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Chapter 65 - Chapter 65: The Interview That Never Aired

In a locked vault at a global news agency headquarters in New York, an interview sat untouched for years. It was never broadcast, never leaked, never referenced. Only a few insiders even knew it existed.

The label on the hard drive read:

> "J. WY – LEGACY INTERVIEW – 48 HOURS BEFORE EXIT"

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The Interview Room – Flashback

Jason sat across from award-winning journalist Melissa Crane. Cameras off. Just the sound engineer and two witnesses present. Jason had one condition: air it only when the world no longer needed him.

He leaned back, hands folded calmly. "Ask anything. No spin. No edits."

Melissa, known for breaking presidents and CEOs, hesitated. For the first time, she was nervous.

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Melissa: "Why leave it all behind? Power. Wealth. Influence?"

Jason: "Because if you can't walk away from power, you never owned it—it owns you."

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She scribbled that down in silence, sensing the weight behind the words.

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Melissa: "Do you think Prometheus will survive without you?"

Jason: "If it doesn't, it never deserved to."

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She looked up sharply. "You built the backbone of half the modern world."

Jason only smiled. "I planted seeds. The forest belongs to the people."

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Melissa: "What's the one thing you'd want remembered?"

Jason paused.

Then: "That I remembered."

"Remembered what?"

"Where I came from. Who I was. And that second chances should be used for everyone—not just for me."

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The End of the Tape

Melissa sat alone in the editing suite hours later, tears silently running down her face.

She never spoke publicly about the interview.

But she kept that copy in a temperature-controlled vault, waiting for the right moment.

A moment that still hadn't come.

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The Present – Underground Archives

A young intern, years later, found the labeled drive while digitizing old assets.

She played the interview, wide-eyed as Jason's voice echoed through the headphones.

Her supervisor took the drive gently from her hands and said, "Not yet."

The intern looked confused. "But he's gone, right?"

The supervisor smiled faintly.

"Maybe. But the world still needs him."

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