Love, Guilt and Forgiveness

Dear Jasmine

    So... good news and bad news. Good news is: I'm on my way back home, to Korea. Yay! Bad news, I gotta finish one last part of the job there. I'm sorry. Don't worry though, I'll be home soon. Looking forward to seeing you again.

HB

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    Audrey: So before you and May arrived, I managed to get in before you two and transfer the files and data on Marcos' computer and transfer it here.

    Audrey brings out a hard drive. She plugs it in a computer and the screen projects itself on a wall.

    Audrey: Marcos is on his way on a black market auction. This was taken from an email from none other than...

    Audrey presents an email from a familiar name.

    Harlan: Of course, Delvey.

    Audrey: Yes. If Delvey is sending someone she trusts as much as Marcos to the auction, that means that they must have something she wants so badly.

    Harlan: So find him there, get what he wants, and arrest him?

    Audrey: Yes and because we have all the evidences we need to expose him in this hard drive, mission acomplished!

    Harlan smiles and drinks a glass of scotch.

    Audrey: See, easy.

    Harlan smiles weakly, then gets up from his seat and leaves.

    Audrey later finds Harlan overlooking the ocean. She approaches him.

    Harlan: No. Please not now. NOT NOW.

    ...

    Harlan: Just leave me alone. Please.

    Harlan sighs. Audrey taps his arm and he looks at Audrey.

    Audrey: Hey, everything alright?

    Harlan: Of course, what made you think otherwise?

    Audrey: I heard you talking... to yourself.

    Harlan: No I was just you know-

    Audrey: There's no point in lying. Don't worry, I understand.

    Audrey stands beside Harlan, and the two stand watching the ocean as the boat drives them closer to Korea.

    Audrey: Don't you just wish it could all be washed away? Our pain, our regrets, our guilt.

    Harlan nods softly.

    Audrey: I mean, we can try. But no matter how hard we try to erase it from our lives, part of it will always be with us. Part of it will continue to change us, to shape us into who we're meant to be.

    Harlan: Are you saying that we should let it consume us?

    Audrey: No. Consume, no. Be a part of us, yes. We just need to learn to forgive ourselves for it.

    Audrey looks at Harlan and puts her hand on his cheeks.

    Audrey: I look at your eyes and I see someone else. I someone haunted by his past. By his actions. I see someone who's life is full of stitches and burns.

    Harlan slowly holds Audrey's hand and puts it down. The two look at each other, hand in hand.

    Audrey: Forgive yourself Harlan. Forgive yourself.

    Harlan looks at her, then lets go of her hand. Harlan looks at her one last time and walks away.

    _.-

    Harlan sat down silently, lost in his thoughts. He slowly removed the cover of a piano keyboard. He put his fingers on the keyboard and thought long and hard again.

    As Audrey walked down the hallway, the sound of Harlan's music filled the boat.

Shall I catch a shooting star

Shall I bring it where you are

If you want me to I will

    Audrey stopped to listen to the melody. She knew the music. She knew the lyrics.

You can set me any tasks

I'll do anything you ask

If you'll only say you love me still

    Audrey slowly sank down to the floor as the lyrics stuck to her head. And as she listened, a tear trickled down her face.

When at last our life on earth is through

I will share eternity with you

If you lo-ove me, really love me

Let it happen, I won't care

If you lo-ove me, really love me

Let it happen...

Darling I-I... won't care