A/N Warning: Mentions of abuse.
For Day 2 of Lotor week.
Acxa remembers when Lotor started wearing sleeves. In year seven all he ever did was try to be a rebel and refuse to wear his jumper and roll up his blazer to show his forearms. But then in year nine all of that changed. He wouldn't wear anything but his jumper and blazer. Even in PE during the summer he would wear his sweatshirt until he nearly passed out from heatstroke. And ever since the start of the year he had worn nothing but turtle necks and long sleeved cardigans. Most people just thought he was embracing his hipster style but Acxa and the girls knew better.
It started when his mother went to rehab for the first time and suddenly everything in the eyes of his father was his fault. He had to be punished accordingly.
When they had first found the bruises in the shape of hands staining his arms Acxa threatened to tell Thace but Lotor refused. He said it would get better. And when Haggar came out it did, for a while they were a family again. Until a year later when she had to go back and the bruises appeared on his arms again.
Every time it happened the world got caught in a loop. Acxa would threaten to tell until it stopped but after about a year the bruises would always come back. However Acxa promised herself that this time she was going to tell. Just like she promised every year.