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Some of my colleagues 333Please respect copyright.PENANAXgHO8kyigw
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 333Please respect copyright.PENANAHerrAU4yOZ
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjxCfOqqiR7
suggestion or hypnosis.333Please respect copyright.PENANA0N9SDZB1RV
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where333Please respect copyright.PENANAnshrfIrgbg
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 333Please respect copyright.PENANAIJuGJkukiV
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 333Please respect copyright.PENANAnvfqXt2GGT
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want333Please respect copyright.PENANANsHCSpDgJZ
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOT6BezcZRU
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I333Please respect copyright.PENANAlxwhEns2Bz
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 333Please respect copyright.PENANAfqLPdVnqLl
capabilities.333Please respect copyright.PENANA5qDfL4TKQ8
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."333Please respect copyright.PENANAp7prGIQ4vK
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David awakened. Not 333Please respect copyright.PENANAnY9epo0Wja
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 333Please respect copyright.PENANAPpCxBnWpWt
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,333Please respect copyright.PENANATFAaifoFIC
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 333Please respect copyright.PENANA10c3LhZrSK
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 333Please respect copyright.PENANAPa2ot5Twh9
undamaged.333Please respect copyright.PENANAHg31aU4wye
"Only your physical body333Please respect copyright.PENANASXYjpPjdf5
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 333Please respect copyright.PENANAB4Y5FcUzWn
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of333Please respect copyright.PENANAxnu10uum7Q
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."333Please respect copyright.PENANASeO8QIqg52
A shadowy form appeared.333Please respect copyright.PENANAil9pYiLozf
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 333Please respect copyright.PENANAO3MbwqjoFA
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 333Please respect copyright.PENANAaugg4dZEdC
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.333Please respect copyright.PENANA4vgRJuVAEj
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.333Please respect copyright.PENANAdVtxaDWb6m
"Am I in the...ether 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzeQRP4v4KO
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 333Please respect copyright.PENANABps55ctyle
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.333Please respect copyright.PENANAgcyUrXv5x5
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAKlXpdvCyEA
David was tired, too 333Please respect copyright.PENANAqoEQ3Vu3Zn
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 333Please respect copyright.PENANAkmmFNU6YaZ
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.333Please respect copyright.PENANAxukbhsPcSd
The shadowy hood cocked 333Please respect copyright.PENANAkEFF8DJ340
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 333Please respect copyright.PENANA7pzkkcjsin
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 333Please respect copyright.PENANA7W3WjVSLf1
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOPAjs8jMO2
more grateful."333Please respect copyright.PENANAIdlg1jlonO
"I..."333Please respect copyright.PENANA0CoVoxUk77
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."333Please respect copyright.PENANAFh9h7zr0m3
David groaned in 333Please respect copyright.PENANAsDa4ZRtIhj
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3bEAvHa4IB
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 333Please respect copyright.PENANACwgs3qfKLt
falling point, that'd be fly."333Please respect copyright.PENANAjGt8arn1de
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAbTFijUZYVe
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAFYOGjjF9qi
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAyHxFnaMQ4C
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."333Please respect copyright.PENANAyZ4E2gw2jj
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAeFg2qtaX5Z
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"333Please respect copyright.PENANABLZBOwLKB7
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."333Please respect copyright.PENANAaI71auqOw3
David shouted and 333Please respect copyright.PENANAhnV70X20tZ
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 333Please respect copyright.PENANAqThD3dvEac
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all333Please respect copyright.PENANAKaTUGW1Eqt
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He333Please respect copyright.PENANAoRQqxkrwYy
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 333Please respect copyright.PENANA8xyrHeQo63
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjWWK7kqlSl
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 333Please respect copyright.PENANAXUMG47ZhiZ
mist.333Please respect copyright.PENANA9PBhzhlZBl
Jester's voice came from333Please respect copyright.PENANAuNxQphYabK
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 333Please respect copyright.PENANASgf9dPb7cv
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjGgnBoS1l1
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 333Please respect copyright.PENANANCObBWuPnG
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 333Please respect copyright.PENANAqCqUloooXi
creating a circle around Jester and David.333Please respect copyright.PENANAPAEbqHGSvG
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAb0rvpzwYSO
"Shut up!" David 333Please respect copyright.PENANAhLmZsRh9os
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 333Please respect copyright.PENANABGd54zqOJD
