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Some of my colleagues 656Please respect copyright.PENANAC9ZWJQTgTb
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWAJ1a2cXic
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 656Please respect copyright.PENANAij2iJ47RiK
suggestion or hypnosis.656Please respect copyright.PENANAtUxbXno6eX
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where656Please respect copyright.PENANAhGUlSQbo4t
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 656Please respect copyright.PENANAXYNtmMumZ3
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 656Please respect copyright.PENANAiNctE0J7R2
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want656Please respect copyright.PENANAXk6CKVVFPJ
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 656Please respect copyright.PENANAKrUDFzpd4k
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I656Please respect copyright.PENANAbhsOZ2nWhW
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 656Please respect copyright.PENANAXlKMm4YWcA
capabilities.656Please respect copyright.PENANAZHmqqLN3Wn
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."656Please respect copyright.PENANAgLy3mVp0HF
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David awakened. Not 656Please respect copyright.PENANAbpb6Gz5IG1
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 656Please respect copyright.PENANAQO9B38yY9M
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,656Please respect copyright.PENANASAw5mM3pXL
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 656Please respect copyright.PENANAn1oPQcZWq4
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWDltRJTISE
undamaged.656Please respect copyright.PENANAmNJHv2XVhH
"Only your physical body656Please respect copyright.PENANAaDaUqGpiHb
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUq5ps0ILb0
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of656Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6KxVrcqx2
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."656Please respect copyright.PENANAVQ0lfThF9e
A shadowy form appeared.656Please respect copyright.PENANAf8O6Zx5i8p
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 656Please respect copyright.PENANAKGzn7vn6ej
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 656Please respect copyright.PENANA1EdWTk1JBm
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.656Please respect copyright.PENANAJXozkeoMk5
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.656Please respect copyright.PENANAVn1qWp7WDb
"Am I in the...ether 656Please respect copyright.PENANALUKxzhREcV
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 656Please respect copyright.PENANAo1hCuHXd4m
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.656Please respect copyright.PENANAbvj8z6qbjd
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUREnih7enQ
David was tired, too 656Please respect copyright.PENANA05CWswY6Sc
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 656Please respect copyright.PENANAEDZAVH8ZHs
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.656Please respect copyright.PENANAshcw0F9QEu
The shadowy hood cocked 656Please respect copyright.PENANAkMz0TYprFI
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 656Please respect copyright.PENANAGhs32ctkun
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvtbQTAUcqI
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3hwc5UUKdX
more grateful."656Please respect copyright.PENANAfzBz7xIClK
"I..."656Please respect copyright.PENANAbkFVu3Ci5B
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."656Please respect copyright.PENANAhJ5wT0IPy6
David groaned in 656Please respect copyright.PENANAfPyYjrSVwL
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 656Please respect copyright.PENANAmgx5sxoNAN
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWGetcyb9bu
falling point, that'd be fly."656Please respect copyright.PENANAqqtFRuO31N
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAUc8YuDj2c6
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"656Please respect copyright.PENANALREseUeKp1
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAhdN3xLTKXE
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."656Please respect copyright.PENANAFcGwg1G9MH
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"656Please respect copyright.PENANA7kBEubapil
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAqD1GQ4O52R
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."656Please respect copyright.PENANA29uYiUzwml
David shouted and 656Please respect copyright.PENANAYJh1YdsGk7
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3VhyhdDwqa
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all656Please respect copyright.PENANAXskeJlMJqe
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He656Please respect copyright.PENANA1c7VoFLHgv
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 656Please respect copyright.PENANANo9k198aBc
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9KkHm87DEd
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 656Please respect copyright.PENANAW1Y5AXsq6n
mist.656Please respect copyright.PENANA6EyZuCMK6g
Jester's voice came from656Please respect copyright.PENANARWEVXVkOZP
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 656Please respect copyright.PENANAlvzUeQ4mWR
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 656Please respect copyright.PENANAurWy44RPrR
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAdOBhX5hB87
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 656Please respect copyright.PENANAPxClvB0rJX
creating a circle around Jester and David.656Please respect copyright.PENANAufqwc3AygU
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAqm4sjtkMo0
"Shut up!" David 656Please respect copyright.PENANAOdu9Y4NbSg
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 656Please respect copyright.PENANAkniN7r6fCc
