p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir hadn't felt such guilt, in such a long time. One simple question. 'Did you know?'. Yes, he knew, he knew exactly what would happen when he gave the recruits the order to march in. He knew they would be slaughtered, but it was a needed sacrifice for the greater good of the nation. That's what he told himself, what his superiors drilled into him, the great war would require sacrifices and secrets. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor stared into Hadir's eyes and could only see what Hadir wanted him to see. A broken man racked with guilt but truthful. A man that cared for him and others, a man that he had slowly been falling in love with. His anger ebbed away to a deep sorrow. "I believe you Hadir... I'm sorry to accuse you, but if you saw the aftermath you would understand."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir watched him as he leaned against the table silently. "I wish I could have spared you from what you've seen." Drannor drank more then took Hadir's hand in his. "I don't want to talk about it anymore... I don't want to think about it."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir sighed "I know... I'm here if you ever need to talk about it. I'm just glad you're here now, it's nothing short of a miracle." He wrapped his arm around Drannor's waist and pulled him close to his side. Hadir frowned softly to himself. His plan was simple get the lad drunk and then whilst he was asleep smother him, but could he do it? Could he kill the man he had grown to care for, love even? /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A few hours passed and Drannor was thoroughly drunk. He was listening to the stories Hadir told and telling his own, one of which was about the time he was dragged up to dance in a Tavern. Drannor had been so anxious that he fumbled with the steps and managed to pull down both women who were dancing with him. "I'm just lucky that was after Mother gave up on forcing me into skirts. Or the whole tavern would have had an eyeful." He laughed as he remembered how he had fallen with his legs up in the air./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir stayed lying back and put his arms behind his head, his silver hair falling into his eyes before he brushed it away. "And it can stay like that, no one will have to know how you forged documents, or what a deranged creature you are. Such a shame though to hide that pretty figure away. Perhaps I should let my superiors know?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir sat up now and cupped Drannor's cheeks. "Then you have to make a promise to me."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor swallowed thickly as tears pricked his eyes. "What?"/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As he swore Drannor realised that the Captain knew exactly what he was sending the recruits into. He'd been lied to used and played. Anger was quickly flaring up in him, but he had to keep it down. He was not going to spend the rest of his days locked in a cell or worse yet dead. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hadir smiled and pressed his lips to Drannor's."Good boy. I'm so glad you didn't refuse my offer. I only did this to protect you, If I didn't give my superiors a good reason that you won't talk, I would have had to kill you. And who knows if you stick close to me I could get you moved up in rank."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'GNU Unifont'; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Drannor wanted to punch this man in the mouth and he wanted to curse himself for being so naive. He didn't want to let him win, so at that moment, he decided he'd play the game and fight silently. He'd make Hadir trust him completely, he'd gather all of the military secrets and expose them. He would fight this battle on his own silently even if it took years. He just hoped that he'd bump into the clever man in the strange blue box again, he seemed like he would help take the military down if his hatred of soldiers was anything to go by. He wondered if The Doctor was once a soldier himself./p