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*TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND RAPE*

Ahadi ("promise" in Swahili) is the son of Alamgir and Layla, the brother of Bakari, the mate of Uru, the father of Mufasa, Takatso/Scar, and Pumzika, and the adoped father of Awali.

Ahadi is born to the King and Queen of the Sunrise Pride along with his brother. The land rejoices, for after years of no heirs, the king now has not one, but two heirs. Ahadi, being born first, would be king, and his brother his royal advisor. The East Sun Lands were thriving under their King's reign. The newborns soon grew into healthy cubs, and everything seemed to be perfect.

However, while the small family seems perfect on the outside, things are much different on the inside.

No one knew that the King was less than kind to his family when the prying eyes of the pride were turn away. The king constantly yelled at and beat his wife for the littlest of offenses, telling her how worthless she was to him and that he only let her live because he needed a sex toy, and whenever he felt the mood he would mate with her, willing or not. Not only that, but as soon as the king's sons were out of their spots, he turned his physical, emotional, and sexual abuse onto them. One of Ahadi's earliest memories was of his father beating him simply because he had an accident in the royal den. Another of his earlier memories was of his father sexually assulting him as a substitute for his mother, as she was out hunting. This was only a fraction of the daily abuse Ahadi and his family suffered from his father, and eventually Ahadi's mother couldn't take it any more. She killed herself when Ahadi and his brother were pre-teens, throwing herself off the side off a cliff into the waiting jaws of the crocodiles below.

Years of the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, plus the loss of his mother, took it's toll on young Ahadi. He grew to become a serious, pessimistic individual with tempermental issues of his own. Very little scared the young lion, except his father, of course. Ahadi was absolutely frightened of his father. Everything about him terrified the lion. But what scared him most of all were his eyes. Those cold, soulless green eyes that seemed to look right through you into your very being. Ahadi couldn't stand those eyes. So when his mane was nearly completely around his neck, Ahadi fled the lands to never return, leaving his brother to face the abuse alone as Crowned Prince.

Ahadi wandered the savannah for a couple of years by himself, just scraping by. His explosive temper earned him a reputation among other rogues and predators, so most tended to stay away from him. Ahadi grew lonely with his new way of life. While he hated life back at home, he did miss being around other lions. He also felt guilty for leaving his brother all alone with their monster of a father. But Ahadi refused to go back. He refused to take another beating, refused to be raped one more time, refused to be yelled and screamed at for the littlest of things, and he especially refused to go back and face those eyes. So he continued on, alone.

Ahadi's life would change one day when, close to the boarder with the Pride Lands, the young lion would hear a sudden cry for help. Without thinking, Ahadi rushed to the voices rescue, and found that it was a lioness trapped in the middle of a wildebeast stampede. Springing into action, the lion rushes into the frey, nearly getting trampled himself in the process. Seeing no way out of the stampeding herd, and with the lioness too frightened to move on her own, Ahadi throws himself on top of her and protects her with his own body. Luckily for him, the herd avoids him for the most part, only clipping him with their hooves, and once the cost is clear he stands up and does what any other sensible lion would do after a life threatening ordeal: he yells at the lioness.

"What the fuck were you thinking!? Are you stupid!? Did you want to die!? Or do you just like being trampled by a bunch of wildebeast!?" he screeches, red eyes blazing and spittle spraying from his lips as he shouted at her. But the lioness doesn't hear him. She just stares at him with wide, blue eyes, and after what seems like eons she finally speaks.

"You...You just saved my life. That was awesome!"

"Yeah! I saved your life! You're welcome! Now just what the fuck were you thinking?" he snapped.

"Well, I was thinking I would be bringing home some wildebeast for my pride." she replied with a coy smile. "Instead I ended up being saved by a handsome stranger."

Before Ahadi can come up with a remark he soons finds himself surrounded by the lionesses pride. And it's here that he gets the shock of his life: the lioness he just saved was no ordinary Pridelander, but Crowned Princess Uru herself. Uru quickly explains to her father what happened, and after hearing that Ahadi selflessly used his own body to protect his daughter, Mohatu is more than willing to allow Ahadi to stay in the pride. In his eyes the young lion has already proven his worth.

Ahadi is happy to belong to a pride once more. Mohatu seems interested in having Ahadi become Uru's consort, especially after hearing that he is the same Crowned Prince Ahadi of the Sunrise Pride who ran away from home. Uru is also smitten with him, and does everything in her power to get him to loosen up and smile. While Ahadi finds this annoying at first, he eventually begins to love the princess as much as she loves him, and so as soon as he confesses his love for her, the two are wed. Not long after Mohatu steps down from the throne, and Uru, with Ahadi by her side as her consort and her king, takes the throne.

