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Some of my colleagues 657Please respect copyright.PENANAgv67aW9lwW
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 657Please respect copyright.PENANA3KJbeNKI25
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 657Please respect copyright.PENANAau6a0KmTa8
suggestion or hypnosis.657Please respect copyright.PENANAldtVfob2Ay
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where657Please respect copyright.PENANAwickLmt0si
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 657Please respect copyright.PENANAikgRC5r9hK
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 657Please respect copyright.PENANAO6q8mBxoEN
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want657Please respect copyright.PENANAdKzzzOaIO6
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 657Please respect copyright.PENANAeRlDMTozbM
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I657Please respect copyright.PENANAAAxbM7kxbd
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 657Please respect copyright.PENANATkquCyriaY
capabilities.657Please respect copyright.PENANA8VkAGVCSEn
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."657Please respect copyright.PENANAhBEXmQRan7
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David awakened. Not 657Please respect copyright.PENANAV1p3ZmZxQe
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAEB4YX1IYwX
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,657Please respect copyright.PENANAFji7ThOaU5
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 657Please respect copyright.PENANA0KlViBRnKu
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 657Please respect copyright.PENANAIGIHTMWbFJ
undamaged.657Please respect copyright.PENANAUGFv7MFBQn
"Only your physical body657Please respect copyright.PENANA5NqV8mzwPy
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 657Please respect copyright.PENANAgFV39jYNMq
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of657Please respect copyright.PENANAsa8pZlZuDn
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."657Please respect copyright.PENANAguqNPWsU0r
A shadowy form appeared.657Please respect copyright.PENANAg7seH8YHgx
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 657Please respect copyright.PENANAK9weSkxSdD
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 657Please respect copyright.PENANAojehJC8SlC
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.657Please respect copyright.PENANAAhBvhXnDhK
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.657Please respect copyright.PENANAB0EQ5fKkza
"Am I in the...ether 657Please respect copyright.PENANAIMRPVwhrDB
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAXchPl6ftns
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.657Please respect copyright.PENANAJl3AjU2OaB
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 657Please respect copyright.PENANA2c0RvjphW9
David was tired, too 657Please respect copyright.PENANA0qak9p6J1M
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 657Please respect copyright.PENANAquQcGiOWHk
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.657Please respect copyright.PENANA2j6u0PxWkK
The shadowy hood cocked 657Please respect copyright.PENANAwLvqlNtbC2
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 657Please respect copyright.PENANAypZZpVjHP7
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAzimI8sHfWQ
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKOLUgPCJLY
more grateful."657Please respect copyright.PENANAFpbjbOo6fD
"I..."657Please respect copyright.PENANAatEzs6tYOx
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."657Please respect copyright.PENANAAXQpddZiT9
David groaned in 657Please respect copyright.PENANAlsFBa28Rn4
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 657Please respect copyright.PENANAVPh5aVyb9R
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbNBYBGaoAI
falling point, that'd be fly."657Please respect copyright.PENANAnaxr8NgDgc
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAFYyNTKr0Zl
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAM3Nw5288bW
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAgyKcfHTMKb
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."657Please respect copyright.PENANAvfsb6iqGoc
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"657Please respect copyright.PENANARBnz3zrv7p
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAaykNzhz5eg
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."657Please respect copyright.PENANA0broWVeyOK
David shouted and 657Please respect copyright.PENANA604y7FCAlx
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 657Please respect copyright.PENANAzhv9ycYe2e
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all657Please respect copyright.PENANA31dBuntODO
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He657Please respect copyright.PENANAeXacLEaSJl
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 657Please respect copyright.PENANAneU3MbN3pP
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAFwoobVgXfR
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 657Please respect copyright.PENANAeL3k2klRSU
mist.657Please respect copyright.PENANA60BAghEmvb
Jester's voice came from657Please respect copyright.PENANAB5bZjv9QlA
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKaszcPT5ZS
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 657Please respect copyright.PENANAK75vczJroe
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAGG3LnMPa1P
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 657Please respect copyright.PENANAwo6BmF8b61
creating a circle around Jester and David.657Please respect copyright.PENANAvJw5lYkmZ6
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKsg3m6pwl7
"Shut up!" David 657Please respect copyright.PENANAuRddkduCa6
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKnAf6YPQnD
