Ch. 28 Truth

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8:35 AM

Atlas Train bound for Mistral

Cabin 24

Cayde: ...

Sam: Cayde? Are you alright?

He looks at her and puts on a fake smile.

Cayde: Yeah...yeah I'm fine.

Sam: Sorry I didn't tell you my real name until now.

Cayde: No i-it's alright I understand I have used fake names before too.

Sam: Hey are you sure that you are alright?

Cayde: Yeah I am just tired, I am going to go back to sleep.

Sam: Okay, sleep well.

Cayde: ...Thanks.

He does his damndest to hide his guilt.

He walks over to Raven, who is glowing.

Raven: Oh hi Cayde I just want to say last night was amazing and...

She notices the dower expression on his face.

Raven: ...Whats wrong?

Cayde: Raven...we need to talk about Sam.

Raven: Sam?

Cayde: Let me explain.

Later.

Cayde: The collector wanted him because not his paying his debt.

Raven: Did you ask what the debt what for?

Cayde: No, but it must have been to keep Sam safe, and without it...

Raven: ...

Cayde: None of this would have happened if it wasn't for me.

Cayde: Her father must have taken 

Cayde is sitting in a chair helmet off and Raven is sitting next to him.

Raven: Oh God.

Cayde: Yeah.

Raven: Have you told her?

Cayde: No, how can I?

Raven: Cayde, don't beat yourself up.

She reaches for him he gets up before that happens.

Cayde: Are you kidding!?  I separated a little girl from her father to pay my rent!

Raven: Y-You were just doing a job it wasn't personal.

Cayde: The bounty was listed as dead or alive, I chose to kill him.

Raven: Cayde I...

Cayde: I told you I was a monster.

She hugs him.

Raven: Look you can't change the mistakes you made, you just have to make this right in the future.

Cayde: Returns the hug, but his attitude hasn't changed.

Raven: You're going to tell her, aren't you.

Cayde: She deserves that much.

Cabin 23

As Cayde enters he sees Sam drawing more pictures of Him and Raven.

Sam: Hi Cayde did you sleep better.

Cayde: Yeah, yeah I did. *Sigh* Listen Sam I need to talk to you.

She puts her crayons down.

Sam: Alright what's up?

He leans on a back wall facing her, with a dower look on his face.

Sam: Okay something is wrong.  Whatever it is you can tell me, I think I can handle it.

He looks at her with sad eyes.

Cayde: Sam, your father loved you very, very much but he isn't coming for you.

Sam: W-what? but what...what do you mean?

Cayde: He owed a lot of money to some very powerful people, and when he didn't pay them back they needed to hire someone to either get the money or......or....to dispose of him.

Sam: ...

Cayde: They hired me.

Sam: *Sad* No, no, no...don't tell me...y...

Cayde: I killed him.

Sam's eyes were tearing up but it doesn't take her long to start balling, to the point of hyperventilating

Sam: *DEEP Breath* *Deep Breath* *deep breath*

Cayde: ...

Sam: W...why..?

Cayde: ...I  needed the money.

Sam: Y...You left me all alone....for money!?

He takes one step in her direction.

Sam:  YOU KILLED THE ONLY FAMILY I HAD!!

He gets up from her chair and glares at him with the rage of a thousand suns.

Cayde: ...

Sam: *Crying* You're the reason for this for all of this!  NONE of this would have happened if it had not been for you!

Cayde: ...I'm sorry.

Sam: *Crying* SORRY!?  You killed my father ruined my life and you are sorry!?

Cayde: ...Sam...

Sam: *Crying* After we reach Mistral I never want to see you again!

He sadly nods 

Cayde: ...Ok...

Sam *Crying* I...WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

She runs out of the room crying, and soon she runs into the other cabins that she wasn't supposed to go or they would be exposed as stowaways. 

But Cayde didn't care anymore, he just sat there in sorrow knowing that he was the reason that the girl is on the run from a bunch of killers.

However Raven chases after her, but Sam is already several cars ahead of her not paying the onlookers any mind and has now reached the dining car. 

Sam *Crying* why, why, why,...did he.

Thunk!

She bumps into something metal that sends her to the floor.

She looks up to see what it was.

Manticore: You should really watch where you are going, little girl. *Chuckle*

Sam: *Crying* Oh no...

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