Three years into their marriage and their reign, Uru gives birth to their first son. Ahadi, of course, is nervous. He's afraid that he'll be as horrible a father as his own father. But Uru comforts him, telling him he'll be an excellent father, that he's nothing like his own father, and when he sees little Mufasa for the first time, he immediately falls in love with the babe. Mufasa looks almost exactly like him, with the same golden fur and red eyes and big nose, and it's clear that he'll inherit his father's bulk as well. He loves Mufasa so much, and he makes a promise that day that he would raise his son, and any cubs after, with the love and affection he never received as a child. He also swore to rein in his temper, and to never strike any of his cubs.

This promise is put to the test when, four years after Mufasa is born, Uru yet again gives birth to another son. When Ahadi meets his new son, he notices that this one take more after his mother in appearances than him, but that's fine with Ahadi. Ahadi is sure he'll love this cub just as much as he loves Mufasa. And he does, that is, until the cub opens his eyes.

Ahadi freezes. His breath catches in his throat. Panic begins to set in. His son's eyes are green. Green. Just like his father's. The eyes he ran from so long ago have now come to haunt him once more in the face if his own son. Ahadi can't take it. He flees the den, leaving a very confused Mufasa and a distraught Uru behind. Uru names the cub Takatso, "desire," for she desires for Ahadi to be able to conquer his fear of his father as he raises his sons.

As his sons grow, Ahadi does his best to show his boys that he loves both of them equally. But with the deeply ingrained fear of his father in his mind, and the fact that Taka looks more and more like his grandsire each day, not to mention he has those accursed, green eyes, it becomes clear that Ahadi clearly favors Mufasa over Taka. Thus Taka starts to act out to gain his father's attention, causing the two to butt heads often. It starts out with little things, such as placing termites in his brother's fur or plucking out some of Zuzu's feathers, but it soon increased to Taka skipping out on his Lion Guard lessons and duties and hanging out with some hyena pups, until eventually Taka, as a young adult, would nearly get his brother killed by Boma and his herd of water buffalo. While neither brother were harmed, Ahadi flew off the handle, especially after Taka dropped the bombshell that he knocked up Sarafina, when he had his own betrothed in Sarafina's sister Bititi. For the first time in years, Ahadi's temper got the better of him, and he lashes out at Taka, slashing him across the face. While the young lion manages to dodge most of the blow, one of Ahadi's claws strikes true, and leaves a deep gash down Taka's eye.

Stunned silence filled the air. No one can truly believe what just happened, especially Ahadi. Both he and Taka are breathing heavily. The younger lion does not look at him, and fear grips Ahadi's heart.

"Taka...?" he whispers, fear making his voice crack.

Did he just take out his son's eye? Did he just cripple the vision of his own son?

Taka finally looks up at him with blood running down his face. Ahadi sees that, thankfully, his eye is intact, but he does not have time to feel any relief, for in his son's eyes, the green eyes that are so much like his own father's, he sees complete and absolute hatred.

"I thought for once you would side with me, that you would see things my way. That my love for Sarafina would be enough to sway you. But I can see that I was wrong. You don't care about me, or what I want. All you care about is your precious MUFASA!"

With those hate-filled words, Taka rushes out of the den, leaving a heartbroken Ahadi behind. He makes all those who witness swear not to tell Uru what has happened in that cave that day, and that if she asked, Taka gained his scar from the water buffalo. Everyone promises to keep their mouths shut, and then they leave, leaving the King alone with his thoughts.

Uru later finds out the truth on her own, not long after she returns from finding water, and of course she is furious with Ahadi. Ahadi takes her anger without a word, simply holding his head in shame. He knows he deserves every rage fueled word she spits at him and more, for he has caused their son irreparable damage, not just physically, but emotionally as well.

Years down the road, after Uru is long gone and both Mufasa and Taka, now calling himself "Scar," have children of their own, Ahadi is just as shocked as the rest of the pride when Scar announces the death of Mufasa and Simba. Ahadi is grief-stricken with the loss of not only his eldest child, but his grandchild as well. Yet Ahadi does not completely believe the story Scar tells them. A stampede of wildebeast in the Gorge, where Simba and Mufasa just happened to be? Too convenient. And it sounded similar to the story of how he and Uru met, which the two had told the boys when they inquired as cubs. Not to mention the fact that Scar himself does not seem the least bit bothered by the death of his brother and nephew. Yes, his face showed grief, but his eyes show a certain malevolent glee that scares Ahadi, especially as Scar accends the throne with the hyenas in tow. So after Scar's coronation, Ahadi confronts his son alone.