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 656Please respect copyright.PENANAZTvB4QAxJ4
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"656Please respect copyright.PENANAx1SgWmUbNT
Jester gave another 656Please respect copyright.PENANAOvwiVErYac
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 656Please respect copyright.PENANAv43k5X4Hq5
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 656Please respect copyright.PENANAy3tfOquJVv
afraid of the truth?" 656Please respect copyright.PENANArTeCmC2VOF
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvQeDaJSAkw
"You're what? A 656Please respect copyright.PENANAgZx5QsPF1h
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAyxemT93LI8
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 656Please respect copyright.PENANAGQtcIoybAa
you've done not matter." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAA9glfKG8tw
The shadows completely 656Please respect copyright.PENANARuvwSixZrr
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 656Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6YPgjv0WU
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 656Please respect copyright.PENANAO2WXi3uFMG
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 656Please respect copyright.PENANAZke3ZCQR6J
eye and shadows swallowed him.656Please respect copyright.PENANAh21n9wJfuN
Shadows parting, David 656Please respect copyright.PENANA4XTJXm2aPK
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvDc89VkzLA
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAIe1yQdVQ7F
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 656Please respect copyright.PENANAY5iP1VX2cD
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 656Please respect copyright.PENANADQ0qMHPjIY
mother656Please respect copyright.PENANAjeNiaPCeA4
"This is my memory." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWRPZ0P0PIT
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 656Please respect copyright.PENANAyqjUneUW1I
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.656Please respect copyright.PENANACvjyHb0PXj
David didn't reply to 656Please respect copyright.PENANAJJQYIPEd4V
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAxlTYAtlbUE
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.656Please respect copyright.PENANAbfTiATf3WO
Unaware of what was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUNg0Qx6sWx
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 656Please respect copyright.PENANAqFgNHvbWNp
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last656Please respect copyright.PENANA98mhL22NyT
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 656Please respect copyright.PENANALz1SC4k3zv
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9qStYOXSbC
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 656Please respect copyright.PENANAlpcBegK8hg
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She656Please respect copyright.PENANAuWGQ3B3OMc
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 656Please respect copyright.PENANAlrxqgL3YJc
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."656Please respect copyright.PENANAekKZ3z8V1k
Finally the screams of 656Please respect copyright.PENANADMhYy7ozph
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3bNGsMpTqP
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 656Please respect copyright.PENANARgB6Ri3bdR
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAmDqpKtF71D
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 656Please respect copyright.PENANAXvFAFVonKf
the baby's throat and squeezed.656Please respect copyright.PENANAmatuiBAD89
David could feel his 656Please respect copyright.PENANA2XfoEZdOc5
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 656Please respect copyright.PENANAKEs7vHFSHB
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 656Please respect copyright.PENANA7f667RBvvA
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 656Please respect copyright.PENANAjVcij5E6ws
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 656Please respect copyright.PENANA98enhPS7ow
stopped.656Please respect copyright.PENANAx9RDLlk3r3
"Oh, nonononono." The 656Please respect copyright.PENANA46BYVfgine
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 656Please respect copyright.PENANAbCBfpEtJIg
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 656Please respect copyright.PENANACSAxEItIgP
"You who were supposed 656Please respect copyright.PENANA35D3Mizm3x
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 656Please respect copyright.PENANAscXhRPD77Z
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 656Please respect copyright.PENANAqCbJiVwsQH
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAfTmVnksLii
Coughing David stood up 656Please respect copyright.PENANAZZDprzwzu0
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 656Please respect copyright.PENANA8uMJrVXg6F
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 656Please respect copyright.PENANAy9mrIvUgYd
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAf2KlmPfljE
"No, it was a small 656Please respect copyright.PENANADX8f3uGPiv
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 656Please respect copyright.PENANAdQkRoyoa4F
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.656Please respect copyright.PENANArZ3NuAq4e4
He was staring at the 656Please respect copyright.PENANAaH3BYDKvls
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was656Please respect copyright.PENANAqyrmJ8EtOR
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWsOsDNgPnb
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 656Please respect copyright.PENANA8IAXkIkg5O
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAbYVuOKWl2h
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.656Please respect copyright.PENANAr3XM0j5xnd
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.656Please respect copyright.PENANAovYLnAkxzZ
