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It was going to be different now.
Only the two of us were there to say goodbye to what we used to be. We hadn’t even planned it. We both just kind of showed up.The officers had us stand on the street as the alphabet soup of bureaucracy NJPD, CIA, FBI, DEA and ATF searched the Bayonne Needle Factory safe house. They were looking for proof that the Prince’s Resistance were the good guys that we claimed to be. It was a courtesy and Paris just . . . let them tear our home apart.
The media had already gotten wind of where the safe house might be, this wasn’t a place we could ever go back to.
Seraphina folded her arms and watched for the second time as
she was ejected from a place that had been her home. For ten years we’d all
done pretty well for ourselves as The Prince’s Resistance, but we always knew
it was temporary. We were supposed to find the Tempest. We were supposed to go
back in time and change everything. Just didn't pan out that way.
Last night the Prince’s Resistance had run the streets of New Aeterna. The Tempest ? If it ever existed it had been hidden or destroyed by Helios. There was no going back, there was just . . . this. The Prince’s Resistance had stood on the lawn of Helion Castle with General Helios Thantos jacket torn and splattered with his blood. We’d liberated New Aeterna. Only wish we’d done it sooner.
We weren’t prepared for what happened next, but you’d never guess that by how swiftly and smoothly Paris Prince had orchestrated the past 24 hours.
“Mr. Argos, Mrs. Prince”
A man in a suit came up to us. He had his hands outstretched. He would be one of many officials with his hands outstretched to us. Thanking us.
“Sir”, I said
“You’ve done well. It’s all going to change for you folks now.”
Seraphina stared at his hand but didn’t shake it.
“Uh”, I said, “Thank you Mr. President.”
This was only the beginning.
We did save the day
We were the good guys
Now I’m not sure what we are.