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Smoke and Mirrors

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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." – Tennessee Williams

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title: you can't have me
prompt: S; sure
featuring: Chloe
set: during episode 11, "splash"

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She was numb, unfeeling. Her heart was wrenched out of her chest and thrown over the side of the bridge; the splash was an echo to the sound of the raging waters swallowing up Cal's fallen body.

John Wakefield was still there.

It wouldn't be suicide. It wasn't giving up or giving in. It was just doing what she had to in order to follow after her little Englishman. As simple as that.

Besides, she'd be damned if she gave that maniac the satisfaction of killing her first…

Chloe braced herself for the fall before denying Wakefield what he wanted.