"I still remember you in shining armor. And now it's my turn to fight for you."
"I will be damned if I let Mother take you away from me again."
"Justice is a contract. Once broken, it can never be mended. You sacrificed so much to preserve the innocent, but to the guilty, you offered no mercy. I loved my mother, and I never wanted to hurt her. But with what she did to us, she gave up the right to exist. My hands were shaking when I did it, but you were there to steady them. "
I never wanted to kill my mother. Even with all the horrible things she has done to others, especially Father, and I had never wanted to kill her. Sometimes, I had thought about it, but I now know I never truly meant it. It was nothing but childish anger.
We have left our marks on each other, but this final confrontation is something that can never be undone. I will never forget the final shudder of Mother's body, as her life left it. It will stay with me forever
It is not time to grieve, but to grow. No place to look back on what if's Rapture is gone, dying beneath the sea that we stand over. I am no longer a little sister. I am a big sister, with little sisters of my own. I need to protect them, teach them, and guide them, as father did for me.
Mother was a threat, like Stanley and Alexander were threats. Grace lived, because Grace was just angry, and had been trying to be kind to me. She had misunderstood who was at fault, but it was in ignorance. There are distinctions to be made here. Who is dangerous.
Mother had deliberately brought the other sisters down here, and if left alive could make more. She had no qualms about doing so before, and no problems with using me, her own flesh and blood daughter, to elevate her into power. Was there anything that could have stopped her from doing more harm?
It is not blood that makes one family, It is bonds. Father taught me that. And with him, I will teach it to my sisters. To Protect.
We will teach them to protect the innocent. To find and serve justice where there seems to be none. To bring hope.
Eleanor alone is not enough, I will need fathers help. And I know I cannot leave him behind again. I will never leave him behind again.
It seems disrespectful to just leave him lying there, so I folded his arms over his chest, like I heard some surfacer's did with bodies. Then lower my Adam-extractor, and softly, his conscious bleeds into mine. He doesn't have a voice, or give hallucinations like some of the others, but I like to think he approves.
We stand up together , looking at my knight in shining armor. We walk to the lake, and at the sky. It's pink, and yellow, and I think I see the sun. So this is the sun. I'm so happy the first skyline I saw was the sun, not the moon, or the rain, or the snow. Though I would like to see what a thunderstorm is someday.
We look down at my (Eleanor's) reflection, and the sisters come and stand around their protector. Everything was worth it. We are free. One of our little sisters taps my shoulder. I pull up, and she holds a doll. One of a knight in shining armour. She gives it to me, and We marvel at how small it seems now, how far we have come. Eleanor is not alone anymore, will never be alone again. She's come such a long way from being the child who made this doll.
It is an important piece of the past, but the past is meaningless now. Rapture is beneath me, and Father is with me. We will protect them, and We will do so Together. Its always us.
We have a future now.
"The Rapture dream is over, and in waking I am reborn. This world is not ready for me, yet here I am. It would be so easy to misjudge them. You are my conscious Father, and I need you to guide me. You will always be with me now, Father, your memories, your drives. When I need you, you'll be there on my shoulder whispering."