When I exit the familiar alley going through the door the lighting changes. We enter into a dark room that only has two chairs sitting in the middle of it. Kawa takes a seat and holds a remote in her hand as she gestures for me to take the other.
"What are we doing here?" I question her as I take the seat she offered.
"Try to stow your questions child. In this place all of the answers you receive will come from within you. I know that is hard for someone like you who is so used to getting answers. I will say that you need your patience to complete this journey. Now turn your eyes to the screen and we can begin" she says leaving my gaze.
Scenes start to play on the television. I watch as a man who has seen better days picks up a baby from a trashcan in the very alley that we have just left. I watch as he takes the child with him and raises him with so much love. He dotes on the child while still teaching him many valuable things. The screen pauses for a moment on the face of the boy.
I gasp when I notice that the boy is Maximus. I can clearly see how this face turned into the man that I love. The only difference is that his eyes are the most vibrant blue I have ever seen. I've never seen eyes bluer than mine until this very movement. I look to Kawa wanting to ask her why they are now black but the scene changes.
I watch as that child is broken down and tortured. I watch him bruise and bleed. I watch as he is turned into a slave made to do jobs that a child shouldn't have to. Tears spring to my eyes as he is forced to watch unspeakable things from the man that took me. They fall as I remember that things could have been so much worse for me if I weren't set free.
The movie skips the horrific scene that I experienced in that tent. I am able to watch with new eyes through Maximus as Martell took over. I feel why he committed the act in taking that mans life. I watch as he returns to the park looking for me. He waits all the way to Saturday of each week to sit on the bench for the entire day waiting for me to show up.
As each week passes I watch as loses more and more of himself. Then he vanishes and the scene goes black. "I couldn't face him after that. I didn't even know that he was the monster that I saw. I thought that he left me there to suffer. I still went to that park. I just never showed up on a Saturday ever again. Then we moved. I made him this way" I cry out as I look at Kawa.
There is so much self-hate going on inside myself that I am blinded by my tears. I was the one that the gave the man who called himself his papa the information that he needed. I got us into that situation because I didn't know. I left Maximus at that park each Saturday because I didn't know that he needed me. Then I went and caused a scene when he explained what he did for me. What he did so that I could live. I have done nothing but punish him since we have met. I made him befriend me. I begged him to return each weekend. Because of me he was forced to kill. Its because of me that he became the monster he is.
"Now that you see the truth child, you must find a way to overcome it. I know that this wasn't something that was easy to see or learn. There is more however that you must witness" She says as she rises from the chair.
Wiping my eyes I drag my feet after her. What more could she show me? There is nothing more that can show me how much I have ruined. After all that I have done, I don't even know how Maximus can still love me. Tears prick my eyes once more as I follow her through the next door.
The next room we enter is cold. I can see my breath in the air as my body shivers. I look around the room and am unable to see Kawa. The landscape before is covered in snow. In the distance I see a light and start to make my way towards it. As I reach it I rush into the cabin seeking warmth.
The sight that greets me has me running forward as I see Maximus. He sits on a couch similar to the one we laid on as he gazes at the table. I follow his gaze to see that he stares at a newspaper article. Stepping close to the read the paper the headline causes me to gasp 'Small Town Reporter Murdered by the a Hatchling." The words of the article are blurred to my vision. As hard as I try I am unable to read the article itself when suddenly his voice fills my ears. I take my eyes away from my work photo and look to see tears on his face.
YOU ARE READING
The Redemption of Maximus
RomanceThe world is screwed up place. Everyone in it just wants peace when it isn't promised to nobody. We work for ourselves to try to improve our ways of life only for someone who has more to take it. Everything is about monetary gain and if you don't go...