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 333Please respect copyright.PENANAwCLMBhJ0KA
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"333Please respect copyright.PENANAvnvo6PZ4mI
Jester gave another 333Please respect copyright.PENANAcBbyZhmv5J
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 333Please respect copyright.PENANANLzU08duvl
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 333Please respect copyright.PENANArueNfmkjea
afraid of the truth?" 333Please respect copyright.PENANAX8pjH9Wzt5
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 333Please respect copyright.PENANA5xcUCqVQMr
"You're what? A 333Please respect copyright.PENANADIoVLIOVwo
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 333Please respect copyright.PENANASuTz3KuVP4
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 333Please respect copyright.PENANAeEMtMdKt5c
you've done not matter." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAQ7Qf0wVBBT
The shadows completely 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3aSafSom0c
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 333Please respect copyright.PENANAtmE4Ls8Oj7
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 333Please respect copyright.PENANA9cSigr7GvV
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 333Please respect copyright.PENANAEL0m4e2imh
eye and shadows swallowed him.333Please respect copyright.PENANA1IrUHqSj8a
Shadows parting, David 333Please respect copyright.PENANAY0KYFEADci
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 333Please respect copyright.PENANAEPB0p6zdC4
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAJ789oJYkna
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3WewD7IEkO
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOG9Hakzpr8
mother333Please respect copyright.PENANAzRHm4jTcQP
"This is my memory." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAEkMZtby01E
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 333Please respect copyright.PENANA85SMj0SKVk
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.333Please respect copyright.PENANAlfTGDeLME5
David didn't reply to 333Please respect copyright.PENANABhcnYpbRmP
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAeIjsS1XGZ1
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.333Please respect copyright.PENANALzRy1PWqID
Unaware of what was 333Please respect copyright.PENANAFwH4c0w4Zt
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzipH4lhQrP
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last333Please respect copyright.PENANA88jUx43Jgv
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 333Please respect copyright.PENANAyyzbhJf2Id
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 333Please respect copyright.PENANAy7v2Ec3228
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 333Please respect copyright.PENANAn3nIhrmnan
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She333Please respect copyright.PENANA4KDjVUa274
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 333Please respect copyright.PENANASuQyEaeUk6
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."333Please respect copyright.PENANA8kkOwaXGxm
Finally the screams of 333Please respect copyright.PENANA5S1MkBAaW8
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 333Please respect copyright.PENANAGlO0HiGS0T
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 333Please respect copyright.PENANAd09NsiTdth
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxixdnv9Hw0
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 333Please respect copyright.PENANA4ISCfdlWUO
the baby's throat and squeezed.333Please respect copyright.PENANArAgvGgAp9g
David could feel his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAKkgC3WAIL7
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 333Please respect copyright.PENANA6vL21qyxos
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 333Please respect copyright.PENANARwOe9ygyIu
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 333Please respect copyright.PENANAflk4SaM7WQ
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 333Please respect copyright.PENANAGRQStPtGkz
stopped.333Please respect copyright.PENANAGLxK4hDACw
"Oh, nonononono." The 333Please respect copyright.PENANAoK4cBmtQwL
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3WpV5X7UoM
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 333Please respect copyright.PENANARmXlu7Cjv3
"You who were supposed 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxcKffRtqLI
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 333Please respect copyright.PENANAsHgv6HXIb4
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOwIU6zkaPf
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAyFak0MCf4v
Coughing David stood up 333Please respect copyright.PENANAFnrUAqe5HB
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 333Please respect copyright.PENANABc6ISFdZLb
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 333Please respect copyright.PENANAAZKyYivIBU
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAY12N6vGHll
"No, it was a small 333Please respect copyright.PENANA57dhquKpbL
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 333Please respect copyright.PENANARPDE6ShLZY
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.333Please respect copyright.PENANA1sh4acQZF1
He was staring at the 333Please respect copyright.PENANASz4LkM0RGo
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was333Please respect copyright.PENANAI4Jx9EYqvs
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 333Please respect copyright.PENANA5YK1Cnrbto
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 333Please respect copyright.PENANA6BQWb3NjT2
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 333Please respect copyright.PENANA43J4nLzDZC
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.333Please respect copyright.PENANAPGSaZh09z9
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.333Please respect copyright.PENANAjksa8wRfSa
