prodigalwatcher: (Get What We Deserve)
2008-04-07 02:47 pm

TM 225 - Without Words

225 - "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" - Marcel Marceau

Can't talk with your throat cut, you know, so I suppose I didn't have much of a choice.

But then again, what would I have said if I were able? I'd already committed an act of betrayal so terrible that I'd felt incapable of revealing my intentions to anyone, including friends I treasured beyond words and beyond family. I had already struck a deal with Angel's enemy and stolen Angel's infant son. And then-- almost inevitably, in hindsight-- that I myself had been betrayed, and had been played for a dupe.

Once Justine's knife had done its work, and I'd been left to die an ignominious death, what would I have said?

Plea )

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