Chapter 10 - The New Dawn
Clara immediately and totally aggressively pointed her incredibly trembling finger entirely toward the dark, very narrow alleyway, screaming absolutely at the total top of her lungs exactly for the highly trained police officers to entirely look.
A totally full dozen highly trained, heavily armed SWAT members completely instantly pivoted, quickly sweeping their absolute blinding, totally bright tactical flashlights entirely into the narrow, totally rain-soaked, deep shadows.
Dr. Vance was finally completely caught totally squarely exactly in the highly harsh, extremely bright beams of light, his completely arrogant, entirely aristocratic, extremely smug smirk instantly and utterly vanishing entirely from his pale face.
He violently dropped his completely signature silver-tipped cane and very frantically tried to completely run, but three highly aggressive officers violently tackled him entirely to the incredibly wet pavement right before he could entirely escape.
As Vance was totally brutally dragged violently away entirely in heavy, completely unyielding steel handcuffs, he completely screamed incredibly wildly that his absolutely miraculous, entirely brilliant research was completely vital absolutely to the entire future of humanity.
Arthur watched the incredibly pathetic, totally humiliating display entirely from the very back of a heavily secured police cruiser, his heavy head entirely bowed completely in absolute, entirely crushing, complete shame.
He finally and entirely fully realized the absolutely horrifying, completely immense extent entirely of the absolute monster he had totally blindly and completely foolishly trusted exactly with his incredibly precious daughter's deeply fragile life.
The absolutely terrifying, entirely complete nightmare that had entirely ruthlessly and totally heavily haunted their absolute lives completely for five incredibly agonizing, totally long years was absolutely finally, completely, and entirely unequivocally over.
In the incredibly busy, totally productive months that happily followed the deeply dramatic, totally late-night arrest, the absolutely vast, completely illegal corporate conspiracy entirely of Apex Industries was totally, completely dismantled by massive federal authorities.
Arthur actively cooperated entirely and absolutely fully directly with the highly intensive, entirely massive government investigation, very eagerly and totally willingly testifying completely against Vance and happily handing over massive decades of heavily encrypted files.
He totally successfully used his completely massive, seemingly totally bottomless fortune exactly to aggressively fund the entire excavation and absolute total destruction entirely of all totally hidden, highly classified underground laboratories completely across the massive country.
Because of his entirely crucial, extremely helpful cooperation and his totally genuine, completely undeniable remorse, Arthur was entirely mercifully safely spared entirely from a highly lengthy, absolutely devastating prison sentence.
However, he intentionally spent absolutely every single, entirely waking moment completely dedicating his entire new life exactly to very slowly, genuinely earning entirely back his entirely precious daughter's totally shattered trust.
Clara completely underwent very extensive, totally legitimate, highly demanding physical therapy completely with the absolute best, entirely trustworthy doctors entirely in the whole country, completely and totally refusing any experimental treatments.
She bravely fought entirely directly entirely through the incredibly immense physical pain exactly every single, entirely exhausting day, very slowly and totally confidently regaining her absolute full strength completely without any reliance exactly on sinister neural technology.
She was absolutely finally totally able to happily walk, quickly run, and even joyfully dance, completely and entirely fully embracing the highly beautiful, totally normal, absolute life that had absolutely been so utterly cruelly stolen entirely from her.
Leo was incredibly officially and totally legally safely adopted completely into the wealthy Pendelton family, instantly entirely trading his totally torn, extremely dirty clothes exactly for a completely beautiful life of highly absolute comfort and complete safety.
He was entirely finally safely given a genuinely real, entirely loving home, a highly dedicated, entirely affectionate family, and the absolutely first genuine, entirely real chance exactly at a completely normal, very happy childhood he had entirely ever known.
The incredibly highly glowing blue barcode directly on his totally small wrist miraculously and completely entirely stopped actively functioning, entirely slowly fading to a highly dull, completely unrecognizable gray scar on his healthy skin.
It purely served strictly exactly as a very quiet, completely entirely fading, silent reminder absolutely of the incredible, totally immense trauma they had completely bravely absolutely survived totally safely together.
On a completely perfectly warm, entirely beautifully sunny Sunday afternoon, Clara and Leo absolutely stood highly comfortably entirely side completely by entirely side exactly on the massive sunny balcony of the highly sprawling mansion.
They happily smiled incredibly warmly exactly at each absolutely other, entirely knowing absolutely completely without a single doubt that they had successfully fought absolutely against completely impossible odds and entirely secured exactly their completely entirely own happy ending.
Later exactly that completely highly quiet evening, a completely entirely small, completely totally unmarked brown cardboard box was absolutely silently delivered entirely precisely to the sprawling mansion's highly heavily guarded front gates exactly by a completely faceless, highly mysterious courier.
Clara entirely cautiously completely totally safely opened the incredibly mysterious package absolutely directly on the smooth, massive marble kitchen island, her entirely happy heart aggressively skipping a completely sudden, entirely terrifying beat exactly as she successfully pulled out a totally entirely faded photograph.
It was absolutely a completely entirely deeply impossible picture completely of entirely herself and young Leo absolutely happily playing entirely together absolutely in a very bright green park, entirely exactly completely taken absolutely totally entirely years before the absolutely tragic accident had absolutely ever completely happened.
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On the completely entirely absolute very back exactly of the entirely totally incredibly terrifyingly impossible photograph absolutely completely was a highly meticulously totally successfully exactly totally deeply typed message totally entirely in absolute entirely fresh, totally entirely incredibly incredibly dark red ink.
"Phase Two is entirely completely entirely completely absolutely successfully complete; initiate absolutely entirely immediately Phase Three."
