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Some of my colleagues 334Please respect copyright.PENANAs4Bot0qEHR
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZdNXMDrmC8
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 334Please respect copyright.PENANAoxCrQbWY7Y
suggestion or hypnosis.334Please respect copyright.PENANA3C4QNPdcuF
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where334Please respect copyright.PENANAeQ4fr5HZEO
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 334Please respect copyright.PENANASBGXqu2neU
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 334Please respect copyright.PENANAPzmXH1VCNW
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want334Please respect copyright.PENANASv1vwoy84H
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 334Please respect copyright.PENANAHxFw2hSEyo
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I334Please respect copyright.PENANAlbw6NAoCsG
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 334Please respect copyright.PENANASJSNtANxDI
capabilities.334Please respect copyright.PENANAEdl368UQSA
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."334Please respect copyright.PENANA7HRL1CqmzP
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David awakened. Not 334Please respect copyright.PENANA8ehey0AYvQ
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 334Please respect copyright.PENANAMG0JV9DJEq
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,334Please respect copyright.PENANAxttIDdqyM8
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 334Please respect copyright.PENANA16aukqTULE
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 334Please respect copyright.PENANAYBRfVqv8Ob
undamaged.334Please respect copyright.PENANArBRfIblUUO
"Only your physical body334Please respect copyright.PENANAS4SgH8ahxO
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 334Please respect copyright.PENANATKauotXscS
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of334Please respect copyright.PENANAiN3zr4UIOB
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."334Please respect copyright.PENANAqb6I9gKN4V
A shadowy form appeared.334Please respect copyright.PENANAusk3wzCOcq
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 334Please respect copyright.PENANAvLn9kChXck
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 334Please respect copyright.PENANAGv8nO5SC9D
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.334Please respect copyright.PENANAzKnfRXo2e3
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.334Please respect copyright.PENANA66ZVSlXea8
"Am I in the...ether 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1Yan6rHZpW
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAPowWGCcP39
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.334Please respect copyright.PENANAhrOeZnzGgG
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 334Please respect copyright.PENANAzlP9wkk8LY
David was tired, too 334Please respect copyright.PENANAVrle7n1z7z
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 334Please respect copyright.PENANAsTwVPOQ6ur
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.334Please respect copyright.PENANAM94tDhewgP
The shadowy hood cocked 334Please respect copyright.PENANAgqmQuFA8dY
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 334Please respect copyright.PENANAme9w1TTb4y
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAx34W3t78oy
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 334Please respect copyright.PENANAReJCLAHjBm
more grateful."334Please respect copyright.PENANA4yfxqabbTc
"I..."334Please respect copyright.PENANAtNfl4TZqNK
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."334Please respect copyright.PENANAhjZSn6Elmq
David groaned in 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZVHxg7pSne
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 334Please respect copyright.PENANAKljmQj8CDK
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 334Please respect copyright.PENANAU7AwhblywQ
falling point, that'd be fly."334Please respect copyright.PENANAwCzYEbjLxg
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAfMCz3szzOj
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAxC5qSTEVE7
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"334Please respect copyright.PENANA0r9XOj9OT3
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."334Please respect copyright.PENANA6qCQbtNqSV
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAmbysDXSeQM
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAbQnjiSQa85
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."334Please respect copyright.PENANA31EXzMjlkW
David shouted and 334Please respect copyright.PENANAb37ivBiUyH
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 334Please respect copyright.PENANAAYF9XglCSK
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all334Please respect copyright.PENANAfKL4mumYLq
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He334Please respect copyright.PENANArRtPuYfc5o
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 334Please respect copyright.PENANANNdt8kbVob
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAiRUSYS5EiZ
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 334Please respect copyright.PENANAoi5yLw8f7T
mist.334Please respect copyright.PENANARjtDSIeJ0X
Jester's voice came from334Please respect copyright.PENANAllsNjeiePS
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 334Please respect copyright.PENANA58ejKnVrCk
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 334Please respect copyright.PENANAk0VDA0Z5dz
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAcyLB9hDSC4
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 334Please respect copyright.PENANANx6z0FCB9o
creating a circle around Jester and David.334Please respect copyright.PENANAD7X7eeSZdH
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 334Please respect copyright.PENANADmmF0K8jaV