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 657Please respect copyright.PENANAYGQEDnMNbl
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"657Please respect copyright.PENANAUxPR4QwcMy
Jester gave another 657Please respect copyright.PENANAtfSfri1k6Q
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 657Please respect copyright.PENANAqFcvdA8O2e
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 657Please respect copyright.PENANA1QvlBecI03
afraid of the truth?" 657Please respect copyright.PENANA9pHt9D47m3
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 657Please respect copyright.PENANA28UT7GvcjW
"You're what? A 657Please respect copyright.PENANA58YkmHV9kF
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAonfNACRh3V
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 657Please respect copyright.PENANAMEPIC6EF0t
you've done not matter." 657Please respect copyright.PENANAe6pUr5ejon
The shadows completely 657Please respect copyright.PENANAaSzjVbptu0
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 657Please respect copyright.PENANAsGhxGTcs0X
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 657Please respect copyright.PENANAcCCTkMfODs
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 657Please respect copyright.PENANA53YHzosexC
eye and shadows swallowed him.657Please respect copyright.PENANAlC5hpwmjxS
Shadows parting, David 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6FAC72FbOf
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 657Please respect copyright.PENANAGE8WUVmpWd
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 657Please respect copyright.PENANA4WPgo5JDtz
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 657Please respect copyright.PENANAHPld8yk2du
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 657Please respect copyright.PENANAnwju4lMc0O
mother657Please respect copyright.PENANAFd2ZfmitYg
"This is my memory." 657Please respect copyright.PENANAhvk1niHkvY
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 657Please respect copyright.PENANAYDuf4Msz0G
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.657Please respect copyright.PENANASANztf1Hkr
David didn't reply to 657Please respect copyright.PENANA28N7pDy8Ox
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAyVv7EspUhI
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.657Please respect copyright.PENANAWRPaLkg8SZ
Unaware of what was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAZqa1xOzOr5
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 657Please respect copyright.PENANAx8jm16ofkh
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last657Please respect copyright.PENANALseJRsWu9L
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAx7wIV1SfEB
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 657Please respect copyright.PENANAnd4pdABWFa
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 657Please respect copyright.PENANAyhuD04bcXv
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She657Please respect copyright.PENANACUkBSNlsru
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 657Please respect copyright.PENANABqbym2aDpM
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."657Please respect copyright.PENANAsSXhQy5ysg
Finally the screams of 657Please respect copyright.PENANAZkxUTutG0m
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6wMOIl2iN5
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmeoaRMBaMg
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAsCre6FuAby
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 657Please respect copyright.PENANAdUhiCwzhP0
the baby's throat and squeezed.657Please respect copyright.PENANAManFVY20LU
David could feel his 657Please respect copyright.PENANARRIr8Q3Yyn
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 657Please respect copyright.PENANADRBa6noVcU
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 657Please respect copyright.PENANAIcpzhv7eAM
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 657Please respect copyright.PENANAzoCbCZueln
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 657Please respect copyright.PENANAjJOHaJ1EJG
stopped.657Please respect copyright.PENANAcUcWxApQ3M
"Oh, nonononono." The 657Please respect copyright.PENANAJoseH0kpSX
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 657Please respect copyright.PENANAdiKJUGcEZh
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 657Please respect copyright.PENANABZix9gkDry
"You who were supposed 657Please respect copyright.PENANA9wyIiHd5AR
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6tGaEZaVsm
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6siZinQvfI
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 657Please respect copyright.PENANAnkM9XsN5cS
Coughing David stood up 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKXLAhm3CoR
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 657Please respect copyright.PENANAITNTJcsVZz
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 657Please respect copyright.PENANAfIOZS67Hs5
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAcgKfF6PdSD
"No, it was a small 657Please respect copyright.PENANAdIfZdsBevB
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 657Please respect copyright.PENANAaFHjshJfJe
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.657Please respect copyright.PENANAOdDMK5rEUZ
He was staring at the 657Please respect copyright.PENANAOB2HKivtDj
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was657Please respect copyright.PENANAMjlldT0c7i
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 657Please respect copyright.PENANAsKdxS8RYM3
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAOJcvMUicsC
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAQxhQNHv0dE
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.657Please respect copyright.PENANArOsTJeAIDN
