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"I'm sorry." Annie whispered again as she looked at the recently propped up body of Marco Bott. "I am sorry." Was that really all the warrior could say? After so wrongly taking this male from the world? After being his murderer? Nothing left to do but find his gear...she would need it. She walked away from the corpse of a now former friend, a now former crush. Of course she couldn't let him live, Reiner would have killed them both.
There it was, in the room, by the window, right where she had thrown it. He picked it up and placed her head to it. Tears rolling down her cheeks. When she looked at it, all she could see was Marco's smiling freckled face. Why? Why was he haunting her? it was even the tear soaked final moments Marco face, it was that smile, a smile that spoke only of innocence and ignorance to the outside world, a person who believed humanity was full of good, not evil, and someone who would not have ever needed to kill to survive. Someone who deserved to move onto the MP, someone not like her. Someone who could have done a lot of good for the world.
"I'm sorry Marco...you where my...ally....my...my f-friend.....I.....I had a crush on you....and I killed you....of all the people I could have killed, I killed you. I'm sorry. I was a coward, and you suffered for that....Marco...please...forgive me." She remained there crying for several additional minutes, then turned and promptly left with her act being taken up once again, she heard Jean discovering the body, she had forgotten about him After hiding in ally, she weakly whispered, "I'm sorry Jean..." And walked on tears streaming.