The second and final chapter this little two parter. It's Kovu this time around. I don't own Lion King.

Faith: Scar raises Simba in the story My Son. That however is not a happy story.


It was a normal morning in the Pridelands. The sun hadn't even risen yet, but despite this a lone lion walked thought its grasses as the cool breezes swept through them.

Kovu had gotten used to this. He stilled had some Zira's training him drilled into him, so he would often get up incredibly early.

I still can't believe it. I'm going to rule all of this. He thought smiling. And even better I'll have the best lioness in the world ruling alongside me.

Then another thought creeped into his mind. He looked up.

"So this it Scar. You got what you wanted, and all it cost was my mother and brother. I hope your happy." Kovu said aloud.

Kovu was about to head back to Pride Rock when he saw something strange. A red cloud started forming in the sky and slowly began to move towards him.

Kovu was too much in aw to respond. He kept starring at the cloud as it began to take the form of a lion in that looked oddly familiar.

"Sca… Scar?" Kovu stuttered out.

He looked at Kovu with a smile. "Yes, Kovu it's me."

Scar looked at Kovu with a small smile. "Look at how you've grown. You're a fine lion, and soon you'll be a fine king."

"Is that what this about. Don't think that because I'm going to be king that you've somehow won. You haven't in any way. Now leave I don't want anything to do with you."

"Kovu, I know you're upset, and must not be very fond of me…"

"Not very fond of you! I hate you for every terrible thing you have done to both mine and Kiara's family!"

Scar looked hurt by that, but brushed it off quickly. "No you don't Kovu."

"Don't put words in my mouth…"

"What I mean to say is that you don't hate me. You hate what I represent."

Kovu looked at him curiously. "What do you…"

"All you know of me is the lion your mother taught you to admire and that I let you down."

"Let me down!" Kovu yelled. "I Looked up to you. I LOVED you. I wanted to be just like you, but all you were was a lie. A false king who killed his brother and took the thrown."

"All of what you say is true. Hate me if you wish just know…" He glided next to Kovu'e ear. "I love you enough to let you hate me." He said coolly.

"You what?" Kovu asked confused as moved back.

"You heard me. I love you. I love the little cub who would get away from his mother to seek me out. The cub that would spend time with me instead of his mother or anyone else. The cub who could make me smile despite everything. And I love the cu…" Scar paused.

"And I love the lion who despite everything I have done to effect his life, inadvertently or not, has become nothing like me and will take the thrown knowing he has not followed in his faux father's paw prints."

"It wasn't just my life you effected." Kovu spat out. "What about Nuka?"

Scar remained silent.

"Nuka was alive when you were, and you treated him terribly! He loved you, and you didn't give him anything in return. He longed for someone to care for him…" Kovu's eyes were glossy and threating start leaking tears.

"It killed him." Kovu finished weakly.

"I know Kovu, but we cannot change that now."

Kovu could no longer hold back his tears. They flowed down down his cheeks staining his brown fut.

"Why me?" Kovu asked. A bit of anger came out with the tears.

"Pardon?"

"Why come to visit me and why now? Why not visit my mother and tell her to stop everything she was doing in your name? Why not tell Nuka that he wasn't worthless?"

Scar's spirit looked to Kovu with eyes starting to gloss over as well, except sorrow was not the only brewing. "Why? Why? WHY!? Is that all you can ask? Well answer me this future king of the Pridelands, why didn't you tell your brother those things? You were there when I could not be. Why didn't you comfort him!?" Scar spat out angularly.

Kovu stood there stunned. He had no explanation. He had been there, but he had not helped his brother any more than Scar had.

As Scar saw Kovu's new expression his softened.

"I'm sorry Kovu. I shouldn't have said those things."

"No, you're right. You're completely right." Kovu said as more tears flowed as Kovu sank to the ground. "I'm sorry Nuka."

"No, Kovu you were right." Scar said again.

"I think… I think I couldn't give Nuka all of my love because I didn't love myself." Kovu looked up at Scar.

"I'd had a deep resentment for myself for the longest time. When Nuka was born he was weak like I had always been told I was, so I saw all the parts of myself that I hated in him. In the end Nuka was still my son. He was a part of me, so how could I possibly have loved him completely if I didn't love myself?" He shed tears that turned to mist before reaching the ground.

"It was unforgivable, the way I treated Nuka. The way I treated my son." Scar plopped down crying next to Kovu.

"I would have given anything to talk to him. To give him comfort throughout his torturous existence."

Kovu paused realizing what else Scar had said. "What did you mean couldn't be there? You're visiting me now."

Scar sighed. "That is part of my punishment. I had to look at what my actions had done to those I care about without the ability to interfere."

"You had to watch us suffer all that time?" Kovu questioned.

"Yes, I could only visit one before you. Evan then I didn't have a choice."

Kovu was stunned. Despite all that Scar did that punishment seemed too cruel.

"Who was it? Who did you visit before me?"

A small smile emerged on Scar's face. "It was Kion."

Kovu was confused. "Kion? Kiara's little brother?"

"Yes." Scar said simply.

"How was it? Speaking with another lion again."

Scar smiled. "I was one of the best feelings a creature could ever experience." Scar looked more intensely at Kovu. "Just know Kovu that I am sorry. Sorry for everything that I have done to you and everyone else."

Kovu looked at him now wearing a matching smile. "Tell your sister that I love her too. I love you both more than you can ever comprehend." Scar raised his paw to Kovu's face. To his surprise he felt Kovu's fur for a moment.

"I know I'm not really your father, but I would have been honored to call you my son."

"If I had had you… THIS version of you, then I would have been proud to call you my father."

The sun began to rise on the Pridelands. "You'll be a wonderful king Kovu, I have no doubt."

With that Kovu reached for Scar locking him in an embrace. He said in Scar ear, "I forgive you." The embrace did not fade like the other moments, but it had to end none the less.

Scar's mist began to rise again, but now turning a bluer color. "Thank you for everything. I love you and your sister more than anything. Let her know that as well, please." Scar moved to the section of sky were the darkness was slowly fading.

"Goodbye and thank you for your forgiveness, son."

After Scar's mist faded away Kovu looked to the few stars still visible with the rising sun. He noticed a new star began twinkling over the savannah.

"Your welcome, Father." Kovu said looking at new star watching him from above.

Kovu walked back to Pride Rock knowing that despite everything Scar had done he had repented, and now he would be there to watch over his family and their descendants for the rest of time.


I'm thinking of expanding this idea. I'm thinking about putting this story into the same universe as Makucha's Story,or whatever I decide to call it after I come up with a better title.

The basic idea so far is Kion starts asking questions about Scar, which stirs up a whole bunch of emotions from everyone, especially Simba. Eventually years later Kion talks to Kovu about their visits from Scar.