CYTM20

=Chapter 20=
==Can you tell me where can we start over?==
Post Dependent Housing
Ark Royal, Lyran Commonwealth
3051
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There knock came at 1630 Hours.  Elizabeth was taking a bath, and so her mother was the one to get the news.
Despair does awful things to people, and it's compounded when those people are already struggling with depression.
Liz didn't hear the conversation, she simply assumed it must be her mother's duty calling. 
She'd been 'home' for only a few weeks, living with her mother and trying to rebuild a relationship that really never seemed to exist.
She felt like there was some progress.
The door to the apartment closed in the distance, and she heard footsteps, and sobbing.  
What's going on? she started to get up out of the bathtub as the bathroom door opened.
"Mom? What's goi-"
BLAM!!
It felt like a white-hot fist ramming into her.
BLAM!! slump
Liz felt weak, and fell into the water, she reached up...and took red fluid from her own...she shot me! she thought
With flagging strength, Liz pulled herself up, and saw her mother's body on the floor.
I'm gonna die like this? why!?? was Liz's last thoughts before blacking out.
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You have to give a credit to the LCAF's Provost...er, the AFFC's provost.  Military police responded in minutes...fast enough to save a gunshot victim, but nobody can save a suicide.
It would be another three days before Elizabeth Ngo would learn that she was not just an orphan, but that her brother, Patrick, was dead on Tamar.
A dead hero, but he'd been her hero before he died and now he was just dead.
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