[QT] June Repsonse
Jun. 16th, 2008 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changehistoryAll hope abandon, ye who enter in. >> Dante Alighieri
The walls start to close in after the first few days, even. For one who has wandered the Earth unfettered for centuries, a room with only a view of a hallway in hell, itself. But he clings to the hope that it will not be for long. Angela, Arthur, Daniel, Maury...they'll rise up against Kaito and set him free. Even Charles would not condone this, truly. He'll come, surely, disbelieving Kaito, to speak to Adam, to reason with him. Adam can be reasonable.
He paces the room constantly, not sleeping, trying to remember if there is a way out, but nothing comes to mind. After a week, he attacks a guard who brings him dinner, but while they can do no lasting damage, they have weapons enough to subdue him, to leave him chained.
Even so, he hopes. They will come. She will come. She can't allow this, and with her power, surely she can sway the others to her way, his way, of thinking. She will come, and he will be free, and Kaito and those who aided him will pay. He does not need 12, and if Hiro isn't born...well. He hardly cares at this point, caged and shackled, betrayed by his own personal Judas.
But she does not come.
Nor do Daniel or Charles and when Arthur finally makes an appearance, the gloating smile on his face tells Adam more than words that there will be no help from that quarter. It is that look, that smile, that cold triumph that makes his gut twist, and he feels the first frisson of dread.
She is not coming.
No one is coming to set him free.
And for the first time in his life, Adam feels the flicker of hope die.
The walls start to close in after the first few days, even. For one who has wandered the Earth unfettered for centuries, a room with only a view of a hallway in hell, itself. But he clings to the hope that it will not be for long. Angela, Arthur, Daniel, Maury...they'll rise up against Kaito and set him free. Even Charles would not condone this, truly. He'll come, surely, disbelieving Kaito, to speak to Adam, to reason with him. Adam can be reasonable.
He paces the room constantly, not sleeping, trying to remember if there is a way out, but nothing comes to mind. After a week, he attacks a guard who brings him dinner, but while they can do no lasting damage, they have weapons enough to subdue him, to leave him chained.
Even so, he hopes. They will come. She will come. She can't allow this, and with her power, surely she can sway the others to her way, his way, of thinking. She will come, and he will be free, and Kaito and those who aided him will pay. He does not need 12, and if Hiro isn't born...well. He hardly cares at this point, caged and shackled, betrayed by his own personal Judas.
But she does not come.
Nor do Daniel or Charles and when Arthur finally makes an appearance, the gloating smile on his face tells Adam more than words that there will be no help from that quarter. It is that look, that smile, that cold triumph that makes his gut twist, and he feels the first frisson of dread.
She is not coming.
No one is coming to set him free.
And for the first time in his life, Adam feels the flicker of hope die.
