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Some of my colleagues 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXJAv2Qk84s
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsc4rkUggPp
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 574Please respect copyright.PENANAOCPmVeqwGU
suggestion or hypnosis.574Please respect copyright.PENANAT0xAyKpolR
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where574Please respect copyright.PENANAo6TBjaNPsj
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 574Please respect copyright.PENANA8hVhuPTiSt
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 574Please respect copyright.PENANAqOfO0khp01
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want574Please respect copyright.PENANApXqOfU2LuF
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 574Please respect copyright.PENANA9Z0NjFwRk3
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I574Please respect copyright.PENANA3eHWGuQ6si
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 574Please respect copyright.PENANAU5MfBMb9MW
capabilities.574Please respect copyright.PENANAnm2aaRKon7
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."574Please respect copyright.PENANA2BS8wyusb0
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David awakened. Not 574Please respect copyright.PENANAOeGzFYGHIY
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZxJbLrbHUz
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,574Please respect copyright.PENANAL8sDRgVa1M
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUSc3aGWCWd
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 574Please respect copyright.PENANAFwl7yNdppZ
undamaged.574Please respect copyright.PENANAdUpvMUvUxL
"Only your physical body574Please respect copyright.PENANAhRdPGPechm
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 574Please respect copyright.PENANAeK2iF5UFKm
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of574Please respect copyright.PENANAtHmJ0aJRVm
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."574Please respect copyright.PENANAgRSMnYgaIC
A shadowy form appeared.574Please respect copyright.PENANAFO8gBM3LKg
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 574Please respect copyright.PENANAwLPoI3xq55
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6jitDA4SCp
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.574Please respect copyright.PENANAmOwjvpA6ye
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.574Please respect copyright.PENANA1qGj2fTs4A
"Am I in the...ether 574Please respect copyright.PENANASQiNQTw7ZP
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 574Please respect copyright.PENANAHJjztgvHAM
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.574Please respect copyright.PENANA2uniNHsWvU
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAFCK1Ry8B2H
David was tired, too 574Please respect copyright.PENANAVjPrQBcFE5
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 574Please respect copyright.PENANA86k0xiRu0B
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.574Please respect copyright.PENANAZERMVkrUXf
The shadowy hood cocked 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8EMWpv42P
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 574Please respect copyright.PENANAeJRVkQLGyd
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 574Please respect copyright.PENANA4u04EUzirY
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 574Please respect copyright.PENANAwnuCjeFVuC
more grateful."574Please respect copyright.PENANAMdgDTZntim
"I..."574Please respect copyright.PENANA74TmFT6cvc
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."574Please respect copyright.PENANAHGoAFToOTP
David groaned in 574Please respect copyright.PENANAHPHMki8i8M
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 574Please respect copyright.PENANAOdsB1NNjJA
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 574Please respect copyright.PENANATAAuQbDAQC
falling point, that'd be fly."574Please respect copyright.PENANAFSPBOjxkPr
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAsvwYVp2BBl
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAut2IWpCn9l
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"574Please respect copyright.PENANA23QcljicWW
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."574Please respect copyright.PENANAo5FKm9rbTl
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAYD8JNwI1EQ
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAeejH14E5LB
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."574Please respect copyright.PENANAhdkOp5UkQv
David shouted and 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUb2fLtlbd4
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 574Please respect copyright.PENANAxBLKdf3jgP
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all574Please respect copyright.PENANACbvSPcMRAW
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He574Please respect copyright.PENANAn6c8qvVDRt
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 574Please respect copyright.PENANAGqEx9QLH9q
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 574Please respect copyright.PENANArPkVG2YTS3
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 574Please respect copyright.PENANAzXZkLpihka
mist.574Please respect copyright.PENANAkCm0Cmk7Am
Jester's voice came from574Please respect copyright.PENANAycufOPWPtz
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 574Please respect copyright.PENANA4Ih4vA2ALb
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 574Please respect copyright.PENANAiBD2hSAIbE
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAK4RfvWz1wC
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 574Please respect copyright.PENANA8nrV32go7R
creating a circle around Jester and David.574Please respect copyright.PENANARyJulkSx9s
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXtUbWTzTpv
"Shut up!" David 574Please respect copyright.PENANADbqsm0LZfC
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUmc9V3CtiX
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 574Please respect copyright.PENANAOvPJzkMGvi
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"574Please respect copyright.PENANA4P1uoiy5Ah
Jester gave another 574Please respect copyright.PENANAggPFdME7sv
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 574Please respect copyright.PENANA8aYiYXyPxY
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 574Please respect copyright.PENANAnlshR1gvkN
afraid of the truth?" 574Please respect copyright.PENANA1dboFv7lQJ
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 574Please respect copyright.PENANApZ9wbm4Mp6
"You're what? A 574Please respect copyright.PENANAxODJ4IMLou
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAcjbLBGD1DJ
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 574Please respect copyright.PENANAwArykUFR7L
you've done not matter." 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2RkyiEmtTR
The shadows completely 574Please respect copyright.PENANAQfJJ9bOQNI
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2VJXQ7WmMY
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6eXODNJZ9R
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 574Please respect copyright.PENANAKlhHBne2lU
eye and shadows swallowed him.574Please respect copyright.PENANA5ZgXL6SvFw
Shadows parting, David 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUm7D1qw4GS
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 574Please respect copyright.PENANANerwe4k9fa
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAWAyGbUrOmz
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2adoDqjiY6
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 574Please respect copyright.PENANAW7KcCqvE6o
mother574Please respect copyright.PENANAVtHgG3kizZ
"This is my memory." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAMlUVZFc1H3
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 574Please respect copyright.PENANAAvaGLa3SIh
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.574Please respect copyright.PENANAfhevPEkUgv
David didn't reply to 574Please respect copyright.PENANABqseucuvdB
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 574Please respect copyright.PENANASxm2Eq1Mey
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.574Please respect copyright.PENANA3LnrTMtKCg
Unaware of what was 574Please respect copyright.PENANAN8c9MLqeN9
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 574Please respect copyright.PENANAbPGG9Vfjsn
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last574Please respect copyright.PENANAhV6gsJukE1
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 574Please respect copyright.PENANAxPXyMi1szF
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 574Please respect copyright.PENANAd0IxdSIWCO
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 574Please respect copyright.PENANAgOOCKlJYKt
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She574Please respect copyright.PENANATHEAZBvp90
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 574Please respect copyright.PENANA3v8qScqGJb
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."574Please respect copyright.PENANA84LYOoMZGV
Finally the screams of 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXuqiWUimEl
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 574Please respect copyright.PENANA9XS4p2OGba
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 574Please respect copyright.PENANArb4fSUZgyK
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAz7tIQlxc8S
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 574Please respect copyright.PENANAh1w2JBLXVC
the baby's throat and squeezed.574Please respect copyright.PENANA5GDwsLxZ65
David could feel his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAiT9M2gTGkK
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 574Please respect copyright.PENANAisw3gYBLll
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 574Please respect copyright.PENANAj9yfrSO4Sd
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 574Please respect copyright.PENANAj8rGGitZEY
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 574Please respect copyright.PENANAmR3g3W3Jen
stopped.574Please respect copyright.PENANAzci4lMfu8w
"Oh, nonononono." The 574Please respect copyright.PENANAiVxreqD0kX
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 574Please respect copyright.PENANA3KrjdPsm5H
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6Q6pGPMCsL
"You who were supposed 574Please respect copyright.PENANABKwzGgwZN3
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 574Please respect copyright.PENANAllZ6kWiual
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 574Please respect copyright.PENANALL47KdU7A4
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAkCdsDmuIeO
Coughing David stood up 574Please respect copyright.PENANAy5Ue79GdSu
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAg5mMoIQtyc
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 574Please respect copyright.PENANArHl0WZtbAe
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAcG86dFOJh8
"No, it was a small 574Please respect copyright.PENANAzbB6reHpXH
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUbnTdOddtQ
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.574Please respect copyright.PENANA3CzmfJsBFS
He was staring at the 574Please respect copyright.PENANA5eMVARobHy
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was574Please respect copyright.PENANA5a7I8HtxXW
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsJY7fz0xyT
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAv8flkx7Gfg
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 574Please respect copyright.PENANAoFfdiYZtRW
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.574Please respect copyright.PENANA0Svv5J9UhW
