Behind Closed Doors

Summary:Everyone in high school always assumed that Sharpener was a popular jock from a rich family but what people see in public is very different from what his home life is actually like

Epilogue

Sharpener was relieved when the court case finally came to an end, his father had been found guilty and would be going to jail for the rest of his life, the rest of the gang where also going to jail for varying amounts of times since Sharpener was able to name all the members and had proof of what everyone did and other people were able to confirm what he'd bought to attention. He felt a little bit guilty about Pirate Bob, since the man had always been kind to himself and his sister but the older man had no hard feeling against Sharpener and always enjoyed it when he came to the prison to visit. He hadn't seen his father at all since he had been convicted and refused to take his sister anywhere near the prison. Being called to the stand many times and the court case was bad enough for his sister and it had dragged on for a couple of months. He had graduated in the middle of the court case. Now that the court case has ended Sharpener was able to bury his mother properly, he was unsure what do with all the other bodies that had been found in the back yard. DNA had proved that a couple where Sharpener's full siblings and that most of the babies where half siblings but a couple had no relation to Sharpener at all, he was pleased when DNA tests came back for his sister and it was proved that Clip was her father it also proved that Erasa's sister was his sisters mother. Erasa wasn't sure how to take the news that she had another niece but knew that she wanted to be in Staplers life as did her parents. Staplers namesake on the other hand didn't want anything to do with her daughter, hearing what happened to Stapler during the court case she felt guilty that she left a little girl in that situation. Sharpener was glad that he had his sister in his life because without her he would've been a lot worse off.

Sharpener stood by the grave of his mother and watched as his sister sat down and started telling her about what life had been like since the end of the court case. Even though Megumi Paper had died many years before she was born Stapler considered this woman her mother and Sharpener was sure that his mother would've cared for Stapler as her own if she had lived.

"Sharpie and I now live with Mrs Morris full time, but since we now live with her I have started calling her grandma since Clip is no longer around he will not get mad and hurt her for getting to close to her. Goten, Trunks and I still play with each other on a regular basis and Mrs ChiChi helps me with my home work when I have trouble and Sharpies not around to help. I like being at school again and it is fun being able to have sleepovers with my friends at grandma's house. Sharpie and I still share the same room but we don't share the same bed anymore ... well most of the time. I get scared that da ... Clip has come back but Sharpie always lets me sleep in his bed when I get scared. I have to be strong and slowly work my way so that I can sleep by myself all the time. Kasumi, the girl from the court case had her baby. She didn't want it so put it up for adoption but Sharpie found out and was able to get custody of our baby brother like he does with me. I got to name him and I named him Dende since he was the one that saved mine and Sharpies life. Dende is not with us at the moment. Erasa is looking after him at the moment. She is really good with babies like my brother since she helps look after her brother and sisters. I hope that her and Sharpie get married."

"Hey" Sharpener yelled at his sister, with a blush. He'd never considered Erasa as a girlfriend before. She has always been one of his best friends the whole time they were growing up. When he started becoming interested in girls Videl has been his first crush and not because she was the daughter of the man he thought was the world saviour at the time, but because she had come from poverty as a child, was mentally and physically strong and Sharpener through that she would eventually be the one that helped him out of the situation he was in that was until she had become a Junior Cop, that had shattered his dreams of her helping him. Sure she had been a big help, but she was distant at first because of the issue with the drugs and hadn't even known about it till he was arrested. Erasa had always know when there was something wrong with him, just that at the time she was to young and innocent to dig any further to see what the signs meant. Gohan had been the biggest surprise and was a lot stronger both mentally and physically then he looked. The nerd picked up on the fact that something was wrong and stuck by him when he found out the problem, but felt guilty at times that he didn't fully know what was going on till Piccolo and Dende had bought the Paper siblings into Capsule Corp half dead.

Sharpener looked over to the other graves and couldn't believe ChiChi Son and Bulma Briefs generosity, the two women insisted that his mother wasn't the only one that needed a proper burial but his dead siblings did as well. The children didn't have a name, just baby one Paper, baby two Paper and so on. They had also managed to get him off of all his chargers against him for what he'd done while living with Clip.

"Time to leave Sharpie" Stapler said pulling at her brother's arm bringing him out of his thoughts.

"All right, I'm coming" Sharpener droned to the small girl.

They meet up with Erasa in the shops who was pushing Dende around in the stroller.

"Nice visit with your mum" Erasa asked, smiling brightly as usual.

Sharpener smiled. "It was. It's still weird not having her to talk to every day. We would always talk as I tended the veggie garden."

Sharpener picked his brother out from the stroller; the young boy was ready for a feed. He could tell that people thought he and Erasa where Dende's parents and would get strange looks from the adults he would encounter, but he was going to bring up his brother and didn't care what other people thought about him. If he could bring up his sister from the age of nine then bringing up a baby at the age of eighteen with previous experience, it should be easy and this time he had support from more than the kind elderly lady who ran a cafe.

Author's notes: Thank you to everyone that has reviewed put an alert for the story and added to story to their favourites. Hope that you all enjoyed it. I enjoyed reading all the reviews.

One thing I want to know if everyone thought I had the correct rating for the story, it's currently rated M to be safe but have been reconsidering and lowering the rating to T.

History of Behind Closed Doors:

Behind closed doors was originally a meant to be a chapter for my story Life Changing Moments and the chapter was titled Broken Glass. I originally started writing the chapter in 07/08 and by 09 decided that it was two dark for the direction that I wanted to take Life Changing Moments and discontinued it before going any further and started writing Broken Glass as its own story changing the name to Behind Closed doors soon after. Once I started Behind Closed Doors as its own story I never planned to post it, when I started writing it; it was a form of therapy that helped to deal with being abused by a relative.

When I started the re-write I started the story with the court case and then had a number of flash backs explaining the situations of why they were all there. I couldn't get it quiet right so decided to change the story so it started when Gohan started high school with Sharpener and the flashbacks happened when they were telling each other about their family history which I didn't feel quiet worked either which then lead me to moving everything around so the story was in the order it happened.

People who have read my other story might have noticed that the names of Erasa's mother Compass is the same name as Sharpeners mother in Life Changing Moments. I have recycled a number of names from other stories that I wrote because I hate coming up with names all the time.

This is the last chapter of the story but will be posting a bonus chapter of the scrapped chapter of Life Changing Moments: Broken Glass.

Hope everyone enjoyed and thanks for reading.