"Just what happened back there in the Great Gorge, Scar?" Ahadi asks as he corners his son.

"Exactly what I told you Father. Simba wandered off to the Gorge alone, a stampede started, I happened to spot him, and I went and got Mufasa. Mufasa then threw himself headlong into the herd, where both he and Simba were trampled to death. What else can I tell you?"

"I find that hard to believe Scar. If Simba was in such great danger, why didn't you try and save him yourself?" Ahadi growled. "After all, you were once the leader of the Lion Guard before Mufasa disbanded it. You could have easily have gone and saved Simba yourself, could you not?"

"Why? Do you wish it were me who was dead instead of your precious Mufasa?" Scar sneered, his eyes narrowing into slits.

"That's not--"

"It is! It is what you meant! Don't you dare lie to me and say that isn't what you meant!" Scar roared, getting into Ahadi's face. "All these years! All these fucking years I've done everything I could to get your attention! To show you that I could be just as good as Spirit damned Mufasa! That I could do everything he could do! That I could be just as good a fucking king as he! That I could maybe, just maybe, actually be better than him! But did you ever bother to look!? NO!!! It was always Mufasa, Mufasa, MUFASA!!!" Scar screamed at him, spittle flying from the darker lion's mouth. "You never fucking cared about me, or what I did, or how I felt! You were never there for me! You always treated me like I had some sort of disease! You always avoided me, broke your promises to me, or just plain lied to me! I could never get you to look away from Mufasa and all his fucking perfection! Well, Daddy, Mufasa isn't here anymore to hog the spotlight! Are you looking now, Daddy!? ARE YOU LOOKING NOW!?"

Ahadi could only stare at his son in stunned silence. Around him he could hear the hyenas begining to surround him, but that was not the focus of his attention. His son stood in front of him, panting for breath after his outburst, his whole body trembling, green eyes blazing with all the pain and anger and sorrow he had ever felt. For the first time, Ahadi looked, truly looked, at Scar and saw not his father in those green eyes of his, but his son. And he now realized, too late, that by avoiding him and treating him as his father, he had inadvertantly created an entirely new monster. But he did not blame Scar. No, he knew he had only himself to blame. His gaze softening, he looked at Scar and gave him a smile, which caught the younger lion off guard.

"Scar...Have I ever told you about my father?"

"No. You never shared such things with me. Only with Mufasa." Scar growled.

Ahadi flinched slightly at this, knowing this to most likely be true. He sighed, then began his tale.

"My father was the king of the Sunrise Pride, in the East Sun Lands. To outsiders, he was a kind and just king, one who everyone adored. But that was not who he truly was. Behind the scenes, away from the eyes of others, he was a terrible lion, who often abused my mother, brother, and I. He would beat us and belittle us on a constant bases, and whenever the bastard got horny, he would rape my mother. And if my mother wasn't around, my brother and I often became substitutes in her place. I hated everything about him. But the thing I hated most were his piercing green eyes. The same eyes you inherited. Nothing frightened me more than to see his eyes looking in my direction. I never got over my fear of him or his eyes, so when you were born, and I saw you had his eyes, it felt as if he were staring at me through you. I...was frightened of you."

Scar looked blankly at Ahadi, then sneered at him.

"So that's it? That's your sorry excuse?"

"No. I'm not using that as an excuse for my actions. You deserved just as much love and attention as your brother, and believe me, I tried to give that to you, but I just couldn't separate my father from you in my mind. I feared that if I stayed around you too much, my fear would over take me, and I would lash out at you. And I did. But now I see how wrong I was. Scar...Taka...you are not my father...you are my son. I love you Taka, and I am so, so sorry for not showing you that love properly before now."

No emotion flickered on Scar's face. He stared at his father for a moment, before finally speaking in an emotionless, regal tone of voice.

"Well, Father, it's too late for apologies now, now isn't it?"

And with that Scar turned his back on his father, leaving the hyenas to tear the old lion to shreds.

~*~*~*~*~*~

NOTES: Poor Ahadi is next. His appearance hasn't changed notably.

