"So, what are you thinking about?" Shadow asked him.

  "Did she really mean what she said?" Scratch wondered.

  "Who?"

  "Scarlett. She told me that I was her child....but how could that be? I'm nothing like her!"

  Shadow sighed. "Look, we aren't always going to be like our parents, alright?"

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  "I just don't want to carry the same darkness she did...I don't want to be her!"

  "You're not!"

  "How do you know?"

  "Because you already have good in you. Everyone can see it." Scratch rested his head on his hands. Ben then stepped out, and so did their father.

  Shadow smiled. "You've got your family."

  Scratch smirked as he looked up at his father and brother. His father smiled at him. "She wasn't always a monster, you know? It seems hard to believe...but it's true." Scratch looked up at him in disbelief.

  His father sighed. "Let me tell you a story..."