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[electrouble]

[ The communicator is quavering unsteadily as if the hands holding it are shaking; the camera focuses extremely close on the side of Electro's face, his eye (very bloodshot) and brow-area are in view but that's all for a long moment before he pulls it out slightly wider. ]What's the best cure for when you wake up feelin' like you were hit by a mack

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[hells4children]

You could start by paying your daughter a visit!

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[electrouble]

What? No, I'm goin' home. Who even are you?

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[hells4children]

I'm the guy who's telling you that Allison's been through hell with you dying like that and you need to let her know that things are okay.

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[electrouble]

Gee, yeah, it's not like I've just been through hell coming back like I've been through a blender. Let me just cater to strange kids who want me to drop everything and make everyone else feel better. She knows things are fine.

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[hells4children]

She knows that things are fine, sure, but is she?

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[electrouble]

Why shouldn't she be?

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[hells4children]

Because she just had to see her dad's dead body over the Network and has been just a little upset over the whole thing, maybe?

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[electrouble]

So I gotta sacrifice my comfort and my free time making sure other people are okay hours after I come back from being viciously murdered. Yeah, you know what? Fuck you, sonny Jim, this ain't about other people. This is about me, and I don't owe my time to anyone else.

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[hells4children]

Yeah, that might've worked on this if I wasn't so sure you've used that same line about every damn time someone asked you to think about someone else for a change. Hell, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how our last conversation went!

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[electrouble]

Yeah, so? Why should I care? Don't you even know who I freaking am?

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[hells4children]

Yeah, yeah, big-time supervillain. Being a shitty father just comes with the territory, right?

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[electrouble]

I'm not her father, moron. I go outta my way not to knock anyone up because I don't want no kids, I ain't signed up for parenthood just because some parallel version of me did.

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[hells4children]

Oh, sure, because things never happen unplanned, right?

You're close enough to count, and that means you're responsible, whether you wanna be or not.