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*TRIGGER WARNING: MENTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND RAPE*

Ahadi ("promise" in Swahili) is the son of Alamgir and Layla, the brother of Bakari, the mate of Uru, the father of Mufasa, Takatso/Scar, and Pumzika, and the adoped father of Awali.

Ahadi is born to the King and Queen of the Sunrise Pride along with his brother. The land rejoices, for after years of no heirs, the king now has not one, but two heirs. Ahadi, being born first, would be king, and his brother his royal advisor. The East Sun Lands were thriving under their King's reign. The newborns soon grew into healthy cubs, and everything seemed to be perfect.

However, while the small family seems perfect on the outside, things are much different on the inside.

No one knew that the King was less than kind to his family when the prying eyes of the pride were turn away. The king constantly yelled at and beat his wife for the littlest of offenses, telling her how worthless she was to him and that he only let her live because he needed a sex toy, and whenever he felt the mood he would mate with her, willing or not. Not only that, but as soon as the king's sons were out of their spots, he turned his physical, emotional, and sexual abuse onto them. One of Ahadi's earliest memories was of his father beating him simply because he had an accident in the royal den. Another of his earlier memories was of his father sexually assulting him as a substitute for his mother, as she was out hunting. This was only a fraction of the daily abuse Ahadi and his family suffered from his father, and eventually Ahadi's mother couldn't take it any more. She killed herself when Ahadi and his brother were pre-teens, throwing herself off the side off a cliff into the waiting jaws of the crocodiles below.

Years of the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, plus the loss of his mother, took it's toll on young Ahadi. He grew to become a serious, pessimistic individual with tempermental issues of his own. Very little scared the young lion, except his father, of course. Ahadi was absolutely frightened of his father. Everything about him terrified the lion. But what scared him most of all were his eyes. Those cold, soulless green eyes that seemed to look right through you into your very being. Ahadi couldn't stand those eyes. So when his mane was nearly completely around his neck, Ahadi fled the lands to never return, leaving his brother to face the abuse alone as Crowned Prince.

Ahadi wandered the savannah for a couple of years by himself, just scraping by. His explosive temper earned him a reputation among other rogues and predators, so most tended to stay away from him. Ahadi grew lonely with his new way of life. While he hated life back at home, he did miss being around other lions. He also felt guilty for leaving his brother all alone with their monster of a father. But Ahadi refused to go back. He refused to take another beating, refused to be raped one more time, refused to be yelled and screamed at for the littlest of things, and he especially refused to go back and face those eyes. So he continued on, alone.

Ahadi's life would change one day when, close to the boarder with the Pride Lands, the young lion would hear a sudden cry for help. Without thinking, Ahadi rushed to the voices rescue, and found that it was a lioness trapped in the middle of a wildebeast stampede. Springing into action, the lion rushes into the frey, nearly getting trampled himself in the process. Seeing no way out of the stampeding herd, and with the lioness too frightened to move on her own, Ahadi throws himself on top of her and protects her with his own body. Luckily for him, the herd avoids him for the most part, only clipping him with their hooves, and once the cost is clear he stands up and does what any other sensible lion would do after a life threatening ordeal: he yells at the lioness.

"What the fuck were you thinking!? Are you stupid!? Did you want to die!? Or do you just like being trampled by a bunch of wildebeast!?" he screeches, red eyes blazing and spittle spraying from his lips as he shouted at her. But the lioness doesn't hear him. She just stares at him with wide, blue eyes, and after what seems like eons she finally speaks.

"You...You just saved my life. That was awesome!"

"Yeah! I saved your life! You're welcome! Now just what the fuck were you thinking?" he snapped.

"Well, I was thinking I would be bringing home some wildebeast for my pride." she replied with a coy smile. "Instead I ended up being saved by a handsome stranger."

Before Ahadi can come up with a remark he soons finds himself surrounded by the lionesses pride. And it's here that he gets the shock of his life: the lioness he just saved was no ordinary Pridelander, but Crowned Princess Uru herself. Uru quickly explains to her father what happened, and after hearing that Ahadi selflessly used his own body to protect his daughter, Mohatu is more than willing to allow Ahadi to stay in the pride. In his eyes the young lion has already proven his worth.