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.574Please respect copyright.PENANANEcSKIrBmx
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAOV8yKJhgIe
"I will!" Came a squeaky574Please respect copyright.PENANAO3rpPBE0vR
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.574Please respect copyright.PENANAaNyPHLyGIp
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had574Please respect copyright.PENANApbL9mNDNeu
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAdMHUrZ5Y3l
was an adult.574Please respect copyright.PENANA3Jb7tzzjtS
A knock came from a door574Please respect copyright.PENANAxvKV6bWQvM
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 574Please respect copyright.PENANA7Y7kwgwZ7Q
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 574Please respect copyright.PENANAyS0GnLbH6G
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6gZLmpKuv6
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 574Please respect copyright.PENANAAIW8OWvOiE
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 574Please respect copyright.PENANAFtwomsCWQ7
being a bad boy.574Please respect copyright.PENANAWa3KbxSwbv
That's why he didn't 574Please respect copyright.PENANA0YsWXi2plC
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 574Please respect copyright.PENANAIMfTeB8wVl
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.574Please respect copyright.PENANA4y8RaZIhHI
"D..david" the answer 574Please respect copyright.PENANAk8QKaoT6oO
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving574Please respect copyright.PENANAuy6IsFHhEm
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."574Please respect copyright.PENANAMR8uYfswKr
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.574Please respect copyright.PENANAFp53HJTHSm
The man put his hands on574Please respect copyright.PENANAUDfhirp8nf
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff574Please respect copyright.PENANAOXd0cyVMIC
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAGo5IR2GGM5
David meekly shook his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAr6MOMzi54R
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 574Please respect copyright.PENANARuMUXAHHRd
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 574Please respect copyright.PENANA9zALvrvBE8
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 574Please respect copyright.PENANAiGqNaCOEAO
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 574Please respect copyright.PENANAKzdeZEzXYv
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 574Please respect copyright.PENANAcMPKDm6JoE
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 574Please respect copyright.PENANAKpWr3GWXgl
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXQT7g8OUNC
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 574Please respect copyright.PENANAmSoVsO874p
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down574Please respect copyright.PENANAB3IfzhHeV5
Davids body.574Please respect copyright.PENANASMWOX5xDah
Please don't. Came adult David's voice574Please respect copyright.PENANARODUAzkQot
Young David was scared; 574Please respect copyright.PENANAIUfB3ebfWT
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 574Please respect copyright.PENANAdJkKGzZ5CP
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAaBk9LAQv9e
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 574Please respect copyright.PENANA963yr4PaiZ
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."574Please respect copyright.PENANAO0oQ1gCEaD
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.574Please respect copyright.PENANAOAORq1MWej
"Mummy, mummy!" David 574Please respect copyright.PENANAjqRHjCAnan
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZTtYUpkIch
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 574Please respect copyright.PENANABDuL10V9qi
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 574Please respect copyright.PENANAQrJIM7X3bV
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 574Please respect copyright.PENANAQro9ibUcLn
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.574Please respect copyright.PENANAI0wZ4SZhmT
David didn't even know 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXo8RmDotFM
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 574Please respect copyright.PENANA36wSUxxk82
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 574Please respect copyright.PENANALNiMfOP48N
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.574Please respect copyright.PENANAM5mO8mH7sx
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAFIzrBXnRMf
David could barely hear 574Please respect copyright.PENANAMiMGvwROQo
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 574Please respect copyright.PENANAvgXDjB7LOr
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAuxj379trfD
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 574Please respect copyright.PENANADbcWuu2yf2
anger. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAEiWTxLeYoW
"There are more 574Please respect copyright.PENANARTW8maXHTq
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 574Please respect copyright.PENANArEmFfCwZje
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 574Please respect copyright.PENANAehwzckhwyn
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 574Please respect copyright.PENANASR1zNUMWAU
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.574Please respect copyright.PENANAPk8yIEwuFO
"What else is there to 574Please respect copyright.PENANAMCMzMnC4Kl
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 574Please respect copyright.PENANASKGdwz6kUh
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 574Please respect copyright.PENANAiRi8bEjUuM
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 574Please respect copyright.PENANA7QbpzuZrxV
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood574Please respect copyright.PENANAoUK15n7SEK
