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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""I did what I had to. I made you leave and kept our daughter. Just so you both would be safe."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;"The conversation ended there for a short while. Both of us lost in our looming thoughts. I had began to wonder where my daughter had wondered off too after hearing my heart cry out to her. I wouldn't blame her if she didn't want to see me ever again. It was a sudden change for her and for Lilith. Hell, all of this was a sudden change of scenery. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;"When Lilith and I had reached her small cottage in the woods, we saw Akuma sitting on the porch. I was shocked and confused on why she was there but seeing her made my heart hurt just a little less. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;"My heart sank. I knew that she was hurting so I took the sudden stab. I deserved that and whatever else this teenager had for me. I bowed my head towards her and she stood there for a brief couple of moments. She looked to Lilith and took in a deep breath, I can tell that her mind was thinking about who was standing there in front of her./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;"That question haunted me since Lilith asked me on the walk to her home from the station. Yes, why the sudden change? I hadn't wanted to change in the last seventeen years so why now? Was it because every night I woke up from haunting nightmares that never left me alone? Maybe it was because it felt like my mind was breaking into two when I thought about my wife and my child. Maybe it was because I was tired of the two parts of me fighting and clashing together. The monster that wanted to continue its rampage and the person I was before I endured my families business. Growing up, I wasn't as cruel as I was. I didn't care what my father had said. He had given up on me and left me to live my own life. When I met my wife though, there was a sudden change in the atmosphere. He didn't like her and wanted her dead. Since then, nothing had been the same. He had broken me, told me to chose life or death of my family. Of course, I chose them to live. So, I became the enemy. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""I was just trying to save you both. Then, I got lost in the madness." I whispered. God I wanted to hold her hand but after all of this time, I don't think now would be a good time. She might reject me, tell me that it was too late to have her heart. I know that I personally wanted to start over, to get to know one another again. We had drifted away as passionate lovers and became more friends then anything. But, we stayed married. It didn't make sense but neither of us had asked for a divorce. We stayed together through it all. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if she had slept with other men over the years, something I had truly deserved. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""My father would have killed her, Lilith."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""I did what I had to. I made you leave and kept our daughter. Just so you both would be safe."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""You and Akuma can stay with me for a while. We are far from being a family but..." Her voice trailed off. Neither of us didn't know what else to say about the situation we were all in. We were a very broken family that needed to be healed, somehow. It all had to start with me, I needed to be the man that they needed me to be. Lilith needed her husband back and Akuma needed a father. There was only one thing that I had left to do and that was to make things right with my Master and tell him that there was no deal anymore. That there was no way he was going to get his hands on Akuma, even if that meant death./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"xxxxxxxxxx/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;"When Lilith and I had reached her small cottage in the woods, we saw Akuma sitting on the porch. I was shocked and confused on why she was there but seeing her made my heart hurt just a little less. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""How..." I began. She looked up and formed her arms into her black cannons. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;""I remember what you taught me about navigating. That and it isn't hard to fly," She said. She formed it back to her normal form. She had a point. She must have blasted her way into the sky, seen light and us walking onto the path that lead to this cottage. She was a bright student and I was proud and honored to call her my daughter. Even though it was still never going to change her anger towards me. /p
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