[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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Time takes the edge off of anger.

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So they tell me.

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You are still angry at me? As much as you were when you refused to take my hand?

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Yes. Though more now for the coffin than Yaeko.

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I deserve that. So, what will you do now? You have your sword.

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I told you I wouldn't kill you. Beyond that...I do not know.

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Bleed me? Make me give up something to your anger?

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What would you give? What would you ask of me to satisfy yours?

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It would depend on what you asked for. Certain things you may ask for may not be mine to give. I don't know that mine can be satisfied and I may just have to live with that fact.

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Can you live with it? It doesn't sound as if it gives us anywhere to go, to move forward.

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*Hiro shrugs.* It is the way of things. We cannot have everything we want.

So, what would you ask of me?

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As I said--I do not know yet. Nothing I can think of would be sufficient.

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Perhaps something that would, at least, assuage it temporarily?

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Running you through with my sword then healing you has appeal.

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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.

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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?