The sniper revealed
I'm sorry, Johnny. She's gone.
The sound of his scream echoed in my ears for months on. Why had the doctor lied? I was in a coma. I could still hear them talking. Yet the doctor told him- my husband- that i was dead.
Months passed, years. One day, I awoken. My face was scarred over, my hair cut short for the staff to manage it easier. I missed my hair, but more than that, i missed my family. My baby boy, Gino. He was 5 when i went into that coma. Now he was- how old? 16? THey had adjusted to life without me so completely, that to interject myself into their lives would be foolhardy. So i watched from afar, my black cloak covered my face and I went on. I couldn't live on teh island for fear of them finding me out.
I assumed a new name and found an apartment in a seedy little place called Aekea. I got by by working in a faktori among robots, one of a few humans in a mostely mechanical world. I wouldn't be recognized here, my hair brutally chopped short instead of the long, brunette tresses I used to have, my face scarred and un-made up. I got used to being a normal person. When my husband hit the big jackpot at the casino, i thought we would be set for life. But then the accident... my face was burned... Life goes on.
I witnessed some terrible things. Johhny must've been mad. As i watched my beloved family from afar, i witnessed the terrible happeneings of Halloween 2k4... I had to stop him... to save Gino. Poor gino, rejected anf forgotten by his father... the project to make him into a "worthy heir"... JOhnny... wasn't the man I had married.
Living in Aekea it was easy to secure a sniper rifle. Black markets were in every corner of the city and all i needed was to survive off broth for a few months in order to afford one. So i did. I got the gun and learned how to use it and soon... the day had come.
I traveled to Durem and looked through the scope to see if I could reach the top of the horrible tower my husband had built. There were too many buildings in the way. SO i broke into the clock tower and climberd to the top, and took my shot.
When I saw both of them falling, i was horrified, i thought i had hit both of them. I had doomed my son instead of saving him. I lived in terror that I had kille dhim for months until one day i heard news over the assembly line that the gambino boyhad resurfaced in the ocean and he was staying with the tanned shopkeeper from the island. Immediately, i felt revived, happy that he had survived! BUt then... history began to repeat itself.
I recieved a letter in the mail one day from a man named X. We decided to meet. He was a labtech who had worked with my husband, he'd also been a doctor before... then I recognized him: the same man who had declared me dead years before. We had both been shamed by Johnny and whnen we witnessed the rise of g-corp labs again, and the re-employment of 123... we knew that there was soemthing wrong. He did the digging for information. I watched Gino from afar once again.
Gino adn the island girl ahd grown close. very close. Then he bacame, of all things, a super hero! this was very much NOT my Gino! My precious, fraile, adorable Gino had changed! But... he was happy. With Sasha. So, i had to do everything I could to keep him happy while i wated for the signal from X.
I took my gun out of the closet and went back to the tower the day the man named Ian was released from Jail. Ian was gino's competition for Sasha. I had to make my boy happy.
I took aim. And fired. Just as a voice called me from the side. X. I looked back through the scope, DAMN. his voice made me miss my target! Ian would survive. I would have to trya gain later... once the heat was off...
X took me home and told me about what he had found. We wnt to it immediately, he arranged to meet Cindy DOnovihn by the cliffs and I watched from teh bushes... the horror that happened there that day.
so now, things have setteld down once again. and... I wait.
The sound of his scream echoed in my ears for months on. Why had the doctor lied? I was in a coma. I could still hear them talking. Yet the doctor told him- my husband- that i was dead.
Months passed, years. One day, I awoken. My face was scarred over, my hair cut short for the staff to manage it easier. I missed my hair, but more than that, i missed my family. My baby boy, Gino. He was 5 when i went into that coma. Now he was- how old? 16? THey had adjusted to life without me so completely, that to interject myself into their lives would be foolhardy. So i watched from afar, my black cloak covered my face and I went on. I couldn't live on teh island for fear of them finding me out.