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"333Please respect copyright.PENANA0UBsDTSuMB
"I will!" Came a squeaky333Please respect copyright.PENANAwIQYfHUFr6
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.333Please respect copyright.PENANAh7nBahqAI7
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had333Please respect copyright.PENANAb0fj7MqWK3
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 333Please respect copyright.PENANAWOTODOvc2j
was an adult.333Please respect copyright.PENANAyOeQBfwgmZ
A knock came from a door333Please respect copyright.PENANAiact7Qykdg
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxJWnC1id68
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 333Please respect copyright.PENANAJeQ0wuAsJb
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 333Please respect copyright.PENANANhR4UvJpPG
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 333Please respect copyright.PENANAR04n3ialAw
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 333Please respect copyright.PENANAx8kFCrggAc
being a bad boy.333Please respect copyright.PENANAXaXA2Qz6Nu
That's why he didn't 333Please respect copyright.PENANAidA2A9h1uv
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 333Please respect copyright.PENANAQNEHZ62S8h
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.333Please respect copyright.PENANA5S8r0dv1DK
"D..david" the answer 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOQQPzbJlSr
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving333Please respect copyright.PENANA3dnosueImN
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."333Please respect copyright.PENANA9yWTeLOktt
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.333Please respect copyright.PENANAtYdxpTvZwc
The man put his hands on333Please respect copyright.PENANAy3Y9lpGkU2
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff333Please respect copyright.PENANAYExB4SgQLT
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"333Please respect copyright.PENANALdYbqs4ax3
David meekly shook his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAMur2tOrLay
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzqR5obMhNi
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 333Please respect copyright.PENANA8An3e5zUte
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 333Please respect copyright.PENANAonEY9erJM9
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 333Please respect copyright.PENANA4Lkdeko8kI
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 333Please respect copyright.PENANALuuaZkyOSq
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 333Please respect copyright.PENANADLhg9atcE0
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 333Please respect copyright.PENANARVmCiZiZpH
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 333Please respect copyright.PENANAvMSQAHLJjP
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down333Please respect copyright.PENANAGzRkalJP7D
Davids body.333Please respect copyright.PENANAv3A4KixLGE
Please don't. Came adult David's voice333Please respect copyright.PENANAi5Cw9lCvAT
Young David was scared; 333Please respect copyright.PENANAy5Kyt2tCNz
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 333Please respect copyright.PENANAav4OGLp7bg
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAPFlLSKA4C7
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 333Please respect copyright.PENANAn9Ibk51oWz
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."333Please respect copyright.PENANAdzJNNpmmIe
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.333Please respect copyright.PENANAJ0EfQEAWC7
"Mummy, mummy!" David 333Please respect copyright.PENANASCWbYAbe6o
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 333Please respect copyright.PENANAqdPAVCZxu1
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 333Please respect copyright.PENANAGZPQNb4ZYQ
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 333Please respect copyright.PENANAsIhu5nQZl1
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 333Please respect copyright.PENANApMGxllJjLn
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.333Please respect copyright.PENANAOTcbTeaPLC
David didn't even know 333Please respect copyright.PENANA0F2Fnpk4Zc
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjVP0mLrGg5
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 333Please respect copyright.PENANAdrYAy3wgNs
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.333Please respect copyright.PENANAAeS6HNJlIR
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzUBFzifw5E
David could barely hear 333Please respect copyright.PENANA80M5HXN2P0
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 333Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5RwnSH6cg
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 333Please respect copyright.PENANA7QRXJGJANP
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 333Please respect copyright.PENANAGR83DKJlSA
anger. 333Please respect copyright.PENANA59Wdi5tfGH
"There are more 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxABHgn9SJ0
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzIEQydz2Zc
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 333Please respect copyright.PENANAUYISF59PNA
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 333Please respect copyright.PENANA8g7ExVC9Fp
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.333Please respect copyright.PENANALTJSUBqhoY
"What else is there to 333Please respect copyright.PENANAZxltqrHezy
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 333Please respect copyright.PENANADTbeeAMvcg
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjMLacnTgaD
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 333Please respect copyright.PENANAtR1rnm3e64
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood333Please respect copyright.PENANA2pRxdTDWL5
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 333Please respect copyright.PENANAwTLVzmlYi4