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.657Please respect copyright.PENANAWDz2mG7fqq
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"657Please respect copyright.PENANADb7TPBzD60
"I will!" Came a squeaky657Please respect copyright.PENANA30OhykITpy
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.657Please respect copyright.PENANA08tqJLOPQP
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had657Please respect copyright.PENANAxZGbLD6mbg
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAffuLMrBZyk
was an adult.657Please respect copyright.PENANAlWN37PLw44
A knock came from a door657Please respect copyright.PENANAOHn7hc13d0
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 657Please respect copyright.PENANAgkbMM7ttZT
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbwrqzoZb1R
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAxcHKblZeFK
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAd58Q5EM3c1
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 657Please respect copyright.PENANAUz4pyII1Cv
being a bad boy.657Please respect copyright.PENANAo6EP3IRTCB
That's why he didn't 657Please respect copyright.PENANAqpbs22qmUz
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 657Please respect copyright.PENANAlvCEC3mc6k
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.657Please respect copyright.PENANA0XUX0mWwtL
"D..david" the answer 657Please respect copyright.PENANArgQbTv9Ewh
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving657Please respect copyright.PENANATouVbIT01O
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."657Please respect copyright.PENANAYeIEGUhAjV
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.657Please respect copyright.PENANAIeU8gyZKDY
The man put his hands on657Please respect copyright.PENANAQeKV2rby7A
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff657Please respect copyright.PENANAAgK8OF5Oc5
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"657Please respect copyright.PENANAWDCqch1fla
David meekly shook his 657Please respect copyright.PENANA89pooow419
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 657Please respect copyright.PENANAohCqwE4k2g
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 657Please respect copyright.PENANAQmYQtk3Q18
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 657Please respect copyright.PENANAN0DerdVWYR
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 657Please respect copyright.PENANA92arJCG91w
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmQm8Egl37A
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 657Please respect copyright.PENANAtgBTfIj0w9
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAl8xsyvJ7yk
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8N5MdQB18C
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down657Please respect copyright.PENANANdJ0mIQ2tm
Davids body.657Please respect copyright.PENANAZ1mn0RxLi5
Please don't. Came adult David's voice657Please respect copyright.PENANARQEb39xtiL
Young David was scared; 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6cpEWh7Lc9
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 657Please respect copyright.PENANAu4YymUQNzf
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAzd5BKciY3f
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbB0tEWtPfC
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."657Please respect copyright.PENANAdfsfwO7Fp0
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.657Please respect copyright.PENANAEkCRbJRwkM
"Mummy, mummy!" David 657Please respect copyright.PENANAb6Egknnwuw
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 657Please respect copyright.PENANAypQRWAWJBp
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 657Please respect copyright.PENANA16lvWdjtQB
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 657Please respect copyright.PENANAwQ8A8pBeEt
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAWuG19cVH8k
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.657Please respect copyright.PENANAarNXNvJOhh
David didn't even know 657Please respect copyright.PENANACZfKgl1xLo
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 657Please respect copyright.PENANAi8BWxwRCaZ
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 657Please respect copyright.PENANAkqWn7dEoj1
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.657Please respect copyright.PENANAbq9ZOS3Gmw
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 657Please respect copyright.PENANA3RPxGk0JDU
David could barely hear 657Please respect copyright.PENANAxvqbc0sqLD
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 657Please respect copyright.PENANAxxadlZr5RU
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAiuf3qdJQHR
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 657Please respect copyright.PENANA19ItniFbbM
anger. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAoK7YvJQvGt
"There are more 657Please respect copyright.PENANA182J2BSSvq
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 657Please respect copyright.PENANAZXuJlPurDJ
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 657Please respect copyright.PENANAW1TTLU7vnE
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 657Please respect copyright.PENANAcUUFa6Fhzy
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.657Please respect copyright.PENANAoXgZMQhL1E
"What else is there to 657Please respect copyright.PENANATkj4bQSRXF
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 657Please respect copyright.PENANAvttBjQt8yS
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 657Please respect copyright.PENANAMaLy62Wluv
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 657Please respect copyright.PENANAcU3zVfNwec
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood657Please respect copyright.PENANATmYFuTeUIq
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 657Please respect copyright.PENANAc1mg9aozJe
