No. NO. What is that? What the fuck just happened? This is worse.
"I don't have power," he hisses, revolted enough by his betrayal of self (would he have given himself up like that if Nova had been inside as usual? he might never know, but he has a pretty good fucking guess) that it shakes him out of his fear, if only for a moment. "It's not power, it's a fucking - curse." He practically spits the word out.
The recognition, the sudden softness, is anathema to him. Don't say you understand. Don't compare yourself to me. We are nothing alike.
I will never be so frightening.
"You're so full of shit," says Nova under her breath, and with disgust Johnny releases her, not violently, just opens his arm and lets her hop down to the ground.
"Leave me alone," he snaps, and he has no idea, terrifyingly, which figure he's addressing.
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"I don't have power," he hisses, revolted enough by his betrayal of self (would he have given himself up like that if Nova had been inside as usual? he might never know, but he has a pretty good fucking guess) that it shakes him out of his fear, if only for a moment. "It's not power, it's a fucking - curse." He practically spits the word out.
The recognition, the sudden softness, is anathema to him. Don't say you understand. Don't compare yourself to me. We are nothing alike.
I will never be so frightening.
"You're so full of shit," says Nova under her breath, and with disgust Johnny releases her, not violently, just opens his arm and lets her hop down to the ground.
"Leave me alone," he snaps, and he has no idea, terrifyingly, which figure he's addressing.