#( i only realized andrei kills anton when he's like 22-23 when i wrote this and that HURTS )

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Mafia Verse: His Birth Father & Reveal/Reaction

Anton Cel Tradat and his wife, Elena, were a happily married couple but in a world that Elena hadn't felt was entirely safe enough to raise a child in. Despite Anton wanting one, an heir, she didn't want to bring them into such a criminal lifestyle. So when she found out she was pregnant? She hid it as best she could, changing her style to hide the belly before towards the end asking to visit family when it became too much to hide. Her husband loved her, trusted her, so he saw no problem with her visiting family. The extended period of time felt off but she hadn't seen them for a bit and he was rather busy. In the end it was safer for her in the moment. Elena hadn't gone far, she stayed in Bucharest where she gave birth to a baby boy. Only letting herself look at the boy and not spend much time with him. When both were well enough again, she left him on the steps of an orphanage with a note pinned that his name was to be Mattias Andrei. Whatever family he'd go to would be his new last name.

Anton had no idea, welcoming his wife home with love when he saw her again. However, it wouldn't last. Elena passed away three years later and he never wished to marry again. No one was going to compare to her, so what was the point? He was almost accepting the family would pass to his second and their son, Cezar, upon his death. It seemed that was what fate intended until a day on the street, a run in with an orphan, caught his attention. Nine years after his wife passed, twelve since she had given birth, his eyes landed upon a boy who had tried to rob him. The courage, bravery, and skill made him admire the boy. And seeing as he had no family he took him in, raised him as his own but both under the assumption he was adopted. There was no shared blood but that didn't matter. Andrei looked to him as a father and Anton looked to him as a son, that's what it was and all it needed to be. And when Anton started to lose his mind ten years later? Andrei did what a son should, to some, and he handled it. He killed Anton, feeling like a monster more than anything. A guilt he carries from that moment on, never fading and without needing the rumors to remind him.

It isn't until five or so years later, by circumstance or his action (plot dependent), Andrei discovers the truth. The file showing him their DNA match, the file saying his father was Anton Cel Tradat the entire time. The guilt he felt from killing a man he saw as his father after taking him in was immense but now knowing this? It grew tenfold. He was more monstrous than he thought. It causes him to spiral, he drinks to feel nothing because that was better than what he was feeling. He can barely sleep, he spends his time either working or in the gym. His knuckles are raw from the heavy bag. He looks tired, there's no care for his wellbeing in a sense at this point. Andrei is reckless in his work, pissing off a family or two. It causes one to take action, making a fake meeting for the large Romanian to attend only to be jumped in numbers as they knew his skill. He's beaten down before being shot, his men finding him in time to be taken home. There he has to be resuscitated before he can begin to make a recovery and maybe accept and talk about what he's done for the first time.