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// home sweet home 
// Story: The other End of Balance 
// by Dostoron 
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You had spent plenty of time thinking on whether or not you really should take that risk, 
but seeing as you´d already gotten this far, and the fact that Gleaming would probably geld you if you Keep her from her Colts much longer, you decided to take the plunge and visit your Family, secretly hoping that they would forgive you the actual Trouble you were now getting into.

"Where were you? i swear if you got a battalion of guards on your tail i´ll-"

"I´m glad to have caught the Train too, Gleaming."

You were really not in the mood to talk after almost getting caught earlier and ever since you started to think back to what you did so far you realized they had rather valid reasons to want to put you behind bars again, or probably a more permanent solution this time. apparently it showed, Gleaming´s demeanor changed to a worrying mother in the blink of an eye. How do Mares do that?

"What´s bothering you?"

"what isn´t? Gleaming, no matter how i look at it, what happened at Orange mansion was a massacre on my orders! my orders! breaking out of prison can be talked down to nonexistence but this, this was every bit as bad as it sounds. How can i even look my parents in the eye? how can i possibly face my sister like this? What if i am the Monster that those six Mares in Manehattan make me out to be? ... Sorry, i shouldn´t put this on you."

Smooth move, Genius, you realize that after you did.
What Gleaming does next however catches you off guard. She leans up and nuzzles your cheek.

"The question is, do you want to be all that they fear? or all that inspires them? You didn´t take joy in the fights, I could tell, you left it to Inmates with pent up Anger against the high Society that threw them in there, and Mr. Orange, he was dying, sooner or later anyways, by his own drug, no less, one he planned to inject into a mostly innocent. 
Sure, you could have told the Boys to stop, but i´m not sure if they would have listened.
Just remember and be the best you can, no one can ever ask for more.
And take it from a mother that knows, yours will be very happy to see you again."

"thanks, maybe you´re right."
come to think of it, was it amusement you felt when you depressed that Plunger and injected him with the stuff? it felt a bit different.

Hulk speaks up:
"we´re almost there, the Boys that set themselves up here will probably want to see you."

Blitz also signalled that maybe you should first go to your sister. from what you had read in the letters you got she was in the weather Team now, the Bridge between you was ripped apart rather violently, she had watched your Arrest, it was only you and her when they took you away, kicking and screaming. Blitz probably wanted you to let her know you were fine.

Gleaming however didn´t know that.
"we should go see them right away, i hope my Boys weren´t giving them too much Trouble.