"Hearing about it? I was a couple of blocks away when the explosion go off. I think I was the first one there after it went off." Which had been fine. He'd handled it fine, apart from freaking out on the two of them about their safety.
He curls in on himself with a shudder.
"That's the... well not the worst part. Because there was stuff that got a lot worse. But it was pretty bad. My other self, he said he would do that. That he wouldn't let that future happen. So my future self locked him in the future and went back in time to make that future happen. What if... If there's a bad future like that waiting for me, what if there's also a me who wants it to happen? Who likes being... that?"
A monster, is what he doesn't say. Someone who gave up their humanity and their ability to care about anything, and was proud of it.
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"Hearing about it? I was a couple of blocks away when the explosion go off. I think I was the first one there after it went off." Which had been fine. He'd handled it fine, apart from freaking out on the two of them about their safety.
He curls in on himself with a shudder.
"That's the... well not the worst part. Because there was stuff that got a lot worse. But it was pretty bad. My other self, he said he would do that. That he wouldn't let that future happen. So my future self locked him in the future and went back in time to make that future happen. What if... If there's a bad future like that waiting for me, what if there's also a me who wants it to happen? Who likes being... that?"
A monster, is what he doesn't say. Someone who gave up their humanity and their ability to care about anything, and was proud of it.