Spoilers: Major spoilers for Apollo Justice within. You have been warned.
Prompt: Sad(ness)
Character(s): Lamiroir (real name used in the story)
Originally Written: 3.17.2009

She knew that her life was in shambles.

It pained her beyond belief to watch her children move about their lives, laughing and crying and going through all-too-familiar motions while she was forced sit in the background. She knew that she could always just come clean and reveal the truth, but they would despise her; they would shut her out from their lives forever.

Thalassa wished with everything she had that things had taken a different course—if they had, maybe she would be with her children without restrictions. The scales of fate were delicate; the slightest thing could tip them. Perhaps if she hadn't said something, hadn't look a certain way, her entire life would be completely unlike the one she led now. She was spared the torture of going through every action she made during her life, but at times that was even worse than knowing.

The tears she once shed no longer hold any meaning.