First thank you to all the wonderful people who took time to drop me a review. I really appreciate it. The response I received was positive which is reassuring. I wasn't sure how this revelation was going to be perceived.
Yes, you all heard me correctly. Nyssa Burrows in in no way, shape or form Michael and Linc's sister. She is not related to them at all. The explanation that includes the why and how is in this chap. You already have an idea abut how Nyssa, Michael and Lincoln all came together but a majority of it was from Nyssa's point of view, not Michael's or Lincoln's, and what Nyssa thought was the truth was no where near it. Michael's secret is out.
Please R&R most of all enjoy!
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Michael stood up from the bed.
" Did you think I wasn't going to find out? Did you think you could string me along for the next six years?" She exclaimed.
" Did you? Tell me?" Nyssa demanded.
Michael stood there unable to speak.
The secret was out.
"It wasn't supposed to happen like this." He finally stated.
" It wasn't? And how is it supposed to have been? You were just going to feed me these lies, and I was just supposed goblle them up. God, how could you?"
It wasn't supposed to happen like this.
He wanted to tell her. He did. Lincoln urged him to be honest with her, said she would come to tearms with it. But he couldn't bring himself to do it.
When he tracked down her birth certificate, it did state she was the daughter of the same Burrows as Michael and Lincoln.
He had made the mistake of getting her hopes up.
She didn't want show it, but Michael saw it in her eyes.
He connected with her.
She was just like him, alone.
Abandoned.
When he finally received the DNA results, his hopes were crushed.
They weren't brother and sister.They weren't related at all.
The man who Michael and Lincoln reluctantly called father was either lied to or voluntarily signed Nyssa's birth certificate stating he supposedly was her father.
And after all of this, he now had to go back and tell her the truth, to crush her dreams.
He couldn't do that.
So he didn't. He falsified and reworked the results to work in his favor and showed her the fake result.
It took some time to work out all the documentation that needed to be completed, but in the end it worked out.
And she left with him.
Lincoln didn't know right away.
He found out some time afterwards.
He urged Michael to tell her the truth.
" Why? Why did you lie to me all this time" Nyssa demanded in a raised voice.
" I just wanted to look out for you." Michael answered.
Nyssa shook her head.
" Why? For what? "
"I didn't want you to feel alone." Michael stated solemnly, and was about to add in 'like I felt for the longest time' but kept that information to himself.
" And how did that work out for you? How do you think I feel now? The person that supposedly cares so damn much spent six years lying to me." Nyssa exclaimed.
" I never wanted to hurt you" Michael stated.
"So what, you thought that I wasn't going to feel betrayed. After finding out the only people who potentially cared about me lied and manipulated for all these years!" She exclaimed , as tears escaped her eyes.
" God, how stupid I was to believed someone actually cared!" She exclaimed.
"You think that's the truth? You know that not the case, how can you even question…" Michael didn't get to finish she cut him of.
" You want to preach to me about the truth. God how superficial are you!" Nyssa yelled.
" And I didn't want to disapoint you!" She stated in a raised voice. " I wanted you to be proud of me, that I was so well adjusted, dealing with everything."
Michael looked at her confused. " What are you…"
"What am I talking about? You say you cared so much, so tell me then why a person that says they care, they love someone couldn't see what was right inform of their face?"
Michael remained silent.
" Still confused, let me fill you in. Remember all those time you caught me in the kitchen late at night. I couldn't sleep, always forgetting things, tired, fearful of every face I saw on the street. Did you ever wonder why?" Nyssa asked.
Michael couldn't escape her eyes. They were crying out. With distraught, of abandonment and most of all of betrayal.
Was it possible to see all of that in an individuals eyes?
She was undeniably upset, and it was understandable. He knew she was going to be hurt after finding out she has been lied to. Anyone would demonstrate the same kind of pain in the given situation.
But there was something else going on here. He was sure of that.
"I was raped." She somehow managed to spew out the words.
Silence sustained Michael Scofield.
"Some time after I started popping pills like candy because I couldn't get it out of my head. Couldn't sleep. Couldn't think. Couldn't breath. But I kept it to myself. Didn't say anything. Didn't want to bother you, you were already so preoccupied with Lincoln, I didn't want to add to all of that. "
Michael looked at her taken back. " I…I never knew, Please, I ca…"
" You care? Is this how you show someone you care? What would you have done? Would you have told me some fabricated story about family, and being there, supporting me, trying to help me? Fed me some more lies! " Nyssa exclaimed.
Who was this person standing in front of her?
A liar.
A manipulator
A hypocrite.
A fraud.
"Leave!"
Michael stood there totally taken back.
" I swear if I knew I would have…"
" Get out! Guards!" Nyssa exclaimed.
" You need to let me explain," Michael stated as he proceded to move towards her. He needed to make her understand. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt her.
" Leave me alone! Get out!" She screamed again.
" Please, just listen to me I never wanted to hurt you I…" Michael didn't have a chance to finish the door behing him opened and two guards walked in.
" Time to go Scofield," one of the guards exclaimed, as one stepped in front of him.
" Nyssa, Please! He only has a couple of hourse before…"
"Get out!" Nyssa stated in a raised voice.
The guards placed their hands on Michaels shoulders and tried to lead him out
Michael wasn't complying.
He wasn't moving at all.
" Please, don't do this, not now!" Michael said as he struggled against the guards grip. Shacking back and forth trying to pry himself away from them.
"Let go of me ! Nyssa let me explain!" he screamed as he was being dragged of by the guards.
The door to her room finally closed.
Nyssa picked up the folder and tossed it across the room.
The papers in it scattered throughout the room.
A paper rainfall of a life she once had.
She buried her face in her hands.
She was alone
Again.
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