"Shut up!" David 334Please respect copyright.PENANAnGLj5DEI6F
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 334Please respect copyright.PENANAzWVdG0sB3x
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 334Please respect copyright.PENANA5kQLc6yynU
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"334Please respect copyright.PENANAplrkT5EvFQ
Jester gave another 334Please respect copyright.PENANAPjjOGeUKt3
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 334Please respect copyright.PENANAkZgxfL0Ge6
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 334Please respect copyright.PENANAD5PZX55Nfa
afraid of the truth?" 334Please respect copyright.PENANA0ZDXAQER1I
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 334Please respect copyright.PENANABwiwk2PRau
"You're what? A 334Please respect copyright.PENANAbt2VL19cbJ
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAqUutTcDQxx
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 334Please respect copyright.PENANAbEUgCAXi6r
you've done not matter." 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1StaaU4ZnN
The shadows completely 334Please respect copyright.PENANA3h4HmeiqSy
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 334Please respect copyright.PENANAwIJx7ailHG
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 334Please respect copyright.PENANAoTd88yX0kn
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 334Please respect copyright.PENANArLtacXjLU1
eye and shadows swallowed him.334Please respect copyright.PENANALRpJ16IoGb
Shadows parting, David 334Please respect copyright.PENANAjIK9mB4H0V
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 334Please respect copyright.PENANAB4SbBDGaWi
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAkQOODafQbC
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 334Please respect copyright.PENANA8nGFrTy8zv
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 334Please respect copyright.PENANAAfM6ogxULQ
mother334Please respect copyright.PENANALGHCfZQhVL
"This is my memory." 334Please respect copyright.PENANAu2f0qVxNQY
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 334Please respect copyright.PENANA2yVd3rgFhJ
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.334Please respect copyright.PENANAkEXxlrXOFT
David didn't reply to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAuvo3sLc5rs
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAqu2zGZ3C3H
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.334Please respect copyright.PENANAF9uxEBRrOZ
Unaware of what was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxD8rBTg7qk
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 334Please respect copyright.PENANAnL1M6ubRXC
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last334Please respect copyright.PENANAt0AmLvt4Hb
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1OAU2yILlJ
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 334Please respect copyright.PENANAo0Rf16CUky
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 334Please respect copyright.PENANAKCYHn9Xqmz
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She334Please respect copyright.PENANAr7c9oSZ3JA
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 334Please respect copyright.PENANA7RuEYDuOvx
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."334Please respect copyright.PENANA0ov5XHa49q
Finally the screams of 334Please respect copyright.PENANAmtpQCtRb1X
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 334Please respect copyright.PENANAIbrrIcMQHu
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 334Please respect copyright.PENANACBtFHzrGen
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAYCDSpB3kGm
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 334Please respect copyright.PENANApXXpnn0kgE
the baby's throat and squeezed.334Please respect copyright.PENANAZW15DQ1yiz
David could feel his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAgb1zwiEzm2
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 334Please respect copyright.PENANASM8R5nHu1Q
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 334Please respect copyright.PENANAF2CkTO2W4i
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 334Please respect copyright.PENANAkJQmEX10O8
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 334Please respect copyright.PENANAVCWr1e97GS
stopped.334Please respect copyright.PENANAcgmkgQurBM
"Oh, nonononono." The 334Please respect copyright.PENANAHliwH17XH5
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 334Please respect copyright.PENANATTJL7IE1FL
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAKwMbwDxCKj
"You who were supposed 334Please respect copyright.PENANAUjIcDLZ6YS
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 334Please respect copyright.PENANAJtKWaf3Y28
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAMCp2mTZh7j
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 334Please respect copyright.PENANACIOcjBjh0G
Coughing David stood up 334Please respect copyright.PENANAFj6k6PedfU
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 334Please respect copyright.PENANA6iTp32koGZ
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 334Please respect copyright.PENANAaZw9l3oRz6
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAp5MNfJy5F4
"No, it was a small 334Please respect copyright.PENANA44MIbaiMc5
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 334Please respect copyright.PENANAyws1JrN72r
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.334Please respect copyright.PENANAxPWatzG384
He was staring at the 334Please respect copyright.PENANAShJP7jw134
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was334Please respect copyright.PENANATkXHKfTgv1
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxSicr2BeuJ
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 334Please respect copyright.PENANAOoI2klcz8P
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAlT6GySCbgp