I assumed a new name and found an apartment in a seedy little place called Aekea. I got by by working in a faktori among robots, one of a few humans in a mostely mechanical world. I wouldn't be recognized here, my hair brutally chopped short instead of the long, brunette tresses I used to have, my face scarred and un-made up. I got used to being a normal person. When my husband hit the big jackpot at the casino, i thought we would be set for life. But then the accident... my face was burned... Life goes on.
I witnessed some terrible things. Johhny must've been mad. As i watched my beloved family from afar, i witnessed the terrible happeneings of Halloween 2k4... I had to stop him... to save Gino. Poor gino, rejected anf forgotten by his father... the project to make him into a "worthy heir"... JOhnny... wasn't the man I had married.
Living in Aekea it was easy to secure a sniper rifle. Black markets were in every corner of the city and all i needed was to survive off broth for a few months in order to afford one. So i did. I got the gun and learned how to use it and soon... the day had come.
I traveled to Durem and looked through the scope to see if I could reach the top of the horrible tower my husband had built. There were too many buildings in the way. SO i broke into the clock tower and climberd to the top, and took my shot.
When I saw both of them falling, i was horrified, i thought i had hit both of them. I had doomed my son instead of saving him. I lived in terror that I had kille dhim for months until one day i heard news over the assembly line that the gambino boyhad resurfaced in the ocean and he was staying with the tanned shopkeeper from the island. Immediately, i felt revived, happy that he had survived! BUt then... history began to repeat itself.
I recieved a letter in the mail one day from a man named X. We decided to meet. He was a labtech who had worked with my husband, he'd also been a doctor before... then I recognized him: the same man who had declared me dead years before. We had both been shamed by Johnny and whnen we witnessed the rise of g-corp labs again, and the re-employment of 123... we knew that there was soemthing wrong. He did the digging for information. I watched Gino from afar once again.
Gino adn the island girl ahd grown close. very close. Then he bacame, of all things, a super hero! this was very much NOT my Gino! My precious, fraile, adorable Gino had changed! But... he was happy. With Sasha. So, i had to do everything I could to keep him happy while i wated for the signal from X.
I took my gun out of the closet and went back to the tower the day the man named Ian was released from Jail. Ian was gino's competition for Sasha. I had to make my boy happy.
I took aim. And fired. Just as a voice called me from the side. X. I looked back through the scope, DAMN. his voice made me miss my target! Ian would survive. I would have to trya gain later... once the heat was off...
X took me home and told me about what he had found. We wnt to it immediately, he arranged to meet Cindy DOnovihn by the cliffs and I watched from teh bushes... the horror that happened there that day.
so now, things have setteld down once again. and... I wait.
A Father's Love
AH, sweet Sasha. I never saw it before, but from the moment I saw you through my son's eyes, felt what he felt every time he saw you, and lived with you after you saves me... I feel this unbelieveable bond to you.
You found me on the beach and took me in, even thought you thought I was my son... you cared for me, and even gave me a kiss on New Years. I saved you as The Masque... and I knew that it was love. Just as Batman fell for Catwoman... not that you're an evil creepy cat lady in spandex... though if you were, it would be fine... i need to learn to stop babbling..
Now that Gino and I have seperated, i feel a renewed vigor in my heart, the youth that I had grown accustomed to once again has renewed in my heart and I see your beautiful face and... I am young again. I see you as Gino had, as the beauty in the red gown who stole my heart...
Sasha... I love you.
You found me on the beach and took me in, even thought you thought I was my son... you cared for me, and even gave me a kiss on New Years. I saved you as The Masque... and I knew that it was love. Just as Batman fell for Catwoman... not that you're an evil creepy cat lady in spandex... though if you were, it would be fine... i need to learn to stop babbling..
Now that Gino and I have seperated, i feel a renewed vigor in my heart, the youth that I had grown accustomed to once again has renewed in my heart and I see your beautiful face and... I am young again. I see you as Gino had, as the beauty in the red gown who stole my heart...
Sasha... I love you.
