This update is just to let you all know that I'M ALIVE!!! My internet connection's just been buggy... but now it's fixed, and starting tomorrow I will be putting up two updates almost everyday until I get caught up.
Alrighty, then...this oneshot is POV'd as someone who you may not see coming until the end of said oneshot. If you do manage to guess who it is beforehand, congrats! Let it begin...
'Rules are made to be broken.'
That is not true.
They are made to protect people.
A more accurate saying would be...
'Rules are made, only to be broken.'
Yeah, that's pretty much it, right there.
Life.
In.
A.
Nutshell.
Oh, I've broken a rule or two before...nothing too serious...
Until, that is, that day...
On that day, the rulebook went out the window and I had to make sure it stayed out the window if I wanted everything to turn out okay.
Ironic that the things made to protect us can also destroy us.
At least, it would be ironic, if that wasn't true about everything else in life as well.
But, that's not the point.
The point is, I have become a rulebreaker...
...and I kind of like it.
There's this strange rush of energy that comes from doing something you know is wrong.
Usually, you can't access it under the simultaneous wave of guilt.
But when you're only breaking a rule in order to protect yourself, or someone else, you still feel a little guilty, but also...
...you feel liberated, like you're untouchable.
Of course, that isn't true.
Even when you know that nothing bad will come from your breaking the rule, for anyone except maybe those who deserve it, you are not untouchable.
I have learned that lesson quite well.
The hard way.
Six times.
In short, breaking a rule is generally not a good thing to do.
Even when you only do it to protect somebody you love...
Eventually, that rule will somehow come back to haunt you.
I have learned that lesson quite well as well.
I thought I had no more lessons to learn, but I was wrong.
After all, what do I know about lessons?
They're timeless...
...and I'm the Master of Time.
...Clockwork's easy to write for if you look at him from a non-omniscient point of view. I'm still not telling you whether this is true or something I made up, though. Review please!