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Mistake

  I almost have him, I'm so close. I chase him down a dark alley. It is late in the evening with not many people around, mostly trying to avoid his kind. His kind, the Novus Ordo Seclorum. They say that they promote free-thinking and open concepts, having an open mind. What they are doing is brainwashing everyone. A new order that is trying to take over the peoples' minds. They have a phrase that they use to try to convince others to let them take over. Annuit Coeptis. What they really are doing is a terrible thing. They wipe the minds of those that have let them in, made them completely blank. Tabula Rasa. They have taken over the government and are trying to take over the world. My people are trying to protect the people from harm and are spreading the truth about their organization. We also have a phrase that we use, "Ipsa sclentia potstas est."

We will do anything we can to keep them from harming the world. They shall not destroy it.

I hear his footsteps pounding on the concrete ahead, pounding in my head. I hear them stop, we have reached a dead end.

"Nemo est suppra leges."

"What law have I broken, I have done nothing contradictory to our laws."

I shout at him, " What about the laws of humankind, the laws you clearly have forgotten, the laws that are unspoken but need to be followed to keep our humanity." I level my gun to his face. He blanked the mind of my best friend, the only one I had from my Alma Mater. He deserves this. " Experientia doucet, too bad this is going to be an experience that you won't be able to learn from." I smile, "Goodbye."

"Wait," he says, "You forget, E Pluribus Unum."

He's grinning. Suddenly I am surrounded by men who seemed to come out of the walls, armed with guns and Blanks.

"Drop the gun."

I drop the gun

"Kick it over here."

I do as he says. He is smirking at me and he looks slightly familiar, but I can't place who he reminds me of.

"I have finally found you, love, don't think I couldn't spot your handy work from a mile away."

"What do you mean?"

" We know more than you think, we know that you are in charge of the opposition's strategem, you are the leader love."

While he was speaking he had been getting closer and closer. He had taken off the wig he had been wearing, the colour contacts, and the glasses.

" Oh, and by the way, to the thing, you said earlier, nihil dicit. I have done nothing wrong love."

He is smirking and getting way too close. A creepy smirk and getting creepy close. I just lost it.

" Where do you get to go and call me love, huh? I never said you could call me that. Get the heck away from me you creep!"

I shoved him away but he grabbed my hands and pulled me closer.

"I get to call you that because you were my love once."

I stop in complete shock.

" Pierce Greenwood..."

"Yes love, thought I was gone did you?" he smirks," I'm back and look at the progress I have made. Look at what I have accomplished love."

"You're the leader of all this?" I am frozen. I can't move, the horror of what he has done, what he started.

" Why yes. You never thought I could do anything and look at what I have done. What was the phrase you used that once when you left me? Oh yes, ex nihilo nihil fit. Well, I'm not nothing anymore. I am more than you could have ever imagined. "

He has a look in his eyes that scare me, not crazed, just focused entirely. A crazy person is scary, but a person who is completely sane and who has done something like this is worse.

" I didn't mean that you were nothing when I said that. I meant that what was between us wasn't anything, not you."

He smiles again, that creepy smile.

"There was something between us, and I will make it be there once again."

He grabs the back of my head and forces my lips to meet his in a kiss. He pulls away with hunger in his eyes.

"I can't let you go back to your little 'rebellion', so I'll just have to take you with me. When you wake up there will be nothing left in you to push away from me, you will be mine, love."

"No," I whisper as my vision fades. I hear him say one more thing.

"Looks like your story has just ended, love."

He presses his lips against mine just as the world goes pitch black.

Finis