[The idea that the curse could come back. Could take Peter over again, that he'd have to sit through it all over again curdles something in Leo's gut. An angry ball of fire and acid that's been building and building for two long years now while everyone made do, everyone just moved on while Leo's world fell apart.]
That's easy for you to say. [His voice is calm. Quiet. That dangerous kind of anger that so few outside the war council meetings heard when someone brought up Peter in the end.] You still have Sunita. You still have everyone else. You didn't have to sit and feel a gaping chasm in your soul be ripped away from you because everyone else said it had to be done and wouldn't listen to you. You didn't have to sit for two weeks listening to the man you've loved for over half your life slowly lose his mind and ability to even think coherently as a curse destroyed him, because what? Because everyone decided he should be the one to go into that base? And you couldn't do ANYTHING to help him. Because everyone needed me. I couldn't break, I couldn't stop.
That's so easy for you to say, April. [By the time he's finished talking, his eyes are angry, his markings glowing furiously.] I don't care what you think might happen.
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[The idea that the curse could come back. Could take Peter over again, that he'd have to sit through it all over again curdles something in Leo's gut. An angry ball of fire and acid that's been building and building for two long years now while everyone made do, everyone just moved on while Leo's world fell apart.]
That's easy for you to say. [His voice is calm. Quiet. That dangerous kind of anger that so few outside the war council meetings heard when someone brought up Peter in the end.] You still have Sunita. You still have everyone else. You didn't have to sit and feel a gaping chasm in your soul be ripped away from you because everyone else said it had to be done and wouldn't listen to you. You didn't have to sit for two weeks listening to the man you've loved for over half your life slowly lose his mind and ability to even think coherently as a curse destroyed him, because what? Because everyone decided he should be the one to go into that base? And you couldn't do ANYTHING to help him. Because everyone needed me. I couldn't break, I couldn't stop.
That's so easy for you to say, April. [By the time he's finished talking, his eyes are angry, his markings glowing furiously.] I don't care what you think might happen.