If I didn't need you, I never would have brought you all together. I never would have taken the time to find you. If I wanted to walk a world alone, I could have kept doing what I had been doing. You all never grasped that, did you? How truly important you were to me. How I had searched for you for centuries, waiting until you came. I didn't need you, no. I don't need anyone. I learned that lesson a long time ago. But it was more than that. I wanted you, and I wanted you to understand, to share my vision of a world reborn, something new for all of us, for our children.
I didn't think Kaito would be so unreasonable. That was my error, yes. He turned out to be far more like his son than I thought he would be, when we first met.
I never would have killed the children, or any of you, in anything but self-defense. Not then. Now, obviously, is a different matter all together. But then? I would have protected you, all of you, but you especially. You weren't expendable.
The children should have been taught what they were. Raised and cherished for what they were. Not used the way Bob used Elle, or hidden the way Noah hid Claire. Even if their abilities didn't manifest, someone should have told them that something might. You all should have shared what you could do with them. Nathan should never have been afraid of his gift, and Peter...god. Peter. He should have been nurtured, guided, shown who he was instead of meeting with fear and ridicule from his own family until he was twisted into the wreck of guilt that he is now, ashamed of himself and what he can do, and just wanting to be normal.
They should all be proud, all be pleased, all know how special they are to their parents and to the world, instead of longing, always, for something they're not, that they were never going to be.
I wouldn't have killed them, Angela. I would have loved them--those that were mine and those that weren't, because they are the future.
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Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-12 05:43 pm (UTC)I didn't think Kaito would be so unreasonable. That was my error, yes. He turned out to be far more like his son than I thought he would be, when we first met.
I never would have killed the children, or any of you, in anything but self-defense. Not then. Now, obviously, is a different matter all together. But then? I would have protected you, all of you, but you especially. You weren't expendable.
The children should have been taught what they were. Raised and cherished for what they were. Not used the way Bob used Elle, or hidden the way Noah hid Claire. Even if their abilities didn't manifest, someone should have told them that something might. You all should have shared what you could do with them. Nathan should never have been afraid of his gift, and Peter...god. Peter. He should have been nurtured, guided, shown who he was instead of meeting with fear and ridicule from his own family until he was twisted into the wreck of guilt that he is now, ashamed of himself and what he can do, and just wanting to be normal.
They should all be proud, all be pleased, all know how special they are to their parents and to the world, instead of longing, always, for something they're not, that they were never going to be.
I wouldn't have killed them, Angela. I would have loved them--those that were mine and those that weren't, because they are the future.