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Raven should have been ecstatic to reunite with Michael, and he was, really! It had been so long since he had last seen the man he considered his brother...they...they were still brothers, right?
Of course they were! Raven understood of course, after Sarah, and Raven wouldn't even have trusted himself around...
It hurt.
Of course it hurt, no matter how he tried to spin the story, no matter how much he tried to give Lloyd and Michael the benefit of doubt that didn't change the fact that he was the last to know.
Even Marjolein learned before he did...Marjolein...she really was like a daughter to him and Lloyd. And she barely got to meet her little sister.
A sad, bitter part of Raven said at least she got to meet her sister at all.
Raven never got to.
Isabela never said anything, Michael never said anything and the while giving Son Mi away without Raven's input was just rubbing salt in the wound that grew bigger and bigger the more Han Mi talked about her family.
A selfish part of him wanted to keep Michael away from Han Mi. The other man already got his daughter, was Raven expected to hand over his great-granddaughter too? For Goddesses sake he didn't even get a chance to meet his daughter, or his granddaughter! Three generations too late and it was from Han where he learned that he could have been father.
They could have been a family.
...But Raven could never stay angry for long at his brother.
Michael was only trying to look out for everyone after all, it's what he did.
Raven could lie to himself as much as he liked; it didn't change the fact that back then he wouldn't have been ready to be a father to Son Mi. At least with Marjolein she was already past all her developmental milestones, she didn't need to be fed, clothed, bathed. Marjolein came to him and Lloyd fully grown. She could verbalize her needs and wants, she could take a few tumbles and neither Raven or Lloyd would have to worry about her being injured beyond repair [And now she and Jill were in a hell scape experiencing who knows what kind of horrors, some parents he and Lloyd were-]
"...No one told me," Raven blurted out one day while they were all in the living room.
"David?" Michael asked, moving a bit closer to Raven but still giving him some space to move away.
Michael was always considerate like that.
He reached out a hand. Raven flinched away.
"Y-you never told me...about Son Mi. I had to learn from Han-" Raven could barely get the words out past the lump in his throat. He saw Michael's face fill with guilt and regret. Han stood up to, Raven didn't know what she was preparing to do exactly but Lloyd stopped her and pulled her out of the room Leaving Raven alone with his brother.
...Or former brother. He wasn't sure and he was scared to find out.
Raven crumpled onto the floor.
He pulled his hat down over his eyes and hugged his knees to his chest as he sobbed. "You ne-e-ver told me! N-none of you! I had a daughter! I-I-I" Raven choked on his gasps. He saw a blurry shape came towards him and pushed them away, somehow knowing it was Michael coming in for a hug.
"YOU NEVER TOLD ME! You- you never told, you never told me..." Michael went back in for a hug, ignoring Ravens incredibly weak attempts to push him off.
Raven knew Michael could tell when he genuinely didn't want to be touched. This wasn't one of those moments.
Raven beat against Michael's chest, screaming, ranting, accusing the other of hating him, of keeping him in the dark. Of not loving him anymore.
Michael jostled him. Raven's brother stared at him with an unusually stern expression.
"Dav-Raven. You're right to feel angry, and betrayed, and left in the dark because that's exactly what we did. But don't you EVER believe that I stopped loving you for even a moment. You're my brother, deal with it."
The tears started again. Raven was pulled back into Michaels embrace and this time he didn't resist.
"Be mad, be angry," Michael said, slowly removing Ravens hat from his head so he could run a hand through his hair. "I can take your anger," he continued, "But I can't take you feeling unloved."