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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;" /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons, Finally content with a past I regret, I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness, For once I'm at peace with myself, I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long. I'm movin' on./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Kaelyn-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I fell in love with you the way one falls asleep: slowly, then all at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanstrongspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"Permanently/span/strong. I hope you fell for me in the same sort of way…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I know…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I don't know, and that's what scares me the most./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I have not a clue in this world how I will survive without you in mine…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I know…that I promised you 'forever' but…emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"our/span/em forever has come and gone. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"Tá brón orm./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I promised to love you, and to honor you, and to cherish you, all the many days of our lives. I knew in my mind, had embraced with every piece of my heart that you gave back to me, exactly what that promise would mean. With my dying breath I would protect everything that you are, and everything you hold dear. Because I love you, I am doing just that. Keeping my promise to keep you safe, even if that means you are no longer by my side. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Please don't blame yourself for being unable to protect me in return. Your undying, unyielding love for me is all the confirmation I need to know just how much you care for me. It is no less than the amount I care for you…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"In doing what I am going to do for you…/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Tell me that you understand with everything you are that you don't get to choose if and when you get hurt in this world. But baby I emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"promise/span/em you strongspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"do /span/stronghave a say in who has permission to hurt you and how. That is the exact reason for the choices I have made. I strongspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"refuse/span/strong to be the emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"why/span/em or the emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"how/span/em of your pain. /span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;" align="center"strongemspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;""The marks humans leave are too often scars." /span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I never wanted to be a scar on your soul. I never wanted to mar your skin with hatred or pain and yet, these past several months I haven't been able to keep you safe. While the monsters of the past that we shared together are long dead and rotting in hell, the monsters from your world I never knew existed are still very much alive and well. They are the ones I must protect you from now./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"No more will I allow the harsh words and opinions of others to cut you like a blade. The malcontent these people are voicing has never been aimed at you…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I know that an angel such as yourself should never be forced to be with a devil like me. And I know that your life and the lives of our children will be so much easier once I am out of them once and for all./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"This monstrosity of a man you insist on loving…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I'm a grenade. A ticking time bomb of destruction. One day soon everything I am is going to explode and destroy everything I allow to be around me. At this point I would just emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"really/span/em like to minimize the damages okay? I can't take having any more causalities on my soul. I am still human, after all, and seeing the people I love suffering and in pain…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I wish more than anything I could exist as something other than a malevolent force in the lives of the people that I love. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I wish that you and I could live happily together for the rest of our lives. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"That I could wake up next to someone as beautiful as you until my body says no more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"That I could fall asleep with you in my arms knowing that for just those few precious moments, I held Heaven in my grasp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"So when I tell you that I, Seamus Finnegan, love you, Kaelyn Grey, with everything I am, please know that isn't a lie. And when I tell you that I will do anything in my power to protect you for the rest of my days, I mean every word./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"When I promised to love, and to honor, and to cherish you for all the remaining days of our lives, I meant it. And when I tell you now that I am leaving, I'm not exactly lying. I'm just being forced to choose among truths./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Until My Heart Stops Beating,/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I've lived in this place and I know all the faces, Each one is different but they're always the same, They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it, They'll never allow me to change, But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong. I'm movin' on./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Reading the letter one final time, Seamus stood up from his desk in the office of the home he shared with the girl he had loved in every lifetime he had style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe knew this moment had been a long time coming and yet he wondered if such a decision was really necessary at all./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Seamus Finnegan, once a celebrated Auror and revered member of the wizarding community, was nothing more than a shame and a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSo said the new Minister of Magic who had done everything in his power to make Kaelyn his. /spanspan style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 11.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Seamus had been released from prison almost two years ago at the bequest of powerful members of the community, all of whom had been reminded of just how pivotal Seamus' actions had been in winning the war, and how much had been sacrificed by he and his friends to ensure the wizarding world was free of the horrors left behind by He Whom They Still Refused To Name./spanspan style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 11.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"It was much to the displeasure of the new Minister, one Abraxas Wainwright, and by extension the general public, and for the first several months of his freedom Seamus had tirelessly tracked down the remaining monsters that haunted Kaelyn's dreams and his, vanquishing them from the reality they were in./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"For a long time after, various agencies ran smear campaigns against Seamus, all at the instruction of Minister Wainwright, but as long as his wife and child was okay, Seamus couldn't care style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSticks and stones had not once caused Seamus Finnegan pain, and the entirety of his life had been built on harsh, and often demeaning, words. