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Chapter 11 Poems Part [-]

The bishop was not in the church. Jack and David walked out of the empty church. Jack took out Andrew's car keys. They used Andrew's car to go to the database these days.

Holding the key, Jack remembered Andrew's words to him in the corridor, and felt that those words had a wonderful foresight.

It was late at night when they reached Helen, where Silas's mistress lived, and across the pasture, Jack stopped outside the gate and said, "I don't want to see him."

David held his hand: “Jack, it’s not your fault, I can explain…”

"A childish, unsuccessful coup," Jack said gloomily, pulling away from David's hand and taking a deep breath, "I... knelt down, kissed the floor under his feet, and didn't want to send him to the door to insult him again .”

David was stunned: "Because of me? Because you spoke for me and protected me?"

Jack turned his head away and didn't answer.

"Come with me," David held Jack's arm again, insisting, "He can never hurt you again, and I will stand with you."

Jack pursed his lips and said nothing, but when David pulled him towards the door, he didn't resist.

Passing through the dark corridor, David pushed open the door of the bedroom that was ajar, and as expected, he saw Silas lying weakly on the bed, Helen sitting next to him and taking care of him, both of them looked at him body.

Silas said feebly, "Are you coming to take my life?"

Following his words, a gun was pinned to the back of his head, and Thomasina, the palace steward who disappeared with the king, came out from behind the door, holding guns in both hands.

Jack took her wrist from behind: "Thomasina, it's me."

The king raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you in a hurry to crown yourself king?"

Silas was unexpectedly weak, and Jack's nervousness disappeared. He took Thomasina's wrist and pressed down to make her drop the gun, saying coldly, "I'm sorry for inheriting your Klaus-corroded Shell kingdoms have no interest."

David followed up and said: "The palace and officials have been controlled by Klaus. He has monopolized power and wants to declare war on Gath. The war will continue endlessly."

Silas held out a hand, shook Thomasina lightly, beckoned her to come back to him, and replied, "One side will always win."

David raised his voice angrily, and his words echoed in the tense room: "Don't you understand? You have to go back, otherwise everything you have built with your own hands will be destroyed!"

Silas barely had the energy to open his eyes, and shook his head weakly. "Can't you see? Boy, I'm done."

Never in his life had Jack ever imagined seeing or hearing Silas say those words.

In his eyes, Silas has always been majestic, powerful and ruthless, which makes him awe and fear. He has lived under the shadow of Silas for many years, wanting to escape, resist, and fight, not avoiding Silas with depravity. Manipulation is to move forward with difficulty on the line drawn by Silas.

Not even a moment before, when Silas's kingdom had been overthrown, and he had fled alone, sheltered in the house of a mistress, Jack had been unwilling to face him because of his remaining prestige.

At this moment, standing in front of this bewildered, passive, dying old man, Jack realized that he was no longer afraid of him.

Silas told him he couldn't be the man he was, God told him he couldn't be the man he wanted to be, but Joseph told him he could just be who he was, and David told him what that self really was.

He will never be afraid again.

David couldn't accept such an answer, and asked incredulously, "What about your country?"

The king didn't answer for a while, David read his answer from the silence, shaking his head: "No." David glanced at Helen and Thomasina who were guarding Silas left and right, "You don't deserve to die loved .” David stepped forward, his anger suddenly broke out, almost sticking to Silas’s face: “You don’t deserve you bastard!”

He backed up sharply: "Get up!"

Silas was completely stunned, and watched this subversive scene with wide eyes: "You don't want to leave after persecuting them and me! I fought for you! I believe you did! We all lived like this !"

Jack folded his arms, watching with admiration as David poured out his curse so close to Silas's head.Even Helen and Thomasina didn't stop him.

David lowered the voice of the last sentence, almost gnashing his teeth: "Don't you always say that you have the right to be a king? Is that a lie? Or is it a mistake of God?"

Silas stared at David blankly. Seth, who was huddled in the corner of the room, came over. Jack glanced at the little brother he had never met before, stepped aside, and lay down beside Silas's bed, asking in a low voice. : "Dad, are you leaving again?"

