AN: With the good news that Dual Destinies is coming out on October 24th :) I decided to post the next chapter. And it takes a different tone than the first chapter.
Apollo was running through the park and sat down on the bench. There he just let loose his tears.
"How could they not tell me!" Apollo asked. "And what did they think would happen. That I would just cry and let the person who abandoned me back into my life."
"Excuse me?" someone asked. "Are you mister Justice?"
"I don't know," Apollo said harshly not really paying attention.
"Do you have amnesia?" the person asked.
"No!" Apollo said. The person put her hands on her hips.
"Well then how do you not know your name?" She asked.
"Because I'm adopted!" he snapped. He turned to glare at the woman. He stopped as he saw a woman who looked like some sort of acolyte looking at him.
"Well then I guess I have the right guy," she said smiling. "Mind if I sit down?" Apollo shrugged as she sat down. "My name's Mia. So I take it you found out about your past."
"Just how many people know!" Apollo yelled.
"Well you'd be surprised just what you can find out in my neck of the woods," Mia said winking. Apollo rolled his eyes. "I guess you didn't take it well huh?"
"Why should I?" Apollo. "And why should I tell you! I don't even know you!"
"Well I was Phoenix's mentor," Mia said. Apollo rolled his eyes. "I know you're not happy with him right now but I'm not going to defend him. I'm just going to talk to you."
"What is there to say?" Apollo muttered. "My mother, if you can call her that, just played with my emotions with the truth. To make it worse she just expected that I would have brought her back in my life."
"Well," Mia said. "I know we just met but I know plenty of people who would kill to be in your spot."
"People would want their mother to abandon them?" Apollo said harshly.
"No kid!" Mia said. "They want their mother back in their lives."
"Well not like this," Apollo said. "Besides how would you know?"
"My mother left me and my sister," Mia said. Apollo looked at her. "And my father died before she did."
"Sorry," Apollo said not believing that Mr. Wright knew someone else with a past so similar to his own.
"The only difference was that she left me with my aunt," Mia said. "I guess your father was an only child."
"I guess," Apollo said. "Sucks doesn't it."
"Yeah well some unfortunate things happened," Mia said weakly. "I spent so long trying to find her, and wouldn't you know it my ex-boyfriend finds her in a month." Apollo snickered.
"I guess your sense of humors back," Mia said. "Anyway my sister was the one she met with. Only she didn't tell her who she was." Apollo nodded.
"Is they're a league of lets abandon the kid and not tell them?" he said. Mia eyes narrowed. "Sorry."
"Well she had a reason in leaving," Mia said. "She was disgraced by a certain man and was forced to flee home. It's a really long story. Well unfortunately for my mother the night she met my sister once again in seventeen years she was murdered." Apollo shot up.
"Oh my I'm so sorry," Apollo said.
"Thanks," Mia said. "Well that was eight years ago. It was actually Phoenix's second to last case until today." Apollo nodded.
"I can't believe he knew," Apollo said.
"He had his reasons," Mia said. "Of course you could have handled it given time. Though there is one thing you can't disagree to." Apollo looked at Mia.
"He was never at liberty to tell you."
"Maybe," Apollo said. "I thought you weren't going to defend him."
"Force of habit," Mia said. "I'm sorry. When it comes to these things Phoenix never thinks like a lawyer but rather like a father. He just wanted to keep you safe."
"Like your sister?" Apollo asked. Mia nodded.
"I was the one who told her who our mother was," Mia said. "But you know even though my mother was separated from my sister and me, she still had us close to her heart."
"Yeah but I don't even know if Lamiroir ever thought of me," Apollo said. His eyes were going hard again. Mia sighed.
"It's hard to forget something like your baby," Mia said. "She did carry you for nine months."
"You know she had amnesia," Apollo said. Mia shrugged.
"Regardless," she said. "I know you aren't exactly open to this discovery, but like it or now she's your birth mother." Apollo rolled his eyes.
"Doesn't mean I'm letting her into my life!" Apollo said bitterly. Mia brushed Apollo's hair out of his face. "Especially after what I've been through!"
"No one can blame you for being angry Apollo," Mia said calmly. "Be angry all you want but you can't deny the truth or darkness takes you." Apollo hung his head.
"I'm just so lost," he said sniffling. Mia nodded.
"I know the feeling," she said. She looked around. "Well we got some time before people start looking for you." She stood up. Apollo looked at her. "Let's find some answers." Apollo took her hand.
AN: Well I hope you like it. New chapter coming out sometime in the distant future. And I really believe that Phoenix was never really at liberty to tell Apollo as he is not related to him. And he does act like a father more often than not (Even in the Trilogy).