[He stops short, hesitates. After a minute, he starts again, lower and more ragged than before.]
"You push past your limits. You could be on the verge of death and still stand back up. You're self-sacrificing; how you expect to protect anyone like that is beyond me. You're closed off. You don't let anyone get close to you. You go out of your way for other people and never do anything for yourself."
There's somebody here who knows me, a decade in the future. That's what he said I'm like, when he knows me. And on days like today...I feel like that guy he described. Not the one I've been trying so damn hard to be instead.
But all that guy can think about is how...nothing is safe. Least of all him, and the people he cares most about.
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[He stops short, hesitates. After a minute, he starts again, lower and more ragged than before.]
"You push past your limits. You could be on the verge of death and still stand back up. You're self-sacrificing; how you expect to protect anyone like that is beyond me. You're closed off. You don't let anyone get close to you. You go out of your way for other people and never do anything for yourself."
There's somebody here who knows me, a decade in the future. That's what he said I'm like, when he knows me. And on days like today...I feel like that guy he described. Not the one I've been trying so damn hard to be instead.
But all that guy can think about is how...nothing is safe. Least of all him, and the people he cares most about.