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"You know I... I... You know I..." Leone was looking down at his lap now. For some reason his legs were shaking. Trembling, perhaps with excitement. "I really might have done it. I really might have forgotten everything. But my eyes were opened, I guess, and I can't close them again." His eyes became misty and began to sting with awful tears.

"... Understanding is pain..." Leone concludes from all of that.

Lawrence shuffles in his chair. "Did you... destroy all of the evidence?"

Leone, honestly, actually, probably had. Well, at the least, he would have secretly pocketed anything that he found which implicated Lawrence or the thieves guild. Although, funny enough, those items were in his jacket now. And he'd left that jacket back at the hospital where really anyone could get at it.

Now that kind of irony really made him smile.

Then he thought about the fact that everything which had happened was Lawrence's fault. And he still had the audacity to ask if Leone had destroyed the evidence. Did I? Did I run your little erands for you...?

"Am I my brother's keeper?" Leone asked in response to that.

Lawrence looks up at him, his eyes widening. "... What?"

tink

The hammer retreats, making a metallic sound as Leone picks up the gun and presses it with his thumb.

thump

The weapon feels heavy in his tired arms, but the butt of the gun hits the wooden desk with a soft sound and comes to a rest. It's probably pointed right at Lawrence's heart. It's fun to imagine that it would be pointed right at the most vital spot, even if that's not likely the truth.

Lawrence opens his mouth but then, at the last moment, decides not to say anything. He realizes that trying to plead for his life here won't change anything. Instead, he stares at Leone. He looks to his brother and tries to see what is going on behind those eyes.

Whether he lives or dies here, Lawrence is just thinking that he wants to understand his brother.

He didn't... he really didn't... mean for all of this to happen.

There was an unbelievable silence captured in that moment. Something the gods themselves couldn't have recorded. Leone really wasn't joking. It was like a time and space in which sound and sight no longer existed. There was no witness to what happened in that special and secret realm they had created together.

Then, all at once, the silence was pulled apart by a deafening sound that was louder than any thunder.

The gods might come and ask where you went, Lawrence.

But I won't tell them.

[END]

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