[ WP ] You try to justify horrible crimes you committed

`` You phony motherfucker,'' he smiled. Aiming me down. I could n't help but return the smirk, 
 
 `` It was here all along,'' I replied. Spreading my arms to bask in my momentary victory. `` I never hid anything from you. Never attempted to hide you from the truth,'' dropping my arms to my side, `` Maybe I'm not your kind of person. Not someone you should rely upon,'' his smile faded away as he cocked the weapon's hammer. 
 
 `` Even after all this, you continue to try and pull me along?'' 
 
 `` No,'' I answered. Digging for a smoke, and striking. `` From this fire and flame I commend you. At the least you have dug far enough to find me, right here, standing before you.'' 
 
 `` What does that mean to me?'' he said while stepping forward, pressing the barrel of his gun to my chest. 
 
 `` An answer to your woes, an end to this chapter in your tribulation. That sinking pit you feel inside you right now, like a growing void of emptiness, that is me friend. An acid that slowly corrodes you form the inside. For in this end, even if you pull the trigger, you lose.'' 
 
 `` And why is that,'' he gritted. Behind me, a cruiser succumbed to its wounds, as the black void of space gobbled it up. Visible through the Captain's Deck window bay. The ensuing battle taking no pause to my momentary confrontation, wishing more and more for another smoke. As I desperately planned my next futile move. 
 
 `` For I ask you to help me. It was not me who murdered your family,'' I lied, stumbling backwards. `` It was a grand scheme. To bring you to this very moment. You want me to burn. But look at my skin, look at my face,'' I pulled the muzzle to my forehead. 
 
 `` Do n't test my trigger finger. Tell me how it happened...'' 
 
 Again, my scarred face wrinkled, I began to retell the story from the very moment the fire consumed my skin...
