've done.
"I'm sorry…" I gasp, the tears finally leaking past my eye-lids to fall from my face. Silence descends as my brothers stare at me… at the failure. "I failed… I'm sorry." I bite my lip to choke back a sob as the depths of what I've done threaten to overwhelm me.
"What are you talkin' 'bout? Ya didn' fail. Yeah, ya screwed up. Ev'ryone does. We don' blame ya fer it." Raph growled and I looked up slowly. My brothers were telling me it was okay. Even knowing I messed up… they didn't blame me. At that moment, I knew that I could get us out of this. I knew that I wouldn't let them down.
Because they believed in me… unconditionally.
AN: Just something that came to me when I was sitting at the Library, waiting for my Lab partner. I was thinking about how my sister recently had to learn that I wasn't perfect and I had been really upset to let her down. But she surprised me and told me she knew I wasn't perfect, that I couldn't do anything and that she was happy with me just trying my best. So, this came up due to a story I'm in the process of writing so I had to write it down. ^_^ Hope you liked it.
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