floor. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAp4Mq31TFyR
Even the pain didn't 657Please respect copyright.PENANAlEWFTUNroV
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8o6aAaBhqX
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 657Please respect copyright.PENANAuK0pmwWLh1
everything would be gone.657Please respect copyright.PENANAjemFJTYwBg
~Just like that, give up657Please respect copyright.PENANACPVAxBZdKJ
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 657Please respect copyright.PENANAfMplnLZpMV
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 657Please respect copyright.PENANAFFck8yHDkI
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer657Please respect copyright.PENANAEF0nAnrMrh
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 657Please respect copyright.PENANA0m5cP3J5ox
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse657Please respect copyright.PENANAs71c9OxW7W
than this."657Please respect copyright.PENANAYJ6fAkWLkk
~STOP! ~ David dropped 657Please respect copyright.PENANATWenRy8LbT
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8T1HHKoviZ
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8o9RSN1u77
survive. Survive and live.657Please respect copyright.PENANACIj1fNmMDd
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAXbiUD45G79
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAyRdkzUAOrP
"Indeed." Jester 657Please respect copyright.PENANAnJwAmPMIdS
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 657Please respect copyright.PENANAitbAxzv1eh
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 657Please respect copyright.PENANAwOKD8ogMKd
like his own did.657Please respect copyright.PENANA2SikRFsrjZ
"Why did you try 657Please respect copyright.PENANAyCTckwzRX3
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 657Please respect copyright.PENANAqSSfwA3iQJ
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 657Please respect copyright.PENANAtZmdG8MN5s
process the influx of memories.657Please respect copyright.PENANAupRMmw5gKX
"I've been there since you were a child I..I wanted to offer you an escape, but then I got scared I'd get lonely, if you died,"657Please respect copyright.PENANA43ODJhYx9S
"You expect me to believe that?"657Please respect copyright.PENANA59qqgsvyZh
"Believe what you want."657Please respect copyright.PENANANhNbQnwOvH
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"657Please respect copyright.PENANABVBdLVgsXA
Jester chuckled. "All of657Please respect copyright.PENANAwhxNsnA5sV
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 657Please respect copyright.PENANAiRmu61BpMx
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."657Please respect copyright.PENANA0Ucw86iBH1
"That just 657Please respect copyright.PENANAPQ8a2gLK9l
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbuvJj3E8ZS
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?657Please respect copyright.PENANAS5yuEbr8w8
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."657Please respect copyright.PENANA5kJfeKxlfj
David nodded. "Do it."657Please respect copyright.PENANAssl2Qk8bQA
Everything shifted. 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8NT5waSUqR
David was cleaning his 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbnWkWfZbqD
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 657Please respect copyright.PENANAdSLlpKeJAC
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 657Please respect copyright.PENANAS8nu75jfHD
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmD6Mbyjbmk
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 657Please respect copyright.PENANAKZDkHXuXvK
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 657Please respect copyright.PENANATnSvUIHWE6
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.657Please respect copyright.PENANAF4e53jJJkR
His last one was just 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmhYUTlX9me
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was657Please respect copyright.PENANAbgXYouowWR
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 657Please respect copyright.PENANAOzmYwkV1jz
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbHTjv09lfy
Undamaged goods she loved to say.657Please respect copyright.PENANAuLVrB64Lkw
Right on cue, David 657Please respect copyright.PENANACNJ5kFwzHW
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 657Please respect copyright.PENANAiVv2XF8SoZ
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She657Please respect copyright.PENANA8OCKgu1cec
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 657Please respect copyright.PENANATL6Pvh6cqW
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmiuweWpHd3
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.657Please respect copyright.PENANAKKStbGwLs3
Why was this his life? 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbtncrqAMlu
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 657Please respect copyright.PENANA1P7QlxnvOj
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 657Please respect copyright.PENANARB9CdLGOra
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 657Please respect copyright.PENANApvXA46doky
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar657Please respect copyright.PENANAIn93utRFJA
vein trying to get his eyes. 657Please respect copyright.PENANACvg7j6cI0m
~Enough David.~ A voice 657Please respect copyright.PENANAVA5zer4vRS
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAPHtbygYH4T
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAJVAVAqFKfJ
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force657Please respect copyright.PENANA680hldL9rB
and met resistance.657Please respect copyright.PENANAW7gLb12rxb
The scratching and 657Please respect copyright.PENANABTYp3ScReF
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 657Please respect copyright.PENANAOUjUbYpqeM
