A Shadow Of A Man

Part Fourteen~ At Your Mercy

{A/N} Adolf Hitler was responsible for many concentration camps and the mass killings of Jewish people, he really believed that one day they would be extinct, he is also the man that decided not to kill a Jewish doctor who had saved his and his family's lives multiple times.
He also helped implement multiple laws to safeguard animals, he lived as a vegetarian his whole life.

Maximilien de Robespierre is known for instilling fear in France in order to gain what he wanted, anyone who didn't follow his rules was either arrested or had their head chopped off.
A lesser known fact was that he was also an advocate for poor people, he even wrote a letter to the King protesting about the upperclass, wanted slavery demolished and all religions accepted.

Gilles de Rais was a follower of Satanism, he was later found guilty for the abduction, torture and murder of 140 children. He is also the man that stood with Joan Of Arc, the woman who led the French to safety at just 18 years old.

This is just some examples of the individuals deemed as the most horrific leaders in history. Hitler was homeless for the majority of his life and had numerous health problems, he was also a drug addict. Maximilien's parents both died when he was young meaning he was seperated from his sisters and forced to live with his one brother and grandparents. Gilles' parents also died when he and his brother were young, when he was 12 his grandfather tried to force him to marry a four year old but it didn't end up happening.

This is in no way me justifying their crimes, all I am trying to do by telling this story is to make more people see that humans are rarely born as monsters, it's only if they have an issue with their brains or childhood abuse etc that they grow up to be these kind of people. Maybe if someone had stepped in and helped them at the right time, this wouldn't have got to that point.

This is why I am trying to show a more 'human' side of Carlos, because even though he seems like a terrible man, he also has his beliefs and a lot of them stem from his childhood. You don't have to agree with my point of view, I still hate everything these people did but I also know that it could have been different and that they suffered too.

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If she was gonna do this, if she was really going to do this she needed some liquid courage, she had downed two glasses of wine, left her hair down and in natural waves, did her make-up light because for some reason it seemed he would like it that way and for the first time in her life, she dressed up for Aditya Hooda. The white jumpsuit had lace sleeves in a floral pattern that spread from her stomach upwards, the remainder was a creamy white and stopped at her ankles. While waiting for him to arrive she couldn't help but drum her hands on the table and jog her leg, a part of her wanted to quit but she had dressed to grab his attention so she wasn't giving up now, if it didn't work then she could atleast say she tried.

Aditya was led into the small meeting room, the bags beneath his eyes were a dark brown and his skin had darkened, he had never felt as tired as he did in that moment but he supposed that was part of being locked in a room for a week with only your thoughts to keep you company, the taste of freedom had been shortlived and maybe that was the worst part, everything he wanted was so close yet so far away. As he sat down across the woman he no longer knew, it was easier said than done to ignore her beauty, but he would do so, she wasn't his to gawk at, to compliment or to admire.

"Nothing to say about what i'm wearing"? She spoke slightly louder than usual, the last thing she wanted was to seem nervous

"Why would there be"? The sleepiness in his voice made his body feel weak as he lounged back

"Well I dressed up just for you, I was hoping for something" the pink that tinged her cheeks and warmed her ears made her fight to remain still on her seat