13 Reasons Why

Casette 1: Side B

Welcome back. It's very smart of you to keep listening to this since you know, that it won't be pretty for you, if you stop.

As I already said this tape is centered around Neal Cassidy or as most of you know him Baelfire.

I know he's dead, but that doesn't mean, that I ever fully forgave him for what he did nor does it mean, that I pity him and spare him from spreading his sins.

You all deserve to know just what kind of man Neal was before his death...

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For a moment Killian hoped, that the second might be about someone else since Neal's dead. He wants to know when it's going to be his turn. He can't take the wait since he really doesn't know, what he's done and he want to know desperately.

He wants to know in what way he hurt his Swan, so that he can hate himself for it.

But nonetheless he is curious about what Bae did to his princess. He knows it's bad, but she never told him the whole truth. Only bits and pieces.

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Once Upon A Time...there was a young girl, who just fled from her previous and last foster home. She's been in a lot of those thanks to her parents abandoning her.

This girl was me as you might have figured already and I was in desperate need of a roof over my head, so I broke into a car with the intention of stealing it and making it my home.

However as soon as I started the car I realized, that I wasn't alone in the car. Neal was there too since he'd stolen the car before me.

I know it sounds weird...I stole a stolen car.

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There was a slight smile on Killian's face now. He always knew that Emma was a pirate in her own sense. They're both thieves in some way. They're very connected. They're like kindred spirits.

But not only in that way. They also have similar pasts. They both were abandoned by their parents and they both lost their first love in a tragic way. Also they both are quite familiar with losing people close to them.

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I was lucky, that he stole the car too since that way he couldn't get me arrested for stealing...or so I thought.

During the drive in the car we both realized, that we needed it. Neither one of us was going to give up the car, so we stayed together and soon became friends, which didn't last long though since soon I fell for him and I thought he did for me.

I was genuinely happy for the first time in my life when I was with Neal. I really loved him, but as you already can guess...there's a 'but.' And that 'but' lands Neal on these tapes. He hasn't always been a good man, a hero as you might think.

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'You're not alone, Swan.' Killian thought to himself. He liked this habit of his, that he started after her death. He often finds himself talking to her in his head. It helps him deal with the fact, that his true love is gone even though it doesn't erase the problem and his pain.