[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

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

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.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

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.

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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.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

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.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

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.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Could you truly lay aside your anger? Forgive me?

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With that much time? Yes.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

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?

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*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.*