Paradoxon: Fix In Posterum
Fix 18's
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"Ng... What is it that Mr. Cato asked me to eat together here? What do you want to talk about?" Trish is starting to fret more and more. Because since then, since he arrived and ate with Cato there, they just continued to focus on their own food, and honestly it made Trish more restless for him.
Cato who had been busy eating then turned to look at him. He grabbed a glass filled with drinks that were ordered and then gulped slowly. He put the glass back near his plate when he finished drinking it.
"Look.." Cato fixed his position. Folding both hands on the table then looked at Trish fixedly, making the younger man feel nervous with his gaze that made him less comfortable.
"…I just wanted to apologize because I spoke to you like that, and I honestly felt bad. So I ask you to come and have dinner together as my apology. And again.." Cato was silent for a moment, hanging up his words.
"D-and again what sir?" Trish asked in her nervous voice, cold sweat the size of a corn seed dripping out of her forehead.
"…And again, I just want to tell you that it's better that you don't interfere too much with my business or the other teachers. You have to remember that you work only for a while until Mr. Gramercy comes back. And again, if you see what you shouldn't see, I hope you don't interfere or try to find out, because if you interfere or try to figure it out, I hope you don't, then you'll take the risk. Remember that," Cato emphasized each sentence so that Trish would understand what she was saying. But instead of understanding Trish even there can only digest some of the words thrown from Cato's lips, the rest he does not understand what he means by seeing something that he should not see.
"You understand what I mean, right?" Cato made sure to make Trish who was trying to digest Cato's speech immediately realized from his daydream.
"A-uh yeah?"
"I said you understand what I mean, right?" Repeatedly again.
"A-ah yeah, I get it," he said stammeringly. Although he does not understand, he tries to understand.
"good. Then let's toast and we enjoy dinner tonight," Cato upheld his glass glass which was then followed by Trish who then brandished his glass and then toast and drink it.
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"You'll be safe here!" Said the woman while hugging her. The woman then woke up, staring at the old man who was now holding the hand of the little boy about three years old.
"Are you sure you're going to do it alone? Isn't this too rash? If you get caught too, the problem will get complicated. At least bring one of my men with you, so you'll be safe" the old man said as he stared intently at the woman before him.
"I can't pa. It's too dangerous for papa later. Let me go alone, that way it'll be safer. Even if I get caught later, I can at least get back together with Dam."
"But don't you feel sorry for Dean? He was very small, and he needed the figures of his parents to accompany him to adulthood. He would be very sad if he realized that you as his parents were not by his side when he was this small."
"It's not that I don't feel sorry for him, and that doesn't mean I don't love him either. But anyway, I don't want to put Dean in danger. If he keeps on being with me, there they'll be trying to take Dean away from me because they know that Dean has special DNA from me and Dam. That's why I don't want to put him in danger. Besides Dean being with papa, I'm sure he'll be safe because this place has been designed to be undetectable by any device. So I beg you to take good care of me, pa" he said expectantly.
"Then I leave" the woman turns and walks away. Dean who saw the woman leave immediately cried and tried to chase after her but could not.
"MOM!!!!!" Dean instantly opened his eyes, cold sweat pouring down his forehead, his heart pounding violently and his breath gasping. Slowly Dean spread his gaze, and now he realized that he was in his dorm room.
"Dey?!" Nero called his name making Dean who was lying with a pale face turned to him. There Nero seemed to have just finished bathing, his white towel hanging around his neck.
Nero stepped over to Dean, sitting right on the edge of his bed, looking at him with a confused look.
"You why?" He asked when he realized that Dean's face was pale. Dean got up and sat on his bed there. Dean fell silent, he was still trying to gather his consciousness.
"You okay?" Asked Nero again while patting him on the shoulder slowly. Dean looked up at him.
"Yes, I'm fine," he murmured softly.
"Are you having nightmares again?"
"It looks so."
"Have you had nightmares like this before? It's been a month since we came in and you keep having bad dreams every day, and every time you wake up you always yell to your mama. What exactly did you see in your dreams?" Nero began to be curious about the dream that Dean had been living all this time.
"Ng.. that.." Dean fell silent. And again the memory of his dream disappeared instantly when he was about to tell Nero about his dream.
"I don't remember clearly" he murmured. Again. Still with the same answer and Nero who heard it felt tired. Whenever asked about the dream in his nature, it was always the answer and Nero was tired even though he knew if Dean did not lie because he could see what color he saw from Dean's voice.
"Well then, next time you remember it or you dream the same dream again, tell me right away. Who knows if I know the meaning of your dreams or maybe I can help you figure out why you keep dreaming the same thing."
"good. Next time I'll tell you a story" Dean said.
"OKAY. Now you better get up and take a shower and get ready, it's dinner time soon. My friends must have been waiting. Come on!"
"Yes" Dean said. Nero moved from his place, then approached his closet there to change his clothes with a new shirt before dinner.
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