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"656Please respect copyright.PENANACLUjUszqYD
"I will!" Came a squeaky656Please respect copyright.PENANAoQx0LxzKWw
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.656Please respect copyright.PENANAkXKKXX9Qrc
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had656Please respect copyright.PENANAcwc5B9XC9s
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 656Please respect copyright.PENANASq8QVS2TDx
was an adult.656Please respect copyright.PENANAZqgN4ofYjS
A knock came from a door656Please respect copyright.PENANAahFOlss7VR
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 656Please respect copyright.PENANABu37BmC3bI
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvH6KXo2yTl
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAlXpHhlmXNF
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAjeovPtWg25
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 656Please respect copyright.PENANA2D1sAHP1HN
being a bad boy.656Please respect copyright.PENANAhdv2cOw7Ca
That's why he didn't 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvFzSKt6lhb
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 656Please respect copyright.PENANAdE7dxgj2pj
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.656Please respect copyright.PENANA1QFuDsSIxB
"D..david" the answer 656Please respect copyright.PENANAgipbjWARpE
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving656Please respect copyright.PENANAf2qnZgRZb8
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."656Please respect copyright.PENANA5YXbweXQCR
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.656Please respect copyright.PENANAKhnnRVRbb5
The man put his hands on656Please respect copyright.PENANACNPP10Fcni
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff656Please respect copyright.PENANAenapdr88t4
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAp9N8g40b3B
David meekly shook his 656Please respect copyright.PENANAEp4GgHAoqv
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 656Please respect copyright.PENANAzI1J3iGfzV
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUQKiZzo8gO
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 656Please respect copyright.PENANAIkbPWHB8sa
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 656Please respect copyright.PENANAVyNcdxvt9X
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 656Please respect copyright.PENANAOHlHtWO15v
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 656Please respect copyright.PENANAG1Qwsk2GoV
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvtuy7R4S9Z
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAnWBAlqUrlE
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down656Please respect copyright.PENANAVuvxj0u1aB
Davids body.656Please respect copyright.PENANAL4VTSuMHEe
Please don't. Came adult David's voice656Please respect copyright.PENANAojfyQc47XH
Young David was scared; 656Please respect copyright.PENANA697WjGGoPf
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 656Please respect copyright.PENANAgWm6OFmxEz
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAivaNy2GkNg
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 656Please respect copyright.PENANA0nzXaUQUsK
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."656Please respect copyright.PENANAiCHhoI5QLR
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.656Please respect copyright.PENANA1VSZdTfXQ1
"Mummy, mummy!" David 656Please respect copyright.PENANAXS5CselvNY
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3WWFxyjJhT
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 656Please respect copyright.PENANAMpUMzTt4iE
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 656Please respect copyright.PENANAcNxaIaQAM7
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 656Please respect copyright.PENANAHLGZaVNMEM
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.656Please respect copyright.PENANAdhMBmiiMC0
David didn't even know 656Please respect copyright.PENANAYjpTbi7HnI
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 656Please respect copyright.PENANA623zxaCDXv
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 656Please respect copyright.PENANATknEzjaUB6
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.656Please respect copyright.PENANAzIV3MTSuOp
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAJg9HdDPsEF
David could barely hear 656Please respect copyright.PENANANPxSKFjU1g
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9GJ6m1XnJH
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 656Please respect copyright.PENANAFKjAC3uSz0
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 656Please respect copyright.PENANAwRkn8k42EH
anger. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAagTVeiTUGV
"There are more 656Please respect copyright.PENANAzTj9HOpLao
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUOorhQLD7V
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 656Please respect copyright.PENANAV08su17WEY
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 656Please respect copyright.PENANA343w8ao8GU
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.656Please respect copyright.PENANAcIYrWaJj6d
"What else is there to 656Please respect copyright.PENANAscALBsgOu9
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 656Please respect copyright.PENANA6y9wYHdHoR
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 656Please respect copyright.PENANAqQyx6sxsit
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 656Please respect copyright.PENANAiMIwL8x9Da
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood656Please respect copyright.PENANAortGTSA6Mc
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 656Please respect copyright.PENANAasndCfiZ2R
floor. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAPtQjVHdGve
