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Chapter 8 - MY CABIN IN WASHINGTON STATE

MATT SULLIVAN

I have been here for the past ten years away from everything, away from the world I once knew. It's been ten years since the freedom wars ended. Ten years since I killed my fellow Americans. The nightmares plague me every night, they haven't gone away, and ten years since the Republic was born. I came here to escape everything. To escape my past. To escape from the Republic. To escape the things I have done and to escape what my mother did to me. I still remember the call. The day I got the call to go to New York. Me and my team went to New York for reasons I still cannot comprehend. I lost myself during those dark days of the war. What's even worse is that I saw my team losing themselves in all the bloodshed and there was nothing I could have done to help them. With all the killing going on they couldn't contain themselves and neither could I. I try to help them but none of them wanted my help.

I didn't know what to do. In that very moment I felt useless. Talking to them was out of the question. Each day as the war progressed me and my team kept on killing. My mother was pleased with me in fact she was happy. She was happy I was helping win the war. She was happy that I was helping move one step closer to her goal and that is Ultimate power. Gaining power is all my mother ever cared about then and now. She is willing to do whatever it takes to keep that power.

After the war ended my life and that of every one who survived ended. My mother arrested the rebels. She order me and my team to kill them, I refused. I couldn't put team through that. They were lost men. The men who became my brothers during our early days on the teams weren't there anymore. They're time as well as my time as Navy Seals were over. I told my mother to get new puppets to do her dirty work. I was getting my team out. They looked terrible and in shock. I told them to leave now before my mother sends for us. They left and that was the last time I saw my team. My mother's loyal army came to get me. They arrested me for defying orders. They cuffed me and brought me to my mother. She was happy that she won the war, but with me she was pissed. I never seen her like that with me, but what did I expect.

My mother told me if I want to live then I would do as I was told and kill the rebel leader. I again refused. I thought she was going to kill me, but she didn't. My mother had other plans for me. Her lead commander dragged me away. For one year I worked in a new prison day and night with little food that was my punishment for what I had done. I thought I was going to die, but I was saved by my father. He rescued me from hell. For the last ten years I've been living alone in my cabin. From time to time I get updates about the Republic, about what my mother is doing. What I care about the most is seeing how my brothers are doing. I haven't seen them since I made them disappear. I hope they are doing well. It's getting late now, just thinking about the Republic is making me tired and hungry.