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  5Luke walked into his room. Man! What a shitty day.
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  9He hated this town. Ever since he'd been moved here, the days just
 10got longer and longer, more and more boring. From the hours long
 11train ride into the city to the four hours of processing to even
 12get past the train station, he'd been bored to tears for months
 13now. The shelling had begun two days ago, but it had yet to affect
 14his part of the city, so he ignored it like he ignored the usual
 15sounds of doors crashing down in the middle of the night. It was
 16never {\em his} door. He never got to play.
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 20He'd talked to his mother about it, asked her why their family
 21never got to have fun like everyone else's. Why they never got to
 22go on the vacations his parents told him about. Why the police
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 32Luke heard the front door open and close, the lock clicking as two
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 37Great. His parents were home.
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 41He heard hushed, worried voices, and his heart jumped. Thats how
 42all the neighbors always talked before they went on vacation. His
 43parents were probably worried about what to bring, since people
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 45wanted to get in on a vacation. A small vibration shook the
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 51His mom had told him about the shells. They dropped pinata's into
 52the city which burst open, and people got to keep whatever they
 53grabbed out of it! He couldn't believe his luck, two events in one
 54day! Maybe when they left on vacation he'd pass near enough to a
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 63There was a pounding on the door, and he burst out of his room
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 68``Open up!'' a rough voice shouted. His parents gave frightened looks
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 70was a practical kid, all he needed was stuff to sleep with. His
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 76``You're to come with us. Now''
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 80His parents obediently followed out the door, and Luke Bavarius
 81brought up the rear, his proud strut meant to show anyone who
 82watched that it was {\em his} turn now. He just knew that his
 83vacation would be far better than anyone else's had ever been. He
 84knew he was special, and he knew they'd only have made him wait
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 89They walked out the front door of the building, and he walked right
 90into his mothers back as he saw what had frozen the policeman with
 91science on his face. Two shells sitting there waiting in the front
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 96Luke could not believe his good luck, in all his 10 years he'd
 97never gotten anything special for himself, and he could understand
 98how anyone would be frozen with excitement upon seeing not one, but
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103Luke darted past his parents frozen forms to the leftmost shell and
104eagerly peered inside it. A small form moved, and leaped out. Luke
105ducked out of the way and turned, seeing a small four legged animal
106standing on the ground. It didn't seem to have any eyes, but looked
107at him just the same.
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111``A pet!'' Luke thought. ``A pet! I've heard people used to have pets
112but I never thought I'd have one of my own!''
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116Luke ran forward and grabbed the small animal before it had a
117chance to move again, and heard the roar of a gun as a bullet
118chipped the sidewalk not a foot from his foot. He looked up, the
119science-police was pointing a gun at him! He wanted to shoot his
120new pet!
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124Luke turned and ran, dashing behind playground equipment as his
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129``A headcrab?'' he wondered. ``So thats what you're called, little
130guy'' he quietly muttered to his new pet, hiding behind a large
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135``You'd better leave my pet alone! I'll make you sorry!'' he yelled,
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141``Luke! Please you don't know whats going on! That thing's
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146Luke stared incredulously at his new companion, and shouted back ``Why
147are you always trying to take everything away from me? Why can't I have
148one thing, just {\em one thing} that other people have? If I'm so
149special why am I always left out?!''
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153He knew he'd need his hands to get away, so he set his new pet down
154on its four spiky legs and shushed it, telling it to calm down. It
155kept trying to sit on his head though, and luke eventually relented
156with a sigh, thinking it would be easier to have it sitting up
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161As soon as his new pet gained its throne, he felt a funny tickle at
162the back of his neck. Suddenly, he couldn't move. He felt strange
163little tendril-tickles under his skin and looked down to see his
164veins growing, then eventually shattering and strange tendrils of
165skin that looked kind of like his pet grew out of them instead. He
166could see his skin rotting before his eyes, but it didn't hurt, so
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171On the contrary, he felt strong. Luke was amazed at how he suddenly
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177His amazement was shattered a moment later as a flurry of bullets
178tore through the playground area he'd just been hiding behind. But
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184It was a flash, but a very clear one. He felt like he could
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191The science police was trying to kill them both! Red rage caused
192his heart to accelerate to a hummingbird like rate and a curtain
193fell across his vision as he realized that science police wasn't
194trying to take him anywhere fun, that in fact science police was
195about to take away the only thing he'd ever truly loved. He sprang
196completely over the playground equipment and charged straight at
197the man. He saw the man shoot twice, felt the impacts and watched
198skin and gore fall off of his body in equal amounts, but to him it
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204He leaped again, and crashed down on the policeman. He knocked the
205science off his face and stabbed a hand down at his head. He was
206strong, his hand went completely through the policeman's head and
207cracked the concrete below. Luke looked down at the mingled brain
208and rotting arm, and vomited up a small amount of bile.
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217Still enraged, he turned to see both of his parents there. They
218were in on it too. They had stood there and let the science police
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223He roared inarticulately as he hurled himself at them, stabbing at
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229He could feel their pulsing hearts in his hand. He looked into
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231and said ``I told you you'd be sorry''
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