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145 - IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN [Video]

Jan 23, 2011 13:12

This. [The shot is of the neighbourhood, first one way down the street, then the other, then to the house that West and Billy have occupied for the port. The camera's a bit shaky, as West has already had a few drinks before busting it out.]

This is what I fought for, what I would have done anything to protect.

[He moves into the house. SO ( Read more... )

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Private / Text victimofnoone January 23 2011, 22:57:59 UTC

You promised them women.

Private / Text major_west January 23 2011, 23:43:04 UTC

Yes. Because women meant a future.

Private / Text victimofnoone January 24 2011, 01:15:34 UTC

So you promised your men they could rape the first women that showed up for the good of tomorrow.

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 01:41:26 UTC

After the first waves of Infected passed through and we hadn't seen a survivor in weeks, I found one of my men with a gun his mouth. He said he was going to kill himself because there was no future. Even if we fought off the Infected, even if they all died, what did we have? Nine men, and all we could do was wait to die ourselves.

I had to give them hope, so I said what was necessary. I moved them to a more secure location, and I sent out a broadcast for survivors. I never thought women would arrive.

Private / Text victimofnoone January 24 2011, 01:43:37 UTC

And when they did?

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 01:49:38 UTC

I wanted it to be easy on all parties. I was hoping that, given enough time, they would come around and it wouldn't come to force. Some of my men became... overzealous, and things changed.

I should have stopped it right there. I could have done, but I didn't. I had my sergeant executed for standing against us, along with one of the other survivors. He escaped and exacted revenge, and that's why I'm here. Nearly three years, and I've never told more than two or three people.

Private / Text victimofnoone January 24 2011, 04:27:09 UTC

Why didn't you stop it right there?

And why tell people now?

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 04:41:37 UTC

Because I saw the women as a means to an end. They were civilians, and I put my men before them. I defied my duty to protect my countrymen.

How can I ever begin to make amends for what happened if I'm still lying to myself and everybody else? When I believed that there was nothing to return to, no "real" world left out there, it was easy to choose to remain on the Barge forever. What use was graduation if my options were extinction, some sort of parody of reality, or becoming a warden?

This is the future that was robbed from my world. This is what we could have had, if not for the Infection. I don't want to linger on the Barge forever, not when I know now that this exists.

Private / Text - PORT ICONS ARE NOT THE RIGHT EXPRESSIONS. victimofnoone January 24 2011, 04:49:16 UTC

Do you really want to make amends?

Private / Text - YEAH SHE LOOKS AWFULLY NEUTRAL IN THEM major_west January 24 2011, 05:04:37 UTC

I wouldn't even know how. They're not even here, the women, my men... Sergeant Farrell. Jim. [This might be the first time he's admitted to wronging those two, too.]

Private / Text - She's generic!teen. victimofnoone January 24 2011, 05:15:10 UTC

I think I know a way you could start to, if you wanted.

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 05:23:50 UTC

How?

Private / Text victimofnoone January 24 2011, 05:29:21 UTC

By going through what they went through.

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 15:44:10 UTC

While I won't dismiss the tragedy of the situation, nothing in actuality happened to them. They survived, unharmed.

Private / Text victimofnoone January 24 2011, 19:05:34 UTC

I meant your men too.

Private / Text major_west January 24 2011, 19:07:26 UTC

I already did go through what they experienced. I died the same as them, defending them.

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