Nace Bilby
ACME
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Mablethrope, United Kingdom
20 June 2008
Nace Bilby was a man for symbols and a long memory. Those he was closest to would often attest a near uncanny ability to remember dates and times, birthdays, and anniversaries. Evey, his former fiancee, would make the Star Trek themed joke that Nace’s punctuality would put the Tholians to shame.
This day, 20 June 2008 would be forever burned into his heart for the whole of his life. Today was the day Evey had left, leaving for V.I.L.E.
Nace’s hands shook as he read the piece of paper, written in Evey’s delicate feminine script, he could feel the paper had slight wrinkling, clearly she had been crying when she wrote this. This can’t have been easy for her. He could see where her tears had smudged the ink.
He wanted to shred the paper without reading it entirely. But something told Nace he should at least read it, and that he’d sorely regret it if he destroyed the letter. So with a heavy heart he blinked his eyes, feeling them mist, as he read the paper.
Dearest Nace,
You don’t deserve for this to happen, and all I can say is I’m sorry. I love you, but I can’t stay…
I can’t in good conscience stay with ACME after I learned that one of its agents betrayed my parents. Remember when I told you of my parents, of how they were killed before my eyes by the Russian Mafiya? I found out very recently that it wasn’t simple incompetence, it was something that I know you detest more than anything else. Betrayal.
I remember seeing my mother’s face just before that black bag was drawn over her face and seeing her dragged off. It was as if those black bags made them disappear from the world and the last things I would ever hear from them would be their screams as the Russians took their time.
And to think it wasn’t an incompetent. It was a traitor who led them straight to where we were living in hiding. I can’t stay here, Nace. I simply can’t. It breaks my heart to leave you behind but I have to do this for my parents.
I’ve decided to leave for V.I.L.E. and of course I must cover my tracks. Please don’t come looking for me. I have to do this for my parents’ sake, I have to show ACME that its failure to stop that traitor can’t go unanswered. I have to find whoever betrayed my parents and V.I.L.E. might be able to help me.
Once I’ve found whoever it is, maybe then we can meet again.
Try not to hate me too much for what I’m doing. I don’t blame you if you do, though. Please know that now, and forever, I love you…
Yours,
Evey
“You could’ve told me.” Nace said as he stared out at the hotel room they had shared for that two week vacation, “You could’ve told me.”
Nace stood by the window of the hotel room, knowing Evey was long gone and that in all likelihood he would never see her again.
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22 June 2012
For years after Nace would hold onto that letter. It was all he would have left of his beloved, uncertain he would ever see her again. And it was not until 18 December 2011 that he would see her again. She lay in bed, severely weakened by Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and on her last day, 22 June 2012, Evey asked for no drugs and in terrible pain passed from this earth.
Holding her hand in both of his, feeling her press something into it as he told her, “I love you. And we’ll always have our fields of gold…”
Mablethrope, United Kingdom
20 June 2008
Nace Bilby was a man for symbols and a long memory. Those he was closest to would often attest a near uncanny ability to remember dates and times, birthdays, and anniversaries. Evey, his former fiancee, would make the Star Trek themed joke that Nace’s punctuality would put the Tholians to shame.
This day, 20 June 2008 would be forever burned into his heart for the whole of his life. Today was the day Evey had left, leaving for V.I.L.E.
Nace’s hands shook as he read the piece of paper, written in Evey’s delicate feminine script, he could feel the paper had slight wrinkling, clearly she had been crying when she wrote this. This can’t have been easy for her. He could see where her tears had smudged the ink.
He wanted to shred the paper without reading it entirely. But something told Nace he should at least read it, and that he’d sorely regret it if he destroyed the letter. So with a heavy heart he blinked his eyes, feeling them mist, as he read the paper.
Dearest Nace,
You don’t deserve for this to happen, and all I can say is I’m sorry. I love you, but I can’t stay…
I can’t in good conscience stay with ACME after I learned that one of its agents betrayed my parents. Remember when I told you of my parents, of how they were killed before my eyes by the Russian Mafiya? I found out very recently that it wasn’t simple incompetence, it was something that I know you detest more than anything else. Betrayal.
I remember seeing my mother’s face just before that black bag was drawn over her face and seeing her dragged off. It was as if those black bags made them disappear from the world and the last things I would ever hear from them would be their screams as the Russians took their time.
And to think it wasn’t an incompetent. It was a traitor who led them straight to where we were living in hiding. I can’t stay here, Nace. I simply can’t. It breaks my heart to leave you behind but I have to do this for my parents.
I’ve decided to leave for V.I.L.E. and of course I must cover my tracks. Please don’t come looking for me. I have to do this for my parents’ sake, I have to show ACME that its failure to stop that traitor can’t go unanswered. I have to find whoever betrayed my parents and V.I.L.E. might be able to help me.
Once I’ve found whoever it is, maybe then we can meet again.
Try not to hate me too much for what I’m doing. I don’t blame you if you do, though. Please know that now, and forever, I love you…
Yours,
Evey
“You could’ve told me.” Nace said as he stared out at the hotel room they had shared for that two week vacation, “You could’ve told me.”
Nace stood by the window of the hotel room, knowing Evey was long gone and that in all likelihood he would never see her again.
---
22 June 2012
For years after Nace would hold onto that letter. It was all he would have left of his beloved, uncertain he would ever see her again. And it was not until 18 December 2011 that he would see her again. She lay in bed, severely weakened by Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and on her last day, 22 June 2012, Evey asked for no drugs and in terrible pain passed from this earth.
Holding her hand in both of his, feeling her press something into it as he told her, “I love you. And we’ll always have our fields of gold…”