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.334Please respect copyright.PENANAMibiDL0MB9
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.334Please respect copyright.PENANA9jUebe2msN
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"334Please respect copyright.PENANALNiMT2GS6B
"I will!" Came a squeaky334Please respect copyright.PENANAKp1VUOasNM
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.334Please respect copyright.PENANAH2fy8dICTT
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had334Please respect copyright.PENANA5RnMYhBTgb
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 334Please respect copyright.PENANAmgXvSvQ2c8
was an adult.334Please respect copyright.PENANAT7XFXVgbmx
A knock came from a door334Please respect copyright.PENANA9mkKs9wLe3
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 334Please respect copyright.PENANA0rPpW8oN9Z
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 334Please respect copyright.PENANAPeVnws1e4c
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAnX3Tzbk473
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 334Please respect copyright.PENANA0bUn0DCIOg
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 334Please respect copyright.PENANAatVZbh10Dw
being a bad boy.334Please respect copyright.PENANAGevaR1PRAS
That's why he didn't 334Please respect copyright.PENANAwn67RpVfA5
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 334Please respect copyright.PENANABtTMdvnO4x
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.334Please respect copyright.PENANAg1lxOyRXwZ
"D..david" the answer 334Please respect copyright.PENANA9xwQUoZ9rC
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving334Please respect copyright.PENANAQpjRsPtZCt
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."334Please respect copyright.PENANAUpKJeqhDYB
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.334Please respect copyright.PENANApMyqdzmUn2
The man put his hands on334Please respect copyright.PENANAJj7mzE8j6y
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff334Please respect copyright.PENANA8wQ3BYVoBV
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"334Please respect copyright.PENANACYLU9USm9S
David meekly shook his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAFzRGOgMipy
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAzhXdtQuOtR
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 334Please respect copyright.PENANAkedgJkrM3v
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 334Please respect copyright.PENANAyLS361lasu
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 334Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7CXmwu7u7
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 334Please respect copyright.PENANAmjXs8ugzVd
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZgXq0Jitxm
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAcUWNbu8T7x
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAx3ierOPels
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down334Please respect copyright.PENANAGmg9VaJeyS
Davids body.334Please respect copyright.PENANAp3b7cY52G8
Please don't. Came adult David's voice334Please respect copyright.PENANAs7RpUtgGum
Young David was scared; 334Please respect copyright.PENANAUJAUBcsDJP
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZssHyksWvU
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxMhN56woq9
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 334Please respect copyright.PENANAh6m8AL2epk
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."334Please respect copyright.PENANAHa4E1fHwrt
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.334Please respect copyright.PENANAQi4cBp9Xxp
"Mummy, mummy!" David 334Please respect copyright.PENANAB7rw6ewCvj
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 334Please respect copyright.PENANA2QSZJcfbc9
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAy6ofME3in4
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 334Please respect copyright.PENANAcAYfFh8b7k
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAu39lvIgtCv
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.334Please respect copyright.PENANABvtq9urX9R
David didn't even know 334Please respect copyright.PENANAuT3jXe4UFz
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 334Please respect copyright.PENANAphaiJ3r4tj
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 334Please respect copyright.PENANAT7ANjlZDkF
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.334Please respect copyright.PENANACwxpPyZTyj
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 334Please respect copyright.PENANAWNksZSvNuj
David could barely hear 334Please respect copyright.PENANA5zFAaG2usj
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 334Please respect copyright.PENANAejpukHk6Sv
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 334Please respect copyright.PENANAjN5GaL8bl7
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 334Please respect copyright.PENANAJXg2SRpU8F
anger. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAcsRT68wfEi
"There are more 334Please respect copyright.PENANAJBKPwuTxos
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 334Please respect copyright.PENANAU1cknkRH57
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 334Please respect copyright.PENANAIHSuXau3rI
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 334Please respect copyright.PENANA6xH1BUB5cY
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.334Please respect copyright.PENANAfrUriogq4n
"What else is there to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAfaFBlAUGm6
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 334Please respect copyright.PENANA5kgNoSBGVb
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 334Please respect copyright.PENANAMAhJai6UC3
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 334Please respect copyright.PENANAXWi7Bp82d2
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood334Please respect copyright.PENANA93QgMlA0lx
