[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.

Comments

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You could decide it.

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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?

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Then I would want us to find a way to be...friends.

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Could you truly lay aside your anger? Forgive me?

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With that much time? Yes.

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Then, unfortunately, you will never forgive me. I do not have all that time. I can understand what you've done, but I am not certain I can completely forgive you.

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No. How could you?

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And how can I expect you to forgive me? I guess I don't expect it, I only hope for it.

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If I forgave you...could you forgive me?

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*Hiro thinks for a while. Is it possible? Can he forgive, knowing this man killed his father? Can he actually be that compassionate, that selfless? Duty tells him that he must avenge his father, but his faith tells him that such things will only lead to his self-destruction. To kill this man, imprison this man, he would lose his soul.*

I forgive you. Free of any obligation for you to do the same. You acted out of pain, as did I. If I ask your forgiveness or even hope to achieve it, I cannot be a hypocrite.

*He bows low, as one would bow to a superior.*

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*Adam stares at him for a very long time, emotion warring inside of him as he fights anger and hope and want and vengeance and need, and 400 years of waiting*

I...*swallows, closes his eyes, fighting with himself, then opens them again, meeting Hiro's* I can forgive you. I will. *small frown, rubbing his temples, but rather determined not to let Hiro be the better person. Again*

I do. I forgive you.

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*Hiro straightens up.*

Friends? Or is that too presumptuous?

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*faintest smile, half looking lost*

I hope it's something we can get back to. I'm not sure what we are now.

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I don't know. We're too close for mere acquaintances and we don't exactly work together.

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And if we are offering and accepting forgiveness, then we can't be enemies.

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I don't want to be your enemy. I would not want your forgiveness if I did. It would not matter to me.

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Nor do I want to be yours.