Disclaimer: If I owned Yu-gi-oh! 5D's the characters would keep their actual names
Warning: Slight Retributionshipping, not quite but better safe then sorry.
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Altruistic - showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
Masquerade – (1) A false show or pretense
(2) Pretend to be someone one is not
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Sometimes, Carly could be remarkably selfless. She would be thinking of other's need more than her own in situations where it was perfectly expected for her to be thinking of herself.
Like her death
When Divine sent her shattering through a 27th story window, she wasn't thinking about her impending death. She was thinking about the information she now knew that might have helped Jack had she been able to get it to him.
Then she thought of Jack,
Then she was totally selfish.
She desperately wished she could have seen him one more time before her date with the concrete. She wished he would miraculously save her just in time. She wished he loved her as much as she loved him. She wished he knew she loved him. She wished they could have had a future together.
She wished…
She wished she didn't have to die.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
-B. R. Hayden
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The delicate porcelain mask betrayed nothing.
Luckily, that's what she was aiming for.
Cradling the mask in an almost lovingly, Aki approached the pay counter. The woman behind it looked up from her book to scan Aki's purchase.
"Going to a Masquerade party?"
Aki gave a rueful laugh, "You could say that."
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It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
- Katherine Mansfield
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