Kasper had been up for a while, no one at the Van Zant house was awake yet so he took stock of what was in the cupboards and other household items. Of course he was stuffing his face with things he deemed almost close to going bad to eat so he'd just do it to reduce waste. He wasn't expecting to hear from Kat so early but he shouted from the kitchen with a mouth full, "Here,"

When Kat came in without out the kids he immediately knew something was up something about being a twin opened up for some odd connection, Kasper could sense the anger. Swallowing down his mouthful of crackers when she dropped her news almost made him choke, he could tell his sister was being serious, "What?!" his voice dropped lower to a whisper so only they could hear, "what the fuck do you mean he's dead? How? When?"

Kasper read the letter and it couldn't be any more obvious he was fuming! His hands shook reading it, what a coward! What man by choice removed himself from his kids life, his parents didn't do that they didn't choose to have that mine collapse and leave behind their children! Left a wife and mother to raise their children alone, his heart shattered for Dane in that instance for all the kids and Kat....but his fury was loaded in the angry arches of his eyebrow.

"Kat...I...what the fuck," it wasn't a question as much as a revelation, he wanted to crumble the letter up but he gave it back, "I'll be here for you all Kat, do they know?"

Kasper rubbed the bridge of his nose, he agreed with Kat she wasn't good at delivering bad news, "I'll tell them," he'd been the one to tell his siblings about their parents so he could do this, but it still would hurt to tell them because Kasper at least felt like they had a good relationship. Kasper didn't know what had happened and he didn't care what Fabian had done couldn't be fixed and it would echo forever.

"if you want me to, I'd do it for you, you know this. Are you going to keep the letter? If not, burn it don't ever let them see it because kids have a funny way of shouldering some guilt...and that isn't theirs OR yours."

Kasper sighed, "Let me tell them, it'll be easier and right now whatever I can carry for you Kat I will," Kasper knew his sister wasn't much of a hugger so he didn't move to comfort her as much as he wanted too, hell he was sure she wasn't mourning Fabian but moreso the void the man was going to leave on their children.

"You all deserve better than this."

Kasper folded his arms and mumbled, "well it shouldn't be like that," and he shook his head, "but yeah I'll do it. I will tell them in a minute, I got to tell you about something though," he sighed, "At the start of next season I'll be in Coheed for sometime...I know it isn't good news but I don't know when we'll be back and leaving a note...well I'm not going to do that," he paused to see if she was going to hit him for his little bit of dark humor before adding, "are you mad though? At me...for leaving," he shouldn't feel guilty because it was orders by the Commander so he couldn't bail, "I'll spend as much time as I can with the kids, Sas can help, she's pretty reliable. Not as cool as Uncle Kasper...but sometimes fun."