People are good. Life always works out. True love lasts forever.
Just a few lies he'd been told in his few short years on Earth.
When Conner had been awakened as a 16-week old clone, life had held no other purpose for him but to do what was right. But what he believed was right and what he been programmed to believe was right were two things completely at odds with each other. Day after day, he had fought the war between good and evil, sinking deeper and deeper into the folds of anger and pain as he lost the battle within his own mind. Week after week he had seen the horrors of the world, the disgusting and selfish people that he was fighting to protect. He had almost been consumed with bitterness and rage when a gift from the heavens had struck him.
This angel had been in the form of a young girl with green skin and compassionate eyes. She had opened his mind to the possibilities of the world, her cheerfulness and bubbly demeanor shining a beacon on the wonders he had overlooked, all while casting the darkness that he had lived into the shadows. She had been everything he needed, the optimistic to his brooding, the bright to his dark. Perfection.
They had spent years together, rarely leaving the others' side. The trust they had established, the bond they had shared...
He thought it had been love. But apparently it hadn't been enough.
Gone were the days when "I have to work on the bikes" was used as an excuse to make out with the Martian. He no longer used his afternoons to go for long walks along the beach, or to frequent Happy Harbor as he used to. It brought back too many painful memories. He now spends that time brooding in silence, occasionally taking the time the catch up with Wolf or Sphere. Since he has no one else to tell, he speaks to them about love. He asks them what he had done wrong, what he could have changed. All he receives in reply are sad eyes from Wolf and a bump on the shoulder from Sphere. Sadly, even their comfort isn't enough.
The G-gnomes hadn't taught him much about love-he had learned most of what he knew from M'gann, and even her knowledge had been limited- but he was pretty sure that what he was feeling right now was heartbreak. It was sure painful enough.
He'd always remember that night when they'd truly become one. No, he wasn't talking about physical love. What they had experienced together was something else entirely. Something that La'gaan could never hope to reach. Their true forms rushing together to embrace the other's mind, accepting the pain and sorrow that came from being linked with another. The melding of their minds in perfect harmony, their souls singing with the passion and the pure love it had aroused in each of them. It wasn't just a normal mind-link like the one the team shared. It was on a whole other level, something that could only be achieved when two beings were so perfect for each other, so right.
"I'll love you forever," she had said.
"Nothing will tear us apart," she had said.
Funny how some people fail to keep their promises.