Shadow was curled up under the stairs once again. He pulled out his photo of him and Blitz. "Oh jesus, what the fuck have i done?" He asked himself. ' I had to get my revenge, didn't I? God, Blitz... why did you have to run off?" Shadow looked at the picture and began to cry. He remembered seeing Bitz for the first time. He was never serious about anything. But now, he was so different... Shadow wept harder and harder. For some reason his mind wandered back to his childhood, where he had first met his brother.

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Shadow's father was not a husky like his mom. he was a raging, asshole of a doberman. His master let him drink out of his vodka bottle. Shadow always wondered what a doberman was doing in Siberia. Anyways, his father treated him like dirt, because of his size (and most likely his father had self esteem issues, but we'll get into that some other time.) and that he was always watching his brothers and sisters play, he dared not go near them. The first time he did he was pounce and chewed on by one of his other siblings.

so shadow watched them play. he was very lonely and wished he would have something else to do, besides watch his brothers and sisters have fun. But ne day, his mother told him something that changed him-- he had a half brother, living not to far from here. He desperately wanted to see his brother, but his mother would not let him go right away. They had to wait until Shadow's dad was asleep.

A few days went by where the doberman drank and drank with his master. He was passed out in the snow in a puddle of his own piss, and shadow was sent to his brother. His mother wanted to accompany him, but shadow wanted to do it alone. He walked for about an hour, his fur keeping him warm and he kept a steady pace. Very soon, he began to see paw prints in the snow, and maybe some other... ummm,gross things in the snow, so he knew he must be close... then again, maybe it was some other, unfriendly dog. But with the though of another brother in mind he kept going.

He walked into a fence in the blinding snow and hail. he felt his way in front of him and cut himself on the barbwire fence. "ouch!" he said. he turned around and saw several dogs that looked a lot like him. "who are you and what are you doing here?" the largest one said and walked forward. "Are you... Shadow?" And for the first time he lay eyes on his brother Exile.

Shadow woke up from his nap under the orphanage stairs tears streaming down his face.

"did i fall asleep?" He looked around, and realized he was not under the stairs, but in a dirty hotel room. "Hey, Shadow." somebody said with a deep, German accent. "I need to tell you something." And Shadow turned around, and saw blitz in his shiny new wheel chair. "We need to talk."