Jesus' disciple or Devil's child 3


Horatio: Hey!

Megan: Hey!

Horatio: Seems you are much more popular here than I thought.

Megan: They are old friends...

Horatio: Err... Some I even haven't seen before...

Megan: This team has been reformed for many times after your leave, especially for the past ten years...

Horatio: Did your leaks crowd around?

Megan: ...?

Horatio: Don't worry. No document...

Megan: ...Wait...I am an unspoken testifier!...

Horatio: ...You said...

Megan: ...This couldn't be your entire plan?

Horatio: Yeah...part of...

Megan: ...The one...before you walked in...or after?

Horatio: ...?

Megan: ...I saw you talking to her for a few minutes...

Horatio: Yep, within five minutes...

Megan: ...Is that...all?

Horatio: Nope... I...I changed my mind when I was almost to tell... Fortunately at that time her friend talked in...

Megan: Oui! I have to admit it's human nature: Women think once before speak, men think twice, and three times leads to silence...

Horatio: ...Uncompleted quotation, I bet... Whereas four times leads to the truth-- I didn't say I won't talk to her... I am saying...I changed my mind and decided to tell her a whole story, a truth...

Megan: You mean...you never thought of telling her a truth!

Horatio: ...Never before I saw that smile on people's face a moment ago...

Megan: ...?

Horatio: ...Haven't seen that kinda smile...since you were back...

Megan: ...You are...complaining about...my capability of...self-control?

Horatio: ...Is it that sweet...when you smelt clues to Sean?

Megan: ...Don't try to avoid answering...

Horatio: ...From their words? Even if no one did mean to mention his name on purpose?

Megan: ...? ...How...did these thoughts come to you?

Horatio: ...From what lives in the air...

Megan: ...Impressive ...Since when you sounds like a poets?

Horatio: ...Something just hides there, never been known, never be realized, but always there, until one day a time come, something walks out of your body, look at you from a distance, like a spectator, but with your mind, with your eyes, and feels what you feel, then suddenly you could see what you never see before...

Megan: ...

Horatio: I guess you see them... You felt you would see something, just didn't know what or when... But now you see them, you see...

Megan: ...Words' strength could be timed by repeating?...

Horatio: ...So does the vision...

Megan: ...Okay. ...Does your vision...have something to do...with mine?

Horatio: ...Have you ever be scared of what you see?

Megan: ...

Horatio: ...Is it what I said that makes a curve expressed?

Megan: ...

Horatio: ...You smiled.Does itmean you completely agree with me...

Megan: ...Horatio, you act a little unusual tonight, ...like a mysterious child, ...keeping on speaking weird words.

Horatio: ...You know...

Mabel: Hi!

Horatio: Hi! This is...

Mabel: ...Ms. Donner. Your name is so familiar to me. I'm Mabel, Mabel Moore. Nice to see you here!

Megan: Nice to see you!

Mabel: Err...have I interrupted your conversation? I mean...you two look a little surprised on hearing of my voice...

Horatio: Nope. Actually we are going to draw an intermission...

Mabel: ...I see. I just make a round to say hello to Ms. Donner before I walk to my friends over there... I wanna make sure if I could talk to you when I turn back, Ms. Donner?

Megan: ...Fine.

Mabel: Then...I'll see you later.

Megan: See you later...

Horatio: ...Is she attracted to you?

Megan:...I don't think...you really wanna ask me this question?

Horatio: ...Well, the thought is one thing, the action is another, and the wheel of causality does not roll between them...

Megan: ...Tell me...what are you trying to escape tonight?...

Horatio: ...I am just thinking whether you would like to refresh your storage of info?

Megan: ...You know...it's okay that I brought you a rain check..to avoid your...silence embarrassment with her...if your breath is not ready... But...but I...I cannot speak for you... Ten years is not a short time... No matter what happened, now you get a chance to talk frankly with her... right tonight... You cannot choose to neglect it any more... If you don't doit when you could, ...when you want to, you will find you are gone...

Horatio: ...Maybe...you are a great prophet?

Megan: ...If you...if you do see what I see, why not choose to face it?... No matter what it is, she deserves knowing a truth...

Horatio: ...Do you believe...white lies?...