Even the pain didn't 656Please respect copyright.PENANAlUoL7yVcXo
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 656Please respect copyright.PENANAuqvXfP3Vlb
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 656Please respect copyright.PENANAVvAC5vzPZF
everything would be gone.656Please respect copyright.PENANALKtdijWQwD
~Just like that, give up656Please respect copyright.PENANA4JFKGkPaKZ
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 656Please respect copyright.PENANAv9f7DNPdQx
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 656Please respect copyright.PENANA0wMyyGzyE9
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer656Please respect copyright.PENANAD24OwvbHmF
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 656Please respect copyright.PENANA1puyiNaVmp
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse656Please respect copyright.PENANAHhOyN6aBNR
than this."656Please respect copyright.PENANAss9Re7Zfzj
~STOP! ~ David dropped 656Please respect copyright.PENANANGipSWEiFQ
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3HNnYxBU4e
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 656Please respect copyright.PENANAOlZZTrbw1A
survive. Survive and live.656Please respect copyright.PENANAki4CPrbc9A
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAFScwj0J0xo
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUFMdPgyDhR
"Indeed." Jester 656Please respect copyright.PENANAVFNP9GpEDN
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 656Please respect copyright.PENANAqQnEZ10lE5
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 656Please respect copyright.PENANAmwyx2huCuj
like his own did.656Please respect copyright.PENANA0UMCwoIGG5
"Why did you try 656Please respect copyright.PENANAJbOQ4LBIX9
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 656Please respect copyright.PENANAl5xOaDjjq9
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 656Please respect copyright.PENANAgpn6uh8bgo
process the influx of memories.656Please respect copyright.PENANAcyWcEJ5w4B
"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,"656Please respect copyright.PENANAkr6PHI9Rri
"You expect me to believe that?"656Please respect copyright.PENANATgi7oNTAvz
"Believe what you want."656Please respect copyright.PENANAjRF3UAHGGv
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"656Please respect copyright.PENANAK9MBOLwllw
Jester chuckled. "All of656Please respect copyright.PENANA247JzUli6M
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 656Please respect copyright.PENANAnWT6YU5n8H
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."656Please respect copyright.PENANA90MSTJmXCm
"That just 656Please respect copyright.PENANAChMKhVSGdI
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 656Please respect copyright.PENANA5Rq0TxdUJd
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?656Please respect copyright.PENANArau8FchjNX
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."656Please respect copyright.PENANA1B49GMPeWS
David nodded. "Do it."656Please respect copyright.PENANAxbrzBtlcH5
Everything shifted. 656Please respect copyright.PENANA1NiHtHQMp6
David was cleaning his 656Please respect copyright.PENANAUe6jNjgNYj
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 656Please respect copyright.PENANAPGVNlFS6xC
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 656Please respect copyright.PENANAnrNxD253cs
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 656Please respect copyright.PENANAwB89893dma
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 656Please respect copyright.PENANAiLNKFlIhXR
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 656Please respect copyright.PENANAWmOhwJwnsC
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.656Please respect copyright.PENANAWS4ugJjC2L
His last one was just 656Please respect copyright.PENANAjLhzrfduiJ
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was656Please respect copyright.PENANAgZjtBv5DtD
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 656Please respect copyright.PENANAghDCqD7qlN
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAEhXrXinmHZ
Undamaged goods she loved to say.656Please respect copyright.PENANA8aeq68Q671
Right on cue, David 656Please respect copyright.PENANAEhhvn8YD2T
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 656Please respect copyright.PENANAAgSPxhHrul
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She656Please respect copyright.PENANAuWF20D9QXL
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 656Please respect copyright.PENANAPCOwpi7mId
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 656Please respect copyright.PENANAeePiw8xYyR
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.656Please respect copyright.PENANA3eGIVGke8W
Why was this his life? 656Please respect copyright.PENANAez29IlZTzA
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 656Please respect copyright.PENANAvNAldusro3
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 656Please respect copyright.PENANAwMj14hpbyy
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 656Please respect copyright.PENANAVz6cvREMOK
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar656Please respect copyright.PENANAE1I4Sk34l5
vein trying to get his eyes. 656Please respect copyright.PENANA35heACsviX
~Enough David.~ A voice 656Please respect copyright.PENANAIndRaeXoLL
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 656Please respect copyright.PENANA1IhT6HnrBJ
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 656Please respect copyright.PENANA27gTL9mZ4A
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force656Please respect copyright.PENANAB5Sc77itCf
and met resistance.656Please respect copyright.PENANAupkIPMhDXu
The scratching and 656Please respect copyright.PENANANg59ZhyBsQ
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 656Please respect copyright.PENANACRUh7zkUoJ