Ahadi is happy to belong to a pride once more. Mohatu seems interested in having Ahadi become Uru's consort, especially after hearing that he is the same Crowned Prince Ahadi of the Sunrise Pride who ran away from home. Uru is also smitten with him, and does everything in her power to get him to loosen up and smile. While Ahadi finds this annoying at first, he eventually begins to love the princess as much as she loves him, and so as soon as he confesses his love for her, the two are wed. Not long after Mohatu steps down from the throne, and Uru, with Ahadi by her side as her consort and her king, takes the throne.

Three years into their marriage and their reign, Uru gives birth to their first son. Ahadi, of course, is nervous. He's afraid that he'll be as horrible a father as his own father. But Uru comforts him, telling him he'll be an excellent father, that he's nothing like his own father, and when he sees little Mufasa for the first time, he immediately falls in love with the babe. Mufasa looks almost exactly like him, with the same golden fur and red eyes and big nose, and it's clear that he'll inherit his father's bulk as well. He loves Mufasa so much, and he makes a promise that day that he would raise his son, and any cubs after, with the love and affection he never received as a child. He also swore to rein in his temper, and to never strike any of his cubs.

This promise is put to the test when, four years after Mufasa is born, Uru yet again gives birth to another son. When Ahadi meets his new son, he notices that this one take more after his mother in appearances than him, but that's fine with Ahadi. Ahadi is sure he'll love this cub just as much as he loves Mufasa. And he does, that is, until the cub opens his eyes.

Ahadi freezes. His breath catches in his throat. Panic begins to set in. His son's eyes are green. Green. Just like his father's. The eyes he ran from so long ago have now come to haunt him once more in the face if his own son. Ahadi can't take it. He flees the den, leaving a very confused Mufasa and a distraught Uru behind. Uru names the cub Takatso, "desire," for she desires for Ahadi to be able to conquer his fear of his father as he raises his sons.

As his sons grow, Ahadi does his best to show his boys that he loves both of them equally. But with the deeply ingrained fear of his father in his mind, and the fact that Taka looks more and more like his grandsire each day, not to mention he has those accursed, green eyes, it becomes clear that Ahadi clearly favors Mufasa over Taka. Thus Taka starts to act out to gain his father's attention, causing the two to butt heads often. It starts out with little things, such as placing termites in his brother's fur or plucking out some of Zuzu's feathers, but it soon increased to Taka skipping out on his Lion Guard lessons and duties and hanging out with some hyena pups, until eventually Taka, as a young adult, would nearly get his brother killed by Boma and his herd of water buffalo. While neither brother were harmed, Ahadi flew off the handle, especially after Taka dropped the bombshell that he knocked up Sarafina, when he had his own betrothed in Sarafina's sister Bititi. For the first time in years, Ahadi's temper got the better of him, and he lashes out at Taka, slashing him across the face. While the young lion manages to dodge most of the blow, one of Ahadi's claws strikes true, and leaves a deep gash down Taka's eye.

Stunned silence filled the air. No one can truly believe what just happened, especially Ahadi. Both he and Taka are breathing heavily. The younger lion does not look at him, and fear grips Ahadi's heart.

"Taka...?" he whispers, fear making his voice crack.

Did he just take out his son's eye? Did he just cripple the vision of his own son?

Taka finally looks up at him with blood running down his face. Ahadi sees that, thankfully, his eye is intact, but he does not have time to feel any relief, for in his son's eyes, the green eyes that are so much like his own father's, he sees complete and absolute hatred.

"I thought for once you would side with me, that you would see things my way. That my love for Sarafina would be enough to sway you. But I can see that I was wrong. You don't care about me, or what I want. All you care about is your precious MUFASA!"

With those hate-filled words, Taka rushes out of the den, leaving a heartbroken Ahadi behind. He makes all those who witness swear not to tell Uru what has happened in that cave that day, and that if she asked, Taka gained his scar from the water buffalo. Everyone promises to keep their mouths shut, and then they leave, leaving the King alone with his thoughts.

Uru later finds out the truth on her own, not long after she returns from finding water, and of course she is furious with Ahadi. Ahadi takes her anger without a word, simply holding his head in shame. He knows he deserves every rage fueled word she spits at him and more, for he has caused their son irreparable damage, not just physically, but emotionally as well.

Years down the road, after Uru is long gone and both Mufasa and Taka, now calling himself "Scar," have children of their own, Ahadi is just as shocked as the rest of the pride when Scar announces the death of Mufasa and Simba. Ahadi is grief-stricken with the loss of not only his eldest child, but his grandchild as well. Yet Ahadi does not completely believe the story Scar tells them. A stampede of wildebeast in the Gorge, where Simba and Mufasa just happened to be? Too convenient. And it sounded similar to the story of how he and Uru met, which the two had told the boys when they inquired as cubs. Not to mention the fact that Scar himself does not seem the least bit bothered by the death of his brother and nephew. Yes, his face showed grief, but his eyes show a certain malevolent glee that scares Ahadi, especially as Scar accends the throne with the hyenas in tow. So after Scar's coronation, Ahadi confronts his son alone.

