Redemption Protocol (Contact)
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Forge sensed the change. He stopped as well.
They regarded each other.
“Come on, Havoc, finish it. What's wrong with you?”
He didn’t know where it came from.
“I forgive you.”
Forge stopped, confused.
“What?”
Havoc stepped backward off the broken piece of hull.
“I forgive you, Forge.”
Forge fired kinetics in a spread over his head, trying to provoke him.
“Forgive me nothing, Havoc. I meant it all.”
The Diss swarmed closer, furious and blinding. They were both going to be consumed.
Havoc felt the tension in his body release. His body relaxed as he drifted. He took his first proper breath in eleven years.
Forge’s face contorted with wrath.
“You don't have the right to forgive me!”
For the first time in eleven years, Havoc felt truly weightless.
“Take the fucking shot!” Forge screamed.
He felt free.
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> Thank you.
> You can thank me later.
> Nice try, Weaver. I'm not getting out of this one.
> You don't escape me that easily, Soldier.
He felt a tug pull him backward.
> What the hell...?
> Don't worry. I've got you.
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THE END
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Author’s Thanks
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Poetry-wise, I hope you enjoyed the excerpts from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Henry Van Dyke's Inscription for Katrina's Sun-Dial at Yaddo and Mary Elizabeth Frye's Do not stand at my grave and weep.
The Contact Series
Redemption Protocol
Remission Praxis
Recidivist Paradox
Rabid Penitence, to be published 2013