The king put his arms around his beloved young son, still staring at David: "Remember... I said that I would be loyal to the king?"

Seth nodded obediently in his father's arms. Silas glanced at Jack and then at David. He kissed the child's forehead, and finally the expression returned to his eyes a little bit: "I am the king."

David and Jack spent the rest of the night dismantling Helen's TV, radio, telephone and stereo, making a simple broadcaster, and inserting the signal into national channels.

David, who grew up in a rural home and has a car repair shop, has a lot of experience in repairing and modifying many machines. Jack holds the keys of all channels in his hand, which can save the effort of forcibly cracking them. They are perfect for this job. .

After Silas roughly regained his energy, he came to watch their work. Two young men in suits and leather shoes and neat uniforms sat on the floor, surrounded by electronic parts. David instructed Jack how to disassemble and assemble them. Silas suddenly said to Jack, "Why don't you step on your father's ruin?"

Jack said without looking up, "I'm not here for you, but for David. He thinks the country still needs you. I believe in the man he believes in."

Silas said thoughtfully, "So, here's the secret."

David looked up and looked at Silas for a few seconds before saying, "Yes. Now you know."

Jack glanced at David and continued to study the circuit in his hand.

Silas went back to rest after watching it for a while, David went to make breakfast, Jack connected to each channel, Thomasina helped him finish it together, and she glanced at Jack from time to time.

Jack put down his work and looked at her: "Why do you look at me like that, Thomasina? Do you think I betrayed him?"

Thomasina didn't answer, but her eyes said yes.

Jack gave a short laugh: "It was him who betrayed me first. Remember the incident of the 127th Legion when I was captured? That was planned by him."

Thomasina couldn't help asking, "Really?" She didn't look too surprised.

Jack said plainly: "After General Ebner's death, someone has to do these things for him. It seems that it is you."

He lowered his head and said slowly, "I'm the Minister of Intelligence. I found the record of him ordering the air aid to withdraw, and the meeting record of not allowing the rescue. If it wasn't for David, I would have died at that time." However, he did not say that these were all obtained by exceeding his authority after he decided to usurp the throne.

Jack's voice became softer: "And Joseph...he's dead."

He glanced in the direction outside the door: "David... If I hadn't stopped him in the end, he would have died too."

His voice became softer, but there was something deep and heavy: "I just want to live, Thomasina."

After breakfast they received the first announcement that Michelle had been crowned queen, with her coronation to be held a day later.

David said angrily, "Michelle wouldn't do such a thing."

Jack nodded, with worry on his brows: "Mom is still in the palace."

It is urgent to regain the throne, and no one knows what Klaus, who is more dictator than a tyrant, can do.

The preparations were complete, and Silas used the crude announcer to announce to the king that he was alive, that he was still king, and that he would return: "When I return, the earth will shake."

During the day, they secretly contacted the Gath military. The current peace talks with Gath are their only bargaining chip. Perhaps there is another one, the old majesty of King Silas.

Then all that's left is to wait, wait for the dawn, wait for the sunrise, wait for the coronation, the king goes to take back the throne, they may fail and die, even if they succeed, everything can't go back to the past.

After nightfall, David and Silas had a drink together, and for the first time they were able to talk so calmly, honestly, and most importantly, as equals.

Silas finally admits his past injustice to David, who no longer needs or expects an apology, saying, "When you return to the throne, the only reason I'm still here is because Jack needs me." .”

Silas had seen this fact: "You love him."

David admitted and said: "And he loves me too."

Silas had said pointedly: "He's my son."

David said bluntly: "But he is not you, and you don't love him. You have insulted him enough."

During Michelle's coronation ceremony, Silas walked from the end of the road to the palace alone. Outside the palace, there were soldiers with live ammunition, and the gates were arranged as a front line. Countless guns were pointed at the king who had not taken off the crown, but no one opened fire. gun.

Klaus, who was admiring the scene created by himself in the palace, was full of self-satisfaction, when he suddenly received the news, he furiously ordered the soldiers to shoot, but the earth shook.