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 334Please respect copyright.PENANAAKUPUnzcwk
floor. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAJibasAlURx
Even the pain didn't 334Please respect copyright.PENANAlso2grcklL
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 334Please respect copyright.PENANANXZsUHhIso
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 334Please respect copyright.PENANAgvgnJP6vDJ
everything would be gone.334Please respect copyright.PENANAPSE3jYH6Aw
~Just like that, give up334Please respect copyright.PENANAasMswakMoG
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 334Please respect copyright.PENANA4D0xJLq6Nl
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 334Please respect copyright.PENANA8A9smNl2DR
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer334Please respect copyright.PENANAqNRlxN8LYB
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 334Please respect copyright.PENANA0uzsowCcSF
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse334Please respect copyright.PENANAghOIh2q2qd
than this."334Please respect copyright.PENANArxJ0juyRgL
~STOP! ~ David dropped 334Please respect copyright.PENANAmFmaDmF2g4
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxnLeM9m1t5
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 334Please respect copyright.PENANAirxe3s4mga
survive. Survive and live.334Please respect copyright.PENANADZA6vOr6W7
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 334Please respect copyright.PENANA3AqHoaclUf
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAQiX0hrDZ1y
"Indeed." Jester 334Please respect copyright.PENANAe50Gn4hw7z
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 334Please respect copyright.PENANAYAyCsgs3GT
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 334Please respect copyright.PENANAjpFYw172ko
like his own did.334Please respect copyright.PENANA5BHFXB9fMd
"Why did you try 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZoMKwVIc2O
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 334Please respect copyright.PENANAU7NIQHIJd1
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAjYln6niWfZ
process the influx of memories.334Please respect copyright.PENANABVIUZUvX8z
"I've been there since you were a child I..I wanted to offer you an escape, but then I got scared I'd get lonely, if you died,"334Please respect copyright.PENANAZgMINveRML
"You expect me to believe that?"334Please respect copyright.PENANASTpuxWqMFr
"Believe what you want."334Please respect copyright.PENANAxIUzwzTF0h
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"334Please respect copyright.PENANAvYvACloTOT
Jester chuckled. "All of334Please respect copyright.PENANAopog5LFGcv
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 334Please respect copyright.PENANAeT1cf3drwE
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."334Please respect copyright.PENANAaohCkNCg20
"That just 334Please respect copyright.PENANA7wY2Xq3kv6
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 334Please respect copyright.PENANAipx2CwxCRj
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?334Please respect copyright.PENANA6gVvh9Lsmn
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."334Please respect copyright.PENANAx6oU4QL393
David nodded. "Do it."334Please respect copyright.PENANA6vUNLvwtip
Everything shifted. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZFWl63Fd5C
David was cleaning his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAqtkm8fVmV2
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 334Please respect copyright.PENANArj8FV0DVzr
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 334Please respect copyright.PENANA08DWkLE0Sr
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 334Please respect copyright.PENANAUXWZrjwzi1
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZqVZ3A6C2F
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 334Please respect copyright.PENANAW4u73EuR4U
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.334Please respect copyright.PENANANsfBTHm31M
His last one was just 334Please respect copyright.PENANAD7yncnWF1s
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was334Please respect copyright.PENANAtJ5eb3LIKc
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZLahBRRANS
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 334Please respect copyright.PENANArc9Wkpdwm4
Undamaged goods she loved to say.334Please respect copyright.PENANAYRHSU38lOE
Right on cue, David 334Please respect copyright.PENANAcPWthkU7uc
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 334Please respect copyright.PENANAB6xv71NJEO
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She334Please respect copyright.PENANAvpBGGmDfak
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 334Please respect copyright.PENANAUBTqMaT6Or
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 334Please respect copyright.PENANA7S3yDQnVby
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.334Please respect copyright.PENANAWnqy55DMmo
Why was this his life? 334Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2u2hiMM6c
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxjGJkdCeVj
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 334Please respect copyright.PENANA6qsG29R77N
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAdXTSMDtAys
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar334Please respect copyright.PENANA8TUQXTKwI3
vein trying to get his eyes. 334Please respect copyright.PENANA2tZ0e25oU9
~Enough David.~ A voice 334Please respect copyright.PENANA6uJvd854i6
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAisbMHhyi3e
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAWU9igSNQvZ
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force334Please respect copyright.PENANA77SNpGMyqz
and met resistance.334Please respect copyright.PENANAnVJ6GNBZw3
The scratching and 334Please respect copyright.PENANALIWXz6gOGI
