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Operation: Reciprocity - Epilogue: When All Is Said And Done
by Samy Merchi
"How are you feeling?"
"..."
"Not talking to me, or can't come up with anything to say?"
"The latter, I suppose."
"You know that this place is a perfect replica of Wolf's Drop back home?"
"Yeah."
"It's weird how there can be a place looking just like Wolf's Drop in here... What a coincidence, huh?"
"It's not a coincidence."
"What d'you mean?"
"Well, when we moved our base to Limbo, I thought that you might like something here reminding you of your home, so I took Illyana to see Wolf's Drop so she could craft a replica of it here."
"... That's so sweet of you."
"Well, in retrospect I think I shouldn't have done it."
"Why?"
"Because. It just brought us closer. And I was married already at that point. I shouldn't even have been thinking of trying to seduce other women."
"You had no need to seduce me. You already had me. You know that. You -knew- that. You weren't trying to seduce me."
"Oh yeah? What was I doing?"
"You wanted to make me happy."
"..."
"Am I wrong?"
"... No."
"That's one of your sweetest qualities, you know. You really want to make a girl happy. And you'll do anything to accomplish that."
"Too bad I usually mess up, huh?"
"You don't."
"Look at where I have gotten you, me and her."
"... You aren't completely to blame."
"Who is?"
"I am. She is. All three of us are."
"She isn't."
"Oh? And I am?"
"I didn't say that."
"Because you want to be polite. One of your failings. You're a sucker for a pretty face. You can't tell a girl anything bad."
"..."
"But you're wrong. All three of us -are- to blame. The two of us for hanging onto our love, and she for -letting- us hang onto it."
"She didn't..."
"She did. Didn't she? She knew all along."
"How do you know?"
"I was there, sorta. When she killed me."
"That wasn't you."
"It was, in a way. All its emotions...thoughts...words... They were all me. A hundred percent. Just pushed to a point where I had to speak out."
"That still doesn't explain how you remember what happened to it."
"It's hard to describe. It's like if you tried to describe me how you do that 'Black Rain' trick of yours. You can't, because it's all mental, and very complicated. But to oversimplify, I have a sorta telepathic link with my creations, to one degree or another. That's how I can keep controlling them. And because it was a hundred percent me, we kinda hit a resonance and it became a complete mindlink. I dunno how to explain it better."
"..."
"So, what's on your mind? Mind if I sit with you?"
"No, I don't. She might, though."
"She'll never know."
"So we start hiding again? Keeping things from her until we find out she knew all along?"
"..."
"..."
"... I don't want that."
"Neither do I."