know I said I was quitting, but I decided against it. 
 
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Prologue
 
 
 
     He sat in his cell, his head in his hands. 'He's out there... he's out 
there,' he thought. The guard looked at him suspiciously, as if he knew that he 
was thinking of breaking out that night. He remembered the headlines he had seen 
over the last few years.
 
KIDNAPPING LEADS TO MURDER
 
KIDNAPPING VICTIM TO TESTIFY IN COURT ON BEHALF OF MURDERER STONE
 
KIDNAPPING VICTIM IN MENTAL INSTITUTION FOR 1 MONTH
 
KIDNAPPING VICTIM RELEASED FROM INSTITUTION
 
PETALBURG NATIVE CONQUERS POKEMON LEAGUE
 
POKEMON CHAMPION TO WED KIDNAPPING VICTIM
 
 
     Steven stared at an old newspaper clipping, the picture of Wally and May. 
How easily they had gotten over the tragedy, unlike himself. While they were 
living in their fancy mansion, he was sitting here, an innocent man in jail. 
They didn't constantly have flashbacks of that night. They didn't see Brendan 
pulling the trigger on himself. What an urforgettable night.
 
***
 
     He ran for his life, fully aware he was being chased. He couldn't go back. 
He wouldn't go back. He still needed to save her.
 
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I know it's pretty short, but part 1 will be longer. Ciao!!