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 574Please respect copyright.PENANAmtJucC04xU
floor. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAQDUW0FBGcn
Even the pain didn't 574Please respect copyright.PENANAODpjhsdd4s
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 574Please respect copyright.PENANAyJNo9QjzTK
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2l2O34A7ba
everything would be gone.574Please respect copyright.PENANAbBLpp85znk
~Just like that, give up574Please respect copyright.PENANA4lH3nTFSdF
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 574Please respect copyright.PENANABri6eG7yTe
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXB6Y4aRHrK
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer574Please respect copyright.PENANAYN90b4q6vL
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 574Please respect copyright.PENANAX4uYw1fYer
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse574Please respect copyright.PENANAWOc1w9IspN
than this."574Please respect copyright.PENANAv7p1CJW4Su
~STOP! ~ David dropped 574Please respect copyright.PENANAjVXl0X9ooJ
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 574Please respect copyright.PENANAM66ciVuq4u
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 574Please respect copyright.PENANAs6t3Kmt2M9
survive. Survive and live.574Please respect copyright.PENANA8folYPgYLs
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAeKZlfgskbN
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2Sz2YtR08W
"Indeed." Jester 574Please respect copyright.PENANA60RhrR0SYr
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2aLZQg0TsN
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsBZgTf1jAn
like his own did.574Please respect copyright.PENANATZvdBlCTk2
"Why did you try 574Please respect copyright.PENANAW9Os2xsC76
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsQcDokxueS
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 574Please respect copyright.PENANA8z6HJ5YMtf
process the influx of memories.574Please respect copyright.PENANAPkd89P4Qvr
"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,"574Please respect copyright.PENANAv7PVxvn9aC
"You expect me to believe that?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAYj142tzGES
"Believe what you want."574Please respect copyright.PENANAedlGSZB6CL
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"574Please respect copyright.PENANAXQBUjk1fX0
Jester chuckled. "All of574Please respect copyright.PENANAYYoTMd3YpQ
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 574Please respect copyright.PENANAqOGik04XBj
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."574Please respect copyright.PENANApuWGQxdlvQ
"That just 574Please respect copyright.PENANAeeAnA4VYB8
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 574Please respect copyright.PENANAb8ENPBqS9L
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?574Please respect copyright.PENANACwSywIg8Dj
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."574Please respect copyright.PENANACxJesKbZrA
David nodded. "Do it."574Please respect copyright.PENANAyx0l5bvl61
Everything shifted. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAUgw6Pwzt9g
David was cleaning his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAQm0eUVO4vl
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 574Please respect copyright.PENANAssenXGqWx0
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 574Please respect copyright.PENANA5vKZW6K6GN
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 574Please respect copyright.PENANAGQo6NWbDrb
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 574Please respect copyright.PENANAdrF5Jwy8gx
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZU0TPK5lI2
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.574Please respect copyright.PENANAjd61HVr3wO
His last one was just 574Please respect copyright.PENANAO5H0Eu2RVs
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was574Please respect copyright.PENANANofOhjBEvR
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 574Please respect copyright.PENANAinX1y72MXo
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 574Please respect copyright.PENANATH27pOh61h
Undamaged goods she loved to say.574Please respect copyright.PENANA402bby6AFk
Right on cue, David 574Please respect copyright.PENANAC4oIa6nktW
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 574Please respect copyright.PENANAmvbUz8DCaQ
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She574Please respect copyright.PENANAZqFATSmhjv
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 574Please respect copyright.PENANApRpbxO1fS0
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 574Please respect copyright.PENANAjqDFNBzvwr
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.574Please respect copyright.PENANAIDL193GkIn
Why was this his life? 574Please respect copyright.PENANAmN70OfKxCm
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsjaGX8dgPh
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZIdCq5fz7N
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAAvp6ylEUcK
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar574Please respect copyright.PENANAdkDS6iz6Xe
vein trying to get his eyes. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAJz92sgrJtl
~Enough David.~ A voice 574Please respect copyright.PENANAjbBNaTEp1G
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 574Please respect copyright.PENANABeNDG57bZ0
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 574Please respect copyright.PENANAgS3TBQIO0d
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force574Please respect copyright.PENANAgUycpB0zQP
and met resistance.574Please respect copyright.PENANAnbhqZCqeQI
The scratching and 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6e8hNQYGH4
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 574Please respect copyright.PENANA7E2qCt9fym