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit656Please respect copyright.PENANAKdQxI377M1
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 656Please respect copyright.PENANAhnBbvOn7MH
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 656Please respect copyright.PENANA3ulRdG0zQ1
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.656Please respect copyright.PENANALcr0kRoMqq
Oh god what did he do? 656Please respect copyright.PENANAoVF3IGVLpg
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 656Please respect copyright.PENANAa0j4VdASgk
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated656Please respect copyright.PENANAn9PN8DdwrY
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 656Please respect copyright.PENANAiHsgMj26Bt
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 656Please respect copyright.PENANAK7Vls6qmYu
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries656Please respect copyright.PENANA3DyQB82j7A
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 656Please respect copyright.PENANASmLQJxyEDF
blood.656Please respect copyright.PENANAAyYS9eigCh
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 656Please respect copyright.PENANAZyIpilEKac
There was a pause and everything quieted down.656Please respect copyright.PENANAfzQeJSE2Be
A boy named David just 656Please respect copyright.PENANAICqYVPPoTS
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 656Please respect copyright.PENANAdo97waToGa
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9AuwjqGq4h
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 656Please respect copyright.PENANAZQBzp8j8ka
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room656Please respect copyright.PENANAbYXNbimZFn
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 656Please respect copyright.PENANAk5mvT4NscI
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAH0pOqHJYJg
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 656Please respect copyright.PENANAHnpAHxp95q
silly of him.656Please respect copyright.PENANAxf9lwOdRgN
Remembering his 656Please respect copyright.PENANA6BQCQGXi8C
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 656Please respect copyright.PENANAhkeavKNl0c
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 656Please respect copyright.PENANAmUi2rMUnYA
table preparing a meal. 656Please respect copyright.PENANAjLmLYqdGjX
"There you are David!" 656Please respect copyright.PENANAiPXI6kAnRJ
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start656Please respect copyright.PENANAgJr76GR7rb
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 656Please respect copyright.PENANATh3SMSxGYc
This isn't the truth.656Please respect copyright.PENANAWUe36WQhZZ
David obligingly sat 656Please respect copyright.PENANA4ca1mIjPLl
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 656Please respect copyright.PENANAx4jqLSJmtv
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 656Please respect copyright.PENANAzbuIyhXb6z
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.656Please respect copyright.PENANAPsmJGWLlgy
A dream, nothing else.656Please respect copyright.PENANAQ6hl8Elqgk
They all thanked the 656Please respect copyright.PENANAGNjCQDL7Oh
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 656Please respect copyright.PENANAGFSnyfWOre
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 656Please respect copyright.PENANAHmlLPwWo3t
this lie.656Please respect copyright.PENANA1xSM8Kuvaq
A lie that has to end.656Please respect copyright.PENANAh0aCitbsdK
David was standing at 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9BAZ53pfhU
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 656Please respect copyright.PENANAoYHdNqOGLG
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was656Please respect copyright.PENANAzIzBO5VpBx
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 656Please respect copyright.PENANAjOcxrmouMF
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 656Please respect copyright.PENANAcVI3hJ0UGC
Either way David hated 656Please respect copyright.PENANAA1l5HVXG2a
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 656Please respect copyright.PENANAsqK2GYr25Q
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9MOs1QJkEX
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 656Please respect copyright.PENANA2lsRolDSBB
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 656Please respect copyright.PENANAEkjQiBtemm
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 656Please respect copyright.PENANAXj9xEUOF7B
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 656Please respect copyright.PENANAj3LscbBzsI
life this happy blissful life?656Please respect copyright.PENANAXXyAlaERQK
The answer was so simple656Please respect copyright.PENANAUP81sPIF7y
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,656Please respect copyright.PENANA54mlyZ47nD
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 656Please respect copyright.PENANAFEQw4gdMdm
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 656Please respect copyright.PENANA9yin1Ah2pk
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 656Please respect copyright.PENANALTLmfs0nbT
David decided to start 656Please respect copyright.PENANAT8Z6dAMIkm
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No656Please respect copyright.PENANA4oVg9gojXl
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 656Please respect copyright.PENANAmmGSM2wsta
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 656Please respect copyright.PENANADiGNAxNDic
mother. "No more mercy."656Please respect copyright.PENANA42waAjsA3S
With the last stab 656Please respect copyright.PENANAINYdOh5z2r
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 656Please respect copyright.PENANA1JDZkheZnn
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast656Please respect copyright.PENANAGrW7rFsZIP
emptiness.
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