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"But when the general public turned their hatred and displeasure towards Kaelyn herself, everything started to change. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Kaelyn had suffered greatly in the war, had lost almost everyone she held style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Behind closed doors, Kaelyn was still not mentally recovered enough to handle the harsh words, and more times than not she ended up an emotional mess who had regressed through many months of progress as she tried to cope with the unwarranted attacks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Finally caving to pressure Seamus decided that enough was enough, and that no matter the cost, he would allow his family to be attacked no more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Looking around his office one last time, Seamus knew. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"The time for him to leave had come./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I'm movin' on, At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me, And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone, There comes a time in everyone's life, When all you can see are the years passing by, And I have made up my mind that those days are gone./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Slipping quietly into the room he shared with his wife, Seamus paused for just a moment to watch the angel he so dearly loved sleeping peacefully in bed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"For many months after he was freed, Kaelyn would wake in terror, screaming Seamus' name as she looked around the room, her mind only relaxing once she was in his lovers' arms. Once the two of them were married, her nightmares seemed to have disappeared forever. Seamus now worried that they would return as soon as he was gone./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;""Kae…" he whispered, his heart stuttering as it tried to remember how to beat through the pain. "I love you, Kaelyn Grey…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"With one last look Seamus departed the room, quickly peeking in on his children as they slept; gently moving Averie back onto the bed and tucking her in just right; removing Mattie's shoes and covering him up; and smiling sadly as he looked in on the nursery he had just completed for their daughter who was due any day now./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't, Stopped to fill up on my way out of town, I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't, I had to lose everything to find out, Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road. I'm movin' on…/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Checking their home one final time, Seamus armed the alarm system he had had installed that morning while Kaelyn was at the doctor, and sent a message to his brother in arms to keep an eye on his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe knew that if he were to do this, he would have to make one last, clean, break./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Thirty days before, Seamus had bought a ticket to some place remote, and warm, his conditional release expired only hours before the purchase was complete. No longer was it required than another know where he had gone. Taking a deep breath, Seamus closed his eyes as he committed the smell of his life to his memory, then turned and walked out the door, and out of these people's lives, forever./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons, Finally content with a past I regret, I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness, For once I'm at peace with myself, I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long. I'm movin' on./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Kaelyn-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I fell in love with you the way one falls asleep: slowly, then all at style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanstrongspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"Permanently/span/strong. I hope you fell for me in the same sort of way…/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"strongemspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"Tá brón orm./span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I promised to love you, and to honor you, and to cherish you, all the many days of our lives. I knew in my mind, had embraced with every piece of my heart that you gave back to me, exactly what that promise would mean. With my dying breath I would protect everything that you are, and everything you hold dear. Because I love you, I am doing just that. Keeping my promise to keep you safe, even if that means you are no longer by my side. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Please don't blame yourself for being unable to protect me in return. Your undying, unyielding love for me is all the confirmation I need to know just how much you care for me. It is no less than the amount I care for you…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"In doing what I am going to do for you…/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;" align="center"strongemspan style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;""The marks humans leave are too often scars." /span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I never wanted to be a scar on your soul. I never wanted to mar your skin with hatred or pain and yet, these past several months I haven't been able to keep you safe. While the monsters of the past that we shared together are long dead and rotting in hell, the monsters from your world I never knew existed are still very much alive and well. They are the ones I must protect you from now./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"No more will I allow the harsh words and opinions of others to cut you like a blade. The malcontent these people are voicing has never been aimed at you…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I know that an angel such as yourself should never be forced to be with a devil like me. And I know that your life and the lives of our children will be so much easier once I am out of them once and for all./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"This monstrosity of a man you insist on loving…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I'm a grenade. A ticking time bomb of destruction. One day soon everything I am is going to explode and destroy everything I allow to be around me. At this point I would just emspan style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"really/span/em like to minimize the damages okay? I can't take having any more causalities on my soul. I am still human, after all, and seeing the people I love suffering and in pain…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I wish more than anything I could exist as something other than a malevolent force in the lives of the people that I love. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"I wish that you and I could live happily together for the rest of our lives. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"That I could wake up next to someone as beautiful as you until my body says no more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"That I could fall asleep with you in my arms knowing that for just those few precious moments, I held Heaven in my grasp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"So when I tell you that I, Seamus Finnegan, love you, Kaelyn Grey, with everything I am, please know that isn't a lie. And when I tell you that I will do anything in my power to protect you for the rest of my days, I mean every word./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"When I promised to love, and to honor, and to cherish you for all the remaining days of our lives, I meant it. And when I tell you now that I am leaving, I'm not exactly lying. I'm just being forced to choose among truths./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Until My Heart Stops Beating,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Seamus/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I've lived in this place and I know all the faces, Each one is different but they're always the same, They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it, They'll never allow me to change, But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong. I'm movin' on./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Reading the letter one final time, Seamus stood up from his desk in the office of the home he shared with the girl he had loved in every lifetime he had style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe knew this moment had been a long time coming and yet he wondered if such a decision was really necessary at all./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Seamus Finnegan, once a celebrated Auror and revered member of the wizarding community, was nothing more than a shame and a style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSo said the new Minister of Magic who had done everything in his power to make Kaelyn his. /spanspan style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 11.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Seamus had been released from prison almost two years ago at the bequest of powerful members of the community, all of whom had been reminded of just how pivotal Seamus' actions had been in winning the war, and how much had been sacrificed by he and his friends to ensure the wizarding world was free of the horrors left behind by He Whom They Still Refused To Name./spanspan style="color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 11.5pt;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"It was much to the displeasure of the new Minister, one Abraxas Wainwright, and by extension the general public, and for the first several months of his freedom Seamus had tirelessly tracked down the remaining monsters that haunted Kaelyn's dreams and his, vanquishing them from the reality they were in./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"For a long time after, various agencies ran smear campaigns against Seamus, all at the instruction of Minister Wainwright, but as long as his wife and child was okay, Seamus couldn't care style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanSticks and stones had not once caused Seamus Finnegan pain, and the entirety of his life had been built on harsh, and often demeaning, words. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"But when the general public turned their hatred and displeasure towards Kaelyn herself, everything started to change. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Kaelyn had suffered greatly in the war, had lost almost everyone she held style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Mathan./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Lucian./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Augustine./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Behind closed doors, Kaelyn was still not mentally recovered enough to handle the harsh words, and more times than not she ended up an emotional mess who had regressed through many months of progress as she tried to cope with the unwarranted attacks./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Finally caving to pressure Seamus decided that enough was enough, and that no matter the cost, he would allow his family to be attacked no more. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Looking around his office one last time, Seamus knew. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"The time for him to leave had come./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"For the sake of those he loved, he would have to move out, and move on./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I'm movin' on, At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me, And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone, There comes a time in everyone's life, When all you can see are the years passing by, And I have made up my mind that those days are gone./span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Slipping quietly into the room he shared with his wife, Seamus paused for just a moment to watch the angel he so dearly loved sleeping peacefully in bed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"For many months after he was freed, Kaelyn would wake in terror, screaming Seamus' name as she looked around the room, her mind only relaxing once she was in his lovers' arms. Once the two of them were married, her nightmares seemed to have disappeared forever. Seamus now worried that they would return as soon as he was gone./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Damned if he did, and damned if he didn't, no matter how hard he tried to redeem himself in the eyes of others./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"With a shake of his head Seamus realized that more time had passed than he should have allowed. Silently creeping to the side of the bed he had until just this moment shared, Seamus placed the folded letter gently on his pillow and grabbed his bag from the partially shut closet. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;""Kae…" he whispered, his heart stuttering as it tried to remember how to beat through the pain. "I love you, Kaelyn Grey…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"With one last look Seamus departed the room, quickly peeking in on his children as they slept; gently moving Averie back onto the bed and tucking her in just right; removing Mattie's shoes and covering him up; and smiling sadly as he looked in on the nursery he had just completed for their daughter who was due any day now./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"It reminded him with a painful stab of just how much he was walking away from while no one could object./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: center;"em style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't, Stopped to fill up on my way out of town, I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't, I had to lose everything to find out, Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road. I'm movin' on…/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Checking their home one final time, Seamus armed the alarm system he had had installed that morning while Kaelyn was at the doctor, and sent a message to his brother in arms to keep an eye on his style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanHe knew that if he were to do this, he would have to make one last, clean, break./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 15.45pt 0in 15.45pt 0in;"span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; color: #2a2a2a;"Thirty days before, Seamus had bought a ticket to some place remote, and warm, his conditional release expired only hours before the purchase was complete. No longer was it required than another know where he had gone. Taking a deep breath, Seamus closed his eyes as he committed the smell of his life to his memory, then turned and walked out the door, and out of these people's lives, forever./span/p