August 14, 2014. Good People. Based off karama9's characterizations and ideas in 'Apprentices'. Not really happy with it, but it stumped me quite a bit.
His father was a good person once; at least, he remembered it that way. The three of them were a happy family in the beginning. He couldn't remember when things changed, when his mother and father started arguing, always ending when either of them saw him peeking around a corner, or when things completely came to a head and his mother left. His father had told him that of course. That she no longer loved either of them and had abandoned them both. But they didn't need her, he would say, and that there were more important things to worry about.
His father started spending less time with him, devoting himself to building up an organization that he said would take over the world. There were always excuses and lies, and he started wondering what happened to the father he loved. He was on his own more often than not, and he came to hate the man he once looked up to for guidance. So much so that he forgot whom his father really was.
It took one of his father's associates to make him remember and after that, he had to run, his life saved by one he would call sensei. A man who taught him and treated him more like a son than his own father did. He went back to confront the insane and power hungry man his father had become, to face the past so he could move forward with the future, but fate had other things in store. They began a tumultuous relationship, his father brainwashing and even trying to kill him again, while he sided with those that opposed his father's evil ways. Many of them wanted his father dead, but he never forgot the man he was. He was a good person once and it was one of the things he wished he could be again.