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"I try to live in the now… Where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide." Nemo turned his back on the past for a long time, perhaps for too long. Now, snatched from his own ship, he has little choice but to work for a man whom he long thought, and wished to be dead. His only hope is the League, but that means uncovering dark secrets. Secrets that, some would say, should have remained unearthed… (A Sequel to the LXG 2003 Movie). Completed, 180k words.

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Chap 31:

Me:

Captain Nemo as he appears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The Nautilus as it appears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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MORIARTY: British Intelligence created me, Bond. They recruited me while I was still at university, just as they did with you.

Naturally, I excelled at espionage.

When the idea arose that MI5 should manufacture a crime-lord through whom they could control and monitor the underworld, I was the obvious choice.

After Reichenbach I was recalled here, where I rapidly ascended to become director, despite spluttering objections from embittered toads like Mycroft Holmes. 

Meanwhile, able underlings like Moran maintain my criminal empire.

You see, when you begin shadowboxing, sometimes the shadows become real. 

Isn’t that odd?

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The “Game Theory” series, part 1, “Oh Mycroft... what have you done?” (x)