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit574Please respect copyright.PENANAI6vnvLhntJ
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 574Please respect copyright.PENANA8cP08Byelk
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 574Please respect copyright.PENANAN6ZvFLLnZC
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.574Please respect copyright.PENANAZbr5bD3lB2
Oh god what did he do? 574Please respect copyright.PENANAsRjd0jWOUE
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 574Please respect copyright.PENANAGi4BrFshO7
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated574Please respect copyright.PENANABOEswG1vcp
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 574Please respect copyright.PENANAttDCsIjRiK
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAs0BVKSWkhM
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries574Please respect copyright.PENANA2pN8sTLHb2
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 574Please respect copyright.PENANAvWATAWaBDN
blood.574Please respect copyright.PENANAhnXwXUTTtf
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 574Please respect copyright.PENANAPfMHATaXHV
There was a pause and everything quieted down.574Please respect copyright.PENANA52xtTtym3X
A boy named David just 574Please respect copyright.PENANA4LmAHbjnC5
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 574Please respect copyright.PENANA28NhBhHLyL
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 574Please respect copyright.PENANAEtBwAZ6Di3
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZWXn4tXzZG
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room574Please respect copyright.PENANAGjCs5QxgMm
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXOnjgcY3ia
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 574Please respect copyright.PENANART5BWdNjcr
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 574Please respect copyright.PENANABv25fWvdFC
silly of him.574Please respect copyright.PENANAaKW8dSM0ti
Remembering his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAER2urXFYng
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6UjXsx0sxX
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 574Please respect copyright.PENANAuxA5Cap75t
table preparing a meal. 574Please respect copyright.PENANA2zKnkpfBwo
"There you are David!" 574Please respect copyright.PENANAGxuSKUI7Qg
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start574Please respect copyright.PENANAMgMR9ugFk9
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXtdBz6lrMZ
This isn't the truth.574Please respect copyright.PENANAJodiJID49M
David obligingly sat 574Please respect copyright.PENANAoKUHYPpBUr
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 574Please respect copyright.PENANAVhepKhUdCF
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 574Please respect copyright.PENANAj36J1LCb85
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.574Please respect copyright.PENANAJ9U0ogJvws
A dream, nothing else.574Please respect copyright.PENANA2XhphyxRkz
They all thanked the 574Please respect copyright.PENANANa6bSBtbjb
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 574Please respect copyright.PENANA4vqGNvef7d
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 574Please respect copyright.PENANAG88hJ4iGpf
this lie.574Please respect copyright.PENANAkW24jT0ngz
A lie that has to end.574Please respect copyright.PENANACN4Th34Rm9
David was standing at 574Please respect copyright.PENANAR2ESeEbX1J
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 574Please respect copyright.PENANA6YgqjimIRs
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was574Please respect copyright.PENANA5b2oRz9oFu
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 574Please respect copyright.PENANAWWXKEmXiML
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 574Please respect copyright.PENANAKOajJCpgNp
Either way David hated 574Please respect copyright.PENANAZrB3q3Kqsg
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 574Please respect copyright.PENANABh19qRmtZV
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 574Please respect copyright.PENANAtM4LVfY1Ud
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 574Please respect copyright.PENANAOrPxWmVo3Q
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 574Please respect copyright.PENANAKMYFBzT8vI
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 574Please respect copyright.PENANAfZ4hN8FJl2
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 574Please respect copyright.PENANAlwhgWspPL1
life this happy blissful life?574Please respect copyright.PENANAK5Lb1NgzXr
The answer was so simple574Please respect copyright.PENANAUwLGTQ6rNP
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,574Please respect copyright.PENANAZJiIaS2Hmo
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 574Please respect copyright.PENANAv9emZysX6V
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 574Please respect copyright.PENANArHcKypHITp
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 574Please respect copyright.PENANA03KseByeQA
David decided to start 574Please respect copyright.PENANAXdfpfW1QZH
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No574Please respect copyright.PENANA9ixhpB3dX0
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 574Please respect copyright.PENANAlBG7eiFwp3
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 574Please respect copyright.PENANAAMELurfdU9
mother. "No more mercy."574Please respect copyright.PENANAO4DMSzVB70
With the last stab 574Please respect copyright.PENANAYkGLqCYEMU
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 574Please respect copyright.PENANAvvcFb4yUIK
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast574Please respect copyright.PENANAcVSAQt1Z3J
emptiness.
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