One tank after another rolled down the city streets, causing vibrations like mild earthquakes that were felt even inside buildings.

The tank stopped behind Silas, the hatch was opened, and the first thought that the driver was Jack, and then David.

The coup is over.

The first thing Silas did when he returned to the palace was to order William Claus to be arrested.

David did not stay to share in the fruits of victory, helping one corrupt king to overthrow another was not the kind of victory he would have liked.

Neither did Jack, who was also involved in the coup at the beginning, and even if he helped Silas regain the throne, it's best not to stand in the way when Silas is busy liquidating Klaus' forces.

They're back together at David's apartment, and it hasn't been that long since they've each been away, and they've both been through a lot.

David finally had the time to ask the question: "Jack, where's your fiancée?"

They had just finished a long kiss that couldn't wait, and Jack replied with bright eyes: "We broke up and she went home."

David kissed him as he unbuttoned him: "Before the coup?"

Jack panted and replied, "If I succeed, I just want to share the victory with you. If I fail, I just want to die with your love."

He hugged David, and finally there was no lie or uncertainty between them, his father told the truth for him to the world, and then he just had to tell the world who that man was, without any shame or shame. Affordable, David is enough to make anyone proud.

Jack and David had expected this sweet and joyful evening to be long, but it was just dark, and when they were about to have a second time in the bathroom, Thomasina knocked at the door.

David tidied his clothes in a hurry, Jack put on a bathrobe and opened the door for her as he was seen by Thomasina.

Thomasina said without surprise: "The king ordered me to come to Colonel Shepherd."

Jack's hair and chest were still dripping, and he pointed his chin in the direction of the bathroom. "Getting dressed," he said briskly, "don't be jealous, Thomasina."

Thomasina suddenly realized that it had been a long, long time since she had seen the child she had watched grow so relaxed and happy.

The guilt from being ordered to clean up the task for the first time until now, the pity and sympathy for Jack at Helen's house that night, and the sigh of relief at this moment, these emotions are intertwined, prompting Thomasina to say a word: "Be careful."

Jack's face changed slightly, and then his voice softened: "Thank you, Thomasina."

On the eve of the coup, David had made a request that if Silas heard God's will again, he would obey it.After successfully returning to the throne, Silas heard the thunder that God had given him in the past as a symbol of victory, and once again instructed that the chosen man of God had become David.

Silas called David back and told him that God had chosen him to replace him.

The conversation almost turned into a murder in the end. Out of control, Silas grabbed the iron tongs by the fireplace as a weapon, knocked David down and beat him, Jack rushed in and pushed him away, helped David up, hurriedly Asked, "Are you okay?"

Silas struck very hard. David had several bruises on his head and face, and bloodshot teeth. Jack looked at David worriedly, while staring at Silas vigilantly, but this man—no matter how much he hated, No matter how disgusted it was, it was his father, just like Jack's first reaction when Silas was assassinated was to block a shot for him, and now Jack couldn't just give him two punches.

David did it, he stood up straight with Jack's help, and then threw his fist back to Silas's head as before. Jack whispered: "David!" After hesitating, he took two steps back and checked the door. Fortunately, the king had already transferred all the guards away.

David's hands were no weaker than Silas's, and he punched Silas with blood all over his mouth and nose. Jack turned back and held David back: "David, that's enough!"

David stopped panting, and was able to stand still only with Jack's support. Silas, who was weak on the ground, suddenly shouted: "Jack, I want you to be king!"

Jack and David looked over in surprise together, and Silas stared straight at him: "My son, I want you to be the heir and take the crown from me—"

"Then I will share it with David." Jack supported David and said firmly and calmly: "I heard it."

The crown could no longer tempt him to leave his lover, Jack glanced at David: "At least David is better than you, father."

Sadly Jack was once tempted, "I listened to you, left my love, and did things I didn't want to do to be what you wanted," and luckily Jack woke up, "Not again, It won't be like that again, if I become king, I'll have David by my side for the whole world to see, and everybody will know."

David didn't look at Silas again, and held Jack's hand: "He won't let us go."