floor. 333Please respect copyright.PENANASwUjZdq0AS
Even the pain didn't 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjWCsFcQsut
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 333Please respect copyright.PENANAbFaEysL1BA
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 333Please respect copyright.PENANAD5uprtWBMR
everything would be gone.333Please respect copyright.PENANA4M6K8pOudL
~Just like that, give up333Please respect copyright.PENANAQWl1cxE21K
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3330YJPIuk
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 333Please respect copyright.PENANAuZNRne9qDy
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer333Please respect copyright.PENANAuS1mjWMo2U
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 333Please respect copyright.PENANAj1JkEwQdxY
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse333Please respect copyright.PENANAkHRCHTOnOv
than this."333Please respect copyright.PENANAMIK0IAwmk2
~STOP! ~ David dropped 333Please respect copyright.PENANAH6xkIUJO18
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 333Please respect copyright.PENANAozizwlHBk0
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 333Please respect copyright.PENANACpC56rkcUb
survive. Survive and live.333Please respect copyright.PENANAJvxqUItoIF
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAznZlgKmrcJ
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 333Please respect copyright.PENANANwqVDTlJHU
"Indeed." Jester 333Please respect copyright.PENANALAwSQl3Sdq
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 333Please respect copyright.PENANA7Wre0PoqrW
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 333Please respect copyright.PENANAD2hiYr9Myf
like his own did.333Please respect copyright.PENANASg00NkMlqO
"Why did you try 333Please respect copyright.PENANAEgfJYfGm4X
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 333Please respect copyright.PENANACL3rLwQe5x
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 333Please respect copyright.PENANA2KYO2eFkz6
process the influx of memories.333Please respect copyright.PENANAoVxbVa1Jz0
"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,"333Please respect copyright.PENANAYT5MM4XkmF
"You expect me to believe that?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAzrDSsiggNN
"Believe what you want."333Please respect copyright.PENANAikz4cmV7TY
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"333Please respect copyright.PENANAV1d7aI4IIT
Jester chuckled. "All of333Please respect copyright.PENANAYUoMLowzYj
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 333Please respect copyright.PENANA0jQyWGSirK
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."333Please respect copyright.PENANAH9rhPFOgy7
"That just 333Please respect copyright.PENANAiS6ArBlPBi
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 333Please respect copyright.PENANALWNX4s3zHe
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?333Please respect copyright.PENANAV1YrFrv1Wr
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."333Please respect copyright.PENANAqoWXKdyIkw
David nodded. "Do it."333Please respect copyright.PENANA2k06c0wKSU
Everything shifted. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAw8smq2SRWV
David was cleaning his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAYDXrk0ejhy
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 333Please respect copyright.PENANAX1EealrGte
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 333Please respect copyright.PENANA4LsjBkNsTI
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 333Please respect copyright.PENANAXNbEww6la2
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 333Please respect copyright.PENANAqJMF2QPpwV
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 333Please respect copyright.PENANAfcuyx65eZD
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.333Please respect copyright.PENANAqgVF4xqCZe
His last one was just 333Please respect copyright.PENANAjKjGQKu1te
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was333Please respect copyright.PENANAkroK2Bdeas
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 333Please respect copyright.PENANAwVDIdySzTB
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAiwrNCiBh4w
Undamaged goods she loved to say.333Please respect copyright.PENANAdhCHpiHKM8
Right on cue, David 333Please respect copyright.PENANAmVxXyJGO6N
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3QGdUsrbtu
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She333Please respect copyright.PENANA16AOAWsH8y
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 333Please respect copyright.PENANA6yz0xCvQe9
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 333Please respect copyright.PENANAvmQM9BjK9V
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.333Please respect copyright.PENANAFJ0z9LhMC2
Why was this his life? 333Please respect copyright.PENANAU8wZHcRikv
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 333Please respect copyright.PENANAfnldT10PcL
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 333Please respect copyright.PENANAJ55Nl1cuVR
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 333Please respect copyright.PENANABViTSWvNBr
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar333Please respect copyright.PENANA01OqjNZ6ns
vein trying to get his eyes. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAfJOJgTOv3R
~Enough David.~ A voice 333Please respect copyright.PENANABk7KHKBexd
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAaFBPtfpMMD
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 333Please respect copyright.PENANAETiedStQgx
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force333Please respect copyright.PENANA7TN3zOxC6a
and met resistance.333Please respect copyright.PENANAt075stRtvp
The scratching and 333Please respect copyright.PENANArIskAUAJlb
