53: Explosion

Without detainment, Mystique whisked out from the car at the front of her uncle's gate that was wide opened. Bursting in, she went straight to the main doors and made her way in, the scene that saluted her had her jammed on her tracks as she abruptly stopped, her mouth slightly gaped as she stared. 

"U-Uncle..." The words left her lips coerced as she was unable to form words at the moment. Slowly and pokily, her legs pulled her towards, step by step she took till she took her tintless shoes were soaked in blood. Blood of the man she once called father, mother, uncle, aunt, sister, brother, the blood of the man she cared for, the blood of the man she once called home. Mystique dropped on her knees beside the defuncted body with half of his leg destroyed due to the bullet, of the man who had sacrificed so much without asking for anything in return, fulfilling the wishes of others while forgetting about himself in the process.

"Uncle?" she