[10spot] 059 -- Ten People You've Hurt

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1. Hiro
2. Kaito
3. Angela
4. Victoria
5. Arthur
6. Bob
7. Elle
8. Peter
9. Yaeko
10. Jack

Some I'm even sorry for. Some. Possibly half, but do not attempt to hold me to that.

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*Hiro faces him, his hands down at his sides.*

Do it.

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*slight scowl*

It's no fun if you outright offer.

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Maybe I should turn my back to you?

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Is that what you think of me?

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I thought maybe it would make it easier if I got you angry.

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I think we could both do without you trying to make me deliberately angry.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Without making you angry? How do you think I feel? Rage fills me and all of it is impotent in the face of your power. I can't hurt you. I can't wound you where I can see it! *He visibly corrals his temper.* One of us should get some satisfaction.

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*far, far, far too calm*

Would you put me back there, then, carp? Would that satisfy you? Freeze time and cut my head from my body as you should have 400 years ago? Would it be done, then?

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If it had truly ever satisfied me, I would have left you there. I would have cut off your head and left you dead and gone and never able to return. But I couldn't. It scares me - the things I feel for you, the conflict I feel when I see you. The only way this is done is that I die. So it is either you or time that ends this.

*He sounds tired, defeated. His eyes look far away.*

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And is there no middle ground we can find? Because angry as I am, I know I would heal any would I dealt..except the ones I can never heal.

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Would you have me live forever? Would you be able to stand that? Stare at the face of your betrayer for eternity? Is it not better that you win in the end?

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I would prefer to win by finding a way through the anger.

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Can you let go of your anger? Even in the face of the one who has caused it?

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Perhaps. Some day. I would wish to. I want to.

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Then time will be the ultimate decider of my fate.

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You could decide it.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

I could end my life, yes. There is always that option. *He looks like he's considering it.*

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No. *long pause, slight frown* Please.

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It would end this efficiently and under my own terms, yes?

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And cause me to suffer for the rest of time, as well. It would be your perfect vengeance.

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It is either time, you or me. In the end you will still be free of me. I am not immortal.

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I will never be free of you, carp. Even when you are gone.

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So who takes me, Kensei? Time, you or myself?

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I would prefer it be time.

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And if I were immortal?