Challenge 201

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Challenge: 201 - Teacher
Title: Making Amends
Word Count: 190
Notes: Hello, everyone. This is my first time posting here, so please go easy on me. Ansem and his regrets.

Undoubtedly, Ansem thinks, it's his fault.

Because he initiated the research and didn't do enough to stop it; because he saw the telltale signs of peril but failed to recognise them for what they were; because he was their teacher and they were his students.

It is too late for apologies, too late to guide them to the right path now that they have reached the point of no return. As a teacher, he has failed his duties by exposing them to danger and allowing them to make the mistakes they made.

But as a teacher, he can help rectify their errors and fix the problems they have caused because even if he can't make amends to them, he can at least make amends for them.

As he approaches, the Nobody turns around. Ansem can see the face of his once-apprentice, can recognise his student despite the wilder hair and darker eyes. For one suffocating moment, Ansem is not certain he can do this.

Then the Nobody smiles and the serene expression is so different, so foreign on that face that the uncertainty vanishes completely.

Ansem takes a deep breath.

Comments

[bouncyballparty.livejournal.com]

Wow, I really like this. Nice Ansem POV

[06seconds-left.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! :)

[kaos-sparrow.livejournal.com]

I like this, but it feels almost a bit unfinished.

[06seconds-left.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I did that intentionally, but I wasn't sure if it worked out for the better or the worse. Thank you! :)

[naiyad.livejournal.com]

because even if he can't make amends to them, he can at least make amends for them.

Loved that line. Very poignant. I can almost forgive Ansem for betraying his ex-students now.

If he was their king, as well as their teacher, he might as well be their father, so I could never understand how he can be so willing to destroy the Organization when half of them are the remains of his apprentices. But when you put it like that, I think I can sort of understand it a little, because, as a king, he also has a responsibility towards his country/world, and as a scientist/wizard/academic/inventor/whatever he has a responsibility to other worlds too.

Thank you for letting me look at it from a different point of view. =)

[06seconds-left.livejournal.com]

I kinda like that line too! And it only came out the third time I wrote this. XD

That's sort of what I was thinking, you know. Him being a king with a sense of responsibility and all. To his kingdom and the rest of the universe...

Thank you, na! :)

[eternal-moonie.livejournal.com]

Absolutely AMAZING!!!

[06seconds-left.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D