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAwx3lhbCmAR
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit334Please respect copyright.PENANAy9riS1UA3y
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 334Please respect copyright.PENANAhpA0I01IMG
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 334Please respect copyright.PENANAyig7X1zldm
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.334Please respect copyright.PENANAsZ1cco2c7B
Oh god what did he do? 334Please respect copyright.PENANAr1M3AbhwEo
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 334Please respect copyright.PENANAU4E6X7SVk2
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated334Please respect copyright.PENANADNFv8aSAyv
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 334Please respect copyright.PENANAKZnY5o6zHC
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 334Please respect copyright.PENANAtwanpGuHu9
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries334Please respect copyright.PENANACdJIIBLbs8
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 334Please respect copyright.PENANAQfxEFZUvEj
blood.334Please respect copyright.PENANAzd76n5g5Sk
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 334Please respect copyright.PENANApkjPkuTNmH
There was a pause and everything quieted down.334Please respect copyright.PENANAAyjRnXfgs6
A boy named David just 334Please respect copyright.PENANAo7zYBYEnvh
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 334Please respect copyright.PENANAXdPoHro4Dk
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 334Please respect copyright.PENANAtaAcI8YlbA
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 334Please respect copyright.PENANA4qwp7J883i
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room334Please respect copyright.PENANA6NqAKo1y68
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1sWuJ84fGv
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1UNibKQKmd
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 334Please respect copyright.PENANAMZAHcMK3do
silly of him.334Please respect copyright.PENANAIV6uhXYRA3
Remembering his 334Please respect copyright.PENANANe3jqAFFYc
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 334Please respect copyright.PENANAtzRbZtRhA3
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 334Please respect copyright.PENANAnGb0OC8FxT
table preparing a meal. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAOCE6H6T9iJ
"There you are David!" 334Please respect copyright.PENANAiq5joOFyKy
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start334Please respect copyright.PENANAO1S4FLhQf3
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAYHfvkyTPy9
This isn't the truth.334Please respect copyright.PENANAidqvIcipBo
David obligingly sat 334Please respect copyright.PENANA7izKIF8GWQ
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 334Please respect copyright.PENANAyukMM9w1pY
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 334Please respect copyright.PENANAmqFh4T69ts
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.334Please respect copyright.PENANAm7C07Jnhid
A dream, nothing else.334Please respect copyright.PENANAl3L0HMw4Sy
They all thanked the 334Please respect copyright.PENANAKGAxgT8Fvw
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 334Please respect copyright.PENANA1kAbcrlWsc
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 334Please respect copyright.PENANAWOoQOtBvoK
this lie.334Please respect copyright.PENANAzEAnDXETTv
A lie that has to end.334Please respect copyright.PENANALdWxhOIfm0
David was standing at 334Please respect copyright.PENANAXkBLPw6Mbp
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 334Please respect copyright.PENANAc28yCSCQ0G
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was334Please respect copyright.PENANAGm4gumiySS
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 334Please respect copyright.PENANAqEHhfxcf0w
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 334Please respect copyright.PENANALoSMXBZY8m
Either way David hated 334Please respect copyright.PENANA8nRbvDI2vE
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 334Please respect copyright.PENANA7JBMhm6eKC
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 334Please respect copyright.PENANAXFp9R7K3rA
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 334Please respect copyright.PENANAardSITFvvY
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 334Please respect copyright.PENANAZCtE67koVS
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 334Please respect copyright.PENANAxxkh8daPiq
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 334Please respect copyright.PENANAJ10A0YmzSm
life this happy blissful life?334Please respect copyright.PENANAxbTJ4JeWhn
The answer was so simple334Please respect copyright.PENANAO8Dc1P2EgA
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,334Please respect copyright.PENANAUIv22Hgwfp
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 334Please respect copyright.PENANAbzd4t3hjZb
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 334Please respect copyright.PENANAu34pfgp155
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 334Please respect copyright.PENANAK2y0oh8pvf
David decided to start 334Please respect copyright.PENANAom8tUwcmcH
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No334Please respect copyright.PENANARnN7AMaakQ
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 334Please respect copyright.PENANAMKHSpn9Qds
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 334Please respect copyright.PENANAIfEs5G7XdV
mother. "No more mercy."334Please respect copyright.PENANATlb4Oh7EDL
With the last stab 334Please respect copyright.PENANAG12jwhRBbg
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 334Please respect copyright.PENANAlsnCqXyEKI
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast334Please respect copyright.PENANAnNFt9nVm7e
emptiness.
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