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The Only Desision To Make
by Seven
Disclaimer:
Earth: Final Conflict and its characters are
copyrighted by Tribune Entertainment Company. All rights reserved.
Note from Author: Takes
place during "Stitch In Time".
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The global fell from Liam's fingers, clattering on the floor. The sound was
hollow, horrible.
It was him. The tiny, thin hope that he had clung to so desperately dwindled and collapsed. His brain waves registered on the global. The Earth was being sprayed with these waves... and he was going to lose his mind.
The thought chilled him beyond what he had thought possible. The fear of losing his mind was worse than the eventual mental derangement itself. Liam clenched his hands to stop their shaking.
And slowly, another thought wound itself into his frenzied thoughts. A way to stop the Taelons, at least temporarily.
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Liam sat in the bathroom, his hands burning as if with anticipation. Feeling a hard lump inside his chest, Liam slipped a note behind the Taelon puzzle sitting on the windowsill. The puzzle. The puzzle he had solved, only hours after his birth. He still remembered Augur's slack-jawed astonishment and Lili's triumphant grin.
A shudder ran through him as he remembered Lili sprawled on the floor, blood soaking her torso. Well, she would have to carry on the fight, along with Doors and Park and Augur and the rest of the Liberation. Liam was momentarily glad that he was doing this; they would survive. He cared about them... even Doors.
Enough stalling, he thought.
Liam twitched his fingers, trying to summon the shakarava. They flamed into life, and he pressed them to his temples. It wouldn't take long...
White-hot pain lanced through his head, clouding his vision. He fought the instinctive urge to yank his hands away from his head and stop this. But his will won over his pain. He kept intensifying the power of his shakarava... one last time...
"Liam!"