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 333Please respect copyright.PENANAN9X0cLnyb8
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit333Please respect copyright.PENANAUxVOX0uuH1
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 333Please respect copyright.PENANAzsYP98HqjE
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 333Please respect copyright.PENANAVkE0dSPLJJ
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.333Please respect copyright.PENANAMhJS1Tcb33
Oh god what did he do? 333Please respect copyright.PENANAokgJeBLrvt
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxpH3jsUabg
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated333Please respect copyright.PENANAc5GWDc9z9O
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 333Please respect copyright.PENANAx2wwaWwjsh
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3fPU8A8TqY
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries333Please respect copyright.PENANAbTVIvi3k4w
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 333Please respect copyright.PENANAUusn10RuIa
blood.333Please respect copyright.PENANABXqjms3DDY
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 333Please respect copyright.PENANAUnvt8MttuA
There was a pause and everything quieted down.333Please respect copyright.PENANA44DGVAOQfq
A boy named David just 333Please respect copyright.PENANAdd0MaG4rdO
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 333Please respect copyright.PENANA2u9k2Dtpf8
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 333Please respect copyright.PENANAKjffPGbkJh
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 333Please respect copyright.PENANAY4q0Shjbpd
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room333Please respect copyright.PENANA3b2t84hTZe
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 333Please respect copyright.PENANAONUvWw0GKP
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAP3oFxFYOVk
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 333Please respect copyright.PENANAg5Nj2AS5b5
silly of him.333Please respect copyright.PENANAE9zQxX7D4H
Remembering his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAWrVGrzYee2
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 333Please respect copyright.PENANAxbUf9HGdhW
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 333Please respect copyright.PENANATUcr2btdEw
table preparing a meal. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAHQIGdemRUy
"There you are David!" 333Please respect copyright.PENANA5Aof2j2lER
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start333Please respect copyright.PENANAiFlBEtQEbl
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAz4VOODxED1
This isn't the truth.333Please respect copyright.PENANA9ki0N6EVv0
David obligingly sat 333Please respect copyright.PENANAOqEDdeNyc8
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 333Please respect copyright.PENANAPx9MbB9mCa
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 333Please respect copyright.PENANAGAvB01sAGz
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.333Please respect copyright.PENANAgDah8Kzqye
A dream, nothing else.333Please respect copyright.PENANAzOxDZDrXFM
They all thanked the 333Please respect copyright.PENANAurno06bMb8
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 333Please respect copyright.PENANALjutEuEKVE
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 333Please respect copyright.PENANAACtlqtCKPC
this lie.333Please respect copyright.PENANAp2gTir5heW
A lie that has to end.333Please respect copyright.PENANAQIQ5li2Hnd
David was standing at 333Please respect copyright.PENANA4puh9muxVc
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 333Please respect copyright.PENANArly5BHafJU
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was333Please respect copyright.PENANA4X53qseNAz
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 333Please respect copyright.PENANATHdU09ZN4D
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 333Please respect copyright.PENANAVoIaWGCaQP
Either way David hated 333Please respect copyright.PENANArpwt3s248N
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 333Please respect copyright.PENANAnl3ArwM9KJ
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 333Please respect copyright.PENANA3miG4RRteq
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 333Please respect copyright.PENANAmYeq8F4YwO
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 333Please respect copyright.PENANA6QPYwCzXHX
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 333Please respect copyright.PENANAFDeuwLWyFf
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 333Please respect copyright.PENANA6PFBH0TB5z
life this happy blissful life?333Please respect copyright.PENANAmHfTfs8E9j
The answer was so simple333Please respect copyright.PENANAgJ5ZSUkCEo
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,333Please respect copyright.PENANA6nf6RhFQJ8
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 333Please respect copyright.PENANArpdOY77nnY
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 333Please respect copyright.PENANAafGALAHme8
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 333Please respect copyright.PENANAitzQSDA6MC
David decided to start 333Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4Fqz01KlG
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No333Please respect copyright.PENANA7AfSwQjM61
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 333Please respect copyright.PENANArN99QEeEF9
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 333Please respect copyright.PENANA8Xx1tZs81q
mother. "No more mercy."333Please respect copyright.PENANAvDHEBPeceL
With the last stab 333Please respect copyright.PENANAHoDyWVAbnf
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 333Please respect copyright.PENANAEe45MSE69e
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast333Please respect copyright.PENANAl9aJCM9Wrg
emptiness.
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