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TCS FAIRCHILD
Avery watched helplessly as her display turned black and the ASP unit went offline. She hadn’t even seen what had taken it down, Singh had assumed control at the worst possible moment. Gideon’s words echoed in her mind, ‘We’re trying to stop any more innocent people being killed by Kaoteck, like the ones you saw earlier. Please trust me Avery, I love y…’
She knew at once that she trusted him. Even locked inside the most advanced killing machine on the planet, he was still Gideon. Still that clumsy boy who had fainted on the train and she had spent endless hours over the recent months sharing her thoughts with. He was too pure, too good at heart to be involved in anything other than trying to make the world a better place. ‘And he loves me’. Just thinking the words made
