Private Finished It ended with a bullet

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That was the question Rory was expecting. She looked back at the room and thought about the best way to answer. "He's as good as can be expected. Give him a little longer. He and Jude needed to talk. So... guess you're stuck with me until then."

Rory gave Zora a cursory glance over. Yeah. She looked fine. Physically fine. "What happened, Zora?"
 
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Oh christ. He hadn't even realized. Jude had realized that the school had done something to Broen, but somehow it had never occurred to him how far it went. He hadn't realized how much of what he saw of Broen was actually just the school. The bravado. The arrogance. And now he was breaking down, slapped in the face with... with what?

Because it seemed a lot like the answer was everything he'd done.

"So did I," Jude said, clenching his hands into fists. He didn't mind the pain. It hurt, but it was better that way. Grounding him. Keeping him calm. "If we hadn't, they would have."
 
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"No, Jude. I could have stopped them without killing them. Lock down their guns. Trap them in a room with doors that lead right back into that room. But I killed them, like they didn't fucking matter."

Broen was sitting up now, curled up with his head between his knees. He was a murderer. And a thief. He'd... Broen looked at Jude, paler than he probably should have been. "I should be locked up... I'm... holy shit... I'm fucked up."
 
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Broen was freaking out, and Jude felt distinctly unqualified to help him. Before that day he'd never killed anyone. Angelo should be there. The real Angelo, the one who knew about this stuff, who could sit Broen down and explain things. Who could rationalize it all away in a way that didn't make Jude want to puke.

"Broen," Jude said, trying to steel himself, to sound comforting and not scared or upset or any of the things he actually was. "You didn't pick that. The headmaster was doing things. They were changing how you felt. Tampering with your thoughts."

He'd never cared before, and now he did care, and Jude didn't understand. Not really. He didn't know what Broen was like. He didn't know what it was like to have been tied to the headmaster. But he was trying anyway.
 
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At Rory's question, Zora turned her gaze back to her with a slightly haunted look in her eyes, "The office was attacked, they came in with guns, shooting, taking everyone hostage," she said quietly, "Broen tried to stop them, but there were too many...so he did something, I don't know what exactly, he broke a stone... conjured up something dark..." Zora explained with a shake of her head at the memory, she could still remember the feeling of the entity - it had been pure evil.

"It was horrible, Rory... Broen could have died, had his soul split in two," Zora replied, worry etching her features.

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Rory rubbed her forehead. "The Headmaster." She exhaled and suppressed that common urge she had to hit things. "Well, he couldn't have died. Exactly. Yes, things could have gone very poorly.

"Look, Zora, before we go in there..." Rory paused and growled to herself. "Don't crowd him or anything. He's not in a great way and that's not just the pain."

Rory began to pace. They still had time to wait out here. "Fuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuck." She clenched her fists at her sides, turned sharply every five steps she took.

"Jude could have died, too, you know. Broen wasn't the only person in danger there."
 
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"I won't crowd Broen, I promise, I just wanted to make sure he's okay," she said understanding that he might not be well.

Then when Rory got upset, Zora blinked at her, grief-stricken now and pained by her words, "Do you think I don't know that? Do you think I haven't been sitting here blaming myself for everything? Jude, Broen, Sterling, the people who died.. all of that was because of me. They were in danger because of me, and I feel terrible and sick to my stomach. I feel defeated, lost... they could have killed us all," Zora said as she sat down again, trying not to lose her composure.

"Nobody deserved this, least of all, not Jude, nor Broen.." Zora said as she looked up at Rory. "I can't even begin to say how sorry, or bad I feel. I don't expect them to even forgive me for putting them in such danger, I never thought this would happen, I .." she just shooked her head, trying not to break down.

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"Both Broen and Jude knew what they were getting into. The others... maybe not." She sat down with Zora and pat the woman's shoulder before wrapping an arm around her.

"They're not going to be angry with you. They're going to be feeling bad about their own shit. That's how these things go." She looked away. "We've all been here before, Zora. Hurting the people we love. Making stupid mistakes. Feeling like we were the problem. I'm not going to tell you to suck it up, because that wouldn't be healthy. Let it out."
 
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"But I let it out. I thought I could control it, Jude. I was so fuckin wrong. I thought I could control the thing that fucked my mind sideways. I can't..."

Broen was full on sobbing now, his face buried in his knees with his arms wrapped around his legs. What the fuck was all of this. He hated it. Feeling like this. Like he couldn't even control his own emotions.
 
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Zora leant against Rory and could only nod, grateful for Rory's words, grateful for her understanding, compassion. Zora knew it was easier said than done, she felt just so bad. Broen and Jude might have had an idea - but this was so far from anything she could have ever imagined that it was hard for her to believe that they knew what they were signing on for.

"You are right.." Zora said quietly before taking a deep breath, not wanting to cry, not here, not in a hospital corridor, "I just feel like shit right now that's all..." she confessed as some of the day's shock was wearing off leaving her feeling drained.
 
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