"Can I see that?" Ema held Apollo's arm to see the image of the angel.

"That angel…it's…the one in your room and the music room too."

"That's his guardian angel isn't it?" Jackson turned to Denise. "Ma'am I did not see you, it's a pleasure to see you again."

"The pleasure's mine Daniel, nice to see you've changed."

"What are we doing with this scumbag?" He knelt down beside Apollo. "Your call A." He held out a packet of cigarettes.

"I don't smoke anymore Jackson." Apollo turned back to Klavier. "Klavier, if I had my way I would kill you or make you suffer at the hands of Ema, her sister, Jaki, Denise, everyone you caused hurt to. I'll do the right thing though and hand you to the authorities and then watch you get ripped apart by prison inmates." He looked to Ema, smiling who was hugging onto his arm. "Answer my question first. Why'd you do it?"

The evil laugh that erupted from Klavier's lips was met by a punch to the face from Apollo.
"Herr Forehead. I can have anything I want. When she refused me, I chose to get what I wanted against her will. I gave her a choice." Apollo was ready to tear him apart, as soon as he sprang forward, it took the force of everyone to hold him back. That was when Klavier was dragged away in chains.

"The Arkham Angels…are you really them?"

"We'll tell you the truth about our pasts…" Jaki turned to Apollo. "Before our story begins…I need to tell you…Apollo and I are no blood relations, my name was changed…"

-x-x-

"I had never met Apollo before he was ten and I twelve." Jaki and Apollo were sat on two chairs in the middle of the floor, everyone else was around him. "Nobody other than Denise has ever known the full story." She pulled Apollo's wallet from his pocket, producing the colourful photo of her and him as children. The only thing was, Apollo had dark black hair.

"Your hair…it's black…" Ema looked to Apollo.

"It's naturally black, I had to dye it when I started working for Kristoph." Apollo replied.

"Anyway, my mother was a deceptive evil bitch." Jaki snarled. "My step father was a convicted child predator…" She was starting to cry. "Every day, ever since I turned eleven I was raped by my step father while my mother stroked my hair and told me everything was going to be fine."

"Then they wanted a boy." Apollo hugged her, stopping her from breaking down. "Her mother pretended to be married to a close friend of hers, she managed to con the orphanage I was at to give me to her."

"No matter what they say…Apollo was treated worst than I was by my mother and my step father…" Jaki had managed to pull herself together. "I was forced to take pills to make sure I couldn't have children." She welded her eyes shut. "My little brother…he…"

"I was gang raped by both of them and was forced to even rape Jaki." He turned to Ema. "When I found out what Klavier had done to you, it made everything they did to me hurt more, all those old physical wounds began to hurt once more."

"You were just…children." Lana, Ema and Denise were on tears. Charlotte and Haru, who had always wanted to know what Apollo and Jaki were like before they came to live with them were feeling ill.

"You remember those dream catchers in our house Ema?" Jaki looked to Ema, who nodded in fear. "Those are for Apollo. As soon as they are taken away…he dreams…he remembers all the pain he was in and he doesn't sleep…"

"My god…" Everyone gasped.

"When I turned eleven, a neighbour leaked information about some strange scars on my back. Reporting it as child abuse." Apollo stood up. "They found them on Jaki too…"

Jaki was the one to slide her shirt off first, revealing the small scars which formed wings on her back, Apollo then did it, the scars on his back were much larger, showing almost all his back was covered in the same scars.

"Our parents, Mr and Mrs Adams had made a break for it…" Jaki scowled. "Then things started to go wrong…"

"Wrong?" Lana asked. Apollo looked to Denise, who nodded and headed out the room to collect some things.

"I became very violent, Jaki reserved and neither of us would speak about what those two had done to us…then we were transferred to a place called Arkham. Arkham Asylum."

"Arkham Asylum. Where I spent all my childhood not giving a rats ass about anyone but me, except for you two of course." Daniel, taking just one look at Apollo and Jaki's face knew how much this was hurting.

"We were forced to go there, Apollo's violence escalated when he got there, when one boy got way too close to me, he and Jackson over there…" She pointed to Daniel. "…kicked the shit out of him."

"I no longer had any self control, I got addicted to cigarettes and booze and Daniel, an inmate at the highest security level, helped me straighten out."

"How old are you Daniel?" Lana asked politely.

"Me? Sweetheart, I'm twenty five."

"And…um…what were you…?" Ema squeaked nervously.

"What was I in there for?" Daniel tilted his head curiously. "I was psychotic. I was obsessed with fighting and violence. All over my body are these scars." He pointed to just a couple of scars. "Every time I fought someone and won, I cut a scar into my body with my switchblade knife."

"How many scars do you have?"

"2,410." Daniel replied as if it was nothing. "I've changed now, after passing my knowledge to my friend over there. By the way, man, you look ripped."

"Cheers Dan."

"I was considered too violent to even be assessed." Apollo recalled. "So I was placed on ADHD medicine, in the hope it would calm me down."

"It had an opposite effect, making Apollo depressed and forcing him to do stupid and dangerous things in a depressive rage." Jaki looked away.

"Then I did what was thought to be impossible – I escaped Arkham." Apollo rolled up one of legs of his trousers. "I was mauled by a dog and shot on the way out."

"You came to me…you tried to tell me what had happened. After more than a year of never making a single shred of progress with either of you, you opened up to me." Denise remembered the day clearly.

"Two years after we had been admitted to Arkham, we had got the news we wanted for so long. They'd caught the Adams' and they were to be put on trial for paedophilia, rape, sexual assault, child abuse you name it…" Jaki suddenly seemed happier. "We got an offer from Denise to let us stay with her. She gave us six months to get settled and if we didn't like it she would not force us to stay. Mind you, at thirteen and fifteen I don't think we'd have ever turned down that offer."

"Ema, listen here and listen well, we had our innocence stolen in the same way you did. Apollo, he suffers now still, the medicine stopped him from growing and now we've been told he's got an overactive brain…" Jaki fell silent. "What they did…it's shaped who we are but we will never forget…"

Apollo stood after this, drying his eyes and making his way to Ema.

"Your angel…" Ema mumbled. "She…"

"Looks like you?" He asked smiling. "She's been with me throughout my childhood, now she's right in front of me."