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Johnny Truant ([personal profile] johnny_truant) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream 2014-03-30 03:41 pm (UTC)

"It's not you I'm afraid of," says Johnny, frustrated at his own inability to explain better. Her hypothesis is probably right, though it upsets him to think about his physiology being altered like that. "It's just... the structural... part."

Well, that is her, Johnny.

"Semantics," he mutters. "Look, this is gonna get philosophical if I'm not too careful, but it's not you." He hesitates. Is he really about to say this? He just walked right into a cliche that doesn't even belong here. "It's me."

Nova bursts into an embarrassed laugh.

"I don't..." Johnny scrambles to come up with something not dumb to say. "I don't know if I can learn something like that, I mean, it's intrinsic. It's... it's hard to explain. But... I can try." He looks at her, feeling a strange sense of remorse. "I'm sorry I called you wrong, before," he says. "I think it's amazing. I mean. You."

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