"Just what happened back there in the Great Gorge, Scar?" Ahadi asks as he corners his son.

"Exactly what I told you Father. Simba wandered off to the Gorge alone, a stampede started, I happened to spot him, and I went and got Mufasa. Mufasa then threw himself headlong into the herd, where both he and Simba were trampled to death. What else can I tell you?"

"I find that hard to believe Scar. If Simba was in such great danger, why didn't you try and save him yourself?" Ahadi growled. "After all, you were once the leader of the Lion Guard before Mufasa disbanded it. You could have easily have gone and saved Simba yourself, could you not?"

"Why? Do you wish it were me who was dead instead of your precious Mufasa?" Scar sneered, his eyes narrowing into slits.

"That's not--"

"It is! It is what you meant! Don't you dare lie to me and say that isn't what you meant!" Scar roared, getting into Ahadi's face. "All these years! All these fucking years I've done everything I could to get your attention! To show you that I could be just as good as Spirit damned Mufasa! That I could do everything he could do! That I could be just as good a fucking king as he! That I could maybe, just maybe, actually be better than him! But did you ever bother to look!? NO!!! It was always Mufasa, Mufasa, MUFASA!!!" Scar screamed at him, spittle flying from the darker lion's mouth. "You never fucking cared about me, or what I did, or how I felt! You were never there for me! You always treated me like I had some sort of disease! You always avoided me, broke your promises to me, or just plain lied to me! I could never get you to look away from Mufasa and all his fucking perfection! Well, Daddy, Mufasa isn't here anymore to hog the spotlight! Are you looking now, Daddy!? ARE YOU LOOKING NOW!?"

Ahadi could only stare at his son in stunned silence. Around him he could hear the hyenas begining to surround him, but that was not the focus of his attention. His son stood in front of him, panting for breath after his outburst, his whole body trembling, green eyes blazing with all the pain and anger and sorrow he had ever felt. For the first time, Ahadi looked, truly looked, at Scar and saw not his father in those green eyes of his, but his son. And he now realized, too late, that by avoiding him and treating him as his father, he had inadvertantly created an entirely new monster. But he did not blame Scar. No, he knew he had only himself to blame. His gaze softening, he looked at Scar and gave him a smile, which caught the younger lion off guard.

"Scar...Have I ever told you about my father?"

"No. You never shared such things with me. Only with Mufasa." Scar growled.

Ahadi flinched slightly at this, knowing this to most likely be true. He sighed, then began his tale.

"My father was the king of the Sunrise Pride, in the East Sun Lands. To outsiders, he was a kind and just king, one who everyone adored. But that was not who he truly was. Behind the scenes, away from the eyes of others, he was a terrible lion, who often abused my mother, brother, and I. He would beat us and belittle us on a constant bases, and whenever the bastard got horny, he would rape my mother. And if my mother wasn't around, my brother and I often became substitutes in her place. I hated everything about him. But the thing I hated most were his piercing green eyes. The same eyes you inherited. Nothing frightened me more than to see his eyes looking in my direction. I never got over my fear of him or his eyes, so when you were born, and I saw you had his eyes, it felt as if he were staring at me through you. I...was frightened of you."

Scar looked blankly at Ahadi, then sneered at him.

"So that's it? That's your sorry excuse?"

"No. I'm not using that as an excuse for my actions. You deserved just as much love and attention as your brother, and believe me, I tried to give that to you, but I just couldn't separate my father from you in my mind. I feared that if I stayed around you too much, my fear would over take me, and I would lash out at you. And I did. But now I see how wrong I was. Scar...Taka...you are not my father...you are my son. I love you Taka, and I am so, so sorry for not showing you that love properly before now."

No emotion flickered on Scar's face. He stared at his father for a moment, before finally speaking in an emotionless, regal tone of voice.

"Well, Father, it's too late for apologies now, now isn't it?"

And with that Scar turned his back on his father, leaving the hyenas to tear the old lion to shreds.

~*~*~*~*~*~

NOTES: Poor Ahadi is next. His appearance hasn't changed notably.

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