Megan: ...Recreating is the only way to avoid a statement...

Horatio: ...

Megan: ...Maybe I should leave you alone here...to let you see clearly...

Horatio: Megan! ...Stay with me for a minute.

Megan: ...

Horatio: ...Just a minute.

Megan: ...

Horatio: ...Have you...have you ever heard of...Andrew, her elder brother?

Megan: ...Nope...

Horatio: ...Seldom people know she had a brother... He, Raymond and I are brothers since in high school. He moved to NY to continue his business when she attended college, but died in a traffic accident there afterwards...

Megan: ...He is the point?...

Horatio: ...He died within my six months in NY...

Megan: ...You...witnessed his death?...

Horatio: ...No. But...but it is me who caused his death...

Megan: ...How could you be involved?...

Horatio: ...I went to NY for a serial bomb case interfered within these two states. Everyone worked days and nights and finally we got clues to chase right after the bomber... One day I released the bomb threat from another businessman who appeared lawful but in fact was a drug smuggler... You know everyone is still a rightful citizen before convicted... But it is right him who arranged Andrew's traffic accident... I fulfilled my duty at a cost of my close friend's death...

Megan: ...You couldn't know it at that time; it's not your fault...

Horatio: ...But it's me who did it... I told myself I couldn'tlet that guy get scot-free... So I tried every way I couldto prove his guilty, but never made it... It ended as a traffic accident...

Megan: ...You tried...

Horatio: ...And...during my personal investigation...I figured out...Andrew...was a drug dealer...

Megan: ...Didshe know? About the whole thing?...

Horatio: ...She knowsnothing... She flied to NY to claim his body, held his funeral in NY underground... I watched her leave the cemetery in a far distance with grief, while fearing of being noticed... What could I say at that time, tell her what he did, tell her how he died, tell her how he managed the family after their parents' death when she was a little girl, or why he moved to NY and cut the connection with his only sister?...

Megan: ...Something needs time to understand...

Horatio: ...I never put down the ideal of collecting evidences of that guy... I know even if I cannot prove his murder for Andrew, I can prove others... I couldn't let him slip out, no matter how long it takes...

Megan: ...When do you plan to tell her?...

Horatio: ...You still think I should tell her?...

Megan: ...There are two men in the world do love her by their hearts, she deserves knowing it...

Horatio: ...Iguessed you would say it like this...

Megan: ...What makes you tell me? Refresh info with me?

Horatio: ...You know there is a saying: Once a woman feels you like a child, it means she would stand loyalty with you at the other side of your tomb...

Megan: ...Answer my question directly...

Horatio: ...I will fly to NY for another cooperation tomorrow morning; planning to stay for three weeks... This time...the different situation is we will haveenough convincing evidences... I've been expecting for the time for ten years...

Megan: ...Youwon't leave again without say anything to her, will yout?

Horatio: ...No...I won't make any appointment with her tonight... If I cannot be back, I need you to do me a favor...to tell her the whole story...

Megan: ...You... God wouldn't let you go easily if you still owe much favor to countless others...

Horatio: ...Wish me good luck.

Megan: ...

Horatio: ...And promise me to take good care of yourself...

Megan: ...Good luck...

(Horatio smiles when walks to the host's direction... Megan looks around at Mabel who chats with friends, looks back at Horatio who gives a glance to Mabel before he leaves... Things always go this way... Megan said to herself, sighed and stands up to take a glass of water... She knows she has to take a deep breath before Mabel turns back to her...)


I got the ideal of having this silence scene as my fiction's end when I watched the beginning of the movie "Tristan and Isolde"... There are so many movies which have this kind ofsilence end and they are so beautiful... So I wrote it out and made it here, just hoping it could bringthe same beauty for the HHoratio-Megan relationship... If you see or feel it, do tell me coz I do care about whether it works; if you have different impression, do let me know your viewscoz then I would know how much it misses...

Nietzsche once wrote: The friend of the anchorite is always the third one: the third one is the cork which preventeth the conversation of the two sinking into the depth... Maybe H or M is not only each other's second friend, but also the third one... It's seldom to have two with one, if it has, must be a gift from God...

And thanks a lot for everyone who has R&R so far!