Jack glanced outside the door, and pulled his arm over his shoulder: "Let's go."

The secret passage was used for the second time in a short period of time. Jack knew that the bishop would definitely protect David. Sitting by the pool of candles in the church, Jack examined the wound on David's face and said through gritted teeth: "I want to Another coup, kill him."

David shook his head: "No, don't do it for me."

Jack said stubbornly, "It's for myself."

David smiled slightly instead: "I know you won't do that."

Silas had just admitted that countless traps had been set for him, and that in the past, he had gone through the desperate situation alone. Since then, he has Jack by his side, and he will never be afraid and lonely.

Jack accidentally looked up, and found that the bishop had been standing by the altar at some point, looking at the embarrassed David, that look - Jack suddenly remembered, it was so long ago that he almost forgot, it was when he was a child The bishop who had met looked into his father's eyes.

Jack blurted out, "So that's it."

David followed Jack's eyes and saw the bishop, who walked towards them slowly.

Jack murmured, "God chose David."

David said angrily, "I don't want it!"

The bishop said solemnly: "David Shefford, son of Jesse and Judah, remember, God has chosen you to be the new king."

The turbulent emotions subsided almost instantly, and David said without hesitation: "If I must have the crown, I will share it with Jack."

Jack suddenly looked at David, David looked directly into the bishop's eyes, and said firmly: "Jack said so to Silas, and now I tell you so, I will share with Jack."

The bishop didn't refute David, David looked at Jack tenderly, and Jack stared at him.They held each other's hands tightly, intimately.

The moment of tenderness was short, and the bishop told David that his only hiding place, where Silas could not find him, was Gath, and that he must leave Gilboa.

Jack said softly, "I can't either."

A fourth person's voice sounded in the church: "I don't think he needs to go." Andrew walked out from the secret passage.

Both David and the bishop looked at him in surprise, but Jack was not too surprised. He had already figured out what happened from Thomasina while David was talking to Silas, and Andrew didn't tell Klaus about his relationship with David. Whereabouts, Jack guessed that Andrew saw himself in the secret passage last time.

Even so, Jack didn't understand why Andrew told Silas about Klaus's escape plan, and why he appeared here.

Andrew informed them: "Just now, the king's injuries worsened and passed away."

So soon—so suddenly—no one expected it.

Jack stood up in shock, subconsciously said: "What did you do?"

"Notify you," Andrew said naturally, "our next king."

Jack and Andrew looked at each other, and suddenly understood what Andrew was reading. He read from the paper and text that recorded history how to distribute authority to his subjects and command them. Andrew read how to get this authority... from the right king.

As a king, he definitely needed such a person. Silas had Ebner and Thomasina before, and he didn't want Thomasina. She was his family. After watching him grow up, Andrew made his own choice.

Jack said, "I'll give you back the...message and the key, thanks."

Andrew smiled, but in the flickering candlelight, his smile was no longer as floating and unpredictable as before, and revealed a bit of truth.

Jack looked back at David, and David held his hand: "Go back to the palace, your family needs you. I'll wait here."

But Jack shook his head: "You come with me."

He held David's hand backhand: "You said you would be by my side, I need you."

David looked at the Bishop, Jack looked at him, and the Bishop said, "Go, boys, and I will crown you"

You, or you, he doesn't know which, it makes no difference to the two young men sworn to share the throne.

Andrew walked into the secret passage first, and Jack and David walked hand in hand. When passing the altar, Jack stopped suddenly, glanced at the bishop, and asked David: "Did I say...?"

David saw his expression and understood.He shook his head slightly: "You never told me, not even once."

"For God," said Jack, "I love you."

This is just a sentence, not an oath, but it is more beautiful, steadfast and lasting than any other oath, it will be engraved from the moment it is spoken, even if the oath cannot be immortal, it will last forever.

Finish

In 2014.05.11

The author has something to say: I couldn’t control the number of words at the end of the writing. If I had known that I should have divided the chapters from the Proverbs, I would re-divide the chapters after the Revelation is finished. It will look better.

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