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit657Please respect copyright.PENANAvXphaDnoDv
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 657Please respect copyright.PENANAHlAqGs0pui
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 657Please respect copyright.PENANAvM66LJGwQ8
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.657Please respect copyright.PENANAw6JrT7kHiv
Oh god what did he do? 657Please respect copyright.PENANAUtuYD0v0el
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 657Please respect copyright.PENANAd4D7Vuxsh4
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated657Please respect copyright.PENANADqryln3K3R
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 657Please respect copyright.PENANAqHCcBnY0Sw
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAvvxXWVocOy
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries657Please respect copyright.PENANAPy2WH1zB7v
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 657Please respect copyright.PENANAej65xvaRAO
blood.657Please respect copyright.PENANA5giSUeTEO3
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 657Please respect copyright.PENANAXFUhv8bXRD
There was a pause and everything quieted down.657Please respect copyright.PENANAuNd8CVxsg9
A boy named David just 657Please respect copyright.PENANAEizorrHugr
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 657Please respect copyright.PENANAHHEFXAw9Gt
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 657Please respect copyright.PENANAjBIUnj7Ze6
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 657Please respect copyright.PENANAQjDeDUEw0S
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room657Please respect copyright.PENANAehUztN8B0f
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 657Please respect copyright.PENANAZAIc3Zq5e5
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAmvqhPtFVBD
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 657Please respect copyright.PENANA42CqSTGRsU
silly of him.657Please respect copyright.PENANAUrTg1icGAo
Remembering his 657Please respect copyright.PENANA9J7GlNUN2r
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 657Please respect copyright.PENANAR1nMewyt59
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 657Please respect copyright.PENANASSWRsRDgXs
table preparing a meal. 657Please respect copyright.PENANACdbGns4lKb
"There you are David!" 657Please respect copyright.PENANA7SXggWfOdb
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start657Please respect copyright.PENANA1Sv9IJSqy2
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAWtwQHqCrsZ
This isn't the truth.657Please respect copyright.PENANAaXs3ahZXeb
David obligingly sat 657Please respect copyright.PENANARzKWqBMzbI
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 657Please respect copyright.PENANAA46fy6OT1M
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 657Please respect copyright.PENANAnh5XrTK3KN
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.657Please respect copyright.PENANAvqxCJz72aE
A dream, nothing else.657Please respect copyright.PENANAcUubdoIMJN
They all thanked the 657Please respect copyright.PENANAC7CtHIvpVN
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 657Please respect copyright.PENANASdf48b8GwW
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 657Please respect copyright.PENANAJM9Ov0ahMg
this lie.657Please respect copyright.PENANAxqJjY5wUl0
A lie that has to end.657Please respect copyright.PENANASYS3t00mB2
David was standing at 657Please respect copyright.PENANAGhuvxWNd5g
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 657Please respect copyright.PENANAyyVRqIMzbg
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was657Please respect copyright.PENANACrkse6Rtk5
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 657Please respect copyright.PENANAUptO7skCv1
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 657Please respect copyright.PENANAFf6eRMD18q
Either way David hated 657Please respect copyright.PENANAltNMdNFnmX
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 657Please respect copyright.PENANAH1B34pWTQR
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 657Please respect copyright.PENANA8ACfzQWBNH
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 657Please respect copyright.PENANAirtsZ6IyoS
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 657Please respect copyright.PENANADiGuYiYCtu
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 657Please respect copyright.PENANAlqeyV78guU
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 657Please respect copyright.PENANAbMLOBUxqJ4
life this happy blissful life?657Please respect copyright.PENANAvUudVowKgQ
The answer was so simple657Please respect copyright.PENANAoAJ3emjjPu
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,657Please respect copyright.PENANA9iK9Xqgy27
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 657Please respect copyright.PENANAvC8W85FD8y
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 657Please respect copyright.PENANACq0lk6BUv1
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 657Please respect copyright.PENANAT8N7HuzIYZ
David decided to start 657Please respect copyright.PENANA6puNVxQeaT
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No657Please respect copyright.PENANAu5UpopkCOD
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 657Please respect copyright.PENANAG0sQ4fzH3G
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 657Please respect copyright.PENANA5JPNeNyi1k
mother. "No more mercy."657Please respect copyright.PENANAxzYERo4UoX
With the last stab 657Please respect copyright.PENANABQjci2xSl0
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 657Please respect copyright.PENANAJBFtT5V7Mh
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast657Please respect copyright.PENANAs2bqbOuAWX
emptiness.
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